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AL-FUTTAIM'S TRADING ENTERPRISES – VOLVO CARS INVESTS IN DESIGNING AND DEVELOPING ELECTRIC MOTORS IN-HOUSE
Al-Futtaim ACE Celebrates 30 Years Of Helping Homes Improve
FAMCO launches new range of heavy-duty Volvo Trucks models in the UAE
Al-Futtaim ACE Paves The Path To A Greener Future On World Environment Day With Free E-waste Recycling Service To Customers
Al-Futtaim Hosts Graduate Ceremony for SINYAR, its Emirati Talent Development Programme Focused on Growing Talent Pool for the UAE
IKEA celebrates 30 years in the UAE!
Al-Futtaim ACE's Sustainable New Greenhouse Launches At Festival Plaza
AL-FUTTAIM OPENS WATSONS STORE IN DUBAI FESTIVAL CITY MALL
IKEA OPENS DOORS TO THE SECOND STORE IN ABU DHABI IN AL WAHDA MALL
Trading Enterprises, the exclusive distributor of Volvo cars in the UAE and part of Al-Futtaim Automotive announced today that Volvo Cars is making significant investments that allow for the in-house design and development of electric motors for the next generation of Volvo models, as the company continues to move towards becoming a fully electric car maker.
The company today opened a brand-new electric motor lab in Shanghai, China, the latest addition to its global network of facilities for the development and testing of electric car components. The lab comes in addition to ongoing e-motor development in Gothenburg, Sweden and state-of-the-art battery labs in China and Sweden.
Taking over the role of the internal combustion engine in car engineering, e-motors are a fundamental building block of electric cars, together with the battery and power electronics. The interplay between these three component areas is crucial in developing premium electric cars.
Bringing the development of electric motors in-house will allow Volvo Cars engineers to further optimise electric motors and the entire electric driveline in new Volvos. This approach will allow engineers to make further gains in terms of energy efficiency and overall performance.
Oscar Rivoli, Managing Director at Trading Enterprises – Volvo said, "It is important for us to provide our customers with a comfortable and efficient driving experience. Through in-house design and development, we can fine-tune our e-motors to ever better levels. By constantly improving their overall performance levels in terms of energy efficiency and comfort, we create an electric driving experience that is unique to Volvo."
E-motors enable hallmark features that electric cars are known for, such as instant acceleration and so-called One Pedal Driving, whereby drivers use the gas pedal both for acceleration and deceleration, depending on whether they push in or lift their foot off the pedal.
The newly opened electric motor lab in Shanghai became operational last month. It will mainly focus on electric motor development for use in fully electric and hybrid cars based on Volvo Cars' forthcoming SPA 2 modular vehicle architecture.
The investments in e-motor design and development represent yet another step towards Volvo Cars' climate ambitions and electrification strategy. It aims for 50 per cent of its sales to be fully electric vehicles by 2025, with the rest hybrids.
Electrification is part of the company's comprehensive climate plan which addresses carbon emissions across all its operations and products, towards its ambition to become climate-neutral by 2040.
The plan goes beyond addressing tailpipe emissions through electrification; the company will also tackle carbon emissions in its manufacturing network and wider operations, its supply chain and through recycling and reuse of materials.
As a first tangible step towards its 2040 vision the company aims to reduce its lifecycle carbon footprint per car by 40 per cent between 2018 and 2025.
A subsidiary of the Al-Futtaim Automotive Group, Trading Enterprises was established in 1970s in Dubai and is the exclusive authorised distributor for Volvo in the UAE. It is empowered by a highly skilled and trained professional team to provide a complete car buying experience. Al-Futtaim Automotive is one of five divisions within the Al-Futtaim Group which provides quality products and services that enrich people's lives and aspirations each and every day.
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Die Adessium Foundation ist eine humanitäre Stiftung mit Sitz in Reeuwijk.

Die Stiftung wurde 2005 vom Rohstoffhändler Gerard van Vliet und dessen Familie mit dem Erlös aus dem Verkauf seiner Investmentfirma gegründet und spendet etwa 18 Millionen Euro pro Jahr (2017).

