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According to multiple reports, former Celtic Paul Pierce has agreed to a two-year, $11 million deal with the Wizards with an option to become a free agent after next season.
According to multiple reports, former Celtic Paul Pierce has agreed to a two-year, $11 million deal with the Washington Wizards with an option to become a free agent after next season.
The 36-year-old replaces Trevor Ariza on the Washington roster after Ariza agreed to terms with the Houston Rockets earlier Saturday. Pierce had drawn interest from the Rockets, Dallas and the Lakers before agreeing with the Wizards.
Pierce spent one year with Brooklyn, averaging a career-low 13.5 points per game, having totaled 21.3 points per game for his career.
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Despite a strong push from the Rockets, Chris Bosh will reportedly take a five-year, $118 million deal to stay in Miami in wake of LeBron James' departure from the team. Bosh's impending return to the Heat was first reported by Yahoo! Sports.
Bosh, James and Dwyane Wade all opted out of their contracts this offseason to become free agents after the three spent the last four seasons playing together. James announced Friday that he will return to Cleveland, where he began his career, on a four-year, $88 million contract.
According to multiple reports, the Heat are working to re-sign Wade as well. Wade has spent his entire career with the team since being drafted with the fifth overall pick in the 2003 draft.
If for some reason you missed his announcement on Thursday, LeBron James is returning to the Cavaliers.
"My relationship with Northeast Ohio is bigger than basketball," he told Sports Illustrated's Lee Jenkins. "I didn't realize that four years ago. I do now."
Over the next 24 hours, you'll see thousands of stories about what LeBron's decision means to Cleveland (everything), Miami (oh, man) and the NBA in general (those ripple effects won't reach shore for quite some time), but what exactly does it mean for the Celtics?
LeBron's arrival in Cleveland immediately makes the Cavs a contender. While James admitted the team's rookie head coach and youthful roster makes a title this season far from easy, a supporting cast of Kyrie Irving, Andrew Wiggins, Dion Waiters, Tristan Thompson, Anthony Bennett and Anderson Varejao isn't a bad start.
Given the youth surrounding the game's best player — only 29 years old himself — Danny Ainge's job just became that much more difficult for the foreseeable future. Conservatively, the Cavaliers could be contenders through 2020.
Of course, LeBron will also lure more talent to Cleveland. Chief among his recruits could be Kevin Love, who the Celtics have coveted for the past several months. The Cavaliers could offer Wiggins, Waiters, Varejao's expiring contract and a future first-round pick for Love, potentially beating any offer Ainge could create. (Ironically, the Cavs still own a protected No. 1 pick from the Heat as a result of LeBron's sign-and-trade in 2010.)
If the C's lose out on Love to Cleveland, Ainge would only have himself to blame, since his recent three-team deal created the cap space necessary for the Cavs to sign James. Still, it's hard to hold Ainge entirely responsible for LeBron landing in Cleveland, since Dan Gilbert would have created space come hell or high water.
The Celtics also acquired a first-round pick from the Cavaliers in the trade for Marcus Thornton and Tyler Zeller, so LeBron's decision just made that pick a whole lot less attractive. However, the Celtics own Miami's second-round pick in 2016, and that could be somewhere in the 30s should Chris Bosh sign in Houston as expected.
Wherever James ultimately landed — Miami or Cleveland — the Eastern Conference was always going to go through LeBron for the next several years, so in that regard little else has changed for Ainge. In fact, the currently constructed Cavaliers may not be the immediate force that the Heat have been for the past four years. Regardless, Ainge's focus remains on landing Love, and LeBron's return to Cleveland just made that more difficult.
The drama is over.
LeBron James penned an essay for Sports Illustrated on Friday announcing that he is returning to the Cavaliers.
Despite the efforts of Celtics summer league standouts Kelly Olynyk and Marcus Smart, the Pacers rode an 11-0 run down the stretch to capture the fourth-place game in Orlando, 95-86.
Despite the efforts of Celtics summer league standouts Kelly Olynyk and Marcus Smart, the Pacers rode an 11-0 run down the stretch to capture the fourth-place game in Orlando, 95-86.
Olynyk and Smart led the C's scoring effort with 20 and 19 points, respectively, despite shooting a combined 13-of-37 from the field. Entering the game making just 28.0 percent of his field goal attempts (19.2 3P%), Smart finished 6-of-18 in the loss, but converted 4-of-9 3-pointers in an encouraging effort.
Phil Pressey (12 points, 13 assists), Mike Moser (16 points, 10 rebounds) and O.D. Anosike (13 points, 10 rebounds) added double-doubles in defeat. Chris Johnson and Chris Babb finished a combined 1-for-11.
Donald Sloan led Indiana with 20 points and 10 assists, helping the Pacers transform an 82-81 edge into a commanding 93-81 lead.
The Celtics finished 3-2 in the Orlando Summer League.
The Celtics improved their record to 3-1 in the Orlando Summer League with a 76-67 victory over the Magic on Thursday evening.
Boston got the win without its top scorer, Kelly Olynyk, who took the day to rest. Other lineup changes included shifting Phil Pressey to the bench, which meant No. 6 overall pick, Marcus Smart, earned his first start at point guard.
The Celtics improved their record to 3-1 in the Orlando Summer League with a 76-67 victory over the Magic on Thursday evening.
Boston got the win without its top scorer, Kelly Olynyk, who took the day to rest. Other lineup changes included shifting Phil Pressey to the bench, which meant No. 6 overall pick, Marcus Smart, earned his first start at point guard.
The rookie responded fairly well, putting up a game-high 19 points, but his shooting struggles continued. While Smart shot 5-for-14 from the field overall ( 7-for-8 at the free throw line), 3-point shooting was his downfall.
The Oklahoma State product was just 2-for-9 from downtown (he hit them on back-to-back possessions late in the game while it was tight). Clearly, shooting is still an area that Smart needs to improve — although, he did convert on 3-of-5 attempts inside the arc, something he should look to do more.
