Okay, maybe not quite the road to hell, but Blackheath need to take a good look at what's 'coming down their way' this morning. There will be lessons to be learned and learned quickly out there on the pitch come 3.00 o'clock this afternoon as Cov are determined to set the record straight following two defeats to Blackheath on their travels in the last two seasons.
…but this time Cov are prepared to fight fire with fire.
And the M25 – this ain't no upwardly mobile freeway.
Hopefully, a case of third time lucky for Coventry today, except such is the meticulous planning that will have gone into preparing for the game that by the time kick off comes around, luck will play little part in the proceedings.
On the two previous visits to Blackheath under Rowland Winter, Cov have come off second best. In fact last season Cov were in danger of finishing third down at Well Hall, so poor were they on the day. These are different times and Cov are a very different side to the one that lost so heavily in what was their first visit to Well Hall. However, this season they travel down on the back of 24 consecutive wins and with a group of supporters who will certainly make their presence felt during the course of the game.
Blackheath's fortunes have been pretty mixed this season and they are currently in 5th position having won 10 games, drawn just one and lost 6. Compare that to Coventry's – played 16 won 16 – and you begin to realise the current gulf between the two sides, a full 26 points in fact and Coventry have the added luxury of having a game in hand.
But Coventry will know that of those 10 wins, six have come at home and three of them have been against the three teams directly below Cov in the league (Plymouth Albion 32-31, Ampthill 16-5 and Darlington Mowden Park 39-24) , a point that Blackheath's Head Coach, James Shanahan, will have been sure to have been reinforcing all this week in training. Admitted, the last of those results was back in late October and it's not as if their recent form is anything to unnerve the rest of the league, but they have those wins to their name and must be seen as a team more than capable of derailing Coventry.
And Cov don't appear to be taking any chances either by bringing Sam Tuitupou and Luke Narraway straight back into the side, and moving Jimmy Litchfield, Scott Tolmie and Jack Preece off the bench to add some additional experience into the pack. It speaks volumes for the strength of the side that RW can leave out last week's sponsors' Man of the Match' , Olly Povoas, but with Jack Preece in such fine form such is the depth at Coventry Rugby Club at the moment.
I was certainly concerned at the start of the season as to how Rowland Winter was going to manage the players given the ability across the whole squad. But by carefully selecting his players for particular games, it has meant that he has been able to give everyone game time. Or at least nearly every one, although maybe Ben Palmer hasn't had the chances he deserves.
If the home game against Blackheath in September was anything to go by, then perhaps we can expect another bruising encounter, and whilst no team has yet really tried to rile Coventry by intimidating them with a game plan that relies as much on physicality as it does technique, I really don't think that it's an approach that would work anyway, given the experience in the side now. Players like Narraway, Makaafi and Tuitupou have seen it all before and I'm sure there are leaders in the side who w0uld ensure Cov kept well out of trouble.
The NCA publish figures for the numbers of cards each club receives over the course of the season and they make for some interesting reading, especially in light of Coventry's opposition this weekend.
Blackheath's total of 14 yellow cards for technical fouls, substantially more than any other club in National One, suggests they are very much a team that plays on the edge of what the laws allow and this must be something that Cov will be looking to exploit.
If Cov can exert the kind of near constant pressure that we have seen them put other teams under for long periods of some previous games, then the pressure could tell in terms of infringements – and if Blackheath have any tendency to repeat offences, well Cov are the team to exploit that.
Blackheath's numbers are so far in excess of the other teams that there must be a weakness somewhere and with all the thorough planning that the coaches put into their pre-match preparation these days, I imagine that the recordings of Blackheath's last few games will have been watch ad infinitum, and probably ad nauseum, by the coaches and senior players.
Boulton and Litchfield don't often start these days so I wonder if some of these technical offences are to be found in the set piece – if they are then Cov's front 5 I'm sure will be up for the challenge. The forwards are just about the strongest 8 we can put out and with Nilsen, Titchard-jones and Povoas champing at the bit to have their opportunity, any weaknesses will be ruthlessly exposed; that's the theory, anyway.
The Development Squad play the Blackheath Heathens today, too, with the kick off at 12.30 pm. I'm travelling down on the Supporters' Club coach and with a departure time of 10.30 and a fair wind behind us, I might get to see the last 20 or 30 minutes of that game as well which would be something of a bonus.
The front 5 of Higgins, Priestley, Jeannot, Gray and Hutchinson is very much one for the future and I'll be interested to see how they get on against what I sure will be a big and gnarly Blackheath pack. And in Daynes, Macnulty and Price, you have a back row that has plenty of physicality to it, will be quick around the pitch and look to link up with the backs as well. They might not have played together regularly, but it is a pretty competitive set of forwards who shouldn't disgrace themselves against teams in the lower half of National One.
Outside them, the backs might be relatively inexperienced but they are certainly exciting to watch and have plenty of potential. too, with Titchener, Roach, Asiedu, Neal, all touted as being players to watch. Add to the mix Palmer and Brazier, two players who would stand out as beacons in most other National One senior sides and you have a team that should give a good account of itself, despite not having played for some time now. I haven't even mentioned the presence of Wasps loanee, Jacob Umaga who has represented England for the U20s.
Hopefully, weather and fingers permitting, I'll tweet updates from Well Hall which kicks off at 3.00 pm. There's plenty of shelter and the signal has always been good in the past, so fingers crossed.
Both Blackheath and Coventry will provide regular updates, including the scores on the doors.
Blackheath's Twitter account is @Blackheath_1858, whilst Coventry's is @CoventryRugby.
If you're looking for no more than score updates and the odd comment, then certainly both of those will provide you with what you're looking for.
However, I tend to tweet far more, so if you're at home and just surfing the net trying to find out anything you can about the game, mine might be a different option. The tweets, when combined, make a crude 'commentary' of sorts., but be warned though, you might get well over a 130 plus tweets during the course of the game, weather permitting – so if that is too much, mute me and use the two club's official feeds.
Please bear in mind, I am a bit one-eyed when I tweet, covering more than just the scores as they occur. Mine tends to be a bit more emotive, and I do try and get across the mood of the game scores as they happen.
Please do let me know if you are following my tweets, if there aren't many than I'll reduce the number, although it's something that I do enjoy doing!
If you aren't familiar with Twitter or don't have an account, then on the homepage of this blog (www.coventryrfc.me) all the tweets will appear in real time on the far right of the page, towards the top end. Click on them to increase their size.
Today is the last chance to take part in the latest blog poll, this one being an attempt to determine where supporters would strengthen the current squad were we to gain promotion to the Championship.
In short, RW has said he's looking to bring in 5 or 6 players next season to add to those who will be retained. The poll asks you to imagine yourself as the Cov Director of Rugby (!) – you have six players coming in, which positions would you look to bolster.
Someone kindly reminded me about the changes to the replacement bench in the Championship – no rolling subs and a full bench of 7, so that might impact on where the squad needs strengthening…?
The usual way of recording your choices is required, just click on the circle against the chosen position – you have up to six choices and once you're decided, just scroll down to the vote button and click on that.
Remember, base your judgement on our current squad, not the players you think will be here next season. I've had a go at it myself and found it just about the hardest of all the polls that have appeared in the blog so far. But that's exactly what the coaches are having to do, so there's no harm in trying it yourself.
I'll publish the results probably on Sunday or Monday.
Please do give it a go. There's no right or wrong answer and it will be interesting to see how your choices marry up to those of the coaches should Cov earn the promotion that they certainly deserve on the basis of the first 16 games of the season so far.
Ib the good old days of 100% GCSE English coursework, I once produced a 3 week unit on The Road to Hell – got a written unit and an oral out of it, too. I was pushing my luck as it was in an inner ring school in Birmingham and all the kids were from a Muslim background. No great cultural awareness from me in those days.
Down to earth with a bump. For the first time I will not be voting for a player of the match, Blackheath players do not appear on your list. Feel like the team were left on the bus again. I know it sounds sour grapes after such a long winning run, but some of the tries scored against us were down to simple defensive errors.


