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Journal of Chemistry
Volume 2013, Article ID 469170, 7 pages
The Adsorption Efficiency of Chemically Prepared Activated Carbon from Cola Nut Shells by on Methylene Blue
University of Yaoundé I, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Faculty of Science, P.O. Box 812, Yaoundé, Cameroon
Received 20 March 2013; Accepted 22 May 2013
Academic Editor: Yajing Shen
Copyright © 2013 Julius Ndi Nsami and Joseph Ketcha Mbadcam. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The adsorption of methylene blue from aqueous solution onto activated carbon prepared from cola nut shell has been investigated under batch mode. The influence of major parameters governing the efficiency of the process such as, solution pH, sorbent dose, initial concentration, and contact time on the removal process was investigated. The time-dependent experimental studies showed that the adsorption quantity of methylene blue increases with initial concentration and decreasing adsorbent dosage. The equilibrium time of 180 min was observed and maximum adsorption was favoured at pH 3.5. The dye removal using 0.1 g of adsorbent was more than 90%. This dosage (0.1 g) was considered as the optimum dosage to remove methylene blue from aqueous solutions. The equilibrium adsorption data were analyzed by the Freundlich, Langmuir adsorption isotherm models. The kinetics of methylene blue solution was discussed by pseudo-first-order, pseudo-second-order, and Elovich models. The adsorption process follows the Elovich rate kinetic model, having a correlation coefficient in the range between 0.9811 and 1.
1. Introduction
Effluent from textile, dying, cosmetics, food processing, and paper making industries is polluted by dye stuff materials which of course are transported to streams which support life in our mother planet. But, anthropogenic activities have caused a great harm to the quality of our lifeline, that is, water. Because of fast depletion of the freshwater resources, the removal of dye from wastewater, particularly, by activated carbon has been reported widely. However, a survey of literature revealed that methylene blue has been used particularly for adsorption studies, not only because of its environmental concern but also for the fact that it has been recognized as a model adsorbate for the removal of organics as a result of its known strong adsorption to activated carbons [1].
Discharge of these coloured effluents presents a major environmental problem for developing countries because of their toxic and carcinogenic effects on living beings [2].
The presence of methylene blue in water system is unacceptable and even visible at concentrations as low as 1 ppm thereby affecting the aquatic systems. It also inhibits sunlight diffusion into the water, consequently reducing the photosynthetic process of aquatic plants [3]. Hence, the remediation of methylene blue from effluents before discharge into the water environment is essential. There are many methods used for the treatment procedures among which are chemical precipitation, filtration, ion exchange, reverse osmosis, ultrafiltration, electrochemical deposition, and coagulation. These methods differ in their efficiency to remove the dyes and also in the cost. However adsorption remains the outmost process because of its simplicity, high efficiency, easy recovery, and so forth [4]. Many adsorbent have been applied for the removal of methylene blue [5–11].
In 2003, it has been reported that the consumption of activated carbon risen up to about 500300 tones (five hundred thousand three hundred tones) and that 7% increase shall be felt annually [5].
Since activated carbon is very expensive and efficient, it makes adsorption process more costly. As a result, low-cost and readily available alternative lignocellulosic materials are in need, while methods of production are developed.
Biomass waste including corn cob, coconut shell, palm shell, apple pulp, chickpea husks, grain sorghum, pistachio nut shell, olive stones and walnut shell, cherry stones, wild rose seeds, rice bran, oil palm shell, rubber tree seed coat, cotton stalk, tea waste, sugarcane bagasse, and empty oil palm fruit bunches has been found to be suitable precursors owing to their high-carbon and low-ash contents [12]. Chemical activation of activated carbon has been reported as more advantageous over physical activation due to higher yields, more surface area, and better development of porous structures in carbon [12].
In this research, a local agricultural waste, cola nut shells, was used to produce activated carbon. This is due to the availability and cost-free of the material with high-carbon and low inorganic content. Moreover, little or no work has been reported on the production of activated carbon using cola nut shells.
Several authors have studied the carbonization of lignocellulosic materials [13, 14] and found that the main degradation takes place, between 200–350°C, with evolution of H2O, CO, CO2, CH4, aldehydes, and so forth. Distillation of heavier hydrocarbons (tar) takes place in the range 350–500°C, and above 500°C, there is little weight loss, thus indicating that the basic structure of the char has already been formed.
There is a contraction in dimensions of the lignocellulosic precursor during the carbonization process. This change in dimension is important in chemical activations, as the reagent has to be incorporated into the interior of the particles where it inhibits the expected contraction with increasing temperature which implies that the reagent may act as a template for the creation of microporosity [15]. This analysis of the porosity development allows for a comparison of methods of activation of each reagent.
Of the many reagents proposed for chemical activation, (zinc chloride, phosphoric acid, aluminium chloride, magnesium chloride, potassium hydroxide, sodium hydroxide, etc.), the most commonly used, industrially, are ZnCl2, H3PO4, and KOH. However, the effects of ZnCl2 on activation of carbonaceous materials have been of particular interest. Also the effects of this chemical on a single precursor have not been thoroughly investigated in the literature, and the information published is limited, but activated carbon with high specific surface area using ZnCl2 as activating agent has been reported. ZnCl2 known as Lewis acid is a strong dehydrating agent which could alter the structure of carbon to form the porous structure [16].
The aim of this work was to study the adsorption efficiency of the prepared activated carbon from cola nut shells on the removal of methylene blue dye from aqueous solution.
2. Experimental Methods
2.1. Treatment of Adsorbents
2.1.1. Cola Nut Shells
Cola nut shells were initially washed with deionised water, sun dried, and grained mechanically using a grinding machine (RETSCH) then screened through a sieve (Retsch) to get geometrical size of ≤1.5 mm, which by the use of a beaker was kept into an oven at 110°C for a period of 24 hours, removed, and cooled in a dessicator containing CaCl2 (drying agent) for 30 min. The lignocellulosic material was removed from the dessicator, and a 1 : 1 mass reagent ratio was applied, mixed, and dried for 24 hours at 110°C.
2.2. Carbon
Carbonization and activation were accomplished in a single step by carrying out thermal decomposition of the raw material (cola nut shells) impregnated with ZnCl2 as activating agent in an inert atmosphere or in the absence of oxygen in a carbolite furnace at 500°C for 1 hour as resident time. After activation, the furnace was allowed to cool to room temperature. The pyrolysed carbons were leached with 1% HCl (v/v) for 2-3 hours and washed several times with distilled water until a neutral pH was achieved. Later the carbon paste was dried in an oven at 110°C for at least 24 hours before application.
2.3. Chemical Reagents
Laboratory grade methylene blue (MB), a cationic dye having molecular formula of C16H18N3SCl supplied in powder form by Merck, was used without further purification for the preparation of synthetic aqueous solution.
3. Preparation of Solutions
3.1. Methylene Blue Solution
All the experiments were conducted with artificial wastewater stock solution prepared by dissolving analytical grade of methylene blue in distilled water.
The chemical formula of methylene blue is shown in Figure 1 [17].
A stock solution of methylene blue of concentration 500 ppm (500 mg/L) was prepared by dissolving ()g of methylene blue in a 1000 mL volumetric flask, agitated by using a magnetic stirrer for a period of time and completed with distilled water up to the mark. This solution was again stirred with a magnetic stirrer for two hours to obtain homogeneity. Solutions of various concentrations were obtained by dilution. Solution of hydrochloric acid (0.1 M) and sodium hydroxide (0.1 M) was also prepared for pH adjustments.
