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6 Adverts Celebrities hoped you’d never see……
By Bring a Bottle on 11/10/13 3:42 PM
Sometimes when times get a little bit hard or that pay check is just too big to ignore actors can be found halfway around the world in a T.V. Studio doing something they’d never usually consider and will probably always regret.
Adverts are generally out of the question back home due to the financial impact they may have for performers. Casting directors might think that the person has less credibility now, or worse, producers may consider the actor or actress less bankable as a result and offer less money. For whatever reason these are adverts that were always destined to be kept off your screen.
1. Leonardo DiCaprio – Jim Beam (Japan)
After Django Unchained Leo decided to take a break from acting but soon found himself (according to The Daily Mail) on the receiving end of a multi-million dollar offer. Jim Beam were keen to promote their Whiskey in Japan and needed an A-Lister on board. Obviously taking his inspiration from Bill Murray in ‘Lost in Translation’ Leo jetted off and the result is a quirky if brief advert.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhxkg6ISn2E
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2. Jeff Goldblum – Holsten Pils (United Kingdom)
The early 1990’s weren’t kind to Jeff Goldblum, after his appearance in the Oscar award winning remake The Fly in 1986 it was a long way to Jurassic Park. His IMDB profile is interspersed with only TV guest slots, luckily help was at hand from a German Lager, Holsten Pils. The brilliantly off-the-wall adverts shown in the UK fit Goldblums style perfectly.
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3. John Gielgud – Paul Masson Wines (United States)
After Screen legend Orson Welles made the slight mistake of being rude about his employers (Paul Masson) on live television another old school actor was brought in to carry the snobbery themed adverts. Allegedly parting with millions of dollars to continue in the same vein this bought Paul Masson the Emmy,Grammy,Oscar and Tony award winning actor Sir John Gielgud. Perhaps not one of his finest roles.
4. George Clooney – Lancelot Scotch Whisky (South Korea)
Following on from his whirlwind tour of the world promoting among other things Nespresso, Omega, Honda & Martini, we were amazed that George had time to stop in South Korea to promote Lancelot Whisky. Nevertheless it can’t have been too taxing as it’s a print advert (and only three at that), curiously Lancelot Scotch Whisky doesn’t seem to be available anywhere else on earth to buy.
5. Paris Hilton – Devassa Beer (Brazil)
Paris has always been keen to do an advert or two (Burgers for Carls Jr in the United States) but Devassa Beer in Brazil is probably the strangest choice of all. Granted Paris is reasonably famous but is remarkably C-list compared to some of the other names on this list. Playing off on her image of being stalked by the paparazzi, Paris has a beer to relax, thankfully for all it’s not much of a speaking role.
6. Mickey Rourke – Bavaria 0.0% (Holland)
Playing on his bad boy image and hot from his Oscar win with The Wrestler Mickey Rourke spends the evening getting drunk and partying in the bar of his hotel. Furious to discover that there is only Alcohol-free beer in his mini-bar a T.V. promptly gets thrown out of the window before he goes back to the bar. Not the worlds most inspiring advert but a great ribbing for Rourke’s image.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNFWNz5Uc7Y
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Blade Runner’s Rutger Hauer explores his weird and wonderful side in this series of adverts for Guinness that ran for nearly 10 years.
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Spain: Wrecked Train Covers Track After Crash In Which At Least Two Die. 1972
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Two express trains collided in Spain on Friday (7 January) and at least two people were killed.
SV Sign "Madina Del Campo" and train arriving
CU Sign on train "Avile Madrid"
SCU PAN Rubble along trackside
SV Wheels of carriage off line TILT UP TO smashed carriage wall
SCU Tangled wreckage inside smashed carriage PAN ALONG crushed metal (3 shots)
MV PAN Smashed carriage
SV PAN Rescue worker in wrecked carriage
SCU Blood and glass on floor of carriage
SV Rescue workers cut through metal with ecetlyine torch (2 shots)
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Background: Two express trains collided in Spain on Friday (7 January) and at least two people were killed. Railway officials told reporters that three bodies had been recovered from the wreckage at the scene of the accident, just outside the Medina Del Campo station, about 100 miles (160 Kms) northwest of Madrid. But a railway spokesman said the toll could not be confirmed.
Early on Saturday (8 January) morning, the wreckage still covered the tracks. At least 50 people were treated for minor injuries and two were taken to hospital.
A second crash occurred later on Saturday--again in northwest Spain. In that accident, also a collision between two oncoming trains, four people were feared dead.
SYNOPSIS: Medina Del Campo, IOU miles northwest of Madrid, was the scene on Friday of a collision between two express trains. At least two people were feared dead in the crash.
Railway officials said three bodies were recovered, but the toll couldn't be confirmed. It was known that 50 people were treated for shock and minor injuries and two people were taken to hospital. One of the dead was the driver of the Madrid-Santander express. The other train involved in the crash was the Vallodolid-Madrid express.
There's no immediate indication of the cause of the crash which happened at the junction of the two main lines.
An investigation has been opened into the cause.
On Saturday, wreckage still covered the line as efforts were being made to ??? it. Later on Saturday, there was another fatal rail crash in Spain.. again in the northwest part of the country. Four people were feared dead when a goods train and a mail train collided in a tunnel. The engine-crews of both trains were feared dead in the head-on collision, police said. The situation was worsened by heavy snow which hampered rescue work.
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The Soraya Has Suspended Upcoming Events
BroadwayWorld.com Mar. 12, 2020
A Message has been released from Thor Steingraber, Executive Director - The Soraya.
Over the past weeks and months, CSUN leadership has been carefully following the news regarding the spread of COVID-19. Out of an abundance of caution, and with the concurrence of the Office of the Chancellor, CSUN will suspend many of the in-person activities on its campus. CSUN President Dr. Dianne F. Harrison shared the following with the campus community: "Please know that we have made this decision after careful consideration and discussion. We are driven by the overarching priority of ensuring the health and safety of every member of our community by increasing social distancing and limiting the number of large gatherings on campus. These actions are in accordance with the recommendations of public health officials, which we continue to follow."
Accordingly, all public activity at The Soraya will be suspended March 12th through April 17th. This includes all presented events, rental events, and arts education activities.
We are attempting to reschedule presentations with a number of our artists especially those that are Los Angeles-based. New dates will be communicated to ticketholders if and when plans with artist management can be finalized. Refunds will be made for any patrons unable to attend. We have tentatively identified April 19 as a new date for Violins of Hope with the Los Angeles Jewish Symphony. Understanding that the situation is quickly evolving, we will confirm that change as soon as possible.
3/12 & 13 Melissa Aldana
Visions for Frida Kahlo
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3/28 La Marisoul
Un Homenaje to Mexican-American Music
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The Music of Ella Fitzgerald
Featuring Lizz Wright and Carmen Bradford
The following shows at The Soraya are canceled and refunds will be processed for all ticketholders.
3/25 Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra
Lahav Shani, Conductor and Piano
3/29 Yamato - The Drummers of Japan
"Jhonetsu" - Passion
4/5 The Jerusalem Quartet
Onstage Sessions Chamber Music
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4/17 An Evening with Peter Sagal
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Additional Cancellations:
4/19 Bollywood Boulevard
A Journey Through Hindi Cinema Live
The producers of Bollywood Boulevard have decided not to travel from India.
5/9 Randy Newman's Faust: The Concert
With Music and Lyrics by Randy Newman
Due to the nature of casting, producing, and rehearsing this original concert production,
we will be unable to proceed with the May 9th date. Information about a new date will be
forthcoming.
In moments like these we need music more than ever, and artists need your support more than ever. You'll find links above to our artists' websites so that you may support them by purchasing their music.
If you have questions, the Ticket Office can be reached at 818.677.3000 and is open Tuesday through Saturday from 11am-4pm. The Administrative Offices will be open Monday through Friday during regular business hours and can be reached at 818.677.8800.
Communication continues to be a top priority, and we ask for your help in that regard. Please continue to read our email communications, check our website, or look at our social media platforms for any future updates. We thank you for your continued support and sincerely hope that you and yours remain safe and healthy.
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Семейството в житейските разкази на бесарабските българи
The Family in the Life Stories of the Bessarabian Bulgarians
Author(s): Zhenja Pimpireva
Subject(s): Politics, Anthropology, Cultural history, Customs / Folklore, National Economy, Agriculture, Civil Society, Governance, Ethnohistory, Local History / Microhistory, Social history, Gender history, Recent History (1900 till today), Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure , Evaluation research, Social development, Social differentiation, Family and social welfare, Nationalism Studies, Rural and urban sociology, Sociology of Culture, Welfare services, Economic development, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Present Times (2010 - today), Period(s) of Nation Building, History of Communism, Between Berlin Congress and WW I, Fascism, Nazism and WW II, Cold-War History, Post-Communist Transformation, Migration Studies, Ethnic Minorities Studies, Sociology of Politics, Globalization, Socio-Economic Research, Identity of Collectives
Published by: Институт за етнология и фолклористика с Етнографски музей при БАН
Keywords: life stories;family;Bulgarians in diaspora;ethnicity;Bessarabia;Moldova;Ukraine;identification;migration
Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to the role of life stories in the study of the family of theBessarabian Bulgarians. The eyewitnesses’ stories (or the stories of their loved ones)contain various appreciations, experiences, feelings, values, and meanings whichallow the reconstruction of their world. The study is based on the life stories collectedduring field ethnographic expeditions conducted in 2009-2010 in villages witha predominant or significant Bulgarian population in the Republic of Moldova andUkraine.The life stories are an invaluable source for the study of the Bessarabian familyin traditional and contemporary perspective. Sharing them requires a climate of trustbetween the respondents and the researcher. The life stories represent a collection ofselected facts and episodes, in which many hidden, suppressed and forgotten thingsremain beyond the narrative. Because of their subjective character, the family is representedin an estimative and emotional way enabling the identification of the trendsin its development and the judgement of its values and morals.
Journal: Българска етнология
Traditional and Contemporary Models of Interaction Between Karakachans and Bulgarians Traditional and Contemporary Models of Interaction Between Karakachans and Bulgarians 1997 Родствени отношения при гагаузите в България Kinship Relations Among the Gagauzes in Bulgaria 2000 The comrades’ court in socialist everyday life The comrades’ court in socialist everyday life 2006 Формиране на семейство и домакинство при гагаузите в Североизточна България през първата половина на ХХ век The Gagaouzes During the First Half of the 20th Century: Family and a Household 2006 Аспекти на идентичността на бесарабските българи в Украйна Aspects of the Identity of Bessarabian Bulgarians in Ukraine 2009
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Updated March 6, 2019
New contract appeal may further delay Maine’s rollout of marijuana sales
The losing bidder wants the state to hold off on awarding a consulting contract, claiming the winner has a conflict of interest.
By Penelope OvertonPress Herald
A former Colorado policeman turned pot regulator is at the heart of a conflict-of-interest dispute that threatens to delay the rollout of adult-use marijuana sales in Maine.
Lewis Koski has two jobs. He is a partner in Freedman & Koski, the Colorado firm that initially lost and then won a $189,000 consulting contract to write Maine’s marijuana regulations that map out how the state will oversee key marijuana issues, such as a track-and-trace inventory system. Koski also is employed as an executive at Franwell Inc., a Florida company that signed, lost and is now rebidding for a $150,000 state track-and-trace system contract.
His two employers and the Department of Administrative and Financial Services, the state agency in charge of procuring these contracts, say there is no conflict of interest. Neither of Koski’s employers was involved in picking the other for a state contract and neither has the authority to send more state cannabis work, or taxpayer dollars, the other one’s way, state officials said.
“Given the modest size of the regulated marijuana market nationwide, it is not unusual or surprising that participants would have overlapping business relationships,” David Heidrich, the director of communications and a senior policy adviser for the Department of Administrative and Financial Services, or DAFS, said in an email sent Friday hours before the state canceled a three-year contract with Franwell for its METRC track-and-trace system.
Firm that launched Colorado’s legal cannabis market wins Maine contract
BOTEC Analysis, the California company that lost the state consulting job to Freedman & Koski, disagrees. In December, Maine awarded the consulting job to BOTEC, but Freedman & Koski appealed, claiming the state had unfairly scored the contract and failed to give it credit for partnering with a local firm. In response, DAFS pulled the plug on that deal in January and rebid the deal, deciding last month to hire Freedman & Koski as its marijuana consultant.
But on Monday, BOTEC Analysis asked the state to stay the award of that contract and give it time to appeal, filing paperwork that said the state had unfairly scored BOTEC’s proposal in the second round. BOTEC also formalized an accusation that has been circulating for a week: that Freedman & Koski had failed to disclose “a very substantial and utterly obvious” disqualifying conflict of interest in its application for the consulting contract.
“Mr. Koski’s business relationship with METRC and this conflict of interest clearly required disclosure,” wrote attorneys Charles Dingman and Michael Smith of Preti Flaherty, which is representing BOTEC in its appeal. “If F&K has a contract to provide rulemaking consultant services to the state, then its co-founder, Lewis Koski, will be in a position to drive funds to a firm, METRC, from which he also derives income.”
CAN’T YET PREDICT EFFECT ON ROLLOUT
The no-bid contract that DAFS had signed with METRC included a line item of $21,762 a year that METRC can charge the state if customizations are necessary to the software, BOTEC’s lawyers note. Erik Gundersen, the head of DAFS’ newly created Office of Marijuana Policy and one of the people who evaluated the F&K bid, noted the importance of picking a track-and-trace system that allowed for customization if deemed necessary during the rulemaking process.
State backs out of second cannabis contract
BOTEC filed a request for a stay because it claimed it needed more time, and more information, to file an informed appeal of F&K’s consulting award. Although the state awarded Freedman & Koski the consulting job on Feb. 22, DAFS did not release the company’s bid proposal until Monday, more than a week after making its selection, making it difficult for BOTEC to decide whether it should challenge the award within the 15-day appeal window.
The state has until Monday to respond to BOTEC’s request for a stay. Until the state decides whether to grant the request, and how it would handle a BOTEC appeal, it’s impossible to say how the rollout of Maine’s recreational marijuana sales will be affected, Heidrich said. The department had asked those bidding on the consulting job to have recreational marijuana rules ready for legislative consideration before lawmakers break for the summer, paving the way for sales by the end of the year.
Maine voters approved recreational marijuana legalization at referendum in November 2016, but the path to commercial licensing and sales has faced a number of legislative and gubernatorial hurdles, including a legislative overhaul and two vetoes by Gov. Paul LePage, an opponent of legalization. His successor, Janet Mills, hired Gundersen to oversee a timely rollout, but so far, the state has awarded and subsequently pulled out of two cannabis contracts.
PROFESSOR: ‘IT’S ETHICS 101’
Neither of these contracts represents high-value deals for Freedman & Koski, BOTEC or Franwell, who are all big players in the North American cannabis market. Franwell could earn as much as $60 million over two years from its 2017 track-and-trace deal with California, for example. But inking a modest deal with Maine can help a contractor land the next state job in a more lucrative market on the verge of legalization, like New York, New Jersey or Illinois.
As one of the first dozen states to legalize adult-use sales in the high-dollar marijuana market, Maine must take steps to hold government contractors to the highest possible ethical standards, said Richard Painter, a University of Minnesota Law School professor who served as chief White House ethics lawyer under President George W. Bush. It should write stringent conflict of interest clauses into all of its rulemaking consulting contracts, he said.
“There is just no way to know this situation can work,” Painter said of Koski’s dual employment. “It’s ethics 101. You can’t have someone writing regulations that will benefit themselves, or their family or friend or a company they work for, directly or indirectly. Even if that person does the best job in the world, you’d never know if he were working in the best interest of the state or himself.”
California Polytechnic State University Professor Steve Mintz didn’t buy Heidrich’s small-world defense of Koski’s dual employment, arguing size should not matter.
“Good ethics is good ethics and rationalizing it may not meet all the standards because of size or otherwise misses the point that businesses should be aboveboard in their operations,” said Mintz, who lectures and writes on business and accounting ethics. “Having a principal of a firm that is writing the rules also being a full-time employee of the firm that will develop the tracking system, no less write the rules for that system, is just too much crossover for my tastes.”
‘IT MAY LOOK LIKE THERE’S SMOKE HERE’
In its request for a stay, BOTEC said the scoring penalty resulting from Freedman & Koski’s failure to disclose Koski’s dual employment, as well as several scoring improprieties, would have overcome the seven points separating the two companies’ state scores and tipped the balance in BOTEC’s favor. For example, the team that scored the proposal called BOTEC’s eight-week timeline unrealistic, but applauded Freedman & Koski for its shorter six-week delivery date.
Initially, Freedman & Koski told the Press Herald that it had disclosed Koski’s ties to METRC in its state bid. But Koski’s partner, Andrew Freedman, who was Colorado’s first cabinet-level marijuana czar, later said the disclosure had been inadvertently left out of the second-round bid, with the Franwell reference that would have spelled out Koski’s ties to METRC exchanged for a recommendation from a California regulator that might appeal more to a Maine evaluator.
Although the connection was left out of the winning application, Freedman insists it was included in the first-round application, which neither DAFS nor Freedman & Koski has released. That wasn’t the only time that Freedman & Koski had disclosed the connection, he said. He recalls the subject coming up in conversations with agency staff. After all, Freedman & Koski has been working for Maine for several months, helping it to write its marijuana testing lab rules, he said.
“I get that it may look like there’s smoke here, but there’s no fire,” Freedman said in a phone call.
POT REGULATOR’S JOB CHANGING
Although not outlined in the winning proposal, Freedman detailed his agency’s financial relationship with Franwell’s METRC division in a follow-up email. As an F&K partner, Koski has provided regulatory subject matter expertise to help Franwell, an F&K client, carry out METRC track-and-trace contracts in Massachusetts and California. Franwell paid F&K for those services out of Massachusetts and California state funds it received for those track-and-trace contracts.
In both those states, only Franwell had a contract to provide consulting work, Freedman said. Freedman & Koski’s only work in those states was as a subject matter expert for Franwell in the provision of its METRC track-and-trace contract, Freedman said. During the year that the two companies have worked together, Koski has never worked as both a state-contracted consultant under the F&K banner and as a METRC executive, Freedman said.
That wouldn’t have happened in Maine, either, Freedman said. Unlike in Massachusetts, where Koski is serving as a full-time METRC executive who earns $169 an hour as the project manager, Koski would have only been wearing his Freedman & Koski hat, not his METRC hat, when working in Maine, Freedman said. Koski is not listed among the key METRC personnel cited in the track-and-trace contract that DAFS scuttled on Friday.
But Koski’s role at METRC soon could be changing. After taking the extra job at METRC in January, Koski is now in talks to take on an expanded role there as an executive while staying on at Freedman & Koski as an adviser, company officials confirm. The details are still being worked out, but during this transition, while there is no contract, Koski has been serving as a METRC employee, as he is listed in the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission contract with METRC.
‘A NET POSITIVE FOR THE STATE’
The rule work that Freedman & Koski will do for Maine, if BOTEC’s challenge is rebuffed, would have some seed-to-sale components, Freedman said, like deciding how the state can use the system to effectively monitor the inventories of marijuana license holders, but it will not require Freedman & Koski to evaluate the system. Freedman & Koski have not bid on state contracts that have asked for track-and-trace system evaluations, like Colorado recently advertised.
Executives at METRC note the two contracts were being evaluated at the same time, so there was no conflict to discuss at the time the Koski’s two employers sent their proposals to Maine, but the company’s president, Jeff Wells, said it doesn’t see a conflict between the seed-to-sale contract and the rulemaking work. He said the relationship between the two companies could actually benefit Maine.
In his email, Wells made it clear that METRC would definitely be submitting another proposal to sell its track-and-trace system to Maine. In its announcement of the cancellation, DAFS did not mention any concerns about Koski’s dual employment – instead, it cited concerns about using an Alaska track-and-trace procurement to find a medical marijuana tracking system instead of bidding out its own medical and recreational inventory system.
“Our experience would suggest that a combination of METRC and Freedman & Koski would result in a net positive for the state,” Wells said.
Penelope Overton can be contacted at 791-6364 or at:
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Tag: Lagos-Ibadan Express Way
Accident Causes Gridlock On Lagos-Ibadan Expressway
An accident involving two heavy-duty vehicles led to an interminable traffic gridlock on a section of the Lagos-Ibadan expressway on August 13, 2020.
An accident Thursday involving two-heavy duty vehicles resulted in an interminable traffic gridlock on a section of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Channels Television can confirm.
According to our correspondent, a tipper vehicle whose brakes failed had rammed into a gas-loaded tanker, effectively shutting down traffic on the inbound-Ibadan, Kara-axis of the expressway.
Emergency services – including the Federal Road Safety Corps, the Fire Service, the Police, and the Army – responded to the incident in an attempt to manage the traffic on the usually busy road.
As at the time of filing this report, the number of deaths and injuries from the incident were yet to be ascertained.
Accidents are frequent at the Kara section of the expressway. On July 4, two tankers carrying Premium Motor Spirit collided with each other in the area. On February 26, a fuel tanker exploded.
Also on February 12, a fully-loaded truck lost control while another broke down, leading to long traffic wait-times for commuters.
In September 2019, the Federal Government had, for several months, partially closed down sections of the Kara axis for road repairs.
Posted on August 13, 2020 August 13, 2020 Author Solomon ElusojiCategories HeadlinesTags Lagos-Ibadan Express Way, traffic gridlockLeave a comment on Accident Causes Gridlock On Lagos-Ibadan Expressway
Court Says EFCC Can Arraign Babalakin For Money Laundering
The Managing Director of Bi-Courtney, Wale Babalakin
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos on Thursday struck out an application filed by the Managing Director of Bi-Courtney, Wale Babalakin, seeking an order of certiorari and prohibition against his arraignment by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on money laundering charges.
Ruling on the application by Mr Babalakin for an order of prohibition against the EFCC and the Attorney General of Federation from arraigning him before the Lagos High Court, Justice Idris Mohammed held that the application was defective as the applicant did not file service and serve same properly.
He therefore dismissed the case for non-compliance with court rules and awarded the sum of N5000 against the applicant.
Justice Idris equally dismissed the preliminary objection by the EFCC that the court lacked jurisdiction to entertain the applicant’s suit and that the application is incompetent and an abuse of court process.
Justice Idris had on November 29, 2012 granted leave to Mr Babalakin to apply for an order of prohibition to review the legality and constitutionality of the 27 count criminal charges preferred against him at the Lagos High Court.
The order was granted the same day the businessman was to be docked alongside four others before Justice Adeniyi Onigbanjo of a Lagos State High Court, Ikeja for fraudulently transferring various sums of money on behalf of the former governor of Delta State, James Ibori, through third parties to some foreign accounts under the guise of purchasing a Challenger Jet Aircraft.
He failed to show up, claiming a sudden illness that necessitated his hospitalization at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital.
However, the EFCC through its lawyer, Rotimi Jacobs, challenged the ruling.
At the last adjourned date, December 13, Mr Jacobs had urged the court to strike out the application for want of jurisdiction and lack of competence.
He argued that the court lacks the jurisdiction to entertain the application, and that the application was incompetent and amount to abuse of court process as the reliefs sought were not available in law.
He added that information before any court is for that court to deal with and that the Federal High Court cannot exercise powers over the State High Court. “What they are doing here is a gagging suit and I urged the court to dismiss it.
But Wale Akoni, counsel to Mr Babalakin told the court that an issue of interpretation had arisen regarding the leave of prohibition granted the applicant as the respondent had taken the view that there was no order of stay against them.
He further told the court that despite the order of the court, the EFCC had continued to lay siege to the hospital where the defendant is receiving treatment for undisclosed ailment.
He therefore urged the court to reiterate and reinforce with some measure of clarity the effect of the ruling against the respondent.
He said they were equally in court because the commission has no power to prosecute his client at the Lagos State high Court as section 19(1) of the EFCC Act is unconstitutional.
He said that there was no valid statutory power available to the respondent to file charges against the applicant.
He further added that the Commission ought to report to the AGF but that the Commission has not done that.
However, Mr Jacobs told the court that the matter before it was hearing of the substantive suit and the motion of preliminary objection.
He said the order of court was unambiguous and needed no further interpretation.
The EFCC lawyer said the matter before the court was simple and that it was whether the respondent has power to initiate criminal proceedings and whether they followed the right procedures.
He said the powers conferred on the AGF or the AG of the State to initial and prosecute is not exclusive. “The EFCC can initiate criminal proceedings against anybody”, he said.
Posted on December 14, 2012 Author Channels TelevisionCategories Current, LocalTags Africa, Africa News, Babalakin, Bi-Courtney, Breaking news, Channels, channels television, EFCC, James Ibori, Lagos-Ibadan Express Way, Money Laundering, Nigeria, Nigeria news, road concessioning, Wale BabalakinLeave a comment on Court Says EFCC Can Arraign Babalakin For Money Laundering
Multiple motor accident leaves two dead on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway
Over 20 vehicles as well as goods and property believed to be worth millions of naira have been destroyed in a multiple accident which occurred in the early hours of today (Saturday 2 June, 2012) around the Danco Investment Filling Station along the Sagamu axis of the Lagos-Ibadan express way.
The Federal Road Safety Corps has confirmed that two persons were seriously injured in the crash which involved many vehicles.
According to the Corps Public Education Officer, Jonas Agwu, the road crash was attributed to spillage of petrol from a Tanker (XA903GGW) which fell down, resulting to a fire outbreak, affecting 11 Trailers, 10 Luxury buses, 5 Mini Buses, 4 Tankers, 2 Pick-up vehicles , a car and 176 people.
Speaking further, Agwu said that “the timely response of FRSC rescue team, the Police and the Fire Service was able to bring the situation under control, while the injured victims have been taken to the hospital for medical attention”.
It would be recalled that 2 persons were killed and 5 others were injured at the same location (Danko) along Lagos- Ibadan expressway on 31 May, 2012 at 3.00pm as a result of dangerous driving and petrol spillage from a tanker which led to a fire outbreak, affecting 10 vehicles and 30 people.
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The Muslims Aren’t Evil Enough
Saturday, December 17, 2011 (7 Comments)
The Muslims on TLC’s “All American Muslims aren’t evil enough. That’s why home-improvement giant Lowe’s pulled its ads from the show. The Florida Family Association (FFA) claims the show is “propaganda that riskily hides the Islamic agenda’s clear and present danger to American liberties and traditional values… the show profiles only Muslims that appear to be ordinary folks.” I guess the FFA believes the Muslims on TV shouldn’t be ordinary folks. They need to be evil!
Now, to be fair to the FFA and its leaders, I can only assume they know little to nothing about Muslims, despite their best efforts to speak as experts on the subject. But I can’t blame them too much. For years, all they have seen on TV and the news are evil and scary Muslims. Maybe they’ve seen “True Lies,” where Muslims are screaming, murderous terrorists who want to kill Arnold Schwarzenegger. Or maybe they’ve seen “The Siege,” where Muslims are screaming, murderous terrorists who want to kill Denzel Washington. Or maybe they’ve seen “Back to the Future,” where Muslims are screaming, murderous terrorists who force Michael J Fox back into 1955. Or maybe they’ve seen every Chuck Norris… ever.
Or maybe they’ve simply been watching too much FOX News and Bill O’Reilly, who told us, “Muslims killed us on 9/11.” He has also said there is a “Muslim problem,” and that “for every Muslim in the world who wants democracy or human rights, there’s one who doesn’t.” I’m pretty good at math. That’s half. That’s bad. That’s definitely a scary statistic, other than the fact that it is totally untrue. Saying “Muslims killed us on 9/11” is just dumb. Imagine if after Timothy McVeigh committed his crime, someone said, “Christians killed us in Oklahoma City.” Imagine if in the wake of the scandal in the Catholic Church, someone said, “Catholics molested our young boys.” Or imagine if after watching an episode of Jersey Shore, someone said, “Italians are ruining our summer vacations.” Just imagine.
Saying sweeping, racist things about Muslims, however, is simply part of American discourse. This all happens because Arabs and Muslims are seen as threatening, menacing, and foreign. Racism against us is just different. People avoid young black men because they’re afraid they might lose their money. But people avoid young Muslim men because they’re afraid they might lose their freedom. Someone might handover is wallet, but he might kill for his freedom.
It was as a result of this environment of Islamophobia that Lowe’s pulled its ads from “All American Muslim.” As a show of my disgust with their move, I returned $2600 worth of appliances to their store. And I was totally pissed off, not because Lowe’s was being racist, but because, as a good Arab, I searched long and hard for that good deal. And now I have to do it all over again.
The truth of the matter is that Muslims and Arabs love freedom. They line up for American visas. They have been leaving their societies for decades, coming to America for freedom and opportunity. Like everyone else, they come here for the three M’s: Money, Money, and Marilyn Monroe.
There’s a possibility that the Florida Family Association might get its way in the end. Since its November 13 premiere, “All American Muslim” has been declining steadily in the ratings, most probably because it is a show about five pretty ordinary, mundane Muslim-American families. So far it has presented a young couple going through the anxieties of having their first child (just like any other young couple), the struggles of a young woman trying to open a new business (just like any other young woman), and the story of a high school football coach passionate about the growth of his young players (just like any other coach).
Now, the last episode of “All American Muslim” did show a white guy crying when he had to give up his dog. And why did he have to do it? Because of his Muslim wife! I guess Muslims don’t only hate freedom… they hate Lassie too.
“All American Muslim” was put on TV to show that Muslims might be just like everyone else. And if it gets canceled, it will be because it actually showed that Muslims are just like everyone else. And seriously, who wants to watch that?
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* Amer Zahr is a Palestinian American comedian, writer, professor and speaker living in Dearborn, Michigan. He is also the editor of "The Civil Arab."
Luay says:
Good job and thank you for doing this Amer, I hope every one does that. Thank you again
Henry Herskovitz says:
Now which powerful, influential group do we think is pitting the country against Arabs? Same group icing out Ron Paul’s presidential bid? Can we say Jews own Hollywood, or can only LA Times columnist Joel Stein say that?
Disappointed says:
Amer, I understand the valid point youre trying to make about stereotypes but Timothy McVeigh did not commit the crime(s) he commited based on a religious premise. Just because he is caucasian does not mean you can equate him to being Christian. He never claimed or believed in any type of organized religion. He was an American terrorist who harbored anti government animosity and used that, along with a disturbed childhood filled with bullying, to propel his motivation for his heinous acts. The fact that I am trying to state is that he did not commit his act of terrorism citing religion as his motive. The example was not analagous. If he was a Christian extremist, it would be.
Also, you posted on the ten year Anniversary of September 11th how you are angry with America’s treatment of Muslims. But that day wasnt and isnt about anger or hatred or hating and being intolerant of anyone. That was a day not about the terrorists or religion or the people who choose to live in ignorance and treat peaceful Muslims disrespectfully. It was not about Obama, it was not about TSA, or how people of various ethnicities have been disrespected at airports. It was not about anyone except the people who lost their LIVES and the families whos lives have been forever changed because their spouse, father, mother or child is gone and is never coming back. It was about being selfless enough to honor those men, women, and children. You ranted angrily rather than using that day to pay respect or say one kind word in memory of the thousands of innocent human beings who lost their lives which is what America has chosen to remember about that day. Its not a day we are choosing to remember terrorists or a poor choice made by a few people. Not One word in that post paid respect to those souls. Not one word. As an American, as a human being, your lack of respect or empathy for those people was insensitive. You have 364 other days in the year to educate ignorant people on how Islamophobia or equating all Muslims to terrorists is wrong and how it does nothing but weaken us as a society, as human beings. All of which I agree with, however it was ill timing, the date you chose to do it wasnt about that. It was about honoring the victims’ memory.
If you have a platform, why not use it to bring positive encouragement of coexistence among people of different religions instead of Consistently posting blogs with angry undertones against, well, anyone who isnt Muslim. Or blogging and sarcastically, but really, pointing the finger and placing blame on people of other religions or placing blame on those who dont support it enough. Not every American, regardless of ethnic or religious background, suffers from Islamophobia. Not every American concedes to ignorant stereotypes. Not every American harbors or propels anti Arab, anti Islamic feelings. Not every American believes the garbage on Faux News. Not everyone is ignorant and hates or points a blaming finger towards Muslims.
I like to believe people are inherently good and can rise above bigotry or racism or anger or hatred or stereotypes and express tolerance. Denouncing someone or an organization like Lowes for something that was wrong should not be done through angry sarcasm or hatred or being ‘pissed’ or boycotting or returning their products because, really, that does nothing. Instead it should be about spreading knowledge and acceptance and informing society about why what they are doing is wrong. Not anger. Being ‘pissed’ never got anyone anywhere.
Maybe you can change the tone of your blogs so rather than challenging others and angrily defending something you are passionate about, you can instead put out a positive message and educate people who do not understand instead of alienating them by playing the blame game and propelling your belief that everyone is against Muslims. Because frankly, that isnt true, and that notion you keep propeling is just as ignorant as the bigots youre trying to educate.
Yusif Barakat says:
The problem is bigger than Lowe’s!
The problem is that we lack the Will, the LEADERSHIP and the COHESION to act with one voice!
Moslims constitute 25% of the worlds population. Moslim/Arab countries controll over 50% of the world’s oil!
We have bigotry and division amongst our own people and every one just pulls for themselves and their identity for what ever Arab country they come from.
Why is it— that Zionest/Jews who barely comprise 1% of the world’s population and have no obvious controll of wealth, like oil, can have so much POWER/CONTROLL of the richest and most powerful country (the U.S.) and keep us all on the defensive, where the only choice we have is to write letters to our congressman and boycott Lowe’s for a day or two?
We need a unified strategy, where members of all the factions, come together, (Moslim and Chritian) to develop a plan of action, so we can go on the offensive and not just be the VICTiMS!
If losing Palestine and being made to look like we are the criminals, does not motivate us into an action of Unity, then I don’t know what will?
AMERICA (the U.S.) is now, in the phase known as, THE GLORY THAT WAS ROME! Like Rome, the decedence from with in, will cause the implosion, so no terrorism is needed, Moslem or otherwise.
It is evidenced by the fact that the best that America can do, is present those clowns who are running for President as the best of the bunch, is very telling and very sad!
We need a leader, backed by a Unity Coalision, who can take on the whole establishment, including AIPAC, and present a strong, cohesive message of Unity and Restorative Justice!
Are we up to it?
Can we come together– or forever lament our fate?
Yusif Barakat: yusifpeace@gmail.com http://www.yusif.org
Prasanna says:
I am not a Muslim . but I,m south Asian . If this can happen to a peaceful Muslims this can happen to us too . I am boycotting Lowes !
Din VT says:
Excellent job returning the appliances to Lowe’s. Go spend your hard earned money at a locally owned appliance center. They’ll appreciate your business more than Lowe’s ever would.
aziz says:
Other than Islam being a religion of violence which claims superiority over equally primitive religions of christianity and judaism, I think that Arabs are just plain evil even without having the religion to prove it. Just look at the reports all over the media about torture and gross mistreatment of migrant workers in the arab world and youll get my point. The thing is, Islam is not bad by itself, but the fact that the religion is under the stewardship of a pathological race is what taints it, resulting in a horriby fashioned system of social control that uses death as the solution to all problems. I have experienced mistreatment under arabs first hand and believe me I did not have the time of my life. Those people will burn, scald, pierce, douse with acid and do every imaginable (and unimaginable) thing for extremely petty reasons (even a child doesn’t reason like that). The evidence is all over the media. The disturbing thing about it is that the arabs do not even attempt to explain away the highly frequent acts of violence against migrant workers and instead act as if they are some sort of superior beings to the immigrants (just like a mean child who likes torturing animals). So I fully support the invasion of Iran (nuclear weapons at the hands of Arabs? hell no! I will volunteer to fight myself!) and israel’s war against palestine (who wouldnt attack someone who aims shrapnel-loaded katyushas at schools?) DOWN WITH ARABS!!!
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Book Review: The Governess by Christi Caldwell
There were several moments early on in this book where I badly wanted to smack Broderick Killoran upside the head for being an arrogant, judgemental idiot. I’m glad I stuck with it, though, because he actually listened to his sisters and the heroine telling him he was wrong and tried to do better.
If you haven’t read The Vixen and The Hellion, the previous two books in the Wicked Wallflowers series, you’re going to come into this one seriously confused as to who everyone is. I have read those two books, and I still occasionally got muddled as to who was who. One important character recurs a lot, though, and that’s the boy Stephen, the adopted younger brother of the Killoran siblings who turns out to be the kidnapped son of a marquis. The Governess is where that years-old crime comes home to roost, with Stephen’s father looking to exact vengeance and Broderick being the only available target. Broderick spends most of the book pretty sure he’s going to hang for past sins and desperately trying to protect those he cares about from the fallout.
Regina, the heroine, has her own past troubles which come back to haunt her, in the shape of a (different) nobleman who once used her ill and cast her aside. He tries a bit of blackmail to get Reggie to fall in with his nefarious plans, and for a dreadful moment I thought she was going to be TSTL and not tell anyone about it, but to my relief Reggie promptly blabbed to all and sundry, leading to her nemesis getting a highly satisfying comeuppance and Broderick confronting his feelings for her at the same time.
There’s a very satisfying conclusion to this romance when Reggie discovers a family connection which can help get her in through the door to see the vengeful nobleman, and a lovely gesture by Broderick which demonstrates just how far he’s come from the arrogant a** he was at the start of the book. Stick with this one even though you may want to strangle him in the beginning, I promise, the payoff really is worth it. Five stars.
The Governess is available now.
Disclaimer; I received a copy of this book for review through NetGalley.
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Who ordered the abandonment of the East Precinct? — UPDATE
Posted on Wednesday, November 18, 2020 - 2:07 pm by jseattle
(Image: Matt Mitgang)
KING 5 is reporting new details of text messages and emails from city officials this summer as the CHOP occupied protest took shape on Capitol Hill including bizarre exchanges like this reported between Fire Chief Harold Scoggins and hip hop artist Raz Simone who had been part of the chaotic, exciting, and growing demonstrations and was asked to try to do something to help protect the abandoned East Precinct:
“Raz, I just got word that 4 people just broke the door at SPD and entered the building,” said a Scoggins text to Simone.
“A way to keep SPD out of the space is secure that building during the protest. Can you guys work with us on that?” Scoggins asked.
But despite former Chief Carmen Best’s new job with NBC, KING did not add much to the question at the center of how CHOP formed and grew on Capitol Hill in the first place — who ordered the abandonment of the East Precinct?
On Friday, May 29th, protests begin in Seattle after the police killing of George Floyd as thousands marched and demonstrated. Windows were smashed at Capitol Hill’s Amazon grocery and Ferrari dealership and seven arrests were reported. As the protests grew through the city, on Wednesday, June 3rd a “Defund Seattle Police” rally began in Cal Anderson after a battle of tear gas and blast balls as police moved on demonstrators and National Guard troops joined the lines with police outside the East Precinct. The next day, the city began bowing to protest demands, lifting its curfew as demonstrations continued. Cal Anderson continued to grow as a center of the ongoing protests and a battle line of sorts emerges at 11th and Pine. Clashes continued and on Saturday, June 6th Seattle City Council members joined the protest. Sunday, after the mayor’s speech on deescalation of the ongoing protest clashes between demonstrators and police, SPD responds with its strongest show of force yet in the “standoff” at 11th and Pine. That Sunday night, a man drives into the crowd at 11th and Pine and shoots a demonstrator. Nikolas Fernandez, the brother of an East Precinct cop, will be arrested and charged with one count of first degree assault. On Monday, June 8th, moving trucks arrived at the East Precinct as city officials said there were credible threats of arson targeting the building identified by the FBI. On Tuesday, June 9th, the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone forms around an emptied East Precinct
The KING 5 report provides some color behind the chaos of the situation:
A June 7 memo from Assistant Police Chief Tom Mahaffey to Seattle police officers contained a similar message. “Let me state very strongly that this is not the case,” said Mahaffey, trying to quell rumors officers that the department was preparing to evacuate the East Precinct. “We will not abandon one of our facilities,” he said. But that is exactly what happened less than 48 hours later. Officers at the Seattle Police Department (SPD) East Precinct on Capitol Hill removed sensitive equipment and documents on June 8 after Mayor Durkan ordered the removal of police lines and barriers that were providing a protective perimeter around the precinct.
In the days following the abandonment, Chief Best famously distanced herself from the decision and said the station had been emptied out of concern about losses during a possible fire but she did not order officers to retreat from the facility. “The decision to board up the precinct — our precinct, our home, the first precinct I worked in — was something I was holding off,” Best said in a video addressing officers. “You should know, leaving the precinct was not my decision.”
Instead, CHS reported at the time, Best said the evacuation was made as a tactical action that stemmed from Mayor Jenny Durkan’s efforts to reach out to the demonstrators and led to Best’s decision to remove the protest barriers and allow protesters to gather outside 12th and Pine. “We took down the barricades because we really wanted to establish trust,” Best said in June.
The CHS report from June includes signs of obvious tension between the chief and the mayor despite their public efforts. “Ultimately, the city had other plans for the building and relented to severe public pressure. I’m angry about how this all came about,” Best said.
The KING 5 report reveals more about this fissure, reporting that the mayor’s office “was blind-sided by Best’s statements later in the first week of the CHOP’s existence that she was not the one who made the call to abandon the precinct.”
At the time, Crosscut also reported this dubious account from Best speculating on how the order may have materialized. “I’m not sure if someone said something to somebody or someone got a call from somebody. We’re still trying to track down exactly how it got to be that people were actually leaving the facility,” Best told Crosscut. Crosscut was also first to report details of Assistant Chief Mahaffey’s e-mail noting officers had “printed off Mahaffey’s June 7 email and posted it on bulletin boards and outside the (West Precinct) station in an act of protest.”
Best at a CHOP press conference
Later in July after the mayor’s order to sweep CHOP and clear Cal Anderson as the precinct was reopened by police, Best addressed the situation in an interview the morning of the raid with CHS. That day, Best took issue with Seattle City Council member Lisa Herbold’s skepticism about the FBI intelligence cited as a justification for the original lockdown. And the chief once again said the decision to empty the precinct came from the efforts of the mayor to find common ground with the demonstration and remove the barriers and police lines from the streets. “There is a lot of speculation about what happened with that, once the street was open it presented a problem,” Best said, promising “a deeper examination” ahead of the circumstances.
That deeper examination has not yet come.
Best announced her resignation in August saying she had no lingering regrets about the crowd control tactics used during Capitol Hill protests, and the abandonment of the East Precinct “worked out the way it should have.”
“Everyone knows what happened,” Best said. “Where it started and where it ended were two different places.” Best said the protest zone did not begin like “what it devolved to.”
Sorting out how CHOP came to be and the mistakes made along the way will be an important part of answering the demands and movements that developed there. Answering the question about the East Precinct goes to the heart of some of the biggest concerns about policing in Seattle: accountability and who, ultimately, is calling the shots.
If the decision to evacuate the building — and abandon the department’s position in the community and the neighborhood — was truly a tactical, on the ground decision, there are names and records of who was there and who was in charge on those June days and nights.
For now, Best, in her new job as a law enforcement analyst for KING 5 and NBC, has left the answer to records, documents, and individuals like those men and women.
CHS has filed a document request for the simple roll calls of how the East Precinct was staffed in early June. Other media outlets have likely done the same. “At this time, the Seattle Police Department’s Legal Unit is operating under an extreme backlog of requests, staffing shortages, the redeployment of supporting units to SPD’s frontline COVID-19 response, and, pursuant to CDC recommendations and City direction, reassignment to remote access,” the SPD public disclosure request center website reads. “For these reasons, our ability to process new requests is substantially limited; we are currently estimating minimum response timelines, depending on the volume and complexity of requests, in excess of 6-12 months.”
The wait for the truth will take more time.
UPDATE 11/19/2020 12:30 PM: While we might face a long wait for public documents showing who was in charge at the East Precinct when the decision was made to retreat fully from the building, the city has sent CHS the package of email and text messages provided to KING 5.
One June email sent from a spokesperson for Durkan in a response to media spells out the mayor’s office messaging:
Other internal discussions on messaging also shed light on how the mayor’s office prepared to present the situation to media:
Several text messages capture the uncertainty within City Hall about what was happening with the precinct and CHOP:
There were also preparations made at one point for possible new building leases to house the precinct if the situation dragged on:
And, in some moments, of course, the stress and tension gave way to levity:
Other messages reviewed by CHS corroborate reports of skepticism from Gov. Jay Inslee’s office about the FBI-identified threats against the precinct, and pleas for deescalation by SPD from political leaders including King County Councilmember Girmay Zahilay, State Sen. David Frockt and State Rep. Frank Chopp. City Councilmember Kshama Sawant’s presence in the protest zone was also a concern in one thread involving Durkan administration staffers.
In all, the documents prove one thing that was probably already clear — the people working in the mayor’s office and Seattle City Hall had never seen anything quite like CHOP and the abandonment of the East Precinct before.
UPDATE 11/20/20: You can view the full package of documents provided as public records by the City of Seattle here.
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Dan howes
Omari at converge has better reporting on this issue. https://www.facebook.com/WWConverge/videos/329412534966465/
jseattle
Reply to Dan howes
Thanks for posting — Omari was particularly fired up about the way the KING 5 story was presented in the video version of the report
HTS3
“…hip hop artist Raz Simone who had been part of the chaotic, exciting, and growing demonstrations…” I guess I wouldn’t call the destruction of property and the loss of life particularly exciting. I’d pick different adjectives such as, tragic, sad, and maybe throw in your chaotic. Just my two cents.
Reply to HTS3
I agree that the use of the word “exciting” is not appropriate. It might have been so for some, but for many it was certainly not.
CH Resident
Wow that KING 5 story is some BS. Chief Best is a PR wonk. It’s how she made her career in the SPD. The SPOG were the first people to suggest abandoning the precinct and everything, CHOP exists because the SPOG and Carmen Best used it to play the news media and leave us, the Seattle citizens, to suffer. There won’t be accountability for it, and the entire thing was punishment of the people of Seattle for not worshipping the abusive SPD. I’m pissed as hell that she’s going to be able to play her game as a “law enforcement analyst” on KING 5. She’s a propagandist for the SPOG and now I guess KING 5 is, too.
donnitta
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Shaniqua Walker
Y’all is crazy. Let it go.
Defund SPD
“We took down the barricades because we really wanted to establish trust,” Best said in June.”
Everyone knows the best way to build trust is by tear gassing crowds and shooting people flash bangs.
timothy a clemans
Can someone please dump all of these records in the open? I know Seattle Times uses Document Cloud sometimes to share records.
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You can view the documents here
This website looks like time cube.
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China Car Forums (https://www.chinacarforums.com/forum/index.php)
- FAW (First Automobile Works) (https://www.chinacarforums.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=31)
- - FAW Introduction (https://www.chinacarforums.com/forum/showthread.php?t=178)
Admin 03-25-2006 04:19 PM
FAW Introduction
China FAW Group Corporation, commonly referred to as FAW due to its original name of First Automotive Works, broke ground for its first factory on July 15, 1953. Since then, FAW has been at the forefront of promoting China¡¯s automobile industry. Although FAW began life solely as a truck producer, it later expanded into the light-duty truck and car sector. In 1991, working in partnership with Volkswagen AG, FAW created a new state-of-the-art production facility with a yearly production capacity in excess of 150,000 units. In 2002, Tianjin Automobile Industry (Group) Corporation was merged into First Automobile Group, and began joint venture production with Toyota Motor Corporation. At present, FAW¡¯s current production strategies put a heavier emphasis on the production of cars while maintaining our dominant position in the truck industry.
FAW has 27 wholly owned subsidiaries and controlling interest in 20 partially owned subsidiaries. Among these are FAW Jiefang Automobile Co., Ltd. and FAWER Automobile Parts Co., Ltd, which are wholly owned subsidiaries;Faw Car Co., Ltd. ,Tianjin FAW Xiali Automobile Co., Ltd. and Changchun FAW Sihuan Automobile Co., Ltd., whose shares are traded on the stock exchange, and FAW Volkswagen Automobile Co., Ltd. and Tianjin FAW Toyota Motor Co., Ltd., and etc which are Sino-foreign joint ventures. FAW¡¯s production bases are evenly distributed in Northeastern China, Northern China and East of Shangdong Province ,and Southwestern China. FAW also has an advanced technology center for the research and development of new products, technology, and materials in China. The company¡¯s total assets are valued at 102.4 billion Yuan (US $ 12.4 billion) with over 132,400 employees.
FAW has expanded its product line into 6 different categories of vehicles including light, medium, and heavy-duty trucks, cars, buses, and mini-vehicles with total sales in excess of 7 million vehicles. FAW has been able to maintain its leading domestic market position while expanding into new international markets, executing a carefully planned strategy to build a comprehensive global organization.
In order to work towards our dream to ¡°let every Chinese family own a car,¡± we hold to our core value of ¡°first automobile, first partner¡± and our management concept of ¡°custom first¡±. Currently, FAW employees are diligently working to build a new FAW, whose target is to be managed digitally, to became an auto-industry group with a capacity of one million units, and competent in the international market.
http://www.faw.com/webcontent/aboutf...&about=Profile
some FAW cars...
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CCF mod 12-29-2007 06:07 AM
New chief in FAW.
December 29– Chinese authorities have appointed a new general manager named Xu Jiangong for First Automobile Works, the company announced on Wednesday.
The new leader, 54, had worked many years for FAW and served as deputy general before entering politics in 2003. He was Communist party boss for the city of Jilin before chosen as general manager for FAW.
Xu’s predecessor, Zhu Yanfeng, has assumed the office of lieutenant governor of northeast China's Jilin Province after 24 years working for FAW.
Zhu became general manager of FAW in 1999. During his tenure, FAW acquired Tianjin Xiali Auto Company and set up several joint ventures with global auto giants such as VW, Toyota and Mazda.
source: Gasgoo.com
FAW Jiefang 06-11-2008 12:17 AM
Re: FAW Introduction
FAW Group's new president is named Mr. Xu Jianyi. The news article above incorrectly listed his name as Mr. Xu Jiangong.
An Introduction to FAW Group
As the founder of China’s automobile industry, FAW Group Corporation (FAW) has maintained a dominant position in the automotive industry since its founding in 1953 in terms of its total assets, production capacity, domestic and international sales, market share, and brand recognition. The company is the largest and most influential in China’s automotive industry and an evolving global player.
Over the past 50 years, FAW Group has become one of the world’s largest vehicle producers. The company’s line-up of passenger cars, ranging from affordable compacts to luxury performance sedans, also includes MPVs, SUVs and versatile mini vehicles. Renowned in the commercial market for its outstanding light, medium, and heavy trucks, FAW Group is also a leader in the bus, coach, and bus chassis industry. The company has delivered 9.2 million vehicles since its inception and ranks within the Fortune Global 500.
Since entering the international market in 1984, FAW Group has exported over 100,000 complete vehicles (CBUs) and CKD/SKD vehicle kits to more than 70 countries around the world. Supporting the company’s rapidly expanding international sales network, FAW Group has established modern overseas production facilities in Pakistan, South Africa, Tanzania, Ukraine and Vietnam.
FAW Group’s proprietary vehicle brands include:
Jiefang Brand Medium and Heavy Trucks
Available as tractors or rigids (with or without body), including 4x2, 6x2, 6x4 and 8x4 models with dual steer axle, pusher axle and tag axle configurations. Vocational models are available for construction (dump, mixer, concrete pumping, ect.), refuse, utility, and other applications requiring superior maneuverability, brute strength, maximum payloads and solid dependability.
Truck Range:
• J6 Premium Long-Distance Heavy Tractors, Rigids and Vocational Trucks
• J5P “Aowei” Series Heavy Tractors, Rigids and Vocational Trucks
• J5M “Hanwei” Series Regional Heavy Tractors, Rigids and Vocational Trucks
• J5R Conventional Cab Regional Heavy Tractors
• J5K “Junwei” Series Medium-Duty Rigids
• J4/FM Medium-Duty Tractors, Rigids and Vocational Trucks
• J4/FK Medium-Duty Rigids and Vocational Trucks
• J4 Conventional Medium-Duty Tractors, Rigids and Vocational Trucks
Jiefang Brand Light Trucks
Available in standard, extended and crew type low-cab-forward models with a variety of wheelbases and drivetrain configurations to suit any requirement.
• CA1020 Series 1 Ton
• CA1030 Series 1.5 Ton
• CA1040A Series 2.5 Ton
FAW Bus & Coach
A comprehensive range of diesel, natural gas and hybrid-powered bus platforms including low floor/low step height municipal transit buses, profitable and efficient intercity buses, and attractive luxury tourist coaches emphasizing comfort and safety.
• Custom Bus and Coach Chassis
• Medium Buses
• Municipal Transit Buses including BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) configurations
• Intercity Buses
• Luxury Tourist Coaches
Besturn Brand Performance Luxury Sedans
• C301 Performance Luxury Sedan
FAW Haima Brand Passenger Cars
• Family II Sedan
• Freema MPV
• Haima 3
Hongqi Brand Luxury Sedans
• HQ3 Premium Luxury Sedan
• Century Star Luxury Sedan
• Mingshi Sedan
Xiali Brand Compact Passenger Cars
• Xiali A+ Compact Sedan and Hatchback
• Xiali C1 Hatchback and C3 Compact Sedan
• Xiali N3 Compact Sedan and Hatchback
• Xiali Vela Compact Sedan
• Xiali Vizi Compact Hatchback
Jiaxing Brand Compact MPVs
FAW Group’s popular “Jiaxing” MPVs offer a large and comfortable interior with outstanding headroom and visibility through innovative styling and design. This versatile compact MPV’s affordability, fuel economy and spirited performance make it an outstanding value.
Freewind Brand MPVs
The company’s Freewind full-size MPVs offer seating options for up to 11 passengers, with a sophisticated and aerodynamic body shape that has world class fit and finish. Dual sliding side doors add to the Freewind’s versatility, as does the car’s wide-body design featuring an over-size rear lift-up tailgate.
Jiabao Brand Mini Vehicles
A diverse range of versatile and economical mini vehicles for both consumer and commercial use, including passenger vans, commercial delivery vans, pickups, and cab and chassis models that incorporate the latest in refinements and technologies.
• CA6300 Series Passenger Vans
• CA5000 Series Commercial Vans
• CA1000 Series Standard, Extended and Crew Cab Pickups; and Cab and Chassis
Over the past 20 years, FAW Group has established Sino-foreign joint ventures and technical licensing agreements with some of the world’s leading automakers and suppliers including ArvinMeritor, Bharat Forge, Daihatsu, Denso, Deutz AG, Eaton, Johnson Controls, Koyo, Mazda, ThyssenKrupp, Tokico, Toyota, TRW, Valeo, Volkswagen AG, Zexel, and ZF Friedrichshafen AG.
FAW Group’s joint venture vehicle brands include:
FAW-Volkswagen Automobile Co. Ltd.
