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Geely, the Chinese carmaker that owns Volvo, owns the London Taxi Company and plans to sell the cars from this September. The plant has a capacity of 20,000 vehicles a year. Geely today reported a record profit for 2016.
The group has longer term ambitions to export the vehicles to other cities around the world where the London black cab is recognised – though this will be dependent on trading conditions with Europe following Britain’s departure from the EU.
Executives from LTC have visited several European cities including Oslo, Amsterdam, Paris and Berlin to seek potential buyers for the cars.
Our iconic black cabs are famous across the world. The London Taxi Company’s impressive new factory and R&D facility showcases the innovation that makes the UK a world leader in the development of new automotive technologies.
The first brand new automotive manufacturing facility in Britain for over a decade; the first dedicated electric vehicle factory in the UK; and the first major Chinese investment in UK automotive.
Replacing the existing UK taxi fleet will take many years, as the 38,000 taxis currently in operation in the UK only require replacing after around 15 years of service. Some 23,000 black cabs, which run on diesel, are in use in London.
The government is incentivising taxi drivers to buy the newer electric vehicles with a grant of £7,500 towards every new car – almost double the £4,500 offered to consumer motorists who choose to buy an electric vehicle.
This will cost the government £50m. A further £16.1m was given towards the development of the site in Ansty, Coventry, while the government will also provide £14m to ten cities including London, Birmingham and Coventry to help with the installation of electric charge points.
GDP (PPP), US Dollars for Dominican Republic in year 2015 is US$ 149.692 Billion. Gross domestic product based on purchasing-power-parity (PPP) valuation of country GDP. These data form the basis for the country weights used to generate the World Economic Outlook country group composites for the domestic economy. Pleas...
This makes Dominican Republic No. 73 in world rankings according to GDP (PPP), US Dollars in year 2015. The world's average GDP (PPP), US Dollars value is US$ 2340.29 Billion; Dominican Republic is US$ 2,190.60 less than the average.
In the previous year, 2014, GDP (PPP), US Dollars for Dominican Republic was US$ 138.51 Billion GDP (PPP), US Dollars for Dominican Republic in 2015 was or will be 8.07% more than it was or will be in 2014.
In the following or forecasted year, 2016, GDP (PPP), US Dollars for Dominican Republic was or will be US$159.32 Billion, which is 6.43% more than the 2015 figure.
Howell, NJ/West Boylston - William J. O'Brien, 61, passed away on Friday, January 25 at home in Howell, NJ. He leaves his wife of 26 years, Justine Ann (Davis) O'Brien; his son William Justin O'Brien; his mother Elizabeth A. O'Brien, of West Boylston, 7 siblings; Patricia Powers of Geneva, IL, Daniel O'Brien of Tampa, ...
He was raised in West Boylston, graduated from Sacred Heart Academy and Worcester State College. He was a teacher in the Howell school system for 40 years and was President of the teacher's NJEA.
A service in North Cemetery, Oxford, MA will be held at a later date. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in his memory to St. Jude's Research Hospital or American Heart Association.
Deb Haaland's campaign "is the first chance that many people have had to vote for a Native."
In 2008, when Deb Haaland was driving across the sprawling landscapes of New Mexico, working to register Native American voters near the tribal land where she grew up, she remembers knocking on the door of one particular house in San Felipe Pueblo.
Haaland recalls that multiple generations lived in the house — parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles — and she was able to help complete registration forms for seven different people.
Though Native Americans have been able to vote in the United States since 1924, their rates of registration and participation remain low. According to the National Congress of American Indians, more than a third of the Native population over 18 is not registered to vote.
Four years later, during the 2012 election, Haaland would serve as Native American vote director for Barack Obama’s reelection campaign and would become the first Native American woman to chair a state Democratic Party.
This year, she’s hoping to make history again. Haaland, an enrolled member of the Laguna Pueblo tribe, is running for Congress in New Mexico’s 1st district. If she’s successful, will become the first Native American woman in the U.S. Congress.
Like many Democrats this year, especially in solidly blue districts like hers (Cook Political Report marks the state as having a 7 point Democratic advantage) Haaland is running in opposition to Trump. She has no problem speaking out against the president — although she said she prefers to talk about him as little as p...