3.2. The Batch Adsorption Study
The batch experiments of the adsorption studies were conducted at room temperature (25°C) in a 250 mL screw-cap conical flask. For each run, 0.1–0.5 g of the adsorbent dosage was weighed and placed in the flask containing 30 mL solution of methylene blue of a desired concentration (ranging from 50 to 300 ppm), pH between 2 and 8. The suspension was stirred for interval of time between 10–240 min, using a magnetic agitator and stirrer at a controllable speed. After agitation, the suspensions were filtered using Whatman no. 1 filter paper. The concentration of the filtrate was determined by using a UV-visible spectrophotometer. The absorbance was measured at the maximum absorption wavelength of 668 nm.
The quantity adsorbed by a unit mass of an adsorbent at equilibrium () and the adsorption percentage (%) at an instant were calculated using the relations (1), respectively, where is the concentration of adsorbate at equilibrium; is the concentration of adsorbate at time ; is the initial concentration; is the mass of the adsorbent; and is the volume of the adsorbate.
4. Results and Discussion
4.1. The Characteristics of Activated Carbon Obtained from Cola Nut Shells
Table 1 summarizes the characteristics of activated carbon prepared from cola nut shells.
It can be seen that the nature of the prepared activated carbon consisting mainly of mesopores which are very favourable for adsorption of large molecules like methylene blue with an average recommended, significant surface area between 500–1500 m2/g, reported by Chand and Bansal [18] in his book, that widely used activated carbon adsorbents has specific surface area on the order 500 to 1500 m2/g and pore volume on the order of 0.20 to 0.60 cm3/g.
4.2. Adsorption Contact Time Test
Methylene blue adsorption on activated carbon prepared from cola nut shells increases with increasing agitation time as shown in Figure 2.
The removal rate was slow within the first 50 min then increases rapidly and gradually diminished to attain equilibrium within 180 min beyond which there was no significant increase in the removal rate. It is thought that the first step leads to surface adsorption and the second step leads to intraparticle transport from bulk fluid to the external surface of the porous adsorbent [19]. This trend agrees with the report of other investigators [20]. The stages of sorption of methylene blue on activated carbon might be controlled by the diffusion process from bulk to the surface or the heterogeneous nature of the adsorbent.
4.3. Effect of Carbon Dose
In order to study the effect of adsorbent dosage on the adsorption of methylene blue, a series of adsorption experiments were carried out with different adsorption dosages varying from 0.1 to 0.5 g at initial concentration of 100 ppm.
The effect of carbon dose for the uptake of methylene blue by activated carbon from cola nut shells was found to decrease by increasing the adsorbent dose. This may be allocated to the fact that as the amount in grams of adsorbent is increased the total surface area available for the adsorption of methylene blue reduces as a result of overlapping or aggregation of adsorption sites [21]. Furthermore, maximum quantity adsorbed, = 87.37 mg/g, was reached by 0.1 g activated carbon prepared from agricultural waste (cola nut shells, see Figure 3).
4.4. Effect of pH Experiments
To study the effect of pH on methylene blue (MB) adsorption, 0.1 g of activated carbon was added to solutions containing 300 ppm of methylene blue ions. The initial pH values were adjusted from 2–8 using 0.1 M HCl and 0.1 M NaOH. After the suspensions were shaken for 180 min, equilibrium time, at room temperature, they were filtered using Whattman no. 1 filter paper and analyzed for residual methylene blue concentration.
Figure 4 shows higher adsorption of methylene blue at low pH = 3.5 which is due to increased protonation by neutralization of the negative charges at the surface of adsorbent. But for pH < 3.5, the number of negatively charged adsorbent sites decreased and the number of positively charged surface sites increased, which did not favour the adsorption of positively charged dye cation due to electrostatic repulsion. In addition, lower adsorption of methylene blue at acidic pH might be due to the presence of excess H+ ions competing with dye cations for the available adsorption sites. For pH values higher than 7, the amount of dye removal started to increase, and in this case, may be in alkaline solutions, methylene blue might have stepwise, demethylated to other common dyes [7]. This indicated that the adsorption capacity of activated carbon prepared from cola nut shells was pH dependent.
5. Adsorption Isotherms and Kinetic Models
5.1. Adsorption Isotherm Models
An adsorption isotherm is the relationship between the adsorbate in the liquid phase and the adsorbate adsorbed on the surface of the adsorbent at equilibrium at constant temperature. In order to successfully represent the dynamic adsorptive behavior of any substances from the fluid to the solid phase, it is important to have a satisfactory description of the equilibrium state between the two phases composing the adsorption system. The Langmuir and Freundlich isotherms are the two most well-known isotherms which have been used to describe the equilibrium of adsorption systems.
5.2. The Langmuir Adsorption Isotherm
The Langmuir isotherm takes an assumption that adsorption occurs at specific homogeneous sites within the adsorbent. The equation is as follows: where (mg of adsorbate per g of adsorbent) is the adsorption density at the equilibrium solute concentration . is the equilibrium concentration of adsorbate in solution (mg/L). (mg of solute adsorbed per of adsorbent) is the maximum adsorption capacity corresponding to complete monolayer coverage.
is the Langmuir constant related to energy of the adsorption ( of adsorbate per mg of adsorbent).
The previous equation can be rearranged to the following linear form: The linear form can be used for linearization of experimental data by plotting / against . The Langmuir constants and can be evaluated from the slope and intercept of the linear equation: where (mg of adsorbate per g of adsorbent) is the adsorption density at the equilibrium solute concentration . is the equilibrium concentration of adsorbate in solution (mg/L).
(mg of solute adsorbed per of adsorbent) is the maximum adsorption capacity corresponding to complete monolayer coverage.
is the Langmuir constant related to energy of the adsorption ( of adsorbate per mg of adsorbent).
The previous equation can be rearranged to the following linear form: The linear form can be used for linearization of experimental data by plotting / against . The Langmuir constants and can be evaluated from the slope and intercept of the linear equation.
5.3. The Freundlich adsorption Isotherm
The Freundlich isotherm is an empirical equation employed to describe the heterogeneous system (16). The equation is given below: where is the quantity of solute adsorbed at equilibrium (adsorption density: mg of adsorbate per g of adsorbent). is the concentration of adsorbate at equilibrium, where and are empirical constants dependent on the nature of sorbent and sorbate and the temperature. Both of these values ( and ) are important in selecting an adsorbent as a separating medium, in which (mg/g) is the over-all adsorption capacity ( at = 1 mg/L or log = 0) and is the heterogeneity factor. The heterogeneity factor 1/ indicates the strength of bond energy between sorbate and sorbent.
This equation is conveniently used in linear form by taking the logarithmic of both sides as A plot of against yielding a straight line indicates the confirmation of the Freundlich isotherm for adsorption. The constants can be determined from the slope and the intercept.
From Figure 5, the adsorption isotherm of methylene blue shows that the data both fitted Langmuir and Freundlich isotherms but fitted better in Langmuir isotherm equation by comparing the values of Langmuir and Freundlich isotherm as shown in Table 2.
This implies that a monolayer sorption proceeds over a surface containing a finite number of adsorption sites and uniform strategies of adsorption with no transmigration of adsorbate in the plane of surface. In the literature, several authors reported the difficulties of comparing adsorption intensities, due to lack of consistencies in data. 1/, which is a measure of surface heterogeneity, is also a measure of adsorption intensities. Adsorption on the surface becomes more heterogeneous as values get closer to zero. From Table 1, shows normal adsorption [22].
5.4. Kinetic Adsorption Models
In the present research, the kinetics of adsorption of methylene blue on the activated carbon prepared from cola nut shells by chemical modification by ZnCl2 was studied. Three types of kinetic models, pseudo-first-order (Lagergren equation), pseudo-second-order model (Ho equation), and Elovich model [6], were employed to fit experimental data (Figure 6).
