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Wells detect high levels of heavy metals near Georgia Power plants
By Dan Chapman
Contaminants in Georgia Power wells
Wells at six of Georgia Power's 29 coal ash ponds have turned up toxic metals at levels exceeding federal standards for drinking water.
Plant Hammond (Rome): Arsenic
Plant McDonough (Smyrna): Arsenic, Beryllium, Cadmium, Selenium
Plant Yates (Newnan): Beryllium, Selenium
Plant Branch (Milledgeville): Beryllium
Plant McIntosh (Rincon): Arsenic
Plant McManus (Brunswick): Arsenic
Source: Georgia Power, Southern Environmental Law Center
Arsenic and other heavy metals — with toxicity levels 20 or 30 times federal standards — have been discovered in the groundwater near a half-dozen Georgia Power plants, according to newly released utility data.
The metals may come from the utility's holding ponds, which contain coal ash, a potentially dangerous byproduct of coal-fired electric power plants.
Georgia Power tallies 86 million tons of coal ash in its 29 ponds, which the utility has scheduled for closure within three years. Yet 12 of those ponds will be "closed in place" without removal of the ash.
The utility will dig out 8 million to 10 million tons of the coal ash and ship the waste to Georgia landfills. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported earlier this year that groundwater near two landfills has been contaminated by vanadium, beryllium and other heavy metals, possibly from coal ash shipped in from other states.
Georgia Power says the contaminants so far pose no harm to neighbors or nearby waterways.
These findings come as state environmental regulators vote Tuesday on new coal ash disposal rules that, while more stringent than federal rules, don't satisfy environmental groups and residents living near landfills and storage ponds.
"They need to be stronger," said Amelia Shenstone, the director of coal programs for the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy in Atlanta. "It's always good to have another layer of protection, but these standards do not require excavation of coal ash ponds. And they're weak in terms of groundwater testing and allowing public input in the permitting of ash storage facilities."
Jeff Cown, the director of the state's Environmental Protection Division, says the state rules will safeguard Georgia's land and water. Stricter monitoring and cleanup is possible in the future, he added. Board members with the Department of Natural Resources will likely finalize the rules Wednesday.
"You have to get rules out there and implement them and see if anything needs to change," Cown said. "We're taking (ash) ponds that have basically been unregulated and putting regulations on them. We're also adding regulations to municipal solid waste landfills that might accept (ash). It's a great step in the right direction."
Georgia Power generated 2.4 million tons of coal ash in 2015. Its lagoons cover 2,300 acres, or the equivalent of nearly 1,800 football fields, according to an AJC analysis.
The ash contains toxic metals such as mercury, cadmium and arsenic that can leach into ground and surface water and, as dust, rise into the air and lungs. The contaminants, in significant quantities, may cause cancer.
Massive coal ash spills, in Tennessee in 2008 and North Carolina in 2014, prompted the federal Environmental Protection Agency to impose disposal rules. Utilities must inspect ponds and landfills and post results online. New storage sites must be lined with plastic to keep metals from leaching into the ground. Ponds and landfills must also be far enough away from surface and groundwater, sinkholes and flood plains.
Georgia Power will remove coal ash from 17 ponds that sit near lakes or rivers. The ash will either be recycled (primarily into cement or concrete), sent to landfills or placed into the dozen remaining on-site ash ponds.
Ash has already been removed from three of the 17 ponds. The utility plans to sink 500 groundwater monitoring wells around the 29 ponds and list findings on a website and with the state.
All 29 ponds have been tested. And 236 wells have been put in place; 219 of them meet state groundwater standards, the utility says. But 17 do not, according to a Georgia Power briefing given to the AJC last week, and show elevated levels of arsenic, beryllium, cadmium and selenium.
In all, six of the 29 ponds have contaminated groundwater, including:
Ten of the 31 wells at Plant McDonough in Smyrna reported elevated levels of arsenic, beryllium and other metals. Two wells showed arsenic concentrations of 0.0241 parts per million, or twice the federal drinking water standard. Georgia Power has excavated one of McDonough's ash ponds along the Chattahoochee River. The three remaining ponds will remain with "advanced engineering methods" installed to prevent future leaks.
A pond at Plant McManus, in Brunswick, has been scooped out with the ash sent to a landfill near the Okefenokee Swamp. Two of the nine wells along the Turtle River revealed arsenic levels of 0.213 parts per million — 20 times the federal standard.
Plant Hammond, in Rome, has so far shown the highest concentration of arsenic at 30 times the federally acceptable level. Three of its ponds, close to the Coosa River, will be excavated. A fourth will be capped.
"We don't believe we are impacting any of our neighbors (or) adjoining waterways," said Aaron Mitchell, the utility's general manager for environmental affairs. "We installed additional wells further from where we already tested, and the results from those wells didn't show any (problems)."
An arsenic-laced herbicide, for example, could be causing Plant Hammond's elevated readings, Mitchell said.
Environmentalists are dismayed by the findings and demand that all coal ash be excavated from the ponds and stored in lined landfills. And they want groundwater tested more than twice yearly, which the state proposes.
"Covering up coal ash in leaking, unlined holes in the ground does not stop or clean up pollution, nor does it protect the people of Georgia," said Kurt Ebersbach, senior attorney for the Southern Environmental Law Center in Atlanta. "Where utilities have done the appropriate analysis and excavated ash, such as in South Carolina, they have documented dramatic drops in groundwater contamination."
A lawsuit forced South Carolina Electric and Gas to dig up a pond and store the ash in a landfill with synthetic liners well away from water sources. Groundwater contaminated by arsenic at one site near Columbia decreased 99 percent.
The EPD's Cown says the state will more zealously monitor Georgia Power's ponds and landfills.
"We have the ability to take corrective action and say, 'Hey, Georgia Power, dig this up and move it,' " he said. "Right now we don't know if the ash is causing a problem. So we would be acting too soon."
Critics also want more public input before ash is sent to local landfills.
"The EPD is taking steps in the right direction, but it needs to go further," said Dink NeSmith, who is leading the anti-ash fight at the Broadhurst Environmental Landfill near Jesup. "Beyond Georgia Power's tremendous stockpile of toxic coal ash, Florida and the Carolinas are already using Georgia as a dumping ground for dangerous waste those states don't want. Shouldn't that tell us something?"
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Will Poulter Isn't Sure He Could Survive a Boston Winter After Filming The Revenant
'I'm not on the look out for any snow.'
By Matt Juul·	 1/4/2016, 1:27 p.m.
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The Revenant may not be set in Boston, but the film's snowy tundra setting should look familiar to any locals who survived last year's Snowpocalypse.
Directed by Oscar winner Alejandro G. Iñárritu, the film is based on the true story of 19th century fur trapper Hugh Glass (played by Leonardo DiCaprio) and his experiences on the American frontier. The flick also features Tom Hardy as Glass' brooding nemesis John Fitzgerald as well as Will Poulter, who plays trapper Jim Bridger.
During a recent trip to Boston, Poulter admitted that he isn't sure if he could survive one of the city's brutal winters, even after spending weeks shooting in the harsh conditions of Calgary.
"I was very glad to see the sun after Canada," Poulter said.
Check out what else the actor had to say about filming The Revenant, his thoughts on the whole "bear rape" rumor, and more.
After battling the elements during filming, do you think you could survive a winter in Boston?
You know what, I don't know. The weather [in Boston] hasn't actually been too bad. We've been pretty lucky. But I'm not sure. I think after that, certainly my tolerance for the cold is improved, but I'm not on the look out for any snow.
I'm sure you must be sick of it.
Let's just say this, summer was welcomed this year. I was very glad to see the sun after Canada.
Are you sad you didn't get a beard in the film?
I fully accepted that I cannot grow facial hair, but it is quite emasculating. Leo has a beard.
Is that his real beard?
Yeah, that's all real. The man can grow a beard, for sure. The poor guy had to do so much makeup and prosthetics pretty much everyday, so it's a good thing that he had his real beard because otherwise it would've added another half an hour onto his makeup time.
Leonardo DiCaprio Photo by Twentieth Century Fox / Regency Entertainment / Monarchy Enterprises
What did you think about the whole "bear rape" rumor? It seemed pretty ridiculous.
The fact that anyone would actually believe that there's a scene of a sexual nature between a bear and a man in this movie is obviously not laughable because the topic is not remotely funny, but it blows my mind that anyone actually believes that. It's kind of crazy and it's a shame because the visual effects team, Leo, the stunts, Alejandro, and everybody who worked so hard to create something as, I think, brilliant as that scene is and there's a cloud of silly hearsay hovering over it.
Was it challenging to shoot this film since it's a very intense drama unlike some of your past work, like We're the Millers?
Sometimes I've been more emotionally disturbed by the experience of shooting a comedy than a drama. After We're the Millers, I think playing this battered loser who's confidence was at zero for 90 percent of the movie, I did genuinely feel that way. I actually found We're the Millers one of the toughest, if I'm honest, least fun experiences of my life, which is weird. It was such a huge opportunity for me to work with the people I worked with and I feel grateful to be apart of that, but it kind of messed me up. And with this, it was very tough and, emotionally, it was similar in that respect.
What was the biggest lesson you took away from this experience?
I think it reaffirmed something that I believed in and conceptually always had faith in which was that you're most effective when you work as a team. I love that about filmmaking. I stopped playing team sports at 15-16 because of acting. I think I find a kind of new team sport in filmmaking in a way. This was easily the hardest thing I think anyone in the cast or crew has ever done, and so we really relied on one another to get through it and achieve what we achieved.
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The Phantom Tollbooth - Newcomer, Carrie - A Permeable Life
Newcomer, Carrie - A Permeable Life
Miracles and magic in everyday life
A Permeable Life
Artist: Carrie Newcomer (www.carrienewcomer.com)
Label: Available Light Records
Length: 12 tracks/48 minutes
It's my loss that Carrie Newcomer's twelfth studio recording is only my second meeting, the first being The Geography of Light (2008). I have been enriched by each visit, which leads me to believe that becoming acquainted with her other works will bring further delight. If Newcomer is a stranger but you enjoy someone like David Wilcox, take the time to listen to the beauty and depth that this artist offers.
You might find yourself captivated by "Writing You a Letter" on A Permeable Life. The song conveys a sense of awe and mystery, especially in the music. Acoustic guitar, bass, keyboard, light percussion and violin combine in a way that hints at what is below the surface. Newcomer sings, "I'm a stranger here, I'm only passing through/But every place I go leaves its own tattoo," while the chugging pace provides a sense of journey. This train is bound for glory but don't expect to remain unchanged along the way.
The sublime sounds make the world seem rife with possibilities. It is my favorite track for the feeling that it conveys. It's not often that a song can help me experience what cannot be completely named. It's "miracles and magic."
Actually, you find similar moments throughout this release. I know that along with stellar musicianship it is Newcomer's Quaker background that brings such richness. The lovely prose and melodies are enhanced by the finger-picking that drives these songs.
Newcomer lightens the mood on "Room at the Table," which invites all to partake of a bounty enough for everyone. "Forever Ray" celebrates a lifelong love that endures through the sunset years. The closing "Please Don't Put Me on Hold" is Newcomer's humor in full bloom. Anyone who has endured automated answering systems should be able to relate.
As I write these next words, it is now the early hours of Easter. Christ rose not as a mere phantom but as flesh and blood. This has ever been the hope of the follower of Jesus: the resurrection of the body!
Christianity is incarnate from Advent to the empty tomb. It is concrete spirituality in the form of relationship. I find these two aspects beautifully embodied on "Abide," the perfect end of day song.
The chorus invites shared presence:
"Oh abide with me
Where it's breathless and its empty
Yes abide with me
And we'll pass the evening gently
Stay awake with me
And we'll listen more intently
To something wordless and remaining
Sure and ever changing
In the quietness of now."
What is sure and ever changing?
"There is living water
A spirit cutting through
Always changing, always making
All things new."
Newcomer never needs to preach. Throughout this release she sets her faith in the context of human interactions. It's delicately worked into every line of struggles and joys. This is not rugged individualism but a lifestyle built on the revelation disclosed in "Visitation" that there "is a hope that won't let go." It dawned on Resurrection Sunday and shines to the full light of day.
Lately, I have moments where I long for a renewed sense of wonder. Such a desire is continually obscured by the pace of life and the world's many distractions. Newcomer's work is like an ally helping me to find meaning not only in the burning bush but in every grain of sand. Let me be awe-inspired even in the commonplace. As Newcomer puts it, "To live permeably is to be open-hearted and audacious, to risk showing up as our truest self, and embracing a willingness to be astonished."


