International healthcare operator Mediclinic is lobbying the Abu Dhabi government to rethink a change in medical insurance rules that has damaged its business after it bet big on acquiring Al Noor Hospitals, its regional CEO told Reuters.
At least two other healthcare companies operating in Abu Dhabi are also in talks with authorities, seeking a reversal or amendment to the reform that reduces state insurance coverage for citizens using private hospitals, according to two industry sources who declined to be named due to the sensitivity of the matter.
Abu Dhabi has cut insurance coverage under its Thiqa plan to 80 percent from 100 percent, meaning patients have to pay 20 percent of bills if they seek treatment at private hospitals.
The rule, which does not apply to government hospitals, was introduced last July - at the worst possible time for Mediclinic as it had just bought Abu Dhabi private hospital group Al Noor for about $1.7 billion.
The London and Johannesburg-listed company's experience illustrates the business risks in the Gulf's oil-exporting countries as low crude prices dampen economies and strain state finances.
The firm has begun lobbying the state Health Authority of Abu Dhabi over the Thiqa change, David Hadley, chief executive of Mediclinic Middle East, told Reuters in an interview.
"Other providers have done the same," said Hadley, adding that the reform had channelled patients to government hospitals.
"We don't have a problem with the policy on co-payments as long as it applies to the entire industry."
One of the industry sources said that although authorities did not want to be seen as giving in to pressure in any way, the policy might be adjusted again around the end of this year - partly because reduced Thiqa coverage had led to higher costs at state hospitals, hitting the government's budget.
The Health Authority of Abu Dhabi did not respond to requests for comment about the private sector's discontent with the Thiqa change or whether it planned to scrap the reform or extend it to all hospitals.
It has previously said that the rule change would contribute to its efforts to increase efficiency, standardise operations and increase the sector's financial viability for the benefit of patients and the healthcare system as a whole.
By many measures, the Gulf is an attractive destination for foreign healthcare providers; incomes are high and growing populations are burdened with some of the world's highest levels of lifestyle diseases, such as diabetes.
Encouraged by such trends, Mediclinic, which has 73 hospitals and 43 clinics across South Africa, Namibia, Switzerland and the UAE, bought Al Noor last year. But since the Thiqa change, Al Noor's in-patient volumes have dropped 38 percent and out-patient volumes by 43 percent, Hadley said.
To compound Mediclinic's problems, at around the same time as the reform, competition intensified in Abu Dhabi with three new players entering the sector, while thousands of expatriates and their families left because of job losses in a slowing economy. Also, 147 doctors out of 600 left Al Noor, many to join new hospitals in the area, and new doctors had to be hired. "We were hit by a multitude of headwinds. I think it was the timing - we couldn't have predicted. It is going to be a challenging year," said Hadley.
Mediclinic's London-listed shares have dropped 8 percent since the company issued a profit warning for its Middle East business last week.
While timing played its part, other factors might also have contributed to the company's struggles in the region, however.
"In the long-term it will probably be clear that Mediclinic overpaid for the Al Noor acquisition," said Neil Brown, analyst at Electus, a South Africa-based fund manager.
"However, at these Mediclinic share price levels of 120 rand, which are now around 40 percent lower than mid-2016 when the above-mentioned rules changed in Abu Dhabi, we believe that Mediclinic is attractively priced for longer-term investors."
Mediclinic has not diversified across the region as broadly as some rivals to share out its risk.
Its stock performance stands in stark contrast to rival NMC Health, which has seen its shares rise almost 13 percent year-to-date, according to Thomson Reuters data.
NMC, one of the oldest healthcare players in Abu Dhabi, has operations in seven emirates of the UAE as well as Saudi Arabia and Qatar, while Mediclinic has operations in just Abu Dhabi and Dubai.
Also, some rival companies say they disagree that the Thiqa change is negative for the private sector.
"It is a measure to manage over-utilisation and over-diagnosis. When coverage is free, no one cares," said Prasanth Manghat, deputy CEO of NMC Health.
Shamsheer Vayalil, managing director of VPS Healthcare, said: "Unnecessary medical visits have stopped since the new policy took effect. There was a need for a correction."
Mediclinic aims to complete the Al Noor integration and rebranding by the end of this year. A total of 432 jobs at Al Noor were cut in 2016 with another 511 to go in the next few months, said Hadley. Of the planned lay-offs, 183 jobs relate to the closure of small facilities and clinics, including one in Oman which was uneconomic, he said.


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PM Browne rejects idea of LIAT's closure
April 24, 2019 in Regional
Antigua and Barbuda's Prime Minister Gaston Browne says his government will never allow LIAT to go under because of the financial challenges it is currently facing.
He was responding to a recent statement by the chairman of LIAT's shareholder governments – Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves of St. Vincent and the Grenadines – that the lack of financial input from some regional countries served by the airline could bring about its imminent closure.
"Even if the payments were not made, they will be made," Browne said of Antigua and Barbuda's contribution.
Gonsalves, over the weekend, stated that most of the countries served by the airline were not responding favorably to the carrier's request for a US $5.4 million injection to ensure its survival.
