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How You Recover from Addiction Matters
There are many drug and alcohol addiction rehab centers, and most use the same traditional methods, usually based on the 12-step program. An alternative drug rehab program is ideal for people who have tried traditional programs and relapsed, or those who simply want to try a different approach to rehabilitation.
Treatment programs that offer a more active, holistic and individualized approach offer a better chance at long-term recovery.
Outdoor Activities and Exercise in Drug Addiction Recovery
There's no substitute for experiencing for yourself the power of healthy lifestyle activities. Physical activities, especially those that get recovering addicts outside and interacting with one another, provide real-life experiences that make a strong impression.
Wilderness therapy, also called adventure therapy or experiential therapy, allows those in recovery to take part in activities in nature as a way to work through issues and build trust and confidence. It's a very effective alternative to talk therapy in an office. The hands-on, experiential nature of adventure therapy provides a more tangible, engaging experience, which in turn leads to more profound growth in the individual.
For people whose lives have been confined to the city and man-made structures, simply getting out in nature provides a change of scenery that sets the foundation for inner change to take place.
Being in a totally different environment far away from the normal stressors of life provides a rich environment for personal reflection and growth.
Holistic Detox For Alcohol, Heroin, And Other Drugs
At Elevate, clients begin their journey with us in a special detox center located on a wooded hill above the rest of the property. This secluded location provides a safe, nurturing environment where holistic and medical support is available 24/7 to help ease the detox process as naturally as possible.
When detox is complete, clients make their way down the mountain to join their peers in the main facility, where they have access to a wide variety of traditional, holistic and recreational activities to support their continued healing.
The Benefits Of Exercise In Addiction Recovery
Exercise – whether it's an adventure outing, a yoga session or a CrossFit workout – is a big part of the recovery program at Elevate because of the long list of health benefits it provides.
Exercise has proved to be an effective part of addiction treatment because it leads to:
- Feeling stronger and more physically fit
- A sense of accomplishment
- Increased confidence
- A natural rush of endorphins and endocannabinoids (i.e., runner's high)
- Better sleep
- Protection against stress and weight gain
- An outlet to relieve stress and anxiety
- A healthy way to cope with cravings
- A fun, energizing and relaxing way to fill your time
Alternative Drug and Alcohol Recovery Programs that Prevent Relapse
Whereas traditional programs will teach about the importance of changing your lifestyle and creating better habits, an activity-based alternative treatment program actually gives clients hands-on practice in creating healthy habits.
The result? Real experiences and skills they can take home to sustain their commitment to recovery.
In addition to evidence-based practices like individual and group therapy, an alternative treatment program like the one at Elevate will include:
- Experiential activities that help individuals take responsibility for their own lives while releasing blame and shame over past experiences
- Recreational activities that provide physical exercise, building strength and confidence
- Daily practice with new healthy habits like exercise and nutritious eating
- Regular meditation and mindfulness practices that provide relaxation, relieve stress and cravings, and build confidence
- Social activities that help build interpersonal connections and improve conversational skills
Alternative To 12-Step Programs
Our non-12-step approach also offers additional flexibility for those looking for alternatives to the AA/12-step model, which can alienate some recovering addicts or leave them feeling boxed in to a limiting approach.
The group counseling and social activities at Elevate provide the same opportunities for personal expression and bonding that make 12-step meetings popular.
In addition, our philosophy is extremely empowering, rejecting the idea that drug and alcohol users are victims of their addiction. We firmly believe that permanent recovery is possible for every individual who truly has the desire to build a new, happy, healthy and balanced life. Our program gives clients the awareness, skills and tools needed to take back control of their lives from addiction and reshape their future as they desire.
Individualized, Holistic Substance Abuse Treatment
Because every person experiences addiction in his or her own unique way, it's important that addiction treatment be highly customized to the individual. At Elevate, we tailor our program as needed for each client, and allow them to move through each phase of rehab at their own pace, not just according to a date on a calendar.
Our comprehensive, holistic program is designed to treat the whole individual – mind, body and spirit. It consists of the following recovery strategies:
- Holistic, medically supervised detox clears the body of toxic and mood-altering substances.
- Proper nutrition and moderate exercise help bring the body's systems back to normal, healthy functioning.
- Empowering education and counseling sessions help clients gain mental clarity.
- Counseling and exercise provide appropriate outlets for emotional clearing.
- A combination of quiet reflection and confidential discussion help realign actions with deeply held values and aspirations.
- Outdoor, recreational and social activities provide healthy ways to experience fun and enjoyment.
- One-on-one counseling helps clients create a long-term plan for their new life after rehab.
By combining holistic treatment methods, complementary clinical methods and outdoor rehab, our clients not only clear their bodies of drugs and alcohol, they also begin creating active and healthy lifestyles that support them in lifelong recovery.


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1938. Paris is reeling at the rhythm of the rumba, the cucaracha or the charleston. Beppo Manzoni, one of the gangsters, has several restaurants, bars and a luxurious dancing, visited by elegant louts, gigolos and spies from Mussolini. In this era of pre-war, the town in very dangerous.Manzoni will face "commissaire" Delaix who is a member of the clandestine organization "La Cagoule". A fight until death starts between the two men…. (summary of the official DVD)
This is one of Roger Hanin's greatest movies in which he gathers all the great actors of the French cinema and all his friends. In a tense but at the same time festive atmosphere, two clans face each other with guns and explosives. Beppo Manzoni decides to protect Italians involved in the revolution instead of handing them over to "La Cagoule". He protects Regina Berluzzi and falls in love with her. This role is interpreted by Corinne Touzet, difficult to recognize with her slicked-back hair, who is at the same time singer in a bar and chief of the Italian revolution...
Beppo Manzoni : Roger HANIN
Damien Malleville : Michel PICCOLI
Commissaire Detaix : Niels ARESTRUP
Madame Meyrals : PATACHOU
"Ma Pomme" : Guy MARCHAND
Regina Berluzzi : Corinne TOUZET
Paul Bergerac : Philippe CAROIT
Valentine : Sophie MICHAUD
With the exceptional collaboration of Lino VENTURA
Technical team
Director : Roger HANIN
Scenario - Adaptation – Dialogues : Roger HANIN – Jean CURTELIN
Producer : Christine GOUZE-RENAL
Music Director : Claude BOLLING
Sound Engineer : Daniel BRISSEAU
Dresser : Marie-Françoise PEROCHON
Chief make-up : Odette BERROYER
Casting Director : Shula SIEGFRIED

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4 Tips to Increase Site Speed, Conversions
When sites like Facebook and Twitter go down or see a spike in user activity, brand websites need to be ready. Here are four ways marketers can be prepared for it.
Embedding social media widgets in your brand's website is a great way to encourage interaction, but there are hidden costs to leveraging social engagement across your brand's mobile sites and websites. Because widgets are fed by third-party sources you don't control, any issues with their service can spill over onto your site without warning. The result may be to slow or even block rendering of your pages. Even just a one-second delay in site response times reduces conversions by up to 7 percent, according to Aberdeen Group. When widespread social media outages cause delays of tens of seconds to your site's load time, your potential customers might leave your site without taking the steps you want them to.
To protect your site against social widget blunders, it's imperative that your marketing and IT team are singing the same tune. Marketers want engagement and high conversion rates, while IT wants a high-functioning website that meets technical specifications. These goals don't always align.
But it doesn't have to be all or nothing. By following several best practices, marketers can add social bells and whistles to their websites without affecting site performance.
Here are four ways marketers can make sure they're on the same page with IT, improving the social widget and website experience.
1. Decide Which Social Tools to Use. Are your customers actually interacting on Instagram or Pinterest? Most likely, they favor one platform over the other. Eliminate social widgets that don't meet your audience's needs.
2. Consolidate All Those Social Tools. If you need a lot of social widget options for your audience, consider using solutions like Shareaholic and AddThis, which provide a starting ground for minimizing the disruption caused by integrating with multiple third-party sites. No, these tools aren't immune to performance problems, but they can help avoid a worst-case scenario.


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Delivery Times
We hope everyone is staying safe out there amongst our global community, Particularly our ex-pats located in Victoria Australia, the US and in Europe. Please stay safe.
Firstly our apologies for those who are still waiting for their flag deliveries, There have been a number of suspended delivery services, due to flight cancellations and government restrictions because of COVID-19 Global Pandemic, the situation is evolving daily, we apologise in advance for any delivery delay inconvenience due to factors outside our control.
Suspension of Airmail Services
Due to the COVID19 pandemic, Airmail delivery has been suspended until further notice, we have had a number of international customers request refunds due to their airmail parcels going missing, therefore, effective immediately, all international parcels will be sent via tracking, tracking is slightly more expensive, and this has been reflected in our postage costs in our Store. Note, overall prices for our NZ and Australian customers remain unaffected.
Generally flag orders are dispatched by our volunteers once a week on the Monday after the order has been received. flag orders made within NZ are sent from Wellington, and generally take about 2-5 working days from dispatch to arrive at addresses around New Zealand. Flags sent to addresses in Australia take about 10 days to arrive, and International parcels, sent from Melbourne, have been taking up to 10 weeks, due delays caused by the global Pandemic If your order has taken more than 30 days to arrive at an address in New Zealand or Australia, or 12 Weeks to arrive at an international address please contact us here, unfortunately, aside from COVID-19 delays, we have sometimes had delays at Customs, and in very rare cases, less than 1% of orders go missing in the post. We thank you kindly in advance for your patience in waiting.