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As part of the agreement, Reyes will not appeal the suspension.
Reyes, 32, is under contract for 2016-17 at $22 million per. This means he'll lose a little more than $7 million because of this suspension. His contract also includes a $22 million option/$4 million buyout for 2018.
He'll return to the Rockies without a clear role, as rookie Trevor Story has shined as the team's regular shortstop and projects as more valuable than Reyes moving forward.
That the suspension isn't as long as some speculated it would be may ramp up trade interest in the veteran infielder. ESPN's Buster Olney reports that that's indeed the case.
Cons: As far as closers (or potential closers) go, Dyson is not much of a strikeout pitcher. Also, Jake Diekman has pitched well enough to lay claim to the closer's role, should the need arise.
Pros: Doolittle was stellar as the A's closer two seasons ago, when he was first elevated to the role. His velocity has rebounded to where it was in 2014 after recovering from last season's shoulder issues. Doolittle's strong control could be a welcome change of pace, if Madson's recent wildness persists.
The Dodgers get the Angels' patchwork rotation for four games and miss both James Shields and Drew Pomeranz when they travel to San Diego, so they're sitting pretty this week. And with nothing but right-handers on the schedule, Joc Pederson and Chase Utley especially are. It's rare that they get to play a full week, but both have the splits to take advantage, posting an OPS over .900 against righties. Yasmani Grandal isn't as available in CBSSports.com leagues, but he's a more likely play for Head-to-Head owners, with their smaller roster sizes, especially given his recent power surge.
The winter before last, the A.J. Preller-led Padres had become the league's most active dealers. Nary a day passed without Preller making some trade or another. Yet since last spring's Craig Kimbrel swap, Preller has become conservative, perhaps overly so. He passed on dealing Justin Upton and Ian Kennedy prior to the trade deadline, and somehow exited the winter with his rotation intact.
Presumably, Preller intended for the Padres to contend this season — or to feign competitiveness, anyway (to be fair, they're just 2 1/2 games back entering Friday night). More realistically, though, Preller probably hoped Cashner would pitch well enough to reject a qualifying offer at season's end. Or, at minimum, that teams would pony up for Cashner and/or Ross (a free agent after 2017) as August 1 neared. In retrospect, however, it appears the Padres likely missed their window to maximize their returns on both — meaning, in basic terms, that the Padres will have undercut their rebuilding efforts by waiting too long to make a move.


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The Five Steps of the Writing Process for Fun Teaching
By James Stuart
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The process of writing is divided into five steps. If you're teaching a writing class, you may find lecturing to your class about each of these steps in depth boring and tiresome. Instead, turn them into a fun activity to keep your students interested and motivated.
This is the planning step in the writing process. The writer should research, plan and organize his writing so that the actual writing process will run more smoothly. Writers may find keeping a journal, writing out descriptions of each character and outlining the entire essay, article or story helpful. If you want to make this activity more fun, do it together as a class. Show the class some simple pictures, which can be abstract pictures or simple drawings of situations such as a man at a restaurant. Ask for suggestions about may be happening in each picture to help students generate ideas for stories.
The writing stage engages students in actually creating a text. Writers should strive to complete the whole text, even if it's imperfect, using this stage to build off of what they outlined. In your class arrange your students in a circle ,and tell them that you will create a story together. One student starts with just one word. The next student makes the next word in that sentence. Keep going around until the story is complete.
The stage in the writing process in which a writer looks over her work and makes changes to what she wrote is the revising process. You can teach basic revision skills by taking a few short stories and cutting them up into individual sentences. Put each story in its own envelope. In pairs or small groups the students should attempt to put the stories together in the correct order. You can also work on sentence structure by taking individual sentences and cutting them up into words. See who can complete this activity the fastest.
Although not necessarily fun, the editing stage is nonetheless necessary. Before publishing anything, a writer should make all the necessary changes to ensure that his work is as strong as possible. Prepare one page and purposely insert several errors. Give the students a photocopy of the page, and tell them to correct the errors. To make this more fun, read through the text out loud, and instruct your students to yell "stop" when they hear a mistake. Turn it into a game, giving one point to a student whenever he spots or hears an error. The student with the most points wins.
Publishing doesn't necessarily mean that a writer will publish a book. Rather, the publishing stage is about submitting the final draft of a text. Ask your students to keep journals about their daily activities, instructing them not to write down anything too personal. Tell the class to submit these journals once a week. Read a few excerpts and tell the class to guess who they belong to. Knowing that their work might be read out loud will also encourage your students to submit their best work.
Daily Writing Tips; The Writing Process; Ali Hale
W.W. Lewis Middle School: The Five Steps of the Writing Process
Mangement for the Rest of Us: 3 Creative Brainstroming Activities Games and Exercises For Effective Group Problem Solving; Lyndsay Swinton
James Stuart began his professional writing career in 2010. He traveled through Asia, Europe, and North America, and has recently returned from Japan, where he worked as a freelance editor for several English language publications. He looks forward to using his travel experience in his writing. Stuart holds a Bachelor of Arts in English and philosophy from the University of Toronto.

