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Every Wednesday & Saturday
Major police decisions remain on paper
Amritsar, December 14
"The bureaucrat's public image is of a creature who sits on files, sleeps over reminders, turns a deaf ear to complaints, cannot see beyond the tip of his nose, smells a rat in every proposal and at times eats his own words".
Riders without helmet go past policemen at one of the prominent intersections in Amritsar. Photo: Vishal Kumar
Spurt in crime puts question mark on police working
The recent spurt in looting incidents and resurfacing of criminal gangs have put a question mark on the working of the police and in the city. The residents, especially the business community, are at the receiving end as they happen to be an easy target of the looters.
Soon, MC to get a new address
Mall mantra: Buy bottled water or stay thirsty
Made to suffer
DAC project becomes bone of contention
The incorrigible auto drivers
Gandhi Gate road remains private transporters' illegal bus stand
Private schools don't give a damn to RTE: DEO
AIT's residential, commercial projects in doldrums
Capt's road show brings loads of trouble for commuters
A Pakistani drummer performs at the valedictory function of PITEX at Ranjit Avenue in Amritsar. Photo: Vishal Kumar
Cops on toes to look out for Afghani absconder
The Amritsar police is now on its toes to trace the absconding Afghani drug peddler Shahjahan. In this direction, an LOC (lookout circular) depicting his photograph and details and the offence he has committed, has been released by the police.
Hospitals donate Rs 3 lakh for rehabilitation of Leh victims
Setting up an example, staff members of Guru Nanak Dev Hospital, Sri Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital and other government hospitals under Government Medical College has donated Rs 3 lakhs for the rehabilitation of victims of natural calamity at Leh in August this year.
Theatre group wins national award for AIDS awareness
Famous local theatre group, The Theatre Persons, has done the city proud. It has been conferred with the national award by the Union Health Department for staging impressive plays creating awareness on AIDS during the passing of Red Ribbon Express through different parts of Punjab.
Young World
Human Rights Day marked at DAV International School
A special morning assembly was conducted to mark the Human Rights Day at the DAV International School here. Principal Anjana Gupta, while addressing students, said human beings have been gifted the power of thinking, understanding, feeling and rationalising, by God, and should be aware of their fundamental rights.
Waiting for govt to adopt sporting attitude
13-year-old Punjab swimming champ, Ujjwal Sharma, expects the government to provide all weather pool
His achievements cannot be ignored, yet this 13-year-old swimming aficionado fails to catch the fancy of the district administration officials, who have failed to provide requisite infrastructure for swimmers like him. Meet Ujjwal Sharma, a national swimming champ (under 14-year category), and a class VIII student of Manav Public school, Amritsar. "I urge the district administration to lend a hand to swimmers like me by building up an 'all weather swimming pool'. We are in desperate need of this pool because in absence of which, hoards of swimmers like me fail to compete with swimmers hailing from other states like Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal," said very agile Ujjwal, who got inspired into swimming through his elder sister Gargi (16), herself a national level swimmer.
CPR can save 20 pc lives during cardiac arrest: Expert
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), an emergency procedure involving chest compression in an effort to revive a person suffering cardiac arrest, can save at least 15-20 per cent lives if given within five minutes of patient's falling unconscious.
Mirch Masala sends audience into peels of laughter
The play 'Mirch Masala' staged on the 6th day of the 10-day Punjab Theatre Festival being held at Punjab Naatshala today left the audience into peels of laughter. A number of renowned artistes and theatre personalities are flocking the city to enjoy the plays being staged at the festival.
Play Mirch Masala being staged during the Punjab Theatre Festival at Punjab Naatshala in Amritsar. A Tribune photo
Only AISAD remembers Akali Dal's foundation day, says its chief
Even as the Akali Dal, an outcome of the gurdwara reform move, was formed nine decades back and later bifurcated into various factions, except for the All India Shiromani Akali Dal (AISAD), no other group had remembered its foundation day, which falls on December 13.
G.S. Paul
Tribune News Service
"The bureaucrat's public image is of a creature who sits on files, sleeps over reminders, turns a deaf ear to complaints, cannot see beyond the tip of his nose, smells a rat in every proposal and at times eats his own words". That's what was observed by late LK Jha, an able administrator, in a lighter note.
Nevertheless, this saying of his, apparently, fits appropriately with the local commissionerate system, if the recent two major decisions taken by the police are anything to go by.
One was, making helmets compulsory for two-wheeler drivers as well as pillion riders and the other one was to install CCTV cameras in public places.
Except being only on papers, nothing concrete could be implemented in the true letter and spirit with which these two decisions were conceptualised in 'public interest'.
The Tribune team took a random round of the city only to find blatant violation of these orders. What to talk of common riders, the policemen too, were found to be riding two wheelers without this mandatory headgear. Similarly, no liquor shop or eatable joints were found to be equipped with CCTV cameras. Instead, the boozers were found to be consuming liquor in open in the Rambagh area.
The onlookers believe that these two orders had even equipped the 'men in uniform' with another source of generating the revenue for the department.
It is pertinent to note that the Amritsar police had imposed helmets compulsory w.e.f October 7, a day after the maiden visit of President Pratibha Devi Singh Patil to the holy city. Special challaning drives were launched by the police parties to nab those who drove two wheelers without helmets, but this 'fever' lasted just for a few days.
With these orders came a flood of helmet sellers which cropped up in every nook and corner of the city.
In the absence of any check, the non-ISI mark helmets are openly being sold, while giving two hoots to the Supreme Court directions regarding safety helmets.
Similarly, from today onwards another 'Tughlaki farman' has been issued which says 'the Amritsar police has imposed stern prohibition orders under Section 144 of CrPC against drinking in public places. Any person contravening these orders shall be punishable under Section 188 of the IPC. These orders shall be applicable from December 14 and remain in force up to February 12.'
The orders further prohibited even those accompanying the marriage procession to drink liquor on road, but the ground realities would be otherwise.
The food joints, liquor or juice vendors were instructed to install CCTV cameras to be installed, at the entrance of their joints in order to have a watch on those who indulge in any 'undesirable activity'.
It is evident to mention that these order were just the 'renewal' of same orders which were originally released on October 12 and were valid till December 12.
The owners of the vendors had been directed to install CCTVs with sufficient number of cameras and recording system to cover up to 50-meter area in front of their establishments. The idea was, otherwise in general interest, that this arrangement would monitor anyone consuming liquor or facilitating consumption of liquor or any unauthorised vendor stationed in the coverage area.
"It is just their tactics to pressurise us and their motive is just to mint money. Nothing more," was their casual reply when enquired by this correspondent at one of the liquor shop.