Smart finished with five assists, three rebounds and a steal to go with his 19 points in 30 minutes of action.
Meanwhile, the transition to coming off the bench was not kind to Pressey. He shot an atrocious 1-for-15 on field goals, only converting an early layup. Nothing would go down all game for the crafty point guard. Pressey totaled just five points along with five boards and three helpers. It will be interesting to see how coach Jay Larranaga chooses to use Pressey next game.
Chris Johnson (12 points), Mike Moser (12 points), Colton Iverson (10 points) and Edwin Jackson (10 points) joined Smart as the Celtics' players to score in double figures in the game.
The Magic were led by Seth Curry, who scored 15 points off the bench on a barrage of 3-pointers. While Victor Oladipo rested, all eyes were on Orlando's rookies to carry the team.
Aaron Gordon scored seven points while collecting eight rebounds, but it was Elfrid Payton who was the better rookie on this day. Payton flirted with a triple-double, going for a Rondo-esque eight points, nine rebounds and 10 assists.
The Celtics will play in the third-place game on Friday morning at 10 a.m. They will face either the Pistons or Grizzlies (determined by late Thursday night games). It will be Boston's final game in Orlando before going to Las Vegas for another league.
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Severe weather left Amazon's cloud storage centers in northern Virginia without power, crippling large segments of the web that rely on its digital architecture.
Plenty of people found themselves bored this weekend when a powerful Atlantic storm disrupted Amazon's (AMZN) cloud storage centers Friday night, taking down Facebook's (FB) Instagram, Pinterest, and Netflix (NFLX), among others.
The outages, which sent Amazon into damage control mode for the better part of the weekend, underscores how dependent a large chunk of the web is on the search giant to provide affordable cloud storage.
Here, a brief guide to the Amazon architecture that secretly fortifies the web.
What kind of service does Amazon provide?
The Seattle e-tailer runs a data center called the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) in northern Virginia. On Friday night around 11 p.m. EST, severe thunderstorms cut off EC2's power, crippling services as diverse as Netflix, Pinterest, 99Designs, Active.com, Heroku, and Instagram. Other properties, such as Foursquare, were only partially affected, and most of the companies took to Twitter to alert their customers that they were working to restore service. By Saturday morning, most were back online again, even if with limited functionality. This weekend's outage, however, marks the second time EC2 has experienced downtime in a month.
How bad were the storms?
About 2.1 million people from Virginia to Illinois are still without power as of Monday morning, says Scott DiSavino at Reuters. The storms claimed at least 15 lives, "mostly from falling trees and branches." Ohio-based AEP (AEP), which supplies power to 5 million customers in 11 states, says it could take a few days to restore power to all, leaving millions without air conditioning as the region experiences a heat wave.
Why do all these companies rely on Amazon?
Amazon's EC2 storage is affordable, which is why so many companies use it so extensively. In fact, "many new companies have business models that only make sense (if, in fact, they do) because of how inexpensive and flexible Amazon's cloud services are," says Anthony Wing Kosner at Forbes. But Amazon's vulnerability in such a disaster-prone area could spell bad news, especially if its clients begin looking into competitors, says Sean Ludwig at VentureBeat, "including Rackspace, SoftLayer, Microsoft's (MSFT) Azure, and Google's (GOOG) just-introduced Compute Engine." (Microsoft owns and publishes Top Stocks, an MSN Money site.)
Could this happen again?
Unfortunately, yes. The web is vulnerable to so many kinds of issues: Not only did Friday's storms cause huge problems, but on Saturday night, after an extra second was added to Earth's universal clocks, a "leap second bug" affected sites like Reddit, Yelp, and LinkedIn. Outages like this weekend's are "a reminder of how fragile, still, our digital architectures actually are,"says Megan Garber at The Atlantic. "As one commentator put it, 'No matter how powerful we become as a species with our technology, we are still at the mercy of the clouds.'"
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A Bartow County church congregation was reminded Sunday of the power of redemption and forgiveness.It was nearly a year ago when a man broke into the Grace Baptist Church on Old Cassville White Road in Cartersville and stole thousands of dollars from the church safe.During Sunday services, the congregation welcomed him back.Kevin Harris admitted he was nervous about what he would say to the congregation as he approached the altar. Wiping away tears, he began to speak."May the 28th of 2012, last year, I broke into this church and I stole money from you and God," he told members of Grace Baptist Church in a brave and honest manner.FOX 5 News reported the burglary last June. Harris broke into the church office, broke open the safe and stole credit cards as well as thousands of dollars in cash. Days after the report, he turned himself into police.Sunday, he told the church that his addition to meth was the reason he stole from the church."I hurt a lot of people, a lot of people that were close to me. I hurt my family, my friends, and I hurt you, Grace Baptist," said Harris.But it wasn't the usual hurt reaction given by the church. Church pastor, Dr. Ralph Jenkins, explained that they were immediately ready to forgive. Church members wrote letters to Harris in jail, some even visited. A few spoke to the judge in his case and convinced him that Harris needed help."And as the sermon's message was this morning, at no time are we more like Christ than when we forgive people," said Dr. Jenkins.Harris spent three months in jail as well as had several more months of successful rehab and while he paid his debt to society, he had one thing left to do."I'm here for one purpose and one purpose only, and that's to say Grace Baptist Church, I'm sorry for hurting you and stealing from you. And will you forgive me?" Harris asked church members.The answer was clear from the standing ovation to the group that gathered around Harris and prayed for him."I was overwhelmed by the reaction I did get. I knew they would be supportive, but I had no idea how supportive," Harris told FOX 5.It is the much needed support he will need as he completes his rehab requirements.
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"Ducati always looked good in a straight line, it's just corners & handling"
Losail has 16 corners... he'd be even closer if it was 15!
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The 'under-estimated' tag came from commentators and Dovi himself. I think he made remarks to that effect when he was dropped from the Repsol squad - but then he had Stoner to contend with ... and ... he is underestimated by many MCN posters as you can tell from the many negative comments. I'll agree though that he doesn't have the 'alien' gene ... but on the other side of the coin he only had one season on the Repsol to 'prove' himself. Pedrosa has had 7.
