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Urum Kalu ("UK") Eke, MFR
Urum Kalu (UK) Eke assumed office as Group Managing Director, FBN Holdings Plc on January 1, 2016. He joined the Board of First Bank of Nigeria Limited in 2011 as Executive Director, Public Sector South and until his appointment as GMD of FBN Holdings was Executive Director, South at FirstBank. UK Eke is a seasoned banker with deep financial services experience spanning diverse areas including risk management, consulting, taxation, process engineering, capital market operations and business assurance.
He began his career with the professional firm of Deloitte Haskins & Sells International where he rose to a Senior Audit Consultant prior to joining Diamond Bank Plc where he worked for 19 years and became Executive Director, Regional Businesses, Lagos & West. UK Eke has over 30 years of professional experience and he brings his wealth of knowledge to the Boards of a number of institutions where he serves as Non-Executive Director including FBN Bank (UK) Limited, First Pension Custodian Limited and Financial Institutions Training Centre (FITC).
He holds a first degree in Political Science from the University of Lagos and an MBA in Project Management Technology from the Federal University of Technology, Owerri. A philanthropist and a respected business administrator, UK Eke is a Paul Harris Fellow of The Rotary Club International, a Member of the Institute of Management Consultants, Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria and recipient of Nigeria's National Honour of Member of the Order of the Federal Republic (MFR). He is happily married with children.


