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Letrozole Description
Letrozole ( Femara) is a non-steroidal selective third-generation aromatase inhibitor. The structure and activity of this compound are very similar to that of Arimidex (anastrozole), and it is prescribed for similar medicinal purposes. More specifically, U.S. prescribing guidelines for letrozole recommend it be used for the treatment of postmenopausal women with estrogen receptor-positive or estrogen receptor-unknown (unsure if the cancer is responsive to estrogen) breast cancer. It is typically used as a second line of treatment after an estrogen-receptor antagonist like tamoxifen has failed to elicit a desirable response, although it is sometimes initiated as the first course of therapy depending on the circumstances. Male bodybuilders and athletes find value in letrozole for its ability to mitigate the estrogenic side effects associated with the use of aromatizable anabolic/androgenic steroids, such as gynecomastia, fat buildup, and visible water retention.
Letrozole represents one of the newer achievements in a long line of drugs targeting aromatase inhibition. It is among the most potent estrogen-lowering drugs developed to date and has an effect significantly stronger than non-selective first-generation aromatase inhibitors like Teslac and Cytadren. The dosage of each tablet of Femara is 2.5 milligrams, which according to product information was sufficient to lower estrogen levels by an average of 78% during clinical trials. The drug, however, appears to often remain quite effective in lower doses. The package insert for the product itself comments that during clinical studies doses as low as .1 and .5 milligrams produced 75 and 78% estrogen inhibition, respectively in many patients¹. The recommended dose, likewise, reflects a level that seems to elicit a desired level of inhibition in nearly all patients. A large number of people may, therefore, respond well to lower doses of the drug.
The U.S. Food & Drug Administration approved letrozole for prescription sale in 1997, where it is sold by Novartis under the Femara trade name. Novartis also extensively markets the drug in other nations, and more than 70 nations now carry letrozole as an approved drug. The Femara brand is by far the dominant preparation worldwide and is found in such nations as Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Netherlands, New Zealand, Italy, South Africa, Switzerland, and Russia. Novartis also markets the drug under the Femar trade name in some other nations including Finland, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. Additionally, letrozole products can also be found under such other brand names as Fempro (India), Oncolet (India), Trozet (India), Insegar (Spain), Aromek (Poland), Lametta (Poland), Cendalon (Argentina), Fecinole (Argentina), and Kebirzol (Argentina). Given its high level of efficacy and strong marketing support, Femara, and Femar, remain the most popular letrozole product currently available.
Letrozole is most commonly supplied in tablets of 2.5 mg.
Letrozole is classified as a non-steroidal selective third-generation aromatase inhibitor. It has the chemical designation 4,4'(1H-1,2,4-Triazol-1-ylmethylene)dibenzonitrile.
Common side effects associated with the use of an aromatase inhibitor include hot flashes, joint pain, weakness, fatigue, mood changes, depression, high blood pressure, swelling of the arms/legs, and headache. Aromatase inhibitors may also decrease bone mineral density, which may lead to osteoporosis and an increase in fractures in susceptible patients. Some individuals may also respond to the medication with gastrointestinal side effects including nausea and vomiting. Aromatase inhibitors can harm the development of an unborn fetus, and should never be taken or handled during pregnancy. When taken by men (as off-label use) to reduce estrogenicity during prolonged periods of steroid treatment, aromatase inhibitors may increase cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk by retarding some beneficial properties of estrogen on cholesterol values. Studies have demonstrated that when an aromatizable steroid such as testosterone enanthate is taken in conjunction with an aromatase inhibitor, suppression of HDL (good) cholesterol levels become significantly more pronounced. Since the estrogen receptor agonist/antagonist Nolvadex® generally does not display the same anti-estrogenic (negative) effect on cholesterol values, it is usually favored over aromatase inhibitors for estrogen maintenance by male bodybuilders and athletes concerned with cardiovascular health.
Letrozole is FDA approved for:
adjuvant treatment of postmenopausal women with hormone receptor-positive early breast cancer;
the extended adjuvant treatment of early breast cancer in postmenopausal women who have received 5 years of adjuvant tamoxifen therapy;
first-line treatment of postmenopausal women with hormone receptor-positive or hormone receptor unknown locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer;
the treatment of advanced breast cancer in postmenopausal women with disease progression following anti-estrogen therapy. The recommended dose of letrozole is one 2.5 mg tablet administered once per day, without regard to meals. When used (off-label) to mitigate the estrogenic side effects of anabolic/androgenic steroid use or increase muscle definition, male athletes and bodybuilders often take 1.25 mg to 2.5 mg per day. In some cases, a dosage of a half of a tablet (1.25 mg) taken every other day is sufficient to prevent the onset of estrogenic side effects.
Letrozole is most commonly sold under the brand name Femara by the international drug-manufacturing firm Novartis. It is widely available at the present time.
1. Femara (letrozole) Prescribing Information. AccessFDA Database.


We are on the eve of yet another election, and it is incumbent that people get out and vote. And while voter apathy is something that cuts across racial lines, it is important that African-Americans understand the historical backdrop and why African-Americans must vote not only in this election but every election.
When we examine the History of America, where the founders fought against tyranny Declaring their Independence in 1776 and stating that "All Men are Created Equal. And after a Revolutionary War a Constitution was put in place that states in its Preamble, "We the People, in order to establish a more perfect union, establish justice." But these laudable words were not translated into action by the framers of this nation by the time the Constitution was drafted in 1787.
Black humanity was already an issue as this country began as it was in the throes of the evil institution of Chattel Slavery. A dehumanized institution that relegated humans to the status of another person's property and to be bought and sold like farm animals.
With that as a backdrop, the framers of liberty did not consider their darker brothers as being part of the family of full humanity. When it was said and done these flawed men came up with the 3/5ths Compromise where Blacks were counted as 3/5th of a White person. This has led to a tenuous relationship that African-Americans have with their legal citizenship and to be recognized as full human beings with the same rights and Whites.
After the country was involved in the Civil War; that was less about abolishing Slavery something and more about preserving the Union. And while the Great Emancipator, Abraham Lincoln himself, would evolve over time to be in favor of accepting limited Black suffrage he was not a proponent of Black equality.
In one of his famous debates with Stephen Douglas in 1858, Lincoln said on the question Black Equality, "I will say then that I am not nor have ever been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of White and Black races. He also stated that he opposed Blacks having the right to vote, to serve on juries, to hold office and to intermarry with Whites.
But determined abolitionist led by Frederick Douglass fought for Black Equality, after the Civil War ended the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments were added to the U.S. Constitution, ending slavery, giving Blacks equal protection under the law and granting Black males the right to vote. Under Reconstruction, Blacks held offices in states across the former Confederate States with Louisiana having elected officials at the local and state level rising to the offices of Lt. Governor and Governor.
But in a controversial Presidential Election of 1876 over electoral votes, the Republicans made a deal with the Southern Democrats. First Southerners agreed to support Republican candidate Rutherford B. Hayes for President. With Republicans promising to withdraw troops from the south and abandoning federal enforcement of Black rights, which included their right to vote.
Also, White terrorist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan in Tennessee and the White League in Louisiana fought to suppress the Black vote and other gains by Blacks during Reconstruction. Within a few years, the Southern States Government required Blacks to pay voting taxes, pass literacy tests and many other unfair practices to discourage and prevent them from voting.
These practices reduced the numbers of Blacks in Louisiana from voting. That according to the 1900 Census was 47 percent of the state's population had been reduced from a high of 130,334 during Reconstruction to 5,320 by 1900 and by 1910, only 730 Blacks were registered to vote, less than 0.5% of eligible Black men. In 27 of the states 60 parishes (today 64 parishes), not a single Black voter was registered. In nine more parishes only one Black voter was registered.