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... very valid points, and as Hayden says: 'not flashy'. Hayden has worked with some of the very best in the business and suffered as a result. But now, like Crutchlow last year at Tech3, he's benefitting from having Dovi as his team-leader.
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No IMO needed Saturn. Its always had it by the bucket load. Stats prove it and few could use it. GP13 ? Thats funny. Its still last years bike with a little fuel cell shift in the hope of optimizing weight distribution.
Preziosi and intransigence ? The bloke has gone fishing as an indirect result of the intransigence of Rossi and Burgess re-bike design coupled to the media fallout. At worst Dovi is trying to wring its neck. Get the speed,then use the data to identify endurance issues is the correct approach in my view. Rossi got the fright of his life in Valencia testing post race 2010 and focused on saving face for 2 seasons at the expense of the manufacturer. That is just IMO.
Ducat now have a team of real grafter's,rather than one megastar moaner driving development in every direction.
I have no high expectations for team Bologna this weekend nor anytime soon,but the early promise is just that. I hope iit all translates into good results for all four sooner rather than later. Rhetoric and rider personalities aside,the sport and spectacle 2013 needs Ducati L4 prototype to upset the the generally accepted applecart that is GP2013. Funny old bone ain't it. Dani struggling on his L-4 Honda,practise current.
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..if he's not, maybe he's over-rated. Unfortunately, that's just the way of the world..
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" I'll agree though that he doesn't have the 'alien' gene ... but on the other side of the coin he only had one season on the Repsol to 'prove' himself. Pedrosa has had 7."
Saturn, you been smoking them blunts too much mate. Dovi had 3 seasons to 'prove' himself on the Respol Honda 2009,2010 and 2011. He managed to win once in his first season. He did Ok in 2011 to come third though. I agree that Dani's has been given many chances to prove himself, although the guy has won 22 races thus far at Honda, so IMO he deserves the chances he's been given. 0.33 wins per season versus 3.14 wins per season is almost one order of magnitiude difference, in Dani's favour. Your yellow lenses need a good wipe as they're fogging up a bit.
..and well made.
... yes your're right, three years at Repsol - two of which was in the role of race development rider (hence the strong RC213V package), and one year as the unwanted guy - the bloke who shamed HRC into honouring his contract. You caught a glimpse of the real Dovi in 2011 when he was finally allowed to race - finished 3rd in the world that year and 4th on a Tech3 last year. But too quiet for many people (including Italians) to recognise his outstanding abilities. The guy oozes class.
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seeing as we are around 2s off last years pace, its hard to tell anything
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Dovi is one of the very best riders out there. Why people have such a negative view of him is beyond me.
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I'm always a sucker for natural wines, so I find myself always looking to this certified organic producer from Sicily. Young female winemaker Arianna Occhipinti comes from quite the winemaking family. Her uncle is Guisto Occhipinti who owns Cos winery (also killer stuff). The thing that separates her wine from some of the other island producers is how fresh it is; it just reeks of elegance. The 2009 Nero d'Avola, 100 percent Nero d'Avola, is bright, tart and acidic, with dark cherry flavors. I love that I feel like I am tasting Sicily when I take each sip. A big handful of volcanic rich soil hits the mouth, but in a great way. Trust me, I wouldn't make you drink dirt. Yet, the wine appears surprisingly soft and, dare I say…sexy? Maybe is because Arianna is not even 30 years old. The best is yet to come. Drink it, love it! We do! -Joseph Sangiovanni
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We regularly open wines here at the shop for purposes of educating customers as well as ourselves. The other night we took advantage of trying a very cool red wine from the island of Sardinia, the 2004 Santadi Shardana Valli di Porto Pino. It would have been easy to taste Cannonau, which is probably the most famous red varietal from Sardinia, but the island offers so much more. This particular wine is made mostly from Carignano, with a little Shiraz (85%, 15%, respectively). This is one of those "funky" wines that shows characteristics of things not normally thought of when describing wine. Although smooth with some silky tannins, this wine has a very distinct flinty quality that flirts with burnt rubber and what one staff member described: "It's like that scent, when you use a toaster oven but it hasn't been cleaned in a while…and it has all the crusted stuff on the bottom that burns." Sound scary? Think again. The Carignano vines are, on average, about 100 years of age and provide intense fruit. Dense, darker fruit flavors are coupled with a vibrant minerality. The wine is meant to drink right now; it's excellent to pair with a rich stinky cheese. So if you want something unique, fun and well priced, pick up a bottle and tell us what you think. -Joseph Sangiovanni
The 2004 Santadi Shardana Valli di Porto Pino currently sells for $18.99, on sale.
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Fabio Alessandria of G.B. Burlotto visited the Salon for a tasting of his Barolo wines, including a vertical of his Barolo Cannubi. One our favorite tasters captured his talk on video. Check it out here.
The Winemaker Profile: Fabio Alessandria
If Fabio Alessandria can't have wine with dinner, he drinks water. The winemaker at the famed G.B. Burlotto estate in Piedmont, Alessandria is the great-great grandson of Giovan Battista Burlotto, a distinguished producer who was among the first to bottle Barolo and brand it under the family name. Alessandria has brought renewed acclaim to his family's holdings in and around the village of Verduno, home to the limestone-rich Monvigliero vineyard which is considered among the great Barolo crus. USQ held a tasting of 12 Burlotto wines, including his aperitif favorite, Pelaverga, the 2007 Barolo Monvigliero, and a vertical of his Barolo Cannubi. We also sat down to get to know the young, northern Italian native.
What sets your wines apart from other Barolo producers?
"It's difficult to find a bad Barolo, but I prefer the more elegant, traditional style of Barolo. For us, the Verduno village is well known for the elegance and finesse of the wine, especially from Monvigliero, which is considered the most feminine vineyard in the Barolo area. We, in the family, think that while power is important, we don't want to to lose the finesse, the drinkability of the wine. We want to maintain the aromaticity of the Cannubi, for example. Wines in the more modern style are more concentrated, more extracted, have more oak. I want to feel the profile of the grape."