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Exclusive: Christopher Steele, the ex-MI6 officer, has formed a new organisation with his business partner.
Christopher Steele, the ex-British spy behind an explosive dossier claiming that Russian intelligence holds compromising information on US President Donald Trump, has formed a new company, IBTimes UK can reveal.
Public records show that Steele has set up Chawton Holdings with his business partner and fellow former intelligence officer, Christopher Burrows.
The company, named after the Hampshire village where novelist Jane Austen spent her final years, was incorporated on 23 June, according to documents filed at Companies House.
Steele, 53, and Burrows, 59, are also directors of Walsingham Partners and Orbis Business Intelligence, the Belgravia-based consultancy the duo founded in London in 2009 and which made more than £1m in profits between 2015 and 2016.
Steele, who quit the UK's Security Intelligence Service (Mi6) the same year he set up Orbis, was forced to go into hiding when he was outed as the dossier author in January and returned to work in March.
"I'm now going to be focusing my efforts on supporting the broader interests of our company here," he told the Press Assocation. "I'd like to say a warm thank you to everyone who sent me kind messages and support over the last few weeks."
The former Cambridge University president had reportedly been commissioned by Washington-based opposition research firm Fusion GPS to investigate potential ties between Trump and Russia.
Steele's findings, which Trump has vigorously denied – branding the dossier "fake news" – were shared with members of the British and US intelligence communities.
Sir Andrew Wood, a former UK ambassador to Russia, also told Republican Senator and Chair of the Armed Services Committee John McCain about the existence of the dossier during a security conference in Halifax, Canada, in November 2016.
The event was held just over a week after Trump beat Democratic Party candidate Hillary Clinton in the presidential election on 8 November.
"I told him I was aware of what was in the report but I had not read it myself, that it might be true, it might be untrue. I had no means of judging really," Wood told BBC Radio 4's Today programme in January.
McCain later reportedly passed the information onto now former FBI Director James Comey, who in turn briefed outgoing President Barack Obama and President-elect Trump about the dossier.
The 35-pages of unverified material was eventually published by BuzzFeed News in January, with the Wall Street Journal naming Steele as the author later that month.
After decades in the shadows, including working in Moscow, leading Mi6's Russia desk in London and investigating corruption in football's international governing body FIFA for the English Football Association, Steele had become a household name.
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COST Actions to deal with COVID-19 crisis
Reviewed by James Ives, M.Psych. (Editor)Aug 6 2020
The current COVID-19 crisis puts the world to the test, and research and innovation will be key in tackling this enormous challenge. The complexity that COVID-19 imposes will require an out-of-the-box approach, which transcends scientific disciplines, actors, and regions. COST manages more than 250 COST Actions, of which many are dealing directly or indirectly with aspects linked to this crisis.
The bottom-up and interdisciplinary nature of COST Actions constitutes a fertile breeding ground for the development of these much-needed ideas and solutions. Moreover, a COST Action has on average 30+ countries on board, which guarantees that collaboration is truly cross-border and involves perspectives from a wide range of countries from all over Europe.
COST Action initiatives
COVID-19 pandemic negatively impacts eating behaviors
COVID-19 pandemic affects sleep habits, leads to further stress and anxiety
One of our COST Actions, New diagnostic and therapeutic tools against multidrug resistant tumours has created a "Task Force" of researchers contributing to Covid-19 research. The main objective of this task force is to synthesize new drugs or identify FDA approved drugs which could be repurposed as antiviral agents against SARS-CoV-2 and contribute to diagnosis or prognosis of COVID-19. The coordinators of this task force identified the need to expand their network by collaborating with scientists with complementary expertise. To this end, they contacted Chairs from other COST Actions with added expertise on medicinal chemistry, pharmacology, cellular biology, molecular biology, genetics, systems medicine, medicine, bioinformatics, and virology. Consequently, an informal inter-COST Actions network was initiated.
Broad focus of research
COST Actions do not only focus on medical treatments and vaccines, but also deal with a wide range of disciplines focusing on economic and societal fall-out of a crisis, such as health care in general and on societal questions touched upon by COVID-19. Several examples can be found in the
COST Actions against COVID-19
Since March 2020, multiple COST Actions have approached the COST programme wanting to collaborate with other Actions on COVID-19 research. In response to these requests and to make the networking process smoother, COST has gathered together in a booklet entitled 'COST Actions against COVID-19, An interdisciplinary network', details of all of the Actions wishing to connect and collaborate.
As the full consequences of the current pandemic are yet unknown and the threat of a future pandemic is always present, this network offers considerable potential in mobilising experts and tackling challenges as they arise.
European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST)
Tags: Bioinformatics, Bottom-Up, Cellular Biology, Coronavirus, Diagnostic, Drugs, Genetics, Health Care, Medicinal Chemistry, Medicine, Molecular Biology, Pandemic, Pharmacology, Research, SARS-CoV-2, Virology
Indirect effects of COVID-19 pandemic on cardiovascular disease patients and care
Covid 'decimated our staff' as the pandemic ravages health workers of color in US
Study shows how airflow inside a car may affect risk of COVID-19 transmission
How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected the mental health of older adults? A UK case study
Study shows a 25% increase in food insufficiency during COVID-19 pandemic
Pharmacy / Pharmacology
Researchers produce lightweight grab-poles with anti-microbial property for public transport


