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شهر زیست محیطی و توسعه پایدار شهری
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Publisher : Elsevier - Science Direct (الزویر - ساینس دایرکت)
Journal : Procedia Engineering, Volume 21, 2011, Pages 142–146
واژگان کلیدی
1-1مروری بر شهر زیست محیطی
1-2اصول اساسی ساخت و ساز شهر زیست محیطی
1-3عناصر اساسی ساخت و ساز شهر زیست محیطی
1-4منطقه بندی عملکرد زیست محیطی اقتصاد شهری
2-منشأ مشکلات زیست محیطی
2-1 مشکلات زیست محیطی شهر نشینی ناشی از عدم آگاهی
2-2 فشار توسعه شهری بر محیط زیست
2-3 مشکلات زیست محیطی ناشی از رشد جمعیت
3-رابطه میان توسعه پایدار و ساخت و ساز شهر زیست محیطی
3-1 منابع، رابطه میان توسعه پایدار و ساخت و ساز شهر زیست محیطی
3-2 رابطه زیست محیطی میان توسعه پایدار و ساخت و ساز شهری
3-3 رابطه زیست محیطی میان توسعه پایدار و ساخت و ساز شهری
4-نتیجه گیری
چکیده انگلیسی
Sustainable development is a new concept of scientific development, sustainable development requires us to change not only the concept of economic development, but also requires us to change the concept of social development. Development of the city as a social development and economic development is an important embodiment of the process of sustainable development but also in pursuit of the concept of innovation. In this paper, the basic problem of the construction of ecological city, from the basic principles of eco-city construction, the city's main content and ecological function zoning. On this basis, the paper studied the ecological city and the relationship between sustainable development. Hope that through this research for ecological building and sustainable development of the city to provide a reference.
مقدمه انگلیسی
For any one person, the ecological environment is very important, it can provide for human survival and development of material basis and the necessary variety of other conditions. Inappropriate if the ecological environment, human beings can not survive and develop. We can say that human existence and development, are dependent on a suitable environment. However, our economic and social development has already caused damage to the environment, but also gives us a threat to sustainable development. Our ecological environment of the city a very important part of its development and changes in the same human survival and development have a huge impact. The concept of eco-city came into being, it is affordable in the city within the ecological, the use of the principle of sustainable development and the basic principles of ecological economics, urban economic way of promoting change from the point of view, in order to improve the city environmental quality for the purpose of seizing the city's main line of the industrial structure adjustment of the layout to play the city's resources, through overall planning and promote the comprehensive development of the city's ability to achieve sustainable socio-economic development. In this paper, the construction of ecological city and sustainable development were studied. 1.1. Overview of Ecological City 1.2. The basic principles of construction of ecological city Files s From the present point of view, the main building of ecological city following aspects need to follow the principles of: Bulleted lists may be included and should look like this: • the principle of sustainable development; • people-oriented, the principles of harmonious development; • economic, social and ecological benefits of coordinated development principles; • both environmental protection and economic development principles; • local conditions, highlighting the principle driving force of innovation; • according to the development, the principle of overall planning; • according to the development, the principle of overall planning; 1.3. The basic elements of ecological city construction. Development of a city by the industrial engineering, agricultural engineering, forestry engineering, water conservancy, energy, engineering, tourism, landscape engineering, cultural engineering, environmental engineering, home construction and development capacity building project together. For the eco-city construction is concerned, it also works by some of the above constitutes an organic whole. But, in each specific projects, are required to reflect the eco-efficiency requirements, such as industrial engineering according to ecological principles, the use of circular economic theory, according to meet the design requirements of sustainable development; and energy projects, they are required according to the ecological economics, to establish clean energy projects, through the development of alternative energy and new energy to reduce energy consumption of the ecological damage to the environment; development capacity will have to reflect the sustainable development project, highlighting the development of capacity for sustainable development in the important position.Table 1. An example of a table 1.4. Ecological function zoning of urban economy In general, the ecological city zoning in accordance with economic function, can be divided into the following areas: (1) Human ecological zone, the region is mainly used to reflect the city's cultural connotation. Any city should have its own human-ecological zones, attention to the protection of historical and cultural heritage, through a variety of means to achieve a rich urban culture, the promotion of natural, historical and cultural landscape integration and sustainable use; (2) Ecological Agriculture Development Area, the development of ecological agriculture in general are concentrated in the suburban area district, which is the human ecological regions outside the city part of the establishment of ecological agriculture development area on the one hand to ease the pressure on the urban environment, and promote the city's environmental balance and eliminate part of the urban pollution, on the other hand the development of ecological agriculture through urban areas to bring economic growth, ecological agriculture; (3) Ecological and economic coordination and development zones, ecological and economic coordination and development of regional economic development and cultural prosperity are second only to urban human-ecological zones in this area green coverage in general the larger, relatively welldeveloped industry and agriculture, all types of resources needed for economic development or economic factors of development in this region are relatively more concentrated. In this area, for ecological protection and development of both ecological and economic, not only the quality conditions of use of existing ecological and environmental protection-oriented, but also make good use of the radiation from the city center, promotion of eco-economic development; (4) Cultivating ecological protection zone, which typically are environmentally sensitive areas in the city, is generally not high level of economic development, industrial structure is generally more traditional levels, coupled with low level of industrial concentration, infrastructure is relatively backward, and this part of the region does not advocate large-scale economic development, but rather as the cultivation area of ecological environment and improve the ecological capacity of the city as a whole.
نتیجه گیری انگلیسی
Between human development and nature is a contradiction between a pair of very special in the past few thousand years, human survival and development are predatory. This trend intensified in the last hundred years, resulting in fewer and fewer of our mountains, and various forms of pollution are becoming more serious. However, the contradiction between man and nature are not irreconcilable, and human beings as a natural son, not only to realize that our current approach to development problems, better able to solve these problems. The construction of ecological city is a path to solve this problem, through the construction of ecological city, the development of the city implement the concept of sustainable development, to promote the ecological environment construction and repair, making the city's development in the pursuit of economic and social benefits can also pay more attention to ecoefficiency, to achieve social, economic and environmental sustainability, coordinated development, the true harmony between man and nature never were.


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The Indo-Australian Plate is steadily tilting, which is a [1] part of the 7 of 10. Nancy has been presenting/giving us the evidence in her weekly newsletter or weekly chats.
I picked out the items related to Indo-Australian Tilt from the newsletter since September, 2010 to show a part of the quotation, then 25 items obtained.
