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Hindmarsh Vs AAMI - ACL Final Venue
Adelaide United are in with a huge chance of being the first A-league club to make a final of the AFC Champions League. After a 3-0 victory in the first leg of their semi final on Wednesday night (what a result!) they only need to prevent their opponents, Bunyodkor from winning the second leg by 3 clear goals and they will be through to the final - and will qualify for the Club World Cup.
It's been a brilliant run, a brilliant story and a happy ending seems very possible.
One big issue that has come up, is where Adelaide United should play the final match, should they get there. If Adelaide beats Bunyodkor, they will host the second leg of the Champions league final - against either Urawa or Gamba Osaka of Japan. On the surface, it would appear there are 3 options - Adelaide's traditional home ground, Hindmarsh Stadium, Adelaide Oval (where Adelaide have played a game in the past) or AAMI Stadium, the home of AFL in Adelaide.
Hindmarsh Stadium has been sold out for both Adelaide's Quarter and Semi final matches, which demonstrates the interest this tournament has generated in the city. The final would potentially draw a huge crowd, I would anticipate that even AAMI Stadium, which holds 52,000 people would be sold out for the final. Especially when you consider that we could have 10,000 fans coming from Japan for the game.
May would suggest, the best option would be Adelaide Oval. United have played there before, the venue is right in the heart of the city and it has a capacity of over 30,000. Unfortunately the Asian Football Confederation does not like grassed areas, so these may be unavaliable for the final, taking away the Oval's capacity advantage. Add to that, it is cricket season, and the pitch would not be in good condition for such an important match. Unfortunately, Adelaide Oval is out of the question.
What about AAMI Stadium, then? Is it a real option? I'm going to compare AAMI to hindmarsh, and try to outline all the advantages/disadvantages of AAMI, compared to Hindmarsh.
AAMI Stadium
AAMI Stadium is the home of Australian Rules football in South Australia. For many years it hosted SANFL matches, and more recently has hosted all home matches played by the Adelaide Crows and Port Adelaide in the AFL. It's an oval venue, it's stands have a gentle slope, and it has a second tier on one side, extending along one corner of the ground.
It's a poorly desinged venue in my opinion (why they built a second tier at the Northern end before putting a second tier on the outer side is beyond me). Even for AFL, the view for spectators is not good. If you attend a game of AFL at AAMI, you get used to watching half the match on the big screens. Not only that, but it is poorly located - crowds are definately affected by the stadiums location in West Lakes. The added drive time, plus the fact that there is not much to do before/after the game in West Lakes definately takes away from the experience of attending matches there.
Of course, if it's not a good venue for AFL - it's a terrible venue for football. The stands are quite a way from the action, and with a venue like AAMI you can't have the intimacy you get at Hindmarsh. The size of the playing surface isn't actually that bad. I used Google earth to compare AAMI's dimensions to a typical stadium with an athletics track (used commonly in world football) - this is the stadium I compared AAMI to, it's Miyagi Stadium in Japan, which hosted 3 world cup games in 2002:
The Miyagi stadium is about 10 metres longer than AAMI, and 2 metres narrower. If anything, AAMI should be better than Miyagi for football. Here are some dimensions of other oval grounds that have been used for football (all measurements are taken from the front row of seating):
AAMI Stadium: 143x182m
Ataturk (2005 UEFA Champions League Final Stadium): 130x190m
MCG: 148x177m
Olympic Park (Melbourne): 112x178m
Athens Olympic Stadium: 123x184m
Of course this doesn't take into account the slope of the stands, AAMI's stands have a very gentle slope, while most of the other stadiums have stands that rise steeply - so that those at the back are still fairly close to the action. Also, most stadiums with athletics tracks have the stands raised by a few metres, so if you are in the first row you are about 5m above the playing surface and still get a good view.
