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(1850-1894) Scottish author, best known for works outside the sf field like Treasure Island (1 October 1881-28 January 1882 Young Folks; 1883), transposed into space as the film Treasure Planet (2002); the topography and vegetation of the Island itself are inconsistent with any planetary locale. Further well-known nonfantastic titles include A Child's Garden of Verses (coll 1885) and Kidnapped: Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751 (1 May-13 July 1886 Young Folks; 1886). As a student at Edinburgh University, Stevenson abandoned engineering for law after successfully completing a full course, but never practised. He travelled widely, suffered most of his life from tuberculosis, and settled in Samoa in 1890. Throughout his career he wrote tales and fantasies incorporating supernatural events, ghosts, Doppelgangers, imps and fairies and so forth, though rarely anything that might be thought of as sf. He is of initial sf interest not so much for this work as for the Club Story frame that governs parts of the New Arabian Nights sequence comprising New Arabian Nights (coll 1882 2vols; cut [second volume eliminated] vt The Suicide Club; And, the Rajah's Diamond 1894; further vt The Suicide Club and Other Adventures of Prince Florizel 1946), and More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter (coll 1885) with Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson. The contents of the first volume of New Arabian Nights, all of which contain fantastic elements, initially appeared in the magazine London 8 June-26 October 1878 under the general title Latter-Day Arabian Nights, and are Stevenson's first mature stories; the second volume of New Arabian Nights, which contains nonfantastic work, abandons the club story format. In this early-modern use of the form, the club story framing is most important as a releaser of the tales included, so that breath of the air of Fantastika, which is to say implications of a not quite iterated potential meaningfulness, imbues otherwise frivolous material with narrative gravity.
Other short work includes the tales assembled in The Merry Men, and Other Tales and Fables (coll 1887); Island Nights' Entertainments (coll 1893); Fables (coll 1896 chap); and Tales and Fantasies (coll 1905). Further individual tales were very frequently republished as small (almost always tasteful) booklets, but none of these is sf, and – with the exception of a posthumously published weird fantasy set in mediaeval Iceland, The Waif Woman (December 1914 Scribner's Magazine; 1916 chap) – they are not given in the Checklist below; nor are the very large number of full-length posthumous collections, mostly comprising reshuffles of already available tales (though some are competently edited). His later work in particular took a pessimistic view of the human enterprise, touched riskily (in Late Victorian terms) on matters of Sex, and was persistently expurgated; The Complete Short Stories (coll 1993 2 vols) edited by Ian Bell, prints original versions, from manuscript where necessary.
Stevenson's longer works do not generally risk the supernatural; even his collaborations with Lloyd Osbourne, such as the mildly black comedy The Wrong Box (1889), are nonfantastic [but see below]. Prince Otto: A Romance (April-October 1885 Longman's Magazine; 1885) is a melodrama involving secret identities and intrigue set in a Ruritania that predates Anthony Hope's defining tale. There are barely submerged (but easily extractable) implications of something unnatural (and perhaps devilish) in the mysterious survival of the evil brother who is the Master of The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale (November 1888-October 1889 Scribner's; 1889). His unremitting malice, his erotic intoxication of his tame brother's wife, and his three deaths – two faked, the third an inexplicable revival after burial in the wilderness of America – inflict a fatal heart attack upon his conspicuously masochistic sibling; they end, twinned, entwined: Doppelgangers in the same grave.
Perhaps because they shy at the end from the fantastic (where The Master of Ballantrae in particular belongs), these tales are modest in their effect compared to the immediate literal impact (see Fantastika) of Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886); the usual vt from 1896 on, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, lacks the author's sanction for the stuck-on "the". The dual or doubled protagonist of the tale (Jekyll and Hyde in one body) has or have become a central prototype and Icon of all stories where intolerable internal strife can only be made storyable when unpacked in fantastic terms. A Faustian moral fable in the form of a tale of mystery and horror (see also Gothic SF; Horror in SF), it precedes by five years Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray (July 1890 Lippincott's Monthly; exp 1891), which in some respects resembles it.
The plot takes the form of a spiral which moves gingerly into the heart-of-darkness of the climax, when the already dead Jekyll's written confession of his terrible fall is discovered and presented to readers as the last chapter of the text. Years before the tale begins, Jekyll (whose name Stevenson asks to be pronounced with a long "e") has begun to use drugs to dissociate his libertine side (cf Freud's "id") from his normal self. The evil self that surfaces, Hyde, in whose person Jekyll enjoys unspecified depravities (the manuscript Stevenson brought to print gives instances of rage, brutality and murder), is less robust at first than the full man. But spontaneous metamorphoses into an increasingly dominant Hyde begin to occur, and after a temporary intermission larger and larger doses are needed for the "recovery" of Jekyll. Eventually supplies run out and, cornered, Hyde commits suicide.
Jekyll/Hyde can certainly be understood as a multiple personality (see Identity), but is seen in Jekyll and Hyde as literally two separate persons, the transformation of one into the other, through the application of the mysterious Drug, not rendered by Stevenson as simply a change of personality. Hyde's Apes as Human appearance and behaviour (see Biology; Decadence; Doppelgangers; Devolution; Evolution; Shapeshifters), and the sepulchral vision of London he haunts, can only be understood if their separateness is fully accepted. The rejected first version, dictated by his memories of a nightmare, was perhaps more lurid than the published edition, but apparently presented an evil Jekyll using the Hyde transformation as a mere disguise; the published version transforms this sensationalism into a deep mythopoeisis, though it lacks the sexual explicitness that surfaced more and more clearly in Stevenson's late works, which were usually censored before publication. Jekyll and Hyde therefore transcends some echoes of the case of Deacon Brodie, hanged in 1788 (and also the subject of the play Deacon Brodie, or The Double Life [1880; rev 1888] by Stevenson with W E Henley [1849-1903]); and hearkens back directly to James Hogg's Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824). The story has been filmed many times (see Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde) and has been deeply influential on the development of the theme of Psychology in sf.
In the last years of his life, Stevenson wrote several fantasies set in the South Pacific, in which his increasing revulsion at the excesses – and indeed the ethos – of nineteenth-century Imperialism registers clearly. His final completed work of any substance, The Ebb-Tide: A Trio and Quartette (November 1893-February 1894 To-Day; 1894) with Lloyd Osbourne, has remained obscure, in part perhaps because it is collaborative, though Stevenson himself affirmed what is manifest in the published text: that he had shaped the whole, and was entirely responsible for the second half of the tale, which rims if it does not wholly enter realms of Fantastika. As Stevenson's portion begins, the criminal cast of The Ebb-Tide approaches an uncharted Island, where "from the top of the beach ... a woman of exorbitant stature and as white as snow [is] to be seen beckoning with up lifted arm", evoking the very similar figure who beckons inward the protagonist of Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838 2vols) at the close of that tale, and quite possibly mocking the recently constructed Statue of Liberty, whose message of hope for migrants contradicted Stevenson's sense of the disastrous consequences of the coercive occupation of the "blank" spaces of the globe by the white empires of the west. The beckoning statue's "leprous whiteness" seems to bode ill, and though it turns out in fact to be the figurehead of an abandoned ship its sepulchral message seems clear in a tale whose darkness is pervasive. As Rosalind Williams [see about the author below] suggests, the corrupt Utopia constructed by Attwater, the island's white ruler, may have been meant by Stevenson to Parody Francis Bacon's The New Atlantis (1626); she also notes Attwater's resemblance to Kurtz in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness (1899; 1902). [JC/DIM]
see also: History of SF; The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction; Medicine; Metaphysics; Paranoia; Prediction; Scientists; Theatre; Villains; Werewolves.
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
born Edinburgh, Scotland: 13 November 1850
died Apia, Samoa: 3 December 1894
works (highly selected)
Prince Otto: A Romance (London: Chatto and Windus, 1885) [first appeared April-October 1885 Longman's Magazine: hb/nonpictorial]
Deacon Brodie, or The Double Life: A Melodrama, Founded on Facts, in Four Acts and Ten Tableaux (Edinburgh, Scotland: privately, 1880) with W E Henley [play: chap: pb/]
Deacon Brodie, or The Double Life: A Melodrama in Five Acts and Eight Tableaux (Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press, 1888) with W E Henley [play: chap: rev of the above: pb/]
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (London: Longmans, Green, and Company, 1886) [citation here follows the flag: distribution of UK edition delayed from December 1885 by book trade: US edition therefore appeared three days earlier: hb/nonpictorial]
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde; With Other Fables (London: Longmans, Green, and Company, 1896) [exp vt as coll of the above: initiates the practice (never sanctioned by author) of inserting an initial "The": hb/]
The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale (London: Cassell and Company, Limited, 1889) [first appeared November 1888-October 1889 Scribner's: hb/uncredited]
The Ebb-Tide: A Trio & Quartette (Chicago, Illinois: Stone and Kimball, 1894) with Lloyd Osbourne [first appeared November 1893-February 1894 To-Day: hb/T B Meteyard]
collections and stories
New Arabian Nights
New Arabian Nights (London: Chatto and Windus, 1882) [coll: published in two volumes: first volume contains linked stories with fantastic material that first appeared 8 June-26 October 1878 London: stories in second volume published variously 1877-1880: New Arabian Nights: hb/]
The Suicide Club; And, the Rajah's Diamond (London: Chatto and Windus, 1894) [coll: cut vt of the above: containing first volume only: New Arabian Nights: illus/W J Hennessy: hb/nonpictorial]
The Suicide Club and Other Adventures of Prince Florizel (London: Pan Books, 1946) [vt of the above: New Arabian Nights: pb/Mervyn Peake]
More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter (London: Longmans, Green, and Company, 1885) with Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson [coll: New Arabian Nights: hb/nonpictorial]
individual titles
The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables (London: Chatto and Windus, 1887) [coll: hb/]
Island Nights' Entertainments (London: Cassell and Company, 1893) [coll: illus/hb/Gordon Browne and W Hatherell]
The Body-Snatcher (New York: The Merriam Company, 1895) [story: chap: written in 1881, but first appeared in Christmas 1884 Pall-Mall Gazette: in the publisher's Violet Series: illus/A S Hartrick: hb/]
Fables (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896) [coll: chap: hb/]
Tales and Fantasies (London: Chatto and Windus, 1905) [coll: hb/]
The Waif Woman (London: Chatto and Windus, 1916) [chap: first appeared December 1914 Scribner's Magazine: hb/nonpictorial]
The Complete Short Stories (Edinburgh, Scotland: Mainstream Publishing, 1993) [coll: published in two volumes: edited by Ian Bell: hb/nonpictorial]
about the author (a short sample of the huge literature on "RLS")
Walter Raleigh. Robert Louis Stevenson (London: Edward Arnold, 1895) [nonfiction: hb/]
Frank Swinnerton. Robert Louis Stevenson: A Critical Study (Martin Secker, 1914) [nonfiction: venomous hatchet-job but a purgative for much posthumous idolatry: hb/]
H M Geduld. Definitive Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Companion (New York: Garland Publishing, 1983) [nonfiction: hb/nonpictorial]
J R Hammond. A Robert Louis Stevenson Companion: A Guide to the Novels, Essays, and Short Stories (Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 1984) [nonfiction: hb/]
William B Jones Jr/ed. Robert Louis Stevenson Reconsidered: New Critical Perspectives (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Company, 2003) [nonfiction: anth: pb/]
Rosalind Williams. The Triumph of Human Empire: Verne, Morris, and Stevenson at the End of the World (Chicago, Illinois: The University of Chicago Press, 2013) [nonfiction: hb/from Gustave Courbet]


