Concrete cutting saws come in different styles and are used for cutting concrete, asphalt, tiles, masonry, brick and other different kinds of solid materials. This cutting saw is also known with different names such as consaw, cut-off saw, road saw and quick cut saw. In general, a concrete saw is a small cutting saw that comes in dissimilar styles such as hand-held cutoff saw, a big walk-behind saw and much more. It is a power-driven device and can be operated with the help of gasoline, pneumatic pressure and electric motors. There are several types of blades that can be used in cutting saws but more often diamond cutting saws are used to expurgate concrete, stones, bricks and other rock-hard materials. Sometimes, cutting of stones and steel can be done with the help of Abrasive cut-off wheels.
Chain Saw: For jobs that require meticulousness then hydraulic chainsaw is the right option. This chainsaw can expurgate up to 24 inches in profundity without creating excess cuts. Whether it is a job of mounting of any heavy equipment or eradicating a unit of a wall, the chainsaw performs its job with proficiency.
Handheld Saw: Are you looking for equipment to do chores like a removal of small brickworks, concrete for beam placement, mounting heavy machinery and inserting flashing metal then handheld saws are of great use for you.
Wire Saw: Wire tool is considered as the best tool for confiscating large portions of concrete. These saws are .well-known for their perfect cutting performances. With the use of diamond wire sawing techniques jobs like separation of a pillar, bulwarks, foundations, thick walls and equipment pads can be done with utmost perfection.
Core Drill Saw: Works like forming a hole for plumbing, electrical wiring, anchor belts and cables can be done easily with core drilling saw.
Slab Saw: These types of saws are used in cutting slabs for big assignments including roofs, roads, bridge construction and water channels.
Wall Saw: This saw is an alternative reiteration of the circular saw. Wall saws are generally used for stair and elevator opening, windows, removing vertical portions of HVAC alterations and demolition.
How to Operate Cutting Saw safely?
Various tools are available in the market for cutting concrete and Concrete Cutting Saw is the best option. It comes along with numerous attachments and does the work efficiently. Though the cutting saw is easy to operate but you need some precautions while operating the saw. Let's take a look at some of the safety tips required while you operate the device.
The pinhole should be placed properly.
The edges of steel blade should be in a good condition. Avoid using broken and streaked blades.
Proper care should be taken while assembling the saw. Lose of any part can damage the saw and harm the operator as well.
How to select a right Concrete Cutting Saw?
Concrete Cutting Saws have been precisely designed to perform jobs like cutting and eliminating solid materials like concrete, masonry, tiles and bricks. A wide array of cutting saws are available and can be used depending upon the necessity of a job. You can buy Concrete Cutting Saws for smaller and lightweight works. Specially designed blades are used in cutting saws. The blades are made up of coarse material and are very sturdy. Concrete Cutting Saws are easily available in the local market as well as in specialized tool stores. You can also check several websites that supply tools like Concrete Cutting Saws along with accessories. Explore various websites and get the best deals on latest models. An online search will let you compare prices of various models, sizes, and feature of different cutting saws.