Stay safe,
Kyle Lockwood
Firstly, thank you to all, for your continuing support of the Silver Fern Flag, particularly during these challenging times, it is much appreciated.
To all our customers, volunteers, friends and family, your health and well-being is our top priority, and in support of the worldwide effort to contain the spread of COVID-19, we have enacted some temporary changes to our operations in both New Zealand and Australia.
As you are most likely aware, from midnight 25 March 2020, New Zealand will go into a 4-week lock-down, our Wellington office has already temporarily closed.
As a result, our Melbourne office has also closed temporarily, for those of you who have placed orders since Sunday, 22 March, your order has been put on hold, we are very sorry for this, however we do not want to put at risk the health of our volunteers during this challenging time. if you have placed an order since 22 March, you are also most welcome to request refunds on your flag orders.
If you are happy to wait, orders are still being taken, and packaged up, but please be aware that there will be a minimum of a 4-week delay in sending out your flag items, we will be acting on the advice of the New Zealand, Australian, and Victorian State Governments before we send out any orders.
We apologise for this temporary inconvenience, however the health and safety of our volunteers at this time is our first priority,
We look forward to serving you again once this COVID-19 situation is over. Please stay safe everyone, be respectful and kind to one another, together, (but obviously at least 2 metres apart), we will get through this!
Kyle Lockwood
In 2020, the Silver Fern Flag will turn 20 years old, the flag concept was originally penned by designer Kyle Lockwood, whilst he was completing architectural study at Massey University in the year 2000.
The design underwent many refinements over the years, and reached a zenith in 2015 when it was voted as the Preferred Alternative New Zealand Flag, in a national flag referendum, by the people of Aotearoa, New Zealand.
In the second flag referendum of 2016, the design gained a significant minority of the vote with around 44%, - by approximately 1 million voters - no small feat, considering the politics of the time, there's nothing more political than updating a nation's flag!
The flag has since been spotted all over the world where New Zealanders congregate, particularly at sports matches between our rivals with a similar-looking ensign over the Tasman, when New Zealanders fly this flag, it's very clear which country is being supported!
Please note that we will be away on holiday break from 24 December 2019 to 6 January 2020. A big thank you to all our supporters this year and we look forward to seeing you in 2020!
Silver Fern Flag Orders Update
Over the past month we have had a large influx of orders for the Silver Fern Flag and also the Silver Fern Sports Flag, and unfortunately we ran out of stock of both of these flag types!
However we now have good news to share, earlier this week we received our large and medium-size Silver Fern Flag, and also our Silver Fern Sports Flag shipments, we are pleased to report that all outstanding orders were sent out to our patient customers earlier this week.
Thank you all kindly for your patience.
Kyle Lockwood | silverfernflag.org
Monocle Magazine Interview
Silver Fern Flag designer Kyle Lockwood was recently interviewed by the Foreign Desk at Monocle Magazine, Monocle is an international magazine briefing on global affairs, business, culture, and design.
Kyle designed the official Alternative New Zealand Flag, voted by the people in a 2015 referendum, Monocle looked at flags their design, and their importance to the people they represent on the world diplomatic stage, they also asked why New Zealand needs an updated post-colonial era flag.
You can click on the link below and listen to the whole show, or start at the 10.00 minute mark to hear Kyle discuss the Silver Fern Flag.
Spotted on the French News...
Spotted on the French news this morning!
See more; https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=341122759964879&id=76952916976
^Thanks to Simon for the link, to purchase a flag, check out silverfernflag.org/store
The silver fern flag, designed by Kyle Lockwood will feature at the V&A Gallery (Victoria & Albert Museum) in London.
This is one of the world's top galleries and we are very excited that our Silver Fern Flag will be proudly on display.
This major exhibition is well worth a visit if you are in London between Saturday 12 May 2018 and the 4th of November 2018.
This exhibition will display emerging technologies, the ways in which they will affect our lives in the near future, and what choices we have – as citizens – to influence their development.
The world of tomorrow is shaped by the designs and technologies emerging today. From smart appliances to satellites, this exhibition brings together more than 100 objects either newly released or in development that point towards where society might be headed. Although some may seem straight out of science fiction, they are all real, produced by research labs, universities, designers' studios, governments and corporations.
Guided by ethical and speculative questions, we invite you to step into four scenarios – self, public, planet and afterlife – each evoking increasing scales of technological impact. How might these objects affect the way you live, learn and even love?
The undeniable physical reality of these objects may give the impression that the future is already fixed. But new things contain unpredictable potentials and possibilities, often unanticipated even by their creators. It is up to us – as individuals, as citizens and even as a species – to determine what happens next. While the objects here suggest a certain future, it is not yet determined. The future we get is up to us. The future starts here.
1. Self
What makes us human? We can now design life itself. Our bodies, and even our internal biological systems, are becoming sites of design. Wearable technologies and personal trackers have become standard objects of our everyday. We measure our heart rate when we go jogging, and navigate cities with the help of GPS. As we extend our cognitive and biological capacities through machines, distinctions between what is human and what is technological blur. Once synonymous with privacy and reclusion, the home is now a broadcasting station from which we share our lives through social media. We are now all connected, but are we still lonely?
2. Public
Are cities still for everyone? This section explores the public realms of cities, politics and networks, the places where we come together to collectively make decisions. People get together to crowdfund everything from bicycles to bridges, or to leak governmental secrets and generate new currencies. In face of this, Does democracy still work? The future of public and civic spaces lies between two competing forces: the top-down strategies of an increasingly small number of companies and governments, and the bottom-up tactics of an increasingly large number of people. Which will thrive?
3. Planet
Should the planet be a design project? Human activity has altered our planet to the extent that some scientists have declared a new geological epoch, the 'Anthropocene', or 'age of humans'. Now that we know our behaviour has unintentionally designed the Earth, can we use technology to reverse the effects? Some designers are working on possible solutions to clean, repair or give back to the planet. Others are looking beyond the Earth for solutions in the stars – designing satellites that scope asteroids for mining new geological resources, and solutions for inhabiting Mars. But if Mars is the answer, what is the question? Can we still save our planet or shall we leave?
4. Afterlife
Who wants to live forever? Current advancements in biotechnology and artificial intelligence have the potential to redefine our conceptions of what life is. Reawakening after death or uploading one's mind onto a computer are ideas that may sound like science fiction but are taken seriously by some futurists today. Against these efforts to preserve the self, institutions such as the Long Now Foundation or the Svalbard Global Seed Vault are working to preserve humanity through books, seeds and material culture. What do we want to preserve for the future – the individual or the collective?
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Spotted at the Commonwealth Games - Well done to all the NZ athletes who competed!
Photo Graeme Gunn
This is New Zealand
Silver Fern Flags designed by Kyle Lockwood will feature in This is New Zealand an upcoming exhibition running between 3 March – 15 July 2018, at the Wellington City Gallery.
This Is New Zealand explores the role art has played in asserting and questioning notions of national identity. It considers how our country has represented itself, and what those representations have included and excluded. It takes a critical look at the stories we have told ourselves—and the stories we have told others—about who we are.
New Zealand has been going to the Venice Biennale since 2001, declaring our internationalism. However, some of our chosen artists have taken the opportunity to tackle old themes of national identity, playing on the Biennale's anachronistic national-pavilion structure, so reminiscent of World's Fairs and Expos.
This Is New Zealand re-presents Venice works (by Michael Stevenson, Michael Parekowhai, and Simon Denny), alongside New Zealand works created for World's Fairs, Expos, and other diplomatic contexts (by Marcus King, John Drawbridge, Inia Te Wiata, Hugh Macdonald, Para Matchitt, Douglas Lilburn, and Fiona Pardington), and films, TV ads, and early tourism campaigns. There are also new projects exploring national iconography (by Bronwyn Holloway-Smith, Gavin Hipkins, and Emil McAvoy).
The show borrows its title from one of the key works—the spectacular three-screen film made by Hugh Macdonald at the National Film Unit for the New Zealand pavilion at Osaka's Expo '70.
If you are in Wellington between 3 March–15 July 2018 be sure to check out This is New Zealand.
Dr Danny Keenan PhD - Historian
The silver fern does have deep historical roots, and for people who are interested in New Zealand's history, it's worth the time to read about the reason why it has been chosen to be one of the country's popular symbols.
The silver fern was once proudly embraced by Pakeha (New Zealanders who are of European descent) as a symbol of their new-found home in New Zealand. The fern once anchored new kiwis to this landscape. It's a shame that we have such short memories.
The major complaint against the use of the fern has been its popular use as a brand, or a logo. Some have said it belongs on sporting jerseys and vests, but not on the flag.
For those of us who care about our country's history, this level of criticism has been a little disheartening, to say the least. The silver fern does have deep historical roots. Perhaps our modern addiction to mass consumerism, and commercial symbolism, blinds us from seeing the silver fern in its real historical context.
The fern's appearance as a national symbol goes back to the 1880s, when Pakeha decided that they wanted to be New Zealanders, after all. Census figures in 1886 showed that native-born Pakeha now exceeded 'Europeans' living here but born overseas.