OfficialSpeak
Deputy Commissioner of Police AS Chahal: These orders were issued in public interest only but I admit that these could not be implemented forcefully. We extended some sort of leniency in view of just getting people aware about it. But, I assure that in days to come, violation of any sort would be dealt with sternly.
P.K. Jaiswar
Just a couple of days back three motorcycle-borne armed persons robbed sugar trader Vikram Khanna of Race Course Road of Rs 22 lakh when he was returning home after collecting money.
In a similar incident that occurred in the mid of November, Anil Kumars Shukla was robbed of Rs 5.25 lakh by three persons on the Fatehgarh Churian road.
The police had also released sketches of suspected looters in the case.
Ironically, the foreign tourists are not safe in the much-touted international city, which boasts of attracting the foreign tourism due to its rich cultural heritage. The police graph speaks volumes of the deplorable law and order situation.
The incidents of snatchings have also shot up, if one goes through the recent police records. During the high-profile visit of President of India Pratibha Patil, when the holy city had turned into a police cantonment, robbers looted Rs 12 lakh from the Tailor road area.
"How can we feel safe when the incidents of snatchings and lootings have become an order of the day and what is more worrying factor is that the police department has miserably failed to stem the problem," said Naresh Kumar, a resident of the posh Ranjit Avenue locality.
"Whatever the little hopes were raised after the implementation of the commissionerate system in the city, have vanquished within a year," said another resident of the city, adding that the police department should come up with concrete plans and policies to deal with the criminals.
The resurfacing of criminal gangs has increased the problems of the police department. Recently the notorious gang of Situ Baba stabbed his brother, while just in another similar incident one person was stabbed to death by another gang.
These incidents are just indications of the deplorable law and order situation prevailing in the city while the police has failed to nab the culprits responsible for the crime.
Amar Singh Chahal, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), when contacted pointed out that the majority of the cases had been traced by the police and the criminals involved in these cases were put behind the bars.
"Recently, the police has nabbed a number of gangs of looters and strict action has been initiated against those who are habitual offenders involved in illegal activities after their release from jail," said the DCP, adding that the drive against anti-social elements would continue.
GS Paul
The Amritsar police is now on its toes to trace the absconding Afghani drug peddler Shahjahan. In this direction, an LOC (lookout circular) depicting his photograph and details and the offence he has committed, has been released by the police. The accused had slipped away from the Guru Nanak Dev Hospital, where he was admitted to get some medical aid, after ditching four jail personnel, who were on duty to keep a vigil on him on the evening of December 10.
The jail personnel, too, had vanished from the spot and are still at large.
Even as the police has registered separate cases against them and put them on suspension for being negligent in performing their duties, a red alert has been sounded in the entire city.
Shahjahan and his accomplice Mohammad Salim had been nabbed by the counter intelligence state operation wing on November 13.
Acting on a tip off, a team led by officer Balbir Singh laid a naka on the GT road and caught hold of the two near the Amritsar bus stand.
It has been learnt that at least 2 kg heroine was recovered from their possession then.
Later, after interrogating them, the police also managed to recover another 15 kg consignment from the Guffar Market in Delhi.
Police sources said Salim had gained entry into India on study visa.
Meanwhile, the police suspected that he would attempt to proceed towards Jammu and Kashmir or Nepal by road.
Police sources said though all the exit points of the city have been put under scanner, yet the main focus would be on the Guru Ram Dass International Airport, the bus terminal and the railway station.
Deputy Commissioner of Police Amar Singh Chahal said the LOC has been widely circulated in the city's main points, which include the airport, the railway station as well as the bus stand.
"Besides this, all the vehicles, including buses, trucks as well as private cars would be checked up and special police force has been deployed to search for the absconding accused. We are fully aware of this fact, too, that he has links at the local level, within the city too and cross examination of suspected persons who are into this forbidden trade, too, is being done", said Chahal.
It is relevant to mention here that a Pakistani inmate Niyamat Ali, too, reportedly, managed to escape from the high security Amritsar Central Jail on August 30 and the police hasn't been able to trace him yet.
Dr R.P.S. Boparai, Medical Superintendent handed over a bank draft in this regard to Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal at Chandigarh. He said all the staff members including nurses, laboratory technician and others had contributed from their own pocket for the relief fund.
"I think our is the only government institution which has contributed such an huge amount for the relief of the victims of natural disaster. Earlier too our medical teams have contributed for the rehabilitation of victims of earthquake in Bhuj (Gujarat) and Tsunami in Kerala," claimed Dr Boparai.
He said the employees of the government hospitals under Government Medical College remained at the forefront for serving the humanity during its testing times especially during such calamities.
The theatre group was selected by the Punjab AIDS Control Society (PACS), which won six awards, highest among the states, for creating awareness during the stay of Red Ribbon Express, a project launched by National AIDS Control Organisation, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. A large number of theatre groups from all over the country staged plays to spread AIDS awareness during the passing of Red Ribbon Express through various parts of the nation.
Punjab Health Minister Laxmi Kanta Chawla handed over the award to the group headed by famous theatre personalities Hardip Gill and Anita Devgan. While presenting the award, she said it was an honour for the Punjab which has won six of the total 39 national awards. She said the award would inspire the theatre group to continue their good work in spreading awareness against various social evils prevailing in the society. Red Ribbon Express entered the state on October 20 and remained till November 24 during which it visited nine stations in eight districts of the state.
Pensioners' Day
Amritsar: The Retired Railway Pensioners' Association, Amritsar, would celebrate Pensioners Day on December 17 at Northern Railway Institute, B-Block Colony here. Association spokesperson H.S. Gabria said the pensioners, who have attained 80 years of age or above would be honoured on the occasion too. — TNS
Schoolchildren perfom Saraswati Vandana at the annual prize distribution function of Sun Valley Public School in Amritsar. Photo: Vishal Kumar
They should raise their voice if their rights are being violated. "Every human has got the right to education, to explore his views independently and fearlessly. Nobody can bind him against his will and someone who does so is a culprit. It is our moral responsibility to inform the law enforcement authorities if we come across these sort of incidents," she said.
On this occasion, students organised a play, through which they stressed upon the significance of this day. Different competitions like slogan writing, declamation, painting, art and craft were also organised.
Discovery week
