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Athens city Highlights Half Day Private Tour
Get around Athens' most-cherished attractions and see the city in comfort on this private, half-day driving tour. Choose what time your small group would like to start, with hotel and port pick-up and drop-off included, and enjoy a professional chauffeur service designed to show-off the best of Greece's ancient history and hospitality.
Athens city + Cape Sounio combo Full Day Private Tour
If you're only in Athens for a day or so, you can still see the major highlights in Athens and nearby Cape Sounion. Avoid wasting time hailing taxis or hiring a car; instead, get around with a chauffeur-driven car and spend that time exploring more of this ancient city. Enjoy a whistlestop tour of the city's major landmarks, including the Acropolis and the Acropolis Museum, before heading out to Cape Sounion to visit the Temple of Poseidon, perched on a cliff at the southernmost point of Attica.
Private Half-Day Acropolis and Historical Sites Tour in Athens
Athens has so much to see, it can be overwhelming. Cover its highlights with an expert who adds in-depth insight to the Parthenon and other monuments, and follow a route that avoids the heaviest crowds. Round things off at the New Acropolis Museum, where you must visit. The Greek capital is known as the cradle of democracy. Ancient Athenians have nurtured and had advanced science and art which provided the basis for western culture. Athens is an open-air museum, so plan your tour ahead and spend your available time wisely.
6 Hours - Athens Sightseeing Private Tour
There's so much to see in Athens and only so much time. Maximize your Greek vacation with a full-day private tour of the city. Starting from your hotel, you'll have private transportation at your disposal whisking you away to multiple UNESCO World Heritage Sites, including the Acropolis. You can explore each location independently at your own pace or choose to hire a private guide in advance. It's your day.
Athens Full Day Private Sightseeing Tour
Beat the heat of Athens' streets and explore with a knowledgeable private driver on this door-to-door tour. See city signatures including the Acropolis, the Panathenaic Stadium, the Agora of Athens and the Changing of the Guard in a climate-controlled vehicle with Wi-Fi, TV and USB charging, as well as cool drinks. Your package excludes entrance fees and lunch: licensed guides can usually be arranged for an additional charge.
Athens, The Acropolis and Cape Sounion Full-Day Tour with Lunch
Admire ancient treasures side-by-side with modern marvels on this full-day sightseeing tour of Athens and Cape Sounion. Visit the famous Acropolis and Temple of Olympic Zeus, plus contemporary Athenian highlights like Panathinaikon Stadium and Parliament House. Savor traditional Greek flavors with an included lunch, and travel to Cape Sounion in the afternoon for spectacular views of the Saronic Gulf and the ancient Temple of Poseidon perched dramatically atop sea cliffs.
"Private tour in Athens"
Welcome to Athens, the capital city of Greece and the birthplace of democracy. Athens has been a travel destination since antiquity. It is the city and the country of hospitality.You will live in great moments.If you're short on time but want to see everything that Athens has to offer, take a five-six hour tour by private transportation. The day starts with convenient pickup from your hotel. Traveling by private car enables you to take advantage of your time. You also have the flexibility to explore each attraction independently or add a licensed guide at an additional coast. - Visit the top sights of Athens in five hours. - Cover more ground in private transportation. - Enjoy hotel pickup and drop-off. - Explore at your own pace
Athens:Half day tour to Acropolis and the must-see historical sites and downtown
Visit Athens! Ancient Athens is one of Europe's oldest cities, one with a continuous history whose beginnings can be traced some 5,000 years ago. That makes it not only one of the oldest cities in the world, but also the cradle of Western culture. The Greek capital is known as the cradle of democracy. Ancient Athenians have nurtured and advanced science and art and provided the basis for western culture. Athens is an open-air museum, so plan your tour ahead and spend your available time wisely. - Explore Athens in a private vehicle - Free Wi-Fi onboard - Discover the highlights and secrets of Athens from our drivers - We want our customers and their families to always feel safe. - On the Fly Decision Makers - Stress-free - Every tour and itinerary we present is unique. - The pace of travel will be relaxing.
Athens Super Saver: City Sightseeing Tour plus Half-Day Cape Sounion Trip
Combine two popular tours of Athens and Cape Sounion into one day at a discounted price with this Athens Super Saver. In the morning, board an air-conditioned coach for a sightseeing tour of Athens' highlights. With an expert guide, stroll around the Parthenon and antiquities on the Acropolis; visit the New Acropolis Museum; see the Panathenaic Stadium and more. Then, take an afternoon trip to Cape Sounion, where the Temple of Poseidon overlooks the Aegean Sea. Admire the glittering temple and stellar views before your return by coach to Athens.
Athens Highlights & Ancient Corinth Full Day Private Tour
It can be difficult to cram all of Athens' historical highlights into an itinerary, even more so if you also want to fit in other towns such as ancient Corinth. Remove the stress of planning a timetable with this full-day tour of the most impressive landmarks in the two towns. Spend the morning walking from the Acropolis to Lycabettus Hill, the highest hill in Athens, then jump over to Corinth for an exploration of the Corinth Canal and the Temple of Apollo.
Athens Highlights & Sounio Temple of Poseidon Full Day Private Tour
Experience the best of Athens and Sounio on this action-packed private day tour. By traveling in a private vehicle, you'll be able to access places that would be hard to reach by public transport. It's the perfect tour for travelers with limited time as you'll see multiple Athens and Cape Sounio highlights in a day including Acropolis Hill, the Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Temple of Zeus, and Temple Of Poseidon.
Saint Paul Steps Full Day Private Tour
The Greek peninsula of Attica is full to the brim with ancient landmarks – so many that it can be easy to miss them. This day trip will take you on a whistle-stop tour of highlights in two Attican cities, Athens and Corinth. Start the day at the Acropolis and work your way down the hill to Parliament House in time for the changing of the guards. In the afternoon, drive along the isthmus to Corinth, visiting the Temple of Apollo and other historic sites.
Athens city Full Day Private Tour with Greek Traditional Food
Cover ground you couldn't hope to cover on public transport when you book this action-packed full day tour of Athens. Visit the Acropolis, the Acropolis Museum, the Temple of Olympian Zeus, the Ancient Agora, the Temple of Hephaestus, the Panathenaic Stadium, the National Archaeological Museum and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Inhale city views from Mt. Lycabettus and explore the Plaka and Monastiraki neighborhoods. Entrance fees at own expense.
Athens City Tour Parthenon - Acropolis museum, Private (gup 1-7 p)
See more of Athens in just half a day with this private city trip. Bookable for a group of up to seven people, the experience includes a chauffeur-style tour of the main Athens sites with your driver as the guide. Stop to visit the Athens Acropolis, Parthenon, and Mars Hill, and learn about the development of western civilization as you ride. Note that entry fees are extra.
Follow Apostle Paul steps (Athens, Corinth, Loutraki, Perachora) 10 hours tour
Follow in the footsteps of St. Paul on this private tour of Athens, Corinth and beyond. Visit the Areopagus, where he gave his famous sermon, and the Acropolis; explore ancient Corinth, noted for his letters to the Corinthians, and see the cathedral that bears his name. You'll also visit Loutraki and the archaeological site of Perachora. Your package includes transfers and professional tour driver, but excludes entrance fees and site guiding.
Athens Half day Christian Tour | Apostle Paul first Spoke - Acropolis, Parthenon
Regarding the spot from where Apostle Paul spoke to the Athenians, it is also said that he preached in front of the High Court's Body as one of its members (Dionysius the Aeropagite) adopted the ideas of his preaching. Areopagus was the name of the hill west of the Athenian Acropolis. In this half-day tour we will drive you to were St.Paul first came to Athens. Then we will visit the Acropolis, the Parthenon,the Erechtheion, Mars Hill (Areopagus), (Acts 17:22) were Apostle Paul delivered his sermon to the Athenians. You then proceed by visiting the Parthenon, the Erechtheion, the Temple of Nike, the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Parliament House, Presidential Palace, Panathenian Stadium, Temple of Olympian Zeus, the Plaka, the Ancient agora,(St. Paul's meeting place), the Roman agora, Academy, the University and the National Library.