This new feeling of 'belonging' gave rise to the Native Associations, which formed after a successful inaugural meeting of settlers in Westport in 1890 (inspired by similar movements in Australia and Canada). Branches soon sprang up all over New Zealand, giving rise to an outpouring of nationalist literature, poetry, songs and landscape paintings as Pakeha searched amongst the figurative undergrowth for an organic foothold.
By 1898, there were 2500 members, with branches all over New Zealand, in centres like Dunedin, Wellington, Auckland, Westport, Thames, New Plymouth and Hawera.
Politicians and professionals, as well as ordinary folk, flocked to join, eager to solidify their sense of being a 'New Zealander' (a term once directed only at Maori).
Most tellingly, though, the Associations adopted the silver fern as their emblem, taking pride in its natural simplicity. Its acceptance amongst Pakeha grew rapidly. Everyone was soon wearing the silver fern badge. A fern emblem was also worn by our troops in South Africa after 1899; our first Boer War commander, Major Robin, was farewelled in Dunedin by a huge Natives Association gathering. And in Europe, after 1914, the fern was used to adorn kiwi headstones on the Western Front.
Pakeha New Zealanders had found a symbol of home they could live with - the silver fern.
Earlier, however, Tom Ellison of Ngai Tahu had introduced the silver fern to our national rugby team. In 1888 he suggested that the New Zealand Natives team adopt the fern, which they did and now wear of course as All Blacks, as do countless other sporting, civic, community and commercial associations.
As Sir Tipene O'Regan once reminded me, to Maori, the silver fern denotes strength, stubborn resistance, and enduring power, encapsulated in a natural form of native elegance. Maori have always honoured the fern, giving it a pride of place.
Early Pakeha did this, also.
Overseas, the fern has become the unmistakable symbol of New Zealand, earning instant recognition. Thanks to the early efforts of Pakeha, it's become our national symbol. It's more than just a mere commercial brand, which is what many commentators and academics with no sense of history would have us believe.
The silver fern was once embraced by Pakeha and survives as a symbol of organic beauty. It takes us beyond our British colonial origins, when, under the current flag, our boys went overseas and died to defend Empire, to say nothing of those 3000 Maori who died on our own soil, defending hearth and home, under attack by the same flag.
The fern represents all of us; we should be proud to see it on our flag.
Source: Dr Danny Keenan PhD - Historian
The original article appeared on 29 December 2017 at: https://1sttheworld.com/blogs/news/why-is-silver-fern-new-zealand-symbol
What does it mean to be a Kiwi?
What does it mean to be a Kiwi? The Pākehā settler story seems foundational. But the evolution of our national identity has a more complex history, as JOHN McCRONE recounts.
Fans turned out in droves, from all over the country, to welcome the victorious Team NZ. From kids taking days off school, to young women armed with marriage proposals, to those who remembered previous parades.
Here are their stories.
Holly Linstead, 7, Barbara Davies, Lucy Rankin, 4, and Kim Davies. Photo / Grant Chapman
Kim Davies from Mt Eden in Auckland travelled to support Team New Zealand at Valencia in 2007. She brought her daughters Holly Linstead, 7, and Lucy Rankin, 4, to the parade to carry on that tradition. Her mother, Barbara Davies from Takapuna on the North Shore was also there.
The family got up early to watch every race. "I like Peter Burling but remember seeing boat builders working through the night so really admire them too," Kim Davies said.
Eliezer Peehikuru, 9, and Micah Peehikuru, 12, waving a special edition of Kyle Lockwood's Silver Fern Flag during the parade. Photo / Jason Oxenham
Eliezer, 9, and Micah, 12, were on Queen Street early for the parade. Their parents, Maika and Melissa Peehikuru, also brought along baby Eliana, who turns 1 next month. "It's a once in a lifetime opportunity," their dad said. "We came mostly for the kids to see the cup and just be part of history..."
1995 and 2017 flags. Photo / Grant Chapman
Fans waiting for the arrival of Team NZ to Market Square. Photo / Dean Purcell
Team New Zealand holding onto the silverware. Photo / Jason Oxenham
Team NZ helmsmen Pete Burling says the screaming crowds were "unreal" to come home to.
"It's been a whole heap of hard work for our team and it feels pretty special to bring it home."
His parents Heather and Richard Burling were at the Viaduct to cheer on their son. "It's unbelievable what they've done, what the team's done," Richard told Tony Veitch.
Peter Burling and his Emirates Team New Zealand paraded along Auckland's Queen St with the Auld Mug before taking to the harbour. It is the first time since 1995 that the America's Cup has landed on New Zealand shores and fans were keen to welcome the cup home.
The crowd's excitement was palpable as the athletes and trophy sailed past, with screams and cheers. Other boaties showed their support, waving New Zealand and Silver Fern flags from the decks of their yachts.
Team New Zealand boss Grant Dalton earlier confirmed to the crowd they'll be heading to Wellington on Tuesday, Christchurch on Wednesday and Dunedin on Thursday. And it doesn't stop there.
He said they will make sure, in conjunction with their sponsors, they'll tour the cup to the provincial centres, saying "the heartland of New Zealand where the real people live. Dates for the heartland tour are still be be confirmed.
"Some of us are old enough to remember 1995 and how amazing that was, Dalton said.
6 Jul, 2017 3:31pm New Zealand Herald
Silver Fern Flag designer Kyle Lockwood appeared on Channel Three's 'The Project' tonight discussing the bid to purchase the 150 year-old Dunedin Cadbury Factory, like many Kiwis he made a small pledge to try and help keep it open. Watch the video for more.
Lift-off at 4.20pm today was the first orbital-class rocket launched from a private launch site in the world.
New Zealand has become the 11th country with potential to launch cargo into space, joining superpowers and tech heavyweights. The Government has hailed the lift-off as major milestone for the country's space industry.
The rocket took three minutes to reach space - outer space starts at 100km above the earth's surface - with a "great" first stage burn, stage separation, second stage ignition and fairing separation.
"We're one of a few companies to ever develop a rocket from scratch and we did it in under four years. To get as far as we did on the first test flight doesn't often happen," he said.
"It was a beautiful mission to watch."
He gave the flight a "10 our of 10" and a big party was planned tonight at the company's operations base near Auckland Airport.
During the next few weeks, Rocket Lab's engineers in Los Angeles and Auckland will work through the 25,000 data channels that were collected during the flight and results will be used to improve the vehicle's performance for two further tests.
Beck said the company had done more ground testing than was usually done and it had paid off with yesterday's flight.
The 17m tall rocket - with a silver fern on its nose - lifted slowly from the launch pad before accelerating and was packing an estimated one million horsepower.
Forty-year-old Beck is a hands-on engineer, he was raised in Invercargill and founded Rocket Lab in 2006.
The Electron is made entirely of carbon-composite material and is designed to carry payloads of 225kg to an elliptical orbit and up to 150kg to a nominal 500km Sun-synchronous, low Earth orbit.
Economic Development Minister Simon Bridges has hailed the launch as the first visible sign of a space industry in New Zealand.
Rocket Lab and all New Zealanders could be proud of it, he said.
"New Zealand is now one of 11 countries able to launch satellites into space from their own territory and the first to launch from a fully private orbital launch range."
Kyle Lockwood, the designer of New Zealand's alternative flag, designed the silver fern which adorned the first prototype Electron rocket and Rocket Lab's official 'It's a Test' mission patch.
CEO Peter Beck approached Kyle in 2014 for a licence to use his silver fern design.
We congratulate Rocket Lab on the successful launch of the Electron Rocket, and we are proud that our silver fern design played a part in the test launch today.
Grant Bradley - NZ Herald | silverfernflag.org
PROUD KIWI - Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck stands next to the prototype Electron rocket.
Our silver fern design will feature in a tribute to the ANZACs, The Silver Fern has been used as a distinctive marker of New Zealand troops since the 19th century.
25 April 2017 marks the anniversary of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps landings on the Gallipoli Peninsula. On this important day, millions of Australians and New Zealanders will honour their fallen in commemorations worldwide.
Lifewear approached us for a licence to use our fern design on their shirts, and we are proud to be part of their commemorative ANZAC shirts. This fully printed polo is a tribute to all men and women who served New Zealand. It is of a respectful style with traditional fold-over collar, A timeless profile and modern generous fit. This polo keeps the wearer cool and dry, and the lightweight AirCool fabric offers sun protection and creates a soft mesh-like feel that ensures breathability.
The shirts are available at Lifewear
We honour those who made the ultimate sacrifice, now in far-off fields, their final resting places marked by the Silver Fern.
The Christchurch United Football Club wanted something uniquely New Zealand on their jerseys, and chose our Silver Fern Flag design to feature on their new uniforms.
For those living in Christchurch, do go and check out Christchurch United's state-of-the art artificial pitches, top quality natural pitches, fit-for-purpose floodlights, and a 500-seat grandstand which will soon be flanked by new offices, changing rooms and a café that will create the best year-round football environment for players, parents and supporters.
Christchurch United FC has set itself extremely high standards to deliver a world-class football experience, both on and off the pitch, from their elite players, to the First Kicks toddlers and weekend warriors battling in the masters grades.
