This story has been updated. In the original version, the characterization of the bond financing as a Ponzi scheme should not have been attributed to Poway City Councilwoman Merrilee Boyack. That reference has been deleted.
Residents of the Poway Unified School District are dealing with a bad case of sticker shock after realizing a $105 million bond deal struck by school officials last year left them on the hook for nearly $1 billion.
Last August, district officials obtained $105 million for school construction with the promise to repay investors more than nine times the principal under long-term financing known as capital appreciation bonds, or CABs.
Under the deal, the district does not pay anything on the bond for 20 years as interest compounds, and repays the bonds in the 20 years after. The final payment will be made in 2051, reaching the maximum 40-year term permitted for bond repayment under state law.
Officials made the move based on the assumption that recent slumping real estate values in the district will grow over the next two decades and beyond. They say the bond gives them immediate use of the funds and that interest rates should work in their favor over the long haul.
The bond program was first reported by Michigan blogger Joel Thurtell in May and then last week by the news website Voice of San Diego.
Michigan banned CABs in 1994 following a series of reports by Thurtell, then a writer for the Detroit Free Press, documenting how Michigan school debt had risen from $2 billion in 1988, when the state's first CAB was issued, to $4 billion.
While Poway Unified is not the only district in the county or state to utilize the financing, details of the $981 million repayment are creating waves of mistrust in the community.
Clariece Tally, whose child graduated from the district, alleges there was a "legitimate effort to hide" the financing, which she likened to a subprime mortgage loan.
"We were all kept in the dark while they signed bonds mortgaging our future, our children's future, and our grandchildren's future," she wrote.
Some are mobilizing on a Facebook page created Saturday called "Thanks A Billion." The page features a call for residents to attend the school board's 6 p.m. meeting at the district offices Monday to voice their frustrations.
In response to the public backlash, Superintendent John Collins said district staff is preparing a detailed presentation on the district's bond financing and program.
Collins said there was no effort on the part of the district to deceive the public.
"Every bond has been done very publicly in a very appropriate and legal fashion. No on ever intentionally kept information from the public and to suggest that is wrong," Collins said.
However, Collins said the details of how the bonds would be funded were not known in February 2008 when the $179 million Proposition C bond measure was passed. He added that officials could not have predicted the housing slump, which prevented the district from collecting the taxes they needed to finance the bonds. So they turned to CABs to finance the bulk of the bond measure.
Home-value growth projections for the bond at the time were a conservative 3 percent annual rate compared with the region's previous 10-year average of 7.6 percent. But in 2009, the growth rate dipped to 2.71 percent, then 0.37 percent in 2010 and -0.67 percent in 2011.
Still, in 2011, the district financed its final series of Proposition C bonds using a CAB method that relied on a 3.96 percent annual growth rate. For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2012, Collins said the region's values grew 1.13 percent.
Should the region's assessed home values not catch up with the district's projections, county government is legally obligated to set a tax rate sufficient to pay the interest and principal on the bonds as they become due, with some restrictions.
That could mean district residents would see their taxes rise above the current $55 tax per $100,000 assessed valuation.
Should that happen, the impact will be offset slightly by a pool of funds at the county set aside from the taxes currently collected but not currently needed. According to county officials, the pool began accumulating in 2009-2010 fiscal year at the request of the district and currently totals $2.97 million.
Poway Unified voters were asked on the 2008 ballot if they'd approve of the district issuing $179 million in bonds at interest rates not to exceed 12 percent without a tax increase. No information was given on the ballot about how the district would go about repaying the bonds without increasing taxes, though district officials said it should have been evident to voters that it would require costlier financing.
"If you want to keep payments the same but want more money, more projects, but you are going to spread it out another 20 years, if someone is voting on that, it seems they would pay more and it's going to cost more," Collins said.
He said the district was able to save taxpayers money by capitalizing on historically low construction costs and obtaining millions in state matching funds.
Marc Davis joined Poway's school board in December 2010 and said the board was following the voters' wishes when it issued its latest CAB in August 2011.
Davis deemed the concerns he's heard about property taxes tripling or the City of Poway going bankrupt as a result of the deal unfounded hysteria.
"I believe we will do just fine and will be paid off exactly as planned," Davis said.
Andrew Berg, chair of the district citizen's bond oversight committee, said he too isn't as concerned as some.
Poway district officials point to the repayment ratio when all types of financing are factored in for its $377 million combined Proposition C and preceding Proposition U. Overall, the district will pay back $1.6 billion, for a much-easier-to-swallow 4.24 times repayment ratio.
Ron Bennett, president and CEO of School Services of California, which offers districts advice on school finance matters, said CABs can make a lot of sense for districts given current market conditions and future inflation.
"You are paying it back in cheaper dollars.… You are still looking at the cost of the project increasing much faster than the interest rate," said Bennett, adding that a dollar today may be worth a nickel or a dime decades from now.
Other districts in the region have also turned to CAB financing as a resource, though many have a shorter repayment timeline and in turn a lower repayment ratio than Poway Unified.
For example, since 2004, the Grossmont Union High School District has used CAB financing for $83.4 million of its overall $270 million bond program. The repayment for the CABs alone will cost the district $261.3 million, or 3.1 times the principal.
Escondido Union High School District financed $81 million of its 2008 Proposition T bonds using CABs, and will repay more than $519 million, or 6.4 times the principal.
San Diego County financed $64.9 million using a CAB structure in 2004 and will have repaid $100.1 million when the last payment is due in 2015, or 1.5 times the principal.
Still, county treasurers in the region have questioned the viability of long-term CABs like the one Poway committed to.
The state treasurer has not taken a position on CAB financing, a spokesman said, though the California Association of County Treasurers and Tax Collectors said last August that it stands with Saladino in opposition to long-term CABs.
"Where we are with the uncertainty of the future, it is probably prudent to not overextend the reach of reasonable economic vision into the future. Forty years is a long time, and I am not confident anyone is able to predict that accurately," McAllister said.


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RBI's new norms for Private banks- Highlights
On November 26, 2021, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) released new norms for Private Banks.
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RBI's call on recommendations
Under the new norms, RBI has accepted the suggestion to increase cap on stake of promoters in banks from 15 percent to 26 percent.
However, it is still examining if industrial houses should be allowed to run banks in accordance with the recommendations of an internal working group (IWG).
In all, RBI accepted 21 out of 33 recommendations of the IWG.
IWG is headed by the director of central board of the RBI, Prasanna Kumar Mohanty. This group was set up on June 12, 2021. It suggested in its report, published on November 20, that large corporate or industrial houses should be allowed in banking following the amendments to the Banking Regulation Act. This recommendation created an uproar among former governors and deputy governors of RBI. RBI did not accept this suggestion.
Central bank said that, non-promoter shareholding cap for an individual or non-financial institution should be 10 per cent as opposed to what suggested by IWG to keep it 15 per cent for all kinds of non-promoter shareholders.
However, RBI allowed the financial institutions, public sector undertakings (PSUs), supranational institutions, or government to hold 15 per cent in private banks.
As per RBI's earlier rules, non-promoter shareholding could increase to 40 per cent for well-diversified, regulated, and listed financial institutions, PSUs, supranational institutions, or government.
RBI accepted the suggestions on a "reporting mechanism" to pledge shares by promoters.
It rejected the recommendation to allow payments banks to convert themselves into small finance banks having three years' experience.
It accepted IWG's recommendation that banks should have higher initial capital of at least Rs 1,000 crore.
Month: Current Affairs - November, 2021
Topics: Internal Working Group (IWG) of RBI • RBI's new norms for Private banks • Reserve Bank of India (RBI)

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«Герои востока» (, , букв. с кит. Китайский муж) — гонконгский фильм с боевыми искусствами режиссёра Лю Цзяляна. Альтернативное название — «Шаолинь вызывает ниндзя» ().

