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Within the ambit of LOLC's status as the largest financial services provider in Sri Lanka, the geographically diversified Group owns strategic stakes in commercial banks, plantations and leisure properties in the Country.
21.7 Mn
$0.7 Bn
Gross loan portfolio
LOLC Finance PLC
LOLC Finance, the largest Non-Banking Financial Institution in Sri Lanka, provides a comprehensive range of deposit and lending products including technology-backed financial services ranging from microcredit to enterprise solutions. The entity is also listed on the Colombo Stock Exchange.
LOLC Al-Falaah, Alternate Financial Services Unit
LOLC Al-Falaah is the dedicated Alternate Financial Services Unit of LOLC Finance PLC, established as an effort to ensure that all products and services are handled in compliance with Islamic principles. Customers can conveniently access the entity's products through Al-Falaah's dedicated centres and LOLC Finance's island-wide branch network.
LOLC Life Assurance Limited
LOLC Life Assurance is committed to providing comprehensive tailor-made insurance solutions including customized life insurance plans, pension plans, child plans, critical illness plans, and home loan protections. The entity aims to reach closer to its potential customer base in a highly under-penetrated Life Insurance market, where only about 10% of the total eligible population has life insurance in Sri Lanka.
LOLC General Insurance PLC
LOLC General Insurance PLC offers all classes of products in the General Insurance space. It is one of the fastest-growing insurance companies in Sri Lanka. In 2022, the company was listed on the Colombo Stock Exchange with the IPO being oversubscribed by 12.23 times.
LOLC Securities Limited
LOLC Securities is a trading member of the Colombo Stock Exchange, facilitating value-added services including in-house margin trading, attractive credit facilities, and a sophisticated online trading platform. The company caters to a wide range of local and foreign clientele with the support of a strong research unit.
LOLC Factors Limited
LOLC Factors commenced operations in 1992 as the first factoring company in Sri Lanka, established to cater to the growing demand for working capital through its range of services including factoring, structured working capital loans, purchase order financing, and cheque discounting.
LOLC Motors Limited
LOLC Motors was launched in 2010 as a service provider for the LOLC Group's fleet of vehicles and expanded its services to external customers. The entity provides fleet management services to leading multinational companies as well as other enterprises in Sri Lanka.
Seylan Bank PLC
Seylan Bank is a licensed commercial bank incorporated in 1987. The bank is listed on the Colombo Stock Exchange. It is the fifth-largest private sector bank in the country in terms of total assets and fourth in terms of footprint with LOLC as its single-largest shareholder with the ownership of a 38% stake in the bank. The bank offers a comprehensive suite of products and services including branch banking, retail banking, corporate and foreign currency banking, and trade finance.
Hatton National Bank PLC
Hatton National Bank (HNB) was incorporated in 1888. Currently, it is positioned as the second-largest licensed commercial bank in Sri Lanka, and the bank is ranked among the top 1,000 World Banks. HNB offers corporate and SME banking, microfinance, insurance, investment banking, and real estate services. LOLC is the single-largest shareholder of HNB with 17% ownership of the bank's stake. The bank is also listed on the CSE.
HDFC Bank of Sri Lanka
HDFC Bank is a listed, licensed specialized bank established in 1984. 70% of the bank's loan portfolio consists of housing loans, keeping in line with the bank's mandate of fulfilling housing-related financial needs. LOLC owns a 15% stake in HDFC Bank.
DFCC Bank PLC
DFCC Bank was established in 1955 as the first development bank in Sri Lanka. In 2015, DFCC ventured into commercial banking and the bank was listed on the CSE in 2016. LOLC owns a 9.99% stake in DFCC. The bank offers a comprehensive range of services including corporate and SME banking, investment banking, unit trusts, stock broking, venture capital, industrial estate management, consulting, and IT services.
SANASA Development Bank PLC
Sanasa Development Bank (SDB) is a listed, licensed specialized bank. SDB focuses on serving the 'bottom of the pyramid' population and aims to be a leading partner of national progress. LOLC became the single-largest shareholder of the bank with the acquisition of a 15% stake.
LOLC Technologies Limited
LOLC Technologies collaborates with world-renowned Information Technology solution providers such as Oracle, Microsoft, and AirWatch to cater to the Information Technology needs of the LOLC Group as well as external customers. LOLC Technologies also has its award-winning cloud-based service management system – OASYS, which is a flagship product of the company.
iPay is a simple, easy-to-use, real-time payment platform built on an architecture that allows easy integration with any system. The vibrant graphical user interface of iPay promises a unique experience whilst carrying out various types of payments
Fusion X
Fusion X is a next-generation, exponential, cloud-based financial services suite, designed to provide cutting-edge features, performance, and security. Fusion X is based on the first principles of design thinking for banking technology and is geared to facilitate the easy adoption of open banking.
OYES
OYES is a Fintech platform that enables every day to be payday by providing salary advance facilities to employees of corporates that sign up with OYES. OYES algorithm takes into consideration employees' net salary and attendance to calculate the employees' earned salary and facilitate instant access to it at any given time.
Browns Group
Established in 1875, the Browns Group has built a strong heritage of trust over one-and-a-half centuries together with global business partners. The legacy of Browns is tightly interwoven with the fortunes of the modern Sri Lankan economy, powering many sectors and industries. Browns Group was an early catalyst in the plantation sector, which put Sri Lanka on the map of the global economy. As the plantation economy thrived, Browns Group expanded its business activities into engineering, transport, logistics, and commerce. Browns is the most trusted, reliable, and preferred partner of many leading global brands in heavy machinery and haulage solutions, agricultural machinery, farm and animal nutrition, power generation and storage, and many other sectors. Browns energize these sectors in partnership with leading global brands and world-class, state-of-the-art products. The Group, at every stage of its history, has provided an impetus to the local economy. Browns envisions being a diversified conglomerate excelling through the sunrise and sunshine industries with a global presence and cutting-edge technology. Today, the Browns Group is a part of LOLC Holdings PLC, a globally diversified conglomerate.
Associated Battery Manufacturers (Cey) Limited
Associated Battery Manufacturers, incorporated in 1960, manufactures the widest range of Lead Acid Batteries from 25Ah to 200Ah capacity under the brand names Exide, Lucas, and Dagenite. It also produces deep cycle batteries for solar and trawler boat applications. The entity is the largest automotive battery manufacturer in Sri Lanka.
Browns Pharma (Private) Limited
Established in 1990, the Veterinary Pharmaceutical Division of Browns offers total solutions to foster animal health in partnership with leading global veterinary brands. It is the market leader in the biological product segment in Sri Lanka, working with a range of pet care suppliers and pharmaceutical suppliers.
BI Logistics and Commodities (Private) Limited
BI Commodities and Logistics are engaged in manufacturing and supplying of treated wooden pallets, timber preservation, kiln drying of timber and wooden flooring. The entity caters to the hotel sector through wooden flooring and preserved timber segments while the wooden pallets are supplied to conglomerates to use in logistics.
Browns Thermal Engineering (Pvt) Limited
Browns Thermal Engineering (Pvt) Ltd is a large-scale manufacturer of heat exchanges. The entity manufactures coolants and radiators for auto and industrial production under the brand name, RADCO. The company also supplies plastic components to the domestic battery industry.
Browns Engineering & Construction (Private) Limited
Browns Engineering is positioned as a leading player in the telecommunication infrastructure development and maintenance industry and is also engaged in Electrical Engineering, MEP design and construction services, project management consultancy, and road construction.
Sierra Cables PLC
Sierra Cables, the largest cable manufacturer in Sri Lanka, specializes in designing manufacturing and supplying, and exporting a comprehensive range of copper and aluminum cable products for the energy, industrial, and communications sectors.
Sierra Readymix (Private) Limited
Incorporated in 2005, Sierra Readymix is geared to manufacture and supply quality ready-mix concrete to the construction industry.
Ajax Engineers (Private) Limited
Ajax Engineers is a strong player in Aluminum fabrication and installation in high-rise buildings with over 30 years of experience. The entity also offers customized products to meet clients' specifications.
Creations Wooden Fabricators (Private) Limited
Creations Wooden Fabricators is engaged in providing furniture solutions for hotel projects, apartment projects, offices, and households. Recently, the entity also ventured into manufacturing and installation of engineered-type doors and readymade pantry cupboard solutions.
Gurind Accor (Pvt) Limited
Gurind Accor is engaged in glass processing and the company provides toughened glass, insulated glass and solar control glass, primarily to hotels, apartment projects and other industrial projects.
Browns Metal & Sands (Private) Limited
Browns Metal & Sands is still in the pre-operational stage and plans to manufacture stone aggregates, sand, and granite tiles.
Maturata Plantation Limited
Maturata Plantations is one of the largest tea-producing companies in Sri Lanka as well as being the largest cinnamon plantation in the world. The plantations are located in the Central and Southern provinces in Sri Lanka.
Udapussellawa Plantations PLC
Udapussellawa Plantations are located in the Central and Uva provinces in Sri Lanka. The plantations specialized in the cultivation of tea, coffee, commercial forestry, cardamom, coconut, pepper, and cocoa. The entity is listed on the Colombo Stock Exchange.
Hapugastenne Plantations PLC
Hapugastenna Plantations are located in the Sabaragamuwa hill range. The plantations are engaged in the cultivation of tea, rubber, commercial forestry, pepper, cinnamon, and cocoa. The entity is listed on the Colombo Stock Exchange.
Galoya Plantations (Pvt) Limited
