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Sportswire Jun 27 2016
When worlds collide you want front row seats.
So, everything we write today, pretend we wrote it yesterday. Ready? We talked briefly about Muhammad Ali's proto-MMA experience a few weeks ago. We've been saving this item to share. It's an actual unused ticket stub for the Muhammad Ali-Antonio Inoki exhibition match at the Nippon Budokan arena today yesterday in 1976, exactly forty years forty years and one day ago. Oh yes. This is rare. At least we think it is, because we've never seen another one. We've uploaded it vertically below so you can get a good look at it by dragging it to your desktop and rotating it.
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Sportswire Jun 7 2016
Ali invades Japan and helps invent MMA.
When Muhammad Ali died last week we remembered we had some rarities laying around, but it took a few days to find them. These are the items we were searching for—posters from Ali's June 1976 match at Tokyo's Nippon Budokan arena with Japanese wrestler Antonio Inoki. In what would now be called a mixed martial arts bout, Ali and Inoki fought to a draw, however this was not a freeform battle, but rather a tightly regulated exhibition match. Nevertheless, Ali's leg was so damaged from Inoki's repeated kicks that an infection set in and for a brief time the medical discussion turned to amputation. Today the Budokan match is considered by Ali fans an embarrassment in the boxer's storied career, but it was also an important precursor to MMA, a case study in how boxing and MMA are incompatible sports, and yet another example of Ali's trailblazing nature. He was the king and he will be missed.
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Vintage Pulp Mar 5 2014
Police Gazette trots out its resident experts to give readers advice sure to get them in deep trouble.
This April 1972 issue of The National Police Gazette offers up Australian bellydancer Rozetta Ahalyea as its cover star, touts a method about picking winning horses, instructs how to outsmart used car racketeers, and suggests what to do when your wife goes on a sex strike. Concerning the latter, is the answer to apologize for whatever fucked up thing you did? No—Gazette suggests withholding her allowance, or possibly disappearing one or two nights a week until she realizes she could lose you. Yeah, that'll totally make things better.
Inside the issue are stories on Jackie Kennedy and Jack Ruby, Natalie Wood and her lovers, wiretappers, naked witchcraft, cosmetic surgery, and Cassius Clay, who the editors refuse to call Muhammad Ali despite his name change of eight years earlier. Gazette also offers to tell you what you don't know about lesbians. And what would that be? According to hypnotherapist Dr. Frank Caprio, they're all mentally damaged. Come on, surely you didn't expect a different answer from the Police Gazette? Caprio states: "There is some degree of homosexuality, latent or overt, in all women. [During] sexual development the homosexual component becomes sublimated in the form of friendships and non-sexual activities. However, in some instances this repression of the homosexual component is not successful and the individual finds herself the victim of bisexual conflicts."
What kind of conflicts? Well, he cites the case of a woman who vomited uncontrollably for weeks due to unknown causes. After exhausting her options with physicians, she came to him for help and he determined that her guilt about a lesbian experience in her past was the cause of her non-stop cookie tossing. Caprio considers it an extreme but understandable reaction to a distasteful experience. So there you have it—everything you need to know about lesbians, provided for you by a heterosexual, middle-aged chauvinist who believes that "female homosexuality represents a flight from the responsibilities of marriage and motherhood." Scans below.
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Vintage Pulp Mar 10 2012
Raquel Welch expresses misgivings about being a global sex symbol.
This March 1973 issue of The National Police Gazette sports an eye-catching color scheme cleverly copied from the dress of actress Raquel Welch, who you see at lower left. Welch discusses her early first marriage, which resulted in two children, and laments her restrictive personal/professional relationship with her manager/second husband, who shaped her into an internationally famous cinematic sexpot. As a basically shy person, Welch claims to feel trapped by her image, and says she's reached the point where she's fed up with it. Moving forward, she explains, she will be interested only in serious film roles, and will refuse any scripts focusing on her sexuality.
We always find it curious when actors try to make a sharp turn away from what made them famous in the first place. Both men and women do it—among men it's often comedians and action stars, and among women it's sex symbols. These career shifts fail far greater than nine times out of ten. In Welch's case, she was quickly consigned to the purgatory of television movies. Later, she reversed course on whole sexuality thing and posed for Playboy, but scored roles only sporadically for the rest of her career.
But in our opinion, her failure to escape the sex symbol trap wasn't due to a lack of talent. It probably had simply to do with the fact that she had passed the dreaded thirty-year-old barrier and didn't look like an ingénue anymore. Nowadays actresses last long past thirty, but tellingly, are still not allowed to look their age. Entire websites dedicated to bad cosmetic surgery testify to that fact. In Welch's case, her sudden relegation to second tier status just goes to show what poor taste Hollywood producers have. Because ingénue or not, Raquel is Raquel.
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Sportswire Nov 8 2011
If you go, you have to stay gone.
Above is a photo of American heavyweight boxing champ Joe Frazier between rounds of an early 1970s sparring session, and at right is a 1971 shot of Frazier having a training run along with his dog. Frazier won the heavyweight title by defeating WBA champ Jimmy Ellis in 1970. Little known fact about Frazier: in 1967 when then-champ Muhammad Ali was stripped of his title for refusing to be inducted into the armed forces during the Vietnam War, the WBA held a tournament for Ali's vacated belt. Frazier refused to take part in that tournament though he quite possibly could have won. Whether he refused to fight as a gesture of solidarity with Ali, or only with his anti-war stance, we don't know.
Anyway, Ellis had won that tournament, and in their 1970 bout Frazier pounded him mercilessly, knocking him down for the first two times in his career. Frazier held the belt through several title defenses until 1973, when he faced a colossal figure named George Foreman in Kingston, Jamaica. Foreman destroyed the tough, gritty Frazier, knocking him down six times in two rounds to win the title by TKO. It was a devastating beating, and the imagery of knockdowns number two and four are indelible. Still though, during an era that included several rare boxing talents, Frazier showed that he more than belonged. Another little known fact, at least to casual boxing fans: Frazier was a singer as well as a fighter, releasing several singles during the 1970s, including "If You Go, Stay Gone" and the very good "Try It Again." Frazier died yesterday in Philadelphia, U.S.A.
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You can take Police Gazette's sex advice if you want, but you're probably risking your life.
We have yet another early 1970s National Police Gazette from the stack we bought a while back, this one from August 1973 with cover star Irma Smith, who appeared in exactly one film during her Hollywood career. Inside, we're treated to a story on the world's greatest electronic surveillance operative (the unfortunately named Theodore Ratnoff), we hear Muhammad Ali's theory on why he lost the heavyweight boxing title to Ken Norton (having his jaw broken by Norton had a little something to do with it), and we learn about a Brit who went native, married a Guyanese woman, and fought an alligator to prove his manhood. We also are treated to a quiz concerning what makes a man a great lover. Some of the answers might surprise you. For instance, cutting one's toenails regularly is important, but bathing every day is actually a bad idea, and not smoking earns you a big fat zero on their score card. Our favorite question concerns whether great lovers respect the sanctity of marriage. The answer, apparently, is no. Which causes us to wonder how often great lovers are murdered, dismembered and dumped in swamps by irate husbands. Unfortunately Gazette's crack scientific team has no research on that. Follow their advice at your peril. We've posted some scans below, and you can see all our other Gazette postings here.
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Vintage Pulp Jun 7 2011
Mid-1970s tabloid covers were dominated by a trio of distinct personalities.
The National Police Gazette didn't become America's longest running publication by not knowing which celebrities people wanted to read about. We see that at work on the cover of this issue published in June 1974, which features a triptych of the era's most tabloid-worthy icons in the fields of sports, politics and music. Muhammad Ali at thirty-three was just past his prime, but was still a great boxer with two of his most memorable bouts still ahead of him; Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was one of the richest women in the world and a full time obsession for an American public who remembered her mainly as a presidential widow; Elvis Presley was no longer a force on the pop charts, yet his albums were still selling millions of copies and his persona and lifestyle ensured that he remained the best known music star in the world. We're told by editors that Ali had a master plan to regain the heavyweight title (which he did), that Onassis couldn't forget a past love named Sir David Ormsby-Gore (unconfirmed), and that Presley wanted to be a preacher (we all know how that turned out). The Gazette also makes room for stories on Howard Hughes, the Oakland A's, and Jack Dempsey, but they're all just bit players to the Big Three. We've scanned some pages below, and we'll have much more from The National Police Gazette later.
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Vintage Pulp Jan 27 2011
The National Police Gazette picks on an aging Ava Gardner.
This January 1974 issue of The National Police Gazette gives shape to every actress's worst fear—natural aging. Editors slapped the header: "Oh my God! What's happened to Ava?" above a photo of fifty-four year-old Ava Gardner, and the collective shiver that ran through Hollywood women probably resulted in a 4.5 Richter Scale earth temblor. Interestingly, Gazette editors don't actually slam Gardner in the accompanying article, but they don't have to because the message is clear in that header and the accompanying photo—Holy shit, look at this hag that just fell out of the ugly tree! There's no doubt show business was and is a brutal field for women, but at least in Ava's case you don't have to feel too bad. She had become a millionaire thanks to cinema and was living in comfort in her favorite country Spain, sipping rioja and perfecting the siesta. The presumed gasps of horror from fans that remembered her as an ingénue would have been the flipside of a Devil's bargain that allowed her to achieve that life. We doubt she gave a toss what the Gazette thought anyway. Elsewhere in this issue editors treat you to Raquel Welch, Muhammad Ali, UFOs, test tube babies, bikini bombshells of 1974, and much more. Okay, see you tomorrow—we're off for our Botox injections. Hey, we never said we were as strong as Ava.