I drove up to Danville VA on a recent Thursday, just to get out of town and to see somewhere that feels different from North Carolina. Danville is only fifty-five miles north of Chapel Hill and I can drive there on two lane roads in about an hour. The city limits of Danville abut the North Carolina / Virginia line.
About a hundred yards into Virginia I parked the Prius and took the Surly out of the trunk.
I have bicycled around Danville several times before, including about a year ago when Tootie and I drove up to Danville on a Sunday morning and then bicycled around, a trip that was not previously mentioned on this blog. On that other trip over a year ago, Tootie and I both were temporarily insane (judgmentally challenged!) for about two hours.
We were so taken by the lovely large old houses in Danville, and their low prices, that we decided we needed to buy one. We live in a condo in Chapel Hill on the seventh floor. Like many people our age, we fantasize about moving somewhere or buying a second home somewhere. Why not, instead of a beach house or a mountain house, why not buy a Danville Virginia house? We could invite all our Chapel Hill friends and family up for long weekends! We could host dinner parties in Danville!
OK, we were temporarily insane. We got over the idea. On this current trip I did not really dream of buying Danville real estate, but I did enjoy biking around Danville and its several distinct historic neighborhoods.
While Danville is north of Greensboro and Durham, North Carolina, it is much more Southern than either of those places. Danville had enormous textile mills that have pretty much all closed. Danville has a significant wholesale raw tobacco business; this too has declined. Danville has not boomed like the nearby Triangle cities in North Carolina. In 1920 Durham, Raleigh, and Danville were about the same population at about 21,000 each. Now Durham is 260,000, Raleigh 465,000, but Danville is now just 43,000.
I biked from the Food Lion down a steep hill. Danville is full of steep hills. To get off the main road, I bicycled first through a poor neighborhood.
Coming up from the south, I then biked into a previously wealthy neighborhood that is remarkably intact. I would call this the southeast side of town.
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Just north of this neighborhood is the downtown, then a warehouse district. Five or ten years ago most of these brick warehouses were empty, now they are slowly coming to life. It is certainly not hipsterville but it is making progress.
Five years ago I would not have believed that Danville would have a coffee house. They do not have Starbucks yet, but they do have the Crema and Vine. I stopped for my afternoon latte.
I bicycled across the Dan River and through hilly middle and lower income neighborhoods on the other side.
I like mini-golf, which is easier to play than the real thing. This place looks really old school. I wish I had had someone to play with.
Back on the south side, I bicycled across a steep ravine to the relatively prosperous west side of Danville, the area near Averitt University. This is another historic neighborhood.
Further west is what remains of the huge Schoolfield textile mill of Dan River Inc. This is what it looked like back in the day.
It closed in 2006 and was sold off brick by brick; the used bricks being one of the few things of value. They left one concrete building and the smokestacks.
About two years ago I read the 2007 book Deer Hunting with Jesus by columnist Joe Bageant. Joe grew up poor white working class in Winchester, Virginia. His book is about rediscovering Winchester after living elsewhere. While Joe's politics, at least on the economic front, are quite leftist, ten years ago he described how cultural cluelessness by liberal Democrats left his friends and family in Winchester nowhere to turn but to Republicans. The book talked a lot about the pugilistic worldview of the Scots-Irish who have been in Winchester for over two hundred years. Joe essentially predicted the arrival of Donald Trump.
Winchester (population 27,000) is the northernmost city in Virginia, about eighty miles northwest of Washington DC. Winchester is at the northern end of the Shenandoah Valley, which today might also be called the I-81 Corridor. I had been intrigued because north from Winchester I-81 passes through four states (Virginia / West Virginia / Maryland / Pennsylvania) in less than sixty miles. Because of its Mason-Dixon Line location, significant Civil War battles, including Antietam and Gettysburg, happened in this area. I decided to drive up there, park the car, and bicycle around the area for three days.
Donald Trump is connected to this area in other ways. During the recent campaign the national media was always looking to explain the attraction of this seemingly buffoonish candidate. During last year's presidential campaign, when the media wanted to interview Trump voters, they drove to the easiest part of Red America to get to from Washington DC; the northern I-81 Corridor. I heard all sorts of interviews of folks in this area during the recent campaign. And even though the election is over, Trump still campaigns here. Last Sunday, the same day I crossed over by bicycle into Pennsylvania, President Trump was speaking to a rally of his "base" just seventy miles further up I-81, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
I was further influenced by books I have read about Virginia politics. Winchester was the hometown of Harry Byrd Sr., a virulent racist who was obsessed with balance budgets. He led the Byrd Organization, a political machine that ruled Virginia for forty years. He had national influence as well. From Wikipedia: Byrd served as Virginia's governor from 1925 until 1929, then represented the Commonwealth as a United States Senator from 1933 until 1965. He came to lead the "conservative coalition" in the United States Senate, and opposed President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, largely blocking most liberal legislation after 1937.
To check it out I drove four and a half hours north from Chapel Hill and parked our Honda in the lot of a Walmart on the south side of Winchester. I pulled the Surley bicycle out and pedaled off, heading north. It was already two in the afternoon. My destination for the evening was Hagerstown, Maryland, about forty-eight miles north. I would have to cross the Panhandle of West Virginia to get there.
Winchester (founded around 1759) seems Southern in attitude but looks somewhat Northern architecturally. Houses are close together in the older part of town. There is nothing very hip about this place.
Oh yeah, the other famous person from Winchester is country singer Patsy Cline. I go to pieces. Crazy.
I would have a chance to see more of Winchester two days later on my return. Going north on the "old road" US-11 that parallels I-81, the three lane road was a reasonably safe cycle and had lots of fun things to look at. The West Virginia state line is just ten miles north.
There are lot of public displays of patriotism around here.
Twenty-five miles north of Winchester is Martinsburg, WV, population 18,000. It used to be a big B&O railroad town. The population in 1930 was almost the same as it is now.
While the older parts of Martinsburg look gritty, it is "only" seventy-eight miles from Washington DC. The DC sprawl seems to be creeping up here. Martinsburg is the end of the line for MARC commuter trains that go all the way to Washington DC. All along this bike ride I saw new housing going up, especially near Interstate Highway interchanges.
From Martinsburg it is was another twenty something miles up US-11 to Hagerstown, crossing the state line into Maryland about halfway there.
I am currently watching my son and a some of my friend's offspring move to Durham NC; they all want the urban experience; live in a city where they can walk places. But Durham does not really have many older dense residential areas like row houses. If only it could all be transported to Hagerstown MD (population 40,000), where there are miles of older homes, probably available for a pittance.
I found a room for only sixty-eight dollars plus tax in a fairly nice 1980's looking hotel, not actually downtown but within a short bike ride. There are really only three decent looking restaurants downtown, all on the same block. One is a German place that has been there for years, with waitresses in fraulein outfits. I ate instead two doors down at a place called 28 South where the food just OK, but the bartenders were friendly.