Discovery week was celebrated from December 6 to 10 at the Cambridge International School, Loharka Road, Amritsar, under the guidance of Sunita Babu, the principal of the school.
Students enthusiastically participated in various activities, which were - best out of waste, poster making, food fiesta and quiz.
A rally was also organised to make people aware of the declining sex ratio and a role play for the same was conducted at the Government School, Muradpura.
To make children aware about the election process, elections of head boy and head girl were held through computerised systems in which Mehak Aggarwal and Nikhil Arora were chosen as the school head girl and head boy, respectively.
The Luvdale Senior School, Loharka Road, Amritsar, celebrated its Annual day based on the theme of 'childhood', wherein the concept was to highlight the need to understand that every child is special and his own unique strengths and talents need to be nurtured.
The programme, which included a mix of dramatic plays, displays and performances, enthralled parents. The programme was interspersed with patriotic and nation building motivational action sequences performed by students.
In his speech, the director of the school, Brig GS Sandhu reaffirmed the school's commitment to provide students with a vibrant learning environment and the right blend of academics, sports and extra-curricular activities. The newly constructed indoor auditorium, with a seating capacity of 300 people, was also inaugurated on the occasion.
National workshop
SR Government College for Women, Amritsar, organised a workshop on computational mathematics. The workshop commenced with a welcome note from principal Dr Gurnam Kaur Bedi. Dr Sudha Talwar, head of the mathematics department, highlighted the objectives of the workshop.
Prof Surjeet Singh, ex-professor from the King-Saud University and GND University, delivered the inaugural address.
Prof Manohar Lal, director, school of computer science and information science, IGNOU, New Delhi, gave the key note address.
The resource persons of the first day were Dr SK Mattoo, department of computer science, Delhi University and Dr Parminder Singh, department of mathematics, GND University.
Prof Rajneesh Kumar, chairman, department of mathematics, Kurkshetra University, Kurukshetra, presided over the second day's proceedings.
Resource persons included Dr Manohar Lal and Dr RS Salaria, head of department of computer science and engineering, Rayat and Bahra Institute of Engineering, Hoshiarpur and Dr MS Hundal, dean, College Development Council, delivered the valedictory address.
Gymnastics tourney
A team of young gymnasts from classes II to X of Spring Dale Senior School bagged a total of 42 medals, including 20 gold, 15 silver and seven bronze medals, in the Open State Gymnastics Championship held at Kotakapura.
Muskaan Vij of class VI bagged five gold medals in rope, hoop, clubs and freehand events in the under-12 team championship. She was followed by Mohina Kaur Girgla, of class IV, who won three gold medals in clubs and freehand events and one silver medal in the ribbon event, in the under-10 championship.
Ankita Sachdeva, of class VI won two gold medals in ball and ribbon events and three silver medals in hoop and free hand events in the under-12 team championship.
Ria Khanna, of class X was next in line with two gold medals in rope and club events and two silver medals in the hoop event in the under-15 team championship.
Karmandeep Kaur, of class VIII won a silver medal in the rope event and one bronze medal in the clubs event in the under-15 team championship.
Both Suneetpal Kaur, of class III and Kanishka Salhotra, of class II, won two gold medals, in the under-8 team championship.
Sarvpreet Kaur Sidhu, of class V, bagged two gold medals in the rope and hoop event and two silver medals in the free hand event in the under-10 team championship.
Shivjot Kaur of class III won one gold, one silver and two bronze medals in the ribbon, ball and free hand events, respectively.
The other members of the team include Sanya Talwar, of class III (two silver medals), Manmeet Kaur of class II (one silver medal) and Niharika of class III (two bronze medals).
Sharma attributed this feat to the exceptional sports training and infrastructure provided by the school to its students. "Our endeavor is to train students in such a way so as to equip them well enough to compete with their counterparts across the globe and earn recognition," he said.
His achievements cannot be ignored, yet this 13-year-old swimming aficionado fails to catch the fancy of the district administration officials, who have failed to provide requisite infrastructure for swimmers like him.
Meet Ujjwal Sharma, a national swimming champ (under 14-year category), and a class VIII student of Manav Public school, Amritsar.
"I urge the district administration to lend a hand to swimmers like me by building up an 'all weather swimming pool'. We are in desperate need of this pool because in absence of which, hoards of swimmers like me fail to compete with swimmers hailing from other states like Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal," said very agile Ujjwal, who got inspired into swimming through his elder sister Gargi (16), herself a national level swimmer.
Ujjwal, a gold medalist in Punjab State School Swimming Championship, held at Sangrur in October, failed to perform up to his potential during the National School Swimming Championship at Sholapur in Maharashtra and he had to contend with just a bronze medal in 4X100 metres freestyle relay event.
He has been a gold medalist in the three backstroke swimming events --- 50 metre, 100 metre and 200 metre at the state level, then in CBSE North Zone Swimming meet, he repeated his performance with the same intensity and grabbed two golds in 50 meters and 100 meters backstroke events but when it came to national level, he and his fellow swimmers couldn't compete with their counterparts of other states.
Despite the fact that the built up of our children is stronger than the children from other states, they lag behind.
His father Rajinder Kumar Lovely, who is a fulltime coach at Mohan International Pool said, "The reason was that the participants of these states have been equipped with all- weather pools and they do practice throughout the year. But, here, our swimmers would not be able to go in the pool beyond September and the major swimming events would be scheduled in November onwards, how would our children compete with those swimmers?"
Even as the Punjab Government has drafted a sports policy yet little provision has been kept in it about the future security of the sportspersons. "Due to this lapse, we as parents just take the sports on secondary preference and we would like our children to do fairly well in studies only no matters how good they are in studies. Otherwise, there is no dearth of sports talent in our children and if they are directed in a direction, with a policy matter that certain level sportspersons would be absorbed in jobs, and then I can say parents would be freer to think about putting their children in sports, said Rajinder Kumar Lovely, out of his experience.
Nevertheless, Ujjwal's mother Seema keeps her fingers crossed and ensured that his son should be provided with the best infrastructure. Apart from this, she also maintains a perfect balance between Ujjwal's study and sports.
But, Ujjwal wants to be an IPS officer or in defence services. The firm reason behind was that his grandpa late Rattan Chand was in the military.
These views were expressed by Dr Deepak Kapila, senior cardiologist at Fortis Escort Hospital. He was delivering a lecture on various medical emergencies during a seminar "First aid in emergency situations in children and adults", organised by Talwalkars Fitness Centre in association with Fortis Escorts and Grover Children Hospital here recently.
Laying emphasis on CPR, he said it is indicated in those cases where the patients are unresponsive with no breathing or only gasps. It involved chest compressions at a rate of at least 100 per minute to create artificial circulation by manually pumping blood through the heart. In addition, the rescuer may provide breaths by either exhaling into their mouth or utilising a device that pushes air into the lungs.