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The view from outside the New England Motor Freight lot in Halethorpe might suggest the local neighborhood association has won its years-long fight against the trucking company's expansion. On what might otherwise be a busy late afternoon, the gates are locked, the loading dock, offices, maintenance shop quiet, the asphalt lot empty but for a few trailers.
Though trucking operations have all but ceased at the terminal that straddles the Baltimore City-Baltimore County line, the case remains open and local opposition has not rested. Not after years of holding bake sales, oyster roasts and shrimp feasts to raise money, not after spending about $25,000 and countless hours as the case dragged through the county Board of Appeals, Baltimore County Circuit Court and the state Court of Special Appeals, only to end up now where it began: at the county Board of Appeals.
Year 7 of the Halethorpe - or Lansdowne, depending on the interpretation - Truck Terminal Battle closes on a note of uncertainty for activists of the Greater Bloomfield Community Association, an organization that was dormant until this struggle breathed life into it.
"We don't want a lot," said Lorna Rudnikas, the organization's former president who has been active in the motor freight challenge. "Just little red-brick buildings that open at 9 a.m. and close at 5 p.m."
She means another use for the property between Joh Avenue and Georgetown Road, where the company has run a trucking terminal since 1991 and where one trucking operation or another has done business off and on since at least the 1970s.
NEMF, one of the Shevell Group of trucking companies based in New Jersey, owns 17 acres there and the lot is still being used by another Shevell company. Earlier this month, NEMF pulled out of Halethorpe, consolidating operations at terminals in Hagerstown and North East.
Representatives of the company in New Jersey and their lawyer in Baltimore did not return phone calls, but the former NEMF Halethorpe terminal manager, Peter Filipowicz, who lost his job in the transition, said most of the 70 employees were moved from Halethorpe to the two other Maryland operations.
While about 100 trucks a day once rolled in and out of the terminal, Filipowicz said that's down to about five or six a day under Eastern Freight Ways.
Filipowicz said the move out of Halethorpe had nothing to do with the community challenge to its proposed expansion and everything to do with the recession.
The company is taking legal steps to keep its options open as the case continues next month before the Board of Appeals.
In 2006, the board denied the company's request for a "special exception" to expand the operation. At the time, the company was proposing to make room for quadrupling the number of tractors to about 300 and doubling the trailers to 260.
Opponents argued that the expansion would put the operation too close to homes, bringing unacceptable noise and exhaust fumes.
On appeal, the county Circuit Court sustained the denial of the expansion and also sided with the community in its claim that the company's right to do business on that site as a "nonconforming use" had expired in the 1980s when no business was conducted there for more than a year. The state Court of Special Appeals ordered the Board of Appeals late last year to take up the case again, and it will do so during a hearing Dec. 3.
The company's local lawyer asked last week to withdraw its petition for the expansion. The community association's lawyer, J. Carroll Holzer, called that request an attempt to effectively restart the process as if no decisions had been made.
"Our position is you've already asked for expansion and been denied," Holzer said in an interview.
His view is supported by the county People's Counsel, whose job is to represent the public on zoning matters. In a letter to the Board of Appeals, Peter Max Zimmerman - who backed the association in earlier appeals - called the request for withdrawal an "unacceptable tactical manipulation."
Rudnikas said her group is working on two fronts: fighting to see that the expansion plan cannot be revived and pressing county officials to encourage the trucking company to sell the land or develop it in a way the neighbors consider more suitable.