The straight lines plots showed a good agreement of experimental data with pseudo-second-order model and Elovich model. Table 3 listed the results of rate constant studies for different kinetic models. Comparing the values, pseudo-second-order and Elovich models show a significant agreement with adsorption mechanisms being the two, with successfulness of the Elovich model. The general explanations for this form of kinetic equation involve a variation of the energetic of chemisorption with the heterogeneous active sites in activated carbon. This supports that the heterogeneous sorption mechanism is likely to be responsible for the methylene blue uptake. Elovich model basically supports chemisorption [23].
6. Conclusion
This study confirmed that the activated carbon prepared from a low-cost agricultural waste (cola nut shells) could effectively remove methylene blue from an aqueous solution with the optimal pH for favourable adsorption of methylene blue equal to 3.5. The adsorbent dosage had an effect on the adsorption process of methylene blue. The adsorption equilibrium was reached in 180 min with the isothermal data fitted well in Langmuir model and Freundlich model indicating a chemisorption adsorption. Also the adsorption process followed Elovich rate kinetic model.
This work was conducted as part of a Ph.D. degree thesis research work at the University of Yaoundé I in the Physical and Theoretical Chemistry laboratory. The authors are grateful to Professor Marc Cretin, institut Europeen des Membranes of the University of Montpellier II, France, in recording BET results. The authors also thank all the members of the research group "Adsorption and Surface" of this same laboratory.
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Raymarine's just released Dragonfly Sonar/GPS is everything a small boat owner could wish for: a ClearPulse® CHIRP sonar, complete with Raymarine's new breakthrough DownVision™ technology and a GPS plotter, all in a compact, waterproof package costing just $1189!
Dragonfly's unique dual channel ClearPulse transceiver delivers simultaneous views of CHIRP sonar and CHIRP DownVision sonar, enabling boaties to target fish and see underwater structures with amazing photo-like clarity.
Using Raymarine's own, specially engineered high speed CPT-60 tranducer, Dragonfly gives owners the benefit of both an ultra high frequency (320kHz to 380kHz) 60 x 1.4 degree DownVision fan beam and a high frequency (170khz to 230kHz) 25-degree conical sonar beam. The result is lifelike, crystal clear images unlike anything previously available.
Dragonfly also comes complete with a super-fast-response temperature sensor, the latest digital colour charting (with Navionics charts), a large 5.7in VGA display, Raymarine's super-easy-to-use, intuitive Lighthouse user interface and a high resolution, super bright (1600 Nits!) screen that is easy to see, even in bright sunlight with polarised sunglasses. And, for added on board security, the Dragonfly display can be secured in its quick-release, tilt-and-swivel, drop-in base, using an optional Thule lock core.
"Dragonfly is a real game changer for owners of smaller trailer boats, RIBs and kayaks," says Mark Milburn, CEO of Raymarine's New Zealand distributor, Lusty and Blundell Ltd.
"They can have now the latest digital CHIRP ClearPulse and DownVision technology and a powerful fully-featured GPS colour chartplotter, all in a compact, easy-to-fit package that won't break the bank.
"There is absolutely nothing else like Dragonfly on the market," he says. "This is easily 'best in class' technology; it is going to be hugely popular."
Dragonfly will be officially released in New Zealand at the Hutchwilco New Zealand Boat Show in Auckland in May and will then be available nationwide through Lusty and Blundell's network of leading marine dealers.
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We were commissioned by startup Electricians Switched Electrical Services to design them a portfolio website that would convert potential clients and establish them as the experts in their area. Key features required for the site included contact functionality, image galleries of their previous works, and a fully responsive interface. We designed a custom, bespoke WordPress theme for the site that allowed us to incorporate every element that the company required, without the limitations that a template will restrict you with.
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The site has a fresh and clean look, complete with enhanced content fully optimised for every media device, desktop through mobile. This allows customers to view previous jobs, company information, and contact Switched Electrical through the site. The CMS allows the clients to observe visitor and customer analytics, so they can feed this information back into offering the service that their customers are looking for; an essential aspect in any websites for startup businesses. We fully designed and developed the site using WordPress, concentrating on accessibility and responsive design to give an inclusive and interactive user experience.
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Facebook has joined with TIP (Telecom Infra Project) to solve the coverage issue and achieve future connectivity requirement. TIP is focussing on vendor-specific component of network infrastructure. TIP member is working hard to create a new space on the earth. They wanted to deploy the new topology across the globe. They are contributing specs in terms of hardware and software. TIP is also working on 5G enabled networks worldwide by using new topology to solve the specific connectivity challenges.
Recently Facebook has designed and tested wireless access platform. Access platform is open source platform having aim to provide cost-effective, improved connectivity features in the remote area across the globe. An open source wireless access platform will support wide range of communication option from 2G to LTE (High Speed Wireless communication media for mobile). Facebook has planned to work with Telecom Infra Project (TIP) member.
Internet has a lots of impact on our daily life. Since morning to evening we connected through it by many ways like google, facebook, twitter, whatsapp and many other websites. Due to its high impact, we cannot think our life without it. But still around 60% people round the globle live without internet as they reside in interior area or island where internet connectivity is rare or due to its expensive cost.
Facebook takes an initiative to build fast internet connection at very low cost.UK aerospace team has designed an aircraft called Aquila.
@Scale is a series of technical conference for engineers who work for scaling of data ie. large-scale storage systems and analytics. These events held throughout the year after some time interval. Engineers across the globle participate in this conference to make a strong scalable system, who works for million or billions of data. This community brings technical people together to openly discuss the challenges which they faced during development.
Messenger has increased its importance as people share their personal and professional information on it. Sometimes they share very important information as bank account password and other on messenger which can create problem if seen by any other. Facebook was using plain text for messenger, messages on facebook was not encrypted. So, it was easier for hacker to read messages.
FBNewswire can be followed on twitter account by @FBNewswire
WhatsApp is mobile messageing system, used to send message to any mobile IPhone, BlackBerry, Android, Windows Phone and Nokia free of cost. It has 55 employees including its founder. It is used by around 450 million people. Around 1 million people register it everyday.
Now a days everyone want to be a part of facebook. People talk about politics, news, sports and many personal and private issue on social network like facebook.
Facebook gives lots of features to their followers, which everybody appreciates. Before few days facebook launched hashtag, embedded post, etc. It helps people to make a firm relationship with facebook.
- 1. Hashtag can be search in search bar. eg. #fbchandra.
- 2. Hashtag is clickable as in twitter.
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Deals is the fast growing business across the world. Several websites using deals are groupon, sellthedeal, LivingSocial, etc. It provides discount to several products like movie tickets, restaurant, etc.
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The graduate program in Biological Chemistry at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine offers training in cutting-edge biomedical research for outstanding students. Training in the BC graduate program focuses on teaching a rigorous scientific approach to biomedical research while offering a highly flexible and personalized training environment in which there is significant personal interaction with the faculty.
The graduate program in Biological Chemistry at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine offers training in cutting-edge biomedical research for outstanding students. The BC faculty offers a wide variety of research topics, that range from detailed studies of the structure and function of single molecules to complex biological processes studied in vivo. Faculty research interests include the molecular mechanisms underlying the sensation of light, heat and pain, the cellular and molecular basis of embryonic development, wound healing, cell differentiation, motility, and adhesion, DNA replication, RNA processing, protein structure and folding, the structure and function of carbohydrate modifications, water channels, ion channels, and diseases such as diabetes, obesity, and cancer.
The curriculum begins with course-work , which includes both formal lecture modules as well as a literature-based discussion course involving the entire BC faculty. Crucial components of the first year are the 2-3 laboratory rotations that introduce the new student to research techniques and approaches in laboratories of his/her choice. At the conclusion of these rotations the student will commit to a particular laboratory and pursue a Ph.D. thesis research project. An oral qualifying examination will be administered after completion of the first-year course curriculum. The objective of this Ph.D. program is to prepare young scientists for independent careers in biomedical research.


