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The World's 50 Most Valuable Sports Teams 2019
Kurt Badenhausen Forbes Staff
I cover sports business with rare dips into b-schools, local economies
The Dallas Cowboys kick off training camp this weekend as the defending NFC East champions. Last season ended with a playoff loss to the Los Angeles Rams, which marked 23 straight years the Cowboys were shut out of the NFC Championship game. Only the Washington Redskins and Detroit Lions have longer title-game droughts.
But America's Team remains the biggest must-see show in sports. Nine of the 50 highest-rated sports TV broadcasts in 2018 were regular season Cowboys games, helping goose ratings for CBS, NBC and Fox. (The Patriots were the only other team with more than four games among the top 50.) Cowboys fever helps owner Jerry Jones generate an estimated $340 million in sponsorship and premium-seating revenue at AT&T Stadium, twice as much as any other team.
While Jones' team has come up short on the field the past 20-plus years, the Cowboys are the world's most valuable sports franchise for the fourth-straight year at $5 billion. Jones has capitalized on the insatiable appetite for all things Cowboys.
"On and off the field, in season and out of season, there is a small soap opera going on every day," Jones told my colleague Mike Ozanian last fall during a taping of Forbes SportsMoney on the YES Network. "Everyone knows that marketing, especially in this day and time, is just another way to promote the circus, so to speak."
Jones has always been a visionary since he bought the Cowboys for $150 million 30 years ago. He revolutionized stadium sponsorships; broke away from the NFL's shared merchandise revenue system; launched a stadium-management firm, Legends Hospitality, with the New York Yankees; and opened a $1.5 billion practice facility in 2017.
The New England Patriots' Tom Brady
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The result: Dallas sits atop the globe's richest sports league with profits, in the sense of earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, of $365 million in 2017, a record for any sports team.
The cutoff to rank among the world's 50 most valuable sports teams is $2.075 billion, up $125 million from last year and $1.2 billion from five years ago. The values of sports teams have skyrocketed on the backs of ballooning media rights deals and more owner-friendly collective bargaining agreements that restrain player costs. There are 52 teams across all sports worth at least $2 billion, up from one, Manchester United, in 2012.
The NFL is still the dominant sports league when it comes to the worth of its franchises. More than half of the top 50 are football squads. Credit the monster media-rights deals with the likes of CBS, NBC, Fox, ESPN and DirecTV that paid out more than $260 million per team last year. The TV haul is a nice cushion to easily cover teams' biggest expense item, player costs, before any tickets, sponsorships, beer or replica jerseys are sold. The cap on player salaries was $177 million last season (each team is also on the hook for $40 million annually in player benefit costs).
The New York Yankees moved up three spots to just behind the Cowboys with a value of $4.6 billion, up 15%. The Bronx Bombers head seven MLB teams that made the top 50. The Yankees are surging on and off the field. They own the best record in the American League this season, after posting 100 wins last year. Attendance at Yankee Stadium jumped 10% last year to 3.5 million fans, the highest for the club since 2012. Viewership of Yankees games on the YES Network was 57% higher than any other baseball franchise in 2018.
Real Madrid ranks third at $4.2 billion and highest among the eight soccer clubs in the top 50. The La Liga club was the last sports team deemed the world's most valuable before the Cowboys secured the title starting in 2016. Real banked more than $100 million for winning its second-straight Champions League crown last year.
Don't look for Real Madrid to set any records with regard to the richest sports team sale, currently $2.3 billion for the sales of the Carolina Panthers in 2018 and the Brooklyn Nets in 2019. Real is owned by its more than 90,000 members, who elect a club president. It's a similar structure at rival Barcelona, which ranks fourth overall with a value of $4.02 billion.
The Golden State Warriors' Stephen Curry
NBA teams have made the most dramatic moves this decade. The New York Knicks headline nine hoops teams in the top 50 this year. Their $4 billion value, up 11%, ranks fifth among all sports teams. The Los Angeles Lakers ($3.7 billion) and Golden State Warriors ($3.5 billion) also cracked the top 10. In 2012, the Lakers were the most valuable NBA team at $900 million and ranked 35th out of all sports franchises. The Knicks were the only other NBA team in the top 50 in 2012.
Three NBA franchises have been sold for at least $2 billion since 2014 (Nets, Houston Rockets and Los Angeles Clippers). The prior NBA-record sale price was $550 million for the Milwaukee Bucks, which closed three months before Steve Ballmer's $2 billion blockbuster purchase of the Clippers.
Investors salivate at the NBA's international prospects, with 300 million basketball players in China and annual revenue growing outside the U.S. at a rate in the high teens. The 2016 CBA locked in player costs at 50% of the league's surging revenue, and league-wide profits are up tenfold over the past seven years by Forbes' count.
The world's richest sports teams are almost all swimming in cash these days. Barcelona, which lost $37 million due to excessive player costs, was the only top-50 team to post a loss on an operating basis, and every other team turned a profit of at least $25 million. More than half of the teams made more than $100 million, led by the Cowboys at $365 million.
The franchise values below are based on Forbes' published valuations over the past 12 months by Mike Ozanian, Christina Settimi and myself. Team values reflect enterprise values (equity plus debt). No teams from the NHL, Nascar, MLS or Formula One made the top 50. The highest-ranking franchise outside of the NBA, NFL, MLB and European soccer was the New York Rangers at 72nd with a value of $1.55 billion.
The NFL remains the most dominant sports leagues with more than half of the 50 most valuable sports franchises, but the other major sports chipped away at its dominance during the past year.
The discount bin is empty when shopping for teams in the major sports leagues. Every NFL, NBA and MLB franchise is now worth at least $1 billion.
Manchester United was the world's only pro sports team worth more than $2 billion in 2012. Now there are at least 50, including almost every NFL team.
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50 | New Orleans Saints (NFL)
Value: $2.08 billion
1-Year % Change: 4%
Owner: Gayle Benson
Operating Income*: $115 million
49 | Jacksonville Jaguars (NFL)
Owner: Shahid Khan
Operating Income: $63 million
47 (tie) | Kansas City Chiefs (NFL)
Value: $2.1 billion
Owners: Lamar Hunt family
47 (tie) | St. Louis Cardinals (MLB)
1-Year % Change: 11%
Owner: William DeWitt Jr.
46 | Arizona Cardinals (NFL)
Owner: William Bidwill
45 | Liverpool (Soccer)
Owners: John Henry, Tom Werner
Operating Income: $128 million
44 | Los Angeles Clippers (NBA)
Owner: Steve Ballmer
43 | Dallas Mavericks (NBA)
Owner: Mark Cuban
42 | Arsenal (Soccer)
Owner: Stanley Kroenke
41 | Los Angeles Chargers (NFL)
Owners: Spanos Family
38 (tie) | New York Mets (MLB)
Owners: Fred & Jeff Wilpon, Saul Katz
38 (tie) | Carolina Panthers (NFL)
Owner: David Tepper
38 (tie) | Houston Rockets (NBA)
Owner: Tilman Fertitta
37 | Brooklyn Nets (NBA)
Owners: Mikhail Prokhorov, Joe Tsai
36 | Indianapolis Colts (NFL)
Owner: James Irsay
35 | Minnesota Vikings (NFL)
Owner: Zygmunt Wilf
34 | Oakland Raiders (NFL)
Owner: Mark Davis
33 | Miami Dolphins (NFL)
Owner: Stephen Ross
32 | Chelsea (Soccer)
Owner: Roman Abramovich
31 | Seattle Seahawks (NFL)
Owners: Paul Allen Trust
30 | Pittsburgh Steelers (NFL)
Value: $2.585 billion
Owners: Daniel Rooney Trust, Art Rooney II
29 | Baltimore Ravens (NFL)
Owner: Stephen Bisciotti
28 | Atlanta Falcons (NFL)
Owner: Arthur Blank
27 | Green Bay Packers (NFL)
Owners: Shareholder-owned
26 | Denver Broncos (NFL)
Owners: Pat Bowlen Trust
25 | Manchester City (Soccer)
Owner: Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan
24 | Philadelphia Eagles (NFL)
Owners: Jeffrey Lurie
22 (tie) | Boston Celtics (NBA)
Owners: Wycliffe & Irving Grousbeck, Robert Epstein, Stephen Pagliuca
22 (tie) | Houston Texans (NFL)
Owner: Janice McNair
21 | New York Jets (NFL)
Owner: Robert Wood Johnson IV
19 (tie) | Chicago Bears (NFL)
Owners: McCaskey family
19 (tie) | Chicago Bulls (NBA)
Owner: Jerry Reinsdorf
18 | San Francisco Giants (MLB)
Value: $3 billion
Owner: Charles Johnson
17 | Bayern Munich (Soccer)
Owners: Club members
16 | San Francisco 49ers (NFL)
Owners: Denise DeBartolo York, John York
14 (tie) | Chicago Cubs (MLB)
Owners: Ricketts family
14 (tie) | Washington Redskins (NFL)
Owner: Daniel Snyder
12 (tie) | Los Angeles Rams (NFL)