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South Korea launches UHD TV with MPEG-H Audio
Thursday, June 1st, 2017
ERLANGEN, Germany — The MPEG-H TV Audio System is the first next-generation audio codec worldwide to go on air 24/7 as South Korea launched its 4K UHD TV on May 31, 2017. Not only will this new, ultra-high definition television service deliver pin-sharp pictures, it also brings with it two never-heard-before novelties in sound, thanks to the MPEG-H TV Audio System.
While immersive sound will pull viewers in the center of the action, interactive sound will enable them to personalize their audio experience according to their likings. MPEG-H, which was substantially developed by Fraunhofer IIS, makes it possible. The new TV experience will first be available in the Seoul capital area, and will be extended to the metropolitan areas and the venue cities of the Olympic Games in Pyeongchang in 2018. By 2020, the service is scheduled to be available nationwide. Korean consumers can purchase a growing number of MPEG-H enabled TVs from Samsung and LG today.
Leading up to the MPEG-H TV Audio System going live, Fraunhofer IIS put in a lot of effort in the detail of acquainting Korean broadcasters with the new audio format. Fraunhofer IIS trained a team of Korean sound engineers in Germany who are now supporting the Korean broadcasters on site during production and mixing of audio content in the MPEG-H format. Additionally, a permanent demo room with a studio and training center was established at the Digital Media City in Seoul. At the official inauguration on May 15, more than 100 guests were able to tour the facilities and get a first-hand look of the new possibilities that the MPEG-H TV Audio System provides.
At the demo room opening ceremony, several speakers emphasized the importance of MPEG-H for the success of the UHD TV service as a whole. Dosik Kim, Senior Director of the UHD team at SBS, said that MPEG-H's audio features are even more important than 4K video, since the viewer can perceive interactive and immersive sound very well and distinguish it from regular sound at the same time. SBS, the largest commercial broadcaster in South Korea, will be providing immersive and interactive sound with its broadcasts of the Olympic Games in 2018.
Yongseok Moon, Audio Director at KBS, Korea's largest broadcaster under public law, said that MPEG-H can be implemented at the station without major changes to the KBS infrastructure. KBS plans to complement its programs with immersive and interactive audio contents step by step.
Immersive sound can be transmitted flexibly and highly efficiently with the MPEG-H TV Audio System. The data rates are similar to those used for surround sound. The supported audio formats are channels, objects and ambisonics which can be carried individually or combined inside a single audio bitstream with metadata. Channels are known as the conventional way of transmitting audio. For example, two channels for stereo, six channels for surround sound or eleven channels for 3D audio. Additionally, audio objects can be transmitted. These objects can be interactive elements or certain 3D audio components e.g. a helicopter flying above the viewers. Also, MPEG-H supports ambisonics audio formats.
Furthermore, with the MPEG-H TV Audio System, viewers have the ability to adjust their individual audio mix by simply using their remote control. For instance, they could change the balance between dialogue and background sounds or music, in order to improve speech intelligibility or put more emphasis on the stadium atmosphere in a sports broadcast. The choice between various commentators of a sporting event can also be enabled, a concept Fraunhofer introduced as "Hear your home team."
At the Korean broadcasting trade show, KOBA, which took place from May 16 through 19 in Seoul, KBS demonstrated the advantages of the new UHD service at its booth. MPEG-H played an important role as well, and the Fraunhofer team provided extensive support in planning, setup and equipment of the demo. More than 1,500 visitors were able to experience the interactive and immersive sound on a 7.1+4 speaker system as well as the Fraunhofer 3D reference soundbar.
Comprehensive MPEG-H TV Audio System tools and equipment for encoding, authoring and monitoring are readily available from various vendors for live TV production and post production. Consumers can choose from a variety of Samsung and LG TV sets that support MPEG-H audio playback.
Norigin Media trials ad replacement with Fraunhofer FOKUS
Bitmovin adds VVC encoding support
Fraunhofer IIS licenses MPEG-H Audio patents to Samsung
Fraunhofer HHI presents H.266/VVC video coding
WDR and Fraunhofer HHI show VVC/H.266 at IFA 2019
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Shortcutz Rio de Janeiro stands for an urban revolution of ideas, projects, and people, thus becoming a meeting point for the creative, cultural, and artistic trends in Rio.
Shortcutz Rio de Janeiro provides a platform for emerging talent to showcase their work, engage with their audience and connect with the established professionals of the arts. Once a month, we screen two to three short films by up-and-coming directors and present live the work of rising artists: from music to photography or drawing to fashion (our special guests). At the end of each screening, the filmmakers and artists alike engage in a discussion with the audience.
Two to Three Brazilian short films, up to 20 minutes long, produced in the former year, will be selected for broadcasting in each session. The winner of each month will compete in the annual festival awards for several categories such as: best film, best actor, best actress, best photography, best musical score, etc…
Shortcutz Rio de Janeiro 's mission is to give spotlight to Brazilian professionals or young filmmakers and to an array of interdisciplinary artists, promoting their works in Brazil and across the world through the vast Shortcutz Network.
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Shortcutz Rio de Janeiro aims for a collaborative experience, bringing together artists and audience in a transmedia experience. The films will be evaluated by a selected group of recognised artists, ranging from film to music, theatre or photography. Each session has a vote delivered by the audience, that will expand to an online voting, therefore creating a wider platform of voters, and expanding the range of its network.
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Portuguese musicians Susana China, Sandra Correia and André Barros and designer Mariana Seiça are among the nominees for the 17th Independent Music Awards, whose winners will be announced in June at a ceremony in New York.
According to information available on the official website of the awards, singer and songwriter Susana China is named in the category of Jazz album with voice, with "Trapézio", and fadista Sandra Correia competes in the category of Traditional Music album.
The pianist and composer André Barros competes in two categories of the song: Used in Advertising Campaign, with 'Rising Melody', and Used in Film / TV / Game, with 'Leda'.
The designer Mariana Seiça is in competition in one of the design categories: Album Art / Photography, with the album 'Trapézio', by Susana China.
"We believe that art, diversity and the pursuit of excellence should be celebrated and rewarded," reads the awards' website.
The winners of the 17th edition of the Independent Music Awards are announced June 22 at a ceremony in New York, United States of America.