"The main purpose of CPR is to restore partial flow of oxygenated blood to the brain and heart. It may delay tissue death and extend the brief window of opportunity for a successful recovery without permanent brain damage," informed Dr Kapila. After the lecture a team of technicians from Fortis Escorts Hospital gave a practical demonstration of CPR.
Dr Hira Lal Khanna, a renowned cardio-paediatrician of the holy city, who was the chief guest on the occasion, pointed out that there was a need to make the masses aware of the first aid to be given during different kinds of medical emergencies, like burns, epilepsy, heart problems, bleeding, shock, electric shock, etc, until the special medical care arrived.
Dr Naresh Grover, child specialist from Grover Children Hospital, delivered a lecture on "Emergencies in children".
Earlier, Gurvinder Bhatia, Manager of Talwalkars Fitness Centre, welcomed the guest faculty and the members who participated in the seminar. He presented mementos to Dr Hira Lal Khanna, Dr Deepak Kapila and Dr Naresh Grover.
The comic play Mirch Masala that revolves around the lives of three bachelor brothers is written by famous theatre personality Jatinder Brar and directed by Narinder Magi. It depicts the psyche of the people who do not consider the bachelors to be fit in the social set up. They held the three brothers responsible for every wrong that happens in the area.
The eldest brother played by Sarabjit Lada is an account officer while two other Dara Singh played by Pawandeep is a Physical training teacher and youngest of them Tajinder (played by Vishu) remains under influence of western culture. The play ended with the marriage of three brothers and the characters of Ramu, (servant), Bholi and Julie adds situation humor to the play.
This was the fifth play staged. Earlier, Kuch Te Karo Yaro, Loha Kut (written by famous Punjabi writer Balwant Gargi), Mukti (Kumar Ajay) and Firangia De Nu (by Veena Verma) were staged. The festival will conclude on December 19. The other plays that would be staged during the festival include Gadhe Di Barat, Jangal Bolda Hai, Mitti De Kahani, All My Sons and Court Martial.
This was claimed by Jaswant Singh Mann, president of AISAD, here today.
Mann, while on a mission to rejuvenate the not-so-active AISAD, viewed that owing to the Khalsa Panth being split into small factions due to different ideologies and ideas, the oneness, unity and brotherhood among the Sikh community had been severely damaged.
"It is a pity that nobody in the ruling SAD party had endeavoured to commemorate the foundation of the party, which basically was formed to be committed to the interests of the Sikhs", he added.
Nevertheless, the AISAD, today, also launched its 10 point programme to be subscribed and followed in the next 10 years. With an objective to form Sikh homeland, the AISAD president emphasised the need to make constitutional changes and abrogation of certain laws and fresh enactments.
"We want to lead the second gurdwara reform movement, legislation of All India Gurdwara Act and give representation to Sikhs all over the world. Our other main focus would be to eradicate unemployment, drug addiction, poverty, casteism and to raise educational infrastructure to bring prosperity and economic stability.
Apart from this, we aim to raise the health system and women empowerment to curb female foeticide, thereby transforming the present state of affairs prevailing in the state. In our programme, we intend to bring in agricultural and industrial revolution to create a new, modern world," he said.
Akali Dal is the primary organisation of the Sikhs, formed on December 13, 1920 at the Akal Takht, Amritsar.
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Bank Ratings
Peoples Bank
Clifton, TN
Started in 1890, Peoples Bank is an FDIC-insured bank headquartered in Clifton, TN. As of December 31, 2017, the bank had equity of $16.0 million on assets of $185.1 million.
Thanks to the efforts of 49 full-time employees in 3 offices in TN, the bank currently holds loans and leases worth $141.8 million, $79.0 million of which are for real estate. U.S. bank customers currently have $165.0 million in deposits with the bank.
Overall, Bankrate believes that, as of December 31, 2017, Peoples Bank exhibited a below-average condition, earning 2 out of 5 stars for safety and soundness. Here's a breakdown of how the bank did on the three key criteria Bankrate used to grade U.S. banks.
SAFE AND SOUND?
TODAY'S SAVINGS RATES
THE INSTITUTION'S SCORE
Capital Score
When it comes to measuring an a bank's financial stability, capital is useful. It works as a bulwark against losses and affords protection for accountholders when a bank is struggling financially. When looking at safety and soundness, more capital is better.
Peoples Bank came in below the national average of 13.13 on our test to measure the adequacy of a bank's capital, scoring 8 out of a possible 30 points.
One way to measure this buffer is looking at a bank's Tier 1 capital ratio. Peoples Bank's Tier 1 capital ratio was 10.65 percent, exceeding the 6 percent level considered adequate by regulators, but less than the national average of 25.65 percent. A higher capital ratio suggests the bank will be better able to stand up to financial challenges.
Overall, Peoples Bank held equity amounting to 8.65 percent of its assets, which was lower than the national average of 12.03 percent.
Asset Quality Score
In this test, Bankrate tries to determine the impact of troubled assets, such as past-due loans, on the bank's capitalization and allocated loan loss reserves.
A bank with lots of these types of assets may eventually be forced to use capital to cover losses, diminishing its equity buffer. It also means that there are likely to be many assets that are in non-accrual status and thus aren't earning interest for the bank, diminishing earnings and increasing the risk of a failure in the future.
Peoples Bank scored 20 out of a possible 40 points on Bankrate's asset quality test, failing to reach the national average of 37.49.
The percentage of problem assets a bank holds compared to its total assets is a useful indicator of asset quality.As of December 31, 2017, 1.25 percent of Peoples Bank's loans were noncurrent -- in other words, they were more than 90 days past due or were in non-accrual status. That's above the national average of 1.01 percent.
Banks maintain a reserve known as an "allowance for loan and lease losses" to deal with troubled assets . Comparing the size of that reserve to the total amount of problem loans can be a widely used indicator when evaluating a bank's ability to manage problem assets. Unfortunately, the FDIC did not provide information on Peoples Bank's loan loss allowance in its most recent filings.
Earnings score
A bank's earnings performance affects its long-term survivability. A bank can retain its earnings, expanding its capital buffer, or use them to address problematic loans, potentially making the bank more resilient in tough times. Losses, on the other hand, take away from a bank's ability to do those things.
Peoples Bank underperformed the average on Bankrate's earnings test, achieving a score of 14 out of a possible 30.
Return on equity, calculated by dividing net income (essentially, profit) by total equity, is one important way to measure a bank's earnings. Peoples Bank's most recent annualized quarterly return on equity was 7.18 percent, below the national average of 8.10 percent.
For the twelve months ended December 31, 2017, the bank earned net income of $1.1 million on total equity of $16.0 million. The bank reported an annualized return on average assets, or ROA, of 0.64 percent, below the 1 percent deemed satisfactory in accordance with industry standards and below the average for U.S. banks of 1.00 percent.
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require 'spec_helper'