On the other hand, Chief of Staff in the Office of the Prime Minister, Lionel 'Max' Hurst, told OBSERVER media yesterday that Antigua and Barbuda has remained true to its commitment to a US $1 million investment in the struggling airline and is encouraging other governments to make the necessary sacrifice
"Antigua and Barbuda did abide by its promise to provide LIAT with more than one million dollars…we are very much aware that LIAT is not only a requirement that has to exist," Hurst said in response to the Vincentian leader's claims that Grenada was the only government that acceded to LIAT's request by pumping approximately one million dollars into it.
Antigua and Barbuda, which has 69 departures, was expected to make its million-dollar contribution by March 15th.
Notwithstanding this, Hurst emphasized his hope that Gonsalves' prediction does not actualize and that the Caribbean airline will pull through, saying, "There are about 700 LIAT workers stationed here in Antigua and we have a great interest in securing the jobs and ensuring that LIAT continues to do the service that it has done since 1956."
Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines are the four shareholders governments that support LIAT financially.


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Alex Lerchen steps down as coach of Greenwich High girls ice hockey team after seven successful seasons
By David Fierro on August 29, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )
Photo courtesy of Greenwich High School girls hockey team: Alex Lerchen recently announced that he stepped down as coach of the Greenwich High School girls ice hockey team. He took over the coaching helm at Greenwich in 2014.
After seven seasons, 86 victories, two FCIAC championships and numerous postseason appearances, Alex Lerchen has stepped down as coach of the Greenwich High School girls ice hockey team.
Lerchen, who was hired as coach of the Cardinals in 2014, recently informed Greenwich Athletic Director Gus Lindine of his resignation – a difficult decision that he pondered for a while. Lerchen is employed by the Greenwich Public Schools system and works at Western Middle School. He is currently attending Manhattanville College, where he is pursuing a Masters Degree in Physical Education.
"It had been weighing on me for most of the summer," Lerchen said. "I had to make a choice, because I'm back in graduate school and I needed to increase my course load this year for both semesters. Last year, I juggled teaching, coaching and grad school, but it wouldn't be possible this year. It was a tough decision."
Greenwich posted a 5-13-1 record during Lerchen's first season at the helm (2014-2015 season), as the team rebuilt and established its identity. The Cardinals improved to 11-9 during the 2015-2016 season, then won their first FCIAC championship in 2017. During the 2016-2017 season, Greenwich went 15-4-5, defeated Darien for the FCIAC title and advanced to the semifinal-round of the state tournament, where it lost to Hamden.
"That FCIAC title game against Darien was the best game I've ever been a part of as a player and a coach," said Lerchen, who guided GHS to a 2-0 win in that 2016 championship matchup. "It was such a memorable moment."
The 2017-2018 season saw Greenwich's girls hockey team top New Canaan, 4-1, for its second straight FCIAC championship. In Greenwich's 16-7 2018-2019 season, Lerchen helped lead the squad to the FCIAC final, where they lost to New Canaan. The Cards also advanced to the state tournament quarterfinals. The next season (2019-2020), Greenwich made it to both the FCIAC and state tournament semifinals and this past season, the Cards finished 7-5-2 advanced to the FCIAC Tournament semifinals.
Lerchen's coaching record at Greenwich was 86-45-12.
"It was a great experience to be a part of the Greenwich hockey community," Lerchen said. "Being familiar with the Greenwich Public School system led me to seek a career in teaching in Greenwich Public Schools. Teaching and coaching is what I love to do, it's what I was born to do."
Photo courtesy of Greenwich High School girls hockey program: Alex Lerchen coached GHS for seven seasons.
Lerchen enjoyed coaching the many athletes that skated for the Greenwich girls hockey team.
"I will definitely miss working with the team day in and day out," he said. "They made it all worthwhile. Seeing the group develop and grow as a team each year was the best part about coaching this program. I was always lucky to have had not only hockey players who wanted to learn and work hard, but also great people. These athletes did a lot in the community and took their academics seriously and our bound to do great things in this world. I was incredibly lucky to coach great athletes."
He is grateful the support Lindine and the Greenwich athletic department showed him during his coaching tenure.
"We had all the support in the world from the athletic department from Gus himself who is a great guy, a great leader, to his help in the office, giving us whatever we needed," Lerchen said. "I'd like to thank the parents for their help and support and being a part of the Greenwich hockey community. The Greenwich Athletic Foundation and Greenwich Old Timers Athletic Association supported us and so did the staff at Dorothy Hamill Skating Rink."
Mike Erensen was an assistant coach during all seven of Lerchen's seasons with the team.
"I owe him a great deal, we had a great rapport together," Lerchen said of Erensen. "He gives his all to the program and I was lucky to have him on the coaching staff all seven years."
Indeed, Lerchen will miss coaching in the FCIAC and everything involved with guiding a team.
"I'll miss being with the team and getting to know them as people not just as athletes. I'll miss the camaraderie with the other coaches from the FCIAC. We had a good bond, enjoyed each other's company and we considered each other good friends. Jamie Tropsa (Darien's coach) coached me as a kid and to coach against him was an honor. I'll miss seeing the former players come back and watch our games. It was a great experience and I'm going to miss it a great deal."
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Microsoft Power Fx is a free and open source low-code, general-purpose programming language for expressing logic across the Microsoft Power Platform.

It was first announced at Ignite 2021 and the specification was released in March 2021. It is based on spreadsheet-like formulas to make it accessible to large numbers of people. It was also influenced by programming languages and tools like Pascal, Mathematica, and Miranda.