Volkswagen Range
• Bora (IV) Sedan
• Bora HS Hatchback
• Caddy MPV
• Golf (IV) Hatchback
• Jetta Sedan
• Magotan Premium Luxury Sedan (European Passat)
• Sagitar Performance Luxury Sedan (European Jetta)
Audi Range
• Audi A4
• Audi A6L (extended wheelbase – built exclusively by FAW-Volkswagen )
• Audi A8L
• Audi Q7
• Audi TT
Tianjin FAW Toyota Motor Co. Ltd. (TFTM)
• Crown Premium Luxury Sedan
• Reiz (Mark X) Performance Luxury Sedan
• Corolla Sedan (10th generation)
• Corolla Sedan (9th generation - taxi version)
• Vios Compact Sedan
Sichuan FAW Toyota Motor Co. Ltd. (SFTM)
• Land Cruiser Prado SUV
• Coaster Medium Bus
SFTM Changchun Fengyue Co. Ltd. (a division of SFTM)
• Land Cruiser 100 Luxury SUV
• Prius Hybrid Sedan
FAW Mazda Motor Sales Co. Ltd. (FMSC)
• Mazda6 Sedan
• Mazda6 Sports Sedan
• Mazda6 Sport Wagon
FAW Daihatsu (Jilin) Body Parts Co. Ltd. (FDJB)
• Daihatsu Xenia MPV
FAW Group has also established itself as a global OEM parts supplier of modules and components to the world’s leading names, including Ford, Hyundai, Toyota, and Volkswagen AG. Utilizing the latest in machinery and production methods, the company’s quality management standards are ISO/TS16949 certified.
FAW Group has 30 wholly owned subsidiaries and controlling interest in 18 partially owned subsidiaries. Among these are wholly owned subsidiaries FAW Jiefang Truck Company and Fawer Automotive Parts Company. Publicly traded units on the Shenzhen and Shanghai stock exchanges include FAW Car Company, Tianjin FAW Xiali Automobile Company, and FAW Sihuan Automotive Company.
FAW’s production bases are located in northeast China’s Jilin, Liaoning and Heilongjiang provinces, east China’s Shandong province and Tianjin municipality, south China’s Guangxi and Hainan provinces, and southwest China’s Sichuan and Yunnan provinces.
The company’s state-of-the-art government-certified engineering development and test center, China’s largest and most extensive automotive R&D facility, is the country’s leader in automobile and commercial vehicle research. It stands alone in China in possessing both cold and semi-tropical weather vehicle testing facilities.
FAW Group’s total assets are currently valued at US$15.1 billion. The company employs 134,000 people around the world.
FAW Group ranked 385 on Fortune magazine's 2007 Fortune Global 500, leaping ahead after placing 470 in 2006. The company also ranked number one again amongst China’s top 500 manufacturers for 2007. Sales revenues reached $18.7 billion with profits of $70 million.
At the beginning of this century, FAW Group set forth new corporate development targets designed to enhance the company’s evolution of development. Engaging in a strategic transformation, utilizing the latest information technologies available, FAW Group has become a globally-oriented automotive group with annual sales in excess of one million vehicles. By forging a dynamic new path built on FAW’s solid foundation of experience, the company has achieved its goals with a strategically focused long-term plan that promotes economies of scale and global development. With corporate mechanisms focused on the constantly evolving needs and demands of the global market, both present and future, FAW has assured its long-term success around the globe.
Following this strategy, FAW Group has expanded its organizational structure and global operations while cultivating its outstanding employees. In addition to its mainstream CBU/CKD/SKD vehicle and parts sales, the company has become active in technical transfer agreements and automotive manufacturing consulting services, further promoting FAW Group’s world class capabilities.
As FAW Group pushes forward with a comprehensive sales network and brand development system in both existing and emerging markets, the company continues to benefit from its diverse range of products, taking full advantage of FAW’s rich R&D capabilities to offer market-focused products that meet and exceed our customer’s demands around the world.
Thank you for your interest in FAW Group.
dragin 06-11-2008 10:44 AM
Hi FAW Jiefang,
Could you tell us something about the Hongta Auto and Baolong Auto subsidiaries and their products?
Also would be interested to know where the little Jiaxing or Jinn, aka Happy Messenger or Happy Envoy, is being produced currently.
tshabos 12-21-2011 07:15 AM
Is FAW Meiya still manufactured by this company? I would like to have more info about Meiya bukkies.:)
dmitra 04-27-2016 07:17 AM
Besturn X6 and X4 concepts at Auto China 2016
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http://price.pcauto.com.cn/chezhan/s26380/
F.Fernández 09-18-2017 08:33 PM
FAW Argentina!? What the f*ck!?
http://www.fawargentina.com.ar/
Waiting its launching in Argentina. (if Zotye guys confirmed a showroom in my city, FAW can do it!) But by the way it seems fake. Erik or D.Mitra, can they get me more info? I haven't get nothing.
dmitra 11-26-2018 01:52 PM
FAW, FAW Xiali, Huali, Toyota, and Byton (group restructuring)
Tianjin FAW Xiali Automobile Co., Ltd. (FAW Xiali) is currently planning to sell the residual 15% stake it owns in Tianjin FAW Toyota Motor Co., Ltd. (TFTM) to its parent, China First Automobile Co., Ltd. (FAW)
At the time of the restructuring of Tianjin Auto Group in 2002, China FAW Group Corporation (FAW Group) received a controlling stake of 50.98% in Xiali. At the same time, Xiali also offered 20% out of its 50% stake in the joint venture with Toyota to FAW Group. FAW Xiali thus retained 30% and Toyota Motor Corporation kept 50% as before.
In 2011, FAW Group created an investment holding company, China First Automobile Co., Ltd. (see above) and transferred its stake in FAW Xiali (which stood at 47.73% then) to this new entity.
In 2015-2016, in order to raise some cash, FAW Xiali sold an engine-making unit and 15% out of its 30% stake in TFTM to FAW. Subsequent to this, FAW Xiali was left with 15% (30%-15%), FAW held 35% (20%+15%), and Toyota held 50%. At the present time, again, in order to survive in the industry, FAW Xiali is offering this last bit (15%) to FAW. If this transaction goes through, FAW will end up with a 50% stake in TFTM, and FAW Xiali will be out of this JV.
Of note, FAW Xiali is a listed company, and the second largest shareholder in FAW Xiali is the BENEFO Group with a 19.46% stake. BENEFO (Baili Machinery Equipment) Group is the successor to the erstwhile Tianjin Auto Group and we already know it as the owner of Tianqi Meiya Auto.
Other related events:
1. In September 2018, FAW Xiali announced the sale of 100% of its stake in Tianjin FAW Huali Automobile Co., Ltd. [a.k.a. FAW Huali (Tianjin)] to Nanjing Zhixing Electric Vehicle Co., Ltd., a third-level stepdown subsidiary of Nanjing-based (Hong Kong-incorporated) EV startup Byton Limited, for 1 yuan. We had already heard about an impending sale of Huali assets, including production license, to any buyer willing to assume the obligations and debts of Huali. Byton ended up being that buyer.
2. In 2017, FAW had intended to sell 24.73% (out of 47.73%) of its stake in FAW Xiali to any strategic investor; however, no buyer turned up within the three-month period of open offer.
3. In April 2018, FAW Group reportedly invested around $260 million in Byton, when the latter had raised $500 million in Series-B round of funding.
PGMJ 04-29-2019 09:02 AM
It seems FAW brand name will be scrapped, being replaced by Bestune.
See this interview here:
https://bestsellingcarsblog.com/2019...tune-for-cars/
Lawrence 04-29-2019 12:59 PM
FAW is a huge state-owned conglomerate, with more subsidiaries than we can count. So the FAW name and brand won't go away in China any time soon, but for global market aspirations, "FAW Car" division wants a more timely and attractive name, to project a future-oriented image.
Although "tune" has become popular with auto and motorsports enthusiasts, I'm not sure the people will easily make the connection for a product that is not music- oriented. We have to wait and see.
Remember BAIC did something similar when it introduced the "Senova" brand to its new Saab based product line....as did GAC when it launched the "Trumpchi" brand.
Chery and Geely made a move to create each one's own catchy sounding brand names, but they launched so many that it led to confusion and they had to pull back.
Whatever company it is, I strongly believe that its as important to bring in native English speakers for creating name brands, as it is to bring in recognized body design specialists, like Geely's Peter Horbury of Volvo fame.
FAW asset swap
An intra-group asset swap has been approved by SASAC.
FAW Car Co., Ltd., which produces Besturn/Bestune and Mazda cars*, has proposed an asset swap plan according to which it will acquire commercial vehicle manufacturer FAW Jiefang Automotive Co., Ltd. in exchange for its car-making assets.
FAW Car Co., Ltd., a listed company now 53% owned by China First Automobile Co., Ltd. (FAW Group's investment arm), had set up a new subsidiary in June 2019 called FAW Benteng Car Co., Ltd. FAW Car Co., Ltd. will transfer almost all its assets, except a finance co., an insurance co., and some unspecified "retained assets", to FAW Benteng Car Co., Ltd. It will then acquire the entire 100% equity, assets and liabilities of FAW Jiefang Automotive Co., Ltd. from China First Automobile Co., Ltd. and transform itself into a pure commercial vehicle player. Its 100% shareholding in FAW Benteng Car Co., Ltd. will thereafter be transferred to China First Automobile Co., Ltd.
This transaction will allow FAW Group to unlock the enterprise value of FAW Jiefang as the same will be reflected in the stock price of FAW Car Co., Ltd., since FAW Jiefang will become FAW Car's 100% subsidiary.
FAW Jiefang is a much larger corporation than the current FAW Car. FAW Jiefang's equity has been valued at 27.009 bn RMB, whereas the current FAW Car is estimated to be worth 5.088 bn RMB. The difference in value will be made up by issuance of 19.9 bn RMB worth of new shares of the transformed FAW Car and the rest in cash. By taking in FAW Jiefang, FAW Car's liabilities will also increase about five-fold.
http://stock.jrj.com.cn/2019/09/10165228116769.shtml
https://www.autohome.com.cn/news/201909/947090.html
*FAW Car Co., Ltd. transferred its Hongqi-related assets to China First Automobile Co., Ltd. in 2017.
Baoya acquires FAW Jilin
FAW Jilin Automobile Co., Ltd., which operates two plants in Jilin City, Jilin Province, and is known for making Senia SUVs, Jiabao vans and some Jiefang minitrucks, has been acquired by well-known LSEV-maker Shandong Baoya New Energy Automobile Co., Ltd.
Baoya is based in Jinan, Shandong, and has factories in Jinan, Dezhou, Bijie, and Xiangyang; it makes low-speed electric vehicles under Baoya and Yazhi brands. For the group's lineage, see this page.
Baoya has acquired 70.5% of FAW Jilin Auto for 1.5 billion RMB.
https://finance.sina.com.cn/chanjing...z8493248.shtml
Lawrence 12-27-2019 11:24 AM
The "see this page" website was not available : www.baoya-ev.com
However the following website is still active:
http://www.byvehicle.com/
Didn't Baoya also acquire Loncin, the motorcycle maker?
Originally Posted by Lawrence (Post 215007)
Doesn't matter as the Qichacha page itself is sufficient, as a starting point, to trace the company's parentage (ownership chain) and subsidiaries.
No. The parent groups of Baoya and Loncin are unrelated. Loncin did acquire 51% of Lichi in 2015, though.
Baoya is related to Flybo.
My error: your "see this page", www.qichacha.com, website is active and provides the full background of Baoya........ Sorry about that.
erik (laofan), cmvdc 01-12-2020 04:42 PM
The website www.byvehicle.com is a left over of another time: the latest news on the website is from August 2012 (!), see http://www.byvehicle.com/news.html.
Also the production program is of that time, the Baoya 2020 production program is totally different (Katong, Tongnian, Yabei, Yazhi EQ1, Yazhi EQ3.)
Following the asset swap (see post #14), FAW Car Co., Ltd. has been renamed FAW Jiefang Group Co., Ltd.
An update to the FAW Jilin-Baoya saga -- mixed signals:
https://finance.sina.com.cn/roll/202...x6456574.shtml
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New gas-fired power station deemed ‘critical’
The NSW government has declared the proposed Kurri Kurri gas generator “critical” state infrastructure in a major step forward for the project.
22nd Dec 2020 7:23 PM
A proposed new gas-fired power station has been deemed "critical" state infrastructure by the NSW government in a major step forward for the project, which the Commonwealth has vowed to build if private industry won't.
Planning Minister Rob Stokes has made a new order to declare the proposed Kurri Kurri gas generator "significant and critical" state infrastructure, paving the way for its construction and operation at the former aluminium smelter site.
The NSW Government has also green lit the gas station to produce up to 750 megawatts of energy, which would mean the project could almost single-handedly fill the shortfall in dispatchable power expected to hit the east coast market when the Liddell coal-fired power station closes in 2023.
NSW Minister for Planning Rob Stokes. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Bianca De Marchi
The federal government has demanded energy companies create 1000MW of dispatchable power by the time Liddell shuts to ensure prices do not skyrocket for consumers.
The demand was sparked by concerns the energy sector was overly focused on building wind and solar farms, which would not fully replace Liddell.
If energy companies do not come up with a plan to create 1000MW of power in time for 2023, the Commonwealth has threatened to intervene directly in the market and have Snowy Hydro build the Kurri Kurri gas station.
The government has set an April deadline for a decision on Kurri Kurri.
Energy Minister Angus Taylor said the government set a 1000MW dispatachable power generation target in NSW to offset the projected increased electricity costs once the Liddell station closes.
Liddell Power Station in Muswellbrook in 2018. Picture: AAP/Dan Himbrechts
"Energy prices are coming down however the AEMC's findings that NSW annual electricity bills could rise following the closure of Liddell is again showing that we need to get new dispatchable generation up and running in NSW before Liddell exits," he said.
"The Government is already preparing to step up if the energy companies don't, with Snowy Hydro securing critical state significant infrastructure status for their proposed Kurri Kurri gas generator."
The latest AEMC price findings showed wholesale prices could skyrocket, echoing a report by the Liddell Taskforce which found costs could jump by up to 30 per cent to $80 per MWh if the coal-fired power station was not replaced with sufficient dispatchable capacity.
It follows concerns raised by the federal government that the NSW energy road map rushed through parliament late this year would prematurely disincentivise investment in new dispatachable sources of power.
Since the road map was unveiled, AGL has taken a step back from its proposed investments in the Newcastle Gas Peaker and Liddell Battery.
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2008, BMW, M3 Coupe
Automotive performance never goes out of fashion, but it does go through cycles. For the 2008 model year, V8 power and rear-wheel- drive are back in vogue at Pontiac after years in exile. For the Gen-4 version of BMW's sizzling M3 coupe and sedan, it's not so much the rear-drive, front-mounted V8 combination that raises eyebrows but a stratospheric 8,400-rpm redline that tickles the funny- bone.
Clearly, Pontiac is demanding to be taken seriously again by delivering ripping performance and four-door, five-seater practicality for under $30,000. BMW, on the other hand, has pulled out all the stops by endowing its venerable pocket-rocket with a supercar's sophistication and personality for a price. At a time when neo-Puritanism seems to be shaming aficionados into angst-ridden doldrums, Pontiac and BMW are standing tall and declaring for all to hear: Let the good times roll!
2008 BMW M3 Coupe
It's no coincidence that the engineers assigned to Pontiac's new G8 set out to benchmark their chassis design against BMW's ride and handling capabilities. But it's one thing to aim for a BMW; it's quite another to drive one, particularly when it's a no- compromise thoroughbred like the new fourth-generation M3 performance coupe.
The stat-sheet alone is enough to drive gearheads to paroxysms of frenzy: 414 hp from a 4.0-liter twin-cam V8 (up from 333 hp in the Gen-3 model); a 3,700-pound curb weight that plays a significant role in sprints from zero-to-60 in 4.7 seconds; a six-speed manual transmission whose gutsy gearing is tailor-made for an 8,400-rpm redline that many motorcycles might envy; cross-drilled floating- rotor disc brakes that can haul the M3 to a complete stop from 60 mph in just 105 feet.
The M3 is a driver's car, and its complement of driver-oriented tools includes 11 different programmable modes for tailoring torque, traction and suspension settings to driver preference and road conditions. With no tongue in cheek whatsoever, one of BMW's intended road conditions for the M3 is the racetrack, and at the car's debut at Laguna Seca Raceway outside Monterey, Calif., journalist-piloted M3s were soaring, cornering and drifting like a demented, parti-colored flock of seagulls.
The interior of the M3 coupe is a masterpiece of Bavarian comfort and efficiency: taut leathers, crisp actions from well positioned instruments, readable displays. Only BMW's iDrive telematics controller continues to subject a driver to potential distractions with its layers of screens and unorthodox readouts. Passenger comfort is exceptional; seats are well-bolstered against centrifugal forces to the sides, and rear buckets for two maximize both legroom and torso space.
And then, of course, there is the price of technology. The M3 Coupe starts at $57,275, and a sedan version arriving later in the year is slated for $54,757. (This assumes the dollar-euro exchange rate doesn't deteriorate to even more perverse levels.) Then, to feed all those fiery rpms, the M3 requires premium fuel which it nevertheless manages to consume at a rate of 14 mpg/city, 20 mpg/highway. Perfection, after all, is never cheap, and near-perfection's no bargain either. But where BMW's new M3 is concerned, it's not whether you can afford this car, it's whether you can live up to it.
Pontiac's new G8 sedan is like a breath of fresh air in a stuffy room. Just one look, and what seem like 20 years of ever-deepening anonymity and irrelevance simply fade away. The name G8 may not evoke the kinds of emotions that Firebird and Tempest and Trans-Am once did, but its back-to-basics powertrain pairing front engine and rear- wheel drive certainly get the juices flowing.
There are two basic iterations of the new G8. The $27,000 base model boasts a 3.6-liter V6 producing 256 horsepower, mated to a five-speed automatic transmission. The GT version is the bigger news, however. Its 6.0-liter pushrod V8 cranks out 361 hp through a six- speed auto, yet it still manages to achieve 15 mpg/city and 24 mpg/ highway thanks to computerized cylinder de-activation. (The V6 model is rated 17 mpg/city, 25 mpg/highway). Even with its hi-po V8, in other words, the G8 GT is capable of 420 miles per tankful of fuel. With a sticker price of $29,310, this G8 is arguably the under- $30,000 performance champ in the contemporary auto marketplace.
Like the reborn (and laid-to-rest) GTO coupe that never quite endeared itself to enthusiasts, the Pontiac G8 bears an Aussie pedigree thanks to its sibling relationship with the Holden Commodore from Adelaide. Styling, however, is Yankee Doodle Dandy, with the snorkel scoops, wheel flares and subtle flip spoiler that hearken back to Pontiac's muscle-car heyday. Ah, but there's an important twist: This is a Pontiac that can handle as well as accelerate; that's as reassuring under braking as it is flagrant doing burnouts. Finally, All-American muscle meets four-wheel independent suspension and front-to-rear disc brakes. If you toss it, the G8 can take it which isn't the fond memory many Boomers tend to harbor about their Pontiacs of yore.
Inside, the G8 boasts one of the more refreshing design makeovers in automotive annals. Seat comfort, particularly up front, is a paragon of comfort; and a roomy rear bench generously accommodates three adults. Moreover, an 18 cubic-foot trunk swallows ample luggage. Gone are Pontiac's lumpy, pudgy control knobs that resembled nothing so much as Fisher-Price playthings. The G8's instrumentation and switchgear are all grown up, tasteful and easy to use and understand. Deep red read-outs are still frustrating to us members of the color- blind minority (but sometimes it's better not to know how fast you're going when 361 hp are in charge).
What Pontiac has accomplished with the G8 bodes well for a General Motors division that's fighting to stay viable. At last, here's a practical, real-world and even affordable sedan with both the styling and the chops to validate Pontiac's once-revered reputation as the "GM performance brand."
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Animal instinct with Robert Oxley
As a passionate conservationist, Robert Oxley couldn't resist when the opportunity arose to spend some time with a pride of rather big cats. We caught up with the painter, who received a commendation from the esteemed BBC Wildlife Artist of the Year panel in 2010. For more big cats, check out Robert's new We Three Kings collection!
Painting cats
Not since Simba graced Pride Rock in The Lion King has a cat captured the public’s attention like Maya from the BBC Two hit television show, Big Cats About the House.
After watching the adorable jaguar cub grow into a fierce feline, Robert knew he had to do something to help the Big Cat Sanctuary in Kent. Putting paintbrush to canvas, he created an original artwork to raise money for the charity.
Being able to help in this way is a great achievement for the painter, who is hugely passionate about protecting animals’ survival against poaching and habitat loss.
Robert met Maya for the first time in May, when he unveiled his portrait.
He says: “Meeting her was a thrilling and humbling experience, and something I will never forget. I am incredibly lucky. As you can see, she approved!”
Visit The Big Cat Sanctuary website if you would like to make a donation or find out more.
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Pushing aside convention in favour of childlike fearlessness, the psychedelic painter has adopted a primary colour palette for his latest release of limited edition prints.
Discover your wild side with our wildlife art!
Prowl our collection of animal art, featuring new original paintings by Robert Oxley, pencil drawings from Peter Hildick and lively sculptures by the Frogman himself, Tim Cotterill.
We Three Kings by Robert Oxley
Back with a trio of limited edition prints and an exciting new format, the wildlife painter has exlored dystopian films for this powerful collection.
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12 - Julian Mitchell sees through the lens of the fungi kingdom
My intention with these conversations is to bring you a unique perspective. To hear from someone who maybe sees things a bit differently. Well, I can guarantee this episode's guest fits that bill perfectly.
He sees the world though the beautiful and complex web of the fungi kingdom.
Fungi. They're Nature’s recyclers. The decomposers of our world. The nutrient cyclers. They turn waste into new life. They're also valuable sources of food, medicine, environmental services, and SO many other practical uses.
But despite their abundance in our world, they’re still quite cryptic to us.
We humans think we’ve described maybe 5% of fungi, and it's quite possible there are so many more out there that we don’t know about.
It really is a different world down there.
Enter my guest today. Julian Mitchell is the Co-Founder & CEO of Life Cykel, which started out as a mushroom farming business but has now quickly grown into a cutting edge mushroom biotechnology company.
On top of being well and truly in this magical mushroom kingdom, he’s also a future-focussed entrepreneur who truly sees the power of ethical business as a means of improving our world.
In this conversations he shares the LifeCykel origin story, about how he went from being a sports physio in the English Premier Leaugue, to growing mushrooms out of coffee waste, to being on the forefront of fungi biotech.
We talk about the role that good businesses can play in society, and the importance of transparency, localization, and redefining success as not monetary return but positive impact on the world.
And of course, we talk ALL things fungi and get into the woods on its potential uses. Everything from environmental services like repurposing waste products, cleaning up oil spills, sustainable packaging, breaking down textile wastes, & enhancing soil health. We talk about the medicinal elements of mushrooms including stimulating nerve growth, increasing our body’s oxygen uptake, mental health benefits including psychoactive properties, antibiotics, ... and SO much more.
Julian really paints this picture of mushrooms being a teacher, and explains the parallels that we can draw between the interactions that happen under-ground through the mycelium network, and how we can view that and ask ourselves "How should we be living and interacting with nature and each other above-ground’?
I really think you’re going to love going down the mushroom spiral on this one.
Taking an 'overview effect' of Xmas, and 2020 episode reflections
11 - Lucas Patchett sees a positively connected community
10 - Helena Norberg-Hodge sees a localized and ancient future
9 - Oliver Costello sees cultural connections through fire
8 - Geoff Lawton sees permaculture as a revolution of thought
7 - Alison Crook sees power to the people
6 - Tim Silverwood sees a sustainable and abundant Planet Ocean
5 - Mark Joiner sees a better way for capitalism
The Overview Effect is the cognitive shift astronauts experience when viewing Earth from space; where the way they see the world changes and they come back to Earth profoundly connected to nature and community. What would our world look like if we lived from the perspective of this ‘Overview Effect’? Join James Perrin as he speaks with influential thinkers, environmentalists, humanitarians, and businesspeople to explore some of the problems we currently face, and the opportunities and solutions to come from them. James builds upon his background as a chemical engineer who has been at the forefront of the good business/B-Corp movement in Australia, and as someone who has launched not-for-profit initiatives and given countless public talks on environmentalism and ethical business.
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CMO Momentum 2017: Why Suncorp's Mark Reinke sees platform-based business as the way of the future
Insurance and banking group's chief customer experience officer reveals why traditional businesses need to function more like digital platform ecosystems and how marketers lead the way
Azadeh Williams (CMO)
Suncorp's Mark Reinke
Marketers are all grappling with rapid change, but according to insurance and banking Suncorp Group's chief customer experience officer, Mark Reinke, it’s the customer-centric businesses that can operate more like digital platforms that will ultimately survive.
“We are all grappling with change in customer behaviour, in technology, in regulatory and climate - at every single touch point,” he told attendees at CMO Momentum in Sydney. “But with that comes a hypothesis: As a large company, can we adapt and be resilient, or are we on a slippery slope to oblivion?
“Change has never been faster, but it has never been this slow again. So we have to do things differently if we want to build this business and move forward, and that means we need to fundamentally change our business.”
In 1960, the average life span of a fortune 500 company was 60 years, but today it’s 16. Reinke anticipated that in five years’ time, it might be closer to 10.
“What that says is that in five years’ time, many of our businesses simply won’t exist,” he said. “And if you don’t do anything, then we will just be another statistic, particularly in financial services, which is changing incredibly quickly.”
Reinke, who ranked number one in CMO’s top 50 in 2015, believes CMOs have to transform the business they’re operating in today. That requires technology, data and insight but most importantly, adaptability.
“Now our board is very interested in this, and it should be the number one thing boards need to think about – how can we enable our organisation to be resilient to change and how can we adapt, particularly, if you’ve been in business for a long time,” he said.
Turning traditional marketing leadership upside down
But in order to adapt to change, Reinke said marketers need to also shift the way they think away from traditional processes into a more agile and design patterned process.
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“I’ve been doing this for 25 years, and I’d love to say that it can be an advantage, but in reality it is a disadvantage, because while I think I am thinking differently, my pattern of thinking is actually everything I’ve already done,” he said. “That’s kind of scary. So one of the challenges we face - and I’m sure a lot of marketers do as well - is constraint of thought.
"It’s that inability to think differently, the pattern that exists that we just can’t break free of. We need some different tools, as chief marketing officers and chief customer officers, we have to do something different to change that patterning.”
Reinke stressed the bigger the organisation, the harder it is to implement change. The challenge with marketing leadership roles is you’re constantly balancing between investing for now and investing for later.
“You’re constantly challenged to balance between investing and spending time for incremental change, versus quantum change,” he saidd. “On top of that, there’s the balancing act between investing in product development versus customer development – all of us have these trade-offs and it’s very easy to get caught in the polarities. If we just invest everything for tomorrow - guess what happens? You don’t grow your business, your shareholders get very cranky, and you’re out of the job.
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“But then if you only focus on today, guess what happens as well? You wake up in a couple of years’ time and you will not exist. So we’ve had to develop some techniques for managing that, otherwise we’d end up in the polarity, we end up doing nothing, or we just wheel spin.
At Suncorp, Reinke revealed his team uses a framework called’ enhance, extend, renew’, which makes the company think about the right balance when it comes to improving the customer experience and moving the efficiency of the current business forward.
“Many companies are also thinking about extending their capability to connect with new platforms, and most companies I think should be doing that,” he added. “And when you start thinking differently, you start to see those fundamental questions are really hard to answer.”
A platform-based ecosystem
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According to Reinke, there is only one business model that is surviving at the moment and prospering and that is an ecosystem-based platform model, like AirBnB.
In 2016, Suncorp revealed a new operating model and platform approach, which was centred around elevating customer needs and set to help the banking and insurance group keep hold of some of the 125,000 members who churn each month.
“Those models reach beyond country borders, they reach globally and completely change markets,” Reinke said. “At Suncorp, if we don’t position our company to play in an ecosystem world, we don’t think we will remain relevant to our customers.”
The insurance giant’s efforts to re-architect its business away from vertical brands to a connected platform approach is about putting customers at the centre.
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“We were a value chain business, which meant we were good, but our products were commoditised and customers found value online in price,” Reinke said. “So if we didn’t start delivering new value for customers, we wouldn’t be able to survive.
"As a result, we decided we needed to move to a platform-based ecosystem. We’ve moved from a series of vertical businesses to a platform, which is very bold for a financial services business. What that means in reality is we design one customer experience, rather than an experience per product, and we remove the barriers to a customer getting the services and solutions they want.”
But moving from a traditional business to a platform is harder for established businesses, Reinke stressed, as it means you need to change your internal operating model.
“Traditional businesses are complicated, we know how to break down complex problems into smaller ones, we know how to look at cause and effect,” he explained. “But in an ecosystem world, it’s not so easy to work out –because the future doesn’t look like the past and the new problems are inherently complex.”
Read more CMO Momentum 2017: Airbnb reveals how to build a purpose-led superbrand
As a result, Suncorp had to rethink setting up a new platform based model around the customer, looking at customers want, designing the right experience, and offering the right solutions, Reinke said.
“Then, we’ve got to create function, we’ve got to create banking stuff, and insurance stuff, and very importantly now, a whole range of things that we need to source globally for the future,” he added. “It’s not easy, we haven’t done it perfectly, but we’re all about creating value for customers and easy, useful, insightful and personalised experiences.
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Cokato Museum
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A Policeman and his Dogs
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Cokato Museum Collection, circa 1943
Back Row: Ed Pickruhn, Marvel Fox, Otto Preus, Joann Nelson, Layonna Nelson, Pauline Hedberg, I.W. Humola.
Front Row: Marion Loe, Alice Ryti, Gloria Nelson, Lorraine, Joan Onkka, Paul Hedberg, Clifford Hedberg
Very Front Row: Rex II
Edward Pickruhn was originally from Minneapolis, MN and then moved to Cokato after he married Mrs. Ellen Johnson of Cokato in 1927. He lived in Cokato until his death in 1947. During his time here he was involved in many different things, including, being a member of the Masonic Lodge and the Eastern Star. In Cokato's First Century by Carlton Lee it states that Pickruhn served as the Master of the Cokato Lodge from 1919-1921. Pickruhn was also a custodian at the water works system and was probably most notably known for being a policeman for the Cokato Village.
According to the 1947 Cokato Enterprise article, Ed Pickruhn was a policeman for the Cokato Village from 1931 to 1947. Lee states that in 1931 Pickruhn was appointed night watchman and caretaker of the water pumping station, at $60 a month. When the worst of the Depression was over, in 1935 they increased his pay to $100 a month. During his time as a policeman, Pickruhn had had two police dogs. Both dogs were named Rex and were loyal companions to the officer and they were well known around the community.
Ed Pickruhn and Rex I on Millard Ave, circa 1936
LOST COKATO: The “Little” Grocery Stores
Article by Mike Worcester from the Cokato Historical Society's newsletter In the Midst Of, October, 2006, Vol. 26 No. 4.
Norm Blaha's grocery store at the corner of Third Street and Millard Avenue, c 1960 (Enterprise Dispatch collection)
Each winter, the 3rd grade classes from Cokato Elementary visit the museum as part of their unit on local history. Part of their tour here is the viewing of a slide show that shows how this area began and developed, from the mid-1850s through about 1920. One of the slide images shows a typical grocery, or “general” store.
LOST COKATO: COKATO BAKERY & LUNCH ROOM
Article by Mike Worcester from the Cokato Historical Society's newsletter In the Midst Of, Late Fall, 1998, Vol. 18 No. 4
Gust Akerlund photograph of the Cokato Bakery & Lunchroom around 1910. Copyright Cokato Museum.
The smell of fresh baked goods wafted down the dirt-lined streets of Cokato for blocks around. No question about it, there is almost no more wondrous smell than that of bread just out of the oven. For almost nine decades, that smell emanated from the Cokato Bakery & Lunch Room, at the corner of Broadway Avenue and Second Street. Now, that once grand building stands on the verge of demolition. When it goes, one of the oldest downtown structures will be no more.
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Aurora and Namaste to Complete Patient Referral Agreement
D.M.O. Newswire
Vancouver, British Columbia -- Dec. 2, 2018 -- / D.M.O. Newswire / -- Aurora Cannabis Inc. (the “Company” or “Aurora”) (TSX:ACB) (OTC:ACBFF) (Frankfurt: 21P; WKN: A1C4WM) and Namaste Technologies Inc. (“Namaste”) (CSE:N) (FRANKFURT: M5BQ) (OTC:NXTTF) today announced the signing of a binding term sheet towards a final Private-Label Software Agreement (“Private Label Agreement”), whereby Namaste will provide Aurora’s wholly-owned subsidiary, CanvasRx Inc. (“CanvasRx”) with a customized version of Namaste’s patient acquisition tool, NamasteMD.com (“NamasteMD”), as well as desktop and mobile applications for Google Android and Apple iOS platforms. The companies have 30 days to complete a final agreement.
Private Label Agreement
NamasteMD is an online telemedicine platform for patient consultation and registration, bringing together Namaste`s tested technology platform, including certain proprietary authentication technologies, as well as consultation, education and medical document issuance processes. Under the terms of the Private Label Agreement:
Namaste will provide CanvasRx with a customized, CanvasRx-branded version of NamasteMD
Namaste will provide CanvasRx with a two-year exclusivity period for the private label version of NamsteMD.com in Canada
Namaste will initially provide the application for both the Google Android and Apple iOS platforms
CanvasRx will require their own doctors and/or nurse practitioners to operate the platform
Commercial terms of the agreement are not disclosed
In consideration of Aurora’s assistance for the future optimization of NamasteMD, Namaste has issued Aurora 500,000 stock options, exercisable at $3.35 per common share for 48 months, vesting quarterly over 12 months.
Support Services Agreement
In addition, the companies have also signed a non-binding, non-exclusive Letter of Intent to complete a final Consultation & Support Services Agreement (“Consultation Agreement”), whereby Namaste will provide patient referral services to Aurora, where applicable under Canada’s Access to Cannabis for Medical Purposes (“ACMPR”) regulations. Under the terms of the Consultation Agreement:
Namaste shall provide certain patient-focused education and strain selection services, as well as assistance in preparing the requisite paperwork (Medical Documentation) for registering patients with Aurora
The Agreement is non-exclusive for a one-year term
Namaste shall provide the services under the agreement on preferential terms to Aurora
Commercial terms of the Consultation Agreement are not disclosed
The agreements further strengthen the strategic ties between the two companies, who already collaborate on eCommerce (sale of Namaste-sourced, curated selection of vaporizers through Aurora website, utilizing Namaste’s technology platform), and the distribution of BC Northern Lights products. Once completed, the new agreements will provide Namaste with recurring revenues through the private label platform, while Aurora will be the only licensed producer able to offer Namaste`s streamlined online patient acquisition platform under its own (CanvasRx) brand.
“NamasteMD provides an innovative and efficient extension to our industry-leading in-person cannabis counseling and education services provided through CanvasRx,” said Terry Booth, CEO. “The new platform will enable us to extend our industry leading patient care to areas where we currently have no physical presence. This will allow us to leverage the strength of both the CanvasRx and Aurora brands, without having to commit to substantial investments in brick and mortar facilities. Namaste is a trusted partner with whom we already successfully collaborate on two promising initiatives, and we look forward to extending our partnership based on innovation and customer care excellence.”
Sean Dollinger, President and CEO of Namaste added, “We are thrilled to have Aurora, the industry’s most innovative and dynamic Licensed Producer, as our preferred strategic partner. Our drive to innovate meets the cannabis industry`s need for reliable technological solutions to improve operational efficiencies and expand the customer experience. We are very proud to be aligned with Aurora’s team, and look forward to executing on our ongoing collaboration.”
Aurora's wholly-owned subsidiary, Aurora Cannabis Enterprises Inc., is a licensed producer of medical cannabis pursuant to Health Canada's Access to Cannabis for Medical Purposes Regulations ("ACMPR"). The Company operates a 55,200 square foot, state-of-the-art production facility in Mountain View County, Alberta, known as "Aurora Mountain", a second 40,000 square foot high-technology production facility known as “Aurora Vie” in Pointe-Claire, Quebec on Montreal’s West Island, and is currently constructing an 800,000 square foot production facility, known as "Aurora Sky", at the Edmonton International Airport, as well as is completing a fourth facility in Lachute, Quebec through its wholly owned subsidiary Aurora Larssen Projects Ltd.
In addition, the Company holds approximately 17.23% of the issued shares in leading extraction technology company Radient Technologies Inc., based in Edmonton, and is in the process of completing an investment in Edmonton-based Hempco Food and Fiber for an ownership stake of up to 50.1%. Furthermore, Aurora is the cornerstone investor with a 22.9% stake in Cann Group Limited, the first Australian company licensed to conduct research on and cultivate medical cannabis. Aurora also owns Pedanios, a leading wholesale importer, exporter, and distributor of medical cannabis in the European Union, based in Germany. The Company offers further differentiation through its acquisition of BC Northern Lights Ltd. and Urban Cultivator Inc., industry leaders, respectively, in the production and sale of proprietary systems for the safe, efficient and high-yield indoor cultivation of cannabis, and in state-of-the-art indoor gardening appliances for the cultivation of organic microgreens, vegetables and herbs in home and professional kitchens. Aurora's common shares trade on the TSX under the symbol "ACB".
About Namaste Technologies Inc.
Namaste is the largest online retailer for medical cannabis delivery systems globally. Namaste distributes vaporizers and smoking accessories through e-commerce sites in 26 countries and with 5 distribution hubs located around the world. Namaste has majority market share in Europe and Australia, with operations in the UK, US, Canada and Germany, and has opened new supply channels into emerging markets, including Brazil, Mexico and Chile. Namaste, through its acquisition of Cannmart Inc., a Canadian based late-stage applicant for a medical cannabis distribution license (under the ACMPR Program) is pursuing a new revenue vertical in online retail of medical cannabis in the Canadian market. Namaste intends to leverage its existing database of Canadian medical cannabis consumers, along with its expertise in e-commerce to create an online marketplace for medical cannabis patients, offering a larger variety of product and a better user experience.
On behalf of the Boards of Directors
Terry Booth
Sean Dollinger
For Aurora:
Cam Battley
cam@auroramj.com
www.auroramj.com
Marc Lakmaaker
Director, Investor Relations and
marc.lakmaaker@auroramj.com
For Namaste
Sean@NamasteTechnologies.com
www.namastetechnologies.com
This news release includes statements containing certain "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable securities law (“forward-looking statements”). Forward-looking statements are frequently characterized by words such as "plan", "continue", "expect", "project", "intend", "believe", "anticipate", "estimate", "may", "will", "potential", "proposed" and other similar words, or statements that certain events or conditions "may" or "will" occur. These statements are only predictions. Various assumptions were used in drawing the conclusions or making the projections contained in the forward-looking statements throughout this news release. Forward-looking statements are based on the opinions and estimates of management at the date the statements are made, and are subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual events or results to differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements. Aurora and Namaste are under no obligation, and expressly disclaim any intention or obligation, to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as expressly required by applicable law.
Neither TSX or CSE, nor their Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of Toronto Stock Exchange and CSE) accept responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
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Public Schools in Lyon County, Minnesota
There are 19 Public Schools in Lyon County, Minnesota, serving a population of 25,789 people in an area of 715 square miles. There is 1 Public School per 1,357 people, and 1 Public School per 37 square miles.
In Minnesota, Lyon County is ranked 27th of 87 counties in Public Schools per capita, and 30th of 87 counties in Public Schools per square mile.
List of Lyon County Public Schools
Find Lyon County, Minnesota public schools, including charter schools, k-12, elementary, middle, and high schools.
Greenbush-Middle River Junior High 335 North 4th Street Marshall, MN
Lakeview Secondary 875 Barstad Road Cottonwood, MN
Lynd Elementary 106 Saint Albans Street Lynd, MN
Lynd Elementary School 100 Saint Albans Street Lynd, MN
Ma-Tec 305 South 2nd Street Marshall, MN
Marshall High School 400 Tiger Drive Marshall, MN
Marshall Learning Center C Street Marshall, MN
Marshall Middle School 401 South Saratoga Street Marshall, MN
Marshall Public School 1420 East College Drive Marshall, MN
Mec Learning Alternatives 1420 East College Drive Marshall, MN
Minneota Elementary 504 North Monroe Street Minneota, MN
Minneota Secondary 504 North Monroe Street Minneota, MN
Park Side Elementary 1300 East Lyon Street Marshall, MN
Project Search-Avera Marshall 300 South Bruce Street Marshall, MN
Rtr Middle School 111 3rd Street Russell, MN
Stephen Senior High 1301 South 4th Street Marshall, MN
Tracy Elementary 700 South 4th Street Tracy, MN
Tracy Secondary 934 Pine Street Tracy, MN
West Side Elementary 500 South 4th Street Marshall, MN
About Lyon County Public Schools
Lyon County Public Schools are tuition-free, publicly funded schools that are legally required to accept and provide an education to all children from Kindergarten age through Grade 12 in Lyon County, MN. Each of the fifty state constitutions includes a requirement for the provision of a Public School system, and each state, including Minnesota, also has a compulsory education law that requires school-age children to attend school.
Lyon County Public School calendars
Lyon County school district
Lyon County Public School Statistics
Find Lyon County Public School Enrollment and Educational Attainment (Age 25+). Data Source: U.S. Census Bureau; American Community Survey, 2018 ACS 5-Year Estimates.
Lyon County Public School Enrollment
Nursery & Preschool Enrollment 430 (69.1%) 61,164 (64.6%)
Kindergarten Enrollment 318 (82.4%) 63,077 (88.4%)
Elementary School Enrollment (Grades 1-4) 1,156 (83.3%) 253,970 (89.1%)
High School Enrollment (Grades 9-12) 1,213 (97.4%) 268,982 (91.8%)
Lyon County Educational Attainment (Age 25+)
Less than 9th Grade Education 556 (3.4%) 109,242 (2.9%)
9-12th Grade (No Diploma) 760 (4.6%) 153,159 (4.1%)
High School Graduate (Including Equivalency) 5,481 (33.1%) 930,058 (24.9%)
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Home » JSC Press Releases, Judicial Selection Commission » Judicial Selection Commission Press Release District Court of the First Circuit Nominees
Judicial Selection Commission Press Release District Court of the First Circuit Nominees
Posted on Mar 23, 2015 in JSC Press Releases, Judicial Selection Commission
For immediate release: February 23, 2015
Under the Constitution of the State of Hawaiʻi, Article VI, Appointment of Justices and Judges, Section 3: “The chief justice, with the consent of the Senate, shall fill a vacancy in the district courts by appointing a person from a list of not less than six nominees for the vacancy presented by the judicial selection commission.”
The Judicial Selection Commission is pleased to announce a list of nominees for the judicial office of District Judge, District Court of the First Circuit (island of Oʻahu), State of Hawaiʻi. The judicial office has been vacant since the retirement of former District Judge Leslie A. Hayashi.
The list of nominees selected by the Commission to fill the vacancy is as follows, in alphabetical order:
Brian A. Costa
William M. Domingo
Thomas A.K. Haia
Timothy E. Ho
James S. Kawashima
Linda S. Martell
The Chief Justice has 30 days from his receipt of the list today to make his appointment.
Total Applicants: 34, 9 Females; 25 Males
Government Attorneys: 12
Private Attorneys: 20
Per Diem Judges: 11
Age Range: (31-40) 4; (41-50) 8 ; (51-60) 16 ; (61-70) 6
Years Licensed Range: 8 years to 36 years.
To be placed on the Judicial Selection Commission’s mailing list, provide your name and business and send request to JudSelect.Comm@courts.hawaii.gov.
For more information, visit the Judicial Selection Commission webpage or contact the Commission via email at judselect.comm@courts.hawaii.gov.
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Ontario deploys rapid COVID-19 tests that can turnaround results in under 20 minutes to hospitals, long-term care homes
Kerrisa Wilson, Web Content Writer, CP24
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Last Updated Tuesday, November 24, 2020 2:46PM EST
The Ontario government has started to deploy rapid COVID-19 tests to hospitals, long-term care homes and regions of high-transmission as the province continues to combat a second wave of the novel coronavirus.
Premier Doug Ford along with his health minister and minister of long-term care made the announcement in Toronto Tuesday afternoon.
So far, the government has received roughly 98,000 ID NOW rapid tests and 1.2 million Panbio rapid antigen tests with another 1.5 million more Panbio tests expected by the end of November.
“The new rapid tests are game changers,” Ford said during an announcement at Humber River Hospital in Toronto on Tuesday. “These new tests can turnaround test results in minutes instead of days.”
Ford said both tests can provide results in under twenty minutes.
The ID NOW test detects the novel coronavirus using a nasal, nasopharyngeal or throat swab, while the Panbio test uses a nasopharyngeal swab only.
“I want to thank Health Canada for getting these in and then once it gets in, put them in the distribution center and we allocate it to the most vulnerable areas throughout Ontario, no matter if it's northern rural areas, or the long-term care homes,” Ford said.
“We got the logistics down pat, they’re out there as we speak right now people are using them as we speak right now and the more that come in the more we're going to get throughout the system,” he added.
The ID NOW tests are initially being used in hospitals and assessment centres in rural and remote communities, and to test people as part of early outbreak investigations in hot spot regions.
Two hospitals, Ottawa Hospital and Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital in Orillia, Ont., are also using ID NOW tests, with 20 more hospitals preparing to launch rapid testing, according to the government.
“We have moved these tests out as quickly as possible, making sure that we do the necessary examination of the ones that have been received making sure that they're ready to go, then making sure that we have the right allocations going to the right places,” Health Minister Christine Elliott said at the press conference.
Ford commented on the significance of these rapid tests in the health-care system as infections are on the rise across the province, particularly in the hot spots of Toronto and Peel Region, which both entered the “lockdown” zone of the government’s COVID-19 response framework on Monday.
“Over the next few weeks dozens of our long-term care homes will use these tests to test staff and visitors to keep our long-term care residents safe while ensuring essential caregivers can continue to visit and worry less about endangering their loved ones,” Ford said.
ID NOW tests are currently being distributed in Simcoe Muskoka, Southwestern Ontario and Eastern Ontario. The government says the program will be expanded to other areas of the province next month.
Plans are in the works to roll out the rapid tests to Toronto and Peel and the government said it’s collaborating with Ontario Health and local public health units to eventually deploy the tests across the province. The government did not say how long it will take for the rapid tests to be deployed across the whole province.
Meanwhile, the Panbio rapid tests will support a screening program for long-term care homes and other workplaces.
The government says the Panbio tests have already been deployed to six long-term care operators for potential roll out to more than 30 long-term care homes, 27 retirement homes, eight hospitals and 11 industry partners, including Ontario Power Generation, Air Canada and Magna.
The Panbio rapid tests will also be used in an eight-week pilot for participating employers in the private, public and non-profit sectors.
“This pilot program is an important opportunity to learn about the value of antigen screening for asymptomatic workers in a range of workplace settings, and will inform future decisions about safely and fully reopening the economy,” Elliott said.
The deployment of rapid tests comes as the province reported 1,009 new COVID-19 tests on Tuesday. But the Ministry of Health says the new infections reported today are an underestimate and the 1,589 cases reported on Monday are an overestimate due to technical issues with data collection.
When averaging out new infections reported over the last two days, Ontario saw 1,299 cases on both Monday and Tuesday. The rolling seven-day average of new cases is now 1,395, down from 1,421 a week ago.
The government did not say if it has plans to roll out rapid tests to schools across the province even though cases continue to climb in school and child care settings.
On Tuesday, public health officials reported 270 new cases of the virus in Ontario schools. However, a spokesperson for the minister of education said the latest data is "a reflection of over three days of data and includes any cases identified in schools on Friday from 2 p.m., Saturday, Sunday and Monday until 2 p.m." It also includes cases from some boards that did not report to the ministry on Friday due to a P.D. day.
On Monday, more than 37,400 tests were completed by provincial health officials, with an average of 32,285 tests processed on both Monday and Tuesday, well below the province's goal of 50,000 tests per day.
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City might run out of Covid vaccines by the weekend, de Blasio says
Wall Street flocking to buy city debt despite fiscal crisis
Gwen Everett
Investors are hungry for New York City debt, despite a multibillion-dollar budget shortfall and the risk of more funding losses in the coming months.
The city Transitional Finance Authority, which is responsible for the capital improvement plan, sold $1.08 billion in debt at strong prices Wednesday. Yields on the bonds, which fall as prices rise, were between 0.76% for a bond maturing in 2022 and 2.77% for a bond maturing in 2045.
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“To be expected,” said Matt Fabian, a municipal bond research specialist at Municipal Market Analytics in Westport, Conn. It’s hard to find an investment “that is as safe and lucrative” as New York City debt, he said, adding that Wednesday’s offering priced near excellent levels.
The city actually increased prices on the bonds because demand was so strong, according to the Transitional Finance Authority.
It’s a far cry from the tone of the City Council’s most recent budget hearing, May 6, when legislators pressed administration officials on whether the city’s fiscal crisis could be even larger than what Mayor Bill de Blasio has accounted for in his executive budget.
The Office of Management and Budget and the Independent Budget Office forecast different revenue shortfalls, the latter larger than the former. Discrepancies aside, it’s no debate that New York is facing a massive fiscal crisis partly brought on by a shortfall in tax revenue resulting from unemployment and fewer shoppers during the coronavirus pandemic.
But analysts say the TFA’s bonds, which are secured by city tax revenues, are among the safest out there.
Part of the reason has to do with the city’s sheer size, Fabian said.
“Right now, even in a stress environment as we’re in relative to the pandemic, those revenues provide almost six times the coverage that they’re required to provide on an annual basis,” said Nora Wittstruck, an analyst at S&P Global Ratings. S&P rated the TFA’s bonds AAA, its top grade.
That high rating also reflects that tax-secured bondholders have priority rights to the city’s tax revenues, before the city itself can use the money to cover operations, Wittstruck said.
It’s not the only place where New York debt is rallying: Yields on the MTA’s debt have tightened since their May 5 issuance, a sign of confidence in the transit authority despite headlines of falling ridership and revenue, Bloomberg reported.
To be sure, the pandemic has some parts of Wall Street worrying. Moody’s downgraded its outlook for the city to negative this spring as New York became the epicenter of the pandemic.
And there’s the risk that the recession will last longer in New York than in other parts of the country, Wittstruck said.
There have been talks among city legislators about issuing more debt to help overcome the fiscal woes. Investors typically would see that as a risk, Fabian said. But with the recession likely to result in fewer cities and states pursuing capital projects, Wall Street’s investors are going to be hungry for more municipal debt, he said.
That might work to New York’s benefit, he said, with buyers willing to pay more for what they perceive as one of the best bets in the public bond market.
“There is a lot of capacity for lenders to give money to New York City,” he said.
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Supply threatens progress for New York's troubled vaccine rollout
Cuomo calls for making 2% property-tax cap permanent
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo called on the state legislature to approve a permanent 2% cap on local property taxes, a policy that’s been in effect for six years and is up for renewal.
“When they say New York is a high-tax state they’re talking about the property tax, not the income tax,” Cuomo said during a news conference in Albany. “We did it six years. The sky is not falling. You can exercise fiscal discipline and restraint and survive.”
His comments came as the legislature faces an April 1 deadline to approve a budget for fiscal 2020 . His spending plan proposes reorganizing the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, including congestion pricing and Internet sales taxes to raise transit revenue. A tax on yet-to-be legalized cannabis may not be ready by the deadline, Cuomo said. The governor also said he would favor a pied-a-terre tax—a levy on non-resident owners of luxury apartments—to raise more revenue.
Homeowners in 52 of the state’s 62 counties pay average property taxes above the $10,000 limit they are allowed to deduct off their federal income taxes under the law enacted by President Donald Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress in 2017, Cuomo said. That cap could pressure homeowners to leave New York for states with lower property taxes, Cuomo said.
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What is Ocean Pollution?
The ocean remains one of the most expansive, mysterious and diverse places on Earth. Unfortunately, it is being threatened by pollution from people on land and from natural causes. Marine life is dying and, as a result, the whole oceanic ecosystem is threatened simply by various sources of pollution. If we are to preserve our oceans and their natural beauty, drastic measures have to be taken to combat this pollution and keep what we hold most dear.
Before, it was assumed that because the ocean was so big, vast and deep, the effects of dumping our rubbish into the sea would only have minimal consequences. But as we have seen, this has proven not to be the case. Whilst all four oceans have suffered as a result of human consequence, it has accelerated in the past few decades. Oil spills, toxic wastes, floating plastic and various other factors have all contributed to the pollution of the ocean.
Simply put, the ocean cannot continue to thrive as a rubbish dump for people. While the state of the ocean’s pollution may not come as any sort of surprised to many people, the cold hard facts might:
Some Surprising Facts About Ocean Pollution
Plastic is the most common element that is found in the ocean. It is harmful for the environment as it doesn’t break down easily and is often considered as food by marine animals.
The biggest source of pollution in the ocean is directly from land based sources, such as oil, dirt, septic tanks, farms, motor vehicles. Thousands of tons of waste and rubbish are dumped into the ocean on a daily basis—1.4 billion to be precise!
Over one million seabirds are killed by ocean pollution each year. Three hundred thousand dolphins and porpoises die each year as a result of becoming entangled in discarded fishing nets and one hundred thousand sea mammals are killed in the ocean by pollution each year.
Even though much of the rubbish and waste dumped into the ocean is released hundreds of miles away from land, it still washes up on beaches and coastal areas, and affects everything in between. Every marine animal is affected by man-made chemicals released in the water.
There is an island of rubbish twice the size of Texas inside the Pacific Ocean: the North Pacific Gyre off the coast of California is the largest oceanic rubbish site in the entire world. There, the number of floating plastic pieces outnumbers total marine life six to one in the immediate vicinity.
Oil is the fastest source of deterioration to the ocean, being far more harmful than rubbish and waste. However, only a small percentage of oil (around 12%) dumped in the ocean is as a result of actual oil spills. Most oil causing harm in the ocean is a result of drainage from land. Oil spills suffocate marine life to death, and leads to behavioural changes and a breakdown in thermal insulation to those that do survive. It essentially changes the entire ecosystem of an affected area, such as a long coastline or deep ocean.
Toxic metals can destroy the biochemistry, behaviour, reproduction, and growth in marine life.
Plastic debris can absorb toxic chemicals from ocean pollution, therefore poisoning whatever eats it. In fact, plastic pollution is one of the most serious threats to the ocean. Plastic doesn’t degrade; instead, it breaks down into progressively smaller pieces that never disappear. They then attract more debris. It poses a significant health threat to sea creatures and to the entire marine ecosystem. Overall, plastic is the number one source of pollution in the ocean.
Not all sources of contamination in the ocean come from oil, rubbish and solid waste. The dumping of radioactive waste from nuclear reactors, industrial sites, such as heavy metals and acids, and drained sewage are also heavy contributors to pollution. The truth is that billions of tons of litter ends up in the ocean each year, and it is substantially more than the 250 million tons of rubbish generated. This has led to a gradual loss of marine life and an increase in the number of endangered species.
Sewage leads to the decomposition of organic matter that in turn leads to a change in biodiversity. Even if the ocean’s ecosystem isn’t destroyed entirely, it is still changed drastically, and usually not for the better.
Fertilizer runoff creates eutrophication that flourishes algal bloom (rapid increase or accumulation in the population of algae in aquatic systems), which in turn depletes the oxygen content in the water that affects marine life.
Small animals at the bottom of food chain absorb the chemicals as part of their food. These small animals are then eaten by larger animals that again increases the concentration of chemicals. Animals at the top of the food chain have contamination levels millions of times higher than the water in which they live.
People get contaminated easily by eating contaminated seafood that can cause serious health problems, from cancer to damage to the immune system.
