My experience of living and studying in England at International Stanborough School has been one of the of best experiences of my life. I met many friends that I still keep in touch with. I learnt about new cultures but I also learnt more about myself and how to deal with different people.
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International Stanborough School gives a high quality support to international students with differing levels of English language proficiency and that opens the opportunities that we as students would not have otherwise.
My stay at Stanborough School was really life-changing. In Brazil, I was a student in a school with over 1500 boarders. In Stanborough, I lived with as few as 20 other boarders. We lived as a family, and that taught me a lot about values, and true relationships.
Other than that, classes and teachers were beyond anything I could've imagined! They always made sure that I was not falling behind due to any language barriers. Although I already understood English before going there, I can say that with the constant support of Mr Edwards and Mrs Milis-Hopa I definitely mastered it at Stanborough! Today, I'm a 3rd year law Student in Brazil. But as of 2016, I've been accepted in the universities of London School of Economics, Queen's Belfast, Cardiff, and Westminster to study Politics and Economics. I look forward to going back to the UK.
I knew going to International Stanborough School would be an adventure, but it exceeded my expectations by far. I still remember sitting in the Headmaster's office, with the boarding school's dean as a translator, for neither my parents nor I spoke a word of English. After a little discussion, they let me take all the subjects I wanted despite the language barrier, making sure I also got enough EFL lessons to improve my English level fast.
The teachers were always very helpful and understanding. Soon enough I started understanding most of the classes, and the people at the boarding school became my family. We're still in touch nowadays! When the year was over, I couldn't picture myself going back home and leaving all that behind, so I convinced my parents to stay for another year and get my GCSEs.
Those two years of my life were truly a blessing from God. I have now graduated from the University of Valencia as a Doctor and I'm about to start my residency. English is still a big part of my day-to-day life: my degree was in English and often I'm a translator at my church and school in the international program we have.
My experience in International Stanborough School has been brilliant. I have studied at ISS from 2014 to 2017; throughout this time, the pupils and teachers were nice and helpful. They have helped me to improve my English. I find the support given to international students more than sufficient in preparing us for the real world. ISS's teachers provide excellent materials in order to make lessons fun and interesting. As a result, I enjoyed lessons and was actively engaged in learning. Moreover, this interactive teaching style empowered me to be more prepared for the Cambridge language proficiency examinations. Now that I've graduated, Cambridge qualification is proving useful.To sum up, I have many fond memories of my time at International Stanborough School. It's a pity that I had to leave to attend the sixth form.
I wanted to improve my English and experience a new culture, so in 2015 I chose to study at International Stanborough School What an amazing experience that turned out to be!
When I began the studies, my English was A2 level and with the support of highly skilled teachers who worked very hard to help me learn, I passed the B2 exam four months later! My experience at Stanborough gave me more than English: I visited sites of world heritage and made good friends who I still keep in touch with!
My experience at International Stanborough School was life changing. I was only meant to be at ISS for a term, but I fell in love with the boarding school, town and people, who later on became family. After various meetings and exams, I was finally told I could stay. So, I stayed for two full years!
After graduating, I had the choice of staying and pursuing my studies further – which I did. I graduated two days ago with the highest grades in my class! I'm proud to say that I will be attending City University London in September. I will be studying Children's Nursing as I've always dreamt of a career in the healthcare sector, alongside working with children! Thank you Stanborough for all the memories that I treasure in my heart!
Studying at International Stanborough School has definitely been one of the best experiences in my life. I met people from 15 different countries! I will never forget my roommate, who was also studying piano and it turned out that we were both trying to conquer the same Beethoven sonata! Studying at Stanborough was great and I keep all the memories in my heart.