What is the most reward and the most challenging aspects of your job?
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What do you drink at home?
"Barolo. I like to pull out a 10- or 12 -year Barolo after dinner or lunch. It's so much more complex; I like to concentrate on the wine [without food]."
What is your favorite food pairing with one of your wines?
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You're going to a dinner party. If you can't take your wine, what would you take?
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If you can't drink wine, you drink what?
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What is your most treasured bottle, personally?
"We have some bottles of Barolo going back to 1889, 1890. Those are special."
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And in case you're wondering, that's Fabio drinking a bottle of Lebanese Chateau Musar at Terroir, in Manhattan's East Village. A dose of NYC culture!
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So the Giro starts tomorrow
Looks simple enough - Cav will win in Naples, Sky will win the TTT round Ischia, Wiggo will be in Pink after the first ITT and wrap things up with a storming climb up to Tre Cima...
Or maybe not. OK you wouldn't bet against Cav in any sprint, but it will be tough for him to get the points jersey (rosa or rossa, I'm never sure) because they (quite rightly) give the same number of points for each stage.
As to Wiggo, with 7 summit finishes and time bonuses on all stages. I suspect Nibbles will be able to build enough of a buffer to make up for his losses in the time-trials. And if the two of them are busily watching each other, it leaves the door open for someone else. Though not Basso - ouch !
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As President of the Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency (KOSHA), Kil-Sang Park ensures that the agency's many initiatives, programs and policies live up to its mission of protecting "the lives and health of working people" in Korea. In this interview, Park provides background on KOSHA's development, discusses the status of current KOSHA research projects and outlines the agency's goals for this year.
Please provide a brief description of your role and responsibilities as President of KOSHA.
The development of the information technology industry and the introduction of competition systems have generated strong winds of change that have swept through every corner of Korean society, including public sectors.
To cope with these changes, KOSHA adopted as its mission "We protect the lives and health of working people" last year. Likewise, it has realized customer-oriented value based on "expertise" and "creativity" under the philosophy of "respect for life."
To develop as an institution that customers trust and to help prevent industrial accidents, we have implemented management policies that:
While infrastructure will be expanded over time, we will focus on accident prevention technologies, operation of many safety and health education programs and technical support for workplaces with poor working environments.
What industrial events or issues led to KOSHA's establishment in 1987?
In the 1960s, Korea realized economic development and remarkable economic growth. During the first and second economic development plans in particular, Korea recorded an outstanding annual average growth rate of 11%.
Industrialization accompanied by fast economic growth caused the national economy to rely more on the manufacturing sectors, with industrial structures shifting from agriculture-oriented or primary industries to secondary and tertiary industries. These led to modernization processes that would later enable Korea to build the necessary foundation for an industrial country.
Still, such accelerated economic growth, expanded industrial facilities, diversified work processes, high-rise buildings and massive use of hazardous materials resulted in a large number of workers sustaining injuries in industrial accidents and contracting occupational diseases, which incurred losses of invaluable technical human resources, weakened companies' international competitiveness and blocked the development of the national economy.
To prevent industrial accidents and occupational diseases, the Korean government established and proclaimed the "Industrial Safety and Health Law."
However, even with these measures, accidents continued to increase because of the lack of safety and health experts required to prevent industrial accidents in developed industrial societies, the malfunction of private institutions charged with preventing industrial accidents and companies' disinterest.
To address these issues, in December 1987, the Korean government established KOSHA, a public agency specializing in the prevention of industrial accidents.
What are KOSHA's goals for 2007?
This year, KOSHA expects to reduce the rate of industrial accidents, which has remained unchanged since 1998 when it stood at 0.68%. Specifically, we will address the changing safety and health environments and provide accident prevention technologies, facility improvement funds and information and education services to protect workers' lives and health.
Toward this end, KOSHA will redesign inefficient internal jobs and unreasonable business procedures into customer-oriented processes and expand the knowledge and information base, thus improving the capabilities of field institutions that work directly with customers and becoming an industrial accident prevention institution that customers trust.
What is the "Strategy for Occupational Safety and Health in Korea?"
Alongside the changing industrial structures and employment types are new risk factors. Thus, preventive measures from a new viewpoint should be taken in occupational safety and health for this year as well. For example, we need more comprehensive preparations for vulnerable workers such as those age 50 or older, female workers and immigrant workers. We also may expand the application of strict international regulations.
The trend toward expanding international regulations is expected to restrict the manufacture or distribution of products that can harm the human body or cause economic losses by making safety and health technical barriers to trade (TBT).
Therefore, KOSHA will continue to ensure worker safety and health by addressing the changing safety and health environments, redefining management in a transparent manner and providing new technological safety and health services that can satisfy customers.
Naturally, we will concentrate on strengthening safety and health management, especially in the vulnerable sectors.
We intend to continue the "Clean Workplace Program" to improve working conditions and to prevent industrial accidents, especially in small-sized enterprises with less than 50 workers. These account for more than 69% of all accidents and lack the self-regulatory base of safety and health management in both financial and technological terms.
We plan to support safety and health education for employees of shipbuilding companies with workforces greater than 100 persons. These workers often face complicated and dangerous work processes such as assembly and transport of heavy materials. Inexperienced workers of seaport cargo companies or workers of their partner companies are frequently involved in accidents.
Through private institutions specializing in accident prevention, we will continue to assist enterprises that own machinery and equipment such as cranes and lifts and that employ less than 50 persons.
We will install and operate accident prevention systems for vulnerable workers and provide tailored technologies and education to prevent the occurrence of accidents involving elderly, female and foreign workers.
We will foster voluntary workplace safety management abilities, including risk assessment techniques.
For manufacturers that employ less than 300 workers, we will provide specialized technologies, funds and tailored education to enable the installation of voluntary safety management systems and to develop workplaces "with the best safety and health."