describe "direct usage of ReadOnlyFile" do
  before { allow(Saviour::Config).to receive(:storage).and_return(Saviour::LocalStorage.new(local_prefix: @tmpdir, public_url_prefix: "http://domain.com")) }

  let(:uploader) {
    Class.new(Saviour::BaseUploader) do
      store_dir { "/store/dir" }
    end
  }

  let(:klass) {
    klass = Class.new(Test) { include Saviour::Model }
    klass.attach_file :file, uploader
    klass
  }

  it "can be created" do
    a = klass.create! file: Saviour::StringSource.new("contents", "file.txt")

    path = a[:file]

    read_only_file = Saviour::ReadOnlyFile.new(path, klass.uploader_classes[:file].storage)

    expect(read_only_file.read).to eq "contents"
    expect(read_only_file.public_url).to eq "http://domain.com/store/dir/file.txt"
  end
end

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The National Executive Committee meets in Montreal
Salary review
Employment statuses
National by-laws
Local executives
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During the weekend of May 4, 2019, the APS National Executive Committee proceeded to one of the two yearly mandatory face-to-face meetings it has to hold in opposition to the usual teleconference meetings used by the group. The By-laws of the Association provide for this format with the other face-to-face meeting is invariably held during the APS National Council in autumn. The National Executive has determined that this year's Council will be held in Montreal during the weekend of November 2, 2019.
With a fully loaded agenda, the Executive dealt mainly with activity reports from the various committees operating in the APS universe as well as personnel replacements.
At the head of the latter topic came the departure of Marcel Arsenault, the long-standing Director of the Eastern Region for APS. As with his predecessor, Donald Leblanc, Marcel was the victim of a job suppression in Moncton after almost 30 years of service with the CBC. APS is thus losing a powerful and respected voice always representing with passion the interests of our members in the Maritimes as well as those of the membership at large. In that capacity, Marcel was at the head of the National Health and Safety Committee for APS.
Marcel's mandate for representation was terminating this year, hence the need to appoint an interim replacement. To this end, the Executive appointed Pascal Baczyk from Moncton to complete the mandate as Regional Director for the East until its conclusion on November 3, 2019, before the commencement of a new two-year mandate. Pascal is a Financial Analyst who attended the Montreal meeting to meet the requirements of the replacement. This is how the members of the Committee came to discover a new recruit qualified to fulfill a difficult mandate as well as bringing a new breath of youth to the organization.
This autumn will also mark the start of the two-year mandates for the Regional Directors; the Ottawa Regional Director, filled in the interim by Anne-Marie Roy who replaced Daniel Lavigne as well as David MacFarlane, West Region Director.
To replace Marcel on the National Health and Safety Committee, the Executive appointed David MacFarlane, the Director representing the West who will be adding a new charge to his workload as he is already heading the Employee Assistance Program (EAP) as the APS representative. However, David sees the two roles as complementary as they are both related. In the two cases, prevention is at the heart of the mandates and both concern the health and the wellbeing of employees. Nathan Farr, the Toronto President, will continue to occupy the other APS seat at that National Health and Security Committee.
The Executive also welcomed the arrival of Sébastien Fleurant at the National level. Sebastien came in as the second appointment from the Montreal Local following the election of Isabelle Benoit as the National Treasurer. Sébastien who also sits at the Montreal Workforce Adjustment Committee entered the assembly in full force by contributing to many discussions during the weekend.
Finally, as far as first events were concerned, the meeting was hearing for the first time the investment progress report instituted by the adoption of our new Investment Policy in November 2017. This new procedure covers the return on investments made by the Association. Isabelle Benoit as National Treasurer reports to the National Executive Committee to show individual returns for each investment fund. Isabelle confirmed the coming of age of the new investment strategy with higher returns on investments while preserving capital certified under guarantees.
At the level of future courses of actions for APS, the committee looked at the necessity to intervene with members to underline the failures of the corporation's compensation policies. Since last year many interventions were made with management to attempt to correct inequities without any success. Pending last-minute interventions to bring changes to this year's upcoming salary reviews, APS will launch an information campaign for all of its members.
The expiration of our existing collective agreement was also a topic of heated discussions. The date of expiration for the agreement is on March 31, 2020. There is a provision for automatic renewal that the parties have accepted to include in the duration clause of the agreement. To escape that possibility APS has to file a written notice to that effect six months before expiry, which places us in autumn 2019. Without adopting a formal resolution, the Executive Committee has debated possibilities very well aware of the consequences. Discussions with the employer will, therefore, be undertaken in the very near future.
The next face-to-face meeting of the Executive will, therefore, be held on Sunday, November 3, 2019.
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This is a port of [VCR](http://github.com/vcr/vcr) for ruby.

Record your test suite's HTTP interactions and replay them during future test runs for fast, deterministic, accurate tests. A bit of documentation can be found on the [php-vcr website](http://php-vcr.github.io).

Disclaimer: Doing this in PHP is not as easy as in programming languages which support monkey patching (I'm looking at you, Ruby) – this project is not yet fully tested, so please use at your own risk!

## Features

* Automatically records and replays your HTTP(s) interactions with minimal setup/configuration code.
* Supports common http functions and extensions
  * everyting using [streamWrapper](http://php.net/manual/en/class.streamwrapper.php): fopen(), fread(), file_get_contents(), ... without any modification (except `$http_response_header` see #96)
  * [SoapClient](http://www.php.net/manual/en/soapclient.soapclient.php) by adding `\VCR\VCR\turnOn();` in your `tests/boostrap.php`
  * curl(), by adding `\VCR\VCR::turnOn();` in your `tests/boostrap.php`
* The same request can receive different responses in different tests -- just use different cassettes.
* Disables all HTTP requests that you don't explicitly allow by [setting the record mode](http://php-vcr.github.io/documentation/configuration/)
* [Request matching](http://php-vcr.github.io/documentation/configuration/) is configurable based on HTTP method, URI, host, path, body and headers, or you can easily
  implement a custom request matcher to handle any need.
* The recorded requests and responses are stored on disk in a serialization format of your choice
  (currently YAML and JSON are built in, and you can easily implement your own custom serializer)
* Supports PHPUnit annotations.