Rubbish, such as plastic bottles, aluminium cans, shoes, packaging material – if not disposed correctly, can reach the sea and the same rubbish can again reach the sea shore, where it pollutes beaches and affects local tourism.
The salty water of the ocean has the capability to move pollutants from the ocean into coastal freshwater making wells and groundwater contaminated.
Chemicals from industries and mines can also enter the ocean through land based activities. They can seep through soil, water or land, either during their manufacture, use or accidental leaks. Once they’ve entered the ocean currents, they travel hundreds of miles away.
As 70% of the earth is covered with water, people actually assumed that all pollutants would be diluted and would simply disappear. The reality is that they haven’t and their effects can easily be seen as they enter the food chain.
Until the 1970s, chemicals and rubbish was deliberately dumped into the oceans and became common practice for disposing everything, including pesticides and radioactive waste, assuming that it would dissolve to safe levels.
In several parts of the world, such as the Gulf of Mexico and the Baltic Sea, eutrophication has created enormous dead zones.
Even today, in many parts of the world, sewage water is discharged in the ocean – untreated or under-treated. This has a serious effect on marine and human life and can also lead to eutrophication.
Have a look at the videos below. They provide some interesting food for thought!
National Geographic – Why the Ocean Matters
National Geographic – How Can We Keep Plastics Out of Our Oceans
What Can You Do to Reduce Plastic Pollution in Our Oceans?
Here are a few suggestions that every family can do to reduce our dependence on plastic and other pollutants.
Stop using plastic carrier bags. Try using shopping bags made of cloth. You can find them in all imaginable shapes and designs!
When buying fruit and vegetables in supermarkets, instead of using the plastic bags provided, buy string bags online (they cost less than £2 each on Amazon) and use those. They never wear out.
Avoid using single-use items such as plastic cups, straws and cutlery. Get yourself a thermos or other glass container to use when getting a coffee or smoothie to go!
Avoid purchasing over-packaged goods wrapped in layers of plastic.
Don’t buy plastic bottles, drink tap water or carry your own reusable bottle. The average person uses about 167 water bottles of which only 38 are recycled.
Try to buy goods that are not packaged or made from plastics. For instance, minimise plastic packaging in your groceries by substituting condiments in plastic containers to those in glass jars, or in the case of larger items, opt for those that are primarily made from other materials, for instance garden furniture made of wood rather than plastic.
When you have to buy something made from or packaged in plastic, try to pick something made from recycled or recyclable plastic. You can easily check this by looking at the product’s label.
If you are buying something made with bio-based plastic, make sure that it has been made in accordance with the highest verified sustainability criteria. This should also be marked on the product’s label.
After the plastic has really outlived its use, recycle it! Recycling plastic saves a lot of resources.
Opt for clothing made from natural and not synthetic materials. This will not only be a signal to major clothing companies to eliminate plastic where possible but will also minimise the particles of microplastic that escape from synthetic materials to enter our environment. Particularly avoid fleeces and fleece-lined clothing.
Stop using cosmetic products containing plastic microbeads which find their way into our water and seas. Plastic ingredients are applied in a variety of products such as deodorants, shampoos, moisturizers, shaving creams and sunscreens. A typical exfoliating shower gel can contain roughly as much microplastic in the cosmetic formulation as is used to make the plastic packaging it comes in! Read the labels and pick products (usually organic) that don’t contain polyethylene terephthalate (PET), polyethylene (PE) or polypropylene (PP).
Reduce the number of takeaways and deliveries, as they use a lot of packaging and single-use items.
Join a beach or other plastic clean-up in your local area. A total of 12.2 million tonnes of plastic enters our marine environment each year, you can do something to help with that!
Support organisations that work to reduce plastic pollution by donating money or signing petitions for measures to eliminate plastic pollution.
Instead of a plastic toothbrush, use a bamboo one. You can even make your own toothpaste out of coconut oil, baking soda and peppermint oil! There are lots of bamboo grooming aids out there. Have a look.
Once you have bought a plastic item, try to re-use it in your household – this will also be exciting for any younger members of the family interested in arts and crafts! For example, you can use plastic bottles or containers as paint potsRepair or sell your electronic equipment rather than throwing it away. This way you could even make some money from selling your old pc!
Change laundry capsules in plastic tubs for washing powder in a cardboard box.
Buy loose fruit and veg, not pre-packed.
Ditch liquid soap and shower gel for bars of soap.
Switch disposable nappies and plastic nappy bags for cloth nappies
Change disposable plastic party cutlery for normal or wooden cutlery and plastic plates and cups for paper ones.
Swap plastic milk and juice containers for glass ones delivered by your milkman.
Two Years of Rubbish in One Jar
Have a look at the video below. This is the story of one New Yorker, Lauren Singer, who has been living with zero waste for four years now. In two years, she only produced enough rubbish to fill a 16 0z glass jar. Here’s how she did it.
What Is Plastic?
This video provides a comprehensive understanding of how plastics is made and came to form such a huge part of modern-day living. It also details the progress being made in science to deal with the plastics problem.
Plastic Pollution in the News
The following are some of the current news items detailing the impact of plastic pollution in our oceans and counter-measures being employed around the world:
Sky News – Free Refill Scheme Along Wales Coast Path to Fight Plastic Pollution
The Guardian – Whale Dies From Eating More Than 80 Plastic Bags
National Geographic – How A Seal Pup Died With A Plastic Wrapper In Its Stomach
National Geographic – For Animals, Plastic is Turning the Ocean into a Minefield
Sky News – Sir David Attenborough: ‘The human race will regret it if we don’t act on plastic now’
BBC News – Plastic and other waste found in British mussels
ITV News – Seals under threat from plastics in the South West waters
Sky News – Eco-savvy or totally rubbish? Test your plastics knowledge with our quiz
Sky News – World Oceans Day: Med tourists leave ‘toxic legacy’ of plastic pollution
ITV News – UK’s marine conservation zones to be expanded in effort to protect sea life from plastic
National Geographic – These communities turn discarded fishing nets into carpets
National Geographic – A comprehensive and detailed history of how plastic took hold of the modern world
Rhossilli Beach Cleanup – Thursday 28th June 2018
On Thursday 28th June, Year 7 and 8 students have the opportunity to go to Rhossilli beach on the Gower Peninsular as part of the Save Our Oceans Project. As well as the beach clean, students will take part in scientific experiments testing the plastics they find, learn how to create sand sculptures and have a go at some creative writing. And, of course, there’ll be plenty of opportunity to play some beach games.
The bus will leave the school car park at 09.00, returning at around 15.15. As the weather forecast is hot and sunny, students should arrive equipped with the following:
a packed lunch
plenty to drink (we will also have supplies)
sensible footwear
a sun hat
a change of clothing (just in case)
Students should not wear school uniform but we recommend they wear lightweight, comfortable clothing suitable for a hot day on the beach.
The cost is £10.00, payable either via ParentPay, cheque or cash. Cheques should be made payable to Crickhowell High School.
A copy of the trip letter and consent form may be downloaded below. Payment and forms must be returned by 11.30 am on Wednesday 27th June 2018 in order to secure a place on this trip.
Rhossilli Beach Cleanup Ltr 19062018
Rhossilli Beach Cleanup Consent Form
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Solana Beach Oktoberfest has a definite beach feel
By pjpent
This year, celebrate the Bavarian festival of Oktoberfest with a purpose - to support the Solana Beach Lifeguard Department.
A one-of-a-kind Oktoberfest at the Belly Up Tavern on Oct. 26 is aiming to raise $50,000 for a new lifeguard rescue craft.
There will be sausage, beer and merry music, but not just any, run-of-the-mill grub, grog and song. This is Oktoberfest, Solana Beach style.
The Solana Brothers, a homegrown group of foodies, are donating their gourmet talents to prepare an authentic German menu.
From warm pretzels, bierkase (beer cheese) and sauerkraut balls, to grilled kielbasa, fried German potato salad and pear cranberry strudel (and a whole lot more), the chefs are taking on their most adventurous spread and largest crowd yet.
“We’re estimating quantities of food,” said Solana Brother John Chamberlain. “It’s not two tablespoons, we need three gallons.”
When he’s not cooking, Chamberlain is chief executive officer of American Assets, which owns the city’s two shopping centers.
Cooking up fun
The idea of a fundraiser began with the Solana Brothers. The group of friends, who have been cooking together for years, hosted a meal for the crew at the Carmel Valley police substation.
Wanting to do something in their own backyard, Chamberlain offered their cooking services for some sort of fundraiser to Solana Beach City Manager David Ott.
While the city has adequate funding to cover its expenses, the lifeguards could improve their services with an updated rescue boat, said lifeguard Capt. Craig Miller.
The inflatable boat enables the guards to do more than they can on their personal watercraft, such as respond to emergencies in other cities, tug vessels in distress to safe harbor, and conduct diving search and rescue operations, he added.
Aging craft
The department’s current boat is about 20 years old and due for replacement. Miller was planning to purchase a new engine to nurse it along a little longer, but he said a new craft “will bring us into the 21st century.”
The community has thrown its support behind the cause, with numerous businesses, organizations and families offering to sponsor or help at the event.
“I’m pretty shocked how much people have come out and supported us, especially right now in this economy,” Miller said. “I’m very appreciative.”
Such an event wouldn’t be possible without broad community involvement, Chamberlain said.
The Belly Up Tavern is donating its venue on South Cedros Avenue and Irish-rock band the Young Dubliners will headline the evening, accompanied by opening bands Poprox and Xception.
Channel 8’s meteorologist Shawn Styles will host the event, which also features a silent and live auction. Hot items include a dinner with the lifeguards cooked by the Solana Brother, and a 50-ticket package to the Young Dubliners Christmas show.
While still a ways from the goal of $50,000, Chamberlain said he is confident they will reach it.
“I think people like to band together to do what they can for the better good,” he said. “Come out and support the lifeguards.”
The event begins at 5 p.m. Tickets are $75 and can be purchased through the Belly Up box office, or online at
www.bellyup.com
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108 9233 ODLIN ROAD Richmond, BC
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GST INCLUDED! Move-in Ready Condo. Special 2 Bedroom + 2 Bathroom + Den + Big Patio with Garden facing. The big den Can be 3rd Bedroom. Welcome to Polygon’s Berkeley House in Richmond’s popular Alexandra Gardens neighborhood, where you will find tree-lined streets, a hotel-style lobby, a light-strung courtyard, and most importantly, warm and sophisticated homes. Functional layout, Heat-pump AC system, 9’ ceilings, Stainless Steel appliances, 5,000 sq. ft. clubhouse, Brilliant Bathroom, 2-5-10 New home Warranty. Virtual Tour: http://www.pixilink.com/tours7/18880
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Financial Services Arms Race to Protect Sensitive Data in the Cloud
30. October 2017. 3 0
The financial services industry has embraced the power of cloud-based technology and as a result, there’s been a widescale reinvention of the industry. Large firms are getting larger, and new firms can compete for the wealth management dollar with the benefits of scalable technology. Fintech firms have grown at a rate of 41% over the past 4 years with over $40 billion dollars in cumulative investment according to PWC. 82% of firms plan to increase fintech partnerships over the next three to five years.
Cloud technologies allow firms to cut costs for infrastructure, scale, improve efficiency, and provide instant information to their customers who have grown accustomed to convenience. With this shift to the cloud, a wave of sensitive data has followed – leaving firms vulnerable to cybersecurity threats resulting in data theft and fraud. Firms are using untraditional methods to tackle internal and external threats – in an arms race to secure their sensitive data and customer trust.
Threat Landscape for Financial institutions and Banks
Financial services is the highest targeted industry of all, facing 65% more attacks than any other industry. In 2017, 200 million records were breached resulting in a 937% increase year over year. Ransomware, DDoS attacks, malware, phishing, and insiders threaten their ability to service customers and secure sensitive data. Fear of data loss and reputational damage from the next “big breach” stem from fallen firms who have lost the trust of their clients and who’s names have been splashed in the media. So, how do security teams and executives prioritize threat defenses? Where are their dollars best spent to protect their organization?
The source of attacks has changed overtime. Outside attacks account for 42% of security incidents while insiders accounted for 58% of attacks to the industry – 53% being inadvertent actors and 5% being malicious according to an IBM X-Force Report. Outside attackers have identified the weakest link the in the security chain – the human. Malicious emails, phishing, compromised credentials, and stolen laptops offer outside attackers the opportunity to compromise a network, and often, the human insider is the one to inadvertently grant access to the malicious outsider – this his altered the way the industry views security.
Security has changed
The approach to security has shifted from the concept of a mote surrounding the “kingdom” to now a cognitive approach where security is multi-layered and involves both internal and external controls with cooperation from the entire organization. As firms race to secure their valuable financial and customer information, regulations are sprouting at record pace. In 2017, cyber standards were released from the NYDFS, OCC, FDIC, NIAC, and GDPR. To secure their organization and meet these cyber- standards, organizations are taking a People Centric approach to Security.
People Centric Security- Monitoring Behavior with Machine Learning
With people now at the center of the security vector, protecting sensitive information starts with knowing “who” is accessing “what” information. To manage the risk associated with insider threats, organizations are leveraging behavioral monitoring and machine learning to draw insights into whether an employee is exuding appropriate or suspicious behavior.
i.e. Tim, Account Manager, is based in the United States. He accesses around 100 accounts per day during the work week in his usual work activity. Suddenly, Tim’s account starts accessing over 300 accounts per day from Switzerland. Digging into analytics, you can see what drove this behavior. Was it business? Or does it seem like suspicious activity? Through machine learning, Tim’s past behavior is reviewed to determine whether or not it is abnormal. If it’s unusual behavior, then access can be cut off upon discovery.
Machine Learning and Community Intelligence
Machine learning uses technology to analyze employee’s past actions to predict future behavior. In doing so, false positives can be filtered out and recognized as normal business operations. Time previously spent on investigations can now be focus on monitoring and creating security safeguards.
Machine learning can also be trained to take a proactive approach to security. When an incident does occur, systems can be trained to do quick forensic investigations and possible remedy the security vulnerability. Organizations are also adopting adaptive access control, which makes dynamic risk-based decisions on user access, weighing level of trust against risk at the moment of access. Machine learning offers a path forward for businesses to scale their security operations to combat internal and external threats while saving valuable resources to the organization on.
Through Community Intelligence, automated sharing of new attacks and threats found around the globe can be identified and distributed. Machine learning can be used to recognize threat patterns to alert businesses that could potentially be affected by the same threat.
Kurt Long is the Founder and CEO of FairWarning®, whose Patient Privacy Intelligence customers represent over 8,000 healthcare facilities globally, and protects financial services customers managing over $500 Billion in assets. Prior to FairWarning®, Long founded and served as CEO of OpenNetwork Technologies a leader in web single sign-on and identity management software solutions. As CEO, Long led OpenNetwork to over 2,000 percent growth with customers across the United States, United Kingdom, Europe and Australia. OpenNetwork was acquired by BMC Software of Houston.
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TWENTYMAN: 10 players who impressed at 2019 Combine
The NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis is over, and NFL talent evaluators have another piece of the puzzle in their overall evaluation process leading up to the NFL Draft next month.
The game film is still the ultimate evaluator, but players can show out at the Combine and help their stock. Players can also force the evaluators back to the tape with a poor performance in Indy.
Here's a look at 10 players who had a good week at the Combine:
Montez Sweat, DE, Mississippi State
Sweat was the best player in Mobile at the Senior Bowl. He then came to Indy and crushed the Combine. The 6-foot-6, 260-pound defensive end clocked a 4.41-second 40-yard dash – a modern Combine record for a defensive lineman. He was also explosive and smooth in the on-field drills. His tape and measurables match up, and that will probably mean he hears his name called pretty early on draft night.
D.K. Metcalf, WR, Ole Miss
Metcalf showed his freakish athletic prowess. At 6-3 and 228 pounds (with 1.6 percent body fat), Metcalf ran 4.33 seconds in the 40-yard dash, had a 40.5-inch vertical and a 11-foot-2 broad jump. He also performed well in drills catching passes. He showed teams that there's some big-play ability in his game, and his week in Indy might have put him in the conversation of being a top 10 pick.
Parris Campbell, WR, Ohio State
The former Buckeye ran a blazing 40 in 4.31 seconds at 6-foot and 205 pounds. He also showed terrific short-area quickness in position drills. He was dynamic with the ball in his hands at Ohio State last season (12 touchdowns), and showed in Indy he could be a nice weapon for teams looking for a playmaker in the slot.
Devin White, LB, LSU
White's speed shows up right away on tape, and he backed it up with a 4.32-second 40-yard dash. He showed the kind of explosion teams like in that position with a 39.5-inch vertical. He recorded 256 tackles the last two seasons at LSU. His measurables and drill work showed he has the speed to get to the ball sideline to sideline and has bad intentions when he gets there.
Noah Fant, TE, Iowa
Fant and teammate T.J. Hockenson hope to be the first tight end teammates drafted in the first round. Coming out of the Combine that seems like a very real possibility given both players' performances in Indy. Fant had impressive numbers in the 40 (4.50 seconds), vertical jump (39.5 inches) and broad jump (10-foot-7). He also showed explosion and soft hands in drill work. Hockenson came into the Combine as the No. 1 overall tight end prospect in this draft. Fant might have closed the gap.
Rashan Gary, DL, Michigan
Gary doesn't move like a 277-pound man. His speed and change of direction mimic that of much smaller players. The former Wolverine posted good numbers in the 40 (4.58 seconds), vertical jump (38 inches) and broad jump (10 feet) for a player that big. Some wonder why he wasn't more productive at Michigan, but leaving the Combine, no one questions the kind of athlete he is and how versatile he could be in a creative defensive scheme.
Devin Bush, LB, Michigan
White and Bush probably cemented their status as the two best interior linebackers in this draft. The 5-foot-11, 234-pound Bush posted a 40-yard dash of 4.43 seconds and a 10-foot-4 broad jump. Teams are placing more and more value on linebackers that can run and cover in today's NFL. Bush showed he can potentially be one of those players at the next level.
Kyler Murray, QB, Oklahoma
Murray didn't take part in any of the speed testing or on-field drills, but the biggest box he had to check off was his height. At 5-foot-10 and an eighth of an inch, teams will feel much better about him than if he came in under 5-foot-10. He'll run and throw at Oklahoma's pro day, and it won't be surprising if he impresses teams with the on-field work in Norman.
Garrett Bradbury, C, N.C. State
Bradbury might be the best center in the draft, and possibly a first-round pick. He ran 4.92-seconds in the 40-yard dash at 306 pounds. He was also one of the top offensive linemen in on-field drills. He was a technician in those drills, and teams like linemen who come into the league ahead of the game from a technique standpoint.
Juan Thornhill, S, Virginia
Thornhill's senior season at Virginia was productive, leading the Cavaliers in total tackles (98) and interceptions (six). He had 13 interceptions in three years as a starter. He went to the Combine and recorded the second best broad jump among defensive backs since 2006 (11-foot-9) and the third best vertical jump (44 inches) over that span. Thornhill (6-0, 205) ran the 40-yard dash in 4.43 seconds. He's got the size and athletic traits to potentially play multiple spots in a defense.
All the analysts who think Ohio State edge rusher Chase Young is the best prospect in the 2020 NFL draft have company. So does Chase Young.
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Learn about harp seals, including their life cycle, diet, distribution and population trends.
An adult harp seal. Photo credit: Garry Stenson.
A harp seal pup. Photo credit: Garry Stenson
Population trends
Harp seals have a lifespan of 25 to 40 years. Males and females are similar in size, averaging 1.6 metres in length and 130 to 150 kg in weight.
Harp seals spend the summer in the Canadian Arctic and Greenland. In the fall, most of these seals migrate south to the Gulf of St. Lawrence or to the waters off southern Labrador and northern Newfoundland.
Females can give birth to 1 pup per year, between late February and mid-March. They require stable ice for giving birth and rearing their young.
Newborn pups weigh around 11 kg and are 80 to 85 cm long. They are nursed for about 12 days and gain over 2.2 kg per day. Once the pups are weaned, the females leave the ice to mate.
Pups begin to moult their white coat at around 10 days old and finish by 3 weeks of age.
Harp seals eat a varied diet that includes:
fish such as:
capelin
Greenland halibut
Arctic and Atlantic cod
Effects on the ecosystem
We’ve conducted numerous studies on the impacts of seal predation on fish stocks.
For instance, in 2007 to 2008 we evaluated the effects of harp seals on fish stocks and found:
harp seal predation was not a significant factor in the lack of cod recovery
there was no evidence that harp seals negatively impacted capelin population
Through the 2019 cod assessments we determined that harp seals aren’t primary drivers of cod abundance off the coast of Newfoundland or southern Labrador.
Range, migratory pathways and whelping locations of harp seals in the northwest Atlantic. Range is shown in grey and whelping locations are shown in black. The arrows represent migratory pathways
Harp seals are separated into 3 populations, each of which uses a specific pupping site. These are:
the Northwest Atlantic population, located off eastern Canada and western Greenland
the Greenland Sea population, which breeds off south east Greenland
the White Sea/Barents Sea population, which breeds in the White Sea of northern Russia
The Northwest Atlantic population is the largest, and is further into 3 separate herds based on breeding location:
the Front herd, which breeds off the coast of southern Labrador and northern Newfoundland
the Gulf herd, which breeds near the Magdalen Islands in the middle of the Gulf of St. Lawrence
the smaller northern Gulf herd
By the 1960s, commercial sealing activities severely depleted the harp seal population to low levels. Today, the harp seal population remains below pre-sealing levels.
We estimate the size of the harp seal population with a model incorporating estimates of:
pup production
reproductive rates
information on removals
The Northwest Atlantic harp seal population is currently healthy and abundant with an estimated population of 7.4 million animals. They have not been assessed by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada.
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ראשימוצרים ופתרונותנתבים משולבי ADSL
DSL-2540U/BRU/D
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מודם-נתב ADSL בעל 4 יציאות רשת קוות ותמיכה ב-QOS
2-IN-1 DEVICE
The D-Link ADSL2/2+ Modem with 4-Port Ethernet Router (DSL-2540U) is a 2-in-1 device that combines the function of a DSL modem and 4-port 10/100 Ethernet router. The DSL-2540U supports the latest ADSL2/2+ standards to provide higher performance (up to 24Mbps* downstream and 3.5Mbps* upstream) and longer reach from your Internet Service Provider’s (ISP) Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer (DSLAM). You can also create a wired network to share your high-speed Internet connection, documents, photos, music, videos, printers, and Network Attached Storage (NAS).
ACCESS HIGH-SPEED INTERNET
Unlike a dial-up Internet service, a DSL Internet connection is always on so that you do not have to wait to access the Web. Setting up the DSL-2540U is simple since it automatically detects your DSL settings to quickly establish a connection to the Internet. With support for TR-067, compatibility with your ISP’s infrastructure is ensured. This device also supports TR-069, which automatically updates the firmware and other settings when they become available from your ISP.
The DSL-2540U includes a built-in QoS engine that helps prioritize Internet traffic to enable smooth Internet phone calls (VoIP) and lag-free online gaming. In addition, this device includes Dual Active Firewalls (SPI and NAT) to help protect your network from potential attacks from across the Internet. With a built-in 4-port 10/100 Ethernet router, up to four network-ready computers or devices can simultaneously be connected to the DSL-2540U.
Whether it is for a home user who wants to share high-speed Internet access or for a small office that needs Internet access for conducting essential business activities, the DSL-2540U ADSL2/2+ Modem with 4-Port Ethernet Router (DSL-2540U) is the ideal all-in-one broadband and wired networking solution.
WHAT THIS PRODUCT DOES
The D-Link ADSL2/2+ Modem with 4-Port Ethernet Router (DSL-2540U) combines the function of a high-speed DSL modem and 4-port router. With automatic scanning and detection of your DSL settings, the DSL-2540U quickly sets up your Internet connection. Easily create a wired network and share a high-speed Internet connection while allowing access to shared files, music, photos, and printers with multiple computers.
GREATER COMPATIBILITY
This D-Link ADSL2/2+ Modem with 4-Port Ethernet Router (DSL-2540U) is TR-067 compliant, ensuring that it will work with your Internet Service Provider’s (ISP) infrastructure. It is also TR-069 compliant, which automatically updates the firmware and other settings when they become available from your ISP.
* ADSL speeds may vary depending on your individual contract with or services offered by your Internet Service Provider (ISP) and the distance of the modem from the ISP’s DSLAM.
Data Rates*
Downstream: Up to 24Mbps
Upstream: Up to 3.5Mbps
TR-067 Interop Performance
TR-069 Compliant with ACS
ADSL Standards
Multi-mode
Full-rate ANSI T1.413 Issue 2
ITU-T G.992.1 (G.dmt) Annex A/C/I
ITU-T G.992.2 (G.lite) Annex A/C
ITU-T G.994.1 (G.hs)
ADSL2 Standards
ITU-T G.992.3 (G.dmt.bis) Annex A/J/K/L/M
ITU-T G.992.4 (G.lite.bis) Annex A
ADSL2+ Standards
ITU-T G.992.5 Annex A/L/M
ATM/PPP Protocols
ATM Forum UNI3.1/4.0 PVC - Up to 8 PVCs
PPP over ATM
PPP over Ethernet
Network Protocols and Features
Ethernet to ADSL Self-Learning Transparent Bridging
IP Static Routing
Routing Information Protocol (RIP, RIPv2)
Network Address Translation (NAT)
Virtual Server, Port Forwarding
NAT ALGs: MSN Messenger, FTP, CUSEEME, H323_Q931 (Netmeeting etc.), H323_RAS, ICQ, etc.
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
DNS Relay, DDNS
IGMP Proxy
Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP)
Built-in NAT
MAC Filtering
Packet Filtering
Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI)
Denial of Service Prevention (DoS)
Multiple IPSec/PPTP/L2TP Pass-through
Port-based Priority
802.1p (0~7) Priority
Configuration and Management
Web-based GUI Configuration
ADSL/ADSL2/ADSL2+ Manual Selection and Auto Fallback
Auto VPI/VCI Detection
Configuration Backup and Restore
ADSL Port (RJ-11)
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Why it makes sense to use Facetime over Facebook video calling
September 28, 2017 by Tom Parillo
Facebook’s been too much into changing interface to actually bother about its sloppy video editing. Read why Facetime still has the edge over it.
Everyone who has an iPhone, an iPad or a Mac always asks if they can Facetime. Despite the many apps that have challenged the premiership of the app in the video calling market, using the weapon it is weakest against, Android and Windows support, Facetime has stood strong for all these years. Hangouts tried it, and there’s not much left of the app today. Google Duo tried its hand with an added knock knock USP, but it hasn’t seen much success in the year it has been in the market for. Facebook’s video chatting had quite the chance. Unfortunately, Facebook went and threw it away.
To be fair, it’s probably not easy running all the many projects Facebook runs, given it has bought up complex apps like Instagram and Whatsapp and must fend off rumors of shaky security and personal information trading. However, fact remains that Facebook’s video calling is essentially still a dud. It has simply wasted the immense potential it had. Let me tell you how.
Facebook Video Calling could have succeeded Facetime…
Facebook still has many qualities you can deem essential to make an allrounder service allowing video calls. It has a comprehensive social media interface that many in the app industry are still struggling with (Remember Fiesta from Tango?). Facebook can serve as a contact list, and message requests as a concept can be extended to video calling as well. Facebook has intellectual resources and brand value comparable to Apple’s if not greater to it; not everyone has an iPhone, but everyone has a Facebook account.
Rein in all these factors and the world could have witnessed a ceremonial dethroning of Facetime from the top of leaderboards. Unfortunately, Facebook’s priorities seem to be haywire.
Go home Facebook; You’re Drunk!
If you think that’s an old and overworked joke, that’s what Facebook too has been coming off as lately. Priorities seem solely focussed on new and wacky interfaces, marketing gimmicks and the next “friends day” auto-generated video montage (by the way, did anyone notice how the world entirely went ahead with calling an inconsistent date Friends Day?). It is a lot of energy spent for no particular reason. Stuff that could actually revolutionise communication and win the website what is essentially a big monopoly in the deal sit in the corner in the meantime.
Apple doesn’t need to put in as much effort in the matter. It already has a brand value that has buyers make a beeline to its stores at the first hint of a new product. The hype is well deserved too; the company has brought the best to its customers in terms of technology, customer support and a branding exercise that has added to the social credit of the buyer instead of mocking the prospective buyer’s lack of an iPhone.
Facetime’s better. Here’s why…
The result of all this has been that Facetime is the clearly superior choice for all video calling and more. Here are a few reasons why.
Facetime has a much superior video calling interface. The app can be dialed out right from your home screen. Facebook’s apps are huge in size and smother the storage of most low-cost Android smartphones, so adding another app to the posse will not just be wasteful but antagonising to the user.
Facetime on your iPhone is just so easy. You’re on a normal phone call with someone. If you decide you want to video call with them for a while, all you need to do is tap a button. Without any lag or disconnection, you should be able to see the person you’re talking to. Facebook cannot hope to compete with the current state of affairs of Messenger.
In terms of quality, Facetime is miles ahead of Facebook. Facebook’s video calls are pixelated and shoddy at times. With Facetime, it is much rarer.
Moving on to a more debatable aspect of the services, Facebook has come under fire for using the data you generate using the service to market ads. Not only that, there have been allegations about improper use of the data, and the recent fiascos with AI that made the news recently are not really things you ignore. While not all may be well with Apple’s handling of data, allegations are certainly voiced a lot less frequently. Apple claims your information is stored securely and is only accessible by you. Internet Security experts also mention it is harder to track an iPhone than say an Android.
The one aspect Facebook seems to have an edge over Facetime is that you can use Facebook over all sorts of OS, including Windows (Phone and PC) as well as Android. While rumors about Facetime for Android have all proven to be mere rumors (unless, of course, they have something they want to bring to the next keynote address), there are people using Facetime on PC (using Emulators; you will need an apk file that you can find here). If you’re not an Android user, that bleak chance Facebook had to win you over stands further weakened.
Both Facebook and Facetime have great prospects as video calling services. But unless Facebook pulls itself by the boots and gets to dedicated work, Facetime is going to remain the superior option for a long time.
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Today (11 January) Dr Luke Evans, Member of Parliament for Bosworth has called upon ministers to deliver on their promise of fairer funding for Leicestershire.
Highlighting the historical anomaly which for many years has seen Leicestershire amongst the lowest funded of all county councils Dr Luke reminded Minister Luke Hall that “If Leicestershire was funded at the same level as London it would receive an extra £374 per resident.”
Dr Evans asked when the situation may be expected to change?
In his response Mr Hall, the Minister of State for Regional Growth and Local Government said “On the Government benches we certainly agree we need an updated and fairer method for distributing funds within local government. This year, I hope he understands we’ve had to focus on supporting councils through the pandemic, but once this is over we will revisit our shared priority for funding reform.”
After questioning the Minister Dr Luke added “Of course at this time of crisis the pandemic must come first. But Leicestershire has been the poor relation for far too long, and the call for fairer funding will not be going away. I will continue to press ministers to ensure the campaign isn’t forgotten and that Leicestershire residents get a fair proportion of funding so that they can rely on the services they deserve.
“The Conservative administration at Leicestershire County Council continue to do a remarkable job in delivering critical services for our residents, I am sure that they will continue to do so - but the time has come for Government to ensure the funding we receive in Leicestershire is commensurate with other councils.”
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From the 14 January, victims of domestic abuse will be able to access support from local pharmacies in Hinckley and Bosworth, as part of the Ask for ANI scheme backed by Dr Luke Evans MP and the Government.
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It's Official: Alice Kicks Off Planning for Slow Food Nation
Thu, May 10, 2007 at 12:07 AM
At a lunch honoring Slow Food founder Carlo Petrini, Alice Waters marked the official start of organizing for Slow Food Nation, an event the Chez Panisse founder described as a "World's Fair of food." "We all know food as a source of joy and health," Waters told a group of food journalists, activists, SF mayor Gavin Newsom, and Petrini himself, assembled at the San Francisco restaurant Greens, "but it can also be an expression of our politics." Scheduled to open next May at Fort Mason Center, the four-day Slow Food Nation event aims - in the words of its press release - to "provide a forum for food professionals, farmers, activists, and people from all walks of life." Organizers promise a Slow Food Marketplace ("a large, bustling marketplace with some of the best regional, sustainable produce," according to the release), an International Food Film Festival, and a speaker series dubbed the Slow Food Forum. Petrini, an Italian journalist, is on a tour to flog his book Slow Food Nation: Why Our Food Should be Good, Clean, and Fairhttp://www.amazon.com/Slow-Food-Nation-Blueprint-Changing/dp/0847829456 , which is in part a philosophical defense of the Slow Food movement. "Why should this movement begin in San Francisco?" Petrini asked the audience through a translator, referring to next year's Slow Food Nation event. "It must begin here because so many things have begun here," quickly adding, "everything has begun here." The author went on to list what he sees as the Bay Area's innovations: the popularization of farmers' markets, the organic movement, and a defense of biodiversity. For her part, Waters (who's helping coordinate next year's sprawling event) suggested how the American political climate has already changed, thanks to the popularity of books like Fast Food Nationhttp://books.google.com/books?id=yNFN1OpnkBkC&dq=Fast+Food+NAtion&pg=PP1&ots=l_kkwybs4Z&sig=lIgj5PZ4JxeO_n42hDZHeC37JE0&prev=http://www.google.com/search%3Fclient%3Dsafari%26rls%3Den%26q%3DFast%2BFood%2BNAtion%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title . "Bill Clinton may have stopped by to eat a Whopper," she said, "but I don't think we'll be seeing Obama or Hillary or John McCain doing that today."
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SINGING STAR MADAME GANDHI ON MARCHING TO THE BEAT OF HER OWN DRUM, NEW SONGS AND FEARLESS APPROACH
by ASJAD NAZIR
SOME artists are so unique that everything about them is interesting and Kiran Gandhi is one of them.
Under her musical moniker Madame Gandhi, she has consistently crossed new frontiers with explosive live performances, mesmerising music, an unapologetic approach, a unique look, inspiring talks and undeniable ability to bring something new every time.
Although she has toured drumming for big names like M.I.A and Thievery Corporation, Madame Gandhi really comes into her own when producing her own music like her recent release After You. The moody, experimental, alt-rock electronic song about moving on after the end of a relationship was originally released in February 2017 exclusively on Amazon Music, but is now available on all major streaming platforms. She has also released new song Waiting For Me, which, along with its music video, is an artistic explosion of awesomeness.
Eastern Eye caught up with singer, songwriter, drummer, producer and unapologetic feminist Madame Gandhi to speak about her songs, style, inspirations and musical adventures.
What connected you to music?
Music made me feel happy as a young person to express myself, smile, dance, move, feel cool and be seen.
You are an incredible drummer. What drew you towards the instrument?
I knew it was badass! I knew it was rebellious and unique because girls didn’t play drums. I also felt that drums represented protest music and self-expression, and that meant a lot to me. The more I played, the better I got, and I loved feeling so present in the practice of it all. My skill set as a drummer also gave me access to some of my heroes to sit in with them, do cover songs I loved and perform live. In spaces where I felt bullied, drums gave me a sense of confidence and identity.
How would you describe your journey in music?
I was a drummer first, then in the music business as a data analyst, then as an artist-producer under Madame Gandhi. I can’t wait to see where it all continues to go, but I feel right on track. Especially since my time at various record labels has helped me work on my own music and partner with labels when releasing my own music.
You have had some amazing adventures in music, but which has been the most memorable?
I’ll never forget my 2019 album release party for Visions. I launched my album and performed with an all female and gender non-conforming band. We premiered the music videos associated with the album, fed the audience healthy food made by female chefs of colour, at a place in LA that had just opened called Second Home. It was so magical.
How much has performing live shaped you as an artist and what was the most memorable?
I love connecting with and reading my audience, and seeing how they receive the music. I loved performing at Roskilde Festival Denmark 2017 because I crowd surfed!
Which of your own songs is closest to your heart?
Bad Habits.
Why did you decide to re-release your single After You?
I believe the message of starting fresh and moving on from past versions of ourselves is so important. We wanted to re-release After You so that it would reach more people beyond just the Amazon Music audience it originally was available to.
What inspired the song?
Wanting to re-invest in my own skill sets and continue evolving into the best version of myself.
Who are you hoping connects with the track?
Actually I’d love for music lovers, electronic music fans and production nerds to connect with it because it was produced by me and Alexia Riner, and the more love there is for the creative output of female producers of colour, the better!
What inspired your striking new song and video Wait For Me?
There is a lyric in the song, which says, ‘I won’t take in what they feed us, run away in my Adidas,’ and that line really is about saying I choose to not be brainwashed. I choose to question what I am taught. I choose to unpack and re-examine what I think is truth.
Where do you draw inspirations from for your striking look?
(Laughs) Thanks! I’ve always loved self-expression, since I was young, and love evolving my look based on my own personal growth. I love working with creative folks to take risks and succeed together.
Would you say you’re a rebel. Are you fearless?
Yeah, to both.
What is the plan after lockdown is over?
To be disciplined enough to finish my next album Vibrations, which will be released in 2021.
What is it that inspires you musically?
Being in love and wanting to be seen.
You are multi-talented, but if you could master something new, what would it be?
I would love to learn to be a vegan chef.
Why do you love music?
I love music because it teaches me about someone else’s walk of life. Also because it shifts my brain chemistry to make my mood better.
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Tánaiste: 'It's not the Government versus Nphet'
Tanaiste Leo Varadkar. Pic: JULIEN BEHAL PHOTOGRAPHY.
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Ireland's chief medical officer has criticised the leaking of expert advice to ministers which recommended significantly stiffening coronavirus restrictions.
Serious and confidential discussion did not happen because whoever disclosed the guidance did not share their objective of tackling Covid-19, Dr Tony Holohan added.
He said he enjoyed a good relationship with Tánaiste Leo Varadkar.
Dr Holohan said: "We conveyed our findings, analysis and recommendations to the minister for health and on to Government.
"They required early and serious confidential discussion.
"That didn't happen because the information leaked into the media on Sunday evening."
Mr Varadkar has said the recommendation from the National Public Health Emergency Team (Nphet) to move to Level 5 "hadn't been thought through and there hadn't been prior consultation".
He added on Wednesday: "I was really unhappy, really unhappy about what happened on Sunday night and the anxiety and fear that it caused for hundreds of thousands of people and I gave voice to that anger and gave voice to that frustration.
"But I also said that Nphet and the Government needed to get back on the same page. I rang Tony Holohan last night. We had a good conversation.
"We're on the same team. We always have been and what we need is not the Government versus Nphet, it's Ireland versus Covid."
Dr Holohan said he had a long-standing and good relationship with the Fine Gael leader.
The chief medical officer said: "He understands and shares my analysis every bit as much and has as much concern as I do about it.
"We have a job, which is to make an assessment of the disease.
"Government has to consider a range of other considerations to come to a balanced decision."
The chief medical officer added that he also had a thick skin and his team of experts was committed to making the Government's latest decision a success.
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Mad hair day: Cork salons already inundated with appointment requests ahead of July 20 reopening
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HAIRDRESSERS are bracing themselves to be overwhelmed when salons open again, with clients already trying to book appointments for the expected July 20 reopening.
Hairdressers are currently expected to open in the fourth phase of the roadmap to recovery after Covid-19.
The Irish Hairdressers Federation yesterday highlighted that hairdressers are being offered up to €200 for a haircut on the black market. The federation wants the hairdressing sector to be able to reopen in the third phase, at the end of June.
Owner of The Edge salon on Emmet Place, Eileen McGrath, agreed that clients are contacting hairdressers looking for hair treatments before the reopening of salons.
She said: "We have been asked to do black market work but under no circumstances would we do that. It is not something we would even entertain."
She said that the efforts of her and her staff are directed at preparing for reopening on July 20, as a rush of people have contacted them to book appointments.
She said bookings are not yet being taken, as the focus must first be put on how to implement policies including social distancing in the salon.
Ms McGrath said one of the areas being considered is the removal of every second seat in the salon, as well as lengthening the working day by splitting up the staff into different teams.
She said: "We have to make our environment seamless for everybody."
She moved to reassure customers who had appointments made prior to the outbreak of Covid-19 that they would be rescheduled as a priority.
She expects to be in a position to allocate appointments next month.
And she said consultations may be done virtually to find out what exactly a client wants, to help lessen their time in the salon.
She added: "We have to also allocate people who are cocooning times too."
Magazines will no longer be available, she said.
Valerie Finnegan-Cahill of Ikon Hair Design
Meanwhile, Valerie Finnegan-Cahill of Ikon hair design said she has been swamped with emails, texts, and messages through Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn from people looking for appointments.
She said: "It is incredible. There were enquiries before last Friday's announcement by Leo Varadkar but the floodgates have opened since then."
While looking forward to eventually returning to the salon, she said: "As much as I want to see all our clients, the important thing now is that their experience with us is going to be safe as well as enjoyable."
She said a waiting list has not been opened as yet but it is hoped that it will be up and running in the coming days.
She said that customers will have to have their appointments staggered to help with social distancing.
She added that Ikon were just weeks from moving to a new premises on Marlboro Street from Oliver Plunkett Street, before the arrival of Covid-19, and the move will now coincide with the reopening on July 20.
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Tue, 11 Dec, 2018 - 12:43
Eleven new cases of a superbug in Cork hospitals
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Eleven new cases of a superbug were reported in Cork hospitals in October, it has been revealed.
Carbapenemase producing Enterobacterales (CPE) is the newest in a long line of 'superbugs' (bacteria that are hard to kill with antibiotics).
The latest figures from the National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET) revealed that nine new cases of CPE were detected in Cork University Hospital (CUH) in October 2018, along with two more in Mercy University Hospital (MUH).
This followed more than 1,200 rectal swabs and faeces screenings at both hospitals.
In October last year, just 198 rectal swabs and faeces tests were carried out at both CUH and MUH, and no new patients were detected.
National figures show that the number of CPE detections have increased more than two-fold since last year, from 36 in October 2017 to 81 in October 2018.
Guidelines suggest that people with CPE should be given a single, en-suite bedroom.
The NPHET report for October revealed that 19 of the patients diagnosed with CPE for that month were not accommodated properly.
Speaking at a Regional Health Forum in Cork earlier this year, Professor Martin Cormican, National lead for Healthcare Associated Infection and Antimicrobial resistance, said that CPE is the worst superbug Ireland has seen to date.
While CPE is harmless when it is in the gut, it is highly dangerous when it enters other parts of the body, which can happen particularly during illness or an operation.
"It does not burn out. There is no vaccine. It can stay with a person for months or even life.
“It’s a public health emergency that we could lose,” warned professor Cormican.
The United Nations discussed a health issue for the first time in 2016.
It was regarding the defence against CPE.
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Fermoy Golf Club hosts eight clubs from Munster in provincial finals
Fermoy Golf Club Lady Captains Group: Lady Captain Marie Byrne presents her prize to Gents winner Norman Forsyth, with president Mary Daly, captain Liam Butler, and the other prize winners, at Fermoy Golf Club. Picture: Niall Cremen
Niall O’Shea
FERMOY Golf Club rounded off their very busy summer recently with the successful hosting of the Cups and Shields Munster finals.
The North Cork club has served its members for over 120 years and the staff and members provided the finalists with a testing course and great experience in September.
The finals saw eight teams from Munster head for Fermoy, and a team of volunteers were on duty from 6am through to just after 8am when the last hole as played.
While there wasn’t a Cork winner in the two competitions, Fermoy came in for great praise. And the praise wasn’t limited to the course, the welcome and the catering and the overall running of the event meant that the golfers and limited number of spectators enjoyed the event.
Like all golf clubs, the summer of 2020 was a strange one. Fermoy had to deal with the enforced closure of the course for two months, but when the course reopened in May it was in superb condition.
Despite being a very busy place over the summer months, the course was in pristine condition for the Munster finals in September.
Fermoy had started preparing for the finals in January but the Covid lockdown delayed preparations and there were fears at one stage that there may be no inter-club matches.
In the end, the GUI launched a revised schedule, with Fermoy asked to host the AIG Pierce Purcell Shield and the AIG Junior Cup.
From Thomas O’Flynn and the course team of Pat Finn, Pat Tobin, Pat Murphy and Pat Lane, to the catering teal of Monika and Pavel Romecka the Fermoy experience was great for all visitors.
For Fermoy’s secretary manager Denis Twomey it was a great way to finish the season. “We were delighted to be asked to host the finals this year, however when Covid 19 happened everything was in doubt” explained Denis.
“It was only in July that it was confirmed the finals would go ahead in September. As a club a huge effort was made to ensure the finals would be hosted safely and that the clubs involved would enjoy and remembers their visit to Fermoy.
Our course staff led by Thomas O’Flynn did a tremendous job in presenting a fantastic course.
“Our Officers and volunteers made a huge effort to organise and welcome for our visitors to Fermoy. The weekend was a great success based on all the feedback. Course Manager Pat Roche was thrilled with the feedback from the visiting clubs and the recognition that our course received. The hard work over the last number of years is bearing fruit.”
The course in Fermoy suffered in the storms over the past six years, losing thousands of trees in the high winds in various storms. The falling trees caused damage to the course along with changing the look and feel of the course from their sudden disappearance.
Since 2013, the club committees along with the staff have worked hard not only to repair damage and replace trees, but also to improve the course for members and guests alike.
Those efforts were rewarded when the club not only renewed almost all of their existing membership, they also added a large number of new members.
As well as progressing the work on the course, the members backed their club and raised over €14,000 in a members Covid draw. Members were asked to join the €100 draw and the response was great.
During the spring lockdown, Fermoy’s team of greenkeepers along with Secretary/Manager Denis Twomey worked a four day week, and adhering to the strict social distancing protocols along with additional rules about machinery use.
The team set about maintaining and improving the course, as well as preparing for the Cups & Shields finals.
“Basically our initial task was to get the essential work completed; cutting greens, aprons, fairways, rough” said Denis Twomey.
“We had a lot of projects going on in preparation for the Munster finals of the Bruen & Purcell in July. We have put in a number of flower beds around the course, planted hundreds of new trees & shrubs (we lost close on 2,000 trees in the two storms since 2013).
“New seating was also added and fortunately most of this work was close enough to being finished. That work was completed once the team got back to working full time and the finished product claimed a large amount of praise during the Munster finals.”
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Echo quiz: We test your knowledge of sporting movies and autobiographies
Al Pacino's inches speech from Any Given Sunday. Question 9.
WHICH SPORTS DO THESE FILMS OR TV SHOWS REVOLVE AROUND?
1. Invictus
2. On Home Ground
3. The Mighty Ducks
4. Moneyball
5. This Sporting Life
6. Rush
Chris Hemsworth in Rush.
7. Happy Gilmore
8. Rooney
9. Any Given Sunday
10. Renford Rejects
WHO WROTE THESE AUTOBIOGRAPHIES?
11. Rebel Rebel (GAA)
12. My Side (soccer)
13. Joking Apart (rugby)
14. I Crossed The Line (GAA)
15. Open (tennis)
16. No Limits (golf)
17. Addicted (soccer)
18. Beyond The Tunnel (GAA)
19. Rough Ride (cycling)
20. To Hell And Back (Formula 1)
COMPLETE THESE FAMOUS LINES OF COMMENTARY
21. “Look at his ____, just look at his ____!” (Barry Davies)
22. “This is a really lovely horse I once ____ ____ ____.” (Ted Walsh)
23. “The ____ holds it breath.” (George Hamilton)
24. “For those watching in ____ ____ ____, Spurs are playing in yellow.” (John Motson)
25. “There’s nothing wrong with the car, except that ___ ___ ___.” (Murray Walker)
26. “Anthony Lynch, the Cork corner-back, will be the last person to let you down – his people are ____.” (Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh)
27. “He’s like a raging bull with a bad ____.” (Bill Maclaren)
28. “And there it is, the international symbol of peace – the ____.” (Jimmy Magee)
29. “Holy ____!” (Marty Morrissey)
30. “This is where Juantorena (the Cuban athlete) will open his legs and show his ____.” (David Coleman)
WHICH SPORTS, FILMS OR TV SHOWS HAVE HAD THESE SONGS AS THEME TUNES?
31. The Final Countdown by Europe
32. The Chain by Fleetwood Mac
33. Soul Limbo by Booker T & The MGs
34. Eye of The Tiger by Survivor
35. Jagerlatein by James Last
36. Beautiful Day by U2
37. World in Union by Kiri Te Kanawa
38. You’re The Best Around by Joe Esposito
39. Just Like Heaven by The Cure
40. I Believe I Can Fly by R Kelly
FILMS/TV SHOWS
1. Rugby union
2. Gaelic football
3. Ice hockey
4. Baseball
5. Rugby league
6. Formula 1
8. Hurling
9. American football
10. Soccer
11. Billy Morgan
12. David Beckham
13. Donncha O’Callaghan
14. Liam Dune
15. Andre Agassi
16. Ian Poulter
17. Tony Adams
18. Nicky English
19. Paul Kimmage
20. Niki Lauda
COMMENTARY LINES
21. Face
22. Rode her mother
23. Nation
24. Black and white
25. It’s on fire
26. Undertakers
27. Head
28. Pigeon
29. Moses
30. Class
THEME TUNES
31. Sports Stadium (RTÉ)
32. Motorsport (BBC)
33. Cricket (BBC)
34. Rocky III
Picture: Hulton Archive/Getty Images
35. The Sunday Game (RTÉ)
36. The Premiership (ITV)
37. Rugby World Cup
38. Karate Kid
39. Racing (RTÉ)
40. Space Jam
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You are here: Home1 / FELLOWSHIP2 / 2014-15 Fellowship3 / Protected: Green Room4 / Personal Vision
Saturday Sept 13, 2014: PEER COACHING & PERSONAL VISION
This Fellowship program seeks to answer the question: What’s next? and looks to the future by bringing together insightful and energetic leadership and emerging models in a convergence of participatory practice and action learning. The new frontier of creative leadership requires new competencies, skills and sensitivities that are adaptive, engaging and relevant. This program aims to introduce an alternative model for professional development that balances traditional structure with increased creativity and experimentation.
The September session focused on creating personal vision statements which we hope will anchor the Fellows work throughout the year.
Karena Fiorenza Ingersoll – Karena brings over a decade of experience as a leader, fundraiser and producer in the performing arts. She currently serves as the Associate Managing Director of Berkeley Repertory Theatre, where she also line produces and manages all of the new play development efforts under the aegis of The Ground Floor. Most recently, she was the Associate Managing Director of Yale Repertory Theatre, where she oversaw a $1.6 million artistic budget. Prior to Yale, she worked as the Annual Fund Manager at Aurora Theatre in Berkeley and served as the Executive Director of Robert Moses’ Kin, a small modern dance company in San Francisco. Internationally, Karena has lived in Mexico City, working for a non-profit humanitarian group where she focused on mentoring, strategic marketing and donor cultivation. Karenais a freelance arts management consultant in the Bay Area, participant in TCG’s SPARK leadership program, the President of the Berkeley Cultural Trust and a proud member of the Bay Area Latino Theatre Artists Network. She holds two bachelor degrees from the University of California at Berkeley and an MFA from Theater Management from Yale University, where she was the recipient of the August Coppola Scholarship and the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts Scholarship. [contact info]
Ted Russell has served as an Arts Senior Program Officer at the James Irvine Foundation since 2005. Previously,Ted was Director of Marketing at Montalvo Arts Center, Audience Development Manager for the SF Symphony, Annual Fund Director at the La Jolla Playhouse, Managing Director of Malashock Dance & Company, and Director of the Jazz at the Wadsworth series at UCLA. In his Web 1.0 phase, Ted worked at Listen.com, as Senior Manager of Online Marketing and for SFGate.com as Marketing Director. Ted serves on the boards of Children’s Arts Guild Community Initiatives. He has served as a board member for Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Joe Goode Performance Group, the Independent Television Service (ITVS) and is a former Co-Chair of Northern California Grantmakers’ Arts Loan Fund. He holds a BA in mechanical engineering from Yale, and an M.B.A. in arts management from UCLA. [Tweeter | @artsted]
Please download the following: Personal Vision Worksheet | 5 Coaching Skills | Collaborative Project Development
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Pagano Pogatschnig, Giuseppe
Pagano Pogatschnig, Giuseppe (1896–1945). Italian Rationalist, Fascist architect, and polemicist, who was a leading player in the arguments about the renaissance of Italian architecture in the 1930s, largely through his leadership (from 1931) of the influential architectural journal Casabella. His early works had a suggestion of Perret, Behrens, and the Vienna Sezession about them, but in 1928, with Gino Levi-Montalcini (1902–74), he designed one of the first monuments of Italian Rationalism, the Gualino Office Building, Turin (1928–9—destroyed). He prepared a plan for the Via Roma, Turin (1931—with the Turin branch of MIAR), designed a standardized industrialized system for building housing (1933) for the Fifth Triennale, and in 1932–5 built the Istituto di Fisica, University of Rome (destroyed). The Università Commerciale Bocconi (1937–41—destroyed) was remarkable for its adherence to geometry and schemes of proportion throughout the design. He died in Mauthausen concentration-camp, Austria, having renounced Fascism in 1942.
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A380 | GP7200 | Media | Customer Portal
New Leaders, Evolved Mission Usher in New Era for Engine Alliance
Industry veterans Amy Johnston and Natalie Stone lead Engine Alliance as company commits to service focus
Engine Alliance announced that Amy Johnston is joining the company as its president. Johnston joins the organization as it redefines its position in the industry and narrows its operational focus to the aftermarket service and support of the GP7200 engine. Johnston comes to Engine Alliance from Pratt & Whitney where she spent 21 years in leadership roles spanning global aftermarket operations, engine overhaul and materials management.
Natalie Stone joins Engine Alliance as Executive Vice President. Stone joined GE Aviation in 2000 and has held roles of increasing responsibility in engineering, supply chain and commercial programs leveraging her technical and product expertise, services experience and a strong track record of commercial execution.
“We are delighted to welcome both Amy and Natalie to the Engine Alliance family and look forward to their leadership during what is a pivotal time in our organization’s history,” said Wayne Huot, Engine Alliance VP Sales, Marketing & Customer Support.
Earlier this year, Airbus announced it is ending production of the A380 after final deliveries in 2021. With Engine Alliance’s engine orders fulfilled for the Airbus A380, it will redirect resources and investment in to its aftermarket business. With the world’s largest network of field service engineers, Engine Alliance provides around-the-clock, around-the-world support to its A380 customers.
“I am very pleased to join Engine Alliance. Our experienced and talented team, global network and strong partnership allows us to be very responsive to our A380 customers,” said Johnston. “As we dedicate ourselves to service and support, customers can be confident that the GP7000 will continue to deliver reliable value.”
The EA-powered A380 entered service in August 2008. Currently 130 EA-powered A380s are in operation around the globe: 90 with Emirates, ten with Air France, ten with Korean Air, ten with Qatar Airways and ten with Etihad Airways. The EA-powered A380 fleet is supported by the world’s largest network, with field service engineers available in more than 100 cities around the globe.
Airlines operating GP7200 engines have enjoyed the merits of the quietest, most reliable and most fuel-efficient powerplant for the A380. The GP7200 engine has sustained an average of 99.9% departure reliability since entry into service. Additionally, customers have benefitted from a fuel savings advantage of up to $1 million per aircraft per year.