Förderungen
 2018 unterstützte die Adessium Foundation Projekte mit insgesamt 17,359 Millionen €. Lediglich 8 % der Mittel gingen ins außereuropäische Ausland, der Rest teilte sich zu etwa gleichen Teilen in Projekte in den Niederlanden und der übrigen Europäischen Union auf.

Die Stiftung engagiert sich neben Mensch/Natur und Sozialen Initiativen auch im Medienbereich, gehört dabei zu den Förderern des Internationalen Netzwerks investigativer Journalisten (ICIJ), finanziert mit anderen das Correctiv Portal und gehört mit 15 anderen Stiftungen zu den Gründern der Civitates Finanzierungsgesellschaft, die als "Initiative für Demokratie und Solidarität in Europa" gegründet wurde.

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Stiftung (Niederlande)
Humanitäre Stiftung
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Bodegraven-Reeuwijk

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It was a yesterday's news that anonymous and other cracker's crews attacked and defaced large number of corporate websites.
Anonymous and other crews activities tell us an old story: the Internet is fragile and your web applications can be attacked anytime, anywhere and most of them are breakable.
It was 10pm when I had dinner last night. My wife and my son were sleeping and I checked https://twitter.com/thesp0nge.
Some friends were talking about a massive defacement activities carried on by anonymous hactivists and other cracker's crews not connected to the former.
It wasn't the first time both PayPal and Symantec were attacked. The latter suffered from a source code leakage some months ago.
The news that impressed me much was the attack against Telecom Italia. In the news it's reported that attackers found more than 3.000 Cross site scripting vulnerabilities.
Even Owasp WebGoat web application has less XSS.
Of course, this is not the only hole they exploit. The report talks about poorly written .htaccess file and weak passwords that they lead to a successful attack.
In a post about web agencies and about marketing driven choices I talked about the dangers of publishing a web application without a security program.
Marketing departments want to deploy new websites, new features, new dynamic content to promote goods and to increase business. This is completely fair but it can't be done without security awareness. The problem is that they don't have any clue about their websites can be attacked and sometimes they didn't trust their security departments trying to make them aware.
If your web manager says the website has to be online now or even worse we must add this brand new feature ASAP, you must take care about the new content can't be exploited on the wild and you have to make all the necessary security tests before the content has to go online.
Yesterday's anonymous attack makes me think about how hard is our work. Sometime people says that only banks deserve to be protected. But attacking broadcasting companies or telcos can amplify your activism claims tons of times.
Don't trust Web Application Firewalls. They will help but clever attackers may override their rules. Force developers to write secure code instead.


EN ESTOS TIEMPOS DONDE CADA QUIEN TIRA PARA SU LADO, ES RECOMFORTANTE SABER QUE AUN HAY SERES HUMANOS DADOS AL BIENESTAR DE LOS DEMAS. ME REFIERO TANTO A LA GERENCIA Y TODO EL PERSONAL QUE LABORA EN SU TIENDA # 0911 ISABELA P.R. DURANTE EL 9/1/13 ESTUVE EN LA TIENDA PARA MANTENIMIENTO DE MI VEHICULO, Y QUE HERMOSOSENTIR ESE CALOR HUMANO QUE CARACTERIZA A TODO EMPLEADO DE PEP BOYS. TANTO EL SR. EMMANUEL COMO LA DAMA ( Y GERENTE ) WILMA ME HAN HECHO SENTIR COMO PARTE DE LA GRAN FAMILIA D PEP BOYS. EL TRATO PARA EL CLIENTE VA PERO POR MUCHO, MUY POR ENCIMA DE LO Q SE ACOSTUMBRA A VER EN OTROS NEGOCIOS. GRACIAS AL CEO DE LA COORPORACION POR EL ESCRUTINIO TAN ACERTADO PARA CONTRATAR PERSONAL. . GRACIAS A SUS GERENTES Y EMPLEADOS DE SU TIENDA PEP BOYS D ISABELA( 0911 ), ESTOY Y ESTARE ETERNAMENTE AGRADECIDO POR LAS ATENCIONES TANTO PARA CONMIGO ASI COMO PARA TODO CLIENTE QUE LES REFIERO.