List of the Folding Pacific items;
1) Australia Awash Again; Feb 12, 2012; http://www.zetatalk.com/newsletr/issue280.htm
2) 7 of 10 Year in Review; Jan 8, 2012; http://www.zetatalk.com/newsletr/issue275.htm
3) Sunda Sinks / Australia Tilts; Dec 18, 2011; http://www.zetatalk.com/newsletr/issue272.htm
4) Pakistan Then and Now; Nov 20, 2011; http://www.zetatalk.com/newsletr/issue268.htm
5) 7 of 10 Creep; Jul 17, 2011; http://www.zetatalk.com/newsletr/issue250.htm
6) Indo-Australian Tilt; Jun 26, 2011; http://www.zetatalk.com/newsletr/issue247.htm
7) Domino Plates; Jun 19, 2011; http://www.zetatalk.com/newsletr/issue246.htm
8) Plates on the Move; Jun 12, 2011; http://www.zetatalk.com/newsletr/issue245.htm
9) India Dropping; Mar 27, 2011; http://www.zetatalk.com/newsletr/issue234.htm
10) Cracks and Crevases; Mar 13, 2011; http://www.zetatalk.com/newsletr/issue232.htm
11) India Squeeze; Feb 13, 2011; http://www.zetatalk.com/newsletr/issue228.htm
12) Australia Awash; Jan 30, 2011; http://www.zetatalk.com/newsletr/issue226.htm
13) Burma Plate Rising; Jan 23, 2011; http://www.zetatalk.com/newsletr/issue224.htm
14) Fiji Flooding; Jan 16, 2011; http://www.zetatalk.com/newsletr/issue223.htm
15) Coral Sea Snapshot; Jan 16, 2011; http://www.zetatalk.com/newsletr/issue223.htm
16) Plate Tilting; Jan 9, 2011; http://www.zetatalk.com/newsletr/issue222.htm
17) Undulating Plate; Dec 31, 2010; http://www.zetatalk.com/newsletr/issue219.htm
18) 7 of 10 Arrives!; Dec 31, 2010; http://www.zetatalk.com/newsletr/issue218.htm
19) Plates Tilting; Dec 31, 2010; Dec 31, 2010; http://www.zetatalk.com/newsletr/issue218.htm
20) Pakistan Admitted; Dec 25, 2010; http://www.zetatalk.com/newsletr/issue217.htm
21) Greased Plates; Dec 5, 2010; http://www.zetatalk.com/newsletr/issue214.htm
22) Pakistan Elevation; Nov 21, 2010; http://www.zetatalk.com/newsletr/issue212.htm
23) 7 of 10 Drum Roll; Oct 24, 2010; http://www.zetatalk.com/newsletr/issue208.htm
24) New Zealand Tumble; Sep 12, 2010; http://www.zetatalk.com/newsletr/issue202.htm
25) Pakistan Floods; Sep 5, 2010; http://www.zetatalk.com/newsletr/issue201.htm
1) Australia Awash Again
At the start of the 7 of 10 scenarios, the Indo-Australian Plate rose on the eastern end, allowing the Sunda Plate to slip under the curve beneath Sumatra and Java. This caused horrific flooding in eastern Australia as waters from the Coral Sea sought to seek its level, backwashing up the rivers in Australia that drain into the Coral Sea. This was reported on January 2, 2011 in Issue 218 of this newsletter, when rivers draining the coastline on Queensland above Brisbane were backwashing. And again on January 12, 2011 in Issue 222 when the floodwaters were not draining but sloshing about in a tsunami fashion. And again on January 30, 2011 in Issue 226 when the "inland sea", unable to drain toward the east, headed south to drain at Melbourne. Now the term "inland sea" has returned as the plate once again is aggressively tilting, this time pouring water into New South Wales from the Tasman Sea as well as into Queensland from the Coral Sea.
As proof that the plate is rising on the eastern end is data from buoy 55012 in the Coral Sea. When a graph is produced reflecting the entire year of 2011, one can see a steady drop in the depth of water from the buoy to the sea floor. This is the sea floor rising, the plate rising! The Zetas called the Indo-Australian Plate the "brake" holding plate adjustments elsewhere back. When this brake lifts, allowing the eastern end of the Indo-Australian Plate to lift and driving India further under the Himalayas, other plate adjustments follow. The 7 of 10 scenarios describe this domino effect. There were quakes along this brake on February 4, 2012, as noted in the IRIS chart above, and look what happened on February 6, 2012! The Sunda and Philippine plates are immediately affected. The point where the Philippine Plate is folding against Luzon Island is being hammered. And buoys are on alert from one end of the Pacific to the other - 55012 on the lifting Coral Sea, 52405 on the tilting and folding Philippine Plate, and 32401 off coast from Chile where the S American roll is in process.
2) 7 of 10 Year in Review
7 of 10 Scenario 1, the tilting of India to put the Indus Valley in Pakistan at a 10 foot elevation loss occurred the latter half of 2010, as was acknowledged by NASA by the end of 2010.
3) Sunda Sinks / Australia Tilts
The 7 of 10 scenarios have a relationship between the sinking of the Sunda Plate and the steady tilting of the Indo-Australian Plate, whereby New Zealand and the eastern part of Australia rise while India plunges under the Himalayas. This has been steadily progressing since December 23, 2010 but the sinking of the Sunda Plate had not as yet completed. However, recently the pace picked up.
As with the start of the sequence last January, Australian again has the rivers on its eastern coastline in Queensland backwashing. This is, as was the case last January, termed flooding due to rain. This was detailed in Issue 222 of this newsletter when Queensland rivers backed up, flooding saltwater inland. Then again in Issue 226 of this newsletter as the trapped water rolled around like an inland sea until it escaped at Melbourne. Once again there is scarcely any rain, but the cover-up over the 7 of 10 process forces the media to ascribe the backwash to rain.
During these same days, not by coincidence, there were 10 foot high waves swamping a cruise ship in the Bangka Straits near Jakarta, a 12 foot high tsunami along coastal Kuala Terengganu on the Malay Peninsula, flooding along coastal Padang on the southern coast of Sumatra, and an 8 foot high wave wiping out a Viet Nam village.
The Zetas described roiling seas and occasional tsunami during the sinking of the Sunda Plate, and this seems to be what is happening.
4) Pakistan Then and Now
The Zetas warned in September, 2010 that Pakistan, on the India side of the Indus River in particular, would experience a loss of 10 feet in elevation as a result of the 7 of 10 plate movements. Scenario #1 of the 7 of 10 movements is a tilting of the plate holding India, so that the Sunda Plate can slip under the curve below Sumatra and Java.
By October, 2010 horrific flooding in Pakistan had begun, getting international attention, but claimed, as usual, only due to rain. As noted in Issue 217 of this newsletter it was finally admitted that the water was not draining, had not for months. Earth Observatory, a NASA function, admitted that by comparing images from the year before, Pakistan's elevation has sunk. Period. The Zetas state this drop would be 10 feet, and this 10 foot drop was apparent. Where are we a year later? Comparing apples to apples, the chart from October 2010 and a new chart from October 2011 show that the lingering floods have gotten worse, not better.
5) 7 of 10 Creep
Where the 7 of 10 scenarios appear to be unfolding slowly, per the Zetas there are reasons for the delay. But this does not mean the overall schedule will be delayed. Where the scenarios started on time, the [1] tilting of India for a 10 foot drop in elevation in Pakistan in the latter half of 2010 and the [2] sinking of the Sunda Plate by December 23, 2010, plate undulation set in to cause a delay. Heaping water throughout the Pacific was evidence that [3] the folding of the Philippine and Mariana plates had started, and certainly [4] the S American roll had begun. But recently there was evidence that Luzon Island in the Philippines had not sunk, though being on that part of the Philippine Plate that was to plunge during the fold, it should be going under. What is going on? The Zetas explain why the 7 of 10 scenarios have been delayed, temporarily.
But there is steady plate movement, as a glance at evidence only days apart from diverse places show. The Indo-Australian Plate is sinking at India, and rising at New Zealand, which allows the Sunda Plate tongue holding Indonesia to fold and crumble, sinking below the curve under Sumatra and Java. During a few days in early July this can be seen by high tides at Mumbai, sinking at Bangledesh, and a slosh of water disbursing as far away as the coast of Oman. Mumbai, on the west coast of India, experienced unusually high tides of 5.5 meters on July 2. This was attributed to the monsoons even though there was no rain! Across the Arabian Sea on the Gulf of Oman seawater poured into Kalba. On July 9, seawalls broke in Bangladesh, pouring sea water inland and ruining drinking water reserves. These are signs of a sinking India.