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Tue, 22 Oct, 2019 - 18:00
Gabriel Rangers relieved to come through epic battle with Dromtarriffe
Gabriel Rangers' Liam Hegarty shoots goalwards despite the efforts of Dromtarriffe's Conor O'Callaghan. Picture: Denis Minihane.
John Bohane
GABRIEL RANGERS ace full-forward Eddie Goggin was thrilled with their dramatic one point win against Dromtarriffe in their IFC game played in Coachford last Saturday afternoon.
Gabriel Rangers emerged victorious on a final scoreline of 0-16 to 0-15 following an entertaining semi-final clash. Gabriel Rangers secured a hard fought win when Seanie Kelleher converted a late free kick. Eddie was delighted with the nature of their win.
“Seanie kicked a great point to win the match. It was a great win. We had to battle hard. It was a very tough game. It was a great feeling when the final whistle sounded. Everyone played their part in a great win,” declared the star forward.
Dromtarriffe, who won the county junior football championship title year season, pushed the Carbery divisional side all the way following this absorbing encounter. Eddie was full of praise for the Duhallow divisional team.
“They are a very good team. They have a lot of very tidy footballers. Duhallow football is very strong. They put up a serious battle. We knew coming into the semi-final that we would have to play to our potential to win.”
Gabriel Rangers will now proceed to a IFC final showdown against Knocknagree which is scheduled to be played on Saturday, November 2.
Eddie is anticipating another very tough game against Knocknagree.
“They’re a very good team and have been winning with ease all season. They were very impressive against Millstreet. We know them very well.
“They’ve a lot of strong footballers. We defeated them in the junior county series following a replay in 2016. They are a great team. We will go in as underdogs and do our best.”
Gabriel Rangers' Mark Cronin being challenged by Dromtarriffe's Cormac Mahony. Picture: Denis Minihane.
Gabriel Rangers displayed great heart and character throughout the semi-final encounter. They had to overcome a four point deficit in the second half. Eddie paid tribute to his team-mates for their courageous display.
“All our lads were great. The defence were outstanding again. Pat Nolan came in and steadied the ship. There was a lot of leadership and character shown to turn around the deficit. I was worried when they went so many points ahead. We had to dig deep. Thankfully, we kept battling and adding on scores. It was a real determined display.”
Brian Hayes had the unenviable task of taking over from Mike O’Brien as manager of the Gabriel Rangers team this season. Eddie was full of praise for their coach.
“Brian has done a great job. He is well assisted by his selectors. They make a great team. They are constantly challenging us. Mike did a great job with us. We enjoyed great success with him for three years.”
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Exciting Rebel Óg U16 hurling finals ahead this week on Leeside
Ger Fitzgibbon and Dan Lucey of Killeagh with Josh Cotter and Stephen Wills of Ballincollig. Picture: Howard Crowdy
Rory Noonan
THE Carrigaline Court Hotel U16 hurling championships take place this week.
First up is the Premier 2 Challenge Cup final between Ballygarvan and Inniscarra at Carrigaline.
Padraig Holland, Inniscarra and Cormac Dowd of Ballygarvan. Picture: Howard Crowdy
In their respective semi-finals Ballygarvan had a good win over Bishopstown and Inniscarra got the better of Carrigaline.
Inniscarra will look to Jack O’Sullivan, Mark Buckley and David Kelly to see them through, whilst their opponents will be hoping for big games from the likes of Ciaran McIntyre, Sean Brady and Adam O’Callaghan.
On Tuesday, the Premier 1 and 2 finals take place at Pairc Ui Rinn, with both games sure to draw a large following.
The first sees Ballincollig and Killeagh/Ita’s in action in the Premier 2 final, with little to choose between them.
In the quarter-final Ballincollig had a good 3-14 to 2-10 win over Shandrum and followed it up with a 1-18 to 1-10 victory over Carrigaline in the semi-final.
Killeagh/Ita’s got the better of Blackrock, by 2-13 to 1-14 in their quarter-final and in the semi had an impressive 1-26 to 0-12 win over Ballygarvan.
In the Premier 1 final it’s an all east Cork final as near-neighbours Sarsfields and Midleton take to the pitch.
Keith Byrne and Ben O'Driscoll of Sarsfields with Sam and Cormac Quirke of Midleton. Picture: Howard Crowdy
With local bragging rights at stake expect both sides to give it everything and it would be no great surprise to see only a point or two in it at the end.
In their quarter-final tie Midleton were made to fight all the way by Blarney, before winning by 4-7 to 2-10. In the semi they took on Glen Rovers, who had won the U15 title last year, and four more goals ensured the east Cork boys advanced to the final, this time by 4-14 to 2-15.
Sars had two great battles with St Finbarr’s in the quarter-final, ending all square the first day at 2-15 apiece.
In the replay they came through by a single point, 3-12 to 3-11, before taking on Douglas in the semi-final.
In that they came out on top, in another tough battle, by 2-23 to 2-19 to reach the final.
It should be a great game and don’t be surprised if it takes a replay to separate these two.
On Wednesday the Premier 2A and Premier 1 Challenge Cup final take place at the Mardyke.
The Challenge Cup final sees the Barrs up against Blarney, with the former beating Cobh in their semi-final by 7-14 to 3-11.
Blarney had a 2-16 to 2-9 win over Valley Rovers, but know they face a tough challenge to get the better of the Barrs side.
This will be followed by the 2A final between Mallow and Kiltha Og.
Eoghan Martin, Kiltha Og, and Niall O'Riordan of Mallow. Picture: Howard Crowdy
Mallow enjoyed wins over Newcestown and Erins Own to get to the final, whilst Kiltha Og got the better of Eire Og and Lisgoold.
In the 2A Challenge Cup final Na Piarsaigh are up against Lisgoold, date yet to be confirmed for this one.
In the semi-final Piarsaigh got the better of Passage by 3-10 to 3-6, whilst in their respective game Lisgoold had a close win over fellow east Cork side, Erins Own, by 2-14 to 2-13.
Carrigaline Court Hotel Premier 2 Challenge Cup final: Ballygarvan v Inniscarra, Carrigaline, 7pm.
Carrigaline Court Hotel Premier 1 final: Midleton v Sarsfields, Pairc Ui Rinn, 8pm.
Carrigaline Court Hotel Premier 2 final: Ballincollig v Killeagh/Ita’s, Pairc Ui Rinn, 6.30pm.
Carrigaline Court Hotel Premier 2A final: Mallow v Kiltha Og, Mardyke, 8.15pm.
Carrigaline Court Hotel Premier 1 Challenge Cup final: Blarney v St Finbarr’s, Mardyke, 6.30pm.
Luke Walsh, Lisgould and Na Piarsaigh's Kevin Moynihan. Picture: Howard Crowdy
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This month brings so many amazing releases that I seriously cannot wait for. One of these books is ZONE OF ACTION by Cathy Skendrovich. If you haven't heard about this one, hold on to your panties, ladies, 'cause this is one you're not gonna want to miss! But don't just take my word for it, here are what others are saying....
“Wow! Hold on tight - this is a fast moving book with lots of action and romance!” ~ Linda Quick, Goodreads
“It's totally worth all 5 stars and then some more.” ~ Teresa, Goodreads
“Zone of Action is a fast paced, action packed romance that will grab you and make you devour it!” ~ Sue, Goodreads
Okay, let's get into this. First things first, the cover. Holy cow! I didn't even realize side abs were my thing until this cover.
And now for the nitty gritty....
Former terror cell expert Audrey Jenkins has seen enough death and destruction to last a lifetime. When she uncovers her ex, Brett, a higher-ranking officer in her unit, selling military secrets, she turns him in and returns to the simpler life she has embraced since leaving the army.
CID Special Agent Cam Harris is a career military man with a strong sense of duty. When a military prisoner who once saved his life in Afghanistan escapes while in his custody, he requests the assignment to track him down.
Cam's manhunt leads him to Audrey's door. His prisoner—her ex—will resurface here, he’s sure of it. The feisty woman wants nothing to do with hunting down her ex, but when a terror cell she’s all-too-familiar with launches a deadly attack on army intelligence soldiers and officers, she knows it’s Brett.
Helping Cam is the right thing to do. But the attraction burning between them may be the mistake that gets her and Cam killed...
“Ambush!” Cameron yelled, lunging toward the two informants. Both men ran in different directions, a planned escape maneuver for sure. While Brett pulled his pistol, Cameron scrambled to the side, firing off rounds toward where the initial attack came from.
More machine gun fire erupted, this time from Jimenez on the Hummer’s turret. Return fire popped from the top of a rattletrap jeep barreling down the alley. They were surrounded, all avenues of escape blocked.
This wasn’t how it was supposed to go down. He and Brett had planned this right to the time of day when most people were inside because of the heat. All Brett’s intel had corroborated what he believed: that these two informants were legit. Well, that sure as shit wasn’t true.
Cameron’s heartbeat drummed in his ears, a countdown to their slaughter. Each inhale through his mouth was harsher than the last as he tried to come up with a getaway plan from this shit-show. They were fish in a barrel, waiting to be picked off unless they thought of something. While they had plenty of rounds between the four of them, these guys, being arms dealers, had an unending supply.
“Take out the jeep!” Brett shouted to Jimenez, who crouched behind the turret, doing exactly what Brett yelled. Spent cartridges flew like Pez as he riddled the oncoming attackers with the Humvee’s .50 cal. And still gunfire peppered them from above.
Cameron squinted upwards, the glint from the lowering sun blinding him. Periodic muzzle flashes had him pinpointing their attackers’ location, and he returned fire. He was rewarded with muffled screams as his bullets found their mark.
A strangled cry from the Humvee whipped his head around. Jimenez was slumped over the .50 cal. Ross clambered over the driver’s seat, dragging Jimenez down from the gun.
Cameron had no idea if their comrade was dead or wounded, but the sight of his limp body plus Ross’s panic-laced obscenities sent a cold wave of fury through him.
“Brett, Jimenez is hit,” he shouted. Brett squatted in a doorway to Cameron’s left, trying his best to peck off the bastards in the jeep. It was parked crosswise, blocking escape from the alleyway, and its occupants returned fire. Their objective was plain: annihilate the U.S. soldiers.
The .50 cal erupted into life again, this time with Ross at the helm. He was out for vengeance, the way he was riddling the ambushers’ jeep. There was no way they were going down without taking the bastards with them. Defeat wasn’t an option. Like hell if Cameron was going to let them have their severed heads for mementoes.
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Lover of dogs, reading, and the outdoors, Cathy Skendrovich looks for story ideas in everything she does. Recently she moved to Star, Idaho, with her real-life hero, and now they enjoy living overlooking a pond. Her favorite genre to write is romantic suspense, though she’s also dabbled in historical romance. Her fifth book, Zone of Action, blends her love of suspense with the military. Her younger son, who’s currently in the army, has stopped taking her calls because of all the research questions she asks him. Seriously.
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WEEE 5% reuse target is 'pathetic' says industry chief
12 October 2011, source edie newsroom
A leading IT expert has slammed the EU's proposed 5% reuse target for waste electrical and electronic equipment as "pathetic", arguing that it will do little to curb the environmental impact of e-waste.
Askar Sheibani, CEO of IT solutions provider Comtek, has said that recent proposals for the WEEE Directive, which is currently undergoing a recast at EU level, have not been properly thought through.
He said: "The EU is proposing ambitious targets that make impressive headlines, but would do little to actually solve the growing problem of e-waste if enacted. While a minimum of 70% of the collected e-waste would be recycled, the target for reusing unwanted equipment is pathetic by comparison at a miniscule 5%.
"It's as if reuse is an afterthought, and if the proposal is passed it will send a clear message to consumers that reuse is not nearly as important as recycling. We should not be encouraging people to recycle electronics goods as a first option."
Sheibani claimed that another weakness of the proposals is its plan for consumers to return unwanted equipment to retailers, arguing that it was "simply not practical for consumers or retailers to comply with these" - particularly as many products are now purchased online or from overseas sellers.
He added: "Retailers would just end up having to ship unwanted gear between branches or distribution centres, which would be costly and complicated to administer.
"It would make much more sense to cut out the middle-man completely and send equipment directly to organisations that already accept electronic goods for reuse and recycling, without making a charge to the consumer."
Maxine Perella
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STRAND RELEASING PRESENTS
Written and Directed by: Michael O'Shea Starring: Eric Ruffin and Chloe Levine
Film Score by: Pharmakon Official Selection: Cannes Film Festival 2016, SXSW 2017 Opens in New York on Friday, April 7th at the Angelika Film Center Opens in Los Angeles on Friday, April 21st at The Nuart Theatre
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An official selection at the Cannes Film Festival, writer/director Michael O’Shea’s debut feature The Transfiguration follows troubled teen Milo who hides behind his fascination with vampire lore. When he meets the equally alienated Sophie, the two form a bond that begins to challenge Milo’s dark obsession, blurring his fantasy into reality. A chilling portrait of violence, The Transfiguration is an atmospheric thriller set against the grit of New York City.
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In Hollywood there’s no greater honor than being presented with a prestigious Academy Award. All the stars listed below have received at least one golden statue in recognition of their acting, writing or directing prowess. However, unlike other esteemed Oscar winners out there, the following actors have excelled at sucking on the big screen too. They are part of the select group of Academy Award winners who have also earned Golden Raspberry Awards for decidedly terrible performances. Click along and find out who has won hardware from both extremes of the acting spectrum. We wonder if their Oscar and Razzie statues sit side-by-side on the mantel.
1. Ben Affleck
Ben Affleck has had a pretty up-and-down career, first catching notice by writing and starring in Good Will Hunting with his best friend Matt Damon. The two took home the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for the film and have been mega stars ever since. That doesn’t mean, however, that Ben hasn’t made some duds, because he has. In 2003 he had a particularly bad year winning the Worst Actor Razzie for three movies: Daredevil, Gigli, and Paycheck. And yet he managed to bounce back to star and direct the Oscar winning film Argo in 2013. Because of that turnaround, he was given the ‘Razzie Redeemer’ award in 2015.
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Another Big Year Is in the Works For Gold ETFs
Tom Lydon January 29, 2020
Gold exchange traded products, including bellwethers such as the SPDR Gold Shares (NYSEArca: GLD) and the SPDR Gold MiniShares (NYSEArca: GLDM), were among last year’s best-performing commodities funds and that bullishness could extend to 2020.
Actually, it already is. GLD, the world’s largest gold ETF, is higher by 3.33% to start the new year and some market observers believe there’s more upside looming for the yellow metal as investors look for safer assets amid the coronavirus epidemic and concerns about the potential for more geopolitical tensions.
“Gold is poised to perform strongly in 2020, with geopolitical risk set to remain elevated, metals and mining research and consultancy group Wood Mackenzie said Tuesday,” reports Mining.com.
Market participants turned to gold toward the end of 2019 as a potential hedge against economic and political uncertainty, especially after U.S. equities rallied toward record highs. The most recent rally may be attributed to rising tensions between Tehran and Washington after President Trump reiterated threats to strike Iran if things escalate between the two countries and as markets waited on the inevitable retaliation to the death of Major General Qassem Soleimani.
“At the same time, the US drone strike that killed the top Iranian military commander marked a dramatic escalation in tensions in the Middle East and subsequently pushed the gold price to near seven-year highs,” said Townsend. “It’s safe to assume the trade war will not be resolved overnight and therefore protectionist policies will keep central bank demand for gold strong. Meanwhile, while one hopes that a peaceful resolution is achieved in the Middle East, any further deterioration in relations will only provide support to safe-haven gold demand.”
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Last year, GLD and GLD jumped amid increased expectations of a U.S. rate cut, even as some investors locked in profits from bullion’s recent rally. Gold is believed by many investors to be inversely correlated with interest rates. Rising interest rates make bonds and other fixed-income investments more attractive so that the money will flow into higher-yielding investments, such as bonds and money market funds, and out of gold, which offers no yield at all during times of higher interest rates, and back into gold ETFs.
The World Gold Council argued that the precious metal could shine after the major monetary policy shift out of the Federal Reserve last year. Gold has historically performed in the 12 to 24 month period following policy shifts from tightening to “on-hold” or “easing”. Additionally, when real rates have been negative, gold’s average monthly returns have been double their long-term average.
Investors rushing to GLD, GLDM and related ETFs as a quick and easy way to gain exposure to gold price movements as they hedge against market risks, help protect their purchasing power in times of inflationary pressures or capitalize on increasing demand from the emerging markets with a growing middle-income class.
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Global X Enters Video Game ETF Space With New HERO Fund
Tom Lydon October 31, 2019
Another competitor on the video game ETFs front here is following Tuesday’s debut of the Global X Video Games & Esports ETF (NASDAQ: HERO). The latest thematic ETF to join Global X’s expansive lineup of such funds follows the Solactive Video Games & Esports Index and is the fifth dedicated video game ETF to list in the U.S.
The new HERO “seeks to invest in companies that develop or publish video games, facilitate the streaming and distribution of video gaming or esports content, own and operate within competitive esports leagues, or produce hardware used in video games and esports, including augmented and virtual reality,” according to Global X.
HERO’s debut could prove to be a well-timed launch thanks to the rapid growth underpinning the video game investment thesis.
While growth estimates for e-sports are garnering plenty of attention, the global video game market is expected to expand at a rapid rate as well.
“The video games market will more than double to become a $300 bllion-plus industry by 2025, according to GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company. According to the company’s latest thematic report, ‘Video Games’, the market will grow from $131 billion in 2018 to $305 billion in 2025, at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 13%.”
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HERO’s underlying index features 38 stocks from nine countries. The bulk of the new ETF’s top 10 holdings are video game publishers, but the fund has exposure to hardware makers and semiconductor manufacturers, among other industries, as well.
“Analysts estimate global revenues in 2018 were nearly $140 billion, far more than the global box office revenue for movies & film ($42 billion) and global professional sports revenue ($52 billion – based on latest available estimates from 2016),” according to Global X research.
Importantly, the new HERO touches each of the four most important corners of the video game universe, giving investors a broad approach to a fast-growing theme.
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“The video game and esports ecosystem consists of four main areas. Video game developers & publishers are primarily responsible for creating and marketing games,” according to Global X. “Hardware manufacturers create the systems and peripherals that enable users to play and stream games. Esports and streaming providers allow gamers to watch professional gamers in action. And, finally, operators and owners of leagues and teams act as any other sports team by managing live tournaments. While each part of the ecosystem should benefit from their overall growth in video games and esports, their business models can differ substantially.”
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ELCat Scale of Endangerment
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Level of Endangerment 5 Critically Endangered 4 Severely Endangered 3 Endangered 2 Threatened 1 Vulnerable 0 Safe1
Intergenerational Transmission Few speakers, all elderly Many of the grandparent generation speaks the language. Some of child- bearing age know the language, but do not speak it to children. Most adults of child-bearing age speak the language. Most adults and some children are speakers. All community members /members of the ethnic group speak the language.
Absolute Number of Speakers 1-9 speakers 10-99 speakers 100-999 speakers 1000-9999 speakers 10,000-99,999 speakers >100,000 speakers
Speaker Number Trends A small percentage of community members or members of the ethnic group speaks the language;, the rate of language shift is very high. Fewer than half of community members or members of the ethnic group speak the language; the rate of language shift is accelerated. About half of community members or members of the ethnic group speak the language; the rate of language shift, is frequent but not rapidly accelerating. A majority of community members or members of the ethnic group speak the language; the numbers of speakers is gradually diminishing. Most community members or members of the ethnic group are speakers; speaker numbers are diminishing, but at a slow rate. Almost all community members or members of the ethnic group speak the language; speaker numbers are stable or increasing.
Domains of use of the language Used only in very few domains, (for example, restricted to ceremonies, to few specific domestic activities; a majority of speakers supports language shift; no institutional support. The language is being replaced even in the home; some speakers may values their language while the majority support language shift; very limited institutional support, if any. Used mainly just in the home; some speakers may value their language but many are indifferent or support language shift; no literacy or education programs exist for the language; Government encourages shift to the majority language; there is little few outside institutional support. Used in non- official domains; shares usage in social domains with other languages; most value their language but some are indifferent; education and literacy programs are rarely embraced by the community; government has no explicit policy regarding minority languages, though some outside institutions support the languages. Used in all domains except official ones (i.e., government and workplace); nearly all speakers value their language and are positive about using it (prestigious); education and literacy in the language is available, but only valued by some; government and other institutional support for use in non-official domains. Used in government, mass media, education and the workplace; most speakers value their language and are enthusiastic about promoting it; education and literacy in the language are valued by most community members; government and other institutions support the language for use in all domains.
[Source: http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/assets/information_catalogue_endangered_languages.pdf]
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Europe’s #1 platform for air passenger rights! An interview with Flightright Co-founder Dr. Philipp Kadelbach
Thomas Ohr
Founded in 2010 in Potsdam, Germany, Flightright was already used by more than 2,200,000 consumers, which makes the company the #1 platform for air passenger rights. Flightright helps consumers to get their rightful compensation from an airlines when their flights have been delayed, cancelled or overbooked according to the EU Regulation No 261/2004. As a fast growing and internationally operating company, Flightright already looks back at more than €100.000.000 in enforced compensations to customers, growth from scratch to over 100 employees and 18 nationalities.
To learn more about Flightright and the market they are operating in, we recently did an interview with Flightright Co-founder Dr. Philipp Kadelbach.
Philipp, please give us a short introduction to Flightright and how it all started.
Flightright is the market leader for helping travellers with their fight for compensation against airlines. We started eight years ago back in 2010 after I had a delayed flight that almost cost me my own wedding. I couldn’t wait five hours at the airport for my flight, so I had to book another one. That was when I found out that a valid claim for compensation not necessarily means being paid by the airline. My co-founder and I felt that it was time for a state-of-the-art, online-based legal tech service and the idea for Flightright was born. Eight years later we still fight against the airlines – but today we are hundred people working at Flightright with a 99% success rate in court and more than 150 million Euro paid out for compensation.
Earlier this month, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that an airline which operated only the first leg of a connecting flight in one Member State can be sued before the courts of the final destination in another Member State for compensation for delays. What does this mean for airline passengers and Flightright customers?
This was another partial victory for European passengers with delayed or cancelled flights. Before this court decision, airlines argued regularly in such cases that consumers had to sue airlines in the airlines home country although they had booked a trip from or to their own home country. Imagine you want to sue someone and you have to do this in a Spanish court. Unless you don’t speak Spanish and don’t know the Spanish judicial system by chance – this means a hard disadvantage that many consumers were reasonably not willing to take. The decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union finally ended this.
This is an important court decision. What’s the background of the trial that involved Flightright and Air Nostrum and what impact do you except this decision to have in the long run?
There is certain kind of airline that systematically thwarts consumer rights. Since they know the consumer’s claim is valid, they love legal loopholes which make the enforcement of these claims more difficult. Until now one of the easiest loopholes for them was to hide in their respective countries, as I just described. This is especially true for some Spanish’ Airlines like Iberia/Air Nostrum and Vueling as well as some airlines from Turkey. It is our mission to fight these loopholes and hold airlines legally responsible. As such this court decision is not only important for its legal implication but is also a clear signal to these airlines that Flightright is willing and capable to fight to level the playing field.
Founded in 2010, Flightright is one of the pioneers in the field digital law services for passenger rights. What differentiates your company/solution from other service providers in that field and what makes it eventually more appealing?
As a consumer I would ask myself: Who is the best to fight for my claim? We started 2010 and back then, there was only one way to survive: to fight in court for the passenger’s compensation. We had to do this so often that it became our DNA. You won’t find any competitor or lawyer that fights harder or has a higher success rate than us. Therefore, we can win cases before the European Court of Justice. This is why we‘re the best choice for a customer who wants to push a claim for compensation against an airline.
Today Flightright is already operating in 8 different countries. Are you planning to expand in additional territories soon? Or are there other milestones that you currently prefer?
Despite all our success for our customers, especially in court: the fight against the airlines isn’t won yet. There are still a lot of battles to fight (and win) until consumers can regularly assume that airlines will pay their compensations. Besides enhancing our core product with new features, further internationalization is clearly in our roadmap. We are planning to add two countries each consecutive year. Our mission won’t be completed until airlines stop looking for the next loophole.
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Flightright
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Eupedia Forum > Population Genetics > DNA Testing & General Genetics > Gene Expression & Data Analysis > The Balkans as the Gateway to Europe
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Here's a link to a paper about DNA in the Balkans. The authors think the results verify that the Balkans area has been an important corridor for the flow of genes from the Middle East into Europe. Not exactly a surprising idea, but it's always useful to have more data about such an important area of DNA research.
www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0105090 (http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0105090)
Here's a copy of the abstract.
"Contemporary inhabitants of the Balkan Peninsula belong to several ethnic groups of diverse cultural background. In this study, three ethnic groups from Bosnia and Herzegovina - Bosniacs, Bosnian Croats and Bosnian Serbs - as well as the populations of Serbians, Croatians, Macedonians from the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegrins and Kosovars have been characterized for the genetic variation of 660 000 genome-wide autosomal single nucleotide polymorphisms and for haploid markers. New autosomal data of the 70 individuals together with previously published data of 20 individuals from the populations of the Western Balkan region in a context of 695 samples of global range have been analysed. Comparison of the variation data of autosomal and haploid lineages of the studied Western Balkan populations reveals a concordance of the data in both sets and the genetic uniformity of the studied populations, especially of Western South-Slavic speakers. The genetic variation of Western Balkan populations reveals the continuity between the Middle East and Europe via the Balkan region and supports the scenario that one of the major routes of ancient gene flows and admixture went through the Balkan Peninsula."
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What conclusions can one draw from the article?
One can conclude from this article that the Balkans have long acted as a corridor for gene flow between Europe and the Middle East, just as one might have expected.
The authors do state that as one of their major conclusions, but it seems to me that in the body of the paper itself they spend their time trying to determine if there was significant gene flow from the Near East into the Balkans during the Ottoman occupation (they determine there was not, although there were conversions) and then do a comparison of the modern national groups.
In regard to the latter, they find that there is no difference autosomally between the Bosnian Croats, the Bosnian Serbs and the Bosniaks. In terms of the other national groups, they do see a slight difference between the Bulgarians and Romanians on the one side and the western Balkans on the other, but it doesn't look to me as if the difference is very significant. (They claim that the people of Kosovo group a little apart, but I don't see it on the admixture run. There they look just like Macedonians.)
The non-Balkan populations with which they are the most similar are the North Italians and to a lesser extent the Tuscans. The Greeks seem to group sort of just south of the Tuscans. However, I think this sample is from northern Greece. I don't think there are academic samples from the Peleponesus, for example or from Crete or any of the other islands, not to mention the Pontic Greeks.
This is the admixture run:
http://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&docid=5-vk1nKWbQgdoM&tbnid=4epXYXvc8L886M:&ved=0CAIQjBw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.plosone.org%2Farticle%2Finfo% 3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0105090.g002%2Flarg erimage&ei=YPcFVNrmK5G8ggSW6YLwAw&bvm=bv.74115972,d.eXY&psig=AFQjCNFa_h1RjILhKrcXX_-45jCm9v1BgA&ust=1409763538739926
from article
It is believed that part of the Illyrians was assimilated and the other part was forced to move south
What I have been saying for more than 2 years, illyrians are not indigenous to the balkans........unless hungaria slovenia and eastern Austria are noted as balkan
On Kosovos
other noted people from other forums note that the Kosovo are similar to the french, conclusion was that this represents the gallic/celtic invasion of the balkans and greece ( pre-roman) ...........not my opinion.
the scordisci tribe comes to mind
joeyc
Funny that Bosnian Serbs cluster with Croats and Bosniacs but not with other Serbs from Serbia and Montenegro.
Why could that be?
It depends how far in time one goes to be indigenous. All we know from historical documents is that Illyrians have been in the Balkans since 2000 yrs BC. They are mentioned in the "Iliad" of Homer. Having said that, they did not arrived there the day they are mentioned. It it perfect to speculate that the Illyrians could have been there 2000 other years before they were mentioned.
We also know from Homer and other Greek historians that Before Hellens arrived there was another people inhabiting the are that called themselves Pellasgus. There is linguistic evidence that Pellasgus inhabited large areas of Illyrian territories. So if you want to call Pellasgus as original inhabitants of Illyria that's fair also.
Were Illyrians genetically similar? Since Illyria covered large area and other people were living in its vicinity its also possible that genetically differences could have existed
This is the quote about the Illyrians from the paper:
"The first barbarian conquerors in the Balkans were West Goths in 410 AD [22] (http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0105090#pone.0 105090-Schevill1). In the 6th century, the Slavs had occupied the northern parts of the Danube basin and continued their way to the south. It is believed that part of the Illyrians was assimilated and the other part was forced to move south - into the territory of present-day Albania [19 (http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0105090#pone.0 105090-Stavros1)"
As Albianapolis posted, the Illyrians are mentioned as inhabiting the Balkans far earlier than 600 AD, so perhaps the quote might have been referring to the Illyrians being further north in the Balkans at the time of the "Slavic" migrations.
The source cited in the paper is Stavros L, Stoianovich T (2000) The Balkans since 1453. London: C. Hurst & Co. 5–14 pp. If someone has a copy, perhaps the context for the quote could be provided.
We won't know the genetic make-up of these ancient tribes or how much of an impact they left on the current inhabitants of their regions until we have ancient genomes from them.
Just generally, I agree that this talk of "indigenous" populations is not very helpful or informative. No population sprang from the earth of a particular place. The modern inhabitants of the Balkans, as is the case more generally in Europe and elsewhere, are the product of numerous population migrations and subsequent admixture.
Also, the differences between ethnic groups in large areas of Europe are vanishingly small. Indeed, if you look at PCA's of the global population, the differences between even different areas of Europe are very small. All of that makes the constant internecine warfare even more inexplicable than it would be in just general terms.
Lack of Germanic influences in Serbia and Montenegro?
The Albanians and the Greeks have quite a lot of recent Slavic ancestry. Alboz Y-dna is the result of a massive bottle neck and does not reflect in the autosomal dna.
Kosovo Albanians and Albanians of Macedonia have minimal Slavic gene infusion or unimportant amounts. South Albanians in the other hand appear to have Slavic mixture. So do Greeks. The genetic difference of Crete (an isolated place) and Continental Greece is striking.
One Albanian historian I heard on Tv was saying that in 11 century ad Greek population had reached minimum historical records. Diseases and wars are mentioned as causes.They were recruiting Southern Albanians to repopulate some areas and as such we have the Arvanites of today.
Not much germanic in the balkans?? According to PCA plot of paper Croats are clearly more Northern than both Serbs or Bosniaks.
Must be Slavic ancestry.
http://www.plosone.org/article/fetchObject.action?uri=info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0105090.g003&representation=PNG_L
Albania has shit loads of Slavic ancestry. So do some mainland Greeks.
You are talking about Y-DNA which does not correlate well with autosomal dna in the case of bottlenecked populations like Kosovars.
Croat samples are from Zagreb near the border with Slovenia. Anyway we were talking about Serbs from Serbia and Montenegro and the reason why they don't cluster with Bosnian Serbs, Bosnian Croats and Bosniacs.
Does anyone knows when Eurogenes will release the admixture proportions of these new samples?
They already have them on their PCA plot.
http://eurogenes.blogspot.it/2014/08/genetic-structure-in-western-balkans.html
"Lots of" and "loads of" are subjective comments. (I could also do without the profanity, if you please.)
If, in terms of the Greeks, you are speaking of the percentages mentioned in the Hellenthall et al paper, I would recommend taking the results with a large grain of salt as to precise amounts of admixture, for the reasons enumerated here:
http://dienekes.blogspot.com/2014/02/human-admixture-common-in-human-history.html
I don't want to take the thread off topic, but I can illustrate what I mean by using the Tuscans as an example. I highly doubt that in the centuries following the fall of Rome, the Tuscan population was still totally Cypriot like, and then masses of "French like" people invaded, so many that their genetic signature forms more than 60% of the total. Rather, the formation of the Tuscans was through multiple population flows into the area both from the southeast and the generally north and northwest regions of Europe, perhaps starting with the Indo-Europeans, and continuing into the first milennium B.C. with the Gallic invasions.
These kinds of analyses are as imprecise as 'admixture' for detecting exact amounts of gene flow to be attributed to certain specific migrations and subsequent admixture. Only actual dna from the populations involved is going to give us that kind of information.
Ed. As another example of the care that should be taken when trying to interpret these kinds of analyses, the PCA plot provided upthread shows some Tuscans and some northern Greeks plotting in roughly the same place, yet Italy was not at all affected by the Slavic migrations. The placement is merely the result of input generally from more northern into more southern areas of Europe after the Neolithic.
Northern Albanians and Kosovans are physically different from Slavs.
You don't need a trained eye to tell without knowing who is who.
So does not look look like a lot of gene exchanges.
Slavs in the other hand have loads of Albanian genes since they absorbed Illyrian population of the areas they occupied. High E V13 among Serbs, Bosnians is because of that. So I would say that Ballkan Slavs are a hybrid of a Polish like person with an Albanian.
Albanians did not intermarry with Slavs because they lived in separate geographic areas.
In south Albania and Northern Greece I think there were some Bullgarian settlements in 8th and 9th century.
Macedonians and Bulgarians are much closer to Kosovars than to Serbs or Bosniac. And I am not even including Croats/Slovenes here.
Hellenthal et al. is a joke. Do they really pretend to track migration dates with such accuracy?
They also give no information regarding the samples they have used in the study. Hahahaha.
Zagreb is the capital, it would be logical to take the samples from there.
first we need to determine what is the border in Europe for the term balkans.
next, we have ancient historical records that the Illyrians where no further south of the drin river in montenegro circa 400BC..........unless greek and macedonian historians where lying in their makeup of ancient macedonia and epirote people.
next we know that coastal modern albania and epirote lands was the home of ancient Dorians, archeology of Appolonia has also reveal this ..plus ...historians claim Dorians came from the north to replace the mycenean race in the greek southern balkans, they even replaced them in crete and rhodes who where myceaneans that replaced the minoans in crete beforehand.
And Finally, yes I do believe in the theory that the term "illyrian" is not for one race or tribe but for many different tribes ,............it was a geographical term for people who lived in an area..........same as being called british for people living in the british isles..................one reason we have never found any language associated with the illyrians
This does not change the fact that those samples are representative only of Croats living close to the Slovenian border.
an interesting point, which I read in the forum is a post from an old member, (which I missed him)
his name was Zanipolo,
he notice the differences among mtDNA and Y-DNA in some parts of Balkans,
he expressed that are areas that y-Dna is very low as Slavic but mtDNA is very high, giving numbers like 60% of Slavic mtDNA to population that should have about 20%.
a good question is,
if some Y-DNA is neolithic in Balkans, then sould also have simmilar mt-DNA at a normal analogy,
do we see such an analogy? where we do, and where we do not see this, why?
King Bardhyl
The ancient writers unequivocally described Epirotes as barbarians; in all probability, this term is not meant to show Epirotes as backward Greeks as many modern Greeks claim. Judging by their language, customs, traditions and the way of life (which differed completely from that of Greece proper), ancients reckoned them to be 'barbarians':
Strabo, Geography, 7. 7. 1
Moreover, the barbarian origin of some is indicated by their names—Cecrops, Godrus, Aïclus, Cothus, Drymas, and Crinacus. And even to the present day the Thracians, Illyrians, and Epeirotes live on the flanks of the Greeks (though this was still more the case formerly than now); indeed most of the country that at the present time is indisputably Greece is held by the barbarians—Macedonia and certain parts of Thessaly by the Thracians, and the parts above Acarnania and Aetolia by the Thesproti, the Cassopaei, the Amphilochi, the Molossi, and the Athamanes—Epeirotic tribes.
καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν ὀνομάτων δὲ ἐνίων τὸ βάρβαρον ἐμφαίνεται, Κέκροψ καὶ Κόδρος καὶ Ἄικλος καὶ Κόθος καὶ Δρύμας καὶ Κρίνακος. οἱ δὲ Θρᾷκες καὶ Ἰλλυριοὶ καὶ Ἠπειρῶται καὶ μέχρι νῦν ἐν πλευραῖς εἰσιν· ἔτι μέντοι μᾶλλον πρότερον ἢ νῦν, ὅπου γε καὶ τῆς ἐν τῷ παρόντι Ἑλλάδος ἀναντιλέκτως οὔσης τὴν πολλὴν οἱ βάρβαροι ἔχουσι, Μακεδονίαν μὲν Θρᾷκες καί τινα μέρη τῆς Θετταλίας, Ἀκαρνανίας δὲ καὶ Αἰτωλίας τὰ ἄνω Θεσπρωτοὶ καὶ Κασσωπαῖοι καὶ Ἀμφίλοχοι καὶ Μολοττοὶ καὶ Ἀθαμᾶνες, Ἠπειρωτικὰ ἔθνη.
Robert Browning's Medieval and Modern Greek, 1983, p. 2, n. 7
"The language of the Epirotes is repeatedly described in antiquity as non-Greek (Thucydides 1.47, 1.51, 2.80, Strabo, 8.1.3). Yes the Epirotes were connected with the origin of various Greek communities. There may well have been an ethnic and linguistic mixture in Epirus, some tribes speaking Greek, others Illyrian or some other language (cf. Hammond (1967) 423; Katičić (1976) 120-7)"
Graham Shipley's The Greek World after Alexander, 2000, p. 111
"The Arrian passage reminds us of an important fact of Macedonia's location: its neighbours - Thracians, Paionians, Epirotes and Illyrians - were primarily non-urban peoples with more or less hellenized elites."
Michael Grant, Rachel Kitzinger, Civilization of the ancient Mediterranean: Greece and Rome: Volume 1, 1988, p. 203:
"On the other hand, Thucydides (1.47.3, 5o-3) and Strabo (7.7.1) call the Epirotes barbaroi: only two of Thucydides' (2.80) northern chieftains have Greek names and many Epirote tribes did not speak Greek (Strabo 7.7.1) and even enjoyed...
Ronald Edward Latham, In quest of civilization, Jarrolds limited, 1946, p. 247, chapter "Trying to be Greeks":
On the fringe of Hellas, and not yet fully accepted as Greeks even in name, lived the Epirotes and the Macedonians. Though these were being progressively Hellenized by contact with Greek colonies on the coast and their rulers claimed descent from legendary Greek heroes, the Greeks still regarded them, as the more civilized Chinese regarded the Ch'in,
From a classical Greek point of view, the northwest of Greece was inhabited by a bunch of barbarian tribes, in which the fifth-century sources are nor really interested. They contradict each other about which nations could be classified as western Greeks, Epirotes, or Illyrians. It does not really help us that the tribes did not leave behind written texts. Several sanctuaries, like Dodona, appear to have been hellenized quite early, but the people of the northwest retained some archaic traits. Several tribes were led by kings, something that was very unusual in the Greek world. On the other hand, the nearby Macedonians shared some of these characteristics.
All these specific characteristics were shared by the Illyrians as well. This gives at least theoretically some room for connecting Epirotes with them in terms of ethnicity.
'In October 1984, 70 historians and archaeologists from Greece, Albania, Romania, Italy and several other countries of Europe convened in Clermont-Ferrand, France. They held a colloquium with a group of Specialists in ancient history who were working there under the direction of Proffesor Pierre Kaban, the renowned expert on Epirus. They compared studies on the tribal and ethnic groups which gradually organised into urban life, then federated into state organisations. They compared juridical institutions such as family right of ownership, the role of the woman in the family and the procedure in freeing slaves. Similarities of Epirotes centers like Dodona and those of Southern Illyria were evidenced by the layout, architecture, and political organisation, also the circulation of coins, the structure of groves, the burial rites and articles found in the tumuli. But scholars concluded that from early antiquity until the Roman times THAT CULTURE OF SOUTHERN ILLYRIA AND EPIRUS, INCLUDING MOLOSSIA, WAS QUITE DIFFERENT FROM THAT OF CLASSICAL GREECE AS FOUND IN ATHENS AND SPARTA' (Jaques 1995:80/81)
Edwin.E.Jaques 1995 'The Albanians: An ethnic history from prehistoric times to the present'
According to an earlier source (Theopompus) in Epirus lived fourteen tribes. Of course he did not define the ethnicity of them but the later sources does distinguish Epirotes from the Greeks.
"In later times more than half of Aetolia ceased to be Grecian, and without doubt adopted the manners and language of the Illyrians, from which point the Athamanes, an Epirote and Illyrian nation, pressed into the south of Thessaly. "
The Historians' History of the World: Greece to the Peloponnesian war
Henry Smith Williams - 1904 - p. 111
It has been thought by some scholars that Illyrian presence is to be detected even in Aetolia and Acarnania. They based their opinion on thorough analysis of Thucydides's paragraph which recognizes a large non-Greek element among Aetolians:
«τὸ γὰρ ἔθνος μέγα μὲν εἶναι τὸ τῶν Αἰτωλῶν καὶ μάχιμον, οἰκοῦν δὲ κατὰ κώμας ἀτειχίστους, καὶ ταύτας διὰ πολλοῦ, καὶ σκευῇ ψιλῇ χρώμενον οὐ χαλεπὸν ἀπέφαινον, πρὶν ξυμβοηθῆσαι, καταστραφῆναι. ἐπιχειρεῖν δ᾿ ἐκέλευον πρῶτον μὲν Ἀποδωτοῖς, ἔπειτα δὲ Ὀφιονεῦσι καὶ μετὰ τούτους Εὐρυτᾶσιν, ὅπερ μέγιστον μέρος ἐστὶ τῶν Αἰτωλῶν, ἀγνωστότατοι δὲ γλῶσσαν καὶ ὠμοφάγοι εἰσίν, ὡς λέγονται» (ΘΟΥΚΥΔΙΔΗΣ III.94)
III,94: The Aetolian nation, although numerous and warlike, yet dwelt in un-walled villages scattered far apart, and had nothing but light armor, and might, according to the Messenians, be subdued without much difficulty before succors could arrive. The plan which they recommended was to attack first the Apodotians, next the Ophionians, and after these the Eurytanians, who are the largest tribe in Aetolia, and speak, as is said, a language exceedingly difficult to understand, and eat their flesh raw.
The 'Barbarians' to which Thucydides is referring are beyond any doubt, Illyrians.
Aetolia (in the Roman sense of the name) had not been greatly affected by Hellenic civilization when the Romans conquered it. Five Aetolian cities, evidently Hellenic and distinguished, figure in Homer. But Thucydides and the Greeks of the classical age regarded the Aetolians as barbaric. […] They extended their rule over tribes to the north whom the Greeks of the great age looked upon as savages. In the pages of Livy, Philip V of Macedon is made to admit the Hellenic character of some Aetolians, but to deny that the greater part of those who bore the name were Greeks. The Aetolians were natural enemies of the more civilized Greek peoples…
Sir William Woodthorpe Tarn, of the British Academy, regarded worldwide as having written the definitive work on Alexander the Great, states in the opening paragraph of his book Alexander the Great that “Alexander certainly had from his father (Philip II) and probably from his mother (Olymbia) Illyrian, i.e. Albanian, blood.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Woodthorpe_Tarn
A History of Greece from the Earliest Period to the Close of the, volume 3, George Grote, 1882, p. 417: “…the coast of Epirus from the entrance of the Ambrakian gulf northward to the Akrokeraunian promontory, we shall find it discouraging to Grecian colonization. (…) we may understand why the Grecian emigrants omitted this unprofitable tract, and passed on either northward to the maritime plains of Illyria, or westward to Italy. In the time of Herodotus and Thucydides, there seems to have been no Hellenic settlement between Ambrakia and Apollonia.
The Illyrians: history and culture, Aleksandar Stipčević, 1977: “Willy Borgeaud, a most persistent and tireless searcher among Illyrian remains in Greece, asserted that Boeotia, Acarnania, Aetolia, Argos and Sparta were full of Illyrian toponymes.”
(https://archive.org/details/historygreekrev02finlgoog) And I will conclude with a philhellenes:
George Finlay (https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22George+Finlay%22)
History of the Greek Revolution (1861 https://archive.org/details/historygreekrev02finlgoog
The Albanian forms a distinct race among the nations
of Europe. They have been supposed by some to be
the representatives of the Pelasgians. They call them-
selves Shkipetar. Some suppose them to have occu-
pied the regions they now inhabit before the days of
Homer, and that they are the lineal descendants of
the race to which the ancient Epirots and Macedo-
nians belonged as cognate tribes. Alexander the Great
must, according to these archaeologists, have spoken
an ancient Albanian dialect at his riotous banquets
with his Macedonian officers.
From genetics do not understand, but I hope I help you with these references in order to have a clearer picture.
IF OUR CHRONICLES DO NOT LIE, WE CALL OURSELVES AS EPIROTES!
GJERGJ KASTRIOTI SCANDERBEG
I am tired of this guy,
someone explain him that Albanians have 60% Slavic mtDNA.
Lebrok
move the King's posts to another thread .......i do not want to get the usual blame for this
Exactly. Dalmatians, whose genetics is more close to Bosniak and Serbs gravitate towards the shore cities like Dubrovnik, Split, etc. They are not rightfully represented here, I've marked them in orange.On the other hand samples from Serbia are in fact from Belgrade, but Belgrade is the only center of gravitation inside Serbia, because it's the sole richest city, it covers the whole turquoise area. That's why people from poor parts of South and East Serbia end up there. As far as Bosnian results are concerned: Zavidovici, Zepce, Maglaj, Livno, etc.. those are extremely small places with low population income.
These results are 100% expected, and I would have drawn them the same even if you didn't show me the samples...
http://i62.tinypic.com/4hdwee.jpg
I am pretty sure that from Zagreb were tested people from all over Croatia, not only natives of the area, even on Lazaridis Croats were quite ANE + WHG
Do not discuss about these things, you do not know the history of Greece to 200 years ago.
In all these posts I tried to explain that your idea was wrong.
Illyrians were mentioned in Homer's "Iliad" 2000 yrs bc. Get the book and take a look. I have seen it myself in English translation. 4oo bc is Alexander's of Philips time and Illyrians were very active in the area.
The term Illyria its not a random term with no specific meaning. For Albanian speakers its immediately noticeable because it means a " free man". Go to google translation and write free, see what do you get in Albanian.
Since there was severe slavery in Greece and Italy in antique times Illyrians took pride of being free and named their land, the land of free man(not slavery).
Were Illyrians a homogeneous people? Its hard to say. I also tend to believe that Illyrians were majority in the area but among them should have been other population living until they mixed.
Even today Albania is not homogeneous. There are pockets of Slavs, Vlahs, Greeks.
I again state .............where is the balkan border of Europe
I again state ................where is Illyrian script ........link me a site
scarce material finding pertaining to Illyrian language and culture, It has been quite a while since the scholarly Illyrian studies became overshadowed by the politically biased interpretations and skirmishing. Needless to say, this kind of approach is not only far from being scholarly, but it also created political stereotypes andcircular definitions pertaining to Illyrians. The very word Illyrian has been so contaminated generally by political interference that any mentioning of it must necessarily engage some extreme political skirmishing of the two extremely opposing views, one claiming that Illyrians have absolutely nothing to do with modern inhabitants of former Illyrian lands (specifically Albanians, who claim Illyrian descent), and the other favoring the idea that there was a direct and absolutely uninterrupted development of Illyrian society into that of modern Albanian. Again, the truth might be somewhere in between. In addition to onomastic material pertaining to ancient Illyrians, there is a number of cultural and traditional elements in Bosnia that have been connected through comparative studies with the culture of ancient Illyrians. However, the scarce material and written historical records available so far does not allow us to draw any approximate conclusion as to the territorial extent of Illyrian language and culture, and the extent of the survival of Illyrian language and culture and their assimilations into contemporary ethnic and regional cultures of the Balkans.
above from 2013
Dalmat
not true, and bosnian croats cluster with croats, and serbs dont cluster with bosniancs, but with romanians and bulgarians, only bosnian serbs are near bosniacs because of serbification, and mixing
Serbs=east balkan
share roots with bulgarians and romanians because of thracian natives
Not really. Serbs from Serbia/ Montenegro are much closer to Zagreb Croats than to Romanians and Bularians. People from Bosnia(Muslims, Catholics and Orthodox) are intermediate between Croats and Serbs but closer to the former.
no they are not, there is huge overlap between serbs and rum/bulgarians, while only few stretch to the edge of bosniaks, probably bosnan serbs who today live in serbia, because there is lots of migration of bosnian serbs to serbia
Besides their native base was the same, tracians, during age of byzantium, serbs were belived to be tribali by greek historians, a tracian tribe, also first Serbian state Rascia is teritorialy the same Tracian tribali teritory
the mountain Aimos peninsula is strange,
original term borders are the ex-Thracian expansion, Serbia Bulgaria Slavic Makedonia, half Romania, North N/East Greece, European Turkey Kossovo but not Albania and possibly Bosnia (East of Dinaric Alps to Balck sea, south of Istros/Donav to mt Olympos.
Generally today is modern Greece Albania Kossovo Bulgaria Serbia Bosnia Croatia Romania, Slavic Makedonia, European Turkey
the under the Istros (Donau) to Crete.
but due to many nation relation history and neighborhood influence, political
we consider Balkans Greece Albania Kossovo Bulgaria Slavic Makedonia Romania Serbia Bosnia/Erzegovina Croatia European Turkey, minor Asian Turkey, and count also Slovenia Moldova, and also Hungary, Cyprus the south East of Italy, the minor Asia coast of today Turkey although they are not geographically,
for example Slovenia is out of geographical AImos paninsula, but as south Slavic is consider related and was for years connected with both Balkans and central Europe so you can count her as member, but not to the core of balkans
Ilirian(or west Balkan people) origin is Carpathian mountains, basically todays Czech and Slovakia, 1000 bc they entered west balkans
Area was connected trough vučedol culture before
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/16/Vucedol_culture_map.png
Iliran was greek/roman exonim, these tribes never called themselves ilirian, probably comes from lira, a measurement unit for currency, leter on we had Italian money lira which comes from that, i-lira, without coins, probably to designate tribes who didnt use money for trading, which probably meant roman or greek coins were worthless to them.
No money or coinage was found in west balkan, only later roman era coinage when they were already part of roman empire
That's not what the actual study says. Look better at the ADMIXTURE analysis.
Nonsense. That would make Serbians being Bulgaro-Romanian in the beginning. And who would be Serbs then? The people who settled in Croatian and Bosnia according to DAI? So in 19th century we would have Croatia and Bosnia which would be ethnic Serbs, and Serbia which would be ethnic Romanians and Bulgarians. And that would yield for Bulgarians and Romanians in Serbia thinking that they are Serbs, and doing Serbification of people who are real ethnic Serbs that were Croatized in Bosnia?!
Are we all looking at the same admixture analysis?
Bosnian Serbs, Bosnian Croats, Bosniaks and Croatians are virtually indistinguishable.
Serbs and Montenegrins are virtually indistinguishable and differ from the prior group only in having slightly more "Near East". (which of course is not Near East at all, other than that it is a marker of the Neolithic (EEF), which the authors have proved. Some "EEF" is also, of course, present in the Med component and the "eastern European" one as well.)
Macedonians, Bulgarians and Romanians have a little more, and Kosovars a little more yet.
However, to the eye of an outsider, and, I would think, to geneticists, these are extremely minor differences, especially in terms of the western Balkans. Political and religious divisions are superimposed upon a genetic similarity.
I also don't see how this bickering over the precise boundaries and movements of ancient tribes is helpful. We have the admixture analysis of the modern inhabitants to tell us about similarities and differences. How the very similar sub-clusters were formed is a different issue and will only be solved by ancient dna.
http://ellines-albanoi.blogspot.com/
Here you can find answers of your questions. Starting from Leon Zguro, Klada, Shpata, Kolokotronis, Diakos, Miauli,Mani etc, etc, etc, a very long list. All this most important personalities of your country with, as you say "60% Slavic mtDN".
Very curious the story of your country.
Sorry it`s not in english, is in greek maybe Yetos will translate something for us.
You should thank me Yetos.
pfffffffff
right all were Albanians, no Greeks, are you satisfied now?
even Pontian Greeks origin from Albania, Gracani are from Albania, and Alexandreia was Albanian community, even karamanlides were Albanians from Karaman Turkey,
Greek is not a language but Albanian dialect,
does this satisfy you?
you made kolokotronis an Albanian although in his memories say different, but ok he was,
Are you satisfied?
@moderator
move this crup somewhere else,
No, pls.They keep for yourself no need for them. Different from us.
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Best player for Greece Kaimakoglou, in the foto:
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/nzU49PGQyIQ/0.jpg
EtymologyKaimakoglou
The word kaymak has Central Asian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Asia) origins, possibly formed from the verb kayl-mak, which means melt and molding of metal in Mongolian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_language).[2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaymak#cite_note-nisanyansozluk.com-2) The first written records of the word kaymak is in the well-known book of Mahmud al-Kashgari (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmud_al-Kashgari), Kutadgu Bilig (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kutadgu_Bilig).[2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaymak#cite_note-nisanyansozluk.com-2) The word remains as kaylgmak in Mongolian, and with small variations in Turkic languages as qaymaq in Azerbaijani (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azerbaijani_language),[3] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaymak#cite_note-3) qaymoq in Uzbek (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uzbek_language),[4] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaymak#cite_note-4) каймак in Kyrgyz (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyrgyz_language),[5] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaymak#cite_note-5) kaymak in Turkmen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkmen_language).[2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaymak#cite_note-nisanyansozluk.com-2) However in these languages noun form of the word is not reserved for the produced end product, but it refers to the clot of any milk formed after boiling.
Oglou is turkish= son english
and I? i am living in central Makedonia what am I?
plz tell me what am I? :grin:
Probably, 80% an proud discendent of Zhelyu zheliev and 20% Sarakachan, or kutchovlah.
Your case is very complicate, because after Turkey , Greece is the most multiethnic country in Europe.
I am a Slav MAkedonian and Aromani? wow, next time I 'ltry to remember, I must learn Bulgarian and Armanesti.
in our village live 2 Arbanites from Moschopolis,
what are they?
Arvaniti.
Tuc meta,meta tao.
only we name them Arbanites, cause they came from there,
their origin is Slavic from Bulgarec/Moschopolis
with System you killed expelled all minorities, and now you blaim Greeks and Serbs?
even at 1940's you attack and pillaging Greek villages and now you ask for tollerance Turk?
We don't kill people and don't expell them . We love the minority . In South Albania we have a little greek minority,50.000 people. The majority of this people are now living in Greece, but if you go in those village you can find ridiculous situation, a big school five teachers and three pupils .
All these because we respect minority and the rules of EU .
We don't kill them like you made with cham people during WWI, 1923, 1934 and WWII.
About Moschopolis or Voskopoja, i invite you to Tess book because you see ignorant about history.
After reading book about this issue i am sure that you will react like Kolokotronis :
.... o skilos. ... o phanariotis .
.... that dog. ...the phanarioti.