I was taken of very good at pepboys in 1375 market place dr. Henrietta, n.y. 14623 store#0166, I really enjoy dealing with young man in services Alain with my tires which they did fast and Brain at store help me pick out a stereo for my car and cash me out.


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What is an expected return in peer to peer lending?
by Simon Cunningham on September 27, 2013 in P2P Lending Basics
Late into 2013, peer to peer lending continues to be a novel avenue to earn a decent return on investment. However, despite coverage in major news publications, despite rigorous technical analysis and years of historical data, there remain many unanswered questions. For instance, how large can this industry grow (some say $200B in loans)? Can further filtering of the available loans actually improve returns beyond the rigorous underwriting done by a platform? Finally, what return does peer to peer lending even offer?
It is this last question that we will devote the focus of our article today, hoping to get an answer by turning to leading voices within the industry. Interestingly, their answers widely vary. Some think a 5% return can be expected; others say 12%. The overall consensus certainly trumpets the lucrative returns available within peer to peer lending, but when pushed for actual numbers, this consensus breaks down. It's like asking five dietitians what makes a healthy eating habit. All would respond a with some version of a balanced diet. But when pressed, their answers would divert into different emphases. Some would be about protein; others, green leafy vegetables.
From Diversity to Consensus: 5 to 12% ROI
There is a similar diversity of opinion within peer to peer lending. Why is this? For starters, it is difficult to calculate its return at all. The "annualized return" figures stated on the Lending Club and Prosper account screens do not take into account the drag of uninvested cash, and become even more inaccurate if any trading is done on the Foliofn secondary market. Calculating ROI using an internal rate of return (IE: XIRR) is arguably the best approach, but not everybody has taken on this practice.
Furthermore, what defines an average or typical investment? There are a wide variety of approaches that different investors take. Passive, middle-of-the-road lenders who simply invest in the notes available to them (IE: A – C grade) will often earn a significantly lower return than those who are well versed with the system, who auto-invest their backtested filters via an API into riskier higher interest notes (D & E grade).
That said, I feel we can still arrive at a majority opinion through a review of the industry voices quoted below. Doing so may allow us to answer the elusive question: what sort of return is possible within peer to peer lending? Humbly, I would like to offer their consensus: peer to peer lending offers a 5-12% return for the average retail investor, depending on their level of activity, skill, and risk tolerance.
One Question, Five Valuable Answers
Five different experts were asked to answer this question: what kind of sustainable return can a lender realistically expect through peer to peer lending? Here are their answers:
Peter Renton, Lend Academy: 6-10%
"I think astute investors will receive returns in the 8-10% range, with an average return of 6-7%. We know today that many investors are earning more than that, but I think as the industry matures returns will come down. That said, I expect 8-10% returns will be achievable for many investors through the end of this decade."
Peter is the founder of Lend Academy. As a self-described passive p2p investor who has rigorously studied where the industry is headed, I can see his low end of 6% as indicative of what many new investors may experience today.
Marc Prosser, Learn Bonds: 8-12%
"My personal rate of return is currently 15%. However, my expectation is that my portfolio over the next 6 months will go down to about 12%. If the economy goes south and in particular the unemployment situation gets worse, I think that my returns will be in the 8% range."
Marc writes for Forbes and has been a voice within the p2p lending sphere for some time. His numbers shows what sort of lucrative returns are possible for investors who focus on low-grade loans.
Bryce Mason, P2P Picks: 5-13%
"The rates are reflective of my experiences as an investor, personally and as a consultant to investment management companies building p2p portfolios. For a 'Buy & Hold – High Yield' approach: a 9-13% ROI is possible. I take a buy and hold approach exclusively at Lending Club, and have achieved fairly stable annualized returns of around 12%. In general this approach targets C-G graded loans. Individual investors will vary in their loan selection sophistication. For a 'Buy and Hold – Low Risk' approach: a 5-7% ROI is possible. This approach would target A-B graded loans, although loan selection again can play a role in determining the yield and consistency.
Bryce is the statistician behind P2P-Picks, and his answer contained the largest swing (which I feel makes it the most accurate). His answer also emphasizes the impact that good loan selection can have on returns – meaning, for example, that some B-grade loans perform better than others.