A successful campaign will also require the type of work Haaland has done since the beginning of her political career: Registering and mobilizing Native American voters.
“There have been elections in New Mexico where the Native population has actually made a huge difference in who got elected,” she said.
Native Americans make up a little over 10 percent of the state’s population, and Albuquerque, in District 1, has the largest urban Native population.
Haaland has enlisted help from people like Evelyn Blanchard, a 79-year-old member of the Laguna Pueblo who lives in Albuquerque and is helping the campaign with Native voter outreach. Blanchard is working to collect data about Native voters which can be used this year and in future elections.
Having a Native candidate on the ballot will help encourage people to participate, Blanchard said.
Haaland is joined by a number of other Native women also vying for seats in Congress this year, from both sides of the aisle. Democrat Sharice Davids, a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation is also running for Congress in Kansas, three others are running for governors and, according to the New York Times, another 31 are vying...
New Mexico has the advantage of progressive voting laws that some states with large Native populations do not. Since 2016, New Mexicans have been able to register to vote online, though not everyone has access to the internet. “We have a lot of rural communities here,” Haaland said.
Native communities in other states have struggled with local and state governments that are not willing to accommodate them when it comes to elections. Natives have resorted to litigation in states including South Dakota, Nevada, and Alaska, seeking polling locations that are accessible to people living on reservations...
“I may not even be running for Congress right now if my state wasn’t that way,” she added.
Meanwhile, the same cannot be said for the federal government. Trump has had a hostile relationship for Native Americans for decades, often using racially-charged language against tribes who have attempted to open casinos and compete with his business. More recently, he has taken to referring to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (...
Even though Warren is not enrolled in a tribe and some Native people have taken issue with her claim, Haaland said it’s not her job to police who is and is not Native. After all, Haaland’s daughter is not an enrolled member of the Laguna Pueblo because of the tribe’s strict rules on membership, yet Haaland says she wou...
Op-Ed: I am a Cherokee woman. Elizabeth Warren is not.
As the June 5 primary approaches, Haaland has earned endorsements from at least 16 members of Congress and dozens of Native American tribal leaders and both New Mexico pueblos and tribes and tribes across the country. As of the end of 2017, she’d raised almost $385,000, trailing behind just one other Democratic candida...
If Haaland does secure the Democratic nomination and then the seat in November, becoming the first native woman in the House, she said that a large part of her job in the Capitol would be to make sure that many more follow behind.
“If I win, I will wholeheartedly put as much effort as I can toward helping to get other women of color elected,” she said.
Diane Warren could win her first Oscar after eight nominations over the last 30 years.
Speaking of Alan Menken, he could add to his current total of eight wins, which already makes him the living person with the most Oscars.
Mary J. Blige could become the first person nominated for acting and for songwriting in the same movie.
Kenneth Branagh, who has already been nominated for Oscars in five different categories (Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Live Action Short), could get his first win in his sixth different category.
Iggy Pop could win an Academy Award.
And so could Elvis Costello, Taylor Swift, Sufjan Stevens, Nick Jonas or Weird Al Yankovic.
But first, those people would have to get nominated. A full 70 songs are in the running in what is a wild year in the Oscar song category. That’s not as many as last year’s record 91 songs, but still a lot for Music Branch voters to consider.
As I do every year, I tracked down and listened to all the eligible songs, to deliver my opinionated take on the massive field. Obviously, many of the songs could be slotted into more than one category.
There’s a similar mix of gospel, soul and hip-hop in “It Ain’t Fair” from “Detroit,” Questlove’s epic-length mash-up that goes from yearning soul passages with Bilal to incendiary state-of-the-union denunciations from the Roots’ Black Thought. And Mary J. Blige’s entry, “Mighty River” from “Mudbound,” is a rousing gosp...
Another person doing acting/songwriting double duty is Kenneth Branagh, though he also throws in directing and producing “Murder on the Orient Express.” Composer Patrick Doyle wrote the music and Branagh supplied the lyrics to the film’s end-credits song, “Never Forget,” an elegant piano-based ballad of loss. One of th...
Elvis Costello also trafficks in elegance as he croons his way through “You Shouldn’t Look at Me That Way,” a stylish exercise in classic pop and a nod to the ambiguous relationship at the heart of “Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool.” The song is set to a string arrangement that wouldn’t be out of place on one of his c...