And i pay taxes for the greek schools in greek minority, why your goverment don't open schools for the albanian minority in Greece? And for the other minority like slavs, kutsovlahs, turks etc? And for the new minorty created now in Greece like afgan, pakistan and indian? And i can mention other minority in Greece. Why you don't create for those people the condition of life like in other EU country ?
the Greek minority schools were build By Greek goverment and my taxes,
ok mr LIEs
Albanians pay 0 lek for Greek schools,
if you want tell y
our goverment to open Albanians schools in Greece and pay the teachers,
As we build 13 Schools and we pay the about 130 teachers in Epirus, for both Greeks and Albanians there
besides the same we did in Deutschland, in Britain, in Ukraine/Crimea, in Georgia, in Pakistan, in France , Neatherlands even Australia and Argentina
you pay 0 for the Greek minority schools, which are modern, well equiped, and many Albanian child also study there.
besides you make a Bulgarian, Kolokotroni an Arbaniti, Katsantoni also,
is that the pedia you teaching in Albania?
the Greek schools were build By Greek goverment and my taxes,
if you want tell your goverment to open Albanians schools in Greece and pay the teachers,
As we build Schools and we pay the teachers in Epirus
I am not speaking about private schools. I am speaking about states schools . Those schools are with my taxes.
BTW the private schools opened by greek government and private greek, are using for greek propaganda against Albania.
And also in university in Gjirokastra it's an branch in greek language for minority students.
Now we are not waiting from you to open university in Athens for albanians people ,just elementary schools ,A, B, C. .
all Greek minority schools were build by Greek Goverment,
all teachers about 130-150 are paid by Greek citizens taxes
besides we re-open now and 1 school in Turkey after 1950'
Albanians Pay 0
if you want pay taxes to Albanian goverment to open schools in Greece and also pay the teachers.
besides in Athens work Albanian schools for immigrants, from times of (is that Turkish or Albanian name?) Dasvon Dervish
head manager is Lorents Koka,
the video is old, before the new schools were build
look at the situation they were left, min 1:57
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hevL2HI4xno
Albanian names
Dervish Tzelempi Muhtar !!!! no Turks at all!!!!! right west Turkey man?
I am trying to explain. I don't know what make your goverment with your money and the money of EU.
In Albania is the constitution who oblige the government.
During the communism the sistem was 8+4, with 8 year obligatory. In minority villages the state made schools for obligatory sistem and middle school. It was for albanian pupils and for minoritary pupils ,thr same. No distinction.
After the fall of comunism the sistem change, again 12years but 9+3 but obligatory 12 years, the same for albanian the same for greek. Also after the fall of comunism it was open in university of Gjirokastra an branch for minoritary students in greek. All this with albanian money. Your goverment maybe had help in riconstruction of schools . But the tale about modern schools with teachers and classes with mixed pupils albanian and greek go tell to other. Maybe you are speaking about private initiatives betwen greek goverment and vorioqipiriote siloges. But those see private initiatives . I am speaking about statal sistem,.
that is a graduate from 1952,
was there any graduate at 60's 70's? at Hodza times? NO
then after 2000' some few new schools open, by donating from Greeks and Greek goverment.
in the video the last minute is an old school before even before the times of Hodza which not work anymore around Argyrokastron
are you talking about these school which were almost shut from communist time era?
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You're telling that during communis greek minority ccould not be learn in greek language? And to prove this theory you showing me a graduate in bilingual greek and albanian. What does it mean? You are still under the effect of sedatives? Ok, what can i tell you.
I wish you a speedy recovery, in order to be able to sit in the chair.
I may also remind you the 3ple borders, and 7 000 that escape Hodza status and more than 13 000 dead in the borders.
or the cinemas that show wild African life documentaries and 'wise guys' telling the viewers that is Greece.
he gather the corn and say to people 'this goes to Greece, they are hungry', and he bought chinese AK47 4 times the male population of Albania,
even in 2000-2010 you find hidden gun storage and explode them as expired.
until 55-60 many graduates were given
how much at late 70's?
For your knowledge, i am anticommunist, i hate the communist.
For my curiosity, have you read any books in your life?
How many greeks are killed in your Civil War?
And the last do you know that he Enver Hoxha, in two cases held the Greeks with bread, your people?
MOESAN
thanks for the post, I already saw this run - interesting but of weak resolution: 'mediterranean' (a sort), 'north+central european' (West' and East' mixed in it), 'arabic' (a sort) and 'caucasic', as a whole - it would have deserved more precision, I think, to get a bit more interesting yet...
Tomenable
we were talking about Serbs from Serbia and Montenegro and the reason why they don't cluster with Bosnian Serbs, Bosnian Croats and Bosniacs.
In Bosnia ethnic identity is determined fully by religion. Bosnian Serbs = Orthodox; Bosnian Croats = Catholic; Bosniacs = Muslim.
They cluster with each other because they are descendants of the same population which split into ethnic groups along religious lines.
They do not cluster with Serbs from Serbia perhaps because there was no major migration, but assimilation (Serbization) in Bosnia.
I expect more precise autosomoes surveys - not only the Y DNA shows big enough differences in this part of Europe but the metrics anthropology shows too big enough differences, even between Bulgarians and Romanians, even within every country, and I have more confidence today in classical anthropology than in some autosomes surveys of low resolution (for classification) where big regions are smelted on together - but every scientist is tempted to put faith only in the tools he is used to...
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Azman Syah Elias, better known as PU Azman. Photo Credit: Twitter
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Social Media Preachers: Unlicensed And Unbounded In Spreading Their Ideas – Analysis
December 27, 2020 December 27, 2020 ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute 0 Comments
By ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute
By Mohd Faizal Musa*
In Malaysia, preachers have to obtain a tauliah or permit to preach should they wish to give sermons in public spaces such as mosques and schools. Failure to do so is a crime under Syariah law and results in the imposition of punitive measures by the local state; in Selangor, preachers can be fined up to RM 3,000 or jailed for up to 2 years or both. Similarly, in the federal territories, preachers can be fined up to RM 5,000 or imprisoned for up to 3 years or both.
Aside from the subjectivity of the charge,1 the provision of a licence is dependent on a set of criteria that differs from state to state. In Pahang, religious authorities ensure that religious teachers abide by only one approved school of thought, Mazhab Syafie, and are not allowed to touch on political matters. Religious teachers are also not allowed to declare their own fatwa (religious edict) and can only teach in designated locations. In Selangor, religious teachers need to “have good morals and trustworthiness”. These teachers must not defame Muslims and “teachings should be aligned with the al-Quran, as-sunnah, ijma’ and qias” (sources of proof within the Sunni school of thought). The set of rules and punishments ensure that the local government can monitor the content of these religious sermons.
Despite the law requiring a licence to preach, there are several celebrity preachers who regularly give sermons without a license, such as the Mufti of Perlis, Mohd Asri Zainal Abidin, Azhar Idrus and PU Azman – all of whom have capitalised on online platforms.2 In January 2020 alone, the percentage of active social media users in religious activities increased from 78% to 81%, and in 2016, then Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Dr Asyraf Dusuki urged preachers to leverage on social media so as to preach more effectively.3
The use of social media is far more effective, harder to regulate and borderless, unlike preaching in mosques where a permit is needed. Religious authorities are hence tightening regulations to curb unregulated content. This was exemplified in 2016 when Datuk Mohd Rawi, Chairman of the Religious, Tourism and Heritage Committee first raised his concerns4 and similarly in 2019, when Dr Mashitah Ibrahim, former Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department urged religious authorities to increase regulation of these preachers.5
As such, one has to ask if a licence to preach is still relevant now that a religious preacher no longer needs physical space to give sermons and instead can use his personal YouTube account. Social media channels such as Facebook and Instagram have built-in functions that allow preachers to interact with their followers on live stream.
This article will adopt a forensic theology approach to analyse two prominent celebrity preachers, PU Azman and Ebit Lew – both of whom preach without a permit and are able to penetrate the world of social media, amassing millions of followers. This methodology will reveal the preachers’ ideological orientations by analysing their core ideology based on information sourced from YouTube videos, social media posts and books. The article will seek to understand how their ideas are accepted by the online community and explore the increased monitoring of these online preachers’ content.
PU Azman
Azman Syah Elias, better known as PU Azman, is an independent preacher, motivational speaker and actor. He does not have formal education in Islamic studies and became popular in 2014 when he competed in a reality programme, Pencetus Ummah. With his rising popularity, PU Azman managed to secure a license to preach from Negeri Sembilan in 2015 but, it was revoked in 2017 by the Majlis Agama Islam Negeri Sembilan (MAINS) when his teachings were found not to be aligned with Ahli Sunnah Wal-Jamaah (sunni school of thought) and the Shafie Mazhab.6
The revocation of PU Azman’s preaching licence gives rise to questions on his ideological orientation especially since many have speculated that the rescindment was linked to his inclination towards Wahabism. It is thus necessary to determine how far PU Azman’s sermons were actually aligned with the teachings of the Wahabi sect. To unpack this, it is first important to detail the core tenets of the Wahabi sect.
The Wahabi sect is said to refer to pioneering scholars such as Ibn Taimiyyah and to reject popular religious practices such as the celebration of the Prophet’s birthday, saint veneration and practices associated with the mystical teachings of Sufism.7 Wahabis with puritanical inclinations can instigate conflict due to hatred harboured against Shi’ites or Shi’ite sympathisers.8 This thus renders Wahabism inappropriate in Malaysia, as exemplified in the consensus at Mufti meetings in 1985, 1986, 1996 and 1998.9 Wahabism has also been associated with violence due to its history of assaults against Shi’ites and Sunnis.10
Forensic Theology Analysis
The forensic theology approach is applied here to unpack PU Azman’s ideas and inclinations towards a range of issues in Islam. This methodology allows us to ascertain whether or not PU Azman is a Wahabi sympathiser by looking at his criticism (if any) of Sufis, or the existence of hate speech towards Shi’ite’s practices. A thorough analysis of his ideas is first obtained through his sermons. These are thereafter compared to religious texts of associated doctrines or teachings. The forensic theology approach enables PU Azman’s circle of contacts to be extrapolated by determining who he cites, who he follows and who he admires. The extraction of this circle is obtained through social media, particularly Instagram. His network is illustrated in the diagram below:
As shown in the diagram, PU Azman has relationships with or idolizes Wahabi preachers such as Abdul Aziz bin Baz, Muhammad ibn al-Uthaymeen, Muhamad Nasiruddin al- Albani, Zakir Naik, Zahazan, Mohd Asri Zainal Abidin and most importantly, Muhammad bin Abdul Wahab, the pioneer of the Wahabi school of thought. PU Azman also follows religious experts such as Mohd Asri Zainal Abidin and Zahazan, and referred to Zulkifli Mohamad al Bakri as his friend by congratulating him when he was appointed Minister for Religious Affairs. It is widely perceived in Malaysia especially in social media, that preachers on this list have Wahabi background.
Furthermore, his Facebook status from seven years ago reinforces his orientation towards Wahabism; religious scholars of the Sunni sect such as Al-Zuhaili and Yusuf Qaradhawi are minimally referred to. Instead, these scholars are only mentioned to justify that Wahabism is part of Sunni Islam and should thus not be alienated. His religious orientation is further manifested in some of his sermons where he outrightly demonizes the Shi’ite sect over nikah mu’tah (contract marriage).
Influence of the Wider Audience
Given PU Azman’s religious orientation and inclination towards the Wahabi sect, it is important to also investigate his followers’ receptiveness of his ideas. PU Azman’s followers on social media are indeed accepting of his ideas; he appears on social media daily and often interacts with his followers on Instagram Live through question-and- answer sessions. PU Azman’s easy-going nature allows him to joke with his followers while simultaneously preaching to his audience. The influence11 of PU Azman as a social media preacher is illustrated in an online survey aimed at measuring the influence he has. Generally, followers of PU Azman idolize him and often refer to his advice for religious issues.
It is clear that PU Azman is not affected by the revocation of his preaching licence. Even without the licence, PU Azman is free to express himself and disseminate his ideas to a wider audience on social media.
As shown in the survey (n=50), PU Azman’s followers resolutely internalise his ideas (when asked if they have ever disagreed with his sermons, an overwhelming majority – 98% respondents answered never), indicating his influence on social media. Given his popularity and the receptiveness of his followers towards his ideas, social media is a primary source for PU Azman to disseminate his religious ideas. The revocation of his licence merely restricts his movement to preach in a designated place, Negeri Sembilan. This, however, has no adverse impact on his online presence; PU Azman is able to amass a segment of the online Muslim population through his interactions on social media, particularly on Instagram, a platform that is widely used by the young in Malaysia.
EBIT LEW
Ebit Lew, also known as a motivational speaker, is a Chinese Muslim preacher who lectures in Thailand, Singapore, Pakistan, India and Indonesia. He was invited to various radio stations and TV channels such as IKIM (Institut Kefahaman Islam Malaysia) to give motivational lectures centred around stress management and Islamic psychology, garnering massive support from youths preparing for examinations.12 Ebit Lew is also known in the community for his charity work where he helps to build and construct homes for the poor, provide food for orphans, and preach to transgender groups.
While it is difficult to ascertain if he was given a permit to preach, Ebit Lew was invited to preach in different states of Malaysia that have strict rules against preachers ascribing to the beliefs of Wahabism. For example, he was invited by the Department of Religious Affairs of Johor to partake in a programme, and to preach in mosques in Kuantan. He was lauded by the anti-Wahabi Facebook group, “Kami Tidak Mahu Fahaman Wahhabi di Malaysia” (“We Don’t Want Wahabi Understanding in Malaysia”). The examples illustrate Ebit Lew’s acceptance by these religious authorities and communities; indicating that they perceive him as a credible Islamic teacher who is not associated with Wahhabism.
To understand his ideas, data on his books and online lectures on YouTube were gathered. It is important to note here that unlike PU Azman, Ebit uses his social media merely to advertise his activities and not really to engage through them. However, he has a significant number of followers on YouTube. In order to understand Ebit Lew, his own writings and lectures are used here as data and not his network mapping. Most of his lectures are transcribed and later published as books.
In Ebit’s many books, he stresses the importance of rituals such as zikr (the ritual prayer or litany frequented by the Sufis) every day and night for a total of 300 times;13 religious rituals to commune with God; and praying dhuha (special prayer during day time) for 8 rakaat to increase wealth.14 In his book, he often refers to experts from tasawuf and sufi sects such as Hassan Basri and Syeikh Yusuf Al-Khandahlawi’s, both of whom advocate warmth, love and care when looking after family members.15
Similarly, Ebit Lew often advocates lifestyle changes and encourages his followers to emulate Prophet Muhammad’s three-way lifestyle: firstly, surah (physical appearance of the Prophet), secondly, sirah (daily practice of the Prophet) and sarirah (Prophet’s thinking/ideas). Doing so, according to him, is granting the Prophet’s wish of a moral, religious and full-of-love society where everyone succeeds in this world and in the afterlife.16 Aside from preaching on spiritual topics such as getting closer to God, his books also reveal his association with the Tabligh movement.
The Jemaah Tabligh movement, an Islamic missionary movement originating from India, pays little attention to social and political situations (apolitical) in Malaysia but is banned in two states of Malaysia, Melaka and Sabah, due to the perception that it steers Muslims towards a path of endless problems, and encourages deviancy.17 Allegations of ‘deviancy’ emerged because the movement urges followers to seek a mystical life to the extent of neglecting their jobs and family.
Despite this, Ebit Lew alluded his activities to jamaah tabligh, referring to the movement as “majlis ta’lim” where family members gather to read the hadith and verses of the Al- Quran. ‘Ta’lim’ is considered one of the doctrines applied by the Tabligh movement. His allegiance to the group is palpable in his many books where he reiterates that he often iktikaf (practice of staying in the mosques for several days, devoting oneself to worship) with members of the group by visiting three mosques in Singapore.18 In this book, Ebit Lew quoted, among others, Syeikhul Hadis Kiyai Uzairon, a Tabligh expert and member of the Syura council in Tamboro, Indonesia.19 He suggested reading books by the Islamic missionary group such as “Muntakhab hadis” written by Maulana Muhammad Yusof Al- Khandahlawi, and “Kitab Fadhilat Amal” by Maulana Zakariya Al-Khandahlawi.20 Referring to these books is another indication of his leaning towards jamaah tabligh.
Ebit Lew’s prominence as a follower of the movement goes unnoticed because he is a successful businessman and entrepreneur. His ideas on Islam, from the lens of the jamaah tabligh, are non-provocative, and aligned with the behaviour and doctrine of the relevant religious authorities in Malaysian states.
His ideas resonate well with members of the Shi’ite community which inadvertently allows him to bridge the longstanding differences between the Shi’ites and Sunnis. In the chapter “Di Mana Islam Tertegak” (“Where Islam Stands”, in the book, Menelusuri Cinta (2015)), Ebit Lew narrated the story of the murder of Saidina Hussein bin Ali, Prophet Muhammad’s grandson in Karbala on the 10 Muharam 61 H. He recounted how Saidina Hussein’s entourage were besieged in Karbala and had limited supply of food and water for 10 days. He further detailed the sufferings and struggles that Prophet’s family members had to go through, and the trauma that Prophet’s great-grandson, Ali Zainal Abidin faced due to the incident in Karbala on the day of Asyura.
Aside from making the sacrifice of Saidina Hussein in Karbala a tipping point that changes the Shi’ite’s whole perception, the narration above is deemed as important especially since the Shi’ite community prioritises the position of the Prophet’s family in all aspects of life. By detailing the story and focusing on the struggles of Prophet’s family members, a key facet that is important and constantly emphasised by the Shi’ites, Ebit Lew managed to signal that his ideas resonate well with the marginalised Shi’ites. His ideas on the murder of Saidina Hussein was put forth in 2015 when discrimination against the Shi’ite community was at its peak.21
Influence and Support in the Community
Ebit Lew has provided assistance to underprivileged groups in Malaysia. Recently, he received widespread media coverage for his community service in Kelantan. Certain segments of the population had started criticising the Kelantan state for neglecting the welfare of the people, unlike Ebit Lew. This reflected the incompetency of certain states and his growing influence.
His charity work and motivational lectures centred around religion enable him to garner a number of followers, amounting to over 2 million on social media. A survey (n=48) circulated amongst his followers on Twitter and Instagram showed that he is influential and most of those surveyed viewed Ebit Lew as a positive agent of change in their lives.
It is clear that Ebit Lew’s presence is perceived as non-threatening to the relevant religious authorities since his ideas are aligned with Sunni Islam, yet he also wins the hearts of minority Shi’ites by referring to personalities that are lauded by them. Ebit Lew is thus said to be influential precisely because of the two million followers he amassed on social media; these followers have accepted his ideas as was apparent in a survey that was conducted. Ebit Lew has been able to amass both majority and minority segments of the population, making him more influential than PU Azman who adversely excludes minority groups. Ebit Lew is also non-threatening, in contrast to PU Azman, making the former favourable to the state.
Social media preachers such as PU Azman and Ebit Lew (both without licence to preach) are gaining traction in Malaysia, rendering it increasingly difficult for local governments to monitor and regulate their content. With social media, the preaching licence becomes increasingly irrelevant; these preachers’ content is unregulated whereas in public spaces, they have to adhere to a list of criteria. These preachers, as the survey points out, are influential since their ideas are widely accepted and internalised by their social media followers.
In tandem with the influence these preachers have on millions of followers, the various orientations and associations of these preachers are causing anxiety among the religious authorities. Even so, the anxiety differs from preacher to preacher; religious preachers with Wahabi ideological orientation such as PU Azman are seen as a threat unlike preachers who advocate for lifestyle or spiritual changes like Ebit Lew.
Religious authorities, in response, have raised concerns regarding this, urging increased monitoring of content and of the behaviour of religious preachers on social media.
*About the author: Mohd Faizal Musa is Visiting Fellow at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute. He would like to thank Siti Syazwani Zainal Abidin for assisting with the surveys conducted and the forensic theology analysis.
Source: This article was published by ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute (PDF)
Annex A: Charges in Each State
Annex B: Survey
1 Refer to Annex A for a detailed analysis of the charges in each state.
2 Nurul Ain Mohd Hussain. 2009. JAIS sahkan Dr.Asri ditahan kerana mengajar agama tanpa tauliah. Mstar. 2 November. https://www.mstar.com.my/lokal/semasa/2009/11/02/jais-sahkan- drasri-ditahan-kerana-mengajar-agama-tanpa-tauliah
3Malaysia Mail. 2016. Minister urges Muslim preachers to leverage on social media usage https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2016/12/10/minister-urges-muslim-preachers-to- leverage-on-social-media-usage/1269323
4 Aizat Sharif. 2016. Larang pendakwah sesat. Harian Metro. 11 Oktober. https://www.hmetro.com.my/node/173191
5 Bernama. 2019. Tauliah khas kawal lambakan penceramah bebas, kata mufti. 12 Februari. Free Malaysia Today. https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/bahasa/2019/02/12/tauliah-khas- kawal-lambakan-penceramah-bebas-kata-mufti/
6 Projek MM. 2017. Ceramah tidak selari Ahli Sunnah, tauliah PU Azman ditarik. Projek Malay Mail. 10 Jun. https://www.projekmm.com/news/berita/2017/06/10/ceramah-tak-selari-ahli-sunnah- mazhab-shafie-tauliah-pu-azman-ditarik/1396613
7 Christopher M. Blanchard. 2006. The Islamic Traditions of Wahhabism and Salafiyya. CRS Report RS21695. Hlm. 2. Http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/testimony/47.pdf
8 Daniel Ungureanu. 2011. Wahhabism, Salafism and the Expansion of Islamic Fundamentalist Ideology. Journal of the Seminar of Discursive Logic, Argumentation Theory and Rhetoric. Hlm. 142.
9 Mohd Aizam Mas’od. 2012. Sesatkah Wahabi. Al-Ustaz 19. 30-31.
10 R. Ibrahim dan M. F Samsudin. 2009. Pengikut Wahabi Sukar Dicam. Harian Metro. 6 November. Ad-Din V4. See also M.R Mohd Zin dan Mahfuz Muhammad. 2009. Waspada Tajdid Wahhabi. Utusan Malaysia. 7 November. Rencana, 11.
11 Refer to Annex B for details of the survey
12 Ebit Lew. 2012. Tangisan Umat. Transform Publication. Bangi.
13 Ebit Lew. 2016. Isteriku Bidadari: 11 Kaedah Membimbing Keluarga. Transform Publication. Bangi.
14 Ebit Lew. 2016b. Saya Cuma Posmen. Karangkraf. Shah Alam.
17 Kamaruzzaman Bustamam-Ahmad. 2008. The History of Jamaah Tabligh in Southeast Asia: The Role of Islamic Sufism in Islamic Revival. Al-Jami‘ah 46 (2): 353-400.
18 Ebit Lew & Rahman Lew. 2015. Menelusuri Cinta. Transform Publication. Bangi.
21 Mohd Faizal Musa, 2020. ‘Sunni-Shia Reconciliation in Malaysia’. In Norshahril Saat & Azhar Ibrahim (eds.). Alternative Voices in Muslim Southeast Asia: Discourses and Struggles. ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute. Pp: 156-182.
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TAC Air Promotes New General Manager To Fort Smith FBO
posted on 4th June 2020 by Eddie Saunders
TAC Air has promoted Christina Lang to lead its fixed base operation (FBO) in Fort Smith, Arkansas as General Manager (GM). A six-year veteran of TAC Air, Lang is prepared to join the team at TAC Air – FSM as a hands-on manager of the business using her background in administration and operations. Lang officially stepped into this role the last week of May and as she expressed is, “excited for the opportunity to become a part of the Fort Smith team and support the TAC Air commitment to providing customers and tenants SERVICE WITH NO CEILING.” As GM, Lang’s key responsibilities involve overseeing day-to-day operations, hangar management and leasing while maintaining relationships with TAC Air customers and the Fort Smith Regional Airport.
Lang relocated to Fort Smith from Dallas, where she served three years in a system-wide role for TAC Air as Manager of Administrative Services. “The past three years I have been able to experience and learn firsthand from 15 different GMs and CSMs running FBOs in the TAC Air system to help me prepare for this hands-on type of position in a market I can help nurture and grow,” said Lang.
Prior, Lang worked as Customer Service Manager (CSM) at TAC Air – RDU in Raleigh-Durham, NC and Customer Service Representative at TAC Air – PVU in Provo, UT. She charted her course in aviation at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, AZ, where she studied Aeronautical Science. Lang completed her commercial pilot certificate and worked as a corporate pilot flying mining executives in Arizona and New Mexico.
Lang’s first encounter with TAC Air occurred at the 2014 National Business Aviation Association, Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition (NBAA-BACE) in Las Vegas. There, she met TAC Air – SLC GM, Mike McCarty who invited Lang to visit the FBO for a tour when she returned home to Salt Lake City. Upon visiting, Lang says, “Once I visited, I knew I wanted to work for TAC Air. And I got the opportunity, starting at the TAC Air FBO in Provo.”
Director of FBO Administrative Services for the TAC Air system and past GM of TAC Air – FSM, Carol McNally, shared, “I am thrilled to see a strong female associate like Christina rise to the General Manager position within our organization. As more women ascend to a place of leadership in aviation, I look forward to watching her soar. I am pleased to hand the controls of the Fort Smith FBO operation to another strong female aviator.”
“Working her way up by successfully mastering several roles within the FBO, Lang’s extensive knowledge, industry and internal company experience, along with her enthusiasm and eagerness to learn make her an ideal leader to take the business at TAC Air – FSM FBO to new heights,” stated Joe Gibney, Chief Operating Officer of TAC Air.
As General Manager, Lang looks forward to demonstrating the company’s strong commitment to safety as an IS-BAH Stage 2 registered FBO, while also overseeing daily procedures at TAC Air – FSM. “The Fort Smith team has been working together seamlessly for years under excellent leadership. It will be an adjustment for everyone to have a new leader,” she added.
Lang is known among the associates, as she worked with the team in her previous role as Manager of Administrative Services for TAC Air. Lang is thrilled to have a collaborative, capable team to work beside every day. She is committed to developing connections within the TAC Air – FSM team, across the base tenants and customers as well as strengthening the FBO’s existing airport relations.
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With new Claritin effort, Bayer taps Josh Duhamel to encourage consumers to get outside
by Beth Snyder Bulik |
Bayer's new effort for Claritin, with spokesman Josh Duhamel and Boys & Girls Clubs, encourages people to spend more time outside. (Claritin)(Source: Bayer)
Americans spend 95% of their time indoors, according to Bayer-commissioned Columbia University research. And that was the inspiration behind the new Claritin “Be An Outsider” campaign, which urges people not to spend too much time indoors—just in time for allergy season.
Further evidence of America’s “indoor epidemic” is featured on the campaign landing page in a video asking several parents and kids to look up words like dandelion, fern, and pasture in the Oxford Junior Dictionary. But they can't find them. That’s because the words aren't there—some 50 nature-related words including others like otter, acorn and ivy were replaced several years ago in the print book by other words, such as broadband, chat room, analog, and celebrity.
While it’s not the fault of a dictionary with a 10,000-word limit and a duty to relay current culture to 7-year-olds, Bayer sees it as another sign of the problem.
“We are in the midst of an indoor epidemic due to our sedentary lifestyle. As Claritin and being an outdoor brand, this is something we couldn’t ignore and decided we should try to be part of the solution,” Mike DeBiasi, VP of marketing for U.S Allergy at Bayer, said in an interview. “Studies suggest people will start to feel reduced stress, improved mood, and increased energy the more time they spend outside.”
So Bayer hired actor, outdoor-loving and allergy-suffering Josh Duhamel as spokesman for the campaign, and tapped Boys & Girls Clubs of America to work together to create an outdoor activity guide for staff to use at the 4,300 local clubs in the country. Bayer will also donate $5 for every Facebook or Instagram post of fun outdoor moments that include the hashtags #BeAnOutsider and #Claritin, and over the next several years, will refurbish some Boys & Girls Clubs’ outdoor play areas.
Education about the problem was important, DeBiasi said, because before the results were in, even he had guessed that Americans' time indoors would be around 50%. He was shocked with results that equated time spent outdoors with time people spend on personal grooming.
Matthew Neidell, associate professor at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health, said the project began with the curiosity to quantify just how much time Americans spend indoors and how that might vary by region, gender, age and other demographics.
“What we found is the effect is quite ubiquitous. Whether you’re old or young, married or single, rich or poor, whether you live on the East Coast or the West Coast, Americans spend the vast majority of their time inside,” he said.
The campaign comes as allergy season—and allergy advertising—ramps up for spring. The allergy space has become increasingly competitive over the past several years as more prescription allergy medicines have switched to OTC. According to the Consumer Healthcare Products Association, the number of allergy sufferers who use OTC meds went from 66% in 2009 to 75% in 2015.
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Zoom expands its reach into Southeast Asia with a new data center in Singapore. (Pixabay)
Zoom Video Communications has expanded its horizons with a new data center in Singapore, which is its first in Southeast Asia. The Singapore data center brings Zoom's total to 18 sites across the globe. In July, Zoom expanded its presence in India by opening a data center in Bangalore.
San Jose, Calif.—based Zoom plans to hire employees in Singapore, including engineers and sales staff, according to a story by Reuters. Zoom has seen a 65-fold increase in users of its free service in Singapore while also tripling the number of its paid customers since January.
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Zoom initially struggled with not having encryption and other security measures in place during the coronavirus pandemic, which led to "Zoombombing" by disruptive, uninvited guests on video conferences. Zoom recently completed a 90-day security plan with the release of over 100 features.
Also in April, Singapore temporarily suspended the use of Zoom by teachers during the first week of a coronavirus lockdown due to security breaches that included obscene images during class lessons.
Zoom also came under fire for re-routing some of its calls through its servers in China, according to Reuters, even though the calls originated outside of China. Zoom said it resolved the problem by taking the mainland China data centers off of its list of back-ups for customers outside of China.
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ING Promotes Ignacio Juliá Vilar to Chief Innovation Officer
Mr. Vilar steps into the role of ING's Chief Innovation Officer as well as its Head of Retail Banking Segment,
Jeff Patterson | Executive Moves ( Executives ) | Monday, 07/03/2016 | 13:20 GMT+2 2016-03-07T11:20:06+00:00 2016-03-07T15:58:42+00:00
Dutch banking giant, ING has appointed Ignacio Juliá Vilar as its newest Chief Innovation Officer, who finds himself in a new role after a lengthy career in the bank’s Polish Division, according to an ING statement.
Mr. Vilar steps into his new role as Chief Innovation Officer as well as ING’s Head of Retail Banking Segment. He will be succeeding Pole Brunon Bartkiewicz, who has helped steer the group’s innovation for the past two years, and will be shifting focus to a new position as the CEO of ING Bank Śląski.
Following the latest turnover at the CEO role, ING Bank Śląski’s acting CEO Małgorzata Kołakowska is also moving into a new position as the Global Head of Network.
Ignacio Juliá Vilar, Chief Innovation Officer, ING
Vilar has been a mainstay at ING for over a decade, originally joining the bank back in 2004. Since then he has held numerous roles, including Head of Strategy, Business Development and Planning, CFO and Executive VP Credit Risk and Business Intelligence, and most recently ING’s Head of Retail – VP of the Management Board.
Mr. Vilar will be stepping into the newly created role of Head of Retail Banking Segment, which ING noted had been created to bolster the overall ‘steering and coordination of retail banking at ING’. The bank opted to assimilate the responsibilities with the Chief Innovation Officer role in a bid to allow for greater executional certainty across new retail innovation products.
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US Court Settles with Bankrupt Broker MF Global for Palladium and Platinum Price Discrepancy
One of the largest financial derivatives trading firms, MF Global, has settled with US courts on matters relating to the
Adil Siddiqui | Regulation ( Retail FX ) | Friday, 31/10/2014 | 01:44 GMT+2 2014-10-30T23:44:30+00:00 2014-10-30T23:44:30+00:00
Legal authorities in the United States have agreed to a settlement with failed brokerage firm, MF Global, details issued by the US Federal Court of Manhattan outlining the case. Plaintiffs are expected to receive $21 million in claims against the broker. The demise of MF Global added salt to the wounds of the global financial system after the disappointment of the 2008 recession which saw the evaporation of the Lehman Brothers.
Complaints were raised against MF Global, a former trader at the firm and a hedge fund. Court papers stated that the plaintiffs filed wrongdoings against the firm and the individuals for buying and selling the precious metals between June 2006 and April 2010 in the derivatives market, as well as the physical market. The trader was noted as Joseph Welsh and the hedge fund was Moore Capital Management.
MF Global’s case highlights the importance of oversight and monitoring of firms by regulatory bodies, authorities in developed markets such as the UK and US opt for firms to have a self-regulatory approach, however a number of firms have fallen through the net which have impacted retail and private investors. Notably, PFG Best and WorldSpreads, both were involved in high level cases of fraud and manipulation.
The post 2008 recession has brought a number of regulatory reforms on a regional and global scale, in the US, the Dodd-Frank Act has altered the operating landscape for a number of firms in various sectors. The OTC derivatives broking environment is facing extinction as authorities have made it difficult for firms to maintain capital requirements. In Europe, the recent implementation of EMIR reporting has caused chaos for brokers and banks as the organisation provided limited instructions on how firms should report data in a uniform manner.
The damaged financial trading environment will seek refuge from the latest settlement report, investors have been cautious in investing in financial markets as the global arena is scarred by issues.
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Global stocks fall as China curbs lending
Written by Bloomberg | Updated: Jan 28 2010, 04:14am hrs
Stocks fell, sending the MSCI World Index to its longest losing streak in seven weeks, and commodities dropped on concerns that Chinese curbs on bank lending would curtail global growth. The yen and the dollar strengthened.
The world index dropped for the fifth day, losing 0.6% around noon in London. The Dubai Financial Market General Index sank 4.1%, the biggest decline among benchmark indexes. Futures on the Standard & Poors 500 Index retreated 0.8%. Credit-default swaps on Chinese government debt jumped to a two-month high, according to CMA DataVision. Crude oil dropped 1.1% and copper slid 1.6%.
Bank of China Ltd and China Construction Bank Corp were told to restrict new loans, according to people familiar with the matter, potentially slowing expansion in the worlds fastest-growing major economy. Record government borrowing is troubling investors even as economies rebound. Standard & Poors cut its outlook on Japans AA sovereign credit rating to negative, citing diminishing flexibility to cope with debt.
Theres a looming risk of governments making decisions adversely affecting the economy, and that is materialising in China, said Tim Brunne, a credit strategist at UniCredit SpA in Munich. Weve had a huge amount of fresh credit from banks supporting the Chinese economy and the question has always been if the money flooding into the economy was really helpful or driving asset bubbles. While German business confidence rose more than economists forecast to an 18-month high and the UK economy resumed growth in the fourth quarter, Fitch Ratings said the European governments would need to borrow 2.2 trillion euro ($3.1 trillion) from capital markets in 2010. That amounts to 19% of the GDP. Europes Dow Jones Stoxx 600 Index fell for a fifth day, declining 0.9% to mark the longest losing streak since July. BHP Billiton Ltd, the worlds largest mining company, led commodity producers lower, falling 1.5% in London. Declines were limited as Siemens AG, Europes largest engineering company, rose 2.7% in Frankfurt after reporting the highest quarterly profit in more than two years. The MSCI Asia Pacific Index fell for a seventh day, dropping 2% to its lowest level in more than a month. Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd and Bank of China retreated more than 3% in Hong Kong.
The decline in US futures indicated the S&P 500 may erase Mondays 0.5% advance, before reports that may show the drop in US home prices abated and consumer confidence climbed, putting the biggest part of the economy further along the path to recovery.
A record nine-quarter earnings slump for S&P 500 companies is projected to have ended in the fourth quarter with a 73% increase in profits. More than 130 companies in the index are scheduled to release results this week, including US Steel Corp, Johnson & Johnson and McGraw-Hill Cos.
The MSCI Emerging Markets Index fell 2%, heading for its steepest five-day decline in 11 months, and JP Morgan Chase & Co downgraded Brazils stocks to neutral. Taiwans Taiex lost 3.5% and Russias Micex Index dropped 2.6% as oil prices slumped. Every developing-nation currency tracked by Bloomberg weakened against the dollar, led by a 1.1% decline in South Koreas won after economic growth slowed more than estimated in the fourth quarter.
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Guar crop to climb on prices, boosting exports
Written by Bloomberg | Updated: Apr 21 2012, 08:49am hrs
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Farmers in India, the worlds biggest guar gum exporter, may plant more of the crop to benefit from a ninefold surge in prices, boosting supplies for oil industry users such as Halliburton and Baker Hughes.
Area under the crop may climb as much as 20% in the season starting July 1 from 3.5 million hectares (8.6 million acres) this year, said Rajesh Kedia, director at Jai Bharat Gum & Chemicals, Indias second-biggest exporter of guar gum, a thickening agent used mostly in food, pharmaceuticals and in certain fracturing treatments.
Guar gum rallied to R80,970 ($1,557) per 100 kg on March 27 in Mumbai from R8,750 a year earlier, prompting the nations commodity market regulator to ban futures trading. The price surge negatively impacted margins for Halliburton, the worlds largest provider of hydraulic- fracturing services, Dave Lesar, chief executive officer, said on April 18.
I expect a higher crop next year which may lead to a fall in prices by half, said Mitul Shah, managing director of Rama Industries, the third-largest shipper.
Exports from India may climb to as much as 700,000 tonne next year from about 400,000 tonne this year, he said. The increase in demand for guar gum is being driven by a surge in the number of private companies allowed to explore oil and gas in the US, Shah said.
The cost to drill and complete a well climbed 6% in 2010, a further 25% last year and is projected to grow 20% this year, according to a January presentation from Tulsa, Oklahoma-based industry consultant Spears & Associates.
There is a 50-60% increase in demand mainly from the US after the country allowed more private companies into the oil drilling business, Shah said.
Guar gum, is extracted from the seeds of a leguminous plant grown in India, Pakistan and the US and is also an ingredient in food emulsifiers, additives and thickeners. India accounts for more than 70% of the global seed production, according to the Multi Commodity Exchange of India.
If prices remain in the current range, there may be a decline in exports next year, Jai Bharats Kedia said. Export prices surged to $20,000 a ton in March from $5,000 a ton in October, he said.
India exported 403,675 tonne of guar gum worth $617 million in the year ended March 31, 2011, according to the Agricultural & Processed Food Product Export Development Authority.
The problem with guar, its probably the fastest-moving commodity price that Ive ever seen, Halliburtons Lesar said. We, like the rest of the industry, are looking for alternatives to guar, and we are having some customers accept either lower-grade guar or alternatives to guar.
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maruti suzuki ignis to launch tomorrow top five things to know about the compact crossover
Maruti Suzuki Ignis to launch tomorrow, top five things to know about the compact crossover
The much awaited Maruti Suzuki Ignis will be launched on 13th January at a music concert in New Delhi. The car is being positioned as a premium vehicle in its segment and is aimed at being their first car but not the first car in their household necessarily.
By:FE OnlineUpdated: Jan 12, 2017 5:38 PM
Maruti Suzuki Ignis to be launnched on 13th January 2017
India’s largest car maker Maruti Suzuki will launch the Ignis on 13th January 2017 and the company had already started the booking amount at Rs 11,000 through the official Nexa website a few days back. Consumers keen on booking the Ignis will be asked to fill out a form mentioning their personal details after which they can ‘e-book’ the vehicle. The Ignis is already incurring a waiting period of eight to 10 weeks for the petrol variants, while the diesel variants may have a waiting period of 11 to 12 weeks. The Ignis will be offered in four variants-Sigma, Delta, Zeta and Alpha and with 9 nine exterior colour options, Pearl Arctic White, Silky Silver, Glistening Grey, Tinsel Blue, Urban Blue, Uptown Red, while the last two colours will also be available in dual tone shades, similar to the Vitara Brezza.
The Ignis will get the host of premium features and will be sold at Maruti Suzuki’s Nexa dealerships across the country. The Ignis will get a sportier looking cockpit inspired layout with toggle switches in the centre console along with steering mounted audio and telephone controls. A U-shaped LED projector headlamps with daytime running lamps, headlamp leveller and 15-inch alloy wheels will also be equipped on the higher trims. Along with this the Ignis will get features such as push start button and remote keyless entry.
Maruti Suzuki Ignis 1.3 litre DDiS engine
The Maruti Suzuki Ignis will be powered by a petrol engine and a diesel engine. The petrol variants will get a 1.2 litre VVT (Variable Valve Timing) motor that will produce 82 hp of power at 6,000 rpm and 113 Nm of torque at 4,200 rpm. The 1.3 litre DDiS diesel engine will generate 74 hp of power at 4,000 rpm and 190 Nm of torque at 2,000 rpm. These engines are the same units that have been witnessed under the bonnet of the Maruti Suzuki Baleno. Both the engines will be paired to a 5-speed manual and an AMT (Automatic Manual Transmission) unit. However, the AMT gearbox will be available only on the Zeta and Delta versions.
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As seen on earlier Nexa cars, the Ignis scores will in terms of safety. The car gets ABS (Anti-lock Braking System) with EBD (Electronic Brakeforce Distribution), ISOFIX Child Seat, dual front airbags, seat belt pre-tensioners with force limiters as standard. In addition, it gets, rear parking sensors, rear view parking camera, defogger, rear wiper, speed sensing auto door lock, driver seat belt reminder and the key left a eminder, depending on the variant selected by the customer.
Maruti Suzuki Ignis Interiors
Inside the cabin, for the first time in its segment the car features a 7-inch touchscreen infotainment system on the dashboard compatible with Android Auto and Apple CarPlay. The infotainment system will feature Smart Play Linkage Display Audio, Bluetooth, USB compatibility and four speakers, audio remote control and Suzuki SLDA remote app. The touchscreen however,will only be available on top variants, while the lower variants will get a conventional audio system with Bluetooth, Aux-in and USB connectivity.
It is expected that Ignis prices starts at Rs 5 lakh for the base variant, while the top end trim might be offered at close to Rs 8 lakh( ex-showroom,Delhi). When launched, the Ignis will compete with the likes if Hyundai Grand i10 and Mahindra KUV100. The car has already gathered an impressive amount of popularity and Maruti Suzuki too isn’t leaving nay stones unturned to highlight the car’s premium positioning, In line with the same, the Ignis will be launched tomorrow at a music concert in New Delhi.
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Pressplay Presents: "The First Drill" A UK Drill Compilation
With the first track being released as a single on Pressplay a few days ago, the full tracklist for "The First Drill" is finally here and it looks exciting to say the least.
The above video is the first single to be released from this project produced by Bkay and Ghosty. Ghosty also produced track 9 with fizzler entitled "Favourite Man" and on top of that skengdo & AM make an appearance on this project on the track "Gemma".
Finesse Foreva will be throwing all our support behind this so go and pre-order it when it's available, take a look at the tracklist below and see what will be your favourite.
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Home/Features/Fallout 76 Players Are Beating Each Other Up in a Nude Underground Fight Club
Fallout 76 Players Are Beating Each Other Up in a Nude Underground Fight Club
Jack YarwoodJanuary 29, 2020
The crowd watches on as two warriors square up to fight in the makeshift ring. The ropes are built out of wooden fences and the mat is comprised of a collection of dirty mattresses stacked in rows. A bell rings, and the two contestants immediately get to work. In one corner is ZeroFoxFK, a photographer who captures the wonders of Appalachia by day. In the other is DarkMothman, a cultist from the mysterious church of the legendary cryptid.
The Appalachian wasteland has seen many peculiar sights since the release of Fallout 76, from murder mystery nights to elaborate death mazes. The latest is the Litter Box, a new fight club bringing together members of the community to compete over prizes such as Fallout-themed swag and in-game currency.
Let The Fur Fly
XRedder is the organizer of the Catfight Nights, which take place at the Litter Box on the southern edge of the Savage Divide. She previously made a name for herself within the Fallout community as the owner of the El Gato pub, one of the many popular fan-built drinking establishments within Fallout 76. But recently she had the idea to expand the El Gato complex, to provide a new event that would try to provide a more intimate PVP experience for players.
“I’ve been working on the website in the last couple days to try to get the new update put in for the new dates,” XRedder tells me Xbox party chat. “The event is going to be once a quarter, and they’re going to change with themes. So, for instance, when we go from this one, which is the inaugural fight session, the next one is going to be higher levels. We’d really like to see people outside just the general community, but at the same time I don’t want to ostracize anyone who wants to do a rematch.”
These events are some of the largest that have been held inside of Fallout 76 yet, and require a significant amount of preparation to pull off successfully. Besides XRedder, who is pulling double-shift as the organizer and the camera person, the behind-the-scenes team also contains guest announcers BeardedIAm and Boss Daddy from the Wastelande Estates Homeowners’ Association, as well as the referee NoUrATowel.
“I think the idea of a fight event is huge,” BeardedIAm says. “People like Nuclear Winter and they like some of the PVP, but sometimes it’s too much and they want to have a chance to play with friends… They’ll be theatrics for sure. I’m trying my best to build that realism of being at an actual boxing match. That old kind of Michael Buffer introducing Tyson and Holyfield and that kind of stuff. I just want people to feel like they’re actually at a big event, basically.”
The First Rule of Fight Club Is… No Pants
The competition has a number of rules in order to ensure that the contest remains fair. Players are separated into three different weight classes based on their levels, and must compete in their underwear in order to remove any potential buffs that they may receive from their armor. They are, however, allowed to wear non-buffed headgear, if they wish to show some flair.
“There are also perk cards that are forbidden,” XRedder tells me, going over the rules of the events. “The way I came up with it was kind of reading through the perk cards and seeing okay, what’s this? What’s that? But then thinking about the mutations, those also give you an advantage. So how do you block all mutations? So I went to test out Rad-X and Rad-X basically blocks everything. You can’t jump. You can’t disappear. It’s great. So that evens the playing field.”
Because of the size and scale of the event, there have been a number of logistical issues. Though several of the players surrounding the event own Fallout 1st subscriptions, XRedder and the others have found the private servers’ eight player cap to be insufficient. This means that the fights have had to take place on public servers, exposing the competition to griefers.
On the first night of the event, for instance, the qualifying matches had to be delayed when a random player came across the event and started firing their weapons at those in attendance. All the organisers could do to get rid of them at the time was to wait it out and have someone from their team try to bait the person away from ringside. This occurred again during the finals, eventually forcing the event to downscale and continue on a private server with a much smaller crowd.
“Unfortunately, Bethesda sought to only give us eight spaces, which is really really limiting,” xRedder laments. “I mean, I think any of us who do community events are really strapped by the eight person private server. Sixteen is kind of like that golden number. I know that the servers are twenty-four, and that’s cool, but if we can just get to sixteen or combine accounts… that’s really the way it should work.”
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The participants on the first fight program were a mixture of characters and personalities ranging from virtual photographers to cryptid worshippers to cat-headed mascots, and members from the United Enclave Remnants (UER). All of these competitors had their own reasons for competing, as they revealed in pre-match interviews.
“Our point of being here is to show the strength of what the Enclave can do and how powerful we are,” says Blitz, one of the three UER members competing in the event alongside Sharkura and Mourning Zombie. “The best way we thought to do that is entering a boxing tournament.”
“My whole thing is simply to spread love by kicking ass,” explains the cultist DarkMothman. “I’ve also been wanting to test out [my melee build] with actual people, so when the news of this came out, I thought this was the perfect way to show off.”
As well as prizes for contestants, the organizers also give away rewards in the Mixer chat, with audience members potentially winning loot for correctly betting on the winners of each fight ahead of time. The idea is to provide a consistent form of entertainment for the community to be able to tune into and enjoy as spectators.
The first competition took place over two weekends and was divided into a qualifying round and the finals. Six contestants made it to the finals weekend, with the standout fight being a slobberknocker between Sharkura and Crawler2000 in the heavyweight division. This match lasted 13 rounds, with Crawler2000 eventually beating the UER member by eight rounds to five.
The Wasteland Lives
Fallout 76 may have had a difficult year, with a number of issues plaguing the game from bugs to hackers, but events like this show the passion of the community surrounding the game. These players don’t shy away from mentioning the problems that have been impacting the game since launch, but have stuck around because of the people they’ve met and all the fun events that the community are hosting.
“I know, for me personally, this has been an amazing game,” says XRedder. “Yeah, I know once you get to a point the content needs to refresh and you know, they’re working on it. I think the haters need to just hate where they are and stay out of our business. People play what they play, because they enjoy playing it. Period. That’s all I have to say about that.”
“I’ve played Fallout 76 daily,” states Sharkura. “It means so much to me. It is really the people that make the game, because yeah, there are a lot of bugs… but I’ve met some of the most important people in my life here. That’s a big deal.”
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How to design a Green New Deal that really works, for every industry in the U.S.
This week, Fast Company will feature in-depth looks at how eight sectors—transportation, fashion and manufacturing, building and construction, banking, energy, agriculture, philanthropy, and technology—could transform under the Green New Deal.
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By Eillie Anzilotti 4 minute Read
As the Democratic presidential debates unfold this week, there’s a phrase that’s sure to be heard many times: The Green New Deal.
During the campaign for the 2018 midterms, the concept of a massive government stimulus package that would fund a rapid transition to a clean energy economy became a major issue, animating voters and serving as a rallying cry for many of the insurgent campaigns of the election, most notably that of Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. As a newly elected Congresswoman in November, she joined youth organizers from the climate justice group Sunrise Movement at a protest in Nancy Pelosi’s office calling for such an approach. In February, she and Senator Ed Markey introduced a resolution in Congress to support the idea of the Green New Deal, which has begun to shape the national conversation around the dual challenges of climate change and economic inequity. Five of the presidential candidates in the Senate—Booker, Gillibrand, Harris, Sanders, and Warren—signed on as co-sponsors, and the rest of the field has been required to respond to the legislation as they shape their own climate policies. But even as candidates unveil their own plans, the Green New Deal holds sway: An Insider poll recently found that Democratic voters vastly prefer the resolution to Joe Biden’s climate plan, which sets a less urgent time frame for decarbonizing the economy.
Though the resolution lacks specific mandates, the concept of a Green New Deal is firm in its goal of achieving net-zero carbon emissions in the next decade, creating millions of high-paying jobs for all, providing equal access to necessities like affordable housing and healthy food, and promoting justice for the historically marginalized people in the transition to a new economy. “Climate change is the greatest challenge we face,” Markey tells Fast Company. “Every industry and every business will be compelled to respond.”
This week, Fast Company will look at eight sectors of the U.S. economy and how they might transform under the Green New Deal. Read more here:
The Green New Deal has emerged as the prevailing framework for confronting the most pressing issues facing the country today. Even though it has yet to be codified as national policy, momentum is growing at the state level: In April, Minnesota introduced a bill calling for a state-level version of the framework. Just last week, New York passed the Climate and Community Protection Act, which mirrors the Green New Deal’s calls for decarbonization and job creation. Oregon is also likely to pass a bill putting a cap and price on carbon emissions, which could open up funding for the types of justice initiatives the Green New Deal wants to bring about.
Because the resolution (and many of the state resolutions that followed) are frameworks, the next step, Markey says, is for him and the other backers is to “go industry by industry and talk about what needs to be done, and why it is possible for that industry to do it.” Here at Fast Company, we are offering a look at how these conversations might unfold.
The Green New Deal has captured national attention for its confrontation of major and interconnected issues, and its broad scope symbolizes the enormous challenge of tackling them both. Focusing on its application to specific industries can begin to ground the symbolism in some detail. Every industry, as Markey says, will need to adapt and change to effectively address the dual issues of climate change and economic inequity. These conversations are already happening at private companies, in governments, and around nonprofit and advocacy organizations. This week, we’ll be looking at eight sectors of the U.S. economy and considering what changes might be on the horizon for them as they work to address these challenges. Read the whole series here.
What’s encouraging: Many of the transitions already underway in these industries fit with what the Green New Deal calls for. Fashion is working to clean up its supply chains and implement humane labor conditions and pay for workers. Across the transportation sector, the need to electrify vehicles and fleets is now a matter of course. In the building industry, leaders are considering how to rapidly improve building efficiency and create more affordable housing while providing a steady job pipeline to marginalized workers.
But what’s obvious is that much more needs to happen. The stories you’ll read this week give a sense of both how much, and how that work might be carried out. “The Green New Deal is a framework for exerting external pressure on industries,” Markey says. “But it can also be a framework for internal corporate operations for every industry, and guide the discussion going forward inside every company and sector.”
Another word you might have heard quite a bit if you’ve followed the conversation around the Green New Deal is radical. It would cost too much—trillions of dollars—to be feasible. Its demands are too steep to be swiftly implemented. The costs of failing to take action in this comprehensive way, though, are both too certain and too significant to ignore. If climate change continues unchecked, it could lead to billions, if not trillions, in losses each year due to extreme weather and associated damage to land and infrastructure. And the U.S.’s widening prosperity gap also threatens to grind the economy to a halt. If leaders across the sectors we feature (and many more) want to ensure the long-term health of their industries, they have to act quickly, conscientiously, and yes, broadly, to make these changes now. And with the Green New Deal, they have the framework to do so.
Eillie Anzilotti is an assistant editor for Fast Company's Ideas section, covering sustainability, social good, and alternative economies. Previously, she wrote for CityLab.
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Poka Yoke: Formalised error prevention
The Japanese term Poka Yoke – which translates to “mistake-proofing” or “Inadvertent error prevention” – is familiar to most people working in manufacturing. Engineers have always striven to reduce preventable and costly errors in manufacturing, but it wasn’t until The Toyota Production System formalised error prevention in its manufacturing processes in the 1960’s that the name Poka Yoke became widely used.
Manufactures who take on board Poka Yoke find it delivers a range of benefits including reducing inspection time and lowering the costs of quality control. Operators may need less training and are happier if they don’t make mistakes, there is less wastage, and better quality leads to improved customer satisfaction and loyalty.
JET PRESS has worked with a number of its customers to supply fasteners that help with error proofing. Here are a few examples.
Does it feel right?
Different fasteners can look very similar. If an operator has to pick up a fastener when they are about to use it there are several tactile signals you can give them to ensure they have the right part. The simplest option is to put a raised lug somewhere on the fastener when it’s made. The operator can easily feel if the lug is there or not.
JET PRESS did exactly this for an engine manufacturer. The customer manufactures a block with six different sizes of pipe that must be clipped into place, including a 12mm and 13mm pipe clip. It’s very difficult for an operator to see the difference in size between these two. So, JET PRESS supplies the 13mm clips with pips so it’s easy for the operative to feel the correct one. The clips are attached using a jig, so the pips also prevent the clips from being inserted in the wrong place in the jig.
Another option is to choose an alternative texture for different fasteners. For instance, JET PRESS stock more than 50 kinds of Fir Tree Clips and many of them look very similar. So, JET PRESS often recommends grained heads for one size and plain for another, so operators can feel the difference.
Some manufacturing processes use a lot of different, but very similar looking parts. For example, a JET PRESS customer clips a particular component into a car interior using 12 different but similar looking latches. They have two bezels, two different panel thicknesses and three varying spring forces. JET PRESS supplies the components in a combination of colours and uses lugs on some to help operatives differentiate between the similar looking latches.
Does it look right?
Another simple Poka Yoke technique is to use different coloured fasteners. JET PRESS worked with a major manufacturer that makes sofas for a range of well-known brands, suppling it with Rivet T-Nut machines using the M8 and M6 T-Nuts.
The risk was that an operator could fill the hopper on the machine with the wrong T-Nut and insert them into many pieces of timber leading to expensive wastage. So, JET PRESS supplies the M6 T-Nut with yellow zinc plating, so they look very different from the M8 T-Nut.
When a manufacture uses hose bands to attach plastic pipes it can be hard to ensure the right size is used. Again, using different colours for different sizes avoids errors. You can see this in action if you look at the windscreen washer pipes and other pipes under the bonnet of your car.
Using coloured fasteners also helps with robot quality control as the camera in the robot can spot errors more reliably if fasteners are colour coded.