Almost within days of each other, several bridges in Indonesia collapsed, as noted on the Pole Shift ning. Two were in the Banyumas district in Java, on June 27 and July 1, and a third on the island of Borneo on July 6.
On July 6 the Kermadec Islands just offshore from New Zealand sustained what the USGS termed a magnitude 7.7 quake. The buoys in the area reflected this quake and the sudden rush of water from the rising eastern edge of the Indo-Australian Plate.
6) Indo-Australian Tilt
The Indo-Australian Plate is predicted by the Zetas to tilt massively during the hour of the pole shift, driving India under the Himalayas and even flooding the western 2/3 of Australia.
Thus during the 7 of 10 scenarios we have seen this plate steadily tilting, where flooding and crumbling in India have occurred, and massive flooding along the eastern coast of Australia where the water between Australian and New Zealand was seeking its level, rolling down the tilt, occurred. This appeared in this newsletter starting on December 26, 2010 in Issue 217 with the flooding in Brisbane, and again on January 12, 2011 in Issue 226 when the inland sea was trying to find an outlet, with evidence that India was being pushed under the Himalayas presented on March 27, 2011 in Issue 234. During the week of June 11-18 it was obvious some tilting had occurred. The gushing of groundwater in Olpad on the west coast shows without a doubt that India is sinking, as does the inundation by sea water at Gopalpur on the east coast. These news articles appeared in a spate during the plate tilting, another indication that tilting had occurred.
Then a repeat of the flooding experienced last January along the east coast of Australia occurred. Once again, all the flooding was along the coastline, a backwash up the rivers. Most revealing were comments from a nursery owner in Port Macquarie about the sea water that had invaded his nursery. This did not come from rain.
The buoys in the Tasman Sea also indicated a temporary rise in the water level as the water between Australia and New Zealand sought to find its level, disbursing during this week.
7) Domino Plates
The 7 of 10 scenarios depict plate movement around the world. On June 12, 2011 there was plate movement worldwide, almost simultaneously and in a domino fashion, on several 7 of 10 scenarios.
The 1st scenario involved a tipping of the Indio-Australian Plate such that the border with Pakistan sinks by 10 feet. This happened during the last half of 2010.
8) Plates on the Move
The Zetas have called the plunging of the Indo-Australian Plate the brake point holding all other plate movement back. As the plate tips up at the New Zealand side, it plunges India under the Himalayas, allowing the Pacific to compress and the Sunda Plate tongue holding Indonesia to plunge under the curve of the Indo-Australian Plate. Has the India side of the plate been plunging? Bangledesh and Kuttanad on the tip of India are sinking, and in the eastern Himalayas, mountain building is taking place, heaving river bottoms and preventing drainage. Suddenly, and with scant rain, Jorhat is under water!
Moving east along the globe we find the line across the South China coastline, where the plate tongue holding Indonesia is bent down to be pushed under the curve in the Indo-Australian Plate. Ground fractures when such a bend in the rock occurs. Draw a line from where the Philippine Plate is being pushed against the coastline of China, west, and the line runs through Guangzhou and City of Guiyang! The Philippine Plate is tilting, pushing under the Philippine Islands, as part of the compression of the Pacific.
9) India Dropping
As a primary player in the plate movements predicted by the Zetas, India must continue to plunge under the Himalayas. The Indo-Australian Plate is called the brake point for all other plate movements. When it moves, a domino effect takes place, allowing sinking of the plate tongue holding Indonesia, a folding of the Philippine and Mariana plates, and further compression of the Pacific.
Recently, it was obvious further tilting of the India Plate occurred. Cracking and crumbling occurred in Sikkim in the Himalayas. Sinking and incursion of sea water occurred in Bangladesh and in Udupi on the west coast of India. A huge ground crack appeared in central India in Nanded. And a methane explosion in a mine near Quetta, Pakistan. Clearly, the plate is moving!
10) Cracks and Crevases
Just this past week, cracks and crevasses appeared in Peru, Pakistan, and the Philippines! Plates are on the move! …
In Pakistan a very long crevasse opened up in Seagi Gulistan, so long it takes 6 minutes to walk from end to end. This region of Pakistan is on the border of the plate holding India and Australia, the Indo-Australian Plate. The Indus River Valley has lost 10 feet in elevation at the start of the 7 of 10 scenarios, which began with the tipping of the Indo-Australian Plate. The video was posted on March 7, 2011.
11) India Squeeze
The squeeze is on, with the plate tongue holding Indonesia collapsing like an accordion and being pushed under the curve under Sumatra and Java, causing the countries housed on the plate tongue to sink. The Burma Plate is rising and the Indo-Australian Plate has tilted so that Pakistan has lost elevation while Sri Lanka is being flooded along its eastern coastline. The squeeze is on! What does this do to the continent of India, caught in the midst of this? Central India has developed tar pits! As noted in the press and on the Pole Shift ning recently.
Per the Zetas, it's just the squeeze.
12) Australia Awash
The undulating Indo-Australian Plate - which is tipping up along its eastern edge near Fiji and the Coral Sea, then dropping back down, then rising again - is causing the flood waters that inundated Queensland a month ago to slosh around in the outback. This is described as an "inland sea" in the press.
The buoys show the Coral Sea and the Caroline Plate just north of New Guinea are now rising again, after having dropped for several days. Even the Pacific Plate to the northeast of the Caroline Plate is rising! This would tip Australia such that water trapped inland would have no choice but to flow south. And flow south it has! The inland sea is heading toward Melbourne now, trapped in the grip of undulating plates.
13) Burma Plate Rising
The plates in Asia have been rising or falling and most often it seems they are undulating. During the compression of the Pacific, none may be more significant than the rising of the Burma Platelet. The Indo-Australian Plate tilts the curve under Sumatra and Java up and tilts its eastern edge up. The Fiji Platelet drops. The Caroline Platelet at first drops and then rises again. The Philippine Plate tips into a greater slant, stressing the edge near the Bonin Islands. Water washes over Queensland and Sri Lanka and Fiji and to some degree the Philippine Islands during this process. And of course the plate tongue holding Indonesia is steadily sinking, as evidence from all countries there show. But for the first time, we are hearing about the Burma Platelet, which is suddenly rising. A huge rock appeared above the waves.
This is significant in showing plate movement, as movement in this plate was the signature movement causing the December 26, 2004 tsunami near Ache during the massive 9.5 quake that occurred that day. If it's on the move again, this shows that pressure on the plates in the region is extreme, though the undulating plates certainly have shown this to be the case.
Per the Zetas, the first plate movement in the 7 of 10 scenarios will be the tipping of the Indo-Australian Plate. This of course started in July, 2010 when Pakistan began to flood along the Indus River with waters that never drained, as noted in Issue 217 of this newsletter. The western edge of the plate was predicted to drop by about 10 feet, with the eastern edge rising commensurately. Now Sri Lanka is dealing with horrific flooding, as noted in Issue 222 of this newsletter. The flooding is occurring only on its eastern coastline, showing that the tipping plate is pouring water there. The flooding in Queensland also shows water was pouring down from the eastern and northern edge of the Indo-Australian Plate, causing backwash up the coastal rivers in Queensland. During this process, plate undulation has presented a confusing picture, but water movement, following plate movement, is obvious. The plate has tipped.