Indie icon Sufjan Stevens’ luminescent music is at the heart of Luca Guadagnino’s romance “Call Me by Your Name,” with the two gentle ballads “Mystery of Love” and “Visions of Gideon” serving key roles in the film. The former song landed a Critics’ Choice nomination and probably has a better chance to advance than the ...
Pop-rock chanteuse and Broadway star Sara Bareilles collaborated with composer Nicholas Britell (“Moonlight”) for the sprightly but affecting “If I Dare” from “Battle of the Sexes,” in which an a capella vocal rhythm sets the tone for her tribute to the chances Billie Jean King took personally and professionally.
Two members of the Northern Irish/Scottish band Snow Patrol, Gary Lightbody and Johnny McDaid, collaborated on a terrific song from “Gifted.” “This Is How You Walk On,” a statement of commitment and devotion, has a real sense of propulsion and lift. And finally, rock stalwarts Stevie Nicks and the late Chris Cornell en...
Benj Pasek and Justin Paul are the category’s reigning champs for “City of Stars” from “La La Land,” on which they collaborated as lyricists with Justin Hurwitz. But they also composed the music for nine songs in “The Greatest Showman,” including the showstopping “This Is Me.” A showcase for Keala Settle as the bearded...
The biggest competition for “Beauty and the Beast” songwriters Alan Menken and Tim Rice may not be the songs from other films, but the memory of the songs from the original, animated film. Those songs, including the Oscar-winning title track, still provide the high points of Bill Condon’s live-action remake, although t...
Two more songs come from very different, less overtly theatrical musicals. “How a Heart Unbreaks” from “Pitch Perfect 3” has the same problem that John Legend’s “Start a Fire” had in “La La Land” — in the film, it’s supposed to represent the kind of music our a capella-singing heroines don’t like. But since far fewer v...
Over the last 20 years, 25 songs from animated movies have been nominated for Oscars; five of them have won, and at least one animated song has been in 16 of the 20 years. So it makes sense that a dozen more songs are hoping to join that roster.
Foremost among them might be “Remember Me” from “Coco,” a new song from the songwriting team of Robert and Kristen Anderson-Lopez, who won the Oscar (and, for him, the EGOT) three years ago with the “Frozen” sensation “Let It Go.” “Remember Me” is subtler, a plaintive ballad with a Mexican lilt that is heard in several...
Pharrell Williams is also following up an Oscar-nominated sensation in the huge hit “Happy” from “Despicable Me 2.” But “There’s Something Special” from “Despicable Me 3” couldn’t be more different from its insanely catchy predecessor; it’s a slow groove sung mostly in falsetto that never quite manages to be engaging. ...
The two Lego movies, “The Lego Batman Movie” and “The Lego Ninjago Movie,” both have peppy theme songs performed by Oh, Hush! The “Batman” entry, “Friends Are Family,” might be the more distinctive of the two, largely because of Will Arnett’s interjections as a defiantly unsentimental Batman, but the “Ninjago” song “Fo...
Pixar’s “Cars 3” entered a pair of songs, both of them tough and functional blues-rockers with a country tinge. “Ride” is by ZZ Ward, “Run That Race” by Black Keys guitarist/singer Dan Auerbach, and neither are quite as compelling as the artists’ non-soundtrack material.
Three foreign-made animated films also feature eligible songs. “The Crown Sleeps” from “The Breadwinner” is an ethereal and fragile mix of Western and Afghan music. “Rain” from “Mary and the Witch’s Flower” is a Japanese pop song, peppy and slight. And “Longing For Summer” from the Scandinavian film “Moomins and the Wi...
The holy grail for songs from documentaries is Melissa Etheridge’s “I Need to Wake Up” from “An Inconvenient Truth,” which won the 2006 Oscar. This year, Ryan Tedder and Oscar winner T Bone Burnett (for “The Weary Kind” from “Crazy Heart”) have taken on the task of writing a song for “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to P...
“Jump,” which was written by Laura Karpman, Raphael Saadiq and Taura Stinson for the documentary “Step,” is a slow-building soul song that manages to be truly inspirational in a way that lots of songs aim for but can’t quite reach.