As Microsoft describes the language, it heavily borrows from the spreadsheet paradigm. In a spreadsheet, cells can contain formulas referring to the contents of other cells; if the user changes the content of a cell, the values of all its dependent cells are automatically updated. In a similar fashion, the properties of components in a Power Fx program are connected by formulas (whose syntax is very reminiscent of Excel) and their values are automatically updated if changes occur. For instance, a simple formula may connect a component's color property to the value of a slider component; if the user moves the slider, the color changes.

Power Fx was developed by a Microsoft team led by Vijay Mital, Robin Abraham, Shon Katzenberger and Darryl Rubin. Power Fx is available as Open-source software. The source code was shared under MIT license by Microsoft on November 2. 2021. Only the documentation was originally open source.

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Supplier description:Vogue Crafts and Designs Pvt. Ltd is a leading fashion jewellery and accessories manufacturing and export company in India. We also manufacture pure 92.5 sterling silver jewellery. We have more than a decade of experience in manufacturing exclusive sterling silver and hand crafted jewellery with high grade semi-precious gemstones. Our fashion jewellery is created using the finest quality metal findings and beads, which generally include glass, wood, bone and acrylic beads.
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As much as I love exploring the streets of Chinatown, the North End is another corner of Boston that my husband and I love to rediscover every few months. Sometimes we bring the kids to the New England Aquarium, while at other times we enjoy going on our own, sharing the pizza back at home.
There is a fabulous triumverate of well known pastry places, including Modern's and Mike's. Yet we prefer Maria's Pastry Shop. First, the atmosphere is more personal, less chaotic and we just like Maria herself. We go for three things in particular. First their version of almond biscotti or quarasimali. With just a hint of cinnamon and huge, freshly roasted almonds, the cookies have a balance of chewiness while still being crispy. Next, my husband enjoys the homemade torrone or nougat.
Again, Maria never skimps on almonds and these are nestled in a chewy, white marshmellowy mass. I prefer the sfogittelle or pastry shells folded over sweeteened ricotta with a hint of nutmeg and orange.
At home I warm these up for a few minutes at 350 and eat them for a breakfast treat. But if you can, eat them while they are still warm while eating breakfast right at Marias. My children enjoy her moist blueberry muffins and zuccherati, a crunchy bagel-shaped, sesame covered bread stick. For something special, pick up her cannolis that she fills while you are waiting.
I always stop at a speciality store, prefering Salumeria Italiana for higher end products, such as fresh cheese, meats and Balsamic vinegar. For a wide range of pastas, J. Pace and Sons is easy for one stop shopping. Finally, little Polcaris offers personal service and great prices for everything from chesnut, chickpea and semolina flour by the pound to a range of coffees, nuts and vinegars.
We love the pizza choices in the North End so much that we always buy way more than we need and freeze the rest. We always stop first at Umbertos for their sicilian style pizza covered in browned mozzerella, freshly fried panzoritti (filled mashed potato balls) and arancini (filled risotto balls). They sell out early (by 2:00 pm!) and lines move slowly, but the trade off is very special and very inexpensive treats.
We can't leave the North End without taking home at least one (!) pizza from Pizzeria Regina. Their pizza is our favorite by far, baked in oven built in 1926. The crust is perfection-thick and chewy, covered in a sauce that is just acidic enough and balanced by creamy, shreds of whole milk mozzerella. Because parking can be so tricky, we have also just called in advance and driven by to take a pie home. While it is never as good as when you get it right out of their oven, it is still worth it.
J. Pace & Sons, 42 Cross Street.
yum. i want to go to each of these places. i haven't been to the north end of boston for a while. must be time for another visit. thanks for the recommendations.
Maria's is my favorite, too. It is so off the radar, in comparison to Mike's and Modern, but it is just as good if not better!
We are so going back after our trip to Rome, thanks for the tip.


The Ultimate Guide to Driving Creditors Crazy!
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Insurance MD on fighting crime, being taken seriously and Take That.
Neil McFarlane is a familiar face in the trade and this year was promoted to managing director at jewellery insurance specialist TH March and was also recognised for his work with security initiative SaferGems when he was made a Trailblazer in the Professional Jeweller Hot 100 2012 in association with the Company of Master Jewellers. He talks to us about fighting crime, being taken seriously and finding time for Take That.
Professional Jeweller: We are preparing to bid farewell to 2012. What has been the best moment of the year for you?
Neil McFarlane: Becoming Managing Director of TH March is a highlight from both a personal and professional perspective and a culmination of 28 years hard work.
PJ: That 28-year journey must have hit some highs and lows. How are you at dealing with challenges?
NMcF: Life is full of challenges. To me it is important to try and take a step back and not make an instant or knee-jerk reaction. I also read many years ago that you shouldn't sweat the small stuff and only worry about things you can influence, not those you can't.
PJ: TH March teamed up with the NAG to launch security initiative SaferGems, which has done some very impressive work this year. What have been the significant milestones for the project this year?
NMcF: Probably the most significant development this year has been the British Jewellers' Association becoming actively involved within SaferGems as an Affiliate member. This enables an even greater number of jewellers within the UK to benefit from the alerts and exchange of information, thus extending the schemes reach even further.
