"There will be a backlash against him and the company."
Coffee giant Starbucks is battening down the hatches in preparation for the wave of intense backlash the business will receive if CEO Howard Schultz officially announces his 2020 run as an independent to give moderate Democrats a choice in the face of socialist extremists like Bernie Sanders.
According to FOX Business, Starbucks executives are prepared to face the music if Schultz decides to run for president and are now "monitoring various activist groups tied to the Democratic Party."
"Democratic activist groups have already put Starbucks on notice that if Schultz, a long-time liberal Democrat, does indeed run as an independent in 2020, the company could pay a stiff price with many consumers who believe his candidacy will siphon away voters from the Democratic nominee and help Trump win a second term," reports Fox Business.
"People associated with those groups, including the progressive Center For American Progress, have been mulling a boycott of Starbucks since the former CEO first spoke about the possibility in early 2019," the report continued. "While people inside Starbucks say they've seen little activity about a possible boycott more recently, they're keeping a close eye on various groups' social media accounts for indications of consumer boycotts if Schultz formally announces as an independent."
Earlier this year, lifelong Democrat Schultz said he would run as an Independent because the party had gone too far left. "I'm not a Democrat. I don't affiliate myself with the Democratic Party, who's so far left, who basically wants the government to take over health care which we cannot afford," he told MSNBC at the time. "The government to give free college to everybody and the government to give everyone a job which basically is 40 trillion dollars on the balance sheet of 21 and a half trillion dollars, we can't afford it."
Schultz called for "sensible solutions" to issues like immigration, climate change, and income inequality. "What can we do, what we need is comprehensive tax reform, what we need is sensible solutions to immigration, all of these things cannot happen under the current environment," he continued. "Now I've also been criticized for being a billionaire, let's talk about that. I'm self-made! I grew up in the projects in Brooklyn, New York. I thought that was the American dream, the aspiration of America. You're gonna criticize me for being successful?"
Should Schultz or Starbucks be actually afraid of a boycott if the billionaire decides to run? Democratic Party officials told FOX Business that there indeed will be hell to pay for the coffee giant in the event Schultz runs as a self-funded independent.
"Every activist I speak to talks about boycotting Starbucks if this guy goes through with his mid-life crisis and runs for something he can't win," said one anonymous official. "If he goes through with it, there will be a backlash against him and the company."
Howard Penney, a managing director at Hedgeye Risk Management, said that a Schultz 2020 run will create serious problems for Starbucks in terms of U.S. sales and could very well damage the Starbucks brand, especially if his run contributes to a Trump 2020 victory.
"If [Schultz] does run, I'm 100 percent sure this will be an issue for the company's bottom line," Penney told FOX Business. "The U.S. business is very mature, and store traffic could slow with a boycott and impact sales and then the stock price. It's not on the radar screen now, but if he runs and the boycotts galvanize enough people, it could hurt."


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Artist and Playwright Sarah Greenman
The arts have always been a part of Sarah Greenman. As a child, this painter, playwright, and activist spent hours with her maternal grandmother, a watercolorist in a small attic studio. Her grandfather built the sacred room, because he knew it was important for his wife to have space of her own. That tradition has continued, with Greenman now having a studio behind her own home in Oregon. Its name is "The Little Shed That Could" and it is a place for Greenman to spread out, get messy and experiment.
Growing up in California, Greenman spent a lot of time active with the local community theater. Both of her parents were involved with directing, scriptwriting and performing. Her paternal grandmother even lent her seamstress skills to designing their costumes. Having caught the acting bug, Greenman went on to graduate from the Pacific Conservatory Theater (PCPA).
While serving as interim Director of Outreach and Education at PCPA, she fell in love with her partner, Jack, an accomplished actor and voice dialect coach. The couple relocated to Dallas, where Jack worked at a local university. Greenman frequently contributed to the home tour site Houzz.com and also worked on her lifestyle blog, La Maison Boheme, which focuses on modern bohemianism and art.
Together she and Jack are raising two sons, Walker and Charlie. Charlie lives with a host of special needs that stem from an pediatric stroke and Craniosynostosis. During his early years, Greenman took up painting, because it was something she could do with Charlie in a chest baby carrier. A neighbor saw several of her works and commissioned Greenman to create three inspirational pieces for a fitness studio.
"That commission changed my life," said Greenman. "Because of Charlie's medical care, I could no longer work traditional theatre hours and had to step away from acting. It was very isolating and painting became therapeutic. From that first commission came another and more work started selling. I never dreamed it would become a lucrative profession and am so grateful the art speaks to many people."
In addition to large pieces, Greenman paints house portraits for clients. She considers them little painted love letters because in her words "homes shelter the hopes and dreams of the inhabitants."
Prior to marriage, Greenman attended Mills College in Oakland, California, where she earned a BA in Creative Writing with a Women's Studies emphasis. While there she was awarded the Gertrude Hung Chan Playwriting Prize for her original play LENI and the June Jordan Prize for Poetry. LENI opens with audiences meeting two Leni Riefenstahls, one in the passionate prime of her youth and the other looking back, editing and tinkering away at the events of her life.
"What would happen if the older self confronts the younger's actions, that's something I explore in the work," Greenman surmised. "And the two selves cannot agree on the facts of their life. With everything presently going on in our nation, there's been new interest in the contradictions LENI examines."
Greenman's second play, THE CENTER, is currently in development.
In 2017, Greenman and her family relocated to Oregon. In addition to embracing a new community, Greenman became the Operations Director for StateraArts. The organization focuses on bringing women into full and equal participation in the arts. Mentorship is a key element, as is leadership, pushing for higher salaries, and improved childcare and family housing.
"Statera is the Latin word for balance and for the past several years we have focused on increasing opportunities for theatre artists who identify as women," Greenman said. "We have to change who is sitting at the table, making decisions. For far too long women, especially women of color have been denied a spot. There are powerful movements going on in the country right now and it's up to each of us to participate."
In addition to supporting Statera's program development, Greenman assists with website maintenance, newsletters, social media presence, and public relations. The organization's fourth annual conference will take place in October and every spring it organizes Support Women Artists Now (SWAN) Day.
When she's not working to change the world or composing works of art, Greenman can be found walking the trails near her home. Often she's quietly contemplating what her next creative move will be.
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Greenman has left her position at StateraArts to become an independent and solo artist. In her own words, she is now a "creative alchemist, artist, storyteller, writer, and facilitator." In addition to her art, Greenman offers E-Courses, an Oracle Deck and readings, one-on-one creative consultations, and is available as a speaker for events. Greenman also launched the Collaborative Alchemy Podcast. The project brings together artists, thought leaders, activists, farmers, educators, creatives, and other polymaths where they tell stories, expand histories, and hold space for new ways of being.
Visit Greenman's website to learn more.
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Air Traffic Controllers Who Saw UFO Muzzled by FAA
Ray Stern | April 22, 2008 | 11:38am
Air traffic controllers in the main tower of Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport saw last night's bizarre spectacle of red lights flying across North Valley skies, but the Federal Aviation Administration won't let them talk to the media.
Ian Gregor, FAA regional spokesman, says the agency's policy won't allow controllers to comment even if they want to relate their experience.
Gregor confirmed that "several" air traffic controllers in the tower saw the staggered formation of mysterious lights moving in the sky, apparently over North Phoenix. He says he heard that second-hand, though — the tower's manager told him about it.
Pilots Who Saw UFO Over Arizona Speak Out: 'It Didn't Look Anything Like an Airplane'
The controllers didn't consider the source of the lights to be a hazard, because nothing was popping up on radar, Gregor says.
Several media outlets are displaying photographs of the lights taken by Valley residents, which seems to confirm that something was up there. Heck, the Republic even quoted no less an eminent source than one of its own reporters, Anne Ryman, as having eyewitnessed the event. Photos and videos can be seen today on www.azcentral.com.
The lights have defied quick explanation. Even the Sky Harbor lookouts had "no idea" what the darned things were, Gregor says.
Yet it seems clear air traffic controllers could offer a professional description of the UFOs, since they are, presumably, experts at spotting distant aircraft. Their guesses at the altitude, distance, speed and physical nature (if any) of the UFOs would carry more weight than those of the average skywatcher.
Gregor won't budge, though. "This has nothing to do with the FAA," he says.
New Times has filed a formal request with the FAA for radar records of any unidentified aircraft in the area from the agency's Albuquerque and Phoenix-area radar centers, just in case anything was missed.
The sky was clear last night, so the lights apparently weren't reflections from a source on the ground. Aircraft would have shown up on radar. Military stealth aircraft would be unlikely to be covered in brilliant red lights. So would alien spacecraft, in this writer's humble opinion. You take the time to fly thousands, if not millions, of light years across space to Earth, only to put on a relatively boring air show? What hosers, these aliens! They can't even seem to give us a missing man formation, much less the secret to a long-lasting technological civilization.
These new lights may be more mysterious than the V-shaped formation over Phoenix that caused a stir in 1997. After that sighting, the military confirmed there were aircraft dropping flares near the Phoenix area, and New Times reported that a local guy named Mitch Stanley looked at the source of the lights with his telescope and saw — airplanes. His description of squared-off wings gibed with a type of ground-attack airplane called an A-10 Warthog, the same type the military said had been in the area that night. I didn't see the famed Phoenix Lights, but it makes sense to me that if they might have been A-10s, they probably were.
I'd like a rational explanation for these new lights, and soon — because the media abhors a vacuum. And there are plently of people who will come out the woodwork to fill that vacuum with all sorts of ungrounded nonsense.
Paradise Valley resident Lynn Kitei, who has made a career out of the 1997 lights, is a case study in how much bull can be packed into a few unidentified lights: "Kitei's research goes far beyond UFOs," says a 2006 East Valley Tribune article. "She said she believes ghosts, UFOs and other unexplained phenomena are all connected."
Still, even skeptics like me can't shake their curiosity about things like this. To paraphrase Carl Sagan, incredible claims require incredibly good evidence. So far, there's just no telling whether these lights represented actual aircraft, reflections, weather-related phenomena, Satan, incorporeal alien life or mass hysteria (sorry, Anne). Stay tuned.