Still, AAMI doesn't seem all that bad to me - certainly no worse than the MCG, and not that far behind stadiums like the Telstra Dome or the Miyagi Stadium. I decided to try and 'visualise' what it would be like to attend a football match at AAMI, unfortunately I couldn't find any pictures of football matches which have been played at AAMI in the past (Argentina played Saudi Arabia at the venue 20 years ago - there has been an NSL game there as well), but this is what it would be like to watch football at AAMI:
Doesn't seem all that terrible, does it?
Of course there are other things to consider. By moving to AAMI stadium for one match, Adelaide United could have part of their home ground advantage taken away - a big home crowd could go part of the way towards making up for this, but I'm sure Aurelio Vidmar and the United players would ideally like to stick to familiar surroundings. Prehaps, if AAMI were to be used, United could hold a few training sessions there, to help with this.
Another thing to consider is the playing surface. It is not AFL season, so the turf at AAMI would be perfect, however one potential problems is that the surface at AAMI is not completely flat - the center is around 1 metre higher than the edges of the ground. This could be frowned upon by the AFC.
Overall though, AAMI doesn't seem like that bad a choice to me. Assuming the AFC allow it, we would make more money out of a game there (even though some of our money would probably have to go to the SANFL, who own the ground), and a lot of new supporters would get to see Adelaide United. It would also ensure that the hardcore fans (of both Adelaide and the away side) would not miss out on tickets. It would be good for the game to have 52,000 fans at the Champions league final.
Hindmarsh Stadium
On the other hand, we have Hindmarsh Stadium. Hindmarsh is United's home ground, and is a great place to watch football. You are nice and close to the action, the atmosphere is good (which happens when you have intimate venues), the surface is perfect and the general facilities are also good.
It does have it's problems - the ground is not that easily accessible, parking is hard to find, there is limited public transport to the venue and of course it only holds 17,000 people. All these problems are caused by the fact that Hindmarsh is situated quite close to roads and other businesses, meaning potential for expansion is very limited. Prehaps one day the surrounding properties could be bought, transport and parking could be improved, the ground could be expanded, and United could have a perfect home venue, but for now, this is irrelevant.
It has been suggested that temporary seating could be erected for the match - which was done for the Olympic football in 2000, but even if this could be organised in the few weeks we have untill the game, it would only allow another 3-4000 fans to attend.
If there's one major advantage that Hindmarsh has in this debate, it's the fact that it's United's home ground. The ACL final may well be very tight, and having a ground that the players are used to, may just be the difference. If we were to win the champions league, we would get an extra $200k in prizemoney (compared to coming second - of course we would probably gain more money than that from ticket sales if the match was played at AAMI), plus we would get an easier draw at the Club World Cup, and we would claim the title of Asia's best club. If United does end up playing the final at Hindmarsh, it should be for these reasons - if it wasn't for this, I think AAMI would be the obvious choice.
I think it would be a great shame, and maybe a little embarassing to have such a huge game played infront of only 17,000 fans. Not to metion the loss of income, when there are many who won't be able to get tickets, and many Japanese fans who won't travel to Adelaide, even though they would like to.
I would hate for dedicated supporters to miss out on seeing the game, and I do feel that it's better to have a ticket, than to have a perfect view.
For these reasons, I hope Adelaide United strongly considers AAMI Stadium as a venue for the ACL final, and I hope they do decide to hold the match there. Most of what I have read and heard in the press suggests that Adelaide United do plan to play the match at Hindmarsh (although there were some reports that they would look at AAMI stadium), but there is still time to reconsider.
In my opinion, the best thing to do, would be to use AAMI. Make the decision now, get into AAMI and install some good quality player benches, ensure the pitch is in as good condition as possible and try and get a good deal with the SANFL (so that the profit from the game goes to football, rather than AFL). It would seem appropriate, that United's biggest ever match, would be played in front of 50,000 fans.
Posted by Mark & Matt at 12:14 AM
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Hollywood and Vine is located in Disney's Hollywood Studios. It offers a character buffet meal for breakfast lunch and dinner. However, the breakfast is different, being the Disney Jr. Play and Dine character breakfast, be sure to check out the differences in characters before booking. All three meal times can also be booked as a Fantasmic! Dining Package, which will provide you with priority reserved seats for the Fantasmic! show that evening.