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Community as Leadership
Gareth Edwards
Chapter 2: Leadership and a sense of belonging
Gareth Edwards
Any attempt to pluck 'community' and personal relations out of specific contexts is an exercise fraught with difficulties and pitfalls. (Phal, 2000, p. 60). This comment by Phal resonates well with this chapter in so far as how exploring a sense of belonging might give some indication as to the personal relations that make up what we call community. For example, Gusfield (1975) argues that a homogeneous culture has often been posited as the mark of community. He suggests that this is marked out by a similarity in language, moralities and common histories that produce a sense of being; a unique and different people. Similarly, Love Brown (2002, p. 6) indicates that 'heterogeneous societies use community to cope with exigencies of life'. She posits that larger social entities are made up of smaller communities that enable face-to-face existence that is the heart of human experience and necessity. Moreover, Kanter's (1972) main emphasis on community is that it cannot exist without some form of strong commitment. Gusfield (1975) appears to describe this as a criterion of common belonging rather than mutual interest.
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Lately, intercultural relationships have become common, and this situation will only increase. However, not all is rosy for couples in this relationships. Several differences reportedly take center-stage in this relationships with many of the causes attributed to cultural, religious and social differences. The serious issue, therefore, is dealing with these conflicts.
In some cultures, conflict is seen as a positive influence that strengthens relationships, while in other cultures conflict is seen as problematic, high risk and costly which, can be avoided and managed before it erupts to reality. In a worst-case scenario, if a conflict is not resolved then it has the power to affect a relationship negatively.
Conflict in intercultural relationships may result from situational factors, personality differences or from implicit or explicit emotional struggles and frustrations between interdependent couples who hold diverse objectives. Other reasons why conflict may erupt between parties is because of scarce resources, poor communication, incompatible goals, finances, or unmet emotional needs. This has made most people to believe that all intercultural relationships are stressful, dysfunctional and have a greater chance of breaking up or ending in divorce.
Another point to note is that our expectations, behaviors, and attitudes are due to the influence of cultural patterns from our individualistic or collectivistic cultures, which have led to intercultural frustrations. Those from an individualistic culture will be concerned with self, while those from a collectivistic culture will display high concern for others. If these two individuals are put together, they may end up clashing because they have a different mindset.
It is true to say that conflicts are natural, inevitable and are bound to happen anywhere even in a diverse workplace. However, the most important thing that matters is how to manage the conflicts. Management of conflicts will determine the outcome.
Dimension of conflict
Conflict can take two dimensions they include concern for oneself or concern for others. When one is concerned for oneself, they can do anything possible to have their own way, regardless of the cost, harm, or damage they do to the other person. This is the known as the dominating or competing style. On the other hand, in compromising style the parties demonstrate high concern for another and low concern for oneself. While in a collaborative or integrative style both parties display high concern for each other.
People from the same cultural background will understand each other's conflict approach styles much easier than people from a different culture. This is a clear indication how culture plays a big influence on how people deal with conflicts.
Conflict management approaches
- In dispositional approach, individuals learn through socialization combined with their personality traits. For instance, an extrovert will have a different conflict style approach to an introvert.
- A situational approach emphasizes on the topic of conflict, the situation, communication goals, type of relationship, and what led to the conflict. In this approach, parties can decide to engage or completely avoid the conflict.
- A system approach is the combination of the two. The individual differences are because of socialization while the situation is as an influence of the conflict.
Aspects of conflict resolution
Firstly, there should be the desire between parties to have that conflict resolved. Otherwise, it will be hard to try to resolve a conflict if parties are unwilling to corporate. Secondly, identify the cause of the conflict. Lastly, choose a viable method of conflict resolution. This is because different people have their own varied approach on how they solve conflicts. Therefore, it is important to use a resolution method that is suitable for all involved parties. This includes identifying the differences and similarities that exist between the conflicting parties and trying to strike a balance of interest. This will help to build a common ground when it comes to conflict resolution.
Couples can also involve a third party such as a mediator in cases where it seems impossible to resolve conflicts. The role of the mediator is to give parties equal opportunities to air their views while analyzing the cause of the problem and finding solutions to it. A mediator can be a trusted family member or a friend. When conflict is between employees in the workplace, then a mediator can be one of the co-workers. The chosen mediator should be a person who is unbiased even if they are related to the conflicting parties.
When it comes to conflict resolution, it is important to consider others' perspectives because every culture is unique in its own way. Remember to be sensitive, adaptable, and flexible. Understanding the conflict differences in intercultural relations will help resolve or stop a conflict before it happens.


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How Old Do You Need To Be To Do Estate Planning?
Attorney Nancy Roberson was recently interviewed for the news show WHIO Reports, and one of the topics addressed was how old a person needs to be to do estate planning. Watch the interview here. The program contained almost 30 minutes of valuable advice about estate planning and discussed the topic of being prepared at any age for sudden illness or death.


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MADRID--GE Aviation is increasing its investment in big data analytics to flag potential engine performance trouble spots and has used some of this learning to revamp its engine support portal, company executives said.
Speaking at MRO Europe in Madrid, GE Aviation general manager services marketing Bill Dwyer said the company's focus is now on prognostics, or using data to turn unscheduled events into scheduled maintenance.
The data push follows parent company GE's investment in a group-wide facility employing 1,100 data scientists who specialize in identifying signatures in big data flows. In the field of aviation, this work is complemented by GE Aviation's 2012 joint venture with Accenture, named Taleris, which uses whole-aircraft data to predict potential failures.
While Taleris is a standalone operation, some of its algorithms for processing large volumes of data and flagging non-standard occurrences have been used to update GE Aviation's customer portal, which was in dire need of a refresh.
"We heard that some of our customers would rather Google than use our website portal," said GE director of product marketing Greg Coons.
This risked the use of out of date information, rather than the latest service updates, which were available on the portal but hidden behind a clunky 1990s-style browser. This required a massive amount of data, entered into a database-style form, and about dozen clicks to get a result.
"If you can't see it [the data], you can't benefit from it," said Coons.
Conversely, the new myGEAviation.com portal is asset-led, so an operator only has to type in an engine or aircraft serial number to see the relevant metrics, charts, bulletins and alerts. It is updated either in pseudo real-time through ACARS, or on data download after landing, with roughly 15 minutes lag between GE Aviation receiving the data and it being available on the system.
Operators can also compare their engine performance with the worldwide fleet averages and customize the portal through a series of widgets. Coons compared it to a mobile phone, where two people can use the same brand, but have very different, personalized set-ups.
"People just want to get answers, so we have tried to reduce the number of clicks by 50%. It may not seem like a lot, but we are talking hours and hours per week, which can be spent doing other things," he said.
GE Aviation has been developing the new portal over the last two years. Beta testing began September 2013 and GE Aviation is aiming to complete the roll out to all its customers by early 2015, when the legacy Customer Web Center will be phased out.


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With every edition of Scoop my approach is to keep collecting news right up until the publishing deadline. This way Scoop is always as up-to-date as possible, but when I email the final copy to Perth I always worry that there won't be anything much to include in the next issue. Oh, ye of little faith. We really are in a growth phase for genre fiction in this country. This issue has news aplenty. Hodder Headline are launching a new Australian Young Adult SF/Fantasy line, HarperCollins have launched a new Australian adult SF line and I'm delighted to announce the publication of my own first book. On the Web News front the new Eidolon Home Page is now clearly the premier SF Internet site in Australia. Thanks to everyone who sent news to Scoop, keep it up. Special thanks to Justin Ackroyd of Slow Glass Books whose knowledge and experience has filled a gulf in this column more than once.