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Tirso Timoteo Rodrigáñez y Mateo Sagasta (Logronyo, 24 de gener de 1853 - Madrid, 2 d'agost de 1935). Advocat, periodista i polític espanyol, va ser ministre d'Hisenda durant la regència de Maria Cristina d'Habsburg-Lorena i durant el regnat d'Alfons XIII.

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Nebot del president del Govern i fundador del partit Liberal, Práxedes Mateo Sagasta. Després d'estudiar Dret en la Universitat Central de Madrid inicia la seva carrera professional d'advocat al mateix temps que desenvolupa la seva activitat periodística en el periòdic liberal "La Iberia" del que serà director entre 1876 i 1883. En 1883 es casà amb María Sánchez-Guerra Martínez, filla de José Sánchez Guerra y Martínez.

Membre del Partit Fusionista serà elegit diputat al Congrés per Logronyo a les eleccions generals espanyoles de 1881. Després de no obtenir acta de diputat en les següents eleccions, tornarà a resultar escollit pel districte d'Arnedo en les successives eleccions celebrades entre 1886 i 1903, per finalment ser triat senador vitalici en 1905.

Va ser ministre d'Hisenda entre el 19 de març i el 15 de novembre de 1902 als governs que, presidits per Sagasta, tancarien l'etapa de la Regència de Maria Cristina i van iniciar la del regnat d'Alfons XIII. Posteriorment tornaria a ocupar aquesta cartera ministerial entre el 3 d'abril de 1911 i el 12 de març de 1912 en el gabinet que presidiria José Canalejas y Méndez.

Va ser així mateix subsecretari d'Ultramar i de governació, i també governador del Banc d'Espanya tres cops, entre 1910 i 1911, entre 1917 i 1919 i, finalment en 1923.

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For once, I didn't give a PowerPoint presentation (if PowerPoint makes you stupid, then I must be dim as a plank at this stage) but instead spoke from some notes, which you can find here.
I expanded on my opinion that, despite its flawed nature, Ireland's best interests were served by signing the treaty. (Another speaker was more negative about whether ICTU should support the Treaty).
One issue I discussed (and will probably discuss more in the future) is whether there could be an EU or IMF-sponsored bailout if Ireland doesn't sign the treaty and fails to regain market access. My sense is that there would be no political will in Europe for a bailout for a country that would not sign the Compact.
In relation to the IMF, I'd recommend people go to pages 98-100 of this report from December 2010. You'll see the following "Overall, the proposed access would entail substantial risks to the Fund. The Fund would be highly exposed to Ireland in terms of both the stock of outstanding credit and the projected debt service, for an extended period and in a context of high overall debt and debt service burdens." An IMF-only deal for Ireland in 2013 would greatly magnify these risks. A small-scale sticking plaster deal following a large fiscal restructuring and a rapid austerity programme might be a possibility.
I don't want to talk too much about the ICTU meeting but my sense from the questions I got (I left before any internal discussion) was that the attendees were considering the issues in a very thoughtful manner. It will be interesting to see how they decide to campaign.
Finally, I'd note that I've had some feedback from people confused by my "sign this flawed treaty" argument but all I can say is that this isn't a simple black or white issue. And I'm prone to being a "shades of grey type" at the best of times.
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Q: Defining all the HTML in React app? Right now I have only one html element

 and all my HTML code in a React app like this
const App = React.createClass({
  render () {
    return (

          ..

          ..

    );
  }
});

Is this really the way to do it? Only my menu and content are dynamic.
For instance, I have the menu
<Link className='navbar-brand' to='/'>Brand</Link>

<IndexLink className='nav-link' to='/' activeClassName='active'>Home</IndexLink>

<NavLink className='nav-link' to='/contact'>Contact</NavLink>

which has to be defined in React, and the content

  {this.props.children}

which also has to be defined in React.
But all the other html is not dynamic, so should I also define this in React or is it better to have a normal html document in which I replace only the menu and the content, and then keep the rest as normal html?

A: All of your app html will be static, but rendered with the virtual DOM.
Since your nav and content most likely will run off of some routing mechanism, they probably should be located in the same application.
You could write your app component inside a more static function like this to remove the extra weight of the lifecycle methods, as an option:
import React from 'react';

const App = () => (

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Q: Calling a JavaScript file function from script tag in a Visual Studio Flask project I have a Flask web page that is using a library that do not load properly when the Flask decorator '@app.after_request' is used. Is there a way to disable that decorator only for certain pages?

A: You could make your own decorator function that checks for the request path or just check in another function.
@app.route('/whatever/path')
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    if request.path == "doesn't/work":
        return view_func()
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I'm not sure if this is best practice.

A: You could add a condition in your @app.after_request decorator to exit it if the path in request is the one you want to exclude from decorator.
@app.after_request
def myAfterRequest():
  if ( request.path == 'path/to/exclude' ):
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  return

A: Thank you so much for your replies. Just a side note (because it took me a while to figure out why :-)): For those that are also using 'request' from 'urllib' in addition to 'flask', the proposed solutions only works if you make aliases. This will work:
from flask import Flask, render_template, request

This will not work:
from urllib import request
from flask import Flask, render_template


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22.68 Records of the committee (65A-F31, 66A-D33, 66A-H23.2) include petitions and memorials from clubs and individuals protesting a water power bill that was passed in 1920 and supporting H.R. 14469 (66th Cong.) to exclude the national parks and monuments from the operation of the act. Four bill files relating to committee activities consist of bills, reports, memorandums, letters from Federal agencies, and a resolution of the Montana Legislative Assembly. Minutes of the committee appear in two bound volumes; there is also a docket book.