Next to my hotel in Hagerstown this piece of commercial modernism is essentially unused. I am probably the only person who worries that this may be torn down soon.
The next day, for the first half of the day, I biked a big loop up into Pennsylvania. The state line was about ten miles north. Most people forget that the Mason-Dixon Line is mostly the Maryland-Pennsylvania border. This auto auction was in Pennsylvania.
I did see a few Trump signs still around. This guy built his own private monument; Trump must have answered his prayers. Around the other side of his house, there was a No Trespassing sign saying: Intruders Would Be Shot.
I bicycled through two pretty Pennsylvania towns, Greencastle and Waynesboro. Compared to small North Carolina towns of similar size, these two towns seem so much more sturdily built, probably because 100 years ago they were relatively more prosperous.
I looped back to Hagerstown for a late brunch at a place next door to the restaurant I had eaten in the previous night. Their version of eggs sardou.
In walked outside to take pictures.
The other two guys at the bar were perfectly nice about it, but one shook his head and said that with all the problems so apparent in a town like this, global warming seemed a problem far away.
The majority of people I had seen in the past two days were white, overweight, and unhealthy looking. Maybe it was a coincidence but the demonstrators looked healthier than the general public.
The rest of the afternoon was weaving through pleasant country roads towards my night's destination of Shepherdstown, on the Potomac River that divides West Virginia and Maryland. I passed by Antietam National Battlefield. I had toured that battlefield by bicycle several years ago so this time I stopped only briefly. 22,000 Americans were slaughtered at Antietam on one day in 1862. Unlike today, the military then was organized by groups that started in geographical locations, so one served with men from one's home town. Several hundred men from one particular Philadelphia neighborhood died together in about ten minutes. The terrain here was steep small hills.
I spent this night in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, home of Shepherdstown University, a West Virginia state university. All over America college towns just look more prosperous. At this point on the trip I had bicycled through about fifteen small towns. The downtowns of almost every one of those towns had looked commercially vacant, with poor looking people standing around. Shepherdstown looked very different. It had an elitist Main Street with gift shops and expensive restaurants.
Continuing to notice the red/blue divide, while the expensive restaurants looked a little stuffy, Blue Moon Cafe reminded me of Durham or Chapel Hill. It was the first place I had visited in two days that had an obviously counterculture staff. You could really feel the difference. One review on Yelp viciously criticized Blue Moon for being full of "hippies." But it was relaxed and comfortable, at least for me. I got their version of eggplant parmesan.
The next day I left early with about forty miles to get back to my car at the Walmart in Winchester. For the first fourteen miles I cycled on the C&O Canal towpath, a beautiful trail that parallels the Potomac River.
I had been hoping to find somewhere to eat breakfast. Even after I left the trail and climbed a big hill there was nowhere. Finally about 10:00 AM I stumbled on this place like the Holy Grail.
Since I am now over sixty, when I am on the road I start to feel camaraderie with other men of a similar or older age, regardless of their backgrounds or political beliefs. Three old guys were sitting at a booth in the Mountain View Diner, loudly praising Trump but I could not get close enough to hear all the details of what they were saying.
After breakfast the scenery was again beautiful.
Back in Winchester I was able to see their downtown. They have done an unusually good job of closing it off to traffic and making it a pedestrian mall. At lunchtime on a Monday it had lots of people eating outside.
Back in the Walmart parking lot our car was still there. I was home in Chapel Hill in time for dinner.
I had read about the recently completed Virginia Capital Trail, a delightful paved bike path that runs over fifty miles from Williamsburg to Richmond, along Virginia state route 10 on the north shore of the James River. Historic plantations, many from the 1600's, line the route. The original Virginia colonial settlement of 1607, the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, and most of all the Civil War; it all happened here. There is a creepy old schooledness about the area. The level of history seems oppressive; it makes it hard to concentrate on the present. It felt very Southern. Tootie commented that she could sense in the air some of the pain from all the slaves that used to work this land.
In the middle of Labor Day Weekend, we drove up from Chapel Hill and parked the car at Charles City Courthouse, just over thirty miles from downtown Richmond. We pulled two bicycles out of the trunk of the Honda and set off. The plan was to ride to Richmond, spend the night, then ride back.
Along the way you cannot see the river unless you turn off the path and bike several miles down dirt roads that dead end at some plantation house sitting on a bluff overlooking the river. About eight miles into the ride we turned down a side road to go see Shirley Plantation. I had remembered my parents taking me to visit it when I was a child. As a farm it claims to be the oldest family business in America, founded in 1614 and with the same family running it since 1638. The same family has lived in this house since it was completed in 1738.
The bike path runs along farm fields growing both corn and what I guess is soybeans.
There are almost no restaurants along this trail and hardly even a mini-mart. We had brought our own picnic lunch, and stopped to eat, sitting on a fence.
There is so much history, and there are so many historical markers, that sometimes they bunch together.
We did find a mini-mart when we were almost at the Richmond city limits.
On the other side of Richmond, the west side, Richmond sprawls out for many miles. On this side, the southeastern side, there are still woods and fields within a few miles of downtown.
We were both sufficiently tired when we rode through downtown and Shockoe Bottom, then uphill from the river to Richmond's uptown neighborhood of The Fan.
There are plenty of hotels in Richmond, but almost none in The Fan, so we had booked an Airbnb. This one was run by Catherine, about our age, who says she is a dancer. She inherited the row house from her parents. She rents out part of the house as apartments, and lives in a two bedroom portion, one bedroom of which she rents out on Airbnb. Compared to some other Airbnb situations, this one felt more like we really staying at her home, with all the good and bad that entails. She was super nice and interesting, but we did not have a private bathroom, and we knew she could hear us through the wall. It was the first cool day of the end of summer, and the windows were open, and our room had a screen door to the outside. The breeze was calming and therapeutic as we chilled out and read our Kindles. We had a fetching view of the wall of the house next door. It all felt pleasantly urban.
At about sixty thirty we took a long walk in the refreshing cool air through The Fan and into downtown. Broad Street is the traditional wide shopping street of Richmond, but has had mostly empty storefronts for the past forty years. As the Richmond downtown revitalizes, these spaces are gradually filling up. After checking out several options, we sat at the bar and ate Italian at a place on Broad Street called Graffiato, in a space with high ceilings.
Across Broad Street was an interesting piece of milk bottle architecture.
The next morning we biked about ten blocks across town to a Starbucks on Broad Street. On the way, we passed through parts of the VCU campus, which is pleasantly integrated into the urban fabric. This brutalist building from 1971 is singularly unattractive, but you have to admire their chutzpah in getting the thing built.
The bike ride back to the car in Charles City was a pleasant on this sunny day, at least before it got hot. The bike path was sometimes so busy that you had to take care not to run into people. On the southeast side of Richmond, former industrial areas are being rehabbed into apartments overlooking the James River.
The wind was now at our back. Life was good, but we were both tired as the day progressed. When we got back near the car Tootie reacted after telling me to stop taking her picture so much!