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Sportswire Jan 3 2011
I've got a match for you—my fist and your face!
The National Police Gazette devoted more space to boxing than most magazines of its time, and Gazette editors especially loved using boxing photo-illustrations on their covers. The above, from January 1953, is yet another example—albeit an unusual one. You may think that this is actually just a bad painting, but no—it's a colorized and retouched version of a famous photograph of heavyweight champion Jersey Joe Walcott losing to younger, hungrier Rocky Marciano. It happened September 23, 1952 in Philadelphia, and Walcott—having scored a knockdown in the first round—was ahead on points in round 13 when he walked into Marciano's right hook. Walcott was a guy who had fought hard all his life. He was the son of Haitian immigrants and had gone to work in a soup factory when he was only thirteen. He had won a lot of bouts, but had lost quite a few as well. He was also the oldest heavyweight champion ever at age thirty-seven. But even with all his experience, guile and drive, he had no chance of surviving the destructive power of a full-force Marciano right. Walcott hit the canvas, and the fight—as well as the best part of his career—was over.
But Jersey Joe Walcott didn't just fade away—that would have been completely out of character. He had friends in Hollywood and three years later appeared on the silver screen with Humphrey Bogart in The Harder They Fall. He followed that up in 1962 when he acted in the television series Cain's Hundred. He also became a boxing referee, and was in the ring when Muhammad Ali beat Sonny Liston for the heavyweight title in 1965. Walcott was heavily criticized for his officiating during that fight, which meant the end of his career as a ref. But he proved that some men are impossible to keep down when he became sheriff of Camden County,
New Jersey, and later head of the New Jersey State Athletic Commission, a position he held until the age of 70. In 1994 Jersey Joe Walcott died at age 80. He had been neither the greatest nor the least of boxing champions, but he had certainly been one of the most persistent.
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Hollywoodland Aug 5 2010
If you can't be factual, at least be popular.
Hush-Hush magazine goes for broke in this issue from August 1963, offering up a slate of tales narrated in their usual breathless style. First, they tell us how Roddy McDowall took nude photographs of Elizabeth Taylor on the set of Cleopatra and tried to sell them, but was thwarted when she "erupted like Mount Vesuvius". They then demonstrate the limits of their imaginations by telling us that Italian singer Silvana Blasi reacted like "an uncontrollable Mount Vesuvius" when an African-American dancer was hired at the Folies Bergère. Two volcano similes in one issue is bad enough, but the same mountain? For investigative journalism, Hush-Hush shows us photographs of a dead Carole Landis and an unconscious Susan Hayward, and concludes that sleeping pills are bad. And finally, the magazine stokes the fires of paranoia with two stories: in the first, they explain how Fidel Castro plans to conquer America with heroin, which he's growing with the help of two-thousand Chinese advisors; in the second, they reveal that the second wife of Dr. Sam Sheppard is a Nazi who plans to revive the Third Reich, and that she's being helped by—you guessed it—Fidel Castro, who is somehow a communist and a Nazi. Neat trick that. As we've mentioned before, though these stories are laughable, people actually believed them, and believed them by the millions, as evidenced by Hush-Hush's sales figures. The lesson is clear: the choice between popularity and truth is really no choice at all.
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Posted on Tuesday, May 19th, 2015 at 7:00 am.
WBA Featherweight Jesus Cuellar (26-1, 20KOs ) will face former two- division world champion Vic Darchinyan (40-7-1, 29KOs ) June 6th. The bout will air on NBC on The Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) series. The venue for the card will be the StubHub Center, in Carson, California. Tom Brown (TGB Promotions) is promoting the show. Darchinyan is 39 years old to Cuellar's 28 but you can be rest assured that Cuellar is not taking him likely. Cuellar is riding a current 9 fight streak since his only career defeat. A streak he will look to extend vs. Darchinyan.
The journey of Cuellar to get to where he is now is quite a remarkable one. In October 2011 Cuellar was (17-0 ) when he faced (16-0) Oscar Escandon from Colombia. The bout was in Cuellar's native Argentina and thought to be a fight Cuellar should win. Escandon had other plans and stopped Cuellar by TKO in round 7 for the upset win. It seemed at the time a major setback but Cuellar was back in the ring just a month later with an easy victory. This pattern would continue over the next 18 months. Cuellar would then make a major career move when he left the comforts of home to train in the U.S. with famed and respected trainer Robert Garcia in Oxnard, California. His countryman Marcos Madaina was already training with Garcia and showing a lot of improvement in his fights under the trainer. The move would pay immediate dividends as Cuellar defeated unbeaten Dominican Claudio Marrero for the Interim WBA Featherweight title under his first fight with Garcia and in his U.S. debut. The fight was also on ESPN2's Friday Night Fights which gave many viewers their first look at Cuellar. Garcia has Cuellar looking like a new fighter under him where he is riding a 4 fight win streak. Two of those wins were over former world champions Rico Ramos and Juan Manuel Lopez. When Nicholas Walters defeated Nonito Donaire for the Super WBA featherweight this past October, Cuellar was eventually elevated from interim champion to absolute WBA Featherweight champion status that he holds now.
A victory for Cuellar over Darchinyan could setup a number of realistic options for him for big fights. Cuellar is handled by powerful boxing advisor Al Haymon which is a big plus. Haymon's new series comes with a lot of TV dates which is the exposure that Cuellar needs. Gary Russell who is with Haymon as well is the current WBC Featherweight champion could be an interesting unification fight. Abner Mares seems after a showdown with Leon Santa Cruz but either guy would be a big name for Cuellar to face even though he is the champion. They both are with Haymon as well so easy fights to make should he want those fights. The focus for now is on Darchynan as none of those fights happen in the near future unless he wins June 6th. Cuellar's story is an inspirational one to up and coming fighters to not give up or get discouraged over an early career loss. Cuellar didn't and there is still more to be added to his story.
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[[Category:Mobility]] [[Category:Urban object]] [[File: Trans vehicles.jpg|right|200px|Transportation|link=]][http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport '''Transportation'''] means moving objects or people from one location to another. A '''transportation''' facility is an [[urban object]] designated to facilitating the movement of people, cattle, animals and [http://en.wikipedia.org.wiki/cargo goods] from one location to another. Transportation is facilitated by [[Transport Infrastructure|transport infrastructure]]. ==Description== Transportation is divided into private and [[modes of transport|public transport]]. An important distinction in the type of transport is [[modes of transport|mode of transport]]. In an urban context, the most relevant modes of transport will typically operate under the following transportation objects: {| class="wikitable" |- ! Transportation network object type !! Description !! Icon |- | [[Road network]]|| A series of roads connecting the constituents parts of the urban environment and its surrounding hinterland, and urban areas with the wider region and country. The road network consists of a range of different hierarchical standards of road (e.g. single street, dual carriageway, highway/motorway, etc).|| [[Image:Roadnetwork.jpg|center|x50px|Road network|link=Road network]] |- | [[Rail network]] || The rail network consists of the infrastructure connecting population nodes through a series of rail corridors. The rail network facilitates public transportation services, including train, metro and tram services. || [[Image:Railnetwork.jpg|center|x50px|Rail network|link=Rail network]] |- | [[Hub]]s ||A transport hub is a connection point in the wider transport network where the public can change transport modes. Hubs include stations [[Image:Station.jpg|border|x30px|Station|link=Hub#Stations]] for train, metro and tram systems, or sea/air ports [[Image:Port.jpg|border|x30px|Port|link=Hub#Port]] for water or air transport to change modality.|| [[Image:transporthub.jpg|center|x50px|Hubs|link=Hub]] |} Transport is important because it enables communication, trade and other forms of exchange between people, that in turn establishes civilizations. Transport plays an important part in economic growth and globalization, but most types cause [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_pollution air pollution] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_use use large amounts of land]. Good planning of transport is essential to manage traffic flows, and restrain [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_sprawl urban sprawl]. Yet, transportation is generally very vulnerable for security threats. It is an attractive target because of its importance in society and the presence of large amounts of people or [[Crowd|crowds]]. == Functions == === Social === High quality transport links ensure that communities can access basic services, facilities, and employment opportunities. The connectivity provided by such links promotes social inclusion, can reduce social isolation, and enhances quality of life. From the social point of view, vulnerability assessment and deriving of resilience requirements for urban planning is a complex process in the case of transportation infrastructure. This is so because common indicators point into different directions based on the following checklists: *[[Vulnerability#Social.2Fcommunity_vulnerability|List of indicators for assessment of subjective protection requirements of critical infrastructure]]; *[[Critical_infrastructure#Types_of_impact_of_critical_infrasture_failure_on_citizens_and_society|Types of impact of critical infrastructure failure on citizens and society and needs to protect it]]; *[[Failure_of_critical_services#Societal_aspects|Societal aspects of failure of critical services]]. For example, citizens can perceive direct benefit of transportation infrastructure, which should increase felt risks to urban infrastructure and needs to protect. However, transportation is an infrastructure that allows to considerable extent for perception of own capability to control the infrastructure. This should decrease citizens' felt risks to that infrastructure and needs to protect, including reduced acceptance levels for security-enhancing measures in urban planning. At the same time, the high degree of exposure to transportation infrastructure should again increases citizens' felt risks to urban infrastructure and needs to protect, as well as felt individual dependence on transportation infrastructure. This makes it important to involve citizens in related urban-object risk assessment. VITRUV identified a set of practical methods for such [[citizen participation]]. === Economic === Transportation is a crucial component of every economy since it enables the transport of resources from one location to the other, enabling people and societies as a whole to produce welfare. Transported resources can range from material objects such as natural resources and manufactured products to labour, knowledge and skills in the form of people.