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MUR #7101
HOUSE MAJORITY PAC
RESPONDENTS: House Majority PAC; Access Industries, Inc.; Adelson, Sheldon G.; American Alliance PAC; Americans for Shared Prosperiety; Bold Agenda; Chamberlain Resnick, Sarah; Charles G. Koch 1997 Trust; Chevron Corporation; Congressional Leadership Fund; Crosby, Caleb; Davis, Keith A.; Defending Main Street SuperPAC Inc.,; ESA Fund; Eychaner, Fred; Freedom Partners Action Fund, Inc.; Gilliam, Richard; Griffin, Kenneth A.; Hendricks, Diane; Hermsmeyer, Candace; Jordan, John; Koch, Charles; LIUNA Building America; Lambe, Rebecca; Lapp, Alixandria; Marcus, Bernard; Marcus, George; Marston, Chris; Maxwell, Thomas F.; McNair, Robert; Mercer, Robert; Mountaire Corporation; New York Wins PAC; Parker, Sean; Petrodome Energy; Ricketts, Marlene; Schwartz, Bernard H.; Senate Leadership Fund; Senate Majority PAC; Simons, Jim; Singer, Paul; Stephens, Warren; Sussman, S. Donald; Vitreo-Retinal Consultants of the Palm Beaches; Watkins, Nancy H.; Ziff, Robert
COMPLAINANTS: Fein, Robert; Weismann, Anne L.; Jones, Walter; Merkley, Jeffrey Alan; Lieu, Ted W.; Howe, John; Teachout, Zephyr; Wager, Michael
SUBJECT: Contributions-Excessive
DISPOSITION: The Commission decided by a vote of 5-0 to: 1. Find no reason to believe that the Respondent Committees violated 52 U.S.C. § 30116(f). 2. Find no reason to believe that the Respondent Contributors violated 52 U.S.C. § 30116(a)(1)(C). 3. Approve the Factual and Legal Analysis, as recommended in the First General Counsel's Report dated March 17, 2017. 4. Approve the appropriate letters. 5. Close the file.
No RTB House Majority PAC 52 U.S.C. §30116(f)
LIUNA Building America 52 U.S.C. §30116(a)(1)(C)
Parker, Sean 52 U.S.C. §30116(a)(1)(C)
Ricketts, Marlene 52 U.S.C. §30116(a)(1)(C)
Charles G. Koch 1997 Trust 52 U.S.C. §30116(a)(1)(C)
Hendricks, Diane 52 U.S.C. §30116(a)(1)(C)
Mountaire Corporation 52 U.S.C. §30116(a)(1)(C)
American Alliance PAC 52 U.S.C. §30116(f)
Bold Agenda 52 U.S.C. §30116(f)
Defending Main Street SuperPAC Inc., 52 U.S.C. §30116(f)
ESA Fund 52 U.S.C. §30116(f)
Freedom Partners Action Fund, Inc. 52 U.S.C. §30116(f)
New York Wins PAC 52 U.S.C. §30116(f)
Hermsmeyer, Candace 52 U.S.C. §30116(f)
Chamberlain Resnick, Sarah 52 U.S.C. §30116(f)
Watkins, Nancy H. 52 U.S.C. §30116(f)
Maxwell, Thomas F. 52 U.S.C. §30116(f)
Davis, Keith A. 52 U.S.C. §30116(f)
Marston, Chris 52 U.S.C. §30116(f)
McNair, Robert 52 U.S.C. §30116(a)(1)(C)
Mercer, Robert 52 U.S.C. §30116(a)(1)(C)
Ziff, Robert 52 U.S.C. §30116(a)(1)(C)
Lapp, Alixandria 52 U.S.C. §30116(f)
Crosby, Caleb 52 U.S.C. §30116(f)
Congressional Leadership Fund 52 U.S.C. §30116(f)
Lambe, Rebecca 52 U.S.C. §30116(f)
Senate Majority PAC 52 U.S.C. §30116(f)
Senate Leadership Fund 52 U.S.C. §30116(f)
Sussman, S. Donald 52 U.S.C. §30116(a)(1)(C)
Eychaner, Fred 52 U.S.C. §30116(a)(1)(C)
Simons, Jim 52 U.S.C. §30116(a)(1)(C)
Adelson, Sheldon G. 52 U.S.C. §30116(a)(1)(C)
Chevron Corporation 52 U.S.C. §30116(a)(1)(C)
Marcus, George 52 U.S.C. §30116(a)(1)(C)
Schwartz, Bernard H. 52 U.S.C. §30116(a)(1)(C)
Vitreo-Retinal Consultants of the Palm Beaches 52 U.S.C. §30116(a)(1)(C)
Marcus, Bernard 52 U.S.C. §30116(a)(1)(C)
Singer, Paul 52 U.S.C. §30116(a)(1)(C)
Stephens, Warren 52 U.S.C. §30116(a)(1)(C)
Petrodome Energy 52 U.S.C. §30116(a)(1)(C)
Access Industries, Inc. 52 U.S.C. §30116(a)(1)(C)
Americans for Shared Prosperiety 52 U.S.C. §30116(a)(1)(C)
Jordan, John 52 U.S.C. §30116(a)(1)(C)
Gilliam, Richard 52 U.S.C. §30116(a)(1)(C)
Koch, Charles 52 U.S.C. §30116(a)(1)(C)
Complaint, Responses, Designation of Counsel and Extensions of Time 06/26/2017 Grant of Extension of Time to Sean Parker 23 KB
06/26/2017 Notification of Complaint to Charles Koch 81 KB
12/14/2016 Response from Marlene Ricketts 77 KB
12/03/2016 Response from Defending Main Street SuperPAC 193 KB
11/28/2016 Designation of Counsel from Marlene Ricketts 31 KB
10/26/2016 Response and Designation of Counsel from ESAFund and Nancy Watkins, as Treasurer 182 KB
10/26/2016 Response from Congressional Leadership Fund 462 KB
10/18/2016 Response from Robert Mercer 171 KB
09/23/2016 Response from Freedom Partners Action Fund, Inc. and Thomas F. Maxwell III, as Treasurer 165 KB
09/16/2016 Response from S. Donald Sussman 87 KB
09/15/2016 Notification of Complaint to Ameicans for Shared Prosperity 79 KB
09/15/2016 Notification of Complaint to Americans for Shared Prosperity 76 KB
09/13/2016 Notification of Complaint to John Jordan 78 KB
09/13/2016 Notification of Complaint to ESA Fund and Nancy Watkins in her official capacity as treasurer 79 KB
09/13/2016 Designation of Counsel from New York Wins PAC and Keith Davis in his official capacity as treasurer 89 KB
09/12/2016 Response from New York Wins PAC 304 KB
09/07/2016 Response from Charles Koch 66 KB
09/06/2016 Response from House Majority PAC and Rebecca Lambe in her official capacity as treasurer, House Majority PAC and Alixandria Lapp in her official capacity as treasurer, James H. Simons, Bernard L. Schwartz, and Fred Eychaner 302 KB
09/06/2016 Response from Sean Parker 390 KB
09/06/2016 Response form Robert McNair 389 KB
09/06/2016 Designation of Counsel and Request for Extension of Time from Congressional Leadership Fund 86 KB
09/02/2016 Response from Paul Singer 322 KB
09/02/2016 Notification of Complaint to Congressional Leadership Fund 82 KB
09/01/2016 Response from American Alliance 396 KB
08/31/2016 Response from Senate Leadership Fund 447 KB
08/31/2016 Response from Mountaire Coporation 56 KB
08/29/2016 Response from Warren Stephens 114 KB
08/25/2016 Response from Diane M. Hendricks 70 KB
08/23/2016 Response from Vitreo Retinal Consultants of the Palm Beaches 111 KB
08/11/2016 Grant of Extension of Time to Diane M. Hendricks 22 KB
08/11/2016 Designation of Counsel and Request for Extension of Time from Diane M. Hendricks 75 KB
08/10/2016 Grant of Extension of Time to Paul Singer 27 KB
08/08/2016 Response form Bernard Marcus 231 KB
08/08/2016 Designation of Counsel and Request for Extension of Time from Mountaire Coporation 73 KB
08/08/2016 Designation of Counsel from Chevron Corporation 45 KB
08/05/2016 Response from Chevron Corporation 108 KB
08/04/2016 Designation of Counsel and Request for Extension of Time from Senate Majority PAC and Rebecca Lambe, Treasurer, House Majority PAC and Alixandria Lapp, Treasurer, James H. Simons, Bernard L. Schwartz, and Fred Eychaner 256 KB
08/04/2016 Designation of Counsel and Request for Extension of Time from S. Donald Sussman 69 KB
08/03/2016 Response from LIUNA Building America 153 KB
08/03/2016 Designation of Counsel and Request for Extension of Time from Charles Koch 78 KB
08/03/2016 Request for Extension of Time from Paul Singer 36 KB
08/02/2016 Designation of Counsel from LIUNA Building America 59 KB
08/02/2016 Grant of Extension of Time to Vitro-Retinal Consultants fo the Palm Beaches 23 KB
08/02/2016 Grant of Extension of Time to Freedom Partners Action Fund 22 KB
08/02/2016 Response of Sheldon G. Adelson 241 KB
08/01/2016 Response from Bold Agenda PAC 45 KB
07/29/2016 Response from Robert Ziff 159 KB
07/28/2016 Request for Extension of Time from Sean Parker 49 KB
07/28/2016 Request for Extension of Time from American Alliance PAC and Christopher Marston, treasurer 40 KB
07/28/2016 Designation of Counsel from Robert McNair 43 KB
07/25/2016 Designation of Counsel and Request for Extension of Time from Warren Stephens 86 KB
07/25/2016 Designation of Counsel from Robert L. Mercer 44 KB
07/25/2016 Designation of Counsel from Freedom Partners Action Fund, Inc. and Thomas F. Maxwell, Treasurer 45 KB
07/21/2016 Designation of Counsel from American Alliance PAC 57 KB
07/15/2016 Notification of Complaint to Senate Leadership Fund and Caleb Crosby in his official capacity as treasurer 85 KB
07/14/2016 Notification of Complaint to Diane Hendricks 81 KB
07/14/2016 Notification of Complaint to Charles G. Koch 1997 Trust 83 KB
07/14/2016 Notification of Complaint to Robert L. Mercer 82 KB
07/14/2016 Notification of Complaint to Marlene Ricketts 81 KB
07/14/2016 Notification of Complaint to Sean Parker 80 KB
07/14/2016 Notification of Complaint to LIUNA Building America 81 KB
07/14/2016 Notification of Complaint to Robert Ziff 82 KB
07/14/2016 Notification of Complaint to Petrodome Energy 84 KB
07/14/2016 Notification of Complaint to Paul Singer 81 KB
07/14/2016 Notification of Complaint to Bernard Marcus 81 KB
07/14/2016 Notification of Complaint to Robert C. McNair 80 KB
07/14/2016 Notification of Complaint to George M. Marcus 81 KB
07/14/2016 Notification of Complaint to Vitreo-Retinal Consultants of the Palm Beaches 87 KB
07/14/2016 Notification of Complaint to Chevron Corporation 85 KB
07/14/2016 Notification of Complaint to Sheldon Adelson 82 KB
07/14/2016 Notification of Complaint to Bernard H. Schwartz 81 KB
07/14/2016 Notification of Complaint to James H. Simons 80 KB
07/14/2016 Notification of Complaint to Fred Eychaner 81 KB
07/14/2016 Notification of Complaint to S. Donald Sussman 79 KB
07/14/2016 Notification of Complaint to New York Wins PAC and Keith A. Davis in his official capacity as treasurer 80 KB
07/14/2016 Notification of Complaint to Freedom Partners Action Fund, Inc. and Thomas F. Maxwell in his official capacity as treasurer 85 KB
07/14/2016 Notification of Complaint to Defending Main Street Super PAC Inc. and Sarah Chamberlain in her official capacity as treasurer 85 KB
07/14/2016 Notification of Complaint to Bold Agenda PAC and Candace Hermsmeyer, Treasurer 85 KB
07/14/2016 Notification of Complaint to American Alliance PAC and Chris Marston in his official capacity as treasurer 83 KB
07/14/2016 Notification of Complaint to Senate Majority PAC and Rebecca Lambe, in her official capacity as treasurer 86 KB
07/14/2016 Notification of Complaint to House Majority PAC 85 KB
07/12/2016 Addendum to Complaint 65 KB
07/05/2016 Complaint 1 MB
General Counsel Reports, Briefs, Notifications and Responses 06/01/2017 Notification with Factual and Legal Analysis to Robert Ziff 647 KB
06/01/2017 Notification with Factual and Legal Analysis to Robert Mercer 644 KB
06/01/2017 Notification with Factual and Legal Analysis to Robert McNair and Sean Parker 649 KB
06/01/2017 Notification with Factual and Legal Analysis to Richard B. Gilliam 641 KB
06/01/2017 Notification with Factual and Legal Analysis to Petrodome Energy 647 KB
06/01/2017 Notification with Factual and Legal Analysis to Mountaire Coporation 649 KB
06/01/2017 Notification with Factual and Legal Analysis to LIUNA Building America 644 KB
06/01/2017 Notification with Factual and Legal Analysis to Kenneth Griffin 642 KB
06/01/2017 Notification with Factual and Legal Analysis to John Jordan 642 KB
06/01/2017 Notification with Factual and Legal Analysis to George M. Marcus 642 KB
06/01/2017 Notification with Factual and Legal Analysis to S. Donald Sussman 647 KB
06/01/2017 Notification with Factual and Legal Analysis to Diane Hendricks 644 KB
06/01/2017 Notification with Factual and Legal Analysis to House Majority PAC and Alixandria Lapp in her official capacity as treasurer, Senate Majority PAC and Rebecca Lambe in her official capacity as treasurer, Bernard Schwartz, Fred Eychaner, and James H. Simons 653 KB
06/01/2017 Notification to Michael Wager 662 KB
06/01/2017 Notification to Zephyr Teachout 656 KB
06/01/2017 Notification to Rep. Ted Lieu 656 KB
06/01/2017 Notification to Rep. Walter Jones 665 KB
06/01/2017 Notification to Sen. Jeff Merkley 652 KB
06/01/2017 Notification to John Howe 652 KB
06/01/2017 Notification to Campaign for Accountability 652 KB
06/01/2017 Notification to Free Speech for People 651 KB
06/01/2017 Notification with Factual and Legal Analysis to Chevron Corporation, Paul Singer, and New York Wins PAC and Keith A. Davis in his official capacity as treasurer 652 KB
06/01/2017 Notification with Factual and Legal Analysis to Warren Stephens 647 KB
06/01/2017 Notification with Factual and Legal Analysis to Vitro-Retinal Consultants of the Palm Beaches 649 KB
06/01/2017 Notification with Factual and Legal Analysis to Sheldon G. Adelson and Marlene Ricketts 640 KB
06/01/2017 Notification with Factual and Legal Analysis to Charles G. Koch 1997 Trust 642 KB
06/01/2017 Notification with Factual and Legal Analysis to Charles G. Koch 640 KB
06/01/2017 Notification with Factual and Legal Analysis to Bernard Marcus 641 KB
06/01/2017 Notification with Factual and Legal Analysis to Americans for Shared Prosperity 640 KB
06/01/2017 Notification with Factual and Legal Analysis to Freedom Partners Action Fund, Inc. and Thomas F. Maxwell III in his official capacity as treasurer 640 KB
06/01/2017 Notification with Factual and Legal Analysis to ESAFund and Nancy H. Watkins in her official capacity as treasurer 645 KB
06/01/2017 Notification with Factual and Legal Analysis to Defending Main Street SuperPAC Inc. and Sarah Chamberlain in her official capacity as treasurer 646 KB
06/01/2017 Notification with Factual and Legal Analysis to Bold Agenda and Candace Hermsmeyer in her official capacity as treasurer 646 KB
06/01/2017 Notification with Factual and Legal Analysis to Congressional Leadership Fund and Caleb Crosby in his official capacity as treasurer 648 KB
06/01/2017 Notification with Factual and Legal Analysis to American Alliance and Chris Marston in his official capacity as treasurer 646 KB
03/17/2017 First General Counsel's Report 1 MB
Certifications 05/25/2017 House Majority PAC and Alixandria Lapp in her official capacity as treasurer; American Alliance and Chris Marston in his official capacity as treasurer; Congressional Leadership Fund and Caleb Crosby in his official capacity as treasurer; Bold Agenda PAC and Candace Hermsmeyer in her official capacity as treasurer; Defending Main Street SuperPAC Inc. and Sarah Chamberlain in her official capacity as treasurer; ESA Fund and Nancy H. Watkins in her official capacity as treasurer; Freedom Partners Action Fund, Inc. and Thomas F. Maxwell III in his official capacity as treasurer; New York Wins PAC and Keith A. Davis in his official capacity as treasurer; Senate Majority PAC and Rebecca Lambe in her official capacity as treasurer; Senate Leadership Fund and Caleb Crosby in his official capacity as treasurer; Access Industries, Inc; Americans for Shared Prosperity; Bernard H. Schwartz; Bernard Marcus; Charles G. Koch; Charles G. Koch 1997 Trust; Chevron Corpration; Diane Hendricks; S. Donald Sussman; Fred Eychancer; George M. Marcus; James H. Simons; John Jordan; Kenneth Griffin; LIUNA Building America; Marlene Ricketts; Mountaire Corporation; Paul Singer; Petrodome Energy; Richard B. Gilliam; Robert C. McNair; Robert L. Mercer; Robert Ziff; Sean Parker; Sheldon Adelson; Vitro-Retinal Consultants of the Palm Beaches; Warren Stephens 69 KB
Primary respondent House Majority PAC
Previous respondent Access Industries, Inc.
Adelson, Sheldon G.
American Alliance PAC
Americans for Shared Prosperiety
Bold Agenda
Chamberlain Resnick, Sarah
Charles G. Koch 1997 Trust
Congressional Leadership Fund
Crosby, Caleb
Davis, Keith A.
Defending Main Street SuperPAC Inc.,
ESA Fund
Eychaner, Fred
Freedom Partners Action Fund, Inc.
Gilliam, Richard
Griffin, Kenneth A.
Hendricks, Diane
Hermsmeyer, Candace
Jordan, John
Koch, Charles
LIUNA Building America
Lambe, Rebecca
Lapp, Alixandria
Marcus, Bernard
Marcus, George
Marston, Chris
Maxwell, Thomas F.
McNair, Robert
Mercer, Robert
Mountaire Corporation
New York Wins PAC
Parker, Sean
Petrodome Energy
Ricketts, Marlene
Schwartz, Bernard H.
Senate Leadership Fund
Senate Majority PAC
Simons, Jim
Singer, Paul
Stephens, Warren
Sussman, S. Donald
Vitreo-Retinal Consultants of the Palm Beaches
Watkins, Nancy H.
Ziff, Robert
Complainant Fein, Robert
Jones, Walter
Lieu, Ted W.
Merkley, Jeffrey Alan
Teachout, Zephyr
Wager, Michael
Weismann, Anne L.