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Peter Goldsworthy discussed his work and read from his controversial new novel, Wish, in Melbourne on Tuesday 14 November at Budinski's Theatre of Exile in Carlton and was featured in the ABC's 7.30 Report on January 12.
Lucy Sussex read extracts from her forthcoming novel The Scarlet Rider at the "Montsalvat Spoken Word Festival" on December 3, which reportedly went down well.
Terry Dowling read his story "Scaring The Train" on the Sunday morning of the SF event which featured Harlan Ellison and Jack Dann at Sydney's Powerhouse Museum (Jan 5-7).
Graeme Hague was featured in a Herald Sun "Sunday magazine" feature on January 28. Apparently, the Sunday Herald Sun "approached four of Australia's leading publishing houses to find out who they considered to be the bright, rising stars of Australian Literature." It is interesting to note that the other three writers nominated are generally associated with the mainstream literary markets.
The Herald Sun also featured Robert Hood's horror/crime story "Dead in the Glamour of Moonlight" from the crime anthology Moonlight Becomes You, and included an introduction detailing much of his work in the field.
As part of the St Kilda Writer's Festival (February 10-18), the "Shortworks" program of Theatreworks incorporated Andrew Linday's "The Man Who's Making Angels in the Lake", a small cluster of bizarre, fantastic, slightly futuristic monologues.
Michael Stephens, author of the children's book, Ghost Train, was one of the guests at the Sydney Writers' Festival in January.
Gary Crew's new horror/dark fantasy picture book Caleb (ERA Publications), illustrated by Steve Woolman, was launched by Gail Parr, past president of the Children's Book Council, at The Book Garden in Brisbane on Sunday 18 February.
Paul Collins held a launch for his latest four books (The Wizard's Torment, The Government in Exile, Strange Fruit and Selling Your Fiction and Poetry Made Easy) at The Ivy in Melbourne on Friday 23 February. It was attended by over 240 people including a number of other SF writers.
This year's Children's Book Council of Australia Conference (May 3-6) in Brisbane features a number of local writers who are recognised for their genre fiction. "Keynote Speakers" include Gary Crew and Gillian Rubinstein, while the "Concurrent Speakers" feature Isobelle Carmody, Bill Condon, Robert Hood, Catherine Jinks, Sophie Masson and Glynn Parry. Rob Hood's and Bill Condon's new series of children's horror books will be launched at the conference.
Sean McMullen was featured with Jack Dann and Harlan Ellison in an article entitled "Writers and the Internet" in Internet Australasia, March 1996.
As part of the Youth Literature program at St Martins in Melbourne this year, there will be a special event on Saturday September 7 called "Putting Science into Fiction". It is billed as a whole day of talks, workshops and inspiration for young adult SF fans. The event will be held at Scienceworks and will cost $20 to attend. It will feature authors Brian Caswell, Margo Lanagan, Kerry Greenwood and Michael Pryor. Whaleroad by Kerry Greenwood and The Mask of Galen by Michael Pryor, both part of the new Hodder Headline SF/Fantasy series, will be launched at the event. For more information contact Agnes Nieuwenhuizen, Victorian Youth Literature Officer, on (039) 820 1236.
The 1996 Youth Literature Program also includes its normal program of Sunday afternoon "Bookgigs", which feature a novel blend of literature and performance focussing on a particular writer and book. The audience, actors and director are involved in informal discussion with the author throughout. This year's program features the following genre-related events. March 24th: Margaret Clark and her latest book in the "Hair-Raisers" horror series, Bite Your Head Off (Random House). July 28th: Garth Nix and Sabriel (HarperCollins). The cost to attend is $8.00. Contact details as above. Writing workshops will be held in conjunction with these events for young writers ages 12 to 18-ish. The cost to attend a workshop is $18, or $20 for both events if pre-booked.
Melbourne radio listeners have a new weekly genre radio program, Spectrum, broadcasting on MDR 97.1 FM. The first one hour show went to air at 10am on Saturday 23rd March and covered the Aurealis Awards and included a round-up of the Australian scene. The second show featured an interview with Dirk Strasser. The schedule includes Steve Proposch (27th April), fantasy poet Mary Louise Stevens (4th May), plus Paul Collins and Sean McMullen shortly thereafter. From time to time I will also appear with short interviews with various SF personalities. Spectrum is hosted by John Weeks who can be contacted on (039) 754 6735.
The 1996 Festival of the Imagination held in Perth over Easter was a great success. This year there was a significant contingent of local SF writers in attendance. On the guest list were Simon Brown, Jack Dann, Stephen Dedman, Sara Douglass, Terry Dowling, Sean McMullen, Phillippa Maddern and Janeen Webb. Some of the many other writers and editors on hand were: Bill Congreve, Dave Luckett, Robin Pen, Steve Proposch, Sean Williams, Tess Williams (no relation), and almost the entire Eidolon team, including myself.
Awards & Recognition
The final ballot for the 1995 Hugo Awards, to be presented at LA Con 3, has been announced. Greg Egan's stories "Luminous" and "TAP" have been nominated in the Best Novellete category, while Ian Gunn has been nominated for Best Fan Artist. The Convention Commitee also released the final ballot for the Retro-Hugo's (Hugo Awards for works published in 1946, had the award existed at that time), and A. Bertram Chandler's "Giant Killer" was nominated in the Best Novella category.
Also on the international science fiction award front, Greg Egan's novel, Permutation City was shortlisted for the Philip K. Dick Award (an award for the best SF novel originally published in the USA in paperback). The award was won by Bruce Bethke's Headcrash.
Terry Dowling's story, "Scaring the Train'' (The Man Who Lost Red, MirrorDanse) reached the preliminary ballot for the 1996 Bram Stoker award in the "Superior Achievement in a Novelette or Novella" category.
The high profile Locus 1995 Recommended Reading List features a number of Australians, although the only Australian novel on the list is Sean McMullen's Ditmar-winning Mirrorsun Rising. There are two Australian books in the "collections" category: Our Lady of Chernobyl and Axiomatic by Greg Egan. Greg Egan features numerous times in the "novelettes" category with the following stories: "Luminous" (Asimov's 9/95), "TAP" (Asimov's 11/95), "Silver Fire" (Interzone 12/95) and "Wang's Carpets" (New Legends). Unfortunately there were no Australian short stories listed this year.
The Aurealis Awards were held in conjunction with the launch of Dirk Strasser's new novel Equinox (Pan Macmillan) at Justin Ackroyd's Slow Glass Books in Melbourne on Friday 22 March. There were around fifty people on hand to celebrate the event, including numerous writers such as: Rosaleen Love, Lucy Sussex, Rick Kennett, Julie Haydon, Damien Broderick, Michael Pryor, Garth Nix, Francis Payne, Steve Proposch, Sean McMullen, Dirk Strasser and Stephen Higgins. Division-A (Science Fiction, judged by Martin Livings, Graham South and Jonathan Strahan) winners were: Best Novel-Distress by Greg Egan; Best Short Story-"Luminous" (Asimov's Sept 95) by Greg Egan. Division-B (Fantasy, judged by Bill Congreve, Martin Livings and Sean Williams) winners were: Best Novel-Sabriel by Garth Nix; Best Short Story-"Harvest Bay" (Eidolon 19) by Karen Attard. Division-C (Horror, judged by Leigh Blackmore, Bill Congreve and Steve Proposch) winners were: Best Novel-An Intimate Knowledge of the Night by Terry Dowling; Best Short Story-"Olympia" (Bambada Press chapbook) by Francis Payne. Division-D (Young Adult, judged by Pam MacIntyre, Sean McMullen and Lucy Sussex) winners were: Best Novel (dead heat)-Sabriel by Garth Nix and Deucalion by Brian Caswell; Best Short Story-No Award.