Save the Dunes, Shirley Heinze Land Trust, and the Dunes Learning Center have received a Chi-Cal Rivers Fund grant for $275,000 to implement restoration and species inventory projects at several Shirley Heinze Land Trust sites and a restoration project at the Dunes Learning Center in partnership with NIPSCO.
This project will advance efforts to enhance ecological health and recreational opportunities along the East Branch of the Little Calumet River (EBLC). Access opportunities will be improved at Shirley Heinze Land Trust's Sand Creek Nature Preserve through trail improvements and the installation of signage and a parking lot. Hands-on educational opportunities at the Dunes Learning Center will increase through inviting camp-visitors to participate in the stewardship of a 200-acre restoration project that will be initiated through this project. A partnership with NIPSCO will allow Dunes Learning Center and the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore to maximize the impact of their restoration by managing the adjacent right-of-way for invasive species. Efforts to restore protected land along the EBLC corridor will be enhanced through vegetation surveys that will help guide long-term maintenance and management along the Little Calumet River Conservation Corridor and ensure that restoration projects are based on the best available science and information.
This project will advance efforts currently underway by Save the Dunes, Shirley Heinze Land Trust, Dunes Learning Center, National Park Service, Northwest Indiana Paddling Association, and many other partners to restore riparian habitat and improve public access along the EBLC. In 2017, this partnership opened 8 miles of the EBLC to paddlers through logjam removal and over 200 acres of habitat has been restored along the river corridor. In 2018, canoe/kayak launches will be installed at two Shirley Heinze Land Trust Properties, Wykes-Plampin Nature Preserve and Keith Richard Walner Nature Preserve, and potentially additional sites along the river corridor. All of these activities have occurred thanks to the generous support of the Chi-Cal Rivers Fund Partners through the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. We look forward to continuing our work to celebrate and enhance the EBLC and thank our generous funders for their support!


