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The Bank Guarantee That Bankrupted Ireland
Posted on November 2, 2013 by Ellen Brown
The Irish have a long history of being tyrannized, exploited, and oppressed—from the forced conversion to Christianity in the Dark Ages, to slave trading of the natives in the 15th and 16th centuries, to the mid-nineteenth century "potato famine" that was really a holocaust. The British got Ireland's food exports, while at least one million Irish died from starvation and related diseases, and another million or more emigrated.
Today, Ireland is under a different sort of tyranny, one imposed by the banks and the troika—the EU, ECB and IMF. The oppressors have demanded austerity and more austerity, forcing the public to pick up the tab for bills incurred by profligate private bankers.
The official unemployment rate is 13.5%—up from 5% in 2006—and this figure does not take into account the mass emigration of Ireland's young people in search of better opportunities abroad. Job loss and a flood of foreclosures are leading to suicides. A raft of new taxes and charges has been sold as necessary to reduce the deficit, but they are simply a backdoor bailout of the banks.
At first, the Irish accepted the media explanation: these draconian measures were necessary to "balance the budget" and were in their best interests. But after five years of belt-tightening in which unemployment and living conditions have not improved, the people are slowly waking up. They are realizing that their assets are being grabbed simply to pay for the mistakes of the financial sector.
Five years of austerity has not restored confidence in Ireland's banks. In fact the banks themselves are packing up and leaving. On October 31st, RTE.ie reported that Danske Bank Ireland was closing its personal and business banking, only days after ACCBank announced it was handing back its banking license; and Ulster Bank's future in Ireland remains unclear.
The field is ripe for some publicly-owned banks. Banks that have a mandate to serve the people, return the profits to the people, and refrain from speculating. Banks guaranteed by the state because they are the state, without resort to bailouts or bail-ins. Banks that aren't going anywhere, because they are locally owned by the people themselves.
The Folly of Absorbing the Gambling Losses of the Banks
Ireland was the first European country to watch its entire banking system fail. Unlike the Icelanders, who refused to bail out their bankrupt banks, in September 2008 the Irish government gave a blanket guarantee to all Irish banks, covering all their loans, deposits, bonds and other liabilities.
At the time, no one was aware of the huge scale of the banks' liabilities, or just how far the Irish property market would fall.
Within two years, the state bank guarantee had bankrupted Ireland. The international money markets would no longer lend to the Irish government.
Before the bailout, the Irish budget was in surplus. By 2011, its deficit was 32% of the country's GDP, the highest by far in the Eurozone. At that rate, bank losses would take every penny of Irish taxes for at least the next three years.
"This debt would probably be manageable," wrote Morgan Kelly, Professor of Economics at University College Dublin, "had the Irish government not casually committed itself to absorb all the gambling losses of its banking system."
To avoid collapse, the government had to sign up for an €85 billion bailout from the EU-IMF and enter a four year program of economic austerity, monitored every three months by an EU/IMF team sent to Dublin.
Public assets have also been put on the auction block. Assets currently under consideration include parts of Ireland's power and gas companies and its 25% stake in the airline Aer Lingus.
At one time, Ireland could have followed the lead of Iceland and refused to bail out its bondholders or to bow to the demands for austerity. But that was before the Irish government used ECB money to pay off the foreign bondholders of Irish banks. Now its debt is to the troika, and the troika are tightening the screws. In September 2013, they demanded another 3.1 billion euro reduction in spending.
Some ministers, however, are resisting such cuts, which they say are politically undeliverable.
In The Irish Times on October 31, 2013, a former IMF official warned that the austerity imposed on Ireland is self-defeating. Ashoka Mody, former IMF chief of mission to Ireland, said it had become "orthodoxy that the only way to establish market credibility" was to pursue austerity policies. But five years of crisis and two recent years of no growth needed "deep thinking" on whether this was the right course of action. He said there was "not one single historical instance" where austerity policies have led to an exit from a heavy debt burden.
Austerity has not fixed Ireland's debt problems. Belying the rosy picture painted by the media, in September 2013 Antonio Garcia Pascual, chief euro-zone economist at Barclays Investment Bank, warned that Ireland may soon need a second bailout.
According to John Spain, writing in Irish Central in September 2013:
The anger among ordinary Irish people about all this has been immense. . . . There has been great pressure here for answers. . . . Why is the ordinary Irish taxpayer left carrying the can for all the debts piled up by banks, developers and speculators? How come no one has been jailed for what happened? . . . [D]espite all the public anger, there has been no public inquiry into the disaster.
Bail-in by Super-tax or Economic Sovereignty?
In many ways, Ireland is ground zero for the austerity-driven asset grab now sweeping the world. All Eurozone countries are mired in debt. The problem is systemic.
In October 2013, an IMF report discussed balancing the books of the Eurozone governments through a super-tax of 10% on all households in the Eurozone with positive net wealth. That would mean the confiscation of 10% of private savings to feed the insatiable banking casino.
The authors said the proposal was only theoretical, but that it appeared to be "an efficient solution" for the debt problem. For a group of 15 European countries, the measure would bring the debt ratio to "acceptable" levels, i.e. comparable to levels before the 2008 crisis.
A review posted on Gold Silver Worlds observed:
[T]he report right away debunks the myth that politicians and main stream media try to sell, i.e. the crisis is contained and the positive economic outlook for 2014.
. . . Prepare yourself, the reality is that more bail-ins, confiscation and financial repression is coming, contrary to what the good news propaganda tries to tell.
A more sustainable solution was proposed by Dr Fadhel Kaboub, Assistant Professor of Economics at Denison University in Ohio. In a letter posted in The Financial Times titled "What the Eurozone Needs Is Functional Finance," he wrote:
The eurozone's obsession with "sound finance" is the root cause of today's sovereign debt crisis. Austerity measures are not only incapable of solving the sovereign debt problem, but also a major obstacle to increasing aggregate demand in the eurozone. The Maastricht treaty's "no bail-out, no exit, no default" clauses essentially amount to a joint economic suicide pact for the eurozone countries.
. . . Unfortunately, the likelihood of a swift political solution to amend the EU treaty is highly improbable. Therefore, the most likely and least painful scenario for [the insolvent countries] is an exit from the eurozone combined with partial default and devaluation of a new national currency. . . .
The takeaway lesson is that financial sovereignty and adequate policy co-ordination between fiscal and monetary authorities are the prerequisites for economic prosperity.
Standing Up to Goliath
Ireland could fix its budget problems by leaving the Eurozone, repudiating its blanket bank guarantee as "odious" (obtained by fraud and under duress), and issuing its own national currency. The currency could then be used to fund infrastructure and restore social services, putting the Irish back to work.
Short of leaving the Eurozone, Ireland could reduce its interest burden and expand local credit by forming publicly-owned banks, on the model of the Bank of North Dakota. The newly-formed Public Banking Forum of Ireland is pursuing that option. In Wales, which has also been exploited for its coal, mobilizing for a public bank is being organized by the Arian Cymru 'BERW' (Banking and Economic Regeneration Wales).
Irish writer Barry Fitzgerald, author of Building Cities of Gold, casts the challenge to his homeland in archetypal terms:
The Irish are mobilising and they are awakening. They hold the DNA memory of vastly ancient times, when all men and women obeyed the Golden rule of honouring themselves, one another and the planet. They recognize the value of this harmony as it relates to banking. They instantly intuit that public banking free from the soiled hands of usurious debt tyranny is part of the natural order.
In many ways they could lead the way in this unfolding, as their small country is so easily traversed to mobilise local communities. They possess vast potential renewable energy generation and indeed could easily use a combination of public banking and bond issuance backed by the people to gain energy independence in a very short time.
When the indomitable Irish spirit is awakened, organized and mobilized, the country could become the poster child not for austerity, but for economic prosperity through financial sovereignty.
Ellen Brown is an attorney, president of the Public Banking Institute, and author of twelve books, including the best-selling Web of Debt. In The Public Bank Solution, her latest book, she explores successful public banking models historically and globally. Her blog articles are at EllenBrown.com.
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Lise, on November 2, 2013 at 6:30 am said:
Debt free bullion with full scalable liquidity, based on floating trade values would have worked miracles to prevent these financial atrocities. When you can completely decentralize a debt-free currency and have a complement of full scalable liquidity, can it get any better ?