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Sony has agreed to a deal with the Michael Jackson estate to buy out the late King of Pop's half of their Sony/ATV music publishing company. The deal, which comes 21 years after Jackson and Sony formed the joint venture, is expected to net the Jackson estate $750 million. The agreement also allows the Jackson estate to retain 10 percent of EMI Music Publishing as well as their stake in Mijac Music, which owns to rights to Jackson's own works, and Jackson's master recordings, Billboard reports.
"This transaction further allows us to continue our efforts of maximizing the value of Michael's Estate for the benefit of his children," Jackson estate co-executors John Branca and John McClain said in a statement. "It also further validates Michael's foresight and genius in investing in music publishing. His ATV catalogue, purchased in 1985 for a net acquisition cost of $41.5 million, was the cornerstone of the joint venture and, as evidenced by the value of this transaction, is considered one of the smartest investments in music history."
Jackson first purchased ATV Music Publishing, which owned the publishing rights to the majority of the Beatles' music, in 1985 for $41.5 million at the insistence of Paul McCartney . Eleven years later, the singer merged his stake in ATV with Sony Music to form Sony ATV; the conglomerate then added EMI Music Publishing to their staple in 2012.
According to Fortune, Sony exercised a right in the Sony/ATV contract in September 2015 that allowed one partner to buy out the other. The following month, the Wall Street Journal reported that Sony sought buyers for their half of the publishing company, with a $2 billion valuation put on their portion of Sony/ATV Music.
In a statement, Sony CEO Michael Lynton said, "This acquisition will enable Sony to more quickly adapt to changes in the music publishing business, while at the same time continuing to be an unparalleled leader in the industry and a treasured home for artists and writers." Lynton added that the agreement should be completed by March 31st.
The $750 million sale of Jackson's half of Sony/ATV Music will go in part to finish paying off the massive $500 million debt the singer had accrued at the time of his death in 2009. After taxes, fees and expenses, the remaining money will be put into a trust for Jackson's three children.
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Wha….
Jackson first purchased ATV Music Publishing, which owned the publishing rights to the majority of the Beatles' music, in 1985 for $41.5 million at the insistence of Paul McCartney .
Again, wha…?? That's not the way I've heard how that went down.
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That sentence stood out to me too, definitely seems like a misnomer
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I think they just phrased it in a really bad way. Paul inspired M.J. to buy another artist's catalog, just like how Paul bought Buddy Holly's catalog, but Paul didn't specifically urge M.J. to buy the Beatles' catalog.
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It looks like they will only have the publishing rights to The Beatles work for a few more years . . I saw this article recently, do any of you know when the publishing rights will revert back to Paul and John's estate?
Sir Paul McCartney is set to win back the rights to The Beatles songs.
The veteran rocker, 71, lost ownership of the publishing rights to the songs he co-wrote with late bandmate John Lennon .
Sir Paul was furious when his former friend Michael Jackson outbid him to buy the Associated Television Corporation (ATV)'s back catalogue, which includes The Beatles' tracks, in 1985.
Getting back what's rightfully his: Sir Paul McCartney , pictured in San Francisco on August 9, is set to win back The Beatles back catalogue
The King Of Pop paid a reported $47.5million for between 160 and 260 Beatles classics, including Yesterday and Let It Be .
However, the 1976 US Copyright Act means Sir Paul will now be able the claim back the titles once more in five years, according to The Sun.
A source told the paper: 'Paul's been fuming for decades. It's as much personal as business. Now he'll get back what's rightfully his.'
The Act means songs written prior to 1978 turn into the property of the songwriter after 56 years.
Payday: Sir Paul will be able to receive royalties from Sgt Pepper 's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Abbey Road albums
Sir Paul and Michael, who recorded several songs together in the '80s, including The Girl Is Mine, famously fell out over the purchase.
No doubt Sir Paul, who has a reported £680 million fortune already, will be looking forward to receiving royalties and licensing money for tracks he wrote in the '60s and 1970.
Years ago, he complained at having to pay Michael royalties every time he wanted to perform a Beatles song: 'The annoying thing is I have to pay to play some of my own songs. Each time I want to sing Hey Jude I have to pay.'
While it is unknown how much the back catalogue would be worth nowadays, in 2005, Sony paid Michael $95million for 50 per cent of the rights.
Feud: Sir Paul, pictured in 1983 with late wife Linda, famously fell out with Michael Jackson over the purchase of the rights
When Jackson died in 2009, Sir Paul denied reports he was 'devastated' not to have been left the rights by the tragic singer in his will.
He said at the time: 'The report is that I am devastated to find that he didn't leave the songs to me. This is completely untrue. I had not thought for one minute that the original report [about the will] was true, and therefore the report that I'm devastated is also totally false.'
In an interview after Michael's death, Sir Paul admitted his resentment against the singer had faded somewhat: 'I got off that years ago. It was something for a while I was very keen on and you can see why, naturally… [but these] sort of things can eat you up.
'I feel privileged to have hung out and worked with Michael. He was a massively talented boy man with a gentle soul. His music will be remembered forever and my memories of our time together will be happy ones.'
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It can't have been too recent an article, as Sir Paul is 73.
Either that or 1) they've got his age wrong or 2) they're actually talking about Faul, and he's two years younger.
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Why did Michael Jackson make it his mission to beat Paul to the chase all those years ago? Especially since they were friends. If my idol/friend wanted to get their songs back after many years and I had the money, I'd buy them and hand over the rights back to Paul. It sort of makes me angry.
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Paul and Yoko took an age to get around to actually buying the catalogue and Michael stepped in and took advantage. Michael looks the bad guy but Paul and Yoko should have gotten their act together and made a firm bid instead of trying to work out what they were doing. Its business.
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I think he could of bought it himself but he was worried about the perception of how it would look if he had the rights to both his and John's songs, he's probably right too. The public is very fickle and could see fans calling for him to give half of the rights to Yoko or John's kids. Apparently the story is he went to Yoko and mentioned that they would both have to put up $30 million and she insisted they could get it for cheaper. It would've been nice to see Paul have the rights to his songs though. He's already got more money than he'll ever need, I believe he's close to a billionaire but if he had the rights to those songs all of those years it would be nice for songwriters to be able to have such a pristine example of financial success to look up to. He's such a great songwriter that I feel like he deserves the fruits of his labor
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The deal has been finalised.
With the US copyrights reverting to the songwriter perhaps Paul could use that as a bargaining chip to buy out the rights of The Beatles' publishing all-together. At this point though it would be a long-term investment that would benefit his kids. It's really too bad he didn't get them in the 80s
I don't see how that would work, @Bullion. What would be in it for Sony/ATV to go, "Well, we're losing the US publishing, might as well offload the rest of the world as well…" It could easily be argued that the publishing for the rest of the world is much more profitable than the US publishing, given the size of emerging markets like China.
Nor would I want, to be honest, Paul alone (and his heirs following his death) to control The Beatles publishing. Were, maybe under the umbrella of Apple, Paul and the estate of John Lennon (with maybe a small share for the estate of George Harrison as they also published his songs before Harrisongs became active in 1968), they to go for attempting to regain the group's publishing, I would be for that.
But I would not Paul to solely control their publishing; no more than I would want the estates of John Lennon or George Harrison , or Ringo, to have sole control.
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With the US rights expiring they may be willing to take a lower offer for the whole thing since a large portion of the cash flow will be lost once the rights revert to him. They already have John's portion guaranteed for awhile longer but he more easily negotiate for his half. Perhaps he could do something similar to what Prince did with Warner Bros where he agreed to do an album for Sony, and if they market it right it would be a mutually beneficial endeavor for him. He could also agree to let them administrate the catalog for a certain term, so they'd be making something in the range of 10%-25% rather than a regular publishing deal which is 50% – but from what it seems like Paul and John lost 100% of their publishing, including their writing share. There's various incentives that could be thrown in. Perhaps even signing with Sony/ATV to administrate the MPL Publishing catalog in certain territories. That would definitely be a sweet offer
Including the US – 10%-25% of the whole pie vs. 100% of a smaller pie
The US is still the number one music market. With the right foresight you can project growth in the markets of India and China – although I'm not sure if there's any censorship policies that could provoke the Chinese government to curtail The Beatles popularity there
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A review on the distributional effects of monetary policy
by Marc Beckmann | Aug 19, 2022 | 0 comments
Inequality has long been a foremost public concern, but not so for central banks. While the orthodoxy according to which central banks engage in "neutral" policy-making is slowly crippling away, we're still enormously far from taking the distributional consequences of money creation and allocation seriously. Intensifying the debate on the inequality effects of the central bank's monetary policy is a small step in that direction. This blog suggests several starting points for that.
Why does inequality matter in regards to monetary policy?
The below presents 8 main lessons distilled from an academic literature review on the nexus of inequality and monetary policy. Statements on the inequality effects of monetary policy instruments synthesise the findings of around 40 empirical papers. A summary of these papers can be requested from the author.
1. Monetary policy is always distributional.
Monetary policy always raises or lowers the income and wealth of some agents more than of others. This is because it works by affecting the cost of credit in the economy which has different implications for different people. For example, asset-poor households suffer from higher borrowing costs while wealthier households who often lend money to others benefit from a higher price of credit. Also, some are simply more sensitive to a change in the cost of credit than others. For example, firms with higher leverage ratios respond more strongly than firms with a lower leverage ratio. Given the heterogeneity in households' and firms' financial characteristics, monetary policy will always give/take more to/from some than others.
2. Distributional effects can be long-lasting.