We will expand the voluntary "Occupational Safety and Health Management System" (KOSHA 18001) certification, which systematically manages intra-worksite and accident-causing risk factors in connection with production factors, quantifies and evaluates potential risk factors and supports the establishment of a voluntary safety management system based on the degree of risk involved.
For construction sites, the establishment of voluntary safety management systems will be supported in consultation with and through the evaluation of their head offices and clients. We will provide comprehensive voluntary safety management support for companies with construction capabilities ranked 100 th or lower.
Unhealthy working environments will be improved, and health management of workers will be strengthened.
When conducting work environment measurements at small-scale construction sites or in workplaces with dangerous work processes that carry the risk of oxygen deficiency or suffocation, we will support the improvement of working conditions, particularly when the degree of hazardous exposure exceeds one half of the Korean Occupational Exposure Level, and we will manage chemical substances known to cause occupational diseases.
We will provide funds and relevant technologies to improve workplaces that:
For those who work with cancer-causing materials such as benzene or asbestos or for those who have retired from such work, we have a permanent lifelong health management policy through a health management pocketbook program.
Activities for the safety of machinery, equipment and facilities will also be implemented.
Prior to the occurrence of an accident, scientific inspections will be conducted during the design, manufacture and completion or installation of dangerous machinery and equipment to eliminate risk factors that can cause accidents.
We will assist exporters in acquiring overseas certifications of safety and reliability for their industrial machinery and equipment to help them overcome the trade barriers of advanced countries.
Together with comprehensive inspection and certification activities in the manufacture of protective devices and personal protective equipment, the process for checking and guaranteeing their functionality will be improved to ensure quality at the distribution stages.
We will strengthen cooperation with foreign technical institutions while reinforcing practical workplace studies.
We will enhance the efficacy of industrial accident prevention activities while reinforcing the necessary practical studies that can help solve worksite problems.
We will conduct in-depth analyses of accident–related statistics by classifying them into industrial accidents and occupational diseases to create a policy for the prevention of industrial accidents and to address these accidents speedily and accurately.
We will reinforce international cooperation through agreements with foreign technical institutions or between countries to share advanced safety and health technologies.
Finally, we will push for the institutionalization of a safety culture as soon as possible through the enhancement of safety consciousness at workplaces and the incorporation of safety-conscious activities nationwide.
We will provide stratified education for employers, workers and safety and health personnel and user-oriented education that focuses on practical cases and training to upgrade the safety consciousness of both employees and employers.
We will continue to realize customer satisfaction through localized educational activities at centers in six key areas and to provide accident prevention education for immigrant workers.
In addition, we will promote the importance of safety and health based on vulnerable season, industry and accident type, and we will educate kindergarten students, primary school students and teachers on school safety. We will ensure that safety culture takes root in Korean society.
KOSHA's Clean Workplace Program provides means and funds to improve safety, health and environmental (SH&E) conditions in small- and medium-sized workplaces. What types of facilities are eligible to participate in the program, and how does KOSHA ensure that good SH&E conditions are maintained after a facility has been upgraded?
Please also describe the Clean Workplace Program's success rate and how it has helped reduce occupational injuries, accidents and fatalities in Korea since its inception.
The Clean Workplace Program helps manufacturing companies that have less than 50 employees and are vulnerable to industrial accidents and diseases improve their safety and health facilities through the provision of relevant technologies and financial support.
The facilities provided through the Clean Workplace Program include those for securing basic safety in workplaces (i.e., storage racks or other items), safety devices for dangerous machinery and equipment (i.e., cranes and press), facilities designed to improve working conditions (i.e. worksite noise-reducing facilities, dust and hazardous material removers, etc.) and work processes to prevent MSDs (i.e., movable carriers, transport facilities, etc.).
As part of the agency's post-hoc management, its experts visit the workplaces one year after providing financial support to help them maintain the same working conditions they had when they were designated as "clean workplaces." This support comes in the form of SH&E–related technologies.
A survey of 32,395 "clean workplaces" from October 2001 to December 2006 showed that accident rates dropped by 31.1% on average and related benefits increased 6.34 times compared to the amount of investment.
Our experts perform risk assessment consulting for small-sized workplaces that have asked for support under the Clean Workplace Program. We partially subsidize the necessary expenses for facility improvements to eliminate risk factors and to establish healthy and safe "clean workplaces" that not only minimize industrial accidents, but also increase productivity and make it easier to find a job. This helps secure corporate competitiveness.
What is KOSHA 18001, and how do workplaces qualify for this certification?
KOSHA 18001 is a voluntary safety and health management system in which employers carry out measures to prevent industrial accidents and to minimize corporate losses. The system defines safety and health policies based on voluntary management policies, stipulates detailed execution guidelines and standards, periodically self-evaluates safety and health plan performance results and requests improvement activities.
For the certification procedure, KOSHA audits applications received from workplaces that have implemented their own safety and health management system based on a total of 37 items, which include:
So far, 337 workplaces have received KOSHA 18001 certification.
The certification is valid for three years, with post-hoc management carried out every year for the next three years. Validity extension is decided in the last year based on review of the reissued certificate.
Workplaces in Korea use KOSHA's Safety and Health Technology Standard, or the KOSHA Code, to build safety and health systems, perform diagnostic tests and inspections and control safety and health hazards. What is the basis of the KOSHA Code, and are there any other codes or standards with which workplaces must comply?
As the standard for securing workplace safety and health in code form, the KOSHA Code states the technological standards per field (i.e., machinery and instruments, safety management, industrial health, industrial hygiene and work processes for dangerous facilities).
To date, a total of 262 KOSHA Codes have been issued and disseminated. We estimate that these codes are accessed and used approximately 150,000 times per year (based on KOSHA website traffic).
While employers must comply with the Industrial Safety & Health Act, the Enforcement Ordinance and Enforcement Regulations, the KOSHA Code is intended for voluntary application by workplaces since they only serve as guidelines for technical details other than those specified in laws and regulations.
What are the greatest challenges facing Korea's construction industry right now, and how does KOSHA plan to address these challenges this year?