Galoya Plantations is a public-private partnership between the Government of Sri Lanka and LOLC Group. Gal Oya is one of the four sugar-producing factories in Sri Lanka and also among the highest-grade ethanol manufacturer in the country. The company engages in producing Bio-Fertilizer and generation of power.
Browns Agri Solutions (Private) Limited
Browns Agri Solutions markets crop protection products, local and foreign hybrid seeds, and specialized fertilizers from world-renowned suppliers to the local market. It has created strategic partnerships with global giants in the industry, such as ZGARO, Rainbow, and Nufarm.
Agstar PLC
Agstar is one of the market leaders in importing, blending, and marketing fertilizer products. The entity offers a range of organic and chemical fertilizers and also markets tractors and Agri machinery. Agstar has subsidiaries in fertilizer, crop care, seeds.
Tropical Island Commodities (Pvt) Limited
Tropical Island Commodities has over 100 years of experience in the production to retail packaging of Ceylon Cinnamon and spices. The company owns a cinnamon plantation with GMP-certified peeling centers. Europe, the United States, and Asia are the main export destinations of the company.
Browns Tea (Pvt) Ltd
Browns Ceylon Tea is renowned for its hallmark quality and exceptional flavour. Backed by the Group's expertise in the tea industry, Browns Tea provides white label brands for tea importers and traders across the World. From orthodox black tea to instant tea and flavoured tea, the entity's bulk tea range caters to a wide market segment.
Eden Resort & Spa
Ensconced on the edge of the serene beaches of the fishing village of Beruwala, known as the 'Golden Mile', Occidental Eden (formerly known as Eden Resort & Spa) is a member of the Spanish hotel group, Barcelo. The hotel is equipped with modern amenities to cater to sophisticated tastes and styles.
Paradise Resort & Spa
Occidental Paradise (formerly known as Paradise Resort), a member of the Spanish hotel group Barcelo offers a luxurious stay in the very heart of Sri Lanka's famed Cultural Triangle which provides easy access to numerous historically and culturally significant UNESCO heritage sites.
The Beach House, a luxurious chic villa, offers incredible ocean views, stunning sunrises, and tropical living at the Mirissa beach. The villa lies in proximity to the locale's most sought attractions and experiences, from whale watching to the scenic Coconut Tree Hill.
Calm Resort & Spa Pasikuda
Calm Resort & Spa is known as a tropical haven nestled on the pristine beach stretches of the East Coast with elegant rooms, contemporary facilities, and breathtaking ocean views.
Dickwella Resort & Spa
Dickwella Resort is a mid-range luxury resort designed for tropical living amidst cozy comforts. The resort is located on a peninsula in Southern Sri Lanka, embraced by the Indian Ocean.
Avani Bentota
Avani Bentota, a designer hotel by the renowned architect Geoffery Bawa, is located in Bentota along the west coast of Sri Lanka. The hotel was s reopened in 2022 following a major refurbishment to offer superior service and comfort to the guests.
Club Hotel Dolphin
Club Hotel Dolphin is an immaculately designed resort sprawling along a stretch of golden beach in Negombo. The hotel reopened its doors in 2022 after a full renovation to offer a luxurious experience to the guests.
Hotel Sigiriya
Hotel Sigiriya, located in the beating heart of the cultural triangle of the country, overlooking the iconic rock fortress is the ultimate holiday destination for eco-tourists.
Riverina Resort & Spa
Riverina Resort is a luxurious star-class resort under construction on a sprawling beachfront property. The hotel is located along the 'Golden Mile' of the famed Bentota beach.
Sheraton Kosgoda
Sheraton Kosgoda, managed by the US-based Sheraton Group, is a luxurious resort located on the golden coastline of the South. Adjacent to the famous turtle hatchery in Kosgoda, all the rooms are equipped with modern features facing the picturesque Indian ocean.
Sansun Boutique (Elephant Corridor)
Sansun Boutique, a boutique hotel with cabin suites nestled near the magnificent Sigiriya Rock and the Kandalama hills, is renowned as a slice of paradise in the jungle.
Ubuntu Beach Villa
Ubuntu beach villas are two standalone villas with two pools located just 300m away from each other. These contemporary villas are designed to complement the surroundings with direct access to the stunning Mirissa beach.
Lavender House
Lavender House is an English-style planter's bungalow, now converted to a boutique hotel with luxurious rooms amidst a picturesque tea plantation that combines luxury living with the beauty of the highlands in Sri Lanka.
Lantern Boutique
Lantern Boutique is a beachfront villa featuring large well-appointed bedrooms to offer the comforts of a hotel with a more relaxed atmosphere on the southern coast of Sri Lanka. The in-house restaurant offers a variety of Sri Lankan-infused cuisines to the guests.
AYR Bungalow
AYR Bungalow was built in 1922 by a planter, J F Arley Alford in pursuit of his wife-to-be, who was of Scottish nobility. Designed to entirely emulate the architecture of Scottish castles, Ayr stands out amongst the landscape as a megalithic monument, built entirely of stone.
Stafford Bungalow
Stafford Bungalow is a 130-year-old Scottish planter's bungalow, now converted to a luxurious boutique hotel, located amidst a 50-acre tea plantation in the village of Ragala in the Sri Lankan hill country. The bungalow has an old-world charm and is designed with wooden floors, fireplaces, and a gabled roof.
Marina Hotel
The Marina Hotel, located within the Colombo Port City, alongside the Colombo Marina, is to be developed as an iconic luxury hotel positioned to attract discerning tourists and business travelers to Sri Lanka. Combined with a magnificent sea view and city view, the hotel will be developed with a classical contemporary ambiance.
Colombo Marina Development
Colombo Marina Development, located within the Colombo Port City, is a first-of-its-kind investment in Sri Lanka. Post-development, Colombo Marina will create a luxury experience in boating, dining, shopping & nightlife - unparalleled with any other location in Sri Lanka
Excel World
Excel World Entertainment Park is located in the heart of Colombo and continues to offer the whole family a 'one-stop' location for wholesome entertainment which includes arcade games, bowling, a food court, buffets and location services for family events and corporate events.
BG Air Services (Pvt) Limited
BG Air Services offers inbound and outbound tour packages to worldwide destinations. Years spent serving global clientele have helped BG Air Services make a name for itself in the tourism sphere. The company operates as a general sales agent for the US-based Continental Airlines Group, and European-based Austrian and Scandinavian Airlines.
Browns Tours (Pvt) Limited
Browns Tours is a global destination management company, which has been in the business of offering outbound bespoke tours.
Ceylon Roots
Ceylon Roots is an inbound destination management company that offers personalized services to travellers while providing access to the best hotels, tourist attraction sites, and activities in Sri Lanka and Maldives. The entity also offers customers a complete package of travel tours with exotic encounters centered on the tropical locations and colourful antiquity.
Browns Investment PLC
Browns Investments PLC, the strategic investment arm of LOLC Group. The investments made in mature sunshine industries balance the overall risk profile, profitability, and liquidity perspectives. The key investment sectors include leisure, agriculture and plantations, construction, and real estate. Browns Investments will continue to be the Group's arm for future investments into diverse sectors, which are expected to lead the growth of the national economy as an individual investor or in partnership.
CIFC Phase 1 Mixed Development Project
The Colombo International Financial Center (CIFC) marks the first development project to be approved within the Colombo Port City. CIFC will become an international hub that offers business and lifestyle facilities comparable to other renowned business hubs in the world. The total envisaged Gross Floor Area of the project is 160,807m2 and it can be further divided into 45% of luxury high-rise residents, 30% of grade A offices, 15% of retail facilities, and 10% of serviced apartments.
PickMe
PickMe was launched in 2015 as the pioneering, technology-based ride hailing app in Sri Lanka. The app is available in three languages for Android, IOS, and Windows and now has expanded the services offered to include food delivery and logistics.
LOLC Advanced Technologies (Private) Limited
LOLC Advanced Technologies provides advanced technological consultation support to companies under the LOLC umbrella in the fields of agriculture, spice value addition, new product development in plant nutrition, and agro-chemistry. The entity was set up to explore sustainable business opportunities in the market with the augmentation of science and technology.
LOLC Geo Technologies Limited
LOLC Geo Technologies holds several exploration licenses from the Government Survey and Mining Bureau (GSMB). The entity is predominantly engaged in the exploration and development of Graphite Mines, installation of Graphite refiners, extraction of Graphite oil-based dry lubricants, and Graphite processing.
Ceylon Graphene Technologies (Pvt) Limited
Ceylon Graphene Technologies (CGT), a joint venture between the LOLC Group and the Sri Lanka Institute of Nanotechnology (SLINTEC), is Sri Lanka's first graphene and advanced material company. CGT is the most competitive graphene manufacturer, product developer, and researcher in the world due to its complete product life cycle.
Fortigrains Lanka (Pvt) Limited
Fortigrains is engaged in the fortification of rice with essential nutrients by infusing the nutrients into the rice kernel. The technology developed by the R&D team has successfully addressed each of the shortcomings in the existing technologies.
Leapstitch Apparel (Private) Limited
Leapstitch Apparel was formed in 2022 to manufacture apparel in highly automated factories. The automation results in greater consistency of quality as well as improved efficiency. . The company currently caters to large-scale brands.
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Sri Lanka's most awarded and trusted Alternate Financial services brand, LOLC Al-Falaah recently unveiled their ground-breaking new product – the Wadi'ah Gold Loan Facility. This is the 1st time a Finance company in Sri Lanka is offering this facility. Al-Falaah Wadi'ah is a unique gold…
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BlackBird Trading Co., 433 E. Main St. #16 is all about highlighting artisans from all walks of life. They have quite the delightful assortment in every price range for every occasion! Come check 'em out, you really have to see it for yourself.