“Prayers For This World” from “Cries from Syria,” another Diane Warren song in the mix, aims to do no less than heal the world — and if you want to do that, it’s probably not a bad idea to enlist Cher and a children’s choir. Another Syria-set documentary, “City of Ghosts,” includes the song “Broken Wings.” It takes a d...
Finally, veteran songwriter Alan Bergman, who won three best-song Oscars with his wife Marilyn, is now 92, which made him the perfect person to write a theme song to “If You’re Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast,” Danny Gold’s film about Hollywood folks in their 90s. “Just Getting Started” is old-fashioned, but of course i...
Another acoustic gem is Keegan Dewitt’s “The Hero” from the film of the same name. If I had a ballot, this haunting and evocative acoustic ballad of regret would get serious consideration.
A few mainstream country stars have also entered the race. For the film “Only the Brave,” Dierks Bentley co-wrote and performs “Hold The Light,” an understated, meditative mood piece that never quite clicks. Brad Paisley sings “Stubborn Angel” in “Same Kind of Different as Me”; the mid-tempo song tries very hard to be ...
“The Glass Castle” gives us Joel P. West’s “Summer Storm,” which is essentially a rhythmic chant. And “Elizabeth Blue,” an indie drama about schizophrenia, is one of two movies that submitted three songs to the Oscar race. All of its songs are from August Roads: “All in My Head” is a sad acoustic song that quite delibe...
The movie “Brawl in Cell Block 99” goes for old school R&B with the O’Jays, classic hitmakers from the ’70s who revive their sound for “Buddy’s Business,” a song about the inner city that wouldn’t have been out of place during the heyday of Blaxploitation films.
The Sundance sensation “Patti Cake$” hopes to follow in the footsteps of “8 Mile” and “Hustle & Flow,” two films about aspiring rappers that not only were nominated in the song category but won for “Lose Yourself” and “It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp,” respectively. Geremy Jasper’s film submitted a pair of songs: “PBNJ” ...
“Lake of Fire,” which like “Elizabeth Blue” submitted three songs, is a curious cross-cultural collaboration, with an Indian-American director, Raj Thiruselvan, a cast and crew from both countries and music by Qutub E. Kripa, Indian composer AR Rahman’s ensemble from his conservatory in India. The songs, all in English...
The Malayalam-language Indian film “Pulimurugan,” about a man who hunts and kills rogue tigers, was a big hit in its home country and entered two songs in the Oscar race. “Kaadaniyum Kalchilambe” is a bouncy male-female duet between K.J. Yesudas and K.S. Chithra; Western listeners will have to take it on faith that it’...
The Bryan Buckley film “The Pirates of Somalia” makes use of a lot of existing songs, but the influential Iranian singer-composer Sussan Deyhim is showcased in the new song “Lost Souls.” The atmospheric song is largely made up of wordless moans, with occasional vocals buried in the mix; it’s impressive as a mood piece ...
Will voters go for a 53-second Adam Sandler ditty from “The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)” that sounds as if it was improvised in about as long as it took to sing it? Well, “Myron/Byron” will answer that question.
More substantial but also on the tongue-in-cheek side is the “Downsizing” song “A Little Change In The Weather,” a faux love song that touches on the movie’s theme in its first line: “Now that you’re with me nothing makes me feel small.” The long-running vocal group the Swingles, formed in Paris in 1962, makes it all s...
Judy Collins has been performing as long as the Swingles, and she makes the graceful pop ballad “Stars In My Eyes (Theme From Drawing Home),” from “Drawing Home,” appropriately elegant.
“World Gone Mad” from “Bright” and “Speak To Me” from “Voice from the Stone” both reach for grandiosity with impressive results. The former song is from the British band Bastille, and it’s big pop with a sadly timely message: “The world’s gone mad and there’s nothing you can do about it.” The latter song, from Evanesce...
Two contemporary Christian performers represented on the list are Ginny Owens, whose song “Fly Away” from “Trafficked” is an artsy, meandering ballad, and Bruce Rawling, whose “Walk on Faith” from “Year by the Sea” is another song that tells us not worry that everything will be OK, though at least there’s a prescriptio...
The song itself is about the most generic charity song you could imagine, seemingly composed entirely of variations on “we’ve got to love each other” and “we can make it better.” But hey, the guy made a movie about qualifying a song for the Oscars in order to qualify his song for the Oscars, so you gotta give him major...