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The former mayor of Lawrence was sentenced to 10 months in prison for embezzling from a food bank where he once served as the executive director. He was also ordered to pay $81,000 in restitution.
The ousted president of the University of Louisville Foundation was the nation's highest paid officer at a public university foundation earning $2.4 million in 2014. Local publications have raised the question of whether this is "excessive compensation" as that term is defined by the Internal Revenue Code.
Goodwill Industries in southern Nevada filed for bankruptcy. Published reports accuse the organization of having higher than normal salaries and expenses.
School teachers are suffering the most in this state as a result of a series of budget cuts making teachers' salaries some of the lowest in the nation. According to The Associated Press, charities are coming to the aid of the teachers by not only building housing but also providing meals for those in serious need.
A sports marketing agent helped form several foundations for football players coming out of the University of Oklahoma. Federal authorities have charged the individual with diverting $136,000 from one foundation and spending over $39,000 on personal purchases using a foundation credit card. Part of the resolution of the pending charges will be significant restitution.
New registration forms are now available to download online. The Commonwealth has not decided the cutoff date for use of the older forms.
Many charities have the word "the" at the beginning of their name. Yet, when you go to search for these organizations on the Wisconsin website, they do not appear. The reason is simple. Be advised that the state drops the word "the" from proper names.
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Büssing AG was a German bus and truck manufacturer, established in 1903 by Heinrich Büssing (1843–1929) in Braunschweig. It quickly evolved to one of the largest European producers, whose utility vehicles with the Brunswick Lion emblem were widely distributed, especially from the 1930s onwards. The company was taken over by MAN AG in 1971.