Over the years Silver Fern Flag has licensed the design to many proud kiwi non-profits and companies – including Rocket Lab, who will soon launch from Mahia – revolutionary new rockets carrying our silver fern design, and satellites into space.
We have also licenced the New Zealand Elite Triathlon Team to use our fern and are more than happy to licence our design to all kiwi sports teams, not just the elite ones.
For more on licensing | silverfernflag.org/licence
Info on Christchurch United | cufc.co.nz
New recruits Juan Chang, (Guatemala) and Colin van Gool (Netherlands) model the new jersey, with coach Fernando Lambert. - Photo CUFC
Prime Minister Bill English has revealed he voted for the flag change, but says John Key's failed referendum on this issue showed the perils of politicians rather than people trying to drive change.
It is the first time English has revealed how he voted in the flag referendums. He had refused to give his view at the time because he was in charge of the referendum process.
Now he is Prime Minister, English said the flag referendum showed constitutional changes such as the flag or a move toward a republic should not be led by politicians.
"That is the lesson from the flag referendum. I oversaw the process for changing the flag, I voted for changing the flag. In the end, a lot of the voting became a bit of a political vehicle, probably because it was proposed by the Prime Minister.
"So I think in future that constitutional change needs to come from the will of the people."
He said that would apply to any move to become a republic as well.
English was speaking to the Herald in London, where he also discussed his views on republicanism.
English said he did not New Zealand to become a republic even after the reign of Queen Elizabeth. That is the time when many believe the issue will be debated in countries such as New Zealand and Australia.
He believed that "people would generally support the monarchy and its continuation."
Although English missed out on meeting the Queen on this trip because of her recent illness, he said he had met her in the past and hoped to do so again in his role of Prime Minister. She had also sent a Christmas card to him after he became PM.
He said the monarchy was a "practical arrangement" that had worked for New Zealand and there was high respect for the Queen.
He also believed the upheavals of the Brexit vote would be good for the monarchy. "I think it does [help]. Part of the strength of it has been it is a point of stability in changing times and that is particularly obvious now."
He said he was a monarchist.
"I support the monarchy. I've looked at the arguments for a republic, but I think in the long run it's important that important constitutional change comes from the people - so bottom up rather than top down.
English has previously said he was a monarchist - although he has joked that it would be difficult to be as enthusiastic about it as Key was. Key had visited Balmoral and had several meetings with the Queen, including once promising to advocate for her in the Commonwealth for changes to the rules of succession to allow daughters to be treated the same as male heirs.
Claire Trevett, NZ Herald
Flags fly in Harington Point, including a red version of Kyle Lockwood's silver fern flag (foreground) and the New Zealand Red Ensign (right).
Flags, flags everywhere. Shawn McAvinue asks why so many residents in a small settlement at the northeastern end of Otago Peninsula are flying flags.
Harington Point crib owner Don Shanks said the flying of flags just "evolved" in the "tight-knit community".
"It's amazing how it evolved. Everyone got on board. We didn't have meetings about it, they just popped up."
The Shanks crib on Harington Point Rd had been in the family since 1957.
It was not known when the flag pole was put on the crib shed, but a photo taken of a sea lion on the beach in 1973 showed it was there then.
"If it is the first one, I could not tell you."
He owned nine flags.
"From Hawaiian, to Scottish, to happy faces — a whole array."
When someone died in the community, New Zealand flags were flown at half-mast across Harington Point.
The flags were flown at half-mast when his brother Roy Shanks died in December 2015 and when his wife Moira Shanks died in May last year.
The flags were also lowered when local, Matenga "Marty" Taiaroa died on a fishing boat when sailing from the West Coast to Dunedin in February last year.
"The flags were lowered to half-mast in respect. It's quite significant for the area and it means a lot to everyone."
Permanent Harington Point residents Jim and Elaine Shanks — no relation to Don — said the wooden flag pole was put up on their house about 20 years ago when they built a deck. The pole was salvaged from the supporters' club at Carisbrook and was given to the couple, who are life members.
"Otherwise it would have been cut up as firewood."
He believed their house was the third in Harington Point to get a flag pole.
"It's something that has proliferated over the last few years ... it's good because it adds colour to the area."
His flag collection was in tatters after being "hammered" by the wind, but his Confederation of United Tribes of New Zealand 1835 flag was in good condition.
The other flag in good nick was the Speight's flag given to him by former All Black Greg Cooper.
"It's a special possession."
The Speight's flag was hoisted only when the community needed to know a few drinks were being had inside.
Harington Point crib owner Linda McLean said she and her husband Clark were flying the flag of Hungary because they recently had visitors staying from the European country.
A seal sleeping on their water tank on Wednesday night was not bothered by the flapping of the tri-coloured flag.
The couple owned about 15 flags.
"We often have an Aussie one up because our son-in-law's an Aussie."
When the Hungarians departed, the Hungarian flag was replaced with the Dunedin flag.
The McLeans bought the "wee shack" about 40 years ago and when they had added rooms on to the crib, the flag pole was moved from the back to the front.
Harington Point crib owners Barry and Heather Clough said they would like to have a flag pole at their crib.
"Everyone's got one."
The Dunedin couple was seeking a second-hand pole after being quoted $600 for a new one. Mrs Clough said any second-hand pole must be sturdy, preferably alloy.
"Everything rusts out pretty quick," she said.
The Cloughs knew once they got their pole, they would open themselves up to getting flags as presents on every occasion.
"If you can't think of something, you give them a flag."
San Jose Earthquakes and All Whites defender Kip Colvey is back home in Linkwater, the Marlborough Sounds.
From the Marlborough Sounds to Major League Soccer, 2016 will go down as the year Kip Colvey stepped up to the big time, achieving his lifelong dream of becoming a professional football player. Phillip Rollo reports.
After snaking through the initial bends on Queen Charlotte Drive at the foot of the Marlborough Sounds, you eventually arrive at a house peering over the glistening water with two giant flags waving in the wind and a letterbox with a Porsche painted on it.
One of those flags is the Kyle Lockwood silver fern design, the alternate to the current New Zealand flag.
The other is that of the San Jose Earthquakes, the Major League Soccer franchise.
It's the tell tale sign that this is the home of Kip Colvey, Linkwater's professional footballer.
Colvey introduces his family, starting with his mother Sue, then sister Kendall and finishes with "Kip senior", his father.
Kip senior restores classic Porsches from a workshop at their home, which is just short drive from Havelock.
Family has played an important part in Colvey's young career, supporting him from the early days when he shifted to Nelson to attend Nelson College before moving further south to Christchurch to join the Asia Pacific Football Academy.
It seems every step he took, even as a teenager, was a step towards becoming a professional football player.
"There was always a vision to move on and keep moving up, but I guess it was lucky how it all happened and having good people throughout my youth career looking after me because it all worked out in the end," he said.
Colvey's family are extremely proud of what he achieved this year. The two shrines, one with his All Whites playing jersey and one with his Quakes playing jersey, perched in the lounge are evidence of that. So is the flag.
The Colvey family frequently travel to watch the 22-year-old play abroad and family holidays always revolve around a game of football.
That tradition started when he was a student playing for California Polytechnic State University, more commonly known as Cal Poly.
Their latest trip, to the small village of Kone in New Caledonia, was to watch him represent New Zealand in a World Cup qualifier. They drove for three hours to get there from Noumea and sat in the stands alongside just a few hundred spectators.
"We had booked the tickets way in advance because they were a lot cheaper ... we said we'd go and if Kip makes the squad then great, but if not we'd go and support the team anyway," Sue said.
"It just worked out that Kip was in the squad."
Their next trip is pencilled for Fiji in the next World Cup qualifiers, although they may decide against going as they are saving for the Confederations Cup in Russia.
"We would definitely want to go to Russia so we'll have to look at the finances."
Drawn against Portugal, Mexico and hosts, if Colvey is selected it will be the biggest tournament he has played at.
He could be marking Cristiano Ronaldo.
"It'll be fun," Colvey said with a smirk.
"It's a goal of any player to play in a tournament like that, so I just have to stay healthy, put my best foot forward and I'll be there."
The idea that he could play against the world's best player, proven by Ronaldo's fourth Ballon D'or, is something of fairytale for most New Zealanders.
But it's entirely possible for a youngster who is already living a dream few players will ever experience.
Colvey said he was "crying inside" when he was offered his first professional contract by the Quakes at the beginning of 2016, a team coached by former United States national team member Dominic Kinnear.
He wanted to "play it off cool" and act like the contract was expected. The reality was actually the opposite, and the emotion was one of relief after fighting his way through pre-season to get his hands on the carrot that had been dangled in front of him.
"I was fighting back the tears because it was a long time coming. It was probably one of the better moments of my life," he said.
"I always thought if I kept working hard that people would notice but it's lucky that it worked out the way it did. I know a lot of kids that haven't got drafted and had to go through other ways. A few of my friends had to go through the USL and work their way through the ranks."
Colvey said he dashed back to the hotel to call his family and deliver the good news.
"I knew they were on edge too. It was a cool moment."
Colvey was selected at No 49 in the MLS SuperDraft. Kinnear saw potential in the defender, who is capable of playing at left-back or right-back and picked him in the third round. However, players selected that deep are very rarely signed.
Being drafted is effectively being placed on trial so the joy was tempered somewhat.