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Хэ Тао — ученик кунг-фу. Его богатый отец устраивает свадьбу сына с дочерью японского партнёра по бизнесу. Поначалу парень возражает и симулирует болезнь, но соглашается на брак, когда находит невесту, Кода Юмико (Гун Цзы — по-китайски), привлекательной. После свадьбы Хэ Тао понимает, что Гун Цзы ещё и мастер боевых искусств. Её стиль карате кажется ему жестоким, из-за чего он пытается убедить её изучать китайские стили кунг-фу для женщин. Позже Гун Цзы в споре о том, чьи боевые искусства лучше, обижается и уезжает в Японию. Когда отец Хэ Тао приезжает в Японию, чтобы упросить Гун Цзы помириться с мужем, то видит как её тренирует друг детства сэнсэй Такено.

Желая любой ценой убедить её вернуться, Хэ Тао посылает жене письмо с унижением японских боевых искусств. Он надеется, что из-за письма она разозлится и вернётся, чтобы доказать, что японские боевые искусства не хуже китайских. Как только она приезжает, Хэ Тао надеется помириться. Но план проваливается, когда Такено читает письмо вместо Гун Цзы. Такено принимает написанное как оскорбление японских боевых искусств, после чего он с другими японскими мастерами отправляется в Китай принять вызов Хэ Тао.

В первом поединке Хэ Тао ошибочно воспринимает уважительный жест японского бойца и тем самым подливает масло в огонь. В связи с этим культурным недопониманием японцы воспринимают поединки ни как демонстрацию стилей, а как бои без правил. Гун Цзы, видя всю серьёзность сложившейся ситуации, помогает своему китайскому мужу, предупреждая о мастерстве Такено в ниндзюцу, что помогает Хэ Тао в финальной схватке с Такено.

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Съёмочная группа
 Кинокомпания: Shaw Brothers
 Продюсер: Шао Жэньлэн
 Режиссёр: Лю Цзялян
 Ассистент режиссёра: Хуан Бацзин, Тхон Юнь
 Постановщик боёв: Лю Цзялян, Уилсон Тхон (помощник постановщика)
 Оператор: , Питер Нгоу (помощник оператора)
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 Гримёр: У Сюйцин
 Монтажёр: Цзян Синлун, Лэй Имхой
 Дизайнер по костюмам: Лю Цзию

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25-я церемония награждения Азиатско-тихоокеанского кинофестиваля (1978) — награда в следующей категории:
 Лучший международный кунг-фу боевик

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 «Герои востока» на сайте Hong Kong Movie DataBase
 Рецензия на фильм на HKCinema.ru.

Фильмы-боевики Гонконга
Фильмы-драмы Гонконга
Фильмы на языке путунхуа
Фильмы Shaw Brothers Studio
Фильмы о боевых искусствах
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Quercus buckleyi est une espèce de chênes de la section Lobatae (les « chênes rouges ») de taille moyenne (jusqu'à ) à feuilles caduques que l'on peut trouver au Texas et dans l'Oklahoma. Ses feuilles possèdent 7 à 9 lobes.

Étymologie
Son épithète spécifique, buckleyi, lui a été donnée en l'honneur de  (1809-1884), botaniste et entomologiste américain qui en avait fait une première description  sous le nom Quercus taxana, nom qui n'était pas valide (nomen invalidum).

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Symbolic Feng Shui
7 Chinese Symbols That Represent Love
Published: January 10, 20223:55 am Updated: February 16, 20222:26 pm
It is often said that there are 3 life aspects that people seek to satisfy if they don't have to worry about basic survival needs such as safety and food. And that is the aspects of wealth, health and love.
Love itself can be classified under a few umbrellas such as romantic love, parental love, social love, etc. And among them, probably the one that affects everybody the most is romantic love.
If you have ever been in love, you'd know for yourself how those butterflies in your stomach, falling head over heels, and getting swept off your feet feels like. Well… at least for the first few months of the relationship 😀
Love is such a powerful force of life that we often need to remind ourselves how much we value it.
Some people frame pictures of loved ones on the wall, some people paint symbols of love as a hobby, some even tattoo the word love onto their body.
And as we would have it, there are various symbols that represent love in Chinese culture.
1) Chinese word
The Chinese character for love is 爱. It is pronounced as ai. While some might contend that this is a word, just take it into account that words are just symbols used for communication.
Perhaps it is no coincidence that the above characters in simplified and traditional Chinese that represent love is so beautifully constructed. So much so that homeowners often frame up the word in calligraphy to use as decorations in the house. I've also seen people get a tattoo of these words.
The character 爱 itself is also often found on designs of traditional items such as red packets, furniture such as bedheads, and fixtures such as curtains, etc.
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This love symbol is appropriate for gifts to anybody including your spouse, parents, relatives and friends.
2) Double happiness
Another character that symbolizes love is the double happiness symbol which is designed by writing the word 喜 twice side-by-side.
This can be confusing so some people, especially those who are just beginning to learn about Chinese culture.
Because the word 喜 by itself carries the meaning of happiness. But by writing it twice, the meaning is morphed into meaning happiness through peaceful relationship as a couple.
And unsurprisingly, this is a design motif most often seen in weddings.
If you are attending a Chinese wedding or going to an event related to a Chinese couple's marriage, it would be totally appropriate to gift something with this design printed on it.
3) Red peas
The folklore story of how red peas became a Chinese symbol of love is quite fascinating.
They are usually presented as gifts strung together as necklaces or bracelets.
Because of the story behind this, it is most appropriate for couples who are already in love to give each other so that they are reminded of the loving partner. Don't take the special relationship they have for granted.
When dating and yet to be in a relationship, it is also a suitable item to subtly tell the receiving party that he or she has a special place in heart.
Have them handmade yourself to add more sincerity.
4) Mystic knot
Chinese knots are so tied to ancient culture that this topic alone can easily make up it's own encyclopedia. They are also beautiful and has found it's way into furniture design, clothing design, kitchenware, and all types of stuff.
One of the most famous Chinese knots is the mystic knot, which is also often known as the infinity knot.
The overall theme of this knot is to be continuous, endless, and limitless. And therefore, it is often appropriately used as a symbol for peace, safety and love.
For example, they are often carved into furniture meant for newlyweds to signal the wish for an eternal blessing of love between the couple. Couples who just want a less cheezy declaration of their union sometimes also use red packets with the mystic knot design when giving them out to the younger generation.
5) Mandarin ducks
A real life male mandarin duck can appear like something that came right out of a cartoon for someone seeing it for the first time. It's colors combination is so outrageous and vibrant that it often beggars belief.
When they appear as a pair of male and female, it symbolizes the union of man and wife. This representation is deeply embedded in Chinese culture. So much so that the term "鸳鸯戏水", which means a male and female duck frolicking in the water, is regularly used to in books and TV shows to describe couples who are affectionate with each other.
This symbol is not just appropriate for weddings, but also for gifts to seniors who have their life partners by their side. For example, during grand celebrations to mark seniors reaching a milestone age.
Take note that if you are gifting to elders, this is totally inappropriate and insensitive if the receiver's partner has already left the living world.
6) Dragon and phoenix
For elder couples who have high status, the love symbol of choice is often that of a dragon and phoenix.
This is a pair that represents yin and yang, male and female, and a celestial unity of love.
One has to be tactful when using this. For example, if a young colleague has invited you to his wedding, gifting this symbol can sometimes be unsuitable as the big boss might be at the event as well. If the youngster is given the symbol of dragon, then what does that make your boss?
While many might wave this off as thinking too much into Asian culture, it doesn't hurt to play it safe. Go with the oriental mystic knot or double happiness if you are unsure. You are not going to unknowingly offend a third party this way.
7) Numbers
This is a modern twist of Chinese symbols for love. Numbers have always had a unique place in the use of conversational Chinese language due to the phonetic resemblance to how they sound to certain words.
For example, the numbers 1688 is one of the favorite combinations as it sounds like 一路发发 which means a journey filled with wealth.
The massive gain in popularity of using numbers as expressions in the last 2 decades is in part attributed of the widespread use of text messages for communication. It's much easier and convenient to type a number than a word.
in terms of love, the numbers 520 represents "I love you". Another common number combination is 1314 which means "forever in life". So it's not uncommon for lovers, especially for those who are dating to use the number code 5201314 as a declaration of love.
So if you are dating a Chinese and see these numbers on the messenger app, don't think that it is a typo mistake.
All in all, love symbols are meant to convey a message of love. However, don't forget that wrong usage can communicate all the wrong things.
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In recent weeks I have been reading Augustine's Confessions. It is a great and compelling read, a 300-page prayer that illuminates Augustine's search for God and for life. As I read the opening chapters I was struck by a word that Augustine regularly uses and that had not registered with me before. Again and again as he speaks to God, Augustine calls him his 'sweetness' (or 'delight'). I began to note every time Augustine used this word, and other similar affectional terms. He also speaks of God's majesty and sovereignty and power, but it was his use of the word 'sweetness' that captured, and captivated, my attention.
What had so impacted Augustine as he came to a living, saving faith in Jesus Christ, was God's tender and kind dealings with him throughout his years of spiritual searching. Now a believer, having tasted that the Lord is good (Psa. 34:8), Augustine discovered that his goodness was 'sweet'.
'My sweetness'. As I thought about this striking statement I began to ask myself whether I also could call the Lord 'my sweetness'? It was Jonathan Edwards, the great eighteenth century New England pastor-theologian who wrote, 'True religion, in great part, consists in holy affections'.1 Edwards maintained that the Christian Faith is natively affectional. The gospel does not come only to transform our minds and reform our lives; it comes to implant within us godly affections.
First among truly Christian affections is heart-felt love to God – Father, Son and Holy Spirit. In the gospel God reveals himself to us supremely as a God of love and grace. It was because the Father 'so loved the world' that he gave his one and only Son (John 3:16). It was because the Lord Jesus Christ loved us that he gave himself for us (Gal. 2:20). It is his love for us that draws out love to him.
God's love to us is eternal, unchanging, and altogether undeserved. He could justly and righteously have damned us, but he chose in unfathomable grace to love us in Christ. Yes, the Lord is of purer eyes than even to look on sin. He is almighty, transcendent, majestic in holiness. But in his love to sinners he is truly 'sweet', inexpressibly sweet.
John Owen makes a telling observation in his remarkable work on Communion with God, that many Christians think there is no sweetness in God towards sinners except what was purchased by the high price of Jesus' blood.2 For Owen this is nothing short of blasphemy and turns the gospel on its head. The gospel is not, Because Jesus died for us God now loves us; but rather, Because God loved us Jesus died for us! There is sweetness in God towards sinners that pre-dates the cross, a sweetness that brought him to send forth his Son to be the propitiation for our sins, and not for our sins only, but for the sins of the whole world (1 John 2:2).
It is when we begin to sense the embrace of our heavenly Father's love for us in Christ that we begin to understand why Augustine could call the Lord his 'sweetness'.
'My sweetness'. Are these not moving and deeply searching words? They are to me and I trust they will be to you.
Jonathan Edwards, The Religious Affections (London: Banner of Truth, 1961), p. 23.
John Owen, The Works of John Owen, (London: Banner of Truth, 1965), Volume 2, p. 32.