The 1995 Australian National Science Fiction ("Ditmar") Awards went to: Best Long Fiction-Mirrorsun Rising by Sean McMullen; Best Short Fiction-"Schrodinger's Fridge" (Aurealis #15) by Ian Gunn; Best Publication-Eidolon edited by Jeremy Byrne, Richard Scriven and Jonathan Strahan; Best Artwork:-Shaun Tan for the cover art for Eidolon 19. The William Atheling Jnr Award for SF criticism went to: "The Hunt for Australian Horror Fiction" (The Scream Factory #16) by Bill Congreve, Sean McMullen and myself. Greg Egan withdrew all his works from eligibility for this year's Ditmar awards.
Borderline genre books won both of the 1995 WA Young Readers Book Awards. Undone (Penguin) by Paul Jennings won the primary section and Tomorrow, When the War Began (Pan Macmillan) by John Marsden won the secondary section.
Justine Larbalestier has been appointed as one of the judges for this year's James Tiptree, Jr Award for the best science fiction and fantasy dealing with gender.
The results are just out for the inaugural John W. Statham Memorial Science Fiction and Fantasy short story competition. The winner of the $2000 dollar prize was "Seventeen Views of Mount Taranaki" by Peter Friend (New Zealand). The winners of the $200 runner up prizes were Paul Avery and Justin D'Ath. Honourable mentions went to Janet Woods, James Verran, Damon Quinn and Tess Williams.
Simon Brown's first novel, Privateer, a space opera, has been published in paperback by HarperCollins ($12.95). Privateer was officially launched, along with Sara Douglass' second book, Enchanter, at The Festival of the Imagination (Swancon 21) in Perth April 4-8.
MirrorDanse Books have published a short collection of stories by Leanne Frahm. It includes: "Ithaca Week", "Olive Truffles" (Eidolon 5), "The Lamadium Affair" (Eidolon 10), a novella entitled "Borderline" and "On the Turn" (Shadows #9). Also included are a complete bibliography and an interview conducted by Lucy Sussex. It is available from MirrorDanse and specialty book stores ($11.95). MirrorDanse is planning several other single-author collections, including collections by Bill Congreve, Rob Hood and Simon Brown.
Eidolon Publications produced its first book, a collection of essays by Robin Pen from the first five years of Eidolon entitled The Secret Life of Rubber-Suit Monsters ($13.95).
D (HarperCollins, $12.95) by Marcus Gibson, is a psychological suspense/ horror horror novel. It is the winner of the Nescafe Big Break Competition, and was published in paperback in late December.
Peter Goldsworthy's new novel, Wish (Angus & Robertson, $17.95), is genetic/biology based science fiction story which deals with the moral issues of sexual relations between humans and non-humans.
G. M. Hague's new horror blockbuster, Voices of Evil ($12.95), was published in paperback by Pan Macmillan in January. It is a ghost story based on the ANZACs' invasion of Gallipoli. Hague's earlier works Ghost Beyond Earth and A Place to Fear have been repackaged to match the new book.
Sherry Anne Jacobs (writing as Shannah Jay) reports that her novel, Quest: Book One of the Chronicles of Tenebrak, was reprinted by Pan Macmillan last year. The fourth and final book in the Tenebrak series, The Price of Wisdom, is scheduled for publication in July.
The Time Traveller (1996 Version) by John Loughman is a 2 CD concept album based on the time travel experience which comes with a booklet that includes the entire tale.
Martin Middleton's first fantasy novel, Circle of Light, has been released in the UK by Pan Macmillan. It has a new cover and appears to have a fairly high profile promotion.
Olympia, a novella by Melbourne writer Francis Payne, was published as a limited edition chapbook by Bambada Press Publications ($6.95) in December 1995.
Letters to Francesca (Allen and Unwin, $14.95) is a novel by Tim Richards which crosses over the borders of fantasy and magic realism. Richards was previously a staff writer on both Fast Forward and Full Frontal.
Melbourne writer Jane Routley has a new fantasy novel, Mage Heart, scheduled for July release in hardcover from William Morrow/Avon in the USA.
Pan Macmillan released Dirk Strasser's new fantasy novel, Equinox ($13.95), The Second Book of Ascension, in March. Strasser's first novel in the series, Zenith, has been accepted for publication in German and Czech.
Lucy Sussex's forthcoming novel, now titled The Scarlet Rider, will be distributed in Australia by Pan Macmillan, and is due out around July 1996.
George Turner's early SF novels, Vaneglory and Yesterday's Men have been published in paperback the USA by Avon books and will probably be available soon in Australia.
Sean Williams' and Shane Dix's next book of the "Cogal" from Aphelion (previously titled Galine Four) will now be called The Dying Light. The third book in the series (formerly Everlife) is also to be retitled.
Dim is a new fantasy novel by local writer Caroline Window.
Pan Macmillan have made a new foray into horror with The Site ($12.95) by J Radford Keir. The book is described as a chilling supernatural thriller in the tradition of the X Files. The book has been advertised nationally on FM radio. J Radford Keir is an Australian writer who has published mainstream novels in the UK and US under various pseudonyms.
Children's Books
The latest book in the "Hair-Raisers" horror series from Random House, Bite Your Head Off ($7.95), was released in March. This book has been published as by Margaret Clark, rather than under her pseudonym "Lee Striker" which was used for the first four books in the series.
HarperTrophy, HarperCollins USA's young adult imprint, has paid an advance of $US 50,000 for North American rights to two books by Garth Nix: Sabriel and Shade's Children. His earlier fantasy novel The Ragwitch was published in the US and UK in January by Tor.
HarperCollins Australia's "Moonstone" series continues with the release of two new books in March: The Gifting ($9.95), a fantasy by Sophie Masson, and The Tapestry Warriors ($9.95), the third and final book in the "Torin" series by Cherry Wilder. The Broken Wheel, the first young adult genre novel from well-known crime writer Kerry Greenwood, was published by HarperCollins in May along with Myfanwy's Demon by Louise Katz.
Roses of Blood (A&R Bluegum, 1995) by Jeffrey Johnson-Abdelmalik is a young adult horror novel which I missed listing when it came out late last year.
John Marsden's near future novel of Australia invaded, The Third Day, the Frost, the final in the trilogy which began with Tomorrow When the War Began and The Dead of the Night, has been published in paperback by Pan Macmillan ($9.95).
Hodder and Stoughton Australia are launching a new line of Australian fantasy novels for teenagers. Lucy Sussex and Justin Ackroyd are reading for the line and Lucy is also the series' structural editor. The first four books will be: Whaleroad by Kerry Greenwood, Tooth of Dragon, Eye of Newt by Sue Isle, The Mask of Galen by Michael Pryor, and Beyond the Hanging Wall by Sara Douglass (set in the same world as her Axis books).
Gillian Rubinstein's award-winning young adult fantasy novel, Foxspell, has now been released in an abridged version on audio cassette by ABC Audio ($19.95).
Penguin have published a horror novel, The Devil Latch (Viking, TPB, $14.95), by Sonia Hartnett, who is well known for her no-nonsense young adult novels.
Finally, I am very pleased to report I have sold a children's horror book to Lothian which will be published in June as part of their "After Dark" series. Shaun Tan will illustrate it with 8-10 full page black and white internal illustrations and a colour cover. The book will be called The Stray Cat and is loosely based on a short story ("Stray Cat") which was previously published in EOD issue #7.