<ref>NPTEL (2007): Chapter 3. Role of Transportation in Society.</ref>. Efficient transport systems provide economic and social benefits such as a better accessibility to markets, employment, knowledge (schools) and investors. These benefits are the result of a reduction in transportation costs and lead to [[Primary economic impact|direct economic impacts]] which can be measured in terms of employment, added value, investment costs, etc. Note, however, that these transportation costs are not just the result of physical infrastructure such as roads and airports, but also of many other different kind of obstacles such as tariffs, language and culture barriers<ref>Brakman, S., H. Garretsen and C. van Marrewijk (2001): An introduction to geographical economics. Cambridge University Press</ref>. The [[Economic impact|economic impact]] of transportation extends in most cases beyond these direct effects due to the further rounds of economic activity as a result of the transportation of goods, the so-called [[Secondary economic impact|indirect economic effects]]. Transportation, however, also has a social and an environmental impact, which is not in all cases positive. Congestion, traffic accidents, environmental pollution and land consumption are well-known examples of these social or external effects of transportation. The economic impact of transportation can be assessed from both a macroeconomic perspective and a micro-economic perspective<ref>Macroeconomics is the branch of economics dealing with an economy as a whole, rather than individual markets and persons. Micro-economics studies the behaviour of individual households, firms and organisations while dealing with scarcity.</ref> with the help of [[Economic tools|economic tools]] such as the [[Social cost-benefit analysis|social cost-benefit analysis]] in case investments in transportation have to be appraised. At the micro-economic level, transportation is linked to the costs of transportation for individual agents, while at a macroeconomic level the importance of transportation for an economy as a whole is assessed<ref>Rodrique, J.P. & T. Notteboom (2013): The Geography of Transport Systems. 3rd Edition.</ref>. The economic impact of transportation is directly linked to the location of an urban object/environment. Locations with low levels of accessibility such as cities surrounded by mountains tend to have higher costs for many goods and services, limiting the welfare of individuals and society. In general, security threats will have a negative effect on the mobility of individuals, groups of people (companies), and in extreme cases on society as a whole. As a result, the positive economic impact of an efficient transportation system will be partly reversed (the [[Economic impact of security threats|economic impact of security threats]]). Security measures such as directing traffic flows and access control, can reduce these negative impacts, but can also have a negative impact on the efficiency of transportation networks, also referred to as the [[Economic impact of security measures|economic impact of security measures]]. === Mobility === [[Mobility]] enables transportation. It is obvious that mobility is very important for the daily life of humans and as such, the continuity of the traffic should be guaranteed. Mobility is fundamental to economic and social activities. In developed and developing nations, a large fraction of people travel daily for work, shopping and social reasons. More information can be found on the [[mobility]] page. Transportation can either mean transportation of people or transportation of goods. For the first, different [[Modes of transport|modes of transport]] are available, such as [[Modes of transport#Road transport|road transport]] ([[Modes of transport#Walking|walking]], [[Modes of transport#Cycling|cycling]], [[Modes of transport#Automobile|car driving]], [[Modes of transport#Bus|buses]]) and [[Modes of transport#Rail transport|rail transport]]. Important for passenger transport is also [[Modes of transport#Public transport|public transport]]. Especially public transport has a high security risk. The past decades have shown the vulnerability of the public transport system for terrorist attacks by several tragic incidents, e.g. the 2004 Madrid train bombings<ref name="ftn1">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Madrid_train_bombings</ref>, the 2010 Moscow Metro bombings<ref name="ftn2">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Moscow_Metro_bombings</ref>, and several attacks on the London Underground<ref name="ftn3">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attacks_on_the_London_Underground</ref>. The transportation of goods is called [[Modes of transport#Freight transport and logistics|freight transport and logistics]]. It concerns the distribution of goods from the source to their destination, such as warehouses or terminals for further distribution to e.g. shops. This can involve different modes of transport as well. Transportation is facilitated by its [[Road network|road network]], [[Rail network|rail network]] and the [[Hub|hubs]]. === Safety === Specific safety issues in transportation objects concern mainly [[traffic safety]]. == Security Issues == Security issues associated with transportation objects, are related with the fact that it can be an [[attractive object]] for fanatics. This is related with the fact that many transportation objects government assets have public access areas with a high volume of transiting people and with the public attention an attack to a public transportation node will draw. Also, transportation nodes are places with crowds and distracted people, often with valuable luggage. The presence of a high volume of travellers makes graffiti visible to a large audience. This makes these kinds of urban objects vulnerable for the following security issues: * [[Security issue: Destruction by fanatics| Destruction by fanatics]] * [[Security issue: Mass killing| Mass killing]] * [[Security issue: Pickpocketing| Pickpocketing]] * [[Security issue: Robbery|Robbery]] * [[Security issue: Grafitti|Graffiti]] == Measures == The measures for each type of security issue can be found on the respective pages. There are few measures they are specifically suited or unsuited to this kind of urban object, but some general considerations can be mentioned: * Transportation objects in general know a very high transitory flow. This makes entry/exit control or even screening of visitors often very difficult or even impossible. Airports, which do feature entrance/exit control, can afford to do so due to the relative long boarding times (hours instead of minutes for a metro or bus), and the relative high travel costs (hundreds of euros instead of a few euros per passenger). {{references}}
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Bharti backed OneWeb plans to partner with telecom operators in 135 countries: Report
There are some 30 countries that have very stiff market access rules, OneWeb has secured the necessary approvals in 12-13 countries and expects to conclude the rest on schedule.
By Esmail Beguwala September 9, 2021 at 11:02 pm IST
OneWeb, an upcoming Satcom company which is a joint venture between India's Bharti group and the UK government is gearing up for commercial launch of services by mid next year. The company is setting up a constellation of low earth orbit (LEO) satellites which will provide blanket broadband connectivity through space to the entire globe. This technology has the potential of taking broadband connectivity to far-flung areas and difficult terrains where traditional fiber connectivity is not feasible.
As per a report by ET Telecom, OneWeb has launched a total of 288 satellites in the low earth orbit till date and the ultimate target is to launch 648 satellites to achieve ubiquitous global coverage. For this, the operator will need ground stations in multiple countries globally through which it can establish the internet link for its satellites. To achieve this, OneWeb plans to partner with telecom operators in 135 countries spanning across the 6 continents. Qualcomm and Hughes Networks would closely work with OneWeb in deploying the satellite ground stations.
Going forward, a key OneWeb objective in the run-up to full-scale global satellite coverage is lining up pending regulatory approvals and market access. "There are some 30 countries that have very stiff market access rules…we have secured the necessary approvals in 12-13 countries and expect to conclude the rest on schedule" Sunil Mittal said addressing delegates virtually at a global satellite event in the US on Wednesday.
He said OneWeb has just partnered with AT&T, offering its satellite broadband technology to improve access for the US telco's business customers into remote and challenging rural geographic locations in the US. "The partnership with AT&T in the US will support the telco's enterprise customers and also meet the connectivity requirements of US defence forces and government needs." AT&T business and government customers in Alaska and northern US states will be covered later this year, the statement added.
Mittal clarified that OneWeb has no plans to compete with telcos around the world, but would instead collaborate with them. Since the start of 2021, OneWeb has announced distribution partnerships across several industries and businesses including Northwestel in Canada and BT in the UK. OneWeb plans to compete with Elon Musk's SpaceX and Jeff Bezos's Amazon-linked Project Kuiper in the race to grab a sizeable chunk of the LEO satellite communication market share.
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There are some 30 countries that have very stiff market access rules, OneWeb has secured the necessary approvals in 12-13 countries and expects to conclude the rest on schedule
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The General Prosecution Office of the Supreme Court of Appeal also advocates at the Court of Jurisdictional Disputes in order to resolve conflicts related to the jurisdiction of the court between judicial and administrative jurisdiction authorities.
In this context, upon the refusal of jurisdictional challenge made in the cases instituted at administrative courts, a positive jurisdictional dispute is raised in favour of regular judiciary at the Court of Jurisdictional Disputes. For the cases heard at the Court of Jurisdictional Disputes, the General Prosecution Office of the Supreme Court of Appeal submits an opinion in writing and verbal explanations. Opinion is submitted on the dispute during the initial examination of files relating to positive and negative jurisdictional disputes and disputes of verdicts heard at the Court of Jurisdictional Disputes.