I like to write posts that sometimes have no purpose other than to entertain my readers and bring back good memories. So today's post is dedicated to those of us born in the late 80's (I was 1986) that grew up in the 90's and remember all things... well... 90's.
Hey Dude, Salute Your Shorts, Legends of the Hidden Temple, Rugrats, Doug, Ahh! Real Monsters, and soooo much more. Do you remember Stick Stickly? I do! I even have his address memorized because of the way he'd sing it at the end of each show. "Send it to me, Stick Stickly, PO Box 963, New York City, New York State, 10108!" Do you remember Face?? I loved him!!! He was a goofball!! And I also loved Little Bear, Franklin the Turtle, and a plethora of other things that I only remember when I see them. TV was the shiiiiit back then! Long live Blues Clues!
Skip it was awesome, what a simple way to stay active for hours. I also loved my Razor scooter. And when I was stuck inside I loved Simon, Trouble, and Bop It. It's the simple things in life.
Babysitters Club and Goosebumps. Ohhhhh yea!!!
For some reason, my favorite thing was the little jelly jars that had animals on them that you could use as tiny glasses anytime you wanted a drink.
They were so corny but so exciting. I was a power ranger one year and a barbie another year. Both times I wore a plastic mask that nearly suffocated me but yet I still kept it on.
In my "hood" there would be 15-20 of us every night that ran around the neighborhood. We were all different ages but no one cared. We ran through peoples yards and they didn't even mind. We stayed out till the street lights came on and our feet and hands were green from grass stains. Those were the freakin' days man. We all knew where everyone was by where their bike was parked, too!
Back then, scrunchies were cool and you wouldn't get made fun of for wearing them. Also cool were the butterfly clips and barretts.
Yep - Jonathan Taylor Thomas - YUM!
These were like "THE" cool thing to be able to play with. I sucked at it but it was still fun to collect all the different designs.
Sigh....do you feel that? That's the sense of nostalgia coming back. Hey, atleast we have the memories.
What else do you remember from back in the 90's?
I was also born in 86- 100% yes to all of these. Skip it, especially. I hated when the counter was off! The worst! Haha!
I know id get so mad about the counter hha!


Visualize the scene at the beginning of Tin Cup when Renee Russo shows up for a lesson from Roy McAvoy, played by Kevin Costner, a down and out professional at a down and out driving range.
The multiple devices Russo put on looked like something from the Marquis de Sade's closet and though perhaps a little overdone for dramatic effect, it did get the idea across beautifully.
Golfers will try just about anything to get better. Unfortunately very few devices or swing aids are worth the investment especially over the long term. A bewildering array have come and gone making a sure testament to the ingenuity of golfers.
Now, having said all that, buy a Swingclick. It's simple. It works.
Swingclick helps correct a problem shared by the great majority of golfers, namely not swinging with the proper tempo. They swing out of sync, never "setting the club on top" which robs clubhead speed, contributes to off center hits, glancing impact and a host of other shot-making disasters including the most common of all…the dreaded slice.
Swingclick shows you how to fix your tempo. It's simply a weight on a slide that straps to the left forearm. Swing back to the top, wait for the click of the weight hitting the end of the slide then swing down through the ball listening for a second click at impact and on to the follow through for a third click.
When you begin using Swingclick you will probably hear the first click after the start of the downswing revealing you rushed the transition from backswing to downswing plus if the second click comes before the clubhead hits the ball you've released too early.
Used prior a round it helps smooth out your swing and strike the ball more solidly plus it's ideal should you want to practice on the course.
Swingclick received industry kudos at the 2015 PGA Merchandise Show and a number of teaching professionals are already having their students "strap it on." Find more information at swingclickgolf.com where it can be purchased for $29.95 and it is also available on amazon.com.


Tommy Manotoc, the athlete who secretly married the daughter of Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos, was rescued six weeks after his kidnapping. The abduction was a major embarrassment for President Marcos because of widespread speculation that he might have been behind the abduction.
At a press conference Mr. Manotoc, who married Imee Marcos in the United States Dec. 29, said his kidnappers identified themselves as members of the Communist New People's Army.
The President opposed his daughter's marriage to Manotoc, a divorced basketball coach and amateur boxer.


Much loved Wife of Col (dec'd). Loved Mother of Michael, Colleen, Kathleen, Anthony and Geraldine. Adored Nanna and Big Nanna to their families.
Family and Friends are respectfully invited to celebrate and honour Veronica's life at Holy Trinity Catholic Church, St Vincents Rd, Banyo on Wednesday the 10th of April 2019 at 11 am, to be followed by interment within the Nudgee Cemetery.