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Owners of The Buscot Park Estate
Marriage & Money
Murder at The Priory
Basque and Spanish Exiles
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An Industrialised Agricultural Estate in Berkshire
Edward Loveden
The original mansion and park at Buscot were built between 1780 and 1783 for Edward Loveden Loveden (c.1749–1822) by James Darley at the cost of £20,186 (about £780,000 in today's terms). Loveden's family had acquired land in Buscot some two centuries previously, having purchased the manor of Michael's Court from Sir Francis Stonor in 1557. Edward Loveden Townsend, who was born in Cirencester, inherited the estate in 1749, when still an infant, at the death of his great-uncle, Edward Loveden, the last direct male heir. In 1772, Townsend (as his uncle's bequest required) changed his name to Loveden, having by then completed his education at Winchester and Trinity College, Oxford.
Loveden was an extremely wealthy individual, benefiting, as one biographer put it, 'from his own father's estate, inherited in 1787, the Loveden estate, and from three provident marriages'. He served as High Sheriff of Berkshire in 1781–2, as a magistrate in Berkshire, Wiltshire and Oxfordshire, as lieutenant-colonel of the Berkshire militia, and as an independent MP – first for Abingdon, from 1783 to 1796, then for Shaftesbury in Dorset, from 1802 to 1812. He was a co-founder of the Board of Agriculture (now the Royal Agricultural Society), in 1793, and he became its vice-president in 1807.
Perhaps his greatest achievement, for which he earned the nickname 'Old Father Thames', was to preside over the parliamentary committee of 1793 tasked with improving the Thames Navigation, from Staines, upstream in Berkshire, to Lechlade in Gloucestershire. Loveden was, in the words of Humphrey Household, historian of the Thames & Severn Canal, 'a very active and purposive commissioner, and a powerful advocate for new cuts or canals which would improve navigation and shorten distances'. He also had a strong vested interest in the route of any proposed new canals, since the tolls he charged for the use of Buscot Lock were amongst the highest on the Thames and afforded him a considerable income. As one of the prime movers behind the Thames & Severn and the Wilts & Berks Canals, he devoted much energy to their planning and finance, though he resigned angrily and in disillusionment in 1812 when it became clear that his private interests were no longer being served.
Despite the provident marriages, Loveden spent a great deal on building Buscot and acquiring land. After his death in 1822, papers refer to the debts of the estate and to the fact that much of the additional land acquired between 1786 and 1792 was mortgaged. This continued to be the position as Buscot passed to Loveden's son, Pryse Pryse, in 1822, to his grandson, Pryse Loveden, in 1849 and to his great-grandson, Sir Pryse Pryse, first baronet, in 1855. The latter's main interests were in the Pryse estates in Wales, and in 1859 he put the Buscot estate on the market.
Robert Tertius Campbell
The new owner was Robert Tertius Campbell, an Australian tycoon whose wealth was founded upon gold trading in Australia. Like Loveden before him, he made major improvements to the estate, and he borrowed prodigiously to do so. A man of large and original ideas, that were much in advance of their time, he proceeded to turn Buscot into the most highly industrialised farm in the country.
Campbell is said to have been an enlightened employer, but there were miscalculations and misfortunes, and his grandiose projects consumed capital. His most ambitious project, a distillery set up to create spirit alcohol from sugar beet, was closed in 1879, and when Campbell died in 1887, the estate was left heavily in debt (though he himself still had assets of over £600,000).
In 1889 Buscot was sold to Alexander Henderson, later 1st Lord Faringdon (1850-1934), a financier of exceptional skill and ability. Henderson was the second son of a distinguished Greek and Hebrew scholar, George Henderson of Langholm, Dumfries, and brother of Brigadier-General Sir Brodie Haldane Henderson, RE. His first job in the City was with Deloittes, a leading firm of accountants. Soon afterwards, he joined the stockbroking firm of Greenwood & Co., whose merger in 1932 with Cazenove Ackroyd was due to his efforts.
At an early age he became a leading figure in the City, financing a wide range of industrial and business enterprises, but specialising in the promotion of railways, both in this country and in South America. He was chairman of the Great Central Railway from 1889 until the regrouping of 1922 (when it became part of the London & North Eastern) and a major shareholder in the Manchester Ship Canal. He also held interests in port developments and telephone and electrical systems all over the world. During the First World War he launched the British Trade Corporation, serving as its first chairman. He was created a baronet in 1902, baron in 1916, and a Companion of Honour in the following year.
The 1st Lord Faringdon's political career was firmly allied to his business and commercial interests. He first entered the House of Commons as a Unionist MP in 1898, and became a strong supporter of Joseph Chamberlain's campaign for tariff reform, acquiring control of a newspaper, the Standard, to advocate these views. He later became a frequent speaker in the House of Lords on this and related subjects. At Buscot, he reverted to a more traditional policy of estate management than his predecessor, Robert Campbell, but rendered notable services to agriculture by his improvements to pedigree stock. He served as High Sheriff of Berkshire and as President of the Shire Horse Society. Lord Faringdon's eldest son, Colonel The Hon. H.G. Henderson, married Lady Violet Dalzell, daughter of the 14th Earl of Carnwath, but died in 1922, twelve years before his father.
Gavin Henderson, 2nd Lord Faringdon, thus succeeded his grandfather in 1934. Educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, the 2nd Lord Faringdon had, in the 1920s, been a member of the set known as the 'Bright Young Things' immortalised in the novels of Evelyn Waugh and Aldous Huxley. But by the time he succeeded to Buscot he had developed a strong interest in public affairs, had joined the Labour Party, and had keenly supported the Republican cause in the Spanish Civil War. A convinced pacifist, he joined the Fire Service in the Second World War, serving with great courage during the blitz in London, Bristol and other large cities. After the war he sat on the executive committee of the Fabian Society until 1969, and was chairman of the Society's Colonial Bureau from 1952 to 1958. He also served on the London County Council (LCC), as a councillor from 1958 to 1961, and as an alderman from 1961 to 1965. After the creation of the Greater London Council (GLC) in that year, he was appointed to serve on its Historic Buildings Committee.
During the 2nd Lord Faringdon's day, Buscot was regularly used as the venue for conferences attended by prominent socialist politicians, the most celebrated being in 1970, after the fall of Harold Wilson's Labour government. Buscot was also noted for its tradition of political weekend parties. But politicians were not the only visitors: the arts were also fully represented. Lord Faringdon was a trustee of the Wallace Collection and, in a house where the owner had amassed, rather than inherited, the majority of the contents (and was continually adding to them) this must have provoked many an enjoyable discussion.
In fact, what we see at Buscot today are the combined art collections of the first two Lords Faringdon. To say that their tastes were catholic is perhaps another way of expressing the fact that the accumulation of a collection of pictures was not of studied importance for either owner. Nevertheless, there are some fine works among those acquired by the 1st Lord Faringdon: Rembrandt's portrait of the grave and introspective man, who may be Pieter Six, is a masterpiece of characterisation and Murillo's Triumph of the Eucharist is an outstanding Catholic image, while the Burne-Jones Briar Rose series, pervaded by an intense imaginative power, belongs to the highest achievements of English nineteenth-century painting. Sadly, most of Lord Faringdon's nineteenth-century English paintings, including Watts's Choosing and Millais' Esther, were dispersed at auction in July 1934; fortunately, three of the best examples, Watts's Wife of Pygmalion, Ford Madox Brown's Entombment, and Leighton's Daedalus and Icarus, were bought back by his grandson.
The bulk of the pictures to be seen at Buscot today were purchased by the 2nd Lord Faringdon. His enthusiasm for adding to the collection, and his zeal for visiting dealers and auctions, remained with him until the day of his death. These accessions were never quite in the same realms of grandeur as those of the 1st Lord Faringdon – his predilections were more for diverse and minor examples, which had for him an instant appeal. But, together with pictures which pleased him for their element of fantasy, he added to the Italian pictures Palma's Marriage of St Catherine and Pace's St Jerome, and to the Flemish collection, the Rubens and Jordaens portraits, all of them worthy of the high seriousness of his grandfather.
Buscot Today
In 1948 Ernest Cook bought the Buscot Park estate, leasing the house and garden back to Lord Faringdon. The following year Cook gave the house and the surrounding 55 acres to the National Trust; he bequeathed the remainder of the entire estate as an endowment to the property under his will in 1956. Lord Faringdon continued to live there, as well as at Barnsley, an outstanding baroque building some twelve miles distant, which his mother had bought as a Dower House when he succeeded to Buscot in 1934. In 1962 he transferred the majority of the important contents of Buscot, with an endowment, to the Trustees of the Faringdon Collection. The heirloom pictures, excluded from this gift, were later handed over by his nephew.
The present Lord Faringdon (Charles Michael, 3rd Lord Faringdon) succeeded his uncle in 1977. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge,and did his National Service in the 16th/5th The Queen's Royal Lancers. In 1959 he married Sarah (Askew); they have three sons and a daughter.
Lord Faringdon joined Cazenove & Co. in 1961 where he was a partner responsible for the firm's Fund Management until 1996. He became a director of Witan Investment Trust plc in 1976, and was chairman for twenty-three years, retiring in 2003. His other interests have included the chairmanship of the Royal Marsden Hospital and the Institute of Cancer Research (at different times), and the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (1994-98). He also became a Commissioner for English Heritage (1998-2002), Honorary Treasurer of the National Arts Collection Fund, and Lord-in-Waiting to Her Majesty The Queen. Recently he has been appointed Pro-Chancellor of the University of West London.
In 1996, Lord Faringdon gave Barnsley Park to his second son, Thomas, and has recently moved out of Buscot House itself to allow his eldest son, James, and his family to live there, and has moved to a newly erected dower house (Plantation House) in the grounds.