## Usage example

Using static method calls:

``` php
class VCRTest extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
{
    public function testShouldInterceptStreamWrapper()
    {
        // After turning on the VCR will intercept all requests
        \VCR\VCR::turnOn();

        // Record requests and responses in cassette file 'example'
        \VCR\VCR::insertCassette('example');

        // Following request will be recorded once and replayed in future test runs
        $result = file_get_contents('http://example.com');
        $this->assertNotEmpty($result);

        // To stop recording requests, eject the cassette
        \VCR\VCR::eject();

        // Turn off VCR to stop intercepting requests
        \VCR\VCR::turnOff();
    }

    public function testShouldThrowExceptionIfNoCasettePresent()
    {
        $this->setExpectedException(
            'BadMethodCallException',
            "Invalid http request. No cassette inserted. Please make sure to insert "
            . "a cassette in your unit test using VCR::insertCassette('name');"
        );
        \VCR\VCR::turnOn();
        // If there is no cassette inserted, a request throws an exception
        file_get_contents('http://example.com');
    }
}
```

You can use annotations in PHPUnit by using [phpunit-testlistener-vcr](https://github.com/php-vcr/phpunit-testlistener-vcr):
``` php
class VCRTest extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
{
    /**
     * @vcr unittest_annotation_test
     */
    public function testInterceptsWithAnnotations()
    {
        // Requests are intercepted and stored into  tests/fixtures/unittest_annotation_test.
        $result = file_get_contents('http://google.com');

        $this->assertEquals('This is a annotation test dummy.', $result, 'Call was not intercepted (using annotations).');

        // VCR is automatically turned on and off.
    }
}
```

## Installation

Simply run the following command:

``` bash
$ composer require --dev php-vcr/php-vcr
```

## Dependencies

PHP-VCR depends on:

  * PHP 5.3+
  * Curl extension
  * HTTP library [Guzzle](http://guzzlephp.org)
  * [symfony/yaml](https://github.com/symfony/yaml)
  * [beberlei/assert](https://github.com/beberlei/assert)

Composer installs all dependencies except extensions like curl.

## Run tests

In order to run all tests you need to get development dependencies using composer:

``` php
composer install --dev
phpunit ./tests
```

## Changelog

**The changelog has moved to the [PHP-VCR releases page](https://github.com/php-vcr/php-vcr/releases).**

Old changelog entries:

 * 2014-10-23 Release 1.1.6: #73, #74, #75, improvements for JSON storage and binary requests.
 * 2014-09-11 Release 1.1.5: Fixes #58 #60, #61, #69 updated vendors and new record mode.
 * 2014-04-26 Release 1.1.4: Fixes #50, #52, #53, #54, #56 and better error messages.
 * 2014-04-12 Release 1.1.3: Fixes #48: Allows data to be passed to CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS.
 * 2014-02-27 Release 1.1.2: Fix for storing the request body.
 * 2014-02-27 Release 1.1.1: Fix for non-GET requests with Guzzle.
 * 2014-02-22 Release 1.1.0: Removes curl runkit library hook and additional cleanup.
 * 2014-02-19 Release 1.0.7: Adds query request matcher.
 * 2014-01-12 Release 1.0.6: Updates dependencies.
 * 2013-10-13 Release 1.0.5: Fixed SOAP support, refactorings.
 * 2013-07-22 Release 1.0.4: Updates dependencies.
 * 2013-06-05 Release 1.0.3: Added curl_rewrite (in addition to curl_runkit) to overwrite curl functions.
 * 2013-05-15 Release 1.0.0
 * 2013-05-15 Adds PHPUnit annotations using [phpunit-testlistener-vcr](https://github.com/php-vcr/phpunit-testlistener-vcr)
 * 2013-05-14 Easier API (static method calls)
 * 2013-02-22 Added YAML support
 * 2013-02-21 Added custom request matcher
 * 2013-02-21 Added JSON storage which uses less memory
 * 2013-02-21 Added support for binary data
 * 2013-02-20 Added Soap support
 * 2013-02-19 Curl hook fixes, more tests
 * 2013-02-18 First prototype