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Avera Medical Minute: Giving Sioux Falls youth a space to play soccer
By Jill Langland |
Posted: Fri 9:56 AM, Nov 30, 2018 |
Updated: Fri 10:04 AM, Nov 30, 2018
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KSFY) - It's no surprise that the world's most popular sport, soccer, found its way to Sioux Falls.
But, playing the game can be difficult, especially when several months throughout the year it's too cold to go outside. Now, a partnership with Avera has changed the "game" for many young adults in Sioux Falls.
"I love everything," Anwar Ibrahim, soccer player, said. "Just joy, you know, two hours or one hour that I just enjoy and be myself."
For Ibrahim, soccer has been part of his life for 13 years. But, that passion and love used to be put on hold during the winter months until the partnership with Brian Pederson, a professional soccer player, and Avera began.
"We're going into our second year now and what we have is a group of players that want to play all the time and they want to train all the time," Pederson, the founder of the Avera Soccer Academy, said. "So, we put up a program where five days a week we have them in here, where they're doing skill work, playing and they fitness and strengthening conditioning."
With being the world's most popular sport, all the players come from different backgrounds.
"We have over 20 languages here, 20 different cultures the common ground is playing and then we just add these other pieces into it to put together a proper football or soccer center," Pederson said. "That's really all that I'm doing. The passion, the competitiveness, the discipline, the commitment all of that's in place we're just putting an added layer to it to make it a professional setting. And these kids crave that.
"There's so many players from different countries, and there's so many styles of play and Brian has put a program where we can all share one thing that we love," Ibrahim said. "So, we feel at home every time we come here."
For Pederson, his goal is to help the players by spending time with them and getting to know them.
"That's what I'm doing, and so it can go a lot of different ways," Pederson said. "But, it's always going to be dictated off of the players. It's a players' game, and we've got to serve the players."
And the lessons don't stop once the whistle blows, many players feel they can go up to Pederson and get his opinion if they have a problem on or off the field. To create this community feel was the real goal all along.
"They come by every day of the week and train hard and work hard, have great manners, developing real relationships," Pederson said. "I think slowly but surely it's organically changing lives, I believe that."
"We are a family, big family," Ibrahim said.
The Avera Soccer Academy is completely free and runs Monday through Friday and has open play on the weekends.
For more information, you can visit avera.org.
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Damon Albarn, Rita Ora, Jarvis Cocker and Ed Sheeran among UK musicians to sign open letter against Brexit
The letter to Theresa May circulated by Bob Geldof warned that the UK could become "a cultural jail"
By Andrew Trendell
Damon Albarn, Rita Ora, Jarvis Cocker and Ed Sheeran
Damon Albarn, Rita Ora, Jarvis Cocker and Ed Sheeran are among the UK music names to have signed an open letter to Prime Minister Theresa May in protest of Brexit.
The letter was drafted by Sir Bob Geldof and also signed by the likes of Brian Eno, Bobby Gillespie, Johnny Marr, Nick Mason, Alan McGee, William Orbit, Neil Tennant, Roger Taylor, Paul Simon and Sting.
The damning warning claims that the UK music industry's "vast voice" would be silenced inside a "self-built cultural jail" should Britain leave the EU. Calling for a move "towards a second vote", the letter claims that a "botched Brexit" would "impact every aspect of the music industry. From touring to sales, to copyright legislation to royalty collation".
"We dominate the market and our bands, singers, musicians, writers, producers and engineers work all over Europe and the world and in turn, Europe and the world come to us," the letter reads. "Why? Because we are brilliant at it … [Our music] reaches out, all inclusive, and embraces anyone and everyone. And that truly is what Britain is."
"But Brexit threatens, as it does so much else, this vast voice. This huge global cultural influencer. We are about to make a very serious mistake regarding our giant industry and the vast pool of yet undiscovered genius that lives on this little island."
This comes after a similar warning from British Phonographic Industry (BPI) last month.
The BPI said that a "strong" agreement with the EU is needed to ensure that the financial impact of music imports and exports is not negatively impacted by Britain's EU exit.
This is after the BPI revealed record exports for 2017 – an eighteen year high of £408m. When broken down, the figures show that one in eight albums purchased across the globe in 2017 was by a UK artist.
Stressing the importance of a strong Brexit deal, BPI chief executive Geoff Taylor said: "Our music not only enriches the lives of fans around the world, it makes a major contribution to the UK economy through overseas sales and by attracting numerous visitors to the UK.
"With Brexit approaching, music can help to showcase what is exciting about the UK as we forge new trading relationships, but only if our government supports us by ensuring a strong Brexit deal that enables artists to tour freely, robustly protects music rights, and prevents physical music products being impeded in transit."


On the brink of new agreements, the North American and Costa Rican Chamber of Commerce urges the Costa Rican government to align with the US government policies in order to improve trades as Trump intends to help some American companies out of financial straits and trade deficit.
Many political activities were carried out in a manner of celebrating the 100th day of Trump's presidency tenure. Costa Rica didn't refuse to participate in these activities and had an important role in the last business conference that took place in San Jose some days ago, specifically last April 28th. That day was very important since the country committed to working accordingly with the alignments of the new American government to attain future progress while president Trump tries to steer some companies to the right track.
The meeting aimed to get analyst and politicians together in order to size up business development in the middle of a financial turmoil.
It is known that Costa Rica has many ties with the American business, for that reason, AmCham decided to participate in the important event in hopes of finding solutions and strategies to boost improvement in the business sector considering the new changes that Trump's cabinet is about to introduce.
The chamber is aware of looming threats in the business realm, but they consider threats as opportunities to exploit to the maximum providing that the company leaders stay alerted and informed.
All the conference centered about Trump's agenda as it is expected to keep aligned with the paradigms of the new American government. AmCham, the Costa Rican company reps had previously had a meeting with Trump's administration in Washington D.C. The company is looking to continue providing the US with agricultural products difficult to grow in the American territory. That improves both Costa Rica and America's outlooks as they have been continuously cooperating with each other.
It is important to remark that almost 40% of direct investment in Costa Rica comes from the North American country. Hence the concern of AmCham and other Costa Rican firms, since the new governmental administration is aiming to focus on a partnership with Russia and China, leaving the Central American region aside in the quest for a new geo-strategic approach. This new approach is prompting the world to shift in the same direction.
During the forum, Whiteman, AmCham executive, personally went to Washington D.C to talk with members of Trump's administration and stated that the new cabinet is not pretending to go ahead with CAFTA (the Central America – U.S Free Trade Agreement) agreements, thus it's a must to take measures to cushion the impact of the new decisions or at least try to get the country adapted to the new reality.
He also pointed out that there is no reason to believe in a new paradigm change that favors Costa Rica in the next four years and that the financial approach may affect the entire Central American region.
The entire Central American region including Costa Rica must stay alert to a rise in inflation rates and imbalances in interest rates which, in the same way, might bring on higher prices in the market of goods.
Immigration: Costa Rica doesn't represent a threat to the US in this aspect. Actually, Costa Rica sounds as the perfect destination for most American retirees.
New bills for Call center: not a problem for Costa Rica either.
With AmCham's participation in the international forum, AmCham brings in a new understanding of the political and financial approach of Trump's administration.
The definite conclusion of making ways to prevent abrupt financial turmoil in the event of new changes and bills.
The forum helped nail down strategies for Costa Rica business to adapt to the new reality.
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An Indian hospital, in a breakthrough, implants a Bio-Resorbable Vascular Scaffold (BVS) in a patient. Once the vessel heals, the scaffold starts dissolving in heart artery.
The doctors in India have announced about their competence in implanting soluble stent. This is a progressive procedure to unclog the heart arteries. BVS, a revolutionary device, opens a clogged vessel and restores blood flow. The device also provides support while it heals. As the bio-resorbable scaffold slowly metabolized and finally dissolves forming water and carbon dioxide in the body.
What's At Stake Cardiovascular Disease is one major cause of death globally. A survey also predicts that by 2030, about 2.36 crore people, every year, will die from cardiovascular disease. The increase in number of deaths will be seen in the South-East region of Asia.
But What Is BVS? BVS is a very unique device used for the CAD (coronary artery disease) treatment. This device operates by restoring blood flow to the heart alike to a metallic stent. But, as this dissolves into the body, the treated vessel resume more natural movement and function as there is no permanent metallic stent. The vessel may contract and expand as according to the requirement of flow of blood to the heart during normal activities like exercising. Therefore, diagnostic and treatment options are widened. The requirement for long-term treatment through anti-clotting medications may be eliminated and future treatment would be possible by a permanent implant.