12 (tie) | Boston Red Sox (MLB)
Owners: John Henry, Thomas Werner
10 (tie) | Los Angeles Dodgers (MLB)
Owners: Guggenheim Baseball Management
10 (tie) | New York Giants (NFL)
Owners: John Mara, Steven Tisch
9 | Golden State Warriors (NBA)
Owners: Joe Lacob, Peter Guber
8 | Los Angeles Lakers (NBA)
Owners: Jerry Buss Family Trusts, Philip Anschutz
7 | New England Patriots (NFL)
Owner: Robert Kraft
6 | Manchester United (Soccer)
1-Year % Change: -8%
Owners: Glazer family
5 | New York Knicks (NBA)
Owner: Madison Square Garden Company
4 | Barcelona (Soccer)
Operating Income: -$37 million
3 | Real Madrid (Soccer)
2 | New York Yankees (MLB)
Owners: Steinbrenner family
1 | Dallas Cowboys (NFL)
Owner: Jerry Jones
* Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization.
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25 Abandoned Movie Sets You Can Still Visit
Posted by Theodorus II, Updated on March 18, 2015
If you are one of those curious movie fans who often wonder "Where did they film that?" or you want to visit the filming locations of your favorite movies then this list will make you more than happy. Take a look at these fascinating 25 abandoned movie sets that you can still visit.
The Blue Cloud Movie Ranch in California was used for the 2012 blockbuster Zero Dark Thirty. The set is currently unused, and is scattered with props and "locations" from the action thriller.
Wallilabou Anchorage was the principal Caribbean location for Disney's 2003 blockbuster Pirates of the Caribbean. It is still home to many of the props, including replicas of cannons. Many fans visit it annually.
The old Spanish Mission located in Cypress Gardens, South Carolina, was one of Mel Gibson's favorite sets while filming The Patriot but once the movie was completed it was quickly abandoned.
Alexandre Aja, director of this horror film, built Gas Haven in Souss-Massa-Draa, Morocco, specifically for the movie and once the scenes were finished the place was abandoned and nowadays looks even creepier than it did then.
This western frontier town in Spain might be remembered as the movie set of the classic The Good, the Bad and the Ugly but was also used for over 200 Westerns during the glory days of this genre. Eventually it was abandoned after the decline in popularity of these films but you can still visit it, especially if you're a fan of Spaghetti Westerns.
The Fugitive was undoubtedly one of the best action movies of the '90s and in case you miss that beautiful era you can still go and see the debris from the prison bus crash scene, which lies abandoned at the side of the tracks where the scene was filmed in Dillsboro, North Carolina.
The remnants of the unfinished Cherokee Nuclear Plant in Gaffney, South Carolina, were used to film most of the underwater scenes in The Abyss, after they filled the massive structures with water to create a technical ocean for the film's needs. The best part is that the set remains untouched to this day and fans can visit it and take photos.
Tatooine is a fictional desert planet that serves as the setting for many key scenes in the Star Wars saga, appearing in every film except The Empire Strikes Back. Make no mistake though, Tatooine is nothing but a movie set located in the vast deserts of Tunisia and Morocco that you can visit, if you can withstand the merciless sun and heat of North Africa.
Schindler's List
The ramshackle replica of the Płaszów Labor Camp might look as haunting and terrifying as the real one, but in reality it's just part of the set where the movie was shot in Krakow, Poland.
The film that introduced Robin Williams to many of his fans, Popeye, was filmed in a small, colorful village in Malta, which was built specifically for the movie. After the movie was completed the producers realized that it would be cheaper to abandon the village as it was than to knock it down.
This iconic movie was filmed only twenty-five miles south of Los Angeles in what is now Malibu Creek State Park. If you live close to the area and decide to visit the set you will be able to still see some of the most recognizable parts that were left behind such as the famous sign.
In this case the scary and intimidating home of this film was abandoned before the horror movie was shot there and was abandoned again shortly after the movie was filmed. It's still available for you to visit—if you're brave enough, that is.
This diner found in the middle of a field near Napoleonville, Louisiana, was the spot where Old Joe (Bruce Willis) meets the younger version of himself (Joseph Gordon-Levitt). Unfortunately it's in a bad state now as it has been abandoned since the film was completed.
This unused movie set can be found at the Blue Cloud Movie Ranch in California. Among other films, this set is mainly known for being used in the opening scenes of 2008's Iron Man.
The slums of District 12 from this film were an already abandoned 1920s textile community in Henry River Mill Village, North Carolina.
The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit
If you want to discover the real Middle-earth you can do it by visiting the Hobbiton movie set near Matamata on the North Island of New Zealand. On the picturesque private farmland you can see where The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit film trilogies were shot in a fascinating two-hour guided tour.
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
Even though the movie was viciously criticized by critics and fans alike, the beautiful artistic set used to portray the medieval German town has been abandoned but it's still in great condition and you can visit it in a forest outside Berlin, Germany.
Many fans might not know that the legendary Stanley Kubrick hated traveling and was a little afraid of airplanes. For that reason, even though set mostly in Vietnam, Full Metal Jacket was fully shot in London. The best part for the fans, however, is that the abandoned Beckton Gas Works that were used to shoot the major battle scenes are still standing, waiting for you to visit them.
The Field of Dreams is a baseball field and pop-culture tourist attraction built originally for the movie of the same name. It is in Dubuque County, Iowa, near Dyersville. The studio built the baseball diamond on two farms, a few miles outside Dyersville. Nowadays it might not look as fancy as it once did but you can still visit and enjoy the abandoned scenery.
This movie set is built around an old California mental hospital, and was abandoned for a time before finding further use in a series of modern horror films. The set is most well known for being used in the (terrible) Schwarzenegger film End of Days, but has also been featured in the likes of Insidious: Chapter 2 and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
To be historically accurate with this one, the fact is that the Dixie Square Mall in Harvey, Illinois, was already abandoned when it was used to shoot the classic chase scene in Blues Brothers, and is still abandoned to this day.
Tim Burton's hard-core fans are probably aware of this but for the rest of us the good news is that the little haunted town of Spectre remains abandoned in Montgomery, Alabama, waiting to feel alive again.
Even though many of us Batman fans thought that the Gotham City of the original Batman was in some studio in Hollywood, the film was shot in Buckinghamshire, England (which now looks like a bombarded ruin by the way). Those who were lucky enough to visit the set a few years after the film was shot, saw Gotham Bank and various other buildings up close, including Batman's safe.
Asterix and Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
Do you remember the marvelous and grandiose statue of an Egyptian ram in this film? Well, nowadays it's a huge abandoned movie prop that can be found in Ouarzazate, Morocco.
The Malaysian government was wise enough to turn this film's locations into tourist attractions. The most spectacular of these was the king's "Summer Palace," constructed in the resort area of Pantai Kok, a 675-square-meter faux-palace that took over 100 local workers six weeks to construct. Nonetheless, in April 2000, the palace opened as an Anna and the King–themed attraction, housing costumes and props from the film and featuring traditional Thai performances and daily showings of the film. It closed three years later, and the rapidly decaying sets are now surrounded by barbed wire.
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Q: Connect to local bluetooth I am using pybluez to develop a bluetooth application on linux in python. I want to know if it is possible to connect to a "localhost" for bluetooth so I can run the client and server on the same machine (as most people do for web development).
If this is not possible, how to most people develop bluetooth applications? Do they just run the client and server on different devices or is there a more clever way to handle this?
Eventually the server will run on a raspberry pi and the client will be any bluetooth enabled device (cell phone, laptop, etc.) but during development it would be great if I could run both on the same machine.
Here is my server:
import bluetooth as bt