Our Peatland Programme, formerly known as Peatscapes, aims to conserve and enhance the internationally important peatland resource within the North Pennines and to promote peatland conservation at local, national and international levels.
Read more about our peatland work on this page and from the links below.
Support local employment through farming, shooting, tourism and conservation jobs.
Restoration – Supporting restoration and management work through the promotion of existing agri-environment and wildlife enhancement grants and through sourcing new additional funds.
Research – Supporting and disseminating new and existing research into peatland processes, ecology and management.
Promoting best practice – Supporting the provision of management advice on upland peatland to form the basis of practical management works.
Celebration – Raising the level of understanding and appreciation of the significance of the resource to those living in, working in and visiting the area.
The BBC's Trai Anfield visited the North Pennines to discover the importance of peatlands and the challenges that they face, click to view a clip from the Wild Weather programme.
Much of the work that we do is in partnership with others, those that own and manage the land, contractors that carry out the restoration work, our scientific research partners, government agencies and others from the local community. We are grateful to our current funding partners, the Environment Agency, Natural England and Northumbrian Water.
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Q: What could machine learning do for the Close Review Queue on StackOverflow? Say a reward was offered for a machine learning system that could predict the outcome of part completed reviews, and a nice test dataset was provided, would it make a interesting project for 3rd year (or master) Computer Science students?
Then if a system was found that would predict the outcome of some reviews 99% of the time, it may offer a way to allow these reviews to be auto completed.
For example, it may be the case that a review that is skipped by a lot of users, and "leave open" by 2 users, without a close vote cast, can just be auto completed on the bases that it will hardly ever result in the question being closed.

Some more thoughts on this.
I think we have 3 "sets" of questions reviews.

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*Bad: Questions that clearly should be closed.

*Good: Questions that should be clearly left open.

*SoWhat: Questions that are of little value, but not so bad as to get into the "Bad" set.  Do we care what the outcome is on these?
I expect that most review tasks are in the "SoWhat" set, and that most people will agree that review tasks in the "Bad" set are more important.
So if there was some way to predict if a review task was likely to be in the "bad" set, it could be moved up the review queue so it got completed quicker.
If it could be predicted that it was very unlikely that a task was in the "bad" set, then it could just be removed from the review queue.   (It will go back in if it gets anther close votes.)
I expect that by looking at how long reviews take, how many skips, the past history of the reviewer etc, each review would be found to provide more information on the outcome, then is just picked up by looking at the number of "close"  and "leave open" votes.

A: It could be a great help for the community. More important it would be to find the characteristics of bad questions and not allow them enter the system at first.
If you look at the question, you know when it's poor, but it's hard to say what exactly makes it poor (when you have to write a program finding such poor questions).
I'd start from Markov-Chains analysis for both closed and unclosed questions. As the first goal, detect assignment questions. The assignments are written using a bit other language than that used by developers to describe specific problem. AFAIK there are researches on using Markov Chains to detect the style of particular author (plagiarism detection).

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During Les Assises de la Sécurité in Monaco, many French CISOs enjoyed Renaud Bidou's workshop on 'The Hacker Ethic'. Because of the far-reaching success, our CTO has recorded an English version and we are happy to share that with you today.
In 1994, Steven Levy published 'the Hacker Ethic', in which he defined the foundation of the hacker culture in six tenets which are serving not so much as a history of the computer revolution than as a cultural investigation. What remains of that, twenty years later?
The book that made the term 'hacker' popular is still relevant, and the ethic it identifies is still influential, even more so today, with cyber-terrorism, mafia extortions, communication interceptions and bitcoins thefts. Threats have evolved, technical attacks have changed but the six rules remain.
In this presentation, Renaud Bidou repositions the six rules in our ongoing information security struggle, shedding new light on today's crucial challenges and the future Levy predicted twenty years ago.


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Pioneering water companies join forces to drive innovation for future generations
Water companies from around the globe are joining forces to form the World Water Innovation Fund, which aims to find, develop and accelerate the ground-breaking technologies that will make a real difference to peoples' lives across the world.
The ambitious multi-million pound fund aims to pool the intellect, resources and funding of some of the world's most forward looking water companies to protect this precious resource against the growing challenges of climate change and population growth.
Members have each committed resources and investment to a central fund which will then be used to develop innovative techniques and to undertake trailblazing research. Members will each conduct a number of large-scale trials of new technologies, and will create a seed-fund that aims to accelerate water innovation across the world.
An example would be collaborating with leading researchers and manufacturers to develop robotic products that can be standardised for the water industry that could actively seek, locate and even repair leaks inside pipes.
The fund will have a direct benefit to at least 50 million customers but, crucially it will share and publish its findings, allowing customers all around the world to benefit.
Liv Garfield, Severn Trent chief executive said "Water scarcity, triggered by climate change and population, is a huge challenge for the water industry across the world which is why today's launch is so important.
"We are the custodians of what is a precious resource, and which is so vital to everyone across the world.
"By creating this fund we've joined forces with like-minded companies from across the globe who recognise the challenges we face and who want to do things differently, to find new ways of working, and to leave a lasting water legacy for future generations.
"That's why I'm so excited about what we can achieve by working together."
Ofwat senior director John Russell said: "The challenges facing the water sector are profound, long-term and global. Innovation is vital to meeting the challenge of significant leakage reduction. That is why it is so important to see companies across the world pooling resources and ideas.
"With the right culture innovation can thrive. This is a step towards embracing that collaboration culture to foster a global response which is creative, ambitious, and able to solve problems and create new possibilities. It is a really exciting initiative and we'll follow it with real interest."
The water companies that have signed up span three continents and are:
• From the UK - Severn Trent and United Utilities;
• From the Americas – LADWP and DC Water from the US, and Aegea from Brazil; and
• From Australia - Hunter Water, Melbourne Water, Yarra Valley Water, South East Water and City West Water.
Further information about the fund and the companies who have signed up can be found at www.waterinnovationfund.com. A dedicated Twitter account has also been created, providing the latest information on individual projects and trials @WorldWaterFund.