ernesthuber, on November 2, 2013 at 8:39 am said:
Ellen, I can't comment because WordPress wants a password that it won't issue!
ErnieM, on November 2, 2013 at 9:42 am said:
I don't understand, Ernest. Your comment went through. Try again!
Nicholas Gold, on November 2, 2013 at 10:50 am said:
Dear Ms. Brown, once again you have offered a salient analysis of what is happening in Ireland, which is merely a bellwether of what is happening to most of western civilization. This is merely another example of what awaits the general populace if they refuse to awaken to what the unholy alliance of sovereign entities and mega-financial institutions is visiting upon us. I leave with only one over-riding question: how does one solve a massive debt problem by incurring more debt?
Draken Korinne, on November 2, 2013 at 11:20 am said:
It's time to stop living in fear, regain our dignity, and do so through ACTION, in recognition that our system has morphed into something new – the old rules and methods don't work, "voting" is just a sham; there are no political solutions to this coming crisis.
We need a mass, wide-scale repudiation and REFUSAL to play along any more. We must gird our loins, gather our courage and walk away. Let their system collapse in on itself. Yes, it will cause short-term pain, a flash of catastrophe across the boards, but then we will emerge into a new reality, one that recognizes that with modern technology being what it is, *scarcity is now artificial.*
If we continue along the current trajectory, much of labor and the middle class will be rendered economically obsolete, and all the gains will concentrate in the hands of those who currently own capital. We must crash this trajectory; the need is more urgent that most people – and writers, public figures, etc. – realize.
DEBTORS' REVOLT — DEFAULT EN MASSE is the way to start.
antibadpsychinro, on November 3, 2013 at 4:41 am said:
The Romanian Government is also attempting "Backdoor" Austerity measures that serve the interests of the troika before its citizens. If we want to go to war, let's go to war against these international financial institutions that are slowly strangling all of us to death!
Michael Kenny, on November 3, 2013 at 7:15 am said:
For a whole series of reasons that Ms Brown doesn't even begin to understand, we Irish are the VERY LAST country that will ever abandon the euro. When she understands why that is, she will cease to write silly articles about Ireland.
ErnieM, on November 3, 2013 at 10:47 am said:
With such a hit-and-run remark, I can only guess that you don't know what you're talking about. Otherwise you would take a minute or two to explain yourself (unless simply malicious).
Okay, why would the Irish be the last to abandon the Euro? Is it really so complex that Ellen Brown, JD, cannot begin to understand but you do? I don't know much about the Irish, but you give a bad impression of them if you are indeed one.
Brian Harry, Australia, on November 3, 2013 at 1:31 pm said:
Michael Kenny. Iceland refused to bail out the Banks, and are presently pursuing the CEO's legally, with the view to putting them in Jail.(and rightly so). The Irish should follow their example. I think I would trust Ellen Brown's opinion, over your 3 line critique any day of the week.
Jack F, on November 3, 2013 at 12:26 pm said:
I believe Ellen Brown should be nominated and given the Nobel Peace Prize for economics. There is more value in her work than many of the previous winners combined. Geez, why can this stuff be understood and get picked up in Mainstream Media?
Thank you Ellen for continuing to make sense of the economic non-sense.
"why can this stuff be understood and get picked up in Mainstream Media?"
Regretably, mainstream media are either owned, or controlled by "the Moneymen", that is, owned as investors in MSM companies, or controlled by way of the advertising dollars that MSM lives off. The MSM's job is to keep the people dumbed down, not to keep you informed.
Someone called Jesus kicked the moneylenders out of the Temple over 2000 years ago. It's time for our civilization to do the same thing again, and this time, make sure they can't make a comeback.
albert, on November 3, 2013 at 3:29 pm said:
i have placed a link to your site at
http://www.albertburger.com/polity.htm#brown on irelands
hope you approve
Ray Hall (@rayhall9991), on November 3, 2013 at 4:08 pm said:
Hi Ellen Im a new fan of your writings, telling it like is. Im currently living in Ireland, and this is a debt that's silenced and shamed upon the people. Where can I follow you on twitter ?
RUSS SMITH, on November 5, 2013 at 6:47 am said:
Hi!, Patrons Of Ellen Brown:
Welcome to the playgrounds of financial follies sponsored by your local banking establishments who are either too big fail or allowed to confiscate your wealth, in order to cover their own backsides but not yours. Good job Ellen. God bless!!
RUSS SMITH, CA.(One Of Our Broke Fiat Money States USA)
resmith1942@gmail.com
ddavis, on November 5, 2013 at 12:40 pm said:
Thomas Jefferson > Quotes > Quotable Quote
"The central bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the Principles and form of our Constitution. I am an Enemy to all banks discounting bills or notes for anything but Coin. If the American People allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the People of all their Property until their Children will wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered. " this could apply to not only the U.S., but any country.
Tom Usher, on November 5, 2013 at 4:31 pm said:
Soaking the super-rich while lowering taxes on the poor sounds good to me. Of course, lowering the taxes paid by the poor isn't the plan. In addition, it has been suggested that the super-rich would get wind of it and flee with their money: "Why Wealth Taxes Are Not Enough," by Kenneth Rogoff (http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/on-the-shortcomings-of-a-one-time-wealth-tax-by-kenneth-rogoff) — too conservative for me.
Clarc Kng, on November 6, 2013 at 3:00 pm said:
Ellen Brown exposes the monetary financial system's irrational operation in Ireland. It must be investigated how Ireland took on a fraudulent, humongous debt to stay in the Euro. Under ECB supervision Ireland will be enslaved for the next 10,000 year. Thus its 'special case' status, this cannot be. Italy, France, Spain, Greece, Crete as well as Ireland are being destroyed for the sake of the private Central Bankers' derivative trade. It is absolutely unacceptable to offer up Human life for this Euro 'system' that employs extortion, and now subjects all of Western Civilization to annihilation, as did the usurious system of the Dark Ages.
The United States must reinstate the Glass-Steagall standard in US banking, terminating the usurious, genocidal Imperial system. The United States must lead, and with the cooperation of other nations, recreate the Bretton Woods fixed exchange rate credit system, create the Redevelopment Policy that begins in the North American and European continents, reversing the greatest economic depression upon us. Then fund the necessary, coordinating infrastructure, and new economy platforms, that launch the higher order of existence humanity demands. Stop Perpetual War, that now morphs into thermonuclear WWIII, The unacknowledged contest between the United States, against Russia and China is the national security crisis, driven by the Imperial monetary system. We must all work to Stop Perpetual War. No other options exist and time is wasting.
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by Mark Boyer
The US solar industry is gaining some serious ground, according to a new industry report charting a recent spike in solar installations. While big bankruptcies — such as government-backed Solyndra's — have grabbed the headlines, the solar industry enjoyed a record-breaking year last year. The new report from the Solar Energy Industries Association and GTM Research noted that the number of photovoltaic installations more than doubled from 2010 to 2011.
New solar panels that were installed in the US in 2011 produced 1,855 megawatts, up from 887 megawatts in 2010 — a 109 percent increase nationwide. That brings the nation's total solar output to more than 4,400 megawatts, or the equivalent of roughly four nuclear power plants. California led all states with 542 megawatts, which accounts for 29 percent of all installations in the country, with New Jersey, Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado rounding out the top five.
The banner year was partly fueled by a sharp reduction in the price of solar panels, which dropped by more than 50 percent last year. But will the industry be able to sustain the momentum in 2012? Despite recent gains, the solar industry still faces challenges. Last week, the Senate failed to renew a clean energy grant program that has awarded nearly $2 billion to solar developers since it was started. But the biggest challenge to the US solar industry is a looming trade fight with China, as US companies accuse Chinese solar panel makers of receiving unfair government subsidies and selling solar components in the U.S. at artificially low prices.
+ SEIA
Via PhysOrg
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2 thoughts on "Solar Installations in the US More Than Doubled in 2011"
Mr.Positive March 27, 2012 at 2:17 pm
The FIRST seller that actually provides a PICTURE of the connecting wires will sell more at ANY price. Vendors of these products are exactly like automakers: They simply DO NOT LISTEN to their public. They give us what THEY think we'll buy, not what we have asked for!
Green Joy March 21, 2012 at 5:25 am
Wow, double? Great news. I hope the can keep it up. Juan Miguel Ruiz GreenJoyment
The US solar industry is gaining some serious ground, according to a new industry report charting a recent spike in solar installations. While big bankruptcies -- such as government-backed Solyndra's -- have grabbed the headlines, the solar industry enjoyed a record-breaking year last year. The new report from the Solar Energy Industries Association and GTM Research noted that the number of photovoltaic installations more than doubled from 2010 to 2011.
Solar Panels 2011 year in Review