Athens/Acropolis & Ancient Corinth, Acrocorinth, Canal - private tour (10 hours)
Hit the highlights of two iconic cities, Athens and historic Corinth, in just a day on this action-packed private tour, with onboard Wi-Fi. Start with the Athens signatures: the Acropolis, the Panathenaic Stadium, the Temple of Olympian Zeus and the parliament guards. After a photo stop at the Corinth Canal, explore the ruins of ancient Corinth, the Acrocorinth castle and the Corinth Archaeological Museum. Entrance fees are at your expense.
Amazing Athens Private Tour in a few hours!
If you have limited time in Athens, make the most of it with a private that spans the city's ancient and modern marvels, from the Parthenon and Temple of Olympian Zeus to the Panatheniac Stadium and National Library. The well-paced itinerary fits in lots of extras, like the changing of the guard ceremony at the Greek Parliament and people-watching at a local fish market and the posh enclave of Kolonaki.
All-Day tour:Discover the most famous sites of Athens and Ancient Corinth
In this one day tour, you will have the opportunity to see the Athens landmarks and enjoy the tour to Loutraki, Corinth Canal, and Ancient Corinth. Explore the most important sites like the Panathenaic Stadium, the National Library, and the Temple of Olympian Zeus. Follow the footsteps of Apostle Paul from Athens to Ancient Corinth, ideal sightseeing in some of the most beautiful places in Greece, and enjoying the breathtaking views from the Isthmus/Corinth Canal. We will visit Loutraki, the seaside resort on the Gulf of Corinth. Through the imposing entrance gates, you will enter the castle and you will discover its hidden gems of Acrocorinth. You will also explore the archaeological site of ancient Corinth, including its fabulous museum, Temple of Apollo, Fountain of Glauke, Peirene, Asklepieion, Odeion, Bema, Agora, and much more. Following some allocated time for shopping, you will be driven to the port of Kechries, tracing the footsteps of St. Paul to the east.
Jewish & Athens highlights - Private tour from Athens or Piraeus port (8 hours)
Discover the Jewish history of Athens with a full-day private tour. Meet your guide at the pick-up location of your choosing and set out on a guided tour of city landmarks including the Acropolis Museum, Zeus Temple, and the Jewish Museum. Wander through the Monastiraki Flea Market and see a panoramic view of Athens from Lycavetus Hill. Learn about history and heritage from your private guide.
Athens Full Day Private Tour
In this tour, you will have a great taste of Athens! During your private tour you will visit the sacred Rock of the Acropolis with the Parthenon, admire the remains of Zeus's Temple, visit the modern Olympic, Panathenaic or "Kalimarmaro" stadium, and then pass through the National Gardens into the heart of the city. You will also see the Syntagma Square and witness the hourly change of the guards, in front of the Greek Parliament. During the tour you will also see the famous trilogy of neoclassical architecture, the National Library, the Academy of Arts and Sciences and the first University of Athens. Afterwards, we will head uptown to Kolonaki, where elite fashion and couture shops, meet with beautiful sidewalk cafes. Later we will go downtown to the vibrant fish and meat market, before we head to Monastiraki Square. Finally, if time and traffic permits, you will witness a breathtaking view of everything you've seen so far, from the highest point of the city, the Lycabettus Hill!
Full Day Private Tour: Athens Highlights, Cape Sounion and Temple of Poseidon
In this tour, you will visit the Acropolis(Parthenon, Propylaea, Erechtheion, Karyatides and the Temple of Athena Nike), The Old Palace, The Tomb of The Unknown Soldier in front of the Parliament and The Changing of The Guards, The Temple of Zeus with the famous Arch of Hadrian, The Panathenaic Stadium, the first Stadium of the Modern Olympic Games of 1896. Afterwards, by the Athenian Riviera, the scenic coastal road, offers to you an amazing view of the Saronic Gulf, while we pass through the most splendid suburbs of Athens. Some of these amazing suburbs of Athens are Palaion Faliron, Glyfada, Varkiza and Vouliagmeni, all the way to Cape Sounion, where you can visit the temple of Poseidon that is worldwide famous as one of the most magnificent panoramic views in the world and have lunch in a nice tavern.
Athens private day tour (up to 8 hours), from Athens center or Piraeus
We visit Athens as travelers, not as tourists. We get as excited as you to travel, to enjoy history/culture, scenery, photography. If you want to see everything that Athens has to offer, then we suggest both modern & classical Athens sites in a full day tour. The day starts with convenient pickup and then takes you to the Acropolis Hill, Zeus Temple, Olympic stadium, Plaka, ancient & modern Agora, Lycavetus hill and many more. Schedule is flexible, but most importantly we can drive on small roads and you will see Athens from all different angles. We are dedicated to show you the Athens we know and love, as travelers and not as tourists and for this reason we will avoid the tourist traps. You also have the flexibility to explore each attraction independently or add a licensed archaeologist guide (extra cost). You have the options of a full payment at the time of your booking or reserve your tour with a deposit only 50% at a lower rate (than Option/ Full Pay). See additional info.
Athens/ Acropolis & Cape Sounion/ Poseidon Temple private tour (10 hours)
We visit Athens & Sounion as travelers, not as tourists. We get as excited as you to travel, to enjoy history, culture, scenery & photography. If you want to see most of Athens & Sounion have to offer, we suggest to combine both sites in a full day tour. The day starts with convenient pickup from your location and then takes you to the Acropolis Hill, Zeus Temple, Olympic stadium, Parliament. Continue via a scenic coastal road to Cape Sounion. Visit Poseidon Temple with one of the most breathtaking panoramic views in the world (on a clear day you can see at least seven islands). You also have the flexibility to explore each attraction independently or add a licensed archaeologist guide (additional cost). For taverns and restaurants apart from the taste, tradition and value also played a part in our selection. You have the options of a full payment at the time of your booking or reserve your tour with a deposit only 50% at a lower rate (than Option/ Full Pay). See additional info.
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I'm so jealous of my quilting friends who get to stay inside and sew all day on a snow day. We've had way too many of those lately, and I usually have to entertain some munchkins. I'm starting to get a little grumpy about it. But there is a lot of winter to go, so I try to stay positive and admit that there never is enough time to sew, even without snow.
And I'm cutting into some new fabric for a commissioned baby quilt. It includes some delicious shot cotton, some classic prints, dots, stripes and branches in blues, chocolate browns and sage green.
My upbeat reggae soundtrack has given in to a Radiohead phase. I'm trying to stay Optimistic.
Love the stripey spools and an interesting fabric combo for the baby quilt!


There are a lot of things to keep track of during the average day. Your keys. Your glasses. Your wallet. Your kids. Your self. Throw on top of that the meetings, errands and chores the average person tries to conquer, and something will slip through the cracks once in awhile.
Don't be too hard on yourself, though. I want to share a couple ideas that will help keep all the little things you reach for regularly organized and in sight.
First off, when you get home each day, put these items in the same place. Have a designated place to put your bag, wallet, keys, phone. Keep anything related to those items near by, also in the same place everyday. Items like chargers, a change purse or a wallet with store reward cards you only use sometimes fit the bill.
Second, don't keep anything else there! Don't bury your new area with coats, shoes and mail. Those things should have a separate area already designated for them.
Third, keep these things in a spot that makes sense. If you walk out the same door every morning, a table top or basket near the door makes sense. On a tray near your desk in the basement probably doesn't. In a spot where the kids are also keeping their school work and book bag might work. But, only if there's enough space for everyone to have a separate pile, basket or tray.
Try out your new spot for at least three weeks. Try to create a habit out of using it. After three or four weeks, it'll feel more "normal." And, if it still feels awkward, adjust your area. Maybe you need more space or maybe it should be moved to a new location.
The point is, know where your things go. Put them back there. And, work your system so it works for you!


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Editorial: Justifiable Intervention
by SpaceNews Editor — June 29, 2004
Space News Business
Israel's government is doing the right thing by
preparing itself to act more quickly the next time commercial satellite services within Israeli territory are disrupted by radio frequency interference.
Following an offshore signal interference problem that for more than a month crippled broadcasts by the satellite TV firm Yes Inc., the Israeli cabinet in October directed the relevant government ministries to study identification and mitigation procedures and report back in November. The result should be a government that is better prepared
the next time something like this happens to take quick steps to restore the public's access to the airwaves. Although the Israeli government did intervene in this instance to halt the signal disruption, which eventually was traced to a Dutch navy ship operating in the Mediterranean, they did not act
until well after Yes had begun to suffer
�painful financial losses as thousands of customers cancel
ed their service.