socket = bt.BluetoothSocket(bt.RFCOMM)

host = ""
socket.bind((host, bt.PORT_ANY))
port = socket.getsockname()[1]
print("port: " + str(port))
socket.listen(1)

uuid = "94f39d29-7d6d-437d-973b-fba39e49d4ee"
# bt.advertise_service(socket, "BTServer", uuid)

print("Listening on " + host + ":" + str(port))

client_sock, addr = socket.accept()
print("Connection accepted from " + addr)

data = client_sock.recv(1024)
print(data)

client_sock.close()
socket.close()

And when I call services = bt.find_service(name=None, uuid=None, address="localhost") on the client it cannot find any services.

A: Through further research I have found that it is not possible to run a bluetooth client and server on the same device with the same bluetooth adapter. For local testing you can either use two bluetooth enabled computers or get a bluetooth dongle.

A: It is not possible to run a Bluetooth client and server on the same device.
I used the pybluez python module.
When I run bluetooth.discover_devices(lookup_names=True) in the client code on my machine, it returns all other Bluetooth devices around it except my machine.
As we can not discover the machine, we can not connect to it over Bluetooth and can not use it as a Bluetooth Server.

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I must apologise for the lack of posts on the blog over the last few months, there has been many things happening and I've not really had a lot of time to update.
Anyway, I've obviously still been out fishing! 🙂 I have a stock of images from the downtime and will try to get the blog updated more regularly.
For now, here's a couple of images from a recent trip carping with my mate Luke Thomas. See our 5 top carp fishing tips!


In the never ending battle against comment spam, I've implemented a change in the way comments are verified.
First, the comment form now requires users to answer a simple question when posting a comment: "This site is called the House of _____". A human user will hopefully be smart enough to enter the name Rapp. A spambot, on the other hand, will choke.
I wish I could take credit for this elegantly simply fix, but the credit must go to this guy.
The other anti-spam measure is the Three Strikes plugin. If a comment is posted with a) more than 2 links, b) no referrer, and c) at least one match from my spam word list, the comment is automatically obliterated. It doesn't go into moderation. It's not marked as spam. It simply ceases to exist.
In view of these changes, I'm eliminting comment moderation. I've never liked having to hold every single comment, ping, or trackback in a queue until I could personally approve it. That sort of thing punishes the user rather than the spammer. But a few months ago there was simply no alternative — the site was receiving hundreds of spam comments per day, and I'd be damned if I was going to reward their efforts by letting that stuff get picked up by Google.


The general-season rifle buck deer hunt is the most popular hunting event in Utah and about 60,000 hunters are expected to participate this year. There may still be permits available for Utah's northern region. Other regions are sold out.
If weather conditions are favorable, hunter success is expected to be good because the deep population is up. "The number of deer in Utah is continuing a slow but steady climb," said Craig McLaughlin, big game coordinator for the Division of Wildlife Resources.
Range conditions have been good this year and so animals have been spread out. But most mountain areas picked up heavy snowfall early this week, and more is expected to fall Saturday and Sunday. The snow may push the deer off the mountain peaks. It may also concentrate them and make them easier to locate and track. Scouting just before the hunt will be particularly important this year.
A major storm on opening weekend usually reduces hunter success.


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Q: Missing Build scripts error in Deploying react app to netlify
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*I have deployed react app in netlify from github

*But the deployment status showing as failed with the presence of error:

Mar 27: failed during stage 'building site': Build script returned non-zero exit
  code: 1

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*I also tried to deploy app locally from netlify cli, but showing error local build scripts are not found

*For building local build scripts locally, I executed command npm run build, but the scripts are not build

*can you guys let at which part I made mistake with your suggestions

*The github link for the react app is provided below: https://github.com/aarivalagan/sports

*The detailed log for the react app deployment in netlify is provided below:

4:16:20 PM: Build ready to start
  4:16:24 PM: build-image version: 324ec043422499a87b63cac1f1dabeefe6dca19d
  4:16:24 PM: build-image tag: v3.0.2
  4:16:24 PM: buildbot version: ef2e26260c41679f4cdeaebbf93370345c9fecf7
  4:16:24 PM: Fetching cached dependencies
  4:16:24 PM: Failed to fetch cache, continuing with build
  4:16:24 PM: Starting to prepare the repo for build
  4:16:25 PM: No cached dependencies found. Cloning fresh repo
  4:16:25 PM: git clone https://github.com/aarivalagan/sports
  4:16:25 PM: Preparing Git Reference refs/heads/master
  4:16:26 PM: Starting build script
  4:16:26 PM: Installing dependencies
  4:16:28 PM: v10.15.3 is already installed.
  4:16:29 PM: Now using node v10.15.3 (npm v6.4.1)
  4:16:29 PM: Attempting ruby version 2.6.2, read from environment
  4:16:31 PM: Using ruby version 2.6.2
  4:16:31 PM: Using PHP version 5.6
  4:16:31 PM: Started restoring cached node modules
  4:16:31 PM: Finished restoring cached node modules
  4:16:32 PM: Installing NPM modules using NPM version 6.4.1
  4:16:37 PM: added 150 packages from 123 contributors and audited 248 packages in 3.856s
  4:16:37 PM: found 17 vulnerabilities (7 low, 3 moderate, 7 high)
  4:16:37 PM:   run npm audit fix to fix them, or npm audit for details
  4:16:37 PM: NPM modules installed
  4:16:37 PM: Started restoring cached go cache
  4:16:37 PM: Finished restoring cached go cache
  4:16:37 PM: unset GOOS;
  4:16:37 PM: unset GOARCH;
  4:16:37 PM: export GOROOT='/opt/buildhome/.gimme/versions/go1.12.linux.amd64';
  4:16:37 PM: export   PATH="/opt/buildhome/.gimme/versions/go1.12.linux.amd64/bin:${PATH}";
  4:16:37 PM: go version >&2;
  4:16:37 PM: export GIMME_ENV='/opt/buildhome/.gimme/env/go1.12.linux.amd64.env';
  4:16:37 PM: go version go1.12 linux/amd64
  4:16:37 PM: Installing missing commands
  4:16:37 PM: Verify run directory
  4:16:37 PM: Executing user command: npm run build
  4:16:38 PM: npm
  4:16:38 PM: ERR!
  4:16:38 PM:  missing script: build
  4:16:38 PM: npm
  4:16:38 PM: ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
  4:16:38 PM: npm ERR!
  4:16:38 PM:      /opt/buildhome/.npm/_logs/2019-03-27T20_16_38_066Z-debug.log
  4:16:38 PM: Caching artifacts
  4:16:38 PM: Started saving node modules
  4:16:38 PM: Finished saving node modules
  4:16:38 PM: Started saving pip cache
  4:16:38 PM: Finished saving pip cache
  4:16:38 PM: Started saving emacs cask dependencies
  4:16:38 PM: Finished saving emacs cask dependencies
  4:16:38 PM: Started saving maven dependencies
  4:16:38 PM: Finished saving maven dependencies
  4:16:38 PM: Started saving boot dependencies
  4:16:38 PM: Finished saving boot dependencies
  4:16:38 PM: Started saving go dependencies
  4:16:38 PM: Finished saving go dependencies
  4:16:40 PM: Cached node version v10.15.3
  4:16:40 PM: Error running command: Build script returned non-zero exit code: 1
  4:16:40 PM: failed during stage 'building site': Build script returned non-zero exit code: 1
  4:16:40 PM: Failing build: Failed to build site
  4:16:40 PM: Finished processing build request in 16.341987194s
  4:16:40 PM: Shutting down logging, 0 messages pending

A: There is no command in your package.json (scripts) called build
  "scripts": {
    "predeploy": "npm run build",
    "deploy": "gh-pages -d build",
    "start": "node ./bin/www"
  },

This app is used for running from node using express server. To deploy to Netlify, you will need it converted to a static site. Netlify hosts static web assets to their CDN. A build command would bundle up all those assets in a folder to be deployed.


