Towel Titan recently reached out to me and wanted to know if I would like some of their towels in exchange for an honest review.
You can see their selection of towels on Amazon here.
Being a bit of a microfiber (and detailing product) nerd I was definitely interested.
Currently my go to towel brand is The Rag Company because their quality for the price is hard to beat and their selection seems to be multiplying like rabbits.
That said, I don't think I could ever have enough towels and other microfiber accessories (especially considering they are somewhat of a consumable product) so I obliged.
The towels I received were definitely packed nice. They were layered inside a nice sturdy box with a sticker of the company's logo set on top as seems standard in the detailing products industry.
Each towel type was packed inside its own bag, which his appreciated since I have evaluated towels from other companies that were literally just thrown in the box, leaving me to pick out bits of cardboard from the microfiber before I could use them.
A cursory look at the towels and I quickly became curious how much these sell for online. They seemed like pretty high quality towels.
I hit up Amazon and was surprised to see that all of these towels are incredibly affordable compared to some of the boutique brands out there.
Though, as we all know, look can be deceiving. So, I unpacked each of the towels so I could get my hands on the products and take a closer look.
My first major curiosity was what the origin of the materials were that these towels were made of.
If you're not aware, most microfiber products are made with either Chinese or Korean microfiber. There are other origins for the fibers as well but these are by far the most common. Generally, Korean microfiber is considered to be of higher quality since the production of most microfiber products started there. Though the distinction of quality between Chinese microfiber and any other country of origin is quickly diminishing as manufacturing processes and quality control in China keeps improving.
I looked over the towels and couldn't find any tags or labels that stated the origin so it's fairly safe to rule out Korea since most brands wear that COO as a badge of honor. I'd put my money on China.
But like I said, that's not really that big of a deal today, but I know some consumers care so it was worth bringing up.
Speaking of tag, the fact that none of these towels have tags sewn into them is actually a good thing in my book. It means you don't have a course tag scratching up your paint work and you don't have to spend time trying to remove that tag to avoid that.
Enough about COOs and tags. Lets look at each towel.
The grey color is also a nice touch. They'll stay nice looking longer given the abuse you're likely to put them through.
My only complaint about these towels is I wish they were edgeless, but given their purpose that would be a cosmetic benefit at most.
For the price, I couldn't really find fault with these towels.
It almost feels wrong to call these utility towels. These things are actually pretty darn nice. They have a decent pile and density and they are edgeless. The color is great so you can't mistake them for your other all-purpose or utility towels. And like the previous towel, they are super affordable.
These are definitely a great option for cleaning fine interior surfaces like leather, infotainment screens, brushed metals, etc…. These make good buffing towels for glass too to get rid of that last bit of haze/steakiness after cleaning with your glass towels.
The polishing towels are exactly what I would expect for a high pile high gsm towel. They are a really great size too, ringing it at slightly larger than my Chemical Guys and Adam's Polishes polishing towels and have a nicer binding.
You can see one of the Towel Titan towels next to one of my older yellow Chemical Guy's towel in the picture below which is the towel I would most closely relate this style of towel to.
I definitely prefer the size, feel, and color of the Towel Titan towel over the yellow Chemical Guy's towel.
Though I admit that these days I prefer an edgeless towel like The Rag Company Eagle Edgeless for fine exterior paint work such as correcting but given that the Towel Titan Microfiber polishing towel cost less than half the Eagle Edgeless and only loses out on the binding I give it a pass.
You really wouldn't be doing any wrong buy picking the Towel Titan polishing towel for your first foray into nice detailing towels. You get a lot of bang for the buck here.
I had no complaints when using this towel.
There isn't much to say about this wash mitt other than it's larger than most chenille mitts I've owned and used.
The fibers are exactly what you would expect from a chenille mitt. They have a good length and density. The color is appealing and will look nicer longer since the mitt is destined for some pretty dirty jobs.
I couldn't find any fault in the mitt for the price. There weren't any lose fibers or lint. The color didn't seem to run when I washed it. Overall a really solid wash mitt.
The Towel Titan Waffle Weave drying towel appears to be a nice drying towel. The weave is exactly what you would expect, if not a little more plush than some of the previous waffle weave towels I've used (Chemical Guys and Cobra Non Foam Core). It has a good size and weight to it.
Upon initial inspection I did find a thread that was loose near one of the bindings.
That was the only real defect I could find though.
I do wish the binding was a little softer or had an edgeless construction. The binding on this towel is a little stiff. Though I don't really recommend a waffle weave towel for wiping a car dry. I use them as blotting towels so the binding never really gets dragged on the surface anyway.
One issue I've had with waffle weave towels in the past were them losing shape after being washed. I washed this towel and can proudly say that it was still square afterward. My earlier Chemical Guys waffle weave towels have slowly turned into trapezoids over time and have been relegated to window only towels these days.
As has been the theme, for the price, the Towel Titan Waffle Weave Microfiber Towel is a very solid waffle weave towel.
The high density drying towel is another solid option for a drying towel. This one is much softer than the waffle weave and therefor much better for wiping a car dry rather than blotting it.
I personally still try to avoid any wiping motions when drying since it doesn't increase the odds of leaving light scratches here and there.
However, if you were looking for a towel you could use for wiping I'd definitely recommend this one over the waffle weave. Considering they are the same price it's really up to how you plan to use the towel as to which one you should pick.
My only complaint about the high density towel is the joining of the binding could be a little better. On the towel I received there was quite a bit of overlap misalignment leading to a bit of a bulge at the binding that I wouldn't want to drag across my paint.
If I could change one thing about this towel, fixing that binding would be it.
Given the price, though, this is a tough towel to beat for anyone new to detailing that is looking for a solid drying towel that won't break the bank.
Are Towel Titan Towels Legit?
Given how affordable these towels are, I certainly think so. The definitely don't feel cheap. There is also a fair chance that many of the boutique microfiber products started their life in the same factories as these given how globalized the manufacturing of products like Microfiber has become.
I look forward to using these towels more throughout future projects and will continue to update this review as I get more time in with them.


Kara Emmy sent in this photo of Isha-Louise, a rescue, taken in Greenville on June 2. The two were brought together by Betty Williams of Spay Today nearly three years ago. "Isha-Louise makes me laugh out loud every day," says Emmy.


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Going alone and taking the independent route: new insights on female candidate emergence
Government - Journal Articles
Buckley, Fiona
Copyright: © 2020, Bristol University Press. This is a post-peer-review, pre-copy edited version of an article published in European Journal of Politics and Gender. The definitive publisher-authenticated version: Buckley, F. (2020) 'Going alone and taking the independent route: new insights on female candidate emergence', European Journal of Politics and Gender, doi: 10.1332/251510820X15891285007145 is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1332/251510820X15891285007145
Related: https://www.ecpg.eu/
Citation: Buckley, F. (2020) 'Going alone and taking the independent route: new insights on female candidate emergence', European Journal of Politics and Gender. doi: 10.1332/251510820X15891285007145
Published Version: 10.1332/251510820X15891285007145
Using a novel approach - examining independent women and comparing them with their party counterparts - this article offers new insights on candidate emergence, recruitment and election of women, within and beyond political parties. To-date, studies of gender, candidate recruitment and institutions have concentrated on parties and party women. These studies highlight the gendered aspects of party candidate recruitment and conclude that parties are gate-keepers of women's candidacy. This article finds that beyond party boundaries, the emergence and election of independent women is circumscribed by individual, institutional and political culture dynamics which have consequences for independent women's candidacy. The independent route is no less gendered or more advantageous a pathway for women's candidacy.
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Prof. Dr. Kay Pfaffenberger is the managing director of the centre and contributes with his expertise in the fields of investment, banking and (renewable) energy on the African continent. He acts as the academic representative at pertinent occasions.
Prof. Dr. Thomas Schmidt is the founding director of the centre and is responsible for all partnership projects in IT and Logistics with Africa.
Prof. Dr. (Habil) Marcus Brandenburg is professor for Logistics and Supply Chain Management with special focus on Sustainable Logistics. Actually he is involved in activities with Ethiopia on supply chains for the textile industry.
Prof. Dr. Nelly Oelze is Professor for Marketing and Logistics. She is project leader of the Namibian-German Centre for Logistics with special interest in Sustainable Logistics.
Prof. Dr. Axel Grimm is in charge for vocational training in CBTA. He is also a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Institute of Vocational Education, Work and Technology (biat) of the Europa-Universität Flensburg.
Martin Kuehn is our expert for Central and East Africa. He is responsible for the coordination of the project activities in the framework of the Kenyan-German Centre for Data Analytics.
Kerstin Schultheiß is our E-Learning professional. She is designing innovative course formats, providing intercultural pedagogical expertise and developing strategies for the establishment of the African-German Virtual Academy.
Ronakeh Warasthe is our team's research and teaching associate for "Logistics in Emerging Economies". She is our expert for Southern Africa and is the project coordinator of the Namibian-German Centre for Logistics that we run jointly with the Namibia University of Science and Technology in Windhoek.


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Biografia
Nasce a Napoli, è figlio del cantante Nunzio Gallo e della attrice Bianca Maria Varriale, fratello maggiore dell'attore Massimiliano Gallo.