Even skating has a dress code.
Kids skate tees are more than an accoutrement. It is a nod to the realm of extreme sports. When your child cavorts around town in a skate-inspired tee, he reminds passersby of the devilishly daring world of skateboarding. Some parents have their own history within this world and so it's no surprise that skate companies are now targeting the world of baby and kids' fashions in order to accommodate parental nostalgia. However, many up-and-coming youths develop an affinity for skateboards and have earned their right to sport skate tees with pride.
Skate tees are typically manufactured by companies that support big names in the skateboarding world. Many of these companies sponsor extreme sporting events alongside their support of athletes. So, when you're looking to purchase a kid's skate tee, the decision isn't always arbitrary. You or your child may be a fan of a specific athlete, and so it would make sense to purchase from the company that supports your prized skateboarding icon.
Be aware that there is a generous amount of crossover throughout the skate, snowboarding, and surf world. Since these sports are classified under the "extreme" category, many skaters have no problem traipsing about in labels that were originally surf-themed. There is also the reality that many skaters are surfers as well as snowboarders. If it's wild and dangerous, they are doing it and must be dressed accordingly.Paul Frank Industries is an excellent place to shop for colorful skate tees. Many young female skaters enjoy wearing the Julius monkey logo, and the bright designs and fun logos are a treat for most children. Although Paul Frank is primarily an indie label, the company's designs are often sold in skate-related stores and worn by all manner of skate-fans. Paul Frank also sells a generous amount of kids' apparel which can be difficult to find under different skate labels.
Brands like Quicksilver also appeal to the children's crowd, but many big name skate apparel lines do not cater to children's sizing. Some offer only adult sizes, so your child may have to wait until his teen years to sport the Volcom logo properly.
Since many skate stores will be dominated by adult apparel, you may need to look at stores that specialize in subcultures.
Online vendors such as PunkBabyClothes offer skate-related/punk T-shirts that should suffice. The world of skateboarding isn't limited to skate-company brands. Many skaters also dabble in the punk world and vice versa. If your child is primarily interested in the competitive sports side of skateboarding, he may not appreciate stores like Hot Topic. However, if the skateboarding subculture carries the appeal, this can open up your child's fashion options tremendously.
When you're looking to purchase children's skate tees for your child, it's never a bad idea to ensure that your he also has a skateboard. When your child announces his allegiance to a subculture, he'll endure less flack if he's actually a part of that subculture. In essence, it's a bit sad when your kid is decked out in skateboard apparel while his passion is for drama club. Fellow classmates may be slightly critical of these fashion choices. Such inconsistencies can lead to name calling and various forms of public disapproval.
So when your child begins to request the fashion of this subculture, remember the rule: skateboard first, then T-shirts.


There has been an amendment to the migration regulations which removes barriers to applicants applying for medical treatment visas onshore by removing the current 'Schedule 3' requirements. These are replaced by the requirement to provide legislatively specified documentation.
This documentation is designed to ensure only applicants with genuine medical conditions may apply for this visa and will include the additional Form 1507 which must be signed by a registered medical practitioner.
These amendments apply to medical treatment visa applications made on or after 1 July 2017.


The global Library Management Software Market is expected to reach USD 2.80 billion by 2024. Emerging trend automating library functions is expected to be one of the key driving factors of the market. In 2016, North American dominated the global market contributing to 40.5% of the market share pertaining to the increasing number of online libraries along with corporates. Asia Pacific is expected to grow at the fastest CAGR over the forecast period pertaining to the increasing awareness of education in the region.
In compliance with the driving factors, companies are focusing on software development as well as mergers and acquisitions to expand their presence in global market. For instance, in October 2015, ProQuest successfully acquired Ex Libris to provide new solutions that will help libraries to seize the opportunities in rapidly changing technology. This strategy has been helpful to both libraries and the company's financial position on accounts of profound investments in research and libraries.
The companies are also focusing on expanding their software portfolio to maximize its end use through means of various strategies. For instance, in April 2015, EBSCO acquired an online platform named LearningExpress which would benefit the company to expand its student library range to help the students improve their academic skills and get ready for mock test series.
The lucrative growth of library management software market primarily driven by increasing tangible stock which is also likely to be favored by easy access and use through smartphones or any other online platforms. These factors are expected to result in a noticeable growth of the global library management software market over the next forecast period.