What is surprising is the level of internal opposition to the government's decision to get involved.
"Deploying government assets – especially military assets – to insure corporate revenue is highly inappropriate," said retired major general Yitzhik Ben-Israel, a member of the Knesset's ruling Kadima party and chairman of the Israel Space Agency. "Today it's just Yes, but tomorrow there may be many others. And where will it end?"
With all due respect, Mr. Ben-Israel should be asking about the consequences of no government intervention. Yes, for example, could have been ruined financially had Israeli Defense Minister EhudBarak not appealed directly to the Dutch government to halt the interfering transmissions. And what of the Yes customers who were unable to receive television broadcasts for so long?
It is not a government's job to protect corporate profits per se. But government
always has had a role ensuring that companies have a reasonably safe and orderly environment in which to operate. The airwaves are a public resource: keeping them free of obstruction is fundamentally no different than keeping sea lanes open for commerce; it is the reason satellite companies and other communications providers require operating licenses.
As a politician, Mr. Ben-Israel also should recognize that a government that fails to act on behalf of its citizens in such a case runs a huge risk of handing its political rivals an explosive and possibly decisive campaign issue.
Yes and its customers suffered not because of anything they did wrong but because of something that clearly was beyond their control. Certainly it is appropriate for governments to get involved
in cases such as this, especially when the source of the interference – intentional or not – is outside a country's borders.
Furthermore, c
ommercial satellite interference is not just an economic problem; it can impair a government's ability to govern. Television, whether delivered by satellite or other means, is one of the primary ways in which a government communicates with its citizens. The disruption to Yes broadcasts could have had far more severe consequences had some sort of national emergency occurred and the government was unable to alert customers of that particular TV service.
This is not to say that responsibility for dealing with commercial satellite interference rests solely with governments. Indeed, satellite operators can and should do more to combat what appears to be a growing threat to their livelihood. In the case of Yes, the interference only affected downlink signals rather than the satellite carrying the transmissions. Nevertheless, satellite operators need to begin investing in anti-jamming systems
and other protective capabilities for their platforms. There have been several instances in recent years of deliberate jamming of satellite signals and also hijacking of transponders and it is a trend that is likely to grow worse before it gets better.
There also are commercially available services that specialize in pinpointing sources of satellite signal interference, and operators should look to these first before requesting government assistance. But
even the most sophisticated satellite operators can find their mitigation options limited once the source of a problem is located. Private companies have few effective tools for dealing with interference – even accidental interference, much less deliberate interference.
Governments must be prepared to step in and provide assistance in such cases, particularly on the diplomatic front. Satellite companies are in business to make money, to be sure, but there is more than profit at stake here.

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If you plan to put a yurt up in a cold climate we STRONGLY encourage an insulated floor. An option we offer to our customers is a SIP floor. Below is the nitty gritty on our SIP floor option but in a nutshell : it's round, it's warm, it's simple.
SIPs or Structural Insulated Floor Panels are a composite material that provides the benefits of insulation and structural performance in a single building product. They consist of a layered sandwich of materials. The top surface (what is the sub floor/walking surface) of the yurt is 1/2" OSB. The middle layer is EPS (expanded polystyrene) insulation, and the bottom layer is ½" OSB. This simple sandwich panel forms an amazingly strong insulated panel for floors for yurts, homes or commercial buildings. They often prove extremely cost effective for several reasons.
First, a SIPs floor can be deployed within several hours of having the deck framing completed. The panels arrive ready to install. The proper circular shape has been precut during the manufacturing process. The outer perimeter of foam has been recessed back to accept a full wrap of 3/4" plywood, which facilitates an extremely strong connection of the bender board. The bender board is the component that secures the yurt walls to the floor/deck.
Second, no decking material is required underneath a SIPs floor system. The panels are typically fastened directly to framing. The superior strength of the panels requires no reinforcement to span between support beams. This floor option provides an extremely solid base for a yurt.
Third, the SIPs floor is already insulated. A 4.5" thick SIPs floor will typically exhibit an R-value of 16, while a 6.5" thick system has an R-value of 25. A well insulated floor can dramatically increase the overall thermal performance of a yurt.


The Desert Southwest office of U.S. Realty Capital (aka Atalyst Financial Group) has operated in the southwest region since 2003. We are a client-focused team with expertise in arranging real estate capital (debt & equity) for investors, property owners, developers and entrepreneurs. We provide capital solutions including traditional long term fixed-rate debt through life insurance companies and Wall Street conduits, interim bridge financing, mezzanine debt secured by mortgages and preferred equity from a variety of institutional and private capital providers, as well as funding for construction and development.
Loans are placed from as low as $3 million, both fixed and floating rate, and with a wide variety of terms. Our team has been involved in over $2.9 billion in capital funding for its clients.
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Housing, pollution, and winter deaths: factchecking Prime Minister's Questions
Published: 13th Jan 2016
"When I became Prime Minister, a young person trying to buy a home needed £30,000 for that deposit...when I became Prime Minister you needed a £30,000 for a deposit on a typical home… because of the schemes we've introduced that is now down to £10,000".—David Cameron
A similar claim has been referenced before in relation to the NewBuy Guarantee scheme, which provides buyers in England with up to 95% mortgages for new builds. It was claimed that the introduction of the scheme meant that "instead of a typical buyer requiring a £40,000 deposit for £200,000 property, they will now only need £10,000" in the press release launching the scheme.
The figures from the press release aren't sourced. We've asked the government what these figures are based on.
In any case, this particular scheme is only available for new builds.
"Research by Shelter found that families on his so-called living wage will be unable to afford the average starter home in 98% of local authority areas in England."—Jeremy Corbyn
This is an accurate reflection of Shelter's research.
Shelter estimated that under the Starter Home scheme families on the National Living Wage would be able to afford homes in 2% of local authorities in England in 2020 (excluding two with limited data). This equates to eight local authorities.
Starter Homes are available to first-time buyers under the age of 40.
A family was counted as a couple with one child, where a man works full-time and a woman works part-time.
There aren't official figures for the prices of Starter Homes, nor for exactly what the National Living Wage will be in 2020.
Shelter has based its analysis on the median house price in each local authority in 2014 and projected this to 2015 and 2020 based on the estimated growth in house prices. These prices were then reduced by 20% to reflect the discount that will be offered for Starter Homes. The income level was calculated by taking the government's commitment for the National Living Wage to be over £9 an hour by 2020, and took existing estimates of full-time and part-time working hours.
Shelter says there are reasons to think that these homes will be sold at close to the median price, for example because it says new builds are historically more expensive than older homes.
"By the 8th January, within a period of just 8 days, parts of London had exceeded the limits for nitrogen dioxide pollution."—Dr Tania Mathias MP
That's right. Levels of nitrogen dioxide at Putney High Street had exceeded one of its yearly EU limits by 8 January. That's according to the London Air Quality Network, which is run by King's College London.
It monitors the average concentration of nitrogen dioxide over one hour periods. This hourly concentration should not hit a certain level—200 micrograms per cubic metre—over 18 times in one year, according to a limit set by the EU.
The concentration at Putney monitoring station overshot that level for the 19th time in 2016 during morning rush hour on 8 January.
Excess winter deaths
"Over the past 4 years, excess winter death figures from the ONS have shown a staggering 117,000 people have died unnecessarily as a result of the cold. 43,000 tragically died last winter."—Dan Jarvis MP
That's nearly right—official figures show 44,000 'excess deaths' last winter in England and Wales. In the past four years there were 117,000 such deaths.
Here, 'winter' means the four months from December to March. The number of deaths in winter is consistently higher than at other times of year, and the 44,000 excess deaths can be seen as the difference.
Last winter was a bad one—excess deaths were the highest they'd been since the winter starting in 1999.
But the number of deaths does tend to vary quite a lot. The winter before last, in 2013/14, had the lowest yet. The longer term trend has been for the number of excess winter deaths to fall.