The distributional effects of monetary policy can be long-lasting, outliving the duration of business cycles. This is, for example, because monetary policy shocks can cause a recession which can condemn people into unemployment (see Blanchard, 2018; Yagan et al., 2019, BIS, 2022) and permanently reduce their life-time earnings (J. Schmieder et al., 2021; Lachowska et al., 2019; Quintini & Venn, 2013). The inequality induced hereby often persists (BIS, 2022). Even if the central bank lowers interest rates as often it raises them, its effects would not balance out. Studies suggest that higher interest rates lower the incomes of poor people more than lower interest rates raise their incomes, which means that, over time, monetary policy hurts the poor (Furceri et al. 2018; Guerello et al., 2018). Far from being neutral, the cumulative effect of monetary policy on the entire income distribution might be regressive (Kronick & Villarreal, 2020).
3. If the central bank raises interest rates, this hurts low-income households. In reverse, lowering rates tends to raise their incomes.
If the central bank raises interest rates, banks will experience higher refinancing costs, which they tend to pass onto households and firms. Households will then face higher interest payments, for example on their mortgage. Firms might respond to higher credit costs by not implementing planned wage increases or by firing workers. This particularly slashes the salary incomes of those who already don't earn much (see Guerello et al., 2018; Mumtaz et al., 2017; Coibon et al., 2017; Gornemann et al., 2016; Park et al., 2021; Holm et al., 2021; Aye et al., 2019). Why? Because low-paid workers are often the first who get fired (Dossche & Hartwig, 2019; Slacalek et al., 2021).
In reverse, a lowering of the interest rate is mostly argued to benefit low-income households: cheaper credit reduces debt-servicing costs and stimulates hiring by firms as well as rising wages. For the income situation of low-income households, the effect flowing from firms' decisions on hiring and wages is more important than changes in debt-servicing costs (Samarina & Nguyen, 2019; Corrado & Fantozzi, 2020). Here again, the effect that matters most for labour earnings (and income overall) is the employment gain for those who were previously unemployed (Lenza & Slacalek, 2018; Casiraghi et al., 2018; Park, 2021, Lee, 2021; Amberg et al., 2021).
4. High-income households also benefit from falling interest rates. But they are hurt less by interest rate increases.
Also the wages of high-income households are increasing when the central bank lowers the interest rate. Although they lose out as creditors from an interest rate decrease, they win out as debtors. High-income households tend to have large outstanding loans, and empirical evidence suggests that the positive effect of decreasing debt-servicing costs outweighs the negative effect of lower interest income for high-income households (Andersen et al., 2022). Other channels add to their income gains: business income and capital income (from rents and stock returns) increase after an expansionary monetary policy shock. As high-income households tend to be more often self-employed, and even more so, own financial assets, compared to lower-income households, the income gains through these channels largely accrue to them. This is clearest for unconventional expansionary monetary policy (Saiki & Frost, 2014; Montecino & Epstein, 2015, Mumtaz & Theophilopoulou, 2017; Taghizadeh-Hesary et al., 2018; Davtyan, 2018; Hafemann et al., 2018, Saiki & Frost, 2020) but also seems to be the case for conventional policy (Andersen et al. 2022).
A stark interest rate hike, as mentioned before, leads to lower salaries, including for high earners. Salaries are particularly sensitive to an interest rate hike-induced economic downturn. But high-income individuals are less dependent on salaries. More so than others, they also get income from financial sources. For example, they receive interest income on their savings – a type of income that even increases with an interest rate hike. Hence, high-income individuals are hurt less by interest rate increases than low-income households
5. Expansionary monetary policy has boosted the wealth of the already wealthy.
The value of assets tends to rise when a central bank lowers its interest rates or purchases assets on the financial market. A standard rate decrease by the central bank directly affects short-term interest rates; for example, it decreases the interest rate on deposit and savings accounts. This tends to incentivize investors to move their money into riskier assets such as stocks that pay higher returns. Stock prices then increase. Interest rate changes also have an indirect effect on long-term interest rates. Bond prices increase because all potential new bonds that are issued after the interest rate decline will provide less yields than the existing ones, making existing bonds increase in value. Asset purchases by the central bank directly affect long-term interest rates because central banks buy long-maturity assets such as government bonds. As a consequence of the additional demand, their price increases, yields decrease, and all of this again incentivizes a portfolio reshifting towards riskier assets such as stocks. What about real estate? Housing assets are indirectly affected by monetary policy in that the central bank lowering its rate for banks also eventually brings down mortgage rates, increasing the demand for housing and pushing up the price. Hence, in general, asset prices increase in response to expansionary monetary policy.
Asset price increases make the rich even richer, because it is mostly them who own financial assets. In some jurisdictions such as the USA, Spain, Italy, and Portugal, real estate is more evenly distributed and the most important wealth factor for the middle-class. House price increases can then act as a countervailing force to the inequality-creating effects of stock and bond price increases (O'Farrell et al., 2016). However, even if that is the case, the wealth increase due to stocks far outweighs the valuation gains in real estate (Domanski et al., 2016; Adam & Tzamourani, 2016; Andersen et al., 2021). Hence, expansionary monetary policy has, in general, increased wealth inequality.
6. Interest rate hikes aggravate existing inequalities.
Inequalities exist along various dimensions and often come with cases of one group having power over another. For example, in Western societies, and as a matter of empirical tendency over the last decades, young people tend to have less power than older people; highly-educated people reflect a stronger position in society than lower-educated people; native-born individuals are more fortunate than migrants; precariously employed workers are worse off than most of their co-workers; and, capitalists have more market and bargaining power than workers (Guschanski & Onaran, 2021; Sokolova & Sorensen, 2021).
Raising the interest rate deepens inequality between these groups by worsening the position of the already subordinate group. For example, the central bank's interest-rate hammer primarily comes down on working people. If firms face higher loan repayment costs after the central bank raised interest rates, they don't *have to* balance out these costs by paying their workers less or firing them. They could also cut costs in other areas or tolerate less profits. But, empirical evidence shows that, overall, firms tend to spend less on staff as a response to interest rate hikes. Hence, relative to what accrues to the owners of capital, working people lose out.
Furthermore, young people, little-educated workers, and low-wage earners are quite sensitive to cyclical fluctuations in terms of the risk of getting fired (ECB, 2021, ECB, 2022). Hence, they would suffer first if an interest rate increase brought about an economic downturn. Similarly, those working in precarious employment conditions (e.g., temporary contract workers, agency workers, part-time workers, mostly female) are more likely to lose their jobs when firms cut costs in response to interest rate hikes.
7. Inflation-centric monetary policy hurts workers
Inflation-centric monetary policy favours the wealth-rich and retirees. Why? If a central bank prioritises stable inflation over stable employment, average unemployment ends up being higher and more volatile (see Gornemann et al., 2021). In reality, this means that inflation targeting makes people unemployed who would have had a job under a more employment-focused monetary policy regime. Job losses don't matter to retirees and matter little to the wealth-rich, hence, they win out.
8. Monetary policy gets transmitted less effectively when inequality is high.
Monetary policy gets mediated through the income and wealth distribution and hence can be more or less effective depending on the specifics of the prevailing distribution (see Auclert, 2019). How does this happen exactly? Consider that lower-income households tend to spend a higher portion of their earnings on goods & services so that a policy measure that raises their income leads to more economic activity. Vice versa, income-rich people tend to save more which consequently doesn't boost economic activity as much. In a highly unequal society where the already rich capture most of the benefits of added economic activity, an expansionary monetary policy generates more benefits for the rich. Due to their higher propensity to save rather than spend, this constraints the multiplier effect of monetary stimulus and makes it less effective. Furthermore, very poor individuals and very rich individuals are less sensitive to the cost of credit induced by interest rate changes. Very poor households might own nothing they can offer as collateral to get a loan or don't even have a bank account, while wealthy households are too rich to care. Hence, in societies with lots of very poor and very rich people, monetary policy loses effectiveness.
How does monetary policy create inequality?
Through wealth (capital income)
"… by raising wealth of some more than others"
Savings remuneration (and cost of debt) channel: the relevant heterogeneity dimension here is net wealth. An interest rate change affects the conditions of net borrowers and savers. An interest increase will bring about higher returns for savers but higher costs for borrowers, and hence distributes money from borrowers to savers.
Portfolio composition channel: the main heterogeneity factor here is the portfolio, precisely the type of asset class in one's portfolio; capital income might respond differently to monetary policy shocks for high-income and low-income households. This is because high-income households have a different asset portfolio than low-income households and monetary policy might raise the returns of one asset class more than of another.
Financial segmentation channel: main distinguishing factor between households: access to financial markets; for example, higher income households could have a greater access to financial markets which could imply that they can reallocate their portfolios such as to benefit from a monetary policy shock
Through the labour market (labour income)
"… by raising labour income for some more than others"
Earnings heterogeneity channels: it states that labour earnings might respond differently to monetary policy shocks for high-income and low-income households. For example, expansionary monetary policy could more strongly raise the labour income of low-income households, simply because it could reduce unemployment, which usually falls upon low-income groups, and hence raise their labour income more than the labour income of high-income, employed households (employment channel). However, it can also be argued that expansionary policy affects the labour income of high-income households more strongly as the wage of low-income households is usually stickier and as it could lead to firms substituting low-skill workers for high-skill workers (skill premium channel). Here, the distinguishing factor between households is the sensitivity of wages to employment changes.
Through different income compositions
"… by some individuals benefiting more from one type of income than from another"
Income composition channel: it states that different types of income might respond differently to monetary policy and as income groups differ in what type of income (e.g., capital income, labour income) constitutes their primary source of income, monetary policy can end up increasing/decreasing the disposable income of certain income groups more than that of others. Here the distinguishing factor between households is the share of capital vs labour income.