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Q: ViewPanel does not honor Time Zone on Date-only field We have an app running on 8.5.3 servers (windows) with a field set as Date-only in the Notes backend. No time component gets saved. There is a list style Xpage with a ViewPanel that displays these dates from a Notes view data source, and a form that opens from a link in that view that also shows the same field in the linked record. We are in North America.
After UTC midnight, which is 7 pm Eastern, all of the date column values shown in the view will roll back to the previous day. The linked document in the form-oriented Xpage still shows the proper date as can be seen in a Notes client, and in a Notes info box showing hidden field values.
The XSP application property setting for "Time Zone" has no effect on this behavior.
I added time zone to the display format pattern (MM/dd/YYYY vv) in the viewPanel and also to the field in the form's panel, and both are showing the same time zone, GMT -4. So the date displayed in the viewPanel is in error, as far as I can tell.
I also have verified the same behavior on a Domino 9 server. Is there a workaround for the view list or should we try it on 8.5.2?

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 Walsch: How can I experience Ultimate Reality in any particular moment?
"God": Be still, and know that I am God.
That is how you will know that I am God, and that I am always with you.
That is how you will know that you are One with Me. That is how you will meet the Creator inside of you.
Not long after our conversion, my wife and I sat down one day and talked about the ultimate spiritual deception described in the Bible—the great "falling away" of the church and the coming of Antichrist. We agreed that for someone like Antichrist to be credible in the world, he would need a majority of the people who call themselves Christians to believe that he was Christ. If he could get enough Christians—especially Christian leaders—to follow him, he could then discredit and marginalize those who oppose him. But to get people who call themselves Christians to believe that he was Christ he would first have to successfully redefine Christianity.2 To do that he would have to introduce non-Christian teachings and practices into the church, while at the same time make them appear Christian. His obvious goal would be to convert undiscerning and unsuspecting believers into a more eastern and mystical, New Age "Christianity." While invoking the name of "God" and "Christ" he would actually turn the Bible upside down—just as we had seen in A Course in Miracles and in our New Age teachings.
Christianity would become a more "positive" New Age "Christianity." This New Age Christianity would have "a form of godliness" but it would actually deny the true faith (1 Timothy 3:5). This New Age Christianity/New Spirituality would use Christian terminology but it would be under the spell of "another Jesus," "another spirit," and "another gospel" (2 Corinthians 11:4). This New Age/New Gospel/New Spirituality would be the ultimate counterfeit and the ultimate deception. It would be what the real Jesus warned his followers to watch out for.
The New Age/New Spirituality has continued to make great inroads into the church—particularly in the area of meditation and so-called "contemplative prayer." Despite grave warnings from many of us that came out of the New Age movement, the church remains extremely vulnerable to deceptive, supernatural experiences that appear to come from God.
We knew from our own New Age involvement that powerful, seemingly "meant to be" spiritual experiences had often been used to draw us closer into the New Age and its various spiritual practices, including meditation and contemplation. And we knew that the same seductive experiences which had led us into the New Age, continued within our meditations and contemplations. Because our spiritual experiences felt so good, we just assumed that what we were experiencing was coming from God. Our meditations and contemplations soon became the primary connecting force that gave us "the feeling" we were on the right track. These daily meditations and contemplations served to reinforce our emerging New Age beliefs, and had the effect of leading us deeper and deeper into the teachings of the New Age/New Spirituality.
Biblical meditation is generally understood to be when one prayerfully and thoughtfully considers a passage of Scripture. Unfortunately, many who think that they are practicing biblical meditation confusedly cross over into unbiblical, eastern mystical New Age meditation. Often described as contemplative prayer, biblical meditation may begin with contemplating Scripture. But meditating or contemplating Scripture does not guarantee that what follows is necessarily from God.
A perfect example is what happened to former seeker but now New Age leader, Barbara Marx Hubbard. After she "contemplated" a passage of Scripture, she received a powerful vision that propelled her into her New Age/New Spirituality belief system and eventually into New Age leadership. In her book The Revelation she described what took place after "contemplating" 1 Corinthians 12:12. Because of the magnitude of the spiritual deception I have quoted from her at length.
On a fateful afternoon in February 1966, I was taking my usual daily walk….
I had been reading Reinhold Neibuhr on the subject of community. He had quoted St. Paul's famous statement: "For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ." As I contemplated that idea I felt a deep frustration.
I lapsed into a daydreamlike state…. I was poised from within, to catch the slightest hint of revelation.
Suddenly my mind's eye penetrated beyond the blue cocoon of Earth, lifting me up into the utter blackness of outer space. From there I witnessed the entire sweep of Earth's history, as though I were viewing a technicolor movie.
I witnessed the Earth as a living body…. I felt myself to be a cell in that body….
Then the movie sped up. I saw something new. A flash of extraordinary light more radiant than the sun surrounded the planet. Instantly, all of us were attracted to the light. We forgot our pain, and at that moment of shared attention, empathy began to course through our planetary body. Wave upon wave of love flowed through all people. A magnetic field of love aligned us. We were caressed, uplifted in this field of light. We felt our inner light rising. Mass healings occurred. People flooded out of their houses, offices, and buildings, meeting each other in ever-growing gatherings, embracing, loving one another….
Our story is a birth. It is the birth of humankind as one body….
All of this "new revelation"—the very foundation of Hubbard's New Age ministry today—came after Hubbard "contemplated" a single verse from the Bible: 1 Corinthians 12:12. But supernatural experiences are obviously not from God if they contradict His written Word. Not knowing to "test the spirits" she opened herself up to spiritual deception.
While most of us in the New Age didn't have Hubbard's experience, we had our own versions. And what we were being taught through our spiritual experiences was that our "experience" should take precedence over any written word or any prior beliefs. In fact, we were told that our spiritual experiences should provide the foundation for new beliefs. And most often these experiences would come during periods of meditation and contemplation.
For those who believe that solitude, silence, contemplative prayer, or even biblical meditation are the sole province of God, Barbara Marx Hubbard remains a good example of why they had better think again. Hubbard's serious contemplation of 1 Corinthians 12:12 and the Lord's Prayer did not prevent her from being spiritually deceived. What happened to Hubbard, and what happened to so many of us in the New Age, can happen to anyone who chooses to believe personal spiritual experience over God's written Word. It can happen to anyone who does not test the spirits of what they are experiencing (Hebrews 4:12; 1 John 4:1). And it seems to me that today's undiscerning church is particularly vulnerable in this whole area of meditation and contemplative prayer.
Yes, we were like children then, and God was still somewhat like the Father, separate and above us, reaching down to help. But gradually I have come to understand what it means to find that same God within myself….
It is interesting that Walsch's New Age "God" places such great emphasis on this "Be still" verse. Obviously there is something about this whole "Be still" contemplative prayer/meditation process that opens people up to the deceptive spirit world. So why are Christian leaders pushing "solitude" and "silence" and Psalm 46:10 almost as much as their New Age counterparts? Why aren't they warning the church about the misuse of this Psalm and the obvious need to test the spirits (1 John 4:1)? Why aren't they warning that you can't just Be still—you also have to Be sober and Be vigilant (1 Peter 5:8)? In many ways, today's Christian "contemplative prayer" movement is sharing the New Age expectation that we can all have a "conversation with God" if we will simply "Be still" and submit to the "spiritual discipline" of meditating on Scripture and engaging in contemplative prayer.
Now the supreme irony here is that you have all placed so much importance on the Word of God, and so little on the experience.
New Age leader Neale Donald Walsch tells his readers just the opposite. In his 2005 book What God Wants he wrote, "If you do not go within you go without."23 But this is exactly what the deceptive spirit world wants everyone to believe—especially Christians. They want people to believe that there's something "special" about meditation and contemplative prayer—that the "discipline" makes you "more spiritual" and "closer to God." To have a real relationship with God you have to become more meditative and contemplative by entering into the "mystery" of "the silence." For it is within "the silence" that the spirit world can gain entry into unguarded and unsuspecting minds. It is in this meditative and contemplative space that the deceptive spirit world can begin to provide the thoughts and words and experiences that reinforce the New Age teachings of their New Spirituality. It is through meditation and contemplative prayer that they can introduce the undiscerning person to the voice of "another Jesus" and "another spirit" and the teachings of "another gospel" (2 Corinthians 11:4).
Many years ago, when my wife Joy was a follower of Indian guru Swami Baba Muktananda and meditated in his ashram, she was continually reminded of the guru's words, "Kneel to your own self. Honor and worship your own being. God dwells within you as You." The whole point of the meditation was to become "at one" with the "god within." But Jesus didn't tell His disciples that God was "in" everyone and everything. He didn't tell them to meditate on the divine interconnectedness of all humanity. He didn't have them go into "the silence" to connect with the "god within." Jesus did not put His trust in man because "He knew all men" and "He knew what was in man" (John 2:24-25).
Many of us in the church believe our sincerity acts as a kind of magical protection against all demonic intrusion and deception. But nowhere in the Bible is there a single verse that assures us our sincerity alone protects us or guarantees us automatic immunity from demonic deception. Not one.
