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MOD shops for ideas to preserve Illustrious

SOURCE: MoD
The MoD is looking for ideas on how best to preserve the legacy of the Royal Navy’s Invincible class aircraft carriers, Vigilance can confirm.

: JOHN ODEY ADUMA, EDITOR; International Security, Safety & Strategic Defence; Posted On Monday, 21 October 2013 11:38

The networking implications of Industry 4.0

A few weeks ago we discussed the implications of Industry 4.0 on trade with Asia. Today, we will address the impact that the concept, and importantly the technologies that underpin it, will have on open industrial networks such as CC-Link.

: JOHN BROWETT, GENERAL MANAGER, CC-LINK PARTNER ASSOCIATION; Viewpoints; Posted On Monday, 21 October 2013 11:33

Tunisia: Rapper's day of glory...acquitted after 3 weeks in prison

Crime of ‘Insulting Public Officials’ Should be Abolished

Tunis: An appeals court on October 17, 2013, overturned the conviction of a rapper on charges of “insulting the police,” Human Rights Watch said today. But Tunisian legislators should abolish laws that criminalize defamation and “insulting” state officials and institutions.

: HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH; International Security, Safety & Strategic Defence; Posted On Monday, 21 October 2013 09:28

London Convention adopts amendments to marine geo-engineering and ocean fertilization

Vigilance can report that marine geoengineering including ocean fertilization is to be regulated under amendments to the 1996 Protocol to the international treaty which regulates the dumping of wastes and other matter at sea.

The amendments, adopted on Friday (18 October) by Parties to the 1996 Protocol to the Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter, 1972, add a new article 6bis which states that “Contracting Parties shall not allow the placement of matter into the sea from vessels, aircraft, platforms or other man-made structures at sea for marine geoengineering activities listed in Annex 4, unless the listing provides that the activity or the sub-category of an activity may be authorized under a permit”.