Speaking of buffet, lets get started! This lunch and dinner buffet will change up slightly, due to the season, but this is for the most part what you will find.
As most of Disney's buffet do, there is a separate area for children. Now, kids can choose anything they want, even if it is off the adult side. This area is helpful for the picky eaters, as it includes Chicken Nuggets, Broccoli, Macaroni and Cheese and Tater Tots.
and a chocolate fountain! (looks like she was not too happy about having her picture taken while at work) The dipping of the goodies into the chocolate fountain is done behind the counter, by those who work there.
Now let's take a look at the characters! What is unique about this character meal, is that the characters will wear different attire, according to the season! These photos were taken during spring break of 2017, notice the spring colors in their outfits!
Upon entering the restaurant, Daisy is the first character you will see. She remains at the front, so you can opt to get a picture with her upon entering or leaving. She will not rotate around to your table though.
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Best Buy Co Inc (BBY) Stock Is Going Gray to Get Some Green
Having successfully fended off Amazon, BBY stock is looking towards senior citizens for its next step.
By Josh Enomoto, InvestorPlace Contributor	Oct 10, 2017, 7:12 am EST	 October 10, 2017
In the world of e-commerce and the Internet of Things, Best Buy Co Inc (NYSE:BBY) is an anomaly. Although the big-box retailer specializes in delivering cutting-edge technologies to consumers, Best Buy stock is fundamentally a brick-and-mortar investment. Under Amazon.com, Inc.'s (NASDAQ:AMZN) onerous weight, most physical retailers have struggled to gain traction at the registers and the markets.
Not so with Best Buy stock. Year-to-date, shares gained 39%. This compares favorably against big-box rivals Wal-Mart Stores Inc (NYSE:WMT), which is up 16%, and Target Corporation (NYSE:TGT), down 19%. More importantly, BBY has consistently avoided the Amazon curse by delivering profits for shareholders over the long run. For instance, the electronics retailer is up over 283% over the trailing five-year period. Neither Wal-Mart nor Target come anywhere close to that performance level.
What makes Best Buy stock tick? As InvestorPlace market strategist Anthony Mirhaydari argues, a good chunk of its success comes from gaming. Furthermore, Best Buy is the "only remaining national consumer electronics retailer." Management has plenty of opportunities to leverage that advantage, and they have.
Moving forward, however, BBY stock needs a true upside catalyst. We can argue that much of the current profitability stems from painful, but necessary, divestures. However, cutting your way to success isn't always a recipe for substantive success.
To that end, BBY is thinking gray to get some green.
Senior Monitoring Golden Opportunity for Best Buy
Senior monitoring is serious business. We've all seen the Life Alert commercials which feature the tagline, "Help, I've fallen and I can't get up!" Many of our readers don't think about such services because it doesn't affect them directly. But sooner or later, senior monitoring is a concept everyone will focus on.
Life Alert claims on its website that over 400,000 lives have been saved through its emergency-alert products since 2008. Those statistics are not without some merit. According to the National Council on Aging, one in four Americans aged 65 or older suffers a fall. Over a one-year period, hospitals treat nearly 3 million injuries. Sadly, 27,000 incidents result in death. Clearly, senior monitoring is a sorely needed service.
To help bring this sector further into the mainstream, Best Buy corralled its technical know-how and is offering its own variant. For $29 a month and up, the retailer offers comprehensive senior monitoring. Sensors underneath the bed can record large movements, sending alerts to a caretaker. Cameras installed in the doorbell can identify invited guests, or would-be intruders.
Management hopes that this new service can sustain momentum for Best Buy stock. I don't see a reason to doubt them. According to Bloomberg, in less than three years time, "45 million Americans will be caring for 117 million seniors." In other words, senior monitoring isn't just limited to a sole demographic. Financially, it cuts a broad swath — unless you don't care about your parents.