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UK Study Shows Facelifts Maintain Youthful Looks
By ariana.dorado / December 7, 2012 October 13, 2022
According to British and Scottish researchers, for more than five years after their procedure, three-fourths of facelift patients continued to look younger than they did before the operation.
Even though some areas of the patient's face showed some signs of aging, a range of assessments showed long lasting results, according to Dr. Barry M. Jones of King Edward VII Hospital in London and Steven J. Lo of Canniesburn Plastic Surgery Unit in Glasgow.
In a statement Lo and Jones said of the study, "This study provides strong evidence that facelift surgery can provide significant long-term aesthetic gains."
How The Facelift Study Was Done
The researchers of the study standardized the photographs of 50 patients and analyzed them using three sets of measurements to determine how well the results maintained over time:
The angle of the chin in association with the neck, as well as the patient's jowl height.
Key areas like the lines from the patient's mouth to chin or lines from the nose to the mouth were subjectively analyzed.
Finally, an overall subjective assessment of the patient's physical features were taken into account.
The average length of time between the surgery and the study analysis for the patients involved in the study was around five and a half years.
The study is scheduled to be published in the December edition of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and found that all three measurement metrics of the study showed significant improvement over pre-operative results. Even though some patients experienced some loss of improvement in their facial appearance after their facelift, the majority continued to look younger.
Jones and Lo wrote, "Scoring suggested that 76 percent of patients would still look younger five and a half years after a facelift than they did prior to the facelift."
If you're interested in exploring or learning more about the available facial cosmetic surgery options, contact Dr. Elisa Burgess online, or at her Lake Oswego, OR location.
Source: UPI