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Bohdan-Ihor Antonytch (en ), né le  à Novytsia et mort le  à Lviv, est un poète, romancier, et critique littéraire ukrainien.

Biographie
Bohdan-Ihor Antonytch nait le 5 octobre 1909 dans le village de Novytsia (aujourd'hui , en Pologne) dans la famille d'un prêtre catholique grec.

L'enfance du poète se passa pendant la Première Guerre mondiale. À cette époque-là, la famille dut souvent déménager. Les Antonytch habitèrent à Vienne, puis à Tcherniavchyni en Tchécoslovaquie.

Antonytch reçut son éducation primaire chez lui, et de 1920 à 1928 il fit ses études au gymnase qui portait le nom de la reine Sofia à Sanok.
Ensuite, Bohdan-Ihor Antonytch devint étudiant à la Faculté de philosophie de l'Université de Lviv. En plus de ses études universitaires, il  participa à la vie sociale et littéraire de la ville : il  fut membre du groupe d'étudiants ukrainiens dans la section scientifique de la société « Les partisans de l'éducation ». L'acquisition de la langue littéraire ukrainienne était une étape importante dans sa formation culturelle, nationale et personnelle. Bohdan-Ihor prit connaissance des œuvres de P. Tetchina, M. Rylsky, E. Ploujnyk. Il avait déjà commencé à composer des vers durant son enfance et il continua cela durant ses années à l'université. Il fit la première lecture de ses œuvres en 1929, en tant que membre de la Société des étudiants ukrainiens. La première publication de la poésie d'Antonytch se fit en 1931 dans la revue Voggni. Plus tard, il publia activement ses œuvres dans des périodiques.

En 1933, Antonytch finit ses études à l'université en obtenant une maîtrise de philosophie et de philologie polonaise. Il connaissait plusieurs langues, comme l'ancien slave, l'anglais et l'allemand. La période suivante de la vie d'Anhonytch fut extrêmement fructueuse sur le plan créatif. Il publia ses poèmes dans les revues Notre culture et Nous. Il se produisait avec des articles sur des thèmes artistiques et littéraires, et participait à l'édition des magazines Dajbog et Carbi.

La principale réalisation créative d'Antonytch est la poésie. Durant sa vie, il publia le livre Bienvenue à la vie (1931), Trois Anneaux (1934), Livre du Lion (1936). Les livres Évangile vert (1938) et Rotation (1938) furent publiés à titre posthume.

Bohdan Ihor Antonytch décéda le 6 juillet 1937, à 28 ans.

Bibliographie
 Bohdan Ihor Antonych: Narys zhyttia i tvorchosti, Il'nyts'kyi, M., Kiev 1991.
 Antonych. Antynomii, Stefanivska, L., Kiev 2006.

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Poète ukrainien du XXe siècle
Naissance en octobre 1909
Décès en juillet 1937
Décès à Lviv
Étudiant de l'université de Lviv
Décès à 27 ans

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Oktoberfest recognizes Eddie Rodick's 50 years of polka playing
by Marian McMahon
on 18 Nov 2019
EASTLAKE – The Sept. 26 Oktoberfest at the American-Croatian Lodge in Eastlake included a special celebration - Eddie Rodick, Jr.'s 50 years of playing Polka music.
"His family was present, all of his friends and followers," said Paula Price of 100 Youth That Care. "We had about 300 people attend for the night."
Rodick was presented with a plaque and served his favorite cake, Black Forest.
Eastlake Mayor Dennis Morley and Council Member Michael Zuren were among the attendees.
Music was provided the whole time by the Eddie Rodick Orchestra, and the Deepwood dancers performed for the occasion as well.
The event was hosted by Paula M. Price of 100 Youth That Care and Sherri Falkenberg of Lake Events with proceeds benefiting 100 Youth That Care, Deepwood Foundation and the American Cancer Society.
There was plenty of ethnic food and drinks available.
A Polka costume contest, raffles, 50/50 and vendors added to the event.
"It was a really pleasant evening helping him celebrate 50 years of playing in the polka industry," Price said. "Ed Rodick has agreed to come back and (play at future events) where we do it again with the Deepwood Foundation, the 100 Youth That Care and the American Cancer Society."
Next year the event is scheduled for Sept. 18, 2020.
PHOTOS BY C&J PHOTOGRAPHY, LLC
The Eddie Rodick Orchestra provides music for Oktoberfest Sept. 26, when Rodick was recognized for his 50 years of providing polka music to the area.


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Kim has now been married to Kroy Biermann for 6-years and they share 6 children.
"You know, your husband or your wife, they're not mind readers. As much as I think Kroy is, he's not," Kim told ET.
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Government scientists 'warned against dumping' in Great Barrier Reef park
Scientists were opposed to dumping millions of tonnes of dredged sediment but they were overruled
Dredging the depths: coalmining v the Great Barrier Reef – interactive
Abbot Point: Jon Day, until recently a senior director at the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, told ABC's Four Corners dredged spoil was having 'adverse impact' upon the reef. Photograph: AAP Photograph: AAP
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The government's marine scientists warned against dumping millions of tonnes of sediment inside the Great Barrier Reef's marine park, only to be overruled, according to a former government official.
Jon Day, who was until recently a senior director at the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, said the decision to dredge and dump 5m tonnes of seabed to expand the Abbot Point port in Queensland would prove harmful to the reef.
Day told ABC's Four Corners on Monday that dredged spoil was having "adverse impacts" upon the reef.
"We've seen that elsewhere and there are alternatives," he said. "Sure, they may cost more, but again we're dealing with a world heritage area, the most important world heritage area on the planet, a magnificent marine protected area that the world wants us to protect.
"Our own legislative mandate says 'the long-term protection and conservation of the values' and we're not doing that."
According to internal documents obtained under freedom of information law, scientists at the GBRMPA were opposed to dumping dredged sediment within the marine park, with one calling it "environmentally and socially unacceptable".
Despite this, the GBRMPA issued the dumping permit in January.
Alternatives, such as building an extended ship loading trestle, were rejected as unsafe and too expensive by the mining industry, which will use Abbot Point to export millions of extra tonnes of coal once it is expanded.
Russell Reichelt, head of the GBRMPA, said the dumping would cause "changes locally for a short time" but that it would not harm corals and other marine creatures such as dugongs and turtles.
Greg Hunt, the environment minister, who approved the dredging, told Four Corners: "I made the decision that this would be the last time that we were changing the practice and since then we have stopped four inherited proposals from proceeding which would have seen material deposited into the marine park. So five down to one.
"That was actually included in this decision. I remember the very words were, 'This is a line in the sand.'"
Environmental groups dispute Hunt's assertions, pointing out that the GBRMPA allowed the dumping of a further 378,000 cubic metres of dredged material into the marine park at Hay Point earlier this year.
Unesco has warned that the Great Barrier Reef may be placed on its "in danger" list next year, with the UN body expressing concern in June over the plan to dump sediment within the marine park.
A GBRMPA report released last week found that the overall outlook for the reef is "poor, has worsened since 2009 and is expected to further deteriorate in the future." Climate change, pollution from land-based chemicals and coastal development were cited as the reef's main threats.
Seabed sediment dumped near coral is a concern because it can smother the organisms, hindering their ability to feed. Recent research indicates dredging can double the risk of coral disease.
Although the dumping has been approved, the exact site has yet to be chosen. Hunt has placed a number of conditions on the Abbot Point dredging, with disposal only allowed when corals are not spawning.
He has also specified that the project results in a "150% net benefit" to water quality, achieved by cutting down the amount of sediment flowing onto the reef via rivers.
Terry Hughes, head of the coral reef centre of excellence at James Cook University, said this stipulation was "fanciful".
"Around $400m has been spent in reducing sediment by about 10%, so it's just not logical to expect it to be offset," he told Guardian Australia. "The problem is that sediment doesn't sink like a stone. Particles can travel up to 100km. The notion it will stay in a nice neat box is just not credible.
"The outlook report makes it very clear that the condition of the reef is declining. If the reef is not able to cope with the current level of impacts, what's the rationale for allowing further impacts to take place?
"Climate change is the biggest threat and so logically to improve the prospects of the reef, you shouldn't approve the opening of one of the world's largest coalmines.
"It's also not entirely logical to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to reduce sediment run-off from land and then turn around and allow millions of tonnes of it to be dumped directly into the reef's marine park."