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Iran's top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh assassinated near Tehran Updated: 2020-11-28 12:42:29 KST
Iran's top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was assassinated near the capital Tehran on Friday.
The Iranian state-run media IRNA reported that he had been assassinated in a terror attack in which the sound of an explosion was followed by gun shots, according to witnesses.
Fakhrizadeh is known to have led the development of Iran's secret nuclear weapons that started in 1999 and halted in 2003.
The UN speculated in their 2011 report that he could still be trying to acquire technology for nuclear weapon development.
Iran's foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif tweeted that Israel could be behind the attack and that such a cowardly act is a war provocation.
He also urged global society, especially the EU, to drop their embarrassing double standards, and denounce such terror.
The U.S. and Israel's defense ministry did not comment on his death.


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Microsoft Wallet Is Now Microsoft Pay
By Fahad Ali • Nov 15, 2017 at 10:33am • Microsoft, Windows 10
Microsoft Wallet Is Now Microsoft Pay Fahad Ali Nov 15, 2017 at 10:33am Nov 15, 2017 at 10:33am
And, we have another rename! Microsoft Wallet may have been the name of the credit card manager in Windows 98, but the company evolved it into the Wallet app for Windows Phone 8.
It regained its full name in Windows 10 Mobile.
But now, the software titan is, once again, changing the name of the app. Out goes Microsoft Wallet, and in comes Microsoft Pay. Rest of the functionality remains the same, including support for the Payment Request API that the company introduced in the Creators Update.
As noted, the Edge web browser is still at the center here.
The rebrand of the service has the minimum installation requirement of build 16299 or version 1709, which is more commonly known as the Fall Creators Update. And the sad thing here is that since the mobile OS never reached this build, it does not work on Windows 10 Mobile.
Other than that, Microsoft Pay still restricts things to Microsoft Edge, and websites that support the Payment Request API that this app uses.
Additionally, just like its predecessor, the Tap to Pay functionality is restricted to the US market at this time. Goes without saying that the usage of this feature is very much limited to a select group of users, but one can only hope that things pick up from here now that the rebrand is in place.
What about you guys? Have you used Microsoft Wallet to make purchases and buy things online?
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US, North Korea offer dueling accounts of talks breakdown HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — The U.S. and North Korea offered contradictory…
US, North Korea offer dueling accounts of talks breakdown
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — The U.S. and North Korea offered contradictory accounts Thursday of why the summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un broke down, though both pointed to punishing American sanctions as a sticking point in the high-stakes nuclear negotiation.
President Trump, who returned to the White House Thursday night, said before leaving Hanoi that the talks collapsed because North Korea's leader insisted that all the sanctions the U.S. has imposed on Pyongyang be lifted without the North firmly committing to eliminate its nuclear arsenal.
But North Korea challenged that account, insisting it had asked only for partial sanctions relief in exchange for shutting down its main nuclear complex. Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho commented on the talks during an abruptly scheduled middle-of-the-night news conference after Trump was in the air.
Ri said the North was also ready to offer in writing a permanent halt of the country's nuclear and intercontinental ballistic missile tests and Washington had wasted an opportunity that "may not come again." He said the North's position won't change even if the United States offers to resume another round of dialogue.
Later, a senior U.S. official involved in the negotiations offered some clarification, saying the North wanted all sanctions, except for those involving weapons sales and transfers, to be lifted in exchange for the dismantlement of parts of the Yongbyon nuclear site. The official was not authorized to discuss the negotiations publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
The Art of the Walk? Summit collapse and Trump's diplomacy
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — President Donald Trump framed the breakdown of his nuclear summit with North Korea's Kim Jong Un as wisely knowing when "to walk." But the stunning collapse revealed the limits of his unique brand of personal diplomacy and raised concerns about future efforts to disarm a global threat.
Eyeing the history books and a much-needed political victory, Trump bet big on the two-day Vietnam summit only to be forced to explain away its sudden failure.
The president and North Korea gave conflicting explanations of what went wrong, though the result actually was a relief to some critics and even some Trump supporters who feared he might give too much away in pursuit of a deal.
Trump, the businessman who was elected in part on his boasts of deal-making prowess, said a proposed agreement was "ready to be signed." But he said he refused to accept what he described as North Korean insistence that all U.S. sanctions be lifted without the North committing to eliminate its nuclear arsenal.
"I'd much rather do it right than do it fast," the president said. "We're in position to do something very special."
Democrats eye new inquiries, witnesses after Cohen testimony
WASHINGTON (AP) — After three days of grilling Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former lawyer, Democrats are quickly using his words as a roadmap to open new lines of investigation into the president's ties to Russia and summon additional witnesses.
Cohen completed a third day of testimony on Capitol Hill Thursday, one day after publicly branding his former boss a racist and a con man who lied about business dealings in Russia and directed him to conceal extramarital relationships. He was interviewed behind closed doors by the House Intelligence Committee for more than eight hours.
As he left the House intelligence interview, Cohen said he would be returning to Capitol Hill on March 6 for another round of questioning with that panel.
The weeklong gauntlet of interviews with Cohen launched what is expected to be months of investigations of Trump and those connected to him. Multiple Democrat-led House committees are pledging to investigate not only Trump's campaign's ties to Russia, which are also the subject of special counsel Robert Mueller's probe, but presidential conflicts of interest, possible money laundering and other oversight matters that Democrats say were ignored under GOP control.
House Intelligence Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff called the closed-door session with Cohen productive and said lawmakers were able to "drill down in great detail" on issues they are investigating. Another Democratic committee member, California Rep. Eric Swalwell, said Cohen "has been asked, based on a lot of new evidence we learned today, to bring corroborating materials that he believes he has."
Many view 'black friend defense' as a tired, hollow argument
Kelly Darden Jr. still remembers one of the first times he experienced the "black friend defense."
Back in high school, a group of white classmates dressed in Confederate-inspired clothing as part of a social club called the "Rebel Rousers" and insisted they weren't racist when confronted because some of them knew Darden, who is black.
"It was insulting," the 64-year-old Greenville, North Carolina, man recalled Thursday. "I was insulted by it even when it was occurring."
Darden and countless other African-Americans have experienced variations of the "black friend defense" — saying that a person can't be racist because of the color of the company he keeps — for generations. And the trope played out in front of a national TV audience this week as Republican Rep. Mark Meadows defended President Donald Trump against testimony by Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen , who claimed the president is racist. Meadows, of North Carolina, quickly sent social media into a frenzy when he pointed to Lynne Patton, a black Trump administration staffer, and said Patton never would tolerate working for a racist .
Many consider the "black friend defense" a tired and hollow argument.
Trump border emergency foes close in on needed Senate votes
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate opponents of President Donald Trump's declaration of a national emergency at the Mexican border moved within a hair Thursday of having enough votes to prevail, and one Republican suggested he risks a rebuff by the GOP-led chamber if he doesn't change course.
Trump's move would "turn a border crisis into a constitutional crisis," veteran Sen. Lamar Alexander said on the Senate floor. But he stopped just short of saying he'd support a resolution blocking the president's move. Had Alexander pledged his vote, it would probably be enough for the Senate to pass a measure repealing the emergency declaration.
Speaking later to reporters, Alexander, R-Tenn., warned what might happen if Trump doesn't settle for using other money he can access without declaring an emergency.
"He can build a wall and avoid a dangerous precedent and I hope he'll do that," Alexander said. "So that would change the voting situation if he would agree to do that."
The Democratic-led House voted Tuesday to upend Trump's declaration, which he declared to circumvent Congress and funnel billions of extra dollars to erecting his proposed wall.
Report says Trump demanded top-secret clearance for Kushner