Tom Austin-Morgan
http://www.jetpress.com
Jet Press Ltd
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Stakeholders criticize labeling, terminology of plastic packaging
Greenpeace report finds only 53% of all US material recovery facilities accept polypropylene products, argues they should therefore not be labeled and marketed to consumers as recyclable; bottled water association advocates against the term ‘single-use,’ concerned it confuses consumers and limits recycling
February 19, 2020 Justin Boucher
On February 17, 2020, the non-governmental organization Greenpeace announced the publication of a report that investigates the acceptance rate of different plastics at material recovery facilities (MRFs) in the US. The organization surveyed the country’s 367 operating MRFs and found that materials made from polyethylene terephthalate (PET; recycling code #1) and high-density polyethylene (HDPE, recycling code #2) are accepted at 100% of them. However, plastics made from resins with recycling code #’s 3-7 have very low acceptance rates. For polypropylene (PP; recycling code #5), for example, only 53% of MRFs were found to accept the material, and just 31% of the US population was identified to have access to municipal collection of items made from PP.
“This survey confirms what many news reports have indicated since China restricted plastic waste imports two years ago — that recycling facilities across the country are not able to sort, sell, and reprocess much of the plastic that companies produce,” said Jan Dell, leader of the survey across the MRFs. In regards to adding a “check locally” label to justify including a recyclability label, the organization clarifies that US consumers are not able to “check locally” on recyclability since acceptance by an MRF does not prove it will definitely be sent “for reuse or use in manufacturing or assembling another item,” as required by the US Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) guidelines. Greenpeace says it has identified many examples of US companies using recycling labels on products made from these plastics, some of which have already agreed to change their products’ labeling. For companies that “show no willingness to end this deception,” the organization plans to file a formal complaint with the FTC. “Retailers and consumer goods companies across the country are frequently putting labels on their products that mislead the public and harm America’s recycling systems,” said John Hocevar, a campaign director from Greenpeace. “Instead of getting serious about moving away from single-use plastic, corporations are hiding behind the pretense that their throwaway packaging is recyclable. We know now that this is untrue.”
In an article published on February 17, 2020, news provider Beverage Daily informed about a request from the Natural Source Waters Association (NSWA) for consumers to stop perceiving plastic bottles as being “single-use” products. This terminology, it argues, can confuse consumers and “lead to well-meaning people putting 100% recyclable PET plastic drinks bottles that can be turned into new drinks bottles into the general waste.” Instead the association said it recommends the term “‘recyclable bottle,’ – as it is clear what’s the right thing to do with it.” The NSWA represents a range of bottled water manufacturers including Nestlé and Danone. In a survey it conducted, 46% of consumers said they thought “single-use plastic” meant that it should be sorted as waste destined for landfill or incineration. “If we’re really going to improve recycling rates, we all need to use clear, positive language,” said Bryan McCluskey from NSWA. “The term ‘single-use plastic’ is not helping people to do the right thing with their plastic bottles.”
Perry Wheeler (February 18, 2020). “U.S. companies use misleading “recyclable” labels on hundreds of plastic products.” Greenpeace
E.A. Crunden (February 18, 2020). “Report argues most plastics, especially #3-7s, falsely labeled as recyclable.” Waste Dive
Oliver Morrison (February 17, 2020). “‘It’s not helping people to do the right thing with their plastic bottles’: NSWA calls for ‘single-use’ term to be scrapped.” Beverage Daily
Olivia Rosane (February 19, 2020). “U.S. Products Labeled Recyclable Really Aren’t, Greenpeace Report Says.” EcoWatch
Greenpeace (February 18, 2020). “Circular Claims Fall Flat: Comprehensive U.S. Survey of Plastics Recyclability.” (pdf)
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Nestlé investment to create market for recycled plastics
Coca-Cola to continue using plastic bottles
Survey quantifies consumer perceptions by packaging types
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Debut of ‘Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act’ in U.S.
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Why You Should Skip The All-Inclusive Resort When You Travel To Negril, Jamaica
Rae WitteFormer Contributor
I cover the intersection of music, dating, style, art, and travel.
Aerial view of Skylark Negril's beachfront in Negril, Jamaica.
Michael Condran
While the idea of never taking out your wallet to pick up a bar tab or restaurant bill might be enticing to some, there’s a lot of circumstances where the one-size-fits-all nature of all-inclusive resorts simply are not for everyone.
Not everyone drinks, nor does everyone have the same eating habits, yet when you take the all inclusive route, your money is going to the idea that everyone eats and drinks around the same amount. It’s like going to a buffet with a server.
Sure, they’re intended for ease, but easy means everyone wants to do it, and if everyone wants to do it, it’s pretty unlikely those numerous pools or strips of white sand won’t be jam-packed with tourists that have a preference for simplicity. With the wide variety of international visitors, it’s hard to believe everyone will enjoy such a singular experience.
Skylark Negril’s guest relationships manager Talia Williams said, “I always tell people you haven’t experienced the real Jamaica until you go out and explore, meet the locals, live like we do while you are here and feel the love!” Born and raised in Negril, she feels it takes more than just a beautiful hotel to really experience Jamaica.
Instead of flying all the way to paradise to feel like you should stay on a resort where you’ve already paid for all your food and drinks, this is how you should skip the all-inclusive resort in Negril.
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Rockhouse Hotel in Negril, Jamaica.
Rockhouse Hotel
Located along the volcanic cliffs in Negril’s West End, Rockhouse Hotel is tucked in eight acres of lush tropical gardens. The 40 rooms are split among eight different formats from your standard queen size and private villas with lofted beds to 800 square foot west-facing oceanfront suites.
While the food and drinks may not be included, there are two restaurants on the property while you can enjoy rotating calendar complimentary activities (like yoga on Monday, a poolside cooking class and beginners scuba diving sprinkled throughout the week) all of which are offered for a small fee other days of the week.
The pool at Rockhouse Hotel in Negril, Jamaica.
Corey Hamilton
Visitors can spend time at the infinity pool or jumping off the property’s cliffs into the clear blue waters the resort sits on. They can even explore one of the caves used in the filming of the 1954 Academy Award winner, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
Anyone that wants to take in some beach time can hop on the shuttle to Rockhouse’s sister property, Skylark Negril. It’s located on the infamous Seven Mile Beach. The 28 room boutique property may have the traditional hotel layout, but there’s nothing cookie cutter resort feeling about its tropical mid century modern bohemian decor.
The lobby at Skylark Negril in Negril, Jamaica.
And, unlike other resorts that seem to pander excess, both Rockhouse and Skylark are committed to sustainability. They’ve committed to the eliminate at least 90% of our single-use plastics on property by Earth Day on April 22, 2020 in addition to supporting the Rockhouse Foundation which has already invested $4 million in transforming six local public schools and libraries. The foundation impacts the lives of thousands of children and their families every day.
Pushcart Cafe at Rockhouse Hotel in Negril, Jamaica.
While Rockhouse has Pushcart Cafe and the Rockhouse restaurant and Skylark has Miss Lily’s on site, Negril has a variety of other spots to try for a variety of travelers. Williams recommends, “Murphy's on the West End, Zimbali's Farm to Table Cooking Show, Lobster Man's Fire Pit by the Boardwalk Village, Best in the West, Rasta Ade for an Italian feel and Corner Bar Seaview Bar.”
Rick’s Cafe is another must visit when in Negril. Visitors can cliff dive or have food and few beers while watching others take the plunge. Pushcart and Rick’s are also great places to catch the sunset.
Bunny Wailer singing at Bourbon Beach Bar, Negril, Westmoreland, Jamaica. (photo by Phil Clarke ... [+] Hill/In Pictures via Getty Images Images)
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“Negril never sleeps, and you can find somewhere to go and enjoy yourself almost every night of the week!” Williams offered her local’s guide to where to enjoy Negril nightlife: “The Jungle Night Club is a fave with Ladies Night (ladies enter at no charge) on Thursday night. It's a must visit to party with the locals. Bourbon Beach is where it's at on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays for live reggae music. For a late night affair, one can visit Italian Cafe on the Seven Mile Beach where the DJ will entertain you until 2am while you lounge while you sip of a few glasses of wine.”
WEST END, WESTMORELAND PARISH, JAMAICA - 2014/01/12: Snorkeling in the tropical aqua waters of ... [+] Negril. (Photo by John Greim/LightRocket via Getty Images)
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“One of the major attractions in Negril is actually under the sea! Growing up on the West End in Negril, you would often hear stories of how beautiful the ocean bed is, but you can never truly appreciate it until you have seen it for yourself. Whether you're an expert diver or a first timer, the reefs in Negril are perfect as there are a lot of shallow spots, caves and tunnels,” Williams shared. “There is also an island called Booby Cay offshore where guests can snorkel, have lunch and hang with the locals.”
“If you’re more of an above the water type, a catamaran sunset cruise is never a bad idea,” she added. And for the adventurers, she says: “YS Falls is one of my favorite falls to recommend to our guests. With several different waterfalls, landscaped river pools and untamed tropical gardens, it is the perfect spot to become one with nature. While visiting the YS Falls travelers should take the opportunity and visit Floyd's Pelican Bar along with the Black River Safari Tour. Mayfield Falls, Fenton Falls and The Roaring River are also great options. Even though it's not a river or falls, the Blue Hole Mineral Spring is also a favorite to visit! You can jump 22 feet down into the spring or climb down into its turquoise waters, too.”
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The standard features of the Toyota Land Cruiser V8 include i-FORCE 5.7L V-8 381hp engine, 8-speed automatic transmission with overdrive, 4-wheel anti-lock brakes (ABS), integrated navigation system, side seat mounted airbags, curtain 1st, 2nd and 3rd row overhead airbag, rear side-impact airbag, driver and passenger knee airbag, airbag occupancy sensor, automatic air conditioning, 18" aluminum wheels, cruise control, distance pacing, A-TRAC ABS and driveline traction control.
Military Personnel can get a $500 Cash Rebate on new Toyota models.
Eligible U.S. military personnel and their families may qualify for a $500 reward that can be used toward a new Toyota financed or leased through your dealer and Toyota Financial Services. $500 rebate offered by Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. and may be applied toward finance or lease contracts on new Toyota vehicles, dated from 01-05-2021 through 02-01-2021. To qualify for the rebate, at the time of purchase or lease you must (1) be in current active duty status in the U.S. military (Navy, Army, Air Force, Marines, National Guard, Coast Guard and active Reserve) OR a U.S. military inactive reserve (i.e., Ready Reserve) that is part of the individual Ready Reserve, Selected Reserve and Inactive National Guard; OR a retiree of the U.S. military, OR a military veteran within two years of their discharge date; OR a household member of an eligible U.S. military personnel, including Gold Star family members; AND (2) provide verifiable proof of military status or active service; (3) receive a salary sufficient to cover ordinary living expenses and payment for your new vehicle; and (4) receive credit approval from and execute a finance or lease contract through a participating Toyota dealer and Toyota Financial Services. Not all applicants will qualify. On lease contracts, rebate must be applied toward the Amount Due at Lease Signing or toward the Capitalized Cost Reduction. On finance contracts, rebate must be applied toward the Down Payment. Limit one rebate per finance or lease transaction per eligible U.S. military personnel or eligible household member. Offer not combinable with the College Graduate Rebate Program, the iFi Program, and the Lease-End Refi Program. Vehicle must be taken out of dealer stock. Terms, conditions and restrictions apply. Program is not available in AL, FL, GA, HI, NC, and SC. Rebate terms may be more generous in your local area. Ask your participating dealer about the military rebate terms in your area. Must pay sales tax. Void where prohibited by law. Not redeemable for cash. Toyota Financial Services is a service mark of Toyota Motor Credit Corporation (TMCC). TMCC is the authorized attorney-in-fact and servicer for Toyota Lease Trust. ©2020 Toyota Financial Services. All rights reserved.
Have you graduated from college in the last two years, or will be doing so in the next six months? If so, you may be eligible for additional $500 College Rebate savings.
You may qualify for a $500 rebate if you have graduated within the last two calendar years or will within the next six months and finance or lease a select new Toyota through your dealer and Toyota Financial Services. College Graduate Rebate is available on select new Toyota vehicles. Toyota Certified Used Vehicles (TCUVs) and Scion Certified Pre-Owned Vehicles are not eligible for the Rebate Program. College Graduate Finance Program (which is not a rebate and instead offers competitive APRs and lease terms) is available on the lease or finance (including preferred option) of all new and unlicensed Toyota models or on TCUVs or Scion Certified Pre-Owned Vehicles. Subject to the foregoing limits and requirements below, the College Graduate Rebate Program and College Graduate Finance Program are available upon credit approval from and execution of a finance or lease contract through a participating Toyota dealer and Toyota Financial Services (TFS). Not all applicants will qualify. To qualify for the College Graduate Rebate Program and College Graduate Finance Program, customers must be currently enrolled in a graduate degree program from an eligible school (as defined below), or enrolled in or be a graduate from an eligible school and provide proof of graduation (showing an upcoming graduation within six months OR a recent graduation within two calendar years from the date of signing your vehicle lease or finance contract) from one of the following eligible schools located in the 50 United States, Puerto Rico, or U.S. Virgin Islands: (a) an accredited four-year college, university or registered nursing program; OR (b) an accredited two-year college associate degree or an undergraduate academic degree as awarded by community colleges, junior colleges, technical colleges and universities; OR (c) an accredited two-year trade or vocational school; OR (d) an accredited graduate school. In all cases, the student will have two calendar years from receipt of their degree to take advantage of the program. Must provide proof of qualification and any one of the following documents will be accepted: (a) copy of diploma; OR (b) letter from the college/university/trade school registrar’s office stating graduation date and type of degree or certification earned; OR (c) copy of the final transcript confirming graduation date and type of degree earned; OR (d) copy of current transcript (or letter from college/university registrar’s office) confirming current enrollment in a graduate degree program. Eligible customers must also meet credit approval requirements and furnish proof of present or future employment (which will begin within 120 days of credit approval) when submitting credit application. Rebate offered by Toyota Motor North America. Rebate will be applied on TFS lease agreements toward the amount due at lease signing or delivery or capitalized cost reduction or the down payment on TFS finance contracts. Limit one rebate per lease or finance transaction. College Graduate Rebate Program may not be combined with the Toyota Military Rebate Program or iFi Program. Vehicle must be taken from dealer stock. Rebate valid on contracts executed between 01-05-2021 and 02-01-2021. College Graduate Programs are subject to change or termination at any time. Some restrictions apply. Programs are not available in AL, FL, GA, HI, NC, and SC. Rebate terms may be more generous in your local area. Ask your participating dealer about the college graduate rebate terms in your area. Under the College Graduate Finance Program, competitive APRs and lease terms are available on eligible finance contracts with terms up to specified number of months for retail and lease and preferred option financing on new vehicles. See dealer for details. Must pay sales tax. Void where prohibited by law. Not redeemable for cash. ©2020 Toyota Financial Services. All rights reserved. Toyota Financial Services is a service mark used by Toyota Motor Credit Corporation (TMCC).
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NRAEF Announces Partnership Between Prostart and No Kid Hungry
The National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation (NRAEF) announced a volunteer partnership between its ProStart program and Share Our Strength's No Kid Hungry campaign.
ProStart students will be able to earn hours toward their industry-recognized ProStart National Certificate of Achievement through volunteer service with No Kid Hungry, which is working to end childhood hunger in America by connecting kids in need to nutrition programs like school breakfast and summer meals and teaching low-income families to cook healthy, affordable meals.
ProStart is a nationwide education program where high-school students learn from an industry-derived, competency-based curriculum that teaches culinary techniques and restaurant management skills, coupled with real-life restaurant sector experiences.
Through the partnership with No Kid Hungry, ProStart students will have a mechanism to document hours worked and receive credit for activities they need to complete their Certificate of Achievement.
To earn the certificate, students must pass two national exams, demonstrate foundational skills, and document 400 hours of industry-related work experience.
Students who receive the certificate are eligible for NRAEF scholarship opportunities and course credits at more than 60 of the nation's hospitality and culinary arts colleges and universities.
"Together with No Kid Hungry, ProStart is helping to create the next generation of thoughtful chefs ready to tackle social issues by leveraging their passion for the food and beverage industry and their inherent desire to feed people," says Rob Gifford, executive vice president of strategic operations and philanthropy for the National Restaurant Association and the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation.
"As ProStart continues to gain recognition for its industry-driven curriculum, students will continue to experience the true value of the ProStart National Certificate of Achievement and how it can direct them to rewarding and upwardly mobile careers in the restaurant and foodservice sector,” he says.
Students can volunteer with Share Our Strength's No Kid Hungry campaign initiatives such as Cooking Matters®, Cooking Matters at the Store, and Taste of the Nation, as well as through cooking demos, social engagement, and other student-driven projects.
"Chefs and restaurants have been some of our most critical supporters, volunteering countless hours and lending their voices in support of ending childhood hunger," says Gregory Silverman, director of national partnerships for Share Our Strength.
"No Kid Hungry believes that ProStart students will see a generation where no kid in America is hungry and our mission is to help create teen advocates who understand the crisis of childhood hunger and are dedicated to ending it."
The announcement will be made at the NRAEF's ProStart Coordinator Roundtable hosted by Brinker International at its headquarters in Dallas.
"ProStart has become the national model for how we prepare students to enter the restaurant and foodservice industry and Brinker is committed to continuing to play an active role in developing up-and-coming talent,” says Joe Taylor, vice president of corporate affairs for Brinker International.
Total restaurant and foodservice employment is projected to grow by 11 percent over the next 10 years and the NRAEF is committed to ensuring the development of a highly trained and professional talent pool through scholarships and educational programs such as ProStart.
With national and local support from industry members, educators, the NRAEF, and state restaurant associations, ProStart is taught to students across 49 states, Guam, and military bases.
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A Unique Story of a Marvellous Career. Life of Hon. Phineas T. Barnum, by Joel Benton. by Joel Benton
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this loss in advertising and job printing was not less than from
$75,000 to $100,000 a year. The Herald's circulation also
suffered terribly, since hundreds of people, at the hotels and
elsewhere, who were accustomed to buy the paper solely for the
sake of seeing what amusements were announced for the evening,
now bought other papers. This was the hardest blow of all, and it
fully accounted for the abuse which the Herald daily poured out
upon the theatres.
"Bennett evidently felt ashamed of the whole transaction. He
would never publish the facts in his columns, though he once
stated in an editorial that it had been reported that he had been
cheated in purchasing the Broadway property; that the case had
gone to court, and the public would soon know all the
particulars. Some persons supposed by this that Bennett had sued
me; but this was far from being the case. The owner of the lots
sued Bennett, to compel him to take the title and pay for the
property as per agreement; and that was all the 'law' there was
about it. He held James Gordon Bennett's bond, that he would pay
him half a million of dollars for the land, as follows: $100,000
cash, and a bond and mortgage upon the premises for the remaining
$400,000. The day before the suit was to come to trial, Bennett
came forward, took the deed, and paid $100,000 cash, and gave a
bond and mortgage of the entire premises for $400,000.
"Had I really taken back the lease, as Bennett desired, he would
have been in a worse scrape than ever; for having been compelled
to take the property, he would have been obliged, as my landlord,
to go on and assist in building a Museum for me, according to the
terms of my lease, and a Museum I should certainly have built on
Bennett's property, even if I had owned a dozen Museums up town.
"In the autumn of 1868, the associated managers came to the
conclusion that the punishment of Bennett for two years was
sufficient, and they consented to restore their advertisements to
the Herald. I was then carrying on my new Museum, and although I
did not immediately resume advertising in the Herald, I have
since done so."
Such is the account Barnum gave, in his own words, of this
extraordinary quarrel. He was, it will be seen, unsparing of
criticism and denunciation. Kindly as was his nature, he was "a
good hater," and never was there a more relentless fighter. In
denouncing Mr. Bennett he was perfectly sincere, and believed
himself to be entirely in the right. At the same time he never
hesitated to give a full meed of appreciative praise to the great
journalist, for his extraordinary enterprise and commanding
talents. Both the men are now dead, after careers of marvellous
success, and the animosity that raged between them is also long
dead; it perished years before they did. It is here rehearsed
merely as an integral and essential part of this biography, to be
regarded in a spirit of philosophic contemplation, entirely
devoid of bitterness or acrimony,
CHAPTER XL. BRIDGEPORT.
THE FIGHT FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF SEASIDE PARK--LAYING OUT CITY
STREETS IMPATIENCE WITH "OLD FOGIES"--BUILDING A SEASIDE
HOME--WALDEMERE--A HOME IN NEW YORK CITY.
A remarkable feature of Mr. Barnum's life was his loyalty to the
place he had chosen as his home, and his devotion to its
interests. He had great faith in Bridgeport, and worked
unceasingly to justify it. He looked far ahead, saw the
prospective growth of the place, and laid broad plans of
preparation for the future.
Apart from his great services in laying out East Bridgeport, he
was the author of the improvements on the water-front known as
Seaside Park. The idea of such a thing occurred to him first in
1863, when he rode over the ground and observed its fitness for
the purpose. He then began agitating the matter, and urging the
immediate acquirement by the city of land for a park and public
drive-way along the margin of the Sound. It was necessary, he
represented, to do it at once, before the natural increase in the
value of the land made such an undertaking too expensive. That it
would be a profitable venture he felt certain; for such an
improvement would make every bit of real estate in the city more
valuable, and would attract many new residents to the place.
There were, however, many conservatives, "old fogies" he called
them, who opposed him. He then approached the farmers who owned
the land lying immediately upon the shore, and tried to convince
them that, if they would give the city, free, a deep slip next to
the water, to be used as a public park, it would increase in
value the rest of their land so much as to make it a profitable
operation for them. But it was like beating against the wind.
They were "not so stupid as to think that they could become
gainers by giving away their property."
He succeeded, however, in getting the active aid and co-operation
of Messrs. Nathaniel Wheeler, James Loomis, Francis Ives,
Frederick Wood, and some others, who went with him to the
landowners and added their persuasions to his. After much urging,
they finally got the terms upon which the proprietors would give
a portion and sell another portion of their land, which fronted
on the water, provided the land thus disposed of should forever
be appropriated to the purposes of a public park. But,
unfortunately, a part of the land it was desirable to include was
a farm, of some thirty acres, then belonging to an unsettled
estate, and neither the administrator nor the heirs could or
would give away a rod of it. But the whole farm was for
sale--and, to overcome the difficulty in the way of its transfer
for the public benefit, Barnum bought it for about $12,000, and
then presented the required front to the park. He did not want
this land or any portion of it, for his own purposes or profit,
and he offered a thousand dollars to any one who would take his
place in the transaction; but no one accepted, and he was quite
willing to contribute so much of the land as was needed for so
noble an object. Besides this, he gave $1,400 toward purchasing
other land and improving the park, and, after months of
persistent personal effort, he succeeded in raising, by private
subscription, the sum necessary to secure the land needed. This
was duly paid for, deeded to, and accepted by the city, and
Barnum had the pleasure of naming this new and great public
improvement, "Seaside Park."
When Mr. Barnum first selected Bridgeport as his home, as already
stated in a preceding chapter, the place was commended to him by
its nearness to New York, its convenience of access, and the
beauty of its situation. "Nowhere," said he, "in all my travels
in America and abroad had I seen a city whose very position
presented so many and varied attractions. Situated on Long Island
Sound, with that vast water-view in front, and on every other
side a beautiful and fertile country with every variety of inland
scenery, and charming drives which led through valleys rich with
well-cultivated farms, and over hills thick-wooded with
far-stretching forests of primeval growth--all these natural
attractions appeared to me only so many aids to the advancement
the beautiful and busy city might attain, if public spirit,
enterprise, and money grasped and improved the opportunities the
locality itself extended. I saw that what Nature had so freely
lavished must be supplemented by yet more liberal Art."
It was in pursuance of this object that he built the famous
Iranistan; and when he did so he felt confident that this superb
place would so increase the value of surrounding property that
none but first-class residences would be erected in the vicinity.
He, however, went on to improve the surrounding property as much
as possible. He opened numerous fine avenues through land
purchased by himself, and freely gave them to the city. In this
way he opened miles of new streets and planted them with
thousands of shade trees. The planting of trees was almost a
mania with him, in pursuit of the doctrine laid down in Scott's
"Heart of Mid-Lothian": "When ye hae naething else to do, ye may
be aye sticking in a tree; it will be growing when ye're
sleeping."
Barnum was always for enterprise and progress. "Conservatism," he
said, "may be a good thing in the State, or in the Church, but it
is fatal to the growth of cities, and the conservative notions of
old fogies make them indifferent to the requirements which a very
few years in the future will compel, and blind to their own best
interests. Such men never look beyond the length of their noses,
and consider every investment a dead loss unless they can get the
sixpence profit into their pockets before they go to bed. My own
long training and experience as a manager impelled me to carry
into such private enterprises as the purchase of real estate that
best and most essential managerial quality of instantly deciding,
not only whether a venture was worth undertaking, but what, all
things considered, that venture would result in. Almost any man
can see how a thing will begin, but not every man is gifted with
the foresight to see how it will end, or how, with the proper
effort, it may be made to end. In East Bridgeport where we had no
'conservatives' to contend with, we were only a few years in
turning almost tenantless farms into a populous and prosperous
city. On the other side of the river, while the opening of new
avenues, the planting of shade trees, and the building of many
houses, have afforded me the highest pleasures of my life, I
confess that not a few of my greatest annoyance's have been
occasioned by the opposition of those who seem to be content to
simply vegetate through their existence, and who looked upon me
as a restless, reckless innovator, because I was trying to remove
the moss from everything around them, and even from their own
eyes."
Mrs. Barnum's health continued to decline, and in the summer of
1867 her doctor commended her to live on the seashore.
Accordingly her husband sold Lindencroft, and they removed for
the summer to a small farm-house adjoining Seaside Park. So
delighted were they with life by the water during the hot days of
the summer that they determined thereafter to spend every summer
on the very shore of Long Island Sound. Finding it impossible to
prepare a house of their own in time for the next season, they
spent the summer of 1868 in a new and handsome house which Mr.
Barnum owned but which he had built for sale. In the fall of
1868, however, he purchased a large and beautiful grove of
hickory trees adjoining Seaside Park, and decided to build a
permanent residence there.
But there was a vast deal to do in grading and preparing the
ground, in opening new streets and avenues as approaches to the
property, and in setting out trees near the proposed site of the
house; so that ground was not broken for the foundation till
October. He planned a house which should combine the greatest
convenience with the highest comfort, keeping in mind always that
houses were made to live in as well as to look at, and to be
"homes" rather than mere residences. So the house was made to
include abundant room for guests, with dressing-rooms and baths
to every chamber; water from the city throughout the premises;
gas manufactured on the ground; and that greatest of all
comforts, a semi-detached kitchen, so that the smell as well as
the secrets of the cuisine might be confined to its own locality.
The stables and gardens were located far from the mansion, on the
opposite side of one of the newly-opened avenues, so that in the
immediate vicinity of the house, on either side and before both
fronts, stretched large lawns, broken only by the grove, single
shade-trees, rock-work, walks, flower-beds, and drives. The whole
scheme as planned was faithfully carried out in less than eight
months The first foundation stone was laid in October, 1868; and
they moved into the completed house in June following, in 1869.
On taking possession of this new residence, Barnum formally named
it "Waldemere." Literally this name was "Wald-am-Meer," or
"Woods-by-the Sea," but Barnum preferred the more euphonious
form. On the same estate he built at the same time two beautiful
cottages, called "Petrel's Nest," and "Wavewood," the homes of
his two daughters, Mrs. Thompson and Mrs. Seeley--the latter his
youngest. Here Barnum decided to speed five months of every year,
and for his home during the other seven months he purchased a
splendid mansion on Murray Hill, in New York City, at the corner
of Fifth Avenue and 38th Street.
CHAPTER XLI. HONORS AND ADULATIONS.
SECOND MARRIAGE--THE KING OF HAWAII--ELECTED MAYOR OF
BRIDGEPORT--SUCCESSFUL TOUR OF THE HIPPODROME--BARNUM'S
RETIREMENT FROM OFFICE.
In the autumn of 1874 Mr. Barnum married the daughter of his old
English friend, John Fish. The wedding took place in the Church
of the Divine Paternity, Fifth Avenue, New York, and after a
brief bridal tour, they returned to Waldemere.
In December, 1874, David Kalakau, King of the Sandwich Islands,
visited New York, and with his suite was invited to attend the
Hippodrome.
During the performance Barnum sat beside the King, who kept up a
pleasant conversation with him for two hours. The King expressed
himself as highly delighted with the entertainment, and said he
was always fond of horses and racing.
Some twelve thousand spectators were present, and before the
exhibition was finished they began to call loudly "The King! The
King!"
Turning to his host, Kalakau inquired the meaning of their
excitement. "Your Majesty," replied Barnum, "this vast audience
wishes to give you an ovation. The building is so large that they
cannot distinguish your Majesty from every part of the house, and
are anxious that you should ride around the circle in order that
they may greet you."
At the moment, Barnum's open barouche was driven into the circle
and approached the royal box.
"No doubt your Majesty would greatly gratify my countrymen, if
you would kindly step into this carriage and ride around the
circle."
The King immediately arose, and amidst tremendous cheering,
stepped into the carriage. Barnum took a seat by his side, and
the King smilingly remarked, "We are all actors."
The audience rose to their feet, cheered and waved their
handkerchiefs, as the King rode around the circle, raising his
hat and bowing. The excitement was simply tremendous.
In March, 1875, the nomination for Mayor of Bridgeport was
offered Barnum, but he refused it, until assured that the
nomination was intended as a compliment, and that both parties
would sustain it. Politically the city is largely Democratic, but
Barnum led the Republican ticket, and was easily elected.
His Inaugural address before the new Common Council, April 12, is
given below.
GENTLEMEN OF THE COMMON COUNCIL:--Intrusted as we are, by the
votes of our fellow-citizens, with the care and management of
their interests, it behooves us to endeavor to merit the
confidence reposed in us. We are sometimes called the "fathers of
the city." Certainly our duty is, and our pleasure should be, to
administer the municipal government as a good and wise father
conducts his household, caring for all, partial to none. No
personal feelings should dictate our official acts. We are not
placed here to gratify personal or party resentment, nor to
extend personal or party favor in any manner that may in the
remotest degree conflict with the best interests of our city. As
citizens we enjoy a great common interest. Each individual is a
member of the body corporate, and no member can be unduly favored
or unjustly oppressed without injury to the entire community. No
person or party can afford to be dishonest. Honesty is always the
best policy, for "with what measure ye mete it shall be measured
to you again."
A large portion of this honorable body are now serving officially
for the first time, and therefore may not be fully acquainted
with the details of its workings; but we are all acquainted with
the great principles of Justice and Right. If we fail to work
according to these eternal principles, we betray the confidence
placed in us, and this our year of administration will be
remembered with disapprobation and contempt.
Let us bring to our duties careful judgment and comprehensive
views with regard to expenditure, so that we may be neither
parsimonious nor extravagant, but, like a prudent householder,
ever careful that expenses shall be less than the income.
Our city is peculiarly adapted for commercial purposes, it should
be our care, therefore, to adopt such measures as tend to promote
trade, manufactures and commerce. Its delightful and healthy
locality makes it also a desirable place of residence. We should
strive to enhance its natural beauty, to improve our streets and,
with moderate expenditure, to embellish our parks, by which means
we shall attract refined and wealthy residents.
As conservators of the public peace and morals it is our duty to
prevent, so far as possible, acts which disturb one or the other,
and to enforce the laws in an impartial and parental spirit.
The last report of our Chief of Police says: " 'Tis a sad and
painful duty, yet candor compels us to state that at least ninety
per cent. of the causes of all the arrests during the year are
directly traceable to the immoderate use of intoxicating liquors,
not to speak of the poverty and misery it has caused families
which almost daily come under our observation."
In the town of Vineland, N. J., where no intoxicating drinks are
sold, the overseer of the poor stated in his annual report that
in a population of 10,000 there was but one indictment in six
months, and that the entire police expenses were but seventy-five
dollars per year--the sum paid to him--and the poor expenses a
mere trifle. He further says: "We practically have no debt, and
our taxes are only one per cent. on the valuation. "Similar
results are reported in the town of Greeley, Colorado, where no
liquors are sold.
Our laws license the sale of intoxicating drinks under certain
restrictions on week days, but no man can claim the right under
such license to cause mobs, riots, bloodshed or murder. Hence no
man has, or can have, any right by license or otherwise to
dispense liquors to intoxicated persons, nor to furnish
sufficient liquor to cause intoxication. Our duty is therefore to
see that the police aid in regulating to the extent of their
legal power a traffic which our laws do not wholly prohibit.
Spirituous liquors of the present day are so much adulterated and
doubly poisoned that their use fires the brain and drives their
victims to madness, violence and murder. The money annually
expended for intoxicating drinks, and the cost of their evil
results in Bridgeport, or any other American city where liquor
selling is licensed, would pay the entire expenses of the city
(if liquors were not drank), including the public schools, give a
good suit of clothes to every poor person of both sexes, a barrel
of flour to every poor family living within its municipal
boundaries, and leave a handsome surplus on hand. Our enormous
expenses for the trial and punishment of criminals, as well as
for the support of the poor, are mainly caused by this traffic.
Surely, then, it is our duty to do all we can, legally, to limit
and mitigate its evil. As no person ever became a drunkard who
did not sincerely regret that he or she ever tasted intoxicating
drinks, it is a work of mercy, as well as justice, to do all in
our power to lessen this leprous hindrance to happiness. We
should strive to exterminate gambling, prostitution and other
crimes which have not yet attained to the dignity of a "license."
The public health demands that we should pay attention to
necessary drainage, and prevent the sale of adulterated food. The
invigorating breezes from Long Island Sound, and the absence of
miasmatic marshes serve to make ours one of the most healthy
cities in America. Scientific experiments made daily during the
whole of last year have established the fact that our atmosphere
is impregnated with OZONE, or concentrated oxygen, to an extent
not hitherto discovered on this continent. No city of the same
size in America is so extensively known throughout our own land
and in Europe as Bridgeport. It should be our pleasure to
strengthen all natural advantages which we possess as a city by
maintaining a government of corresponding excellence.
It is painful to the industrious and moral portions of our people
to see so many loungers about the streets, and such a multitude
whose highest aspirations seem to be to waste their time in
idleness, or at base ball, billiards, etc.
No person needs to be unemployed who is not over fastidious about
the kind of occupation. There are too many soft hands (and heads)
waiting for light work and heavy pay. Better work for half a loaf
than beg or steal a whole one. Mother earth is always near by,
and ready to respond to reasonable drafts on her never-failing
treasury. A patch of potatoes raised "on shares" is preferable to
a poulticed pate earned in a whisky scrimmage. Some modern
Micawbers stand with folded hands waiting for the panic to pass,
as the foolish man waited for the river to run dry and allow him
to walk over.
The soil is the foundation of American prosperity. When
multitudes of our consumers become producers; when fashion
teaches economy, instead of expending for a gaudy dress what
would comfortably clothe the family; when people learn to walk
until they can afford to ride; when the poor man ceases to spend
more for tobacco than for bread; when those who complain of
panics learn that "we cannot eat our cake and keep it," that a
sieve will not hold water, that we must rely on our own exertions
and earn before we expend, then will panics cease and prosperity
return. While we should by no means unreasonably restrict healthy
recreation, we should remember that "time is money," that
idleness leads to immoral habits, and that the peace, prosperity
and character of a city depend on the intelligence, integrity,
industry and frugality of its inhabitants.
Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper of July 24th, contained a
picture entitled "His Honor, P. T. Barnum, Mayor of Bridgeport,
Presiding at a Meeting of the Common Council of that City." The
editor's remarks are as follows:--"Mayor Barnum's message was a
model of brevity and practical thought. Having at the beginning
of his official career declared war against the whisky dealers,
he next proceeded to open the struggle. For twenty years the
saloons had been kept open on Sundays, and it was declared
impossible to close them. Mr. Barnum has all his life acted upon
the quaint French aphorism that 'nothing is so possible as the
impossible.' He gave notice that the saloons must be closed. A
select committee of citizens volunteered to aid in collecting
testimony in case the sellers should disregard the proclamation,
and leave the latch-string to their back doors displayed on the
outside. Although the doors were open, the keepers refused to
sell except to personal friends. The committee-men stood opposite
the saloons, and took the names of a dozen or so who were
admitted. The next morning the saloon-keepers were arrested, and
when they found their 'friends' had been subpoenaed to appear as
witnesses, they pleaded guilty and immediately brought out their
pocket-books to pay the judicial 'shot.' This plan effectually
broke up Sunday traffic in liquor, thus insuring a quiet day for
the citizens, and greatly accommodating the saloon-keepers, the
best portion of whom really favor a general closing on Sunday.
"By nature an organizer of men and systems, he is his own best
executive officer. No one knows so well as he how men may be best
governed, and no one can so pleasantly polish off the rough sides
of mankind. Successful beyond the usual measure as an
intelligent, courteous and considerate showman, he has already
proved himself the most acceptable of Mayors."
In 1875, the Hippodrome was transported by rail throughout the
United States, going as far east as Portland, Maine, and west to
Kansas City, Missouri. Notwithstanding the depressed state of
finances generally that year, the season was a fairly profitable
A very painful event in connection with the show, occurred in
July. The aeronaut, Donaldson, made his customary daily ascension
from the Hippodrome grounds at Chicago, and was never heard from
afterward. He took with him Mr. N. S. Grimwood, a reporter of the
Chicago Journal, whose body was found a few weeks later in Lake
Michigan. There was a terrible storm the night of the ascension
and it was doubtless then that the men perished.
About the middle of June Barnum visited Niagara Falls with Mrs.
Barnum and a party of English friends. Leaving the party at
Niagara, Mr. and Mrs. Barnum went to Akron, Ohio, where the
"Travelling World's Fair" was to exhibit. The Mayor of Akron
called upon them and invited them to a concert, where, in
response to loud calls, Barnum gave a short speech; they were
afterward tendered a reception and a serenade at the hotel. The
next day they were escorted to Buchtel College by the founder of
the institution, Mr. J. R. Buchtel, and the Reverend D. C.
Tomlinson. The students received Barnum enthusiastically, and he
gave them one of his delightful speeches.
Returning to Buffalo, they rejoined their friends, and also met
the Hippodrome. Early in the morning of the second day of the
exhibition Barnum despatched a special train to Niagara Falls,
with some hundreds of the Hippodrome Company, to whom he wished
to give the pleasure of viewing the cataract. The band which
accompanied them crossed Suspension Bridge playing "God Save the
Queen," and "Yankee Doodle," and returned to Buffalo in time for
the afternoon performance. In July, Barnum visited the Hippodrome
at St Louis and Chicago, and then returned to Waldemere for the
rest of the summer.
During the autumn of 1875, under the auspices of the Redpath
Lyceum Bureau, in Boston, Mr. Barnum found time to deliver some
thirty times, a lecture on "The World and How to Live in It,"
going as far east as Thomaston, Maine, and west to Leavenworth,
Kansas. When the tour was finished the Bureau wrote him that "In
parting for the season please allow us to say that none of our
best lecturers have succeeded in delighting our audiences and
lecture committees so well as yourself."
The National Jubilee year was celebrated by the Hippodrome
Company in a very patriotic manner. It was said, that they gave
the people, a Fourth of July celebration every day. The
establishment traveled in three trains of railroad cars; they
took along a battery of cannon, and every morning fired a salute
of thirteen guns. Groups of persons costumed in the style of
Continental troops, and supplemented with the Goddess of Liberty,
a live eagle and some good singers, sang patriotic songs,
accompanied with bands of music, and also with cannon placed
outside the tents and fired by means of electricity. The
performance was closed by singing "America," the entire audience
rising and joining in the chorus. At night there were fireworks
in which Revolutionary scenes were brilliantly depicted. The
street parade was a gorgeous feature. It began to move when the
salute was fired, and the town bells were always rung to aid the
effect of the National Jubilee.
Barnum's official term as Mayor of Bridgeport, expired April 3,
1876. Preferring to travel part of the time with his Centennial
show, he refused a renomination. The last meeting of the Common
Council under his administration, met March 29.
The New York Daily Graphic, of March 30, read:--"Mr. P. T.
Barnum, Mayor of Bridgeport, has uttered his valedictory message.
The document is very much like the man. He disapproves of the
reports of the Chief of Police and Clerk of the Police
Commissioners, because they declare that liquor saloons and
brothels cannot be closed, and he even reproves the latter for
his 'flippant manner' of dealing with the subject. Barnum must
have his joke or two, withal, and he can no more subsist without
his fun than could a former Mayor of this city. He ventures to
allude in this solemn document to the management of the New York
and New Haven Railroad Company, as 'the good bishop and his
directors;' makes a first rate pun on the names of two citizens;
and says to the Aldermen, 'And now we have, like the Arabs, only
to 'fold our tents and silently steal away,' congratulating
ourselves that this is the only stealing which has been performed
by this honorable body.' Mr. Barnum's administration in
Bridgeport has been mild, but characterized by firmness and
independence. His trouble with the Jews was of short duration,
for he is most respectful toward all theologies. He has not been
able to carry out his extreme temperance views; but he has made a
very good Mayor of a city, for whose prosperity he has labored
for half a lifetime."
It can safely be said that Barnum amused and instructed more
persons than any men who ever lived. In the course of his career
as manager of public entertainments, the number of his patrons
was enormous. Here is his own estimate, in 1889:--"During the
forty years that I have been a manager of public amusements, the
number of my patrons has been almost incredible. From a careful
examination of my account books for the different exhibitions
which I have owned and controlled, I find that more than
eighty-two millions of tickets, in the aggregate, were disposed
of, and numerous exhibitions which I have had at various times
are not included in this statement."
The traveling exhibitions which I managed during
the six years preceding my purchase of the New York
American Museum, in 1841, were attended by . . . . . 1,500,000
persons.
The American Museum which I managed from 1841
to 1865, when it was destroyed by fire, sold . . . . 37,560,000
tickets.
My Broadway Museum, in 1865-6-7 and 8, sold . . . . . 3,640,000
My Philadelphia Museum, 1849, 1850 and 1851, sold . . 1,800,000
My Baltimore Museum, sold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 900,000
My traveling Asiatic Caravan, Museum and Menagerie,
in 1851-2-3 and 4, sold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5,824,000
My great traveling World's Fair and Hippodrome, in
1871-2-3-4-5 and 6, sold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,920,000
Carried forward, 59,144,000
My other traveling exhibitions in America and Europe,
sold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,200,000
General Tom Thumb has exhibited for me 34 years,
and sold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,400,000
Jenny Lind's Concerts, under my management, were
attended by . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 600,000
Catharine Hayes's 60 Concerts in California, under my
contract, sold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120,000
Thus, my patrons amount to the enormous number of 82,464,000
In addition to that, he delivered over seven hundred public
lectures which were attended in the aggregate by 1,300,000
persons, and wrote three books of reminiscences. Is it to be
wondered at, that such a well-known character should receive a
letter from New Zealand addressed simply, "Mr. Barnum, America"?
SOME REMINISCENCES OF P. T. BARNUM
My first recollection of Mr. Barnum goes back to the period of
my small-boyhood, when he came to the country village near my
home to lecture upon temperance. I still remember the animation
of his discourse on that occasion; its humor and its anecdote;
and, with what absorbing interest the large audience sat out the
hour and a half or more which the speaker so well filled. In
describing the drunkard and the illusions which master him, he
showed a keen perception of human nature; and, in every part of
his address there was no end of spirited appeal and analysis,
mingled with unbounded mirth and pathos, as the fluctuating
argument went on.
A few years later, when I had grown old enough to visit the
metropolis, I made it one of the chief items of my concern to
visit the old museum on the corner of Ann Street and Broadway,
where the Herald Building now stands. There was, even then, no
curiosity there more impressive than its proprietor, who was the
very embodiment of life, kindly feeling, and wholesome joy. I
noticed that he was in all parts of the museum in very rapid
succession, and that nothing escaped his attention. Something in
his manner caught every eye. It was said of Daniel Webster that
when he walked through the streets of London, strangers who met
him turned around for another look after he passed by. And, I
confess I yielded in Mr. Barnum's presence, as others did, to
this same sight-seeing inclination. It was not merely that he was
so well known, and that his name had gone about the world with
the circuit of the sun; it was because the force that made this
thing possible worked also in other ways, and compelled you to
give its owner attention.
He had a kind word or an entertaining one for everybody who came
near him, as occasion offered, whether he was an old acquaintance
or a stranger. The occasion did not come to me, though I remember
wishing it had, when I left the museum. Probably I should have
deliberately sought it if I had had more assurance and experience
at that time; and if I had known, too, that we were afterward to
meet intimately, and that for more than twenty years the
latch-string of his different homes, in Bridgeport and New York,
was to respond so many dozens of times to my touch, for days and
weeks of remarkable hospitality.
My opportunity for knowing Mr. Barnum personally came about when
I was, as a young man, conducting, almost single-handed, a
lecture course in a very small country town in the later sixties,
soon after the close of the war. The night for Mr. Barnum to come
to us was a very cold and forbidding one in February. A
snow-storm, the most formidable one of the winter, sprang up to
apparently thwart the success of the performance; and so certain
was Mr. Barnum that nobody would appear to hear him, he offered
not only to release me from the contract between us, but, in
addition to that, would pay me the price I was to pay him, or
more, to be permitted to return to New York. "There is nothing on
earth I hate to do so much," said he, "as to lecture to empty
benches."
I said to him: "Please trust me for the avoidance of that. If it
had been a pleasant night, instead of this howling storm, I would
have filled the hall and the yard in front to the front gate.
But, as it now is, I will still guarantee to fill the hall." And
filled it was, to our equal delight.
Before entering and discovering this fact, I ventured to say to
Mr. Barnum that, owing to the general untowardness and inclemency
of the night, I would introduce him in my own way, and not in the
conventional one, if he did not object. "By all means," said he;
"if you can awaken any warmth or hilarity on as sorrowful an
outlook as this, do not spare ME, or hesitate for a moment."
On arriving at our seats on the platform, I arose and said, in
some such words as these:
"LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:--You will bear me out in saying it has
been my usual custom to introduce the speaker of the evening in
the briefest way possible, and not to trouble you with any talk
of my own. To-night, in view of the storm, and while Mr. Barnum
is resting for a moment, I will break my rule and tell you a
story. Some years ago a queer fellow from the country went to New
York, and, among the sights and experiences he had planned for,
he went to Barnum's Museum. Mr. Greenwood was then its manager,
and noticed with some interest his patron's rusticity when he
called for a ticket. He asked Mr. Greenwood, after having paid
for the card of admittance, 'Where is Barnum?' As Mr. Barnum
happened to be in sight on the entrance floor, Mr. Greenwood,
pointing to him said, There he is.'
"At once the querist started in the direction named. He got very
near Mr. Barnum and stood looking intently at him. Then he moved
a little segment in the circle he was describing, and looked
again. Several times he repeated these inspections, until he had
from all points viewed the object of his curiosity and had
completed the circle, when he started for the door, Mr. Greenwood
watching him all the time. When he came near enough Mr. Greenwood
said to him: 'My friend, you have not seen the Museum yet. There
is a whale downstairs and any number of things up-stairs, a moral
play soon to come off, etc.' 'I know it,' said the rustic, 'and I
don't care. I've seen Barnum, and I've got my money's worth.'
"Now, ladies and gentlemen, I have not been able to bring to you
the American Museum to-night, but I have done what is better--I
have brought to you Mr. Barnum."
Mr. Barnum then arose, not in the least nonplussed, but greatly
pleased with the packed house and the hearty cheers which greeted
"MR. PRESIDENT, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:--I cannot, for the life of
me, see why you should have sent so far as New York for me to
come and address you. I am not really a lyceum lecturer at all. I
am only a showman, and it seems you have a man here who can show
up the showman."
The whole story may read very weakly in print; for Mr. Barnum's
tones of voice, and gestures and mobility of feature are not
communicable to cold type. But the playfulness of this unusual
preface not only stirred the audience on a dismal night, but put
the lecturer at his very best. Mr. Barnum's lecture was elastic.
It might be shaped for an hour, as it was not fully written, or
it might consume more time. On this occasion it was two hours and
over. While the snow was still falling in open sleighs, that
could find no shelter, their owners, not minding this, were
enjoying one of the most delightful evenings of a whole
winter--of many winters, perhaps.
And all this leads me to say that Mr. Barnum, while claiming no
part of a professional lecturer's endowment, and only made
oratory a casual--if it was sometimes a frequent--matter, was,
nevertheless, admirably equipped to entertain an audience. He
could tell a story inimitably. His mimetic faculty, like Gough's,
gave him something of the quality of an actor, so that he
illustrated well what he had to say. No lectures have proved much
more instructive and entertaining than Mr. Barnum's on The Art of
Money Getting; and, wherever he went to address an audience, he
was sure to be called again.
When I met him in Bridgeport for the first time, I found he was
easily the chief man of the place. He was living then at
Lindencroft, on Fairfield Avenue. His Oriental palace, Iranistan,
had burned down some years before. But, wherever he lived, his
house gave open welcome to many guests, illustrious and other;
and no one who had the good fortune to enter it, ever went away
without connecting with his visit the happiest of memories. At
the table he especially shone. Wit, repartee, and even puns, when
occasion offered, coruscated over the meal, and diffused
universal good humor. He had always at hand innumerable
anecdotes, which he made peculiarly his own, and which he told
with inimitable grace and unction. I am sure nobody will ever
tell them again as he told them; for, contrary to the proverb,
the prosperity of the jest in his case lay, nine-tenths, in his
way of relating it--though it was never a dull one.
It mattered not what the business of the day might be, or what
obstacles or discouragements had been encountered, his
cheerfulness was perennial and unfailing. Mirth and good cheer
were apparently inborn and organic with him. He could no more
suppress them than a fountain could cease bubbling up, or a river
turn backward in its course. And what men and women he has had,
first and last, at his table; it is impossible to exhaust the
list or exaggerate its quality. Horace Greeley, Henry Ward
Beecher, E. H. Chapin, Bayard Taylor, Mark Twain, and the Cary
sisters, were a few among Americans; and Thackeray, Matthew
Arnold, George Augustus Sala, and I know not how many others,
from abroad. No catalogue of them, but only types can be given
here. He was almost never without people who made no claim to
distinction; and to them, too, he was the genial, urbane, and
entertaining host.
There was a depth of warm humanity in Mr. Barnum's inmost texture
that his public fame does not fully disclose. That children liked
him has been already often said; but those in maturer
youth--young gentlemen and ladies--felt, somehow, that he never
ceased, at any age, to be their contemporary. No younger and more
hopeful thoughts were offered than his. If, as sometimes
happened, when he organized, as he persistently did, the summer
picnic, inland or on the coast, there was a party made for each
direction, the struggle was to see which could capture Mr.
Barnum. Which way the rest of us might go was not of so much
consequence; but the party which lost him in behalf of the other,
felt like one trying to enjoy Hamlet with the chief character
missing.
At one time he actually kept a seaside caterer at a distant beach
to receive his guests of twenty or more on a place of his own,
whenever, on summer days, he could collect guests enough and give
them attention. It was only necessary to send word in the
morning, and the tables were ready, and the party was conveyed to
the shady grounds from Mr. Barnum's door. Swings were not
forgotten for the children, nor was anything forgotten that
conduced to rational joy. If some poor sick person was heard of
in the city, one carriage, Mr. Barnum's own, would go somewhat
out of the way to stop and leave delicacies and presents, not
without a few words of sympathy and comfort. When, on one
occasion that I remember, he took two or three hundred people
from several towns in the State, and from New York, to Charles
Island, a summer place midway between Bridgeport and New Haven,
the hospitality was royal, and even the steamboat tickets were
mysteriously provided for all.
I have never noticed, in the multitude of printed sketches of Mr.
Barnum's doings, any general mention of his lavish hospitality
poured out for years, but there will be hundreds who can testify
to and will remember it. It was as if he had said: "As we go
along through life let us make others happy." And he did this
with no niggardliness or stint, in his private life as well as in
his public career.
There is a series of stories of Mr. Barnum's humane endeavors
longer than Aesop's or Pilpays' fables combined, and it is
impossible to relate them all. But I have heard one recently that
will very well illustrate the beneficial manner of his charity,
and which shows that, by native sagacity, he had early learned
the scientific way of giving--to give so that the gift may be
more than its surface expression, and so as not to produce
chronic pauperism.
It seems that a poor widow, some years ago, went to Mr. Barnum's
house and told him she was very poor, and had a large family to
support; she could not, in fact, decently support them. But if
Mr. Barnum would only loan her $75 with which to buy a
sewing-machine, she assured him she could do enough better to be
able to save a little, and to pay the money back. Mr. Barnum,
thinking her honest and truthful, said she might have the money
on the terms suggested, but told her when she had saved the
requisite amount to bring it to him. After some struggle and
privation, in due time she did this, and laid it before him.
"Well," said he, "my good woman, you have now fairly earned your
sewing-machine, and you have done one thing more, YOU HAVE
LEARNED HOW TO SAVE." And thereupon he handed back the money, and
told her to put it in safe keeping.
Mr. Barnum's deep attachment for Bridgeport grew year by year,
and was most strikingly manifessed. The thousands of trees he had
set out there, the new streets he opened, and the Seaside Park,
which was his creation mainly, are but a few of the evidences of
his public enterprise. The Barnum Historical and Scientific
Institute, and the Barnum Gymnasium were among his latest
endowments, East Bridgeport he practically gave existence to, and
both that and the city proper are so essentially his monument
that you cannot now divorce the name of Bridgeport from that of
Barnum.
Some years ago, when certain experiments were made to test the
presence of ozone in the air, and much was said of its value to
health, Mr. Barnum had the air at Bridgeport put on trial, and
proved exultingly that no climate in this country was so
salubrious as that of Bridgeport, especially in the region of the
Seaside Park. He was very enthusiastic on the subject, and wrote
to the local papers, to myself, and to others about it to give
the fact publicity and proper emphasis.
It may be said by some that Mr. Barnum, in many of his real
estate enterprises, made money; and so he did, by his foresight,
faith, and sagacity concerning his adopted town. He partly
foresaw the future of Bridgeport, and then largely made it. But
if he had not made money--and his example was open for others to
follow--he could have had no money to give. He used to say
himself, half jokingly: "I believe in a profitable philanthropy,"
which illustrates one of his characteristic traits--his absolute
frankness. In fact, he was so open-hearted about himself that no
account he ever gave of his private doings was ever flattering or
exalted. He wore no phylacteries, and was as far away as possible
from Pecksniffian pretensions.
In early life he suffered hardship and deprivations, and no Mark
Tapley ever met them with more composure and, on occasions, with
more hilarity. But he knew well what comfort and convenience are,
and when they were at his command he enjoyed their best gifts. He
once told me that it pained him to see Mr. Greeley omit those
little cares for himself in later life to which he was surely
entitled, and so, when he was his guest for many days together,
he took care to provide him with a loose morning coat and
comfortable slippers, and would not have him drop in an ordinary
chair by accident, but secured for him the easiest one.
Busy as Mr. Barnum was, he found many hours for social and other
pleasures. He did this by his systematic allotment of his time.