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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2018/04/wildlife-watch-uk-elephant-ivory-ban.html
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African elephants face a serious population decline because of poaching for their ivory.
UK to Introduce 'Toughest' Ivory Ban in the World
With Europe playing a major role in the ivory trade, conservationists are hopeful the UK's ban will pave the way for EU-wide action.
By Rachael Bale
The United Kingdom will introduce a new ban on ivory sales, the government announced today. It will be one of the strictest in the world, allowing for only narrow exceptions. Violators will face up to five years in jail or an unlimited fine.
"Ivory should never be seen as a commodity for financial gain or a status symbol, so we will introduce one of the world's toughest bans on ivory sales to protect elephants for future generations," said British Environment Secretary Michael Gove in a press release.
Elephant poaching is at crisis levels, driven by the ivory trade. Some 30,000 African elephants are slaughtered by poachers each year, with African savanna elephant numbers plummeting 30 percent between 2007 and 2014.
While much of the demand for ivory comes from Asia, Europe also has a large market. A ban on the commercial trade in ivory across international borders has been in effect since 1990, but many countries continue to allow the domestic buying and selling of ivory. While it's unclear how much legal ivory has been bought and sold within European Union borders in recent years, about 7.6 tons of legal ivory have been exported from the EU since 2003, according to the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA). The UK exports more legal ivory than any other country in the world, according to an EIA analysis.
In August 2017 when the EIA published this analysis, executive director Mary Rice said, "UK ivory exports are stimulating consumer demand globally, especially in Hong Kong and China, two of the world's largest markets for both legal and illegal ivory." (China shut down its legal ivory market on December 31, 2017, and Hong Kong announced an end to its market in 2021.)
"As well as fueling demand for ivory, the UK's legal trade provides opportunities for the laundering of illegal ivory, both within the country and internationally," Rice said at the time.
Conservationists argue that a legal trade provides cover for smugglers and traffickers to "launder" poached ivory by giving it paperwork that makes it appear to have been obtained legally.
The UK's ivory ban, which still needs to be signed into law, applies to all ivory except items produced before 1947 with less than 10 percent ivory by volume, musical instruments made before 1975 with less than 20 percent ivory, rare antiques more than 100 years old (which must be assessed by a specialist first), and certain items traded between accredited museums.
These exceptions are stricter than the U.S.'s ivory ban, which went into place in 2016 after a landmark joint announcement between the U.S. and China. The U.S. allows trade of ivory antiques more than a hundred years old and of items with up to 50 percent ivory, with a few other qualifying factors.
Conservation organizations have been working for several years to get an ivory ban approved in the UK. When this proposal was put up for consultation by the Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs, it received more than 70,000 responses, with more than 88 percent in favor of the ban.
"We are delighted that the government has listened to our concerns and given the overwhelming public response to their consultation is now moving decisively to introduce tough legislation to ban the trade in ivory in the UK," said Charlie Mayhew, the CEO of Tusk Trust, a UK-based wildlife conservation organization.
Conservationists are now urging the EU as a whole to address the ivory trade.
Wildlife Watch is an investigative reporting project between National Geographic Society and National Geographic Partners focusing on wildlife crime and exploitation. Read more Wildlife Watch stories here, and learn more about National Geographic Society's nonprofit mission at nationalgeographic.org . Send tips, feedback, and story ideas to ngwildlife@natgeo.com.


Sustainable procurement is considered "important" or "critical" by 90 per cent of buyers, according to a survey published yesterday.
Over 80 per cent of procurement directors invested in sustainable purchasing initiatives in 2008, with 35 per cent reporting they intend to spend more on such programmes, despite the global recession.
The Sustainable Procurement Benchmark Report, released by education body HEC Paris and sustainable procurement experts EcoVadis, questioned procurement executives at 95 of Europe's largest companies about their corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability practices.
It found that, while managing costs remains a major priority for introducing sustainable buying programmes, adhering to regulations on environmental practices is becoming more important. Brand protection was also noted as a key driver.
Three quarters of the companies consider CSR when going to market, with almost a third - 30 per cent - using it as a main criterion in the grading and selection process. Some 75 per cent of the respondents also use sustainable procurement as a measure of long-term supplier performance.
HEC professor Olivier Bruel, principal author of the report, said: "Sustainable procurement is an integral part of the new model that companies must adopt to survive and thrive in today's global economy.
"Our research clearly shows that the economic dimension of sustainability - total cost of ownership reduction as well as supporting suppliers in dire financial situations - is a critical focus for companies as they attempt to weather the financial storm while continuing to run their businesses in a socially and environmentally friendly manner."