I have to admit that I'm a sucker when it comes to a beer brewed with chile peppers, but nearly all of them are, for the most part, disappointing. But I hold out hope that one day, a beer brewed with hot peppers will come along and be great…so when I knew that Dave, one of my beer trading friends, would have access to this spicy offering, I just had to try it. Thanks, Dave!
Released in late 2013 in limited quantities, Space Ghost is an Imperial Stout brewed with Anaheim chiles and Ghost peppers. The Scoville Scale is used to rate how hot peppers are; Anaheim chiles are fairly mild, only registering 500-2,500 units, but Bhut Jolokia, a/k/a the Ghost Pepper, is one of the hottest peppers in the world, rating an exceptionally hot 330,000-1,532,310 units! And don't just think you're getting a bunch of peppers; the backing beer is a serious Imperial Stout, coming in at 12% ABV (alcohol by volume). Unfortunately, you'll have to look up the ABV online, as it is not printed on the bottle, nor is a bottling or best by date.
Space Ghost pours an average size, creamy and dense head that quickly fades. The color is spot-on for an Imperial Stout; pitch black and opaque, with just a hint of a lighter brown translucent edge. As I poured, the body appeared clear and free of particles and sediment. Once the head diminished, that was it — there was no lacing, and this might be thanks to the pepper oils. Or the fact that this beast is 12% ABV.
On the nose, you'd never really guess this is a beer made with peppers, although they do appear with notes of garden fresh bell peppers. This is dominated by heavy, sweet malts, most notably milk and dark chocolate, some caramel, and sweetened coffee. There's also a pleasant whiff of smoke, and as it warms, a lovely dash of dark fruits (grape and prune) interplay with the earthy pepper nicely.
The taste takes a few sips to come in, so swirl it around a bit and get the spicy heat fully started. Pepper heat builds initially, drying out the mouth, but excellent malty flavors take over in the middle. We've got loads of dark chocolate, coffee, and burnt bread crust. Dark fruits are abound, and they play off of the tolerable yet growing peppery heat very well — dry grape and prune hit the heat and a gentle puff of natural smoke hits the palate. No liquid smoke here! The finish unwinds with layers of thick chocolate but bitterness builds with a growing presence of toasted (burnt) bread. Then you're left with a nice heat that readies your mouth for another sip.
This is a really nice beer, but let me make a couple of points here: I'm not sure Imperial Stout lends itself well to a beer built with very spicy peppers — you almost need something thirst quenching instead of drying, and the big toasted note with smoke on the end almost makes this one too much. For 12% ABV, you'd never guess it, and the spice is very well done. Central Waters need to revisit this beer and play with it a bit. I'd heartily recommend Space Ghost, but I suggest you have a friend on hand to help you with the bottle or at least have a nice food pairing to go with it.
Central Waters Space Ghost Imperial Stout, 88 points.
The final Goose Island Bourbon County variant we'll be reviewing that was (somewhat) readily available in late 2013 is Backyard Rye, which is Bourbon County Brand Stout dosed with mulberries, marionberries, and boysenberries, then aged in Templeton Rye whiskey barrels. Around 200 barrels of the beer were made; exactly 50 pounds of berry puree was put into each barrel, meaning a staggering 10,000 pounds of fruit was used in the making of this beer!
While barrel-aged beer was around long before 1994, Goose Island made it popular in the United States when they placed Imperial Stout in bourbon barrels to celebrate their 1,000th batch of beer made at the original Clybourn brewpub. After tasting the results, it seemed like every brewery either had or wanted a barrel aging program. Goose Island's Bourbon County Brand Stout achieved legendary status.
Inspired by the berries they ate in their backyards when growing up, the brewers at Goose Island dreamed up this berry version of Bourbon County. It comes in at 12.7% ABV (alcohol by volume) and 60 IBUs (International Bitterness Units). This variation in the series comes in a 22 oz. bomber size bottle, versus the standard 12 oz. offering.
The pour went very similar to the other Bourbon County Stout varieties — it produced a minimal, scant head that fizzled away within seconds of filling the glass. Backyard Rye is pitch black, and there's no lighter color to be found, even around the edges; when held in very bright light, there is a bit of a red tint going on. As I poured, the body appeared to be clear and there didn't seem to be any particles or sediment. There was no lacing.
On the nose, the berries are evident with a blast of fresh fruit — now, let's get one thing straight before I get too much further: I've never tasted mulberries, marionberries, or boysenberries, so I can't tell you in detail about the berry scent other than it's fresh, it's jammy, and it also reminds me a bit of red Twizzler candy. Despite the massive wave of fruit, there's a bit of room for the hefty malts, presented in caramel, dark chocolate, and roast; then we've got the barrel components, which give off vanilla, smooth whiskey, and a bit of wood. It's nice. Incredibly nice.
The taste offers initial notes of dark chocolate glazed berries with a side of dipping caramel; we've got fresh berries and warming sweetness that transitions into just an edge of unripened tartness. The berries dominate initially, until the middle of the taste when the Imperial Stout starts to take over with a hit of caramel, burnt sugar, and vanilla from the whiskey barrels. Unlike the other Bourbon County variants, the barrel is toned down to a smooth team player rather than a ball-hog. It adds complex notes of vanilla, spicy whiskey, and wood to the delicious underpinning of full-flavored berries. The finish is quite sweet but not cloying, and this brew comes off like one of the best desserts you'll ever try. Amazing! Backyard Rye is full-bodied, with a thick, sticky, creamy mouthfeel.
WOW. What else is there to say? Well, there's this: Backyard Rye is an amazing beer packed with full, decadent flavors that are sure to wow. Far too often, I'm disappointed by stouts brewed with fruit, but this might just be the gold standard. This brew is to the point where you hesitate to call it beer, because there really aren't any beery points of reference. If you're lucky enough to have a bottle of this, what are you waiting on? I wouldn't age this — I'd find a nice evening in the not-so-distant future, pry the cap and enjoy the ride. If my beer drinking career came to an unfortunate end on this bottle, I can't say I'd be sorry. Waiting on this one will likely turn out to be a mistake.
Goose Island Backyard Rye Bourbon County Brand Stout (2013), 99 points. Price: $19.99 US for one 22 oz. bomber size bottle.


Isn't it interesting the different responses to this subject. I guess we never know who, what, when or where do we?
Hi, I smoked very little in my early 20's,. I never bought a pack of cigs just bumb one off a friend once in awhile. That was 37 years ago. I grew up in a non smoking home. My brother smoked for 20 years and also developed bc ten years ago. (he quit smoking). I have taken pain meds for nine years and I believe that is what gave me the bc. A real catch twentytwo. The pain meds allow me to lead a very active life, but am I setting myself up for more bc.
I never smoked but I was a second hand smoker as most of my friends are smoking .
my grandfather died at 109 and he was smoker , he lived his life and passed away without any kind of disease.
10 years 5 months ago	#22232 by Flamenco.
I grew up in a non smoking family, so no passive smoking there. Smoked in my teens until about 23. After marriage (hubby non smoker), and kids, became an occasional social smoker ( I reckon about 60 cigs per year ). Stopped altogether about 6 years ago after a funny thing appeared in my mouth and scared me off well and good !!
That was quite a read. I do know this, chemo isn't the real answer. BCG (immunotherapy) and the article you found have to be some of the keys. Have saved that one for my "library" as my uro really enjoys my "research."
Maybe it's more of what we ingest food wise? Someday we may know!


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Rebel Cities : Paris, London and New York in the Age of Revolution
London, Paris and New York in the eighteenth century, as today, were places where political authority, commerce and money, art and intellectual life intersected. They straddled an Atlantic world where ships powered by nothing more than wind, currents and human muscle criss-crossed the sea, carrying with them goods, ideas and above all people: men and women, bewigged aristocrats and lawyers, rough-handed craftworkers, quill-wielding bluestockings and doughty fishwives. But the cities were also home to dangerous criminals, corrupt politicians - and slaves.
Rebel Cities explores the stormy debate about the nature of cities in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: were they places of enlightenment, sparkling wells of progress and civilisation, or were they dens of vice, degeneracy and disorder? Against a backdrop of accelerating urban expansion and revolution in both Europe and North America, revolutionary burghers of these extraordinary cities expended ink, paint, breath and, sometimes, blood in their struggle to understand, control and master the urban world. Drawing on hundreds of letters, travelogues and eye-witness accounts, Mike Rapport vividly evokes the sights, sounds and smells of these cities, masterfully weaving their history with the politics of revolution. When New Yorkers and Parisians experienced their revolution, when their cities went to war, and when Londoners engaged in political protest, they underwent the whole torrent and exhilaration of human emotions.
Determining the character of the cities through their inhabitants, as well as their architecture, topography and the events that shaped them, this magnificent book evokes what it was like for all parts of society to live in London, Paris and New York in one of the most transformative periods in the history of civilisation.
Published 03/10/2019 (Abacus) in United Kingdom
Paperback | 464 pages, Section: 16, b/w photos


I'd love to see the Mac version developed a bit more. I have had broken directory errors too. I always keep a backup of my hard disc image. I did manage to use it recently write some code to port my Newsbase email to mbox format though so it's not all bad. The disc errors meant I needed the real RiscPC to do the actual reprocessing though.