Korea's industrial accident rate has declined from 4.85% in 1970 to 0.99%, or less than 1%, in 1995 to a remarkable 0.77% in 2005.
However, in the construction industry, the number of fatalities remains high at 509, accounting for 25.3% of the total (2,009).
Thus, we first review a "Plan for Preventing Dangerous Work," which relevant construction sites submit prior to the start of construction. The plan applies to five construction types (those with high risks, such as tunnel, bridge or high-rise construction) with large-scale dangers and removes such risks in advance. We visit the sites semiannually to check if the plan has been implemented effectively and then require them to remove any remaining risk factors.
Five construction projects that require submission of a "Plan for Preventing Dangerous Work" include:
As for the seven construction types (Social Overhead Capital construction project) with a high risk of large-scale accidents, including subway and high-speed railways, both employers and employees will prepare and execute voluntary plans for worksite safety (employer/employee joint program for the prevention of accidents) to enable the reinforcement of voluntary safety activities. Technological assistance is also provided to workplaces in which a lack of safety measures results in death or the emergence of social issues.
Disseminating "KOSHA 18001 for the Construction Industry" to public institution clients enables the management of safety and health-related activities at construction sites and reduces the number of accidents.
For the improvement of safety management in small-scale construction work estimated at 300 million KRW or less and accounting for about 42% of construction accidents because of their inferior working conditions, we provide technical assistance in the prevention of fall or trip accidents (17,000 worksites).
We calculate the conversion rate of industrial accidents for construction companies with construction capabilities ranked 100 th or lower and award merit points (up to +2 points) according to the rating of an applicant construction company. Public institution clients use this when reviewing the prequalification items for the tender of public construction contracts valued at more than $200,000. We also assign demerit points of -0.2 (up to -2 points) per case of withholding accident information to promote the construction industry's self-regulatory accident prevention activities.
When estimating construction costs, clients are required to include safety and health management expenses related to worksite safety activities (i.e., safety manager's salary, safety facilities installation expenses, etc.), which can account for as low as 0.91% or as high as 3.18% of the construction cost based on the construction type and contract amounts. These are disbursed accordingly. KOSHA comprehensively checks and manages this expense system.
How has KOSHA's Integrated Risk Management System improved process safety management in Korea's chemical plants? In what ways does KOSHA assist chemical plant implementing this system?
From the 1980s to the early 1990s, many major accidents occurred at Korea's chemical plants. To reduce these accidents, the Process Safety Management (PSM) System was introduced in 1995 and yielded good results.
Although 19 major accidents occurred in 1996 during PSM's introductory stage, only three accidents occurred in 2006. In addition, the system has generated other benefits such as enhanced productivity, upgraded product quality and systematic management of process safety management data.
A quantitative measurement tool, which supplements PSM as an integrated risk management system, calculates the probability of occurrence and the estimated amount of damage based on information from hazardous facilities, estimates the degree of risk at a worksite, enables the necessary measures to prevent major industrial accidents and helps minimize damage in the event of an accident through periodic training.
After KOSHA benchmarked and modified the risk-based management system by combining the frequency of accident occurrences and amount of damage as adopted in advanced countries with low accident rates, the integrated risk management system was developed and disseminated to help domestic chemical plants use the Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA) program.
KOSHA developed the "Integrated Risk Management System (IRMS)" and distributed CDs and user's manuals to workplaces. Likewise, continued training and education are provided for IRMS experts and users. Programs, manuals and actual accident cases are also available on KOSHA's website homepage.
KOSHA's Occupational Safety Institute offers basic, general, advanced and correspondence courses for safety managers and supervisors, and its regional heads and offices also provide training courses for specific jurisdictions.
How have students responded to these courses, and what is the course agenda for 2007? Does KOSHA plan to offer courses in any new areas of study?
Since its inception in 1987, the Occupational Safety Training Institute has trained a total of 262,375 experts.
This shows that the institute has received a favorable response from workplaces and trainees. It is the only technical education institution in Korea that specializes in industrial accident prevention education through hands-on, experience-based training.
In 2007, a total of 65 courses for 27,260 trainees will be offered. These courses will mostly cover job aptitude enhancement courses for safety and health managers, the development of in-house inspectors for intra-worksite internal inspections of hazardous machines or equipment, the development of experts for voluntary safety and health management at workplaces and distance learning-based job aptitude enhancement for management supervisors.
Eight new courses will reflect the changing work environment. For example, as a transition from the "physical factor-only" analysis to learn accident prevention techniques, a new course on the psychological approach to unsafe behaviors and occupational stress has been added. A safety and health cost-benefit analysis course is also available.
A 2006 KOSHA customer satisfaction survey showed favorable response in the fields of intra-workplace education support activities and safety mobile bus services.
An external institution's survey of those who graduated in less than six months revealed a satisfaction degree of 86 points. KOSHA's own survey revealed a satisfaction degree of 87 points.
How does the Training Institute select instructors for its courses? What criteria must the instructors meet?
There are two groups of professors. One group consists of professors for education only as employed by the Occupational Safety Training Institute, and the other group consists of external professionals who deliver lectures.
Professors are recruited from among KOSHA employees who have extensive experience and superior knowledge of field jobs. At the end of the year, they are assessed in terms of trainees' satisfaction with the courses and their own self-development efforts as evaluated according to the instructor's performance evaluation system. Performance-oriented personnel management is then carried out based on these results.
External instructors should hold at least a bachelor's degree and a certificate in the field of safety and health. They are selected from among worksite engineers, university professors, etc. In fact, some of the instructors who design the education program concurrently work as part-time professors.
Do you feel that participation in the Training Institute's courses directly affects injury and accident rates within Korea's workforce? Please explain.
The cause analysis of the 85,411 workers involved in industrial accidents in 2005 suggests that accidents attributed to technological reasons account for 29.1%, those due to lack of education, 51.4% and those due to work management, 19.6%. Since lack of education and work management are human factors, 71% of all accidents could have been prevented.
