Sunday, August 23, 2015

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  • The Russian military has performed the successful launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile, part of the RS-12M Topol family, from the Kapustin Yar testing range in the southern Astrakhan region, TASS reported. The missile’s warhead hit the designated hypothetical target at the Sary-Shagan range in Kazakhstan “with the desired precision,”Russia’s Defense Ministry said in a statement. The launch was aimed at testing “promising combat equipment for intercontinental missiles,” the ministry added.
  • Belgian and French police officers will jointly patrol the trans-border high-speed Thalys trains on a regular basis, an emergency Belgian Security Council meeting decided, according to TASS. The decision was taken after phone conversations took place between French President Francois Hollande and Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel. The set of measures will also include tightened controls at railway terminals, strengthening cooperation with local police, and sample luggage inspections. The new measures take effect at the beginning of this weekend, said the Belgian Interior Ministry statement.
  • 15:12 GMT
    The death toll in the Kabul suicide car bombing has risen to 12, including three foreign contract workers and a woman. Sixty-six people were wounded in the blast, six women and five children among them, Afghanistan’s Health Ministry officials said. The suicide attack targeted a foreign convoy in a diplomatic district of the Afghan capital close to the US embassy and ISAF headquarters. EU ambassador to Afghanistan as well as the British embassy in Kabul have condemned the attack.
  • At least 20 people have been killed and dozens wounded in airstrikes launched by Syrian government forces on the Damascus suburb of Douma, AP reports citing the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights group. Other groups including the Local Coordination Committees and the Douma Revolution claim that 50 people have died in the strikes. The suburb hosts the Jaysh al-Islam rebel group, also known as the Islam Army. UN officials earlier condemned the government forces actions.
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British train workers go on strike

Train workers from First Great Western, a British train company that provides commuter and suburban services, went on strike on Sunday against the introduction of new trains. The strike was organized by theRMT union, which says the introduction of new Hitachi inter-city trains will lead to job losses, because buffet cars may be abolished. The union said it is also concerned over job security and passenger safety on board the new trains. According to First Great Western, they are “running 70 percent of our regular Sunday services but trains may be busy and there will be limited food and drink services on-board.”
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Dear friend
Andy Hall is a researcher who defends the rights of migrants in Thailand, including migrants from Burma.
On Monday he will be in a court in Thailand, because a Thai company wants to stop him revealing exploitation of their factory workers. If this company succeeds in their cases against him, he could end up spending 8 years in jail and facing an 8 million pound fine.
Andy Hall
In 2013 he was involved in exposing how a factory in Thailand was committing human rights abuses against migrant workers in its factory. Abuses included child labour, workers being beaten, being paid illegally low wages and facing dangerous working conditions.
Instead of the company, Natural Fruit, taking action to stop these abuses, it has launched several legal cases for defamation and computer crimes against Andy Hall. If convicted, he could face more than eight years in jail and a fine of more than eight million pounds.
The government of Thailand should be enforcing the law to stop abuses like this. They should be telling Natural Fruit to drop these cases and clean up its act. Instead they have been supporting the prosecution, appealing against a court decision to dismiss one of the cases.
These cases are an attack on free speech, and threaten work to improve the rights of migrant workers in Thailand, millions of whom are from Burma.
Thank you.
Anna Roberts
Burma Campaign UK
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Worldwide growing enthusiasm for “water reuse” issue
Dear water friends,
The enthusiasm for “wate reuse” is growing worldwide. In today’s newsletter you will get interesting news from the INTEWA product world and their areas of application.
RAINMASTER in the municipality office, City of Cape Town,

The Cape Town Municipality is installing a RAINMASTER F-40SC Duplex system in their latest suburban office. Their eco – innovative architect decided on the RAINMASTER Duplex system because of the low power consumption and the “safe while redundant” working principle.

Rainwater is collected from approximately 430m² and filtered by two self-cleaning PURAIN 100 rainwater filters with high efficiency. The collected water is stored underground in six 5000 litre tanks. The water saved will flush toilets and urinals throughout the three storey building.
PURAIN filter for tank mounting
Manheim Car Auction in Atlanta, USA
At the Manheim Car Auction in Atlanta, Georgia, USA a 175 m³ captures water from 3,720 m² filtered through a PURAIN DN300 pre-filter. The PURAIN filter is mounted inside the tank and acts as the tank overflow along with a skimmer pipe.
Rainwater harvesting system in Scherrwiller, France
The system consisting of reinforced concrete container with 50 m³ capacity and PURAIN 150 Filter was factory-assembled into the container cone. Rainwater is used for agricultural spray irrigation and for washing machines.
Rain water infiltration with DRAINMAX tunnel in front of the Eintracht Stadion Braunschweig.

The rain runoff of approximately 12,000 m² from sealed surface of the forecourt and the Westtribüne should be infiltrated. Due to space constraints, a trench infiltration below forecourt is the best solution. The DRAINMAX Tunnel system succeeded with a total volume

of just under 300 m³ at Eintracht Stadion. An optimized production, minimal transportation volume and quick installation of DRAINMAX Tunnel leads to best price per m³ storage capacity, which can be achieved with plastic trenches.
Izmir Türkei, Greywater harvesting with AQUALOOP

In future, the greywayer will be used for flushing toilet at a student residence in Izmir.

The experts of BAYSAL ARTIMA team have selected the AQUALOOP technology, certified as per British Standards.

Two membrane stations each with six AQUALOOP membranes deliver best water quality. The system was erected with local tanks.
Now we shower with rain water
The INTEWA team enjoys the wonderful, Brazilian weather conditions at a beach volleyball tournament, of course they then showered with rain water.
We look forward to chatting with you about our products!
Oliver Ringelstein, Manager
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