All the machinery of his household and his business ran with a
smoothness and punctuality that would have delighted George
Washington. Everything was on time; his meals were regular--not
movable feasts. It was a wonder how he wrote so many letters,
foreign and domestic; dispatched so promptly his household and
his city affairs, and his out-of-town business; met all sorts of
callers on all sorts of errands; and yet spared time for rides, a
social game or talk, and an evening out with so much frequency.
Absolute idleness was positively painful to him; occupation of
some sort he must have, and to the very end he had and enjoyed
I can scarcely realize, even now, that he is really gone--so
clear of mind and active was he to the very last. Nor can it be
easily imagined how Bridgeport in this generation can accustom
itself to so great a loss. To hear that the average man--of
distinction even--has died, seems common and credible. But the
message which announced Mr. Barnum's death came like a troubled
dream from which we somehow expect to awaken. That one so full of
life as to be its very embodiment, should leave us, it will take
time to fully comprehend. If, in the world, his demise leaves a
striking and peculiar void, to a multitude of friends it comes
with a tender sorrow that shall tincture indelibly many flowing
years. J. B.
Among letters that have come to hand we select the following as
the tribute of a representative American divine:
BROOKLYN, April 16th, 1891.
Dear Mr. Benton:
There was a Mr. Barnum whom all the world knew, and whose name is
familiar in every civilized land; but there was another Mr.
Barnum whom we, his intimate friends knew, and regarded with a
hearty affection. That he was a most courteous gentleman and the
entertaining companion at his table and hospitable fireside, is
but a part of the truth. He had a big warm heart that bound all
his friends to him with hooks of steel.
I first met him on the platform of a grand temperance banquet, in
Tripler Hall, New York, thirty-nine years ago--where he and Mr.
Beecher, and Dr. Chapin, Hon. Horace Mann, Gen. Houston, of
Texas, and myself were the speakers.
A gold medal was presented that evening to the Hon. Neal Dow, of
Maine, the father of the "Prohibitory Law." Mr. Barnum made a
very vivacious and vigorous address. In after years he delivered
several addresses in behalf of Total Abstinence in my church, and
they were admirable specimens of close argument, most pungently
presented. He indulged in but few witticisms or amusing stories;
for, as he well said, "The Temperance Reform was too SERIOUS a
matter for trifling jokes and buffooneries."
During the first year of my married life, 1853, Mr. Barnum
visited me at Trenton, N. J., and he often spoke of the happy
hour he spent at our table, and the cozy dinner my young wife
prepared for him. In after years he often sat at my table, and on
two occasions he entertained me with princely hospitality at his
Bridgeport mansion. On one occasion he invited the leading
clergymen of the town to meet me.
We differed very decidedly in our religious creeds, and never
fell into arguments about them. I honored his conscientious
convictions, and his staunch adherence to what he believed to be
the right interpretation of God's Word. With the scoffing
scepticism of the day he had no sympathy, and utterly abhorred
it. His kind heart made him a philanthropist, and in his own
peculiar way he loved to do good to his fellow-men. Surrounded by
innumerable temptations, he maintained a clean, chaste, and
honest life, and found his happiest hours in the society of wife
and children, under his own roof-tree. Had Mr. Barnum devoted
himself to political life he would have made an excellent figure;
for he had keen sagacity, vast and varied observations of human
nature, and sturdy common sense. In conversation with
intellectual men he always held his own with admirable acumen and
vigor of expression. He was altogether one of the most unique
characters that his native State has produced, and when his name
ceases to be connected with shows and zoological exhibitions, he
will be lovingly remembered as the genial friend, the sturdy
patriot, the public-spirited and philanthropic neighbor, and the
honest, true-hearted man.
Yours respectfully,
THEODORE L. CUYLER.
April 10th, 1891, was the day set for Mr. Barnum's funeral. The
morning was cold, gray, and dismal. Nature's heart, with the
spring joy put back and deadened, symboled the melancholy that
had fallen upon Bridgeport. No town was ever more transformed
than was this city by one earthly event. On the public and
private buildings were hung the habiliments of woe; flags were at
half mast, and, in the store windows were to be seen innumerable
portraits and likenesses of the dead citizen, surrounded by dark
drapery, or embedded in flowers.
Nor was this all. The people on the street and in the windows of
their houses seemed to be thinking of but one thing--their common
loss. The pedestrian walked slower; the voices of talkers, even
among the rougher classes, were more subdued, and in their looks
was imprinted the unmistakable signal of no common or ordinary
bereavement.
The large church was not only filled, with its lecture-room, a
considerable time before the hour set for the services; but
thousands of people crowded the sidewalks near-by for hours,
knowing they could only see the arrival and departure of the
funeral cortege. The private services at the house, "Marina,"
near the Seaside Park, which preceded the public services in the
church, were simple and were only witnessed and participated in
by the relatives and immediate friends.
DR. COLLYER'S TRIBUTE.
The immense congregation that filled to repletion the South
Congregational Church, while the last services were being held
over the remains of Hon. P. T. Barnum, were deeply impressed with
the touching tribute which was paid the great showman and public
benefactor by his old friend, Rev. Robert Collyer, D. D.
It was a pathetic picture which met the eyes of the vast throng.
The aged preacher, with long white hair hanging loosely on his
shoulders, and an expression of keen sorrow on his kindly face,
standing in a small pulpit looking down on the remains of his old
and cherished friend. The speaker's voice was strong and steady
throughout his sermon. Each word of that sad panegyric could be
distinctly heard in all parts of the edifice, but in offering up
the last prayer, he broke down. The aged preacher made a strong
effort to control himself, but his voice finally became husky,
and tears streamed down his wrinkled cheeks. The audience was
deeply touched by this display of feeling, and many ladies among
the congregation joined with the preacher and wept freely.
The immense gathering were unusually quiet when the aged minister
took his place in the pulpit, and his words were strangely clear,
and distinct in all portions of the church, In his feeling
tribute, Dr. Collyer said:
"P. T. Barnum was a born fighter for the weak against the strong,
for the oppressed against the oppressor. The good heart, tender
as it was brave, would always spring up at the cry for help and
rush on with the sword of assistance. This was not all that made
him loved, for the good cheer of his nature was like a halo about
him. He had always time to right a wrong and always time to be a
good citizen and patriot of the town, State, or republic in which
he lived. His good, strong face, was known almost as well on the
other side. You may be proud of him as he was proud of his town.
He helped to strengthen and beautify it, and he did beautify it
in many places. 'It is said that the hand that grasps takes away
the strength from the hand that ought to give,' and that such a
man must die without friends or blessings. He was not that man.
He was always the open and generous man, who could not do too
much for Bridgeport. He often told me of his desire to help this
place, and he was not content to wait until after death. What he
has done for Bridgeport is the same as he has done for other
noble works. As my brother, Rev. Mr. Fisher, said today, there
was never anything proposed in this city that had any promise of
goodness but that he was ready to pour out money and assistance
"Faith in one's self fails in the spring if one has not faith in
God also. He had that faith I know. He had worship, reverence,
and love in his heart, and as he rests from his labors we meet
and linger here for a few minutes and pay respect and honor to
the memory of a great and good man. We can forget that we belong
to divers churches, and stand here as children of one faith and
one baptism, honoring for the last time one who has finished his
labors here and with a crown of glory for his reward, has joined
in his eternal home the Father he served so well."
When the church services were over, the procession moved to
Mountain Cemetery, a mile or more distant, where, in a beautiful
plat, long ago arranged, with a modest monument above it, rest
the remains of Mr. Barnum's first wife. Here, in a place made
beautiful by nature and improved by art, was consigned the mortal
part of him whose story we have tried, weakly, perhaps, to tell.
Great masses of flowers, similar to those displayed in the house
and church, were upon the grave and about it, and the people, who
came there in large numbers, did not leave for hours after the
religious service had been read.
A book of good size might be made of the notable expressions
called forth by Mr. Barnum's death from leading journals and men
known to fame. It is impossible to give any fair sample of them
here, but the London Times' leader of April 8th may serve,
perhaps, as a good specimen:
"Barnum is gone. That fine flower of Western civilization, that
arbiter elegantiarum to Demos, has lived. At the age of eighty,
after a life of restless energy and incessant publicity, the
great showman has lain down to rest. He gave, in the eyes of the
seekers after amusement, a lustre to America. * * * He created
the metier of showman on a grandiose scale worthy to be professed
by a man of genius. He early realized that essential feature of a
modern democracy, its readiness to be led to what will amuse and
instruct it. He knew that 'the people' means crowds, paying
crowds; that crowds love the fashion and will follow it; and that
the business of the great man is to make and control the fashion.
To live on, by, and before the public was his ideal. For their
sake and his own, he loved to bring the public to see, to
applaud, and to pay. His immense activity, covering all those
years, marked him out as one of the most typical and conspicuous
of Yankees. From Jenny Lind to Jumbo, no occasion of a public
'sensation' came amiss to him.
"Phineas Taylor Barnum, born in 1810, at Bethel, Connecticut--how
serious and puritanical it sounds! --would have died with a
merely local reputation unless chance had favored him by putting
in his way something to make a hit with. He stumbled across
Charles H. Stratton, the famous, the immortal 'General Tom Thumb'
of our childhood. Together they came to Europe and held
'receptions' everywhere. It was the moment when the Queen's
eldest children were in the nursery, and Barnum saw that a
fortune depended on his bringing them into friendly relations
with Tom Thumb. He succeeded; and the British public flocked to
see the amusing little person who had shown off his mature yet
miniature dimensions by the side of the baby Heir Apparent. Then
came the Jenny Lind furore. Then came a publicity of a different
sort. Mr. Barnum became a legislator for his State, and even, in
1875, Mayor of Bridgeport. Why not? The man who can organize the
amusements of the people may very well be trusted to organize a
few of their laws for them.
"When, in 1889, the veteran brought over his shipload of giants
and dwarfs, chariots and waxworks, spangles and circus-riders, to
entertain the people of London, one wanted a Carlyle to come
forward with a discourse upon 'the Hero as Showman.' It was the
ne plus ultra of publicity. * * * There was a three-fold
show--the things in the stalls and cages, the showman, and the
world itself. And of the three perhaps Barnum himself was the
most interesting. The chariot races and the monstrosities we can
get elsewhere, but the octogenarian showman was unique. His name
is a proverb already, and a proverb it will continue."
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New Reading manager Mark Bowen (Image: Eddie Greville)
New Reading manager Mark Bowen speaks to the press for the first time on Tuesday after being appointed as boss.
The Welshman, who succeeded Jose Gomes, was confirmed in the role on Monday afternoon by the club.
Bowen is speaking to the assembled media on Tuesday lunchtime at the club's Hogwood training ground following his first session with the players.
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Puscas - we need to create more chances for him if we can.
If he gets them he will convert them and there is no reason why he can’t go on and score 15/20 goals.
Morrison has a stomach bug so left training early this morning
'We are pushing for the play-offs and promotion'
I hope to have a winning philosophy.
We have strikers who we spent a lot of money on in the summer.
Hopefully we can get them hitting the back of the net.
We are pushing for the play-offs and promotion.
The owner wanted minimal disruption on the playing side of things.
I have a contract until the end of the season and I couldn’t say no.
It does hurt what’s been said about me.
I want to start on the right footing.
I don’t want anything to impact what goes on on the weekend.
We need everyone together. You need to start in the way.
If it doesn’t it’s not fair to me or the players.
I want to play fast, attacking football that’s entertaining.
I know the squad I’ve got - it’s about getting the ball forward quickly and get strikers banging in goals.
'The process was not led by me'
Trust has always got to be there.
It won’t be a problem with the players.
The group all get on well, Moore is a good captain and a good leader so there will be no change there.
They know me better now so don’t see that trust being a problem.
I hope the fans can see the wood through the trees and take me at face value.
The process was not led by me.
'I have to pay them with results'
I am aware of my situation and how people view me.
Our fans have got to get behind the team.
Looking from afar last March, it looked a problem staying up but the one thing that stuck in my mind was the fans and the atmosphere they created.
The club wasn’t in bad shape.
The fans will ask questions of me but I have to pay them with results.
I’ts about the least disruption as possible.
I want to be careful about putting targets on team - it can be a motivator or a demotivator.
I will put demands on the players - if individuals do the job right then the team will do well.
I will be working them hard through the weeks.
Eddie Niedzwiecki is working with me. He is a magnificent coach.
I’m very lucky he has agreed to come in and help me going forward.
There are four Portuguese lads still here.
Lots of clubs are looking at the sporting director position - it’s important to have someone with a football background.
I didn’t think about the length of the contract.
It was just about taking the team forward.
it’s a fabulous club and talented players. He hasn’t worked so far but with the set up I feel honoured to be given the chance.
Gunter and McCleary - yes they do have a way back.
I want to give myself the best possible chance of succeeding so why would I not involve them?
I was told to bring a list of managers to the table.
It was touching base with them.
I haven’t spoken with Hughes.
I don’t think he will be involved.
I don’t feel any guilt about Jose leaving.
I worked with him closely in pre-season, but once the season was off the only connection was watching games.
He asked me to come down and have a chat with him.
He wanted to keep me involved on a matchday.
My day to day role was away from the first team and away from other things.
I spoke with Jose - he was very pleased for me.
He had conversations with people at the club and he gave me a glowing reference which I was pleased with.
You don’t want maximum disruption to the club.
My focus is on taking the players forward and getting them to the play-offs.
Maybe someone different can make a difference.
Having come out of the transfer window, I was left with what next to do - it was looking at the academy, how it can be improved,what I meant was the day to day running alongside Gomes.
I was never the boss of Jose.
That wasn’t my remit.
I was told the decision had been made.
I was then asked to draw up a list of candidates which I was doing.
I had spoken to two or three candidates and then I got a call over the weekend saying the owners wanted as little as disruption as possible and it was put to me the least intrusive way of doing things.
I was stunned to be offered the job. The owners asked me and I thought yes absolutely.
I’m excited, but a little nervous!
I’ve been brought in as sporting director and was really enjoying it.
It can’t be further from the truth - him being involved in the sacking of Gomes.
I got a phone call over the weekend saying the owners wanted to change manager.
I spoke to Gomes yesterday for advice - my relationship with him hasn’t changed.
It’s not true.
Bowen coming up
Not long to wait now...
Garath McCleary
Winger Garath McCleary with the first team group this morning having been sidelined all season by previous boss Jose Gomes
Garath McCleary (Image: Get Reading)
Reading’s no.9 puts in the yards at Hogwood
Sam Baldock (Image: Get Reading)
Five key priorities
The new Reading manager has little time to settle into the position as there are a number of pressing issues at the club on and off the field to work on.
Two wins in 11 matches sees Royals sit in 22nd place in the Championship table and staring relegation in the face on current form.
But there are plenty of issues which Bowen must get to grips with to turn Royals’ fortunes around.
Here are the five important things on the 55-year-old’s to-do list.
ICYMI - Bowen's first words
New Reading boss Mark Bowen has shared his first words after being named as the successor to Jose Gomes at the Madejski Stadium.
The Welshman spoke of his delight on being back on the field with the players.
Read the story here
TV crews
There are TV crews here so we (the written press) are being made to wait a little bit longer..!
KEY EVENT
Some snaps taken by Eddie Greville of training this morning
Taking training
Mark Bowen taking training this morning
We’ve arrived at Hogwood for today’s press conference.
The players are currently out training so once they’re done we’ll hear from the boss.
Sam Baldock, Chris Gunter and Garath McCleary are involved in the training session right now.
The group also includes Tyler Blackett, who is back from injury, and U23 defender Ramarni Medford-Smith.
In the mean time, here are some stories to keep you going as we build up to the start of the press conference.
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Support for ending and managing HIV
The Liberal National Government is strengthening its commitment to ending HIV with the announcement of funding for a new strategy that aims to virtually eliminate the transmission of HIV, the approval of the first HIV self-testing kit and the listing of a new medicine on the PBS.
The first HIV self-testing kit, the Atomo Self Test was approved for use by the TGA yesterday. The test is a single-use rapid finger stick test for the detection of antibodies to HIV and will enable people to test for HIV in their own home.
This will make testing accessible and convenient especially for people that need to test frequently or do not test at all.
The medicine Juluca® (dolutegravir and rilpivirine), which works to stop the replication of the HIV virus, will be listed on the PBS on December 1, which is World AIDS Day.
This listing means around 860 people a year will be able to access this medicine which would otherwise cost patients up to $10,800 a year without the PBS subsidy.
Patients will now pay a maximum of just $39.50 per script, with concessional patients, including pensioners, paying just $6.40 a script.
Getting people with HIV on sustained, effective treatment is important not only for the individual’s health but also because people with HIV who take treatment daily, and achieve and maintain an undetectable viral load, have effectively no risk of sexually transmitting the virus.
I am also pleased to announce that the Government will commit $5 million to support the implementation of Australia’s next National Blood Borne Virus and Sexually Transmissible Infections Strategies which include:
The Eighth National HIV Strategy 2018–2022
The Fifth National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander BBV and STI Strategy
The Fifth National Hepatitis C Strategy
The Fourth National STI Strategy
The Third National Hepatitis B Strategy
The Eighth National HIV Strategy will be the roadmap to help further reduce new infections and improve health outcomes.
Its goals include virtually eliminating HIV transmission in Australia by 2022, reducing mortality and morbidity related to HIV and supporting those living with HIV by reducing stigma and discrimination.
A few short years ago defeating HIV was seen as impossible but today we are on the cusp of eliminating the transmission of HIV.
In 2017, more than 27,000 people were living with HIV in Australia.
Last year, Australia recorded 963 HIV notifications—the lowest annual number of notifications since 2010.
There has been a reduction of 15 per cent in diagnoses among gay and bisexual men in the past year alone.
I am proud to say that our Government is taking decisive action with a range of measures to address HIV in our community.
These important announcements today come on top of our Government’s decision this year to list the daily preventative medication known as PrEP on the PBS on 1 April 2018.
The $180 million listing of PrEP, on the PBS, benefits up to 32,000 patients who would otherwise pay $2,496 a year without the subsidy.
By listing PrEP we put Australia in reach of being one of the first countries in the world to end transmission of HIV.
Since the first HIV diagnosis in Australia more than 30 years ago, our understanding around prevention, transmission and treatment of HIV has improved significantly.
Our Government’s strong economic management ensures we can continue to invest in coordinated and targeted health initiatives to prevent, treat and support Australians living with HIV.
Australia’s theme for World AIDS Day 2018 is ‘Everybody Counts’. World Aids Day is about ensuring people with HIV can participate fully in the life of the community, free from stigma and discrimination.
The strategies are available on the Department of Health website www.health.gov.au/sexual-health
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Ranking Anthony Joshua's top 10 wins as a professional boxer
By Alex Batt
Anthony Joshua reclaimed his lost glory on Saturday night in Saudi Arabia as he defeated Andy Ruiz Jr via a unanimous points decision.
The fight went the full 12 rounds, but it was AJ who was miles ahead on all three of the judges' scorecards, which was highlighted in the end result.
Ruiz Jr simply couldn't get near the Brit, and for 36 minutes, it was a pure boxing masterclass from the challenger.
December 7, 2019 will comfortably go down as a massive date in British boxing history, but it will also go down as one of Joshua's most important wins, however, he didn't rank it as his number one victory.
After the fight, Joshua claimed the win over Wladimir Klitschko still remains more important to him, and he still ranks it as his number one fight.
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So, with that in mind, we thought we would rank the top 10 wins of AJ's career so far.
10) Matt Legg - May 31, 2014
Straight off the bat a win against Matt Legg, who a lot of people may not even know, doesn't sound that great. But that's why it's number 10 on our list.
The reason it's made the list? Well it was Anthony Joshua's debut at Wembley Stadium. A massive moment for the British boxer and one that didn't get the better of him.
He got the job done inside the first round, and that was just a taste of what things would be like for him inside the biggest stadium in England.
9) Carlos Takam - October 28, 2017
Fast forward three years and AJ was making his debut inside another massive stadium in the UK, and this time it was the Principality Stadium in Cardiff, Wales.
Carlos Takam was the opponent, and although AJ was expected to fight Kubrat Pulev up until he withdrew from an injury, Joshua got the job done on a game Frenchman.
The 10th-round stoppage was deemed controversial, but it was a big win for Joshua and a big performance as well.
8) Dominic Breazeale - June 25, 2016
The first fight where you felt you saw a raw and gritty Anthony Joshua in the build-up.
It was very clear AJ simply did not like Dominic Breazeale, and although he had beef with other opponents, none more so than Dillian Whyte, which we'll get to later, it was visibly very clear that Joshua didn't care for the American.
The build up to the fight because of that was gripping, and the fight itself was convincing from Joshua. Another stoppage, but this time in the seventh.
7) Emanuele Leo - October 5, 2013
Much like Matt Legg, a lot of people will probably see the name 'Emanuele Leo' and wonder who the hell he is.
Well this fight makes seventh on the list because it was Joshua's pro debut way back in 2013.
Start as you mean to go on, he picked up the win inside the first round.
Nevertheless, a pro debut is a special occasion no matter what the result or how it ends.
6) Alexander Povetkin - September 22, 2018
A very tough fight inside Wembley Stadium, but one Joshua got through, despite being wobbled and tested throughout by a very game and experienced Russian.
The stoppage from Joshua in the seventh was brutal, and it was the first time Povetkin had tasted the canvas.
After this evening in London, it felt like AJ was the real deal and the big bossman in the heavyweight division.
5) Dillian Whyte - December 12, 2015
Not many of Anthony Joshua's fights have led to fans asking for a rematch, but given how much Dillian Whyte has developed as a boxer since their bout four years ago, this would be an epic if they were to share the ring again.
As mentioned earlier, this fight was spicy due to the build up. They clearly didn't like each other, and they both wanted to be the face of British boxing.
Whyte was the first man in the pros to wobble AJ, but it was the Watford-born man that got the job done, knocking Whyte out with a beautiful uppercut.
Joshua vs Whyte II would be A LOT better though we feel.
4) Charles Martin - April 9, 2016
The first taste of world heavyweight glory for Anthony Joshua.
The O2 Arena was the stage for AJ to face off with Charles Martin for the IBF heavyweight title, and he duly delivered with a sensational second-round knockout.
Raised the question of how on earth Martin was a champion in the first place, but it just proved how good Joshua truly is.
3) Joseph Parker - March 31, 2018
The WBO title was one of two heavyweight belts Joshua hadn't got his hands on, but that all changed in Cardiff in 2018.
Yes, the fight itself was pretty boring. Well, very boring in fact. Yes the referee did his best to ruin the fight, but nonetheless, Joshua did what he needed to do to retain his titles, and take Joseph Parker's in the process.
It was a huge win for Joshua and his career, and it took him one step closer to unifying the whole division.....we're still waiting for that by the way....
2) Andy Ruiz Jr - December 7, 2019
We could have easily made this number one on the list, but after the man himself said it was number two, who are we to judge?
Anthony Joshua simply had to win, and boy did he deliver.
No vicious knockout like we've seen before, but probably his best ever performance boxing-wise, especially in terms of tactics.
Ruiz Jr simply had no answer for the Brit and he was left getting frustrated and angered with the situation. Joshua was living in his head rent free, and winning back his titles in the process.
A truly stunning performance from the 30-year-old, and one that will go down in history.
1) Wladimir Klitschko - April 29, 2017
One of the biggest fights in the heavyweight division for some time, and it probably was THE biggest up until Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury did battle last year.
The man who dominated a division vs the man who was up-and-coming and ready to rule.
Wembley Stadium was packed and was rocking as Wladimir Klitschko took to the ring one last time.
The action throughout was unbelievable, and it culminated in two epic rounds midway through the fight.
Round 6 was AJ's time to win, but he didn't get it done and then round 7 gave the Ukrainian a chance to rule again.
He missed that golden chance, however, and eventually it was Joshua who got the stoppage in the 11th.
So there we have it. There's our top 10 Anthony Joshua wins in his professional carer so far.
He's had 24 fights, so we've sadly had to miss some out, but in terms of importance and in terms of performance, we feel these are his top 10.
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GBO Correspondent December 3, 2020
Qantas Airways expects full year revenue hit due to pandemic
The company plans to float A$600 million in cost benefits for the current fiscal year
Qantas Airways expects an $8.1 billion revenue slump for the year ending June 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic, media reports said. However, the airline remains positive about rebounding amid a vast improvement in trading conditions in the last few months.
It is reported that the domestic capacity of the airline has been growing steadily following lockdown relaxations in Australia. Furthermore, the airline expects the capacity to rebound to around 70 percent of pre-pandemic levels by Christmas, before surging to 80 percent by the first quarter of 2021. However, the airline will remain cautious towards international flight operations until July next year, with the hope that the vaccine is launched.
It is reported that the airline has also recovery plans as part of their growth. The company plans to float A$600 million in cost benefits for the current fiscal year as part of its three-year recovery plan which was revealed in June.
Qantas Airways will also float at least A$1 billion worth of cost benefits from the 2023 financial year starting in July 2022. The airline outsourced ground handling operations in a few Australian airports. The development led to a job-cut for 2,500 employees.
The airline last month completed its 100 years of operations amid the pandemic which has compelled Qantas Airways to take serious decisions such as reducing workforce and ground few of its aircraft. The pandemic has also compelled Boeing 747s to retire. The aircraft served for 50 years.
The global aviation industry has been staggering and is finding ways to rebound from the effects of the pandemic.
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Tesla Delivered (Almost) 500,000 Vehicles in 2020
Tesla reached its target of producing 500,000+ vehicles in 2020, although it very narrowly missed its target of delivering that number of vehicles.
Electronic vehicle company Tesla’s own target set five years ago under CEO Elon Musk, of producing half a million vehicles in a year was reached in 2020 when deliveries in the fourth quarter of 180,570 pushed it over the line to the tune of 509,737 electric vehicles. As for its (guidance) target of delivering 500,000 electric vehicles in 2020, Tesla only marginally missed this milestone as it recorded delivering 499,550 electric vehicles. Near miss or not, this still represents a huge 36 per cent increase in vehicle deliveries on the previous year.
New Models Helped
The Tesla sales boost in 2020 was helped by the launch of the Model Y, the mid-sized SUV, and a general rise in demand for the company’s more affordable and newer models e.g., the Model 3 and Model Y vehicles of which it delivered 161,650 in the fourth quarter.
The increase in model Y production was enabled by Tesla operating a new car plant in Shanghai, and the addition of new battery cell suppliers (as well as its existing partner Panasonic) contributed to growth by allowing more high voltage battery packs to be added to Tesla’s electric cars.
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Future growth of Tesla car sales looks likely to be boosted by the company’s building of more new factories in 2021 in Austin, Texas and Brandenburg, Germany, although it is understood that these new factories could take 12 to 24 months to hit full capacity (slower than the Shanghai factory).
Pandemic Hit Car Industry
From March 2020 the lockdown measures, a mass loss of income and jobs, the closure of car plants and showrooms worldwide, and a huge dent in ‘consumer confidence’ hit the car industry hard and there was an inevitable downturn in the sales and registrations of new cars in 2020. Also, The Society for Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) figures showed that only 4,321 cars were registered in the UK in April 2020 during the national lockdown. This was the lowest monthly level since 1946 and marked a 97 per cent plunge in sales from the same month in 2019 and large numbers of unsold cars were stored outside waiting for an upturn in the market; for example, a vast quantity of cars estimated to be worth £35 million were stored outdoors at Heyford airbase close to Bicester, in Oxfordshire.
At the end of the first national lockdown, however, ‘pent up demand’ led to a boost in car sales, and the cleaner air experienced globally during in the lockdown helped to highlight the benefits of electric vehicles. A change in policy by the UK government in November also led to the commitment that the sale of new petrol and diesel cars will end by 2030. Looking ahead, Bloomberg NEF has forecasted that electric vehicle models will reach 31 per cent of the overall car fleet by 2040, accounting for 58 per cent of new passenger car sales and that combustion engine car sales will continue to gradually decline from their peak in 2017.
Competition For Tesla
Although Tesla’s latest figures are promising, the company faces some stiff competition going forwards in both the luxury and lower-priced car segments for the big car companies, all of whom are now committed to electric models.
These figures, the promise of new factories and battery technology, new models, hope in the marketplace for 2021 thanks to vaccines, and commitments by governments to boost the sales of electric vehicles are all good news for Tesla. Competition in the electric vehicles market is now set to go up a notch and Tesla are clearly positioning themselves to take on the big car manufacturers in different segments. The change to electric vehicles will also create challenges and opportunities for businesses involved in the supply chain and charging of electric vehicles as well as sales as customers commit to electric vehicles going forward. In the short term in many countries, however, the COVID-19 pandemic is limiting mobility and still having a serious negative influence on car sales.
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Unifor Head Says Labor Board Ruling Won’t Stop a Future Strike
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Matt Posky · Mar 15, 2019 · Edited by Moderator Mar 15, 2019
Ontario Labor Relations Board Chairman Bernard Fishbein recently ruled that Unifor's actions over the winter were illegal under the province's Labor Relations Act, stipulating that the union must "cease and desist from engaging in, authorizing or counseling unlawful strikes or engaging in any act that is likely to cause employees at the Inteva, Lear or GM plant (or any other supplier of the GM plant) or any employees having notice of this decision to engage in any unlawful strike."
However, Unifor President Jerry Dias says the board's finding that the union engaged in unlawful strikes against General Motors and its suppliers will not stop its workers from walking off the job in the future.
Officially, Unifor has complied by not conducting any strike action since early February. But Dias wants to make it clear that the demonstrations that began last November to keep Oshawa Assembly running would not be stopped by the government, according to Automotive News.
"This is an issue that will be settled at the bargaining table, not in the courtroom," Dias said. "So if anybody thinks I'm intimidated by it, I'm not. If I think about the number of injunctions I've had since last year, I could wallpaper an entire room with it."
From Automotive News:
Unifor's actions have raised the ire of General Motors Canada, which has said the automaker's decision is final and has urged the union to work with it to find soon-to-be displaced workers new jobs. GM Canada has taken to social media to respond to the union's claims and has said many of Unifor's talking points are misleading or false, including the notion that Oshawa jobs are moving to Mexico.
GM intends to end production at Oshawa as part of a larger restructuring plan. The factory, which employs about 2,600 unionized workers, builds the Cadillac XTS and Chevrolet Impala sedans. It also does final assembly on previous-generation Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra pickup bodies shipped from the United States.
Currently, Unifor seems content to hold public rallies operating outside the realm of a traditional strike. But its leadership has repeatedly said that striking will be a part of its collective bargaining strategy against GM. Still, there has yet to be a general strike and recent reports from Reuters make it seem as if the union lacks support. Unifor represents 2,600 GM workers in Oshawa and 1,800 workers at plants supplying its operations. That leaves an additional 1,500 workers without union backing that aren't particularly interested in seeing strikes.
"We're working in the GM plant, but we're not GM," said Sheri Steel, a forklift driver at CEVA Logistics. "Whenever GM shuts down, we do too. We get sent home and we lose pay."
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Opinion: Stop Calling For Alex Cruz To Quit, He’s British Airways Best Hope
by Gilbert Ott August 28, 2019 September 8, 2020
Stop Calling For Alex Cruz To Quit BA, Other Heads Need Rolling…
Of all the slow evolving, process driven industries in the world, the airline business is one more stuck in the dinosaur age than most. Decades have passed where creativity is frowned upon, innovation has been stymied and the best approach has been to keep your head down, doing the job until you rise to the highest level of your own incompetence.
In countries where it’s hard to fire people, it’s an effective strategy, at least as far as cashing your pay check goes. For British Airways, it could be argued that this area is one of the greatest forces holding the airline back, and despite being the easiest lightning rod during the latest round of emotionally powerful incidents – Alex Cruz isn’t one of them.
Correcting A Culture Takes Time
For me, it all started with a completely frivolous, borderline meaningless situation many years ago, that despite being meaningless in the grand scheme, somehow said so much about processes gone wrong. I was flying first class with my wife from Heathrow to JFK, it was her birthday and she was leaving her home. I wanted to surprise her with a birthday cake, and so I emailed the “BA YouFirst” team, which every first class passenger has access to, and I asked if I could buy a cake, or anything, to make the flight special. Note: I was happy to buy, I wasn’t asking for free cake.
“No, we can’t cater anything that’s not for everyone”.
I replied that I’d happily buy cake for the whole plane, and that too was declined.
It was the notion that a passenger in the cabin the airline goes to great lengths to pander to couldn’t even get happy birthday written on a brownie, let alone a little cake, with no actual cost to the airline, that I realized there were huge failures in the airlines approach to “customer”. Then Alex Cruz came in, and at first, I thought he was making things even worse. But he hasn’t.
Things Just Aren’t Worse, No Matter What You Wish
Alex Cruz hasn’t made things worse. British Airways is genuinely better today than it was two years ago by any actual quantifiable measure of: finance, route map, fleet, on time performance and all that sort of stuff. It’s climbed the Skytrax rankings each year, not that they should be trusted, while also jumping in net promoter score and other key metrics.
Yes, British Airways is really better today than it was two years ago by almost any actual metric. Stop trying to believe it’s worse. It’s just not statistically true, even if they f**ked up your holiday.
Does that mean you don’t have right or reason to be furious with the airline? No, of course you do.
But to paint an actual picture, a statistical, logical picture – you must remove your emotion and look at facts and figures for a brief moment. I get it though – travel is emotional and when you don’t make it to a major milestone event, or miss a holiday – it’s entirely emotional.
Since Alex Cruz came on board…
On time performance is up. Passengers care more about this than almost any other factor, and British Airways is regularly top 10 in the world of major carriers in this metric.
Terminals are better. Biometric boarding, family check in zones and first wing have made T5 far more competitive than it was and new lounges are springing up.
Wifi, better seats in premium cabins, power ports in economy and new planes are finally arriving. This takes years, not months to deliver, and the impacts of Cruz’s early moves are only just now being felt.
Fares are down, yields are up. It’s not uncommon to pay same price or similar price to Ryanair, EasyJet etc on short haul flights. British Airways virtually matches Norwegian on long haul price, while offering a loyalty program and free food.
Were you really willing to pay a £75 premium for a gin & tonic? Statistically, whatever you may say – no, you weren’t – which is why BA was in the red before, with failing short haul routes. Now, they’re breadwinners.
Great Strides Plagued By Colossal Failures…
But, yes – this is all pissed down the drain by colossal IT failures, and most recently, the pilots strike which stuck a dagger in the heart of the #BA100 PR campaign, which had most successfully spent the year building goodwill via retro liveries, acts of kindness, new fleet deliveries, lounges and more.
Everyone impacted by these issues has a right to be disgusted, mortified and furious at the airline and in regards to strikes, its pilots too. It is British Airways reputation for smooth sailing punctuality that make it one of the most valuable brands and these lingering issues are the hurricane force winds that won’t let the ship set new course. I believe many of these winds are caused by dinosaurs, without a clue where things are going.
What people hate about these issues isn’t that they happen – they happen to every airline – it’s the lack of transparency or fortitude in which they are handled. Middle managers passing on weak advice to front line employees who then try and nickel and dime customers during times of hardship is just flat out wrong. I too was enraged when I saw the airline was not fully honouring the clearly defined legal obligations set forth for such cancellations, and every time I see “100,000 people stuck as BA computer systems fail” headlines, I want to punch a wall.
You’ve Got The Wrong Guy Though
But pinning this on Alex Cruz is literally the dumbest and most short sighted thing you can do in regards to this airline. Sure, there’s always “the buck stops here” CEO approach, but with 45,000 employees, you can’t even remotely pretend to square this all on one person.
If anyone could ever try to be held accountable for all 45,000 employees though, I believe it would actually be Alex Cruz. I’ve personally seen the man walk the halls of terminals talking to customers without any entourage, and even help manage a boarding gate from time to time. I don’t think I’ve ever seen an airline leader with less entitlement and more transparency.
To the dismay and delight of colleagues, Mr. Cruz’s legacy at British Airways thus far is exactly that. An accountable, direct, hands on approach to key elements of the business et al. The “why this” questions, the dropping into random meetings and the push for better solutions is his method of operation. He’s blunt, he’s decisive and obviously not everyone is going to like that, particularly if they don’t have any solutions.
In any draconian business, some people mistake a leadership directive for “better” or “efficiency” with less and less, and that’s exactly what I believe to be the reason BA hasn’t completely turned over a new leaf.
As someone hoping to raise a family one day, and who understands the basic necessity of paying rent in an ever changing world – I don’t want to pick on anyone in particular – but why aren’t people calling for the heads of the IT department, customer service, loyalty engagement, legal compliance or any of those departments to be put on notice? How long does it take to get a freaking cup of coffee for top tier customers on short haul flights?
Wouldn’t those directly correlated roads seem like a far more logical tangent for public pitchforks than calling for someone who absolutely doesn’t make the day to day decisions in those areas to be gone?
A Brave New Frontier For Airlines
Perhaps this is all why airlines such as Lufthansa have spoken of entirely shifting the organization of their business, cutting entire departments in favour of new airline teams that don’t yet exist, which better serve the future of aviation.
I’m pissed off at whichever customer service manager or VP gave front line staff a directive not to book people onto non partner airlines, when they were legally obliged to during pilot strikes. Why not just come out transparent and apologetic? If that came from the top, I’m even more upset. I shouldn’t be needing to tell customers what BA’s legal obligations are to them, perhaps an outreach team could be the new great idea for BA.
Simon Calder wouldn’t even need to work anymore if airlines just fulfilled their legal obligations. It’s the law, and BA should honour the law.
And then there’s IT…
Alex Cruz is one of the most tech focused airline executives, which makes chronic IT failures even more painful for all involved. They may have the best systems or boarding technology in some areas, but there’s clearly a part of the business where the IT team just isn’t cutting it.
I cannot help but be enraged when computer systems fail and strand passengers. For anyone who actually does follow the airline industry, this is hardly a “BA only” thing, so don’t be daft enough to think that this is only BA and that somehow they are special. They’re absolutely not, and IT failures continue to hamper other airlines and airports around the world with alarming frequency.
The same goes for data breaches, where British Airways is hardly alone either, joined by entities including the NHS, NORAD (US Missile Defence) Yahoo, Facebook, Mastercard, Marriott, Cathay Pacific… you get the gist. Pretending that these problems are isolated to BA is simply inaccurate, no matter how much you’d like them to be to fulfil the “BA shouldn’t be a flag carrier anymore” narrative that’s fun to tell your friends.
Alex Cruz Didn’t Take Your Flowers Away
“Find ways to reduce cost” doesn’t inherently mean take things away. It may mean “find better florists, or switch roses for lily’s or orchids”.
Company sources speaking on the condition of anonymity have indicated that the “cost cutting” reputation Cruz has garnered in the public is not entirely fair, or remotely deserved. Like any business facing headwinds and red circles, it was crucial for a leader to find creative approaches to better ways of doing business, and I’m sure orders were passed down to find ways to save money when Alex Cruz came in. But again, that doesn’t mean take away – it means do better. Naturally, squares can’t rectify this circle.
As a frequent paying customer, I am happier with British Airways now than I was two years ago when Alex Cruz took the job. I can fly BA on short haul because it’s usually a similar price, and since I do stay brand loyal, my experience with the new first wing at T5 is a competitive experience advantage, which keeps me loyal. On long haul, my experiences are slowly getting better too. There have been improvements in every cabin. Yes, they did start at the front of the plane, but new premium economy amenities and a better focus on economy comforts are now in full swing.
They’re catching up to others, just perhaps slower than some may like.
I wouldn’t risk my reputation for many people in the world, but I believe in Alex Cruz as a thought leader of travel, who has time and time again iterated within his career to bring crucial change in rapidly shifting environments. Few businesses on earth are as fluid as the airline business as we head into 2020. His stewardship is a large reason I continue to fly with BA. There are other airlines, some even intimately connected to British Airways which I try not to fly if ever possible, because of their current stewardship. I do have choices, as do you.
Cruz was early onto the power of online booking in previous roles and technology has been a key focus throughout his tenure. BA was one of the first airlines to champion biometric boarding, which can board a double decker A380 in 20 minutes. It’s been the first to do electric airplane tows, which cut emissions at airports and the airline is working with shell to turn waste into jet fuel. There’s clever stuff happening, and I believe Alex Cruz is a central figure in turning these crucial stones of aviation future over.
But yeah, it all means nothing if you don’t get where you’re supposed to on time.
British Airways has challenges to overcome, but the rumours of departure for Alex Cruz and calls for his name in resignation aren’t the solution, they are counter productive. It’s fun to find a figurehead to blame, but operational change takes years, and a lot of change was needed here. There are probably still heads that *should* roll, which may have reached their highest level of incompetence, or rather are just so tone deaf to what passengers expect that they are incapable of success.
This airline needed a big kick in the ass, it needs to turn old thought processes into new innovation and of all the people in the airline industry that might be able to pull it off, Alex Cruz, by my estimation is amongst the best equipped. I do hear Jonny Ives is a free agent these days, but other than the guy who brought the iPhone and the iMac, I don’t see many people who could bring BA to a position of a truly leading and innovative airline like Alex Cruz can.
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John Atherton says:
A good post full of some positive observations however it glosses over the negatives. All the positives mean nothing if your business class cabin feels like something out of the last century, the floor and seat is filthy, your flight is delayed because they cannot get the archaic entertainment system to work and the staff treat the situation as if its an average working day.
Opus says:
Again. This is irrelevant as club suite has been introduced and is been rolled out across the fleet You BA complainers come with the same arguments every time and they’re being worked on so it’s irrelevant. Look for something else. Every airline phases those kind of situations on a small number of flights every day. Because you happened to be on one. Sorry. But this is really irrelevant.
Harry Hv says:
One word sums up BA’s attitude: CONFORMANCE. A very important idea at BA. Does this mean BA will conform to, say, EC261? Or that their planes will be punctual? Er, no. It’s the CUSTOMER which must CONFORM to a silly deadline or be thrown off the flight. You’ll be barred from passing security 35 minutes ahead of scheduled departure, even if your plane is not yet at the gate. This spiteful attitude to latecomers and to customers in general, this isn’t some artefact of BA’s workforce. It’s orders from senior management ie Alex Cruz. Ugh.
I’m sorry this comment is daft? Is it BAs fault you’re late to your flight? Sorry about that though. Yes sometimes they’re delays but they’re one of most punctual airlines in the world. One a day to day basis BA will get to 90% of its destinations on time. So please.
Joe M says:
I used to use BA alot. But I have had a multitude of problems flying to Moscow with them.
In December last year there was around 1-2cm of snow at Heathrow. 300 flights were cancelled. We boarded our flight. They cancelled the flight while we were on board. Then said it was no longer cancelled as they would bring in a new crew. Then they cancelled again. We spent 10 and half hours on board a plane that never moved. For a 4 hour flight. We then spent 3 hours at immigration.
This could be put down to Heathrow. But BA had no staff in the airport. No hotels. I booked one in London then travelled back the next morning to try again. My bags never made it. Arrived two days later with one of my snowboards ripped apart. I didn’t manage to claim to for the baggage in time. But was told that my hotel would not be reimbursed due to extreme weather. 1-2cm of snow in December.
More recently their IT systems failed. I spent three hours on the phone in total to them to re book my flights with them. Despite one of my flights being cancelled they made me to pay a change fee.
Honestly I want to see them do well. But Aeroflot have been proving themselves a more reliable airline and have excellent customer service(phone lines at least).
It’s a strange time.
Charlie Whiskey says:
I have no idea what management or leadership experience the author of this article has, but it has many inconsistencies and inaccuracies, and takes a too simplistic an approach.
1. “Yes, British Airways is really better today than it was two years ago by almost any actual metric.”
“Yes, British Airways is really better today than it was two years ago by almost any actual metric”.
Staff morale? IT? Customer service? Or are they not important ?
2. Bearing in mind Cruz is the boss and supposed to lead, how do you square this statement :
” But pinning this on Alex Cruz is literally the dumbest and most short sighted thing you can do in regards to this airline. Sure, there’s always “the buck stops here” CEO approach, but with 45,000 employees, you can’t even remotely pretend to square this all on one person.”
With this one:
” .but why aren’t people calling for the heads of the IT department, customer service, loyalty engagement, legal compliance or any of those departments to be put on notice?”
Indeed! Why exactly isn’t Cruz doing this? It’s an absolutely critical element of his responsibilities as boss!
And what about this statement:
“Company sources speaking on the condition of anonymity have indicated that the “cost cutting” reputation Cruz has garnered in the public is not entirely fair, or remotely deserved.”
How does that sit with this from Alex Cruz in January 2017:
“We’re always going to be reducing costs, but there’s no more programs. It’s now injected into the DNA. If one particular day we don’t come up with an idea to reduce our costs, then we’re not doing our job.”
There are good points in this article, but to have as your main thrust the polishing of Cruz’s reputation and ego is quite the wrong approach to a complex and somewhat tragic set of circumstances.
journeyingjohn says:
I’ve read it, I fundamentally disagree. At a time when BA are making record profits, they are breaking the law with respect to compensation, totally failing to deliver customer services on the ground and systemically degrading the cusomter expereince whilst introducing new ways to rinse them at every opportunity. Densifying cabins, reducing the onboard amenities (Screens in short/midhaul? Washrooms per passenger? Catering volume and choice?) and most of all they still fly filthy, badly maintained cabins and charge a premium for the privilege.
One of the roles of the CEO is to lead and manage the heads of “the IT department, customer service, loyalty engagement, legal compliance…” If they are culpable, given the frequency of failures in those and many other departments since Snr Cruz joined because he hasn’t taken action to manage their performance.
“The advert initiatives don’t match the brand and what it delivers. They just make us realise what BA once was and no longer is. You can’t advertise yourself out of a bad reputation.”- https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/aug/31/pilot-strike-british-airways-passenger-anger-computer-failures
The ONLY reason that he’s got away with such a sh*tshow is the inherited dominance of slots…
“With no alternative hub airports in the UK, Heathrow is the only convenient choice for millions of passengers. And with no space for additional landing slots, BA is the only convenient choice at Heathrow.
It is this stranglehold that allows Walsh and Cruz to treat their customers so harshly year after year.”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/martinrivers/2019/08/27/british-airways-centenary-becomes-a-pr-nightmare/
A bit of a change of opinion no?
https://www.godsavethepoints.com/open-letter-to-british-airways-ceo-alex-cruz/
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Gilbert Ott says:Article author
Absolutely. If you read that, and the further correspondence, my opinion was changed, as anyone seeking answers or metric based solutions will find that happening from time to time.
If he’s doing such a great job why have shares lost a third of their value in the past 18months despite the record profits and enormous dividends?
Could it be that investors understand you can’t get away with treating your customers like sh^t forever?
Or perhaps that they understand the current excessive profits are unsustainable and bought at the cost of destroying the customer experience and brand?
Dev says:
Alex Cruz has not been involved in the selection of aircraft for BA. Willie Walsh selected the B777X and B737Max. The A380 and A350 were selected before Señor Cruz came to BA from Veiling. He has brought the Veuling business model to BA under pressure from Walsh and will never be able to run a full service premium airline without constantly being pressured by Walsh on anything and everything. Besides, he is not in a position to learn on the job, although he appears to be doing so in the face of constant feedback from frequent fliers, of which I have been one for 20 years.
A P says:
You really have absolutely NO idea what you are talking about!
Myyaris says:
Interesting view, but my sentiments are after over 50 years of air travel is that BA is taking one step forward and two backwards. I realise that the world moves on but bring back Sir Colin. He was a real leader. And the news today re Wally Walsh!
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SUCCESSION – Season 3
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Season three will consist of eight episodes, confirmed by Cox in a recent interview.
I’ve heard that Barry won’t start filming until next year, so maybe the same applies to Succession.
Ugh NO I want 10 episodes. I’m sad.
mafro987
One of the best things about the show is the changing of setting every episode, as well as the international episodes they do (the best episode of the season set on a yacht moored off a Croatian island for example). Covid-19 will inevitably affect this, but hopefully not too drastically.
Best International Feature: Instinct (The Netherlands)
Best Actress: Carice van Houten (Instinct)
This year’s fall awards will be heavily affected, even next year’s Emmys.
I agree about this year’s fall awards (I think they’ll just be dominated by Perry Mason, The Crown, Ozark and Ratched on the Drama side and Schitt’s Creek and Dead to Me on the Comedy side).
I can see something like Succession or The Morning Show making Emmy eligibility because it’s already written, can be filmed under social distancing guidelines and won’t take long to film. I can’t see Killing Eve or The Handmaid’s Tale returning.
Dan Backslide
I hope that they don’t rush this and reduce the episode count. I’d rather they take their time and make it as good as possible than try to make eligibility.
June 14, 2020 at 1:43 pm #1203532694
Haven’t watched this but plan to when I have time.
https://youtu.be/g7xYYPaRh3Y
Stumbled upon this. It’s the most bizarre yet funniest thing I have seen all year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-6K2CjJ6dk
Royco
TV Guide (Jun 15) – Everything We Know About Succession Season 3 on HBO
I guess they could include Covid-19 as a storyline and finish it on time to compete at the winter awards or at least for it to air by May?
Jeremy Strong: I have lobbied hard to set [“Succession”] very squarely in this [pandemic] moment that we’re in. There’s [nearly 21 million] people unemployed in America, and I just read that there’s an $800 takeaway sushi box at Masa. And that is something certainly that speaks right to the core of the show that I’m working on. I would think that the writers have to write from this place that we’re in. Surely, it’s the stuff of great and real drama.
FYC:
Tobias Menzies, The Crown | J. Smith-Cameron, Succession
Christine Baranski, The Good Fight | Matthew Macfadyen, Succession
Royco wrote:
TV Guide (Jun 15) – Everything We Know About Succession Season 3 on HBO Jeremy Strong: I have lobbied hard to set [“Succession”] very squarely in this [pandemic] moment that we’re in. There’s [nearly 21 million] people unemployed in America, and I just read that there’s an $800 takeaway sushi box at Masa. And that is something certainly that speaks right to the core of the show that I’m working on. I would think that the writers have to write from this place that we’re in. Surely, it’s the stuff of great and real drama.
I hope this means they can get this on air by the Spring.
CateNicole
August 7, 2020 at 10:18 pm #1203633723
Strong mentioned in an actor’s roundtable interview that they’re likely incorporating COVID-19 into the storyline. Kidman mentioned wanting to do this with BLL3 too.
Edit: Ah I see on the last page someone beat me to this.
August 8, 2020 at 5:07 am #1203633926
They’re making BLL3? Lol.
CateNicole wrote:
If wishing made it so Jeremy…
Jeremy Strong (back in June): I have lobbied hard to set [“Succession”] very squarely in this [pandemic] moment that we’re in. There’s [nearly 21 million] people unemployed in America, and I just read that there’s an $800 takeaway sushi box at Masa. And that is something certainly that speaks right to the core of the show that I’m working on. I would think that the writers have to write from this place that we’re in. Surely, it’s the stuff of great and real drama.
Sarah Snook (earlier this week): I think [show creator] Jesse [Armstrong] wants to be delicate about it and just classy. I think it’s a thing that everybody’s aware of, and audiences are really intuitive these days. Even just seeing a mask in the background of something or hand sanitizer, those things that have become part of our daily lives, those things maybe, but nothing that is so overt that is going to really tackle it head on, because that’s not the show. We want to see the Roys doing the thing that they’ve been doing that we love, not pivoting towards a pandemic story.
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The Discovery Channel’s “Shark Week” (for reasons beyond my understanding) often grabs a lot of attention and interest. Well, the world of golf may soon have its own Shark weeks and, more importantly, Shark weekends.
Greg Norman has been approached to lead some of Fox Sports’ recently acquired rights to the United States Golf Association‘s array of championships.
While Fox Sports will become the United States Golf Association’s “principal domestic media partner,” covering the U.S. Open, U.S. Women’s Open and U.S. Senior Open Championships along with its national amateur championships, it is unclear how large a role Norman could play in the network’s golf coverage due to his already numerous business ventures. It seems as if the U.S. Open is the key role Norman would anchor.
The network begins broadcasting the U.S. Open in 2015, so there is time for Norman to negotiate the terms.
Norman would be another highly recognizable name that Fox could boast in its sports coverage, which will soon also feature Fox Sports 1 — a channel launching on Aug. 17 as a competitor to ESPN with a range of offerings including live sports, sports news, analysis and additional daily programming.
The network has already added former athletes such as Andy Roddick, Gary Payton and Donovan McNabb to serve as Fox Sports Live (a SportsCenter style show) analysts. Norman’s potential gig, however, would mostly likely be a grander stage, leading analysis for the network’s golf coverage that will feature major championship golf for the first time. The agreement between Fox Sports and the USGA runs through 2026.
So, how would Norman do with the job?
We know he’s not shy about his opinions, a trait shared with current U.S. Open analyst Johnny Miller. Recently, Norman has become newsworthy when he’s chiming in on an issue, such as Tiger Woods’ drop at the Masters or golf’s anti-doping procedures, both coming this spring. Other opinions voiced by Norman in the not-so-distant past include that Woods was “intimidated” by McIlroy, and criticism of Fred Couples’ President’s Cup pick of Woods in 2011.
Nonetheless, Norman is a historic name in the game of golf: former world No. 1 for 331 weeks, a 20-time PGA Tour winner, a two-time British Open champion and a 2001 World Golf Hall of Fame inductee. He’s experienced the highs and lows in major championship golf. He fired a final-round 64 to claim his second British Open title, while his heartbreaking losses at majors are well documented, including a trio of disappearing third-round leads in 1986.
While he may provide unfiltered comments on the game and its players at times, through his career he was one of those players under criticism and in the spotlight. He’s been there before and could provide a strong analysis of what players are thinking, feeling and experiencing down the stretch of a major championship weekend.
“Fox shares our vision to seek fresh thinking and innovative ideas to deliver championship golf,” USGA President Glen D. Nager stated in the USGA and Fox’s initial announcement.
As a golfer-turned-businessman, Norman could be a strong contributor to the “fresh thinking” the partnership is looking for.
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The blunder from down under… first of all the fact that FOX is going to broadcast this sucks. Just watching baseball and all of the unnecessary sound effects they add to graphics is ridicules. FOX = Seinfeld reruns and I’m happy with that. Secondly, Greg Norman can’t give an unbiased opinion. Specifically about Tiger – he hates him. FOX and Norman… dumb and dumber
NOT A FAN OF NORMAN AT ALL
I think I’m fine with everybody who is NOT Johnny Miller
This says it all for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umDr0mPuyQc
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Two wonderful examples on the PGA Tour are Sung Jae Im and Justin Thomas. We explain how this takeaway waggle brings your awareness full circle to how your backswing matches the direction you want to start the ball on. With awareness and confirmation that the backswing fits and that you don’t have to rush through it. You get a sense of calm that you can accomplish the task you set out and your chances at consistency have increased exponentially.
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With so many new iron releases being announced, host Ryan Barath gets deep into the world of iron design and specs—most specifically loft.
The topic also revolves around trying to fit an iron-based on handicap and why that is a flawed model.
The death of the 3-iron and what it means for your bag setup
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The 3-iron is almost extinct. It sounds like an odd statement, but it’s very true. Don’t believe me? Go try and buy one in a set. They are not easily found.
As we evaluate this topic, I’ll refrain from specs from “players” clubs as these are not the irons normally purchased. Yeah, it might skew the data, but even the players capable of playing the long irons are opting out of the 3 iron. And let’s be honest, should any of us be playing a blade 3-iron?