I gradually began to acknowledge the fact that Jesus had taken over our center and that I must accept him as my master. I purchased a Bible and started to attend the weekly Bible-study classes and prayer groups that were being offered in lieu of classes on metaphysics.
The teachings expounded at the Lighted Way evolved into a curious mixture of New Age mysticism and biblical Christianity. We regarded ourselves as New Age Christians. I even began to tell people that I was a born-again Christian. After all, I had given up my Hindu guru and accepted "Jesus Christ" as my master and saviour.
During my meditation periods, I could sense that "Jesus Christ" and the "Holy Spirit" were inspiring me through my voice of conscience, exactly in the manner that Djwhal Khul seemed to have done previously. After awhile, I became devoted to this Jesus. He took over my life.
I was also told to attend regular Christian church congregations so that I could meet new friends and interest them in meditation and other less offensive New Age ideas disguised in biblical-sounding terms.
With so many undiscerning churches emerging that are now into meditation, contemplative prayer and mysticism, one wonders how many other "Will Barons" had been sent into Christian churches by deceptive spirits to introduce meditation and to infect the church with their New Age "Christianity." Incredibly, most Christian leaders introducing meditation and contemplative prayer into the church continue to provide almost no warning about how the spirit world can use these practices to accomplish their New Age/New Spirituality purposes. As a result many people in the church today are being deceived by spiritual experiences and leadings that are not from God.
The parallels between Ballard's 1979 experience and mine are striking. Through cleverly orchestrated spiritual events by a deceptive spirit world, we were both led to believe that what happened to us was divinely and benevolently ordained. The spiritual realm that made contact with us made us feel so good about what was happening that neither of us thought to question the source of what we were experiencing. Looking back on what happened to both of us, I understand that what we considered to be spiritually inspired experiences from God were, in reality, carefully contrived temptations from deceptive spirits. But back then I was not aware of the Bible's many warnings about the spirit world. I didn't know anything about spiritual deception. And I suspect that this was also the case with Ballard. We had been in the moment and we had gone with the flow. As a result, our seemingly "meant to be" experiences served to catalyze our eastern mystical New Age pursuits.
If we had met back at that time period in our lives we might have had much in common. But today we look at things much differently. While I have written books that warn about the dangers of the New Age/New Spirituality, Jim Ballard has written books that promote the New Age/New Spirituality.
One morning shortly after I had moved back to the West Coast in 1979 I found myself running along a path at the top of a cliff above the Pacific Ocean in Encinitas, California…. Feeling the offshore breeze against my face and bare legs, listening to the waves crashing against the rocks below, I exulted in the freshness and the beauty around me….
Since the human ego is the root cause of the problems we face on this planet, I figure the greatest single contribution any one of us can make toward solving the world's problems is to work within ourselves to rise above our own littleness and transform the way we see things. This is the whole point of Jim Ballard's wonderful book Mind Like Water: Keeping Your Balance in a Chaotic World. It's a set of tools that enables us to work within ourselves to clean up our own acts, so that we can be free to do the work we came to do in the world.
Ever since Jim and my friendship began almost thirty years ago, our shared concern with helping people relate better to themselves and others has led us to collaborate on a number of writing projects….
In his book The Servant Leader, Blanchard and his co-author Phil Hodges placed great emphasis on the need for "solitude" and "silence" in order to "quietly receive what God reveals to you." Invoking the cross and Psalm 46:10, they advised their readers to "Be still" and to move into the same meditative state of mind I practiced in the New Age.
If you are seated in a comfortable position, place your hands on your knees in a down position. If walking, visualize yourself in this position. In harmony with the position of your hands, mentally put down everything you are concerned about or expending energy in trying to manage or control at the foot of the cross. Be specific—name each burden as you put it down.
When you have exhausted your list, take a couple of deep breaths and turn your hands, physically and mentally, into an up position and quietly receive what God reveals to you.
This idea of simply "being" was at the heart of my New Age experience. But I came to realize that just "being" can produce an overly relaxed, falsely confident, passive state of mind where trusting souls do not think to "test the spirits." As a result many of us learned the hard way that much of what we thought we heard and experienced and felt was not from God at all.
When Blanchard's endorsements of New Age books were brought to light in 2005 by Lighthouse Trails Research.com and Christian Research Service.com, Blanchard quickly acknowledged that his endorsements had been "problematic." But rather than publicly renouncing and exposing the deceptive New Age books and practices that he had endorsed, Blanchard has remained strangely silent about his New Age leanings and entanglements. He has said and done almost nothing to indicate that he has any real understanding that the "Jesus" of the New Age is a false Christ. And he has said and done almost nothing to warn the church to "test the spirits": that some of the New Age authors he has endorsed—like Jim Ballard and Deepak Chopra—were also using "solitude" and "silence" and the "Be still" verse from Psalm 46:10 to incubate a conversation with the "God" of the New Age/New Gospel/New Spirituality.
The question may arise—how can credible evangelical organizations justify meditative practices that clearly resemble those of Eastern meditation? As pointed out earlier in this book, Christian terminology surrounds these practices. It only takes a few credible Christian leaders with national profiles, to embrace a teaching that sounds Christian to affect large numbers in the church….
1. Neale Donald Walsch, Friendship with God: an uncommon dialogue, p. 291.
2. Bob DeWaay, Redefining Christianity: Understanding the Purpose Driven Movement (Springfield, Missouri: 21st Century Press, 2006).
3. Warren Smith, The Light That Was Dark: From the New Age to Amazing Grace, p. 36.
4. A Course in Miracles: Combined Volume (Workbook), p. 222.
6. Barbara Marx Hubbard, The Revelation: A Message of Hope for the New Millennium, pp. 40-41.
13. A Course in Miracles: Combined Volume (Text), p. 52.
14. Ibid., (Workbook), p. 119.
15. The Findhorn Community, The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation (New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1975), p.36.
18. Matthew Henry, Matthew Henry's Commentary On The Whole Bible (Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson Publishers, 1991), p. 810; Pastor Larry DeBruyn, "Be Still: Some thoughts on Psalm 46:10 as it relates to contemplative prayer," (http://www.frbaptist.org/bin/view/Ptp/PtpTopic20060404145458).
19. Neale Donald Walsch, Friendship with God: an uncommon dialogue, p. 291.
20. Neale Donald Walsch, Conversations with God: book 1, p. 5..
22. Smith, The Light That Was Dark, p. 147.
23. Neale Donald Walsch, What God Wants: A Compelling Answer to Humanity's Biggest Question (New York: Atria Books, Simon & Schuster, 2005), p. 184.
25. Michaelsen, The Beautiful Side of Evil, p. 138-139.
28. Baron, Deceived by the New Age, p. 11.
29. Smith, The Light That Was Dark, Chapter Two: Enter Rajneesh, pp. 23-29.
30. Jim Ballard, Mind Like Water: Keeping Your Balance in a Chaotic World (Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2002), pp. 13-14.
31. "SRF Devotee: Connecting SRF Devotees Worldwide, Our featured devotee artist: Jim Ballard." A webpage for Self-Realization Fellowship founded by Paramahansa Yogananda, http://www.srfdevotee.com/featured/spotlite.html .
32. Ballard, Mind Like Water, pp. 13-14.
33. Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia, Standard 2004.
34. Ballard, Mind Like Water, p. 78.
37. http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com, press release April 20, 2005.
38. Rick Warren told Blanchard: "So, we've come up with a little plan called the peace plan. You and I are working together on this." Lead Like Jesus Celebration, November 20, 2003, Church at Brook Hills in Birmingham, Alabama. Transcript online: http://www.gprxnow.com/bonuses/BlanchardLeadLikeJesus.pdf. DVD available through Lead Like Jesus online store.
39. Ken Blanchard and Phil Hodges, THE SERVANT LEADER: TRANSFORMING YOUR HEART, HEAD, HANDS & HABITS, p. 89.
40. Deepak Chopra, THE SEVEN SPIRITUAL LAWS OF SUCCESS: A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO THE FULFILLMENT of YOUR DREAMS, p. 14.
42. Ken Blanchard, Lead Like Jesus: LESSONS from the Greatest Role Model of ALL TIME, pp. 160-161.
43. Ray Yungen, A Time of Departing: How Ancient Mystical Practices are Uniting Christians with the World's Religions (Silverton, Oregon: Lighthouse Trails Publishing Co., 2002, 2006), p. 183.


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When he was king
May 19, 2014 · Leave a Comment
By Tim Pears, the Observer, Sunday 5 June 2005
They called him the ice man, but there was so much more to Björn Borg than cool detachment and a wispy beard. Twenty-five years after the Swede's last and greatest Wimbledon triumph, award-winning novelist Tim Pears offers a remarkable portrait of the rebellious teenager who became an accidental Nordic mystic – and an all-time great.
'I think Björn's greatest victory was not the way he came to master his ground strokes, but the change he underwent, with terrible determination, to tame his passionate spirit.' Lennart Bergelin, Borg's coach
Was ever a great champion so misunderstood, even in the broad light of his glory, as Björn Borg? By the time of the Wimbledon championships of 1980, when he was 24, he had won the grass-court competition each of the four preceding years, as well as the French Open, on clay, five times. On contrasting surfaces that required radically different approaches, this was an achievement without precedent. And yet the calm young master was widely regarded as an automaton, a robot. The Swede had is i magen: ice in his stomach. In the British press he was the 'Iceberg'. His admirers no less than his critics described a man with cold blood running through his veins.