It looks like the former Dance Moms star is about to get a huge reality check! According to FCI Victorville newly released inmate Hollie Coulman, the disgraced Abby Lee Miller's first few days behind bars are bound to be a nightmare.
Hollie Coulman spent 13 months in prison for wire fraud, and she was released in April.
The woman revealed that through the check-in process, and after she does the paperwork, Abby will be strip-searched for contraband and drugs.
Coulman went on, saying that after all that is done the torture and humiliation is not over!
The prison will hand Abby a pair of use underwear, a jogging bra, and a t-shirt.
What is even more humiliating according to the former inmate is that they give the 'newbies' green dresses to differentiate them from the rest.
Abby is set to also receive socks and a pair of canvas shoes that have been washed so many times they have holes in the bottom.
She will get one towel, a laundry bag, and two thin blankets as well as two pillowcases.
Apparently, the check-in process will take many hours.
Do you think Abby Lee Miller will be able to handle well her new life in prison?


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The territory of ADEMA covers 3,393 km² and includes 49 municipalities which, with an approximate population of 15,053 inhabitants, translates into a population density of 4.44 inhabitants/km².
The landscape is dominated by two incredible river valleys formed by the Rivers Duero and Jalón, and it also has treeless plains, softly rolling barren and sown fields that break the monotony, an important Spanish juniper forest with specimens of considerable height and age, and dense and continuous patches of black pines mixed in with oak groves, all of which are environments that draw us to tourism and leisure, giving us an opportunity to participate in activities such as hunting, fishing, hiking, mycology, dining, etc.
In the Natura 2000 ecology network the ZEPAs (Special Protection Areas for Birds, from the Spanish acronym) of Monteagudo de las Vicarías, Altos de Barahona and Los Páramos de Layna all stand out, as well as the Sites of Community Importance (in Spanish, LICs)of Los Altos de Barahona, Páramos de Layna, Sabinares del Jalón, Quejigares de Gómara - Nágima, and Riberas del Río Duero and Afluentes. There is also an extensive list of lakes included in the Castilla y León Attraction Guide as Wetlands of Special Interest, with the goal of promoting their protection, and these include the Monteagudo de las Vicarías Dam and the Laguna de Judes.
Together with the natural diversity, a very rich historical and artistic heritage is easily observable in each of the towns in our region, including castles, fortified towers, watchtowers, walled enclosures, and churches.

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Man Plays The Guitar During Brain Surgery
Brazilian man Anthony Kulkamp Dias amazed doctors with his guitar performance of The Beatles "Yesterday" and other tunes while undergoing brain surgery.
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Brazilian man Anthony Kulkamp Dias amazed doctors on Wednesday by performing on guitar while undergoing brain surgery. Dias was undergoing surgery in order to remove a brain tumor discovered just 15 days after his son was born. His performance included his own self-written song entitled "Emanuel," which he wrote for his newborn.
As Dias played his guitar, doctors used cerebral monitoring to guard against any damage to sensory, motor and speech areas of the brain. While conversing with patients is typical during this type of procedure, this was the first time surgeons at Nossa Senhora da Conceiçāo Hospital had a patient play an instrument during brain surgery. The operation was a success and he was discharged from the hospital on Wednesday June, 3rd.


What kind of bra does this suit have?
I purchased this suit for a cruise. I love it. It is comfortable and provides the support I need. The bra is soft cups. The suit fits well and I love the colors. I did have to have the skirt shortened as I am only 4'11" and it was a little longer than I like. Enjoy!
The bra has foam cups, pretty substantial so there's no show-through. There are no underwires and it does not hook in the back; it is integrated into the suit. I find it comfortable and supportive. I wear a 40DD bra.
It has a soft cup bra. No underwire . Very supportive.
BEST ANSWER: I think you would find this swimdress Long enough. In fact, when you get out of the pool, it seems to be even longer. There is an inside and outer tie that doesn't make much sense to me. Maybe just a decoration. Overall I like this swimdress and have used it as one of my go to bathing suits.
I don't think the swim dress covers down to mid-thigh. Of course this would depend on how tall a person is. I am satisfied with my purchase. I hope this helps.
I love the suit but it's not quite as long as you want, but I'm sure you will like it!
It covers the mid thigh area.
BEST ANSWER: No it's a swimdress with a built-in one piece suit underneath the skirted part.
It's one piece. It's super comfortable and very flattering. I love mine!!
No, not 2 pieces. It's a 1 piece swim dress. Fits good.
Can l get another color?


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Enthusiastic welcome for former Haitian leader
The former president of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, has made a triumphant homecoming seven years after he was ousted from power.
Thousands turned out to greet the man who is still widely revered in the poor Caribbean country.
His return, two days before a crucial presidential election, came despite US objections.


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Star Trek on PC is broken as f*ck!
... and that's LITERALLY all Square Enix did. "Be excited for E3," said the publisher. Yes, an announcement of an announcement. We're heading to a new generation ... but apparently plenty of old behavior is carrying over.


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Thou Shalt Not Kill… Except (1985)
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Vietnam, 1969. War is Hell. For Marine Sergeant Jack Stryker (Brian Schulz), however, Hell is just the beginning. Trapped outside a Viet Cong village, Stryker takes two bullets to the leg. Sent home from the war, he discovers his ex-girlfriend (Cheryl Hausen) has been kidnapped by a religious cult with a vicious Manson-like leader (Sam Raimi). Stryker teams up with some marine friends to form an assassination squad and annihilate the gang of crazed killers.
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Director: Josh Becker
Actors: Cheryl Hausen, John Manfredi, Perry Mallette, Robert Rickman, Sam Raimi, Ted Raimi, Timothy Patrick Quill
In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale (2007)
A man named Farmer sets out to rescue his kidnapped wife and avenge the death of his son — two acts committed by the Krugs, a race of animal-warriors who…
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller, War
The Expendables 3 (2014)
Barney, Christmas and the rest of the team comes face-to-face with Conrad Stonebanks, who years ago co-founded The Expendables with Barney. Stonebanks subsequently became a ruthless arms trader and someone…
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In the year 180, the death of emperor Marcus Aurelius throws the Roman Empire into chaos. Maximus is one of the Roman army's most capable and trusted generals and a…
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An assassin is shot by her ruthless employer, Bill, and other members of their assassination circle – but she lives to plot her vengeance.
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
On the eve of retirement, Kirk and McCoy are charged with assassinating the Klingon High Chancellor and imprisoned. The Enterprise crew must help them escape to thwart a conspiracy aimed…
Johnny English Strikes Again (2018)
Disaster strikes when a criminal mastermind reveals the identities of all active undercover agents in Britain. The secret service can now rely on only one man – Johnny English. Currently…
Country: China, France, UK, USA
Galveston (2018)
After a violent encounter, Roy finds Rocky and sees something in her eyes that prompts a fateful decision. He takes her with him as he flees to Galveston, an action…
Solarbabies (1986)
In a future in which most water has disappeared from the Earth, we find a group of children, mostly teenagers, who are living at an orphanage, run by the despotic…
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Science Fiction
Bahubali: The Beginning (2015)
The young Shivudu is left as a foundling in a small village by his mother. By the time he's grown up, it has become apparent that he possesses exceptional gifts….
Superintelligence (2020)
When an all-powerful Superintelligence chooses to study the most average person on Earth, Carol Peters, the fate of the world hangs in the balance. As the A.I. decides to enslave,…
When Alita awakens with no memory of who she is in a future world she does not recognize, she is taken in by Ido, a compassionate doctor who realizes that…
Bastille Day (2016)
Michael Mason is an American pickpocket living in Paris who finds himself hunted by the CIA when he steals a bag that contains more than just a wallet. Sean Briar,…
Country: France, Germany, Luxembourg, UK, USA
Trailer: Thou Shalt Not Kill… Except (1985)


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I have worked for Jade Solutions for the past 7 years, initially as a Software Developer, and then as the Software Development Manager from July 2013. Previously I was a Senior Programmer / Analyst in the Computing Serives Department of The University of Liverpool for just over 9 years.
Prior to this I spent four years at Liverpool John Moores University studying for a BSc (Hons) in Software Engineering. During my 3rd year Sandwich year, I worked in a very similar job to the one I do, within the University of Liverpool, which went some way to getting my job after graduation.
Even further back from this, I went to Winstanley College for my A Levels, Priory High School (now Priory Science College) for my GCSE's, and St Johns (CofE) Primary School as my Primary School.
I am a Christian and attend St John the Baptist Church, in Burscough where I head up all the technical aspects, such as the website, PA, Projection and computer network, as well as being involved in the men's outreach work. Previously I have also been a Deputy Warden and led a youth group.
In my spare time I am a keen walker and often spend time walking in the Lake District and Wales. Julia and I are avid Geocachers and we greatly enjoy the sporting element that this brings to our walks.