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Completed in Aspen, Colorado on July 12, 2002, my Requiem was commissioned by the Chicago-based organization Solo Dei Gloria in honor of the 2003 bicentenary of Hector Berlioz' birth.
Berlioz is a composer whose music has always held an especially profound power over me, and his own mighty Requiem remains one of the most stupendous and imaginative of all such works, a unique example of the genre. While I chose not to make use of actual musical quotations from Berlioz' works, I decided to reflect my love of his music by setting the Latin text with the same cuts, emendations, and reshufflings that he had chosen for his own Requiem.
It would seem, however, that since Benjamin Britten composed his "War Requiem" in 1962 with interpolated poems by Wilfred Owen few composers have been able to resist the temptation to similarly "trope" the traditional Latin Requiem text with texts from other sources, and I was no exception. My goal was to use the chorus, restricted to the Latin liturgical text, to express the enormity of "death" in its deepest context; the role of the bass-baritone soloist would then be to make the experience of death more personal by adopting the classic figure of the "Everyman" whose life is marked by the deaths of loved ones around him.
The work begins with the soloist singing alone the lines of Seamus Heaney's "Mid-Term Break," in which a boy leaves school to attend the funeral of his younger brother, struck by a car. Before the "Tuba Mirum" come lines from Siegfried Sassoon's "Suicide in the Trenches," in which the poet describes the self-destruction of a shell-shocked comrade. The "Rex Tremendae" is succeeded by excerpts from Michelangelo's ode on the death of his father, and the "Sanctus" is preceded by Ben Jonson's "On My First Son," a heartbreaking contemplation of the death of his child. Before the "Agnus Dei" comes John Milton's Sonnet 23, in which he dreams that his dead wife has returned to him. Finally, Michelangelo's "On Immortality" (set, like the earlier Michelangelo poem, in the original Italian), sung near the very end of the score, speaks of the "Everyman" figure's own death.
September 11, 2001 found me in New York City. After the initial shock of the day's events began to wear off, it became obvious to me that this Requiem of which I had completed about half should be completed in and dedicated to the remembrance of those who perished. However, further reflection led me to change my mind; I had come to feel that some tragedies were too enormous to consecrate with anything more than deep but silent grieving and that to turn this piece into a "9/11 work" might even smack a bit of opportunism. There is a small, symbolic reference in the score to September 11, but beyond that I have elected to attempt, in my own inadequate way, a remembrance of all who have died as well as those who have survived and grieved for them. It is my hope that my Requiem will, in the end, provide some sort of solace, and for this reason I have interspersed near the conclusion verses from the Anglican hymn "Now the Laborer's Task is O'er" (death) with lines from "Es ist ein' Ros' entsprungen" (i.e., "Lo! How a Rose e'er Blooming" - birth).
The works lasts approximately ninety minutes.
"The evening's most touching moment, at least for me, came when Sylvan finished the dreamlike setting of Jonson's lament on his deceased child and the superb Los Angeles Children's Chorus entered with the 'Sanctus,' the latter section essentially flowing from the former and turning both into a single moving elegy. For nearly the whole Requiem, soloist and chorus alternate — the soloist taking the poems, the massed voices the sections of the Latin Mass. Toward the end of the 'Agnus Dei,' this Requiem's last section, the soloist joins the chorus. The effect is mesmerizing, especially as the chorus segues into a pastoral setting of a hymn from the composer's youth. The baritone reenters with 'On Immortality,' one of the two poems by Michelangelo in the work. On its heels, Rouse creates a powerful anthemic effect by having the full chorus sing the hymn's second stanza at the same time the children's chorus sings another hymn, in German. Soon, there are only whispers, and as the chorus intones 'Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis' ('Grant them eternal rest')."