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America's Got Talent Comedian Drew Lynch Takes The Renaissance Stage
"Do something every day that scares you" is a motto Drew lives by. In 2015, Drew Lynch captured the hearts of America with his Golden Buzzer performance on Season 10 of America's Got Talent. Now Drew will be taking the stage at the Renaissance Theatre on Saturday, February 11.
"The person I was before would probably never hang out with who I am today" is the statement that resonated most in capturing audiences across the country, as they fell in love with his charming wit and genuine vulnerability every week of the competition.
Drew becoming a comedian was almost as unintentional as capturing America's hearts. At the young age of 19, Drew moved to Los Angeles with aspirations of becoming an actor; a dream he had since he was a kid. A freak accident just a year into his acting career left Drew with a severe stutter and crushed his hopes of ever performing again.
Comedy, Renaissance Theatre
Happy Birthday To Mansfield's Grand Ohio Theatre
It was 95 years ago today that guests flocked to the brand-new Ohio Theatre on Park Avenue West, today known as the Renaissance Theatre.
January 19, 1928 was an important date in local history as a showing of "Get Your Man" with Clara Bow opened the new movie palace.
Today, the Renaissance Performing Arts Association celebrated the birthday with a social media post on Facebook. It shared, "Today marks 95 years that the Renaissance Theatre has called Mansfield home. We want to say thank you to each member of our community for their ongoing support of the arts. It is our promise to continue to bring the very best productions, education, and experiences. Let's continue to make memories together over the next 95 years."
Mansfield History, Renaissance Theatre
Pinocchio At The Ren
The Renaissance Theatre will host the second of its three Teddy Bear Concerts in the 2022-23 Mechanics Bank Education Series on Sunday, February 19 at 2:30 PM.
The performance features an original script by Michael Thomas in an engaging adaptation of "Pinocchio" that features audience participation, and interactive storytelling performed by local actors and live musicians from the Mansfield Symphony.
Teddy Bear concerts take place at the Renaissance's Theatre 166 venue with audience members sitting in close proximity to the performers. Geared to children ages 2 through 10, each Teddy Bear concert offers an interactive element as well as a relaxed environment. Small audience sizes, lights up, and low sound levels as well as safe sensory spaces allow audience members with autism and other sensory-processing issues to be accommodated at this performance.
Featured, Renaissance Theatre, Teddy Bear Concerts, Youth
Country Music Legends Diamond Rio Coming To Mansfield
Diamond Rio, a band known for dozens of hits and platinum albums for over 25 years, will play the Renaissance Theatre on Saturday, January 7 at 8:00 PM. The band made popular by hits like "Meet in the Middle", "How Your Love Makes Me Feel", "One More Day" and more is sure to have audiences singing along.
Tickets to see Diamond Rio in concert at the Renaissance Theatre range from $15 to $60 and are on sale online at rentickets.org, or by visiting or calling the Renaissance Box Office at 419-522-2726. Diamond Rio is presented as a part of the Avita Health System Concert Series, with season partners DRM, Schmidt Security Pro, LIND advertising, Mid-State Multimedia, Hughie's event services, Richland County Foundation, Ohio Arts Council, Richland Source, and The Cleveland Financial Group.
Concerts, Renaissance Theatre
Christmas PJs Encouraged To Watch The Muppets At The Ren
Christmas at the Ren continues to "Bless us all!" with the return of the beloved film "The Muppet Christmas Carol" on the big screen.
The afternoon of Christmas magic begins behind the Renaissance Theatre with an opportunity to post Letters to Santa and meet live reindeer!
Inside of the auditorium, families will enjoy hot chocolate and the movie event. Christmas pajamas are highly encouraged!
In this holiday classic, the Muppets perform the Dickens tale, with Kermit the Frog playing Bob Cratchit, the put-upon clerk of stingy Ebenezer Scrooge (Michael Caine). Other Muppets—Miss Piggy, Gonzo, Fozzie Bear and Sam the Eagle—weave in and out of the story, while Scrooge receives visits from spirits of three Christmases—past, present and future. They show him the error of his self-serving ways, but the miserable old man seems to be past any hope of redemption and happiness.
Family Fun, Featured, Holidays, Renaissance Theatre
A Christmas Tradition: Holiday Pops Returns To The Ren
The sounds of the season will come alive as the Mansfield Symphony Orchestra and Chorus present its "Holiday Pops" concert at the beautiful Renaissance Theatre in Mansfield.
A perennial family favorite, the Mansfield Symphony and Chorus ring in the season with an enchanting concert of traditional holiday classics along with new favorites, featuring a mix of contemporary and classic holiday repertoire and beloved carols!
Under the direction of Octavio Más-Arocas, the concert features a variety of holiday music and beloved Christmas carols. As part of the Ohio Health Symphony Series, the orchestra will perform on Saturday, December 17 at 8:00pm.
The enchanting program will feature songs such favorites as the "Carol of the Bells," "O Holy Night," Leroy Anderson's "Sleigh Ride," and Handel's "Hallelujah Chorus."
Concert, Holidays, Mansfield Symphony Orchestra, Renaissance Theatre
Sister Act Returns To The Ren
One of the most popular shows ever produced at the Renaissance Theatre, Sister Act: The Musical, returns for a special holiday encore production this November and December as part of the Park National Bank Broadway Series.
The company, once again led by the powerhouse Condrea Webber, is directed by Renaissance Artistic Director, Michael Thomas, with Kelly Knowlton, once again taking up the baton as musical director.
All new choreography has been created by former Miss Ohio, Caroline Grace Williams, along with spectacular new costumes, sets, and lights by costume designer Linda Turske, set designer Jason Kaufman, and lighting and sound designer Aaron Nicolas. Sister Act: The Musical is a perfect, uproarious way for your entire family to kick off the holiday season.
Featured, Plays and Musicals, Renaissance Theatre
Teddy Bear Concert At The Library To Feature "The Spooky Old House"
The Renaissance Theatre will host the first of its three Teddy Bear Concerts of the 2022-23 Mechanics Bank Education Series on Saturday, October 29 at 2:30 PM.
"The Spooky Old House" concert will be held in the Community Room at the Mansfield/Richland County Public Library's Main Location, located at 43 West Third Street, in Downtown Mansfield. Quickly becoming an annual fall tradition, the performance titled "The Spooky Old House" features a humorous Halloween story, brought to life by Artistic Director Michael Thomas in an engaging musical adaptation that features audience participation, interactive storytelling with local actors, and live musicians from the Mansfield Symphony.
With audience members sitting alongside the performers and geared to children ages 2 through 10, each Teddy Bear concert offers an interactive element as well as a relaxed environment. Small audience sizes, lights up, and low sound levels, allow audience members with autism and other sensory-processing disorders to be accommodated at this performance.
Featured, Renaissance Theatre, Teddy Bear Concerts
Mansfield Symphony Welcomes Favorite Local Singers On October 22
By Renaissance Performing Arts Association
Mansfield is home to a wide variety of artists, musicians, and performers. On October 22nd audiences will have the opportunity to witness a rare collaboration between favorite local singers and the Mansfield Symphony Orchestra.
Featured artists include Jai Merina, Emily Raff, and Jeffrey Boyd.
You may recognize Jai from her multiple appearances performing across Ohio, including locally alongside the Red Ball Jets on the Brickyard stage. "What an amazing honor for this small-town solo musician to be invited to share the stage with such a prestigious and accomplished conductor and musicians of this caliber. It truly humbles me." Jai said.
Jeffrey Boyd is a jazz music staple in Mansfield that can be regularly seen playing solo or as a part of local jazz groups the Boyd Brown Project and the Mike Lorenz Trio.
Concert, Mansfield Symphony Orchestra, Renaissance Theatre
RYOT Announces Open Registration For RYOT Workshop Showcase
Under the direction of Lori Turner, the Renaissance Youth Opera Theatre (RYOT) announces open registration for its Workshop Showcase, scheduled for January 28, 2023.
What's better than a fully staged musical? Fully staged scenes from lots and LOTS of musicals (and plays)! Designed to focus on the individual performer, the RYOT Workshop Showcase will offer opportunities for young actors to work one on one and in small ensembles with director Lori Turner and other guest professionals to develop and grow vocal skills, hone their acting chops and perform in a smaller cast setting.
Offered as an opportunity for participation by students in second through twelfth grade, the workshop will be limited to a maximum of 20 performers per age group (2nd Grade—6th Grade; and 7th Grade—12th Grade). Rehearsals for the showcase will begin on Wednesday, December 28.
Renaissance Theatre, Renaissance Youth Opera Theatre, Youth