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Broadway Actor Nick Cordero Dead at 41 of Coronavirus
Nick Cordero, a Canadian actor known for his work in Waitress, Rock of Ages, and a musical version of A Bronx Tale, dies after a long 95 days battle with Covid-19.
Nick Cordero is survived by his wife Amanda Kloots and his one-year-old son Elvis, he was 41. Amanda Kloots, a former Broadway dancer who is now a celebrity trainer, shared a heart whelming post on Instagram Sunday night.
"God has another angel in heaven now,"
"My darling husband passed away this morning. He was surrounded in love by his family, singing and praying as he gently left this earth."
She wrote, "I am in disbelief and hurting everywhere. My heart is broken as I cannot imagine our lives without him. Nick was such a bright light. He was everyone's friend, loved to listen, help, and especially talk. He was an incredible actor and musician. He loved his family and loved being a father and husband. Elvis and I will miss him in everything we do, every day."
Amanda Kloots posted updates on the ups and downs of her husband's recovery for followers via social media. Kloots built a large devoted following, with nearly 400,000 Instagram followers worldwide. Fans and well-wishers all across the globe supported her by sending her daily encouragement posts and videos dancing to Cordero's song "Live Your Life" every day at 3 pm afternoon that Kloots would post on her page hoping for his early recovery. There was a huge swarm of get well posts with #WakeUpNick, #OffTheVent, or #CodeRocky.
Cordero's friend Braff showed his support urging everyone to support Cordero and his family, calling Amanda Kloots his superhuman wife. Braff told everyone Coredero was healthy with no pre-existing conditions before contracting the coronavirus, urging everyone to take the Covid-19 pandemic seriously. On his death, he wrote "I have honestly never known a kinder person, But COVID doesn't care about the purity of your soul or the goodness in your heart. The last thing he ever texted me was to look out for his wife and one-year-old son, Elvis. I promise the world they will never want for anything. I feel so incredibly grateful I got to have Nick Cordero enter my life. Rest In Peace. Rest in Power."
Nick was initially admitted to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on 30th March after being diagnosed with pneumonia, where he later tested positive for Covid-19 since then he has been fighting a real arduous battle against coronavirus. Nick Cordero was born in Hamilton, Ontario Canada on September 17, 1978. Cordero attended Ryerson University but left partway to perform for the Love method band. After leaving Canada for New York, he originated the role of Toxie off-Broadway in "The Toxic Avenger."He met his wife while working on Bullets Over Broadway in 2014 and the couple married three years later.
He made an impact with his roles in A Bronx Tale, Rock of Ages and Bullets Over Broadway, a role that got him Theatre World Award, a Tony nomination, and Outer Critics Circle Award. Cordero's last performance was in a Kennedy Center presentation of "Little Shop of Horrors". On television, he gained popularity with guest roles in "Queer as Folk" and "Lilyhammer," and had recurring roles as Anthony Marino in "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit and Victor Lugo in "Blue Bloods"
Cordero suffered multiple complications during his treatment he had to be sedated in ICU for several days, suffered a series of mini-strokes, blood clots and even had to have his leg amputated after blood thinners used to help with clotting caused other problems in his right leg.
During this harsh time, Nick had been receiving a lot of support on social media. #WakeUpNick was running like wildfire on social media when he woke up from the coma. A fundraiser for their support raised more than $500,000 for the support of the family. Even though with the support and medical assistance Nick was showing signs of improvement, his lungs got severely damaged due to coronavirus. He also went into septic shock and had a temporary pacemaker put in. He had been awaiting a double lung transplant when he died.
The world continues to be upended by the coronavirus pandemic, with more and more people contracting COVID-19 as the days pass. The virus has sickened many Broadway and Hollywood celebrities like Olga Kurylenko, Danny Burstein, Idris Elba, Tony Shalhoub, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Gavin Creel, Aaron Tveit and Laura Bell Bundy, David Bryan and many like Lucia Bosè, Mark Blum, Andrew Jack, Adam Schlesinger, Patricia Bosworth, Hilary Heath, Allen Daviau, Matteo De Cosmo, Chris Trousdale, Terrence McNally and now Nick Cordero has lost his life.
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Lawsuit seeks to prevent evictions, requires more relocation assistance
Residents of the Buena Vista Mobile Home Park have filed a lawsuit against Palo Alto, challenging the city's decision in May to allow the mobile-home park's closure and requesting that the Santa Clara County Superior Court bar the property owner from issuing eviction notices.
The lawsuit, which was filed Monday by the attorneys for the Buena Vista Residents Association, comes at a time when the City Council is actively trying to raise money to buy Buena Vista from the Jisser family and preserve the site as a mobile-home park.
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It is clear that the residents are not asking for monetary damages from the city and that the legal action was required to meet a deadline to protect the rights of the residents to appeal in the event that the negotiations to purchase the property did not work out. A number of readers commenting on the story understood this reasoning. One of them wrote:
All this talk about legal fees — the City's attorneys are already being paid by us and the lawyers representing the residents are working pro bono. That's a very strong charge to make and may have no basis in fact.
As near as I can tell, it's just a necessary thing the residents had to do or they would lose any bargaining power they had. Now that there is real money available to help buy the park, it would be a silly thing to do not to retain their rights before the deadline expires. It sounds like there are good faith things happening behind the scenes that none of us knows about, and nothing may ever come of this.
It's not the greatest for PR, but I can't see any reason for all the exaggeration.
But if you are in a business negotiation, the talk softly and carry a big stick holds. If you no longer have a stick, even if you would never wield it except in the most extreme circumstances, you lose. The talking is over.
And another added:
Residents of Buena Vista, like residents of all mobile home parks in California, are protected from arbitrary eviction by state statute and local ordinance. I have come to know many Buena Vista residents over the years and have found them to be people who work hard (often at more than one job), who have strong family values, and who don't have the education or skills to qualify for high income jobs. More than anything, they want their children to have a chance to get the education that the parents missed out on, so they'll have a chance at better jobs and higher incomes.
I've lived in Palo Alto for 30 years. My children graduated from Palo Alto schools and went on to college. If someone had attempted to throw me out of Palo Alto and I had any legal way to prevent them from doing so, you can bet I'd have pursued my legal options to the fullest. If I did so, I would not have considered myself greedy (though apparently some others might have considered me to be greedy).
I think our city is a better place for having a mixture of low, middke and high income residents. Others may disagree. But must we call the residents of Buena Vista "greedy" because they pursue every legal recourse to hold onto what the rest of us want (and, by the grace of God, HAVE)?
The Fight to Save a Silicon Valley Trailer Park
Palo Alto, Calif., has a dilemma: what to do with its only mobile-home park
By CHRISTINA PASSARIELLO, Wall Street Journal
PALO ALTO, Calif.—Here in the center of Silicon Valley's tech boom, one of America's wealthiest enclaves is wrestling with an uncomfortable dilemma: whether it can afford to lose the city's only trailer park.
A block from multimillion-dollar homes and a few miles from the headquarters of GoogleInc. and Facebook Inc. sits Buena Vista Mobile Home Park, with 117 units that are home to about 400 residents, many of them Hispanic laborers.
Erika Escalante, 29 years old, has lived in the park much of her life. The mobile home she owns with her husband is watermelon red with white trim. The yellow trailer three doors down, where she lived during high school, is still home to her parents and youngest brother. Her sister's family has a green unit in the park, where some rusty trailers still sport Christmas decorations in summer.
Soon, they may be forced out. With property values soaring, the park's longtime owners, 44-year-old Joe Jisser and his parents, are fielding inquiries from developers eager for a rare large slice of Palo Alto. The value of the park's 4.5 acres could be as much as $55 million, local real-estate agents say.
$29 million effort to save Palo Alto's last mobile home park
By Bruce Newman, Mercury News
PALO ALTO — Of the 115 or so trailers in Buena Vista Mobile Home Park, it would be difficult to find even one that could still be described as "mobile" — a distinction shared by some of the park's 400 residents. F.G. Cope III, for one, has been sitting in the cactus garden outside his rusted Dutchmen Classic, off and on, since 1992. Cope has lived on a fixed income for 23 years, since a disability forced him to retire from the Ferry-Morse Seed Co. of Mountain View.
"I was a peddler, a con artist, a vinegar man," he says, recalling years of relentless travel as a seed salesman. "If you didn't get 'em with your BS, you got 'em with your fancy footwork."
Now, Cope is just trying to stay put. He and 400 of his neighbors in the mobile home park await the outcome of a frantic effort by one of America's richest cities to preserve what is, by far, its poorest neighborhood. For the past several months, city and county officials have conducted public hearings on the park's possible closure that had more feel-good endings than a Frank Capra movie.
Faces of Buena Vista
In February the Palo Alto High School Verde Magazine presented an article on the Buena Vista Mobile Home Park. Photographer/Photo Editor, Ana Sofia Amieva-Wang, provided us with a glimpse into the soul of this community.
Simitian Proposes $8M County Funding for Buena Vista
SAN JOSE – County Supervisor Joe Simitian today proposed that the County use $8 million from its affordable housing fund to help prevent the closure of the Buena Vista Mobile Home Park in Palo Alto. "If the park closes," said Simitian, "that's 400 low-income folks who are out on the street. And God only knows if and when, and at what cost, we'll ever be able to replace that supply of affordable housing."
Supervisor Dave Cortese, President of the Board of Supervisors and Chair of the Board's Housing, Land Use, Environment and Transportation Committee (HLUET), joined Simitian in making the referral to the full Board, which will hear the proposal on Tuesday, January 27.
Simitian's proposal, if approved by the Board, would direct County staff to:
Enter into discussions with the City of Palo Alto, local housing organizations, the Buena Vista Mobile Home Park Residents Association, and other interested parties for the purpose of securing the long-term viability of the mobile home park as deed-restricted affordable housing.
Set aside up to $8 million from the County's Stanford GUP Affordable Housing Fund (established to create and preserve affordable housing within six miles of the University) to provide a portion of the necessary funding.
"The conversation about Buena Vista to date has been almost exclusively about compensation for tenants upon closure," said Simitian. "I'm hoping to start a new conversation about what it would take to keep the park open for the foreseeable future."
Buena Vista, located on El Camino Real at Los Robles Avenue, is the last mobile home park in Palo Alto. It provides an affordable home to about 100 mostly low-income Latino families, about 400 people in total. The property is privately owned, and the owner is currently trying to sell the property for market-rate development, which would displace these 400 residents and permanently remove a rare source of affordable housing in an extremely expensive part of Santa Clara County.
"Mobile home parks are an important part of our affordable housing stock in this County," said Board President Dave Cortese. "We need to take a stand for those dependent on these homes by pulling existing resources together."
"I know it's a big lift. I know it's a complicated issue," said Simitian. "I know that mobile home park law is a quagmire. But my hope is that some significant County funding – and I think $8 million is significant – might prompt others to step up and ask how they can be part of the solution."
"I doubt that any single agency or entity can pull this off alone; but maybe if everybody takes a piece of the problem, we might find a solution," added Simitian.
Local advocates already working to find a way to keep Buena Vista residents in place welcomed the potential County support.
"A pledge of this kind of funding from the County could make a huge difference in preserving the Buena Vista residents' affordable housing," said Kyra Kazantzis, directing attorney at the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley, which represents the park's residents. "We hope this pledge will leverage other funding sources to help get us closer to a viable solution."
Simitian emphasized in his referral to the Board that he is not proposing that the County either own or operate Buena Vista. "My hope is that the commitment of County funds will spark other agencies or organizations to step up and put together a deal with partial but significant funding from the County." He said has an "open mind" as to what a successful outcome might look like.
"But," he added, "the clock's ticking."
Read Letter to Board of Supervisors
Buena Vista Residents
Who Lives at Buena Vista and Why We Care?
Seldom has a Palo Alto land use issue had the power to move nearly 400 people out of Palo Alto, redefining our neighborhood and city in the process. Yet this may happen to Barron Park. The 86-year old Buena Vista Mobile Home Park (BV) is in the early stage of closure, to be sold by the owner. Continue reading
Housing Authority seeks to buy the mobile-home park
by Sue Dremann / Palo Alto Weekly
The Housing Authority of Santa Clara County has made a $36,072,500 offer to purchase the Buena Vista Mobile Home Park, Executive Director Katherine Harasz said on Friday. The offer was made after the housing authority's board of directors unanimously authorized the agency on Dec. 20 to negotiate the sale.
The Jisser family's attorneys received the written offer on behalf of their clients on Wednesday or Thursday, which is based on the property's appraised value, Harasz said. She and the Jissers' eminent domain attorney Norman Matteoni said they did not anticipate a response from the family until perhaps sometime in mid-January. After then, Harasz said she hoped the housing authority and the family and their representatives would have a sit-down meeting to discuss the possible sale.
Judge rules Palo Alto mobile home park's relocation package based on inadequate information.
The Palo Alto City Council abdicated its duty when it approved relocation payments for Buena Vista Mobile Home Park residents, a Santa Clara County Superior Court judge ruled on Wednesday.
The decision by Judge Brian Walsh found the city did not have sufficient evidence to support its finding that the relocation assistance offered by the park's owners is adequate to prevent adverse effects on the park's 400 residents.
HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA
BEGINS STEPS TO ACQUIRE BUENA VISTA MOBILE HOME PARK
Santa Clara County Supervisor Joe Simitian today praised the Housing Authority of the County of Santa Clara's Board of Commissioners for authorizing the potential acquisition and improvement of the Buena Vista Mobile Home Park in Palo Alto.
In a meeting held earlier today, the Housing Authority Board considered an appraisal of the value of the mobile home park, and voted unanimously to allow their Executive Director Katherine Harasz to send an offer letter to the park owner and begin negotiations.
The Housing Authority's action is the most recent step forward in implementing a three-way collaboration (approved earlier this year in June) that includes funding from the County of Santa Clara and the City of Palo Alto.
"This is an important step forward," said Simitian. "With everyone pulling together we're well positioned to preserve 117 units of affordable housing, prevent the eviction of 400 low income residents, and ensure that the current property owner receives full and fair market value for the property."
"We have a mission and challenge to preserve affordable housing for the people of our community," said Harasz. "With this effort, we hope to secure this park for today's residents and future generations."