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In the spring of 2007, the Governing Board determined that the existing Constitution of the Club was cumbersome and difficult to follow. The Board appointed a Committee to redraft the Constitution. The Committee proposed that the Club adopt a basic constitution and a set of By Laws to govern the operation of the Club. This Constitution and corresponding By-Laws were adopted by unanimous vote of the Governing Board on 20 May 2007.
Since that date, the By-Laws have been revised by the Board several times. There are footnotes on the latest adopted By-Laws showing which sections were amended and the date the amendment was adopted by the Board.
To read the Constitution and By-Laws, click on the link below:
By-Laws of the Pattaya City Expats Club, as amended through 10 June 2022 (Current)
Original By-Laws of the Pattaya City Expats Club, adopted 20 May 2007
Constitution of the Pattaya City Expats Club, Amended 10 March 2021 (Current)
Constitution of the Pattaya City Expats Club, Amended 6 July 2014
Constitution of the Pattaya City Expats Club, Adopted 20 May 2007
Constitution and Rules of the Pattaya City Expats Club, adopted 24 April 2005
Constitution of the Pattaya City Expats Club, adopted 27 July 2003 (Club name changed)
Original Constitution of the Pattaya Expats Club, adopted 17 July 2002


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Fred Warren
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Fred Warren - A Life of Faith and Music
Born in Kent in 1913, but brought up in Chester from infancy, Fred went to the Salvation Army as a youngster and was taught to play a variety of instruments when he joined first their Junior band, and later their Senior band for which he played all over the country and took part in various festivals. He also sang with and later led the Songster Brigade, the local Salvation Army choir.
Apprenticed with Brookhirst Switchgear Ltd. in 1927, he later joined the Hydraulic Engineering Company (HECO) where in 1939 he became shop steward, and soon the regional organiser for his Union. As a Christian, not afraid to stand up for his beliefs, he was a natural leader, and fought to improve the working conditions and welfare facilities for his fellow workers. All the while, he was still maintaining his musical activities, playing with the Salvation Army band and singing with their choir.
In 1941, he formed a small choir at the HECO works, the choir which was to eventually become first the Cestrian Male Voice Choir and eventually Chester Male Voice Choir. In the following war-time years he successfully pursued courses to further his musical and conducting skills, becoming a Licentiate of both the Guildhall School of Music and the British Bandsmen's College of Music. He also studied to qualify himself for the career he aimed for in social welfare. After the War, he sang with the Chester Choral Society, sometimes as a tenor soloist, and occasionally conducting.
Fred began a new career in 1946 as a Welfare officer with the Mersey Ironworks at Ellesmere Port, and then in 1947 took up a post with Chester County Borough (now City) Council, for whom he subsequently became Chief Education Welfare Officer until his retirement in 1978. He was a committed member and lay preacher within the Methodist Church, and at the Methodist Central Hall in City Road, Chester, Fred soon became prominent as choirmaster and youth club leader.
Meanwhile, having left HECO, Fred had no difficulty in persuading his colleagues of the Choir, which in any case by this time included several members with no connection with the works, to carry on as an independent choir, calling themselves the Cestrian Male Voice Choir. By choosing to adopt the motto 'We sing to serve' he was demonstrating his Christian faith; and he had that burning ambition to develop them into a choir as good as any in the land.
His influence at Central Hall led to the Cestrian Choir being invited to make their home there, and under Fred's guidance and leadership the choir went from strength to strength, to become known far and wide beyond Chester and Cheshire.
Fred Warren founded the Choir in 1941 and led the Choir as its conductor for the next 50 years. In 1991, at The Royal Albert Hall, his achievements were recognised by the North Wales Association of Male Voice Choirs when it asked him to conduct the 1000 Voice choir in its rendition of Morte Criste. On his retirement as conductor Fred was voted 'Man of the Year' in the Chester Chronicle/Manweb Community Awards. The Choir marked his achievement of fifty years continous service as founder and conductor by planting an oak tree. The tree still stands and flourishes in the Grosvenor Park in Chester.
From relatively humble beginnings, Fred had the determination to make the most of life. In this he was strengthened by his Christian faith which was Having set up a choir from nothing, he had the confidence, self-belief and drive to make it into a first class choir with a national and international reputation. It is typical of the man that after retirement as conductor he still continued with the Choir as Founder, Senior Vice President, committee member, active first tenor and welfare officer - devoting much of his time to caring for the health and welfare of the other members and their families until his death in March 2004 at the age of 91 years. On the 11th June 2004 a memorial service to celebrate the life of Fred Warren was held in a packed Chester Cathedral.
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Here is the thing about life. It comes to an end. It is why it is paramount to live it when alive. The first of these photos (from the left) was taken on the morning of 15th January 2019 as I exited the lift from our 14 Riverside parking lot. Some would wonder, why take the time to snap a photo that early in the morning? Well you know one of those days, you just wake up energetic and happy, put on your favourite shirt and have the morning start off with success at any plans or errands for the day? This was what was happening right here.
Moving on swiftly to the second photo some few hours later which would find me hiding crouched underneath a desk amid a seemingly non ending series of explosions and gunfire. Some would ask why I would take a photo at such a time. Refer to the 3 starting phrases of these thoughts.
The third photo I took yesterday, Tuesday the 29th of January, in our new temporary office. This is exactly 2 weeks after the now globally recognized #RiversideAttack.
Many would expect that I am referencing these photos and the events surrounding them in order to maybe discuss the event, my thoughts on it or even trauma from such an experience; but many as the thoughts maybe about all that, this is about my lessons from the event and life overall.
I have previously discussed existentialism in this blog and the questions or feelings I have about the whole idea of life and living. It would then not be too absurd to arrive at this kind of article after having such an experience, losing friends/acquaintances and experiencing just how much life is in a minute.
When you lose friends you had not met in a while as probably has happened to some of us, our first resolution is always to make more effort in meeting friends or family. My thoughts on this is that whilst this is a great idea, what needs to matter more is the quality of the time we choose to share with these people. I have observed that the kind of "hanging out" with friends that we have nowadays become accustomed to at a cafe, a bar, a road-trip has become an expensive affair. As such, "friends" meeting has become dictated by budgets and how far or close to the pay period the month is. And when it finally does happen, the choices of meeting places we get means we barely get a word in or find out how someone is doing. Mind you, I am not against the examples of hanging out mentioned above, they are in their way a form of living and must be experienced in equal measure too. But whatever happened to calling a friend for a 30 minute weekend visit just because you were in the area? Or passing by someone's office to say hi because you were in the building? The quality I speak of is getting in a good 30 minutes in to find out what is happening in your friend's life, find out what dreams they are looking forward to, find out what help they might need or what help they might offer to you. My point is: Do not end up realizing how much you didn't know your 5 year or 10 year friend after they are gone. This is because life is like a melting candle standing in a basin with a little water called the drip reaper 😁 at the bottom. Some of us get to burn all the way down whilst some of us have winds that might choose to blow out our flames long before we burn to the bottom of the basin.
In relation to the above, the second realization is on how much we attach to the "memory" people will have of us once we are gone. We assume the more money we accumulate, the more fame we gain, the more power we attain or grab, that the longer our memory shall be held. My idea of leaving a legacy is not how far reaching the legacy is but how deeply rooted it is and how deeply it gets felt. Whether religious or not, we make choices every single day that determine the course our life will take. Same as with actions that become habits. As Key & Peele would put it CONSEQUENCES!!
Assuming the earth is around for another 2000 years or better yet 5000 more years. The most famous of today's world, the legends of our generation, one day would be lost on everyone. My nieces have no idea who Bob Marley is. Sad, I know. There would come a whole new human generation that would have none of this history but in bits and pieces trying to piece things together like we currently try to do of any "Atlantian" civilization. Don't quote the Internet and all we store there to me. 2 words, super virus. The technology we currently laud that would seem so insignificant after thousands of years. This is coming from someone who has lived through the introduction of mobile phones in Kenya, playing Towers of Hanoi on a Motorola T2288, to the first popular touchscreen phone (The Huawei Ideos) up to the level of technology and possibilities that are in a current smartphone. I have also lived to see the year 2000 or 2012 or quite soon possibly 2020 mentioned as "The Big Grand Future" in movies with all types of gadgets and gizmos and flying cars. This means anything is possible. We might regress (some people don't believe in Global warming) or make leaps or bounds beyond what seems currently human in a few years. Leonardo was being crazy just some 500 years ago right?
It is hence my opinion that a legacy makes its journey across the sands of time because of whom you affected and how you affected them. When we choose to be better friends, better neighbours, better human beings, our small legacy changes lives years after we are gone. Your story could travel informally through more generations than a legacy created for the news might.
This is why as you are busy living which is very much the entire theme of this misshapen train of thought, do not let reality kill your dreams. Yes, reality, the financial duties we face and the comfort we so crave is something we must observe in order to sustain ourselves for a longer life but let not that longer life be just years added to a meaningless existence. Even if life forced you off your music career, never stop singing, for your friends, for your family, for your kids, till you cannot anymore. If the world won't read enough of your work to make money from it, don't stop writing, be it for your own catharsis or for your 10 readers, always have a hand dipped in what you love most.
And in the end as my smile on the 15th and that on the 29th depicts, as long as I breathe, I shall get up, let my feet hit the floor and oh crap to you life, because I'm up!