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UFA Defensemen Aged 30-Plus Who Are Intriguing Options This Summer
While Dougie Hamilton and Tyson Barrie will be the belles of the ball among UFA defensemen this off-season, they aren't the only intriguing options on the blueline. Check out some of the veterans.
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Alec Martinez. Photo by Stephen R. Sylvanie-USA TODAY Sports.
The 2021 off-season – with another year of a flat salary cap and the Seattle Kraken expansion draft – will be both extremely busy and incredibly interesting to watch from a fan's point of view.
So this past weekend, I broke down a handful of 'younger' UFA blueline options some NHL GMs may want to look at this off-season. Each, in his own way, proved patience is a virtue when it comes to developing NHL defenders.
Today, we'll look at their older (30-year-old-plus) counterparts. A couple don't have a whole lot of room for any more patience. But that's OK, what you see is pretty much what you get with this group of five NHLers.
A quick note: marquee names like Tyson Barrie and Dougie Hamilton (who isn't 30-plus anyway) haven't been profiled because each received in-depth pieces in our Free Agency Preview edition.
Alec Martinez – Vegas Golden Knights
Among UFA defenders aged 30 or older, only Tyson Barrie (who turns 30 two days before free agency opens) scored more than Alec Martinez this season. That may be a bit of a misnomer – offense doesn't define Martinez's game – but Martinez also doesn't come with the defensive-zone warts that accompany Barrie's offensive wizardry.
Martinez – who, coincidentally, shares Barrie's July 26 birthday – will be 34 when he signs his next contract, and he's primed to make it a lucrative one, as he's coming off perhaps the best season of his impressive 12-year NHL career.
But the 6-foot-1, 209-pounder from Rochester Hills, Mich. wasn't exactly preordained for this fate. Martinez was originally eligible for the 2005 draft but slipped through both it and the 2006 edition without hearing his name called. The Los Angeles Kings eventually used the 95th pick in the 2007 draft to take Martinez out of Miami University (Ohio) after his sophomore season with the RedHawks.
And Martinez rewarded the Kings' gamble by playing parts of 11 rock-solid seasons in L.A. and contributing to two Stanley Cup-winning teams – including scoring the Cup-winning goal in 2014. In fact, because of Montreal's vaunted penalty-kill, Martinez still holds the distinction of being the most recent player to score a Cup-winning OT goal.
Martinez has been a Vegas Golden Knight since the 2019-20 trade deadline, when Vegas GM Kelly McCrimmon acquired him for a pair of second-round picks. Since arriving in the Battle Born State, Martinez has played some great hockey, including a 2020-21 season that saw him post nine goals and 32 points in 53 games. Though he's most commonly paired with Norris-caliber Shea Theodore, Martinez is plenty capable in his own right; Martinez's possession numbers take only a very slight downturn away from Theodore the past two seasons. And of the 57 D-pairings to skate at least 350 minutes together at 5-on-5 this season, no duo generated more expected goals per hour than Martinez and Theodore (2.99).
Martinez is coming off a six-year, $24-million contract he signed with L.A. in December 2014, a few months before he would have hit UFA status for the first time. Martinez has made a career of surpassing expectations and should be a solid bet for whichever team he signs with. Even in a flat-cap environment, he's due a raise from his $4 million AAV.
David Savard – Tampa Bay Lightning
It's setting up to be a spectacular summer for David Savard, the 30-year-old product of St-Hyacinthe, Que. His Tampa Bay Lightning are on the precipice of giving him his first Stanley Cup ring (he started the year with bottom-feeding Columbus) and then he'll have the chance to cash in as a first-time UFA this off-season. If he does so with a Cup on his resume, all the better.
Savard, a Columbus fourth-rounder in 2009, spent the entirety of his 10-year NHL career before April 2021 with the Blue Jackets. The Lightning acquired him (via Detroit) at this season's trade deadline for first-, third- and fourth-round picks (the first- and third-rounders went to Columbus; the fourth-rounder to Detroit).
Savard is a steady and dependable right-shot defender whose primary value stems from his defensive-zone prowess. This season, Savard had one goal and six points in 54 games split between Columbus and Tampa. He has four assists in 19 playoff games with the Lightning.
Savard is among the best defensemen in the NHL at limiting high-danger opportunities. Per naturalstattrick.com, in the past three seasons, Savard ranks 18th in high-danger Corsi-against/60 (8.95) among the 219 defensemen to play at least 1,000 minutes at 5-on-5.
His most recent contract (five years, $21.25 million) paid him an AAV of $4.25 million. He signed that deal mere months after posting a one-off offensive outburst of 36 points in 82 games in 2014-15. He hasn't eclipsed 25 points since. Tampa Bay can't afford to retain him, so any team in need of a middle-pair defense-minded blueliner will have a solid option in Savard.
Alex Goligoski – Arizona Coyotes
The Pittsburgh Penguins used the 61st pick way back in the 2004 draft to pluck Alex Goligoski out of USHL Sioux Falls. He then spent three seasons with the University of Minnesota before turning pro to join the Penguins. Goligoski has played for three franchises – Pittsburgh, Dallas and Arizona – in his 14-season, 924-game NHL career.
Goligoski will turn 36 on July 30, two days after free agency opens. But he still has enough juice that teams shouldn't be wary of offering a couple years. The 5-foot-11, 185-pounder hasn't missed a game since 2018-19. The last time Goligoski missed double-digit games in one season was 2011-12; he missed 11 games that year with a broken thumb. In the past three seasons, he's averaged over 22 minutes a night and scored at a 33-point pace.
In his career, Goligoski has 83 goals and 429 points in 924 games. Assuming next season is a return to normalcy, he should hit the 1,000-game plateau near season's end. His most recent contract paid him $27.3 million over five seasons.
Zdeno Chara – Washington Capitals
Zdeno Chara has been an NHLer for so long, 216 players who've skated in at least one career NHL game weren't yet born when the sky-scraping Slovak made his debut on November 19, 1997. That includes former D-partner Charlie McAvoy, whose birth was still a month away when Chara first took the ice at Detroit's Joe Louis Arena to face the Red Wings as a 20-year-old member of the New York Islanders.
So, has the time finally come for the mammoth defender to ride off into the sunset? He certainly doesn't need to chase resume-building accolades; Chara won the 2009 Norris Trophy, is a three-time first-team all-star and has his Stanley Cup (2011).
The 44-year-old from Trencin has held up well the past couple of seasons, playing in all but three regular-season contests in that time. But Boston chose to move on last off-season, and Chara averaged the second-fewest minutes of his 23-year career this season with Washington.
Chara earned a base salary of $795,000 this season plus $480,000 in bonuses. If the fire still burns and he wants a shot at another Cup, he could provide affordable veteran leadership on a team's third pair.
Alex Edler – Vancouver Canucks
Picturing Alex Edler in any uniform other than Vancouver's feels wrong, but that's a possibility the 35-year-old Swede will have to contemplate this summer. Edler has spent the entirety of his 15-season NHL career in Vancouver after the Canucks drafted him 91st overall in 2004. He's already re-upped with Vancouver as a would-be UFA in 2013 and 2019, so he seems comfortable in his current digs.
Edler got into 52 of 56 games this season and put up eight assists. In the two seasons before this one, Edler had 15 goals and 67 points in 115 games, for an 82-game pace of 48 points.
His most recent contract paid him an AAV of $6 million for two seasons. Especially with the Sedins back on board in advisory roles, it's hard to imagine the marriage not continuing. But if he hits the open market, he's a bounce-back candidate for 2021-22.
Others to watch: Andy Greene, Marc Staal, Niklas Hjalmarsson, Jordie Benn, Kevan Miller, Michael Del Zotto, Travis Hamonic, Sami Vatanen
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Why Islamabad Is More Concerned About Volatile Pakistan-Afghan Border Than Conflict with India?
Why is Islamabad more worried about Pakistan-Afghan border than Pakistan-India border? Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi stated that Pakistan faces a challenging situation on the western front in Afghanistan due to terrorism.
China Blocks Bid To List Maulana Masood Azhar As Global Terrorist
Experts that EurAsian Times talked to stated that the threat of nuclear use to counter Indian aggression can restraint New Delhi, but this threat cannot work against Afghanistan. India and Pakistan almost came to blows but were eventually restrained as both were nuclear powers and any wrong-step would have created havoc in the region.
Addressing the Business Leaders Summit in Islamabad, the foreign minister said, "We have a challenging situation on the western front in Afghanistan and we have a situation brewing on the eastern front. You saw what happened in the last few days post-Pulwama."
"A war frenzy generated for political considerations," Qureshi said. "A political party not doing well, the economy not going well, diverting the attention of the nation and creating a bogey and Pakistan bashing is a vote-getter on the eastern side."
The foreign minister further said the topmost priority of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government is to revitalise the national economy.
"PTI's economic team under the leadership of Finance Minister Asad Umar has taken many steps for economic uplift of the country during the first six months of the government," he said.
"The government is taking steps to create investment opportunities in the country and these steps have already paid the dividends," Qureshi said. He continued, "When Prime Minister Imran Khan came into power six months ago he inherited a lot of challenges, including corruption and other socio-economic ills, which had to be overcome."
"PTI has been elected on the agenda of change and the people will see a change by the end of the tenure of the present government," the foreign minister assured. Qureshi added, that the priorities of the government are clear. "The government's leadership is very clear on its priorities. We do not have Swiss bank accounts and Canadian passports."
Speaking about business opportunities, the foreign minister said the United Arab Emirates is taking a keen interest in making an investment in different sectors of the country. Qatar also plans to invest in the country's food processing industry."
"The government plans to make Pakistan a hub of business and investment in the region," he said. Qureshi also thanked European foreign ministers and parliamentarians for supporting Pakistan in securing GSP Plus facility for its exports. "Agreements between the European Union and Pakistan are going to take place on March 26," he said.
Moreover, he said the government is focused on economic diplomacy and to increase bilateral trade as Pakistan has a geostrategic location.
"We are increasing bilateral trade with Iran, China and other countries of the region," Qureshi said. "China is our strategic partner and we want to transform this relationship into an economic partnership. We are negotiating with China to help Pakistan in the agriculture sector and in establishing of economic zones."
On relations with India, Qureshi said, the premier had offered a hand of friendship towards New Delhi after assuming office. "PM Imran reaffirmed that Islamabad will take two steps if New Delhi takes one. Pakistan wants to solve issues with India through negotiations," he said.
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The Latvian airline Air Baltic was founded in 1995 operating as a point-to-point carrier. In 2008, Air Baltic changed its operating model to a network airline making Riga a connecting hub.
The airline now serves more than 70 destinations offering low fare tickets in its network spanning Europe, Scandinavia, Russia, Commonwealth of independent states and the Middle East.
Skybreak are proud to work with Air Baltic at Gatwick Airport where the airlines offers direct flights to Riga, Vilnius and Tallinn, and 34 onward connection routes via Riga.