## Copyright
Copyright (c) 2013 Adrian Philipp. Released under the terms of the MIT license. See LICENSE for details.

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5. But let our discourse proceed to history in reviewing the antiquity of fasting, and how all of the Saints, receiving it as an ancestral legacy, preserved it in the way that fathers hand things on to their children; thus, this possession has come down to us by a process of successive transmission. There was no wine in Paradise, nor any slaughter of animals, nor any consumption of meat. After the flood, there was wine; after the flood came the ordinance: "Eat all things as the green herb."13 When hope of human perfection was abandoned, then enjoyment was permitted. Noah, who knew nothing about the use of wine, is proof that men had no experience thereof. For wine had not yet found its way into human life, nor had men become accustomed to it. Therefore, when he had neither seen anyone else drinking wine nor tried it himself, he unguardedly succumbed to the harm that comes therefrom: "For Noah...planted a vineyard; and he drank of its fruit, and became drunk";14 not because he was a drunkard, but because he did not know how much wine he could imbibe. Thus, the discovery of wine-drinking is more recent than Paradise, so ancient is the dignity of fasting. Moreover, we know that Moses ascended the mountain while fasting.15 For he would not have dared to touch the peak of the mountain while it was smoking, nor would he have made bold to enter the darkness, had he not been armed with fasting. It was through fasting that he received the commandment inscribed on the tablets by the finger of God. Above, fasting ushered in the Law; below, gluttony led to the madness of idolatry. "And the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play."16 The forty days in which the servant of God waited on God in fasting and prayer were rendered futile by a single drinking bout. For the tablets inscribed by the finger of God that Moses obtained were shattered by drunkenness, since the Prophet did not judge the drunken people worthy to receive the Law from God. In one moment of time that people, who had been taught about God through stupendous miracles, plunged headlong, through gluttony, into the idol-madness of the Egyptians. Now juxtapose both of these facts: how fasting brings one close to God, and how indulgence drives away salvation. Once you descend to indulgence, you are on the road to perdition.
6. What ruined Esau and made him a slave of his brother? Was it not a single act of eating, which caused him to sell his birthright?17 Was it not prayer combined with fasting that bestowed Samuel on his mother?18 What was it that rendered the mighty champion Samson invincible? Was it not fasting, with which he was conceived in his mother's womb?19 Fasting gave birth to him; fasting suckled him; fasting made him grow to manhood, and an Angel enjoined this fast on his mother: "She shall not eat of anything that cometh from the vine, neither shall she drink wine or strong drink."20 Fasting gives birth to prophets and strengthens the powerful; fasting makes lawgivers wise. Fasting is a good safeguard for the soul, a steadfast companion for the body, a weapon for the valiant, and a gymnasium for athletes. Fasting repels temptations, anoints unto piety; it is the comrade of watchfulness and the artificer of chastity. In war it fights bravely, in peace it teaches stillness. It sanctifies the Nazirite21 and perfects the Priest. For it is not possible to dare to perform sacred actions without fasting, not only in the mystical and true worship of the present era, but also in the symbolic worship offered according to the Law. Fasting made Elias a beholder of that great vision; for, having cleansed his soul by fasting for forty days, he was thus vouchsafed, in the cave in Horeb, to behold the Lord as far as it is possible for a man to do so.22 While fasting he restored to the widow her son, having been fortified against death itself through fasting.23 A voice that went forth from the mouth of one fasting shut the heavens for the transgressing people for three years and six months. For, in order to soften the untamed heart of his stiff-necked people, he chose to condemn himself to hardship together with them. Hence, he said: "As the Lord liveth, there shall not be water upon the earth, except by the word of my mouth."24 He brought a fast upon the people through famine, so as to correct the evil caused by their dissolute life of luxury. What kind of life did Elissaios have? How did he enjoy hospitality from the Shunamite woman? How did he himself welcome the prophets? Did he not fulfill the duties of hospitality with wild greens and a little flour?25 At that time, after the gourd had been placed in the pottage, those who had tasted it would have been in peril, had not the poison been neutralized by the prayer of the faster.26 There is a physical substance called amianthus,27 which is noncombustible, and which, when placed in a flame, appears to glow like coal, but emerges purer when removed from the fire, as if it has been brightened and cleansed with water. Such were the bodies of those three Youths in Babylon, which, on account of their fasting,28 possessed the properties of amianthus. For in the fiery furnace, as if they were golden by nature, they thus proved to be invulnerable to the fire. In fact, they proved to be stronger than gold. For the fire did not smelt them, but preserved them intact. And yet, nothing could have withstood those flames, which were being fed with naphtha, pitch, and brushwood, to such an extent that they streamed forth forty-nine cubits into the air and, feeding on what surrounded them, consumed many of the Chaldæans.29 Entering that conflagration, therefore, armed with fasting, the Youths trampled it underfoot, breathing refined and dew-laden air in such a fierce fire. The fire did not dare to touch even their hair, because they had been nourished by fasting.30
7. Daniel, a man greatly beloved,31 who ate no bread and drank no water for three weeks,32 when he descended into the den, taught even lions to fast.33 The lions were not able to sink their teeth into him, as if he were made of stone, bronze, or some other harder material. Thus, fasting, as when iron is dipped in water, had toughened that man's body and rendered it impregnable to lions; for they did not even open their mouths against the Saint. Fasting extinguished the power of fire and stopped the mouths of lions. Fasting sends up prayer to Heaven, becoming, as it were, a wing for it on its upward journey. Fasting is the enhancement of households, the mother of health, the guide of the young, the adornment of elders, the good companion of wayfarers, the steadfast comrade of married couples. A husband does not suspect a plot against his marriage when he sees his wife observing the fast. A wife does not pine with envy when she sees her husband embracing the fast. Who has ever diminished his resources during a fast? Count up today what is in your house, and after a fast count it again. You will not have run short of any household goods because of the fast. No animal laments death, nowhere is there any blood, no sentence is pronounced against animals by the inexorable stomach. The knives of cooks are checked; the table is content with foods that grow naturally. The Sabbath was given to the Jews, Scripture says, that your beast of burden and your servant might enjoy a rest.34 Let the fast be a rest from constant toils for the menials who serve you throughout the year. Give your cook a break, grant your footman a holiday; stay the hand of your cupbearer. Let your pastry cook have a vacation from time to time. Let your household at last have some respite from the never-ending commotion, smoke, the odor of fat, and people running hither and thither and ministering, as it were, to that implacable mistress, the stomach. In any case, even tax-collectors sometimes give small breaks to those who owe them money. Let the stomach give the mouth some rest, and let it make a truce with us for five days35—for otherwise it is always making demands and never desists, receiving today and forgetting tomorrow. When it is full, it philosophizes about abstinence; when it is deflated, it forgets such ideas.
13 Cf. Genesis 9:3.
14 Genesis 9:20-21.
15 Exodus 24:18.
16 Exodus 32:6.
17 Genesis 25:29-34.
18 I Kings 1:13-16, Septuaginta.
19 Judges 13:4.
20 Judges 13:14.
21 Another name for an ascetic; cf. St. Basil the Great, "Epistle 44," §1, Patrologia Græca, Vol. XXXII, col. 361C.
22 III Kings 19:8-13.
23 III Kings 17:17-24.
24 III Kings 17:1.
25 IV Kings 4:39-41.
26 Elissaios, as a Prophet, was an ascetic and therefore a practitioner of fasting.
27 Amianthus is a fine, silky type of asbestos.
28 Daniel 1:8-16.
29 Daniel 3:46-48, Septuaginta.
30 Daniel 3:50, Septuaginta.
31 Daniel 10:11.
32 Daniel 10:2-3 (where it is stated that Daniel drank no wine).
33 Daniel 6:16-22.
35 During five weekdays in Lent, the Fast is observed with greater strictness than on weekends, when wine and oil are permitted.
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Constitutional Conundrums
Labour's response to the result of the Scottish Referendum and to the promise of further devolved powers to Scotland must first of all be to press to deliver what has been promised. Yet we also need to work towards a federal-style structure for the United Kingdom in which equal and co-ordinated powers will be held (as near as is possible) by Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Regions of England.
In the meantime, MPs from Scotland should retain the same rights in the Commons as other MPs. For they will have been elected to a UK parliament. We should not even have a passing provision in our constitutional practices for first and second class MPs. It undermines the democratic process.