Chester and Sirikit met in Boston in 1988 and were married in February of 1992. They have been blessed with two children, Joshua and Alexa.
Chester was born and raised in San Diego, California. He worked for General Dynamics Space System Division after finishing a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of San Diego. Sirikit received her bachelor's degree in Psychology. She received her masters in Family Life and Child Development at the University of the Philippines and afterwards taught both preschool and college levels for 6 years.
Chester and Sirikit are known for their faith, passion and love for God and people. They started full time missionaries in the Philippines in 1989 and continued for 15 years. Their faith grew tremendously as they saw God change thousands of people to become christians. God has not only used them to plant churches but to travel to different countries and cities to speak and strengthen different congregations.
In 2004 they moved back to the United States. They continued to be active in serving different local churches while working in the restaurant business.
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UNCLOS navigational freedom provisions provides good model for regulating cyberspace
A sound policy that balances international freedoms in Cyberspace with legitimate concerns about national security may be achieved by applying the navigational regimes of the UNCLOS III to the medium of Cyberspace. Fairly applied, such global Cyberspace policies could, borrowing from the language of the Convention,
be an important contribution to the maintenance of peace, justice, and progress;
resolve problems of Cyberspace;
provide due regard for the sovereignty of all States;
facilitate international communication;
promote peaceful uses of Cyberspace and the equitable and efficient
utilization of its resources;
aid the study, protection, and preservation of the Cyberspace environment;
contribute to the realization of a just and equitable economic order which takes into account the interests and needs of mankind as a whole and, in particular, the special interests and needs of developing countries;
establish international Cyberspace as beyond the limits of national jurisdiction, as a common heritage of mankind, the exploration and exploitation of which shall be carried out for the benefit of mankind as a whole irrespective of the geographical location of States.
From the foregoing it is suggested that if the underlying purposes of the UNCLOS III were applied to the Cyberspace medium, it would have a desirable effect on international development of Cyberspace. A test of the usefulness of this analogy in preserving national sovereignty is how well two important access rights under the UNCLOS III, "innocent passage"4 and "transit passage,"5
might be applied to military operations in Cyberspace.
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Many valuable lessons in UNCLOS for international governance of cyberspace
The Internet poses legal challenges similar to those encountered in maintaining order in the use of the world's oceans. UNCLOS, which imposes law and order in the seas, entered into force based on "the notion that all problems of ocean space are closely related and needed to be addressed as a whole."" Similarly, the Internet is shared globally and the consequences of actions taken by an Internet user in one jurisdiction can be borne globally.
Legal challenges posed by cybercrime similar to those posed by maritime piracy
International community should follow example set by UNCLOS and establish governing regime to combat cybercrime
A cybercrime treaty that established universal jurisdiction over crimes and an international tribunal could help deter cybercrimes
Creating an international tribunal for cybercrime based on UNCLOS model would help deter and resolve cybercrime
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Sez Les – Series Four, Show Six
June 26, 2018 June 22, 2018 archivetvmusings ITV Comedy - 1970's	les dawson, sez les
Several times during the last series, Les took to the streets in order to confound the residents of Leeds with some hidden camera stunts. This idea gets another outing today – he's disguised as a German tourist – although as before it's difficult to believe that he wasn't identified. This quibble not withstanding, the grimy film sequence does provide a brief window into a vanished world, so it's of interest from that standpoint.
Today's first studio sketch is a little different from the norm. It's mainly just Dawson (as a police sergeant) on the phone to someone who may or may not be royalty. The answer to this question is provided when one of his colleagues walks in with a polo mallet. A break from the slapstick seen previously, but it's hardly a rib-tickler. One innovation is that the same set is used again in part two for another sketch.
American singer Esther Marrow impresses with a rendition of the Love The One You're With. The performance is given a little extra punch by the way that the camera moves around – at one point it's positioned behind her, giving the viewers an unusual shot of the watching audience.
The Skylarks are back! With the assistance of the Syd Lawrence Orchestra they chug very nicely through We're In The Money. Although since the Denys Palmer dancers were dressed in stockings and suspenders I'm afraid my attention wandered a bit …
After the break there's something of a curio. Dawson had made a few attempts to break into the music business, but he would never enjoy the success of some of his contemporaries such as Ken Dodd. Promise Me, released by Decca in 1971, failed to set the charts alight but it's still interesting to hear it (the song accompanies a filmed item featuring the journey taken by Dawson and his significant other – from childhood sweethearts to old age pensioners).
Peter Noone pops up with a jaunty version of the Buddy Holly classic I Guess It Doesn't Matter Anymore.
Although the audience were generally very warmly approving towards Dawson's convoluted monologues, occassionly the odd line fell flat. This happens today ("Pilbeam Bottlecrud was a strange looking woman. She was short, fat and always wore a black dress. When you first met her it was like shaking hands with a ginger beer"). But there's something about the way Dawson pauses to acknowledge the sparse laughter, raises an eyebrow and then presses on which keeps the audience on his side.
Sez Les – Series Four, Show Five
June 24, 2018 June 18, 2018 archivetvmusings ITV Comedy - 1970's	aimi macdonald, les dawson, roy barraclough, sez les
The fun starts right from the opening few seconds, as Les comes crashing through the YTV indent! Kenny Everett later did this with the Thames logo, but did anybody do it before Les, I wonder? It's only a throwaway gag, but the concept of disrupting the established grammar of televison is an unusual one for this era of Sez Les – the surviving episodes so far tend to contain much more traditional comic fare.
The fact that Dawson wears the same suit and tie each week when delivering his monologues and links is slightly intriguing me. Did he only have the one suit and tie or was it because all his studio work was shot over a short period and then spread out through the whole series? The Two Ronnies did something similar when they had regular musical guests (that way the artist wouldn't have to return week after week). Possibly Louis Barfe's excellent book on Les Dawson might contain some of the answers, I think I'll have to dig it out for a re-read.
Roy Barraclough returns to the fold in a sketch which features him and Les as a pair of clerical artists. It's another cheaply mounted studio skit – the countryside is represented by a painted backdrop and some sound effects – which relies on wordplay to begin with. Although it doesn't take long before it descends into slapstick (like most of the S4 sketches have done) with the pair putting more paint on each other than on their canvases. I'd have preferred more wordplay than slapstick, to be honest. The chief pleasure I derive from this sketch is watching Les' inability to keep a straight face as he gets messier and messier.
The lovely Aimi Macdonald returns for another large-scale song and dance number. And very nice it is too. Les' other guest today is New World. If you're a Two Ronnies fan then they should be familar (the previous year they had guested throughout the first series). As with their Two Rons appearances, NW offer a very laid back performance, although they seem to be cut off a little abruptly.
Dawson's monologue today is all about love.
The one person who loved me was my grandfather. He stood six foot four and had a hamster. He was a boyhood dream, he was a Red Indian chief and he came from the Who-Ha-He-Ha tribe. So called because they used to run through long grass with no underpants on.
Sez Les – Series Four, Show Four
June 22, 2018 June 16, 2018 archivetvmusings ITV Comedy - 1970's	aimi macdonald, les dawson, sez les
The lovely Aimi Macdonald is one of this week's guests. She performs a song with the backing of both the Syd Lawrence Orchestra and the Denys Palmer dancers. It's a big production number – at one point the dancers move away to a separate set – so it seems that most of the budget for this show was spent right here (today's sketch by contrast is a simple affair – only utilising a small set).
David Mallet continues to pull out some unusual camera angles – during this sequence there's a series of crane shots, for example – which helps to give the performance a little more impact. As do the few clothes which Aimi just about manages to wear ….
Given her skills as a comedy performer, it made sense to recruit her for the sketch (and probably saved a little money too). The premise is simple – Aimi is a hotel guest who has lodged her toe in the bathtap and Les is the helpful plumber who comes to assist her. She's naturally a little reluctant to let him in, but is reassured when he tells her that he'll be blindfolded the whole time.
There's something a little queasy about this sketch. Not only the way that Dawson "accidentally" drops his tools into the bath so that he's got an excuse to give Aimi a quick fondle, but also the final reveal – when we realise that Dawson was only blindfolded in one eye (he gives the camera a self-satisfied leer to hammer this point home). Not something that's aged very well then although neither has the brief musical skit featuring Les as a Chinaman(!).
Ah well, there are better pickings elsewhere – a few brief film sketches amuse, my favourite being the one featuring two doctors operating on a car … they eventually extract a baby car. Silly, but amusing.
Today's other guests are The Peddlers. No, me neither, but they're good fun – a musical trio who favour the organ very highly. I'm going to have to dig into their history, this website looks to be a good place to start.
One of Les' monologues is directed towards a familiar subject – marriage. It offers a selection of choice cuts, such as this one.
I was reading a horror story the other day, it was a terrifying account of a man who was trapped under a ton of whale blubber. And it reminded me it was me wedding anniversary. That's ten years, which is a decade, and you've never seen such a decayed looking woman.