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump last year ordered officials to grant top-secret security clearance to his son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner, according to a report published Thursday by The New York Times.
Kushner was granted the high-level clearance last May after a lengthy background check.
The Times, citing anonymous sources, said Trump demanded Kushner's clearance despite the concerns of intelligence officials, then-Chief of Staff John Kelly and then-White House counsel Don McGahn.
The newspaper said Kelly wrote in an internal memo that he had been "ordered" to give top-secret clearance to Kushner. McGahn wrote a memo in which he advised against such clearance.
Peter Mirijanian, a spokesman for Kushner lawyer Abbe Lowell, responded Thursday to the Times story with a statement, saying: "In 2018, White House and security clearance officials affirmed that Mr. Kushner's security clearance was handled in the regular process with no pressure from anyone. That was conveyed to the media at the time, and new stories, if accurate, do not change what was affirmed at the time."
Pakistan ready to hand over Indian pilot amid more shelling
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan is preparing to hand over a captured Indian pilot as shelling continued for a third night across the disputed Kashmir border even as the two nuclear-armed neighbors seek to defuse the most serious confrontation in two decades.
Tens of thousands of Indian and Pakistani soldiers face off against each other along the disputed Himalayan border known as the Line of Control in one of the world most volatile regions.
Tensions have been running high since Indian aircraft crossed into Pakistan on Tuesday. Pakistan retaliated, shooting down two Indian aircraft and capturing a pilot.
World leaders have scrambled to head off an all-out war on the Asian subcontinent.
Saudi Arabia's foreign minister is expected in Islamabad later Friday.
California residents survey damage as historic floods recede
GUERNEVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Tom Orr began moving lyrics and scripts, clothes and photo albums from his apartment as authorities ordered evacuations along a rising Northern California river threatening to hit a historic crest.
But the actor and writer couldn't move costumes, computers and performance videos. So he shifted those to his loft bed about 10 feet up and prayed they would survive. On Wednesday, television news footage showed muddy brown water nearly swallowing his ground-level unit and much of the tiny town of Guerneville, part of Sonoma County's famed wine country and a popular tourist destination.
Residents awoke Thursday to sunshine and began assessing the damage while the water started receding. Orr, 48, was among those still unable to get into his house after the rain-swollen Russian River reached nearly 46 feet (14 meters) Wednesday night, its highest level in more than 20 years.
"I feel so helpless just sitting here and waiting before I can go back and start salvaging whatever I can," Orr said in text messages to The Associated Press before preparing for a friend to take him by canoe to work at the Main Street Bistro, one of the few places in town that did not flood.
Sonoma County officials said they expected the communities of Guerneville and Monte Rio to be accessible by car Friday. The two-day storm rendered the towns reachable only by boat on Wednesday.
YouTube suspends comments on videos of kids
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — YouTube said Thursday it will turn off comments on nearly all videos featuring kids — potentially affecting millions of posts on the site — after reports last week that pedophiles were leaving inappropriate comments on innocuous videos of children.
The change comes as YouTube grapples with moderating content across its platform as concerns about hate speech, violence and conspiracy theories continue to plague it.
It will take YouTube several months to disable comments on all videos featuring minors, the company said. It already started the process last week when it turned off comments from tens of millions of videos.
Advertisers including Nestle, AT&T and Fortnite-maker Epic Games pulled ads from YouTube last week after the inappropriate comments about children were unearthed by a popular YouTuber and media reports. At least one company, Nestle, was satisfied with YouTube's response and reinstated ads late last week.
A small number of channels which have videos featuring kids will be allowed to keep comments turned on. But they must be known to YouTube and must actively monitor the comments beyond the standard monitoring tools YouTube provides.
Paying full Bryce: Harper, Phils agree to record $330M deal
NEW YORK (AP) — It took a long time and a lot of money, but the Philadelphia Phillies finally landed Bryce Harper with a record contract.
The young star outfielder and the Phillies agreed Thursday to a $330 million, 13-year contract, the largest deal in baseball history.
Harper's agent, California-based Scott Boras, said the deal was agreed to at 10:34 a.m. PST, subject to a successful physical.
Phillies manager Gabe Kapler and his players learned of the agreement from fans behind Philadelphia's dugout who saw media reports on their mobile devices during a spring training game in Clearwater, Florida.
"If the reports are true, it's a huge moment for our baseball team," Kapler said. "Certainly I think that the city of Philadelphia would embrace Bryce Harper. I think he would be very happy in this city because our fans care deeply about winning."
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Teachers' Comments: As much family drama as golf movie.
Golf fans are no doubt familiar with the basic story. Old Tom Morris was the first true club pro, developing innovations in greens keeping, club building and course architecture (laying out Carnoustie, Cruden Bay, Muirfield, Royal County Down, Royal Dornoch among 60+ others) that make many consider him the Founding Father of the modern sport. Young Tom was a playing prodigy who won his first Open Championship at age 17, and went on to win four times in a row.
What many do not know is that their story is — at its core — a tragedy. I won't go into the details on the off chance that it would be a spoiler for readers who do not already know the story. I will say, however, that the movie left Mrs. GolfBlogger in tears.
Tommy's Honour is directed by Jason Connery (son of Sean), and stars Peter Mulligan as Old Tom and Jack Lowden as Young Tom. Sam Neil appears as the nominal villain who tries to stand in the way of Young Tom's efforts to become a professional athlete. All put in great performances.
It strikes me that sports movies generally fall into four broad categories: comedies (Caddyshack, Bad News Bears); competitions (The Greatest Game, Rocky, Hoosiers); romances (Bull Durham, Tin Cup, Jerry Magure) and character studies (Raging Bull, Brian's Song). A few manage to straddle two or more of those.
Tommy's Honour falls squarely in the character study category. The dramatic tension in this movie is generated not from competition, but from the conflict between father and son; mother and son; mother and daugher-in-law; family and the town; lower class and upper class. It also has shades of the romance with the love story between Young Tom and Meg, a somewhat older servant girl. That's part of what made Mrs. Golfblogger cry.
There is, of course, golf. Few would care about the troubles of a Scottish Victorian era working class family were it not for the championship golf. In scenes throughout the movie we see Old Tom and Young Tom in various competitions against the likes of Willie and Mungo Park, their chief rivals in those years. Young Tom is also shown in various exhibition matches, which generated considerable income. As a playing professional golfer, Young Tom earned as much in a month as most working class families earned in a year.
The golf scenes in Tommy's Honour are understated, though. There are no shots from the golf ball's point of view as it screams down the fairway. There are no super slow motion closeups of balls lipping out or rattling into the cup.
What golf the movie shows strikes me as authentic. Players use sand to tee it up. Their shots do not travel particularly far. Fairways are little more than pastures. Greens are cut to the the length of today's fairways (perhaps even longer). Balls pop off putter faces, and bounce over uneven ground toward the hole. I cannot for the life of me figure out how anyone holed a ball from further than two feet under those conditions.
Courses in the movie are raw and primitive. And yet, the movie also shows how Old Tom was taking the first steps toward modern course management and design. In one scene, he and Young Tom are pulling gorse from the ground to make the field more playable. In another, Old Tom is laying out a course, describing his proposed hole as "two longs and a short." The fairway's path was marked with long feathers for cutting by workmen.
As the jobs of club pro, grounds keeper and course designer were being defined by Old Tom, Young Tom was defining the idea of professional player. His efforts brought him into conflict with upper class "gentlemen," who saw the likes of the Morrises as little more than servants. A great deal is made of Young Tom's efforts to trade on his golf skills for a living in the face of resistance from the upper class. Young Tom's romance with Meg also shows the class differences between middlin' Morrises and those they thought beneath them, even as they were beneath the gentry.
Tommy's Honour is beautifully shot, with stark Scottish landscapes and appropriately quaint looking towns. The costumes also hit the mark for me. My only thought is that people of the time likely were a bit more dirty than they appeared in the movie.
Tommy's Honor was for me a great experience and well worth the price of admission.
Strongly recommended for golf fans. Mostly recommended for non golfers.