Colvey said they call players in that position "camp fodder."
"You're there to get minutes until the starters get fit and then they're playing 90 minutes in the last game and you're out, so going in it was just great to be in pre-season camp, get in that environment and see what I could do.
"I kind of knew where I was standing and I knew the team needed a fullback, so that was the only real positive I could to cling on to."
Colvey said the pre-season involved plenty of games, which gave him ample opportunity to showcase his talents.
Eventually D-Day arrived, when the final contracts had to be signed. Colvey said was "bittersweet."
"There was a group of us that got drafted together, spent a month in the hotel, and some of them got let go. It was exciting for me but it was pretty cut-throat."
In his rookie year, Colvey wasn't sure when, or even if, he would make his debut. It turns out that first chance came on the opening day of the season.
He was brought on against the Colorado Rapids. It was halftime.
"We were out there having a kick around, having fun, as you do as a sub, and then 10 minutes into the break and the goalie coach came over and said 'there's a chance you might go on, you should probably get ready.'
"I thought maybe one of the guys was feeling tight a little bit but I figured he'd probably just stay on for 10 minutes, and in my mind I thought it probably wasn't serious."
Two minutes later another member of the coaching staff came over and told Colvey the instructions for defending and attacking set-piece plays.
"So I was like 'oh, so I'm going in for sure?'"
Colvey threw on the blue and black Adidas playing jersey and ran out with the team for the second half.
San Jose scored just five minutes later, which eased his nerves, and they went on to win the game 1-0.
"I was happy with the way it worked out. I was in a bit of rhythm. Going through pre-season you play all those games and if I had to wait before I played my first MLS game I would've been out of rhythm and a little bit shook."
Colvey started the next two games at left-back, facing the Portland Timbers and the star-studded LA Galaxy, who visited New Zealand twice when David Beckham was on their roster.
Colvey would play against the Timbers once more, his debut season ending with four appearances and a total of just 315 minutes of game time.
He said it was frustrating waiting for further opportunities that never came, loaned out to San Jose's feeder side Sacramento Republic, who compete in the second-tier USL competition, at various stages throughout the season in order to get game time.
"It was a week to week thing. If they wanted me I'd go on the weekend, like Thursday, but then I'd be back for training on Monday.
"It's not like a six-month deal like it is in Europe and it's just a short drive."
A regular day with San Jose will see Colvey and his team-mates arrive at training well before the scheduled 9am start.
"You gotta be ready or you get found out," he said, hence the early arrival.
He will start by jumping in the hot tub, have some food and will warm up by working out in the gymnasium.
"Then we meet at 10am in the locker room, the coach will say a few words about the game, show some film, and if it's closer to another game we'll go over the other team, work out our strategy and then go over training."
Then training, which lasts anywhere between 90 minutes and two hours, begins.
"It's not too stressful. Earlier in the week they're harder then it tapers off like you'd expect."
There's a lunch provided after practice and players recover in ice baths or spend more time in the gym before heading home.
Colvey's contract is worth US$51,499.90, around NZ$72,000. He is one of the lowest-paid players in the league but that is expected considering his rookie status and the fact he came via the draft.
He isn't the first New Zealander to play in the MLS and he shouldn't be the last either. Ryan Nelsen and Simon Elliott are two of the most well known All Whites to ply their trade there while others in recent years include Tony Lochhead, Dan Keat, Andrew Boyens, Michael Boxall and Jeremy Brockie.
Jake Gleeson is the No 1 goalkeeper for the Portland Timbers and is the only other Kiwi that featured during the 2016 season.
A former under-17 and under-23 representative, Colvey said making his full international debut for the All Whites against Fiji in their Nations Cup opener was "right up there" with the best moments of his life, of which he's had plenty in 2016.
"I've played for the youth teams but just being in the full team environment, walking out and hearing the national anthem, you're representing your country at the highest level so there's no better feeling."
New Zealand went on to win the Nations Cup, but it wasn't easy going, stuttering to a penalty shootout win over the hosts, Papua New Guinea.
"It's very tough to play there," he said.
"It's not just because of the conditions or whatever. It's just a long time to be in a hotel, people get frustrated, you're doing the same routines every day ... the pitch is terrible, the fans are against you, and there's the heat."
The Nations Cup carried significant importance for New Zealand Football especially as a place at the lucrative Confederations Cup was on the line.
Colvey said the players were aware that it was a win at all costs tournament.
"We knew what was at stake. We talked quite a bit as a team at night before the games about what we needed to do and that we needed to perform and there were players with injuries [that were unavailable] so we were fighting for them too.
"We knew if we won we'd get better games against higher-ranked opposition, which we saw against the US and Mexico, and because we were looking at the World Cup, that's our goal, so we knew the better competition would be crucial for us to prepare for that South American side."
The game against the United States against Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium in Washington DC was a moment Colvey really cherished. After all, he was born in Hawaii, speaks with an American accent and has lived in the country for the past five years.
His San Jose team-mate, goalkeeper David Bingham, was a second half substitute. Although there wasn't any pre-game banter between the pair, he said Bingham was "pretty pissed" with the result as New Zealand secured a memorable 1-1 draw.
"There's a lot of hype around that team when they play, especially in the States, and in RFK Stadium in DC. There was a lot of media attention on them so it was fun to play against them.
"It was definitely a bad result for them because they got slated."
The game followed on from New Zealand's 2-1 loss to Mexico, that particular international window seen as a major turning point in coach Anthony Hudson's tenure after suffering a few scares against much weaker competition at the Nations Cup and only narrowly going on to win.
"We had always thought what we were doing with Anthony would work no matter who we played but there always the question of what would happen when we came up against someone that can play.
"I guess the Mexico game was the point where, although we lost, we were really close to turning them over and we followed that up with the US game so we knew we could play with these people and the philosophy we have been working on for the past two years is coming together and we are just about ready."
Colvey has recently signed an extension with Quakes, keeping him in the United States for at least one more season. He said he had his fingers crossed that he would be re-signed, although it was only in the past few weeks that the offer finally came his way.
"When you've been in and out of the squad you never know, and you never know what's going on behind the scenes.
"But I'm happy they picked up my option. I'll be back next year and I'm looking forward to it."
Colvey is aware that there will be increased expectation in season two. But that's fine by him as his aim is "step it up" and break into the starting 11 on a regular basis, knowing he needs to be playing frequently for his club to continue getting opportunities with the All Whites in an important year.
"I'm not a rookie anymore."
Colvey will head back to California in early January, but for now he's just relaxing at home in the Marlborough Sounds, spending the next week "just laying down."
"It's gorgeous. We're lucky to be here."
- Stuff
Gary Brown with the new design for the NZ Walk of Fame stars with Kyle Lockwood's silver fern
An Auckland town's tribute to Kiwi musicians and entertainers has to be redesigned in a 'David and Goliath' battle with Hollywood.
Twelve star plaques honour famous Kiwi entertainers.
But Hollywood Walk of Fame own the rights to any five-pointed object in the ground worldwide
The stars, similar to the Hollywood Walk of Fame, pay tribute to musicians and entertainers including Sir Howard Morrison, Ray Columbus, Hello Sailor, Gray Bartlett, Tom Sharplin and the Cadillacs, and David Hartnell.
The new stars will now have seven points on them thanks to alternative New Zealand flag designer Kyle Lockwood.
He has granted Brown licence to use the silver fern from his flag designs, set behind the star to add a sixth and seventh point... Read more below:
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Gary Brown lays flowers on Graham Brazier's Boulevard of Dreams Star in Orewa in 2015.
An Auckland town's tribute to Kiwi musicians and entertainers has to be redesigned in a 'David and Goliath' battle with Hollywood.
The twelve star plaques honour famous Kiwi entertainers.
But Hollywood Walk of Fame own the rights to any five-pointed object in the ground worldwide, according to Stage 51 director and Austin Powers impersonator Gary Brown of Red Beach, north of Auckland.
The stars, similar to the Hollywood Walk of Fame, pay tribute to musicians and entertainers including Sir Howard Morrison, Ray Columbus, Hello Sailor, Gray Bartlett, Tom Sharplin and the Cadillacs, and David Hartnell.
He was approached via email by global brand licensing agency Global Icons on behalf of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, who control the rights to the Hollywood Walk of Fame, for his unauthorised use of their brand.
"[They] tried to slap a copyright on me for US$50,000 a year.
"After eight months of trying to negotiate with them, they finally got down to US$25,000 a year and I told them to stick it."
Hollywood Walk of Fame own the rights to any five pointed object in the ground worldwide and said the money would be used for maintenance, and to ensure the stars are kept of a high quality, Brown says.
The deal is similar to one The Hollywood Walk of Fame has with Universal Studios' theme parks for their replica walks.
Two others licensees are also "in the contract stage of their Walk of Fame licenses" and unable to be named, Global Icons told Brown.
"I said 'you guys are just being bullies, this is ridiculous. We're a small little town and we have no income from this'," Brown says.
Brown is now in the process of moving and redesigning the stars, he says.
When Brown first installed the stars he had approval from the former Rodney District Council as it was understood then that the footpath was council owned.
He now has permission from the Auckland Council to move the stars across the road to Orewa Square where there is a paved area and fountain, but just needs to the money to get it done.