Best Buy stock to be Lifted by Extraordinary Demographics
Nevertheless, the demographic data cannot be denied. Last year, between 74 million to just over 81 million "baby boomers" lived in the U.S. Compounding matters, near the end of 2011, Americans aged 65 and older became the largest population group. Every year for the next few decades, senior monitoring will become ever more crucial. This dynamic plays right into the hands of BBY stock.
Furthermore, the senior population's expansion rate across various states is favorable to Best Buy stock. For instance, the western portion of our country experienced the fastest growth in the 65-and-older and 85-and-older demographics. The west, of course, includes powerhouse states like California, which is the sixth largest economy in the world. To put that into perspective, the California economy exceeded the fiscal output of France, India, and Italy.
Comparative statistics can often be swayed by volatile factors such as foreign-currency exchange. Still, it gives us an insight into the western region's spending power. At Best Buy's proposed $29 rate, the company's senior-monitoring services is right on par with home-security services. For a modest monthly fee, BBY provides peace of mind for cherished family members.
By actively engaging the market for senior monitoring, Best Buy stock earned itself a ticket into the "feel-good" investment category. Through its network-integrated monitoring program, BBY conveniently and economically offers a critical service. Moreover, demand is virtually guaranteed to swing higher from here.
As of this writing, Josh Enomoto did not hold a position in any of the aforementioned securities.
Article printed from InvestorPlace Media, https://investorplace.com/2017/10/best-buy-stock-going-gray/.

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Victoria Glendinning
1992 Judge (Chair) and Best of the Booker Judge (Chair)
Victoria Glendinning is a novelist and biographer - and the only writer to have won the Whitbread Prize for biography twice, in 1983 for her studies of Vita Sackville-West and subsequently in 1992 for her biography of Anthony Trollope.
Glendinning attributes her writing career to 'an instinct to write down what you don't quite understand, in other people's lives and in your own'. She married her first husband, Nigel Glendinning, while he was her tutor at Oxford, something that might not be countenanced today, but 'as for sexual harassment, that had not been invented'. Despite writing eight biographies, she thinks the form is 'an extremely dodgy exercise' and writing, she says, has been just one component of a busy life: 'I never have thought I am a writer in a kind of holy, special way'. She was the judge of the Booker Prize in 1992 and then again for the Best of the Booker Prize in 2008.
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It has been more than six months since the go-live of MiFID II and for most executing firms transaction reporting has become part and parcel of their operational workflows. For those working on transaction reporting, 2018 will have been a mixture of successes and frustrations. In the first half of this year the market data processor (MDP) has... read more
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Getting Closer In The Post-COVID World
By DR. SAUNDARYA RAJESH |
It is imperative for an organisation to drive home the Inclusion and Belongingness (I&B) agenda in order to save employees from the adverse physical and mental conditions to which they are exposed.
Prehistoric humans began tracking the movement of the Sun, and this emerged as the determinant of all their activities. We now have a new visitor on our radar who has become the central point of our existence. However hard it is to follow this new guest, it is, unfortunately, the sole reality.
Among the zillions of articles on the internet, COVID-19 has gained prominent space – covering both good and bad about the disease – indicating the burden of an uncertain future for millions of people.
Even though leaders around the world have acknowledged the positive impact of remote working that has seamlessly enabled their BCPs, job security and stability seem to be in a state of fuzzy logic. From hoaxes affirming the repetition of the Great Depression to reality confirming the actual intensity of the cases, it is only natural for the layperson to absorb the worst of it all. During such a panic phase, it is imperative for an organisation to drive home the Inclusion and Belongingness (I&B) agenda, to save employees from the adverse physical and mental conditions to which they are exposed.
Why I&B is critical in COVID-19 times?
VUCA as intense as the ongoing pandemic is unprecedented. Despite organisations implementing successful BCPs, the crisis has brought out yet another challenge, which does not come under the criteria of functional or technical. It is nothing but the essential strand or foundation of any conglomerate - human resources management.
With studies confirming an increased rate of psychological pressure among employees, who are anticipating an impromptu send-off, several organisations are already keeping vigil to bring the tension down to incorporate a healthy and inclusive virtual working environment.