Sez Les – Series Four, Show Three
June 20, 2018 July 27, 2018 archivetvmusings ITV Comedy - 1970's	hugh walters, les dawson, sez les, shirley bassey
This week's sketch features Les as a myopic waiter in a curiously empty restaurant. Either this was done for comic effect or it was simply because the show couldn't afford any extras. Never mind, it's not long before two customers (played by Hugh Walters and Joan Savage) wander in. From the moment she opens her mouth for the first time it's clear that she's the dominant one (no surprises there, since Walters excelled at playing hen-pecked and inconspicuous types). It's always a joy to see Walters – but his one-off appearance as a Dawson stooge makes it clear that, as yet, Sez Les didn't have a regular group of comic performers (Roy Barraclough would later fill one of those roles, but at present he was only one face amongst many).
Dawson – dressed in an impossibly small waistcoat – creates the expected level of comic mayhem due to his inability to see anything at all. He affects an Italian accent for a few seconds before dropping it (although there doesn't seem to be any comic reason for this). Since Savage is so incredibly shrill and annoying it's no surprise that the audience approves when most of the food ends up in her lap rather than on the plate.
Walters is positioned as the sympathetic one (I like his plaintive statement that he should have listened to his mother and stuck with his whippets!) with the eventual punchline reveal being that he'd paid Dawson specifically for this service. With Dawson concentrating on crafting his monologues, a small group of writers were responsible for the sketches. At present they're workmanlike but not terribly inventive (fresh blood in later years would see the standard rise).
Dawson's close encounters with pianos were always notable, but one of the best gags from this second half sequence comes before he sits down – he flicks the tails of his evening dress so hard they fly off!
There's only one guest today – Miss Shirley Bassey. Possibly she was more expensive than some of the previous acts (if so, they got their money's worth out of her as she performed two songs). She closes the first half with Till Love Touches Your Life but the main point of interest is that she opens part two with Diamonds Are Forever, just a week after the Batchelors performed the same song.
If these shows were recorded in order then this seems a little odd. True, the Bachelors had released it as a single, but with La Bassey due to appear the week after, it's a strange duplication. No prizes for guessing who comes out on top – backed by the Syd Lawrence Orchestra, Bassey's live vocal has all the punch and control that you'd expect. Easily the highlight of the show.
Sez Les – Series Four, Show Two
There's an interesting moment early on, when during a sketch featuring Les as a clerical golfer, his comment of "balls" is muted. Given this was such a mild profanity it's surprising to see it taken out. Especially since it was plain what the word was (especially the punchline is that he's then pelted with golf balls from a helpful God).
The set-piece sketch of this show is a two-hander between Dawson and Kenneth Connor. Connor is an earnest academic lecturing about the mechanics of comedy …
What makes this sketch work is that whilst both continue to soberly discuss the nature of comedy, their actions (involving an ever increasing cycle of slapstick abuse) are in such sharp contrast to the serious tone. Dawson's inability to keep a straight face as the pair get messier and messier is a joy as is Connors' straight-faced control. The climax of the sketch – Connor attempts to light a bomb – seems to be scuppered after he's unable to get the matches to work. He carries on in character (berating the props man) whilst Dawson dissolves into a fit of giggles. If this sketch teaches us anything then it's how actors and comedians react differently to the same series of events.
A familiar part of Dawson's act was to start a monologue with a deluge of evocative wordplay before bringing the tone right down. There's a perfect example in this show, as he discusses how evocative memory can be. "A drift of perfume on the stairs, a snatch of laughter on a balcony or a song in the night can evoke forgotten memories. This happened to me the other week – I was watching the wife suck a hot chop with her teeth out".
The Skylarks and The Bachelors are this week's guests. I'm not sure why three of the four male Skylarks are wearing the same sort of jacket, but the fourth isn't. Either dress the same or don't! Their performance is enlivened by the Denys Palmer Dancers (the regular dance troup) who flounce about in green whilst the Skylarks are warbling.
Now this is mildly noteworthy. The Bachelors (whom I'm glad to report were clothes coordinated – all wearing nice pink shirts) perform Diamonds are Forever. Quite good it is too, even if they do have to change all the "I's" and "me's" to "she" or "her". This won't be the last time we hear this song though – stay tuned ….
Sez Les – Series Four, Show One
Returning in early 1972 for a run of six episodes, the format's pretty similar to what has gone before – the Syd Lawrence Orchestra ("the only musicians I know who are mentioned in the Doomsday Book") are still in residence, although the Skylarks are nowhere to be seen (but fret not, Skylarks fans, they'll be back next week).
David Mallet continues to feature unusual shot selections at various points (fish-eye lenses, for example) whilst one innovation is that there's now a selection of "quickie" sketches. These provide a change in pace between the longer items.
One of my favourite short sketches from the whole series features Les as a roadsweeper who lifts up the pavement in order to shovel the dirt underneath! It's a lovely moment which Dawson later used (during an interview with Michael Parkinson) as an example of the difference between British and German humour (German televison executives didn't believe this sketch would work in their country as their pavements didn't lift up …)
As for the longer sketches (still only one each edition) today's features Roy Barraclough as the impossibly camp owner of a crockery shop. Les, the flat-capped handyman, doesn't tell his workmate to watch his back in so many words, but the inference is there. As a time-capsule it's interesting, as a piece of comedy rather less so (partly because it's obvious that everything in the shop will be destroyed somehow. It would have been more of a surprise if they hadn't gone down this route).
Musical guests for this first show are Jeannie Lamb and Gilbert O'Sullivan. O'Sullivan I was familar with, but Jeannie Lamb didn't really ring a bell. A quick search on the internet hasn't left me much wiser (apart from a few scattered references to her jazz career and a collaboration with Ray Davies). But my researches continue ….
Sez Les – Series Three
June 14, 2018 June 10, 2018 archivetvmusings ITV Comedy - 1970's	brian glover, john cleese, les dawson, sez les
Broadcast during August and September 1971 and running to a measly four editions, series three of Sez Les clips along at a fair rate of knots (although Dawson himself is in short supply). This is due to the fact that he has to share the stage with regular acts The Skylarks (a rather decent vocal harmony group) and the Syd Lawrence Orchestra as well as a number of guest performers. With each edition only running for twenty five minutes, there's a fair amount to be crammed in …
The formula tends to run as follows. After the Syd Lawrence Orchestra and the Skylarks have welcomed him to the stage, Dawson kicks off proceedings with a short monologue (returning in the second half with a longer monologue). Each edition has a single sketch with the remainder of the time being taken up with the guest performers as well as spots for the Skylarks and the Syd Lawrence Orchestra (who close proceedings). The final two editions also have some brief film inserts, showing Dawson interacting with ordinary members of the public.
Luckily I have an almost unquenchable thirst for 1970's LE, so the number of musical performers isn't really a problem for me. But for those who are interested in seeing more of Dawson, you might be advised to skip ahead to one of the later series (plus the arrival of David Nobbs helped to sharpen the series' comedy sensibilities quite markedly).
Guest wise, Manitas De Plata strums a mean Spanish guitar, Dana has a very credible stab at a George Harrison song (Isn't It A Pity), Frank Ifield warbles in an entertaining fashion, Anita O'Day jazzes things up (her obituary makes for interesting reading) whilst Georgie Fame and Alan Price are good value in the final edition, as is Kathy Kirby. For those familiar with other LE programmes of this era (such as The Two Ronnies or The Morecambe & Wise Show) many of those names will be familiar.
Brian Glover assists Dawson with the sketches seen in the first two editions – the second (Dawson as an extremely nervous dentist attempting to remove Glover's tooth) being the better of the two. It's not subtle, but it's good fun. After leaving Monty Python John Cleese would become a Sez Les regular, but it's slightly more surprising to see him pop up here in a couple of brief sketches.
It's likely Cleese recorded his contributions in something of a hurry. The train sketch in show three should have been tailor-made for him, but it's rather thrown away and there's little bite to his reactions of Dawson's improbably dressed Highlander – complete with caber! The second sketch with Cleese is rather better (it also switches from VT to film in a way that's almost Pythonlike).
Maybe the budget for the last few episodes was a little greater. In addition to this brief film insert, Dawson also went out and about on the streets, ensnaring unsuspecting members of the public with hidden camera stunts. Presumably these gags were real and not staged (although since Dawson had been a television regular for a few years it's surprising nobody seemed to recognise him).
Producer/Director David Mallet had worked with Dawson before on Joker's Wild. Knowing that Mallet would later pursue a career as a top music promo director (Queen and David Bowie were amongst his clients) it's interesting to look back at his early work to see if there's any visual flair in evidence. For Joker's Wild, probably not – but then it was a rather static sort of series (the main highlight being a wobbly camera zoom into Barry Cryer at the start of the show).
He had more to work with during Sez Les though and the Syd Lawrence interludes do have some fast intercutting and unusual camera angles, suggesting that Mallet was interested in shaking up the visual grammar of this type of show.
Not a rib-tickling 100 minutes then, but entertaining nonetheless. As my occasional rewatch continues, it'll be interesting to see the point at which the series began to grow. Several changes – increasing the running time, dropping the musical acts for a while – helped to shake the format up.
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Exercises in ruby on rails for web sockets whit puma and thin.