Il suo debutto teatrale è del 1981 con Eden Teatro Viviani, con la compagnia del maestro Roberto De Simone nella quale resta tre anni a cui seguono L'opera buffa del giovedì santo e la Lucilla Costante.

Nel 1988 forma una sua compagnia e gira l'Italia con gli spettacoli Fratelli d'Italia e Francesca da Rimini per la regia di Aldo Giuffrè.

Dal 1990 al 1995, con la stessa formazione, si afferma nel genere del Teatro Cabaret con alcuni testi da lui scritti.

Dal 1995 al 1997 è protagonista al Bal Tabarin di Roma.

Dal 1997 al 2002 recita, scrive e comincia la sua attività di regista per il Teatro Sannazaro di Napoli.

Nel 1998 assume la direzione artistica della compagnia dello stesso teatro nel quale porta in scena alcune sue commedie.

Con I Cucuzzari, testo sulla rivoluzione partenopea del 1799, vince nel Luglio 2002, il premio ''Episcopio Teatro Festival'' .

Dalla stagione 2002/2003 la sua compagnia è prodotta dal teatro Cilea di Napoli. Nel marzo 2003 è in scena con Quartieri Spagnoli.

Nel 2004-2005 è prodotto dal Teatro Trianon di Napoli e mette in scena il musical Napoli 1799.

Nella stagione 2005 - 2006 scrive e rappresenta il Musical ispirato a Miseria e Nobiltà.

Nel 2007 scrive e recita Ti ho sposato per ignoranza. Dal 2009 è il direttore artistico del Teatro dei Comici.

Ha pubblicato un libro di racconti dal titolo Napoli da Sotto a Sopra nel 2011 (ed. Graf), il saggio Cuori in ordine Alfabetico del 2013 ed un divertente romanzo pandemico Segreti e Quarantene del 2020.

Nel 2021 gira il suo primo cortometraggio da sceneggiatore e regista oltre che da attore protagonista, dal titolo Dodici repliche; il corto The Winner come sceneggiatore e regista; La cena perfetta per la regia di Davide Minnella; L'ombra di Caravaggio, per la regia di Michele Placido.

Filmografia

Cinema
 Lo scugnizzo, regia di Alfonso Brescia (1979)
Delitti, regia di Giovanna Lenzi (1987)
 Fortapàsc, regia di Marco Risi (2009)
 A sud di New York, regia di Elena Bonelli (2010)
 Take Five, regia di Guido Lombardi (2014)
 Milionari, regia di Alessandro Piva (2014)
 Tre tocchi, regia di Marco Risi (2015)
 Indivisibili, regia di Edoardo De Angelis (2016)
 Quanto basta, regia di Francesco Falaschi (2018)
 Ricchi di fantasia, regia di Francesco Miccichè (2018)
 Nevia, regia Nunzia De Stefano (2019)
 Pinocchio, regia di Matteo Garrone (2019)
 School of Mafia, regia di Alessandro Pondi (2021)
 Ritorno al crimine, regia di Massimiliano Bruno (2021)
 Fino ad essere felici, regia Paolo Cipolletta (2021)
 La cena perfetta, regia di Davide Minnella (2022)
 L'ombra di Caravaggio, regia di Michele Placido (2022)

Televisione
 Un posto al sole – soap opera, 17 puntate (2003-2004)
 La nuova squadra – serie TV, episodi sconosciuti (2009)
 Il clan dei camorristi – serie TV, episodi 1x02-1x03 (2013)
 Don Matteo – serie TV, episodio 9x02 (2014)
 Sotto copertura – serie TV, episodio 1x01 (2015)
 Gomorra - La serie – serie TV, 10 episodi (2016-2017)
 Squadra mobile – serie TV, episodio 2x03 (2017)
 Buonasera Presidente – serie TV, 1 episodio (2019)
 Luna Park – serie TV,  6 episodi (2021)
 Maradona: sogno benedetto (Maradona: sueño bendito) - serie TV, episodio 7 (2021)

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Attori figli d'arte

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Democrats blocked $1.4 trillion CCP Virus stimulus package due to 'partisan fervor' say Republican senators
Richard Szabo | TheBL 03/23/20, 05:34
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), on March 2, 2017. (Courtesy of Chuck Schumer/Official website)
Democrat senators should stop making political attacks and blocking federal relief funding to Americans affected by a deadly Asian virus, the Republican Hill committee for the U.S. Senate said.
The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) has slammed the Democratic Party for letting party politics delay a $1.4 trillion phase three stimulus package promised to help businesses and families devastated by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Virus.
"[House Speaker Rep.] Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), [Sen.] Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), and senate Democrats allowed partisan fervor to thwart a critical coronavirus relief package while our country faces a crippling pandemic," NRSC Communications Director Jesse Hunt said in a statement.
Hunt believes Schumer took advantage of the five Republican senators, who were in isolation because they recently tested positive to the CCP Virus, and allegedly used the Democrats's voting power for his own political gain.
"DSCC-backed candidates last weekend had no problem throwing partisan barbs at the same Republican senators working day and night to find solutions to the complex problems facing their constituents at home," he said. "Those same candidates should prove they are not beholden to their chief benefactor Schumer and disavow Senate Democrats' unthinkable decision to filibuster."
The senator explained his actions were motivated by the proposed package's lack of worker protections and inadequate funding for primary health care services. Democrats also want food security aid, small business loans, and more than three months of unemployment insurance.
"We voted no on the McConnell-GOP bill because, among other problems, it includes huge bailouts without protections for people and workers and without accountability," Schumer said on Twitter. "It [also] shortchanges our hospitals and health care workers who need our help. These changes need to be made."
Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) blasted Schumer and his fellow Democrats for opposing the package.
He accused Pelosi of taking a "week off" and pouring "cold water" on the entire process according to Fox News. He also challenged Democratic senators to vote again on the motion to proceed with the bill "15 minutes after the markets open to see if there is a change of heart."
"The build-up to this is that we had a high level of bipartisanship over the last 48 hours … and then, all of a sudden, the Democratic leader and the speaker of the House shows up … and we are back to square one," he said according to the broadcaster. "I want everybody to understand that if we are not able to act tomorrow, it is because of our colleagues on the other side continue to dicker."
McConnell reminded senators that Pelosi is the speaker of the House and "not the speaker of the Senate."
"Hopefully some adults will show up on the other side of the room and understand the gravity of the situation before the markets go down further," he said. "We have never been confronted by anything like this before."
White House adviser: CCP Virus stimulus package will be worth about 10% GDP
Sen. Mitch McConnell wants $1,200 for singles and $2,400 for couples in CCP Virus stimulus plan
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wanted coronavirus stimulus plan to include federal funding for abortion says White House
World shares mostly higher; China plans stimulus measures
Tags:Democratic Party Mitch McConnell Nancy Pelosi Chuck Schumer coronavirus COVID-19 CCP Virus National Republican Senatorial Committee
Chinese drones invade Taiwan skies: Another form of CCP intimidation
GOP Sen Blunt refuses to support Supreme Court nominee
D.C. 04/04/22, 15:04
GOP registered voters outnumber Democrats in Florida
GOP lawmakers back Supreme Court justice after wife openly supports Trump's election integrity
Hillary Clinton, Press Secretary Jen Psaki diagnosed with coronavirus
Mike Pence launches $10 million ad campaign targeting Democrats


LEAVENWORTH COUNTY, Kan. — A Leavenworth County judge ruled Monday the records in the case of a teen who disappeared nearly 30 years ago shall remain closed.
The 46-page ruling by District Court Judge David King is a setback for Harold and Alberta Leach, who have long criticized the Leavenworth County Sheriff's investigation into their missing son Randy Leach.
The then high school senior vanished from a party in rural Leavenworth County in April 1988. The case generated numerous tips and rumors, but ultimately no closure. The teen's body and his mother's car have never been found.
The Leaches were featured in a FOX4 News investigation into the case. They shared their desire to find out what happened to their son before it's too late for them.
They sued Leavenworth County and the Leavenworth County Sheriff's Office for access to the sealed investigative files, and King heard their case last November.
In his ruling Monday, the judge sided with the sheriff's department, which relied on an exception to the Kansas Open Records Act for "ongoing investigations." In order to overcome that exception, the Leaches would have to show all six factors under the law, and they failed to meet the threshold "public interest" factor according to the judge in the case.
Among those testifying in the case was FOX4 News Investigative Producer Lisa McCormick.
Max Kautch, the family's attorney, said the Leaches are weighing their legal options.


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title: RadGrid Filtering with RadFilter
page_title: RadGrid Filtering with RadFilter | RadFilter for ASP.NET AJAX Documentation
description: RadGrid Filtering with RadFilter
slug: filter/how-to/radgrid-filtering-with-radfilter
tags: radgrid,filtering,with,radfilter
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# RadGrid Filtering with RadFilter

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You can use RadFilter to filter RadGrid control. For the purpose few steps must be taken:

* RadFilter **FilterContainerID** property must point to RadGrid instance.