In the period most know of the Modern Civil Rights Movement of the 1950's and 60's led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and many others that include New Orleans own heroes and sheroes that Rev. A.L. Davis, Rev. Avery Alexander, Oretha Castle Haley, Julia Aaron, Jerome Smith, Rudy Lombard, and so many others who fought for full enfranchisement of African-Americans.
These collective strides toward freedom eventually led to the signing of the Civil Rights Act in 1964 and the Voting Rights Act in 1965. These laws as others were met with resistance by Whites, but as people came to know their rights they began the march towards going to the polls electing Blacks as mayors, city council persons and other elected offices.
Closer to home, New Orleans elected its first Black Mayor in 1977, Ernest Dutch Morial, who was also the first Black to serve in the Louisiana Legislature since Reconstruction. This was contributed to demographic shifts and laws that allowed Blacks began to vote and hold leadership positions in New Orleans and cities across America.
This was a time when Blacks given the vote came out in higher numbers and believed that leadership selected by them would net better results in their communities. This was met with mixed results as was realized that politicians whether White, Black or other are both good and bad.
But it must be noted that the symbolic gains were beneficial in that they inspired people who'd been excluded from choosing their leaders. And as they gained power it was necessary to note that citizens demand accountability. That the power was not with the politicians alone, but with them as civic engagement was necessary to continue the climb forward for African-Americans and that voting alone would not solve the problems of the community and that a holistic approach would be needed to address issues facing the African-American community.
Today across America some have chosen not to exercise their right to vote. In many elections in New Orleans there have been elections where less than 25 percent of registered voters cast a ballot. Blacks, who have had a tenuous and uncertain history of citizenship, equal rights and justice cannot afford not to vote.
But what must be realized is that today symbols of progress while sufficient in the 1960's and 70's are not acceptable. That we need leadership and also, we must advocate and press our elected leaders for greater accountability. There must be a renewing of the citizens and their commitment to civic action and engagement. So, going to the polls is one way to have a hand in influencing what is to become public policy.
In an age of Trumpism we are witnessing the last grasp of systematic White male privilege in a country that by 2045 will become majority people of color. Today we are witnessing some of the same vitriol and resentment politics that is reminiscent of the worst times in our history.
No longer can Blacks sit idly by and not be engaged at the polls. This election as is all elections is important. Recently, we made history by electing the City's first woman Mayor, LaToya Cantrell. On this ballot of special importance is Louisiana Constitutional Amendment 2 regarding non-unanimous verdicts in serious felonies. Something that is a Jim Crow Era Law that's still on the books and is the cause of many Blacks being sentenced to long prison sentences including life behind bars.
When it comes to Blacks voting, there are still those who try to obstruct. But the mountain climb to full equality that seemed insurmountable for our fore parents has been reduced to a speed bump in the 21st Century. If we are proactive and organized, we can get to the polls. This must be a priority for us as a people if we are to not only survive but thrive.
In 2018 we as African-Americans have the opportunity to vote without poll taxes, literacy test, the Ku Klux Klan and other White terrorist organizations keeping us away from the polls. So, on Nov. 6th get out and restore hope and continue the fight for liberty, justice and equality through the vote. Let your voice be heard and shape the history of this city, state and nation.


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We Believe Zoom Is the Fabric Connecting Global Enterprise Communications and the Future of Work
by Brett Winton, Director of Research September 30, 2021 10 min read
This blog was co-authored by Brett Winton, William Summerlin, and Andrew Kim.
Given its stance against Zoom's acquisition of Five9 at the current price, we would like to offer Institutional Shareholder Services' (ISS) team another perspective based on the research of our four-person next-generation-internet analyst team. We would welcome thoughts, ideas, and constructive criticism in response. This blog is a condensed version of a more comprehensive paper with an open-source valuation model that we plan to release during the next few weeks.
Roughly 18 months ago, COVID-19 changed the relationship between and among technology, labor, and leisure activities. One of the most important changes involved work. Stay-at-home orders forced workers—including key decision-makers—to assess the productivity of remote and hybrid-workforce models.
According to Gartner, by the end of this year, the percent of all knowledge workers working remotely will approach 51%, nearly double the 27% in 2019.[1] Perhaps as important, a majority of workers seems to prefer this new working world order, as shown below.[2]
Source: ARK Investment Management LLC, 2021
Data: Gartner Inc, McKinsey & Company. Survey to the right conducted from Dec 2020 to Jan 2021
Despite this significant shift, Unified Communications (UC) for hybrid and remote-only working models seems to be in the early stages of adoption.[3] To service decentralized knowledge workers, enterprises will have to invest in UC platforms to ensure the ubiquity of two-way communication channels. Firm-wide adoption will be critical to communication between and among individuals and teams in different departments and geographic regions in a digital-first age.
To maximize the productivity of digital communications, many firms will search for vendors guaranteeing the highest quality video conferencing and cloud-based telephone solutions. Because knowledge workers seem to prefer hybrid and remote to office-only working models, companies seeking to maximize the quality and efficiency of their human capital are likely to adopt best-in-class UC tools, pushing them toward mass adoption.
During the pandemic, Zoom transformed into a verb and enjoyed widespread consumer and enterprise adoption. In a March blogpost, TechRepublic stated that Zoom's share of the global video conferencing market share was roughly 49%, above Google Meet's 22% and Microsoft Team's 15%, both formidable competitors.[4]
While some may attribute Zoom's success to its aggressive go-to-market strategy, Microsoft, Google, and Cisco, all of whom have Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) offerings, seemingly have stronger distribution channels. Discounts do not seem to be behind Zoom's success either, as Microsoft Teams, Google Team, and Cisco Webex offer free tiers as part of broader-based services. In other words, Zoom's leadership seems to be associated with its technological edge, which is illustrated below.[5]
For informational purposes only and should not be considered investment advice, or a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any particular security.
Source: ARK Investment Management LLC, 2021; Data: Gartner Peer Insights as of September 22, 2021
While we believe Zoom's best-in-class audiovisual performance and reliable service guarantees offer the best technology solutions for meetings, as shown below, Zoom does not bundle as many free services as does Teams as part of Office 365. Its success seems to be a function of other variables.
In our view, and from our experience, with the best audiovisual quality, a simple interface with little friction, and robust customization settings, Zoom's user experience is superior to all other video conferencing services. Moreover, as it continues to invest in offerings such as chat, phone, large events/webinars, and digitally connected conference rooms, Zoom's quality- and communications-first strategy should help consolidate the enterprise communications market toward its platform, branch by enterprise branch.
According to Gartner, global cloud-based UC spending today is only $45 billion per year, which, spread across our estimate of approximately 1 billion knowledge workers, amounts to less than $4 per knowledge worker per month.[8] Compared to the significant upfront hardware costs associated with legacy corporate communication systems, UC costs today are de minimis. Less productive on-prem phone systems average $40 per knowledge worker per month in recurring expenses on top of $1,000 in upfront hardware costs per employee.[9] Given the superiority of cloud-based solutions that integrate video, voice, and chat, we would not be surprised to see monthly spending on UC increase at a compound annual rate of more than 40% during the next five years to roughly $25 per month.
In our view, companies are likely to fund the shift toward UC not only from their $1.4 trillion enterprise communication budgets but also from the $1.4 trillion, coincidentally, in global travel budgets.[10] [11] Based on our estimates for 2026, the number of knowledge workers outside of mainland China will increase to 1.1 billion, and the average UC revenue per month will increase to $25, suggesting that the total addressable UC market could scale to $330 billion.[12]
Zoom's decision to acquire Five9, a leading cloud contact center provider, suggests that it aims to streamline more customer-facing interactions. When incorporated into UC platforms, call center services are likely to complement broader enterprise strategies like merging customer service and sales to accelerate the planning and analysis of customer acquisition.