Dreamweavers (Puffin, $14.95), Paul Collins' newest anthology from Penguin, will be published in June/July this year and contains the following original Australian fantasy stories for young adult readers: Tony Shillitoe's "The Innkeeper"; Melinda Ross' "The Scribe of a Hundred Lies"; Sean McMullen's "Lucky Jonglar"; Jane Routley's "The Empty Quarter"; Roger Wilcox's "The Weakest Link"; Cadmus Evans' "Sunchosen"; Shannah Jay's "Walk the Wildwoods"; Howard Goldsmith's and Paul Collins' "Dreamweaver"; Isobelle Carmody's "The Keystone"; Beverley Macdonald's "Princess Melodia and the White Catherine"; Russell Blackford's "The Sword of God"; Ian Robinson's "The Crypt of Fleeting Hope"; and Keith Taylor's "At the Edge of the Sea".
Bonescribes (MirrorDanse), edited by Bill Congreve and Robert Hood, is an anthology of the Best Australian Horror for 1995. It includes the following stories: "Dead Set" by Garry Disher; "Conservatory" by Carmel Bird; "The Lady of Situations" by Stephen Dedman; "What the Stone of Ciparri Says" by Francis Payne; "Blind Seeking the Blind" by K J McKenzie; "Entropy" by Leanne Frahm; "Dead in the Glamour of Moonlight" by Robert Hood; "Souls Along the Meridian" by Jacci Olson; "Don't Move" by Renny Williams; and "The Corpse" by Bill Congreve. The book includes a recommended reading list of Australian horror novels and short stories and the William Atheling Award winning article "The Hunt for Australian Horror Fiction" by Bill Congreve, Sean McMullen and myself.
Short Stories
Stephen Dedman has sold three short-short stories: "Sarcophagus", "Silver Futures" and "Your Own Light-Hearted Friend" to the US anthology, 365 Scary Stories. Another story "Upon the Midnight Clear" will appear in a future Bloodsongs. Stephen's latest short story sales overseas are "Suckerbait" to Bones, a new US horror magazine which should be out in August, and "Tourist Trade" to SF Age.
Terry Dowling's new story "The Ichneumon and the Dormeuse" (which roughly translated means "The little hunter and the sleeping woman") appeared in Interzone 106. His Ditmar Award winning story "The Last Elephant" was included in the Fabulous at Fifty (Pascoe Publishing, $24.95) anthology published late last year, which collected the best stories from the first fifty issues of Australian Short Stories. Watch out early in 1997 for Destination Unknown edited by Peter Crowther, which will include another new story by Terry called "The Only Fire". Finally, Terry's story, "Scaring the Train", originally published in The Man Who Lost Red (MirrorDanse), will be reprinted in the prestigious The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Ninth Annual Collection edited by Ellen Datlow and Terry Windling, and Best New Horror 7, edited by Stephen Jones and Ramsey Campbell.
Charles L Grant has bought "The Willcroft Inheritance" by Rick Kennett and Paul Collins for his forthcoming anthology Gothic Ghosts (TOR).
Sean McMullen's new story "The Slow Famine" appeared in Interzone 107. This is the third story of Sean's to appear in the magazine and was published along with an interview which I conducted with him earlier this year.
I'm pleased to report I have sold one of my own stories, "In The Light Of The Lamp" (originally published in Terror Australis: Best Australian Horror, Hodder and Stoughton) to a US anthology, The Cthulhu Cycle (Chaosium) edited by Robert M Price.
Townsville-based writer R G Riel has sold a short story, "God in his Heaven", to the US SF magazine Tomorrow.
This edition of Scoop sees the return of Keith Taylor. As well as appearing in Paul Collins' new anthology listed above, Keith has also sold two news stories to the British editor, Mike Ashley. A novelette, "The Castles of Testing", will appear in an Arthurian anthology called The Grail Chronicles, and a short story called "The White Doe" will appear in a yet to be titled children's fantasy anthology.
Web News
Australia in 1999
This is the Home Page for the Australian bid for the 57th World Science Fiction Convention in 1999. Web browsers can find everything about the bid here (and in case you were wondering, our chances look pretty good). There is news and a history of the bid, how we are bidding, committee information, an Aussiecon memory book of the 1975 and 1985 World SF Conventions in Melbourne, and lots more. A list of over 100 Australian SF writers includes a few home pages and bibliographic entries for many of the other writers.
Eidolon SF Online
The new Eidolon site is up and running, and I am pleased to report that it is now, without doubt, the premier Australian SF site on the Web. Check it out! To review the site in its entirety would constitute a feature article in its own right, but just to give you some idea of its scope I thought it would be valuable to peek behind some of the buttons. Eidolon Publications: here browsers will find information on every back issues of Eidolon magazine, including cover graphics, complete contents lists, and in many cases much of the actual contents of the magazine. Not everything is here, yet, but the guys are working on it. SF & F News: shucks, what can I say? Billed as the latest and most complete source for SF & F in Australia, this is the on-line version of this column, including colour photographs. SF & F Links: just what it says, an ever-growing collection of links (including detailed reviews of the sites) which are updated regularly. Links to world-wide SF/F/H, in print, on film and on television, plus links to every worthwhile site containing Australian information. Australian Science Fiction: this is huge (and growing)! Under "Australian Authors" you'll find home pages for Stephen Dedman, Terry Dowling, Greg Egan, Sean McMullen and Sean Williams (with many more authors due to be added in the near future). The author home pages include biographies, photographs, bibliographies, interviews, news, book reviews (including cover illustrations), fiction (five Brown stories, seven Dowling stories, five Egan stories, five McMullen stories and a Williams so far), and non-fiction (including a complete run of McMullen's "Australian Content" essay series). Under "Australian Publishers", besides another link the to Eidolon Publications pages, you'll find home pages for MirrorDanse, Aphelion and Bambada (under construction), with Chimaera (Aurealis) to be added in the near future. Finally, under "Bibliographies" you'll find Sean McMullen's complete bibliography of Australian SF/F (currently being updated from various other sources), all stored in a database which allows browsers to click on any of the hundreds of Australian authors listed and be presented with a dynamic bibliographic list of novels and short stories. On top of all this there is The Eidolon Mailing List which includes information about how to join Eidolon's discussion group, and Letters of Comment which covers what's being said about SF Online and allows browsers to leave their own comments. Really, this site is huge. I heartily commend it to any SF fan with Web access. Even though this new Eidolon site will probably never finish growing, it is more comprehensive now than anything else currently on offer in Australia.
Originally appeared pp. 100-106, Eidolon 21, April 1996.
Copyright © 1996 Steven Paulsen.
Reprinted with kind permission of the author.


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NEW DELHI: India's top telco Bharti Airtel has received financing commitments of up to $2 billion from China Development Bank, which is the single largest bilateral commitment by the bank to any telecom operator globally and the largest bilateral commitment to a private Indian company.
These financing options will allow the company to diversify its global financing pool and access funds to invest in the growth of data networks across its global operations.
The company signed the term sheets for the financing options in the presence of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was on an official visit to China.
China Development Bank has committed financing of up to $2 billion with an average maturity of about nine years. Industrial and Commercial Bank of China has committed $500 million with an average life of about nine years, making it the largest and longest bilateral commitment to an Indian telecom operator, a company statement said.
Subject to final agreements and requisite approvals, Bharti Airtel can draw these funds over a long availability period, depending on its financing requirements, a company release said.
Rajan Bharti Mittal, Vice Chairman, Bharti Enterprises, said, "We are pleased to sign these agreements as part of
the growing economic cooperation between India and China. It is an endorsement of the long term potential of the Indian telecom sector. Given the availability period of three years, these financings shall further add to the financial flexibility that the company already has. These shall further extend tenors, enabling investments for furtherance of the Digital India initiative."
In March 2015, Bharti Airtel had announced a strategic collaboration with China Mobile, under which, the two companies will work towards the growth of the LTE ecosystem and evolving mobile technology standards.
Bharti Airtel also has network equipment sourcing agreements with ZTE and Huawei. These financings further compliment the strong collaboration with Chinese partners.