* **AllowFilteringByColumn** must be set to true to enable RadGrid filtering

* [optional] **IsFilterItemExpanded** set to false to hide RadGrid filtering item

When bound RadGrid will supply information for all filterable columns to RadFilter that can be used to build filter expression via RadFilter control. If there are columns with **AllowFiltering** set to **false** they will be excluded from the list of the columns that RadFilter will offer to filter. The filter expressions generated by the RadFilter control will depend on the data type of the source grid fields, thus making them protected from type conflicts and syntax errors.

Note that the filter expressions produced by the built-in filtering mechanism of RadGrid and those created by RadFilter are independent from each other. Hence each of these two filter generators will clear the previous filter patterns applied to RadGrid for ASP.NET AJAX.

Here it is also demonstrated how to hide the default Apply button of the RadFilter control and trigger command for building expressions from an external button handler.

````ASPNET
<telerik:RadFilter runat="server" ID="RadFilter1" FilterContainerID="RadGrid1" ShowApplyButton="false" />
<telerik:RadGrid runat="server" ID="RadGrid1" AutoGenerateColumns="false" DataSourceID="SqlDataSource1"
    Skin="Vista" AllowPaging="true" AllowSorting="true" AllowFilteringByColumn="true"
    OnItemCommand="RadGrid1_ItemCommand">
    <MasterTableView IsFilterItemExpanded="false" CommandItemDisplay="Top">
        <CommandItemTemplate>
            <telerik:RadToolBar runat="server" ID="RadToolBar1">
                <Items>
                    <telerik:RadToolBarButton Text="Apply filter" CommandName="FilterRadGrid" ImageUrl="<%# GetFilterIcon() %>"
                        ImagePosition="Right" />
                </Items>
            </telerik:RadToolBar>
        </CommandItemTemplate>
        <Columns>
            <telerik:GridNumericColumn DataField="OrderID" HeaderText="OrderID" DataType="System.Int32" />
            <telerik:GridDateTimeColumn DataField="OrderDate" HeaderText="OrderDate" />
            <telerik:GridNumericColumn DataField="ShipVia" HeaderText="ShipVia" DataType="System.Int32" />
            <telerik:GridBoundColumn DataField="ShipName" HeaderText="ShipName" />
            <telerik:GridBoundColumn DataField="ShipAddress" HeaderText="ShipAddress" />
            <telerik:GridNumericColumn DataField="Freight" HeaderText="Freight" DataType="System.Decimal" />
        </Columns>
    </MasterTableView>
</telerik:RadGrid>
<asp:SqlDataSource runat="server" ID="SqlDataSource1" ConnectionString="<%$ ConnectionStrings:NorthwindConnectionString %>"
    SelectCommand="Select OrderID, OrderDate, ShipVia, ShipName, ShipAddress, Freight FROM Orders" />
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````C#
protected void RadGrid1_ItemCommand(object source, GridCommandEventArgs e)
{
    if (e.CommandName == "FilterRadGrid")
    {
        RadFilter1.FireApplyCommand();
    }
}

protected string GetFilterIcon()
{
    return RadAjaxLoadingPanel.GetWebResourceUrl(Page, string.Format("Telerik.Web.UI.Skins.{0}.Grid.Filter.gif", RadGrid1.Skin));
}
````
````VB.NET
Protected Sub RadGrid1_ItemCommand(ByVal source As Object, ByVal e As GridCommandEventArgs)
    If e.CommandName = "FilterRadGrid" Then
        RadFilter1.FireApplyCommand()
    End If
End Sub

Protected Function GetFilterIcon() As String
    Return RadAjaxLoadingPanel.GetWebResourceUrl(Page, String.Format("Telerik.Web.UI.Skins.{0}.Grid.Filter.gif", RadGrid1.Skin))
End Function
````

Find a live demo illustrating the integration of RadFilter with RadGrid [here](http://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-ajax/Filter/Examples/Integration/DefaultCS.aspx).

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World Triathlon, tot oktober 2020 International Triathlon Union (ITU), is een internationale sportbond die opkomt voor de belangen van de beoefenaars van triatlon, duatlon en aquatlon, verschillende multisportdisciplines in verschillende combinaties en afstanden van zwemmen, fietsen en lopen.

De World Triathlon werd formeel opgericht in 1989 op het eerste congres van de organisatie in Avignon in Frankrijk. Het hoofdkwartier is gevestigd in Lausanne in Zwitserland.

De World Triathlon is sinds 1989 de organisator van de Wereldkampioenschappen triatlon olympische afstand. Sinds 1994 werd dit aangevuld met het Wereldkampioenschappen triatlon lange afstand. In 2010 kwam daar de Wereldkampioenschappen triatlon sprint bij, in 2011 samen gebracht onder de koepel van de ITU World Championship Series.

Van 1991 tot 2008 werd eveneens de ITU wereldbeker triatlon georganiseerd.

Triatlon is eveneens een Olympische sport. In 1995 werd het als sportdiscipline opgenomen bij de Pan-Amerikaanse Spelen en werd het dus een onderdeel van de twaalfde Pan-Amerikaanse Spelen. Sinds 2000 is het een onderdeel van de Olympische Zomerspelen. De eerste Olympisch Kampioen in triatlon werd gehuldigd bij de Olympische Zomerspelen van de XXVIIe olympiade. Sinds 2006 is het ook een onderdeel van de Aziatische Spelen, en kwam het dus een eerste maal op de kalender tijdens de vijftiende Aziatische Spelen.

De World Triathlon heeft geen band met een aantal commerciële organisaties die triatlons organiseren en is dus niet betrokken bij de organisatie van de verschillende Ironman-wedstrijden, de Challenge, Powerman of ICan.

Tot de leden van de World Triathlon behoren de Nederlandse Triathlon Bond en de Belgian Triathlon & Duathlon Federation.

Mondiale sportbond
Triatlonorganisatie


Global advocacy is vital in setting the agenda, but local advocacy is crucial to making change happen on the ground.
The YHP supports local groups that wish to take action and helps the genuine voices of young people to be heard. These activities are often closely related to our on-the-ground programmes and can bring new perspectives to local and national policy.
Through NCD Child, the YHP has supported a series of regional advocacy workshops that bring together the very different views, experiences and resources of national governments, healthcare practitioners, NGOs and young people.
In Kenya we worked with Rise Up to set up Champions for Change (C4C) based around a one-week capacity-building workshop. This organically evolved into a Coalition of Youth Advocacy (COYA) who have actively engaged with the Nairobi authorities to make health information more available and to make much better use of some facilities that were underutilised. As Chantal Hildebrand of Rise Up, put it '[COYA] shared their experiences and made concrete asks of the Government officials. They were very moving. You could see the impact that they had on everyone in the room'.
In Brazil, our long-running project with Plan International UK led to our peer educators providing advice to the Health Secretariat Office in the State of Maranhão on the Plano de Trabalho e Avaliacão – the state level guidance to municipal health service agencies. They identified gaps in the current guidance on youth participation and approaches to combatting NCDs, and worked to resolve them.
In Delhi, India another long-running project with Plan International UK led to peer educators being asked to provide advice on how to engage young people by the Indian Government's Rashtriva Kishor Swasthya Karyakram (RKSK) programme. This is tackling poor nutrition reproductive health, substance abuse and other behaviours that can negatively impact young people's life chances.
In Canada the YHP has supported the Health Rights and Responsibilities project with its charitable partner, The Sandbox Project. This provides an opportunity for young people from the Young Canadians Roundtable on Health to share evidence-based best practices on research and advocacy to assist on health policy. It also created a letter writing campaign to raise awareness of youth health rights among MPs.