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Vallaure är en sjö i Arjeplogs kommun i Lappland och ingår i . Sjön har en area på  kvadratkilometer och ligger  meter över havet. Vallaure ingår i naturreservatet Vallegielas och ligger i  Natura 2000-område.

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Q: kafka brokers cannot start because of EventHandler fail with create partition topic i'm running with kafka 3.2.0 with kraft mode
when i restart the kafka brokers, the brokers keep fatal start up
it keep throwing the same error log
2023-01-05 04:36:00,267 - ERROR [EventHandler:Logging@76] - [BrokerMetadataPublisher id=1] Error publishing broker metadata at OffsetAndEpoch(offset=1284527, epoch=5864)
org.apache.kafka.common.errors.InconsistentTopicIdException: Tried to assign topic ID aCqb9NV2QJOd7_4ELWo4pg to log for topic partition public.task_assignment-2,but log already contained topic ID 5iPMzQEuTXCk1-RHLyrRig
2023-01-05 04:36:00,268 - INFO  [main:Logging@66] - [BrokerServer id=1] Transition from STARTING to STARTED
2023-01-05 04:36:00,285 - ERROR [main:MarkerIgnoringBase@159] - [BrokerServer id=1] Fatal error during broker startup. Prepare to shutdown
java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException:org.apache.kafka.common.errors.InconsistentTopicIdException: Tried to assign topic ID aCqb9NV2QJOd7_4ELWo4pg to log for topic partition public.task_assignment-2,but log already contained topic ID 5iPMzQEuTXCk1-RHLyrRig
    at java.base/java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture.reportGet(CompletableFuture.java:395)
    at java.base/java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture.get(CompletableFuture.java:1999)
    at kafka.server.BrokerServer.startup(BrokerServer.scala:426)
    at kafka.server.KafkaRaftServer.$anonfun$startup$2(KafkaRaftServer.scala:114)
    at kafka.server.KafkaRaftServer.$anonfun$startup$2$adapted(KafkaRaftServer.scala:114)
    at scala.Option.foreach(Option.scala:437)
    at kafka.server.KafkaRaftServer.startup(KafkaRaftServer.scala:114)
    at kafka.Kafka$.main(Kafka.scala:109)
    at kafka.Kafka.main(Kafka.scala)

expect that kafka brokers can start up as normal
edit: i deleted the topic public.task_assignment before
edit: it seem relay the topic metadata
2023-01-05 11:04:48,234 - ERROR [EventHandler:EventQueue$FailureLoggingEvent@60] - [BrokerMetadataListener id=1] Unexpected error handling HandleCommitsEvent
java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to delete topic with id MXaqZEBbQDOl5zzVOL3ILw: no such topic found.
    at org.apache.kafka.image.TopicsDelta.replay(TopicsDelta.java:104)
    at org.apache.kafka.image.MetadataDelta.replay(MetadataDelta.java:250)
    at org.apache.kafka.image.MetadataDelta.replay(MetadataDelta.java:186)
    at kafka.server.metadata.BrokerMetadataListener.$anonfun$loadBatches$3(BrokerMetadataListener.scala:212)
    at java.base/java.util.ArrayList.forEach(ArrayList.java:1541)
    at kafka.server.metadata.BrokerMetadataListener.kafka$server$metadata$BrokerMetadataListener$$loadBatches(BrokerMetadataListener.scala:204)
    at kafka.server.metadata.BrokerMetadataListener$HandleCommitsEvent.run(BrokerMetadataListener.scala:111)
    at org.apache.kafka.queue.KafkaEventQueue$EventContext.run(KafkaEventQueue.java:121)
    at org.apache.kafka.queue.KafkaEventQueue$EventHandler.handleEvents(KafkaEventQueue.java:200)
    at org.apache.kafka.queue.KafkaEventQueue$EventHandler.run(KafkaEventQueue.java:173)
    at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:829)

my current kafka broker config with kraft mode
############################# Server Basics #############################

process.roles=broker,controller
node.id=1

# The connect string for the controller quorum
controller.quorum.voters=1@kafka-0.kafka-svc-headless.kafka-ns.svc.cluster.local:9093,2@kafka-1.kafka-svc-headless.kafka-ns.svc.cluster.local:9093,3@kafka-2.kafka-svc-headless.kafka-ns.svc.cluster.local:9093

############################# Socket Server Settings #############################

listeners=PLAINTEXT://10.72.9.205:9092,CONTROLLER://10.72.9.205:9093
inter.broker.listener.name=PLAINTEXT
advertised.listeners=PLAINTEXT://10.72.9.205:9092
controller.listener.names=CONTROLLER

listener.security.protocol.map=CONTROLLER:PLAINTEXT,PLAINTEXT:PLAINTEXT,SSL:SSL,SASL_PLAINTEXT:SASL_PLAINTEXT,SASL_SSL:SASL_SSL

num.network.threads=3

num.io.threads=8

socket.send.buffer.bytes=102400

socket.receive.buffer.bytes=102400

socket.request.max.bytes=104857600

############################# Log Basics #############################

# A comma separated list of directories under which to store log files
log.dirs=/kafka/data/1

# The default number of log partitions per topic. More partitions allow greater
# parallelism for consumption, but this will also result in more files across
# the brokers.
num.partitions=1

# The number of threads per data directory to be used for log recovery at startup and flushing at shutdown.
# This value is recommended to be increased for installations with data dirs located in RAID array.
num.recovery.threads.per.data.dir=1

############################# Internal Topic Settings  #############################
# The replication factor for the group metadata internal topics "__consumer_offsets" and "__transaction_state"
# For anything other than development testing, a value greater than 1 is recommended to ensure availability such as 3.
offsets.topic.replication.factor=1
transaction.state.log.replication.factor=1
transaction.state.log.min.isr=1