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EnQii and Minicom Digital Signage announce merger
EnQii Holdings and MDS have announced a merger deal to create EnQii-MDS with six offices worldwide, headquartered in New York.
The new company will provide marketeers with an end-to-end solution encompassing distribution, content management and proof-of-performance.
Ajay Chowdhury, CEO of the new venture said: "I am particularly excited with our new solutions such as IP streaming, mobile and web linkages, and the ability to provide proof of performance for signage networks."
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Ginés Andrés de Aguirre (* 5. November 1727 in Yecla, Murcia; † 18. Juli 1800 in Mexiko-Stadt) war ein spanischer Maler des Spätbarock.

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Ginés Andrés de Aguirre erhielt seine Ausbildung als Kunstmaler an der Königlichen Kunstakademie San Fernando Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid. Obwohl er niemals ein Rom-Stipendium erhielt, unterstützte ihn der König durch Geldzuwendungen. Im Jahr 1770 wurde er zum Ehrenmitglied der Kunstakademie ernannt; ab diesem Jahr entwarf er Kartons für die Königliche Teppichmanufaktur (Real Fábrica de Tapices). Im Jahr 1785 arbeitete er zusammen mit Mariano Salvador Maella an der Restaurierung von Porträts der Königsfamilie.

Ein Jahr später wurde er zusammen mit Cosme de Acuña als Direktor der Abteilung Malerei an die Academia de San Carlos in Mexiko-Stadt entsandt. Schon bald nach seiner Ankunft überwarf er sich mit dem Generaldirektor der Akademie. Daraufhin betätigte er sich als Kunstlehrer.

Werk
Ginés Andrés de Aguirre schuf sowohl Fresken als auch Leinwandbilder; zu seinem künstlerischen Repertoire gehören Historienbilder ebenso wie Porträts und Genreszenen.

Literatur
 Elías Tormo: El pintor Ginés Andrés de Aguirre. Su etapa española. Boletín del Museo de Bellas Artes de Murcia, Nr. II, Murcia, 1923, S. 1ff.
 Carlos Rodríguez de Tembleque: Ginés Andrés de Aguirre, pintor de frescos. Cuadernos de Arte Colonial, Nr. 1, 1986, S. 85–96
 Silvia Viana: Informe de Restauration del Retrato de Teodoro Ardemans, Ginés de Aguirre. Museo del Prado 2012 (pdf, spanisch)

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 Ginés Andrés de Aguirre – Kurzbiografie (spanisch)

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Employees fear automation will make work less friendly
HR has a role to play in ensuring humans can work with AI while maintaining friendly relations between staff
Two-thirds (67%) of UK employees fear that the rise of robotics will make the workplace less sociable and friendly, according to a report from Capita Resourcing.
The Workplace More Human research, which surveyed 1,203 employees and directors, found that 27% were most afraid of losing the social relationship with colleagues as the use of automation becomes more widespread.
While the majority (91%) considered automation an opportunity rather than a risk, more than half (55%) described the current relationship between workers and automation as 'a learning curve with some struggles'.
Additionally, 82% of those polled agreed that business productivity is driven by relationships and not automated processes.
Business leaders, however, saw the correct balance of human and automated practices as a key competitive differentiator (83%), with new skills (54%) and higher-value roles (53%) viewed as the most notable benefits of increased workplace automation.
Jo Matkin, managing director of Capita Resourcing, said employers should address the specific concerns of employees. "While there are obvious benefits of automation to employers, employees are concerned not just about the impact on jobs, but also their workplace culture," she said. "HR, and organisations more broadly, need to strike a balance between capitalising on the benefits while also carefully managing employee concerns."
Senior leaders highlighted the importance of HR in the survey, with more than half (54%) reporting that training and the development of the skillsets required to work alongside automation should be a major focus for HR over the next five years.
Communication will be key to the successful implementation of automation, according to Matkin. "It is vital that organisations clearly communicate what their automated business would look like with their employees," she said. "This should include how it will affect their role, the workplace and the possible benefits it presents. This could be in terms of, for example, upskilling, further training and freeing up employee time to focus on more creative, less menial activities."
CIPD 2018: Language of AI and automation spreads fear
Automation could elevate caring roles
Automation skills should be "major focus" for HR
Untangling the wires between automation and the future of work
Mixed age groups make for happier employees
Candidates seek automation-proof roles


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I added a few more beads than necessary for the chakras, I just couldn't decide which ones I felt were more relevant, and I included our individual star-sign stones along the way!
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David M. Szymanski, Ph.D. was appointed the sixth president of the University of North Florida by the University's Board of Trustees. Following approval from the Florida Board of Governors, he officially began his presidency in the summer of 2018 and was inaugurated in February 2019.
Committed to leading with respect, President Szymanski has worked to boost programs to improve both student wellness and student success. Creating a "seamless classroom" has been one of his top priorities — ensuring that UNF students are not only learning on campus but have abundant and meaningful hands-on opportunities in the community to acquire knowledge and experience in their fields of study.
Recognizing the vital role that the University of North Florida plays in the region, President Szymanski sees UNF students as uniquely positioned to be the top source of talent and innovation for area businesses. He believes UNF is producing the next generation of difference makers for Northeast Florida and beyond. He has worked to build and strengthen partnerships that advance UNF's academic excellence while moving both the University and the region forward.
Before joining UNF, President Szymanski served as the dean of the Carl H. Lindner College of Business at the University of Cincinnati. Under his tenure, enrollment in the business college grew significantly, as did retention and graduation rates. He spearheaded the PACE program, focused on the continual development of each student's professionalism, academics, character and engagement. He also revised the MBA program to be more flexible for professional and time-constrained students, becoming a top national program.
Prior to his time at UC, President Szymanski was the director of the Center for Retailing Studies at Texas A&M University where he was a professor of marketing.
He earned a Bachelor of Arts in economics at the University of North Carolina Asheville, a Master of Arts in economics at Vanderbilt University, as well as a Master of Business Administration and Ph.D., both in marketing, at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
President Szymanski and his wife, Maria, have a son, two daughters and a granddaughter.
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Just a short note, to a wonderful lady who performed her hostess duties at about 150%. We thank you for taking the time to answer all of our questions; whether they were stupid or very smart.
You made our trip to the outback a memorable one and we will remember you with much fondness.