The top three fears in the minds of today's workforce globally are:-
‣ Health: Physical & Mental
‣ Job: Security & Stability
‣ Finance: Availability & Continuity
Organisations, small and large, are on track, helping to curb the issue of insecurity among their employees. A majority of organisations have started emphasising on utilising Emotional Intelligence (EI) more than financial support, since the need of the hour is to breathe in a feeling of belongingness. And hence, they have been tirelessly working towards implementing various people management practices to reassure their support and care.
By being the ally and having an ally: Sometimes we need someone to just listen. The COVID time has been intensely terrible for those who have been living apart from their families, and financial constraints get added on to the pile. An act of assurance and extending the required help will enable a positive outlook on the organisation and render peace of mind to the employee. Offering financial stability or rolling out benefits, in the manner in the way in which Ally Financial has acted is appreciable. The finance company spared no time and sent home those employees who were categorised as vulnerable as per CDC guidelines, with full salaries. A similar, commendable initiative was carried out by ITC Hotels, wherein each HR Manager checks on at least 10 employees every day.
By bringing the We together: With virtual collaboration and communication ruling the front, engagement and socialising have never been so easier. Initiatives by McDonald's India and Panasonic of bringing the employees closer through multiple virtual programmes like masterclasses, quizzes etc. was aimed at keeping the team productively engaged.
By being fair in work distribution: An equity-driven environment is always a healthy place to work in. The less feasibility of remote working for some has unbalanced work and pay. However, certain companies also went the extra mile to help their employees during the time of need. SRK exports, a leading diamond manufacturer, paid its entire workforce, including contract workers, full salary for March. Its combined workforce actually comes to around 6000.
By bonding with an inclusive mindset: Employees may come from different backgrounds and at present, bear unpredictable mindsets. This is the time during which inclusive leadership plays a critical role. Everyone is vulnerable to the unpredicted situation and it is essential for a leader to understand this diverse population and their needs. The pledge by Paytm's CEO to contribute two months of his salary for his employees, and Amazon paying two-weeks pay to those quarantined or diagnosed with COVID are some praiseworthy initiatives.
Reverse the VUCA – and emphasise it!
VUCA needs to be managed with Inclusion even more than before. Cited below is a simple acronym to ensure how the VUCA we know (Volatility-Uncertainity-Complexity-Ambiguity) can be reversed in our respective environments to Vision-Understanding-Clarity-Agility :
◆ Vision: Articulation of Vision to a greater extent becomes the responsibility of the leader. Unilever's Sanjiv Mehta addressed the organisation to reiterate the vision of the company, once again unifying the organisation's energies.
◆ Understanding: The Vedanta Group, a 100 Best company for women, has not declared a pay cut, and has in fact gone ahead with the promised increments and bonuses for the financial year. The understanding displayed by the company in assisting with the average employee's financial situation has created a great amount of pride and belongingness.
◆ Clarity: Accenture's Ellyn J. Shook worked with other leaders to ensure that the core business needs were immediately addressed. The clarity in addressing business problems and communicating the same to all stakeholders has resulted in Accenture worldwide reaffirming its raison d'etre to customers around the world.
◆ Agility: The Tata group worked on a work-from-home policy in record time and ensured that every single member of its large business expanse, was aware of how the business would function and proceed. The rapid response to COVID-19 in terms of ensuring that employees felt the coming together of the leaders and the quick decisions taken, underscored the agility of the organisation.
Emphasising inclusion and establishing belongingness is crucial at a time like this. When every leader – designated or otherwise, decides to wear I&B with pride, reach out to as many people as possible, and give the comfort of the thought – "We are all together in this", the post-Covid world will be one which is more inclusive.
Dr. Saundarya Rajesh is an inspiring speaker and a very sought-after D&I strategist who has forever challenged the inequities in the workplace. A pioneer in the space of gender diversity & inclusion in the workplace, her work is quite unparalleled in India. Dr. Saundarya, through her organisation, which specialises in Diversity and Inclusion, has helped several companies hire thousands of women professionals.