How wrong they were. Borg was not blessed with abundant talent, but the talent he had he surrendered to, with the devotion of an instinctive faith, until he achieved liberation. Borg was an inspiration and I wondered how others could not see that his heart was filled with joy for this game and that he hid this joy not to deny it, but rather to nurture its presence within him.
Born on 6 June 1956, Borg was brought up in Södertälje, an industrial town of 100,000 people 30 minutes drive south-west of Stockholm, the only child of Margarethe and Rune, a clothes-shop assistant. He first appeared at Wimbledon in 1972, winning the junior title, a lanky Swedish youth with a straggle of blond brown hair. He had blue eyes that were so close together they appeared slightly crossed. He kept them averted from other people, betraying the shy evasion of a teenager who believes everyone is looking at him – the one object he focused on was a tennis ball when about to hit it. He had a sharp nose in a thin, feral face, with a long pointed chin; his wide shoulders were stooped and he walked with a rolling gait. And yet everywhere he went he was pursued by mobs of schoolgirls. Less a Viking, really, than an Arthurian knight, Borg was embraced by England. We were drawn to his modesty.
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1956: First time at Roland Garros for Rod Laver
Portrait of Manuel Santana, first Spaniard to capture a Grand Slam title in 1961
1969: Rod Laver defeats Ken Rosewall
Portrait of 6-time Roland Garros champion Bjorn Borg
Portrait of Adriano Panatta, the only player to beat Bjorn Borg at Roland Garros
1978: Virginia Ruzici defeats Mima Jausovec
1982: At the request of Monsieur Wilander
1982: first Grand Slam for Mats Wilander
1984 French Open: Ivan Lendl defeats John McEnroe
1985 French Open: Chris Evert defeats Martina Navratilova
Roland Garros 1985: Mats Wilander defeats Ivan Lendl
Roland Garros 1988: bold Leconte swept aside by a Mats for all surfaces
Portrait of Natasha Zvereva, 1988 runner-up
Portrait of Arantxa Sanchez, 1989 French Open champion
Portrait of Michael Chang, 1989 French Open champion
1990 French Open: Opposites attract, Gomez defeats Agassi
1991 French Open 3RD: Michael Chang defeats Jimmy Connors
1991 French Open final: Jim Courier defeats Andre Agassi
Roland Garros 1996: Pete Sampras run through the semi-finals
Steffi Graf – Martina Hingis Roland Garros 1999
1999 French Open: Agassi-Graf, two days, one destiny
2005: Rafael Nadal defeats Mariano Puerta
2008: Rafael Nadal defeats Roger Federer
A look back at Roland Garros 2011
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Adriano Panatta, the Michelangelo of tennis
May 12, 2014 · 1 Comment
From Love Thirty, three decades of champions – published in 1990
Panatta had much in common with Ilie Nastase in that both were under-achievers who never fully exploited their talent but gave immense pleasure and attracted huge followings. The obvious differences between them lay in playing method and conduct. Nastase was the more flamboyant competitor but his behavior was often offensive. Panatta had more power and his deportment was elegantly disciplined as his tennis. He was a heart-throb who milked the role in an engaging way, rather as John Newcombe did. His teenaged fans could admire the man and his tennis without the reservations necessary in Nastase's case. Panatta was a model of the tall, dark and handsome hero or, to flaunt another cliché, the strong, silent man. At the same time he could be demonstrative in the Italian way and the ladies did not mind at all when he put on his sulky look or tossed back his forelock.
At six feet and almost 13 stone Panatta was a fine athlete, though the professional sportsman was always slightly at odds with his well developed taste for food and wine and the dolce vita. He was a renowned, attractive sportsman who fitted perfectly into fashionable Roman society. When he appeared at the Foro Italico the public's excitement was so passionately partisan – to the point of conducting matches rather than merely watching them – that players from overseas felt no more popular than early Christians did at the Colosseum. In Panatta's era the crowd's hostility towards his opponents was sometimes frightening. Nor was justice consistently evenhanded. But all that was not Panatta's fault. His presence simply kindled emotional fires that occasionally out of control.
On the other hand one would not wish Italians to be anything but warmly appreciative of tennis players whose brush-strokes respect the nation's proud artistic traditions. Panatta was not the first.
Two particularly interesting characters 30 years ago were Beppe Merlo and Nicola Pietrangeli. Merlo was a dapper little chap who defied most of the conventions except in his ability to put the ball where his opponents didn't want it and, often, didn't expect it. He used a short grip and had no more than a hint of a backswing. No more than a hint of a service, either. He just prodded the ball into play. Merlo's racket was so loosely strung that his strokes were noiseless save for a muffled plunk. But he was an artful nudger commanding a deceptive variety of spin. Merlo's tennis was so eccentric, so baffling, that opponents ran the risk of getting their legs knotted.
By contrast Pietrangeli was a classically conventional clay-courter. Born in Tunis of Franco-Russian parents, he could have been a top-class footballer. Instead, Pietrangeli played and won more Davis Cup matches than any other player, took Italy to two challenge rounds with the help of a giant called Orlando Sirola, and twice won the French championship. He played with enviable economy of effort and had such a deft touch that occasionally, like Manuel Santana, he could make a drop-shot spin back over the net. In 1962 Pietrangeli and Nikki Pilic established a Wimbledon record with a 46-game set. Pietrangeli was also an active socialite who often stayed up half the night, arguing that there was nothing much to do in the mornings except sleep.
Panatta first caught ou attention when he beat Clark Graebner in the 1968 Queensland championships in Brisbane. It soon became evident that for all his size and strength and his agility at the net, Panatta was most at ease when using the drop-and-lob routine to design leisurely, almost languid patterns across sunlit clay courts. […]
His annus mirabilis was 1976, when he won the Italian and French championships in three weeks and – with the help of Corrado Barazzutti in singles and Paolo Bertolucci in doubles – brought Italy the Davis Cup for the only time in the competition's history. It helped that four out of six ties were played at home. Panatta's individual triumphs in Rome and Paris were remarkable for the fact that in each tournament he came within a point of losing in the first round.
In Rome, Kim Warwick had no fewer than 11 match points. In Paris, Pavel Hutka, an ambidextruous Czechoslovak newcomer to Roland Garros, had only one match point – but the memory of that point is vivid. Silence fell like a pall over the sunny stadium as Panatta prepared to serve. Fault. Both men fidgeted. There was no other movement, no sound. The birds had stopped singing. Hutka clipped the net cord in returning the second ball. Panatta, dashing in, had to break his stride but hit deep and stood towering at the net, waiting to see what Hutka and the gods had in store for him. Hutka's lob looked a winner but Panatta's vertical take-off achieved a feeble return off the frame. Hutka's passing shot looked a formality but Panatta guessed right, flung himself headlong like a torpedo and hit a winning volley – again, off the frame. Whereupon Panatta crashed on to the court, the ground seemed to shiver and the stadium thundered with applause. That was the most amazing point I ever saw.
After that it was all profit. Even Bjorn Borg, champion in the two preceding years, could not cope with the imaginatively adventurous Panatta, who no longer recognized any distinction between the improbable and the inevitable.
Panatta's arresting presence and artistically macho tennis also gave us memorable hours of pleasure when he was playing on grass, a surface hostile to the graces. And at Wimbledon in 1976, when he was playing Charlie Pasarell, the was an incident that told us much about the man. As Panatta was about to serve, a sparrow twittered away on the grass a few yards behind him. Distracted, Panatta gently olled a ball towards it, but the sparrow could not or would note move. So Panatta strolled back, picked up the fluffy chirper in a strong yet tender hand, and carefully took it across a spectator. Panatta had a way with birds. He had a way with tennis, too. The game was a means of expression, a form of communion with the ghosts of Michelangelo and Leonardo Da Vinci.
Filed under Books, Davis Cup, French Open, Players · Tagged with 1976, Adriano Panatta, Beppe Merlo, Bjorn Borg, Brisbane, Charlie Pasarell, Corrado Barazzutti, Foro Italico, Ilie Nastase, Italy, Kim Warwick, Love Thirty, Nicola Pietrangeli, Orlando Sirola, Paolo Bertolucci, Pavel Hutka, Rex Bellamy, rg1976, Rome, Rome1976
Former legends and wooden racquets in Madrid
May 7, 2014 · Leave a Comment
Before the Madrid tournament had officially started, five Grand Slam champions – Manolo Santana, Adriano Panatta, Ilie Nastase, Jan Kodes and Andres Gomez – took the court to play an exhibition with wooden racquets. Enjoy a few pictures from the match:
Madrid tournament director and first Spaniard to win a Grand Slam, Manolo Santana:
French Open and Wimbledon champion, Jan Kodes:
US Open and French Open champion, Ilie Nastase:
Adriano Panatta, the only player to beat Bjorn Borg at Roland Garros, and he did it twice:
1990 French open champion Andres Gomez:
Photo credit: Davinia
Filed under I was there, Seniors, Slider · Tagged with 2014, Adriano Panatta, Andres Gomez, Ilie Nastase, Jan Kodes, Madrid, Madrid2014, Manuel Santana
Manuel Santana, Spain's first Grand Slam champion
One of the craziest anomalies of the 1960s, a decade in which the great champions were bared from the great tournaments, concerned two Spaniards born within nine months of one another duing the Civil War. There was nothing to choose between their levels of performance. But Andres Gimeno turned professional in 1960 and played his best tennis in the proud, exclusive environment of Jack Kramer's tour. Towards the end of the 1960s, only Rod Laver and Ken Rosewall were better players.