Heinrich Büssing

At the age of 60, the inventor and businessman Heinrich Büssing together with his two sons founded the Heinrich-Büssing-Spezialfabrik für Motorwagen und Motoromnibusse. Büssing, the son of a blacksmith dynasty at Nordsteimke (in present-day Wolfsburg), had studied engineering at the Collegium Carolinum in Braunschweig and had founded several bicycle, engineering and railway signal works with varying degrees of success. His first truck was a 2-ton payload machine powered by a 2-cylinder gasoline engine and featuring worm drive. That successful design was later built under license by other companies in Germany, Austria, Hungary and by Straker-Squire in England.

One year later he debuted a first 20 HP omnibus model carrying up to twelve passengers on the route from Braunschweig to Wendeburg, operated by his own Automobil-Omnibus-Betriebs-Gesellschaft. Büssing busses soon served public transport in European cities like Berlin (ABOAG), Vienna and Prague (Fross–Büssing), or London.

History

Before World War I Büssing started to build heavy-duty trucks for the time. These trucks featured 4- and 6-cylinder engines (5 tonnes and 11 tonnes, respectively). In 1914 the Büssing A5P armored car was developed at the behest of the German Oberste Heeresleitung. After the war, Heinrich Büssing had to enter a Kommanditgesellschaft limited partnership, converted into the Büssing AG joint-stock company in 1922. In 1923, Büssing introduced the first rigid three-axle chassis which was used in upcoming models and allowed Büssing to lead the market share in Germany in commercial vehicles. Fleets of their double and single deck buses ran on the streets of Berlin and were a common sight in the interwar years.

Büssing NAG used inmates of several Nazi concentration camps in Braunschweig from 1944 to March 1945 for slave labor. These camps were subcamps to the Neuengamme concentration camp.

After World War II civilian production resumed with 5-tonne and later 7-tonne trucks.
In 1950, the company name became Büssing Nutzkraftwagen GmbH and production was concentrated on underfloor-engined trucks which were to become the firm's speciality. Most tractor units and all normal-control trucks had vertical engines, but in the mid 1960s there was a version of their Commodore maximum-weight tractor unit, the 16-210, which had a horizontal diesel mounted under the cab ahead of the front axle, the gearbox being mounted halfway along the truck's chassis.

In 1969, Büssing started strong ties with MAN AG. MAN was a customer to some Büssing's innovative trucks and parts while they were promoting their own line-up. In 1971, an MAN takeover of Büssing was announced. MAN started to use the lion logo on its newly named "MAN-Büssing" trucks. Büssing's unique underfloor-engined truck range continued in production under the MAN AG through to the late 1980s.

Acquisitions
 First acquisition for Büssing was Mannesmann-Mulag Motoren und Lastwagen AG of Aachen.
 Elbing plant of Automobil Fabrik Kornnick AG.
 In 1934, Neue Automobil Gesellschaft (NAG). After the takeover Büssing used the brand Büssing-NAG until 1950.
 Büssing took over the Borgward plant at Osterholz-Scharmbeck in 1962. This plant used for building military 4-tonne 4x4. (1968 Factory was sold to Faun-Werke GmbH)

Innovations
1923: The Büssing III GL 6 is the world's first full-size bus
 1930s: Büssing began building heavy duty trucks with diesel engines
 1936: Büssing pioneered the horizontal "underfloor" diesel engines
 During World War II Büssing once again supplied military vehicles including 6x4 armoured cars and an 8x8 with all-wheel steering.

Trolleybus production
Büssing manufactured trolleybuses between 1933 and 1966, producing approximately 71 models.  Most were for German cities, but production also included three trolleybuses for Chernyakhovsk, Russia, in 1939; four for Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1940–42; and 14 for Lucerne, Switzerland, in 1965. In Turkey, ESHOT converted 21 Büssing motorbuses into trolleybuses in 1962 and 1968 (these are not counted in the total of 71 given above). At least four Büssing trolleybuses have been preserved, including ones at the Frankfurt Transport Museum, (:de:Verkehrsmuseum Frankfurt am Main) at the Hannoversches Straßenbahn-Museum and at the Historama transport museum in Ferlach, Austria.

See also
 Borgward
 Magirus
 MAN SE
 Henschel
 Neue Automobil Gesellschaft

Notes

Defunct bus manufacturers
Defunct truck manufacturers
Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of Germany
Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1903
MAN SE
Trolleybus manufacturers
Companies based in Braunschweig
Vehicle manufacturing companies disestablished in 1971
1971 disestablishments in West Germany
Bus manufacturers of Germany
Electric vehicle manufacturers of Germany
German companies established in 1903


Six months before Justice League's release, director Zack Snyder has announced that he is stepping away from the movie following the death of his daughter, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Though the film has already gone through its initial shoots, Avengers director Joss Whedon will step in to direct the movie through postproduction and the shooting of some additional scenes.
Snyder's daughter died by suicide in March at the age of 20. The film took a two-week break following the tragedy, and Snyder had originally planned on returning to the film.
"In my mind, I thought it was a cathartic thing to go back to work, to just bury myself and see if that was the way through it," Snyder said at a press conference. "The demands of this job are pretty intense. It is all-consuming. And in the last two months, I've come to the realization … I've decided to take a step back from the movie to be with my family, be with my kids, who really need me. They are all having a hard time. I'm having a hard time."
Warner Bros. had initially suggested to push back the release date, but the Snyders declined. Instead of leaving home to shoot additional scenes in England, he decided to let Whedon handle the remaining work, which Warner Bros. Pictures president Toby Emmerich says is "minimal."
"The directing is minimal and it has to adhere to the style and tone and the template that Zack set," Emmerich told The Hollywood Reporter. "We're not introducing any new characters. It's the same characters in some new scenes. He's handing the baton to Joss, but the course has really been set by Zack. I still believe that despite this tragedy, we'll still end up with a great movie."
Justice League is due in theaters on November 17.