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Larosa's plans to open in Hillsboro mid next month
General manager expects to hire about 100 employees
By Jeff Gilliland - jgilliland@timesgazette.com
A new sign at the LaRosa's location in Hillsboro is pictured with the restaurant off Harry Sauner Road in the background.
LaRosa's is planning to open its new Hillsboro location around the third week in October, and will be hiring about 100 employees, Shawn Shelton, who will serve as general manager of the Hillsboro restaurant, said Thursday.
Shelton emphasized that an exact opening date has not been set, partly due to issues with the booths for the restaurant that have to be custom made, but that the company is shooting for sometime around Oct. 15.
He said the company will likely start interviewing perspective employees Tuesday and begin the hiring process later next week so training can begin at LaRosa's Mount Orab location. Shelton said anyone interested can visit www.larosas.com. He also said that in the next week or so LaRosa's may set up a tent at its Hillsboro location on the former Dakota's site off Harry Sauner Road, where those interested could pick up a hard copy application.
"It's coming, it's coming soon, we're just not exactly sure when right now," Shelton said. "The building is pretty much ready."
The restaurant will be open from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday, 11 a.m. to midnight Fridays, and 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturdays.
Shelton said the Hillsboro location will offer a typical LaRosa's menu with pizza, hoagys, calzones, pasta, appetizers, salads, desserts and more. He said it will also offer a catering menu, some bulk pricing, and a full service bar with beer, wine and liquor.
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Q: I am trying to reverse complement a fasta DNA sequence I have been trying to reverse complement a fasta DNA sequence. Here is my code:
fastafile=open('sequence (3).fasta','r')
entries=[]
reverse=""
sequence=['A','T','G','C','N']
for line in fastafile:
    if not line.startswith('>'):
        line = line.split()
        entries.append(line)
print entries
for index in range(0,len(entries[::-1])):
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        break
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        elif index=='T':
            reverse+='A'
        elif index=='C':
            reverse+='G'
        elif index=='G':
            reverse+ 'C'
        elif index=='N':
            reverse+='N'
print reverse

And each time I get the output, this is not a valid nucleotide, even when my print of entries show that it has the items in sequence. Here is a sample of the output when I print enteries;
[['GCTCCCCTGAGGTTCGGCACCCACACTCCCTTCCCAGGAGCTCGCGATGCAAGAGCCACAGTCAGAGCTC'], ['AATATCGACCCCCCTCTGAGCCAGGAGACATTTTCAGAATTGTGGAACCTGCTTCCTGAAAACAATGTTC'], ['TGTCTTCGGAGCTGTGCCCAGCAGTGGATGAGCTGCTGCTCCCAGAGAGCGTCGTGAACTGGCTAGACGA']

How can I override this problem? I just want to add that I only started seriously programming with python about 2 months ago so I am still learning and improving.
Thank you!

A: Your loop statement is:
for index in range(0,len(entries[::-1])):

This will iterate over the length of entries, that is, 0, 1, 2, 3, ..., len(entries).
When you do if index != sequence you are actually comparing an integer with a list, say if 3 != ['A', 'C', 'T', 'G']. I assume you can see that makes no sense. What you probably want to do is see if the nucleotide in the sequence is a valid nucleotide, ergo it is in the sequence list. You can do it like this:
if entries[::-1][index] in sequence # Will be true if the nucleotide at entries[::-1][index] is inside sequence

Let me say two things:

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*First one, you don't have to range to len(entries[::-1]), it is the same as len(entries)

*Secondly, and more important, there is an actual module build specially for bioinformatics. It is called Biopython. It has special objects and functions. For example, your problem could be resolved as follows:
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from Bio.Seq import Seq

dna = Seq("ATGGCCATTGTAATGGGCCGCTGAAAGGGTGCCCGATAG")
print dna.reverse_complement()

Output: CTATCGGGCACCCTTTCAGCGGCCCATTACAATGGCCAT

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Andrecia Wasson (* 23. Juni 1992) ist eine US-amerikanische Boxerin. Sie wurde 2010 Weltmeisterin der Amateure im Weltergewicht.

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Andrecia Wasson stammt aus Center Line (Michigan). Sie betrieb bereits seit früher Kindheit sehr viel Sport (Leichtathletik, Fußball, American Football, Volleyball, Basketball und Schwimmen), entschied sich dann aber für das Boxen, weil auch ihr Vater diesen Sport betrieben hatte. Sie gehört dem Warrior Boxing Club Centerling an. Ihr erster Trainer war Mickey Goodwin, der sie seit ihrem 13. Lebensjahr betreute. Auf Grund ihres Talentes entwickelte sich die kraftstrotzende, untersetzte Athletin zu einer hervorragenden Boxerin, die im Alter von 17 Jahren die nationale und internationale Spitzenklasse im Frauenboxen erreichte.