The reasons behind the deaths are complicated. Colder winters are associated with more deaths, according to the health regulator NICE, which says that "housing conditions are a very important factor." That can be about the quality of the home itself, for instance the amount of insulation. It can also be about the ability of the household to pay for heating.
Energy competition
"When I became Prime Minister the independent energy companies were just 1% of the market. They're now 15% of the market. The big six are being broken down through competition."—David Cameron
This is about right. Figures from energy market consultants Cornwall Energy for October last year indicate the 'big six' firms account for about 86% of the 'dual Fuel' energy market and 88% of each of the electricity and gas markets.
We've asked the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) to confirm where the Prime Minister's '15%' figure might come from specifically.
The 86% share for the big six is much lower than a few years ago. The big six's market share was over 99% before 2012 on the same measure. That's been falling ever since and other measures of market competitiveness show the same trend.
Yet more estimates come from energy regulator Ofgem, and these broadly show the same thing. The market share of companies outside the big six has been increasing in the last few years.
This doesn't mean that any of the big six are going to be overtaken anytime soon. Ofgem commented on the trends in 2014:
"It is unclear that any single existing supplier will achieve sufficient scale in the near term to act as a disruptive constraint on the six largest suppliers across the market".
Private sector employment
"Since 2010, 64% of the rise in private sector employment has taken place outside London and the South-East. Indeed, Scotland, East-Midlands, East of England, South West and South East all have higher employment rates than London."—David Cameron
This is right, but not all that useful. The figures compare September 2010 to September 2015, which is the best comparison possible with the available data from the Office for National Statistics. Of a rise of about 2.3 million people employed in the private sector, 64% happened in regions outside London and the South East.
But about 70% of private sector employment is outside London and the South East anyway, so accounting for only 64% of the rise shows that the rest of the country is relatively lagging behind.
London's share of private sector employment has risen since 2010 while most other regions have seen their share fall.
"1.4 million more children being taught in schools ranked good or outstanding since 2010.."—James Cartlidge MP
As of last summer, there were 6.2 million children being taught in schools ranked good or outstanding, 1.4 million more than in 2010.
This is set against a backdrop of rising pupil numbers, but the proportion of pupils in good or outstanding schools has been rising too.
There's no doubt that schools' Ofsted performance is improving. This progress is partly due to Ofsted's changing inspection practices—it redefined what was expected of schools and placed a greater emphasis on inspecting schools which fell below this expectation.
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I usually don't like posting long Youtube clips but this is so friggin hilarious I just simply had to. We begin this rant after 3 and a half hours of some poor customer being given the "please hold" …."I will just transfer you through to someone who can help" ….. and the "Michelle" runaround. WARNING Language gets progressively worse as runaround continues…..
OMG, the loon nearly ended up hanging from a tree at Gibbet Hill, near Perth in Tassie after a local attacked me with his big red and shiny white semi trailer rig because I dared take a photo at a historical site. The site which is where they use to hang convicts is on a road with several residential houses. Seems some locals on that road have anger management issues!I suggest to enter with extreme caution or you too maybe living a scene out of Duel. Yes, of course I took photos of the friggin nightmare. Sheez Tassie!
the local council refuse to put up a sign because they say it is up to the owners. Meanwhile tourists are being told it is one of Perth's historical sites of significance and is featured heavily on the wiki and National Trust sites with map.Hmm, so it's all right to intimidate tourists with their semis then?
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Jose Mourinho suffered an unwanted career first when his side went down 1-0 to Everton in their opening game of the Premier League campaign.
Dominic Calvert-Lewin headed past Hugo Lloris 10 minutes into the second half to consign Spurs to defeat.
It is the first time in Mourinho's 20-year coaching career that the Portuguese has started the league season with a loss.
The 57-year-old had a record of 11 wins and seven draws in his sides' first league matches of the season before the Toffees got the better of Spurs at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
In the Premier League, it is just the second time a Mourinho side has dropped points in their maiden game, with Swansea the only other team to come away with a point when they drew 2-2 in 2015-16.
While opening-day defeats may be rare for the former Real Madrid, Inter and Manchester United boss, the north London outfit have had more than their fair share of them. Although it was the first time in five years that Spurs have lost on matchday one, only West Ham have begun more Premier League campaigns with a defeat, having been bested 14 times.
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Mourinho was infuriated with the way his side conceded against the Toffees, complaining that the ball should have been moved back a few yards before Lucas Digne sent the free-kick into the box for Calvert-Lewin.
"The goal was a bit strange. It is not an excuse for the result or defeat or performance. With so many referees on the pitch and on the line, to take a kick a minimum of five metres distance [away from where the foul was] is incredible," Mourinho told Sky Sports.
"Before the goal I was saying to the referees, five metres makes a huge difference to the position of our back line and the angle of the cross."
When asked if his players should have spoken to the referee before the free-kick was taken, Mourinho said: "We have meetings even now on Zoom asking the players not to complain to officials. The referee is there, the guys in VAR are in contact with him, Graham Scott the fourth official is there."
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The political scene in Ukraine is just as disturbing as the economic situation, continued Mr. Sidelkovsky. Politicians are fighting constantly in the Rada (parliament), mainly over pensions and other benefits awarded to themselves. Ordinary people, especially poor people, live under enormous stress, which leaves them vulnerable to disease. Many people have lost hope. Mr. Sidelkovsky said that he does not understand how individuals manage independently, without help from someone else or from a welfare organization.
Yan Sidelkovsky (right) plays a prominent role in the Boston-Dnipropetrovsk Jewish sister-city relationship. He is the local representative of the JCRC-Combined Jewish Philanthropies effort in Dnipropetrovsk and he works with his wife Tanya in the Adopt-a-Bubbe pro-gram. (Tanya Sidelkovsky was visiting several of the AAB communities at the time of the writer's interview.)
Photo: Chabad of Dnipropetrovsk.
Other than the distribution of food and medicines, perhaps the most popular Adopt-a-Bubbe program is the warm home day centers, which are held in the apartments of participants. Adopt-a-Bubbe currently operates two warm homes in Dnipropetrovsk (one on each side of the Dnipr River) and ten others in its service region. Twelve to 15 seniors attend each warm home every month, with some people rotating in or out each session so that more indi-viduals are able to participate. The hostess prepares some dishes, but guests bring others so that the hostess is not overwhelmed and more people feel valued. In addition to consuming a hot, nutritious meal, participants cele-brate birthdays and holidays, sing, dance, watch videos, and take part in other activities. The opportunities for socializing and for intellectual exercise are just as important as the hot meal, said Mr. Sidelkovsky.
Mr. Sidelkovsky acknowledged that the Joint Distribution Committee had initiated the warm home program and then abandoned it as a consequence of budgetary pressures. He believes that Joint is embarrassed by Adopt-a-Bubbe success with its expanded version of the original JDC concept and noted that Joint in Dnipropetrovsk has tried to resume its own warm homes on a limited basis. However, said Mr. Sidelkovsky, Joint brings cooked food, rather than permitting participants to derive satisfaction from preparing their own meals. Further, Mr. Sidelkovsky said, JDC has been unable to replicate the joyous atmosphere typical of Adopt-a-Bubbe warm homes.
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19. Rabbi Shmuel Kaminezki is the Chief Rabbi of Dnipropetrovsk and is regarded by most observers as the most effective community rabbi in all of the post-Soviet successor states. He has built an unparalleled community infrastructure, deftly raising and managing funds from wealthy local Jews, international Jewish organizations, and the Boston Jewish community with which Dnipropetrovsk Jewry enjoys a twinning or sister-city relationship.
Rabbi Shmuel Kaminezki, left, is widely regarded as the most successful community rabbi in the post-Soviet states. He has been in Dnipropetrovsk, a city of great historic importance to Chabad, for 20 years.
In response to a question about the local economy, Rabbi Kaminezki said inflation remains a major problem. The local Chabad infrastructure, he said, must raise 20 percent more than the previous year simply to maintain services. Real estate and property development have been hit hard, he continued, but most other businesses are managing. He has heard of very few business bankruptcies, he said. However, he observed, many people are working in the "black economy" so that they or their employers are able to avoid paying taxes; the tax schedule is unreasonably high, impeding business development.