Safety training seeks to prevent accidents by letting workers acquire the necessary safety and health knowledge, develop a safe attitude and practice safety. Nonetheless, getting adults to change their established habits is very difficult.
Most of the course graduates hold executive-level positions and voluntarily participate. We also train them to educate workers at their site continuously. Therefore, this training program can contribute to the reduction of accidents, albeit indirectly.
As case studies in foreign countries show, safety culture and safety consciousness are very important. In particular, management's concern for employee safety, continuous safety education and active cooperation can transform organizations into safe and pleasant workplaces.
KOSHA has introduced the safety and health management system to help safety culture take root in an organizational setting. It also encourages the establishment of voluntary safety and health systems by offering specialized safety and health education.
To strengthen its own efforts, dose KOSHA work with safety organization in other countries? Please elaborate.
As a Korean regional center for ILO-CIS, KOSHA supplies key international safety and health-related information to domestic institutions and workplaces and disseminates information on local safety and health trends to foreign countries, thus contributing to an international information exchange and to the enhancement of technology.
To expand technology exchange and cooperation between Korea and other Asian countries, KOSHA invites personnel in charge of safety and health to participate in its training programs and to make use of its technical advice as part of a joint cooperation project with the Asian-Pacific Regional Office of the International Labor Organization (ILO). However, it should be noted that these activities are still in the infancy stage.
KOSHA shares safety and health information with the Asian Pacific Occupational Safety and Health Organization (APOSHO), which counts 33 safety and health-related institutions from 24 countries in the Asia-Pacific Region as its members. We also deliver opening speeches or presentations at APOSHO annual meetings where we introduce industrial accident prevention policies, the latest technologies or actual best practices of workplace safety and health in Asian countries, thus promoting information exchange among countries.
The 18 th World Congress on Safety and Health at Work and the 24 th APOSHO annual meeting will be held in Korea simultaneously. Through these two events, the safety and health level worldwide is expected to advance even further.
We are also implementing the mutual business cooperation agreements we entered into with 28 institutions from 13 countries to remove redundancy in certification factors, streamline the certification process and reduce certification expenses by internationally standardizing certification standards and procedures for the S-mark safety certification of industrial and explosion prevention machinery and equipment.
In addition, KOSHA plans to hold international meetings and seminars with exchange experts to set up and operate an integrated certification system for developing an ongoing integrated Safety, Health, Environment and Quality (SHE&Q) model in cooperation with OECD.
Currently, we actively participate in the United Nations' Globally Harmonized System (GHS) and consolidate delivery methods for all information on chemical materials used worldwide.
The 18 th World Congress on Safety and Health at Work will be held from June 29-July 2, 2008 in Seoul, Korea. What role will KOSHA play in this event?
KOSHA will supervise the World Congress in cooperation with the ILO and the International Social Security Association (ISSA). A safety and health summit, regional meeting and symposia will be held during the Congress.
Prominent industrial safety and health leaders, high-ranking government officials, CEOs of corporations, employer and employee representatives and luminaries in academic circles will discuss international issues to find solutions and will make a safety and health declaration. We believe the conference will fuel considerable interest worldwide.
KOSHA expects the conference to serve as a venue for the exchange of industrial accident prevention technologies and information. Attendees will come together based on the premise "Safety and Health at Work: A Societal Responsibility" and will deliberate on:
KOSHA asks for constant support and active participation to enable people from all over the world to gather in Korea in 2008 and to make the World Congress a success.
KOSHA routinely conducts research on occupational accident prevention. What new accident prevention technologies is KOSHA currently exploring, and what is the status of this research?
The functions of KOSHA's Occupational Safety and Health Research Institute are classified into research on safety and health-related policies, industrial safety and hygiene policies, epidemiological investigations, management of information on chemical materials and hazard evaluation. As of 2006, it has carried out 97 research projects.
When researching safety and health policies, the institute refers to systems and activities for industrial accident prevention in foreign countries and conducts policy-related studies to introduce a system that reflects Korean circumstances. It also analyzes the effectiveness of current regulatory systems in Korea.
These research projects yield practical results that minimize accidents and work-related diseases within industrial workplaces. The institute is conducting safety engineering research to arrive at systematic preventive measures following an in-depth analysis of the characteristics of frequently occurring accidents in the country such as falls, trips and electrocution.
The institute is also studying occupational disease prevention, MSDs in specific workers, management improvement plans, risk factors affecting MSDs, relationships between exposure to harmful factors and certain diseases, rates of workers hospitalized for pneumonia resulting from exposure to glass and silica acid dust and health problems in elderly workers. Biochemical studies are planned on the relationship between exposure to chemical substances and metabolic syndrome and on the outbreak mechanism of MSDs.
Finally, we will investigate and assess chemical materials produced and used in Korea. We will generate reliable information on their harmfulness or hazardousness for storage in the Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) database and provide this information to relevant workplaces.
Beginning in July 2008 in Korea, we will provide information on the classification and labeling of chemicals based on GHS. We will also benchmark the European Union's (EU) Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals (REACH) system in our research this year.
What is the status of occupational disease outbreaks in Korean workplaces? What kinds of projects does KOSHA implement to prevent them?
The number of patients contracting occupational diseases increased every year from 1,638 in 1990 to an all-time high in 2004. By the end of 2005, the figure stood at 7,495.
With respect to patients with major occupational diseases, those caused by exposure to harmful working environments such as chemical substances or high-level noises account for 33.7% (2,527); work-related cerebrovascular and cardiovascular diseases and MSDs constitute 66.3% (4,968). Therefore, the number of typical occupational diseases caused by exposure to chemical substances can be said to have decreased.
KOSHA's projects for the prevention of occupational diseases include an MSDS database (with 50,802 types) to help workers recognize the harmfulness of chemicals, ensure their safe usage and facilitate their identification and management.
In 2008, KOSHA will introduce GHS, which can store up 2,500 records on the classification of chemical materials each year (14,000 types until 2012) and provide practical information on chemicals.