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Includes Minniecrow and the Paltridge Family in the South East of South Australia, by Dr Valerie Paltridge, 2016.
Includes address by Chancellor Peter Baume to Pioneer Luncheon in ANU 50th anniversary year 1996 and address by Dr Louise Moran to Ladies' Drawing Room 60th anniversary luncheon in 2016.
Includes article published in News Weekly on science graduate underemployment and McCullagh's personal recollections about the Stephen Review.
Includes Memories of Redlands 1850s to 2006 by George Glass.
Includes Knight family history by May Grace (Billy) Ash (nee Knight), copy of Western Lands lease, digital photographs and material relating to the 100th anniversary of the station in 2014.
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Correspondence with ANY staff about digitisation of Vietnamese newspaper clippings from the 1970s, and Optical Character Recognition of Vietnamese script. Includes notes from Mr Marr on the contents of the 1970s newspaper clippings.
Newsletter Jun 1973, Mar 1980 - Dec 2013. Gaps: Issues before Mar 1980 (except Jun 1973), Sep 1984, Jun 1985, Jun 2002. Some annual reports and other newsletters.
Includes presentations by Peter Hall with Aurore Delaigle, Jan de Gier, Kerrie Mengersen and Louise Ryan.
These files contain information about individuals and organisations used to compile entries in the Biographical Register of the Australian Labour Movement (BRALM).