If Scottish MPs were to be refused parliamentary rights over matters which refer to England, then surely this provision would then have to apply to MPs from Wales and Northern Ireland. But as the powers devolved to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland all differ from each other; we would then have a confusing pattern as to which MPs could participate in what.
In moving for a federal structure for the whole of the UK we need to resolve two major problems.
First, what will the people of Northern Ireland agree to for their own internal arrangements? Under a federal model, the province would be a small and barely viable unit within the UK, with a population of only 1.8 million. Then if they were offered a significant federal status, this would be seen as a form of detachment from the UK. This is a position that is likely to be rejected by the majority of the Unionist population. Moves to introduce a federal solution in the province, could even lead us back to major paramilitary conflict.
Secondly, what is an appropriate federal structure which should be shared across England? If England were to become a single federal unit, then the UK pattern would become constitutionally and politically lopsided. England has a population of some 53 million, Scotland 5.3 million, Wales 3 million and Northern Ireland 1.8 million. Powers devolved to a large area such as England would need to be different from those devolved to our neighbours. There is, therefore, a case instead for establishing a number of federal units within England. But how many and where? There are different degrees of local identity across Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. But what local regions do those living in England identify with? And what structures would be an improvement in terms of democracy and social justice?
For administrative purposes, England is currently divided into nine regions. These are the populations, The South East 8.6 million. Greater London 8.1 million. North West 7 million. East of England 5.8. West Midlands 5.6 million. Yorkshire and Humberside 5.3 million. South West 5.3 million. East Midlands 4.5 million. North East 2.5 million. But how far do people operate within and identify with these regions? Perhaps an examination of traffic links could be used to give these potential federal units adjusted boundaries. Then there are other indicators of interconnections, as shown in the above map of phone calls (also see here). It might be possible to roughly amalgamate some of those linked areas.
A pattern of major amalgamation of the above regions could give us, say, three federal units for the UK. There could be a Northern federal unit, run from say Manchester. The populations of the North West, North East, Yorkshire and Humberside coming to 14.9 million. Then there could be a Midland's federal unit run from say Birmingham. The populations of the East Midlands, West Midlands and the East of England coming to 15.9 million. The largest city in the remaining Southern federal unit (of 22 million) is London; although it might be worth looking for an alternative centre for its federal unit. For Lands End is almost as far away from London as Newcastle is. Again traffic flows/phone-links (etc) might lead to adjustments of the boundaries of such three federal units.
So it looks as if we are looking for between three and nine federal units within England, which have to make sense to their populations whilst advancing democratic participation and economic and social justice. Then what is proposed for the internal powers of each federal unit? How far can we find a fairly common pattern that will be acceptable to people of Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the English Regions? How far will the federal powers need to be identical within each federal unit? Will these powers need to be guaranteed within a new written constitution?
None of this can begin to be sorted out on the back of fag packet. We need (a) to pass greater powers to the Scottish Parliament as a consequence of referendum promises, (b) retain Scottish MPs powers at Westminster for the time being and (c) engage in a Constitutional Convention to help us establish a federal or federal-style solution. This will be no bad thing if it eventually comes to involve something of the degree of political participation which we have recently witnessed in Scotland - as long as it does not go over the top in the streets of Belfast.
1st October - Update : Another area to employ in seeking to establish regional identity in England, is regional television coverage. A map showing the areas used by the BBC can be found by scrawling down from this link.
2nd October - Comment : This item has also appeared on the Web-site of Independent Labour Publications (ILP) who are the successors to the Independent Labour Party. See here. Barry Winter their former Secretary submitted them this following comment,which appears here at his suggestion. Thanks Barry.
Harry's thoughtful contribution clearly sets out the challenges facing any attempt to reform the UK on a more democratic, equitable and balanced basis. It will not be easy and, as yet, Labour is running scared of dealing with these issues. That's partly understandable given the difficulties it faces but the issue is likely to become more pressing. It cannot be dodged indefinitely. Already new parties are being formed advocating the decentralisation of power.
Calling for devolution to city regions, as Labour has done, lacks one key element – the need for real democracy. Such deals between city leaders and business people fail to tackle the growing political crisis. Nor is much, as yet, being offered to those areas outside the city regions.
The party could help by starting a conversation both internally and externally about how to proceed. To be fair, it is taking some steps in that direction. But it needs to be a Big Conversation, reaching out into the wider society. It should involve more than submitting ideas to the centre. Party leaders should be coming to listen to party members. I recently attended my constituency party meeting where devolution was on the agenda. Half an hour was allocated to the discussion and the MP spoke for 20 minutes!
One leading question is how we can begin to deal with the mass hostility/disinterest in contemporary politics. As Colin Crouch wrote some time ago, we are living in what he calls a post-democracy. Democracy has been hijacked and increasingly centralised. Large corporate and financial interests, together with leading civil servants and Westminster politicians, shape politics. No wonder people feel cynical and that mood is not going to be easy to overcome. What can be said is that in Scotland, when people were given a tough political choice about their future, politics came alive.
Barry Winter
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Why Axiata selected Nepal for telecom investment
Telecom network operator Axiata has selected Nepal for its future investment by acquiring an 80 percent stake in Ncell for $1.365 billion.
Axiata's investment in Ncell marks the exit of global telecom operator TeliaSonera that announced plans to exit from seven telecom markets including Nepal.
Why Nepal?
Economy in Nepal has grown by a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.2 percent over the past six years. The country has a young population where an estimated 68 percent of its total 28 million is below the age of 35.
Its mobile broadband penetration is 21.5 percent, with 33.1 percent CAGR in internet subscribers from 2012 to 2014.
Nepal's mobile penetration is 51 percent. Mobile subscriber growth in Nepal was an average of 18 percent from 2012-2014.
Nepal had 101.17 million mobile users and 3.19 million wired subscribers as of July 2015, according to NTA (Nepal Telecommunications Authority) website. Nepal had Internet penetration of 44.37 percent.
Why Ncell?
Ncell is the number one mobile operator with 12.8 million subscribers and second largest Internet operator in Nepal. Ncell has 57.5 percent revenue market share. Ncell has clocked $500 million or NPR 57.728 billion annual revenue.
As of July 2015, Ncell has 48 percent share in the Nepal mobile market against Nepal Doorsanchar Company's 46 percent and STM Telecom Sanchar's 5 percent.
The Internet share of Ncell was 40.49 percent against Nepal Doorsanchar Company's 57.07 percent.
The investment will enable Axiata to have contiguous presence and reach in five key countries across South Asia. Axiata's footprint in South East Asia and South Asia will cover 1.77 billion population and solidify the Group as one of the leading mobile network operators in the region with more than 280 million customers from 268 million today.
Axiata strategy
Axiata aims to expand presence in emerging Asia. It looks at brownfield investment, management control, growth market, attractive valuation, earnings accretive and within target footprint.
Ncell delivered revenue CAGR of 19.9 percent between financial year 2013 to 2015, with earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) margin of 62.2 percent in FY 2015. Its return on invested capital (ROIC) was over 70 percent in FY 2015.
Ncell has paired spectrum of 8MHz of 900MHz, 11MHz of 1800MHz and 10MHZ of 2100MHz spectrum.
The valuation of Ncell implied enterprise valuation over EBITDA of 5.0×5 including controlling premium compared to 5.7x and 8.4x for South Asia and ASEAN peers, respectively.
Axiata Group Chief Executive Officer Dato' Sri Jamaludin Ibrahim said: "As with all our investments, we see our entry into Nepal as a long-term strategic move for the Group. Axiata is also committed to playing a major part in the development of the country by offering high-speed data connectivity."
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