In our view, Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) vendors like Five9 are unlikely to be viable on a standalone basis over the medium term. Instead, enterprises will continue to automate, using AI to handle high-volume, low-value queries, relegating the contribution of CCaaS players to more labor-intensive high-touch interactions. Addressing a total available market five times that of CCaaS, Zoom is likely to improve Five9's go-to-market pipeline substantially.[13] Meanwhile, according to our estimates, Five9 will add modestly to our expected returns for Zoom under various penetration assumptions shown below.
Thanks to a technological edge that should grow as it bundles new services and scales, Zoom should be able to maintain pricing power and increase its profitability. Absent Five9, if Zoom were to increase its share from 8% of current total UC expenditures to 15% of the total available UC market by 2026, its revenue and gross profits would both compound at an annualized rate of 61% to $50 billion and $35 billion, respectively.[14] If it were to optimize for profitability, then Zoom's operating margins could approximate 35% and its cash conversion, 80%, delivering roughly $14 billion in free cash flow. Given a free cash flow yield of 5%, Zoom's enterprise value would nearly quadruple from approximately $76 billion today to $280 billion by 2026.[15]
Source: ARK Investment Management LLC, 2021; S&P Capital IQ
In our view, Zoom is well-positioned to define the future of communications. The way in which companies compete is changing now that video is enabling faster innovation and execution cycles, leading to accelerating sales and business development timelines. Zoom is building the communications fabric supporting this transition, a unique and high-value add position, one that Five9 would do well to join.
"Gartner Forecasts 51% of Global Knowledge Workers Will Be Remote by the End of 2021," Gartner, June 22, 2021, https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2021-06-22-gartner-forecasts-51-percent-of-global-knowledge-workers-will-be-remote-by-2021.
Andrea Alexander, Aaron De Smet, Meredith Langstaff, and Dan Ravid, "What employees are saying about the future of remote work," McKinsey & Company, April 1, 2021, https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/organization/our-insights/what-employees-are-saying-about-the-future-of-remote-work.
The term Unified Communications (UC) refers to any software, service, or equipment that powers the enterprise communications stack. The umbrella term includes voice, the most important of which is cloud-based telephony. The term also includes video conferencing and messaging systems. UC is "unified" because all the aforementioned communication channels are made available through one interface, allowing for seamless inter and intra company communications.
N. F. Mendoza, "Zoom zips ahead of Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Skype in one ranking," TechRepublic, March 31, 2021, https://www.techrepublic.com/article/zoom-zips-ahead-of-google-meet-microsoft-teams-and-skype-in-one-ranking/.
This table illustrates the baseline VMAF score, availability SLA target, and maximum video resolution of each of the specified video conferencing solutions. We believe that these key metrics provide the best assessment of the quality of each platform's technology stack. The baseline Video Multimethod Assessment Fusion (VMAF) score provides an assessment of video quality, ranging from 0 (worst) to 100 (best) that arguably adheres best to human visual perception when compared against older metrics such as Peak-to-Signal Ratio (PSNR) or Structural Similarity Index Method (SSIM). In simpler words, VMAF's AI-trained model predicts how a human user would score the quality of a video by comparing the performance and quality of sent video files and received video files. Using this score as a proxy for customer satisfaction of video streaming quality, we can clearly see Zoom's technological superiority over its competitors. The availability SLA target refers to the uptime guaranteed by the service provider to its customer. An availability SLA target of 99.9%, then, translates to a yearly maximum allowed downtime of 8 hours and 45 minutes. A target of 99.999%, in Zoom's case, allows for a yearly maximum of just 5 minutes and 15 seconds of downtime. Maximum video resolution refers to the maximum number of distinct pixels utilized in a given area for each platform's video streaming solution.
Talon Morris, "Which Meeting and Calling Solutions Objectively Deliver the Best Quality Experience?," Zoom Video Communications, January 13, 2021, https://blog.zoom.us/which-meeting-calling-solutions-deliver-the-best-quality-experience/.
"Gartner Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications as a Service, Worldwide," Gartner, November 12, 2020, https://www.gartner.com/en/documents/3992948/magic-quadrant-for-unified-communications-as-a-service-w.
Craig Roth, "2019: When We Exceeded 1 Billion Knowledge Workers," Gartner, December 11, 2019, https://blogs.gartner.com/craig-roth/2019/12/11/2019-exceeded-1-billion-knowledge-workers/. We estimate the current global population of knowledge workers using this blogpost as a benchmark.
"Calculating the Real Cost of a Business Phone System," RingCentral, https://silo.tips/download/white-paper-calculating-the-real-cost-of-a-business-phone-system#.
"Gartner Forecasts Worldwide IT Spending to Grow 9% in 2021," Gartner, July 14, 2021, https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2021-07-14-gartner-forecasts-worldwide-it-spending-to-grow-9-percent-2021.
West, Elizabeth, "GBTA Looks to 2025 for Business Travel Recovery," Business Travel News, February 3, 2021, https://www.businesstravelnews.com/Global/GBTA-Looks-to-2025-for-Business-Travel-Recovery.
The total addressable market figure here is a simplified version of our forecasts in our internal model, in which we take into account various adoption frictions of UC tools such as adoption rate of hybrid or remote-only working models and enterprise bulk pricing discounts.
We estimate the $60 billion figure absent of current frictions in cloud adoption to assess the total CCaaS opportunity if all contact centers were to adopt a cloud-based platform. In our model, we adjust the opportunity size based on our assessment of cloud adoption within the contact center space
We calculate Zoom's current market penetration using its trailing-twelve-month revenue ended July 2021 divided by Gartner's 2021 forecast of $45 billion in UC expenditures. We calculate Zoom's market penetration in 2026 as a percentage of $330 billion in total addressable UC spend.
Our 5-year price target model assumes slightly more aggressive adoption and breaks out market size and revenue contribution by core UC tools including video conferencing, and cloud-based telephony, webinars and Zoom Events, and Zoom Rooms. We also detail the provisional impact of the integration of Five9. The above exercise merely exemplifies our understanding of Zoom's total addressable market and cash flow generation potential with respect to the primary opportunity in front of it. In our internal base case forecast, we assume that Zoom will be able to command 35% of $158 billion in UC spend by end of 2026.
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EEA Nationals (Indefinite Leave to Remain) Bill (HL Bill 38)
Contents page 1-2 Last page
Amend the Immigration Act 1971 to grant indefinite leave to remain in the
United Kingdom to all EEA nationals, their family members and extended
family members who are resident in the United Kingdom on the date of exit
from the European Union.
Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and
consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present
Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1 Amendment to section 2 of the Immigration Act 1971
(1) Section 2 of the Immigration Act 1971 (statement of right of abode in United
Kingdom) is amended as follows.
(2) After subsection (1)(b), insert—
"(c) 5he is an EEA national as defined under regulation 2 of the
Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2016 (SI
2016/1052) who was resident in the United Kingdom on the
date of exit from the European Union; or
(d) he is a "family member", "extended family member" or "family
10member who has retained the right of residence" of an EEA
national or British citizen resident in the United Kingdom on
the date of exit from the European Union."
(3) For subsection (2) substitute—
"(2) In relation to Commonwealth citizens, EEA nationals, and the family
15members, extended family members and family members who have
retained the right of residence, who have right of abode in the United
Kingdom by virtue of subsection (1)(b), (1)(c) and (1)(d) above, this Act,
except this section and section 5(2) shall apply as if they were British
citizens; and in this Act (except the aforesaid) "British citizen" shall be
20construed accordingly."