############################# Log Flush Policy #############################

# The number of messages to accept before forcing a flush of data to disk
#log.flush.interval.messages=10000

# The maximum amount of time a message can sit in a log before we force a flush
#log.flush.interval.ms=1000

############################# Log Retention Policy #############################
log.retention.hours=168

#log.retention.bytes=1073741824
log.segment.bytes=1073741824
log.retention.check.interval.ms=300000

svc.service.port.voter=9093
url.path=kafka/3.2.0/kafka_2.13-3.2.0.tgz
exporter.kafka.service.port.metrics=9308
ui.port=tcp://10.76.7.168:80
svc.port.9093.tcp=tcp://10.76.6.196:9093
exporter.kafka.port=tcp://10.76.0.48:9308
ui.port.80.tcp=tcp://10.76.7.168:80
svc.service.port.client=9092
svc.port.9092.tcp=tcp://10.76.6.196:9092
ui.port.80.tcp.addr=10.76.7.168
svc.port.9092.tcp.proto=tcp
connect.service.host=10.76.0.215
replica.fetch.max.bytes=10485760
exporter.kafka.port.9308.tcp=tcp://10.76.0.48:9308
exporter.kafka.port.9308.tcp.addr=10.76.0.48
exporter.kafka.port.9308.tcp.proto=tcp
svc.port.9092.tcp.port=9092
ui.port.80.tcp.proto=tcp
ui.service.host=10.76.7.168
heap.opts=-Xms768M -Xmx768M
svc.service.host=10.76.6.196
message.max.bytes=10485760
svc.port.9093.tcp.proto=tcp
connect.port.8083.tcp=tcp://10.76.0.215:8083
connect.service.port.client=8083
svc.port.9093.tcp.addr=10.76.6.196
connect.port=tcp://10.76.0.215:8083
exporter.kafka.service.port=9308
svc.port.9093.tcp.port=9093
connect.port.8083.tcp.proto=tcp
zookeeper.connect=
ui.service.port=80
exporter.kafka.port.9308.tcp.port=9308
ui.service.port.http=80
svc.service.port=9092
exporter.kafka.service.host=10.76.0.48
auto.create.topics.enable=false
connect.port.8083.tcp.port=8083
svc.port=tcp://10.76.6.196:9092
data=/kafka/data
connect.port.8083.tcp.addr=10.76.0.215
connect.service.port=8083
ui.port.80.tcp.port=80
svc.port.9092.tcp.addr=10.76.6.196
broker.id=1