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posted on April 16, 2010 by Prof. Muse Tegegne
Ethiopian Enochian pre deluge Calendar coincides Mayan 2012 in prediction; while the accelerated Quantum Leap of Volcano Earth Quack and Tsunami around the world is confirming Prof. Muse Tegegne
Filed under 2012 Pole Shift's, Chile epcenter, Chile Epcenter, Dooms Day Ethiopian, Earth is changing, Enochian pre deluge, Ethiopian Doom Day, Solar Flare, VIVO 2012, Watch the earth
"Everyone knows that planet earth rotates from west to east, causing the sun to rise in the eastern sky and to set in the western horizon. Interestingly, ancient Egyptian priests told the Greek historian Herodotus that within the historical ages since Egypt became a kingdom, "four times in this period (so they told me) the sun rose contrary to his wont; twice he rose where he now sets, and twice he set where he now rises" (Herodotus, Bk.II, 142)."
"The Ethiopians were the first who invented the science of stars, and gave names to the planets, not at random and without meaning, but descriptive of the qualities which they conceived them to possess; and it was from them that this art passed, still in an imperfect state, to the Egyptians." The Ethiopian origin of astronomy is beautifully explained by Count Volney in a passage in his Ruins of Empires, which is one of the glories of modern literature, and his argument is not based on guesses. He invokes the weighty authority of Charles F. Dupuis, whose three monumental works, The Origin of Constellations, The Origin of Worship and The Chronological Zodiac, are marvels of meticulous research. Dupuis placed the origin of the zodiac as far back as 15,000 B.C., which would give the world's oldest picture book an antiquity of 17,000 years. (This estimate is not as excessive as it might at first appear, since the American astronomer and mathematician, Professor Arthur M. Harding, traces back the origin of the zodiac to about 26,000 B.C) In discussing star worship and idolatry, Volney gives the following glowing description of the scientific achievements of the ancient Ethiopians, and of how they mapped out the signs of the zodiac on the star-spangled dome of the heavens:
Ethiopia and the Origin of Civilization Part 2
By John G. Jackson (1939)
Genesis 5:23 And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years
5:24 And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
Much of Biblical prophecy seems to be based on a 360 day year, but as we all know, the solar year is 365.25 days in length. Was the original calendar a solar calendar, and was the original year precisely 360 days in length. The Ethiopian inherited from Enoch.
If we notice the statement regarding the length of the months during the Noachian deluge. We read in Genesis 7:11, "in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heaven were opened" (Gen.7:11). Then we read: "At the end of one hundred fifty days the waters had abated; and in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat" (Gen.8:3-4). The Flood lasted five months, to the very day, and those five months equaled 150 days. Simple division shows us that therefore 5 months of 150 days each gives 30 days per month. Therefore, 12 months would have been precisely 360 days! each month having 30 days like that of the today's Ethiopian Enochian calandar.
The Ethiopian Enoch made a calendar of 360 days per year which is still practiced in Ethiopia. The Book of Enoch was taken to Europe by James Bruce was publicized around 1790 A.D.
The earliest known date is 4236 B.C.E., the founding of the Egyptian calendar. The ancient Egyptian calendar was lunar. The Ecnochian Ethiopian calendar, oldest in history, originated three millennia before the birth of Christ. It is believed thatImhotep, the supreme official of King Djoser C.2670 B.C. had a great impact on the construction of the calendar. Egyptians initially used a civil calendar based on a solar year that consisted of 360 days only, without making any adjustment for the additional quarter of a day each year. Each year had 12 months. The heliacal rising of Sirius coincides with the arrival of the highest point of river Nile flood at Memphis marking the first day of the year. The new year of the ancient Egyptians started on Meskerem 1 that of Nisan of Hebrews comming out of Egypt. This date is an Ethiopian new year signaling the end of Noah's flood. (The Hebrew new years also start in Meskerem. The Egyptian solar calendar consisted of 12 30-day months with five extra festival days at the end of the year.
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"Should it be asked at what epoch this system took its birth, we shall answer on the testimony of the monuments of astronomy itself, that its principles appear with certainty to have been established about seventeen thousand years ago, and if it be asked to what people it is to be attributed, we shall answer that the same monuments, supported by unanimous traditions, attribute it to the first tribes of Egypt; and reason finds in that country all the circumstances which could lead to such a system; when it finds there a zone of sky, bordering on the tropic, equally free from the rains of the equator and the fogs of the north; when it finds there a central point of the sphere of the ancients, a salubrious climate, a great but manageable river, a soil fertile without art or labor, inundated without morbid exhalations, and placed between two seas which communicate with the richest countries; it conceives that the inhabitant of the Nile, addicted to agriculture from the facility of communications, to astronomy from the state of his sky, always open to observation, must have been the first to pass from the savage to the social state; and consequently to attain the physical and moral sciences necessary to civilized life.
It was, then, on the borders of the upper Nile, among a black race of men, that was organized the complicated system of the worship of the stars, considered in relation to the productions of the earth and the labors of agriculture. … Thus the Ethiopian of Thebes named stars of inundation, or Aquarius, those stars under which the Nile began to overflow;stars of the ox or bull, those under which they began to plow, stars of the lion, those under which that animal, driven from the desert by thirst, appeared on the banks of the Nile; stars of the sheaf, or of the harvest virgin, those of the reaping season; stars of the lamb, stars of the two kids, those under which these precious animals were brought forth. Thus the same Ethiopian having observed that the return of the inundation always corresponded with the rising of a beautiful star which appeared towards the source of the Nile, and seemed to warn the husbandman against the coming waters, he compared this action to that of the animal who, by his barking, gives notice of danger, and he called this star the dog, the barker (Sirius). In the same manner he named the stars of the crab, those where the sun, having arrived at the tropic, retreated by a slow retrograde motion like the crab of Cancer. He named stars of the wild goat, or Capricorn, those where the sun, having reached the highest point in his annuary tract, … imitates the goat, who delights to climb to the summit of the rocks. He named stars of the balance, or Libra, those where the days and nights being equal, seemed in equilibrium, like that instrument; and stars of the scorpion, those where certain periodical winds bring vapors, burning like the venom of the scorpion. (Volney's Ruins of Empires, pp. 120-122, New York, 1926)
The Book of Enoch was dropped from the Jewish scriptures shortly after Christ, most likely because it apparently referred to him as the Messiah. It was quoted as scripture by the early Christian Church fathers until the middle of the third century A.D., accepted as a divine work having been written by Enoch himself.[5] It then fell into disrepute and was banned from the canon of scripture in the fourth century, partly because it didn't agree with how Christianity came to be redefined after the death of the apostles.
The book also doubtlessly raised questions with its unusual imagery, referring to things such as "the stone which supports the corners of the earth" and "the four winds, which bear up the earth" (Enoch 18:2 {18:2-3}). That may have sounded primitive to the sophisticated science of the fourth century, but that is the same imagery used by many great prophets. For example, John the Revelator states, "I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth" (Rev. 7:1; compare imagery of Isa. 11:12, Jer. 49:36, Ezek. 37:9, Dan. 7:2, Mat. 24:31). As is discussed later in this article, often what appears to be primitive science in the scriptures turns out to be the sophisticated concepts of God simplified for us. Note that the prophets have 100% chance of success when predicting the weather, so those angels may have more to do with the wind than we might suppose.
Thus, for a variety of reasons, the Book of Enoch was systematically purged from the scriptures until it became a "lost book" of the Bible. In 1773 the famous explorer James Bruce discovered it in Ethiopia (then called Abyssinia), and brought back three copies. Fortunately, the Ethiopians had kept it in their Bible, where it was located immediately after the Book of Job.
(John P. Pratt)
The Book of Enoch the Prophet is the oldest known, existing mystical document and is referred to in the Hebrew Zohar, The Epistle of St. Jude, and other ancient books. Legend dates the text to antediluvian times, saved from the flood by Noah himself, while serious scholarship places its origin in the second
century b.c.e., as old as ancient Sumeria and Babylon. Providing insight into the foundation of Christianity and the pre-Christian Gnostics, the text is perhaps most remarkable for its significant deviation from the apocryphal story that appears in the Bible. The final Christian version of the apocalypse leaves the damned on a hellish earth, while welcoming the chosen to heaven. The Book of Enoch the Prophet draws a very different picture–"upon the return of the Messiah, evil will be banished from the face of the earth, resulting in a heaven on earth.A new introduction to this edition by esoteric scholar R.A. Gilbert places the book in context, including an overview of the modern history of The Book of Enoch. It's an Indiana Jones-like story: lost for thousands of years after being banned by the early Christians, the ancient manuscript was rediscovered in the late eighteenth century. This sparked research for other fragments, which were subsequently found and together revealed the complete ancient text, first translated into English and published in 1821. "A new introduction makes this most-important non-Biblical apocryphal text accessible to modern readers. "Reveals a vision of a new age of heaven on earth that figures in esoteric and occult practices. "Banned by the Christian hierarchy and thought lost for millennia.R H Charles The Book of Enoch the Prophet
The four winds was the four magnetic forces that suspends the earth around the Sun "the stone which supports the corners of the earth" and "the four winds, which bear up the earth" (Enoch 18:2 {18:2-3}).
Immanuel Velikovsky, a phenomenal Jewish scholar and historian, and friend of Albert Einstein, wrote dramatically of this period, when Israel came out of Egypt, and stood before God Himself atMount Sinai:
"The Talmud and Midrashim describe the Mountain of the Law-giving
as quaking so greatly that it appeared as if it were lifted up and shaken
above the heads of the people; and the people felt as if they were no
longer standing securely on the ground, but were held up by some
invisible force [cf. Ginzberg, Legends, II, 92, 95]" (Worlds in Collision,
p.95).
Joshua10:11 wrote At that same time, "the sun stood still, and the moon stopped,, till the people had revenge upon their enemies" (verse 13).
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"In the tomb of Senmut, the architect of Queen Hatshepsut, a panel on the ceiling shows the celestial sphere with the signs of the Zodiac and other constellations in 'a reversed orientation' of the southern sky," says Immanuel Velikovsky (p.108)
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At that very time, according to the book of Exodus, God instituted a NEW calendar for His people! We read in Exodus 12, when God instituted the Passover celebration for His people: 'Now the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, 'This month shall be your beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you" (Exo.12:1-2).
Prior to that time, from the time of Adam and Eve and Creation, the years had been counted from fall to fall reckoning. But now God introduced a NEW calendar! In this calendar, each month began with a new moon, and the year began in the SPRING! Being a luni-solar calendar, since the new moon appears every 29.5 days, the months varied between 29 and 30 days, to adjust for the fraction of a day. The 12 month year varied from a minimum of 354 days, to a maximum of 385 days – as in a leap year when an extra month had to be inserted (seven years during every 19-year time cycle, to make the total lunar years equal to the solar years in every 19 years).
Judging from the evidence, this change was necessitated due to the change in the earth's orbit around the sun at the time of the Exodus! The earth "fell down," i.e. its orbit changed, and hasn't changed back to the original orbit since that time!
The length of the year changed from 360 days, to the modern calendar's 365.25 days, in a solar year. Apparently the orbit of the moon also changed, from a 30 day orbit to one of 29.5 days. All this caused a need to change the calendar!
"Numerous evidences are preserved which prove that prior to the year of 365 ¼ days, the year was only 360 days long" . In ancient India, "The texts of the Veda period know a year of only 360 days." Passages in which this length of year are clearly stated are found in all the Brahmanas. Those texts nowhere mention an intercalary period of five extra days which are currently part of the solar year. This Hindu year of 360 days is divided into twelve months of thirty days each. The texts describe the moon as crescent for fifteen days and waning for another fifteen days; they also say that the sun moved for six months or 180 days to the north and for the same number of days to the south" .
In their astronomical works, the Brahmans used "very ingenious geometric methods," Velikovsky states, and so their apparent "failure" to discern that the year of 360 days was 5 ¼ days too short seemed baffling to western historians. Their perplexity fails to account for the fact that the terrestrial year may have once been 360 days.
In the ancient Persian calendar, "The ancient Persian year was composed of 360 days or twelve months of thirty days each. In the seventh century [B.C.] five Gatha days were added to the calendar," Velikovsky continues (p.332).
The old Babylonian year was also 360 days. Ctesias wrote that the walls of Babylon were 360 furlongs in compass, "as many as there had been days in the year" (quoted on page 333). The Babylonians divided the heavens into 36 decans, a decan being the space the sun moved relative to the fixed stars in a 10-day period. 36 decans in a year would make a year of 360 days – no more, no less.
Historians realize that at first the Babylonians recognized a year of 360 days, "and the division of a circle into 360 degrees must have indicated the path traversed by the sun each day in its assumed circling of the earth" (Cantor, Vorlesungen uber Geschichte der Mathematik, I, 92, )
The ancient Assyrians also had a 360 day year with each month containing 30 days. Assyrian documents refer to months of 30 days each, only, and count the months from the moon's crescent to crescent. These facts all puzzle astronomers who cannot understand why all these ancient civilizations were so consistently erroneous in their calculation of the months and the year.
The ancient Mayansalso had a year of 360 days, in remote antiquity. The Mexicans, at the time of the conquest, called a thirty-day period a moon, even though they knew that the moon's synodical period is 29.5209 days. Their calculations were even more accurate than the Gregorian calendar. "Obviously, they adhered to an old tradition dating from the time when the year had twelve months of thirty days each, 360 days in all" (p.339).
The ancient China the people had a year divided into twelve months of 30 days each, comprising a 360 day year. "A relic of the system of 360 days is the still persisting division of the sphere into 360 degrees; each degree represented the diurnal advance of the earth on its orbit, or that portion of the zodiac which was passed over from one night to the next. After 360 changes the stellar sky returned to the same position for the observer on the earth" . After the year changed from 360 days to 365 ¼, the Chinese added 5 ¼ days to their year Like that of the the Enochaian Ethiopian Caledar of today 5 and 6 days each lip year. Suffice it to say, the 360 day year is well attested to in ancient history.
The 360-day usage in calculating Biblical prophecy, therefore, seems to be a carry-over from the ancient world and its times and seasons, prior to the shift and alteration in the calendar which occurred during the time of Moses and the Exodus.
Why did the world and the Jews use solar months instead of lunar months prior to the Exodus? Hints that this was so are indicated in the books of Jubilees and Enoch, extra-canonical ancient Jewish literature.
As Dr. Velikovsky demonstrates, great changes occurred in the cosmos at the time of the Exodus, which necessitated a change. If the original solar calendar was a 360-day calendar, with 30 day lunar months, then it would be true that "Adam [also] used lunar months and that this continued throughout the time of the patriarchs," as Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer says. Declares aish.com, "However, as we have shown, there are many sources that say that solar months were used before the Exodus" (ibid.). How could this have been true if the solar year differed from the lunar year? Such a practice would have caused disruption in the months and annual holy days. The book of Jubilees shows that the annual holy days, which depend on the new moons, were observed during the times of Noah, Abraham, and the patriarchs!
The Bible itself uses the 360 day year in calculating the "prophetic years" in prophecy. A 360-day year is called a "prophetic year" by students of Bible prophecy.
As many Scriptural commentators have pointed out years ago, a "time" equals a "year" in prophetic fulfillment. In the book of Revelation, we find "the woman" – a reference to the Church of God – is to be protected "in the wilderness" for "1260 days" (Rev.12:6). Later on in the same chapter, we read that the woman is to be protected in the wilderness for "a time, times, and half a time" – three and one half "times" (Rev.12:14). Thus 1260 days equals 3 ½ times. Simple division shows us that dividing 1260 days by 3 ½, gives us 360 days in a "time." This implies that a "year" in prophecy calculations refers to a period of 360 days – yet the real year today is 365.25 days in length. Why this anomaly? This seems very strange. What mystery lies at the root of this question?
Why, then, does the Bible use the 360-day calendar, where 1260 days equals 3 ½ years (Rev.12:6, 14), which also equals 42 months (Rev.13:5)? The Bible speaks of no other year existing before the 360 day calendar of the Flood (derived from 5 months equaling 150 days, or 30 days per month, as in the 360-day year).
My own belief is that the 360 day year is the "original" year, which existed from Adam to the Flood and possibly to the Exodus, when God instituted a NEW calendar (Exo.12:1), due to phenomenal changes in the earth's orbit caused by the awesome plagues which fell upon Egypt at the Exodus – when many miracles occurred, and God Himself came down to Mount Sinai. This original calendar will be re-instituted when the Messiah returns and "restores all things." The knowledge of this original 360-day "year" was preserved and used in the prophetic writings, as a reminder that it is important and ought to be remembered. So we use it as the "idealized" year when calculating prophecies, and ignore the fractions and complexities of the temporary "present" Roman calendar.
A "prophetic year" contains 360 days, apparently based on the fact that the original "year" was 360 days in length. Evidence that the year was once 360 days in length is found in many places, as we have seen.
The Mayan Calendar
Like the ancient calender of Noah's time, the Mayan calendar also has 360 days in a year. It also dates to a time before the Noachian deluge.
According to the Mayan calendar, we are now living in the Mayan "end times." The Great Cycle of the Mayan Long Count calendar ends at the winter solstice in 2012 A.D., less than eight years from now.
In Mayan mythology, the winter solstice sun corresponds to the deity known as One Hunahpu, or "First Father." The dark rift of the Milky Way, in Mayan cosmology, is known as the "Black Road," the mouth of the Cosmic Monster, and the birth canal of the Cosmic Mother.
The Mayan calendar has a Great Cycle, ending 13 "bactuns" or a period of 5,125 years. To the ancient Mayans, this conjunction of the sun and Milky Way center or mid-point will occur on the winter solstice, December 21, in 2012 A.D. This date represents a major transition point, the creation of a new World Age.
The Mayan Long Count calendar is strikingly different from the Roman calendar, or any other for that matter. A "month" is 20 days, and 18 months is a year of 360 days. Twenty 360 day years comprise a "katun," and a "baktun" is 20 katun, equaling 144,000 days.
The number 144,000 is very interesting, as it is the number of the "firstfruits" redeemed to God at the coming of the Messiah (Rev.14:1-4).
Authorities agree that the Mayan Long Count calendar began August 11, 3114 B.C. (Gregorian calendar). Why it begins at this date is anybody's guess. This would have been during the life of the prophet Enoch, who was born in 3545 B.C. He lived for 365 years before he "was taken," in 3180 B.C. Methuselah was born in 3480 B.C. and lived for 969 years. So the Mayan calendar begins 76 years after Enoch disappeared (was taken to a place of safety from his many enemies), and 376 years after Methuselah was born.
The present Great Age of the Mayas, the fifth, is believed to have been initiated by the famous Quetzalcoatl in 3,113 B.C. Who was this figure? Could it have been no less than Enoch the prophet, himself?
Quetzalcoatl was the "plumed serpent" of the Aztec mythology, the "god" of learning and of the priesthood. He was an ancient ruler who was subsequently deified and identified with the planet Venus – the morning and evening star – and as a "god" of vegetation. He was a benign figure, a teacher, and his name became the title for Mexican high priests. The name became frequent in early Mexican history, like Roosevelt or Adams. There are many traditions about his arrival, and departure. He taught the way of peace. He was noted as "the bringer of civilization and good ways of life, who was frequently locked in conflict with gods of evil" (The Indian Heritage of America, Alvin M. Josephy, Jr., p.201). Aztec legends say he sailed across the sea, but would one day return.
The patriarch Enoch was also a priestly figure before the Flood, and a man of vast learning and understanding.
Immanuel Velikovsky points out that during the time of Quetzalcoatl, according to ancient Mexican records, many people died, that "the sun refused to show itself and during four days the world was deprived of light" (quoting Brasseur; see Worlds in Collision, page 157). At that time, according to legends from Polynesian peoples, "the earth was battered by countless fragments," says Velikovsky (p.160).
During that time the sequence of seasons and the duration of days and nights became disarranged.
Says Velikovsky, "When Quetzal-cohuatl, the lawgiver of the Toltecs, disappeared on the approach of a great catastrophe and the Morning Star that bore the same name rose for the first time in the sky, the Toltecs 'regulated the reckoning of the days, the nights, and the hours according to the difference in time'" (p.177). Thus when the original Quetzal-cohuatl lived there was a great catastrophe on the earth.
Could this be why God "took" Enoch, and he "was not found"? (Gen.5:24). God "took" him to a place of safety, to protect him from the oncoming cataclysm, which was brought about during his time by the wickedness of mankind! Likewise, God promises to protect His faithful servants during this present age who are zealous for Him and loyal to His truth (Rev.3:10; Luke 21:36; Rev.12:14-17).
In Mayan chronology, 3,113 B.C. is written as 13.0.0.0.0. When the cycle or age is complete, in December 2012 A.D., the date will once again be written 13.0.0.0.0 – a complete cycle of 13 baktuns. That date will also complete the end of a katun cycle (of 20 years). The last katun of this Age began in 1992 and will finish in 2012. The Mayan "glyph" of this katun is "storm" followed by "sun" – a period of darkness, followed by one of light.
Note that in esoteric tradition, the number "13" represents Christ, the Messiah! There were twelve disciples; Jesus as the Christ was "13." The number "13" also denotes superabundance – the "baker's dozen."
Is there any significance to this? The Mayan calendar is obviously pre-Flood because it is based on a 360-day year which was pre-Flood. Enoch was a scribe of the Lord, who wrote the book of Enoch, which contains much celestial and calendrical material, as well as prophetic warnings and exhortations. It may well be that the Mayan calendar was originally inspired and contains material going back to the pre-Flood patriarchs.
The Long Count calendar began in 3114 B.C. – during the time of Enoch – and its termination date is 2012 A.D., when the cycle will be completed, and a new cycle begins. This fact certainly seems to be significant when weighed with all the Biblical evidence regarding the prophecies of the "End of Days."
The origins of the Mayan calendar are obscured by the mists of time. The Mayas themselves were adept skywatchers. Their classical period is thought to be from 200-900 A.D. However, large ruins with Mayan features have been found dating back to before the time of Christ, before the present era began. The Mayans attributed the origin of their incredibly complex calendar system to a people who existed before them, whose origin was lost in the dim past.
Researchers believe that the Mayan calendar actually hinges upon its calculated end point. What is so important about the winter solstice of 2012? The Milky Way seems to have played an important part in Mayan mythology. The Mayan Sacred Tree appears to be the crossing point of the sun's path, the ecliptic, with the Milky Way. The conjunction of the sun with the Milky Way at the winter solstice in 2012 A.D. appears to have had apocalyptic significance. The crossing of the Milky Way with the ecliptic represents a doorway – pointing both to the sacred source and origin – the finishing of the old and the beginning of a new birth. Thus the world, in 2012, is pictured as being at a celestial "crossroads."
To the Mesoamerican Mayas, the approach of the end of a World Age – the time when the winter solstice "Doorway" opened up the Sacred Tree to the Center of the Milky Way and the Heart of the Sky – was a very significant and epochal time. The Mayan Long Count was also known to the Yucatan Maya as a "prophecy cycle."
Students of the Mayan calendar see this as confirmation that we are indeed living in the twilight of this present age and approaching the beginning of a New Age – the end of one prophetic cycle and the beginning of a new cycle. The Mayans stated that "time would collapse" at the end of their calendar cycle.
The "collapsing of time" is a mysterious phrase. How would time itself "collapse"? This could refer to ANOTHER GREAT CHANGE IN THE CALENDAR ITSELF!
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Speculation is high as the Verge (XVG) community awaits the announcement on the long awaited partnership. The cryptocurrency has had a price surge since this news hit the market; so far the coin's price has increased by 180% in the last month. We can agree that that is quite an impressive figure for an altcoin that is currently placed 21st in market capitalization.
It started with a crowdfunding in March 2018 that had been organized by Verge (XVG) in which they had a target of 75 million Verge coins. Surprisingly investors' were keen on this project and the target has since been surpassed, this has been a good trajectory for the XVG long term growth. As a result the Verge (XVG) team promised to announce a significant partnership on April 17th keeping its holders in a high mood of speculation.
A couple of crypto experts and analysts believe that this coin has been successful in beating the bearish odds in the current crypto market. Therefore there is reason to believe the Verge will be a fundamental crypto in the age of digital currencies given the good momentum at the moment. Many crypto enthusiasts are hopeful that once price correction and scam projects are eliminated, Verge (XVG) will be among the altcoins trading at the above $1 mark comfortably.
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Texas Court Denies Defendant's Appeal in Child Pornography Case, Despite Argument Regarding Constitutional Right to Privacy
In a recent case coming out of a Texas court, the defendant appealed his conviction for possession of child pornography. On appeal, the defendant argued that the trial court made a mistake when it denied his motion to suppress incriminating evidence found on his cell phone. According to the defendant, the police officers' search of his phone was an unconstitutional invasion of his privacy, and the evidence should not have been allowed to come into his trial. The court reviewed the facts of the case and ultimately disagreed with the defendant, denying his appeal in the process.
According to the opinion, a police officer that had previously interacted with the defendant in this case secured a search warrant for the defendant's cell phone in July 2016. The officer had been undercover in a chat room when the defendant sent a message saying that he had cocaine to sell and that he was looking for a buyer. The defendant also wrote that if any of his buyers tried to call the police on him, he would shoot them in retaliation.
The officer carried out a drug-buy bust of the defendant, securing the defendant's phone in the process. The officer then requested a warrant through the court system, explaining that he thought the phone could provide evidence of additional criminal activity. The officer's warrant was granted, and upon a search of the phone, the officer found child pornography. The officer then requested a second warrant to specifically investigate evidence of the pornography on the phone. Once that second search warrant was executed, police confirmed their suspicions and the defendant was charged accordingly.
At trial, the defendant was found guilty of three counts of child pornography.
On appeal, the defendant argued that the trial court should not have denied his motion when he asked them to suppress the evidence found on his phone. According to the defendant, the initial search warrant was too broad, and the officer had too much discretion to search the private contents of his cell phone. It was against his constitutional right to privacy, said the defendant, that the officer was able to see everything inside of the phone and use the incriminating evidence against him in court.
The court considered the defendant's argument but ultimately disagreed with him. The warrant was not overbroad, given the fact that it pointed specifically to the defendant's previous threats and messages regarding cocaine as evidence of criminal activity. Because the warrant mentioned these facts, the judge rightfully granted it, and the officer was within his rights to search the defendant's cell phone. Thus, said the court, the trial court's decision was within its bounds and the defendant's appeal should be denied.
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Deborah Quazzo joins the Remind Board of Directors
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Remind, a leading K-12 communication platform, announced today that Deborah Quazzo has joined the company's Board of Directors. As managing partner at venture capital firm GSV Acceleration, Quazzo brings more than 20 years of experience in the education sector to Remind, including a term on the Chicago Board of Education. "We're excited for Deborah to bring a ground-up perspective along with a thoughtful, high-level view of the sector," said Remind CEO Brian Grey. "Her background as an investor and adviser in education will be invaluable as Remind continues to gain traction in schools and districts." Remind, which is currently used in over 90 percent of public school districts in the United States, introduced a paid product for schools and districts earlier this year. "I've been very impressed by how Remind has leveraged the network effects of K-12 penetration into a district sales model," Quazzo said. "But I was also delighted to see the passion that educators have for the product. It's an offering that makes a teacher's day more efficient, streamlines their communication, and provides more instructional time—that's an important impact." One of the few female board directors in education technology, Quazzo also believes strongly in the value of diverse decision-making bodies. "Better decisions come from a diversity of views," she said. "It changes the breadth and tenor of conversations and helps identify blind spots that you can't see with a more homogenous group." To Quazzo, this perspective is especially important in the education sector. "When you're building and selling a product into the K-12 system, which consists of extremely diverse groups of students, educators, and administrators, it's important to understand different communities and needs," she said. "And I think Remind is well-positioned to continue making a big difference."