EEA Nationals (Indefinite Leave to Remain) BillPage 2
2 Residency in the United Kingdom
(1) For the purposes of section 1, a person will be regarded as having been resident
in the United Kingdom on the date of exit from the European Union if that
person can demonstrate that he or she was on that date—
(a) 5employed or self-employed and paying national insurance in the
United Kingdom;
(b) in full time study in the United Kingdom;
(c) on an electoral register in the United Kingdom;
(d) a family member who had retained the right of residency under
10regulation 10 of the Immigration (European Economic Area)
Regulations 2016 (SI 2016/1052);
(e) otherwise a "qualified person" under regulation 6 of the Immigration
(European Economic Area) Regulations 2016 (SI 2016/1052); or
(f) compliant with such other criteria to demonstrate residency in the
15United Kingdom as may be established by the Secretary of State by
regulations made by statutory instrument.
(2) A statutory instrument containing regulations under this section may not be
made unless a draft of the instrument has been laid before, and approved by a
resolution of, each House of Parliament.
3 20Family members of EEA nationals
For the purposes of section 1, a person will be regarded as—
(a) a "family member" if they are a person defined as such under
regulation 7 of the Immigration (European Economic Area)
(b) 25an "extended family member" if they are a person defined as such
under regulation 8 of the Immigration (European Economic Area)
Regulations 2016 (SI 2016/1052).
4 Extent, commencement and short title
(1) This Act extends to the whole of the United Kingdom.
(2) 30This Act comes into force on the day on which it is passed.
(3) This Act may be cited as the EEA Nationals (Indefinite Leave to Remain) Act


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6th Jul 20 stevecubbins FEATURES, Malcolm Willstrop, NEWS, RERUNS
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Framboise interview with Malcolm Willstrop, acknowledged as one of the world's top squash coaches, 2004 at Pontefract.
I'm pretty useless at most things, but I can coach sport, and I found that out, so that's what I did.
Don't even think about describing him as "James' father"
He would give you one of his looks that make you feel you're back in the classroom.Yes, Mr Willstrop Senior is a tall man, with a real presence, who wears a severe look; but which hides a heart full of compassion and generosity. "I'm happier than I look", he often says…
He is witty, cheeky, possesses a natural authority that I personally find extremely attractive, and whatever you want to know about squash, he knows… I was lucky enough to meet the master several times, along with some of his players and friends.
Malcolm in 3 words : Opinionated, loyal, unique. David Campion
As a squash player, what was your level ?
I was a player at a reasonable standard then, not international, but I was pretty decent.
When did you start coaching ?
In 1960, I started coaching squash in St Peter's, York, one of the oldest schools in the world, founded in 627. It also has a strong squash tradition. One of its headmasters was the Great-Britain Captain in the '30s, and the first ever public school squash match in this country was between St Peter's and Haileybury near London in 1926. There is actually a photo of the event in the Ealing Squash Club in London.
Tell me a bit about your youth then …
My parents were not wealthy, and I went to public school on a scholarship. So after 7 years in St Peter's York, it was quite difficult to think that I was going to go to university for three years, then two years National service, so five years not earning anything when my parents had no means of supporting me.
Were you a good student ?
I was a high flyer academically, I even went to Cambridge for an interview when I was only 16, and they rejected me, and I didn't like that much. So I said to the headmaster that I was not going to university, that I was going to do my National Service, and then try for journalism and various other things. After my service, I went into horse racing for a couple of years.
But you went back to St Peter's York, didn't you ?
Well, the headmaster invited me back to teach. And I thought that I would be silly to refuse, and that I'd better go, get qualified, and get a degree. And that's what I did from 1965 to 1969. In 1965, I went to Durham University to study English and French and to get a teaching qualification.
Were you involved in squash as well ?
Yes, I actually ran the squash section there, and was pretty successful at it. There was a lot of squash going on at that time, some internationals came out of the team as well. During that period, I captained English Universities. It was a very productive time. I was older than the others students, I was 26, 27. I was running university set-up and I was heavily involved in the England University set-up. By the time I left down there, we had a very good squash team.
Did you enjoy your university years ?
Well, I went to University obviously later, because of the 5 year gap. I find that quite good in a way, because by that time I was married, more responsible, I knew what I had to achieve. I got to know the staff at University, because I was older, and that was very helpful later when I went back to teaching. So, I was very glad I went to University later in retrospect, even if it was a bit restrictive financially.
So you really started coaching after University. What did you teach then ?
To start with, English and French. As far as sport is concerned, I was coaching squash, but other sports as well, rugby and cricket. Quickly, I got interested in only high standards. Not exclusively, I coached all sorts of people, but if people could reach those high standards in any sports, I wanted them to get there, and I was producing rugby players and cricketers the same way at that stage.
So you gave up teaching to turn professional ?
Once I started teaching sports, I realised I didn't want to do anything else really. I was a reasonable teacher in the classroom, but as soon as I got on the sport scene, I realised that I could produce high class sportsmen and teams as well. So, being sensible, I realised that the best thing that you can do, is to do what you do best. You get to be happy, and get a lot of fulfilment out of coaching.
Malcolm in 3 Words : Opinionated, Controversial, Eccentric Genius. Mick Todd
As a squash coach, have you been influenced by anybody in particular ?
In terms of squash, I learnt not a lot from any individual coaching person, but a great deal from other influences in other sports. I have been lucky to meet some high powered ones.
Like ?
In 1970, after my degree, I started teaching in 1970 in a school called Gresham's, in Norfolk. It's a very high class public school. That was a very productive era for me in every sporting sense, squash in particular.
I was also teaching cricket and rugby, and I produced a lot of high class rugby players, some of them played for England, and I was involved with top class rugby coaches, and they influenced me more developing coaching ideals and ideas. John Dawes, captain of the British Lions, coached at the school on more than one occasion, and to watch him work was like watching a supreme man.
So, rugby, and then ?
I've learnt a lot from racehorse trainers, I know one racehorse trainer well, Henrietta Knight, and to watch people like that in action, you can learn a great deal. She is a fascinating woman, I've spent time in her company and you know, preparing horses is very similar in many ways to preparing players.
It's quite the same, you are getting ready for a particular occasion, not overworking them, gradually bring them to peaks, very similar. The only thing is that the horse can't tell you if it's wrong, or ill, whereas a player can.
COACHING SQUASH
What are the qualities required to be a good coach ?
It is a long list! You need some sort of technical expertise, every coach, any teacher needs that, in every sport, in any discipline. High in the list of anything would be enthusiasm, and getting kids or people to enjoy it.
I mean, if you can't do that, don't be in teaching, if you can't enthuse, if you can't go "yeaaah! Great shot!" or laugh or cry with them, whatever it is, then you are in the wrong game. So I would put enthusiasm and the ability to communicate so people enjoy what they are doing, as the hallmark of a good teacher. I have got plenty of enthusiasm, and I think you need it, without a doubt.
You also have to understand a certain level of technical expertise, which obviously vary. Some people are better at it than others. And you develop your own technical way. My players, most people can recognise. But, within that, I've learnt to let their own personalities flourish.
Lee and James are different characters and yet, they are completely different people. And that shows on the court. I'm happy with that because that means I have given them set techniques, given them a secure way to play and that I have allowed them to be themselves. I haven't imposed anything on them.
Did you change your coaching over the years ?