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Last time, we began looking at the exclusionary rule and the protections it can offer to defendants in criminal cases where prosecutors attempt to introduce evidence which was obtained from or as a result of illegal searches and seizures. Again, the exclusionary rule allows a criminal defendant to file a motion to suppress illegally obtained evidence from being introduced into the court record.
The impact of a successful motion to suppress in a criminal case depends on the charges involved, since prosecutors are always required to provide evidence that proves beyond a reasonable doubt each element of every alleged criminal offense. The impact also depends on what other evidence prosecutors have at their disposal. If the evidence a defendant is able to suppress is not critical to the government's case, a motion to suppress may only have a minor impact. The impact can be significant when a defendant is successful in suppressing evidence which is key to the state's case.
There are several exceptions to the exclusionary rule, and it is necessary for a defendant to limit the applicability of such exceptions when seeking to exclude evidence. One exception to the exclusionary rule is when police found the evidence the defendant seeks to exclude by a source other than the illegal search. Another exception is when discovery of the evidence was inevitable. These exceptions can apply in cases where police have multiple leads leading to the same evidence.
The exclusionary rule also may not be applied in cases where the police conducted the illegal search in the good faith belief that they were following the law. Whether police failed to obtain a warrant when they should have, or police executed a warrant improperly, or when the warrant itself was invalid, the evidence obtained may not be excluded as long as law enforcement acted in good faith. Generally, it is difficult to prove that officers did not have good faith, though it can happen.
Navigating search and seizure issues in criminal cases is not an easy matter, and it is important to always work with an experienced criminal defense attorney to ensure one receive solid advice and guidance in building a strong strategy and taking advantage of the protections available in the legal process.
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Elliott Hudson College is a sixth form located in the Beeston area of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. The college offers A-Level courses for up to 1000 students from the Leeds City Region.

Elliott Hudson College is part of The GORSE Academies Trust which also includes Boston Spa Academy, Bruntcliffe Academy, The Farnley Academy, The Morley Academy and The Ruth Gorse Academy.

History
The college is named after two former students of Morley High School, Hannah Hudson and Natasha Elliott. Hannah was killed in a road traffic accident in 2009 and Natasha in a railway accident in 2010.

Established in 2015, Elliott Hudson College is located in the White Rose Office Park. Upon opening, the sixth forms of The Morley Academy and The Farnley Academy were closed. The aim of the college has been to provide high quality academic A-level education to students of the Leeds and West Yorkshire area. The names of the alliances (houses) were chosen by the college's first cohort, after inspirational figures. The college was first located in a building in the nearby Millshaw Business Park that now hosts The Stephen Longfellow Academy, an alternative provisions free school that is part of The GORSE Academies Trust. Later the college was located in another building in White Rose Office Park while the current building was being built. In September 2017, the college moved to the current permanent site. The construction was estimated to cost £11.1 million.

When first inspected by Ofsted in March 2018, the college was rated Outstanding overall and in all areas of its work. The college was noted for the progress made by students, in particular students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Extra-curricular activities
On Wednesdays, students take part in enrichment where they can be involved in a wide range of clubs and activities. There are five different enrichment pathways that students can take part in: Stand Out, Keep Learning, Get Involved, Be Active, Explore. Students may also decide to join the Students' Union for enrichment through which they can represent the students and work with senior members of the college staff to develop and improve the student experience. Every year, elections are held for Student Union President and Vice President. The college hosts various events throughout the academic year for students such as trips, talks from guest speakers. Every year there is a Destinations Day where Year 12 students attend talks and events related to careers, university study and options for life after college. On this day there is a careers fair, where many universities, apprenticeship providers, businesses and organisations are invited.

The Gorse Boat Club
Elliott Hudson College is unique, as it is one of the only state schools in the UK to have a rowing club. The Gorse Boat Club consists of students from Elliott Hudson College, Elliott Hudson College at Boston Spa and the secondary schools of The GORSE Academies Trust. The programme initially started in September 2016 with students from The Ruth Gorse Academy and Elliott Hudson College. Ben Cox, director of RowUK, helped in the creation of The Gorse Boat Club after approaching Sir John Townsley, CEO of The GORSE Academies Trust. Members of the club at Elliott Hudson College engage in strength and conditioning sessions at the college gym and on-water training at The Stourton Boathouse (which is shared with Leeds Rowing Club and the University of Leeds Boat Club) alongside their studies. Several members of the rowing club have been selected for the British Rowing World Class Start Programme, a specialist talent identification programme that trains and develops athletes for the GB Rowing Team. The Gorse Boat Club is affiliated with British Rowing and thus members compete in official regattas and head races throughout the UK.

Notable former pupils

 Lois Toulson, British diver

References

Free schools in Yorkshire
Educational institutions established in 2015
2015 establishments in England
Education in Leeds

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ZMQ leveraged mobile technology towards the Freedom TB programme to promote awareness among patients about the disease and connect them with health service providers for treatment.
As of June 2011, Freedom TB has used four types of technology interventions to achieve their goals. First, 1.4 million mobile phone games were downloaded to make illiterate and marginalised patients aware of TB in local languages and free of cost. Second, smart phones with mobile training kits are given to DOTS healthcare providers and community health workers, who in turn spread awareness at the local level. Third, all DOTS centres are connected to a central server and monitored with limited human supervision. An automated message generated from the server is sent to all patients reminding them to take medicines through a universal patient identification system that contains a database of patients of all DOT centres. Fourth, after receiving the automated SMS, patients send their response regarding medicine consumption via mobile to the DOT centre/worker. This has helped in monitoring patients' treatment and their compliance, especially with those living in remote regions and isolated locations.