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California Regulators Weigh Who Will Pay For Costly PG&E Upgrades
Filed Under:Assemblyman Jerry Hill, California Public Utilities Commission, Jerry Hill, Pacific Gas & Electric, PG&E, Rate hikes, San Bruno, San Bruno explosion, The Utility Reform Network, TURN
A firefighter walks around the massive fire in a residential neighborhood September 9, 2010 in a San Bruno. (Max Whittaker/Getty Images)
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) – Pacific Gas and Electric has asked state regulators for permission to pass along to consumers the cost of upgrading its natural gas transmission system to safety standards adopted after the deadly San Bruno pipeline explosion.
The company is seeking a rate increase that will generate $5 billion to comply with new regulations adopted after the Sept. 2010 disaster claimed eight lives and destroyed dozens of homes.
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"Anytime a new standard is put in place, it's appropriate for customers to fund the work to meet those standards," said PG&E spokesman David Eisenhower.
Consumer advocates denounced the proposed rate hike at a California Public Utilities Commission hearing on Monday, where state regulators began what's expected to be lengthy review of PG&E's application.
Mark Toney with The Utility Reform Network (TURN) said ratepayers should not pay extra because PG&E's neglected to perform maintenance or keep accurate records.
"TURN is asking the CPUC to make sure that not one penny of ratepayer money goes to fund work that PG&E should have done for years and years," Toney said.
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Toney put the actual cost of upgrading the system at $2.2 billion, and said it was unfair to ask consumers to come up with another nearly $3 billion to cover obligations such as taxes, interest payments and shareholder profits.
Eisenhower pointed out that shareholders would foot at least part of the cost of the upgrades, adding that revenue from the rate increase would go towards meeting or exceeding the new safety standards.
Assemblyman Jerry Hill, who represents the Crestmoor neighborhood where the blast occurred, urged state regulators to consider whether PG&E diverted money budgeted for safety upgrades to shareholders or executives.
Hill said the CPUC needs to hold P&GE accountable for failing to maintain the pipeline system and keep accurate records.
The commission has scheduled several more hearings on the rate increase, and is expected to issue its final decision later this year.
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Theodore Eugene "Teddy" Fees went to be with his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ at 4:05 AM on Sunday, October 28, 2018. He was born September 24, 1940, at the Fees Mill home place near Halltown, MO. He was the youngest of the nine children of A.E. "Ted" Fees and Edith Faye (Stewart) Fees.