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Podcast: Andy Bell
This month, Alethea is joined by Andy Bell, deputy chief executive at Centre for Mental Health, to reflect on some of our recent work and the power of applying research to real life. The episode covers a lot of ground, from the changes he's seen in policy and services over many years at the Centre, to our work on race equality and more widely in the campaign for equality in mental health.
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Centre for Mental Health · Andy Bell: the power of applying research to real life
Alethea Joshi (AJ): Hello, and welcome to Centre for Mental Health's podcast. Here at the Centre, we are dedicated to eradicating mental health inequalities by changing policy and practice. So earlier this month, I caught up with Andy Bell, deputy chief executive at the Centre, to tell us a bit more about our recent work and the power of applying research to real life. We've covered a lot of ground on this one, from the changes he's seen in mental health over the many years at the Centre, to our work on race equality, and more widely in campaigning for equality in mental health.
So I'm delighted to be here with Andy Bell, deputy chief executive at Centre for Mental Health. And thank you so much for joining us, Andy.
Andy Bell (AB): Thank you.
AJ: I knew that our listeners and people across the sector would be really keen to hear from you and to glean some of that Andy Bell wisdom that you are known for, that we are grateful to you for. So before you cringe too much, Andy, can you just tell us a little bit more about what you do at the Centre?
AB: Sure. So I work with the research that colleagues at the Centre produce to make sure that the work we do is heard in the places it needs to be heard, that we have influence as an organisation where we can, we're able to share our knowledge as widely as possible. But also that the work we do is relevant and useful to the people we work with, whether that is people living with mental health difficulties, who want to make change locally, or whether it's politicians at a national level, local government, people working in the NHS, people working in the voluntary sector; it's all about making sure that we're producing work that's relevant to them. And that we're able to hear what's going on for people and to understand that and to provide support wherever possible that meets their needs.
AJ: So you're really involved in taking that research and applying it, speaking to policymakers and decision makers about how they could essentially make better decisions for people with mental health problems. Is that right?
AB: Yeah, it's putting research evidence into the real world, in plain English, in ways that people can use and understand. And a lot of research evidence is stuck in academic journals, it's not necessarily heard about or known about. And a lot of the evidence we produce, of course, we put into reports. And we know that it takes a while for reports to get heard and listened to: simply writing some words on a page, sticking it on our website isn't enough. We need to make sure that people are able to use our work and that it makes sense to people. And I think we're very fortunate that the work we produce is done with very much that in mind, but of course, you then need to apply that in real life situations and working with government, or national bodies, or indeed local councils, it's all about helping them to solve the problems they're trying to solve in real time. And sometimes that's going back to work that we might have published a while ago, or research that we're aware of from other people, because Centre for Mental Health doesn't have a monopoly on knowledge and wisdom in this sector.
AJ: I mean, it's interesting, because you said there, about applying research to real life and in real time. I guess the question for some people might be, there's a lot of people struggling here and now with their mental health, you know, why the focus on policy and research? It can it can feel a bit a bit dry, I guess. And you know, is it really going to make a difference?
AB: Yeah, I mean, and that's right, because, when you're dealing with things that are about changing policy, or practice, or the way people think, it can feel very divorced from people's real life situations. I think one of the great joys of working at Centre for Mental Health with the partners we have is that we're very often able very quickly to identify those issues people are experiencing, and put those directly to folk in positions of power and influence to get things changed. But we also know that policy changes do sometimes make changes in people's real lives. And we've seen examples of things that have both gone well and badly in terms of policies around mental health, that have changed people's lives, both for good and ill. So for example, when policies change, around, let's say, support for women during pregnancy, around their mental health, we've seen some very significant policy changes in recent years, which either have already or will over time, make a significant difference to women's experiences of the help available to them.
But we've also seen examples for example, in benefit policies, where changes made nationally have done enormous harm to people's mental health. And again, it's really important that we're able to feed that back and share it because we know that every policy that gets made has an impact on people's mental health and on the lives of people living with a mental illness. And our job in a way is to be able to identify those, where possible to preempt and try and get the policies right in the first place. But sometimes it's about giving feedback on how things are going and where things aren't as good as they should be, to try and bring about change. So yes, it can feel a mile away from real experience. But in a sense, our work is not about helping people directly so much as it is about making the bigger changes that will overall change lots and lots of people's lives, many of whom, most of whom, we'll have no contact with directly.
AJ: Thank you. That's really helpful, Andy, and also, some really helpful examples there. And I was reflecting on the fact that you've been at the Centre a long time. And I mean, you know, I've really only been at Centre for five years, and I've seen a lot of change in the mental health landscape in that time. But I guess you mentioned a few examples there, but I wondered if there were other examples, kind of key areas where you've seen sort of big changes in mental health policy and in mental health services?
AB: Yeah. And there have been many, I mean, I think one example that comes to mind immediately is the current debate around the Mental Health Act. And the last time the Mental Health Act was being debated, it was around about 2006-7. In fact, it took a long time from about 1999, when the government at the time first said it wanted to change the Mental Health Act, through to 2007 when it actually did. The debate then was unfortunately very much about people with a mental illness as being a danger to others, it was a very paternalistic debate, it was very often full of prejudice, actually, it was a terrible debate. And a lot of us who were involved at the time had to work really hard to shift the terms of debate, away from a focus on dangerousness and people with a mental illness as a risk to others, to focusing on people's rights and having a system which works better for those individuals.
Since that time, use of the Mental Health Act has gone up and up every year. And we're really worried about that, and should be really worried about that. But at least the debate we're having now about the Mental Health Act is one about how we have a better balance between wanting to keep people safe and wanting to respect people's rights. We're having a focus on race equality within the Mental Health Act, we're having a focus on treating people with dignity. And many of the changes that government's proposing around the Mental Health Act will hopefully make it something which is more respectful of people's rights and abilities to go about their lives. So that's a significant change. And it's been brought about I think, by a change in the way policymakers perceive mental health as a topic, and people with mental illness as a group whose rights should be respected. And that is a significant change.
I think you can see other examples around work, for example, the way in which many years ago, work wasn't seen as a possibility for people living with a mental illness, or we had a rather unhelpful lack of communication, I guess, between either seeing work as something that that people should be forced into, if you like, or something that people should be protected from, rather than understanding from the experiences and views of people living with mental illness, about what work means to them. Things are not perfect now, we still have a benefit system which treats people appallingly badly. But we are at least now investing in supported employment services within the NHS. And we're at least now beginning to see that work can be good for your mental health where it's good. There's lots more to do around that; we need to really change some of the working conditions people are in that cause poor mental health, for far too many. But again, we're on a road, we're on a journey, we're not finished, but things are beginning to change.
AJ: Thank you Andy, it's so helpful to have that historical policy insight for people like me who are a bit newer in the field, it's really helpful to just see that things are changing. I think also, it's an encouragement for us who are working in the system, who could very easily feel frustrated at where sometimes we see a lack of progress, to see that things are changing.
AB: Yeah, the pace of change can feel absolutely glacial sometimes. And of course, there's a huge gap sometimes between changing a policy and it actually having an effect. So when for the first time, government realised that we didn't have waiting time targets for mental health services in the way we do for other parts of the NHS, it took a long, long time for that realisation and that commitment to treat mental health a bit more equally by having some waiting time targets for that actually to take effect and that actually to make a difference to people. And again, we're not finished. We're really only on the starting blocks with that, but we do see some examples of progress. Sometimes of course, things go backwards. And that's deeply frustrating.
But nonetheless, you know, when change feels so very slow, particularly translating good ideas into real life, it can feel like nothing can ever change. And actually, the record over the last 15 to 20 years shows, it absolutely can. But progress is precious, you make it step by step, and sometimes you get pushed back and you have to kind of pick yourself up and keep moving forward. You can make attritional progress, you can get kicked back. But you know, we keep on pushing on.
AJ: Yeah, that's a real encouragement to us. And I was sort of reflecting on the fact that you and I have not actually been in the same physical space for over a year now, which feels very bizarre. I've seen a lot of your head, which is no bad thing. And that's obviously due to the pandemic that we've all been living through. And as many of our followers might have seen, we've obviously been pretty busy in that time, seeking to provide analysis and research and support on mental health during a pandemic. So I wondered if you might be able to talk us through the work a bit and what we set out to do in the pandemic?
AB: Yeah, so a year or so ago, when we were all confined to home and having to work separately to one another, and we certainly didn't think we'd be doing that in a year's time without any break, but here we are. And we had a decision to make as Centre for Mental Health. Do we kind of close up the hatches? Do we focus on what we would have been doing anyway and just, you know, take a very cautious approach? Or do we as an organisation think, actually, we have a part to play in supporting the national response, and indeed, international response, in fact, to the mental health implications of this thing we're going through. And we took a collective decision, we wanted to do the latter, we wanted to make a contribution, we wanted to use the skills and knowledge of our full staff team to make that response. And so during the last year, we've produced a number of resources, we've been poring over data, we've been looking at what's going on, we've been listening to people's real life experiences, in order really to do two things: one of which is to identify what the mental health implications are, and thinking of that right the way through life from early childhood through to later life, and which groups of people have had their mental health particularly threatened by what we've been all going through. And not to do that just to kind of identify problems; to do that in order really to identify solutions. So we did that in order to help organisations and individuals working within the system, both statutory and voluntary sector, in the NHS, in national government, in local government, to use their resources as best as possible to respond to the needs that we're seeing.
So for example, some of that has been very immediate. We identified early on that many people living with a mental illness were having trouble getting access to food and vital provisions. And they weren't getting the support from government. So we were able to relay that fact, and get a fairly quick solution to that. We've also been heavily involved in the vaccination programme, not running it ourselves, but in ensuring that people living with a mental illness have fair access to vaccinations. And that's been both for flu and for COVID itself, of course, more recently. So we've learned particularly that for people with personality disorder diagnoses, and people with eating disorders, there's been a real problem in terms of access to vaccination for some, in some local areas there's been a really positive response and they've been included alongside people with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. In other areas, they've been told no. That's been really frustrating for them, extremely frustrating for them, bearing in mind, this is a life-saving intervention potentially. And so we've had to keep a real close eye on that. And I think it's reminded us, as if we need it, that there are still some groups of people living with mental health diagnoses that seem to be more about exclusion than inclusion, who don't get the right support, who aren't included, who aren't given the kind of help that any of us would regard as being basic and necessary. And so that really reminds us to keep working around some of those issues and those gaps in the system.
And then crucially, we've also been looking at the longer term, because we know some of the impacts of the pandemic on people's mental health will actually come to cause difficulties in the future: people who suffer poor mental health because of bereavement, because of the effects of the virus itself, because they lose their jobs or their livelihoods, because their education has been affected in really serious ways. These are things that are going to happen over a period of time. And sadly, help seeking for mental health is often something which takes quite a long time too; we know it can take 10 years for children and young people, for example. So we really want to support organisations working in this area, to know what's coming, to be able to respond where necessary, to be there available and openly encourage people to seek help. Because we know that's really important. And hopefully the evidence that we've managed to bring together will give those organisations the information they need to be ready to offer people help when they need it.
AJ: Thanks, Andy. That's a really helpful and comprehensive overview of our work during the last year. And just so you all know, all of this work is available on our website, and I will link to it in the show notes. And it was also really helpful that you mentioned the work that we've been doing through the Equally Well campaign, ensuring that people with severe mental illness especially can get the vaccine as soon as possible. We've produced a really helpful resource on that. And I will also link to that in the show notes. So thank you. Another thing that we've really been focusing on over the last year or so Andy, is obviously our work around race equality. I also know that this isn't a new area for us. So can you tell us a little bit more about that?
AB: It's a really important area of mental health policy that remains unresolved and we haven't seen anywhere near enough progress on. And we've had ups and downs in terms of governments and the NHS taking this seriously. But it's worth reflecting on the fact that we have known for two decades, at least, the severity of the disproportionate treatment of particularly people from African and Caribbean communities in the UK, but actually very different experiences across a whole range of groups of people. Not just of the Mental Health Act, but of mental health treatment, and indeed, of experiencing poor mental health in the first place. And it's one of those issues that's been there in plain sight for a very long time. And responses to it have occasionally included kind of a national focus and some policies, particularly around 2004/5, the Delivering Race Equality programme. But more often than not, the problem has been ignored. It's been left up to communities, there's been very often a real lack of driving most of the national mental health policies that have been produced over the last 20 years, race inequality has been right down the bottom as a kind of also ran issue, rather than what it clearly should be, which is one of the top issues that we're trying to improve people's experiences. And of course, it's linked to institutional racism. Of course, it's linked to wider economic and social inequalities in society. This isn't about the mental health system on its own. This is a very big, complex issue. The problem with big complex issues is it's always easier to say, 'well, it's someone else's fault. I can't do this on my own, therefore, there's nothing I can do'. And it's now nearly 20 years since Breaking the circles of fear came out of what was then Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health. That made a very clear set of recommendations, some of which were partially included in Delivering Race Equality. But that's now a generation ago. And we need to really look at what we should be doing now.
There is at least again, some progress at the moment, the Mental Health Act review made a number of recommendations particularly for the Patient and Carer Race Equality Framework, which is sometimes shortened to PCREF. There's also an Advancing Mental Health Equality strategy that NHS England published recently. And we need to get behind these things. And we need to make sure they work and we need to give them time. Tackling some of the most embedded and deeply entrenched inequalities in our society is not going to be something that can be done quickly. It can't be done within a five year plan. It can't just be done with a couple of quick fixes. We need to really change the entire system in quite significant ways. And I think some of the plans that are being put forward now should help to make some progress on that.
But of course, we also need to look at some of the reasons why some of these inequalities happened in the first place, looking at schools, looking at policing, looking at the hostile environment, that many of those national policies actually do tremendous harm to people's mental health. And, you know, we really do need to keep looking at this across the whole system. The NHS is neither off the hook entirely, nor is it solely responsible for race inequality and mental health. So we really do need a system where everybody is pulling their weight, and everyone is taking measures with a very strongly anti-racist perspective, in order to bring about the necessary changes.
AJ: Yeah, thank you Andy, that's a really sobering reminder, isn't it that these issues, but also the evidence about them, has been around literally for a generation now. And I think so many of us feel such a deep frustration at that. And I know that we're really committed at the Centre to taking an anti-racist approach in all of our work. And also really, as you say, keeping race equality on the agenda and race equality and mental health.
And very much linked to that, another big feature of the last few months for us has been the culmination of the work of our Commission for Equality in Mental Health, and the launch of that report Mental health for all back in November. And so firstly, tell us a bit more about why we chose this focus, and a focus that's become the central tenet of the Centre's work, on this relationship between inequality and mental health.
AB: Yeah, so I think this is a piece of work that we were absolutely delighted to have the opportunity to do. It came very importantly and very sadly, from a legacy donation from the life of a young man who sadly died by suicide. We were very fortunate to be one of the charities that received a donation as a result of that. And we wanted to use that donation to do something really different and really special. And the thing that we most wanted to do was to really look systematically at mental health inequalities, and that's both systematically across different equality issues. Because of course, when we talk about race inequality, where we talked about inequality relating to income, when we talk about inequalities relating to gender, or any other protected characteristic, if you like to use the official phrase, we often look at them separately, rather than in the context of people's lives. And we wanted to look across the whole range of inequalities that exist within mental health and try to understand what's going on. And crucially, we wanted to look across people's lives, and across the whole system. So again, looking at both the causes, the root causes if you like, the public health end, you know, what is it that causes some groups of people to have poorer mental health than others? It may seem really obvious, but if it's really obvious, why do we do nothing about it?
But we also alongside that, wanted to look at people's experiences of support, so why is it that groups of people that experience poorer mental health, often get poorer access to help and certainly slower access to help, and very often have much a tougher time getting access to help? And then, of course, their experiences of it sometimes can be poorer as well, not always, but sometimes and for particular groups of people. We've talked about race inequality already. But we certainly see examples for many different groups of people, that where you have higher rates of poor mental health, you seem to have less good experience of the support available for it.
So we spent a couple of years really looking at this, we brought in a commission of people with a range of expertise chaired by Liz Sayce. And that Commission made us work hard. They got us to look at the evidence; we had a call for evidence, and we made that very open, so anybody could participate and share their knowledge. We went out to communities, we talked to people, we talked to organisations working in all sorts of different areas, to really understand every possible perspective on this. And the report we published at the end Mental health for all, please do have a look if you haven't had a chance, it summarises the evidence, but we didn't want to just focus on the problems. So what it does is it sets out some possible solutions at a system level, for things that could be done now from national government, right the way down to very, very local communities and communities of interest, for what could change to start to build a system designed for equality, rather than what we seem to have at the moment, which is a system that embeds inequality. And so the recommendations we came up with include a whole range of things from again, tackling racism and income inequality at a national level, right the way down to thinking about how charitable funding is used, and how we can ensure that communities where mental health gets made are the places where investment happens, looking at the role of public organisations as so called 'anchor institutions', so using their spending power and their place in a local community to help to build greater equality and to tackle some of the causes of poor mental health.
And of course, looking at access to support as well. And that's not just about making sure that more people get access to the same things. It's about making sure that what people are offered is actually relevant and useful and meets their needs. And at the moment, it's very clear that for some groups of people, that's not the case. We're keen to really keep pursuing this. As you said, this is something we feel strongly about this isn't just, 'we're going to publish your report and leave it on our website and hope people take it up'. We're really keen to work with anyone who would like to work with us to embed the principles of a system designed for equality, and to bring about that change, both locally and nationally, and anywhere that people are willing to work with us on that. So really keen to hear from anyone who would like to take that forward.
AJ: Thanks, Andy. That's really helpful. And I think, you know, it can feel I guess, the whole area of equality and mental health can feel overwhelming, because as you said, it is across all systems, all areas of government, big and small, communities, it literally is encompassing everything. So it's so broad that it can feel kind of overwhelming as an issue. And yet, when you start to think about these really glaring inequalities, you know, like, it really reminds me of the research that we discovered many years ago now of children from the poorest 20% of households being four times more likely to experience a mental health problem than those in the wealthiest 20%. And when you look at glaring statistics like that, you just think, 'why isn't anything happening in this? This is too critical for us to continue to ignore. And whilst it is a big problem, it's not insurmountable.
AB: Yeah. And I think the thing about glaring statistics is that you hear them so often, you start to take them for granted. You know, we're so used to hearing some of these terrible things about for example, the shorter life expectancy of people living with a severe mental illness, the higher rates of Mental Health Act detentions of people from African and Caribbean communities, the huge wealth disparities in terms of people's mental health, the links with homelessness, and, you know, we get to a point where it just gets taken as artefact, almost as a given, as a fact of life if you like. And I think one of the things that we're really keen to do is to break that link and make people question it, you know, we know this isn't okay. So what can we do to set us in a direction, that might change it? Again, change takes time, we're not going to be able to demolish some of these things overnight, or within the next year. It's going to take time, it takes a lot of effort, we need to have action across systems. But we can either just carry on as we are, just tinkering at the edges, or we can actually do something now that will start to generate that system change, that will affect people's chances of having good mental health longer term, and ensure that the support we've got actually meets the needs of people, particularly those whose experiences so far have been much, much poorer than they should be.
AJ: Yeah and I think we were all just really clear at the Centre that when the report was launched in November, you know, there was in no way kind of a sense of 'great, well, that's equality wrapped up'; as with so much of our work, you know, the report being launched is only really the start of the policy and campaigning that then needs to be done to say, you know, 'this is what the evidence is, why aren't we doing anything about it?' And obviously, that's something we touched on earlier about the work that we do to translate that evidence into real change. But so I guess, specifically with this work with the Commission for Equality, obviously, it's formally come to an end. But what are the next steps for us? And what really is the Centre doing to progress that agenda for equality and mental health now?
AB: Yeah, so with a big report like that, it's got to be something that you take to the next level. So in some ways, it's raised more questions, which will be work that we will carry on doing to answer some of those questions. It's not like we've got a kind of complete agenda for tackling mental health inequality. And that we think we've got everything sorted, we absolutely haven't. But what we do know is that there is a huge amount of opportunity to change things.
Some of that is about how we talk to national government, people in positions of influence and power within the system. Again, we're a charity so we can't make things happen. But we can persuade people to do things differently. And so that's very much our role, taking some of the recommendations from that report and persuading people to do it. We have seen some small successes. For example, the recent recovery action plan from the Department of Health and Social Care in England included some important focus around inequalities in mental health and a proposal for a mental health test for future policies, which would perhaps help to change some of the culture within government that makes people's mental health a bit of an afterthought when policies are made, and if that was taken to its full potential, then we could see some really quite significant changes. And we'll certainly be working with Government to do that.
In the meantime, I think there's a huge amount of interest in local areas in some of this. And we've talked to a number of local councils now and people working in Integrated Care Systems, the new NHS arrangement, people working in voluntary community organisations, about some of the ideas in that report, and can we work with them, to support them to put it in practice in real life. And we've already seen some examples of local areas that have used that work, to help them to shape their recovery response to the pandemic. And there is no better time than now to try to address the inequalities that have been laid so bare during the last year. Building back better is a bit of a trite cliche, isn't it, but we need to take this opportunity while there is an awareness of the need to respond to people's mental health, to do that with equality at the heart. So we will keep pushing. We will keep working with the willing, we will keep looking for solutions, we know that there is still an awful lot more to learn and lots more things to try. But we want to keep learning and we want to keep working with colleagues and allies across the system to make a difference. We know we can do this.
AJ: Thanks Andy, it's really helpful to hear that and again, just such an encouragement to all of us working in the sector. And yeah, I'm really excited to see how our work in the area pans out. As ever, it's been a real joy to talk to you. Sometimes I joke that I wish I could download all of Andy's thoughts into my brain so I just knew a lot more stuff. But it's been really helpful to just sit with you for half an hour or so and just get your view on these things. So thank you.
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The mental power that helps us have a better and happier life is built exactly as we build the physical power. 50 pushups a day doesn't consume you a long time, but they consistently give you a very good physical shape.
We can also practice our brains and teach them to think differently.
Identify those aspects of your life that bring you happiness, pleasure and satisfaction. It can be very simple things, such as gratitude that you can take a pleasant shower at the end of a tiring day or gratitude for great achievements. Over time, gratitude will become a habit, and you will enjoy the benefits of this positive feeling in countless ways.
For 5 minutes, focus on what is around you. Listen to the sounds, watch the room and see what you notice. Turn your attention to your body and see what you notice, how you feel. With regular practice you will increase your ability to focus and you will be able to activate this ability in any situation. When you feel fears, worries, or yesterday's problems get you, practice mindfulness, turn in your present moment to recalibrate and re-energize your mind and body.
It is also a popular exercise in the spiritual world. Because our exterior is actually a mirror of our inner world, we are encouraged to practice this exercise to act like "as if" a situation already happend.