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A Batalha dos Atoleiros foi travada a 6 de Abril de 1384, no atual município português de Fronteira, distrito de Portalegre e a cerca de 60 km da fronteira com Castela, entre as forças portuguesas, comandadas por Nuno Álvares Pereira, e uma expedição punitiva castelhana, enviada por João I de Castela, junto da povoação do mesmo nome, no Alentejo.

Foi a primeira batalha durante a crise de 1383-1385 e a primeira vitória obtida pelo general português.

O Terreiro da Batalha dos Atoleiros é Monumento Nacional desde fevereiro de 2023.

Antecedentes
Em dezembro de 1383, uma revolução em Lisboa, levou o então mestre de Avis, João ao poder, sendo aclamado Regedor e Defensor do Reino e levando a rainha Leonor Teles a fugir e a pedir ajuda ao genro: João I de Castela. Este começou por organizar um exército para esmagar a revolta, pois considerava-se como o legítimo rei de Portugal.

O novo regente nomeou Nuno Álvares Pereira, fronteiro do Alentejo e entregou-lhe uma força militar, temendo a entrada de João em Portugal junto com o exército castelhano por aquela zona. O chefe militar português partindo de Lisboa, aumentou o número dos seus homens pelo caminho e aproximou-se do exército inimigo, que intentava cercar Fronteira. tinha sob o seu comando uma força de 1400 homens, dos quais 100 besteiros e 300 lanceiros ingleses (cavalaria ligeira e pesada). As forças castelhanas invasoras contavam com um efetivo com 5000 homens.

A batalha

Mais numerosos e conscientes que D. Nuno os iria interceptar, os castelhanos enviaram um emissário ao chefe do exército português, tentando dissuadi-lo. Perante a recusa dos portugueses, o exército castelhano foi ao seu encontro, sendo um dos comandantes, o irmão de Nuno Álvares: Pedro Álvares Pereira, prior da ordem do Hospital.

O exército português tinha escolhido previamente o terreno, formando um retângulo com a maioria dos veteranos lanceiros ingleses na vanguarda; nas alas e retaguarda estavam os peões, misturados com mais lanceiros ingleses. Os castelhanos atacaram com a cavalaria, que foi contida pelos lanceiros ingleses e por virotões, o que gerou grande desordem. A batalha durou pouco, tendo sofrido o exército castelhano pesadas baixas.

As tropas castelhanas começaram a recuar, sendo perseguidas por todo o resto do dia pelas forças juntadas por Nuno Álvares Pereira, que lhes deu caça até à distância de cerca de sete quilómetros do local da batalha.