Here are two folders whit one project each. The two projects work with rubinius.

#ruby-websockets-chat-demo

Project with Sinatra based app for non-event machine web server like puma.
This project has a middleware to respond the calls from websocket object in javascript.

The project has some dependencies.

#WbSckt

Project with Rails based app for event-machine web server like thin or unicorn.

This project has a event map with websocket-rails gem. The calls from javascript has websocketrails objects.

The project has rails and websocket-rails dependency.

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Q: how can I use vcpkg to install sqlite3 and use in cmakelist.txt? I use vcpkg to load sqlite3 for my C++ project.
for vcpkg,
I think I integrate it correctly:
PS D:\tool\vcpkg\vcpkg> .\vcpkg.exe integrate install
Applied user-wide integration for this vcpkg root.

All MSBuild C++ projects can now #include any installed libraries.
Linking will be handled automatically.
Installing new libraries will make them instantly available.

CMake projects should use: "-DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=D:/tool/vcpkg/vcpkg/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake"

and I install sqlite3 for example:
PS D:\tool\vcpkg\vcpkg> vcpkg install sqlite3
Computing installation plan...
The following packages will be built and installed:
    sqlite3[core]:x86-windows -> 3.37.2#1
Detecting compiler hash for triplet x86-windows...
-- Automatically setting HTTP(S)_PROXY environment variables to 127.0.0.1:7890
Restored 1 packages from C:\Users\shen\AppData\Local\vcpkg\archives in 168.6 ms. Use --debug to see more details.
Starting package 1/1: sqlite3:x86-windows
Installing package sqlite3[core]:x86-windows...
Elapsed time for package sqlite3:x86-windows: 33.18 ms

Total elapsed time: 5.525 s

The package sqlite3 provides CMake targets:

    find_package(unofficial-sqlite3 CONFIG REQUIRED)
    target_link_libraries(main PRIVATE unofficial::sqlite3::sqlite3)

about the architecture
my computer is intel core i5-9300H, and it is x64, windows.
but to be on the safe side, i installed all windows architeture version,like this:
PS D:\tool\vcpkg\vcpkg> vcpkg list
jsoncpp:x86-windows                                1.9.5            jsoncpp is an implementation of a JSON reader an...
sqlite3:x64-windows                                3.37.2#1         SQLite is a software library that implements a s...
sqlite3:x64-windows-static                         3.37.2#1         SQLite is a software library that implements a s...
sqlite3:x86-windows                                3.37.2#1         SQLite is a software library that implements a s...
sqlite3:x86-windows-static                         3.37.2#1         SQLite is a software library that implements a s...
vcpkg-cmake-config:x64-windows                     2022-02-06
vcpkg-cmake:x64-windows                            2022-04-07

for C++ project, I tried by qtcreater(cmake), visual studio
1,qtcreator with CMAKE
cmakelist.txt
SET(DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE "D:/tool/vcpkg/vcpkg/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake")
include("D:/tool/vcpkg/vcpkg/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake")
if(DEFINED ENV{VCPKG_DEFAULT_TRIPLET} AND NOT DEFINED VCPKG_TARGET_TRIPLET)
    set(VCPKG_TARGET_TRIPLET "$ENV{VCPKG_DEFAULT_TRIPLET}" CACHE STRING "" FORCE)
endif()
...
find_package(unofficial-sqlite3 CONFIG REQUIRED)

and it told me:
D:\tool\vcpkg\vcpkg\scripts\buildsystems\vcpkg.cmake:816: error: Could not find a package configuration file provided by "unofficial-sqlite3" with any of the following names: unofficial-sqlite3Config.cmake unofficial-sqlite3-config.cmake Add the installation prefix of "unofficial-sqlite3" to CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH or set "unofficial-sqlite3_DIR" to a directory containing one of the above files.  If "unofficial-sqlite3" provides a separate development package or SDK, be sure it has been installed. CMakeLists.txt:23 (find_package)
:-1: error: [Makefile:249: cmake_check_build_system] Error 1

my full CMakeLists.txt is:
cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.5)