When I first started coaching, I suspect I was guilty of being too impositional, but I quickly learnt that that was no good. I think that's something in my favour, my players have my look, but they are different, and it's their personalities that you are watching. What they have in common, it's a way they hit the ball, they hit the ball with a rhythm and a relaxation. I think it's a success, to let them be who they are.
Are there some common points between coaching different sports ?
Coaching rules apply to all games, whether its disciplines and standards apply to rugby, cricket, it's all the same. There is a certain level where it's all the same. Then you need to apply the particular thing, but the overall things, the important ones are identical. I was lucky in those contacts, and then I developed my own coaching techniques, practices.
Malcolm in 3 Words : Determined, single-minded, passionate. Gawain Briars
THE WILLSTROP METHOD
Did you invent your own exercises ?
Yes, most of them. Well, at the time, I was one of the early coaches in the country, and I had to think about things that were appropriate, that would help, situations, practicality, the dealing with numbers. So you develop a system. Funny thing, when I went to Portugal recently with James, they are doing practices that I invented at Gresham's, and that's good, they have spread that far. People will never know that, they will never remember it, they won't even know that you started it.
What is your method ?
To start with, I hardly ever work with individuals; even with Lee and James. There are a few exceptions, but on a daily basis, they work with other players. Those players can be good standard kids between 15 and 20, or even younger. Twice before the British Open, Lee worked with a 14 year old, because it happened that he was there that day, and had a great practise with him. Lee and James don't have any problem practising with anybody. They don't feel they've got to practise with someone of the same standard, because it's never how I've worked. So they have been brought up like that.
They are never short of practice partners then ?
Yes, they have a host of people they can practice with. They are not looking for someone to practice because I've got probably 30 or 40 players good enough to practice with them, and they don't think they are beneath them, they accept them as training partners. They are both very good at that. They would never turn their nose up to anybody. If I say to Lee go and work with a 10 year old, that's the way we do things here, and that's why there is no jealousy between players, no tension.
How do you deal with players that don't fit ?
If they don't fit, generally I wouldn't have them there, I would get rid of them. And people know how I work, it's probably quite well known how I work. For instance, if they want individual one to one, there is no point coming to me because they won't get that. I haven't the time, I've never worked like that.
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This is the second part of our shoot yesterday.
When falling short of a model who had to work (don't worry Sofia, we'll get to shoot more with you soon) and realising how short the fun was with the smoke grenades, I decided to use the yellow ones I had set aside for Sofia.
After fixing them on the DIY system on the roller skates Jimmy and I decided to move from the tripods and so we did.
This time something went wrong with one of the grenades that didn't go off.
We had to deal with only one smoking roller but I think I did great anyways !
I was expecting to be able to darken my background more that I did but I guess 360W is really not enough even for early morning sun in Nerja.
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GoFundMe Page set up to help Mentone fire department
By Tyler Pruett, Managing Editor
tyler@southerntorch.com
MENTONE, Ala. — Since November 9, local firefighters have been working non-stop to contain multiple blazes on Lookout Mountain. Much of this battle is being waged by the North Lookout Mountain Fire Protection District (NLMFPD).
What many do not realize, is that the NLMFP and other departments assisting are all volunteer organizations. This meaning that funds for equipment and other operating costs are generated only by fundraising events held in the community.
Unusually dry conditions have contributed to hundreds of wildfires around the state since late this summer. The lack of rainfall has made DeKalb County ground zero for these fires. DeKalb and surrounding counties are currently classified as, "Exceptional Drought" by the National Drought Mitigation Center.
The most recent fire is the fifth on Lookout Mountain in the last week, not to mention the earlier fire at Little River Canyon, which claimed more than 300 acres of the National Preserve.
Now, the bills are starting to come in for the department, and a "GoFundMe" page has been established to help them raise the funds necessary to pay the cost incurred by fighting the wildfires.
The fuel bill alone for the small department will be extremely high, not to mention maintenance on the trucks that will be necessary after such hard use, and replacement equipment.
"Due to the rough mountainous terrain and hazardous night time firefighting conditions, some of the NLMFPD's smaller equipment was lost down the side of the mountain and needs to be replaced," according to the gofundme page.
"These volunteer firefighters have sacrificed so much for their community. They have worked around the clock, taken time off from work without pay, used vacation days they had been saving, taken time away from their families, gone with little to no sleep, missed meals, stood in the freezing cold, and risked life and limb for their community," the page reads.
"To-date, not a single structure has been lost along the five-plus mile radius on top of Lookout Mountain. This in and of itself is a true testament to the hard work and dedication of these firefighters," it read.
"GoFundMe" is an online crowd sourcing website that allows individuals to easily set up a fundraising page. Individuals from not only the community, but from all over the country can view the page and choose to donate.
The set goal of the page is $100,000 and contributions so far have reached $900. Click here if you would like to donate.
The page also lists a local address to send contributions if individuals do not want to contribute via the GoFundMe page:
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This summer, a new Justin Bieber emerged—and not just musically. Biebs 2.0 will sing, tear up at the VMAs, and then talk openly about not being ashamed of crying. He is sensitive, humble, and actually rather likeable.
But this new and improved Justin Bieber is old news to Selena Gomez, his ex-girlfriend. In an interview with The New York Times, the singer weighed in on his image makeover, saying she knew he was great all along. (which is probably why she was dating him): "While people were writing that I was stupid for being in it, this is what I always saw in him. I'm like, duh!"
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Need-to-know UH traditions for incoming students
By Jhair Romero July 29, 2019
Shasta's naming is one of the many interesting tidbits of UH traditions and history. | File photo/The Cougar
There is no doubt that the University of Houston is rich in tradition.
From the alma mater to class rings, Houston's long history has brought with it years of customs.
The same can be said for its athletics. After all, the Cougars' football team, one of the school's oldest programs, has been hurling touchdowns since 1946.
Here are some traditions and history to know ahead of your first year at UH:
Cage Rage
One of the biggest events during Weeks of Welcome at the beginning of school, the annual Cage Rage preseason pep rally serves as the official kickoff for the football season and athletic year as a whole. Spectators at the occasion, held at TDECU Stadium can expect to see new head coach Dana Holgorsen, athletics director Chris Pezman and the football team riling up supporters.
Fans in attendance last year were treated to a performance by Spirit of Houston, UH's marching band, a musical act by Houston's own rappers Paul Wall and Lil' Keke, a firework show and a large water balloon fight.
Although the exact date for Cage Rage is not set yet, it is an effective introduction to the world of Houston athletics for new students.
Womp Womp
It is fourth-and-goal with 30 seconds on the clock. The Cougars are down by six in the biggest game of the year and are in timeout trying to figure out what play will win the game.
Then, the bass of Spirit of Houston and Cougar Brass' tubas start booming throughout the stadium. It can only mean one thing — Womp Womp is playing.
By far one of the most popular hype songs at the University, Womp Womp has become a staple at UH athletics events.
Start off by spelling out "C-O-U-G-A-R-S" to the rhythm of the horns, then follow up with a "who we talking 'bout? We're talking 'bout the Cougars!" and you have it down.
Who's He?
What better way to greet the away team than to just ignore the fact that it even exists?
To begin this pre-game tradition, pick up a copy of The Cougar at any one of our newsstands on campus on your way to the Fertitta Center for a basketball game.
Visiting lineups are always announced first, so when you hear the unfamiliar names, open up your copy of the paper and start to read. Every time a visiting player's name is announced, yell "who's he?"
Once Houston players' names are called, fold the paper in half, rip it to pieces and throw it up like confetti.
The Cougar has played a large role throughout the history of UH athletics.
Former Washington State Cougars head football coach and professor John W. Bender in 1927 arrived at a mascot-less school. Having become fond of the cougar during his time at WSU, Bender suggested the name The Cougar for Houston's student newspaper, the first extracurricular activity on campus. From then on, cougars became associated with UH as the school mascot.