A batalha dos Atoleiros constituiu na Península Ibérica a primeira e efetiva utilização das novas técnicas de defesa de forças de infantaria em inferioridade numérica, aprendida dos ingleses, perante uma cavalaria pesada muito superior. A mais conhecida destas será a técnica de «pé terra»» ou «pé em terra», pela primeira vez usada em Portugal: consistia em peões armados com lanças a esperar a carga da cavalaria inimiga, adotando uma tática defensiva.

Uma das mais curiosas notas da batalha é que, embora as forças de Castela tenham sofrido perdas muito elevadas, principalmente com muitos mortos entre a cavalaria pesada (que era a força castelhana mais importante), do lado português não ocorreu uma única morte, julgam alguns, nem se registaram feridos, algo pouco provável, pois o ataque castelhano consistiu primeiro em atacar a cavalo e como tal não surtiu efeito, nova investida foi feita a pé, havendo então combate corpo a corpo.

Consequências
Esta batalha provou ser possível resistir a um exército fortemente armado e formado na maioria por cavaleiros da nobreza, com recurso a forças populares. Foi uma importante vitória para resistir ao domínio de Castela e deu força à causa do mestre de Avis.

No fim de março, o exército de Castela pôs cerco a Lisboa, terminando em setembro por culpa da peste que atacou o acampamento.

Bibliografia
 Chronica do Condestabre de Portugal Dom Nuno Alvarez Pereira
 MARTINS, J. P. Oliveira (1893), A Vida de Nun'Alvares, Lisboa

Ver também
Crise de 1383-1385
Cerco de Lisboa (1384)
Batalha de Aljubarrota

Atoleiros
1384 em Portugal
Conflitos em 1384

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Plus, poker superstar Phil Ivey had a really, really bad day.
With this acquisition, online gaming powerhouse LeoVegas strengthens its presence in the U.K., adding a strong brand to its lineup.
Royal Panda, which recently launched a sportsbook, owes about 50% of its revenue to U.K. customers.
This neat little event crams your three favorite bashes together to make one enjoyable Frankenstein's monster of a time.
iGB Live's creation is part of a push by Clarion to give stakeholders the opportunity to engage in events they don't normally have access to. Instead of having to globetrot, parties from all divisions of the gambling business can experience an abbreviated – but no less informative – version of each event.
The list of places I want to visit but can never afford to grows longer by the day.
Caesars Palace's truly decadent renovation features 10 new villas stocked with luxurious amenities like stone bathrooms, a curated art program and 24K gold-plated plumbing fixtures. The villas even have powder rooms, which is just old-fashioned enough to lend a hint of whimsy.
After several months of litigation, we can finally put an end to this chapter of gambling intrigue. Poker champ Phil Ivey was found by the U.K. Supreme Court to have indeed been cheating when he used a technique known as "edge sorting" during a game of Punto Banco five years ago.
Lord Hughes called it "a sting." Ivey says he would never act without integrity.
We'll let you decide who's in the right.
Good thing that didn't take forever!
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General booking has opened for Official London Theatre's New Year Sale, one of the industry's longest running audience development initiatives.
Thousands of theatre tickets for a wide range of top London shows in the West End and beyond, from gripping dramas and family entertainment to showstopping musicals, are now available to the general public. Stretching the post-Christmas pound, this year more than 50 top productions are taking part.
They'll be offering tickets to lucky London theatregoers at just £10, £20, £30 or £40 – with no booking or postage fees – for performances from 1 January to 15 February 2019. The full list of participating shows is now available on our New Year Sale page.
Due to anticipated high demand, bookers are advised to have at least two or three show options, and several dates in mind, to avoid disappointment when attempting to purchase tickets.
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Strong growth pushes wind close to 500GW
1 March 2017 by Shaun Campbell
WORLDWIDE: Wind power's record growth in 2015 proved a predictably hard act to follow, but 2016 was the industry's second best year in terms of new installations worldwide. Windpower Monthly drills down on the numbers to highlight the countries and regions where wind is winning
Pressing ahead… Wind power is growing in Australia again, despite the lack of federal support (pic:RES Australia)
Just short of 55GW of new wind-power capacity was installed worldwide in 2016, according to the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC).
That was a little down on 2015's record number, but higher than any other year. The global total now stands at more than 487GW, nearly half of which — 241GW — has been added in the past five years.
Asia Pacific | Europe | North America | Latin America | Middle East & Africa | Offshore
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The focus in China is slowly shifting towards making better use of its existing wind fleet, and installations last year were slightly down on 2015, according to provisional GWEC figures.
But that still amounted to over 23GW, or two-fifths of the year's total. China's installed wind-power capacity now stands at close to 170GW, more than a third of the global total, although according to the National Energy Administration, less than 150GW is actually online and operating.
India added a record 3.6GW in 2016, a figure only exceeded by China, the US and Germany. Cumulative capacity is close to 29GW, but up to 4.5GW is now scheduled for dismantling and repowering.
Pakistan was the region's fastest growing market last year, the 282MW installed nearly doubling its total.
There are signs of life in the Australian wind-power market with several projects in development, but only 140MW of operating capacity was added last year.
Growth in Japan remains sluggish, with only 196MW installed in 2016. It was outstripped by South Korea (201MW) for the first time.
Germany provided nearly 40% of Europe's new wind capacity in 2016, adding 5.4GW to take its total to just over 50GW. That was slightly down on 2015, but still more than three times that of any other country.
France and Turkey supplied the region's other onshore success stories, adding around 1.6GW and 1.4GW respectively, well up on 2015's additions.
There was solid if unspectacular growth in Sweden, Denmark and Ireland, too. But there was little to celebrate across most of central and eastern Europe.
Poland and Romania have driven wind power expansion in this area in the recent past, but the Polish administration's anti-onshore wind policy has begun to bite, with new capacity falling from 2015's 1,266MW to last year's 682MW, while Romania's confidence in meeting its 2020 renewable targets has stifled investment in wind power.
The Spanish market remains moribund, with just 49MW added to the grid last year, and there are few signs of significant growth in Italy.
The UK added 736MW in 2016, a reasonable performance given that only 56MW of this was offshore, but little is being added to the onshore pipeline following the government's withdrawal of support.
A fourth-quarter surge saw the US install 8.2GW of new wind-power capacity in 2016, bringing the total to over 82GW.
Five states accounted for nearly three-quarters of last year's new build: Texas (2,611MW), Oklahoma (1,462MW), Iowa (707MW), Kansas (687MW), and North Dakota (603MW).
The American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) is bullish about wind's prospects in the shortto medium-term, despite the new administration's expressed preference for fossil fuels.
According to AWEA, more than 10GW of new capacity is already under construction, with another 8GW in advanced development. AWEA says the 18GW is spread across 130 projects in 31 states.
New installations fell sharply in Canada, from 1,545MW in 2015 to just 702MW last year. A similar amount is expected to be added during 2017.
Longer-term, the outlook is more promising, as Alberta and Saskatchewan start to build towards more ambitious renewable-energy targets.
Brazil's economic woes are supressing demand for electricity, and wind-power growth is now slowing markedly.
Just over 2GW was installed in 2016, compared with 3.2GW the year before, bringing cumulative capacity to 10.7GW.
Chile pushed past Mexico in new build last year, installing 513MW for a cumulative capacity of 1,424MW.
Mexico remains the region's second largest market, with more than 3.5GW, but added only 454MW last year, compared with 692MW in 2015. Uruguay has also entered the 1GW-plus club, adding 365MW in 2016 for a total of 1,210MW.
Argentina is the brightest prospect for growth in the region, but work is only just beginning on the projects that emerged from its two renewables tenders last year. No new wind capacity was completed in 2016.
South Africa's wind boom has been on hold, with state utility Eskom dragging its heels over signing power purchase agreements with wind developers.
However, 418MW was installed last year to take cumulative capacity to 1,471MW.
Morocco looks set to provide the best opportunities for wind developers in the region.
Only 95MW was installed in 2016, but an Enel-led consortium is working on 850MW over five projects, with Siemens providing the turbines, while Vestas hardware will power the 120MW Khalladi project, which is scheduled for commissioning this year.
Egypt is aiming for 7GW of wind power by 2022, but progress has been slow. The government has secured funding for a 200MW project and plans to launch a tender later this year.
It was a fairly quiet year for offshore wind in Europe, with the market-leading UK adding only 56MW in 2016, although around 700MW is at an advanced stage of construction and will be commissioned this year.
Germany installed 813MW to take its offshore fleet to over 4GW, while the Netherlands added 691MW, most of which was provided by the commissioning of the 600MW Gemini project.
The US entered the offshore sector with the completion of the 30MW Block Island project, and South Korea completed its first commercial-scale offshore development with the 30MW Tamra wind farm.
Offshore growth remains slow in China, but it added 592MW in 2016 to overtake Denmark as the third biggest player in the sector behind the UK and Germany.
India joins China to boost Asia's global lead
Worldwide additions of nearly 55GW of new wind-power capacity surpassed predictions, but with Europe switching to competitive tendering and fossil-fuel champions taking over in Washington, the long-term future for the sector's established markets looks more uncertain
Connected global capacity tops 500GW, says WPI
Eight qualify for 200MW Saskatchewan tender
Sweden passes bill to become carbon neutral by 2045
Cyclical slowdowns to blame for 2016 dip
Oklahoma to cut tax credit four years early
US adds 80% of 2016 total in Q4
End in sight for Germany's onshore boom