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'We won't foot solar bill': energy retailers
Updated May 24, 2011 08:39:00
Photo: Electricity retailers have warned if they are forced to pay more for energy generated by solar panels on homes, they will have not option but to pass the costs onto consumers. (ABC News, file photo)
Electricity retailers are warning against any changes to a solar rebate scheme in New South Wales that force them to foot the bill.
Premier Barry O'Farrell has responded to a public outcry over the Solar Bonus Scheme, and anger from many Coalition MPs, by saying he is prepared to consider almost any proposal.
It is less than two weeks since the State Government announced it was cutting the rebate for more than 100,000 customers from 60 cents per kilowatt hour to 40 cents.
The issue has turned into the first crisis for the new Government, with protesters voicing their anger in Sydney and elsewhere in the state.
A joint Coalition party room meeting today will discuss alternative options that still address a massive cost blow-out for the scheme.
It is expected one of those options will be for energy retailers to pay a greater share of the cost.
John Grimes from the Australian Solar Energy Society says it makes sense for energy retailers to pay rather than the Government.
"That would save between $114 million and $416 million," Mr Grimes said.
The Greens are also pushing for retailers to cover more of the scheme's cost.
But Cameron O'Reilly from the Energy Retailers Association of Australia says they are paying a fair price for solar energy.
He says extra charges would inevitably be passed on to all electricity users.
"Retailers would quite rightly go to the regulator and say, we're being asked here to provide a payment to consumers that means we make a loss," Mr O'Reilly said.
"The retailers would go to the regulator, who would recognise those costs and then pass them on to the whole community by way of a rise in regulated tariffs."
But retailers are also uneasy about the State Government's current plan for retrospective legislation, saying a better solution would be a single national rooftop solar scheme.
One option the Premier is willing to rule out is scrapping the Solar Bonus Scheme altogether.
"I notice that some of those who are arguing for changes want to devastate the industry by cutting off the scheme," Mr O'Farrell said.
"We've said to people, we've made the announcement on the 28th of April, all those who applied at that stage, all those who'd ordered panels at that stage should proceed.
"Others are arguing to the contrary. I think that would have a huge impact upon businesses across the state."
The independent MP for the Northern Tablelands, Richard Torbay, has joined the chorus of criticism of the Government.
He says Coalition MPs deserve the pressure they are facing in their electorates.
"These are Coalition members who sat very quietly when these decisions were being made. I debated this issue in Parliament and I can tell you they were all towing the party line," Mr Torbay said.
"It's just the community reaction that has caused them to wake up and they've waited for the community to be so angry about this issue, they're now taking it to the joint party room."
Topics: states-and-territories, business-economics-and-finance, industry, electricity-energy-and-utilities, government-and-politics, programs-and-initiatives, nsw, australia
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Q: Align first content center and second content extreme right in div I have to align two contents in div as per below screenshot. I do not want to use flex as I am completely new to it. I have bootstrap3 library in my project

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*first content exactly at center

*second content should be at extreme right. very minimum space at right corner will be ok.

I checked, float:right but it is not aligning second content at extreme right. how to fix?

A: Use display: flex and add invisible element. Then use justify-content: space-between; to align the items one on the left, one center and one on the right.
If you need vertical center use align-items: center;
Learn more on flex here. The bootstrap documentation does great job visualizing more configurations.

.parent {
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  justify-content: space-between;
  align-items: center;
  border: 1px solid black;
  width: 200px;
  height: 40px;
}

.left-child {
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}

.center-child {
  background: red;
  width: 10px;
  height: 20px;
}

.right-child {
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  width: 10px;
  height: 20px;
}

A: In my answer, you have to change the margin-top of the right content as the font-size or height of the center content