Thaddeus Arroyo is a CEO on assignment. His mission: to make AT&T the mobile industry leader in Mexico within the next 10 years. It's more complicated than it sounds. So far, AT&T Mexico has completed a series of mergers and acquisitions that have greatly strengthened its presence and set it up for competition in the Mexican market, but there is a long way to go. The market leader is currently América Móvil, owned by famed billionaire Carlos Slim, followed by Spain-based Telefónica.
Since taking over as CEO of AT&T Mexico in January 2015, Arroyo has been setting up AT&T, which currently derives three-quarters of its revenue from mobile customers in the United States, for one of its boldest growth plans yet. In order to avoid relying on competing in a price war with smaller competitors, AT&T is looking to take advantage of its potential for strength in the Mexican market. Arroyo's is a strategy that will ultimately build a more connected world, and for him, that is reason enough to carry out the enormous undertaking.
In Mexico, Arroyo is building teams that think creatively about delivering unexpected outcomes, pushing them to test their limits and learn from failure by viewing it as a cumulative set of information. His approach is built on trust and transparency and leaves plenty of room for collaboration, which, he stresses, is ultimately what determines what is possible.
AT&T plans to invest in Mexico to expand its high-speed mobile broadband coverage to 100 million people by the end of 2018. The company currently holds the largest amount of spectrum in the country.
For AT&T Mexico, reaching its goal of overtaking the top market spot means taking a unique and focused approach. It means exploring technological ideas that were not possible 25 years ago. As the Internet becomes ever more deeply embedded in everything we do, mobility is changing the way we live and work. People are less constrained by previous limitations, and the distance from intent to action has been greatly shortened.
Interaction is immediate, and billions of people are connected via the cloud. These advances also create an immense amount of data, which, in turn, can be used to create new experience and services to change the evolution of the digital frontier. The possibilities are limitless, especially for a company dedicated to continuous education and improvement.
One way AT&T Mexico is pushing its limits is by leapfrogging over the second-generation technology currently available to most mobile users in Mexico and expanding its 4G LTE network capabilities, with the goal to cover nearly 70 percent of Mexico by the end of 2018. In 2014, AT&T Mexico acquired Iusacell, and in early 2015, Nextel Mexico, completing the first stage of its game plan. The mergers allowed the company to launch the AT&T United plan, which offers calling capabilities throughout North America. The network is capable of serving 400 million people and businesses in the Mexico, the US, and Canada.
According to Arroyo, the plan will positively impact the economy in Mexico and drive innovation. There are over 21 million people based in Mexico who travel frequently to the US and 30 million US citizens who frequent Mexico. "Those numbers are a good indication of what's to come in years ahead, and we're transforming the underlying infrastructure that will help advance Mexico's mobile and digital capabilities," he says.
But AT&T Mexico's impact on the industry and economy goes far beyond technology. An important part of Arroyo's strategy is to elevate the customer experience in every way—from improvements in the devices the customers use, to the networks they access, to the retail stores they visit, and their interactions with customer service representatives.
Arroyo is committed to making AT&T an agent of change. "Instead of being disrupted by change, we want to be the disruptors," he says. "That means understanding trends and thinking about what capabilities the economy will require for growth." AT&T Mexico plans to drive economic vitality in Mexico over the next decade and beyond by implementing the strongest global network and an award-winning customer experience.
AT&T Mexico emerged on the heels of regulatory reform in Mexico, entering the most stable macroeconomic environment the country has seen in years. The company now has the opportunity to transform the market and lead the industry, rethinking products and services and focusing on the future of a highly connected world. Arroyo is poised to drive all of that, pushing his teams beyond their self-perceived limitations.
In short, the route Arroyo envisions for Mexico moves toward open lines of communications between people, families, businesses, and the rest of the hemisphere and world. "It's about changing the way people live and work, exercising economic activity and business velocity, keeping families better connected, and strengthening and empowering communities," he says of AT&T's bold plan.
And with an opportunity and mission like that, the only limitation is the imagination.


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Култура левкастих пехара или TRB (из ) је археолошка култура неолита и енеолита, племена народа који су између IV. и III. миленијума пре нове ере живела на територији Северне и Средње Европе, на подручју данашње Данске, Пољске, Украјине и (у касној фази) Белорусије. У јужној Скандинавији ово је прва земљорадничка култура раног северног неолита.

Име је добила по керамичким зделама коничног облика са левкастим вратом и ободом.

Опис и порекло

Становништво се бавило пољопривредом (обрађивањем земљишта, уз помоћ упрегнуте стоке), сточарством (узгој говеда, свиња итд.) и ловом.
Насеља су се налазила на високим обалама река и језера, нека су била заштићена рововима и бедемима. Становали су у малим правоугаоним кућама укопаним на стубне конструкције. Археолози су пронашли и поједине велике куће дуге и до 80 m, са неколико просторија дужине до 3 m. Унутар објеката за становање налазиле су се пећи и економске јаме обмазане глином, са зидовима пречника 1,2 m. Погребни обред је био полагање у једноставне гробнице, али постоје поједини мегалитски гробови величине до 130×15×3 m, са неколико гробова под сваким.

Њихов утицај на локалне неолитске културе може се пратити до ушћа Припјата у Белорусији, где је познато око 50 насеља која су археолошки истраживана.

Према неким истраживачима, племена ове културе имају везе са етногенезом древних Германа.

На северу је овој култури претходила мезолитска Ertebølle-Ellerbek култура (5100–4100 п. н. е.), а у осталом делу распрострањења Култура линеарнотракасте керамике, из чијих ловачко-скупљачких друштава се развијала TRB култура.

Материјална култура
Од костију и роговља становништво је производило секире, мотике, врхове копља, бодеже, харпуне, а од кремена израђивани су ножеви, шиле, српови, троугласти врхови стрела и бушене секире. Повремено се налазе и бакарни алати, који су углавном импортовани.

Типично посуђе представљају глинене биконичне зделе са високим конусним грлом и ушицама, мали лонци истакнутог обода, амфоре са уским грлом и цедила. Споља су посуде украшаване једноставним геометријским облицима, цик-цак линијама, косим урезима, притисцима прста, назубљеног предмета или шнур траке.

Од глине су такође прављене просолке, тегови, ритуалне секире.

Референце

Литература
 J. P. Mallory (1997): "TRB Culture", Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture, Fitzroy Dearborn.
 Torsten Madsen (1997): Ideology and social structure in the earlier Neolithic of south Scandinavia. A view from the sources. In: Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia, Vol. 29, pp. 75–81.
 Becker C.J. (1955): The introduction of farming into Northern Europe // Cahiers d'histoire mondiale — Vol. 2. № 4.
 Konrad Jażdżewski (1936): Kultura pucharów lejkowatych w Polsce zachodniej i środkowej — Biblioteka Prehistoryczna, Tom 2. Poznań.
 Johannes Müller (2011): Megaliths and Funnel Beakers: Societies in Change 4100–2700 BC (= 33. Kroon-Voordracht.) Amsterdam.

Археолошке културе
Неолит
Енеолит
Историја Скандинавије

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Taco Bell has announced nationwide delivery, available via Grubhub, and it's using comic actor Adam DeVine to help promote the service.
To ensure faster delivery, Taco Bell has integrated its point-of-sale system directly into the Grubhub app, which means pickup is timed to the moment an order is ready, helping Bean Burritos, Crunchwrap Supremes and other items make it to the doorstep hot and fresh. Grubhub is also bringing more drivers to areas with Taco Bell restaurants. And for a limited time, all Taco Bell orders over $12.00 come with free delivery, excluding tax.
The campaign, titled 'The Go Getters', finds people at the tops of their professions stating what their dreams are. Like the mountain climber who dreams of getting to higher peaks, a dancer who dreams of expressing innermost passion, or a scientist who wants to develop robots so people have better lives. DeVine, on the other hand, simply aspires to have his Taco Bell order delivered. The action goes back and forth between inspirational people and DeVine's "taco-related" dreams, until his is fulfilled by a Grubhub delivery guy handing him his order at his door.
Fans looking to enjoy their favorite menu items at home can go to Tacobell.com and plug in their zip code before being directed to Grubhub, or go directly to Grubhub.com or the Grubhub app to place their order at the nearest restaurant with delivery available.
A US partnership between Yum! Brands (Taco Bell's parent company) and Grubhub was announced in 2018, to accelerate online ordering for pickup and delivery.