But the mascot remained nameless. Then, The Cougar swooped in yet again.
In conjunction with the Alpha Phi Omega fraternity, The Cougar held a naming contest for the mascot in 1947.
Joe Randol, out of over 200 submissions, won the contest with these lines: "Shasta (She has to). Shasta have a cage, Shasta have a keeper, Shasta have a winning ball club, Shasta have the best."
Thus, Shasta the Cougar was born, and she has been overlooking the University's athletics ever since.
The current Shasta VI lives at the Houston Zoo, and students can visit him anytime there and learn more about the history of UH's mascot.
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Andy Rubin looks to raise $500 million in a new fund for Playground Ventures
Andy Rubin is looking for another big round of funding for his hardware incubator, Playground Ventures. According to an SEC filing that popped up yesterday (via Dan Primack), the Android founder is looking to raise up to $500 million — Rubin's name is listed alongside fellow Playground founders Peter Barrett, Matt Hershenson and Bruce Leak. This follows a $300 million funding round that closed just about this time last year, with Rubin stating that the money would go toward investments in startups.
Rubin has been focused on Playground since exiting Google in 2014. The firm, in Rubin's words, is focused on the tech "after smartphones and tablets," which is in keeping with the largely mysterious tone he's thus far taken with the project built to "amplify ideas."
This summer, Rubin tipped his hand a bit, showing off two new incubator projects at a Bloomberg technology conference, described by the publication as, "a transponder for drones [and] a backpack-sized wearable speaker that vibrates the body in time with music."
In August, meanwhile, Intel snapped up Nervana Systems, a Playground-funded deep-learning startup in a deal valued at around $408 million.
Around the same time, the engineer turned entrepreneur also outlined a future focused on human-trained AI systems and robotics – the latter of which was his focus during his waning days at Google. He chalked that departure up, in part, to impatience with Google's timeline.
With Playground, Rubin is clearly more interested in everything all at once, and looking to play an integral role in the next step in consumer technologies. And now, with the filing from yesterday, the company is looking to take the next major step toward funding it.
We've reached out to Playground for comment.


Nonprofit fundraiser, microfinance promoter, #oldschoolmtg enthusiast, trombone player, die-hard Buffalo Bills fan.
On April 6, 2019, New England Old School and Diamonds Mined co-hosted a multi-event Old School Magic "festival" in Greater Hartford, at Elks Lodge #1893 in Manchester, CT. Enthusiasts of antique cardboard traveled from eight states in the Northeastern U.S. to participate, along with mages hailing from Maryland, Ohio, Wyoming, and Serbia/parts unknown, who journeyed from even further afield.
48 players participated in the Old School 93/94 "main event," which was abbreviated to four rounds of Swiss pairings to leave more room for activities. Decks were constructed using the Atlantic 93/94 B&R list. After these opening rounds, the action shifted to four different "breakout" side events, in which players could choose their own adventure: Old School Brawl, the Wizard's Tournament format aka Alpha 40, Premodern, or an Old School draft featuring 4th Edition, Chronicles, and Fallen Empires.
This event was a Magic tournament named after a Magic tournament named after a music festival named after a small town in Sweden. "Hartfordfestivalen!" is a nod to the Arvika "Festival" Old School Magic tournament, held annually in Arvika, Sweden since 2015. That Old School gathering originally took its theme from Arvikafestivalen, a music festival that in its heyday brought the likes of Nine Inch Nails, New Order, The Cure, Motörhead, and Tool to a village of about 14,000 people in the Swedish countryside.
Our "mascot" card for the event was Deathgrip, with its shriveling heart in the clutches of a black mage, as a cheeky reference to an old nickname for Hartford, "the Heartbeat" of Connecticut. The artist behind Deathgrip, Anson Maddocks, was kind enough to produce a commissioned painting on the back of a Deathgrip artist proof; this re-imagining of Deathgrip was given out as a prize for the top combined finish through both the main and side events.
The "festival" format for the event was conceived as a celebration of various sub-formats that have been gaining traction among Old School playgroups in our neck of the woods. Even though Old School has a static pool of only 981 cards, the number of ways to play with these cards is practically limitless, and this past year especially has seen a proliferation of Old School Magic variants, not merely invented on paper but actually played and enjoyed in dining rooms and brew halls and game stores and Skype sessions alike. Our aim for this event was to have a platform to slightly "scale up" the experience of New England Old School's smaller, more informal meet-ups in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Connecticut, where players regularly bring their 93/94 decks but also bring Brawl or unsleeved ante or Ice Age 60 or Beasts Singleton or Premodern/Middle School or even just a small stack of their "Deckmaster cards" from August '93. Our hope was that this tournament structure would also contribute to a more laid back feeling, with the shortened "main event" not even having a clear winner, discouraging spiking to some extent and providing seven-plus hours of "just playing some cards" with old friends, and hopefully some new friends, too.
This event was organized as a fundraiser for Boys & Girls Clubs of Hartford. As the premier youth development organization in Hartford, BGC Hartford touches the lives of nearly one in every three children in Hartford Public Schools, serving more than 10,000 youth annually through programs focused on academic enrichment, character and leadership development, and healthy lifestyles.
All proceeds from Hartfordfestivalen! ticket sales after expenses were donated directly to BGC Hartford. We also conducted a raffle of unique Old School items which were donated by some of the players, including a Mox Jester playmat signed by Dan Frazier, 90s-era Duelist magazines, a Homelands comic book, a Collector's Edition box, and a unique hand-painted border extension alter of Nicol Bolas, with 100% of the raffle ticket sales going directly to the charity as well.
All told, the players at Hartfordfestivalen! raised a total of more than $942 in support for Boys & Girls Clubs of Hartford. The generosity and kindness shown by the Old School Magic community continues to impress and inspire, and we're happy to continue in the tradition of charitable activity fostered by our fellow playgroups across the United States. On behalf of BGC Hartford and the youth and families they serve, and from all of us at New England Old School, thank you!
Cracking a box of Fallen Empires.
Part of AMW's Premodern list.
James Rosenblum took home the Deathgrip AP with the best combined record on the day, X-0 in matches through two events and a slightly better GWP than Brian Selden, who also went X-0!
The Brawl side event, organized by Jason Dorman.
BGS 9 Unlimited Clone and Nether Shadow were both liberated and added to the prize pool.
Hunter's A40 doing degenerate things.
Robin explained to me that this is a boring board state, but I don't know what Premodern cards are.
The bitter end of the Draft event, Thallids gumming up the landscape.
The Sisters of the Flame!
The Draft side event, organized by Chris Mason.
The 3rd annual Winter Derby is in the books! This year's event saw 142 participants, representing 14 countries (Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Japan, The Netherlands, Norway, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States) spread across nine different time zones. Over the span of six weeks, we played roughly 525 matches of Old School Magic via webcam.
The Winter Derby is conducted under the Swedish 93/94 B&R list, allowing the full range of original art/old card frame re-prints (Revised, Chronicles, CE/IE, FBB/FWB, etc.), an approach that has become very common for online play internationally. And the stakes? Mostly just glory and bragging rights, along with an invitation to n00bcon 11 for the winner.
Pairings were released in two batches over the month of January, with all participants asked to schedule and play eight individual matches in about four weeks. After the batches were completed, we cut to Top 16 and played out a single-elimination bracket. The Winter Derby Finals were played on February 8th, and featured an American, Michael Scheffenacker (4C Swedish Atog feat. Su-Chi) versus Richard Stebbing (UR Counterburn) of the UK's Brothers of Fire.