Rabbi Kaminezki noted that state pensions are being paid on schedule and that the currency exchange rate remains stable, two factors that boost confidence in the economy. Regional (oblast) governance is very important; the governor of Dnipropetrovsk oblast is exceptionally competent, stated Rabbi Kaminezki. Only 36 years old, the governor has taken various measures to encourage business development and diversification of the local economy; he is close to President Viktor Yanukovych and to other people in power (in Kyiv). The governor, Alexander Vilkul, also is very concerned about improving traffic conditions, Rabbi Kaminezki added, and is mindful of ecological concerns.
Rabbi Kaminezki confirmed reports that the writer had heard earlier concerning the forthcoming development of a Dnipropetrovsk-based residential yeshiva katana (junior yeshiva) for sons of Chabad emissaries throughout Ukraine. The yeshiva would accommodate boys from the age of about 10, many of whom would commute to their homes on weekends. No site has been selected yet, Rabbi Kaminezki said, but it is likely that such an institution will open within the next several years. Neither of the two current options – an existing Chabad yeshiva katana in Moscow or any of several such yeshivot in Israel – is satisfactory, due to distance and other factors.
Rabbi Kaminezki spoke with great satisfaction of the development of a new fund established to assist Chabad rabbis in smaller Jewish population centers. Supported by Rafael Rutman, a British businessman in Kyiv, and other donors to Chabad, the fund is directed toward the maintenance of day schools and other community institutions in smaller cities in which local donors are difficult to find. Chabad centers in the largest Ukrainian Jewish population centers – Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Odesa, and Donetsk – are ineligible for support from this fund. The fund is managed from Dnipropetrovsk, the largest Chabad community in Ukraine and the seat of the Chabad Federation of Jewish Communities in Ukraine.
Throughout the writer's visit in Dnipropetrovsk, the local Chabad community was abuzz with excitement about the then-forthcoming marriage of Yehudis Kaminezki, the eldest child of Rabbi Shmuel and Chana Kaminezki. The wedding, with a guest list numbering 1200, took place in the Dnipr Arena, a football stadium, early in June. The marriage of Yehudis was the first wedding of a Chabad emissary child in the post-Soviet states after the collapse of the Soviet Union.[32]
20. Vyecheslav "Slavik" or "Zelig" Brez is the Executive Director (Исполнительный директор) of the Philanthropic Fund of the Dnipropetrovsk Jewish Community (Благотворительный фонд Днепропетровского еврейского общины), which supports Chabad interests in the city. The 2010-2011 budget for the community is $4.8 million, a modest increase over the 2009-2010 budget of $4.5 million.[33] However, said Mr. Brez, as of March 30 [the date of the interview], the Philanthropic Fund had only $4.2 million in cash and good pledges. He was very concerned about Chabad ability to support its summer camps and certain facility renovations scheduled for the summer months, he continued. Implementation of some new programs in adult Jewish education has been delayed. However, notwithstanding the uncertainty of the Chabad financial situation, the Philanthropic Fund had increased its allocations for care of the sick by 30 percent, most of which was designated for surgical procedures and medi-cations. It was imperative to assist ill members of the local Jewish community, Mr. Brez said; the cost of medical care had risen substantially, far beyond the means of many families.
The Board of the Philanthropic Fund includes 85 members, each of whom contributes a minimum of $500 monthly to the Fund, responded Mr. Brez to a question. If a Board member falls behind in his payments, Mr. Brez continued, he may be retained on the Board for six to 12 months. A few individuals who had been removed from the Board for non-payment had recently re-joined the Board after paying all missed assessments. The Chabad community was anticipating continuing cutbacks in the allocation from Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston, the Jewish federation in Dnipro-petrovsk's sister-city. From a high of $200,000, the Boston allocation was expected to dip to $120,000 in the current fiscal year. Boston funds support designated program areas, such as Beit Baruch, the hip replacement program, food at School #144, and the Big Brother/Big Sister program.[34]
Board members serve on certain functional committees, such as Jewish education, welfare, culture, media, and regional operations outside the city. However, said Mr. Brez, it is difficult to find individuals who are willing to chair these committees. Opportunity for leadership responsibility generally does not attract people to the Board, he continued.[35]
[32] Two other Chabad emissary daughters were married shortly thereafter, one in Moscow and the other in Donetsk.
[33] The Dnipropetrovsk Chabad fiscal year coincides with the Jewish calendar year. The projected budget for 2008-2009 was $5.5 million, but this amount was slashed substantially in late 2008 after the onset of the international economic crisis.
[34] Allocations from the Boston Jewish community also support certain secular projects in Dnipropetrovsk, such as a women's gynecology center at a local hospital and a pediatric care center at another hospital.
[35] The chairman of the Board of the Philanthropic Fund of the [Chabad] Dnipropetrovsk Jewish Community and its largest donor is banking magnate Hennadiy Boholubov. Mr. Boholubov has held this position since inception of the Fund.
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Al-Qaeda is a global militant Islamist organization founded by Osama bin Laden in Peshawar, Pakistan,[20] at some point between August 1988[21] and late 1989,[22] with its origins being traceable to the Soviet War in Afghanistan.[23] It operates as a network comprising both a multinational, stateless army[24] and a radical Sunni Muslim movement calling for global Jihad and a strict interpretation of sharia law. Al-Qaeda has carried out many attacks on non-Sunni Muslims,[25] non-Muslims,[26][27] and other targets it considers kafir.[28
Al-Qaeda has attacked civilian and military targets including the September 11 attacks, 1998 U.S. embassy bombings and the 2002 Bali bombings. The U.S. government responded to the September 11 attacks by launching the War on Terror. With the loss of key leaders, culminating in the death of Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda's operations have devolved from actions that were controlled from the top-down, to actions by franchise associated groups, to actions of lone wolf operators.
Characteristic techniques employed by al-Qaeda include suicide attacks and simultaneous bombings of different targets.[29] Al-Qaeda ideologues envision a complete break from all foreign influences in Muslim countries, and the creation of a new world-wide Islamic caliphate.[3][31][32] Among the beliefs ascribed to Al-Qaeda members is the conviction that a Christian�Jewish alliance is conspiring to destroy Islam.[33] As Salafist jihadists, they believe that the killing of civilians is religiously sanctioned, and they ignore any aspect of religious scripture which might be interpreted as forbidding the murder of civilians and internecine fighting.[9][34] Al-Qaeda also opposes man-made laws, and wants to replace them with a strict form of sharia law.[35]
Al-Qaeda is also responsible for instigating sectarian violence among Muslims.[36] , is intolerant of non-Sunni branches of Islam, denounces them by means of excommunications called "takfir" and regards liberal Muslims, Shias, Sufis and other sects as heretics and have attacked their mosques and gatherings.[37]
Some financing for al-Qaeda in the 1990s came from the personal wealth of Osama bin Laden.[64] and some in 2001 possibly comong from Jamaa Al-Islamiyya and Islamic Jihad, both associated with Afghan-based Egyptians.[65] Other sources of income in 2001 included the heroin trade and donations from supporters in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and other Islamic countries.[64] A WikiLeaks released memo from the United States Secretary of State sent in 2009 asserted that the primary source of funding of Sunni terrorist groups worldwide was Saudi Arabia.[66]
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What is Fast Charging?
Clarifying the confusion behind what "fast charging" actually is
What is "Fast Charging"?
Google defines it as: by which it can feed more juice more quickly into your phone, for a quick burst of energy.
Most references to fast charging actually refer to the mobile phone industry, but the same technology, and speeds, are also relevant when it comes to BEV (battery electric vehicles).
To understand charging speeds on a BEV or a mobile phone, one has to understand how charge speed is rated. Charging speed is actually based on a ratio of how much is being put into the battery vs the battery size, which is called a "C" rating.
1C means that the power being put in to the battery pack is equivalent to the size of the battery pack.
If you have a 100wh portable mobile phone charger, and you were charging it at 100w, it would take you 1 hour (theoretically) to charge that charger and you would be charging at 100w/100wh = 1.0C
PS. That is very, very fast to charge a mobile phone charger, and would probably damage wires, connectors or the battery itself if it was charging that fast.