I will never forget the day I decided to move to Boston.
I have now called this place home for three years, but back in the summer of 2016, my wife and I were making one of the bravest decisions of our lives.
Moving here seemed like a crazy idea at the time to me, but my wife has a faith unlike anybody I've ever met. She knew we needed to be here, and even though we had been married for only a few months, I believed in her as much as she believed in God's plan.
I am so glad I listened to her.
At the time I followed her advice, I hadn't become a regular major league player, and I certainly hadn't ever batted .310 in a season. But when you put your faith in God, it's amazing what can happen. Many people would use the word unbelievable to describe God's miracles, but my wife believed in this miracle before I ever envisioned it for myself.
When I got called up to the Red Sox that June, I tried to downplay my wife's expectations. I'm only going to be here two weeks, I would tell her, before they're going to send me back down to the minor leagues.
She wouldn't listen to any of it. And looking back, I'm so thankful.
My home at the time was in Providence, Rhode Island, just down the road from our Triple-A team in Pawtucket. I had a temporary place to live in Boston for my brief stint, but my wife said we need to move to Boston. We can't, I explained, because it's only going to be two weeks. Are we going to drive back and forth from Boston to Pawtucket every day after that? It's too much.
No, she insisted, we have to move. You have to have faith and just move with your faith. So that's exactly what we did. With no idea what the future held, we got our own place to live. Regardless of what happened next, we were now going to be Bostonians.
What happened over those two weeks – and really what has happened over the last three years – is nothing short of miraculous.
In my first game it didn't look like I was going to get an at-bat, but when the game went extra innings, I got my chance. I hit a double to start the 10th inning, and my teammate Xander Bogaerts hit a two-run single to win the game 5-3.
Then in my next game, against the Minnesota Twins, I had one of the best games of my life. I went 4-4 with a double as we won 15-4. I went 0-1 in my third game, only to bounce right back. I went 1-3 against the Orioles, then 3-4 against the Mariners.
In those two weeks with the team I hit .692.
My manager at the time, John Farrell, told me the news I was hoping to hear ever since we made the big move. I was staying in the big leagues with the Red Sox.
It's moments like that when you know the power of God is unbelievable. There is nothing that is impossible for Him.
I called my wife, and she began bursting into tears. Our dream had turned into a reality.
I shouldn't have been surprised my wife had that level of confidence in God's plan. After all, it wasn't the first time we had taken a wild chance that worked out.