Safety Data Sheets (also known as Material Safety Data Sheets) are a common sight in workplaces across the country but some employees may still be unaware of what an SDS is and how it affects them. OSHA's Hazard Communication Standard requires them to be made available to employees of businesses that work with or otherwise handle chemical products. The goal is to help employees protect themselves by understanding the risks associated with exposure to chemicals in their workplace. The manufacturer, importer or distributor of a chemical is responsible for providing the SDS for a product to the end user.
An SDS is broken down into sections that give specific types of information about the product in order to allow the reader to easily locate the data they need. In an emergency an employee or first responder will skip to the section that contains the information pertinent to their situation, whether there is a fire or an employee injury due to overexposure.
Some notable information in an SDS includes the product's flashpoint, pH, optimum storage conditions, recommended PPE for safe handling and exposure limits. This information not only assists emergency responders like Protect Environmental, it also helps employers design controls and procedures that prevent accidents and contain spills when they do happen.
Although OSHA adopted the Globally Harmonized System that sets a uniform format for Safety Data Sheets, some SDS may still exclude certain pieces of information that were unknown to the author at the time the SDS was published. Missing information can include but is not limited to the pH, transportation classification or waste disposal determinations. Since some common chemical products (e.g. Xylene or Sodium Hydroxide) have SDS published by more than one manufacturer or distributor, employers can most often find a copy that contains the information they are looking for.
As an emergency response and remediation contractor, Protect Environmental frequently reviews Safety Data Sheets when responding to spills or handling and disposing of chemical wastes. We take safety seriously and use information to protect our employees, our clients and the environment. We also urge any business that uses chemical products to keep their SDS library up to date and periodically train their employees on how to use Safety Data Sheets.
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The plan for today was for me to do my first area solo (yay!!) – me going out to the training area by myself to practice stalls, steep turns and forced landings.
I arrived and preflighted 4964. Unfortunately, they'd parked it fairly close to the tail of 4929 so there was no way I was going to be able to taxi it out without taking out the tail of 4929 with my wing. I tried to drag it around myself but didn't seem to get anywhere so I figured I mustn't be strong enough to do it, so I wandered inside and 'borrowed' J to help. It turned out that taking the park brake off helps (oops).
So, having avoided taking out 4929, I taxiied over to refuel. After some messing around I got it lined up next to the fuel bowser and started to refuel. The first tank was fine, the second one filled up quicker than I expected and overflowed slightly, but it was all good. J wandered over to check over the aircraft before I headed off and, after some last minute instructions, I was sent off by myself.
I climbed in and taxiied over to 36. I did the takeoff from 36L (amazing how it just leaps off the ground with just me in it) and headed off to the northern part of the training area. Since I had to be back on the ground by 5:30pm, I had about 45 minutes to mess around.
I climbed to 4000ft and decided to try a few stalls. The first one I tried was a clean power off stall which was a complete failure (didn't really stall at all) which was good since I'd forgotten to put the carby heat on (oops). I then tried a few more clean power off stalls which were slightly more successful. It felt rather weird trying to get it to stall though, since I had to hold a slight amount of right aileron to compensate for all the weight being on one side. I then decided to try a flapped power on stall. That one worked better but I ended up getting a wing drop which is slightly scary when you're alone, it definitely got the blood pumping!
I then decided to try a couple of steep turns. The first one wasn't totally successful but the second two were far more successful.
One thing I noticed I was having trouble with today was maintaining my height, for some reason I had a tendency to climb today and a few times I had to catch myself before I went over the 4500ft limit.
The last thing I tried was a forced landing. I didn't pick the best field I could have, when I got closer I noticed that there were two ditches running across it but there was another field nearby that appeared suitable so that wasn't too bad.
It was then time to head back so I climbed to 1500ft and headed back to Lilydale. However, spotting the airfield proved to be a slight challenge and I played a short round of 'find the airfield' before realising that I was actually closer to it than I thought I was. That's what I get for flying out of an airfield that has a grass runway in the middle of a grass field surrounded by other grass fields! So, I made a slightly messed up inbound call and at the same time VH-ISD made a call saying that they were inbound so I did an orbit to see if I could spot them. I couldn't see them anywhere so joined crosswind and headed around the circuit.
On final I discovered that the sun wasn't really in a convenient spot, shining in the LHS window and making it very difficult to see the runway. Another new adventure, final approach without a good view of the runway! My landing wasn't too bad, although I think I was a little high but there wasn't a huge thump on touchdown which was nice. I don't know if I forced it to land sooner than usual or if it was because of having less weight than usual or what, but it seemed to land earlier on the runway than usual and take a while to taxi to the end. Still, made it off eventually and taxiied it back and parked it.
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Congrats on the soloing. Did you find yourself looking over to the right seat for advice and find none there? It was so odd the first time I went out to the practice area alone. Fun but strange. I also had trouble with altitude maintenance until my CFI and I spent one lesson on power management(airspeed & rpms) and straight and level flight. I was spending too much time looking at the instruments and not enough on the horizon. Things went much better after that lesson and I passed my checkride two weeks later.
I think you have just made me re-decide buying that new phone I wanted (and was going to buy today. but didn't get around to it)and save more for flying (..well actually start saving :s). Can't wait for future flying lessons.. need to get a job first, sigh! Oh, and I'd Vote #1 Darky, but I guess you would have to be a RA-Aus member to vote. Damn.


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SAN JOSE, Calif., Apr 12, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Super Micro Computer, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI), a leader in application-optimized, high-performance server solutions, today announced that it will release financial results for its third quarter fiscal 2010, ended March 31, 2010, on Tuesday, April 27, 2010, immediately after the close of regular trading followed by a teleconference beginning at 2:00 p.m. (Pacific Time).
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Supermicro will hold a teleconference to announce its third fiscal quarter financial results on April 27, 2010, beginning at 2 p.m. (Pacific Time). Those wishing to participate in the conference call should call 1-888-256-9119 (international callers dial 1-913-312-1489) a few minutes prior to the call's start to register. A replay of the call will be available through 11:59 p.m. (Eastern Time) on Wednesday, May 11, by dialing 1-888-203-1112 (international callers dial 1-719-457-0820) and entering replay PIN 4788740.
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U.S.; Airpost, 1918, 16¢ on First Flight Cover, #C2, fine tied on JUL 15 1918, Washington, D.C. to Philadelphia with hs. Fee Claimed at Office", on reverse "Send a letter by airplane…It will be a real treat", slightly dirty, fine. Scott $800. Estimate $150-200.
o U.S.; Airpost, 1918, 16¢ With Binghamton, New York Precancel, Block of 81, Scott #C2, full o.g., Fine to Very Fine. Estimate $400-600.
U.S.; Airpost, 1918, 16¢ Green, Block of 4, #C2, n.h., couple gum creases at top, Fine to Very Fine. Scott $520. Estimate price $150-180.
Airmail, 1918, 16¢ green (Scott C2), o.g., never hinged (minor gum bend), lively bright shade, a handsome example, Very Fine. Scott $130. Estimate price $100 – 150.
Scott #C2, 16c Green, exceedingly well centered within very wide margins, rich color, o.g., n.h., extremely fine; 2009 PSE certificate (XF-Superb 95; SMQ $425.00).
United States – Air Post 1918 16c green, top margin plate number block of six, l.h., well centered, v.f.
Airmail, 1918, 16¢ green (Scott C2), o.g., never hinged, pristine high quality stamp, with wide margins and vivid fresh color, outstanding, Extremely Fine, 1980 P.F. certificate. Scott $130. Estimate price $200 – 300.
Airmail, 1918, 16¢ green (Scott C2), o.g., never hinged, outstanding GEM QUALITY stamp in a condition rarely offered, with beautiful bright color and nicely balanced margins, Superb, 2014 P.S.A.G. certificate graded 98. Scott Stamp Values $1,300 in the grade of Sup-98. Scott $130. Estimate value $750 – 1,000.
United States – Air Post 1918 16c green, block of four, well centered, n.h., fresh and v.f.
Airmail, 1918, 16¢ green. Top margin plate "8900" block of 6 with arrow, o.g., center stamps h.r., others never hinged, beautifully centered, striking deep color, Extremely Fine and choice. Scott No. C2; $900.
Airmail, 1918, 16¢ green. Centerline block of 4, o.g., never hinged (small gum tone spot on bottom right stamp), bold color, Very Fine. Scott No. C2; $520 for singles.
Airmail, 1918, 16¢ green. Top margin arrow block of 4, o.g., never hinged, choice centering, fresh with deep color, Extremely Fine, with 2012 P.S.A.G. Graded certificate for plate block (90). Scott No. C2; $520.