PJ: You also work closely with the police on SaferGems. How has this partnership helped develop the concept?
NMcF: The police were always very supportive of the thinking behind SaferGems as they could see the obvious benefits a national crime reporting and liaison scheme could provide. With police resources becoming even more stretched, their appreciation of the link SaferGems provides across the UK between jewellery trade crime and suspicious activity and themselves, is even greater. This of course feels enormously satisfying and vindicates the time and effort initially put in by NAG and TH March, when many in the trade were quite sceptical.
PJ: You mention that the trade have been sceptical of SaferGems in the past. Do retailers value it now?
NMcF: For those who actively take part – absolutely. They appreciate the crime intelligence they receive in the alerts, which has enabled jewellers to prevent a number of thefts. It also shows trends, which again enables jewellers to amend their procedures where they have identified a weakness.
PJ: If you could have one wish granted that would make SaferGems more successful, what would it be?
NMcF: Actually there are really two wishes. The first is that more jewellers actively use the scheme. Many are already enrolled but haven't taken the time to ensure their set up and contact details are correct. They therefore miss out on the alerts. The second is for more suspicious activity to be reported, rather than just report something after a crime has been committed.
PJ: How would you describe your work ethic?
NMcF: I am very much an ideas person, with a focus on the end result, rather than the detailed planning of the journey.
PJ: How does your typical day pan out?
NMcF: I like to arrive in the office reasonably early and leave as close to 5pm as is practical – work permitting. This enables to be home at around 7pm – trains permitting. I try not to bring work home with me, so that my home time is with my wife and four children.
PJ: And what occupies your time outside the office?
NMcF: Relaxing takes many forms, including exercise, watching sport, particularly motor racing and of course socialising with the odd pint of beer in my hand. I also love going to gigs, with the preference being rock, although my wife did make sure I took her to see Take That last year.


Journey to the Centre of the Earth is the classic 1864 science fiction novel by Jules Verne. It features German professor Von Hardwigg who is convinced that there are volcanic tubes going toward the center of the planet. Hardwigg and his nephew travel with a guide named Hans through various epochs of geological time as they descend further into the earth, encountering strange monsters, beasts, and insects--all of which get older as they go deeper.
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Portugal's grid goes four days without fossil fuels
by Seth Zuckerman on May 23, 2016
Clean Power Plan to be heard by full appeals court
The full DC Circuit Court of Appeals will hear the challenge to President Obama's Clean Power Plan in September, instead of a three-judge panel hearing the case in June, the court announced last week. Under the new schedule, the expected appeal will go straight to the Supreme Court. The eventual verdict will mean the difference between 100 GW of coal plants being retired by 2030 if the plan stands, or 60 GW if it is defeated, according to the EIA energy outlook. Besides the climate benefits, additional closures would also translate into health benefits from improved air quality; a new study finds that the displacement of fossil fuels by solar power is already decreasing air pollution significantly.
Clean energy powers Portugal for over 4 days
Portugal's electric grid ran without fossil fuels for four and a half days last week—the payoff from a decades-long effort to shift the country onto renewables. In China, leading panel-maker Trina Solar suggested a reduction in the feed-in tariff from 13 cents to 8 cents per kilowatt-hour by 2020, thanks to an expected decline in PV costs. Other innovations making solar more accessible include see-through solar cells transparent enough to use as a window covering, floating solar farms (so-called "floatovoltaics"), and mounting hardware that rests on angled roofs without the need to drill into them. Wondering whether it will work for you? Google's Sunroof solar estimation tool is now available for 43 million roofs in 42 states. Concentrating solar power isn't as trouble-free: one of the generating towers at Ivanpah caught fire last week when its mirrors were mis-aimed, but DOE still envisions a role for the technology because with heat storage, it can generate into the evening.
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The two Democratic presidential candidates each named a climate specialist to the party's 15-member platform committee last week, with Bernie Sanders appointing author and 350.org founder Bill McKibben to one of his five slots, and Hillary Clinton naming former EPA head Carol Browner among her six. Though McKibben and Browner both support climate action, they differ on means, as McKibben has expressed skepticism about nuclear power's cost while Browner serves on the Leadership Council of industry lobbying group Nuclear Matters. Meanwhile, presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump said he'd "renegotiate" the Paris climate deal—a heavy lift—and Politico reported that despite Trump's climate denials, his Irish golf-course subsidiary cited climate-driven sea level rise to justify building a seawall along its shore.
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University of Oregon – Enviro-Biotics® trial
betterair had chosen the BioBE (Biology and Built Environment) research center at the University of Oregon, led by Dr. Jessica Green, a world renowned pioneer of building microbiome studies.
BioBe and betterair initiated collaborative research on the impact of betterair Enviro-Biotics® technology on an indoor microbiome. The University of Oregon's unique climate control simulation chamber was specifically equipped, offering a controlled introduction of pathogens that were measured catalogued and quantified. Into that setup, the microbial viability of Enviro-Biotics® treatment on surfaces and the antagonistic effect against indoor pathogenic microbes had been measured.