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Moorland Guides was created in 2012 by the former guides of the Dartmoor National Park volunteer guides service as a small co-operative sort of group comprising existing and qualified guides who, for many years, have been working with the Dartmoor National Park Authority in providing and leading guided walks and also supporting the educational programme by guiding school groups from both this country and abroad. During the run-up to 2012 and the austerity measures imposed by central government, many organisations have had to review their work and rationalise their manpower and services. The Dartmoor National Park Authority has not been immune from that challenging situation and had to make some very difficult decisions to move forward into a future with a much reduced income. One of the various ways identified to reduce expenditure by the Authority was to look closely at the provision of the guided walk service. To that end, on 1st April 2012 the Authority stopped providing the existing public guided walks programme and also relinquished the international student guided walks involvement, thus handing that engagement over to Moorland Guides.
The Park Authority will be retaining responsibility for the educational walks service for UK schools and colleges and nothing changes there. This gave a great opportunity for the guides themselves to look at the guided walk programme and take it forward as a private entity. It gives us the chance to really expand the variety of walks available and to listen to our clients and customers and provide a new and innovative programme of walks aimed at all abilities and groups. Many of the guides (who had previously been engaged in the work of the Dartmoor National Park Authority) have now become self employed, freelancing to Moorland Guides a small group being run and administered by one of the guides – Simon DELL. We will also take on the international student guiding as well as providing voluntary guides to the National Park to help with their retained responsibility of leading guided walks and educational visits for UK schools, which is what we have done for years.
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Tony Burges
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Richard Ware
Richard moved to Tavistock in 1985 from the wilds of North Cornwall and immediately started exploring Dartmoor. The remoter the…
Richard Gooding
Hi, my name is Richard Gooding and I am both a Moorland Guide and a Dartmoor National Park Guide. I…
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Peter Glanville
Peter was born in Tavistock and has walked Dartmoor and the local area extensively from a young age – an…
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Peter Challiss is a qualified Mountain Leader since 2002 and this qualification enables him to lead groups over all the…
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Paul Rendell, also known as 'Dartmoor Paul', was born in Plymouth and became enthusiastic about Dartmoor from an early age…
Nigel Grist
Nigel Grist is a biologist by training specialising at university in moorland ecology and marine studies. A further research period…
Mike Rose
Mike retired from the police service in 2012 and lived in Princetown for many years. He has a long connection…
Mike Jeffery
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This was the last month of year and I came in under my monthly goal again. Due to a combination of not being able to find anything I was really passionate about reading coupled with the general end of year activities that can either limit or increase how much a person reads. I was in the former category this year and read less over the break.
Another Brandon Sanderson book which is actually made of up three novellas. I thought Legion was pretty interesting. The main character has a sort of multiple personality disorder that manifests itself as different characters which was interesting and added mystery to the stories. These novellas were pretty short so I'm just counting all of them together since that's how I read them. I was pretty pleased with the trilogy though I don't think it would be a universe I would be interested in reading more about as what I read was just right for me.
This was an divisive book by Bill Bryson for me. It's basically a narrative of him hiking parts of the Appalachian Trail. I enjoyed the parts of the book talking about his journey along the trail but found other portions to be somewhat lackluster. While the journey is interesting he goes off the rails all the time with various tidbits of information about various people, places, and other tangentially related quips. If he had stuck to just his time on the trail the book would have been at least 50% shorter I imagine. So while I found the book to be pretty good there were parts that definitely dragged I could easily have done without.
An older cyberpunk style book that imagines what our future might look like, I thought I'd give this a chance. Sadly I hated the main character and found the world to be a bit underwhelming. A lot of this is due to the impact Neuromancer had on works that came after it but it just didn't impress me and I only read for about an hour before getting bored, putting it down, and never coming back to it. If you really want to journey back to a book that inspired future works it's worth taking a look at with the understanding it will be somewhat limited. Otherwise I would skip Neuromancer.
This is the third book in Sylvain Neuvel's trilogy and I barely made it through 1/4 of the audio book before giving up. The previous two were pretty good but there's so much focus on humanity in this one it's not very interesting. On top of that many of the new characters introduced as well as some of the existing characters are annoying, whiny, and downright boring to hear about. I really wish I could say that I finished this since I invested time into the other two books but I just couldn't. I ended up reading a plot synopsis and it made me even happier that I didn't spend more time on this one. Very underwhelming and very disappointing. The things we don't care about get too much attention, and the things we are actually interested in after the last book are almost completely ignored.