2009 wurde sie US-amerikanische Meisterin und damit auch gleichzeitig "Golden Gloves"-Champion im Weltergewicht, wobei sie im Finale Brittany Inkrote mit 7:2 Punkten besiegte. Bei den sog. "National PAL Championships" 2009 belegte sie den 2. Platz. Ihren ersten Start bei einer internationalen Meisterschaft absolvierte sie bei den Pan Amerikanischen Meisterschaften in Guayaquil/Ecuador. Sie besiegte dort Susan Haas aus Kanada knapp mit 15:14 Punkten und unterlag im Finale gegen Andreia Bandera aus Brasilien genauso knapp mit 4:5 Punkten.

Im Jahre 2010 wurde sie in Colorado Springs mit einem Punktsieg über LaTarisha Fountain (8:6) erneut US-amerikanische Meisterin im Weltergewicht und kam bei den Kämpfen um die "Golden Gloves" in Hollywood, die kurz vor der Meisterschaft stattfanden, auf den 3. Platz, als sie nach einem Punktsieg über Johanna Willis (5:0) im Halbfinale gegen Nisa Rodriguez verlor.

Als US-amerikanische Meisterin wurde sie dann bei der Weltmeisterschaft 2010 der Frauen in Bridgetown/Barbados eingesetzt. Dort gewann sie, trotz ihrer auf Grund ihres Alters von erst 18 Jahren relativ niedrigen internationalen Erfahrung, mit Siegen über Kanoli Wyatt, Kanada (17:3), Swetlana Kossowa, Russland (5:2), Naomi Fischer-Rasmussen, Australien (Abbruchsieg wegen Verletzung beim Stand von 16:1 Punkten für Wasson), Yang Tingting, Volksrepublik China (25:4) und Savannah Marshall, England (5:4) den Weltmeistertitel. Dieser Erfolg ist umso bemerkenswerter, weil sie wenige Wochen vor dieser Meisterschaft ihren Trainer Mickey Goodwin, der im Alter von 52 Jahren verstarb, verlor. Sie wurde danach von Ser Garcia betreut.

Im Jahre 2012 ist das Frauenboxen in vier Gewichtsklassen bei den Olympischen Spielen in London erstmals olympisch. Das Weltergewicht zählt nicht dazu. Es ist daher anzunehmen, dass Andrecia Wasson bis dahin in das Mittelgewicht (bis 75 kg Körpergewicht) wechseln wird.

Beim ersten Sichtungs-Turnier des US-amerikanischen Box-Verbandes für die Olympischen Spiele 2012 in London, das im November 2011 in Toledo (Ohio) stattfand, startete Andrecia Wasson dann tatsächlich im Mittelgewicht. Sie siegte dort nach Punkten über Farrar Fallon (12:10), Danielle Wolfe (12:6) und Raquel Miller (12:10) und unterlag der damals erst 16-jährigen Claressa Shields (13:31) nach Punkten. Bei der eigentlichen Olympiaausscheidung (Trials) im Februar 2012 in Spokane siegte sie über Dara Shen (34:9), unterlag dann aber gegen Claressa Shields (12:31) und gegen Raquel Miller (6:7) und hatte damit keine Chance mehr, sich für die Olympischen Spiele zu qualifizieren.

Erfolge

Erläuterungen
 WM = Weltmeisterschaft
 Weltergewicht, Gewichtsklasse bis 69 kg Körpergewicht

Quellen
 Fachzeitschrift Box Sport
 Website www.amateur-boxing.strefa.pl

Weblinks
 Profil von Andrecia Wasson

US-Amerikaner
Boxer (Vereinigte Staaten)
Weltmeister (Boxen)
Geboren 1992
Frau

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Renshen Guniang () és una pel·lícula d'animació amb titelles xinesa, produïda per l'estudi de cinema de Changchun, dirigida per Rong Lei i estrenada el 1961. Fou la tercera i última de les pel·lícules d'animació produïdes per l'estudi des de la creació de l'estudi d'animació de Shanghai, i fins al 1985, quan es reobre oficialment la secció d'animació.

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Pel·lícules en mandarí
Pel·lícules del 1961
Pel·lícules d'animació de Changchun Film Studio