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La Route du Mimosa February 02 2019, 0 Comments
In January, we discussed the Mimosa: How it was introduced in France, its symbolism and the various species you can encounter in Provence. This month, Calisson by Gilles brings you to the discovery of the French Riviera during the Mimosa season. From January up to the end of March, the region of Var and Alpes Maritimes are dressed with a festival of gold, lights and fragrance from the Mimosa in blossom. The Côte d'Azur is wonderful in winter; the bright yellow of the mimosa perfectly contrasts with the deep blue sky and sea of Provence. It's a good time to discover or rediscover it!
The Road of Mimosa :
This symbolic tree of Provence in winter is the star of many festivals: carnivals, corsos and botanical exhibitions such as Mimosalia in Bormes-les-Mimosas (last weekend of January) where are showcased rare plants, and other unusual varieties.
The mimosa is also a 130 kilometers (80 miles) of a perfumed getaway between the department of Var and Alpes Maritimes, a trip of 8 stops in the most beautiful villages of Provence between Grasse and Bormes-les-Mimosas.
Calisson by Gilles gives you an overview of this stunning bucolic road trip.
Simply the most beautiful flowered village of France ! A medieval village of the 12th century with more than 700 rare plant species ! The Mimosa remains for sure the main attraction of Bormes-les-Mimosas. From January to March the medieval city is adorned with a long "gold scarf" , a wonderful explosion of yellows and perfume in the village. Capital of mimosa in the Var, Bormes-les-Mimosas has no less than 90 species of Mimosa. Nearby, the famous beaches of white sands and crystal clear waters of Cabasson, Brégançon, and Estagnol are an ideal place for chilling. A little anecdote: Fort de Bregançon is the official summer residence of the French President. Each year, the President of French Republic spends a week or more in this official residence. Late Général Charles de Gaulle was the first French Président to enjoy it and started the tradition.
The Rayol-Canadel-sur-Mer is a charming, peaceful and tiny village where happiness is preserved. The village of Rayol-Canade was created with the extension of the Mole in 1925. It became an autonomous municipality in 1949, it currently includes 3 neighborhoods and extends about 4 km (2 miles). Exceptional site where the hills of Corniche des Maures plunge into the blue water of the Mediterranean sea with breathtaking views of the golden islands.
With 11 km (7 miles) of Mediterranean shoreline, Sainte-Maxime is a haven of peace in winter, where strolling along the water invite you to savor moments that we would like to be eternal. Have a taste of our sweet Calisson by Gilles at this moment, you will reach the summum of happiness ! The charm of Provence emerges through its houses with old tiles, its typical market, its shopping streets and shady walks.
Saint Raphaël
Saint-Raphaël, is a listed summer resort, located at the gateway to the Massif de l'Esterel is beautiful in winter. Mimosa trees are smartly placed everywhere in the village. Saint Raphaël invites you to discover its exceptional coastline and unspoiled nature. Its' 36 km (20 miles) of coastline will take you from the heart of the city, to the harbors, to the secret coves of Boulouris. Many things to do and discover in this village.
This is the first stop in the Alpes Maritimes department. This is the cradle of Mimosa culture. The village of Mandelieu-la-Napoule is located at the foot of the
Tanneron Massif, home to the largest mimosa forest in Europe. What to do there? a trail.
Take the « Chemin des douaniers » road with its castles along this path. Its red volcanic rocks, plunging into the turquoise water, are worth a visit.
Tanneron, with its 22 hamlets nestled in the heart of the massif of the same name, is the largest territory of mimosa cultivated as wild in France. This is a real yellow forest of small fluffy balls. It is totally beautiful to see the mimosa trees in their natural environment . From December to March, the abundant bloom of mimosa will leave you a perfumed scent, with, bright golden panorama : a delight.
In Pégomas, the Mimosa is honored, it delights our view and our sense of smell,. Cultivated on the hills of Tanneron, we take care of it, we spend time. The Mimosa Garden is home to 11 varieties. The last weekend of January Pégomas celebrate the first strands through a local event in the heart of the village. Pegomas has a nice and colorful image of a holiday land. Calisson by Gilles recommends Pégomas as a must stop place to discover its true and beautiful nature.
Perched to sunny hills, the village of Grasse discovers its charm when you stroll along its winding streets and cozy squares. World capital of perfumes, Grasse showcases its rich heritage thanks to its Label City of Art and History. Its historic center, its international perfume museum, its tourist perfumeries are all assets for tourists. A must-do village also !
About The Author:
Gilles Cailleaux is the Owner & Master Confectioner at By Gilles, an online French candy store based in Orange County, California. They sell traditional French confections called Calissons from Provence. Gilles is always ready to share his 25 years plus experience of candy making and baking with everyone and want to hear about your experience with his calissons. Gilles and his team are sensitive about taste and harmony. They prepare your packages with special care and attention.


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Maggie Mae is a singer-songwriter based in Philadelphia who fronts an exciting and energetic Folk/Funk group under the same name. She pulls inspiration from the music she grew up on and the strong musical foundation her family built, along with the ever-evolving world of music around her to carve out a sound all her own. Combining genuine, heartfelt lyrics with catchy, cutting guitar riffs, her songs can either touch your soul or make you want to get up and dance. She has been described as "poppy, polished, talented, & promising," by XPN's The Key's John Vettese.
Originally hailing from Northern New Jersey, Maggie has always had music in her life. Her parents met in college and formed a bluegrass band called 'The Wild Oats,' and later performed throughout New Jersey with various traditional Irish bands. Her father instilled a love for 'all things string' from a very young age, and her mother always encouraged her to write and sing. With a Steinway Grand piano in her living room, and fiddles, penny whistles, hand drums, dulcimers, harps, mandolins, banjos, and guitars littered throughout her childhood home, Maggie has managed to pick up and write with just about any stringed instrument she can find. Growing up, she was always attending folk & bluegrass festivals, making sure she was up front for favorites like Martin Sexton, Dar Williams, Vance Gilbert, and Railroad Earth. Rock and Blues legends including Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Allmann Brothers, and Bonnie Raitt were always on heavy rotation in her house. During her time attaining an Associate's Degree in Music Performance, Maggie cultivated a love and appreciation for classical, jazz, funk, world, and jam music, and deepened her knowledge of jazz and bluegrass standards. She also fell deeply in love with one-man-band greats Michael Hedges and Keller Williams, leading her to discover and navigate the world of percussive guitar and loop pedals and effects. She puts all of this together to inspire, and continuously develop, the sound she creates today.
Maggie has managed to round up a talented, ever-rotating cast of characters to support her over the years, but at the end of 2018, she formed her most powerful group to date. Featuring Jack Shoudy on guitar (Darlingtyn), Erik Kramer on bass (Erik Kramer Band), Anthony Passante-Contaldi on drums (PC Quartet), and Gabe Preston on saxophone (Gabe Preston Quartet), the band brings an impressively varied set of skills and an undeniable energy to the stage. Maggie Mae has shared bills with both local and national acts including The Heavy Pets, Dawg Yawp, Lohai, Lee Rocker of the Stray Cats, the Ladles, and more at many of Philly and New Jersey's premiere music venues.
Maggie Mae released her debut single "Can You Hear Me Now?" featuring Jake Leschinsky of Philadelphia's favorite funk band, Swift Technique, on bass in November of 2018. The band made their debut appearance at World Cafe Live on December 20th, 2018 with friends Taylor Kelly & Erik Kramer filling the bill in celebration. You can listen to "CYHMN" on Spotify and iTunes.
Currently, the band is working on live video recordings and getting into the studio to create their very first EP! Be sure to keep an ear out for these releases, as well as all upcoming shows in and around the Philadelphia area!
Be a part of this rising band's journey by checking out their music, following on all social media platforms, and signing up for the e-mail list below! We can't do it without your support!