Big names on the walk are planning a fundraising concert to raise the funds with a date yet to be set, but likely to be in September.
"It will almost be like a legends of the century event really. Because you don't get too many events with these guys all together. It's very special," Brown says.
The new stars across the road will now have seven points on them thanks to alternative New Zealand flag designer Kyle Lockwood.
He has licensed Brown the rights to use the silver fern from his flag designs, set behind the star to add a sixth and seventh point.
Brown says the new design has met with approval from those whose names are on the walk.
"All the guys seem to really like it."
Brown says it is important to keep the star walk as New Zealand as prominent New Zealand artists age and some like Hello Sailor musicians Graham Brazier and Dave McCartney pass away.
"They need to be remembered for the influence they had on the New Zealand entertainment industry," he says
Brown is now looking for businesses who may be interested in contributing towards the big name fundraiser.
"They will get great publicity for helping and if a good contribution, a complimentary seats to the event."
Stars on the Orewa Boulevard include Hello Sailor, Gray Bartlett, Dennis Marsh, Sir Howard Morrison, Ray Columbus, Tom Sharplin and the Cadillacs, Suzanne Lynch, Shane Hales, Ray Woolf, Larry Morris, Les Andrews and David Hartnell.
They or their families attended their plaque unveiling outside the former Boulevard of Dreams restaurant and bar run by the Browns until April 2012 when it closed for financial reasons.
Some, like Dennis Marsh, even performed there.
Several, such as Morris, Hartnell - who is The Variety Artists Club of New Zealand patron, Bartlett and Marsh have indicated their support to Brown.
Marsh says Orewa should back its walk of fame. But if the town doesn't want the star plaques he's happy to put them outside his The Chapel Theatre at La Valla in Tuakau where he and others perform.
JAY BOREHAM - FAIRFAX http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/82131020/orewa-walk-of-fame-on-the-move
Last updated 14:12, July 15 2016
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Perimeter security and physical intrusion detection are crucial for critical infrastructure and large-scale commercial complexes. Whether for government and military facilities or commercial-industrial areas, having a reliable and efficient risk-deterrent system on the perimeter of any important site is now mandatory. On a global scale, there is much room for growth — IMS Research forecasts that in 2011 the intrusion detection market will surpass US$2.4 billion, and the perimeter security market will reach about $400 million. a&s explores the latest market update and technological developments in perimeter and intrusion detection, as well as key considerations for selecting and installing a complete system.
Market potentialand sales performance for perime terse curity and intrusion detection products depend on the region or country's recovery from the recent recession, according to industry experts.
Retrofit projects tend to take place in mature markets, while new projects occur in emerging markets. "The increase in demand is almost directly related to a country's GDP growth rate and economic recovery," said Luc Joosens, Detection Product Management Leader for EMEA, UTC Fire & Security. "Countries that have experienced economic recovery in 2010 have demonstrated an increased demand for intrusion detection systems."
The Americas and Asia markets have strong demand for perimeter and intrusion detection products. "The Asian markets have been driven by construction growth, low unemployment, high GDP, a growing middle-class and increased government spending," said Blake Kozak, Market Analyst for IMS Research. "The American intrusion market is forecast to be especially in demand because of the move away from traditional PSTN communications toward GPRS and wireless connectivity."
"The Gulf region is a growth market for us, and we are actively developing our base there," said Stewart Dewar, PM of Senstar. "In terms of emerging markets, India continues to hold opportunity for perimeter intrusion detection system (PIDS) companies as do Mexico, Colombia and Brazil. We have also recently opened an office in Singapore to address this region more aggressively."
Several manufacturers concur with IMS Research's prediction on the perimeter security and intrusion detection markets. "To achieve US$570 million in 2014, the market would need to experience growth more than three times over what was seen from 2009 to 2011," said David Curtiss, Director of Engineering at Smarter Security Systems.
"While that type of growth seems aggressive, government programs are placing requirements on critical infrastructure facilities that will need to be fulfilled. Also, there are new video management and analytic technologies now offered to replace or augment existing infrastructure."
Conservative players have less bullish estimates, although they agree that GDP growth and government programs will drive this market. "The US market, for instance, will turn around over the next couple of years with regulations such as Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards for the petrochemical industry. The International Ship and Port Facility Security Code in relation to the seaport market is already impacting perimeter security business in Africa and other places," Dewar said. "The next three years should give the sluggish markets, particularly in Europe, time to rebound and get back on track. In many cases, projects have not been cancelled but rather delayed or pushed off to deal with the economic challenge."
Others are even more optimistic about potential growth. "The worldwide perimeter security market should reach even more robust levels as new technologies are integrated into comprehensive solutions," said James Ionson, CEO of Oncam Global. "Open perimeters, such as deserts or waterways, with few, if any, obstacles to access, present new challenges for the industry to address. The spike in piracy at sea and terrorist activity can be expected to result in the need for enhanced security systems for both commercial and luxury travel vessels, as they extend surveillance from a liability focus to also include perimeter security."


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To Not Forget
today's reading.
Deuteronomy 8:11-20; Luke 15:8-10Take care lest you forget the LORD your God by not keeping his commandments and his rules and his statutes, which I command you today...
think about it.
What is the first work we are to do (Deut. 8:11)? What does working help you gain? Work is great but what are you to put your trust in (Deut. 8:17-20)? What does Luke 15:8-10 say about valuing what we earn or have? How do your children learn the value of work from you?
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Definitely a clear message today from Deuteronomy 8:11-20--don't forget the Lord and His commandments and rules. Well, if I'm just thinking about myself, some things I would do to "not forget" would be staying in the Word, attending church, seeking friendships with other believers, things like that. But when you think about it, we have a responsibility to help others "not forget" and keep God's commands as well.
So how can we accomplish this within our families? What might helping others "not forget" look like--Parent to child? Sibling to sibling? Child to parent? Cousin to cousin? Aunt or uncle to niece or nephew? Tami W.
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The BPA-free, 20 ounce water bottle comes with both a kid-friendly flip top (as shown) AND a screw on top which is more adult-friendly. Both lids are leak proof when shaken and turned upside down, so no more drips and leaks in the lunch box or backpack! Want to change out the lid? Just screw off one lid and replace it with the other. Carabiner also included to easily attach to back packs and bags. My son has been attaching his to the fence at the ball field so that he's never searching for it between innings.
I have to admit, I may have been a bit overzealous when designing for these bottles. There are now so many designs that I am having trouble organizing the best way to show all of your choices! Shown here is just a sampling of available designs, so if you do not see what you're looking for - just ask! Once you choose the design of your choice, in the colors of your choice, it will be custom printed on both sides of the bottle so your child always knows which bottle is theirs.


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Diving into a new technology, language, tool or architecture is always fun. At least for the first day or so of playing around with it.
Fairly soon, you and your fellow pioneers will decide on building this amazing new thing with this even more awesome new technology that will provide the business with so many cool features that you really think a plaque with your name at the entrance of the office is the minimum they can do to thank you.
Then a more down-to-earth colleague comes and asks the following questions:
- How are you going to deploy it?
- How are you going to test it?
- How are you going to document it?
- How are you going to integrate it with the rest of the systems?
- Etc.
She is right, don't get me wrong. However, I still want the plaque at the entrance of the office. That leaves us with only one option: let's solve those issues.
Today's blog post is about SOA (Service Oriented Architecture), which is the architecture we are excited about here in NAP, and the question we are going to address is "How are you going to test it?".
This is how a typical SOA scenario might look:
In order for Service A to fulfil a request, it has to query all its dependencies: Services B, C & D. Furthermore, Service C is a consumer of Service D, so that coupling has to work properly as well. If we'd like to run a test on Service A, the following would be a brief checklist of what we'll need from the testing environment:
- All services have to be up.
- All services' databases have to be up.
- All services that Service A depends on should be running the version our test is assuming they are.
- All services' databases should contain the right schema for the version deployed.
- All services' databases contain the data we rely on for our test to run successfully.
Let's be pragmatic: in a fast-changing development environment, that's not going to happen; there are just too many things that can go wrong and cause our automated tests to fail.
Testing the service in isolation
If every service is tested to behave the way we expect it to, as long as the contracts between services are kept, the whole system should work fine when we tie the services together.
We recognise this is a very idealistic approach and ignores subtle errors that pop up when testing a fully integrated service. However, today's particular objective is to build confidence in a particular service whilst minimising the impact of external dependencies; it is a part of our test strategy, but certainly not all of it. There is still value in both system testing and integration testing, it's just that those build on top of isolated service testing.
To take this into practice, we do the following: mock everything but the service we want to test.
As you can see on the diagram, there is no dependency between C and D. Our Service A will hit C's final output mock regardless of how it was generated.
Here's our set of requirements:
- We want our mocks to be proper HTTP servers so Service A can go through the whole stack (Marshalling -> HTTP request -> Network -> HTTP response -> Un-marshalling) while accessing the services it depends on.
- We want to configure our mocks on a per-test basis.
- We want to bind our mock servers dynamically to free ports on the test server so, no matter how many tests are running concurrently, we never get an unable to bind error.
- We want to configure our service to hit our mocks and bootstrap in an embedded container.
- Once everything is up, we want to hit the service we are testing and run assertions on the responses we get from it.