Brendan Ross, Ross Asset Advisors: 9-11%
"Most my P2P lending is done through funds run by professional managers; returns vary based on alpha (how good the manager is at picking loans) and beta (their chosen mix of loan grades). No fund is going to be as aggressive as the most risk-loving individual investor, which I think is a good thing. In consumer P2P lending, funds I respect range from 9-11% returns."
Brendan of Direct Lending Investments is a known voice within the wealth management side of p2p; he was the first advisor to invest in Lending Club's LCAdvisors fund. His answer is tilted toward large value clients, demonstrating that a high return is wonderfully scalable. Even investors with millions of dollars available to them may find a return north of 7%.
Anil Gupta, PeerCube: 6-8%
"Lenders can expect average return of about 6-8% for mature portfolios as long as economic conditions do not deteriorate and there is no major structural change in the platforms. I expect that over time, as the platform matures and becomes more efficient, the average returns will fall.
Anil is the investor and programmer behind PeerCube. As someone who has typically viewed high returns with skepticism, Anil's ROI is probably the soberest of the bunch, and with good reason. Anil's grasp of the hard data has convinced him that many investors (myself probably included) overstate the sustainable ROI offered by peer to peer lending.
How to Arrive at a 5-12% ROI
For starters, think about the lowest risk you can possibly take on within a diversified portfolio: 200 A-grade notes. Considering the historical return on A-grades at Lending Club is 5%, I would imagine this would go lower as an individual account starts to age, perhaps landing at 4%. However, most investors diversify in the variety of loan grades offered to them, easily adding a percentage point or two. Simply stated, for the average investor who diversifies in the notes available to them (for Lending Club this is A – C grade notes), the basic platform underwriting offers them around a 5% ROI (hat tip to NSR).
From this starting point, the return for the savvy investor may rise to 12% based on their investment approach and risk tolerance. There are many different ways investors try to increase their ROI (see Lending Club Strategy and Prosper Strategy), but all of these generally focus on either becoming more active as an investor (IE: developing a selection criteria/filters) or taking on more risk (IE: focusing on low-grade loans).
Conclusion: A Stable Lucrative Return of 5%
Across the board, experts agree that a wonderful real-world return of 5% or more can be achieved through a simple diversified peer to peer lending portfolio. Five percent! In my view, there exists no other large-scale avenue of investing that offers such a great return with so little volatility and such high liquidity, especially when we consider how interest rates continue to stay so low.
Investors may differ on how high up we can push the ceiling, but we generally can agree on the floor. This is an appropriate note to close on: the peer to peer lending sphere can often get so caught up in chasing returns above 10% that we forget how rare it is these days to earn a 5% return in the first place.
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Peter Feenan says
If I invest 10k how long would it take to get that money back with interest (days – Years)?
Simon Cunningham says
If you invest in 3 year loans, it will take 3 years before the loans are paid back. 5 year loans are a 5 year investment. Etc. Of course, you can always liquidate your account on the secondary market. See here: https://www.lendingmemo.com/liquidate-close-lending-club-prosper/
Eric Parker says
What are the tax implications upon liquidation? Capital gains, income tax etc
You'll pay on any interest that you earned over the year, and any notes that are sold in liquidation (within a taxable account, of course) will require capital gains tax to be paid, either short term or long term, with of course the ability to claim capital losses as well.


Geneva Towers, two twenty story buildings in San Francisco, are destroyed with the force of six hundred pounds of explosives, May 16, 1998.
Shares in house builders and estate agents are nosediving in London after Britain's Chancellor announced a shake-up of the tax system that could drive wealthy foreigners out of the property market.
Chancellor George Osborne just delivered the first Conservative Party budget in 18 years and one of the big announcements was a crackdown on so-called "non-doms" — people who live in Britain but claim their "permanent" home in abroad.
Those claiming the non-dom status have taxes on any money they earn abroad limited.
But Osborne just abolished the indefinite non-dom tax status, changing the rules so that anyone who has lived here for 15 of the last 20 years is now officially taxed the same way as any other Briton.
Osborne has also announced a crackdown on properties owned "through foreign companies or other opaque structures", which are often used to minimise tax.
Property companies, especially at the top end of the market are now tanking, amid fears that wealthy foreigners who have flocked to London in recent years will be put off by the new rules.