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LAssociazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Città di Montesilvano Calcio a 5 è stata una squadra italiana di calcio a 5 con sede a Montesilvano, in provincia di Pescara.

È l'unica formazione italiana ad essersi laureata campione d'Europa, avendo vinto la Coppa UEFA (stagione 2010-11). A luglio 2017 la società ha annunciato la rinuncia alla partecipazione ai campionati nazionali.

Storia

Le origini: Pescara e Angolana

La squadra nasce nel 1984 grazie all'impegno di Oreste Pellegrini e Walter Recinella, iniziando dal campionato regionale di Serie C. Durante la stagione 1989-90 viene promossa alla Serie B nazionale; inizialmente vi rinuncia per problemi di copertura finanziaria, ma grazie a nuovi sponsor la squadra rimaneggiata prende parte al campionato di B. Nella stagione 1990-1991 si guadagna il passaggio in serie A. Nel 1993 la società effettua una fusione con la Virtus Serena di Città Sant'Angelo, formando la Polisportiva Virtus Pescara, (tecnico Enzo Trombetta che divenne allenatore della Nazionale), il suo primo presidente fu Vincenzo Marinelli a cui nel 1995 subentrerà Domenico De Berardinis. Durante la stagione 1995-96 arriva la qualificazione alla terza fase dei play-off, eliminata poi dalla Lazio anche se la prima partita terminò in parità (2-2). Nel 1996 la Virtus Pescara effettua una nuova fusione con la Angolana Sport chiamandosi Polisportiva Angolana, la squadra si trasferisce da Città Sant'Angelo al PalaRigopiano di Pescara, rimanendo in Serie A nella stagione 1997-98 ai danni del Vesuvio Napoli, concludendo all'undicesimo posto. Nel luglio 1999 la FIGC denomina la squadra A.S. Calcio a 5 Pescara e si annoverano i primi giocatori stranieri: Vicentini, Giustozzi, Petillo. La squadra conquista i playoff scudetto eliminata al secondo turno dal Genzano. Il nuovo allenatore è Gerry Berardi, un ex giocatore a lui succederà Andrea Valente, con lui si arriverà al primo trofeo: il 30 maggio 2001 vince la Coppa Italia Under 21 e si ripete nella Final Four proprio a Pescara il 10 e 11 giugno vincendo il campionato ai danni dell'Augusta di Adriano Foglia. Solo grazie ad un ripescaggio il Pescara continua la sua permanenza nel campionato di serie A durante l'edizione 2002-03, il nuovo tecnico Fabián López, e i nuovi giocatori (fra cui l'italo-brasiliano Eduardo Morgado, l'argentino Marcelo Giménez) faranno terminare l'anno con i play-off.