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Two pedestrians struck in separate incidents
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Richard Harley, Editor-in-Chief
Jan 12, 2018 | Friday
Two pedestrians were struck by vehicles in separate incidents on Thursday in St. Catharines, both suffering life-threatening injuries.
The first occurred on Niagara St. near Geneva St. around 6 p.m.
Police say investigation revealed an 82-year-old St. Catharines man was driving a 2002 Chevrolet Impala northbound on Niagara St. when a 32-year-old St. Catharines woman attempting to cross Niagara St. stepped into the path of the vehicle.
The woman suffered life-threatening injuries and was transported to a local hospital before being transported to an out-of-town hospital in critical condition.
The driver of the Chevrolet did not suffer any physical injuries.
The second incident occurred at around 9:55 p.m.
Police investigation revealed that a 2006 Lexus SUV driven by a 72-year-old St.Catharines male was headed westbound on Dieppe Rd. when the vehicle struck a 21-year-old St. Catharines man.
This pedestrian also suffered life-threatening injuries and was similarly taken to a local hospital before being transported to an out of town hospital in critical condition.
The driver of the Lexus did not suffer any physical injuries.
Both collisions remains under investigation by detectives of the Niagara Regional Police Services Collision Reconstruction Unit.
Any witnesses with information regarding this collision are asked to contact investigators at 905-688-4111, ext. 5500.
Richard Harley
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From obtaining capital to moving fast enough to compete, finding new employees and retaining them to genuinely connecting with customers, managing growth expectations whilst managing reputation and protecting your business from modern dangers and advancements – every year presents new and different challenges to business leaders.
Saltwater was founded with a single aim, to use our understanding of recruiting businesses and enterprise talent acquisition to help business leaders in the UK recruitment sector and wider UK & International industries overcome gaps in expertise to realise their vision.
In the UK 79% of recruitment firms reported an increasing net fee income – the second highest since 2013. However, the proportion of businesses reporting static income has also increased from a year ago, suggesting the pace of growth is slowing down.
We are a married couple with different professional disciplines, one a multi-sector recruitment executive and the other a private equity HR Manager, both however focused on the common goal of effective talent acquisition and helping businesses being successful.
We discussed the challenges and pitfalls faced by business leaders today, the value of external leadership and expert guidance, and the importance of a true partnership in a business relationship. We saw the potential of our holistic experience and how we could drive performance in business today. So we set out on a journey to create an effective advisory and consulting business for the UK recruitment sector and UK & international industries, Saltwater was born.
Our 40 years of combined experience on the sell and buy side of executive and specialist recruiting, in the context of organisational HR and talent acquisition, and the leading of international staffing and strategic resourcing businesses to growth, give us a unique perspective. We have also learnt the importance of being reliable partners in business, and we believe in the sentiment and actions of being professional concierges - we learn our client's problem and the context in which it exists, and then use our expertise, resources and energy to get optimum results. Everything we do is geared to help our clients succeed.
"I have known David (or Ethers as he's better known) for almost twenty years, and for the most recent seven years in his capacity as our Group COO. David formed a key part of the Group's Board, being responsible for building out the group's service lines globally. He helped to drive a clear vision, strategy and execution plan, projecting a sense of common purpose to break many key milestones during the past seven years of growth. These include re-branding, launching a global capability, on boarding and managing major new clients and talent, launching RPO and Executive Search, resulting in NFI going from £2.5m in 2010 to £10m in 2015.
Salt water is a solution with inherent physical attributes of buoyancy and cleansing – through the consistent delivery of our services we aim to become the Clients first choice, bringing such positive effects in all of the work we do.
Talent leaders aren't convinced that they're measuring quality of hire effectively. Only 33% of respondents feel that their methodologies are strong, and an even smaller 5% felt "best in class." Therefore, there's a lot of opportunity to improve how you calculate and present quality of hire.
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A Licentiate Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development, and practiced professional HR Manager, possessing a broad range of generalist experience at a senior level, gained within the Private Equity Industry.
Extensive experience of internal recruitment as HR stakeholder manager including management of recruitment processes for all professional staff from management to executive levels, identifying resourcing requirements, working with senior management to drive activity, appointment of headhunters, interviewing and testing candidates, through to offer and on-boarding.
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Our services have been developed to support business owners and leaders in the staffing sector, as well as those industry leaders endeavoring to unlock talent challenges.
A Non Executive Director brings independent thinking and a fresh perspective to the Board Room. The extraneous factors that may affect a business can be changes in legislation, changes in competition, products or services and an effective value adding NED is a very cost effective tool in challenging complacency in the Board Room. Choosing the one who fits your circumstances will be dependent on where you are on the maturity curve.
Saltwater will focus on supporting business leaders with challenges associated with the growth agenda, broadening the horizons and experience of existing executive directors, facilitating the cross-fertilisation of ideas, particularly in terms of business strategy and planning.
Our guiding principles set the tone of honesty and transparency, with one simple goal in mind, to help business leaders succeed and prosper.
From taking a new idea to market to assisting an established business make a new regional entrance, Saltwater is able to utilise its experience and resource network to drive the legal, operational and outward facing workload.
With significant experience of managing complex and critical hiring projects and programmes in a local and international context, Saltwater has the capability to own your most important or challenging projects through to completion, whether personally delivered or through managing your internal talent acquisition and recruiting partners.
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Faced with significant transformation plans and rapidly advancing technology, 99% of CEO's report taking action to develop existing or future talent. In line with these findings, most CEO's report some level of skills gap emerging. Over 50% report skills gaps in key business functions. This will likely create challenges for the 96% of CEO's who plan to increase their headcount over the next 3 years.


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World number one Michael van Gerwen was named as the PDC Player of the Year at the 2019 PDC Annual Awards Evening on Monday night, as Gary Anderson, Michael Smith and Daryl Gurney also scooped awards at The Dorchester in London.
Van Gerwen claimed an incredible 19 titles throughout the calendar year, before being crowned world champion for a third time on New Year's Day. He also retained his Premier League and Masters titles, while regaining his World Grand Prix crown.
The Dutchman clinched his third World Cup of Darts title alongside five-time world champion Raymond van Barneveld and his astonishing achievements saw him crowned PDC Player of the Year for the fourth consecutive year.
'The Green Machine' was also awarded the title of PDC Pro Tour Player of the Year. The 29-year-old won eight of this year's 13 European Tour events and prevailed in four Players Championship events, despite only featuring in eight. Van Gerwen also competed in three UK Open qualifiers – winning two of them.
"To win these two awards is a phenomenal achievement, along with winning my third World Championship a few weeks ago," Van Gerwen said. "Other players are getting better and better every week so I have to be at my best all the time. I love playing darts and I'm going to come back even stronger next year.
"Darts is growing bigger and bigger and is being watched by more and more people around the world, so it's amazing to be World Champion and win this award as the sport continues to grow," added the three-time world champion.
Two-time world champion Gary Anderson was voted as the Fans' Player of the Year ahead of Van Gerwen after scooping three major televised titles in a trophy-laden 2018. 'The Flying Scotsman' claimed maiden titles at the UK Open, World Matchplay and Champions League of Darts, with his epic Matchplay victory completing the much coveted triple-crown.
Van Gerwen was also runner-up in the PDPA Players' Player of the Year category, with Michael Smith collecting that particular accolade. 'Bully Boy' enjoyed a breakthrough 2018; appearing in three televised finals. He was runner-up in the Premier League, World Series Finals and most recently the World Championship, which saw him rise to a career high of sixth in the world.
Daryl Gurney received the award for Televised Performance of the Year, following his triumph over Van Gerwen at the Players Championship Finals. Gurney edged out the Dutchman 11-9 in the final to deny 'Mighty Mike' a fourth consecutive Minehead title- becoming the first player to defeat MvG in a major televised final since the 2015 World Grand Prix.
Max Hopp was voted as Young Player of the Year after winning two senior PDC titles last year. The former World Youth champion famously secured German Darts Open glory on home soil, before winning a Players Championship event in September. Hopp also reached his first TV semi-final at the European Championship to break into the world's top 32 for the very first time.
Elsewhere, Luke Humphries edged out Danny Noppert, Ryan Joyce and Gabriel Clemens to be crowned Best Newcomer. Humphries topped the Development Tour Order of Merit for the second consecutive year, before defeating Stephen Bunting, Dimitri van den Bergh and Rob Cross en route to reaching the quarter-finals at the recent PDC World Championship.
The penultimate award of the evening saw two-time World Matchplay champion Rod Harrington deservedly inducted into the PDC Hall of Fame. Harrington had a wonderful playing career, becoming world number one, reaching a World Championship final and most famously winning back-to-back titles at the Winter Gardens.
Nevertheless, Harrington also played an integral role in the formation of the PDC and, alongside his work as a TV commentator for Sky Sports, has since gone on to play a huge part in setting up the European Tour, Challenge Tour and Development Tour systems which have seen a host of young players progress in the sport.
"I have to thank everyone for making the PDC what it is today and I am privileged to have played a role in our journey," said Harrington. "When I stopped playing darts the best thing I ever did was get involved in helping to run the PDC. The most important thing we did, and continue to do, is to invest in young players; they are the future of our great sport.
"It's been an incredible journey, I've had ups and downs in my career but when I see what the PDC has become I can say it was all worth it. Now I am excited by the future of the company as we continue to grow around the world with more and more players taking up the sport," Harrington added.
Finally, players who achieved perfect nine-dart legs in PDC tournaments during 2018 were recognised with places in the PDC Nine-Dart Club. Gary Anderson and Dimitri van den Bergh received a commemorative gold-pin badge for their televised nine-darters in the World Matchplay and Grand Slam of Darts respectively.
Additionally, silver pin badges were presented to 25 other players who landed nine-dart finishes in non-televised events, including Van Gerwen, James Wade, Adrian Lewis, Ian White, Stephen Bunting, Krzysztof Ratajski and Vincent van der Voort. The full list of awards and nominations from the 2019 PDC Awards Dinner can be viewed below.
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34-year-old Renee Tarbuck of Queensland, Australia is an attractive, blonde bikini model, and an ecstasy dealer.
The cops had been monitoring her drug operation for a few years, and back in May they caught up with her at a shopping center, arrested her, cuffed her hands behind her back and put her in a cop car.
Then they got distracted trying keep her three dogs from running into traffic. So she contorted herself to get her hands in front of her body, squeezed through the police car window, and took off. After that, she also took some selfies with the cuffs on her wrists, and sent them to a friend, who forwarded them to the police.
The cops tracked down Renee three months later and hit her with two new charges: Escaping lawful custody and theft. The theft charge is actually from her stealing the handcuffs she was locked in when she ran away. She was in court last week, and agreed to plead guilty to all her charges.
Read more at Courier Mail.