A climactic Timetwister near the end of Game 2 of the Winter Derby Finals. The match was recorded with commentary; click through for the full VOD.
After all was said and done, Richard Stebbing was named the Winter Derby Champion for 2019, and received the n00bcon invitation! Congratulations to Richard, to all of the Top 16 finalists, and thank you, again, to all of the players who participated. Together, you've helped to make the semiannual Derby series a recurring celebration of the international Old School Magic community.
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Every single product or service that people use each day can be found on the internet.
The internet is considered the most useful and convenient reference which is available to consumers. There aren't many items that are not to be obtained online. Healthcare products and prescription medications can even be purchased on the internet through Internet drug stores. Among the recently popular internet businesses is a Canadian pharmacy. Since these online pharmacies offer the convenience of online shopping along with the additional advantage of low cost prescription medications, they tend to be progressively growing in popularity.
Less expensive medications as well as online privacy are generally two reasons why Canadian pharmacies are a lucrative business. Individuals who purchase medication online usually save approximately 40 to 70 percent off of the regular cost of their medications. The Canadian government's regulation and control over the nation's healthcare program is the main reason why online pharmacies are able to market their products so affordable.
What the Canadian government has carried out is place a cap on the prices of medicine. The companies are only able to offer the drugs to the marketers for only a fixed price. The distributors, such as pharmacies, can only sell the medicine to consumers within a fixed cost range.
Online drug stores sell medical products, prescription medications, as well as foreign medicines. Their prices are very affordable. The process of ordering online is easy. Have your doctor send the prescriptions to the pharmacy. As soon as the fax is received the order are going to be filled. You can then submit your request. After settlement has cleared, the medicine is shipped out. Most customers obtain their order within just two weeks.
Canadian pharmacies are known to carry a lot more general medications than regular pharmacies. Individuals choose generic versions of brand name medicines because they are made from the same components and work equally well as the brand name drugs. The only difference is that they expense significantly less.
When choosing an internet pharmacy you simply must search for the following information at the website to confirm that you will be using the services of a legitimate company. Firstly, the online pharmacy must have a permit plus the license number should be displayed on the website. Plus pretty much all pharmacies must require a prescription written by a doctor. The ones that tend not to request this are not legal companies.
Also, legit drug stores will want to understand your medicine record. The pharmacist will require details of the medications that you are presently consuming. Moreover, every internet pharmacy should have their business address as well as phone number listed on the internet site.
When selecting a Canadian pharmacy, it is important to consider all of the facts given here. Once you've made your decision to make use of an online drugstore, you're going to get some pretty good benefits. Ultimately you will manage to purchase safe as well as affordable prescription drugs at the best value available.
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The administrators in charge of Oddbins are confident a deal will be finalised for the chain by the end of this week.
Lee Manning, one of the two partners at administrators Deloitte, told Decanter.com he is 'close' to concluding negotiations for the 89 Oddbins shops.
The chain went into administration at the end of last month with debts of £20m.
'We are at contract stage now and close to having deals done,' Manning said.
He would not give details of the bidders but confirmed that at the end of last week there were three or four serious offers on the table, which had been reduced to one or two.
It is not know whether the Oddbins portfolio will be sold as a whole, or split up, perhaps regionally.
It is understood that current Oddbins directors Simon Baile and Henry Young, who were reported to have been bidding to buy the chain back, have been unsuccessful.
Regional and area sales managers were informed on Friday that the Baile-Young bid had failed.
In a separate development Christie & Co, an estate agent in the hotel and leisure sector, advertised 55 ex-Oddbins shops for sale yesterday.
These include the 39 closed in March plus another 16 that have been closed recently.
Christie & Co is inviting bids with a closing date of Monday 2 May.


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Sunny Anderson Weight Gain: Know About Her Weight Transformation in 2022!
By Whitney Pina August 7, 2022 No Comments5 Mins Read
Sunny Anderson, a star of Food Network's The Kitchen, has had a fascinating journey from a career in the military to becoming a well-known chef in the United States. Her dating and romantic life also attracted notice. She also discussed the criticism she received for standing out for the LGBTQ+ community.
Sunny Anderson Weight Gain to Weight Loss Journey
The before and after weight loss photos of Sunny Anderson have gone viral on Twitter. Anderson's fans are aware that not every day has been champagne and caviar for him as a celebrity chef.
In a recent interview with Everyday Health, "The Kitchen" co-host Anderson discussed how she manages her ulcerative colitis, an inflammatory bowel disease while working and cooking.
She is now more conscious of what she puts in her body thanks to her UC, which may have led to the need for her to put on the pants she's been hiding behind her wardrobe.
Sunny realizedTra she was pre-diabetic and her weight fit the criteria for being obese, so she changed her eating habits by following Dr. Ian's Shred Revolutionary Diet and started the new year off at the gym.
Sunny realized she was pre-diabetic and her weight fit the criteria for being obese, so she changed her eating habits by following Dr. Ian's Shred Revolutionary Diet and started the new year off at the gym.
She has shrunk from a measurement of 16 to 14, and the positive changes have helped her realize that now is the time to prioritize her well-being over her career. "I worked very hard to achieve a particular objective in my life, and with that aim came tremendous weight gain," the speaker said.
Many people make jokes about the "Food Network 10," and I frequently tell them that since I finished it twice, I'm an overachiever! presents the TV host. I realized that with "shred," I could have my cake and eat it too.
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Sunny Anderson's Career and Earnings
Sunny Anderson enlisted in the Air Force in 1993 after finishing high school in San Antonio. She worked as a military radio host while she was there and had radio and television assignments.
Sunny honorably retired from the military in 1997 after serving for four years as a senior airman. But she discovered that food required preparation while she was serving in the military. Sunny worked as a radio broadcaster on various radio stations from 1995 to 2001. She also relocated to New York in 2001 and began working as a radio host at WQHT FM.
She began preparing meals for her friends because she enjoyed cooking and the New York food scene, but she had complete control over the menu. The Emeril Live Food Network coordinator was one of Sunny's listeners.
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Sunny started co-hosting a Food Network special series called Gotta Get It in 2007, which featured food-related gadgets. Sunny has gone a long way in her profession, from visits to the family in Elloree as a child to owning a business and hosting a cooking show. She also credits her parents' love for helping her achieve all of this.
Sunny has received awards for hosting or taking part in 51 different cooking programs over the years, such as Cooking for Real, How'd That Get On My Plate, Kitchen, Today, All-Star Best I Ever Ate, Good Morning America, Home & Family, Bakers & Fakers, Talking, Cooking & Cons, Kitchen Sink, Top 5 Restaurants, Home Made in America, and many others.
A mouthwatering dish is created when her travel experiences and unusual flavors come together flawlessly. Pasta with Pancetta and Peas, Sunny's Spicy Chicken Sandwich Remake, Zucchini Pizza Bites, Huevos Rancheros, Oxtail Stew, Red Velvet Swirl Brownies, Bacon, Onion, and Cheese Stuffed Burger, Apple Compote, and Tomato and Mozzarella Bruschetta with Basil Oil were just a few of Sunny's well-known recipes.
Sunny's Kitchen: Easy Food for Real Life, which was nominated as the best-selling cookbook in the New York Times, was also released.
Fans are interested to know why Sunny isn't back in her cookery program The Kitchen. For the Food Network, she is recording herself using an outdoor barbecue to prepare food.
She originally expressed regret for the kitchen renovation, but eight months later, she was still cooking outside. During the Coronavirus epidemic in April 2020, The Kitchen started filming.
The Food Network chef announced on Instagram that she started cooking at home. She endured sweltering heat, fog, and sleet in preparation for the 2020 episodes of the show.