Center

Right


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Meet & Greet with Harbhajan Mann in Perth
06:00 PM, Monday, 30th October 2017
Fusion 6 230 Cambridge St, Wembley 6014 WA Australia
When – Monday 30th October 2017
Where – Fusion 6, 230 Cambridge St, Wembley WA 6014, Australia
Timings - 6:00 PM
About Harbhajan Mann
Harbhajan Mann is a Punjabi singer, actor and film producer. His movies include Jee Aayan Nu, Asa Nu Mann Watnan Da, Heer Ranjha and Jag Jeondeyan De Mele. He was born on 30 December 1965 in village- 'Khemuana'.
Mann began singing as an amateur in 1980 and performed in local shows for the South Asian community while attending high school in Canada. His beginnings as a professional artist can be traced to 1992, he was in Punjab. It was then that his recording of Chithiye Nee Chithiye was released and this track became a regional success. Maan realized that the market for Punjabi music in Canada was small and he returned to Punjab to record his albums. He had a breakthrough in 1999 when exposure provided by India MTV and T-Series assisted his Oye Hoye album to become a success. His Punjabi-pop style soon attracted audiences from all over India and he also undertook playback singing roles where his voice was dubbed on to those of movie actors.
The playback work led to acting roles and Maan has become a prominent figure in the revitalisation of Punjabi cinema. He has starred and produced in seven movies – Ji Aayan Nu, Asa Nu Mann Watna Da, Dil Apna Punjabi, Mitti Wajaan Mardi, Mera Pind, My home, Jag Jeondiyan De Mele and his most recent movie.
On 2 January 2013, he released Satrangi Peengh 2 along with his brother Gursewak Mann. Harbhajan Mann said that he wants to create music that will live for decades. The music video of the song Chaun Ku Dina Da Mela by the debutante director Bobby Sandhu got a lot of critical acclaim and received praise for being culturally emphatic.
In 2013, Harbhajan Mann acted in Hanni which was directed by Amitoj Maan. The two have worked together again in Punjabi film Gaddar – The Traitor, which was released on 29 May 2015.
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Kasich's JobsOhio causes "confusion" and delay in SW Ohio and beyond
By Joseph On October 8, 2013 · 2 Comments
Back in 2011 we made some predictions about John Kasich's plan to change the way Ohio conducts business development activities. Kasich had starting moving much of the work done by the Ohio Department of Development to his new, semi-private, totally-secret organization called JobsOhio which would, in turn, rely on a set of regional "partner" organizations to make recommendations on who should get loans, grants, and tax credits from JobsOhio and the state.
We warned that by "adding more layers" to the business development process, while making the decision makers "harder to reach", Kasich's plan would result in additional bureaucracy and ultimately makes the state less responsive to the needs of Ohio's businesses and local leaders.
Sadly, that's exactly what happened.
A must-read story from Sunday's Journal News documents the disaster in Hamilton and surrounding counties. According to the piece, local economic development directors are pissed off at JobsOhio and its region partner, the Cincinnati USA Partnership, "because they aren't getting the job-generating leads and attention from the agency that they used to before JobsOhio entered the picture."
Under Kasich's plan, dozens of local Department of Development offices were closed, including the local Cincinnati Office, leaving JobsOhio's local partners to pick up the slack.
Once that happened, "things stagnated", according to Monroe County Development Director Kevin Chesar. "There was confusion about who had responsibility for what; how incentives, jobs and investment were to be calculated; and what qualifies companies for tax incentives."
"There has been a lack of clear communication on strategies," according to Clermont County Development Director Andy Kuchta. "Core marketing materials promoting Cincinnati are outdated."
Local leaders are so frustrated with the lack of responsiveness and support from the Partnership since JobsOhio became involved, that many are pulling their funding for the organization. Warren County Commissioner Dave Young expressed concern about "the long-term viability of the relationship" with JobsOhio's regional partner. "I don't think the taxpayers in Warren County have gotten an adequate return for the past couple years on the Partnership investment."
Other local officials have questioned recent staffing changes at the Partnership, which lost the majority of its experienced employees and replaced them with people who appear to be unfamiliar with the region. Butler County Development Director David Fehr worried that new partnership employees may not even be able to find Butler county on a map, and all they may know "about Cincinnati is the airport and Skyline Chili."
There is also concern that JobsOhio's involvement has brought about – surprise! – conflicts of interest within the Cincinnati USA Partnership because the group accepts donations from "investors" that include "private corporations and local governments." According to the Journal News piece, the Partnership continues its policy of providing access to information and events based on the amount of money a company or city donates to the group. At the same time, the partnership is directly responsible for recommending which companies will receive loans, grants and/or tax credit from the state.
Jack Cameron, administrative assistant to the mayor of Evendale, asserts that JobsOhio's involvement has caused a "built-in conflict" for the Partnership. "They never made a clear distinction between what they did for the investors and what they did for JobsOhio," according to Cameron. This is a very scary prospect when you consider that the Partnership will very like be asked to make grant or tax credit recommendations to JobsOhio for a company that may also be a big investor in the group.
What could POSSIBLY go wrong??
At least in the case of the Cincinnati USA Partnership, a list of investors is made public on their website, with the names of companies like Duke Energy, PNC Bank and Enquirer Media showing up right next to one of the other top donors: JobsOhio. JobsOhio, however, has refused to release the names of its private donors that, in total, have given over $7 million to the secret state agency. So there's no way to know if JobsOhio is simply funneling money to the Partnership on behalf of one of it's secret corporate or political donors.
Speaking of shady JobsOhio-related conflicts of interest, The Columbus Dispatch reported this week that OMNOVA Solutions received $381,000 in tax credits as recommended by JobsOhio. The company plans to move its corporate headquarters from Fairlawn to Beechwood.
Dispatch reporter Joe Vardon followed up with a story about the state's Controlling Board further approving the release of $10 Million in loans and bond funds to OMNOVA at the their September 23rd meeting.
Vardon points out that OMNOVA's CEO Kevin McMullen is a board member of Team NEO, JobsOhio's regional partner in Northeast Ohio. And while JobsOhio spokespeople claim Team NEO played no role in hammering out the deal, Vardon reports that OMNOVA used the threat of moving to another state as one of its bargaining tactics.
That's right, one of the guys Kasich's JobsOhio has entrusted with preserving and creating more jobs in Ohio threatened to move his own company out of Ohio if JobsOhio and the Kasich Administration didn't give him over $10 Million.
Meanwhile, Ohio's unemployment rate continues to rise and Ohio is ranked almost dead last on job creation compared to the rest of the country.
"Ohio Miracle", my ass!
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The Independent Writing topics in the following list may appear in your actual TOEFL iBT. You should become familiar with this list before you take the test. Remember that when you take the test, you will not have a choice of topics. You must write only on the topic that is assigned to you.
It does not matter whether you agree or disagree with the topic. The raters are trained to accept all varieties of opinions. What matters is the overall quality of your writing. This includes the development of your ideas, the organization of your essay, and the quality and accuracy of the language that you use to express your ideas.
What should you do with this list of topics? To prepare for the test, choose topics from the list and practice writing essays in response. Make sure that you time yourself, taking 30 minutes to read the question, plan your work, and write your essay. After completing the essay, read it over and compare it with the scoring guide. Better yet, ask your TOEFL instructor to evaluate your essay against the scoring criteria and give you feedback.
People attend college or university for many different reasons. Why do you think people attend college or university? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
A company has announced that it wishes to build a large factory near your community. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of this new influence on your community. Do you support or oppose the building of the factory? Explain your position.
If you could change one important thing about your hometown, what would you change? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
How do movies or television influence people's behavior? Use specific details and examples to support your answer.
"When people succeed, it is because of hard work. Luck has nothing to do with success." Do you agree or disagree with the quotation above? Use specific reasons and examples to explain your position.
Some people prefer to eat at food stands or restaurants. Others would rather prepare and eat food at home. Which do you prefer? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
Some people think that they can learn better by themselves than with a teacher. Others think that it is always better to have a teacher. Which do you prefer? Use specific reasons and examples to develop your essay.
What are some important qualities of a good supervisor? Use specific details and examples to explain why these qualities are important.
Should governments spend more money on improving roads and highways, or should governments spend more money on improving public transportation? Why? Use specific reasons and details to develop your essay.
We all work or will work in our jobs with many different kinds of people. In your opinion, what are some important characteristics of a co-worker? Use specific reasons and examples to explain why these characteristics are important.
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Television, newspapers, magazines, and other media pay too much attention to the personal lives of famous people, such as public figures and celebrities. Use specific reasons and details to explain your opinion.