Another race which is worthy of consideration for observation on tomorrow's 10-race programme is the high-optional claiming ($850,000-$750,000) event involving a number of starters with good chances of winning.
The race is for three-year-olds and upward racing for a tag that includes native-bred three-year-olds and upward non-winners of four, going over seven furlongs (1,400m).
The Supreme Racing Guide shares with readers an in-depth analysis on the chances of the eight runners entered to contest this one, in their respective starting positions.
BAND OF GOLD: (4-y-o, dkb f – Adore The Gold – Formal Jackie) — Before analysis has not developed at all after promising so much, especially in the early part of her career. Tomorrow's race forms a part of Band of Gold's long and rugged quest to once again find her form, and as such cannot be recommended as one, she can win.
ELAL: (4-y-o, b g – Silent Valor – Kam To The World) — Finally found the winners' enclosure on last over a mile (1,600m) on January, 5 but repeating here is not on the cards mainly because that victory came at the four-year-old non-winners of two level. Now, Elal races against much tougher opposition and is going to be hard-pressed to even hit the board.
URBAN PRINCIPAL: (6-y-o, b g – Urban King – Lady Argyll) — Raced against Overnight Allowance horses on last when finishing seventh over seven lengths behind the winner Bimini going five furlongs round. Urban Principal now races with the blinkers off but even this change of equipment is not going to help his chances against these as he is going to be hard pressed throughout.
DANOS LA PAZ: (8-y-o, ch h – War Marshall – Lady Rakwalaay) — Won on a $450,000-$400,000 claiming spread last year and now, stepping so far up the claiming ladder should prove very difficult for Danos La Paz to win this high-claiming event. Then again this is racing and anything can happen during an race. Even with that being said, Danos La Paz is not given a chance to win this one.
BRAVE PROSPECT (7-y-o, dkb h – Seeking The Glory – Good Prospect) — A champion in the claiming ranks who is quite capable on his day. However, for Brave Prospect this is a major step on the ladder and, as a result, it is not likely that in this one tomorrow he is going to trouble the fancied runners, but then again one can never know. Let's wait and see.
SOY EL SENOR: (6-y-o, gr h – He'stherealthing – Jose Parsan) — Has seemingly gone off the boil in recent times and it is extremely difficult predicting Soy El Senor winning here. Soy El Senor finished eighth — just over six lengths behind Birdie My Love, Drummer Boy and Zephyr — and now has 11 more pounds in his back, while Drummer Boy has slipped one pound in weight. Based purely on these handicaps, Soy El Senor does not stand a chance against Drummer Boy.
REIGNING KING: (4-y-o, ch c – Miracle Man – Quickster) — Went down fighting on last when finishing second by 3 ¼ lengths to My Super Girl in the War Zone Sprint over 5 ½ furlongs (1,100m) on December 15, 2018. Will enjoy this extended trip even more and, given his class, Reigning King is expected to run well again. Reigning King is once again reunited with in form jockey Dane Nelson, and the choice of riders can be the difference between winning and losing tomorrow. Do not take the chances of Reigning King lightly as he is now well rested and is primed for a really good effort.
DRUMMER BOY: (4-y-o, b c – Natural Selection – Preach Preacher) — Drummer Boy has been racing quite a bit since the start of the 2019 season. He now has three good runs under his girth and should be cherry-ripe to get off the mark as a four-year-old. Drummer Boy was favoured to win all three races he started in 2019 but has come up short on all occasions, as he seems to be one of those horses who always finds one better. Yet, there is no doubt that Drummer Boy is the class horse in the race and he now gets the perfect opportunity to add to his earnings which now stands at just over $4 million. It is extremely difficult opposing Drummer Boy in this high-claiming event but anything can happen. Drummer Boy is the overwhelming favourite to take this one home.