House builders are the worst hit. Persimmon is down 4%, Berkeley Group is down 6%, Barrat Developments is down 4.4%, Crest Nichols is down 5.2%, Taylor Wimpey is down 3.3% and Bellway is off 4.5%.
House builder Berkeley Group is down over 5%.
Estate agents are also collapsing. Foxtons is off 3.7% and Countrywide is down 2.2%.
Britain's non-dom status, which is unusual in global tax laws, made Britain an attractive place for oligarchs and emirs and has helped spur a huge influx of this type of foreign money into London's property market in recent years. That's led to booming property prices.
But there's been a growing backlash against non-doms, particularly those who are seen to be simply exploiting the system just to lower tax bills. HSBC's boss Stuart Gulliver was grilled by MPs over his tax arrangements, which was in part linked to his non-dom status.
The property world are already trying to play down the impact of the changes. Liam Bailey, global head of research at property consultancy Knight Frank, told Business Insider over email: "On their own, the changes to the non-dom tax rules will not have a profound impact on the prime London market, as demand is driven by a number of factors, and non-doms form only a part of demand.
"These reforms follow a series of changes in recent years that make it increasingly difficult to argue prime residential property is under-taxed. The relatively subdued nature of the prime London market since December's stamp duty changes highlights the risk of higher taxation on market demand and also Government revenues."
As well as the non-dom crackdown, property companies haven't been helped by George Osborne announcing a cut to tax relief for buy-to-let landlords. The buy-to-let market has also been booming in recent years.


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Published on 14. 11. 2011 in comics and cartooning, hype & linkage, music and pictorial arts. Closed Tags: DJ Premier, Gerhard Ricther, Heavy D, R. Fiore, T. J. Clark, Will Eisner.
The week in review.
Another fine week. Spent a few days in London for work and had the chance to see a number of the exhibitions on display there. I will return to the landmark Leonardo show at the National Gallery presently and hopefully also to the eye-opening Degas show at the Royal Academy, and perhaps even the enjoyable John Martin retrospective at the Tate. Here, however, I just wanted to attach a few words to the Gerhard Richter retrospective at the Modern.
Extremely well-received critically as well as commercially, Richter is no doubt one of the heavy hitters of contemporary painting. It is easy to see why. Clearly an intelligent artist, he speaks directly to central aspects of postmodern discourse, engaging in his work trauma (the Holocaust) and ideological violence (Rote Armee Fraktion), art history (from Titian to Mondrian), as well — and most essentially — his own medium. His art, which merges the techniques of photography and painting in innovative ways and alternately emphasizes and suppresses the author's hand simply screams META!
Essentially, however, he is a purveyor of kitsch. Yes, he can emulate strikingly the look of a photograph, but beyond the theoretical reception his subversion of mechanical reproduction enables, these pictures are self-importantm, dim reiterations of his paragons, from Friedrich, Redon and Hammershøi to Duchamp and De Kooning. Gimmicky but decorative — hi-fi bank art, fit for the transnational corporate penthouse. Where he really shows his hand, however, is in his abstract art, particularly his squeegee paintings. Loud and garish, they lack any real sense of color or expressive touch. The work of an intellectual, not a painter.
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Not really a recommendation, but the distinguished T. J. Clark provides a lengthy counterargument to my little rant above in this panegyric to Ricther.
R. Fiore on Will Eisner's instructional comics for PS Magazine. The Comics Journal's venerable critic is in fine form here in this essay on one of the puzzles of Eisner's career.
The legendary hip hop producer marks the sad passing this week of golden age great Heavy D with a great mix of testimonials (and often rare) gems from the Hevster's career.
Above: Gerhard Richter, Cage 4 (2006).
Heavy D RIP
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Yesterday saw the passing of golden age hip hop MC Heavy D, "The Overweight Lover," at the too-early age of 44. Best know to the world at large as the man who spat the nimble rap verse on Michael Jackson's "Jam" (1992), he was an important figure in 80 and early 90s hip hop whose substantial contribution is perhaps a little overlooked today.