Plates were preloaded with either live or sterilized human-associated microbial communities (HAMC), which were obtained from homogenized and filtered vacuum cleaner dust sourced from three distinct occupied Buildings. The course of treatment was two weeks using betterair's Biotica 800 device with standard settings in the Climate Chamber (25.75 m3) with humidity, air temperature, and air exchange rates held constant throughout the duration of the experiment and within the range typical of residential/commercial buildings. Air exchange was held at the minimum acceptable via ASHRAE standards for occupied office buildings. All incoming air was filtered to MERV 15.
Proven efficacy against pathogens
The probiotic treatment exhibited a clear antagonistic effect against three typical indoor microbial pathogens:
Escherichia coli – a pathogenic bacteria causing a wide range of human related infections.
Staphylococcus epidermidis – a Gram-positive bacterium that infects patients with compromised immune systems, people with catheters and is a frequent contaminant of specimens sent to the diagnostic laboratory.
Cladosporium sp. – an indoor pathogenic mold. Its airborne spores are significant allergens that severely affect asthmatics.
The inhibition effect over E. Coli and S. epidermidis is depicted in Fig. 1. Continuous application for 14 days suppressed the pathogenic bacteria counts in comparison to the control.
Following the 14 days treatment regime, the E. coli and S. epidermidis counts in the un-treated-control increased dramatically, while their counts in the treated samples were kept low due to the probiotic inhibition effect.
The antagonistic effect against Cladosporium sp. was even more impressive as can be seen in Fig. 2: Cladosporium sp. counts increased significantly more over time in control versus treated samples (Fig. 2; χ2 = 12.3, P < 0.001).
Therefore, it can be concluded that from the 8th day onwards, a significant antagonistic effect was demonstrated over the Cladosporium sp. pathogenic fungi. The antagonistic effect against Cladosporium sp. was even more impressive as can be seen in Fig. 2: Cladosporium sp. counts increased significantly more over time in control versus treated samples (Fig. 2; χ2 = 12.3, P < 0.001).
The Enviro-Biotics® treatment exhibited a clear antagonistic effect against the pathogens introduced into the climate controlled chamber – Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus epidermidis and Cladosporium sp. Their existence is not incidental as these species are highly popular among typical indoor microbial pathogens. These are known to be harmful to people, able to cause a wide range of human acquired illnesses
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Home » Latest News » Dubai retains 2nd spot in the world of retail
Dubai retains 2nd spot in the world of retail
May 21, 2013 | By RetailME Bureau
Dubai has retained its position as the second most important international retail destination globally, closely behind London, according to a survey by CBRE. The list of top 20 global cities with international retailer representation includes Kuwait City and Riyadh at the 8th and 14th positions, respectively.
While London is most important international retail destination, ahead of Dubai, Paris, Moscow and New York, Dubai is now the highest ranked target market for new retailers. According to the report, Dubai ranks in the fourth place amongst the world's hottest retail markets with 25 new retailer entries during 2012. Hong Kong takes the lead position, attracting significantly more new retailers than any other city with a total of 51 new retailers. Muscat broke into the top 20, ranking in the 16th place. This is due to the recent opening of Muscat Grand Mall and increasing interest in the Sultanate from international brands in categories such as coffee and restaurants and speciality clothing.
The sixth edition of CBRE's annual survey maps the global footprint of 320 of the world's top retailers across more than 200 cities, tracking cross-border retailer movements.
Dubai's 2023 Retail Calendar is out
The Dubai Festivals and Retail Establishment (DFRE) has unveiled an exciting line-up
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Sunset Hospitality Group (SHG) has announced a partnership with award-winning Italian restaurant
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First BFL Shopping Centre opens in the UAE
UAE-based retail group Brands For Less Group (BFL) launched its first shopping
UAE e-commerce market to touch $9.2-bn by 2026
The UAE e-commerce market is expected to reach $9.2 billion in 2026,
PINZA! opens two dine-in locations in the UAE
As part of its expansion plan home-grown brand PINZA! opens two dine-in
Diversity and inclusion high on Arabian Centres Company's agenda
Alison Rehill-Erguven the new CEO of Arabian Centres Company (ACC), owner, developer
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Timing 2010
Bat-Yam Biennale of Landscape Urbanism.
text by Matilde Cassani
From September 25 till September 28 2010, "Timing 2010″ has been launched; it is the second edition of international Biennale of Landscape Urbanism in Bat-Yam, a small town around Tel Aviv.
The first edition, "Hosting 2008″ gave birth to a long transformation phase of the urban areas that were left undone and impersonal, just by using the term "Bienniale" as a temporal scan of an ongoing process of transformation of urban spaces.
The current one, "Timing 2010″, is an urban action, a sort of urban activism that received the consent of the town hall. Shlomi Lahiani, the Bat-Yam Major, in fact, lends the town to citizens and to international professionals, under the attention of the curators Yael Moria-Klein e Sigal Barnir.
The main theme is Timing and it means tension between what is temporary and what is permanent, between what is planned and what is lived. The projects, which have been selected time after time and now designed, set in the long-term transformation plans and the routine of citizens, trying to bring back the spatial value to the changing phases.
The interventions are all around the city, in areas that long time ago were emptied, public but also private. The township counts also of improper areas and tries to make them public, but just if this urban action will improve the lifestyle of the town. The interventions invade also working sites and buildings under construction; they show all that is happening over the fences. They take care of green and parks, sidewalks, streets and abandoned buildings and of the shore, adding step by step what is missing. The interventions should be delicate, but decisive.