Buoy evidence that the plate tipped can be seen in these buoy charts captured on January 15, 2011. The process is:
It is the lift in the curve under Sumatra and Java that will allow the plate tongue holding Indonesia to slip down and under the curve. Where the Coral Seafloor had been rising rapidly just recently, as presented in Issue 223 of this newsletter on January 16, 2011, it suddenly seemed to level out. The tipping of the plate to the side apparently has relieved the weight of the New Zealand end of the plate, which was causing the Coral Sea bend in the first place. Tasmania buoys would logically register that the sea flood had been pushed down further under the waves during the tipping process, since if one side tips up, the other tips down.
14) Fiji Flooding
The bleeding edge of the plate movement has always been the Indo-Australia Plate, which is being pushed under the Himalayas at the India end, and hammered on the eastern end near New Zealand and Fiji. The eastern end has been lifting recently, since the 7 of 10 scenarios started toward the end of December, 2010. The Indo-Australian Plate has also been tilting, such that the side curving around Sumatra and Java is rising and the opposite side, where Pakistan has lost elevation along the Indus River, is dropping. The buoys clearly show this rising and tipping.
All of this affects the Fiji Islands which lie on a small platelet nudged into a notch in the eastern edge of the Indo-Australian Plate What kind of pressure must that small platelet be under, with the great Pacific Plate pushing against it from the backside, as it crushes into the rising notch? The Zetas explain.
15) Coral Sea Snapshot
We presented this concept in Issue 219 of this newsletter on December 31, 2010. Another example has arisen and been cleverly captured by Lothar, a dedicated member of the Pole Shift ning. On January 13, 2011 at 16:16 UTC there was a 7.3 earthquake on the eastern border of the Indo-Australian Plate, at the Loyalty Islands.
And indeed, the highly sensitive Coral Sea floor, which is a thin point on the crust per the Zetas, reflected this quake. The floor of the Coral Sea has been rising and falling, because when the Indo-Australian Plate tilts its eastern edge up it is heavy, and until magma fills in underneath, the plate tends to bend at this weak point. Thus, at those times, the Coral Sea floor approaches the surface, the water less deep. But likewise when the plate adjusts with a bend elsewhere, between Australia and India, for instance, the Coral Sea can straighten out.
Lets check the moment when the Coral Sea floor reflected a plate adjustments, an undulation. Lothar drills down into the details to capture the moment. Sure enough, the red wave, showing an erratic registration on the radar measure, is just after16:16 UTC (ie GMT), the sea floor bouncing up in a reaction to the quake. If nothing else, this is proof that plate adjustments and buoy readings are two sides of the same coin. The sequence of events is:
If the Coral Sea floor is dropping again, we can expect the flooding in Australia to ease, as the waters will no longer be running up river in Queensland. The Zetas predict the floods in Queensland will ease as quickly as they arrived.
In a moment of honesty, an Australian mayor of one of the coastline towns gravely affected in recent days indicated to the press that they had had no rain!
16) Plate Tilting
If the coastline of Queensland is flooding, with no end in sight, due to the tipping up of the Indo-Australian Plate and subsequent flow of water seeking its level coming off the high end, is something similar happening to Sri Lanka? The Zetas predicted, as part of the 7 of 10 sequences, that the Indo-Australian Plate would tilt its eastern side up by a few feet, and drop its western side by the same amount - a 10 foot rise or fall. Pakistan already sank by several feet, its July flood waters refusing to drain, as detailed in Issue 217 of this newsletter. But there has not been any evidence of a tipping up on the eastern side until buoys 56001 and 56003 below Sumatra and Java showed a rising sea flood, as outlined in Issue 218 of this newsletter on December 31, 2010, and now the eastern coastline of Sri Lanka awash. Note that only the eastern coastline is awash, and almost without exception the areas affected are along the eastern coastline and in lowland there with access to the sea. These flood waters are also intractable, refusing to ease or drain. Water from the eastern edge of the Indo-Australian Plate is seeking its level there, draining toward the coastline of Sri Lanka. The counts of those affected keep rising, at last count on January 10 at 750,000.
The tipping of the Indo-Australian Plate was the first in the sequence, per the Zetas, tipping to a predicted 10 foot rise along the curve under Sumatra and Java or a drop on the western side, and this appears to have happened. And Indonesia has likewise started to sink since the last week of December, 2010, per the Zetas to occur over a 2-3 week period with an accelerating pace.
Meanwhile, the flooding in Queensland, Australia likewise has not abated, and in the coastal city of Brisbane and upriver from Brisbane, has suddenly worsened. Are we to presume this flash flood is from rain? It washed away cars and people, per reports. This is a coastal city and a river outlet at Brisbane for the Brisbane River and the entire Morton Bay drainage region! Meanwhile, buoy 54401 on the eastern edge of the Indo-Australian Plate is showing that the plate edge is being wiggled, pulled apart.
Meanwhile, the Philippines continues to deal with its own devastation, as the Philippine Plate tilts to roll water onto the Philippine Islands. This, in addition to sinking there. Buoy 52402 in the Philippine Sea shows the activity there, recording a sudden 35 foot drop in the sea level at one point, a temporary heaving of the sea floor there.
17) Undulating Plate
Issue 218 of this newsletter was compiled with data from December 28-29, but this is a rapidly changing situation. In just a day, the plates in Asia have moved, again, and there has been more evidence of sinking on the plate tongue holding Indonesia. Thus, this addendum which reflects the known situation early in the day on December 31, 2010.
The eastern edge of the Indo-Australian Plate holding New Zealand and Queensland appears to be almost undulating as it tilts up. The Coral Sea, which has bulged up for many months, a bending point relieving the weight of the eastern part of the plate which is rising, has suddenly flatted out! Water is rapidly deepening there, as though the sea floor has fallen. Per the Zetas the Coral Sea bulge has now relaxed, as magma flow under the lifting eastern edge of the Indo-Australian Plate has increased.
The portion of the Indo-Australian Plate just below Java, which must lift so that Java can slip under this curve of the Indo-Australian Plate, is rising! This is an indication that Java is indeed sliding under the curve, and being pushed down. Where these buoys were indicating a slight rise in this region just days ago, they now are showing a dramatic rise. What can this mean for Java, in the hours to come? Is the Indo-Australian Plate tilting? The western portion already dropped the predicted 10 feet or so, as detailed in Issue 217 of this newsletter, where land along the Indus River in Pakistan and in India to the east of Karachi clearly show this on satellite images.
In step with the Coral Sea changes, and the rising of the curve just below Java, are sudden changes in the Caroline Plate above New Guinea. Just three days earlier buoy 52403 showed a rapid rise in the sea floor on this little platelet, but now the depth is plunging! What's going on here?
This is yet another dramatic indication that the Indo-Australian Plate is tipping sideways, as predicted by the Zetas to be the first step in the 7 of 10 scenarios affecting the Indonesian region.
18) 7 of 10 Arrives!
Java began sinking on December 23, 2010, though this was only reported as flooding that refuses to drain. This occurred from one end of the island to the other, and primarily on the southern side of Java, which is being pulled down. By December 25, 2010 the Indo-Australian Plate began lifting on its eastern side. And by December 26, 2010 the Mariana and Philippine plates also began tilting. The buoys from the Philippine Sea to Tasmania show this, irrefutably. Queensland and the Philippine Islands suddenly had monstrous flooding due to the water draining toward the low sides of these tilting plates. Details on these issues are below, in this newsletter. Of course, as the Zetas had stated, the trend would be obvious before the scenarios started to unfold in ernest. This was outlined in Issue 208 of this newsletter on October 24, 2010, as the drumroll could be heard. Lets revisit the Zeta 7 of 10 predictions, and the predicted sequence of events, as they were outlined in Issue 207 of this newsletter on October 17, 2010.