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United Stars Dominate Pearce's England Squad
Date: 23rd February 2012 at 11:42am
Stuart Pearce has announced his England squad for next week's game against Holland, and rightfully there is a large Manchester United contingent.
Whilst Pearce would have liked to be able to call upon Paul Scholes, the midfielder is not a part of the team and neither are Rio Ferdinand or Michael Carrick quite surprisingly.
Many of United's younger stars have been included though, with another call up for Tom Cleverley who will hope to make his debut this time around having missed out due to the riots in London last August.
There was also a place for former United striker Frazier Campbell, who has impressed since returning from a serious knee injury at Sunderland.
GK: Scott Carson, Joe Hart, Robert Green
Defenders: Gary Cahill, Ashley Cole, Phil Jones, Chris Smalling, Micah Richards, Kyle Walker, Leighton Baines, Glen Johnson
Midfielders: Gareth Barry, Tom Cleverley, Stewart Downing, Adam Johnson, Steven Gerrard, James Milner, Ashley Young, Theo Walcott, Scott Parker
Strikers: Wayne Rooney, Danny Welbeck, Daniel Sturridge, Frazier Campbell, Darren Bent


Australia First Party candidates and officers have received various harassments in recent days in the form of ranting phone calls replete with smear and e-mails containing misleading matter and libel.
Dirty Tricks efforts have been constant against the party since the election period began. These latest pinpricks might otherwise have no meaning if it were not for the source.
Our investigations reveal that the current Fairfax harassments come from a certain Mr. Robert Leys who lives in country New South Wales.
Mr. Leys was recently released from the Banksia Unit at the Tamworth Hospital after being "scheduled" by police under the Mental Health Act. His permanent diagnosis is paranoid schizophrenia. Sometimes the treatments fail.
Mr. Leys has a long term 'connection' with the Sydney Morning Herald. In 1999, he appeared as a Ku Klux Klan activist who had supposedly infiltrated the Pauline Hanson party. His claims were – of course – false. But the Herald ran with the story anyway. That story was composed by a certain Greg Roberts who was later censured by the Press Council for factual distortions in another matter in 2008.
Last year, the Sydney Morning Herald used Mr. Leys again. This time he was among a number of anonymous "sources" quoted to produce smear against the NSW Chairman of the party, Dr. Jim Saleam.
Dr. Saleam had received in 2009 particular text messages later shown to be from Mr. Leys.
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It seems that, triggered by the newspaper, this unfortunate man now harasses Australia First members.
In 1999, Mr. Leys was "scheduled" by police after making an assortment of threats to people in his local community and another one to murder Dr. Saleam's family. His recent sojourn in the Banksia Unit was likely related to similar threats, up to and including a threat to murder – and a possible attempt to steal explosives from a place in Lightning Ridge.
It may be inevitable that Mr. Leys will be produced by the press again in some capacity to say things against Australia First. In 2009, shortly after the Sydney Morning Herald reported that Australia First Party had the numbers to register as a Federal party, Mr. Leys's close associate in the 1999 KKK scam against One Nation – David Palmer – surfaced to say that their group was infiltrating Australia First. Mr. Palmer and Mr.Leys also claim to be leaders of Australia's "Nazi party" and Mr. Leys has been reported to health care professionals by local people and family members to have had a life-long obsession with German Nazi paraphernalia.
Such publicising of defamatory smear demonstrates the dark depths Fairfax Media will go to, recruiting such loony mudslingers to serve party political agendas. It is Hostile Media Framing. So get your copy of Fairfax's Sydney Morning Herald regularly. Their pocket Nazis should be back in print shortly. It seems modern journalism swims in a sea of mud.