SET(CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE "D:/tool/vcpkg/vcpkg/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake")
include("D:/tool/vcpkg/vcpkg/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake")
if(DEFINED ENV{VCPKG_DEFAULT_TRIPLET} AND NOT DEFINED VCPKG_TARGET_TRIPLET)
    set(VCPKG_TARGET_TRIPLET "$ENV{VCPKG_DEFAULT_TRIPLET}" CACHE STRING "" FORCE)
endif()

project(untitled VERSION 0.1 LANGUAGES CXX)

set(CMAKE_INCLUDE_CURRENT_DIR ON)

set(CMAKE_AUTOUIC ON)
set(CMAKE_AUTOMOC ON)
set(CMAKE_AUTORCC ON)

set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 11)
set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD_REQUIRED ON)

find_package(QT NAMES Qt6 Qt5 COMPONENTS Widgets REQUIRED)
find_package(Qt${QT_VERSION_MAJOR} COMPONENTS Widgets REQUIRED)

find_package(unofficial-sqlite3 CONFIG REQUIRED)

set(PROJECT_SOURCES
        main.cpp
        mainwindow.cpp
        mainwindow.h
        mainwindow.ui
)

if(${QT_VERSION_MAJOR} GREATER_EQUAL 6)
    qt_add_executable(untitled
        MANUAL_FINALIZATION
        ${PROJECT_SOURCES}
    )
# Define target properties for Android with Qt 6 as:
#    set_property(TARGET untitled APPEND PROPERTY QT_ANDROID_PACKAGE_SOURCE_DIR
#                 ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/android)
# For more information, see https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qt-add-executable.html#target-creation
else()
    if(ANDROID)
        add_library(untitled SHARED
            ${PROJECT_SOURCES}
        )
# Define properties for Android with Qt 5 after find_package() calls as:
#    set(ANDROID_PACKAGE_SOURCE_DIR "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/android")
    else()
        add_executable(untitled
            ${PROJECT_SOURCES}
        )
    endif()
endif()

target_link_libraries(untitled PRIVATE Qt${QT_VERSION_MAJOR}::Widgets sqlite3)

set_target_properties(untitled PROPERTIES
    MACOSX_BUNDLE_GUI_IDENTIFIER my.example.com
    MACOSX_BUNDLE_BUNDLE_VERSION ${PROJECT_VERSION}
    MACOSX_BUNDLE_SHORT_VERSION_STRING ${PROJECT_VERSION_MAJOR}.${PROJECT_VERSION_MINOR}
)

if(QT_VERSION_MAJOR EQUAL 6)
    qt_finalize_executable(untitled)
endif()

most of above is generated by qtcreator
when I do those above, and stucked by these errors, I think, maybe it is caused by myqtcreator
so I tried with visual studio 2019
visual studio 2019
in cmakelist.txt i added those :
SET(DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE "D:/tool/vcpkg/vcpkg/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake")
include("D:/tool/vcpkg/vcpkg/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake")

find_package(unofficial-sqlite3 CONFIG REQUIRED)

and it told me the same error:
严重性 代码  说明  项目  文件  行   禁止显示状态
错误      CMake Error at D:/tool/vcpkg/vcpkg/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake:816 (_find_package):
  Could not find a package configuration file provided by
  "unofficial-sqlite3" with any of the following names:

    unofficial-sqlite3Config.cmake
    unofficial-sqlite3-config.cmake

  Add the installation prefix of "unofficial-sqlite3" to CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH or
  set "unofficial-sqlite3_DIR" to a directory containing one of the above
  files.  If "unofficial-sqlite3" provides a separate development package or
  SDK, be sure it has been installed.       D:/tool/vcpkg/vcpkg/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake    816

anyone can told me, how can I use the sqlite3 correctly?

about CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN... and 'DMAKE_TOOLCHAIN...`; any of them I have tried, and even both, but the result is the same.   QwQ

about remove include(.../vcpkg.cmake); i have saw a blog,and it says we need to add this line. but i still try to delete it,and reconfigure, and then, I got the same error

D:\tool\vcpkg\vcpkg\scripts\buildsystems\vcpkg.cmake:816: error: Could not find a package configuration file provided by "unofficial-sqlite3" with any of the following names: unofficial-sqlite3Config.cmake unofficial-sqlite3-config.cmake Add the installation prefix of "unofficial-sqlite3" to CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH or set "unofficial-sqlite3_DIR" to a directory containing one of the above files.  If "unofficial-sqlite3" provides a separate development package or SDK, be sure it has been installed. CMakeLists.txt:23 (find_package)

and the error is linked to vcpkg.cmake:
elseif("${z_vcpkg_find_package_lowercase_package_name}" STREQUAL "grpc" AND EXISTS "${_VCPKG_INSTALLED_DIR}/${VCPKG_TARGET_TRIPLET}/share/grpc")
        _find_package(gRPC ${z_vcpkg_find_package_ARGN})
    else()
        _find_package("${z_vcpkg_find_package_package_name}" ${z_vcpkg_find_package_ARGN})             <---- this line
    endif()

A: Consider using:
find_package(SQLite3 REQUIRED)
target_link_libraries(untitled PRIVATE SQLite::SQLite3)

inbuild CMake modules should work as expected using vcpkg.
Also make sure that VCPKG_TARGET_TRIPLET is not empty
Furthermore clean your cmake cache.