Most USB chargers can output only 10w of power, so if you were to charge your 100wh portable mobile phone charger, that would take you 10 hours and you would be charging at 10w/100wh = 0.1C
PS. This is very typical when it comes to charging; it's slow, but safe for the wiring, battery, and will help maintain capacity over its lifetime.
Now Over to Electric Vehicles
So now that same charging time references can be had with electric cars, electric motorcycles, basically anything with batteries.
The Evoke Urban Classic has an 7,800wh battery pack and an onboard charger that outputs 1,800w. 7,800wh/1,800w = 4.3 hours to full charge (theoretical) and about 3.0 hours to 80% and is charging at 1,800w/7,800wh = 0.23C
With the optional onboard dual charger the Evoke Urban Classic can output 3,000w, which reduces the full time charge to 2.6 hours or about 2.0 hours to 80% and is charging at 0.38C or 75km per hour of charge.
Taking a look at a Tesla Model S, their onboard charger at 110v puts out 1,600w and will take about 52 hours to charge their 85,000w battery pack to full, charging at 0.02C. At 240v the same onboard charger can now output about 7,000w and takes it down to about 10 hours to a full charge, or 0.1C
Now, their Supercharger Stations can output much more than their onboard chargers at a whopping 120kw, or 120,000w of power. That bumps up their C rating to 120,000/85,000 = 1.4C and less than 40 mins to 80% maximum charge.
So What is Fast Charging?
So the whole point of the original article was to define what Fast Charging really is, and the easiest answer is: "It depends". Different people are going to have different expectations of what "fast" really is, but from a technical point of view, charging anything over 0.3C+ puts a lot of strain and heat on the battery pack. Without adequate cooling:
the battery pack will have a significantly shortened lifespan,
the charger may deliberately slow down to reduce the amount of heat, or
the battery pack will catch fire. (every company has safety and control measure to prevent this from happening)
So, to hopefully not confusing things anymore, anything above a 0.3C charge rate is pretty much deemed as fast charging from a technical point of view. Which is about 1 - 2 hours to 80% full charge from zero.
PS. Just remember that almost all the time, driving in an electric car or electric motorcycle that you're never going to be at completely empty on the battery pack, so more than likely, charging times are going to be much shorter if you follow an ABC (Always Be Charging) pattern, topping up whenever or wherever you can.
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Ocean Resort Casino has been sold again, continuing a tradition of instability that dates back to before it even opened as Revel in 2012.
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My first tipoff about the potentially grim fate of the $2.4 billion Revel Casino Hotel — which last week, under its new name Ocean Resort Casino, found yet another owner, its fifth in its brief history — really came a few years before its 2012 opening.
The project, built on a South Inlet Boardwalk site purchased by Morgan Stanley in 2006, invariably was the talk of Atlantic City at the annual East Coast Gaming Congress.
But gaming industry experts on various panels starting in 2008 kept pronouncing it "re-VELL" instead of the intended "REV-el" (as in, "enjoying oneself in a lively and noisy way, especially with drinking and dancing").
It became a bit of a running joke. But that didn't stop the mistake from being made. In retrospect, if even the name doesn't work …
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For some, Morgan Stanley walking away in 2010 with a $1 billion loss was all they needed to know. But thanks to a $260 mm tax incentive offered by the state of New Jersey (if the project had succeeded), new investors flowed in.
In 2011, Revel CEO Kevin DeSanctis — after what I was told was some significant arm-twisting by then-Governor Chris Christie — announced at the Congress that the grand opening would come the following spring.
I watched DeSanctis and Christie celebrate the grand opening, which hit its target. Nothing else did, alas — including a failed pitch by Christie to have his favorite rocker, Bruce Springsteen, perform at the site on Labor Day weekend 2012.
(And it's not weird at all that a sculpture that looks like the world's largest golf ball adorns the roof, or that it was designed by Mitch Gorshin, whose father was the original Riddler villain in the iconic Batman TV series.)
Revel not the first casino to lose money immediately
Like Trump Taj Mahal Atlantic City in 1990 before it and Resorts World Catskills after it, Revel's first-month revenue numbers painted a devastating picture: If a casino can't even produce enough dollars to handle its monthly debt service in its ballyhooed first weeks of opening, there is little hope for the longterm.
There were numerous misfires in the planning stages. A decision to go completely smoke-free, an odd set of elevators and escalators, an inconvenient floor plan, and a relatively isolated location all more than negated the plus of a few popular nightclubs.
A Revel bankruptcy filing took less than a year, though the property vacated that scenario once more than 80% of the equity was flipped to its key lenders.
The casino closed in early September 2014, leaving an empty shell and a variety of investors mulling what kind of discount they might get.
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In April 2015, Palm Beach, Florida billionaire and polo player Glenn Straub bought the property for a paltry $82 million.
A legal battle with the energy supplier to the property occurred almost immediately, and Straub proved to be a volatile owner. Six months after purchase, Straub suggested he would let refugees from Syria occupy the empty casino hotel until he sorted things out.
Straub also touted his plans for a "genius university," a longevity institute, a rope-climbing attraction, and other offbeat ideas. But after two years, he sold the property in early 2018 for $200 million to investor Bruce Deifik's AC Ocean Walk group. Straub didn't double his money because of significant legal fees incurred and infrastructure costs, but he came out ahead.
Last June, Revel re-opened its doors as Ocean — with the former Taj Mahal property re-emerging as Hard Rock Casino the same day.
I spoke with Deifik after the grand opening ceremony, and he seemed completely invested, emotionally as well as financially.
The reboot was impressive architecturally, and the decision to open up the back doors to the Boardwalk and the Atlantic Ocean was appealing. The sportsbook is impressive, too.
But month after month, Ocean landed near the bottom of the Atlantic City casino rankings, just as its predecessor did.
Another dip in the Ocean
Last week, it was confirmed that Deifik is out, and the casino's lenders are taking over. Ocean is now owned by Luxor Capital Group (no relation to the Las Vegas casino).
Part of the transfer included a, well, Revel-ation of the casino's finances. It lost $3.2 million in September, $4.1 mm in October, $5.5 mm in November, $5.8 mm in December, and was on track to lose at least $5 mm more in January.
The new owners say they will spend another $70 mm on upgrades, but it's difficult for any of us who have been around since this whole idea was hatched to have much faith in a happy ending at this point.
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John Brennan has covered NJ and NY sports business and gaming since 2002 and was a Pulitzer Prize Finalist in 2008, while reporting for The Bergen County Record.
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Joschka Fischer je kao vrlo mlad sudjelovao u zapadnonjemačkim studentskom pokretima. Bio je dva puta poslanik u njemačkom Bundestagu 1983. – 85. i 1994. – 2006. zastupajući njemačku stranku zelenih (Die Grünen) (koja se od 1993. zove Bündnis 90/Die Grünen). Fischer je u periodu 1985. – 94. bio aktivan kao političar u pokrajini Hessen, obnašajući dužnosti pokrajinskog ministra za energiju i okolinu u periodima 1985. – 87. i 1991. – 94.

Na saveznim izborima 1998. stvorena je koalicija između SPD-a i stranke Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, tako da je Fischer dobio mjesto ministra vanjskih poslova. Joschka Fischer je obnašao tu dužnost do 2005. kada odlazi poslije izbora pošto je SPD ušao u koaliciju s CDU/CSU.

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Beau Bridges
March 9, 2015 | Paul Wake Baker
Although this movie might not be suitable for all ages because of language and some adult situations, it is nonetheless a family movie. It deals with the issues people face, both as parents and as children, and ultimately it addresses the responsibility of generations to their family.
When Elizabeth King (Patricia Hastie) falls into a coma as a result of a boating accident, her husband, Honolulu attorney Matt King (George Clooney), is forced to grapple with the problems his youngest daughter, 10 year old Scottie (Amara Miller) has developed in her mother's absence. Scottie has begun to act out her own insecurities by sending offensive texts, bullying her fellow students, and posting pictures of her comatose mother. The time comes when Matt is informed by their doctor that there is no longer any hope that Elizabeth will recover, and, per her living will, will be removed from the machines that keep her alive.