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According to the FTC, defendant Martin A. Webb operates Payday Financial, LLC, and several related businesses in Timber Lake, South Dakota. The defendants offer short-term, high-fee, unsecured payday loans of $300 to $2,525 to consumers throughout the country, advertising on television and through websites such as www.bigskycash.com and www.westernsky.com.
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MISS CAXON
(see comments)
Real Name: Caxon (surname); first name unrevealed (see comments)
Identity/Class: Human (conventional weapons-user)
Occupation: She presumably had some real title/role within the Caxon Oil Company
Group Membership: Caxon Oil Company
Affiliations: Gerald Mills, unidentified bodyguard;
formerly Captain Barkan
Enemies: Captain Barkan, Linda Lee Black and her sister, Blackbyrd (Nathaniel Alexander Byrd), Abraham "Abe" Brown
Known Relatives: Unidentified father (last name Caxon)
Aliases: "Miss Devon"
Base of Operations: Unrevealed;
apparent death in the waters off Manhattan's Lower East Side;
possibly formerly New Mexico
First Appearance: Deadly Hands of Kung Fu I#12 (May, 1975)
Powers/Abilities: Miss Caxon was a skilled marksman, able to hit a target with a handgun even in rough seas in a motorboat.
While she could play the role of a clueless secretary or romantic interest, she could rapidly change pace and return to form, pulling her gun and killing a target with a single bullet after delivering a chastising speech.
Height: Unrevealed (she didn't seem much, if any, shorter than Mills; perhaps 5'7-5'9")
Weight: Unrevealed (perhaps 125-135 lbs.)
Eyes: Dark (perhaps brown; it was a black-and-white comic)
(Deadly Hands of Kung Fu I#12/2 (fb) - BTS) - Devon Caxon (see comments; I am going to refer to her as Devon for the purpose of this profile) was the daughter of Caxon Oil Company's owner, who allegedly owned most of America's wealth.
(Deadly Hands of Kung Fu I#12/2 (fb) - BTS) - Devon's father told her that directors were a dime a dozen.
(Deadly Hands of Kung Fu I#12/2 - BTS) - Caxon apparently transported a of the radioactive material it was bringing into the country to a warehouse on Manhattan's Lower East's docks/wharf. Caxon also allegedly made a deal with "some tiny third world country" to receive a load of illegal plutonium in exchange for helping plan a revolution in that country.
(Deadly Hands of Kung Fu I#12/2 (fb) - BTS) - Working out a Caxon Oil Company-owned New Mexico factory that processed highly radioactive materials for use in other nuclear power plants, Linda Lee Black collapsed one day. A local doctor informed her that she was contaminated, which she correctly interpreted as meaning she was dying.
(Deadly Hands of Kung Fu I#12/2 (fb) - BTS) - At some point, an agent of Caxon -- presumably under orders of the head local officer, Gerald Mills, or the secret power behind him, Devon Caxon -- cut the brakes cables of Linda Lee's car.
(Deadly Hands of Kung Fu I#12/2 (fb) - BTS) - Linda Lee went to see the head local officer, Gerald Mills, telling him she knew that the plant was owned by the Caxon Oil Co. and that she knew that he knew the mess he and they would be in if they tried to sell the public on unsafe nuclear power and were find out. Mills interrupted, telling her that what happened to her was an unfortunate occupational accident, for which she was insured most generously. Noting the tenuous nature of the US' nuclear program, Linda Lee assured him that while she didn't have much time left, she was going to use what time she had to bring Caxon down.
Realizing her brake cords had been cut, Linda Lee managed to jump free before her car tore through a guard rail and exploded upon hitting the ground far below.
(Deadly Hands of Kung Fu I#12/2 (fb) - BTS) - Police records listed Linda Lee Black as dead as a result of a motor accident, although a body was not recovered.
(Deadly Hands of Kung Fu I#12/2 (fb) - BTS) - Linda Lee made it to her sister's where they compiled notes of what Linda Lee had learned and experienced.
(Deadly Hands of Kung Fu I#12/2 (fb) - BTS) - As Linda Lee took a bus to New York, her sister called and hired Blackbyrd to keep an eye on her as she traveled to the United Nations (UN) building to give them a folder containing her notes on the unsafe radiation practices of a plant owned by Caxon Oil Company.
(Deadly Hands of Kung Fu I#12/2 - BTS) <April 1 (see comments)> - Linda Lee was shot twice in the chest on 42nd Street by a pair Caxon Oil Co. agents. Abe Brown subdued one of the shooters, and Blackbyrd shot the other, apparently fatally. Dying, Linda Lee gave Blackbyrd her folder.
(Deadly Hands of Kung Fu I#12/2 - BTS) - Blackbyrd intimidated the arriving police officer into letting him pass, and the police officer decided he had a prime suspect in the man Abe had stunned, knocking the other Caxon agent out with his nightstick.
After an ambulance took away Linda, Blackbyrd related Linda Lee's story to Abe, and Abe agreed to help get the people who had her killed and to pass on her notes to the United Nations.
(Deadly Hands of Kung Fu I#12/2 (fb) - BTS) - As Miss Caxon joined Mills in traveling to Manhattan's Lower East side docks to secure the deal with Captain Barkan, Devon's father told her that there were to be no witnesses of any criminal activities in which she was involved.
(Deadly Hands of Kung Fu I#12/2 (fb) - BTS) - Miss Caxon posed as the companion/secretary of Gerald Mills, director of operations at a Caxon Oil Company office in New Mexico.
(Deadly Hands of Kung Fu I#12/2 - BTS) - Traveling to the Lower East Side's docks at midnight, Blackbyrd explained that Linda Lee's notes identified the warehouse they were investigating as the site to which Caxon Oil Company was dumping a lot of the radioactive material it was bringing into the country. They further noted that Caxon had made a deal with "some tiny third world country" to receive a load of illegal plutonium in exchange for helping plan a revolution in that country.
(Deadly Hands of Kung Fu I#12/2) - Mills and Caxon arrived at the docks, and Blackbyrd got closer to hear/see what was going on.
As Mills and Miss Caxon approached the ship, a man greeted them, noting that the skipper had been waiting over an hour and was plenty raw about it. Mills replied that the money they had paid their skipper should have been enough to soothe his nerves, and he instructed the sailor to show them in. When the sailor was concerned about "the lady," Mills instructed him that "Miss Devon" was to come with him, as she was "my -- eh -- secretary. You understand, sailor?"
"Miss Devon" smiled as the sailors eyes roved freely over her, and the two men exchanged a wink of understanding...
(Deadly Hands of Kung Fu I#12/2 - BTS) - After Mills and "Miss Devon" had been escorted inside, Blackbyrd unthinkingly coughed and drew a pair of guards' attention, but Abe swiftly drop kicked the two men, and Abe and Blackbyrd finished the pair off, without anyone inside noticing.
They then listened inside as...
(Deadly Hands of Kung Fu I#12/2) - Captain Barkan told Mills that this operation had cost him quite a bit of grief, and while he acknowledged that he had been well payed for it, he further noted that he had considered that some folk would pay an awful lot to hear of the smuggling and other operations they were conducting.
After the sweating and desperate Mills turned to his "secretary," asked what they could do and noted they would have to give them more money, a sudden change came over her face, as her mask of servility was dropped.
As all within (and Blackbyrd and Brown outside) watched in shocked silence, Devon drew a gun on Captain Barkan, telling him he had made a foolish move and should have accepted the agreed-upon arrangement. She further noted that that amount was already too much, and if he could be bought by them so easily, he could be bought by anyone.
Realizing her intent, Captain Barkan screamed, "No! Don't, I--," but Devon shot him, noting, "Farewell, Captain Barkan!"
When Mills -- used to dealing with indirect murder carried out on his orders -- stood shocked, Devon yelled at him to pay attention, after which she instructed him that the plutonium was aboard the tanker and that their men were ready to cast off. She then ordered him to make sure that no trace of this place was left for anyone who might come looking.
Not certain whether she could count on Mills, Devon stared at him for a moment before departing through a back door (intending to avoid being seen being seen by the guards at the car, unaware that they had been incapacitated).
(Deadly Hands of Kung Fu I#12/2 - BTS) - Sending Abe after Devon, Blackbyrd went after Mills, who turned and fired on him.
(Deadly Hands of Kung Fu I#12/2) - Hearing the gunshots, Devon shrugged, remembering her daddy's comment about the worth of directors.
Climbing a ladder down the end of the pier, Devon entered and then took off in a motorboat before Abe could reach her. Having vowed she would not escape justice for her role in Linda Lee's death, Abe leapt off the pier and onto Devon's boat, calling her "Killer!" as he landed. When her bodyguard/assistant asked who was this fish, Devon told him, "Who cares! Kill him! That's what I pay you for!" The large man confronted Devon with a knife, but Abe, a the highly-skilled martial artist, easily overwhelmed the man and knocked him overboard.
(Deadly Hands of Kung Fu I#12/2 (fb) - BTS) - Taking a nasty wound in his right arm from Mills, Blackbyrd's shot apparently subdued Mills non-fatally and prevented him from setting fire to the warehouse.
Blackbyrd contacted the Harbor Patrol / US Coast Guard (see comments), who came to the warehouse. Mills agreed to reveal what he knew if the Harbor Patrol kept Blackbyrd from coming after him again. Blackbyrd boarded the Coast Guard ship as it went after Devon's boat.
(Deadly Hands of Kung Fu I#12/2) - Despite the rolling of the craft, Devon leveled her gun at Abe with a steady hand, and she told her "black friend," she neither knew nor cared who he was, but she didn't come all this way to be stopped by him or anyone else. Since her father had instructed her that were to be no witnesses, she told him he she was afraid he would have to be removed as she shot him and dropped him to boat's deck; however, a roll of the boat had thrown off her aim enough that she had only shot him in the arm.
As Devon approached him, Abe told her to give it up, as his friend had taken down Mills and that he was probably revealing everything to the police, but she told the "black boy" that she wasn't buying it. However, as her bejeweled fingers tightened on the trigger, she was blinded by a light from a Harbor Patrol ship (see comments), and the authorities on board told her to lay down her weapon, as she was under arrest.
Refusing to accept this, she began firing futilely at the Harbor Patrol ship, and before Abe could act on his desire to stop her, a wave tossed the boat enough to knock her overboard. Abe yelled to her to swim to safety, but she noted that she had broken her leg, and then she screamed in vain as the Harbor Patrol ship apparently ran right into her.
(Deadly Hands of Kung Fu I#12/2 (fb) - BTS) - The Coast Guard (see comments) apparently got the plutonium-loaded tanker.
(Deadly Hands of Kung Fu I#12/2) - After Abe had boarded the Coast Guard ship, he noted how the case had been wrapped up, but Blackbyrd had his doubts as he feared there was still deep-seated government corruption, although he hoped otherwise.
Comments: Created by Bill Mantlo, George Perez, & Rico Rival.
She was first referred to as "Miss Devon," and then later revealed to be "Miss Caxon." So, we know that her last name was Caxon and that she wasn't married, but we don't know for sure that her first name was Devon...for the purpose of this profile, I've ASSumed that it was, but we all know what it means to assume, and that first name is not official until it sees print...
Speaking of which, there's no evidence that her father was brought to justice for his crimes. We haven't seen him on panel, nor has he even received a first name. But he was powerful, influential, corrupt, and criminal...
There is no confirmation that her corpse was recovered, so it is very possible that Miss Caxon survived.
While Roxxon had already appeared in 1974, it wasn't the main oil/corrupt corporation of the Marvel Universe at that time...and so, this story had Caxon...all plays on Exxon and/or other oil companies...
The story repeatedly refers to the power plants' process as nuclear FUSION (combing smaller atoms into larger ones). I'm no nuclear physicist, but my understanding is that nuclear power plants use nuclear fission (splitting larger atoms into smaller ones)...especially in the 1970s.
While the person on the ship calling out to Miss Caxon identified his or her group to be the Harbor Patrol, the ship that Blackbyrd and Abe subsequently boarded was labeled "US Coast Guard." I know they are different, the first a branch of the police department and the second a branch of the US military, but I'm just reporting what was stated in-story. Perhaps both were involved.
Much like most white people shown in the Sons of the Tiger series, Miss Caxon was racist. Not a stretch given the realities of how life was in the 1970s in the USA, but it just seems to be overdone. Maybe I was too young to appreciate it, as I was only born in 1970...
Devon Caxon should be distinguished from:
other Caxon characters, groups, etc.
A large (he looked to be perhaps 6'-6'3" and perhaps 275-300 lbs.) and powerful man wielding a substantial knife, he was a paid killer working for Devon Caxon.
However, he was not match for the martial arts abilities of Abe Brown.
(Deadly Hands of Kung Fu I#12/2) - Devon joined him in the motor boat after slaying Captain Barkan and took off.
Having vowed she would not escape justice for her role in Linda Lee's death, Abe Brown leapt off the pier and onto Devon's boat.
When her bodyguard/assistant asked who was this fish, Devon told him, "Who cares! Kill him! That's what I pay you for!"
The large man confronted Devon with a knife, telling him, "You heard the lady, Fish! You're dead."
For a brief second, Abe considered calling upon the power of his Tiger Amulet.
However, he swiftly realized he didn't need it.
Abe easily deflected the man's knife-wielding arm, punched him in the gut and then delivered a pair of blows to the face that knocked the man overboard.
The sailor's screams were lost in the roar of the engines, and Abe was engaged by the gun-wielding Devon before he could react further...
--Deadly Hands of Kung Fu I#12/2
Note: Being punched in the gut and then the face twice by a supremely talented martial artist, with sufficient force to knock this guy into the air and out of the boat, seems like enough trauma that he likely may have drowned.
Abe didn't seem overly concerned by this, but Miss Caxon did confront him at gunpoint almost immediately thereafter.
Regardless, his fate is unrevealed.
Deadly Hands of Kung Fu I#12/2, story pg. 8, panel 7 (intro);
pg. 9, panel 9 (revealing true nature/relationship);
pg. 10, panel 2 (face, with gun);
pg. 11, panel 1 (full body, posterior oblique, preparing to climb down ladder);
pg. 13, panel 1 (bodyguard; face);
panel 3-4 (bodyguard beaten by Abe Brown);
panel 8 (mostly full, with gun);
panel 9 (face; oblique);
pg. 15, panel 2 (in the water);
panel 3 (screaming as ship approaches)
Deadly Hands of Kung Fu I#12/2 (May, 1975) - Bill Mantlo (writer), George Perez (penciler), Rico Rival (inker), John Warner (assistant editor), David Kraft (associate editor), Archie Goodwin (editor)