Designers and architects, coming from everywhere, but also from Israeli, are invited to express their opinion on the interventions, even if some of them have got different cultural backgrounds. If their contributions can renew the town, well, the town will welcome them.
The event had been launched during the Bat Yam Theatre Festival and the religious Sukkot Festival; streets were full of people. It was a big party. Anyway, the town was different.
Here you can read the conversation between Liat Kaplan, Yael Moria-Klain e Sigal Barnir, curators of the Bienniale.
www.biennale-batyam.org
Curatorial Statement – Conversation with Liat Kaplan
The Bat-Yam Biennale of Landscape Urbanism is first and foremost an action, an urban action through which we ask to create, facilitate, influence, and change. Not to talk. But we find ourselves speaking quite a bit: We try to explain, interpret, convince, promote, raise funds, find participants, and gain recognition. The catalogue is another verbal layer surrounding the biennale, and this curatorial statement is our voice. In order to attain precision, we invited a good friend who also shares our worldview – the poet Liat Kaplan. We invited Liat, to direct us, to ask questions, and to assist us in articulating our position. The answers are presented here – answers, we hope, that will facilitate understanding.
What is the Bat-Yam biennale?
The Bat-Yam municipality offered its urban space as an experimental site for raising new and old ideas concerning urbanism and how to improve the quality of urban life. The biennale resulted from a certain dissatisfaction regarding urbanism and the city, the factors and qualities that make a city. We examined the gap between the process of urban planning and the way we live in and experience the city. In an attempt to bridge these gaps, it is essential to create experimental processes in the urban sphere. Bat-Yam has become a public laboratory. The first biennale for landscape urbanism took place in 2008 and the biennale will theoretically continue to take place every two years. We say theoretically because the goal of this three-day event is to create long-term processes, ones that can be observed, researched, and changed during the days of the biennale. The biennale functions as a spotlight on longer continuous actions and conducts a double investigation: It explores the possibility to change urban spaces, as well as the relationships and affinities between different urban groups – communities, individuals, and municipal parties. Every biennale has a theme – a name of an action that dictates the way we examine the city. The first action was "Hosting," the second is "Timing"; both perspectives reflect on the same sphere.
What is urban action?
Sigal: It is a term that defines a new relationship in a city where a joint process is created by the municipality, the residents, and professionals. It is an attempt to promote collective urban action among all the characters of this urban play. This term is usually linked to radical urban activism that goes against institutions. We seek to examine whether we can create activist action in collaboration with municipal institutions.
Yael: Urban action edits the urban sphere like musical or literary editing. We are not trying to invent, but to see reality as it is in the present moment, with no pretensions to create something anew but to try and create the next thing from what we have. We see urban work as an inseparable part of life. It is said that a city can only be described in metaphors. I believe that the essence of urban space is a mood, not a metaphor. Urban space is created from basic questions: How do we live? How would we like to live? Who are we? Where are we coming from? Where do we want to go? The action is a complex vector composed out of a vertical axis that looks at the present, and a horizontal axis gazing at the horizon. If we do not remember the future, the urban action will be closed in, limited, and vain. Modesty is the action's quality. Subtraction, addition, and erasure are actions that edit the space in a manner that is true to its present. Reduction is a serious action because the space is already full, and taking away from that which is full allows for movement, and leads to a dynamic transformation of space.
The urban action that I am interested in is maintenance, which is a sustainable action that is motivated by gratitude. Looking is also a sustainable action as it allows for a re-reading and rewriting of the city. Looking is recognizing that thing we observe: We identify it, mark it, and give it room. When we carefully observe reality, it changes.
"Extra Retail Unit " 136 Ben Gurion Rd., Bat Yam. Project by Matilde Cassani and Francesco Librizzi
What are the unique qualities of urban action in Bat-Yam?
Sigal: Urban action in Bat-Yam is a generous action. Bat-Yam is a place that doesn't want to be taken care of. The city is tired of "neighborhood rehabilitation" and other patronizing acts. It prefers to suggest and initiate, instead of asking for help. This preference expresses a certain worldview concerning the meaning of improving quality of life. Another issue relates to the quality of the action. In the biennale, we do not ask to build something anew, like a museum, and to invite people in. On the contrary, we aim to locate an existing space and work from within it with gentle care, so that the residents will not find the damage and disruptions unbearable. It is an act that stems from the literal meaning of the words common sense and seeks to properly observe the local reality.
Yael: Urban action in Bat-Yam is first and foremost recognizing Bat-Yam: to see it, to emphatically and sympathetically examine it. When one recognizes phenomena in the city – without passing judgment – one can see complexities, what exists and what is missing, what is healthy and what is unwell. The space reveals great wealth when one avoids the omniscient gaze or the architectural-professional one. The most common term in urban planning is "development." What is development? Usually it is understood as addition. Development means to make things pretty and green, to fill the space graphically. The most important thing to me is to know what it is that I do, what it is that I mean, and, yes, to commit, and to take responsibility. Urban action poses questions about the essence of space: Who lives in the space, how can we fix it, and how can it answer our needs.
Where does urban action take place?