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8 April, 2020 / By Luis Gomes / Air Cargo • Green Iberica • Green Iberica • Uncategorized/	0 Comments
Air Cargo Transport Doesn't Stop!
The limitations raised by the pandemic COVID-19 are widely known, especially with regard to air cargo transportation. In a period of state of emergency, felt a little (or a lot) around the world, travel was drastically limited, leaving many airlines on the ground, and with them passengers and, in large part, cargo.
But it is not this virus that will stop us! Naturally experiencing greater difficulties in transporting goods by air, with some of the companies limiting – or even suspending – flights to and from Portugal, we went looking for ways to continue to serve our customers.
With this, we continue to have represented companies flying to several places of the world, among which:
Find available destinations by clicking on our represented:
ANA Cargo
Qatar Airways Cargo (Passengers)
Qatar Airways Cargo (Cargo)
At a time when uncertainty dominates world trade, it is with some naturalness that we assume the possibility of adjustments and adaptations in the air cargo agendas and destinations above. Even so, we believe we are able to serve you with the best options that the market currently offers.
Green Ibérica's Contingency Plan
As you may know, and like most Portuguese companies where this practice is possible, Green Ibérica has its contingency plan active, with the minimum essential services working in our facilities. This does not mean, in any way, that we reduce the demand or the quality of our service, on the contrary!
Fortunately, there are several technological tools on the market today that allow us to continue our work without limitations, and even with more alternatives! In contacts, for example, we are now available to answer via Microsoft Teams, or by the usual direct phones of each one in the company, which you can find HERE.
For more information, do not hesitate to contact us!
25 October, 2019 / By Luis Gomes / Air Cargo • Aircargo • Cargo • Delivery • Evergreen • Evergreen • Green Iberica • Green Iberica • Importação • Importation • International • Portugal • Shipping • Shipping • Transport/	0 Comments
International Chamber of Commerce Releases Incoterms 2020
Incoterms 2020 has been released! As we mentioned before, the new international commerce terms take effect on January 1, 2020.
Incoterms are fundamental to foreign trade as they provide a set of contract terms for international freight. With this new edition, the ICC – International Chamber of Commerce aims to increase confidence and transparency in business and global trade.
The main purpose of Incoterms is, as it has always been since their first version of 1936, to simplify communication processes, as well as to present international negotiating terms. This new Incoterms aim to be more reachable and easier to use than their previous versions. This includes more detailed explanations, aided and reinforced with graphs illustrating the responsibilities of importers and exporters, for each Incoterms rule. The introduction of Incoterms 2020 includes detailed explanations to help direct you to the most appropriate Incoterm for a given transaction, or how your sales contract will interact with complementary contracts.
Some of Incoterms 2020 main characteristics are:
To provide for demonstrated market need in relation to bills of lading (BL) with an on-board notation and the Free Carrier (FCA) Incoterms rule;
To align different levels of insurance coverage in Cost Insurance and Freight (CIF) and Carriage and Insurance Paid to (CIP);
To include arrangements for carriage with own means of transport in FCA, Delivered at Place (DAP), Delivered at Place Unloaded (DPU), and Delivered Duty Paid (DDP);
There is a change in the three-letter name for Delivered at Terminal (DAT) to DPU;
Incoterms 2020 includes security-related requirements within carriage obligations and costs…
In line with their commitment to develop technology available to everyone, access to the essential information on new Incoterms is available on a Mobile Application launched by ICC, which includes a wide range of informational elements, including breaking news, events and training.
Learn more about Incoterms 2020.
You may acquire new Incoterms 2020, under ICC conditions, HERE.
9 September, 2019 / By Luis Gomes / Air Cargo • Aircargo • Cargo • Evergreen • Green Iberica • Importação • Importation • International • Shipping • Shipping • Transport/	0 Comments
New Incoterms 2020 are Coming!
The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) is working to publish new Incoterms later this September to take effect early next year. According to the ICC, this publication will include an update to the regulations that define the liability of buyers and sellers operating in global trade.
About Incoterms
Incoterms is the acronym for "International Commerce Terms". Incoterms were designed by the ICC in 1936 to avoid miscommunication that abounded in international trade. At the time they were born under the name "International Rules for the Interpretation of Trade Terms".
The introduction of standardized rules and interpretations has greatly improved international business transactions. From then on these rules were adjusted and evolving in line with international trade.
Expected Changes in Incoterms 2020
The current Incoterms (which you can find here) are from 2010. With the changes felt in the world trade, the adjustment to the new reality becomes urgent. In order to make these adjustments in line with actual needs, the International Chamber of Commerce has joined a development group consisting of 5 elements representing the main world trade zones – the European Union, the United States of America, Australia and China.
This working group has as its action plan the simplification of the rules as well as the adaptation to the current reality. With this, they intended to provide a clearer text without superfluous or confusing information. This group should also be aware that English will not be the native language for many Incoterms users.
There are, however, aspects such as VAT, Customs Unions or VGM where no changes are expected. This is because this update seeks to standardize global rules, leaving aside local issues of intrinsically distinct characteristics.
Changes expected from Incoterms include:
Elimination of EXW (Ex Works), DDP (Delivered Duty Paid) and FAS (Free Alongside Ship);
Extending the scope of the Free Carrier Arrangement (FCA);
Updates on FOB (Free on Board) and CIF (Cost, Insurance & Freight);
The arrival of CNI (Cost and Insurance).
Cyber security will also be a factor and take into consideration in the new Incoterms. In recent years, with the increasing use of these systems, there has also been a growing increase in computer attacks involving the deletion, theft or corruption of data, as well as the theft of financial information. Therefore, the creation of an Incoterm to protect against these new dangers is expected. In addition, clarification work is expected from international trade companies so that they become more aware of the potential dangers that may arise, and help them to take precautions.
International trade has seen significant changes in the last decade, the present reality is different from that of 2010. In this sense, the ICC, based on the accumulated knowledge of this decade, has joined a team that brings together elements from the most important world markets to update the new Terms for the World Trade – Incoterms 2020. With this it is expected:
Clarification and attribution of risks and responsibilities;
Packaging, marking and inspection of products;
Safety Certificate;
Stakeholder Responsibility
New Incoterms 2020 will be launched later this month, to become effective on January 1, 2020.
To learn more about the rules of the new Incoterms 2020, see the page of the International Chamber of Commerce.
Green Ibérica will be alert to this issue and as soon as news emerges we will share them with our customers.
26 August, 2019 / By Luis Gomes / Air Cargo • Aircargo • Cargo • Green Iberica • Green Iberica • International • Portugal • Qatar Airways • Shipping/	0 Comments
Qatar Airways Cargo: Two Months in Lisbon
Last Saturday, August 24th, made two months that the regular flights of Qatar Airways Cargo to Portugal had begun.
After an initial period that require an essential and natural adaptation, we can say that we are very happy to have one of the largest and best airlines in the world here, and it is a great pride to Green Ibérica, to be chosen to be its representatives in Portugal.
Working with a company of this dimension and experience remains a challenge that gives us a great pleasure. And we can say it has been a tremendous success! Admittedly, no worthwhile path is free of obstacles and unforeseen events, but it is these that give the most flavor to victory!
We look forward to continuing this successful partnership for many years to come, and consolidating the Portuguese market in the network of airports served by the airline.
Qatar Airways em Portugal
Começaram, no dia 24 de junho, os voos diários da Qatar Airways em Lisboa! ✈✈✈Veja no vídeo, o batismo do voo no aeroporto da capital portuguesa.A Green Ibérica é o representante exclusivo da Qatar Airways Cargo em Portugal! 🔝
Publicado por GREEN Iberica em Segunda-feira, 24 de junho de 2019
About Qatar Airways Cargo
Qatar Airways Cargo is fully dedicated to air freight in all its specificities. Operate more than 250 aircraft, including 27 dedicated freighters – including the latest Boeing 747-800 Freighter – for more than 160 destinations, which allows them to achieve an almost global cover.
Using the Hub at NDIA-New DOHA International Airport, awarded as the best airport in the Middle East and with the latest and most sophisticated cargo terminal, we provide an unique operation capability in the East / West routes, favoring the connection with markets in Europe, the Middle East, the Far East, the Indian Subcontinent, Africa and Australia with reduced transfers and transit times.
We offer several Cargo Services, namely to extra format dimensions, to various destinations in:
Africa – Acra (ACC), Juba (JIB), Entebbe (EBB), Johannesburg (JNB) Khartoum (KRT), Lagos (LOS), Nairobi (NBO), Maputo (MPM) and Cape Town (CPT).
Indian Subcontinent and the Middle East – Ahmadabad (AMD), Bangalore (BLR), Chennai (MAA), New Delhi (DEL), Hiderabad (HYD) Kolkata (CCU), Mumbai (BOM), Beirut (BEY), Colombo (CMB), Dhaka (DAC), Istanbul (IST), Karachi (KHI), Kuwait (KWI), Lahore (LHE) Muscat (MCT), Doha (DOH), Sialkot (SKT) and Tehran (IKA).
Far East and Southeast Asia – Macau (MFM), Guangzhou (CAN), Hanoi (HAN) Ho Chi Minh (SGN), Hong Kong (HKG), Phnom Penh (PNH), Seoul (ICN), Shanghai (PVG) and Yangon (RGN).
In addition to flights operated from DOHA, the European hubs Amsterdam (AMS), Zaragoza (ZAZ) Liege (LGG) and Luxemburg (LUX) operate daily freighters to Mexico (MEX) and USA – Chicago (ORD), Atlanta (ATL), Houston (IAH) New York (JFK), Miami (MIA), Dallas (DFW), Los Angeles) and a vast network of synchronized road links.
If you have cargo to be sent by air, get in touch with us!
14 March, 2019 / By Luis Gomes / Air Cargo • Aircargo • Cargo • Green Iberica • Green Iberica • International • Portugal • Shipping • Shipping/	0 Comments
Qatar Airways Will Have a Daily Flight to Lisbon!
Like we've shared last week, Green Ibérica's represented Qatar Airways Cargo, will have direct flights to Lisbon, starting June 24. The announcement became official in the opening ceremony of ITB Berlin, the world's largest international travel and tourism trade show.
In the ceremony, that took place last Wednesday, March 6, the CEO of the group, Mr. Akbar Al Baker, announced seven new destinations, in which besides Lisbon, are: Malta; Rabat, Morocco; Langkawi, Malaysia; Davao, Philippines; Izmir, Turkey; and Mogadishu, Somalia.
This investment fits in the growth policy of the global route network the airline is having. This reality leaves the CEO "tremendously excited to be adding seven new destinations to our rapidly expanding global route network later this year".
You can find the company' press release, HERE.
The Aircraft in charge of this service will be a Boeing 787 DreamLiner, like the one in the video bellow.
http://greeniberica.pt/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/QR-787-video.mp4
Africa – Acra (ACC), Juba (JIB), Entebbe (EBB), Johannesburg (JNB), Khartoum (KRT), Lagos (LOS), Nairobi (NBO), Maputo (MPM) and Cape Town (CPT).
Indian Subcontinent and the Middle East – Ahmadabad (AMD), Bangalore (BLR), Chennai (MAA), New Delhi (DEL), Hiderabad (HYD), Kolkata (CCU), Mumbai (BOM), Beirut (BEY), Colombo (CMB), Dhaka (DAC), Istanbul (IST), Karachi (KHI), Kuwait (KWI), Lahore (LHE), Muscat (MCT), Doha (DOH), Sialkot (SKT) and Tehran (IKA).
Far East and Southeast Asia – Macau (MFM), Guangzhou (CAN), Hanoi (HAN), Ho Chi Minh (SGN), Hong Kong (HKG), Phnom Penh (PNH), Seoul (ICN), Shanghai (PVG) and Yangon (RGN).
In addition to flights operated from DOHA, the European hubs Amsterdam (AMS), Zaragoza (ZAZ), Liege (LGG) and Luxemburg (LUX) operate daily freighters to Mexico (MEX) and USA – Chicago (ORD), Atlanta (ATL), Houston (IAH), New York (JFK), Miami (MIA), Dallas (DFW), Los Angeles) and a vast network of synchronized road links.
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It's been a while since I've said hello and I apologize for that. Strike it up to the business of life and well, just flat out laziness when it comes to my blog but, I'm hoping to change that. Actually, I'm hoping to change a few things. I'll tell you about that in a different post. In the past I have done YouTube videos sharing my weekends on a Sunday morning video but I've decided I like putting it on my blog So, I thought I would share this past weekend with you and what we did..
For once it was actually a nice quiet weekend which, for those of you who know me is a real rarity in our lives. But this weekend I truly enjoyed myself. The only thing that was missing was being able to attend Mass but my body seems to predict most of what I do and don't do whether my mind agrees or not.
Being I wasn't feeling up to par to go out anywhere, on Saturday night we had our best friends Linda and Bill over for some coffee and fun. We played this card game called "bulls*it". Yes you read that right. It was so much fun! We had a lot of laughs and played quite a few hands.
On Sunday, it was just Lou and I and the four legged kiddos. We didn't do much at all . I did my usual morning stuff like, feed the dogs, clean the kitchen, make the bed but other than that I pretty much lazed around the house for most of the day doing what I wanted. We actually sat in quiet for a long time watching the kiddos play then Lou and I played some Gin Rummy. He always wins! but that's okay, we haven't done that together in a long, long time. It's the little things people.
I spent a lot of time in the morning catching up on my reading. I've started a five year spiritual reading journey and I needed to get caught up and I surely did!
No, we didn't watch the Super Bowl. My team wasn't in it and I just well, couldn't 'get into it ' this year so instead, Sunday night I spent working on my crochet and catching up on the few TV shows I had on my DVR. It was a nice quiet weekend with no real cooking to do because I had so many left overs. Score!
Thank you for reading my post and please stay tuned to my blog as I will be adding more posts this week.
I hope you all had an enjoyable peaceful weekend.
Saturday morning my husband and I had lots of errands to run but this time running errands was kind of fun because something happened that hasn't happened in a long time. You see, my husband has been through nine back surgeries since 2005 and the last two of them were almost complete reconstructions of the spine. As one would imagine, that leaves a person in a lot of pain, unable to do most things they used too and recovery from the last two is long and slow.
This Saturday my husband decided he wanted to join me and I was so happy he did. It's the little things in life we take for granted but when they aren't there anymore we miss them. At least I do. I can't tell you how nice it was sitting on the passenger side of the car as my husband drove us to all our errands. So what did we do?
Well first we had to go to vote because it was the Republican Primaries here in South Carolina. I can not tell you how grateful I am that it's all over. My phone has finally stopped ringing! But one of the nicest things we did while waiting online and as we went a long doing other errands was….. holding hands..
Its been a very long time since we've been able to walk a little bit and hold hands while doing it. Then we stopped at the cleaners so I could pick up our down comforter, next the post office, after that, Walgreens so I could make a return and an exchange and lastly we went to the grocery store where, while standing in line to have lunch meat cut my husband had his arm around me and I got some kisses too. It felt like the early days of our marriage.
The best part of all this was…… the laughs.
My husband and I have always been able to have fun with lots of laughs doing the most mundane things and it was so wonderful for me to see that despite all we go through with our health and life itself we can still have fun doing almost nothing and laugh while we're doing it. I always told him I married him cause he makes me laugh. Of course I would tell him I was just kidding but secretly, thats' one of the reasons (smiles).
You just never realize how you can miss the tiniest things in a relationship until they are taken from you but when you get them back it feels amazing. Even though we did things on Saturday that most people will do any day of the week, for me, it was just simply……nice!