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Updated Three Times! Is It Time For a Kim Richards Update?
April 29, 2016 by tamaratattles 28 Comments
UPDATE THREE
This afternoon Kim's attorney came to court and admitted Kim doesn't have proof of compliance with the court order. The judge withdrew the warrant and set a new court date for June 3rd. That is odd because last I heard she already had a court date for June 1st. Maybe that was with the Target judge. Anyway, she has 30 more days to attend as many meetings and do as much community service as possible. Delay, deny, lie, cry. etc. This is all Rinna and Eileen's fault!
UPDATE TWO
TMZ is now reporting that a judge (probably the one that handled the Beverly Hills case) has issued a bench warrant for Kim Richards. "9:40 AM PST — The bench warrant has now been signed by a judge. Bail was set at $26,000." A bench warrant is an arrest warrant issued by a judge, usually for failure to appear in court. It could also be issued for failure to provide evidence of complying with the court's order.
Usually with a bench warrant, cops are not sent to your door to arrest you (though I suppose the judge could ask for that if he was pissed off enough about the situation) and you can just come in and pay your bail and a new court date is set. The situation with the two cases and the two judges and two plea deals that seem to be allowed to be completed concurrently make this whole mess very confusing. The judge in the Target case should have given a sentence separate from the first one. Now we have one judge saying community labor and the other saying community service. Either way, I don't think she has does much of anything to comply with either court.
Story developing…..
It's really NOT time for a Kim Richards update, but you will see a lot of them today because tonight is the season finale of The Mother Daughter Experiment and certain large tabloid sites always seem to have a post about nothing to coincide with certain TV shows. It's almost like they are paid to do so. UPDATE: It appears that Kim's dramatic hospitalization on the finale may not air. It's not on the Lifetime schedule for tonight and there is nothing on the site about when it will air. To me this is the most important part of this post!
Today's big story is essentially "Kim could get arrested if she doesn't complete the terms of her plea deal." Well, of course she could. But they are not going to show up at her Westwood apartment with an arrest warrant. She already has a hearing set on June 1, 2016 to show she has been compliant with the terms of her probation as stated in her plea deal. Which it certainly does not seem like she has been compliant at all.
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As we saw on the reunion she is "keeping her recovery private" which is pretty much the opposite of any AA guidelines I have ever seen. She also still blames Lisa Rinna and Eileen Davidson for her situation rather than being remorseful and apologizing to them for her destructive behavior that concerned and disturbed them. She also didn't show any remorse for all she has put Kyle and her family though.
Here is what Kim had to say in a Bravo Blog this week. Wait, why did she even have a blog at all? I'm just going to post her angry rant here. There are some mixed up sentences that Bravo editors apparently chose not to fix. Perhaps that is a nod to her incoherence?
"From what I did see, things seemed to only get worse with Lisa Rinna, and I and wasn't even there to engage with her. I always seemed to be a constant topic of conversation for her and Eileen. I'm a little baffled as to how after almost two years of some sort of a personal attack on me that her response was, "I was actually shocked oops…," "That was wrong, and I'm sorry," " I wish you well," "That's what I've got for you," and "I'm human." I didn't feel like I got a proper or sincere apology. hank you from the bottom of my heartShe has done the same thing to my friends. For her to ever say the word Munchausen after everything Yolanda has been through is just AWFUL! What a hurtful thing to say. Yolanda already has enough on her plate. Lisa and Eileen have been talking about my friends and me since day one. I live in the now, not the past, and I don't even choose to go into the future. So accepting an apology and moving forward is what I'm all about–if it is genuine. But I did not feel Lisa or Eileen were genuine. I feel bad about that. But I mostly feel bad for them. Living their lives constantly through other people's worlds can't be fun. Certainly there is no real happiness always storing and harboring negative energies."
Kim thinks that she is owed an apology for being high in a van with Rinna and making a huge drunken/high scene in Eileen's house. This does not bode well for her recovery.
Kim Richards got off easy on her sentencing for public drunkenness at The Beverly Hotel last September and for her shoplifting at Target when she was sentenced last October Her Target sentence was pretty much NOTHING other than saying she had to do what the judge in the Beverly Hotel sentence said. She received a sentence of 300 hours of community service as opposed to thirty days of community labor because Kim managed to use her foot injury to get out of the previous community labor and it was changed to 300 hours of community service.
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Now things are working out exactly how I predicted when I said here, "At any rate. Basically, nothing is going to happen to her either way. She won't do the AA meetings, she won't do the community service unless it involves a red carpet and she will be back in court again in 2016 to answer for it just like Lindsey Lohan did with hers."
The next court date I am aware of is June 1, 2016. However, there are actually two cases in two jurisdictions with two different judges. I feel like there should be one in May, which is next week from the first case regarding the Beverly Hills Hotel. That judge seems to be the most likely to seriously enforce the terms of the deal. That is the judge that ordered she do community labor not community service. The judge in the Target case let her claim a hurt foot and do community service.
These two cases have become muddled together in a confusing way when it comes to reporting on the situation. What is clear is that Kim doesn't appear to be doing much of anything to meet the terms of her plea deal, and it is likely she will be taken from a courtroom to a jail cell in the near future.
Tonight on the finale of The Mother Daughter Experiment, Kim will be very unsteady on her feet and be removed during the middle of "group therapy" by ambulance. These women were in the house for only two weeks the amount of alcohol that flowed was staggering to me. And we all know I enjoy my adult beverages.
Here is the part where I tell you that the finale is tonight on Lifetime and put the show time. Except it seems to be off the schedule! I can find no listing of the finale anywhere. I'm off to look into this. Did Kim manage to get it taken off the air?
Meanwhile, here is Kim's fight with Natalie.
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Ugh. Natalie. All she is doing is a repeat of her antics in the Bad Girl's Club house.
She needs new material, if she wants her own show.
As for Kim…If you no longer live in the past, why would you need an apology from anyone? Waiting for an apology sounds like holding onto the past, to me.
BeetsWhy says
she doesn't live in the past? how many times have we heard how Kyle and Kathy stole the palm beach house away from her???
I know! Her whole blog is about the past.
She no longer works on that show. If she wants to forget the past, she needs to move on.
O.O says
Wow now I'm sorry I didn't watch this . I didn't think I could take watching Natalie on one more show . I was wrong .
Tigerlilly says
It would appear Kim got a sweet, sweet deal. For her not to be compliant with it? Even though I feel bad for Kim and her issues that likely led to the substance abuse, this is some entitled bullshit and whether she will actually get it ot not, she deserves jail time, and not 48 minutes due to overcrowding either. She needs at least a good 10 days in the pokey.
VioletBlue says
You are correct, Tigerlilly. It is a bizarre "entitlement b.s." kinda thing.
It is actually called Personal Exceptionalism.
Add "alcoholic" to that mix and you get Kim & other celebrities.
Minky says
Why was house arrest not an option? At least it would force her to maybe think about her actions and their possible consequences. I know her issues are complicated and that she's probably got a lot of pain in her past, but she also could try be a little more introspective.
In Kim's blog it's interesting that she couldn't be bothered to spell "thank you" completely, leaving off the "t", but the word "Munchausen" was no problem at all. Was Yolanda there to help?
What Kim needs is to learn how to take accountability for her actions. Jail time is the best bet for her to get on the right path to doing that for real. Jmo.
Oh no, I totally agree with you. The reason I'm wondering about house arrest is that it would be a way of holding her accountable at least a little bit.
As is stands now, she hasn't had to suffer any consequences for her actions, which include; shoplifting, getting and being wasted in public, arguing with and frightening strangers in a bar that her family owns, driving under the influence, endangering both her own life and that of other motorists, AND hitting a cop.
This is not even a question of her sobriety. She's a grown woman and she can do whatever she wants. But putting other people in harm's way and stealing and then not having to answer for it is just too much.
Toni Lee Gildea says
Did Kim manage to get it taken off the air?
If only Kim would get taken off the air.
Why was she even on the reunion show? Or the clips of Brandy? I just don't get it.
Shae says
Insanely upsetting, and as per usual, you've hit the nail on the head. Thinking she's the one who is owed an apology by everyone else for her horrific, albeit sick, behavior is a bad sign for her recovery.
I don't think she has hit the bottom yet. Taking no responsibility anywhere for ANY of her behavior. Too many enablers telling her it was all ok. Kathy, Kyle, Kimberly still not confronting any of the real issues. I think any of us would have sympathy and empathy if she said she wanted to take care of herself in private, and then actually stayed off tv and did it.