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Soul of a journalist
@Roberto Arribas
Laura Ortega, Bachelor in Communication and Digital Media student at IE University, has found her vocation in journalism, but is also passionate about painting, videography, and photography.
She has the soul of a journalist. You can see it from a mile away. Laura Ortega speaks slowly as she chooses her words carefully and with overwhelming confidence. From speaking with her for only two minutes, you soon learn that journalism is this 19-year-old Madrileña's vocation. According to her, it is a craft she is still learning every day. Who knows if this will soon also be her way of life and worldview.
The sense of tranquility she projects when you are speaking to her, the cadence of her words, are all simply an illusion: Laura is young, restless, active, and speaks three languages: Spanish, English, and French. She can never say no to projects that come her way and never takes a break from doing things. She is a whirlwind. She combines studying her Communication and Digital Media Degree at IE University with writing articles for The Stork, the student digital newspaper. Among others jobs, she is also the Director of the Communication Committee for the student government at IEU's campus in Segovia, ambassador of the university for a range of activities, responsible for the social media networks of The Theater Club, and is a member of the IE Rotaract Club, a student association which organizes acts of solidarity for the disadvantaged.
"I am one of those people that can never sit still; I am fueled by my work until I get to a point when I can't anymore, and sometimes I have to stop; but I believe there is time to do everything, it is just a question of prioritizing," she confesses.
Laura tells me how from a young age she always liked to write; she needed to express herself, communicate what she saw, how she felt. It started with a personal diary in which she would tell her stories—sometimes real, sometimes made up. Then she moved on to writing articles for student magazines, and now, at IE University, she has started practicing the old craft of journalism, and she does it very well. She also has a personal blog where she writes about anything and everything that inspires her. "It is a private blog where I can reflect on my thoughts," adding humbly that "journalism runs through my veins, and I think it always will."
At the age of 16 she had already started to write in student magazines for King's College Madrid, where she studied before attending university. Any time the school needed someone to interview or write an article, Laura was there, determined as ever. "I liked talking to people and getting to know what they were thinking," she recalls.
At The Stork, a newspaper led by students at IE University, Laura has already written articles, interviews, and reports on a range of topics. For example, a reflective piece discussing reality shows on television, an in-depth interview with a local politician, or the work being undertaken on the old Palacio de la Floresta. While she confesses she "would love to do investigative journalism in the future," she also admits that, "becoming a cultural journalist would also be a good career choice."
"A picture is worth a thousand words and a lot of the time a photograph or video can reveal more than an article, but I think that the written word is very important for communicating well," she claims.
Writing for a newspaper, be it a paper edition or online, is very appealing to her. However, there is another medium that fascinates her: radio. Last year, Laura supported the production of various podcasts with "Misma Onda," a radio program led by Juan Carlos Manso, Carlos Díez, Mario Llorente, and Javier de Andrés, all students at the Segovia campus. "Now I would like to work with radio to learn more about this medium," she says.
Laura has a cosmopolitan, global vision. "I've been fortunate enough to travel a lot with my family and learn about lots of cultures." At this point, Laura gives thanks to the education, spirit of freedom, and the way of seeing the world that was given to her from a young age. "My family has always supported me in all my decisions, no matter how crazy they may have been. Before deciding I wanted to become a journalist, I could not make up my mind; I wanted to be a painter, zoologist, psychologist, or designer." It seems that her experiences with many outlets has turned Laura into a young woman who possesses broad, diverse, and global perspectives and visions on life.
Her family influences have been decisive on her life. Like Laura, her parents are culturally restless, always taking her to museums and exhibits. It's no wonder painting is another of her great passions. "Although lately I have been slacking," she confesses. For the young woman from Madrid, painting is "a way to release tension and a very effective tool to portray my view on the world." Last year, the Communication student was able to take classes from the visual artist Alberto Fernández Hurtado, in a workshop that took place at the Casa de la Moneda Museum, specifically for international students at IEU. "I love Alberto's outlook on life," she says.
Photography and visual arts also form a part of Laura's personality. Since the age of 12 she has been creating videos, and at university, she has created several audiovisual projects, including one dedicated to ARCO (an international contemporary art fair in Madrid) and another to the Factory student residences in Segovia. "I can't travel or attend any activity without taking some sort of camera with me," she tells me.
Laura Ortega knows she still has a long way to go. She knows that journalism will be hard at times, but she is convinced that she wants to work in this profession, whether in a newspaper, on the radio, or as part of the communications department at an institution or commercial firm. "I really like how my Communication degree is taught in Segovia because it touches upon many aspects, such as video, photography, social media, marketing, or corporate communication," she highlighted, adding that, "in today's world, a journalist must know how to use lots of tools and they must have a future vision, and they are aware of this at IEU."
"I know for sure that I want to be a journalist. It is important that there are talented journalists, because nowadays it seems as if the whole world wants to tell stories. I believe in the journalist who goes against common information, who tells the stories the public wants to hear; the journalist who is the intermediary between the news and the people, who knows how to recognize what is or isn't important information," she concludes.
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The KC Elite family would like to congratulate our 16U team coached by Steve Willis and Cody Higgins on their great come from behind championship victory this past Sunday at the Johnson County 3&2 Complex. This group of young men never quit and kept fighting and found a way to score 7 runs in the top of the 7th inning to take the lead before needing the 8th inning to close out the game and take home the hardware. Great job to the players, parents and coaches for toughing it out during a long day on Sunday. Job well done!