Every space in the city, from the private to public and the definitions and borders of the two, has a potential to become a part of the biennale. Urban planning and management usually focus on the public domain: streets, roads, gardens, and so forth. The municipality's role is to maintain these spaces even though they do not belong to it.
Vacant private spaces are a part of the urban repertoire, for which the city is also responsible, and exerts its authority by enforcement, laws, and fines. The biennale allows the city to act differently; the municipality temporarily appropriates empty territories by issuing warrants that allow for public use of private property until site-owner receives a building permit. This urban action is minor and temporary. It doesn't radically change the landscape, but it allows the public to benefit by removing hazards and planting gardens, temporarily expanding the city's open spaces.
This time around, the biennale focuses on the southwestern segment of the city, and especially the industrial area, recently renamed the "business district." The city attempts to create an urban environment that has industry, business, offices, and residential areas. Maybe this area needs to be given a new name: "the heart of the city," for example. This is a large central area, which most cities locate at their periphery, and it holds the city's growing potential. It is a fascinating site – a "wide heart" in many senses. We hope that the biennale will bring a large audience to the area and expose to them this interesting urban alternative. We would like to examine the distinction between rough urbanism and an alternative, somewhat radical, urban pulse and neglect or negligence – to examine the borders of attraction and repulsion. Why were people drawn to New York's SoHo neighborhood in the 1970s? Because of the un-sterile combination of residential and industrial areas. The quarter's charm stemmed from the fact that it exposed the city's gutter.
Who initiates urban action?
The initiative emerges from the outside and does not grow within itself, does not reside in the everyday routine. Our regular pace does not allow us to stop and take some distance. Our initiative is radical, major, and undermining. Most of the proposals come from professionals who have examined the city from the outside. The chosen proposals are usually those who go against the obvious and aim at de-alienating the common urban relationships. This is the role of artists and architects: to bring about change. We consider the project successful if it encourages residents to react with their own initiatives. Maybe the next biennale will consist of many proposals coming from residents themselves.
After we chose the works, the role of the curators was to engage in a long dialogue with the artists and architects, focusing their projects and examining how they could be executed. The projects begin as models in space, then they transform it, and become inseparable from it.
How do you choose the projects that will be realized?
We began by choosing a theme. This year's theme is "Timing" – examining different states of change and temporary phases in the city as an opportunity to improve the quality of life. We then publish a call for proposals from architects, artists, and designers, as well as educators and social workers. It was an invitation to respond to the theme. We received 400 proposals from dozens of countries, from which approximately 40 projects were materialized.
Was there a difference between the submissions from Israel and international ones?
The Israeli proposals often came from professionals who don't know Bat-Yam, but heard about it, and already developed an opinion about it – or, perhaps, merely a prejudice. The international proposals were completely different; the external gaze emerging from different cultures allowed for new insights. The proposals shed light on wide range of issues relating to urbanism, which were then projected onto the city without any prior knowledge of the space. This greatly affected the changing and rethinking process. That said, the international proposals were harder to materialize. Since the city's residents participated at the execution stage, the foreigners found it difficult to communicate with the residents because of the distance and language barrier. In the international projects, therefore, we found both the quality and charm of distance – and its cons.
Can you describe the chosen projects' characteristics?
The projects can be divided into several categories: construction sites, city and nature, and collaborations in the city. Cities are found in a long and continuous building project. As a result, city streets are often decorated in temporary fences of construction sites. Often these sites become a visual hazard whose temporality continues. Several projects re-conceptualize the fence of a construction site as an intriguing, fascinating, and valuable place in the city. Yanai Toister's "Vertigo," for example, uses photography to turn a fence into a mirror reflecting, representing, and distorting the space around it. Other projects deal with the relationship between the city and nature – from ecological questions to the question whether the city distances nature and only allows it to exist in its domestic form through parks and boulevards, or whether it is possible to create a different relationship between the two categories. In the project "Other Work," Amir Lotan creates a garden inside an abandoned building. The garden is built from urban materials that are usually thrown away, like wild plants and pieces of asphalt and cement.Other projects remind us of the link between life systems, in general, and urbanism, in particular, between our energy sources and our everyday actions. In "Tamagotchi Park" Ofer Bilik and Jakub Szczesny place a see-saw close to the beach, whose movement activates a pump that draws seawater. The seawater is then desalinated and used to irrigate a nearby garden. This action reminds us of the basic nature of these systems, which are usually excluded in large and distant factories.
The project "Roaming Forest" (by Ed Wall and Mike Daring from England and Israeli Yael Bar-Maor] asks what role trees play in the city, confronting urban temporality with "the time of the tree." Trees are re-planted into large movable containers that can roam around the city according to the residents' needs. As the trees grow beyond the containers' capacity, they are replanted in the ground. "Roaming Forest" offers a solution to liminal situations and emphasizes the relationship between the life of the tree and city life by recognizing that the tree came from the earth and will return to it, but in between it can function as a movable, urban component.
Other projects deal with collaborations inside the city. They ask to conduct a flowing conversation between the city planners and its residents. In two Bat-Yam neighborhoods, an attempt was made to create a common language that would offer an alternative to the hackneyed institution of "public collaborations." These initiatives were conducted by two groups: Urbanica and PECLAB (Tel Aviv University). They seek to create a new approach and agenda regarding responsibility and commitment in the city.