19) Plates Tilting
The eastern edge of the Indo-Australian Plate is rising. One can see by the IRIS chart below that the eastern edge of the Indo-Australian Plate is outlined in quakes, at and just east of Vanuatu where a magnitude 7.6 quake occurred on December 25, 2010. Vanuatu had 23 quakes over magnitude 5 within a 24 hour period after that, and continues to be hammered. In the days following, it was clear from the buoy alerts in the area that this eastern edge of the plate had risen!
There had been instances this past year when the Coral Sea, just east of Australia, gave buoy evidence of a rising sea bed, as noted on July 11, 2010 in Issue 193 of this newsletter. Per the Zetas, the Coral Sea bed was a weak point in the plate, and was bending under the weight of the eastern edge of the plate as this side of the plate tilted up. The Indo-Australian Plate is being tilted and driven under the Himalayas, thus eventually giving New Zealand and the eastern edge of Australia an increase in elevation. Buoys in the Coral Sea are again showing a rising sea bed, by both buoy 55012 and 55023. By December 28, 2010 this was rapidly changing!
On December 25, 2010, in step with the Vanuatu hammering, the plate edge itself rose! Buoys 51425 and 51426 east of Vanuatu, in the South Sea island regions of Fiji and Tonga which ride on the eastern edge of the Indo-Australian Plate, are showing a sea floor rise, and by December 28, 2010 this rise was obvious.
Is the entire eastern edge of the Indo-Australian Plate rising? Yes! A quick check to see what is occurring south of New Zealand, or above NW Australia, shows this to be the case! And rather suddenly! And rapidly since December 26, 2010 it would seem.
If a plate tilts, will water drain down toward the low end of the plate? Yes! And this in fact happened along the Queensland coastline, quite evident by December 29, 2010. Note that the excessive flooding is all along rivers draining into the seas to the east along the Queensland coastline. Just where the draining water from a tilted plate would be trapped and backwash up the rivers!
By December 28, 2010 yet more signs of plates rising in this region occurred. Just north of New Guinea, on the little Caroline Plate sandwiched beneath the Philippine Plate and above the northern edge of the Indo-Australian Plate, buoy 52403 showed the sea floor rapidly rising.
If this plate and the Indo-Australian Plate are rising, due to pressure from the compressing Pacific, what is happening north of this location where we expect the Mariana Plate to fold against the Pacific Plate, rising the eastern edge of both these plates. Well, these plates are rising, along their eastern edges! Again, this rise has been sudden, only since December 26, 2010, as these graphs captured on December 28, 2010 show. The biggest rise, as might be expected, is on the eastern edge of the Mariana Plate. The plates are folding!
And sure enough, the water draining from the rising Philippine Sea on the eastern side of the Philippine Plate inundated the eastern side of the Philippine islands! The 7 of 10 sequences have begun, have arrived, with much more to follow, shortly!
20) Pakistan Admitted
The flood waters that beset Pakistan in July, 2010 have not receded completely, and there is at last an admission that they are not going to recede. In other words, Pakistan, on the western border of the plate holding India, has sunk, just as the Zetas predicted.
This issue was presented in this newsletter on Issue 201 on September 5, 2010 when the flood waters were slow to recede. And in Issue 212 on November 21, 2010 when they were shown to be lingering even months after the July floods. But now, there can be no denying the situation. Earth Observatory, a NASA function, admits that by comparing images from the year before, Pakistan's elevation has sunk. Period. The Zetas state this drop would be 10 feet, and this 10 foot drop is apparent.
We are aware that Pakistan has lost elevation, and Thailand at Bangkok likewise cannot get their flood waters to drain, and Jakarta has been sinking, with land and road along their drainage canals collapsing. But Vietnam has also been experiencing sinking, as evidenced by an epidemic of sinkholes.
21) Greased Plates
… The entire region encompassing the curve and eastern edge of the Indo-Australia Plate, including New Zealand, is likewise outlined in quakes. It is no surprise that repeated methane explosions in the Pike River mine have occurred, starting on November 19, 2010 when earthquakes started hammering the region along the eastern border of the Indo-Australia Plate.
This accident was considered the worst New Zealand mining accident within the past 100 years. This plate is lifting and tilting in preparation for the 7 of 10 scenario in Indonesia. …
22) Pakistan Elevation
Since the floods in Pakistan in July, 2010 we have been closely following its recovery, as noted in Issue 201 of this newsletter. Per the Zetas, during the 7 of 10 steps, India will tilt so that the western part of the plate holding India drops up to 10-12 feet, and the eastern part rises a commensurate degree. Has Pakistan lost that elevation?
It is clear that this part of Pakistan will not be draining, as it has permanently lost elevation!
23) 7 of 10 Drum Roll
The Zetas have predicted that the 7 of 10 scenarios will start by the end of 2010, with at least one of them, and possibly more, playing out by that date. They have also given the sinking of the tongue holding Indonesia as the first scenario, accompanied by a slight tilting of the Indo-Australian Plate, which they describe as the brake point during global plate movements. When the Indo-Australian Plate moves, it allows other plates to likewise move, in a domino fashion. So what are the signs that this part of the globe is about to have plate movement? First, the already volcanically active Indonesia region has become more active. …
… Meanwhile, the plate holding India and Australia continues to tilt. The flooding in Pakistan, along the Indus River (which is the western edge of the plate) is not draining, as noted in Issue 201 of this newsletter. Now two months after the flooding, this is still the case! As the Zetas state, the Indus River valley has lost elevation.
Per Earth Observatory photos, an inland lake developed just west of the Indus River. The cover-up excuse for this appearance of a huge inland lake is that "apparently" the Indus River waters had become trapped behind levees at the Mancchar Lake. But on September 20, 2010 this lake at the end of the supposedly trapped waters was expected to be drained of floodwaters in 35 days, by October 25. Yet no draining has occurred, but instead the flooding in Manchhar Lake has increased! The land there has been dropping in elevation.
There are more signs that the plate housing India is on the move. Above the Indus River valley, up where the plate housing India abuts the Himalayas, the village of Jalandhar began shaking and did not stop shaking for two weeks.
The shaking was reported on October 6, and the October 7 IRIS chart indeed shows this area getting significant quakes.
Moving east along the upper border of the plate housing India, we find the village of Mamit sinking 20 feet, requiring most the village to be evacuated.
The entire Indo-Australia Plate seems to be loosened up and on the move. By October 18, 2010 the entire eastern half of the Indo-Australian Plate was outlined with quakes on IRIS. Clearly, the brake point is giving, and the plate is on the move!
24) New Zealand Tumble
A recent New Zealand quake apparently surprised geologists who stated the quake happened on a fault line that had been unknown, previously. The fault line pulled land apart by 11 feet, and in some cases raised or dropped land on either side.
The Zetas had earlier mentioned that the south island would not be pulled under the Australian Plate, as mankind was unaware of all the fault lines and the dominant action in the area. South island would remain in tact, per the Zetas.
And the Zetas ask, does the result of this quake not resemble snow that has tumbled to the side of a snow plow in an irregular manner?
25) Pakistan Floods
A series of events seem to indicate that the predicted tilting of the Indo-Australia Plate has started. This was one of the precursor events allowing the tongue of the Eurasian Plate holding Indonesia to sink, as presented in the holographic vision received last November, 2009.
Per the Zetas, during the sinking of the tongue holding Indonesia, the Indo-Australia Plate must tilt.