Mizuno only offers 4-PW in the JPX line now. Titleist only offers a 3-iron in T100s, while the rest are void of 3-irons. TaylorMade provides 4-PW in the P790, P790Ti, and P770. Callaway has done the same, only offering a 3-iron in the “players line” of clubs, while the rest is again void of the-iron. Cobra golf has also followed suit.
So are 3-irons just too hard to hit? Is that why no one is buying them, thus causing the OEMs to stop making them? The only ones left to buy are the “players” 3 irons, and those aren’t even reasonable unless you’re a professional.
What if I told you we were being deceived? What if I told you the 3-iron is still very much alive in all the iron sets available but under the guise of a different number?
Let’s hop into the “wayback machine” and take a quick look at the history of iron lofts.
The year is 1970, and the vast majority of irons available are blades. You know, the razor-sharp leading edges that are ready to break your wrist with a deep divot.
The image above is an actual snippet from a catalog from the ’70s. At this point, the 1-iron was virtually extinct, and in 1975, Lee Trevino was immortalized by his joke about how God couldn’t hit a 1-iron, which typically fell in the 18-degree range at the time. 2-irons were standard issue in the set, and the lowest loft you might find is 20 degrees.
Then the ’80s came, and things started to progress. As you might expect, lofts started to decrease. It wasn’t because of flight windows, or launch numbers, because they didn’t have that kind of technology readily available to measure those attributes. It was simply a quest for distance.
Then in the ’90s, you’d pretty much see all iron sets with 21-degree 3-irons, down to 48-degree PW’s, and 21 degrees being the norm for the lowest lofted 3-iron. 2-irons at this time were typically 18 degrees and available by request only.
Then came the 2000’s, an era we all should be familiar with. This is where things started to get interesting. Not only because lofts continued to be strengthened, but because the hybrid became a new option to replace the long irons. Adams Golf made a killing as it perfected this golf club, creating the Idea line that was in the bags of most of the senior tour players and many of the PGA Tour players. These were a fan favorite at retail too. The hybrid was an easy long iron to hit and quickly started to replace 3-irons in golf bags across the country and even on tour.
By this time the pitching wedge lofts started to get pushed to 46 degrees, which was a big jump, to be honest. In the 1970s, MacGregor was making pitching wedges with 49 degrees of loft. So, for the 90’s to be around 48 degrees, it wasn’t too much of a shock. But in the 2000s, we now saw PW’s drop to 46 degrees; a half club stronger. This is where the downfall began, in my opinion.
The first decade of the 21st century needed the gap wedge, also known as the approach wedge or utility wedge or just plain old “wedge.” Now, keep in mind, this club wasn’t anything new. The gap wedge existed ever since the beginning because at 50-52 degrees it was simply a pitching wedge from the ’70s. But it became a necessary element for the bag since the lofts of every iron were starting to move farther and farther away from the sand wedge.
Now in 2020, the average loft of the PW is 43.5 degrees, and the average 4-iron loft is 20.6 degrees. Turns out, the 4-iron from 2020 is .3 degrees stronger than the average 2-iron (20.9 degrees) from 1970. We have come full circle! Instead of maintaining those classic numbers, of 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, PW, the new sets are labeled 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, P, G.
I wonder how many golfers out there carry a 4-iron thinking it’s a club they can hit? Probably too many! Obviously, the 3-iron is dead at this point, since it would actually carry the loft of the elusive 1-iron Trevino claimed was unhittable!
Now, it’s time to discuss how we got to this point. You’ll hear a lot of companies talk about “flight windows” or “launch angles” and how it was changed by engineering, lowering CG’s, and increasing speed through thin faces. Some will talk about how the ball has changed, and it just launches higher, and it requires the lofts to be strengthened, or it will just go too high!
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but that is all a bunch of baloney, and here is why: They started making gap wedges as part of the set. If the launch was too high or the window was too different, why make a matching gap wedge with the same technology and have the loft of a pitching wedge from the 1990s? Wouldn’t that launch or window then be too high for that club too? And yet you still need to buy another gap wedge to fit the 52-degree range. If the average golfer bought a 2020 game improvement set today, they would find the set make up to be 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, PW (43.5 degrees), Gap #1 (48.6 degrees), Gap #2 (52 degrees). That means if you happen to carry a 56 and a 60 degree, you now have the same amount of label wedges (5) as you do irons (5)!
Five wedges in the bag! Does anyone think this is weird?
Furthermore, when was a higher launching iron shot a bad thing? Wouldn’t average golfers benefit from a steeper angle of descent so the golf ball stops quicker on the green?
I conducted a study where I tested a Titleist 716 MB 8-iron with 39 degrees of loft to a TaylorMade P790 9-iron with 40 degrees of loft. All the data was captured on the Foresight GC2 launch monitor. It wasn’t a perfect test since they didn’t have the same shaft or loft, but my findings were surprising none the less. They went the same distance, almost down to the decimal. The Titleist went 165.2 yards, and the TaylorMade went 165.1 yards. Launch was only .6 degrees different while peak height was less than four feet different. So, unless you are Tiger Woods, you are not noticing a difference out on the golf course.
Some of you might think, “so, the label on the bottom of the club changed, it’s all going the same distance. So, what’s the big deal?” To me, it’s the confusion it creates more than anything. By decreasing the lofts, you’re just making the numbered iron go farther, and you are creating even bigger problems by having large gaps with the sand wedge when all amateurs need those clubs. It’s also putting clubs into the hands of golfers when they have no business hitting, like the 4-iron with 20 degrees of loft. Titleist has already made a T400 5-iron with 20 degrees of loft, and that’s just silly.
There also is the argument that golfers love distance, and when they start playing and can hit a 7-iron relatively far, it helps grow the game. Growing the game isn’t a bad thing, but if they are new to the game, they shouldn’t have any preconceived notions of how far to hit a 7-iron, and that means loft at that point becomes irrelevant.
I will not refute that a 40-degree lofted game improvement iron will be slightly longer than an identical lofted players club, but I think you’d be surprised to see the actual difference is a maximum of about three yards longer. The technology works, but by no means is it so substantial that we need to change the label on the bottom of the golf club.
The bottom line is that loft is king, regardless of the technology involved, and I have seen, but one equipment company make a change backwards! This is TaylorMade with their P770 irons. In comparison the P790, they increased the loft by one degree in the short irons and up to two degrees in the long irons, to add height and spin to the irons to improve performance. Imagine that, more spin and height are an advantage! And that was backed by their testing and their data.
Now to even further nail down my point, it is worth noting that TaylorMade Golf offers the highest lofted Pitching Wedge in the industry at 49 degree, which are in the Tiger lofts of the P7TW irons. That same iron set has a 22.5-degree 3-iron. At 22.5 degrees, it is typically the lowest-lofted iron in the golf bag of the best iron player on the PGA Tour in 2019. Of course, he has the skill to play an iron with lower loft, but the point that history reveals to us is that the effective loft of playability for an iron is about 22 degrees and higher. Anything lower lofted than that is typically replaced with a hybrid. This is not just a trend for the amateur golfer either, and it is even happening on tour with the best players in the world.
We will probably never see the lofts rolled back, but the least we can do is update Lee Trevino’s quote, “if you ever find yourself in a thunderstorm, lift up your 4-iron, because not even God can hit a 4-iron.”
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James Martin’s American Adventure: Everything you need to know about James Martin’s new show
Rosie Conroy May 24, 2017 7:00 am
James Martin‘s American Adventure is the latest in a string of exciting new shows to be announced for the well-loved former host of Saturday Kitchen.
After resigning from BBC One’s Saturday morning breakfast show following 10 years at the helm, James Martin thanked fans for their support and revealed that hosting the show for so many years was a ‘lifestyle choice’ that he now needed a break from.
However, it would appear as though the chef couldn’t resist coming back to our screens pretty quickly, as James has now been announced as the presenter of multiple foodie programmes set to air this year!
There’ll be another run of James Martin’s French Adventure, his new weekend show Saturday Morning with James Martin and of course this latest announcement – James Martin’s American Adventure.
Presumably being thought up following the success of his previous programme, James Martin’s French Adventure, James Martin’s American Adventure will most likely adopt the same style. It’s thought that the chef will be travelling around the country to explore the most delicious dishes from all over America, while bringing us some of his favourite recipes from across the pond at the same time.
Few details have been released about the show but it has been reported that it will follow James as he makes his from LA to New York, and we’re expecting some pretty fantastic food if that’s the case!
James has revealed he’s ‘really excited’ about his upcoming new shows, and added that the choice of country for James Martin’s American Adventure really appealed to him.
‘America is a place I have always loved and the chance to go and explore it both for Daytime and Peak at ITV is one I simply couldn’t resist!’ the chef revealed.
James Martin’s American Adventure recipes: What will he be making?
We don’t have any details of the specific American recipes James will be whipping up on his new show yet, but we’re allowed to dream. We think there’ll be plenty of indulgent recipes like fried chicken, waffles and bacon, New York-style pizza and maybe even a handful of Mexican recipes thrown in too, in the form of Tex-Mex favourites like chilli cheese fries, tacos and jalapeño poppers.
When it comes to the puds we’re confident James won’t disappoint and we have a feeling he’ll be making his famous New York baked cheesecake at some point as well as maybe treating us to indulgent sweet treats like cookies and doughnuts.
When is James Martin’s American Adventure on?
It’s not yet known exactly when James Martin’s American Adventure will air, but there have been reports that it will be given both daytime and peak slots.
We can’t wait to see what James has in store, and we’ll update you with any news on the new show just as soon we hear any!
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Small change big change
Dormant Client Account Appeal
What is the Small change big change appeal?
Small amounts of money are lying untouched in dormant client accounts that could add up to a significant amount to help us support our hospice.
Haven House Children’s Hospice is seeking the help of solicitors based in North and North East London, West Essex and East Hertfordshire who may have dormant client accounts holding up to £500, where the client is untraceable. We would like to ask those firms if they would consider donating their dormant client accounts to Haven House.
Although many solicitor firms might consider the amounts generated from those funds to be quite small, collectively they would make a significant contribution our fundraising.
Do I have to get Solicitors Regulation Authority Permission?
Unclaimed client account balances are sums of money which lie dormant in the client accounts of many firms of solicitors, often untouched for years. It may be that the rightful owner cannot be traced, or perhaps they will not provide instructions on what should be done with the monies. An attempt may have been made to return the monies to the client by cheque, but it remains un-cashed.
In 2008 the Solicitors Regulatory Authority relaxed the rules on payment of unclaimed client balances of up to £500 to charity. Law Firms must return balances on client accounts promptly, as soon as there is no reason to retain the funds. However, where the rightful owner cannot be traced, rule 22(2A) of the Solicitors Accounts Rules permits balances up to £500 to be paid to charity without SRA permission providing that certain safeguards are met; this includes taking and recording adequate steps to identify and return the funds to the rightful owner. Amounts over £500 can also be paid to charity provided SRA permission is granted.
Unclaimed client account balances cannot be used for any purpose and are a burden to financial managers who have to account for these balances to auditors annually – donating them to charity makes sense and Haven House would be very grateful for even the smallest amounts – small change can make big changes.
We are more than happy to give Haven House Children’s Hospice our residual balances, knowing this will help to continue the vital work they do for local life-limited and their families.
Thirsk Winton, local solicitors
Why Haven House Children’s Hospice?
If you are a solicitor working in North London, North East London, West Essex or East Hertfordshire your clients are likely to live in the local community. Our work is based in your local community; we provide care and support free of charge to children and their families who are living with life-limiting or life-threatening conditions.
Recognising your Contribution
If you choose to support us in this way, we will be truly grateful and we will:
Send a thank you certificate
Provide copy for use on your website or brochure showing you are supporting Haven House
Mention you in our wide reaching social media channels
Information on the size of donations will remain confidential, unless agreed otherwise.
How to donate your residue funds for our appeal
To find how to donate to the appeal you can contact the Solicitors Regulation Authority to request a template letter to send your donation with a covering letter. The letter is to be sent to client account holders in accordance with SRA rules for releasing dormant client accounts.
The SRA rules state that law firms must make “reasonable” efforts to contact the client account holder before funds can be released. The template letter provides an indicative basis which law firms can use to make attempts to engage with account holders.
Please make cheques payable to Haven House Foundation and send to IGM Team, Haven House Children’s Hospice, The White House, High Road, Woodford Green, Essex IG8 9LB with a covering letter stating clearly the donation is from your dormant client account.
Alternatively, please get in touch for our banking details so that you can transfer the donations easily.
Please include your firm’s name and ‘Small Change Big Change’ in the transfer reference.
Do we need SRA authorisation to pay unclaimed client balances to charity?
(a) Balances up to £500
Solicitors do not need SRA approval to pay amounts not exceeding £500 to charity provided the firm complies with rule 22 (2A) of the Solicitors Account Rules:
By making reasonable attempts to establish the identity of the money’s owner;
By making adequate attempts to ascertain the proper destination of the money and to return it to the rightful owner, unless the reasonable costs of doing so are likely to be excessive:
For example, writing to the owners last known address and attempting to make contact by phone, searching the electoral roll and, in the case of business clients, searching Companies House;
By paying the funds to charity
By recording the above steps taken, and keeping all relevant documentation such as the attempted correspondence, and the receipts from the charity; and
By keeping a central register in accordance with rule 32(13A)
(b) Balances over £500
Solicitors do need SRA authorisation under rule 22 (1) (H) from the Professional Ethics Guidance Team [email protected]
Solicitors Regulation Authority, Professional Ethics, Ipsley Court, Barrington Close, Redditch B98 9TD or DX 19114 Redditch.
Haven House Children’s Hospice will provide a written indemnity to all donating law firms as required by the SRA.
Teena Antoniou
Updated: 22nd April, 2020
Author: Teena Antoniou
We need you now more than ever. Leave a gift in your Will and help us be here for the future.
Local Hospice Lottery
Play the Local Hospice Lottery in support of Haven House and be in with the chance of winning up to £10,000.
By giving a small amount on a regularly, you help us to commit to longer-term projects.
In memoriam giving
A donation in memory of a loved one is a special way to honour their memory. You could consider asking for donations instead of, or as well as, flowers.
One way of supporting Haven House and families is to consider asking for donations instead of, or as well as, gifts when celebrating an occasion such as a birthday, wedding or anniversary.
Tree of Recognition
Our Tree of Recognition offers you a unique and meaningful way to mark an occasion or celebration, to remember a loved one, or to simply show your support for those we help.
Celebrate & Donate
A wonderful way to support Haven House is to consider asking for donations at special family occasions.
Adding a leaf to our tree is a unique and meaningful way to celebrate or mark an occasion and support local families.
Would you like to find out more about Philanthropy at Haven House?
As members of 'The Partners' you will join our vision and invest, lead and give to support our hospice.
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Up to 20% Price Hike of Solid Fuel Expected in Bulgaria
More people in Bulgaria will start using solid fuel for heating due to the expected electricity price hike, according to the experts.
Wood and coal, however, are also expected to get a price increase of up to 20%, Bulgarian National Television (BNT) informs.
In the region of Blagoevgrad, for example, most people use solid fuel. In recent years, prices in the region have barely changed. Prices of the different types of coal vary from 180 levs to 350 levs per tonne and 0.6 cubic meters of wood are sold for 50 levs.
According to the director of the company Ivan Rizov, even if there is a price hike of solid fuel, the number of people using wood and coal for heating will increase, because it is still a cheaper alternative.
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Hackney Gazette > News > Local Council
Budget cuts passed after anti-austerity protest outside Hackney Town Hall
Published: 11:34 AM March 3, 2016 Updated: 10:38 AM October 14, 2020
An anti-austerity protest on the steps of the town hall preceeded the meeting - Credit: Archant
Angry protesters couldn’t stop councillors from passing budget cuts at Hackney Town Hall last night.
Mayor Jules Pipe has backed the proposals - Credit: Archant
Council tax was raised for the first time in 10 years at the annual budget-setting meeting, which followed an anti-austerity rally outside the building.
Two women who managed to negotiate the heavy security then vented their frustrations when the issue came up inside the chamber, before being escorted from the room for disrupting proceedings.
“You’re disrupting people’s lives by approving cuts,” they shouted. “People don’t want austerity.”
Their claims sparked an angry response from mayor Jules Pipe, who hit back: “Why don’t you sit down and listen to some facts instead of just shouting platitudes.”
About 20 people gathered to campaign against council budget cuts - Credit: Archant
He then addressed the protest when they had left.
He said: “I really wish those people could stay, their anti rhetoric needs challenging.”
The mayor said the Tories’ “ideological attack” on public services meant it was impossible to continue making up the shortfall and a rise in council tax was the first of many hard decisions.
He pointed out £19 of the £20 rise would be offset by the Greater London Authority (GLA) precept ending - meaning the rise was effectively £1.
No frontline cuts to children’s centres or libraries were being made, the mayor added, before highlighting the borough’s 347 looked after children and 248 youngsters on child protection plans would not feel the effects of the cuts.
“Services for these 600 people are not political weapons,” he said.
The council has to make a further £38m in savings over the next four years due to central government cuts, which since 2010 equate to £138m.
“We have to ensure the residents understand what the borough faces,” said mayor Pipe. “People who think bankrupting the council will save services are misleading the public and equating it to what the Tories are doing is wrong and juvenile.”
He referenced the administration of 15 years ago, which he said cost the council billions in potential investment by spending money it didn’t have.
The two opposition parties both proposed amendments which were swiftly rejected.
Cllr Simche Steinberger (Con, Springfield) argued the council publication Hackney Today should be cut. He questioned why the council was “wasting so much money on this absolute rubbish.”
Cllr Abraham Jacobson (Lib Dem, Cazenove) said his party did the most for the people of Hackney and accused the Labour members of being “walnut whipped”, before ranting about Jeremy Corbyn, saying he “hates to be British”.
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Forums / Games / Halo Infinite
OP X11 XOMAN
OP 1/3/2020
X11 XOMAN
I would try to make a Halo game where everyone can customize their spartan the way I would do this is you would find the armor in the game and you would be able to find it in the easiest difficulty setting none of this being only able to find it in legendary bull crap the reason is like I said before not everyone has internet or can afford internet
tuhin94
ODST - Onyx
What does Legendary have to do with internet? But for real, why should players who play on Legendary not get rewarded? Doesn't make much sense.
YukiryuFR
Marine - Iron
tuhin94 wrote:
I agree, armor unlocked as a reward after completing Legendary Campaign feel like it is earned and give the player satisfaction over completing it.
Legendary can be extremely difficult if you play in solo but is also rewarding because you acquire better reflexes and a better understanding of the levels you're playing.
You may die multiple times but you will gain much more experience as a player (but Legendary with friends is always fun).
EGO SUM OPTIMUS
Periods are your Friends; use them.
Banana InATux77
There definitely needs to be a proper reward system. Want chiefs armour? Complete the campaign. Want Mark 5? Do it legendary. Mark 4? Do it LASO. Want Gungnir? Get a double kill with one splasher shot in pvp. Want Scout? Get sniper kills. Want recon? Get assassinations or something you get the idea.
There should be a credit system like reach as well for armour attachments, skins and effects.
M0hammed
Recruit - Onyx
Banana InATux77 wrote:
Please not LASO!
Bring back vidmaster challenges?
M0hammed wrote:
Why not? Why not have a reward or armour piece that let's you proclaim on visuals alone "I completed LASO". It'll be hard but then you'll be part of the small population that put the effort in for the bragging rights and the cool armour. Imagine being one of the few who earned that unique and hard to aquire item. Feels good when it happens. Fustrating till then
Sunsdune
I don't know that a whole armor set should be locked behind LASO , but I could see a particular helmet or chest piece (Hyabusa w/ sword , for example [I know Hyabusa isn't likely to return , but you get the point]). I would prefer the LASO and Speed run challenges unlock variants , colors , or nameplates/symbol designs........special indicators for bragging rights I get , the coolest / best looking pieces in the game.......not so much.
Sunsdune wrote:
Why have one locked behind LASO? Remember the vidmaster challenges? A helmet was locked behind a series of hard achievements. I don't see why there cant be a set locked behind one really hard challenge
Yes I remember them , and I also remember that all of them required a team. Granted this didn't make all of them easier (looking at you ODST) , but it made all of them fun and entertaining at least , LASO is just an experiment in frustration for most players. As I said , I get bragging rights .......but locking one of the better sets behind a challenge that most people won't even attempt , much less complete , is a total waste of time and resources better spent elsewhere.
Seriously , if you look at Halo 3 and Recon.....there were people who were willing to pay for accounts just to have it. When that happens all your bragging rights go out the window , along with any credibility the piece or pieces bring.
So because some people are dumb enough to buy an account for an armour set then LASO, or any difficult challenge, shouldn't be in the next halo? (I know that's not what you mean I'm just making a point) whether it's a series of hard challenges or just one there should a good reward for completing it and I don't see why an armour set can't be the reward. Especially a good armour set. I look at MCC and I want to do the LASO play lists but a banner isn't enough for me to attempt them. If I was unlocking some armour or special effect then I'd be way more determined to try. Give people a reason to try and they will put the effort in. Initially I only used LASO an example for the unlock system but now I actually want something to entice me into the challenge otherwise then no one actually will give LASO a go without a good reward to bring them into it
Because cool armors that people can't get , incentivizes a "black market" for them that inherently decreases the value of said items. I'm not saying a good reward is not eligible. I am saying that by maximizing the reward , you are incentivizing the have-nots to go to ridiculous lengths in which to get it , which in the long run completely destroys the point of the reward.
Also , the people doing LASO , has always been basically the same crowd. The super fan who loves the challenge of high difficulty. People were doing LASO runs before we as a community even knew what LASO was. The point of it is challenging yourself , the reward is the satisfaction that you can do something most Halo players can't. People have been LASO-ing since Halo 2 , for no reward.
So because it MIGHT develop into people selling accounts there shouldn't be a good reward for a difficult challenge? I'm sorry but that's not really a valid reason to not have a really good reward for a really hard challenge. If someone wants to buy an account solely because it has an armour set that was hard to unlock then that's on them to make that choice. Which is something really stupid. Would you do it? No I doubt you would you seem to have decent head on your shoulders. Would you attempt LASO if the reward was good enough. Probably I think you'd attempt it at least. Would you not attempt at all because LASO is hard? I can see that with you too but that's on you to decide to take the challenge or not. Back with the vidmaster challenges I was eager to get them done and completed because I wanted recon even tho I don't think it actually looks that good. I just liked the challenge. To deny gamers like me a challenge and reward for completing the challenge because a minority might sell accounts just seems unreasonable to me. X11 XOMAN private messaged me suggesting that there shouldn't be a hard challenge with a good reward because casual gamers wouldn't bother trying LASO. But the beauty of campaign is that you don't have to do it all at once. You can take your time to break through the barrier so casual gamers can still do it if they felt like it. You're telling me that some people might sell accounts which "decreases the value" but I don't think that's true because value is subjective. Especially with fictional items like armour in a game. People who earned it will still hold it in high value, they're not going to care how other people got it. They just care that they got it legitimately. So I will stand by my view that LASO can be used for some cool armour because everyone can achieve it if they want to
Go tell the bolded part to Halo 3 Fifty Ranks. So many who got it legitimately were derided and insulted ad nauseum , simply because it was a possibility they had bought it. So much so , that many of them were asking Bungie to either reset all accounts or their own , just to avoid the stigma. I had several friends capable of making 50 but never pushed because they didn't want the backlash. It's o.k. that we agree to disagree , and I hope you get what you want and it makes you very happy , just be warned there wil be those who will insult you just for being part of that group. I wish you luck.
Just an aside , No , I have not completed nor attempted LASO , I have no interest in subjugating myself to that type of masochism.....as the Black Widow said "there are some questions I don't need answered".
Honestly if anyone insults me for completing LASO but they think I didn't actually do it. It wouldn't bother me in the same way when I've been called a hacker for being good at a game. People will always find a way to insult people but as long as you know you earned legitimately then why should you let some petty insults bother you? I will happily go tell the bolder part to Halo 3 50 ranks because if they feel hurt by strangers on the Internet then that's on them. If you don't want any challenges and rewards for doing hard things then what's the point of even having a hard mode? What's the point of having an unlock system if there isn't anything worth earning through different difficulties. If you don't want to attempt something hard then you don't really deserve to have something cool to show off in game. You knew how there's always people saying don't respond to trolls yet people do and wonder why they get backlash? Your friends who could made 50 should've gone and done it but if fear of a little online bullying stopped them then I'm sorry but they didn't deserve to reach 50. The point of a challenge is that the only one who stops you doing it, is you. "Oh no someone doesn't believe that I earned 50" woop de do. But don't deny other players a good reward because you don't want to challenge yourself to earn it.
Cool man , do you. But after you have been told you are trash and a cheat for about the thousandth time, it becomes quite old.......they didn't fear anything , but when it ruins what used to be a fun time , because you spend half the night hearing this crap ; there becomes a point where it's just not worth the hassle. When did I ever say that I wanted no reward for it........all I said was I disagree with it being an armor unlock. I think I see where you got confused.....I said people have been LASOing since Halo 2 for no reward......I was simply stating that LASO became a thing because super fans wanted a harder difficulty , and started doing it for no other reason than the challenge......sorry if I misrepresented the point.
And please stop with this "afraid to challenge your self.....and afraid of internet bullies". I never said any thing of the sort......it is not fear of anything.....it is tired of being harassed over a video game. And I don't play games to challenge myself , I play games to relax and enjoy time with friends or family.
Cool man , do you. But after you have been told you are trash and a cheat for about the thousandth time, it becomes quite old.......they didn't fear anything , but when it ruins what used to be a fun time , because you spend half the night hearing this crap ; there becomes a point where it's just not worth the hassle. When did I ever say that I wanted no reward for it........all I said was I disagree with it being an armor unlock.
Well the thing is I have called trash and a chat hundreds of times. Never stopped me enjoying my game. Why can't it be an armour unlock? Why? Is LASO is to exist it needs something that makes it worth attempting. No one cares for emblems or banners so armour makes the most sense as a reward. And it is fear to challenge yourself "I have no interest in subjugating myself to that type of masochism" just means "I don't want to do it because it's hard" but it's supposed to be hard which is why it needs an incentive to do it. Besides I never even said fear, you put that word there which tells me that's what you think of it. Letting other people bully you, sorry harass you, into disliking a game. Again that's on you for letting it get to you. I not saying you HAVE to challenge yourself. Im just saying if there's a challenge then let it be rewarding. Let the fustration finish with satisfaction otherwise there's no point of having LASO or anything like it all. If you play to relax then play to relax but don't tell me there shouldn't be an amazing thing behind something hard because you don't want to go through the difficulty of getting it
Nope not my word......yours. But if you really wanted it just to show off you completed it , why not an emblem or a name plate.....it does the same job. People see it in the lobby they know what it's for. Why does it need to be an armor piece? Couldn't it just as easily be a cool skin for an armor or weapon?
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The History of the Arctic Parka With Two Cultural Archivists
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We’ve watched outerwear evolve from functional gear for outdoor explorers to an everyday menswear staple. One brand that has been there through it all is Woolrich.
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Movie review: Exciting, action-packed ‘Alita’ matches up the visions of James Cameron and Robert Rodriguez
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Because I’m adverse to pretty much all things manga (those giant eyes and that hyper-stylized look creep me out), Yukito Kishiro’s early 1990s series of graphic novels titled “Battle Angel Alita” wasn’t on my radar. Well, maybe there were a couple of blips. I do recall reading, many years ago, that James Cameron was going to direct a film called “Alita.” That never happened because something called “Titanic” came by and became the biggest money-making film in the world. Then “Avatar” happened, supplanting “Titanic” as box office king. Then work began on “Avatar 2, 3, 4” and “5.” What’s a director to do?
What Cameron did was stay on as producer and writer, but hand off “Alita” to director-writer Robert Rodriguez, and the big, bold science fiction film, retitled “Alita: Battle Angel,” came to be. I don’t know what manga devotees are going to think, but I am happily announcing that the effects-drenched, action-packed, philosophically challenging movie was worth the wait.
The opening frames and set-up make it appear to be a cinematic journey that’s been taken many times before. It’s 500 years in the future, and 300 years “after the Fall,” meaning after Earth was defeated by Martian forces, leaving the planet in post-apocalyptic ruins. The difference here is that there are still plenty of people around, at least in the teeming streets of Iron City, where a big chunk of the population shares a violent temperament and remains mobile with the assist of technologically advanced replacement body parts.
Different people need different parts for different reasons. They might have been mugged and maimed. They might be athletes in the popular game of motorball - a hybrid of roller derby, demolition derby and the title sport in the old James Caan film “Rollerball.” Competitors get to bring and use deadly weapons. Lives or at least hands and feet can be lost.
Whoever you are, Dr. Ido (Christoph Waltz) is a good man to know if you need a new hand or leg or even if all you’ve got left is a head. He can rebuild you. And one day, while scavenging through an Iron City’s scrapyard, Dr. Ido comes across the head of a cyborg, one with a brain that’s still alive, and in his private lab, creates a body to match, resulting in Alita (Rosa Salazar). She looks like a normal person, except for her huge manga eyes (Note: It’s weird to see Waltz in a film with a big-eyed heroine after starring in “Big Eyes.”).
Alita is young, innocent, curious, excitable, and has no memory of life before being found by the doc. But who is she, and why, when she senses danger, does she jump into an attack pose, and then attack? Where did she get her formidable combat skills?
If Dr. Ido knows, he’s not telling her. But he does know, as does his ex-wife Chiren (Jennifer Connelly), who’s also a top-notch body replacement expert. But she works for a power-mad loony named Vector (Mahershala Ali, in Wesley Snipes mode), who runs the motorball industry, is in constant need of new combatants, and lives by the motto “No one is greater than the game.”
If those aren’t enough entanglements for you, there are roving hunter-warriors - just call them bounty hunters - all over the city, going after bad guys for money, but are often, as in the case of narcissistic and nasty Zapan (Ed Skrein), bad guys themselves. There are big, clunky machines right out of “Robocop’s” ED-209 school. There are vicious cyborgs, the worst of whom is oversized Grewishka (Jackie Earle Haley). And there’s a bit of romance. Young Hugo (Keean Johnson), who will work for anyone willing to pay him, no matter what color hat they’re wearing, has his eyes on Alita’s big eyes.
Action sequences are spectacular, marred only by a few too many uses of the impressionistic slo-mo fight scenes introduced in the “Matrix” films; the performance capture presentation of Alita, flawlessly mixing in with real actors, is amazing; and the film comes complete with satisfying revelations and resolution. Look for an “Alita” 2 and 3 down the road.
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Arbury Hall
Arbury Hall is a Grade I listed country house in Nuneaton in Warwickshire, England, and the ancestral home of the Newdigate family, later the Newdigate-Newdegate and Fitzroy-Newdegate families.
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Nuneaton, Warwickshire, CV10 7PT - See on a map
Arbury Hall has been the seat of the Newdegate family for over 450 years and is the ancestral home of Viscount Daventry.
This Tudor/Elizabethan House was Gothicised by Sir Roger Newdegate in the 18th Century and is regarded as the 'Gothic Gem' of the Midlands.
The principal rooms, with their soaring fan vaulted ceilings, plunging pendants and filigree tracery, stand as a most breathtaking and complete example of early Gothic Revival architecture and provide a unique and fascinating venue for corporate entertaining, product launches, fashion shoots and activity days.
Exclusive use of this historic Hall, its gardens and parkland is offered to clients. The hall stands in the middle of beautiful parkland with landscaped gardens of rolling lawns, lakes and winding wooded walks.
Spring flowers are profuse and in June rhododendrons, azaleas and giant wisteria provide a beautiful environment for the visitors. George Eliot, the novelist, was born on the estate and Arbury Hall and Sir Roger Newdegate were immortalised in her book 'Scenes of a Clerical Life'.
Bank Holiday Sunday and Monday in April, May and August.
Tours only, 1pm to 4.30pm.
Open for pre-booked visits for parties/groups of 25 and over on weekdays from April to end of September by prior arrangement.
Main entrance is at ///punch.punt.palace. What does this mean?
Situated in the heart of England and convenient to the major motorways. 2m SW of Nuneaton. 1m W of A444.
Nuneaton 5 mins. Birmingham City Centre 30 mins. London 2 hrs. Coventry 20 mins.
Please enter via the Round Towers using CV10 7NF for SatNav (not the Hall postcode).
For more information see our website: www.arburyestate.co.uk or telephone 01676 540529.
Car park on site
Admission free for Historic Houses members.
Adults (Hall & Gardens) £10.00
Child £5.50
Family (2+2) £25.00
Adults (Gardens Only) £6.50
Free Parking, dogs on leads in gardens only.
Wheelchair ramps/routes
Guide dogs welcome
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Arbury Hall does not cater for wedding ceremonies inside the Hall.
Wedding receptions and large private parties can be accommodated by way of a marquee in the historic parkland with the Hall as a backdrop.
The hiring of Marquee and catering etc is the responsibility of the hirer.
Arbury is situated in the heart of England and convenient for major motorways and Birmingham International Airport
Arbury Hall, with its unique elegance and historical importance, makes an ideal location for corporate hire.
We can provide the perfect setting within the Hall's unique reception rooms for clients looking for a venue close to the heart of England in which to entertain their guests or colleagues.
The splendour of the grounds at Arbury, with its peaceful setting and scenic backdrop, provides a stunning location for open air events which never cease to enthrall our corporate clients.
Arbury Hall is situated close to Birmingham International Airport and convenient to the major motorways. Exclusive use of the Hall and Gardens are available for corporate functions all year round by arrangement
Inside the Hall
Public Opening Days
Arbury Hall and Gardens are open to the public on the Bank Holiday Sundays and Mondays from Easter to the end of August from 1pm.
Easter Bank Holiday – Sunday 12 & Monday 13 April
May Day Bank Holiday – CLOSED due to VE Day arrangements, please see below*
Spring Bank Holiday – Sunday 24 & Monday 25 May
August Bank Holiday – Sunday 30 & Monday 31 August
*Please note that due to May Day Bank Holiday Monday 4 May being moved to Friday 8 May to mark the 75th Anniversary of VE Day, the Hall and Gardens will not be open for the May Day Bank Holiday 2020. We are open as normal for all other Bank Holiday weekends from Easter to end of August, see dates above.
Private Opening Days
Private group visits of the Hall and Gardens (Groups of 25+) weekdays by arrangement from beginning of April to end of September.
(Guided tour only of the Hall).
For prices and availability please contact the Events Secretary.
Bank Holiday Ticket Prices:
Hall and Gardens
Adults £10.00
Children £5.50
Family Ticket (2+2) £25.00
Gardens Only
Dogs allowed on leads in gardens only.
Hall (Guided tours) opens 1.00 pm with the last tour at 4.30 pm
Gardens and Stable Tearooms open 1.00pm. and Gardens close 6.00pm.
Group visits and private tours
Arbury Hall and Gardens are open for the exclusive use of private groups (25+) or corporate events weekdays from April to September by prior arrangement with the Events Secretary.
Arbury Hall is a stunning Elizabethan mansion house whose internal rooms were part of the Gothic Revival architecture of the second half of the 18th century, surrounded by over 100 acres of beautiful landscaped gardens and parkland.
Private tour guests can enjoy a guided tour of the Hall with the breathtaking splendour of the stunning fan vaulted ceilings, filigree tracery and plunging pendants. The sheer ambience of the historic rooms will ensure that any tour or corporate event will be remembered as a very special occasion. The Stable Tea Rooms are available for refreshments for exclusive use during private tours of the Hall. Tea Rooms must be booked at time of tour booking.
Arbury Hall is ideally located for clients seeking a venue close to the heart of England.
Arbury Hall's history and features
Arbury Hall, originally built on the ruins of a 12th century Augustinian Priory, now stands in the midst of beautiful 18th century landscaped gardens and surrounded by over 100 acres of lakes and parkland, and has been the home of the Newdegate family for over 400 years.
This beautiful Elizabethan mansion house was transformed into the Gothic style by Sir Roger Newdigate during the second half of the 18th century. The exterior is entirely encased with stone and each aspect of the building presents a separate design of stunning architecture.
The elegant interior rooms feature spectacular displays of soaring fan vaulted ceilings with plunging pendants and filigree tracery, a breathtaking and complete example of early Gothic Revival architecture.
The Estate comprises not only the Hall, park and immediate surrounding farms, but includes a mixed portfolio of let residential properties including the majority of Astley village, and a commercial estate. The Estate also includes Astley Castle and Manor which adjoined the original Arbury Estate.
Read about the history of Arbury Hall's gardens here
Mary Ann Evans, better known as George Eliot, was born in 1819 at South Farm on the Arbury Estate, where her father was for many years the agent.
Several of her novels have as their setting, the Warwickshire countryside that she had known in her youth, in particular the Scenes of Clerical Life, which were first published in 1857.
Cheveral Manor, which figures so prominently in this series of novels, is Arbury, and Sir Christopher Cheverel, its benevolent and cultivated owner, is Sir Roger Newdigate. In Mr Gilfil's Love-Story George Eliot describes how Cheverel Manor was growing from ugliness into beauty at the hands of Sir Christopher and this story is derived entirely from Sir Roger Newdigate's transformation of Arbury from an Elizabethan house into a Gothick one in the second half of the eighteenth century, an operation which was still sufficiently alive in the minds of those who witnessed it.
George Eliot was writing in the middle of Queen Victoria's reign, when the protracted struggle between the Classical and the Gothick schools of architecture "the Battle of the Styles" was as good as won by the Gothick supporters.
But the Victorian era is now sufficiently distant for its products to arouse interest and even admiration, and Arbury, as an outstanding example of the Gothick Revival style from which so much Victorian architecture stemmed, is a document of particular importance.
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Mitsuoka Roadster (2015) At A Glance
Destined to be incredibly rare with classic sports car looks. Always gets attention wherever you go.
Expensive and unknown in the UK. Not as sharp to drive as an MX-5. Very long.
With the looks of a classic British sports car and the reliability and quality of a modern Mazda, the Mitsuoka Roadster combines the best of two worlds - but with a price of more than £50,000 it’s a very niche proposal. It will only appeal to a very select few, but for those few there isn’t really anything else to match it.
Hand-built in Japan, the Roadster actually starts life as a Mazda MX-5 – but it’s hard to tell. More or less every panel is changed and lots of length is added to the wheelbase, giving the Roadster – called Himiko in its home market – its distinctive long bonnet. For turning heads and getting attention there aren’t many cars to match it, plus it's well put together.
But that additional length creates some problems. Tight junctions with poor visibility are hard work and threading the car through twists and turns isn’t a particularly exciting experience. That said, for cruising along enjoying the weather, the Roadster is great – it’s easy to drive and reasonably comfortable.
It shares its 2.0-litre engine with the MX-5, producing peak power of 160PS. It’s torquey enough for relaxed town driving and motorway cruising, plus it sounds great when pushed hard – but fuel economy could be better. This engine in the MX-5 manages just over 30mpg, according to Real MPG users, so expect less in the Mitsuoka.
It might look exotic on the outside, but the interior is straight out of the previous generation MX-5. That means it’s a little plain, but it’s very user-friendly and well-made, plus it comes with creature comforts like heated leather seats. The boot is small but with a very low load height, so getting weekend bags in and out is easy.
Exclusivity is guaranteed. Mitsuoka doesn't make a huge number of Roadsters at its factory in Japan and there is only one importer in the UK - T W White and Sons, based in Surrey. For those who want Roadster but live hundreds of miles away, any Mazda dealer can carry out routine servicing and maintenance, so you won't have to travel back to the Mitsuoka showroom every year.
Anyone who has owned a Nissan Figaro will understand the logic behind the Mitsuoka Roadster. It’s an enjoyable, head-turning car but it manages to do away with the associated high running costs and reliability issues by using relatively humble underpinnings. Just remember that you can get a Morgan for similar money – which will either fill you with joy or dread.
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On the inside of an Mitsuoka Roadster (2015)
While the Mitsuoka Roadster has some radical exterior styling, its Mazda MX-5 underpinnings are all too apparent in the cabin. In fact, it’s almost identical to the MX-5, which is both a blessing and a curse. Quality is great, with solid, high-quality materials and creature comforts like heated seats, but it could be a little more exciting to complement the retro exterior styling.
The folding roof is metal, so provides good security and refinement. It can be raised or lowered in around 12 seconds and is very straightforward to operate – just undo the single roof latch and press the button. Folding it down has no effect on load volume in the boot. Capacity isn't huge – but access is good and the load deck is low. There's more than enough space for a weekend away or a trip to the shops.
Because of its Mazda MX-5 underpinnings, everything is tried and tested. The audio system, climate control, heated seats and cruise control all work flawlessly, plus they are intuitive and easy to operate – and they all come as standard. Also standard is leather upholstery, plus there is Bluetooth connectivity and an aux input for music.
Servicing and running costs should be affordable, since the engine and running gear are shared with the relatively simple Mazda MX-5. If you’ve always wanted a stylish classic car but you’ve incredibly high servicing costs or getting stranded at the roadside then the Mitsuoka Roadster could be right up your street - if you can afford more than £53,000 to buy it in the first place.
Mitsuoka Roadster comes with leather sports seats, driver’s side seat height adjustment, plastic wind blocker, auto-dimming rear-view mirror, Bluetooth, Aux-in, steering wheel mounted audio controls, remote central locking, remote boot release, cruise control, electric windows and climate control. The only options are metallic paint and navigation.
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Driving Mitsuoka Roadster (2015)
Under the bonnet of the Mitsuoka Roadster is a 2.0-litre petrol engine shared with the previous Mazda MX-5. Peak power is 160PS and torque is 188Nm. It’s no ball of fire, but it’s quiet and punchy enough for town driving or motorway cruising plus it sounds good when pushed hard.
The manual gearbox is slick, smooth and precise but if you’d rather let the car do the hard work an automatic is available. That might be a good idea, because the Mitsuoka Roadster is better suited to relaxed driving than attacking a B-road - and an automatic transmission makes things that bit more effortless.
Emissions for the manual are 181g/km and 188g/km for the auto. In our real MPG section owners of the MX-5 with the same engine manage around 30-35mpg. The Mitsuoka Roadster is a little heavier than an MX-5, but there's no reason not to expect similar figures in real world driving from the manual, or slightly worse for the auto.
Thanks to its long bonnet and wheelbase, the Roadster feels a little ponderous and imprecise through bends, but fortunately it’s reasonably comfortable. The steering is responsive enough but, thanks to that additional length, it isn't as precise as in an MX-5 and it lacks the wonderful level of feedback. There is also a little flex in the body, though it's only apparent over particularly uneven surfaces.
None of this is a real problem though. For a sedate drive on a scenic route - or even long distance cruising - it's easy and relaxing to drive, far more so than an old classic car. With the roof down buffeting is minimal up to around 60mph, but after that things get noisy. On the plus side there is a built-in wind breaker to quieten things a little and, with the roof in place, there is little noise even at 70mph.
Around town the Roadster can be troublesome because of its length. Pulling out of tight junctions is tricky, since it’s hard to see what’s coming without creeping the car out slowly. Parking can be hard work too, purely because the car is so long. On the plus side visibility isn’t bad – you can see the extremities of the car easily, so scraped bumpers are fairly easy to avoid with some care. However, there are no parking sensors and they aren't an option either.
Turns heads like very few other cars.
Well-made, with neat panel gaps.
MX-5 underpinnings mean it should be reliable.
Has a real sense of occasion.
Can be serviced by Mazda dealers.
Cabin is almost unchanged versus MX-5.
Expensive to buy.
Mitsuoka Roadster goes on sale in the UK
The Mitsuoka Roadster will be making its European debut as it launches in the UK under the exclusive distribution of T W White & Sons and will be on display in a number of their showrooms located across Surrey, South London and Kent.
Featuring a British sporting design of elegant flowing lines, the Mitsuoka Roadster combines timeless styling with advanced levels of modern technology, safety and comfort.
The 2.0 litre Coupe is available with either a 6 speed manual transmission gearbox or a 6 speed automatic Powershift gearbox - which can be driven effortlessly in the auto mode selection or by using the easy paddle shift controls.
Rear wheel drive with an admirable high power to weight ratio, the Roadster is fully equipped with the latest technology, advanced safety features and modern conveniences. It sports a power-retractable hard top - opening and closing in 12 seconds with just the flick of a switch.
Luxury heated leather seats are standard - as is automatic climate control air conditioning. Safety and security is at the forefront of the Roadsters design - four wheel anti-lock brake system (ABS) with Electronic Brake Force Distribution (EBD), Dynamic Stability Control (DSC) with Traction Control System (TCS) are all naturally standard, as are the front and side airbags and the Supplementary Restraint System (SRS).
Founded in 1968 by Susumu Mitsuoka, Mitsuoka Motor Company are a unique Japanese Automobile manufacturer who until recently have been largely unknown outside of Japan. Mitsuoka Motor produce small volumes of hand built luxury vehicles in their Japanese factory by skilled craftsmen. It is a company of craftsmanship, luxury and elegance, where timeless classic cars are created with soul and passion.
The Mitsuoka Roadster is available with Power Retractable Hard Top - with manual or automatic transmission at the standard price of £53,800 on the road. Metallic or Pearlescent paint is an additional £620. All prices are inclusive of VAT.
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e-Mobility Firm SUN Mobility to set up 100 Swap Points™ in Bengaluru
PRNewsWire India December 22, 2020 0 Comments
Partners with City's MetroRide for clean last-mile connectivity
BENGALURU, India , Dec. 22, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- SUN Mobility, a leading provider of electric mobility solutions and services, today announced its plan to roll out 100 battery swapping stations, called Swap Points™, in Bengaluru by the end of 2021. In a virtual event, the Hon'ble Chief Minister of Karnataka, Shri. BS Yediyurappa, formally commenced the commercial launch of SUN Mobility's swapping network in Bengaluru. As of today, four Swap Points™ are available at IOCL outlets in the city's densely populated areas of Indiranagar, Jayanagar, Koramangala and HSR Layout.
SUN Mobility also announced its partnership with the City's MetroRide, a sustainable and environment-friendly shared mobility solution to solve first and last mile connectivity for Metro rails. MetroRide's fleet of Piaggio Ape E-City electric three-wheelers will make use of SUN Mobility's Swap Points™ deployed at prime IOCL outlets.
Speaking on the occasion, Honorable Chief Minister of Karnataka, Shri. BS Yediyurappa said, "The Government of Karnataka has envisaged a systematic growth of Bengaluru, with one of the focus areas being shared mobility. As part of our efforts to make the State and its urban landscapes cleaner and greener, this support and collaboration is a significant step in furthering our vision to establish Karnataka as the EV capital of India . Bengaluru will lead the change with an environment that historically has nurtured innovation. I am excited that we will see innovative technologies and models in shared mobility emerge here, like battery swapping, that can be taken to the rest of India and the world. We look forward to working with various players in the space, and extending all necessary support to make this a reality."
"We realise that good infrastructure is a precursor to enabling a vibrant, clean and shared mobility ecosystem in a city like Bengaluru. A great example of this is the three-wheeler market that has 180,000 three-wheelers, supported by 85 LPG stations. We want to create a similar supporting ecosystem by deploying 100 Swap Points™ that can power and support all forms of shared mobility in the city, including 2-wheelers, 3-wheelers, and last-mile delivery trucks," said Chetan Maini , Co-Founder and Vice-Chairman, SUN Mobility . "Our commitment is to increase adoption of EVs in the shared mobility sector, in Bengaluru, by making refueling faster, cheaper, more accessible and convenient (through swapping)," he added.
"We are pleased to start our EV business in Bengaluru, in association with SUN Mobility and MetroRide. At Piaggio, we always believe in providing best in class solutions to our customers in the last-mile transportation segment. Our Ape' E-City, with the swappable battery solution, will provide an easy, clean & comfortable metro station commute, which is the need of the hour for a fast, young & cosmopolitan city like Bengaluru. We have delivered the initial lot of vehicles to MetroRide, and will hope to increase the fleet of this unique offering with them. This will in due course of time; transform the metro commute benefiting not only daily commuters, but also provide better earn-ability to the drivers," said Diego Graffi , Chairman and MD, Piaggio Vehicles Private Ltd.
"There is a need for reliable and efficient transport solutions for Metro Rail which can greatly increase its ridership. With our focus on metro riders, the partnership with SUN Mobility will help make last-mile commuting easy, safe and eco-friendly for everyone," said Girish Nagpal , CEO & Co-Founder, MetroRide .
With the roll out of the 100 Swap Points™, SUN Mobility looks forward to working with infrastructure enablers, BESCOM and BMRC, to enable a robust network of battery swapping infrastructure in the city. This will provide the right impetus to meet the Government of Karnataka's goal of providing one charging station in a 3km radius grid in Bengaluru, as part of its EV Policy released in 2017.
About SUN Mobility
SUN Mobility is a global leader in providing energy mobility solutions and services to the transportation sector enabling electric vehicles to be refueled in a faster, cheaper and more convenient way; thereby, making mass migration to a sustainable, pollution-free future possible.
Founded in 2017, it is a joint venture between SUN Group and Maini Group, pioneers in areas of electric mobility and clean energy. The company is led by Chetan Maini , previously founder of Reva now Mahindra Electric, and Uday Khemka , Vice Chairman of SUN Group, two of India's leaders in the new energy economy. The organization is working with fleet operators, shared mobility providers, cities and automotive OEMs across all platforms including 2/3 wheelers and buses to challenge the status quo with an economical, scalable and smarter way forward.
SUN Mobility's open architecture energy infrastructure solution combines Plug n Play EV docks, Smart Batteries, Quick Interchange Stations installed at a wide network of Swap Points™, all linked to a Smart Network. The company has successful deployed 50 Swap Points™ in 14 cities in India , resulting in 150K rides and powering 2.3 million kms in the country. For more information, please visit: http://www.sunmobility.com.
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Transactions worth US$ 270 bn to shift to cards/ digital in India by 2030
The rapid shift to digital payments due to the COVID-19 pandemic is urgently increasing the need for banks to modernise their payment systems, according to a new report from Accenture.
The report, titled ‘Playing the Long Game in Payments Modernisation,’ is based on a survey of 120 payments executives at banks globally regarding the transformation of their payments business, as banks make multi-year investments to compete with non-bank digital-payments providers and comply with new regulations.
In the report, the global professional services company forecasts nearly 420 billion transactions worth US$ 7 trillion globally are expected to shift from cash to cards and digital payments by 2023 – and increase to US$ 48 trillion by 2030.
In India, 66.6 billion transactions worth US$ 270.7 billion are expected to shift from cash to cards and digital payments by 2023 – and increase to US$ 856.6 billion by 2030.
The rapid move to digital payments has put additional pressure on banks, with three-quarters (75 percent) of surveyed bank executives saying that the pandemic has increased the urgency of their plans to modernise payment systems, Accenture said.
“COVID-19 has accelerated the shift to digital payments at a pace banks could not have predicted,” said Sulabh Agarwal, who leads Accenture’s Payments practice globally. “The pandemic will permanently change how consumers shop and pay for products as they prioritise convenience above all else. While banks’ investments in new payments systems have focused primarily on meeting compliance deadlines, the way they will drive value moving forward is by embracing the changing consumer dynamic and improving the customer experience.”
Sonali Kulkarni, Lead – Financial Services, Accenture in India, said: “While India has been ahead of the curve in terms of real-time digital payments infrastructure driven by UPI and 24×7 NEFT, the pandemic has led to a further increase in digital, contactless payments as consumer behavior has undergone a shift. With newer players launching their payments offerings and increased uptake of ‘Buy Now Pay Later’ schemes, consumer experience and convenience is bound to improve significantly.”
The Accenture survey finds three quarters (75 percent) of banks see payments modernisation as being driven by national payments infrastructure changes and regulation, which include improving bank-to-bank payments systems, new industry standards with ISO20022 and Open Banking.
The rapid shift to digital payments differs across countries, depending on the rate of cash decline, adoption of e-commerce and how active Big Tech companies are in providing payment services.
Using Accenture’s Payments Disruptability Index, which measures current and future levels of disruption for the payments industry, the report notes that disruption is highest in the US, closely followed by the UK, as consumers opt for new ways to pay and non-banks seize the opportunity to provide payments services.
In China, mobile wallets are rapidly displacing cash payments – 76 percent of transactions in 2019 originated from mobile wallets, up from 12 percent in 2014 – as consumers in China have already been accustomed to using mobile apps and QR codes to pay at restaurants and stores for several years.
“COVID-19 has caused consumers to be more open to digital financial transactions, and this shift will increase competition as alternative payments providers vie for market share,” said Alan McIntyre, who leads Accenture’s Banking practice globally.
“The e-payments opportunity for banks varies greatly by market and depends on the maturity of the transition to digital payments The greatest opportunity will be in markets like Southeast Asia and Latin America, where cash usage has dominated and, in some regions, even increased during the pandemic.”
Although many of the bank executives surveyed cited revenue growth as a key objective for their payments modernisation programs, only 13 percent said that their bank’s payments revenue has increased by more than the average market growth rate of 6 percent in the last three years, and only 16 percent expect to grow payments revenues more than the anticipated average growth rate of 5 percent over the next three years.
While payments transformation is part of most banks’ broader digital transformation efforts, two-thirds (65 percent) of bank executives said that the cost of maintaining legacy technology in their payments systems is impeding their ability to invest in new customer solutions.
Accenture conducted an online survey of 120 payment executives in 20 countries between July and August 2020. Surveyed markets include: Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, UAE, the UK, and the US.
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Hunts Luminus conference to lead on leadership
Published: 10:38 AM June 12, 2009 Updated: 4:18 PM November 1, 2020
HUNTINGDON-based social landlord the Luminus Group is hosting what it says will be 2009 s premier event for business professionals. The half-day seminar on Wednesday July 8, staged in association with Leadership International, will provide insights and in
HUNTINGDON-based social landlord the Luminus Group is hosting what it says will be 2009's premier event for business professionals.
The half-day seminar on Wednesday July 8, staged in association with Leadership International, will provide insights and inspiration from key business leaders on innovative concepts and proven solutions, the company said.
It will be supplemented by hands-on workshops, which includes 'How to get three stars in Short Notice Inspection: Lessons from Luminus' - a spin-off from a recent spot inspection of social landlords from which Luminus emerged as one of the best in the country.
Keynote speakers include Paul Ambrose, operational solutions lead from BAA Stansted, David Orr, chief executive of the National Housing Federation, and Peter Hubbard, a partner in Anthony Collins Solicitors.
Luminus Group chief executive Chan Abraham, who will chair the conference at the company's head office, said: "In 2009's global economic gloom, the task of leading organisations, motivating employees and delivering excellence could easily be forgotten, missing an opportunity to build for the future, and storing up trouble for another day.
"Whatever your business sector, it is unlikely that your customers will be happy with reduced service, that your regulator will accept declining performance or that the risk of reputation damage will reduce when things go wrong."
The five workshops will focus on leadership and service excellence, offering insights, tools and tips to get delegates thinking about workable ideas and solutions.
Luminus Group has been recognised with three stars "extraordinary" by Best Companies and the Sunday Times 100 Best Companies to Work For. Leadership International has facilitated the growth of decisive leaders, effective managers and inspired employees for over 15 years.
INFORMATION: The conference will be held at Brook House, Huntingdon, starting at 9.30am on Wednesday July 8 and finishing at 12.30pm with lunch and networking. For more information contact Gemma Payne on 01480 428705 or e-mail gemma.payne@luminus.org.uk.
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