Responsibility is attached to ownership. The owner of a place usually feels responsible for it and vice versa – whoever takes responsibility, wins ownership. In the biennale, we have tried to distinguish between the two terms, for example, by municipal interventions in places that the local government doesn't own. It was interesting to see how the owners reacted to this initiative – at times with suspicion and lack of trust and at times with willingness to extend the limits of their responsibility. Consider, for instance, the far-reaching example of Abarbanel Mental Health Center: The hospital is owned by the Ministry of Health, the clients are not residents of the city, and still, perhaps because of that, it became one of the biennale's urban action sites. Asafsuf group acted upon the political awareness that it is one's responsibility to nurture that which is found nearby, even if it is not his/her property.
The project "Extra Retail Unit", by Francesco Librizzi and Matilde Cassani proposes self-oriented responsibility on the part of local business owners. The project offers a system of new buildings that will be placed in the public space in proximity to the existing stores, with the goal of creating sophisticated connections between the loose network of small retail stores and existing (and often un-used) public space. These boxed-shaped structures could be attached and detached to each store, and supply it with additional change rooms, storage or display spaces. 'Extra Retail Unit' is a prosthesis that functions as a supplier of space and contains whatever its new owner fills it with – whether supplies of activities.
In addition, the biennale deals with the tension between spatial changes and the legal system. Spatial changes are often defined in terms that are inappropriate to existing building standards, building percentages, etc. How can they receive the needed building permits? This dilemma is not a by-product of the biennale but one of its essential and interesting fronts. Several projects in the biennale aim to undermine this system and the topic of temporality, challenging the urban mechanism that is forced to create regulation for temporal situations, whose duration is unknown. The projects point to an encounter between time and watches: between the time of nature and that of the city; between daily time and planning time; between construction sites and permanent-temporary situations. We continue to search for new urban rules. If the biennale succeeds, it will continue to facilitate changes over time.
What concerns you about the biennale?
Yael: Maybe the way in which we act is not precise enough. As an architect, collaborating with the institution, which I am grateful for, usually urges me to be more accurate. Even if the urban act consists of preferences other than my own, and ways other than my own, the need to listen teaches me something profound about relationships and about the profit gained from looking and collaborating. Even if I see myself as a gate-keeper of the action's essence, it is easy for me to react in a favorable way to the real needs, local aesthetic conceptions, while considering what benefits the residents. By listening to the residents, I learn new things about myself, about the space, and become more creative – a fact that moves me. I feel like a mediator, who combines the demands of the institution and the desires of the community with the potential already existing in the space. Maintenance is found at the heart of our practice, typified by concrete reactions to spatial needs, like enthusiastically dancing with full concentration, with no effort. See the example of Chile Park: Chile is a neglected boulevard with beautiful trees that separates the industrial and residential areas. After a couple of failed attempts to re-plan the site, I understood that there is no need to change the existing elements using substitutions that are closer to my own taste. I decided to clean the park from everything but the trees, and then examine it and realize what the next step will be. When we omitted the excessive elements, we were left with a beautiful grove. We decided to create a grassy grove in the city. It is a simple action, not one of development, but it might cause a great change in the area. There are many groves with grass, but this is what is needed.
What are the affinities between the biennale and art in general, and the Bat-Yam International Street Theatre Festival in particular?
The biennale does not create artistic objects, but it consists of artistic acts. Like all artistic acts, urban action seeks to bring about change or shed light on something that was difficult to see before. The artistic act can undermine, detract, and alienate.
Another matter is the link to street theater, which is not obvious. The biennale has seriousness to it, coupled by a sense of consciousness about responsibility. Every project, even the smallest one, needs to deal with bureaucracy – infrastructure, licenses, work permits, etc. – while attempting to perform architectural juggling. Street theater, on the other hand, is light-headed, rambunctious, operates with a wink. This connection is interesting as it brings together the rationality resulting from urban bureaucracy with the joie de vivre of theater, with touch and body. There were other practical reasons to combine the two events, like the desire to be more economical and precise, instead of overwhelming the city with events, or the initiative by Atay Citron – the artistic director of the festival – to take the festival away from the boardwalk, its usual site, and better integrate it with the city. The street theater festival is an extreme condition of temporality. It can be perceived as temporary architecture that leaves traces in one's consciousness instead of in the space, since transitory events often affect the city, as they become a part of its essence.
What would lead you to define the biennale as a success?
That it will lead to development. That the projects will remain after the biennale ends, that they will have a life of their own, that they will change and grow, will give birth to others, and continue to expand in the world.
Any fears, worries, or doubts?
Sigal: That no one will come. That someone will be greatly offended. I have some anxieties related to responsibility: from the banal worry that something might fall on someone's foot to the fear that we will cause irreversible damage.
Yael: The ambition is great, and I am worried that the final product will not be precise in its quality. I am worried that, in retrospect, we will examine the urban action in terms of success or failure, instead of looking at the product and developing the next step from it. I fear that we will look back at the event and will wrongly think of it as the thing in itself. It is important to know that in the continuous duration of urban action, the biennale is simply another moment.
What is your fantasy?
Yael: To work in reality in a 'correct' manner, to specialize, to insist on letting go of fantasies; to work in a city that is a collection of subjects, not objects – not to look at a neighborhood, but at the people who reside in it.
Sigal: That it will happen.
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