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Men were also more likely to bring laptops to meetings (55 percent of men, 33 percent of women). Finally, 64 percent of those who admitted to catching a nap in a conference room were male.
First, let's assume that this data is accurate – always iffy when you're talking about self-reporting after the fact. It's possible that what this survey shows is that men are more willing to admit to these behaviors than women, not that they participate in them.
Either way, that's significant, because it points to a major issue for women trying to get ahead at work: namely, that the guys tend to get a pass when the ladies don't.
"If a man's office is dark on a Wednesday afternoon, people assume he's at a closing. If a woman's office is dark, people assume she's at the playground," says Debbie Epstein Henry, the president of Flex-Time Lawyers, in an interview with The Atlantic.
In fact, a study from Boston University recently found that men in demanding jobs were more likely to lie about their hours in order to strike a better work-life balance, while women were more likely to ask for accommodations, including less time at the office.
The result? Men were "able to 'pass' as ideal workers, evading penalties for their noncompliance," writes lead author Erin Reid at Harvard Business Review.
In short, companies often expect men to be able and willing to burn the midnight oil, but not women, and this expectation might allow men to get away with doing less, both as a whole and while they're putting in face-time at the office – provided they're willing to be a little sneaky about it.
What do you think of these findings? We want to hear from you! Leave a comment or join the discussion on Twitter.


The American population is allowed to play games, consume garbage celebrity gossip, and think that being social is posting on Facebook; with what appears to be no penalties for failing.
We allow our youth to believe that going to high school and college ensures their futures when in truth they don't even know how to work! Without the understanding of the value of work and how to work, an education is almost meaningless. I spent 17 years attaining a college degree and there was not one course on the value of work. Had it not been for my parents as role models, (both influenced by the great depression) I would not value work as much as I do today!
We spend more money on our school system than any other country in the world, yet there is not one course on the value of work. It isn't just the kids with this problem but millions of people in the workforce as well. The moment the country experiences any serious economic contraction those operating at any of the first three levels of effort always find themselves at risk.
A strong work ethic made this country great – it created the wealthiest nation on this planet by creating a massive middle class. This was a time when work was considered a duty, an obligation, even a responsibility. I suggest we spend more time instilling work ethic back into our culture and less time on Angry Birds, Farmville and mind numbing TV. Success is not an entitlement issue it is an issue of applying the right amount of effort (work).