That said, what evidence is there that the tongue is starting to drop, or that the Indo-Australian Plate is starting to tilt? First, a series of very deep quakes at the tip of the tongue.
In step with the deep quake activity, a Sumatra volcano that had not erupted in 400 years became active. Sumatra is on the edge of the tongue.
All this certainly indicates activity in deep rock at the end of the tongue, but what about the other side of the Indo-Australia Plate? Does all that flooding in Pakistan of late have something to do with a sinking edge? The Indus River is on the edge of the Indo-Australia Plate where it is being pushed under the Himalayas. Note the escalating concern as the magnitude of the flooding surpasses expectations.
There is no question that Pakistan had heavy rain, but is all the flooding due to rain, or is part of the problem a drop in sea level. Per the Zetas, the Indo-Australian Plate has started to tilt!
Of course, the clams offshore from Karachi knew something was up when they started trying to leave their home and climbing up the beach last July! And on the other side of the Indo-Australian Plate, mollusks were reacting in a similar manner.
See also;
* Folding Pacific is ongoing! The evidence is here.
* S American Roll is on going! The evidence is here.
* Sunda Plate sinking is almost complete! The evidence is here.
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The Transport Agency says it fears the damage to bridges in the Manawatu Gorge is likely to be serious.
State Highway Three through the gorge has been closed for nine months by a landslip.
The agency says soil has been removed from the slip at the rate of 3000 cubic metres per day and the last debris should be gone within two weeks.
Engineers expect to be able to fully assess bridge damage next week, but they say preliminary checks indicate a possible significant collapse along one section of a bridge at the Woodville end of the slip.
NZTA says it will have a better idea of when the road will be reopened after further inspections.
An entire beach at Punakaiki on the South Island's West Coast has disappeared in under a year, with the loss of 30,000 cubic metres of sand.
West Coast Regional Council rivers and drainage engineer Wayne Moen said the beach immediately north of the blowholes, had dropped 2.5m.
"I've never seen it happen like that before. The whole beach has basically disappeared."
King tides over the weekend threw rocks over the seawall, flooded a motel and demolished a fence.
Mr Moen said the latest results of regular cross-sections taken of the beach showed that 30,000 cubic metres of sand had gone.
He said the seawall had sustained damage in the past couple of months, and repairs were under way before the king tides hit at the weekend. The sea had cut into the wall and some of the rock had slipped, but the structure of the wall had not been compromised.
Punakaiki resident John Lightfoot said southerly storms were needed to replenish the beach.
It could still be walked at low tide, but it was a lot lower than usual.
Earlier this year, property owners on the south side of the township feared that rapidly advancing erosion was threatening their properties
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YOUNG rich Singaporeans are keen on sustainable investing, and they also understand that doing good can be profitable, a survey showed.
Investors in Asia are looking to increase the proportion of sustainable investments in their portfolios to an average of 19 per cent over the next three years, with Chinese investors leading the way with an expected allocation of 23 per cent by 2021, according to a Standard Chartered Private Bank survey.
Releasing the results of the survey on Thursday, the bank said over 400 investors were asked in Singapore, Hong Kong, China and India to determine their motivations behind sustainable investing and how well they understand it.
The survey looked at investors with a minimum US$1 million in investments (excluding real estate).
Investors in Singapore had the strongest understanding of sustainable investing, with 31 per cent demonstrating a good understanding of the concept, among the 79 per cent currently engaged in sustainable investing, the survey found.
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64 per cent of Singapore investors were highly motivated to do good and earn a profit at the same time by making sustainable investments.
This was in contrast to Hong Kong and China where 69 and 71 per cent of investors respectively stated they were making sustainable investments to achieve better returns.
"While sustainable investing is relatively nascent in Asia, investor interest is growing and the outlook is positive," said Vic Malik, StanChart head of investment advisory, private banking, Asean & South Asia.
"We believe bridging the knowledge gap can help increase allocations towards sustainable investing and encourage investors who are not currently engaged to take the plunge," he said.
One of the misperceptions of sustainable investing is that returns have to be sacrificed but studies have found the opposite to be true.
Over 90 per cent of investment portfolios with a sustainable investment concept have the same or better returns than a normal investment portfolio. This combines the findings of over 2,000 studies across over 40 years, noted Gunnar Friede, Timo Busch & Alexander Bassen in a 2015 paper published in the Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment.
The survey also threw up some interesting nuggets: more Singapore men (58 per cent) were interested in sustainable investing than women (42 per cent) and they were a relatively younger group, Generation X which refers to those between 35 and 49.
"Altruistic investors, largely comprising the Gen X and predominant in Singapore as compared to other markets, are more willing to accept a financial trade-off between doing good and generating returns," said Mr Malik.
"While the millennials (between 20 and 34) have been associated with driving the sustainable investing trend in Asia, we see more mature investors are also coming to the fore, motivated by the desire to leave a legacy for the next generation," noted Mr Malik.
"More importantly, millennials tend to be savvier in understanding that they do not always need to sacrifice financial gains to make a positive impact, which will be a key differentiator in further developing the ecosystem and moving sustainable investing into the mainstream.
"Globally, about 10 per cent of our private banking clients are interested in impact investing," said Mr Malik.
StanChart has also seen 40 per cent growth of global client assets under management into sustainable investing (funds/bonds) since January 2018, said Eugenia Koh, who heads the bank's impact investing and strategic engagements.
StanChart clients are able to do impact investing via the Allianz Global Sustainability Fund, Parvest Aqua Fund and BlackRock Impact World Equity.
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The roller coaster mine ride is gone, as is the stagecoach drive through the woods where a band of outlaws hold you up.
Stagecoach Stop opened in 1965 and competed with Frontier City, which had been open since 1960 on M-50 south of US-12. Frontier City closed in 1974 and Stagecoach Stop closed in 2007. But it's been changed somewhat since then and is open during the summer and around Halloween. The Cowboy Creek Lodge was added years ago for those who desire to spend the night.
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|the Registrants Current Reports on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on January 8, 2018 (Item 8.01), and May 25, 2018 (Items 5.02, 5.07 and 9.01); and
|the description of the Common Stock contained in the Registration Statement on Form 8-A filed on April 7, 2014, and any amendments to such Registration Statement filed subsequently thereto, including all amendments or reports filed for the purpose of updating such description.
In addition, all reports and other documents subsequently filed by the Registrant pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference herein and to be a part hereof from the date of filing of such document. Any statement contained in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a statement contained herein or in any other subsequently filed document which also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes such statement. The statements required to be so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this Registration Statement.
Not applicable.
Not applicable.
The Registrant is a Delaware corporation. The Delaware General Corporation Law, or DGCL, and certain provisions of the Registrants bylaws under certain circumstances provide for indemnification of the Registrants officers, directors and controlling persons against liabilities which they may incur in such capacities. A summary of the circumstances in which such indemnification is provided for is contained herein, but this description is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Registrants bylaws.
Section 145 of the DGCL permits a corporation to indemnify any director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation against expenses (including attorneys fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred in connection with any action, suit or proceeding brought by reason of the fact that such person is or was a director or officer of the corporation, if such person acted in good faith and in a manner that he or she reasonably believed to be in, or not opposed to, the best interests of the corporation, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, if he or she had no reason to believe his or her conduct was unlawful.