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I got pulled over for disobey the "No Heavy truck" sign, on the ticket it say Highway traffic act Section 182(2), but I think I didn't disobey the "No Heavy Truck" sign, because my truck was loaded with delivery items(which at the time it was under 5 tonnes), I didn't request for disclosure, the cop that pulled me over didn't even check my truck to see if it is over 5 tonnes.
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Every driver of a commercial motor vehicle shall carry evidence of a type prescribed by the regulations that the vehicle is insured as required by this section and shall surrender the evidence for reasonable inspection upon the demand of a police officer.
Was the ticket in Ontario? Can you scan and post a copy of the ticket with personal info blacked out?
We need to see the officers notes before we can decide if you have a good case to win. You should plead NOT GUILTY and request a Trial with the officer present. Once you get your notice of trial, then you can request disclosure (copy of officers notes). Once you get that, post them back up here for more help.
Where did this occur? My understanding is that the regulations around heavy truck restrictions would be municipal bylaws.
In generally, though, I believe that your truck would be classified as "heavy" based on it's unloaded weight, so what you were actually carrying doesn't matter.
The Toronto bylaw, for example, includes what they call a "necessary exemption" if you are making a local delivery to an address which can not be accessed by an other roads... was that the case here?
You should really get disclosure before trial. I would send a request ASAP for it. At the first trial date, you can request an adjournment to another date as you will need time to review the disclosure and prepare a defense as if you have just received it you will not have enough time to do it.
We need to know what the officers notes say before we can suggest a defense.
Also, Delivery vehicles "The only other regulation directly impacting on trucking/delivery activity is the "No Standing" regulation. No standing regulations are specifically intended to prohibit vehicle from stopping to deliver or pick-up merchandise. No vehicle, regardless of size, making a delivery or pick-up of merchandise may legally stop to do so in an area identified as a "No Standing" zone during the times/days of the week the regulation is in effect"
My trial date is next Monday, is it still possible to request disclosure?
At this stage, I would just wait until trial and on that day ask for it and say you did not know you could ask sooner.
And then tell you want to have time to review the disclosure and possibly seek legal advice and most likely you will get an adjournment to new trial date.
To me (no expert) that's a bit vague in its wording (and may not be the official bylaw wording either).
I agree with jsherk, get the disclosure and an adjournment.
One interpretation could be that it the curb weight (i.e. without cargo or passengers) of your vehicle is over 3t, the sign applies. Another interpretation could be that if the registered gross weight of the vehicle is over 5t, the sign applies.
My understanding is that the RGW is determined by your vehicle registration, and so the officer would know that information (maybe?). If the second interpretation (above) is correct, then this could be the officer's basis for laying the charge, and you don't have a defense really. Disclosure plus a little research should clear that all up.
If for some reason your adjournment is denied, then I would assume that the onus would be on the crown to prove that your vehicle meets the description. Better minds will tell me if I'm wrong!
Thank you guys for the opinion, I will see how it going on the trial and ask for disclosure if I can get it.
Assuming the officer did not weigh your truck, then you can probably beat the ticket.
Basically ask the officer how heavy your truck is (which he wont know), then read the bylaw and then say that the prosecution failed to prove that your truck meets the definition of heavy truck and therefore the charge should be withdrawn.
You do not even need to mention that your truck was not heavy yourself because it is the prosecutor and officer that need to prove that it is.
What kind of vehicle were you driving? What is the RGW?
ppstream1 wrote: Thank you guys for the opinion, I will see how it going on the trial and ask for disclosure if I can get it.
Just for clarification: there's no "if I can get it" about it; you are legally entitled to disclosure.
jsherk wrote: Assuming the officer did not weigh your truck, then you can probably beat the ticket.
Jsherk, should I say that to prosecutor or to the judge when it is in court? From my past experience, when I get to the court prosecutor will talk to me first and ask me if I guilty or not, or set a deal with me, but I will told him I am not plea guilty, and when in court time, I will ask officer how heavy my truck is then read the "Heavy truck bylaw" in the court to set my charge to be withdrawn right.


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During the sale, you can get major discounts on NEW fall items. Once the sale is over, the items go back to regular full price for the rest of the season.
Its hard to imagine shopping for sweaters when its 100 degrees out (at least in Texas). HOWEVER, the great deals and prices are completely worth it!