But superficial historians may recall Gimeno only as the chap who, at the age of 34, won the 1972 French championship from an unusually modest bunch of challengers. By contrast Santana stayed in the 'shamateur' ranks, picked up an impressive array of Grand Slam titles, had a wonderful Davis Cup record, became a national hero, and captivated everybody in sight. So Santana received far more publicity and achieved a bigger reputation, except among the cognoscenti. Santana played no better than Gimeno did but had the more spectacular game, the more crowd-pleasing court presence, and probably a greater depth of competitive self-belief.
First a word about Gimeno, who was Santana's Davis Cup teammate from 1958 to 1960 and 1972-1973, winning 17 out of 22 singles and breaking even in ten doubles. Gimeno was 6ft 1 1/2in tall but looked even bigger because he was straight-backed, held his head high, and had a tiptoed style that suggested he was wary of damaging the court. His bearing was patrician, his manner courteous, his game elegant. Gimeno stroked the ball with the teasing flourish one associates with the bull-fighting breed. The forehand was his stronger flank and although it was sometimes said his backhand couldn't break an egg, he placed the shot shrewdly.
Gimeno had a sure touch and made effective use of the lob. There was a purpose behind every shot he played and his game was as tidy in detail as it was sound in conception. But he had nothing that could really hurt his opponents and on big occasions he tended to be too highly strung, too diffident, to do himself complete justice. Gentleman that he was, Gimeno may have had too much respect for the likes of Laver and Rosewall.
Would Santana have done any better in that company? One doubts it. He turned down a professional offer because he considered he could more tournaments and more prestige, make more money, and have a more congenial lifestyle by remaining in the 'shamateur' ranks. There came a time when Santana and Roy Emerson, as the biggest fish in a thinly stocked pool, could command $1,000 to $1,500 a week. They had no illusion. They knew that they would be smaller fish in the professional pool. An embarrassing decision was forced upon them and they chose the course that suited their circumstances and their natures. It worked out pretty well for them and it worked out pretty well for Spain, too. By winning two Grand Slam titles on clay and two on grass, and twice guiding his country to the Davis Cup challenge round, Santana did even more for Spanish tennis (and the nation's sporting reputation in general) than Severiano Ballesteros was to achieve via golf.[…]
Santana was the Ilie Nastase of the 1960s: less of an athlete, true but more disciplined in his conduct and his match-play, and in the same class when it came to artistic wizardry. An example of the shots they had in common what that rare flower, the chipped forehand, which both played with such facility that they might have been picking daisies. The joyous feature of their tennis was a common ability to mask their intentions. Their dextrous powers of deception were such that they consistently pulled off the tennis equivalent of the three-card trick.
Santana used every hue in the box during the 1961 French championships, in which he beat the top three seeds – Roy Emerson, Rod Laver and Nicola Pietrangeli – to win his (and Spain's) first major championship. Santana beat Laver 3-6 6-2 4-6 6-4 6-0. Laver led 4-1 in the fourth set but, emmeshed in a beautiful network of shot-making, could not win another game. In the final, Santana beat a kindred spirit, Pietrangeli, by 4-6 6-1 3-6 6-0 6-2. It was a sunny afternoon and the arena was as much an artists' studio as a tennis stadium. Each man in turn stepped up to the canvas while the other was, so to speak, taking time off to mix his colours. The vast assembly could hardly believe their luck. Ultimately Pietrangeli, champion in the two previous years, had to admit that he was the second best. […]
They met again in the 1964 final but by that time Santana's star had waxed and Pietrangeli's was beginning to wane. On clay, Santana had proved all he needed to prove. So he concentrated his attention on the grass-court bastions: and had luck on his side in that, at Forest Hills and Wimbledon in turn, the most fancied contenders never turned his path. At Forest Hills he played only two seeds, Arthur Ashe (5th) and Cliff Drysdale (8th), and at Wimbledon he played only one, Dennis Ralston (6th). Never mind. Santana beat everybody he had to beat. He had conquered the 'shamateur' world on the two extremes of clay and grass.
There was an engaging but frustrating appendix to the years of glory. In the 1969 French championships Santana and Gimeno, both 31, clashed after a nine-year beak. It was Madrid vs Barcelona plus, for watching players, a leftover battle between the now united 'shamateur' and professional armies. For two sets, Gimeno was too nervous to play his best tennis, whereas Santana's shot making had a subtle splendor about it. Then Gimeno settled down and in the stress of combat santana pulled a groin muscle and eventually had to retire. Gimeno won 4-6 2-6 6-4 6-4 1-0.
Santana and Gimeno had explored different avenues in their pursuit of fame and fortune. Their joint achievement was to lift Spanish tennis to a level it had never reached before: a level that was consolidated by Manuel Orantes and to some extent Jose Higueras. Orantes was runner-up for the 1974 French title and in 1975 he won the first of the three US Open contested on a gritty, loose-top surface.
That was a memorable triumph for two reasons. In a semi-final Vilas led Orantes by 6-4 6-1 2-6 5-0 and had five match points. Orantes won, but he was up half the night because he could not tourn off the bathroom tap and had to find a plumber. Then he went back on court and, in the final, gave Jimmy Connors a lesson in the craft of clay-court tennis.
Filed under Books, Davis Cup, French Open, Players, US Open, Wimbledon · Tagged with 1961, 1964, 1969, 1975, Andres Gimeno, Arthur Ashe, Cliff Drysdale, Dennis Ralston, Guillermo Vilas, Ilie Nastase, Jack Kramer, Jimmy Connors, Jose Higueras, Ken Rosewall, Love Thirty, Manuel Orantes, Manuel Santana, Nicola Pietrangeli, rg1969, Rod Laver, Roy Emerson, Spain
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Bird protection netting comes in a variety of shapes and forms, The most common is a small mesh (1 or 2 cm squares) either extruded and bi-oriented polypropylene or woven polyethylene.
The color most used is black (as the carbon black UV inhibitor offers the best protection against solar rays), but also bird netting may be available in other colors like white (usually white netting is woven or knitted and has an even smaller mesh size as it will serve as a double purpose anti-hail net for the protection of fruits during summer hail storms or late spring during flowering) or green (usually used in home gardening and mostly sold at retail outlets for the DIY farmers).
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Broward County Total Home Sales Continue Rising in October
Broward County total home sales surged in October 2020 as strong pent-up demand and record-low mortgage rates fueled transactions, according to the MIAMI Association of Realtors (MIAMI) and the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) system.
Broward MIAMI President Sharon R. Lindblade
"Powered by low interest rates, high demand and low inventory, Broward County home sales continued surging in October"
MIAMI (PRWEB) November 19, 2020
Broward County total home sales jumped 23.1% year-over-year, from 2,632 to 3,241. Broward single-family home sales jumped 23.2% year-over-year, from 1,344 to 1,656. Broward existing condo transactions increased 23.1% year-over-year, from 1,288 to 1,585.
Broward single-family home sales have now posted double-digit, year-over-year increases for three consecutive months and Broward existing condos have posted transaction gains for two straight two months.
"Powered by low interest rates, high demand and low inventory, Broward County home sales continued surging in October," Broward MIAMI President Sharon R. Lindblade said. "Homebuyers are seeking more space for home offices, backyards and good schools, and the greater Fort Lauderdale region has many options to offer."
Broward Single-Family Luxury Home Sales Surge 84.4% in October 2020
Broward single-family homes priced between $400K to $600K surged 53.6% year-over-year to 530 transactions in October 2020. Broward existing condo sales priced between $400K to $600K increased 19% to 75 transactions.
Broward single-family luxury ($1-million-and-up) transactions jumped 84.4% year-over-year to 118 sales in October 2020. Broward existing condo luxury ($1-million-and-up) sales increased 136.4% year-over-year to 26 transactions.
Record-low interest rates; a record-high S&P 500; the appeal of stable assets in a volatile economy; homebuyers leaving tax-burdened Northeastern states to purchase in Florida (no state income tax); and work-from-home and remote-learning policies have all combined to create a robust market for luxury single-family properties.
Robust Price Appreciation in Broward County
Strong demand coupled with limited supply continue to drive price appreciation in Broward.
Broward County single-family home prices increased 14.6% year-over-year in October 2020, increasing from $362,000 to $415,000. Existing condo prices increased 12.5% year-over-year, from $168,000 to $189,000.
Single-Family Home Dollar Volume Increases
Single-family home dollar volume increased 49.4% year-over-year, from $611.6 million to $913.4 million. Condo dollar volume increased 41.2% year-over-year, from $272.9 million to $385.3 million.
According to Freddie Mac, the average commitment rate for a 30-year, conventional, fixed-rate mortgage decreased to 2.83% in October, down from 2.89% in September. The average commitment rate across all of 2019 was 3.94%.