The Perkiomen Valley Community Fair is an annual fair located at the CPYA Baseball Complex on Township Line and Cemetery Road. The Fair features carnival rides, nightly entertainment, games, fireworks on Friday night, and more! Admission to the fair is free with a parking fee is a $3.00 donation per vehicle and a $5.00 donation per vehicle on fireworks night.
Ride tickets are $1 per ticket with most rides taking 3-4 tickets each. Pay one price ride special nights will be on Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday from 6pm – close. Ride wristbands are $22 per wristband/per night. Save $2 on pay one price wristbands on Saturday night with this coupon.
Vendor and exhibitor information and applications can be found on this page at the fair's official website.


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Tag: Norway | Ferry Shipping News
New ferry line between Norway and The Netherlands
April 2022 will see the start of a new ferry connection between Port of Kristiansand (Norway) and Eemshaven (The Netherlands).
Name of company: Holland Norway Lines (HNL)
HNL's CEO: Bart Cunnen – CFO: Patrick America
Terminal in Eemshaven: 6-8 ha, a special roro-quay will be constructed.
Ship: ROMANTIKA, 3-year (+1y+1y) bareboat charter from Tallink.
Frequency: 3 return trips per week
Departure 3:00 PM – Arrival 9:00 AM
The initiative Holland Norway Lines is realized with the support of Groningen Seaports, the Northern Development Agency (NOM), the province of Groningen and the municipality Hogeland.
Holland Norway Lines was founded in 2020.
The contract for chartering ROMANTIKA is the sixth charter contract for Tallink Grupp in the space of the last six months, with SILJA EUROPA and ROMANTIKA both recently being chartered out short-term to provide accommodation at COP26 in Glasgow
The Riga-Stockholm route which is due to re-open in spring 2022, will be operated by Tallink's vessel ISABELLE.
Surprise? NGF Signs LOI for Two Hydrogen Ferries
Nice Green Ferries (NGF) said on its LinkedIn that it signed a LOI with a shipyard group in Norway (Fosen?) for two 140m Ropax Cruise ferries
Nice Green Ferries is based in Nice, France (hence the name) (website)
Routes: Nice – Corsica and Sardinia
The ships have a capacity of 1,200 passengers/400 cars, high standard cabins for all passengers
The hybrid electric ships will be be powered by a Hydrogen based power plant and a range of renewable energy sources
Scheduled start-up of operations is from Autumn 2023.
Attica Orders Three Fast Ferries in Norway
Attica Group ordered 3 Aero Catamaran passenger-only vessels to serve the Saronic islands.
To be built by Brødrene Aa in Norway
The total investment €21 million
Delivery of all 3 vessels is expected within the first 4 months of 2022
Saronic routes: 3 million pax per year
Maximum speed of 34 knots – 150 passengers
Four Operators Interested in Trasmediterranea?
There might be at least four players interested in Compania Trasmediterranea, the Spanish ferry company part of Armas Group. The latter is in advanced talks with lenders and bond holders for receiving fresh capital and also renegotiating the terms of the bond due to expire in the next few years.
According to the Spanish media Ok Diario two Italian groups and the local shipping players Balearia and Boluda have shown their interest in the restructuring plan which is being studied by some advisor and investment funds.
The two Italian potentially interested groups are likely to be Grimaldi Group and Grandi Navi Veloci.
Ok Diario also revealed that the property of two ferries previously controlled by Armas Group has been transferred earlier this year to a pair of Luxembourg-based purpose-built companies and are likely to be as guarantee for a needed fresh money injection. Other four ro-pax ships in fleet were also transferred to a new Canary island-based company called Armas Trasmediterranea Factoring Sl last June.
Norway's Hurtigruten Hit By Major IT Hack
Norway's Hurtigruten announced it was the victim of a major IT hack. The ransomware attack has impacted several major systems.
Source: Life in Norway
Norwegian Electric Systems Completed the Delivery of 5 Zero-Emission Propulsion Systems to Fjord1
The five ferries have been outfitted at Havyard Ship Technology shipyard in Sogn, Norway.
These ferries have a capacity of 50 cars and will operate fully electric at four different ferry-crossings along the western coast of Norway. Crossing time for the ferries differs from 13 to 30 minutes depending on which ferry route they are operating in.
"With these ferries, NES has now a total of 19 fully electric or hybrid electric ferries operating in Norway", says Jan Kåre Sundgot, project manager for these 5 projects.
BØMLAFJORD: Langevåg — Buavåg (Bømlo)
STANGVIKFJORD: Kvanne – Rykkjem
SMØLA and MØRINGEN: Edøya – Sandvika
FEDJEBJØRN: Fedje — Sævrøyna
Norway Picks Site For Potential Liquid Hydrogen Production Plant For Maritime
Mongstad Industrial Park in Norway has been selected as the location for a potential liquid hydrogen production plant serving the maritime market as part of a wider project involving Equinor, Bergenshalvøens Kommunale Kraftselskap (BKK), Air Liquide, Wilhelmsen and NorSea.
Source: Riviera Maritime
What Happens When 30 Design Students Spend 3 Days On A Ferry?
OICL (Ocean Industries Concept Lab) is a research group in Norway focusing on innovation challenges facing the Maritime, Offshore and Subsea industries. They are based at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO) and combine new technology with a user-centered design approach.
Field studies are an important method that may help in the design of more user-friendly ships. Therefore OICL sent 30 students to spend time on the DFDS Ferry between Oslo and Copenhagen.
Full story here (7 minute read)
Zero Emission Is Possible
Last week Ferry Shipping News embarked on board a brand new, 100% battery-powered Norwegian passenger ferry, and we learnt more about Norway's ambitious plans to shape a green maritime future.
Click here to read the special article on our website
First hydrogen-electric ferry to sail in NorwayFirst hydrogen-electric ferry to sail in Norway
Boreal and Wärtsilä Ship Design have agreed to develop a hydrogen-powered ferry for the Hjelmeland-Skipavik-Nesvik stretch. The ferry will be the first in the world where the vessel will use hydrogen as a fuel.
The Norwegian Public Roads Administration has been commissioned to announce a development contract for a hydrogen-powered ferry, which will be put into operation in 2021. The ferry service will be operated by two ferries, one being fully electric and the other hybrid hydrogen-electric with 50 percent of the hydrogen output.
Boreal has reserved the ship name HYDROGEN.