- We want everything to run on a single JVM and be easily pluggable into our CI server.
- We want to make the writing of a test as easy as possible, so our testers can do their job and not deal with setting up environments.
This list is screaming for one clear goal: a testing framework! And so we built one.
We took some very handy tools as Restito, Jetty, REST-assured, TestNG and we glued them together with some Spring in order to get a framework that does the following for us:
The important thing for us is that writing tests is now a simple, quick and concise task. A test using this approach looks something like the following snippet:
@ContextConfiguration("classpath:somewhere/local-config.xml") public class SomeServiceTest extends AbstractTestNGSpringContextTests { @Autowired private ServiceClient serviceClient; @Test public void testDoThatThing() { ResponseSpecification responseSpec = new ResponseSpecBuilder() .expectBody("total", equalTo(123)) .expectBody("data[0].createdBy", equalTo("456")) .build(); serviceClient.doThatThing(responseSpec); } }
(We used the IntelliJ IDEA plugin Copy as HTML to format the code.)
The code implements the workflow above as follows:
- Our test class extends from
AbstractTestNGSpringContextTestswhich is the Spring class that let us hook Spring into TestNG.
- We configure the Spring context by annotating our test class. The xml file contains all the information about the mocks that we are going to use in order to run this test and the service we are going to test.
- Upon construction of the ApplicationContext, mock servers are started, the service is configured to hit them and started in an embedded container.
- A client to the service we are going to test is injected by Spring. The client is configured to hit the service on the port the embedded container started it.
- The class' test methods are run.
ResponseSpecificationis a REST-assured class that lets us define all our assertions in the very expressive Hamcrest notation. The test methods consist of basically defining what we expect it to happen when we hit our services with a specific call.
- After all the tests are run, the ApplicationContext is destroyed and all the services that were started in order to run the test are stopped.
Although there is a lot more to do, I feel I'm a little closer to that plaque by the office entrance already.


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Monday, 26 August 2013
FWATC-#95 Black,White and Red and News
Today is a new challenge over at Fun with ATCs and my first a new member of their Design Team...... yes you heard correctly me at DT member, I'm so proud to have been asked and hope I will not let them down.
So this is my effort, all made with Paper Artsy stuff. Background painted with Fresco paints Black, stamped with FP Snow Flake, painted chop with Red Bus. Rub on added. hope you like it......
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Welcome to the team Francesca, its great to have you with us xReplyDelete
The paper artsy images look great stamped in paint x
A wonderful idea, great black and white composition. Love the added red.ReplyDelete
I forgot... congratulations on becoming a DT member :)ReplyDelete
Welcome on board, Francesca - fabulous to have you on the team. And what a brilliant start... I love the white paint stamping - amazing detail - and the Red Bus just glows. Cracking ATC!ReplyDelete
Alison x
Congratulations Francesca.ReplyDelete
This is sooo great, Francesca,ReplyDelete
to have you with us on the team now! And you really rocked your first challenge as a D-teamie! Awesome ATC!
Claudia x
(finally back from holls)
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Yoooooooooo second time in Hartsyard. The first time was on 2015 and 2nd time well…. now…
Still amazing!!! Tip: always book online. Walk ins are available however you may have to wait. Although if there are spaces on the bar you may also be able to eat there.
So I came here with work mates to celebrate my birthday and it was so worth it! The down side was pretty much the cost of the bill other than that service was awesome and food was ridiculously satisfying.
For drinks we ordered the house creaming soda. When it came out it looks like milk, all white and with a cherry on the top. It tastes like creamy milk at first and no fizz. But… you had to mix it up to get it all fizzed up. Dang what a bunch of rookies we were. 3 out of 5.
To open up we had the chicken skin. Oh my how much I love chicken skin!!! It was crunchy and flavoring was just right with the buffalo chilli sauce!! Put some more people! Gives you a kick in the mouth. And its a good type of kick. Ha! 4 out of 5.
The 2nd dish we had the pumpkin dumplings. We just had to try this one. It was different and had good reviews. It came out beautifully presented with different ingredients on it. It was a subtle pumpkin taste with cheese and sauce. It's a light dish that has no overpowering ingredients. Good to start off. I would say it's a 2.5 out of 5 dish.
The third dish, we had the pulled pork. Hmmm my favourite dish of the night. The pulled pork served in a rectangle cube. With glazed bacon at the top and Apple with pork crackles on the side! Yummmmm. Pulled pork were soft however it was a bit dry this time round. Regardless it was amazing. Perfectly flavoured and soft. The bacon with the glaze was just amazing. Chewy and filled with the fatty flavour that we all love. I wished the glaze was all over the top of the pork. That would have made it a 5 out of 5. The Apple and crackling pork were a good side partner in crime. Just something fun to munch on. The cream (I think it was sour cream) made the taste of the pork subtle if you want it lighter.
The fourth dish, we had lamb ribs. Big ass dish with 4 pieces.. just the way I like it. It was smoking hot and looks crunchy. I love the skin tough. It was covered with brown sugar I believe and man, it was awesome!! Remember to lick it all around just because you can. It was moist under that skin as well and I devoured it. Juicy, crispy, crunchy, meaty. Perfect meat! 4 out of 5.
This time round, no dessert as we had it last time. The soft serves are to die for BTW!!! I mean we would love to if our stomach were bigger than our eyes. Instead we went to Hakiki Turkish Gelato. Overall I love this place. I have to say it's one of my favourite American restaurant. Don't forget to try the poutine and fried chicken. One of the best as well!
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Established in 1987, the Saint John Children's Literature Round Table is celebrating its 15th year! The group meets quarterly at the West Branch Library. Numbers have risen and fallen over the years, but we have a small consistent group which finds value in continuing. Probably our busiest and most well attended year was 1992 when our group hosted the Atlantic Children's Literature Conference. Programs in 2001 consisted of author Joann Hamilton-Barry talking about her book "Boldly Canadian: the Story of the RCMP." Joann is also a member of our Round table, which made us very proud. Information Book Award Night always gets our fall underway and never ceases to provide argument and debate. This year we partnered with a small school thirty miles in the country. A grade 4-5 class did presentations on each of the nominated books and then voted. We took their input into consideration when making our decisions. Our outcomes were different but the children, nonetheless, defended their choices very well.
Catherine Hoyt, curator of the Eileen Wallace Children's Literature Collection at the University of New Brunswick, guest lectured on this wonderful resource centre at our September meeting. Catherine also heads or headed the Fredericton Children's Literature Round Table. Unfortunately for us, Catherine and her husband have left Fredericton to live in Nunavit where she is working for two libraries, and where she hopes to perhaps form a new round table.
Our February meeting is entitled "From Horn Books to Fairy Tales: the beginning of a literature for children to 1800". This slide presentation will be given by me and based loosely on my MA (English) thesis on 18th century children's literature.
So there are some of the highlights, not to mention the dinners/receptions we host for visiting authors when they are in the city for Children's Book Week etc . – Linda Granfield, Kathy Stinson to name a few.
Contacts: Kim Hughes,
co-ordinator c/o West Branch Library,
621 Fairville Blvd.,
Saint John, N.B. E2M 4X5
(506) 643-7261
[email protected]
Anne Baker
516 Bay
St Saint John, N.B.
(506) 635-1147
[email protected]
Pat McGill
519 Earle Ave.,
Saint John, N.B.


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Okay, it's not new at all. In fact it's long dead and buried. However, they still exist, and one of them inhabits one of the older middle schools that I'm responsible for. When I fist saw it I thought it was more Playmobil tech, like the two low-end Midas Venice 320 sound boards that we keep as backups. I found the manual for the EC and got it set up and working, and then poked around on line to learn more about this particular light palette. I couldn't find any other downloadable versions of the manual so I'm posting the one I have so the next technician who trips over one of these, no matter where they are in the world, will have a copy of the operating manual.
Good luck. 🙂
*For more information about the history of Electro-Controls and Strand Lighting visit this archival blog;


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He was arrested and imprisoned for murder in 1991. However, the prisons warders noticed something odd about his behaviour.
By Petride Mudoola
Donning the striped, bright yellow uniform for prisons and grey sandals, Sunday Kamuhanda passes for an ordinary inmate at Katojo Prison in Fort Portal.
However, a closer look and interrogation will reveal something odd about this 50-year-old. His speech is jumbled up. Sometimes he becomes so aggressive that the prison warders isolate him.
Kamuhanda was arrested and imprisoned for murder in December 1991. However, the prisons warders noticed something odd about his behaviour.
He was subjected to psychiatric examinations at Butabika National Referral Mental Hospital and results showed he was mentally ill.
Under Uganda's laws, Kamuhanda should have been taken for treatment at a psychiatric facility and thereafter released. In 1994, Kamuhanda was committed, pending the minister of justice's orders after the medical examination.
However, his release can only be effected on the written orders of the minister of justice. Twenty-three years down the road, the order is yet to be issued. Many people like Kamuhanda are languishing in jail.
Information from prisons authorities shows there are currently 30 mentally ill inmates at the 224 detention facilities in the country.
Handling a mentally ill prisoner To keep him calm, Kamuhanda is put on medication usually administered to aggressive persons with mental illness. As a result of being on the drugs for a long time, he has developed severe side effects such as a distended stomach and face.