Matt and Scottie fly to Kauai to pick up his oldest daughter, 17 year old Alex (Shailene Woodley) who attends a private school. Alex is drunk when they get there, but she comes home with them. As they argue, Alex reveals that her mother has been having an affair, so Matt sets out to find out who the man is. Alex insists that her friend, Sid (Nick Krause) accompany them on this journey. They must tell Elizabeth's parents about the decision of the doctors. Her father, Scott (Robert Forster), is a bitter man who is trying to deal with his wife's Alzheimer's disease. When Sid laughs at her behavior, Scott punches him in frustration.
They discover that the man Elizabeth was having an affair with is Brian Speer ((Matthew Lillard), a wealthy real estate agent. They discover that Brian has taken his wife Julie (Judy Greer) on a vacation to Kauai, so they follow.
All of this very personal action takes place against Matt's family background. He is the sole trustee of a family trust dating back to the last Hawaiian kings that includes 25,000 acres of prime land on the island of Kauai. This trust is set to expire in seven years due to Hawaiian law and Matt's cousins, who have squandered their inheritance are pressuring him to sell the land now so they can all cash in. It is a matter of some concern to the Hawaiian people, as the developers who have bid on the land want to turn it into another resort.
Director Alexander Payne (Sideways, Nebraska) adapted the Academy Award winning screenplay along with Nat Faxon and Jim Rash from a novel of the same name by Kaui Hart Hemmings, who served as a consultant on the movie. His style is characterized by simplicity so that what you see is pretty much what you get. None of the camera work or lighting ever imposes itself on the action and that is sometimes a very good thing.
George Clooney is terrific as Matt, driving the film from beginning to end with a restrained and thoughtful performance. Alongside him, Shailene Woodley and Amara Miller are absolutely perfect as his daughters. Wonderful performances by Judy Greer and Beau Bridges (as Matt's cousin Hugh) add to the dramatically powerful, yet sometimes comedic story.
The movie is engaging, heartwarming, and flawlessly beautiful. With the landscape of Hawaii constantly dominating the action, the eye is never disappointed. In addition, the soundtrack of Hawaiian songs, befitting all of the moods of the story, is an absolutely perfect addition to the storytelling. In spite of the subject matter, it will leave you feeling very good, comfortable, and content with the world.
In an industry that thrives on thrill-a-minute action, larger than life special effects, and a blaring soundtrack, more movies with the passion, power, and humor of The Descendants are desperately needed. I highly recommend this film!
Norma Rae
February 6, 2015 | Paul Wake Baker
Freedom can be understood in many ways, but anyone who ever worked a factory job before the advent of unions understands freedom as the right to be treated as a human being, rather than as a machine part that can be worked to death and then thrown away. Martin Ritt's 1979 movie, Norma Rae, shows the difficult road to obtain that freedom.
The following review discusses the entire movie, including the ending, so if you don't want the movie spoiled for you, I suggest you see it first.
Norma Rae (Sally Field) is a woman in her twenties who works at a textile factory in a small southern town, the only real job available to local workers. She has been married once and has one child from her ex-husband and another she earned in the back seat of a car with another local boy. Struggling under minimum wages, she lives with her mother (Barbara Baxley) and father (Pat Hingle), who also work in the factory. Her only recreation seems to be meeting a traveling salesman for sex whenever he passes through town. Although all of the workers at the extremely loud factory are upset about their working conditions, Norma Rae is the only one who complains to her bosses.
A union organizer, Reuben Warshowsky (Ron Leibman) comes to town representing the Textile Workers Union of America to try to organize the workers, but is met with animosity. Most of the workers fear for their jobs in a town where their jobs are the only jobs to be had. Norma Rae makes friends with Reuben as he settles in for a long battle. At a bar, she meets a local man she had known as a child, Sonny Webster (Beau Bridges) and they go out for a beer. They meet Reuben at the bar and he gives them a ride home because they are too drunk to drive.
Sonny takes Norma Rae out to the lake with her two children and his own daughter from his previous marriage and he proposes to her. Shortly afterward, they are married and settle into their own home. The plant manager gives her a promotion and a raise to a job where she spot checks the work of the other workers, but she loses her friends because of it, so she goes back to her regular job on the floor.
When her father dies of a heart attack because his manager won't let him take a break when he feels breathless, Norma Rae joins Reuben in his fight to establish a union. She heckles and badgers her neighbors and works tireless hours with Reuben trying to convert people and get enough votes for the union to go through. The plant managers try a number of tactics to break up the union organizers and one of them is to plant a letter on the bulletin board accusing black workers of running the union effort. This leads to several beatings of African American workers. Furious, Reuben asks Norma Rae to get the text of the message. She tries memorizing it, but that fails and Reuben tells her that she must simply write it down. She replies that she will be fired, but Reuben assures her the union will stick up for her.
She stands at the bulletin board writing down the message when she is confronted by management. They bring her into the manager's office and fire her. She insists on writing down the names of all the managers present and they try to force her to leave. As they escort her across the factory floor, she turns on them, defiantly proclaiming that they will have to get the sheriff to throw her out. Standing up on a table, she writes the word "union" on a cardboard sign and turns in a circle showing it to the other workers. One by one, they shut down their machines in support of her effort.
The sheriff arrives and takes her to jail. Her one phone call is to Reuben who bails her out and takes her home. She wakes each of the three children and sits with them on the sofa, explaining what she's done and reciting her mistakes in life, showing them pictures of their fathers and telling that in spite of all of her mistakes, she has done the right thing in standing up for the union, that her freedom and their future is the most important thing of all.
Her example inspires more people to join the union and when the vote is taken, they narrowly win certification. Before leaving town, Reuben asks her what she will do now and her answer is simple and concise: "live."
Based loosely on a 1975 book, Crystal Lee, a Woman of Inheritance by New York Times reporter Henry P. Leifermann, the script by Harriet Frank, Jr. and Irving Ravetch fictionalizes the real Crystal Lee Sutton into Norma Rae Webster, placing the story in a different town, and creating characters different from the real ones in the original book.
Martin's Ritt's direction is terrific and one of the reasons Norma Rae is such a good film. His use of the hand-held camera keeps the movie immediate and kinetic. The other reason it is a terrific movie is the performance of Sally Fields as Norma Rae. At the time, she was just beginning to overcome her early type casting as the joyful, innocent girl in the television show The Flying Nun. Just prior to filming Norma Rae, she had won an Emmy Award for one of the best television dramas ever, Sybil, in which she played a girl with multiple personalities. Part of what makes her performance so appealing is that she keeps it so down to earth. Not once during the entire movie is she unbelievable as this uncomplicated, emotional Southern girl who must stand up for her rights. It is such a good performance that she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. It changed her life and broke her out of the mold she had been set in.
The supporting cast is excellent, including a terrific performance as by Ron Leibman as Reuben. He was kind of shafted in the credits and advertising. Beau Bridges was a bigger name and even though he has a much smaller role, he was given billing over Leibman. Both Pat Hingle and Barbara Baxley are terrific, too, as are the children in their smaller roles.
This movie is very powerful and it holds a just place in film history. It should be seen by everyone, but especially those who are unsure what unions are and how they came to be. It is an excellent film.


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Ending Regime Change –> In Bolivia and the World
LATIN AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN, 2 Nov 2020
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J S Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service
Bolivian woman votes in October 18 election
28 Oct 2020 – Less than a year after the United States and the U.S.-backed Organization of American States (OAS) supported a violent military coup to overthrow the government of Bolivia, the Bolivian people have reelected the Movement for Socialism (MAS) and restored it to power.
In the long history of U.S.-backed "regime changes" in countries around the world, rarely have a people and a country so firmly and democratically repudiated U.S. efforts to dictate how they will be governed. Post-coup interim president Jeanine Añez has reportedly requested 350 U.S. visas for herself and others who may face prosecution in Bolivia for their roles in the coup.
The narrative of a rigged election in 2019 that the U.S. and the OAS peddled to support the coup in Bolivia has been thoroughly debunked. MAS's support is mainly from indigenous Bolivians in the countryside, so it takes longer for their ballots to be collected and counted than those of the better-off city dwellers who support MAS's right-wing, neoliberal opponents.
As the votes come in from rural areas, there is a swing to MAS in the vote count. By pretending that this predictable and normal pattern in Bolivia's election results was evidence of election fraud in 2019, the OAS bears responsibility for unleashing a wave of violence against indigenous MAS supporters that, in the end, has only delegitimized the OAS itself.