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Farewell to Orri Vigfusson. Three cheers for David Korten. And one hand claps for Nova Scotia's recent record.
Date:July 9, 2017
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Tagged:Climate Change, Fish and Fisheries, Green Rights, Indigenous, Oceans
Orri Vigfusson is one of my heroes – a very successful Icelandic businessman from a fishing family who made it his mission to save the wild Atlantic salmon from extinction by purchasing and retiring all the commercial Atlantic salmon fishing licenses in the world. Charming but relentless, Orri visited fishers from Spain to Russia to Labrador to Connecticut, found other ways for each of them to prosper, and bought up their licenses. Today the commercial conservation agreements negotiated by his North Atlantic Salmon Federation cover 85% of Atlantic salmon habitat, and 5-10 million salmon that would have died have lived to spawn again. You can read his biography on the NASF site, here. We did a Green Interview with him in 2012, and you can see that interview here.
Orri Vigfusson died of lung cancer in Reykjavik on July 1, at 74. He was a towering example of just what one person can do, and it was a great honour to have known him even slightly.
David Korten is a former professor at the Harvard Business School, a former foreign-aid executive with the Ford Foundation – and a trenchant critic of globalization and corporate power. We did a Green Interview with him in 2013, which you can read here. He's just written a very thoughtful column in YES! Magazine about New Zealand's recognition of the Whanganui River as a living entity with the same rights as a human being. "Modern law," he notes, "has the rights issue exactly backward." We have "a system of law that gives corporations more rights than people and nature no rights at all. Just as our human existence depends on the health and well-being of a living Earth, the existence of corporations depends on the health and well-being of human society." It's a crisp, incisive piece that goes to the heart of the issue. Our interview with David Korten is here.
And the National Observer reports that two provinces have already met their 2030 climate-change targets: Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Well, Nova Scotia does have some achievements to cheer about, but this is not one of them. In 2007, the legislature unanimously passed the enviable Environmental Goals and Sustainable Prosperity Act, which has had some noble effects: for example, 13% of the province's land area is now protected. On the climate change front, however, under a deeply neoLiberal government, this climate-change "success" derives from a 15% decrease in manufacturing activity, and also from some strangely convoluted definitions. Clear-cutting and its even-more-evil sister, whole-tree harvesting, are providing "green"fuel for power generation while transforming the landscape into a wasteland. Meanwhile, the government allows LaFarge to burn rubber tires in a local cement plant, and supports the opening of a new coal mine. That sound you hear? Only one hand is clapping.
Marjorie and I spent Canada 150 — Canada's 150th birthday — at the Coady/Tompkins Memorial Library in Margaree Forks, Nova Scotia. Named for two great social activist priests, Father Moses Coady and Father Greg Tompkins, this little library does a warm and highly-professional literary festival every Canada Day. This year's readers were first-time novelist Barbara Radecki, plus the amazing Ian Brown and Johanna Schneller of the Globe and Mail, and both Marjorie Simmins and me. The place was packed with about 150 people – and it was packed again that evening for a screening of Green Rights. There was great music, food, and tons of great conversation.
Marjorie and I – and many, many other Canadians – had been deeply troubled by the idea of simply celebrating 150 years of Canada's ambiguous history, so I prefaced my reading with this little text:
Canada 150. Mi'kmaki 13,000. Marjorie and I have been deeply troubled about celebrating events which, for the original peoples of this country, have been catastrophic. It's appropriate to celebrate what has been achieved, but only if we also recognize what has not been achieved, and resolve to achieve that as well – a country which fully and equally respects, honours and cherishes everyone in it, and particularly our native brothers and sisters, whose cultures and wisdom traditions so greatly enrich our lives in this country. My film, Green Rights, which will be screened at 7:00 here tonight, has something to say about this, and I hope you'll all be able to attend.
I will be speaking at a public meeting opposing the LaFarge tire-burning deal on Wednesday, July 12 at the Canadian Legion in Stewiacke, NS at 7:00 PM.
I'm also expecting to speak on at the Eco-Connects Gathering on September 23-24, a large conference of environmentalists in Truro, convened by the Nova Scotia Environmental Network. And there may be another Green Rights tour with Merlin the Motorhome coming up in the early autumn as well. The beat goes on….
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