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Ford ups investment in self-driving and electric cars to $29B
Ford plans to spend up big in the areas of electric vehicles and self-driving technology, CEO Jim Farley said Thursday during a conference call detailing the automaker's 2020 financial results.
Key measures mentioned by the new Ford CEO include an increase in spending on EVs to $22 billion through 2025, up from a previously announced $11.5b. The figure includes investments already made in EVs since about 2016.
"We are accelerating all our plans, breaking constraints, increasing battery capacity, improving costs and getting more electric vehicles into our product cycle plan," he said.
Deliveries of the Mustang Mach-E have just started and electric versions of the Transit van and F-150 pickup truck are coming in late 2021 and mid-2022, respectively. Ford is also known to be developing an EV based on Volkswagen Group's MEB modular platform for sale in Europe. It's due in 2023 and the automaker is currently studying a second MEB-based vehicle.
Farley also said EVs would be "fundamental" to Lincoln in the coming years during the call.
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In the area of self-driving tech, Farley said Ford will increase its investment to $7 billion through 2025. The figure includes investments of about $2 billion that Ford has already made, particularly in self-driving technology startup Argo AI which Ford is a key investor in together with VW Group.
Argo AI is developing a system rated at Level 4 on the SAE scale of self-driving capability and recently started testing a fourth-generation prototype. Level 4 cars can operate without the need for a human behind the wheel, though only in set conditions, the main one typically being a geofenced area.
Ford is expected to be the first company to offer a commercial service using Argo AI's self-driving system, currently targeted for deployment in 2022.
Ford is well-suited to make these major investments. The automaker ended 2020 with almost $31 billion in cash and is on track to generate between $8b and $9b in EBIT in 2021.
In related news, Ford also said Thursday that it had canceled plans for a joint venture with Zotye to develop EVs for the Chinese market. It follows Ford's decision in January to end a similar deal with Mahindra & Mahindra to develop EVs and SUVs for the Indian market.
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We believe sport is part of the greater school curriculum and pupils must participate in a summer and winter sport. We encourage maximum participation irrespective of a pupil's skill level. Involvement in sport is essential in the development of life skills and the establishment of a life-long healthy living programme. Team sport develops a sense of camaraderie amongst the pupils and a vibrant school spirit, in addition to enhancing their ability to work together towards a common goal.
Those who excel on the sporting field are offered opportunities to test their mettle against top sporting schools, and are given a chance to be considered for possible provincial selection. We produce winners and strive to perform above the norm, yet we teach our pupils to accept losing with grace and maturity.
The College offers swimming, cricket, tennis, horse-riding, hockey, rugby, netball, cross country, athletics and golf. We have a number of advantages in the sporting arena: we are considered to be one of the top equestrian schools in Gauteng. We play in the A League Boys and Girls hockey as well as A league Cricket.
Our sporting facilities are phenomenal with an Astro turf, Pitch cricket nets, heated Swimming pool, Netball and Tennis courts.
Cornwall Hill College offers a diverse cultural programme in the form of music, art, drama and extensive co-curricular activities. We have a vibrant musical tradition at the College and our purpose built Music Centre caters to the needs of every pupil in a relevant and contemporary manner. In the Preparatory Phase, the pupils have two class music lessons per week, while music is offered in the Senior College as a choice subject to matric level. An in-house collection of guitars and keyboards provide each pupil with hands-on instrumental experience, regardless of talent or ability. Alternatively, pupils may choose the co-curricular option, which offers a wide variety of instruments and styles of music. Private tuition is offered in a range of instruments such as piano, guitar, percussion, voice, keyboard, clarinet, saxophone, flute, recorder, drums and violin.
Ample opportunities abound for budding musicians to perform individually or in groups. In this way, they are able to derive maximum enjoyment and benefit from their music involvement. The College currently boasts an orchestra and jazz band, a sax trio, flute choir, string ensemble, two marimba bands, various choirs and eight other ensembles. The pupils perform at various music competitions, concerts and eisteddfods.
Investment in music technology has given the College an additional edge in this field. The computers in the music department feature the latest software that enables pupils to compose, record, produce and arrange their own compositions, keeping them motivated and enthusiastic to practice and excel in music. In this way, music theory becomes relevant and practical, enhancing performance at music exams.
The music experience at the College instils in the pupils a positive self-image, a desire to achieve excellence, an ability to set goals, co-operation and group cohesiveness.
The art department focuses on creative expression with a variety of materials before introducing conventional art techniques. In the process of producing an artwork, a pupil is exposed to creative problem-solving, sensory perception and self-expression.
During the school year, there are a wealth of opportunities for pupils to showcase their talents in the school productions, an extensive programme of music concerts and various other shows. The interhouse drama festival, provides pupils with the opportunity to write and produce their plays under the guidance of a mentor. We provide a platform where pupils can bring their ideas to life.
The cultural aspect of the co-curricular programme at the College is as highly valued as academics and sport. Pupils are given the opportunity to participate in an extensive range of activities such as debating, public speaking and drama. Recent cultural trips have included Grahamstown, North America and Europe.
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The Chicago Cubs have a shorter offseason than ever before thanks to winning their first World Series title in 108 years. Which means less time to complete a lot of renovation work at Wrigley Field. The team this week detailed the parts of the Friendly Confines that will get face-lifts over the next few months in the latest stage of the 1060 Project, a $750 million ballpark renovation and redevelopment of its surrounding area.


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Issue Date August 2012
This paper studies the international propagation of sovereign debt default. We posit a two-country economy where capital constrained banks grant loans to firms and invest in bonds issued by the domestic and the foreign government. The model economy is calibrated to data from Europe, with the two countries representing the Periphery (Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain) and the Core, respectively. Large contractionary shocks in the Periphery trigger sovereign default. We find sizable spillover effects of default from Periphery to the Core through a drop in the volume of credit extended by the banking sector.
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The views expressed in this paper are solely the responsibility of the authors and should not be interpreted as reflecting the views of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, any other person associated with the Federal Reserve System, or the National Bureau of Economic Research. Replication codes and an Appendix containing detailed derivations are available from the authors upon request.
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Luca Guerrieri & Matteo Iacoviello & Raoul Minetti, 2013. "Banks, Sovereign Debt, and the International Transmission of Business Cycles," NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 9(1), pages 181 - 213.
Banks, Sovereign Debt, and the International Transmission of Business Cycles, Luca Guerrieri, Matteo Iacoviello, Raoul Minetti. in NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics 2012, Giavazzi and West. 2013
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HomeMarkham on EnergyChristy Clark vows to nix Vancouver natural gas "ban"
Christy Clark vows to nix Vancouver natural gas "ban"
April 30, 2017 JZadmin Markham on Energy
Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson.
Is Vancouver moving too quickly on 100% renewable energy pledge?
Vancouver adopted a Zero Emissions Building Plan last July to "to aggressively combat and reduce carbon pollution" in the city's building stock. Christy Clark says that if the Liberals are re-elected, the de facto natural gas ban that is part of the plan will be overturned in short order.
Vancouver-Quilchena Liberal candidate Andrew Wilkinson
Vancouver-Quilchena Liberal candidate Andrew Wilkinson says that the City's new policy needlessly adds costs to consumers, home buyers and restaurateurs.
"BC Liberals will ensure that natural gas remains an energy option for residents, restaurants and businesses in the City of Vancouver," he said in a press release.
"While we all agree that climate change must be addressed, banning natural gas from the City of Vancouver at a huge cost to residents is not the way to go."
The City says builders can still include natural gas appliances (fireplaces, cooking ranges, furnaces, hot water heaters, laundry dryers) in new homes, they just have to be "high efficiency models."
To "save residents money," if you please.
But that's now how the new rules work in practice. What the clever City Hall bureaucrats have done is pretend natural gas appliances are allowed, but designed the restrictions to be so onerous that builders can't afford to install them.
"They're just making it so difficult that it's impossible," Bruce Rebel, the Ottawa-based representative for the Canadian branch of the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers, told the Globe and Mail.
"You could put in cooktops, but we would have to weigh the costs," added Anne McMullin, CEO of the Urban Development Institute, an organization that represents Lower Mainland builders. "In a very high-end penthouse, you might put them in. Or if the demand is high, you would pay more for that."
There are more than a thousand restaurants in Vancouver who use natural gas in their business, according to Ian Tostensen, CEO of the BC Restaurant and Food Services Association.
"My members and their customers will benefit from the stability of knowing natural gas will continue to be available in Vancouver."
Vancouver was among the first global cities to commit to going 100 per cent renewable energy, back in 2015.
"Vancouver creates enormous economic opportunity by shifting to 100% renewable energy and leading the world's cities on climate change," said Mayor Gregor Robertson in a press release.
"Today over 30% of the energy used in our city is renewable. With a pragmatic approach to buildings and transportation, we eliminate our reliance on fossil fuels and make Vancouver a cleaner, healthier, and more resilient city."
Consumers and builders are now discovering that the Mayor's "pragmatic approach" comes with higher costs and less choice in how to cook food, heat a home, dry clothing, and heat the shower water.
This minor campaign spat probably won't sway many votes to the Liberals.
But it does illustrate an important point about public policy choices during the early stages of the Energy Transition: speeding up the adoption of clean energy technologies comes with higher costs and greater risks.
Wilkinson claims that according to FortisBC, a family of four would spend $1,500 more per year if they were required to use electricity over natural gas for space and water heating alone.
That's not small change, especially in a market where housing costs already stretch family budgets dangerously thin.
And what about higher costs to businesses, like restaurants, that will be passed along to consumers?
And what else is Mayor Robertson and Council up to that will raise costs for businesses and consumers?
Now, if Vancouver voters are willing to pay extra charges to switch to 100 per cent renewable energy, that's fine assuming they're making an informed choice.
But too often politicians like to pretend that increasing the pace of the Energy Transition costs nothing when the opposite is true, leaving voters to pick up the tab.
In 2019 let Robertson and his Vision Vancouver colleagues run on this issue – as well as other policies needed to implement the zero emissions building plan and any other plans to reduce emissions in the city, such as banning gasoline-powered vehicles from downtown, as some have suggested.
A thorough public debate during the next civic election is the best way to settle this debate for the foreseeable future.
Ask Vancouver voters if they're willing to pay for a more aggressive decarbonization of the city.
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Q: Failed to import import Fire-base authentication (ProviderQueryResult com.google.firebase.auth.ProviderQueryResult; ) Using Android Studio and Andoridx
I am trying to import the following class

import com.google.firebase.auth.ProviderQueryResult;

the Error I get is

Cannot Resolve symbol 'ProviderQueryResult'

I need to check to see if the email is not already present in the database Using but cannot execute because the** import com.google.firebase.auth.ProviderQueryResult;** is Not Working.
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                                         public void onComplete(@NonNullTask<ProviderQueryResult>task{
                                             if (task.isSuccessful()) {
                                                  getProviders().size() will return size 1 if email ID is in use.
                                                 Log.d(TAG, "onComplete: RESULT: " + task.getResult().getProviders().size());
                                                 if (task.getResult().getProviders().size() == 1) {
                                                     Log.d(TAG, "onComplete: That email is already in use.");
                                                     hideDialog();
                                                     Toast.makeText(SettingsActivity.this, "That email is already in use", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();}
else {
                                                     Log.d(TAG, "onComplete: That email is available.");
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A: According to the official documentation, the ProviderQueryResult interface is deprecated:

This interface is deprecated.
In favor of SignInMethodQueryResult Result object that contains a list of strings that represent authentication provider IDs. For example, PROVIDER_ID or PROVIDER_ID.

Moreover, the ProviderQueryResult interface is not apart of the com.google.firebase.auth package anymore, hence that error. Here's the solution:

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*How to check for a phone auth user in Android?
But instead of phone number, check against the email address.

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