It is instructive that the failed U.S.-backed coup in Bolivia has led to a more democratic outcome than U.S. regime change operations that succeeded in removing a government from power. Domestic debates over U.S. foreign policy routinely presume that the U.S. has the right, or even an obligation, to deploy an arsenal of military, economic and political weapons to force political change in countries that resist its imperial dictates.
In practice, this means either full-scale war (as in Iraq and Afghanistan), a coup d'etat (as in Haiti in 2004, Honduras in 2009 and Ukraine in 2014), covert and proxy wars (as in Somalia, Libya, Syria and Yemen) or punitive economic sanctions (as against Cuba, Iran and Venezuela) – all of which violate the sovereignty of the targeted countries and are therefore illegal under international law.
No matter which instrument of regime change the U.S. has deployed, these U.S. interventions have not made life better for the people of any of those countries, nor countless others in the past. William Blum's brilliant 1995 book, Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II, catalogues 55 U.S. regime change operations in 50 years between 1945 and 1995. As Blum's detailed accounts make clear, most of these operations involved U.S. efforts to remove popularly elected governments from power, as in Bolivia, and often replaced them with U.S.-backed dictatorships: like the Shah of Iran; Mobutu in the Congo; Suharto in Indonesia; and General Pinochet in Chile.
Even when the targeted government is a violent, repressive one, U.S. intervention usually leads to even greater violence. Nineteen years after removing the Taliban government in Afghanistan, the United States has dropped 80,000 bombs and missiles on Afghan fighters and civilians, conducted tens of thousands of "kill or capture" night raids, and the war has killed hundreds of thousands of Afghans.
In December 2019, the Washington Post published a trove of Pentagon documents revealing that none of this violence is based on a real strategy to bring peace or stability to Afghanistan – it's all just a brutal kind of "muddling along," as U.S. General McChrystal put it. Now the U.S.-backed Afghan government is finally in peace talks with the Taliban on a political power-sharing plan to bring an end to this "endless" war, because only a political solution can provide Afghanistan and its people with the viable, peaceful future that decades of war have denied them.
In Libya, it has been nine years since the U.S. and its NATO and Arab monarchist allies launched a proxy war backed by a covert invasion and NATO bombing campaign that led to the horrific sodomy and assassination of Libya's long time anti-colonial leader, Muammar Gaddafi. That plunged Libya into chaos and civil war between the various proxy forces that the U.S. and its allies armed, trained and worked with to overthrow Gaddafi.
A parliamentary inquiry in the U.K. found that, "a limited intervention to protect civilians drifted into an opportunist policy of regime change by military means," which led to "political and economic collapse, inter-militia and inter-tribal warfare, humanitarian and migrant crises, widespread human rights violations, the spread of Gaddafi regime weapons across the region and the growth of Isil [Islamic State] in north Africa."
The various Libyan warring factions are now engaged in peace talks aimed at a permanent ceasefire and, according to the UN envoy "holding national elections in the shortest possible timeframe to restore Libya's sovereignty"—the very sovereignty that the NATO intervention destroyed.
Senator Bernie Sanders' foreign policy adviser Matthew Duss has called for the next U.S. administration to conduct a comprehensive review of the post-9/11 "War on Terror," so that we can finally turn the page on this bloody chapter in our history.
Duss wants an independent commission to judge these two decades of war based on "the standards of international humanitarian law that the United States helped to establish after World War II," which are spelled out in the UN Charter and the Geneva Conventions. He hopes that this review will "stimulate vigorous public debate about the conditions and legal authorities under which the United States uses military violence."
Such a review is overdue and badly needed, but it must confront the reality that, from its very beginning, the "War on Terror" was designed to provide cover for a massive escalation of U.S. "regime change" operations against a diverse range of countries, most of which were governed by secular governments that had nothing to do with the rise of Al Qaeda or the crimes of September 11th.
Notes taken by senior policy official Stephen Cambone from a meeting in the still damaged and smoking Pentagon on the afternoon of September 11, 2001 summarized Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld's orders to get "…best info fast. Judge whether good enough hit S.H. [Saddam Hussein] at same time – not only UBL [Osama Bin Laden]… Go massive. Sweep it all up. Things related and not."
At the cost of horrific military violence and mass casualties, the resulting global reign of terror has installed quasi-governments in countries around the world that have proved more corrupt, less legitimate and less able to protect their territory and their people than the governments that U.S. actions removed. Instead of consolidating and expanding U.S. imperial power as intended, these illegal and destructive uses of military, diplomatic and financial coercion have had the opposite effect, leaving the U.S. ever more isolated and impotent in an evolving multipolar world.
Today, the U.S., China and the European Union are roughly equal in the size of their economies and international trade, but even their combined activity accounts for less than half of global economic activity and external trade. No single imperial power economically dominates today's world as overconfident American leaders hoped to do at the end of the Cold War, nor is it divided by a binary struggle between rival empires as during the Cold War. This is the multipolar world we are already living in, not one that may emerge at some point in the future.
This multipolar world has been moving forward, forging new agreements on our most critical common problems, from nuclear and conventional weapons to the climate crisis to the rights of women and children. The United States' systematic violations of international law and rejection of multilateral treaties have made it an outlier and a problem, certainly not a leader, as American politicians claim.
Joe Biden talks about restoring American international leadership if he is elected, but that will be easier said than done. The American empire rose to international leadership by harnessing its economic and military power to a rules-based international order in the first half of the 20th century, culminating in the post-World War II rules of international law. But the United States has gradually deteriorated through the Cold War and post-Cold War triumphalism to a flailing, decadent empire that now threatens the world with a doctrine of "might makes right" and "my way or the highway."
When Barack Obama was elected in 2008, much of the world still saw Bush, Cheney and the "War on Terror" as exceptional, rather than a new normal in American policy. Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize based on a few speeches and the world's desperate hopes for a "peace president." But eight years of Obama, Biden, Terror Tuesdays and Kill Lists followed by four years of Trump, Pence, children in cages and the New Cold War with China have confirmed the world's worst fears that the dark side of American imperialism seen under Bush and Cheney was no aberration.
Amid America's botched regime changes and lost wars, the most concrete evidence of its seemingly unshakeable commitment to aggression and militarism is that the U.S. Military-Industrial Complex is still outspending the ten next largest military powers in the world combined, clearly out of all proportion to America's legitimate defense needs.
So the concrete things we must do if we want peace are to stop bombing and sanctioning our neighbors and trying to overthrow their governments; to withdraw most American troops and close military bases around the world; and to reduce our armed forces and our military budget to what we really need to defend our country, not to wage illegal wars of aggression half-way round the world.
For the sake of people around the world who are building mass movements to overthrow repressive regimes and struggling to construct new models of governing that are not replications of failed neoliberal regimes, we must stop our government–no matter who is in the White House–from trying to impose its will.
Bolivia's triumph over U.S.-backed regime change is an affirmation of the emerging people-power of our new multipolar world, and the struggle to move the U.S. to a post-imperial future is in the interest of the American people as well. As the late Venezuela leader Hugo Chavez once told a visiting U.S. delegation, "If we work together with oppressed people inside the United States to overcome the empire, we will not only be liberating ourselves, but also the people of Martin Luther King."
Medea Benjamin is the cofounder of CODEPINK for Peace, and the author of several books, including Kingdom of the Unjust: Behind the US-Saudi Connection and Inside Iran: the Real History and Politics of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Nicolas J. S. Davies is an independent journalist, a researcher with CODEPINK, and the author of Blood On Our Hands: the American Invasion and Destruction of Iraq.
Tags: Bolivia, Bolivian Coup, Capitalism, Conflict, Economics, Evo Morales, Geopolitics, Hegemony, Human Rights, Imperialism, Indigenous Rights, Latin America Caribbean, Lithium, Military Intervention, Neocolonialism, Politics, Power, Racism, Resources, USA, Violence
This article originally appeared on Transcend Media Service (TMS) on 2 Nov 2020.
Anticopyright: Editorials and articles originated on TMS may be freely reprinted, disseminated, translated and used as background material, provided an acknowledgement and link to the source, TMS: Ending Regime Change –> In Bolivia and the World, is included. Thank you.
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