A similar standard is applicable in the case of derivative actions (i.e., actions brought by or on behalf of the corporation), except that indemnification only extends to expenses (including attorneys fees) actually and reasonably incurred in connection with the defense or settlement of such action, and the statute requires court approval before there can be any indemnification where the person seeking indemnification has been found liable to the corporation. The statute provides that it is not exclusive of other indemnification that may be granted by a corporations certificate of incorporation, bylaws, disinterested director vote, stockholder vote, agreement or otherwise.
The Registrants bylaws provide for the indemnification described above and requires that any such indemnification only be made by the Registrant upon a determination that the applicable standard of conduct has been met, which determination shall be made (a) by the Board, by a majority vote of a quorum consisting of directors who were not parties to such action, suit or proceeding, or (b) if such a quorum is not obtainable, or, even if obtainable, if a quorum of disinterested directors so directs, by independent legal counsel in a written opinion, or (c) by the stockholders.
The Registrants bylaws also authorize the Board, in its discretion, to pay the expenses of any such action in advance of the final disposition of such action upon a written undertaking by such indemnitee to repay such amounts if it shall ultimately be determined that he or she is not entitled to indemnification under the standard set by the DGCL and the Registrants bylaws.
Section 102(b)(7) of the DGCL permits, and the Registrants Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation provide, that no director shall be personally liable to the Registrant or its stockholders for monetary damages for such a breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except for liabilities arising:
|from any breach of the directors duty of loyalty to the Registrant or its stockholders;
|from acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law;
|under Section 174 of the DGCL (unlawful payment of dividend or unlawful stock purchase or redemption); and
|from any transaction from which the director derived an improper personal benefit.
The Registrant has entered into an indemnification agreement with each of its directors and executive officers. The indemnification agreements provide indemnification to each director or executive officer, or the Indemnitee, against all expenses, judgments, penalties, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by the Indemnitee, or on his or her behalf if the Indemnitee is, or is threatened to be made, a party to or participant in any proceeding related to his or her status as a director and/or executive officer of the Registrant, as long as the Indemnitee acted in good faith and in a manner the Indemnitee reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Registrant, and with respect to any criminal proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe the Indemnitees conduct was unlawful. For proceedings by or in the right of the Registrant, indemnification is provided as set forth above; provided, however, if applicable law so provides, no indemnification against such expenses will be made in respect of any claim, issue or matter in such proceeding as to which Indemnitee shall have been adjudged to be liable to the Registrant unless and to the extent that the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware shall determine that such indemnification may be made.
Section 145(g) of the DGCL grants the power to the Registrant to purchase and maintain insurance which protects the Registrants officers and directors against any liabilities incurred in connection with their service in such a position, and such a policy may be obtained by the Registrant.
A stockholders investment may be adversely affected to the extent the Registrant pays the costs of settlement and damage awards against directors and officers as required by these indemnification provisions. At present, there is no pending litigation or proceeding involving any of the Registrants directors, officers or employees regarding which indemnification is sought, nor is the Registrant aware of any threatened litigation that may result in claims for indemnification.
Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers or persons controlling the Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, the Registrant has been informed that, in the opinion of the Commission, this indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is therefore unenforceable.
Not applicable.
The Exhibits to this Registration Statement are listed in the Exhibit Index below, which is incorporated herein by reference.
(a) The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:
(1) To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement:
(i) To include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act;
(ii) To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date of the registration statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in this registration statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the total dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that which was registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than 20 percent change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the Calculation of Registration Fee table in the effective registration statement; and
(iii) To include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in this registration statement or any material change to such information in the registration statement;
provided, however, that the undertakings set forth in paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) above do not apply if information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference in this registration statement;
(2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof; and
(3) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering.
(b) The undersigned Registrant hereby further undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the Registrants annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act and, where applicable, each filing of the Plans annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) under the Exchange Act, that is incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at the time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.
(c) Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the Registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issues.
|Opinion of Ballard Spahr LLP (filed herewith).
|TransEnterix, Inc. Amended and Restated Incentive Compensation Plan, as amended and restated. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Registrants Current Report on Form 8-K, filed with the SEC on May 25, 2018)
|Consent of BDO USA, LLP (filed herewith).
|Consent of Ballard Spahr LLP (contained in Exhibit 5.1).
|Power of Attorney (on signature page).
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Morrisville, State of North Carolina on the 25th day of May, 2018.
|TransEnterix, Inc.
|/s/ Todd M. Pope
|Todd M. Pope
|President and Chief Executive Officer
KNOW ALL BY THESE PRESENTS, that each undersigned director of TransEnterix, Inc. constitutes and appoints Joseph P. Slattery and Joshua B. Weingard, and each of them, as the true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for such person and in such persons name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any or all amendments to this Registration Statement, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorney-in-fact and agent full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
/s/ Todd M. Pope
Todd M. Pope
President, Chief Executive Officer and a Director (principal executive officer)
|May 25, 2018
/s/ Joseph P. Slattery
Joseph P. Slattery
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (principal financial officer and principal accounting officer)
|May 25, 2018
/s/ Paul A. LaViolette
Paul A. LaViolette
Chairman of the Board and a Director
|May 25, 2018
/s/ Andrea Biffi
Andrea Biffi
|May 25, 2018
/s/ Jane H. Hsaio
Jane H. Hsaio, Ph.D.
|May 25, 2018
/s/ William N. Kelley
William N. Kelley, M.D.
|May 25, 2018
/s/ Aftab R. Kherani
Aftab R. Kherani, M.D.
|May 25, 2018
/s/ David B. Milne
David B. Milne
|May 25, 2018
/s/ Richard C. Pfenniger, Jr.
Richard C. Pfenniger, Jr.
|May 25, 2018
/s/ William N. Starling, Jr.
William N. Starling, Jr.
|May 25, 2018
Exhibit 5.1
Ballard Spahr LLP
1735 Market Street, 51st Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19103-7599
May 25, 2018
TransEnterix, Inc.
635 Davis Drive, Suite 300
Morrisville, NC 27560
|TransEnterix, Inc.Registration Statement on Form S-8
Ladies and Gentlemen:
We have acted as counsel to TransEnterix, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the Company), in connection with the Registration Statement on Form S-8 (the Registration Statement), relating to the registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the Securities Act), and the issuance of up to 15,000,000 additional shares of the Companys common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the Shares), pursuant to the TransEnterix, Inc. Amended and Restated Incentive Compensation Plan (the Plan).
In rendering this opinion, we have reviewed the Plan; the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company, together with all amendments thereto; the Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company; the Registration Statement and the exhibits thereto and such certificates, documents, corporate records and other instruments and matters of law as in our judgment are necessary or appropriate to enable us to render the opinion expressed below. In rendering this opinion, we are assuming the authenticity of all instruments presented to us as originals, the conformity with the originals of all instruments presented to us as copies and the genuineness of all signatures.
The opinion expressed below is based on the assumption that the Registration Statement has been filed by the Company with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and will have become effective before any of the Shares are issued, and that persons acquiring the Shares will do so strictly in accordance with the terms of the Plan and will receive a prospectus containing all the information required by Part I of the Registration Statement before acquiring such Shares. The opinion is also based on the assumption that the Shares will continue to be duly and validly authorized on the dates that the Shares are issued to participants pursuant to the terms of the Plan and, upon the issuance of any of the Shares, the total number of shares of common stock of the Company issued and outstanding, after giving effect to such issuance of such Shares, will not exceed the total number of shares of common stock that the Company is then authorized to issue under its Articles of Incorporation, as amended.