Keep your receipts for your business-related expenses.
The Internal Revenue Service allows taxpayers to deduct business-related expenses for traveling away from home, entertaining clients and customers as well as giving gifts to customers and employees. Each expense must be appropriate for your business and have the appropriate documentation. Exclude personal expenses from...
Prepare IRS Form 2106. Itemize your totals on Column A, as directed by the form.
Itemize travel-related expenses, such as the cost of reaching your destination, lodging and meals. Write off the actual cost of meals or use the standard meal allowance. Either method is fine. According to IRS rules, you can only deduct 50 percent of business meal and entertainment expenses.
Itemize entertainment expenses. According to the IRS, you can only write off an entertainment expense that directly relates to your business or that was associated with a substantial business discussion.
Write off the cost of gifts given in the course of your business. In general, the deduction is limited to $25 for gifts given directly or indirectly to any one person during the tax year, according to IRS Publication 463.
Provide documentation. State the names of the persons being entertained and the date and location of each meeting. Documentation is not always required. However, when it is, you must provide copies of your receipts to the IRS.
Gaston, Charlie. "How to Write Off a Per Diem." Small Business - Chron.com, http://smallbusiness.chron.com/write-off-per-diem-15545.html. Accessed 17 April 2019.
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Original publicity card giving boot length and sizes.
A pair of locally made old leather sea-boots recently dotated to Scarborough Maritime Heritage Centre by Mrs Wardman brought back memories for retired local fisherman Allan Roberts, who worked for the business that made them in the 1950s/60s.
He was surprised to find that the boots were dated as being made in April 1955, the year before he started his working life, at T Beanland and Sons in North Street, Scarborough.
Water boots are leather sea-boots and were made for mariners. The fishing industry had largely turned to rubber boots by the 1930s but Beanlands continued to produce them until World War Two, mainly for the coal mines, because they were harder wearing than rubber. Judging by the ingrained black grime and hole in the se...
The hides from which the tops (uppers) were made were around 3/16ths of an inch thick, and it was the task of the ‘currier’, Ted Beanland, to apply a dressing of dubbin to the tanned hide, over a period of several days, to make it strong, flexible and waterproof. Once cured the various shapes of the component parts of ...
The parts were then passed to the ‘closer’ to be hand sewn together (closed) with waxed hemp cords affixed to hog bristles. The ‘closer’ at Beanlands was John Clayton who left to become the caretaker at St Thomas’ School, and it was John who was called upon to close the last pair of sea-boots made in 1957.
The seams were largely butted together, not overlapped, and were constructed inside out. Once closed the uppers had to be turned right way out and this was done in a ‘gallows’ by attaching a sacrificial tab purposefully left at the toe end to a hook, and attaching the pull-on tabs at the tops of the boot to a rope whic...
The tops were then passed to Angus Bayes who finished the process by attaching the soles and heels first by 5/8ths x 1/8th of an inch brass rivets, followed by hand sewing of the ‘welts’.
Every finished pair was filled with water to check for leaks before having a company stamp and date applied. With proper care and maintenance they would last up to 20 years. Boots were still coming back for repair well into the 1960s. Once the foreman at Beanlands, Angus Bayes, retired, so too did the skill of repairin...
l The Scarborough Maritime Heritage Centre was set up and is run entirely by volunteers from the local community with the goal of saving and promoting Scarborough’s amazing history. The Centre, at 45 Eastborough, is free to visit and is open from Wednesday to Sunday, 11am to 4pm. New volunteers, with or without skills ...
The purpose of this study was to determine whether leaders' personality characteristics were related to the hierarchical level and the focus of their roles in organizations. Leaders from two industrial plants of two Fortune 500 corporations were selected for the investigation. They comprised a total population of perso...
Data were collected employing the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and the Functional Job Analysis Self-Report (FJASR). The MBTI instrument identified personality characteristics in terms of two paired and opposite preferences for (1) sensing or intuition, and (2) feeling or thinking. The FJASR inventory identified j...
Findings of this study identified relationships which suggest that leaders' personality characteristics are related to the hierarchical levels and the foci of their roles in the organizations. Sensing, described here as the preference to rely on one or more of the five senses for information-gathering, appeared to be t...

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