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December 12, 2017 Catacums of Paul and peter, Uncategorizedatacumbs, Burial place of paul and peter, Catacombs of Saint Sebastiano, christian burialYosef Ben Marques
Many experts affirm that Peter and Paul's bones are in the Vatican.
Is that true? Let's see…
Tertullian (c. 180 C.E.), writing in Latin, mentions the martyrdom of Peter and Paul under Nero in Rome.
Eusebius said in Ecclesiastical History 3.1 (325 C.E.) that Origen (230 C.E.), Bishop of Caesarea said: "Peter appears to have preached through Pontus, Galatia, Bithynia, Cappadocia, and Asia, to the Jews that were scattered abroad; who also, finally coming to Rome, was crucified with his head downward, having requested of himself to suffer in this way." And Eusebius adds: "Thus Nero publicly announcing himself as the chief enemy of God, was led on in his fury to slaughter the apostles. Paul is therefore said to have been beheaded at Rome, and Peter to have been crucified under him. And this account is confirmed by the fact, that the names of Peter and Paul still remain in the cemeteries of that city even to this day" (Ecclesiastical History 2:25).
Origen make it known to us that their bodies were in the cemeteries of Rome. These ancient cemeteries were located outside the walls of Rome, because the law prohibited anyone to be buried inside the city. Those places were underground and were called Catacombs and had more than 350 miles of tunnels with niches or shelves were the bodies were wrapped in linen. The Via Apia, the largest road of its time was engineered in the 5th century B.C., was used for these cemeteries. The Catacombs of Rome were the burying place mainly for Christians but also for Jewish and Pagan people.
Irenaeus (189 A.D.), Bishop of Lyons, in Against Heresies,"But since it be too long to enumerate in such a volume as this the successions of all the Churches, we shall confound all those who, in whatever manner, whether through self-satisfaction or vainglory, or through blindness and wicked opinion, assemble other than where it is proper, by point out here the successions of the bishops of the greatest and most ancient Church known to all, founded and organized at Rome by the two most glorious Apostles, Peter and Paul, that Church which has the tradition and faith which comes down to us after been announced to men by the Apostles"
Irenaeus is affirming that the Church of Rome was founded by Paul and Peter, and after successions of bishops became a great organization. Paul specifically told the Gentile Romans: "I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable" (Rom. 15:16) And "Yea, so have I strived to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon another man's foundation"(Rom. 15:20). Remember, he was one of two the founders of the Church of Rome according to Irenaeus. Meanwhile, Origen, as we have seen, said: that Peter was preaching "to the Jews that were scattered abroad".
The remains of Peter and Paul, according to the Catholic Encyclopedia, were removed secretly by night and hidden in the Catacombs of Saint Sebastiano in 258 AD (There are a lot of references to Paul and Peter in the walls of this catacombs) , and later they were returned to their original tombs after Valerian's reign ended.
In "Paul the Apostle: His Life and Legacy in Their Roman Context" By J. Albert Harrill. Appendix 3, Page 175, comment 27, says:"A rival cult site for Paul's "tomb" is the double memorial to both the Apostles Peter and Paul in the cemetery beneath the church of Saint Sebastian on the Appian Way" and also in his Comment 28 says: "The Latin Passion of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, sixth century … also contains a legend that the Greek Christians attempted to steal the bodies of Paul and Peter away to the East but were intercepted by Roman Christians, who buried the bodies temporarily "in a place called the Catacombs" on the Appian Way and later translated the relics to their permanent locations on the Ostian Way (for Paul and the Vatican (for Peter)". But as always over succeeding centuries the location of the graves in the Catacombs could have been forgotten, and then we asked ourselves, which bones are in the tombs of the Vatican?. Incredible, the responsibility for the Christian catacombs lies only with the Pontifical Commission of Sacred Archaeology (The Catholic Church).
Rabbi Yosef Ben Marques ©2014
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"Not Waving but Drowning" is a poem by the British poet Stevie Smith. It was published in 1957, as part of a collection of the same title. The most famous of Smith's poems, it gives an account of a drowned man, whose distressed thrashing in the water had been mistaken for waving. The poem was accompanied by one of Smith's drawings, as was common in her work.