Maybe a few days in jail and being held accountable for any part of her actions may snap her into reality.
I agree, and am sure she has not hit bottom. In fairness, I am sure the family worried about the impact of Monty's death on her. Now that is over, and if while filming this show she was high on some combination of drugs/booze/ sniffing, she has had no recovery and clearly is just lying through her teeth, gliding through the days, saying what she thinks are the right words.
The Mother/Daughter show has been compelling in one way- Kimberly has made it clear that Kim's way of dealing with issues/problem moments was to hide them from public view, and therefore make them go away. If the public doesn't know about them, then they didn't happen, appears to be the mantra. But it was very disappointing that the producers allowed her on the show, while failing to openly discuss her real issues- it had clearly been a negotiating point .
Kimberly told Kim that would no longer work, and they needed to deal with issues. She said she felt motherly about Kim, and guilty if she did not take care of her. Kim managed to make a teenager her mother/caregiver, and robbed her of her life and freedom at a young age- all while feeling that she, Kim, was unfairly given responsibility for caring for her Mom while she was dying, and burdened with making money to fund her family's life as a child.
It is complicated, without doubt, and we all could feel for her, but these are clear and simple issues that the court presented her with- and a very privileged, easy round of tasks, each of which she fought to have removed, kicking and screaming. Kim continues,, even in court, to be given absolutely every possible benefit and easy way of dealing with her issues, yet she continues to blame everyone and thing else(except herself) , and fails to meet the most minimum standards of acceptable behavior.
I believe the only way of getting through to her is to make her hit bottom the hard way- completely out of the influence of her family and money- in jail, and then in a lockdown rehab that requires her to WORK a 90 day program- not run away from each of them in the middle of the night, without meaningful therapy and improvement.
I say this from experience- knowing that she needs to get completely off all the drugs( in a medical facility) in order to truly understand her addiction issues. Others in need are watching her situation – It is important that her failures to be responsible to herself and those she loves , let alone the court, no longer be rewarded.
I am very sorry for all involved but it appears this is the only option left before Kim does more damage – one would think destroying a daughter s wedding and then being arrested multiple times ( and losing her job ) would be enough-, but it clearly has not been. .
Yes. What is "rock bottom" for one, isn't always for another. It is silly for her to say she wants privacy, then go on a show to fix the relationship she ruined with addiction, and not talk about the addiction. Boy, I can see how it goes in circles and never gets addressed 😉
It takes so long to see clearly off the substances, she isn't even close.
All of that said, I am still hoping she recovers and straitens out her mess for her sake and everyone around her.
HappyGal says
I cannot believe that the 'therapist' in the Mother Daughter Experiment agreed to let Kim participate knowing how much alcohol would be present in this house.
That is to say – I'm sure the 'therapist' was well aware that their would be flowing alcohol and that it would be a TERRIBLE idea for Kim to be in this environment and yet she agreed to allow her to participate showing a total lack of regard for her patient/client or whatever you call that relationship.
I know Lifetime is more concerned with rating but really doesn't the therapist have a license or something to protect.
And yes I do realize it is Kim's choice to drink or not – but that is just a terrible idea to but her in that house.
The Woman takes the drink, then the drink takes the Woman. I hope that she survives this….
Public intoxication, judges, rehabilitation and soon jail. Geeze an ambulance in a emergency situation?! Guess what's next?
I sincerely hope that a judge sends her to a rehab where she is required to stay in treatment. Let the Hilton's foot the Bill. She needs it and a damn judge better use his common sense to help save this Woman. She is a DANGER to herself and others. Imagine how many times she's been drinking, pill popping and driving? She's going to kill herself or someone else.
DalaiMama says
"It appears that Kim's dramatic hospitalization on the finale may not air"… I feel badly about how badly I feel about this update, having been curious about most of these women's stories. And since I'm obsessive by nature, I looked for the previous episode's "next week on TMDE" – that footage is still up. It certainly looked like Kim ingested too much of a mind-altering substance. Given the depth of her denial, it almost makes sense that she might spin it as a health crisis acute enough to warrant an ambulance, giving her the means to beat a very hasty retreat. Not all addicts can recover – I hope Kim doesn't fall into that camp. This obviously isn't the life anyone would want for themselves.
Maybe her attorney pushed for it to be pulled as too prejudicial for her ongoing court cases? She did not want to comment on the reunion show siting ongoing court cases so maybe she got it pulled for that reason and Lifetime agreed to do so ?
Katherine 2.0 says
Sadly, I feel the same way. Kim cannot stay out of the spotlight, and that harsh glare is hurting her recovery efforts. I believe she thinks she can redeem herself and magically resurrect her career, and she has done nothing but damage her reputation at every turn.
If you wanted to pick a project guaranteed to humiliate Kim and expose her as a liar about her sobriety, this show was it. Unbelievable that anyone who loves her could think this was a good idea.
To have a successful recovery, Kim needs to get away from the cameras. But I don't see that happening anytime soon.
I found a Tweet from Dr. Debbie from Wednesday saying tune in Friday for the reunion and then YESTERDAY tweeting the show had been RESCHEDULED and she is waiting for the new airdate.
Fingers crossed that there will be one, Because on the Lifetime website it's not even listed under current shows anymore….All of the other episodes are available on the site though for you folks that watch on the Interwebs…
The Lady Cocotte says
As gruesome as it is, I was looking forward to the finale tonight…
Xanadude says
As was I. I've invested a minimal amount of time, but, dammit, I need closure. Especially in regards to Cassie and Shar, who seem to be really decent people who genuinely benefitted from the little therapy that actually occurred.
Kids, don't do drugs.
That's all I got.
California does not mess around with bench warrants. I had one for a FTA about a ticket I got for a broken taillight. A cop called me and said if I didn't come down to the station and turn myself in that would 'track me down' immediately. Lol
Also, my mom knows Natalie's mom. She is from the same town I grew up in. She is the sweetest woman. Ughhhh some many trouble stories about young Natalie. Blechh
If I ever want to bad stuff, I'm coming to the U.S. in Britain, if you do bad stuff, you do the time. Yup, being wealthy may have its advantages in terms of being able to afford the best legal representation, but after that, you're on your own. No "overcrowding," no "white collar" rubbish. Guilty, jail, done.
Josie says
Natalie is only slightly more tolerable than Tanisha aka "i did not get no sleep cause of yall". Her screeching gave me a headache.
I think Kim thinks that because she is probably doing drugs with little or no alcohol that she is sober.
Kim needs to take responsibility for her actions….unless she is blaming Lisa for manipulating her to take a drink. Lol
I noticed as soon as Kim was remorseful at all and admitting she was hard to love, Kyle comes rushing in saying oh no no thats not true! I allways loved you. I got annoyed with Kyle, they have such an ass kissing sugar coated sweep everything under the carpet style of relating to one another. For gods sake can we admit Kim is hard to love with her behaviour. Her dog attacked Kyle's daughter and she threatened them over it, ruined her daughters wedding, got arrested when her son needed her, and has hijacked her youngest daughters life. How many tears and anguish has Kim caused for one to admit shes hard to love? The family is hell bent on never letting that woman face reality.
But…but.. but… Janet dear. that was all Rinna and Eileen's fault for mentioning anything was going on!
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My highlight of this week has been chatting to all the children in Year 2 about their super trips to Tangmere Aviation Museum. I have been so impressed with how much the children learnt whilst on their visits and it has been wonderful to hear the excitement and enthusiasm with which all of the children have spoken about their experience. I was also delighted to have reported to me how well the children represented our school while on the visit. Well done Year 2!
I would also like to say congratulations to our Worship Council who led a fantastic collective worship around the theme of Hope. They used acting, speaking and song to share the message of hope in the Easter Story as well as teaching us how this shows us to live our lives.
In the EYFS, I have enjoyed seeing children's creativity come to life - there has been amazing artwork, music and construction happening every time I have been to join the learning in our Reception classes.
Finally, a mention about our wonderful Expressive Art and Design afternoon that took place this week. The range of learning opportunities was fantastic and children have been talking to me with great enthusiasm about their learning for the rest of the week! Thank you so much to our Year 1 families who came along to join us for this special afternoon. We look forward to welcoming our EYFS families to our summer term session.
As we rapidly speed to the end of term, please do continue to use our dates list to ensure you know what is happening across the school and to join us for the many events, including Fantastic Finishes, Easter Draw and our special Easter Service at St Wilfrid's Church.