Although he looks uneasy in the presence of strangers, Kamuhanda relates well with fellow prisoners and prison officers.
The interview
Although Kamuhanda was not aggressive, he stared at me for a long time without blinking. This scared me, but the prisons authorities assured me that he was not violent.
He looked scared and wondered why I wanted to talk to him. He insisted on knowing who I was and what I wanted from him.
"Ninyenda kugaruka omuka. Ninihira ontabalire. Ninyenda kuruga omunkomo. Njwahire kwikara omunkomo. Ninyenda kurora omwana wange (I want to go back home. I hope you have come for me. I want to leave. I am tired of this place. I want to see my child)," he lamented.
Julius Oraije, the officer in charge of Katojo Prison, says Kamuhanda is always demanding to be allowed to go home. Kamuhanda claims he has a son or daughter whom he has not seen for the last 23 years.
Oraije, however, says the prison has no clear information on whether or not the child exists since none of Kamuhanda's relatives has ever visited him ever since he was incarcerated.
Prisons no place for mentally ill
According to Dr. David Basangwa, a senior consultant psychiatrist at Butabika Hospital, prisons are the worst place to keep patients who are mentally ill.
"Prisons are dangerous and damaging places for the mentally ill," he explains. Dr. Joseph Andama, the medical superintendent, Murchison Bay Inmates' Hospital Luzira, says they lack a resident psychiatrist and depend on Butabika Hospital.
Although other prisoners commit crime while already mentally ill, Andama says some end up with a mental breakdown because of the sentences meted out to them.
"Sentences such as death and life have a negative impact, especially if the person has not been counselled," Andama observes.
A senior consultant psychiatrist says a prison should not be a place for mentally ill patients
The Uganda Prisons service spokesman, Frank Baine, says there are no funds given to them to cater for mentally ill inmates.
"We are, therefore, forced to incur protection and other appropriate activities for mentally ill offenders," he says.
Baine adds: "Our staff end up doing the work they are not professionally trained to handle yet prisons were designed as correctional facilities and not for provision of mental health care."
He notes that keeping the mentally ill offenders in prison is challenging since many of them do not know why they are under custody.
"Sometimes they become violent and can easily harm the staff or their fellow prisoners yet prison lacks space to isolate them."
The prisons spokesman calls for amendments to the Mental Treatment Act to ensure that those responsible for pardoning the mentally sick prisoners do so in time.
He notes that this will decongest prisons hence reducing the costs the Government incurs while taking care of prisoners.
"Amendments to the Act should articulate the period for pardon or trial of the mentally ill offenders."
Unjust policies
Baine observes that criminal justice policies towards mentally ill offenders are unjust because over time, they (offenders) have even not been considered for pardon. As such, they end up serving much longer sentences than they should have.
"Prison's authority has regularly submitted this matter to the minister for consideration, but little action has been taken," he says.
According to Baine, the minister last exercised his powers in 2012 when he released 17 juveniles. However, the mentally ill were not considered.
Odoki's promise that never was
Last year when then-Chief Justice, Benjamin Odoki, visited Katojo Prison, Kamuhanda's long detention was brought to his attention in a memorandum presented by the inmates.
Odoki reportedly expressed shock at the incident.
"Why are mentally ill prisoners here yet they are meant to be in a mental facility to access better care and treatment?" he reportedly queried.
Odoki is said to have promised to bring the issue to the attention of the Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs
Otafiire's say
When contacted, justice minister Maj. Gen. Kahinda Otafiire said neither Kamuhanda's issue nor that of any mentally ill prisoners requesting judgment had been brought to his attention.
Justice minister Maj. Gen. Kahinda Otafiire
"You said there is a prisoner in Katojo Prison who has spent 23 years waiting for my orders?" he asked.
"That cannot be true. I have not received any names requesting for my orders, but thank you for bringing this matter to my attention," he added.
Otafiire vowed to investigate the case and thereafter take appropriate action.
UGANDA'S LAWS: Mentally unstable offenders are not supposed to be jailed
The Prison's Act stipulates that mentally unstable persons shall not be detained in prison, but referred to a psychiatric hospital for treatment.
The Magistrates Act sentencing guidelines also stipulate that once a person is confirmed to be mentally ill, the decision for his/her judgment shall be determined by the Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs.
The Act mandates the minister to make judgment for the mentally disturbed inmates and child offenders. The Uganda Prisons service spokesperson, Frank Baine, says they are stuck with mentally ill inmates because the facility at Butabika Hospital meant to accommodate them was phased out by the Ministry of Health.
Dr. Asuman Lukwago, the health ministry permanent secretary, says the unit was phased out because the local communities accessing medical services at Butabika used to stigmatise the prisoners.
Lukwago could, however, not readily establish when the facility would be reestablished
State of mental illness in Uganda
Dr. David Basangwa, a senior consultant psychiatrist at Butabika Hospital, says of Uganda's population of 35 million, up to 35% (11.5 million) suffer from different psychiatric disorders. Of these, 15% (about fi ve million people) require immediate treatment from mental health units.
Basangwa says currently, mental cases constitute 12% of the global disease burden and are projected to reach 15% by the year 2020.
However, barely half of these people seek medical attention from health centres because people associate mental illness with witchcraft.
A mentally ill prisoner's 23-year wait for justice


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You can easily export a .csv file containing any information you select to view about your application set in Table View. Export (up to 4,000) applications using the export button located at the top of your search results.
Juristat Tip: If you need to export more than 4,000 results, consider using the filing date filter to break your data into smaller sets. Once you export each set, you can combine them again in Excel.
Once you've clicked the Export button, you'll receive a notification that your .csv is being prepared. When your .csv is ready to download, you'll receive both an in-app notification and an email with a link to download your .csv. Note that the email link to your .csv will expire in 24 hours.
Juristat Tip: If you have more than 4,000 search results that you'd like to export, you can use the filing date filter to break your search results into segments of 4,000 applications or less. Once those segments have been exported, you can then combine them using Microsoft Excel or any other spreadsheet software to view the data as one spreadsheet.
What's included in the Export?
Any fields you've added to your Table View of your search results will be included in the exported .csv file.
Additionally, some of our fields in Table view are only available by exporting to a .csv. These fields are indicated by a download icon next to them in the Edit Columns menu.
What's the benefit of exporting my results?
Exporting your search results allows you to get additional details about the applications in your results and allows you to perform custom sorting and filtering using your own spreadsheet software.
For example, using your spreadsheet software, you can sort your results by number of RCEs filed or number of appeals to find out which applications had lengthy prosecution histories, or find out which applications have had the most forward citations.
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I remain perplexed by the direction of chemicals, oil and commodity markets over the last few months – and now I understand the reason why.
It's not about feedstock, it's not about inventory levels or what end-use demand is really like, it's all to do with affairs of the heart.
Thanks again to my fellow blogger Paul Hodge who writes:
The Illicit Encounters website has a major increase in traffic when either the market collapses, or has a sudden rise. Apparently, when markets are up, traders "think they can have an affair because they feel they can get away with anything. When the market hits the bottom, they are looking for a way to relieve the pressure."
The site first came to the blog's attention in December, when the Financial Times reported on its rather lucrative business model – a male membership fee of £119/month ($190). Now it appears to have forecasting potential too.
As with financial markets, surely with c hemicals pricing. All we need to do is to produce an index, on a confidential basis,of course, which tracks this particular form of intra-industry activity.


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CHOGM not just about Sri Lanka UK Minister
Strongly defending the UK's decision to attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Colombo, a senior UK minister has said that Britain will make the point that the meeting, from November 15 to 27, is about the Commonwealth and not just Sri Lanka.
Minister of State at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, Hugo Swire said the UK delegation would be led by Prime Minister David Cameron.
The British government was going to Sri Lanka to support the Prince of Wales Prince Charles who will be representing the Queen, he said.
He underlined that the government saw the meeting as an opportunity for Commonwealth leaders to meet and discuss developments which affected all member countries.
"We will make the point that the meeting is about the Commonwealth and not just Sri Lanka," Swire, responsible for Commonwealth and India, was quoted as saying by PTI.
Britain wished to discuss issues such as development in the post-2015 era, he said, adding that other topics would be raised on the margins of the summit, including worries about the disputed presidential election in the Maldives and Gambia's decision to withdraw from the Commonwealth.
He said that UK's presence at the CHOGM was not intended to bathe the Rajapaksa government in a golden light.
"We will raise our concern such as disappearances and other unacceptable things taking place in Sri Lanka," he said.
He said the British Prime Minister will travel to the Tamil-dominated north during his visit. This would make him the first foreign head of government to visit the region since the bitter ethnic war ended in 2009.
Britain would discuss progress which had been made such as the elections in the north and in mine-clearing but would also highlight concerns about disappearances and the suppression of media freedom and human rights.
Sri Lanka would be aware that the world's eyes would be on it and would want to cast itself in a good light, he said.
No decision on visa bond scheme
Asked whether a final decision has been taken on the controversial 3,000-pound visa bond scheme for Indians visiting the country which was scheduled to come into force this month, Swire said: "no decision has been taken. Our relationship with India is extremely important".
A pilot version of the scheme was scheduled to go ahead this month and was expected to affect countries like India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nigeria and Ghana.
Courtesy: AdaDerana
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