Every now and again, NASCAR driver Jamie McMurray will be scrolling through his Twitter feed and his eyes will light up.
"It's one of my favorite things," McMurray said of old photos people post on the social media network of his days racing on Ozarks short tracks.
The Joplin native, now 39 and a 14-year NASCAR Sprint Cup veteran, rarely gets back to the Ozarks these days. But during a stopover at a west Springfield McDonald's on Thursday, en route to this weekend's race at Kansas Speedway, McMurray reminisced.
Seeing several old friends, smiles and hugs were frequent. Those were good times, back in the 1990s, when he broke into professional racing doing the weekly Friday-Saturday swing at Bolivar Speedway and Lebanon I-44 Speedway.
Driving his No. 15 car and racing against the familiar No. 75 of Phillips, the short-track legend and NASCAR Hall of Fame nominee from Springfield who died in 2002, still registers as a career highlight.
"When I think of coming back here, I think of Larry," McMurray said. "I think 1997 was my first year of running a late model and getting to race against him. I had watched him for those years that I ran my modified and he won every, single night it seemed like."
That early success, which included winning an I-44 Speedway track championship in 1998, helped launch McMurray to stock-car racing's big leagues. After brief stints in the Truck and Xfinity Series, he won a Cup race in 2002 and has been full time ever since.
Among seven career Cup victories are two majors, the Daytona 500 and Brickyard 400, both in 2010. He has $65.7 million in career winnings in the sport's top division.
This has been one of his best seasons, even though he's yet to win. McMurray qualified for the Chase for the Championship for the first time and, despite being eliminated after the race at Dover two weeks ago, remains eligible for fifth in the season standings.
"I wasn't that disappointed after Dover," McMurray said. "We ran really well in that race and it was a good points day, leading toward the top five. The truth is, we were 10th in points most of the year and we were going to have to have a little bit of luck to make it to (the final) at Homestead.
"But we had another good run. We've been super consistent."
No matter where he finishes, McMurray said winning a race is a priority. He's optimistic about his chances at Sunday's Hollywood Casino 400 at Kansas Speedway, where a lot of old friends will be cheering him.
"You race for a win every weekend," McMurray said. "It doesn't matter whether you're in the Chase or eliminated, you still want to win. That's what we'll try to do."
"If you were to ask any of the guys this weekend their feeling on the rules package, that's what everybody wanted. My gut tells me what we hope can happen as drivers and teams is we can take even more downforce off the cars for (2017). This is a pretty big step. They took about 1,000 pounds of downforce off the cars and we have about 3,000 pounds total. The goal is to get another 1,000 off. By doing that it allows Goodyear to build a little softer tire, that has a little more give-up. We feel as a group that'll create more passing and better racing for fans watching."