Our holiday home - not available to rent.
A very short walk from the cave house, this castle was built in the 16th century by the Marquis of los Velez . Originally a Moorish fortification.
The castle is well preserved and inside its walls are two important buildings; Casa de la Tercia which is home to the Archaeological Museum and the palace of the Marqués de los Vélez, which was built in the sixteenth century and is now the seat of the Antonio Manuel Campoy Museum of Contemporary Art.
The castle is open daily and is sometimes used for concerts.
Just off Plaza la Libertad next to the castle is Taperia El Castillo Restaurant.
Monika's is a favourite haunt for British residents in town. It's an unpretentious typical Spanish bar whose main clientele is drawn from the local British expat community. Spanish workers start their day here with a coffee, croissant and maybe a brandy.
Another great restaurant in nearby Palomares is La Dulca Casa.
El Torrente restaurant at the Desert Spring Golf Resort & Spa, is a few minutes away from the town centre; Sir Ian Botham, OBE and Daly Thompson, CBE have homes here.
The Dam on the Almanzora River provides excellent water sport activities - a pleasant walk heading out of town.
Many nice beaches line the coast around Cuevas del Almanzora and one, is the next town heading South towards Almeria (Playa Vera) which has both textile and naturist beaches.
Maui Beach Bar chriinguito in Mojacar, just one of many, is a short distance away by car or bus.
Cuevas del Almanzora has recently had a Mercadona Supermarket built, but also has frequent traditional markets, selling fresh produce, as well as many shops, cafes, bars and restaurants. Villaricos is a nearby town which has a Sunday night market and village fiestas.


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