The poem's personal significance has been the topic of several pieces of literary criticism, because Smith was treated for psychological problems. She contemplated suicide at the age of eight, after what she described as a difficult childhood and her struggle with the fact that her father abandoned her.<ref name=Walsh>Walsh, Jessica. "Stevie Smith: Girl Interrupted"Papers on Language and Literature" Vol.40.</ref>

Interpretations
Like many of Smith's poems, "Not Waving but Drowning" is short, consisting of only twelve lines. The narrative takes place from a third-person perspective, and describes the circumstances surrounding the "dead man" described in line one. In line five, the poem suggests that the man who has died "always loved larking," which causes his distress signals to be discounted.

The image that Smith attached to the poem shows the form of a girl from the waist up, with her wet hair hanging over her face. Although the image goes with a poem about a man drowning, the girl's expression appears incongruous with the text of the poem, as it forms what Smith scholar Laura Severin describes as a "mysterious smile". Jannice Thaddeus suggests that the speaker of the poem, like other figures in Smith's works, changes from male to female as part of a theme of androgyny that exists in many of the poems found in Selected Poems. Severin suggests that the figure might be Mary, a character in another poem by Smith titled "Cool as a Cucumber". The drawing was used as the accompanying image for the poem "The Frozen Lake" in Selected Poems, a self-edited compilation of Smith's works published in 1962.Smith, Stevie. Collected PoemsNew Directions Publishing (1983) pp 393-396.

Although Ingrid Hotz-Davies suggests that the "drowning man" is Smith herself, she also states that there are problems with reading the poem as a cry for help, due to the humorous tone of the poem, yet at the same time she also notes that the representational form of the poem "may easily be misread as a friendly wave of the hand". The poem's simple diction led Clive James to suggest that Smith attempted to write the poem so that the diction appeared ignorant of poetic convention, yet was carefully crafted to appear more simple than it was. James describes the relationship between Smith and the speaker in "Not Waving but Drowning" by saying, "her poems, if they were pills to cure Melancholy, did not work for [Smith]. The best of them, however, worked like charms for everyone else."

In other media

The poem was performed as part of the 1976 album Tears of Steel & the Clowning Calaveras released by Australian singer Jeannie Lewis (Track 4b), and recited by two actors: Lex Marinos as the "Narrator" (...but still he lay moaning), and Nick Lathouris as the "Dead Man" (I was too far out...)

Australian ambient and alternative music group Not Drowning, Waving take their name from the poem.

A track on Julian Cope's 1991 album Peggy Suicide was titled "Not Raving but Drowning" after the poem.

The poem was set to music by singer-songwriter Vic Chesnutt on his debut album Little, with a spoken introduction from a Stevie Smith recording.

Tanita Tikaram set the poem to music as the b-side to her single "I Might Be Crying".

Erin McKean wrote a short story entitled "Not Waving But Drowning" which was published in Machine of Death, a collection of short stories. In it she talks of the poem and the author.

Composer Nina C. Young set the poem in a piece scored for solo viola, piano, and mixed choir.

English experimental post-punk band This Heat paraphrase the title and theme of the poem in their song "Not Waving", from their 1979 eponymous debut album.

British confessional rapper Loyle Carner used the poem's title for his sophomore album of the same name. The title track features Stevie Smith commenting on the poem over piano chords composed by Jordan Rakei.

Scottish rock band Big Country recorded the song "Not Waving But Drowning" as part of the sessions for the Peace In Our Time album. The track would ultimately end up as a bonus track on the single "King Of Emotion".

In the first episode of the 2020 Netflix series The Queen's Gambit, the poem is taught and recited in an English class, while chess prodigy Beth Harmon furtively studies a book of chess openings.

The final track of the Welsh art punk band The Victorian English Gentlemens Club's album Bag of Meat'' is titled "Not Waving But Drowning". Alongside the title, the track's lyrics seem to loosely reference and paraphrase parts of the poem.

References

External links
Stevie Smith reading "Not Waving But Drowning" (includes poem text)
British poems
1957 poems

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Dublin taxi dispatch technology company iCabbi is targeting revenues of €15m as part of its move into the US and UK markets.
The company has acquired UK company Disc for €1.2m to fuel its UK expansion.
iCabbi, which announced 20 new jobs in Howth in December 2015, is planning to take on Hailo and Uber by providing the same kind of technology to private taxi companies.
The new jobs it announced in December are spread across research and development, customer service, sales and marketing and technical support.
It is already used by 70pc of large Irish taxi companies with fleets of 50 or more cars.
In the US, it has gone live with 17 companies, with 2,000 cars running the technology and plans to expand rapidly there. It has 30 more companies covering 10,000 cars scheduled to go live this year. The company expects its US revenues to hit €3.6m by the end of 2016.
iCabbi has also established a strong presence in the UK, with more than 50pc of large taxi companies, defined as those with 500-plus cars, using its software.
It purchased Disc (formerly Solution Telecom), which has been developing telephony solutions the for taxi industry since 2010, in a deal worth €1.2m, in order to expand further into the UK market.
iCabbi's fully cloud-based end-to-end solution connects drivers with passengers looking for a taxi, in a similar way to Hailo and Uber, allowing taxi companies to compete with the online taxi giants.
The system includes a customer booking app, website booking engine, a 'track my taxi' feature, automated phone system and SMS text backup.
The company has achieved growth levels of 300pc in the past year, fuelled by earlier seed funding rounds totalling €1m led by Dublin BIC, co-fund manager of the AIB Seed Capital Fund.
"We are expanding our presence and growing our team due to the incredible demand for our systems," said iCabbi founder and CEO Gavan Walsh.


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Commons: 23 February 2016
Single Departmental Plans
Volume 606: debated on Tuesday 23 February 2016
The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
(Mr Oliver Letwin)
On 19 February, 17 Government Departments published their single departmental plans. All plans can now be accessed on departmental gov.uk pages, as well as on: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/single- departmental-plans-for-2015-to-2020.
The plans set out how Departments will deliver the Government's programme for this Parliament. They include each Department's priority objectives, the key programmes and policies that will deliver these, together with a number of performance indicators. They also set out the common efficiency measures that Departments will be undertaking in order to deliver the Government's commitments in full within the resources available.
Single departmental plans are owned by Departments and have been designed by Cabinet Office and HM Treasury working in partnership.
Statistical information published in the plans will be updated as new data becomes available.


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Seasons greetings to all of you! Sorry for the slow posting recently, i think it's the least I have ever posted in 20 years of DE, just had too many other things to deal with. We arrived yesterday for Christmas in California with the fam. 30 of us for Xmas lunch tomorrow. Blessed! Hope you all have a great break too.
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