I wish I could go, but the timing just isn't working out for me. Maybe next year.
where exactly is it gonna be?
I find it funny that there are so few people on here who are planing to attend this event when just today I went out for coffee, and I heard what sounded like an interesting conversation going on, so I moved to a closer table, this guy was talking to some ladies I know, about world travle, and energy, and bio-diesel, and fuel efficintcy, so I joined in, and he told me that I should really go to the renewable energy fair next week, and I said "already planing on it" turned out he was here from out of town, helping his kid move.
I find it fasinating that I can run in to compleat strangers from 100's of miles away who will start trying to convince me to go to this energy fair.
I was planning on going, but I have a film job coming up. I can't just take time off for this kind of work like you can in a 9-5.
so why is it that I can run in to compleat strangers from 100's of miles away who tell me start trying to convince me to go to this energy fair, and people who are on a web forum, who are interested in saving energy, and resources are brushing it off, am I missing something? or do the rest of you not realize how much you can learn? I just don't get it.
I think a lot of us do these kinds of things...I'm in the sustainable group at dartmouth and run a vegan group and do all sorts of crap like that, but I don't find much time or place to say things such as "so we replaced the non-reusable food containers at such and such place with reusable ones" on here. Besides, I don't own my own house even!
I'm sure it's the same with other people, but I just don't have time to do anything. I participated in "Carry your trash week" but didn't go to the rally at the end. Why? I had a job and a paper to write!
Don't be overly critical of people, just try to post more things on the subject to get people interested. I would love to see more around the house stuff and figure out how to do a solar installation, but I find myself without any free days to sit and exhaustively research such things.
yes, travling 2,000 miles to learn how to reduce your engery useage could be a bit counter perductive if you are already living a low impact life style.
your point about not being a homeowner, and not being able to make a big impact because of that... they do have a whole section of workshops for young adults, and people who are not home owners, things like how to getyour collage compus to compost, what rain gardens are and how to get one going in your area, how to choose eco-friendly products, how to grow your own food with a transient life style, corproate campaigning.
and about 165 other workshops on a wide range of topics.
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I would love to go, however, it seems a little too far a drive from NY Metro area.
I think the bigger problem is cost rather than time. Look at the cost of solar panels. Personally I think its rediculous considering what they are made of. Home solar panel installations can easily cost $40K before government subsidies, if any. Small solar panels that require NO installation are still into the hundreds of dollars for a simple sheet the size of half a standard window. Its just so expensive for something that is NOT beyond our technology. Its not like we have an idea and have to wait for the technology to catch up. DIYers may not have tons of free time for any of these installs ect but if the cost were more reasonable than Im sure MANY more people would become involved and many others wouild FIND more time.
I also dont own a house yet but cant wait to own one and make it energy efficient. But I would love to incorporate many solar applications to my everyday life. Things such as solar powered panels that can power up smaller portions of my 'rented' apartment (maybe the computer or TV or smaller wattage devices) that can lower my electric bill and help conserve the environment. Im dying to see one the the cars that have a solar panel incorporated into the battery to ease the strain on the alternator thus improving your mpg. Im just afraid of how much it would cost. If there's ever a meet-and-greet in NYC area (Queens, LI, Manhattan Brooklyn), please let me know guys.
Indeed, such things are all good, but, I mean, I get that kind of stuff at college. We are not in the top 4 sustainable campuses in the country for no reason, , I've even nagged my favorite cafe into reinstating compost. I do wish I could attend some workshops on activism and things, but they have them on campus too, and I'm just too busy...hopefully there will be an RE fair nearby when I am off in september.


I blogged a couple of days ago about my displeasure with the behaviour of a particular station who was calling D44AC in Cape Verde on 10m. I gave up trying to get through the pileup on day #82 and a little later I switched to 15m. There was D44AC calling CQ on 15m with very few stations calling him so I called and worked Carlos on my second shout. I said in my previous blog that the DX will always be there again and in this case I only had to wait a short while to work Cape Verde, a new DXCC.
Afte that I had a QSO with Oliver, CT9/DL9OLI on the Madeira Islands when I was running just 10 watts then I switched to 40m and worked HB9TWY, Yan followed by a JT65 contact with S57YX. Later I had a tune around 80m and heard GX3ZME, Simon at the Telford and District Amateur Radio Society calling CQ so I replied and we had a quick QSO followed by 2E0LYO, Barry in Carlisle on the same band. Before I turned in for the night I had another shout on JT65 and worked EA3FHP, Josep and then MX0HTJ, the club callsign for the HamTests group operated by Paul, M0TZO. This was the first outing of their new "Ham Tests Jimmys" callsign and I'm pleased to have been the first station in their log. HamTests are great, the website is absolutely invaluable in amateur radio training and they helped my son through his Foundation exam last year.
Day #83 started with a chat between myself, Yan, M0YNK and Tony, G0MBA/M on 28MHz. This was a proper natter which lasted about half an hour, none of your quick 'five nine, thank you. Next please" stuff here. Yan is in Colchester and Tony was on his way home and both were able to provide useful feedback on the new headset I've got. I've got a Heil Pro Set Plus and initial impressions are very favourable. The transmitted audio is far superior to the supplied Yaesu MH-31 fist mic, they're very comfortable and the in-ear sound quality is very good.
After that I had a sked with Jonathan, G0DVJ/P who was over on Lundy Island for a few days and then it was time for the 80m Club Championship contest. I blogged about this last month when conditions were terrible and I was hoping that this month would be better. My aim was to beat my previous QSO count of 30 contacts and I managed that easily and with plenty of time to spare, I stopped operating when I'd had 32 QSOs. I was only operating using the search and pounce method and that was enough for me. It's still quite tricky working 80m on my wire so I'm looking forward to the doublet going up. I'm still waiting on a couple of bits for that but it's still going to happen. I finished off the evening after the contest working LA5TFA in Norway and RU3KS in Russia on 40m JT65.
I was out on day #84 from very early until very late and I was incredibly tired once I got home so I just had a few quick JT65 QSOs to start with. I worked OZ1TMK, Torben in Denmark, DL2TE, Hans in Germany, EI9FV, Gerard in Ireland and SP1JPQ, Jerzy in Poland. I've previously worked Jerzy on 2m during lift conditions so it was nice to have a contact on HF as well. I also worked PD3AHW, Arnold in the Netherlands and then E74EBL, Zoran in Bosnia and Herzegovina who was preparing for the CQ WPX contest the coming weekend. All the contacts on day #84 were on 40m.