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The Future of Ironing Is Here and You Don't Have to Do a Thing
Effie is a robotic ironing machine that can iron up to 12 shirts at a time and can handle a range of common materials.
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Are you one of many that panic on Sundays thinking about what you'll wear to work on Monday? Do you wear a sweater over your shirt to cover up the fact you ran out of time to iron? This new ironing machine wants to give your Sunday evenings back. The automatic ironing machine can handle 12 items of clothing at a time and uses a combination of heat and steam to get the job done. There is no setup or programming to do, you simply rack up your clothes and press go.
The clever invention even syncs to your phone to tell you when your clothes are ready. Effie can iron shirts, trousers, t-shirts, blouses, short dresses, bedsheets, towels, pillowcases and more. It can even be used to dry your socks, underwear and other small items. Effie can handle almost all materials and only takes six minutes to iron and dry an item of clothing. Unlike traditional ironing that can burn or singe clothes, Effie uses low heat combined with steam and doesn't make any contact with materials.
The time-saving device was invented by two entrepreneurs that hated ironing. After hours of design and several prototypes, the duo is ready to launch Effie into the world. They expect the first model to be available for pre-order in March 2018 and cost £699 (about US$913). Sign up to their mailing list to be among the first to own the future of ironing.
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What's next for Cuba and its people after the death of Fidel Castro? It's a question that's being considered in world capitals to the cafes of Havana and Miami. For more, we spoke with Dr. Elise Andaya in the Department of Anthropology at the University at Albany. Andaya has spent a good deal of time doing research in Cuba. She says the Castro era actually ended a decade ago, when Fidel handed power off to his brother.
Today's panelists are WAMC's Alan Chartock, Director of the Journalism Program at the University at Albany Rosemary Armao, and political consultant and lobbyist, Libby Post.
President Obama brought some representatives from our area along with him to Cuba.
In today's Congressional Corner, Vermont representative Peter tells WAMC's Alan Chartock about the experience.


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Pierre Cahuzac (3 July 1927 – 31 August 2003) was a French football player and manager who played as a midfielder. As a manager, he led SC Bastia to the 1978 UEFA Cup Final.

His grandson Yannick Cahuzac is a professional footballer.