Il trasferimento a Montesilvano
Nella stagione 2003-04 alcuni problemi legati all'omologazione del PalaRigopiano fanno in modo che la società si trasferisca a Montesilvano, chiamandosi Città di Montesilvano Calcio a 5. In quell'anno arrivano a giocare la finale della Coppa Italia dopo aver eliminato l'Augusta ed il Perugia Calcio a 5, ma perde ai supplementari con il Prato. In campionato la squadra abruzzese giunge terza. Dopo la morte di Corrado Roma, l'amministrazione comunale di Montesilvano decide di intitolare il Palamazzocco al giocatore e allenatore. Il Montesilvano si qualifica per la Final Eight, verrà eliminata dal Prato con il punteggio di 3-2.

La squadra allenata da Fulvio Colini nella successiva stagione si presenta come una delle pretendenti al titolo di Campione D'Italia, oltre all'ottimo girone di andata chiuso al terzo posto, il Montesilvano il 19 marzo conquista la Coppa Italia battendo per 1-0 la Luparense Calcio a 5 con una rete di Junior al 4' del secondo tempo su assist del nazionale Eduardo Morgado. Si tratta del primo trofeo nella storia della formazione abruzzese che prima di questo momento aveva trionfato solo nella categoria Under 21.

All'inizio della stagione 2007-08 il Montesilvano, dopo una gara giocata in grande stile, cede ai tempi supplementari alla Luparense per 5-3, dando l'addio al sogno di mettere in bacheca la prima Supercoppa nazionale, gli abruzzesi, nel corso della gara giocata a San Martino di Lupari, erano rimasti in vantaggio per 3-2 fino a 5 minuti dalla fine dei tempi regolamentari.

Il Montesilvano dopo due stagioni ad alto livello inizia la stagione 2009-10 nella pattuglia delle squadre di alto livello; raggiunge la seconda piazza in campionato e ribalta il fattore campo laureandosi Campione d'Italia per la prima volta battendo a Conegliano la Marca per 6-1.

Nel 2010 a Montesilvano i trevigiani si impongono per 3 a 0 sui padroni di casa che perdono per la seconda volta la possibilità di vincere la supercoppa italiana. A dicembre vince il girone dell'élite-round della Coppa UEFA imbattuto, qualificandosi così alla final four di Almaty.

Nel 2011 per la prima volta nella sua storia si laurea campione d'Europa vincendo la Coppa UEFA sconfiggendo in semifinale la squadra campione d'Europa nell'edizione precedente, il Benfica per 3 a 0, ed in finale lo Sporting Lisbona con un sonoro 5-2. Con questo storico successo è diventata la prima squadra italiana ad aggiudicarsi l'ambito trofeo. Il Montesilvano ha concluso la regular season al terzo posto (pari punti con la Lazio), mentre l'avventura nei play-off si conclude il 25 maggio al PalaMazzalovo, perdendo così la possibilità di giocare la sua terza finale consecutiva, dopo aver perso gara 2 con la Marca Futsal 5-3 e aver pareggiato al PalaRoma 0 a 0 gara 1.
Il Montesilvano conclude la stagione al terzo posto con la Luparense, sconfitta in semifinale dal Pescara.

Nell'estate del 2013 i presidenti Iervolino (Città di Montesilvano) e Barbarossa (Acqua&Sapone) annunciano una unione di intenti che prevede il trasferimento della sede sociale nonché del campo di gioco dell'Acqua&Sapone a Montesilvano, la rinuncia del Città di Montesilvano all'iscrizione al campionato di serie A e la ripartenza dal campionato di Serie B, il trasferimento di Fabricio Calderolli, Cuzzolino e Mammarella dal Città di Montesilvano all'Acqua&Sapone, la scissione della formazione femminile del Città di Montesilvano in una nuova società indipendente, e l'apposizione dello sponsor Acqua&Sapone sulle maglie di tutti e tre i team. Per il nuovo corso la società si affida all'allenatore dell'Under-21 Gianluca Marzuoli a cui viene affidata una rosa formata dai confermati Júnior, Burato, Di Pietro e dagli acquisti di Piero Mazzocchetti dal CUS Chieti, di Andrei Bordignon e Douglas Correia dal Loreto Aprutino, mentre dalla Reggiana giunge Fernando Calderolli, fratello minore di Fabricio. Nella terza categoria nazionale il Città di Montesilvano inanella 20 vittorie consecutive in altrettante partite, conquistando con cinque giornate di anticipo la promozione in serie A2. La squadra mantiene lo stesso ruolino di marcia anche nella Coppa Italia di categoria, raccogliendo 5 vittorie che le assicurano la vittoria della manifestazione.

Nella stagione successiva in serie A2 i biancazzurri tornano in serie A battendo in finale play off il Pesarofano. In panchina prima Gianluca marzuoli e poi, da gennaio, Antonio Ricci. Il ritorno in serie A è dolce e vede il Montesilvano, da matricola, campione d'inverno. Nel girone di ritorno un fisiologico calo. Nei play off arriva una beffarda eliminazione nei quarti di finale a opera del Real Rieti.

Nell'estate 2016 il nuovo ritorno nel campionato cadetto, questa volta però con una squadra giovane e senza ambizioni di classifica; l'allenatore è di nuovo Gianluca Marzuoli. Nonostante le tante difficoltà arriva una salvezza in largo anticipo con la zona play off a pochi punti. È il canto del cigno. Il 19 luglio 2017 la società rinuncia all'iscrizione al campionato di serie B chiudendo così la sua gloriosa storia.

Rimane ancora attiva la sezione femminile, che disputa le partite presso il Palazzetto dello Sport Santa Filomena di Chieti.

Cronistoria

Colori e simboli

Colori
I colori storici del Montesilvano calcio a 5 sono il bianco e l'azzurro.

Stemma
Il simbolo del Montesilvano calcio a 5 è il gabbiano ("la caiana"), che compare anche nel logo societario.

Strutture

Palazzetto

Il Montesilvano, gioca le partite casalinghe al PalaRoma di Montesilvano.

Società

Organigramma

Sponsor

Palmarès

Competizioni nazionali

 2009-10

 2006-07

Competizioni internazionali

 2010-11

Competizioni giovanili

 2000-01

Statistiche e record

Note

Voci correlate
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