Based on the foregoing, we are of the opinion that the Shares, when issued pursuant to the Plan in accordance with the terms and conditions thereof (including, where applicable, the payment of any exercise price, the satisfaction of any vesting or forfeiture restrictions and the achievement of applicable performance goals), will be legally issued, fully paid and non-assessable.
TransEnterix, Inc.
May 25, 2018
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This opinion is limited to the matters expressly stated herein and no implied opinion may be inferred to extend this opinion beyond the matters expressly stated herein. This opinion is limited to the Federal law of the United States of America and to the laws of the State of Delaware.
We consent to the filing of this opinion as Exhibit 5.1 to the Registration Statement. In giving this consent, we do not admit that we are within the category of persons whose consent is required by Section 7 of the Securities Act.
Yours truly,
/s/ Ballard Spahr LLP
TransEnterix, Inc.
Morrisville, North Carolina
We hereby consent to the incorporation by reference in this Registration Statement of our reports dated March 8, 2018, relating to the consolidated financial statements and the effectiveness of TransEnterix, Inc.s internal control over financial reporting appearing in the Companys Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2017.
/s/ BDO USA, LLP
Raleigh, North Carolina
May 25, 2018


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Annal: 2009 Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original
Results of the Anthony Award in the year 2009.
State of the Onion: A White House Chef Mystery
Introducing White House Assistant Chef Olivia Paras, who is rising-and sleuthing-to the top.
Includes recipes for a complete presidential menu! Never let them see you sweat-that's White House Assistant Chef Olivia Paras's motto, which is pretty hard to honor in the most important kitchen in the world. She's hell-bent on earning her dream job, Executive Chef. There's just one thing: her nemesis is vying for it, too. Well, that and the fact that an elusive assassin wants to see her fry.
The First Quarry
Crime fiction readers know Quarry, the ruthless killer-for-hire, from Max Allan Collins' acclaimed novels—most recently The Last Quarry, which told the story of the assassin's final assignment (and was the basis for the feature film The Last Lullaby).
But where did Quarry's story start? For the first time ever, Collins takes us back to the beginning, revealing the never-before-told story of Quarry's first job: infiltrating a college town and eliminating a professor whose affair with one of his beautiful, young students is the least of his sins…
In a Dark Season: A Mystery
- 2009 Anthony-Paperback nominee
- Score: 6.59
In a North Carolina winter, new vistas appear through the bare trees. For Elizabeth Goodweather of Full Circle Farm, still a newcomer after more than twenty years, one terrible glimpse ignites a mystery that reaches back years into these hills, drawing together dozens of seemingly unconnected lives. Elizabeth sees a frail old woman on a high porch where dolls hang by twine. When the woman jumps, and Elizabeth reacts, there is no turning back.
Nola Barrett's ancient, sprawling house is spewing a dark past: of depravity, scandal and murder. Her land is at the center of multiple mysteries, ranging from a suspicious death to the brutal rape of a young woman to the legend of a handsome youth hanged for murder. But with Nola recovering from her self-inflicted wounds, Elizabeth has inherited her mad, violent drama—while a killer has a perfect view of it all.…
Money Shot
They thought she'd be easy. They thought wrong.
It all began with the phone call asking former porn star Angel Dare to do one more movie. Before she knew it, she'd been shot and left for dead in the trunk of a car. But Angel is a survivor. And that means she'll get to the bottom of what's been done to her even if she has to leave a trail of bodies along the way…
South of Hell: A Louis Kincaid Mystery
- 2009 Anthony-Paperback nominee
- Score: 6.59
Dig up the past. Pay the price.
With one phone call from a man he barely recalls meeting years ago, South Florida detective Louis Kincaid heads to the Michigan town of his college days to reopen a disturbing cold case and finds himself confronting his own painful past secrets…secrets that risk his future with the woman he loves, detective Joe Frye.
Ann Arbor police detective Jake Shockey wants Kincaid's help in the case of Jean Brandt, who went missing nine years ago and whose husband, Owen, has since been paroled. Now, Owen Brandt's girlfriend appears to be at risk, and Shockey is desperate to get involved. Kincaid soon unearths the deeply personal reasons why…and with Joe Frye assisting, Kincaid links yesterday's jealousies with today's potentially lethal vengeance. It's only a matter of time before one will win out over the other and before Kincaid's own shattering revelations will be forced out into the light of day.


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EPC-enabled RFID Serialization Management for SGTIN-96 are now available through the GS1 US website, providing companies with best practices for assigning globally unique numbers to individual items, using a GTIN and a unique serial number, known as the Serialized Global Trade Item Number (SGTIN).
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Leviton takes aim at Saudi
Leviton is opening an office in Saudi Arabia as part of ambitious expansion plans that it has for the coming year.
Leviton is opening an office in Saudi Arabia as part of ambitious expansion plans that it has for the coming year.
Ramzi Nassif, Managing Director for India, Middle East and Africa at Leviton says that the Network solutions vendor has been ramping up its presence and investments in the Middle East region despite the financial crisis. The opening of an office in Saudi Arabia is the next logical step for Leviton.
"We are opening up an office in Saudi, we don't have an office there and we have only had six guys there, and all of the work was through the distributors.We thought that it is time to move up to a physical office," says Nassif. "We have invested a lot in this, around $2 million this year."
Although Nassif will readily admit that Leviton came rather late to the Middle East market, setting up here as it did just over two years ago, he also claims that there are a few reasons that Leviton stands out against the competition in this market. One differentiating factor is that Leviton has its own warehouse supply operations here in Dubai, allowing it to serve its customers and channel partners in an efficient manner. The second is that the company is the only vendor in the market that can offer components with a CAT6A components rating. This means that within data centre infrastructure it can provide extremely high quality transmissions over short distances.
In addition to other moves, Leviton has just opened an executive business centre in India to showcase its products and underlines its presence in what is a priority territory for the company.
"India is now on the verge of growing, it grew in the past but everything on the residential side is now happening," says Nassif. "India is becoming the data centre hub of Asia. 45% of data centres built in Asia are being built in India. We're not late, the market started a couple of years back, but the growth is still exponential."


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We have paused new applications until October 2020 to focus on supporting the organisations we fund to survive the impact of COVID-19. Read more
See examples of previous Arts Access and Participation funding in our grants database.
The purpose of the Fund
PHF is interested in ensuring that a wider and more diverse group of people have access to quality artistic practice. We want to use our funding to support organisations to test, implement and develop ambitious plans to widen access to and deepen participation in the arts. It will not be enough to simply increase numbers – our emphasis is on addressing inequalities of opportunity and creating space to step back and look at the systemic problems preventing participation. We want to help organisations to build stronger evidence about what works so that they can improve practice and achieve greater impact.
We will consider applications for:
- New ways of working, or work with new audiences and participants that aim to uncover alternative models of engagement – together with a strong commitment to learning about these approaches and sharing your learning
- Work that involves any of the following: crafts, dance, design, digital arts and media, film, literature (including creative writing and poetry), music, opera, photography, theatre, the visual arts, and cross-arts practices
- Work that is focused on improving access to the arts as a social good in itself, promoting enjoyment, increased attendance and participation by people facing disadvantage and inequality of access
- Work that is focused on increasing arts access for people who may face barriers to participation due to disability or a health condition. For detailed guidance on our current approach to supporting arts and health initiatives, please see 'What won't we fund'
- Work that uses access to and participation in the arts to promote social justice (e.g. by achieving outcomes such as personal development, employability, educational attainment, social development, community cohesion, well-being, etc.)
- Work that develops excellence in participatory practice
- Work that supports organisations to embed digital solutions in widening access and participation in the arts.