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Eastern Daily Press > Sport > Norwich City FC
Norwich City loanee Elliott Bennett aims to make his mark at Bristol City
Norwich City's on-loan midfielder Elliott Bennett is looking for a fresh start at Bristol City. Picture by Paul Chesterton/Focus Images Ltd - Credit: Paul Chesterton/Focus Images Ltd
Norwich City's on-loan midfielder Elliott Bennett is confident he can help push Bristol City away from danger in the Championship.
Bennett is in line for his Robins' debut on Friday against Nottingham Forest after completing a loan move until January 3 over the international break.
The newly-promoted club prop up the rest of the Championship after taking seven points from their opening 10 league fixtures but Bennett knows what it takes to flourish in the second tier after being part of Alex Neil's Championship promotion-winning squad last season.
'Going into a new league sometimes it's difficult and I've noticed on quite a few occasions late goals have been conceded where all three points would've been picked up,' he said. 'It's not as though they've been battered, which is good, and they're always in games, so there's a lot to build on.
'I'm sure there has been games where they've played really well this season and not picked up the points they deserve, but hopefully there will be games where we don't play so well but we nick three points.
'The Championship is a funny old league and it's very early days to try and say what's going to happen, but I'm really happy to be here and can't wait for the games to get started.'
Bennett made it clear to Neil he wanted the chance of regular first team football after just two League Cup appearances for the Canaries this season.
'As a player you always want to play football,' he told Bristol City's official site. 'I had a good chat with the manager (Alex Neil) at Norwich who has been brilliant with me, and I expressed my desire to play football. Thankfully Bristol City showed their faith in me.
'One thing you'll get with me is I'll always give 110pc and I'll never come off the pitch thinking 'I could have ran more' or 'I could have done this more'.
'We're all professionals and we all want to do as well as we can for whatever club we're playing for and I'm no different. I'll give 110pc for Bristol City and hopefully we can, as a team and a group, do well this season.'


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Dilute 1 capful of any scented Avon Bubble Bath with 1 litre of warm water.
* Wash the appliances in your kitchen: stove, refrigerator, toaster, kettle, microwave, etc. best chrome cleaner available.
* Wash your plant leaves with it. They shine and after, feed it to the plants as fertilizer.
*Wash all of your floors with it, especially no wax finish floors. Remember that it cuts grease – it is not harsh to the finish. Leaves no residue so your floors look like they've just been waxed.
*Any spills or spots on upholstery or rugs, car seats etc.? Just take straight bubble bath on a damp cloth and rub the spot. It removes almost every stain and will not spot. Don't wet the spot with water, it's the water that leaves traces.
*Can be used as a total rug shampoo! Carpets come out clean and smell great!
*Terrific jewelry cleaner for costume jewelry as well as the real stuff.
*Excellent pet shampoo. Your pet will smell very nice. No soap, so skin is not irritated. Rinse pet after shampoo, their coat is left soft and shiny.
*One or two capfuls does a whole load of wash, clean as a whistle! Ever splattered grease on a good blouse or pants while cooking? Regular laundry just doesn't cut it. Next time, put straight bubble bath on the spots, let it sit for a few minutes, and throw it in the machine. They are gone!
*Wash cars with it. Leaves no hard streaks.
*Use it to clean your venetian blinds. Wipe them with a cloth wrung out from bubble bath water. They shine!
* Wash walls and ceiling's. No rinse, no streaks. Also great for wiping down wood paneling. Looks like it's just been waxed. Try washing your cupboards with it. Wooden cupboards such as oak or even painted surfaces come out really clean.
*Clean your glasses with it.
*Makes a great liquid soap hand soap too!
*Yes, it's a bubble bath too!
Test product on hidden portions of fabric for colorfastness.


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What if the Crowd is Wrong: Six Debatable Propositions about the Future of Healthcare and What They Mean for Strategy - "Everyone knows" what the future of US healthcare looks like. It's unanimous! We're moving away from fee-for-service to population health- and from "volume to value." The health system is shifting from "treatment to prevention." Integrated Delivery Networks (IDNs) are the future state of healthcare organization. "Disruptive technologies" will undermine the traditional businesses of hospitals and physicians. And empowered consumers will force the health system to be accountable for the cost of care and move healthcare markets. This talk asks the provocative question: what if these things don't actually happen? And what is the state of the evidence that they are actually happening? How would your strategy change (for hospitals, physicians, health plans and the medical technology sector) if the future actually turns out to be different from what "everyone" expects. Jeff Goldsmith talks about the future of healthcare payment and delivery reform, how it is affecting local markets around the US and talks about the "no regrets" strategies that position healthcare's major actors for an uncertain, post-health reform future.
2035: What Will the Health System Look Like? Healthcare is on the cusp of transformative technological changes that will reshape not only the care system, but also increase life expectancy and function. This talk explores the major features of the digital health revolution: clinical genomics, the electronic health record. digital imaging, mHelath, connectivity/social media and the brain/machine interface. It will not only explain in English where these technologies stand in their state of development, but make specific forecast of what we can expect from them in twenty years-in 2035. It will also explore why technologies fail to scale up to the societal level and what it takes for them to succeed- and change our lives.
The Tragedy of Health Reform - Despite compelling unmet needs, the bold health reforms enacted in 2010 in the Affordable Care Act appear to be faltering. A lethal combination of political controversy, flawed design and incompetent implementation have put health reform in peril. What went wrong? How will the unfolding of expanded health coverage, increased regulation and new models of care and coverage affect the health system and society? Will employers abandon health coverage and push their employees into the Exchanges? Will the Exchanges revitalize or destroy private health insurance? How will health reform affect caregivers and patients? Will the Medicaid program sustain a 20% increase in enrollments? Can or should health reform be saved? A veteran health policy analyst looks at ObamaCare and looks ahead.
Slouching Toward Value: The Future of Health Care Payment - One major theme of health reform has been to change how healthcare is paid for to reward higher value care. In a $2.8 billion industry, the uncertainty about future payment models has created confusion about strategic direction in hospitals and systems, physician communities and health insurers, as well as anxiety among patients and their families. Ironically, a Democratic health reform has produced Republican outcomes- high degrees of consumer economic exposure, narrowing networks, and a welter of confusing new choices. Meanwhile, new payment models- pay for performance, bundled payment, accountable care organizations, patient centered medical homes- have been given fresh impetus. How will all these experiments turn out? How SHOULD healthcare be paid for? This talk focuses on the winners and losers in the search for more accountable and affordable care, and the models and strategies that are likely to prevail.
Is the Health Cost Dragon Dead or Sleeping? - Health costs have grown at the slowest pace in the past five years since Dwight Eisenhower's last year in office (1960), five years before Medicare. No-one is clear on the causes. Is it the recession? Is it ObamaCare? Is it new "accountable" payment and delivery models? Is it "market competition" or increased regulation? Jeff Goldsmith's startling answer is: "none of the above". This talk unravels and explains in English a remarkable piece of economic news- the cessation of a more than forty year run of inflation in health costs. Is this good or bad news? Is the relief from rising health costs sustainable? Will it last? This talk examines the spreading "recession" in US healthcare, and how health costs and access will be affected by the retirement of the 76 million person baby boom generation.
Can Hospitals Survive? Hospital Strategy in a Maturing Market - After decades of seemingly continuous expansion, hospital inpatient utilization in the United States has fallen for five years in a row. Despite forecasts a decade ago of significant bed shortages, many hospitals and systems find themselves with excess capacity. At the same time, the uncertainties surrounding ObamaCare and the pressures created by the recession have stressed hospitals, resulting in declining earnings and increased pressure from physicians and patients. Merger and acquisition activity spiked after 2010's health reforms, and continues unabated. How will the private insurance reforms contained in ObamaCare affect hospitals' financial futures? Can hospital systems that have sought to become "unavoidable" through mergers survive the transition to narrow network insurance products and rising transparency and consumer choice? Can hospitals survive this transition? How can hospitals become the "hospitals of choice" in their communities and regions.