Lack of access to mortgage loans continues to inhibit further growth of the existing condominium market. Of the 9,307 condominium buildings in Miami-Dade and Broward counties, only 13 are approved for Federal Housing Administration loans, down from 29 last year, according to Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation and FHA.
A new condo approval process is expected to increase sales. The new guidance, which went into effect in October 2019, extends certifications from two years to three, allows for single-unit mortgage approvals, provides more flexibility with owner/occupancy ratios, and increases the allowable number of FHA loans in a single project. The changes, many of which MIAMI and NAR has championed, are expected to generate increased homeownership opportunities.
Broward Distressed Sales Stay Low, Reflecting Healthy Market
Only 1.9% of all closed residential sales in Broward were distressed last month, including REO (bank-owned properties) and short sales, compared to 4.8% in October 2020.
Total Broward distressed sales decreased 51.6%, from 126 to 61.
Short sales and REOs accounted for 0.7% and 1.2% year-over-year, respectively, of total Broward sales in October 2020. Short sale transactions decreased 4.2% year-over-year while REOs decreased 62.7%.
Nationally, distressed sales represented less than 1% of sales in October, equal to September's percentage but down from 2% in October 2019.
Broward Real Estate Selling Close to List Price
The median percent of original list price received for single-family homes was 97.6% in October, up 1.9% from 95.8% last year. The median percent of original list price received for existing condominiums was 95.3%, up 0.4% from 94.9% last year.
The median number of days between listing and contract dates for Broward single-family home sales was 22 days, a 52.2% decrease from 46 days last year. The median number of days between the listing date and closing date for condos was 37 days, down 27.5% from 51 days.
The median time to sale for single-family homes was 68 days, a 22.7% decrease from 88 days last year. The median number of days to sale for condos was 78 days, an 15.2% decrease from 92 days.
National and State Statistics
Nationally, total existing-home sales transactions completed transactions that include single-family homes, townhomes, condominiums and co-ops, increased 4.3% from September to a seasonally-adjusted annual rate of 6.85 million in October. Overall, sales rose year-over-year, up 26.6% from a year ago (5.41 million in October 2019).
In October, closed sales of single-family homes statewide totaled 29,659, up 26.9% year-over-year, while existing condo-townhouse sales totaled 12,110, up 30.3% over October 2019. Closed sales may occur from 30- to 90-plus days after sales contracts are written.
The national median existing-home price for all housing types in October was $313,000, up 15.5% from October 2019 ($271,100), as prices increased in every region. October's national price increase marks 104 straight months of year-over-year gains.
The statewide median sales prices for both single-family homes and condo-townhouse properties rose year-over-year in October for 106 consecutive months. The statewide median sales price for single-family existing homes was $305,000, up 15.6% from the previous year, according to data from Florida Realtors Research Department in partnership with local Realtor boards/associations. Last month's statewide median price for condo-townhouse units was $221,000, up 15.9% over the year-ago figure. The median is the midpoint; half the homes sold for more, half for less.
Broward's Cash Buyers Top National Figure
Broward cash transactions comprised 30.4% of October 2020 total closed sales, compared to 31.9% last year. The national figure for cash buyers is 19%.
Broward's high percentage of cash sales reflects South Florida's ability to attract a diverse number of international homebuyers, who tend to purchase properties in all cash.
Condominiums comprise a large portion of Broward's cash purchases as 45.2% of condo closings were made in cash in October 2020 compared to 16.2% of single-family home sales.
Seller's Market for Single-Family Homes, Balanced Market for Condos
Inventory of single-family homes decreased 38.9% in October from 5,362 active listings last year to 3,278 last month. Condominium inventory decreased 0.9% to 7,720 from 7,790 listings during the same period in 2019.
Months supply of inventory for single-family homes decreased 39% to 2.5 months, which indicates a seller's market. Inventory for existing condominiums increased 12.5% to 6.3 months, which indicates a buyer's market. A balanced market between buyers and sellers offers between six- and nine-months supply.
Total active listings at the end of October decreased 16.4% year-over-year, from 13,152 to 10,998. Active listings remain about 60% below 2008 levels when sales bottomed.
New listings of Broward single-family homes increased 6.1% to 1,986 from 1,872. New listings of condominiums increased 7%, from 2,062 to 2,207.
Nationally, total housing inventory at the end of October totaled 1.42 million units, down 2.7% from September and down 19.8% from one year ago (1.77 million). Unsold inventory sits at an all-time low 2.5-month supply at the current sales pace, down from 2.7 months in September and down from the 3.9-month figure recorded in October 2019.
To access October 2020 Broward County Statistical Reports, visit http://www.SFMarketIntel.com
Note: Statistics in this news release may vary depending on reporting dates. MIAMI reports exact statistics directly from its MLS system.
About the MIAMI Association of Realtors
The MIAMI Association of Realtors was chartered by the National Association of Realtors in 1920 and is celebrating 100 years of service to Realtors, the buying and selling public, and the communities in South Florida. Comprised of six organizations, the Residential Association, the Realtors Commercial Alliance, the Broward-MIAMI Association of Realtors, the Jupiter Tequesta Hobe Sound (JTHS-MIAMI) Council, the Young Professionals Network (YPN) Council and the award-winning International Council, it represents 52,000 total real estate professionals in all aspects of real estate sales, marketing, and brokerage. It is the largest local Realtor association in the U.S. and has official partnerships with 223 international organizations worldwide. MIAMI's official website is http://www.MiamiRealtors.com
Lynda Fernandez
MIAMI Association of Realtors
@MiamiRealtors


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Q: find no of days between 2 selected dates in jquery I need to find number of days between 2 selected dates. I have tried the following code but it returns error results for some dates.
function getDateObject(str) {
  var arr = str.split("-");
  return new Date(arr[0], arr[1], arr[2]);
}

$('#from_date,#to_date').bind("change paste keyup", function() {
    var date1 = getDateObject($('#from_date').val());
    var date2 = getDateObject($('#to_date').val());
    var days = (date2 - date1) / 86400000;
    alert(days); //it returns -1 for from:2016-01-31 - to:2016-02-01.
    //other dates like from:2016-01-13 - to:2016-01-14 returns 1 correctly
}

please help me to resolve this issue.

A: You need to parse your dates correctly, currently:
new Date("2016", "01", "31");

will give
Wed Mar 02 2016 00:00:00 GMT+0530 (IST)

Just this will work fine
// str should be in yy-mm-dd
function getDateObject(str) {
  return new Date(str);
}

A: finally I found a solution.
function getDateObject(str) {
  var arr = str.split("-");
  return new Date(arr[0], arr[1]-1, arr[2]);//just added -1 in arr[1] that is month.
}

$('#from_date,#to_date').bind("change paste keyup", function() {
    var date1 = getDateObject($('#from_date').val());
    var date2 = getDateObject($('#to_date').val());
    var days = (date2 - date1) / 86400000;
    alert(days);
}

this gave me the output I needed.
Thanks you all tried to help me.


Are you fed up with constant iTunes errors? If you download apps or software from bad sources, your device may become unresponsive but a quick restore through iTunes usually does the trick. Unless you are unlucky enough to be faced with an iTunes error 3194.
This error happens when iTunes and the Apple servers cannot connect to one another but, you'll be pleased to learn, fixing it really isn't all that difficult.
First, not all of these solutions are going o work for all users so work through them in order until you get to the one that does work.
Both of these can interfere with the connection between iTunes and the Apple servers – the firewall is the worst one, even though iTunes is perfectly safe. Disable your firewall temporarily using Control Panel on your computer, but make sure you enable it again once you are done restoring your iPhone or iPad.
Your anti-virus software can also get in the way and needs to be disabled until you are done. You may be able to pause it but if not, shut it down so it isn't working. Again, enable it again after.
Do NOT do this unless you are comfortable with editing these files.
Leave your device; when the restore is done your device will reboot.
This will probably only work on older iOS devices. Right now the updated version of TinyUmbrella is missing the Restore – Downgrade feature, although a new update is due any time to bring it back.
You can still use TinyUmbrella to save SHSH blobs though. Find out how it works by clicking the given link .
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While the RBI has been regularly issuing caution notices against such frauds, it has now taken to SMSes to spread public awareness against frauds.
Whether you're put on hold or attended to immediately by customer service staff could depend on your last tweet, Facebook post or Instagram picture.
Making a foray into mobile payments sector in India, tech giant Google today launched its Android payments app, Tez.
Urban internet users prefer net banking, debit cards, credit cards and even cash on delivery to mobile wallets, according to an ET-RICS Retail Banking report.
Electronic payments have become safer for consumers with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) introducing the concept of 'zero liability' and 'limited liability' for bank customers for any card or online fraud. It has also made it mandatory for banks to register all customers for text message alerts.
Is Demonetisation ride ending for digital money?
The momentum and the volume and value of digital transactions have stagnated, financial services firm Motilal Oswal observed in its recent report.
Card companies are highlighting avenues such as QR codes and contactless payments as part of a bouquet of options to stay relevant in a cashless economy.
A payment bank can accept only savings and current deposits of up to Rs 1 lakh per customer. They can issue ATM/debit cards only.