In addition, we are researching the distribution, usage and exposure effects of about 30 chemical materials, including normal hexane (n-hexane) and trichloroethylene (TCE), which caused occupational diseases. We are also in the process of developing and disseminating measure sheets.
Based on the survey results, we will develop and supply a Korean-style "Control Banding Program" that can be easily used at small-scale workplaces.
We provide tailored technical guidance such as Working Environment Measurements every six months, and we propose improvement measures from an engineering perspective to workplaces in which the measured exposure exceeds 50% of the permissible exposure limit. We also operate a quality assurance program for chemical sample analysis and a project that evaluates the reliability of measurements to improve accuracy and precision in measuring harmful work environments and in performing special medical checkups.
For the prevention of confined space accidents, we reinforce education on suffocation (accounts for 11% of all accidents) wherein rescue activities are performed by rescuers who wear no protective gear. We also assist local governments and public institutions in preparing and managing standard procedures for work with risks of suffocation due to hazardous gases or lack of oxygen. In addition, we purchase exhaust fans and equipment that measures hazardous gas concentration.
We also work to reduce the risk of occupational diseases attributed to the aging of the industrial population, an increase in work-related stress, lifestyle changes and lack of exercise.
For regions with small-scale workplaces, KOSHA provides private institutions that specialize in industrial health. Through financial support, nurses or industrial hygiene experts visit the regions 2-6 times per year per workplace to manage people's health and to provide health guidance.
For small, apartment-type factories, we commission nearby specialist hospitals to conduct health management.
In government-established industrial zones, we have regional industrial health centers where we conduct health management and enhancement activities for workers.
MSDs such as back pain and cervical syndrome have increased sharply since 2001 because of increased repetitive work, improper working postures and handling of heavy materials. To prevent these diseases, we provide workplaces with in-depth inspections and evaluations of harmful factors affecting the musculoskeletal system in 11 types of work as well as guidance for improving work procedures based on ergonomics. We also create and disseminate prevention manuals that consider industrial characteristics.
What new projects has KOSHA implemented to prevent occupational diseases?
We have several programs for preventing occupational diseases. However, the latest occupational disease is acute poisoning due to chemical materials in small-scale workplaces or those that employ less than ten workers. To control this problem, we started the "Workplace Health Partner Program" this year.
Through cooperative relationships between workers, employers and KOSHA, this program seeks to solve at the root level the industrial health problems that have been managed within the framework of working environmental measurement, medical examinations, worksite inspections and technical support.
KOSHA partners with workers and employers to identify problems and propose relevant solutions. This is a customer-oriented support program designed to protect the health of workers at the worksite.
Employers or employees may request technical support from KOSHA. These activities are independent of government supervision, and no measure is taken for violations of relevant laws and regulations, although in-depth information is provided.
We expect this program to enable the implementation of an occupational disease prevention scheme among vulnerable sectors.
Kil-Sang Park has served as President of the Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency (KOSHA) since 2005. Prior to this position, he was Vice Minister of Korea's Ministry of Labor and held other offices within the Ministry.
Park holds a bachelor of science degree in sociology from Seoul National University, a master of arts degree in labor relations from the University of Illinois and a law degree from Hanyang University in Korea.


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What is the difference between humble and modest? I saw one difference here. Is that true? Any other difference?
Modest describes the personality trait or behaviour of not flaunting oneself, talking oneself up or putting oneself on display. Modest behaviour can be a response to compliments, praise or follow an achievement. Modesty can also manifested physically (for example, "dressing modestly", "modest accessories", "modest smile").
In contrast, "humble" refers specifically to a person's inner state and feelings. A humble person is willing to accept or respect another's authority, intellect and wisdom, or superiority without trying to challenge it or trying to assert oneself.
In summary, being modest refers to your behaviour, being humble refers to your ego.
Modest refers to a person's opinion of themselves.
Humble refers to a person's behavior with respect to others.
A person is modest when they do not boast or brag and when they tend to downplay their own abilities.
A person is humble when they show deference and a willingness to submit to others.
They often go hand-in-hand, but do not have to.
Modest does not mean poor, but humble does.
For example: You can wear humble clothes that are old and cheap, which make you stick out like a sore thumb at a royal wedding; or, you can wear modest clothes that make you fit in and not stand out at a royal wedding.
When one is modest, they have a moderate view of their own abilities. That is, they are not necessarily undervaluing themselves, but they would never overvalue.
When one is humble, they have a low view of their own abilities. They will always view themselves as weak in that area, even if they are not.
"Modest" is generally more suited to describe someone with a level-headed and accurate view of themselves, whereas "humble" is for one that is lower than it should be (to humble someone is to lower their own sense of value), though there is certainly a great deal of cross-over in modern usage of the two words.


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- Mabel Zhuang
- New York, NY
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I'm organizing a TEDx event centered around the theme "mindfulness." Anyone have ideas of relevant activities for our activities room?
To elaborate, we will have an activities room for audience members to go before, during breaks, and after the event to do a number of mindfulness activities. The room will be classroom-sized and host a number of areas with someone facilitating a short activity related to our theme, mindfulness. I'm thinking something that gets our audience directly involved, such as utilizing social media, would be cool. Also, maybe a more physical activity like meditation tips, etc. Any ideas would be helpful just to get the juices flowing.
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Nina KearneyMar 17 2013: Namaste,
I would encourage you to look at Marsha Linehan. She used mindfulness in creating Dialectical Behavioral Therapy for people with Borderline Personality Disorder. Mindfulness is the at the core of DBT. Though one must be certified to officially use DBT as their therapeutic modality, there are fabulous aspects which anyone can use.
As an addictions counselor I find persons who have depression and anxiety find great success and benefit from using mindfulness techniques. I have used Thich Nhat Hanh's example of fresh apple cider with my clients. I read the concept in his book, 'The Sun My Heart'.
The challenge I find is living in a state of mindfulness within the reality of society. We must find that place within where we give ourselves permission to be in the moment without expectation of the next moment.
Soft paths....
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