After returning to the studio in January 2021 for the new episodes, Sunny continued to shoot outside while maintaining the social divide. She clarified to her followers that although she continued to film outside for her own safety, the cold forced her to layer up and sit in front of a covert space heater.
But the impatient Redditors made a number of assumptions about the rationale behind outside cooking.
While some claimed that she chose to keep the Food Network camera out of her personal affairs, others believed that she only had a small kitchen in which to film the show. Sunny Anderson has a net cumulative worth of $5 million, claims Celebrity Net Worth.
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Cheap ways to make Putin pay in Ukraine
By John E. Herbst
Six weeks ago, Russia attacked Ukraine in the Straits of Kerch and it made international news. US President Donald Trump canceled a high-level meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in response. Other governments denounced the Kremlin's actions. Then the news faded. Right now, the weak Western response means that Putin has gained a tactical advantage, which makes it more likely that Moscow will escalate further in the future.
It would be easy to dismiss the latest flare-up as Ukraine's problem, but that would be foolish.
The Kremlin is pursuing a revisionist policy designed to weaken NATO and the European Union. Its current aggression is focused on Ukraine.
The smartest way for the United States to thwart Putin's efforts is to make him pay a heavy price for his war against Ukraine. This can be done at a very low cost to us: sanctions on Russian leaders and the economy and weapons for Ukraine. Others have examined the various sanctions options, but no one has stated clearly what weapons the United States should provide to shore up Ukraine's vulnerabilities. We should provide at least six, and as many as twelve, Mark V PT boats. They should be equipped with at least fifty and as many as 100 Hellfire missiles. The United States should also provide at least 100 Harpoon anti-ship missiles. Mark V's can be transported by air to Mariupol and Berdyansk, Ukraine's two port cities in the Sea of Azov, where Russia fired on Ukrainian boats on November 25.
What would these weapons do?
The United States has a large number of 1970s Harpoon anti-ship missiles that are sitting in storage. These can be provided gratis and save us storage expenses. US forces use newer Harpoons. Harpoons have a range of over fifty miles and would be a problem for Russian ships approaching Mariupol or Berdyansk and, of course, for any amphibious operation against Ukraine's coast, whether in Azov or the Black Sea.
Beyond borderlands: ensuring the sovereignty of all nations of Eastern Europe
Territories between great powers—borderlands—have always been areas of strife. So it is with the countries caught between Russia and the West, those that were once part of the Soviet Union or firmly within its sphere of influence.
The United States should also help Ukraine reinforce its naval presence in the Sea of Azov by providing Mark V PT boats. The Ukrainian navy cannot match Russian firepower in the Sea of Azov. But fast patrol boats would provide a punch that would put larger Russian vessels at risk. The Mark V's carry torpedoes and the United States could make the boats much more of a threat to the Russian navy by providing nautical Hellfire missiles, which can be launched from the Mark V.
Finally, we should also provide the radar and intel systems that would help Ukraine's military keep track of the Russian navy in the Sea of Azov. This would be essential to gauge the threat of that navy and would be important for targeting those ships. The purpose, of course, is not to encourage Ukraine to shoot at the Russian navy, but to give it the capability to shoot back once provoked, which would establish a measure of deterrence in the Sea of Azov. Today, Moscow exploits the lack of any naval deterrence.
The Kremlin has established overwhelming military superiority in the Sea of Azov and, with their attack on and seizure of Ukrainian navy vessels in late November, have demonstrated that they want no challenge from Ukraine there.
Since April, Moscow has used this predominance to harass shipping to and from Ukraine's Azov ports, reducing shipping by at least 50 percent. But its naval presence also gives Moscow the ability to conduct amphibious military operations against Ukraine's Azov coastline.
The United States is not in a position to offset Moscow's naval superiority in the Sea of Azov, just as it is not in a position to offset the Kremlin's conventional superiority in the war in the Donbas. But the United States could give Ukraine assets to provide an asymmetric challenge to Moscow in the Sea of Azov. This would be similar in some ways to the US provision of Javelins to Ukraine, which did much to neuter Moscow's tank advantage in the Donbas and convince Kyiv that the US position remains firm.
The US response to Moscow's escalation in late November has been underwhelming, and Putin is likely to interpret it as a green light if we do nothing but cancel meetings. Putin is a menace to the international order and he's only getting bolder. Now is the time to act.
John E. Herbst is the director of the Eurasia Center at the Atlantic Council. He served as the US ambassador to Ukraine from 2003-2006.
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Image: Three Ukrainian naval ships (L), which were recently seized by Russia, are seen anchored in a port in Kerch, Crimea November 28, 2018. REUTERS/Alla Dmitrieva


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Corporate Home News Press Releases Dow moves up to #22 on 2020 Top 50 Companies for Diversity list
Dow moves up to #22 on 2020 Top 50 Companies for Diversity list
MIDLAND, Mich. – May 9, 2020 – Dow (NYSE: DOW) earned the 22nd place on the 2020 DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity list, which was announced yesterday at a virtual event hosted by DiversityInc. The Company's placement on the list for the third consecutive year showcases its commitment to inclusion and diversity (I&D) as a business imperative.
Dow was also included on four of DiversityInc's Specialty Lists: 2nd on Top Companies for Employee Resource Groups; 3rd on Top Companies for Supplier Diversity; one of 16 companies on Top Companies for People with Disabilities; and one of 29 companies on Top Companies for LGBT Employees.
"On behalf of Dow employees who are championing diversity and inclusion around the world, we are extremely honored to have been ranked in the DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity list," said Jim Fitterling, chairman and chief executive officer of Dow. "This external benchmark is critical to measuring our progress among the best and defining our focus for the future."
Dow's intentional and deliberate areas of focus included activating the 10 global employee resource groups, which have been a catalyst for driving engagement and accelerating progress across a number of business priorities.
"Earning a spot on DiversityInc's Top 50 Companies for Diversity list affirms that we are making real progress in inclusion and diversity, and also highlights where there is more work to do," said Karen S. Carter, chief inclusion officer and chief human resources officer of Dow. "This is not only important for Team Dow, but for our customers, suppliers, communities and other stakeholders who are critical to the journey."
Issued annually since 2001, the DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity list recognizes companies with at least 1,000 employees in the United States for their management of diversity and inclusion. The list is based on data from a survey with more than 200 questions, which tracks and connects human capital outcomes with best practices used to promote the advancement of underrepresented groups in the workplace such as women, minorities, people with disabilities, LGBTQ+ and veterans. The rankings take into account several factors, including but not limited to talent development, recruitment, supplier diversity and senior leadership commitment to inclusion and diversity. Visit DiversityInc's website to view the entire Top 50 Companies for Diversity list, and follow the conversation on social media using the hashtag, #DITop50.
To learn more about Dow's progress in I&D, explore our recently-released annual inclusion report, SHINE 2019.
Dow (NYSE: DOW) combines global breadth, asset integration and scale, focused innovation and leading business positions to achieve profitable growth. The Company's ambition is to become the most innovative, customer centric, inclusive and sustainable materials science company. Dow's portfolio of plastics, industrial intermediates, coatings and silicones businesses delivers a broad range of differentiated science-based products and solutions for its customers in high-growth market segments, such as packaging, infrastructure and consumer care. Dow operates 109 manufacturing sites in 31 countries and employs approximately 36,500 people. Dow delivered sales of approximately $43 billion in 2019. References to Dow or the Company mean Dow Inc. and its subsidiaries. For more information, please visit www.dow.com or follow @DowNewsroom on Twitter.
sthomas@dow.com


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