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The European Central Bank by the river Main in Frankfurt, Germany, Friday, Nov. 2, 2018.
Analysis & Opinions - Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
Too Big to Evade: The Costs of Europe Sticking with Iran
Michael B. Greenwald
| Feb. 20, 2019
The European Union unveiled the Instrument in Support of Trade Exchanges (INSTEX) as a special purpose vehicle (SPV) in February 2019 to facilitate trade in humanitarian goods between the EU and Iran. Presently, these goods do not fall under the purview of American sanctions, but private sector participants ranging from banks to pharmaceutical companies remain reluctant to conduct business in the country.
These concerns stem from a business environment that lacks the rule of law, concealing the involvement of Specially Designated Nationals (SDNs), terrorist groups like the IRGC, and other government entities within legitimate commercial channels. One such example is Parsian Bank, a private Iranian bank responsible for handling a significant portion of humanitarian transactions, which was designated by the U.S. Treasury in October 2018 for links to the Basij.
Should it stick to the transfer of humanitarian goods, INSTEX will remain outside the lens of Washington's sanctions apparatus; however, Tehran seems unwilling to stay in the JCPOA with just the promise of food and medicine. It is likely that the Iranian government will pressure the EU to expand INSTEX to include transactions in sanctioned goods, especially oil, likely to be denominated in euros to avoid touching the dollar.
In spite of initial hopefulness, the Europeans will eventually face a reckoning with the facts: Washington's financial leverage over Brussels has, arguably, never been greater since the establishment of the euro in 1999. The power of the U.S. Dollar and weaponization of the U.S. financial system cannot be challenged successfully by Europe at this moment.
Not All Bulge Brackets Are Created Equal
Prior to the 2008 financial crisis, there were no illusions about the size and scope of US banks, with Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan, and others, among others, all boasting global reputations. Yet alongside them were well-developed, international European investment banks that maintained global reputations, in some cases, outpacing those of their American rivals.
2006 was the last year before the 2008 financial crisis. RBS, Deutsche Bank, BNP Paribas, and Barclays dwarfed Goldman Sachs or Morgan Stanley in global lending. Even the undisputedly American equities market saw European banks like Dresdner Kleinwort, ABN Amro, and BNP Paribas, carve out territory in the Top 20 names. One would be hard pressed to replicate those results today.
The continent-wide metrics in Figure I (left, top) and II (left, below) show this damning trend: the shrinking of European banks' market share and the rise of their American counterparts. No individual case is arguably more indicative of this than that of Deutsche Bank.
In 2018, Deutsche dropped out of its Top 10 spot in M&A Advisory for the first time since 2000, seeing its market share more than halve from 10.81% to 4.65%. Even Barclays, arguably the poster-child for a revival of European investment banking, is mired in a dispute with activist shareholder Edward Bramson. Regardless of the outcome of this battle, the firm's retail banking and credit card segments remain significantly more profitable than its investment banking division, earning the ire of shareholders.
At the same time, American banks have dominated the Western European market (Figure III, bottom left). Deutsche Bank has not made the top three investment banks for Western European equity offerings since 2014, with US banks and UBS dominating the top three spots ever since then. Unlike Barclays' high margin retail banking division, Deutsche faces a unique German banking landscape dominated by publicly-owned institutions that have little profit incentive. Against this backdrop, there is no saving grace for the bank, which has seen its effective cost-cutting techniques met with little success in the opposite end of revenue growth. The company posted a net profit in 2018, but remains a shadow of its pre-crisis self.
For the financial warriors at the U.S. Treasury, the prospect of an expanded INSTEX has been concerning to some. Prior to the announcement that it would focus on humanitarian goods, there was widespread belief that Brussels would try to house the clearing system in a sovereign institution, like the European Central Bank or a national central bank like the German Bundesbank. In doing so, Brussels would force the Treasury to make a "tails I win, heads you lose" bet: either Washington backs down from sanctioning a sovereign and, in doing so, is humiliated, or Washington sanctions a central bank and opens the floodgates of financial markets to unprecedented instability. The latter could easily spark another Eurozone crisis and trigger serious discussions about the prudential implications of sanctions policy.
But the size and stature of its banks confers a powerful tool onto Washington: the weaponization of reputation. When smart sanctions were first put into development, Senior U.S. Treasury officials met personally with compliance officers and CEOs to convince them that the costs of doing business with rogue states, like Iran or North Korea, were too big to justify commercial investment. More recently, as Huawei found itself in Washington's sights, the first to flee the scene were its Wall Street lenders, with Standard Chartered and HSBC both jumping ship.
Were INSTEX to be housed within a sovereign institution, its European multinational customers would face the prospect of a hostile US banking sector. For these New York-based Titans, the prospects of both reputational costs and hard-hitting penalties for violations of US sanctions would be enormous, even when weighed against institutional clients. Lost business is a cost for shareholders, but a billion-dollar fine, like those faced by SocGen ($1.4B), Standard Chartered ($1.5B), or the mother of all violators, BNP Paribas ($8.9B) outweighs any minute concerns in this field.
If the Big Five banks—Citi, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan, and Bank of America-Merrill Lynch—were to isolate or restrict services to a multinational client, the pressure would then be shifted from Washington to Brussels to organize a response. Brussels has already tried to mitigate the effect of Washington's financial warfare with a blocking statute, but this has failed to counter the power of the weaponized dollar ecosystem.
One potential response could come in the form of a restriction of access to SWIFT, the financial messaging service based in Belgium previously used against Iran. In this case, the Europeans themselves would face a "heads I win, tails you lose" situation: either they would back down from a SWIFT restriction, reducing INSTEX to a channel for SMEs, or they would restrict systemically important banks' access to the global financial system. The collapse of Lehman Brothers offers powerful lessons on the weight of one bank's stability on that of the globe, with SWIFT's tenure as a global messaging service likely ended by such a move to boot.
In short order, Washington would force the pressure back onto Brussels with such a move. In its post-Brexit negotiations, Brussels has developed a new aggressive financial statecraft, but it is still too early to tell whether this approach will be successful. The European Commission's hardball on euro derivatives clearing in London culminated in an extension of access for one year after a hard Brexit for financial stability, while its usage of MiFiD II equivalence against Switzerland has only caused Bern to escalate the debate.
For all the white papers and policy proposals that Brussels publishes on expanding the role of the euro internationally, its financial statecraft will be limited to a regional role until it can become a true monetary and banking union. The ambitious Meseberg Declaration in mid last year proclaimed Franco-German cooperation and crossed several previously considered red lines for Berlin, such as the endorsement of a common eurozone budget. But digging deeper into the statements made, there was little promised other than an expansion of Brussel's existing authority through Cohesion Funding and the European Stability Mechanism.
Worse, Berlin's decision to make stability financing dependent on the choices of national parliaments threatens to further complicate future financial crises: Lehman Brothers collapsed over the course of a weekend, but the debate over Eurozone banking reforms has dragged on for soon to be a decade.
The two most important reforms to internationalizing the euro—the creation of a common deposit insurance scheme and the creation of a pan-Eurozone safe asset—were barely, if at all, addressed in the piece. With the political winds in Berlin shifting against deeper Eurozone integration even more so than before, Brussels appears no more prepared to handle a serious crisis, whether caused by Iran or Italy, than it was before 2008.
Michael B. Greenwald is a fellow at Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. He is deputy executive director of the Trilateral Commission, senior adviser to Atlantic Council President and CEO Frederick Kempe, and adjunct professor at Boston University. From 2015-2017, Greenwald served as the US Treasury attaché to Qatar and Kuwait. He previously held counterterrorism and intelligence roles in the US government.
For Academic Citation: Greenwald, Michael."Too Big to Evade: The Costs of Europe Sticking with Iran." Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School, February 20, 2019.
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This detached bungalow sits in a lovely peaceful location and offers an enclosed garden where there is plenty of wildlife to look out for.. All on the ground floor.
Living/dining room: With wood burner, 32" Freeview TV and wooden floor.
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Kitchen: Galley-style with electric oven, electric hob, microwave, fridge, dishwasher, washing machine and wooden floor.
Sun room.
Bedroom 2: With twin beds and vaulted ceiling.
Shower room: With shower cubicle and toilet.. Oil central heating, electricity, bed linen and towels included. Initial fuel for wood burner included. Welcome pack. Enclosed lawned garden with patio and garden furniture. 4.5-acre landscaped grounds (shared with owner). Bike store. 1 dog welcome, to be kept on a lead at all times (sheep country). Private parking for 2 cars. No smoking. Please note: There is a fenced pond in the grounds. . Potash Cottage is a delightful detached property nestled in the rural Suffolk countryside. Adjacent to the owner's farmhouse, this single-storey cottage has a light and airy, yet cosy feel, making Potash Cottage the perfect place to relax and unwind. The fully equipped, galley-style kitchen opens to the beautifully decorated living/dining room, which has a wood burner. The sun room enjoys lovely views of the well-kept enclosed garden. The small hallway leads to a sumptuous master bedroom, twin bedroom and a shower room. Dog owners are requested to keep their pet on a lead at all times, due to sheep being in the field opposite the cottage. There is plenty of wildlife to see whilst staying in Potash Cottage such as red kites, barn and tawny owls, kestrels and buzzards to name but a few.
Thorpe Morieux is a small village located just 4 miles from the historic village of Lavenham. Famed for its wool trade, Lavenham is also famous for its transient resident, Jane Taylor, who wrote the poem and nursery rhyme 'Twinkle, twinkle little star', along with The Guildhall frontage and the door of The De Vere House, which was used in the film 'Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows'. There are lots of places to visit including The Guildhall, which was built around 1530 for its religious purpose rather than commercial, as well as numerous art galleries, tea rooms, boutiques and award-winning butchers. There is also a farmers market on the last Sunday of each month. Alternatively, why not enjoy the Historical Railway walk from Lavenham to Long Melford, which largely follows the old GER railway line passing through woodland and open fields along the way?
Long Melford is a picturesque village made famous by artists John Constable and Thomas Gainsborough. It was also the main filming location for the television series Lovejoy. The village boasts two large manor houses, an impressive church and a street full of independent shops, galleries, tea rooms, pubs and restaurants. The village is also home to a country park, footpaths, cycle tracks and riverside walks. Situated on the banks of the River Bret, Brent Eleigh is another small village located in between Hadleigh and Lavenham. There a several cycle routes and walks taking in the sights of the Suffolk countryside. After a busy day, stop off for a well deserved coffee and a slice of cake at one of the lovely nearby cafés. Shop, pub and restaurant 2½ miles.
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The Rusty Pig is a family-run business, based in rural Devon. We're experts in all things pig, running a specialist charcuterie shop in Ottery St Mary and a communal dining table where customers can enjoy our artisan produce in truly unique surroundings, for breakfast, lunch and supper. We are passionate about pigs and source all our pork from our own smallholding and other local farms close by that share our passion for ethical farming methods. All our pigs enjoy a natural diet and have the freedom to roam the beautiful Devon countryside. Also available for events and weddings catering.
Kieran Jefferson is a cook, writer, forager, sheep wrangler, chicken whisperer, and beekeeper. After twenty years as chef in busy restaurant kitchens, he moved with his partner to the countryside of Burgundy, France, and is now in the process of making their smallholding as self-sufficient as possible, growing vegetables and fruits, foraging for wild foods, raising animals for eggs and meat, and keeping bees. He is a member of the Association of Foragers, a partner in the off-grid catering company Forage and Fire, and contributing editor of Locavore Magazine. He has also written for Terroir Review, Crumbs Magazine, and Modern Salt.