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What are the basics of plastic injection mould designing? Now we will introduce the following 10 steps!
Examined and signed formal system part drawings, and indicate the plastic grades, transparency, etc.
Plastic part specification or technical requirements.
Usually the design task document is proposed by plastic mould design personnel according to the mission statement to the mission statement. The document is the basic of injection mould designing.
Collect the basic parts design, injection moulding process, injection moulding equipment, machining and special processing information in order to prepare for plastic mould design.
1. Understand the use of parts, analysis the process, dimensional accuracy and other technical requirements.
Acknowledge the outer shape, color transparency, performance requirements, geometry of plastic parts, slope, inserts, extent permitted welding marks, shrinkage and other moulding defects, with or without coating post-processing equipment, electroplating, gluing, drilling and so on. Select the dimensional accuracy of plastic parts up to the size of the analysis to see whether the lower than estimated molded plastic parts tolerance, the ability to meet the requirements of the moulding of plastic parts too. Also, learn plastics and plastic injection moulding process parameters.
2. Analysis and imply the moulding method, equipment type, material specifications, and other requirements of the injection mould structure.
The moulding material should meet the strength requirements of plastic parts, having good flow ability, homogeneity and isotropy, thermal stability. According to the use of plastic parts, injection moulding materials should meet the stained condition metallized, decorative properties, the necessary flexibility and plasticity, transparency or reverse reflection performance, bonding or welding properties and other requirements.
3. Determine the moulding method-using direct pressure method, pressure casting or injection moulding method.
Depending on the type of injection moulding equipment, therefore it must be familiar with all kinds of equipment performance, specifications and features. For example, the injection machine, you should aware of the following specifications: injection capacity, clamping pressure, injection pressure, mould installation dimensions, top of the device and the size of the nozzle hole diameter and spherical radius nozzle, sprue bush positioning ring size, die maximum and minimum thickness.
To preliminary estimates mould dimensions, it is determined whether the plastic injection mould is installed and used on selected injection machine.
Such as pressing mould (open, semi-closed, closed), die casting, injection mould, etc.
Select the desired mould structure is to determine the necessary moulding equipment, the ideal number of cavities, make injection mould itself to work in conditions of absolute reliability of the plastic parts of the technology and production economy. Plastic parts for the technology requirements is to ensure that the geometry of the plastic parts, surface finishes and dimensional accuracy. Production economy requires low cost to make plastic parts, high production efficiency, the plastic mould can be continuously working, long life and save labor.
Cavity arrangement. According to the geometry of the characteristics of plastic parts, dimensional accuracy, batch size, ease of mould manufacturing, mould costs and determine the number of cavities arrangement.
Determine the parting surface. Location of the parting should be conducive to injection mould, exhaust, stripping and moulding operation, plastic parts surface quality.
Determine the gating system (main runner, runner and sub gate shape, location, size) and exhaust system (exhaust method, the exhaust slot position, size).
Select the ejection mode (jacking, push plates, combined ejection), decided the undercut processing method and core pulling mode.
Determine cooling and heating method, as well as groove shape, position and heating element installation.
Use the mould material strength calculations or empirical data to determine the thickness, shape and structure of all connections, location, location guides of the injection mould parts.
Determine the structure of the main forms of molded and structural parts.
Consider the strength of the various parts of the mould, and calculate the size of moulding parts.
If these issues were resolved, the formal structure of the plastic injection mould naturally solved. At this point, we should start drawing the mould diagram.
Draw the diagram according to national standards, but also requires combined injection mould factory standards and national regulations are not the customary factory painting.
Before drawing the mould assembly diagram, the basic process chart should be drawn, and to meet the requirements of the parts diagram and process data. Write the words "process dimension" noted in the chart by the following procedure ensured size. If the injection mould carries out no other machining, the process drawing will be the same as the diagram.
In the process diagram, it is better to mark article number, name, material, material shrinkage, drawing scale and so on. Generally draw the process diagram on the mould assembly diagram.
Try to draw the assembly diagram in 1:1 ratio, start first by drawing the cavity, a front view and other views should be simultaneously drew.
Gating system and exhaust system structure.
The sub-surface and pick parting method.
Outline structure and location of all connections, positioning and guiding elements.
The cavity height dimension size (not force, if necessary) and the overall size of the injection mould.
Auxiliary tool (pick unloading modeling tools, calibration tools, etc.).
Number all the parts in order and fill the schedule.
The labeling requirement and instruction.
Mould system performance requirements, for example, the ejection system, pulling slider assembly installing requirement.
The mould assembly process requirements. For example, after bonding surface of the mould assembly parting bonding gap should be less than 0.05mm, the following parallel degree requirements, and noted that the size of the assembly decision and the size requirements.
The use, assembly and disassembly method of the plastic injection mould.
Anti-oxidation treatment, mould number, lettering, tags, seals, storage and other requirements.
Mould testing and debugging requirements.
Sequence of drawing parts diagram from injection mould assembly: inner-outer, complex-simple, molded part-structural components.
Graphics requirements: according to a certain proportion, allows zoom in or out. Reasonable view, correct projection, properly arranged. To make the process easy to understand, easy to assemble, as far as possible consistent with the general assembly drawing graphics, graphics should be clear.
The dimension requirements should be unified, focused, orderly and complete. Dimensioned order: first mark major part size, and then marked with the size and dimension of all sizes. Mark fit dimension of non-main part, and then mark all sizes.
The surface roughness. The most widely used roughness standard should be marked on the upper right corner. Other roughness symbols are marked on the surface of each part.
Other content, such as part name, mould drawing number, material grade, heat treatment and hardness requirements, surface treatment, drawing scale, free size precision and technical notes should be correctly filled.
See the mould and die parts material, hardness, dimensional accuracy and structure meets the requirements of the plastic part drawing.
Plastic flow stream, shrinkage, weld marks, nicks, and whether the draft is affecting performance plastic parts, dimensional accuracy, surface quality and other requirements. Have inadequate designs, whether simple processing, shrinkage of the injection moulding material selection is correct.
Injection amount, injection pressure, clamping force enough, and Xiao muzzle nozzle mould installation, plastic parts of the core, stripping any problems, injection machine is correct contact.
Parting surface location and finishing precision meets the needs of the overflow will not happen, if we were to ensure that plastic parts remain in the top side of the device there.
Release mode is correct, the promotion of the rod, push pipe size, location and number is appropriate, push plates will not be stuck in the core, it will not cause abrasion moulded parts.
Mould temperature control aspect. The heater power, number; the flow of the cooling medium line position, the size, the number is appropriate.
The method of processing plastic parts made undercut, undercut removal mechanism is appropriate, such as bevel pillar core pulling mechanism of the slider and fader whether mutual interference.
Pouring, position of the exhaust system, the size is appropriate.
Part Number Part diagram, name, number of copies produced, manufactured or purchased parts within, is the standard or non-standard parts, parts with processing accuracy, precision molded plastic parts at the size of the correction processing and the balance mould parts of the material, heat treatment, surface treatment, surface finishing level is marked, clearly described.
Part main parts, injection moulding parts with the size and dimensions of the work. Size figures should be correct, do not allow producers conversion.
Check all parts drawings and assembly diagrams of view position, the projection is correct, drawing painting meets the national standard, whether the omission size.
Geometry, drawing views and dimensions standard of all parts should be conducive to processing.
Professional proofreading according to the principle of self-proofing project designer. But it should focus on the structural principle, process performance and operational safety.
Digest the diagram according to the national standard description, and fill in all dimensions and technical requirements. Sign your name after the description.
Give the diagram to the designed for checking and sign, practices are reviewed by the tool manufacturing units of the technical staff, countersigned inspection of the manufacturing process, before they can be blueprint.
Write the manufacturing process card, the tool manufacturing units write manufacturing process cards, and ready for processing.
In the processing of plastic injection mould making, it should strengthen the inspection, which focused on the dimensional accuracy. After the injection mould assembly is completed, it will be tested by the inspectors in accordance with the table. Mould testing is majority on performance. This is the only way to see the manufacture quality.
Although the plastic injection mould is designed under selected material, moulding equipment and desired process conditions, but the awareness is often imperfect. After the completion of mould, the trial test should be taken to see the quality. If there are errors, we can modify the injectoin mould.
The reason of plastic parts undesirable is very complex, there are reasons for moulds and process conditions, both of which tend to pay only together. Before the repair the injectoin mould, it should base on the actual situation of plastic parts appear undesirable phenomena, careful analysis research to identify remedial measures after the cause plastic defects. Because the moulding conditions are easy to change, so the general practice is to change the injection moulding conditions when the change does not solve the problem, before considering repair mould.
Repairing mould should be careful. The reason is that once you change the condition of the mould, you cannot make a big transformation and restitution.
After the test, if the plastic injeciotn mould is not being used, it should be completely erased release dross, dust, oil, and then coated with oil or other rust inhibitors, keeping close to the storage site.
Collect all the basic technical documents from the mould designing to finish processing, such as the mission statement, parts diagrams, technical manuals, assembly drawing, mould parts diagram, underlay, mould design specification, inspection records and repair records according to the provisions of systematically sorting, stapling, numbering archived. This seems to be a lot of trouble, but it is very useful for mould maintenance and new mould designing.