Some people spend their entire lives in one place. Others move a number of times throughout their lives, looking for a better job, house, community, or even climate. Which do you prefer: staying in one place or moving in search of another place? Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion.
Choose a public transportation vehicle and explain why you think it has changed people's lives. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
What is a very important skill that a person should learn in order to be successful in the world today? Choose one skill and use specific reasons and examples to support your choice.
Some people like to travel with a companion. Others prefer to travel alone. Which do you prefer? Use specific reasons and examples to support your choice.
Some people prefer to get up early in the morning and start the day's work. Others prefer to get up later in the day and work until late at night. Which do you prefer? Use specific reasons and examples to support your choice.
What are the important qualities of a good son or daughter? Have these qualities changed or remained the same over time in your culture? Use specific details and examples to support your answer.
People work because they need money to live. What are some other reasons that people work? Use specific details and examples to support your answer.
Some people like to do only what they already do well. Others prefer to try new things and take risks. Which do you prefer? Use specific reasons and examples to support your choice.
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? The most important aspect of a job is the money that a person earns. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
Some people are always in a hurry to go places and get things done. Other people prefer to take their time and live their lives at a slower pace. Which do you prefer? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Parents or other adult relatives should make important decisions for their older teenage children. Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion.
What do you want most in a friend - someone who is intelligent, or someone who has a sense of humor, or someone who is reliable? Which one of these characteristics is most important to you? Use specific reasons and examples to explain your choice.
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Most experiences in our lives that seemed difficult at the time become valuable lessons for the future. Use specific reasons and examples to support our answer.
Some people prefer to work for themselves or own a business. Others prefer to work for an employer. Would you rather be self-employed, work for someone else, or own a business? Use specific reasons and details to explain your choice.
Some people say that computers have made life easier and more convenient. Others believe that computers have made life more complex and stressful. What is your opinion? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
Is it more important to be able to work with a group of people on a team or to work independently? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
Your city has decided to build a statue or monument to honor a famous person in your country. Whom would you choose? Use specific reasons and details to support your choice.
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Advertising can tell us a lot about a country. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
Some people say that the Internet provides people with an enormous amount of valuable information. Others believe that access to so much information creates problems. Which view do you agree with? Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion.
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? People nowadays spend too much time on personal enjoyment, i.e., doing things that they like to do, rather than doing things that they should do. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Telephones, electronic mail, and social media have made communication between people less personal. Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion.
Some people prefer to live in places that have the same weather all year long. Others like to live in areas where the weather changes several times a year. Which do you prefer? Use specific reasons and examples to support your choice.
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Always telling the truth is the most important consideration in any relationship. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
Some people think governments should spend as much money as possible exploring outer space, e.g., traveling to the Moon and to other planets. Others disagree and think that governments should spend this money for our basic needs on Earth. Which of these two opinions do you agree with? Use specific reasons and details to support your answer.
People have different ways of escaping the stress and difficulties of modern life. Some read, others exercise, and still others work in their gardens. What do you think are the best ways of reducing stress? Use specific details and examples in your answer.
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You need to travel from your home to a place 30 miles (48 kilometers) away. Compare the different kinds of transportation you could use. Tell which method of travel you would choose. Give specific reasons and details to support your choice.
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China's first hard seltzer company LINGYA rebrands to ZEYA and outlines local and regional strategy
By Guan Yu Lim
08-Feb-2021 - Last updated on 08-Feb-2021 at 02:35 GMT
ZEYA will re-launch with four flavours (cucumber, passion fruit, white peach, grapefruit) ©ZEYA
Related tags: hard seltzer, China
LINGYA (零呀), the company which produced China's first locally made hard seltzer has rebranded to ZEYA, in line with a new local and regional strategic plan.
Founded in June 2020, the Shanghai-company first introduced six hard seltzer products in China, which were low calorie, and contained zero sugar.
They came in cucumber, blackberry, strawberry, white peach, grapefruit and passionfruit flavour variations.
The rebrand is part of the company's vision to build a portfolio of different products apart from hard seltzers. This would possibly include carbonated tea and other alcoholic products in the future.
"Ling (零)" means zero in Chinese, representing zero sugar in its products, and "Ling YA (零呀)" together means zero pressure. According to co-founder, Eric Hoang, the company envisioned its products as a refreshing, fun and zero pressure drink.
"We created LINGYA because we wanted an entirely different approach to drinking. Through simple ingredients, our goal is to deliver all the flavour you expect from your other drinks, but with less of what's bad for you for a refreshingly different experience."
ZEYA is a combination of the terms, zero and LINGYA, which is easier and quicker to pronounce, Hoang explained.
ZEYA will re-launch with four flavours (cucumber, passion fruit, white peach, grapefruit), following consumer feedback.
The rebranding is set to take place in February, just ahead of the Chinese New Year festival.
Unmet need
Hoang relocated from US to China about two and a half years ago. "At that time, seltzers were blowing up in the US, and was already a billion-dollar category."
Hoang told FoodNavigator-Asia there was a gap in the China market, which is dominated by baijiu and beer, for seltzers and female-friendly products.
"If you look at alcoholic offerings in China, it is geared towards baijiu or beer or spirits. There is not really another product category that really fits the female demographic and so that led us to create ZEYA."
ZEYA's hard seltzers (3.8% ABV) are a blend of soda water, distilled vodka, erythritol (sweetener), infused with fruit essence.
Hoang observed that female consumers in China were increasingly more health conscious, "starting to notice calories, sugar, and reading labels, so we really feel that this (female) demographic is going to help drive the growth of the hard seltzer category in China."
The company sources most of its ingredients from China.
They are manufactured in an existing beer facility owned by ZEYA's other co-founder, located near Shanghai.
Its best-selling flavour is cucumber, which Hoang attributes to consumer familiarity in cocktails.
The company intends to launch one to two new flavours every year, and maybe a seasonal flavour if applicable.
Sales channels
It initially launched through on-premise channels such as bars and restaurants, which helped raised awareness of hard seltzers in China.
It has since pivoted to D2C, mainly through its WeChat official store, which make up about 70% of its sales. On-trade accounts for the other 30%. This year, ZEYA is focusing on expanding its e-commerce presence and getting into off-trade, primarily large supermarkets and grocery stores.
The company ships across nationwide in China, although in-store purchases are mostly still in Shanghai.
"41% of our customers have re-ordered, and these customers typically order an average of 10 cans every month," Hoang told us.
"Right now, we have loyalty and retention, what we don't have is reach, which can be achieved once we focus more on marketing."
Hoang is eyeing expanding into other cities in Asia-Pacific such as Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taipei.
"We think that fits our branding and our strategic position better than if we were to try to expand into the rest of China especially in lower tier cities which would warrant a different strategy. So, our focus now is to win the tier one cities in China, and then look to expand elsewhere."
The company is currently in talks with a distributor in Singapore.
Growing competition
In China, smaller independent companies have started entering the hard seltzer space, instead of big players - the exception being Anheuser-Busch InBev.
Hoang said most companies were still testing the market, "because people don't know how it's going to perform in China."
However, Hoang is hopeful the category will grow substantially over the years, adding: "We think there is an unmet need for this category, it's just no one will know how big it is going to be yet.
"It is very hard to change consumption habits, especially in China where people have been accustomed to drinking beer and baijiu for so long."
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Cognac, like other wine-producing regions in France is divided into sub-areas with one, which has the most favourable soil and geographical conditions. In Cognac, the best or Premier Cru area is Grande Champagne.
In Cognac we use principally Ugni Blanc grapes to produce the wine. The wine produced is ideal for distilling and is quite low in alcohol and acidic. It is made specially for distillation. Distillation is made in traditional copper pot-stills and the distillation is made twice to a degree of 70% Alc/Vol or 140 proof.
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