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Astrophysicists have discovered an oxygen-rich white dwarf star, something nobody has ever seen before, even though its existence had been theorized.
The discovery could challenge the textbook wisdom of single stellar (star) evolution, and provide a crucial link to some types of supernovae discovered over the past ten years.
White dwarf stars are what stars like our Sun become after all their nuclear fuel has been exhausted. Close to the end of its nuclear burning stage, this type of star expels most of its outer material, creating a planetary nebula, with only the hot core of the star remaining.
They are less than ten times the mass of our Sun, which in the world of stars is relatively small – however, they are extremely dense.
The intense gravity that exists under such density causes the lighter elements, such as helium or hydrogen, to rise to the surface of the star, smothering and masking the heavier elements below.
While gathering and analyzing data from the SDSS (Sloan Digital Sky Survey), Gustavo Ourique and Souza Oliveira Kepler, from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil, and Detlev Koester, from Kiel University in Germany, wrote in the journal Science (citation below) that they identified SDSS J124043.01+671034.68, a white dwarf with all its outer layer of light elements stripped away, revealing an almost pure layer of oxygen.
A number of theories have predicted that a white dwarf's outer layer could be stripped. This is the first evidence confirming this phenomenon.
It is possible that interactions with a nearby companion in a binary star caused J124043.01+671034.68 to reveal its oxygen envelope.
Scientists suggest that perhaps a massive pulse of burning carbon from the star's centre, emulating outwards, eliminated all the lighter elements.
In a Perspective (separate article) also in Science (citation below), Boris Gänsicke, from the Department of Physics at the University of Warwick in England, explains that most stars in our Universe are in the process of burning hydrogen into helium via nuclear fusion deep down within their cores.
This process powers their luminosity and provides the thermal pressure that prevents them from collapsing under their own weight.
When the nuclear fuel runs out stars end their lives. At this point they either explode in a supernova, or shed most of their mass and leave behind a white dwarf. The second possibility is more common.
1. "A white dwarf with an oxygen atmosphere," S. O. Kepler, Detlev Koester and Gustavo Ourique. Science, Vol. 352, Issue 6281, pp. 67-69. 1 April 2016. DOI: 10.1126/science.aad6705.
2. "An odd one out," Boris Gänsicke. Science, Vol. 352, Issue 6281, pp. 37. 1 April 2016. DOI: 10.1126/science.aaf3768.


We made several trial uses of the Search and Rescue Hook in different settings.
Using a lifeline is not a standard evolution during our searches, but it does have practicality in R.I.T. situations and special circumstances.
We tried using the hook in a variety of situations and it was successful on door hinges and the perforated metal wall studs. It held firmly and was reliable. It was also quickly attched and hooked into. In a commercial or other large area, there may be nothing to attach it to, however.
All the guys trying it felt that it is easy and convenient to deploy, yet limited in where it can be used. Overall, we liked using the hook when we could.
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Dan and Ian know that all entrepreneurs struggle with hiring and, specifically, finding great remote team members.
But one thing that they have learned over the years, through listeners of this podcast and members of the Dynamite Circle, is that stay-at-home moms (and dads too) tend to be a really good fit for location independent businesses. So, in this week's episode, you'll hear the stories of three women.
Kiri Masters is the founder of Bobsled Marketing. She shares some of her experiences of finding great remote staff, and why that strategy includes seeking stay-at-home parents.
Louise Gray is one one of Kiri's remote employees. She previously had a successful corporate career, in publishing and then at Sony, before having a baby made her reconsider the way she wanted to work.
Lesley Pyle is the founder of HireMyMom, a well-established agency that helps match U.S. based stay-at-home moms with the businesses that need them.
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Q: check if user inputted values exist in database then redirect to page I am very new to PHP and MySQL, so I don't know where to start and need some guidance.
I am looking to create a simple page where the viewer can enter their last name and a receipt number and if the value exists in a MySQL database, I want it to redirect to a specific page. If not, then it can show a normal error message.
How do I start coding something like this?

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Willie Walsh will step down as Chief Executive of International Airlines Group on Tuesday 8 September.
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This is not how the script was written.
Willie Walsh was supposed to retire as Chief Executive of International Airlines Group in March of this year.
He would have been able to claim that he had proved the doubters wrong. In ten years, IAG had become a highly profitable model of airline consolidation and "rational" disciplined financial investment. Not only that, it consistently paid dividends to shareholders. IAG was about to pull off a "transformational" deal through the acquisition of Air Europa that would turn Madrid into a major aviation hub to rival Amsterdam and Frankfurt.
COVID-19 put paid to that.
On Tuesday 8 September, as Willie Walsh steps down as Chief Executive handing over to Luis Gallego, its shareholders will be asked to contribute €2.7 billion through a rights issue.
It brings to an end 15 years of leadership of BA and IAG. Like much of his tenure, the final months have been dogged with criticism from trade unions, MPs and staff.
Willie Walsh, who has no time for "noise", insists that he is right and that taking on considerably more debt instead of pursuing painful structural change, as Air France-KLM and Lutfhansa have primarily done, will only store up problems for the future.
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Willie Walsh joined BA as CEO in 2005, having previously occupied the same role at Aer Lingus.
He joined Aer Lingus as a pilot in 1979 and subsequently became a representative for its pilots union. Having been described by Aer Lingus management as a "really terrible bastard to deal with" he was invited to transfer to the other side of the negotiating table.
Willie's style was a sharp contrast to his more emollient predecessor at BA, Rod Eddington.
Whilst Rod Eddington had overseen reform at BA, particularly post 11 September 2001, he was viewed by industry commentators as having avoided confrontation with trade unions and dodged the most difficult tasks.
Working practices at London Heathrow, which were no model of efficiency, had to be reformed ahead of the airline's move to Terminal 5 in 2008.
Immediately before Willie's arrival, there had been wildcat industrial action by BA ground staff at Heathrow, the third consecutive summer of industrial relations tensions. The Economist even speculated that BA's move to Terminal 5 could be the aviation equivalent of the Wapping dispute of the 1980s when Rupert Murdoch took on the print unions.
There was also the issue of BA's escalating pension deficit, which had resulted in an empty aircraft order book to replace the fleet of 57 Boeing 747-400 aircraft.
In both cases, doubters were proved wrong and the issues were largely resolved behind closed doors.
There were still volatile times. Willie Walsh stood in the early hours of the morning of the opening of Terminal 5 to greet passengers arriving on the first flight from Hong Kong, seemingly unaware of the chaos about to ensue. There were questions as to whether Willie should pay the price. Afterwards, Willie was candid in accepting that BA should not have allowed delays in the terminal's construction to truncate testing before opening.
The restructuring of BA's Heathrow cabin crew fleets the next year led to at protracted and, at times, unedifying, conflict.
Willie Walsh left BA in early 2011 to take up the role of Chief Executive of IAG, formed as a "brand agnostic" parent of BA and Iberia, something Willie has always regarded as unique and his creation.
However, as is evident in IAG and BA's response to COVID-19, Willie left making it clear he thought his restructuring of BA was unfinished business.
Whilst IAG has proved many sceptics wrong, there have been mis-steps. It wasn't until that long ago that Willie was convinced that BA did not need to change its "yin-yang" layout in Club World due to its space efficiency. BA would have been spared a lot of criticism had introduced an entirely new business class seat with the Airbus A380 and Boeing 787 in 2013. BA's high profile IT failures pointed to a lack of investment which has been addressed with a higher profile for IAG's Chief Information Officer.
It was until only recently that IAG appears to have taken a look at the relative positioning of its brands in the market. Talk of "stretching" the BA brand a few years ago has been reversed. Staff engagement measures are also conspicuously absent from any IAG investor presentations.
Having led Aer Lingus immediately after the events of 11 September 2001 (and seen Ryanair's blockbuster Boeing 737 aircraft order with a degree of envy) and BA during the 2008 financial crisis, Willie had always maintained that airlines must prepare themselves in the good times to withstand industry down turns.
How do you judge Willie Walsh's tenure at BA and IAG?
Well, what would be the counter factual? Would the BA of 10 or 20 years ago survived COVID-19 without bespoke state support? Absolutely not.
Whilst IAG is better placed than most airline groups to withstand COVID-19, it remains to be seen whether it will be able to rely solely on self-help measures, let alone pull off a "transformational" deal it has always wanted to do in a downturn.
If IAG has to seek bespoke support from national governments this may fundamentally compromise IAG's governance and structure. Should COVID-19 continue to severely impact airlines well into 2021 we may see the European governments take a more active role in the industry and much of the consolidation of the past two decades reversed.
"Everything you hear from me is true, unlike most of my colleagues in the airline industry."
"I take comfort from the fact that John Holland-Kaye [CEO, Heathrow] is upset with the comments that I've made. I'll quote Oscar Wilde that whenever people agree with me, I always think I'm wrong, but the fact that they're disagreeing with me means I'm right."
On BA's failure to merge with KLM:
"I believe the deal that BA should have done and I believe had I been involved would have done was KLM. You know, and that deal didn't happen. I regret it and I think had KLM and BA got together that would have been a fantastic development."
The infamous "show me the money" quote at IAG's Capital Markets Day in 2015:
"Somebody asked me during the break there you know did I really give a speech around 'show me the money' in a tapas bar in Madrid. And I have to say I was insulted because those of you that know me if you can picture me in the tapas bar with a glass of wine in my hand, I didn't say show me the money. I said show me the (expletive) money. "
On buying minority stakes in airlines:
"If you cannot get control or influence, then you are like Etihad. You think you have control, they take your money, they spend it and then they tell you to get lost."
On Flybe in February 2020:
"I can have no sympathy for the likes of Flybe, you know, in an environment like this. You know, that's a business model that doesn't work with shareholders that have suddenly cottoned on that they've bought a dog."
On Sir Richard Branson:
"I don't like the guy — I don't mind saying that. He's never impressed me."
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