In the last article in our India's EV Story series, we talked about how bike-sharing/rental platforms were moving to using electric vehicles to help them become profitable. Today, we talk about what they need to become widely available and compete effectively with their petrol/diesel-powered counterparts.
Electric vehicles are all the rage, at least in a part of the public transport space. Bike-sharing platforms like Yulu, Mobycy, Rapido, ONN Bikes, Bounce, Vogo, and Ola's new EV venture, Ola Electric, are all looking to go electric in order to survive and thrive in the $300 million ride-sharing/rental market in India.
They're not the only ones. Bus aggregator ZipGo and car rental startup Zoomcar are also looking at electric. Mahindra & Mahindra, owners of the all-electric e2O car, too has entered the ride-sharing business with its electric car hailing service Glyd and a fleet of 10 e-Verito cabs in Mumbai. And then there are the electric three-wheeler operators such as SmartE, which address last-mile connectivity. Mahindra has recently released 10,000 electric three-wheelers, while SmartE plans to release 10 times as many by 2022. Even Ashok Leyland announced its foray into electric buses a year ago, and is now ready to launch 50 e-buses.
But while the supply of electric vehicles is growing, the supply of electric vehicle infrastructure has not been able to keep pace. What's more, the jury is still out on which type of infrastructure will work best.
Worldwide, electric vehicles have two common charging options: charging stations and swappable batteries. A fixed charging system is made up of a permanent docking system that can be set up in malls, homes, and offices. The vehicle can also be fast-charged depending on the technology available. Luxury sportscar maker Porsche, for example, is experimenting with a 450 KW charger. German luxury carmaker BMW has similar technology – both can charge a car for 100 km in under five minutes. Tesla has charging stations with fast chargers, but continues to work on swappable batteries.
Batteries today are increasingly lithium-ion, rather than lead acid, which fell out of favour because it drains faster after eight months of use.
Orxa, GoGreenBov and Ultraviolette use swappable batteries. Strom's car platforms are ready for both fixed and swappable ones. Bikes from Tork and Ather' need fixed charging docks. Street bike companies like Ultraviolette and Orxa, both based in Bengaluru, are ready with their swappable battery ecosystems.
Today, 80 percent of electric vehicles are charged at homes and offices; however, this form of charging is slow because it typically takes eight hours for a full charge. Further, these basic charging amenities do not always exist at offices, hotels, and malls.
For ebike-sharing companies, it is the classic chicken-and-egg problem. To build scale, more EVs need to be on the road, and, for more EVs to work, there need to be enough charging stations or swappable batteries.
Anil G, Co-founder of bike-sharing platform Bounce, says the problem now is that there aren't as many charging stations as petrol pumps. As soon as players that have scale work on it, consumer behaviour will shift.
"Highway charging today has DC (direct current) fast charging, which is capital-intensive. So the market for EV charging infra is expensive. For residential and personal use, it makes sense to use solar plus net metering plus EV charging," says Maxson Lewis, Founder of Magenta Power.
Magenta's AC (alternating current) community charger costs Rs 19,750 plus installation costs (i.e., wiring, which is variable) and takes the cost to approximately Rs 25,000. It is also developing an AC charger specifically for India for under Rs 7,000. The company also has a DC fast charger for cars, which costs around Rs 5 lakh.
Magenta aims to set up over 450 charging stations by next year. Currently, it has 32 in Karnataka. Magenta has also set up a solar power-based charging station for electric vehicles on the Mumbai-Pune highway. "We have installed India's first EV billing meter. We will soon also install charging installations in Pune, Bengaluru, and Hyderabad," he adds.
The startup also has a fast-charge solution that can charge an electric vehicle of 15 KV capacity in half hour, which can give a car a range of around 140 km.
On the other side are companies like SUN Mobility, co-founded by Chetan Maini, the man credited with building India's first electric car, the Reva (now part of the Mahindra group). The company is working on setting up swappable battery infrastructure across the country for electric bikes and electric auto-rickshaws.
SUN Mobility believes that a swappable battery is best for these vehicles because riders won't have to worry about range anxiety and stopping to charge their batteries. All that these vehicles owners have to do is go in to a SUN Mobility station and get their batteries swapped.
"By creating a swappable battery ecosystem, we bring down the cost of the vehicle," Maini says. SUN Mobility recently partnered with SmartETM, India's largest electric vehicle fleet operator, to deploy its universal energy infrastructure to support SmartE's growing EV operations.
Goldie Srivastava, Co-Founder and CEO, SmartE, told YourStory in an earlier interview that the new system would help the company rapidly scale their vision "without having to worry about the energy infrastructure".
As a pioneer in the electric mobility service space, SmartE plans to roll-out 100,000 vehicles by 2022. At 100,000 vehicles, SmartE says it will help reduce close to a million tonnes of carbon emissions, the equivalent of planting 17 million trees per year.
Ashok Leyland too plans to keep its electric fleet going with swappable batteries. The company has 32 fast charging options and is working on its first pilot in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. It also looking at launching in Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, and Himachal Pradesh.
Industry sources say that a fixed EV charging station for a bus costs Rs 15 lakh to set up. But, Ashok Leyland plans to have stations where batteries can be swapped out in seconds rather than stopping the buses to charge for eight hours. The company has reportedly earmarked Rs 500 crore for this.
For EVs to have real impact, they have to work well in the public transport space. India's EV story, therefore, is still being written, but what we have so far makes for fascinating reading.


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Updated: 10th January 2020
Debt Refinancing: Benefits and Risks
The burden of debt can be overwhelming for some businesses, particularly when a commercial scenario has changed significantly over time. Perhaps market decline has negatively affected a business' cash position, for example, or servicing the debt has simply become too expensive.
In situations like these, some businesses choose debt refinancing to ease the pressure on their finances and reduce the debt burden. It's important to establish that refinancing is the best option in all cases, however, as this solution can also be unfavourable in some circumstances.
RBR Advisory can assess your working capital situation and levels of debt, and advise on whether debt refinancing may be the best option for you.
Debt refinancing involves replacing one or more existing loans with a new loan that offers more favourable terms. This may be a lower interest rate, for example, or an extended repayment period, but the business benefits by reducing its outgoings on a month-to-month basis.
Debt refinancing differs from debt consolidation in that a single loan can be refinanced and replaced with a new loan offering better terms. For debt consolidation to be viable, a number of debts must be incorporated into a single loan.
Why choose debt refinancing?
Businesses tend to refinance when servicing their debt has become such a burden that it's hampering growth. It's often clear when refinancing can help, but also important to factor in potential downsides in terms of a business' ability to repay the new loan.
Ensuring the terms and conditions are favourable to the business in the long-term is crucial, and the decision to refinance requires careful assessment. Debt refinancing can breathe new life into a business, however, by releasing the working capital it needs to flourish.
"RBR Advisory can assess your working capital situation and levels of debt, and advise on whether debt refinancing may be the best option for you."
What are the benefits and risks of debt refinancing for business?
These are just some of the benefits refinancing can offer a commercial enterprise:
Lower monthly repayments if the loan term is extended
Reduced rates of interest allowing faster repayment of the capital element
When several debts are refinanced, contact with a single lender rather than multiple creditors simplifies the day-to-day running of the business
Boosting the availability of working capital means business finances are under less strain and the threat of insolvency is reduced
Refinancing can be risky if businesses are unsure whether or not they can keep up with repayments
Refinancing could mask a deeper underlying but fundamental issue, such as the business having adopted the wrong operational or financial strategy
Even when interest rates are lower, an extended repayment period could mean the business is paying more interest as a whole over the loan period
When to refinance business debt
Businesses might choose to refinance if planned growth is impossible due to their levels of debt, or when working capital is severely compromised and financial distress is becoming apparent.
If business owners cannot demonstrate their financial difficulties are temporary rather than long-term, however, they may not be eligible for refinancing. This is because it's unlikely a business in serious financial distress would be able to meet the contractual terms of a refinancing loan over its whole term, which would pose a serious risk to lenders.
If you're considering refinancing business debt, our partner-led team at RBR Advisory will provide the reliable advice you need. We have industry-wide experience of debt refinancing and operate an extensive network of offices throughout the country. Call one of our experts for a same-day consultation free-of-charge.
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