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Vlora Industrial and Energy Park, Albania
With limited information available on the project and little opportunities to influence the developments, the local community has perceived the Vlora energy and industry park as a megalomaniac project which poses threat to a local economy dependant on tourism and harms the fragile marine and wetlands ecosystems.
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The Narta lagoon near Vlora.
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Albania's historical reliance on hydropower and later dependence on energy imports became unsustainable due to the variable hydrological conditions and the boom of power demand by the industry, services and household following the fall of communism.
In its efforts to tackle the soaring energy crisis that hit the country around 2000, the Albanian government conceived a plan to construct an industrial and energy Park in Vlora, a coastal city in the south-east of the country. The park was to host a thermo-power plant, hydrocarbons storage and other strategic projects such as the Albania-Macedonia-Bulgaria Oil (AMBO) pipeline outpost.
The National Council of Territorial Adjustment approved the site for the industrial and energy park at the picturesque Vlora Bay in February 2003. The park was designed to boarder the city of Vlora to the south (100 meters from residential areas), the protected Narta lagoon to the north (500 meters) and the Adriatic Sea to the west.
Despite the plans for the extensive development of energy and oil related facilities no strategic environmental assessment (SEA) has been conducted to consider significant environmental effects of the whole complex on the Vlora Bay area in an integrated way. Upon the silent approval of the international creditors that expressed interest to finance some of the park's components, the Albanian government deployed the "salami approach", thus avoiding the conducting of an SEA while preferring to have independent assessments on each of the park components.
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Vlora thermo-power plant
Three international financial institutions – the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the World Bank's International Development Association and the European Investment Bank (EIB) – expressed their interest in financing the combined cycle 97 MW Vlora thermal-power plant promoted by the Albanian Electrical Energy Corporation (KESH). The creditors sealed their investment interest with a EUR 110 million syndicated loan in 2004.
The World Bank, as the lead creditor, was responsible for the project preparation, including the assessment and public consultations. As co-financers to the project, the EBRD and EIB were reliant on information received from the World Bank and were ready to intervene in cases where they would identify inadequacies in the process.
Under such division of labour, the World Bank oversaw the preparation of the environmental impact assessment study (EIA), which was later reviewed upon the EBRD's request, and the shortcomings were corrected in the addendum to the final EIA released in November 2003. Under the auspices of the World Bank, the project EIA scoping meetings and public hearings took place in Vlora in April and September 2003. Upon signing the project financing in 2004, the EIB and EBRD relied on all the stakeholders' engagement events occurring in accordance with the Albanian legislation and the World Bank's standards.
However, in the same year, the inhabitants of Vlora stood up in opposition to the projects, arguing that they had been repeatedly excluded from the decision-making over the energy and oil related developments in their town. Formalised as the Civic Alliance for the Protection of the Vlora Bay (the Alliance), the movement collected 14 000 signatures under a petition against the energy and industrial park and requested a referendum. In April 2005, the Alliance submitted a communication to the UN Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee (Aarhus Convention), alleging a violation by the Albanian government in April 2005 of its obligations to consult and inform the public about the territorial allocation of the energy and industry park in Vlora as well as the thermo-power plant project under several articles of the Aarhus Convention.
An investigation in 2007 by the UN Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee showed that the EIA process for the power plant did not provide sufficient opportunities for the town of Vlora to participate in the scoping sessions and public consultations.
A lack of public participation opportunities, as well as environmental controversies surrounding the thermo-power plant project, were also at the core of complaints lodged by the Alliance with the grievance panels at the World Bank and the EBRD in April 2007.
Both institutions approved investigations into the complaints and the EBRD Independent Recourse Mechanism (IRM) released its final Compliance Review Report after a desk top analysis in April 2008. While the IRM investigation concluded that the bank was in compliance with its policies in overseeing that adequate EIA was carried out by the project sponsor, it also observed that the bank failed to ensure full compliance with its obligations on public consultations related to the location of the Vlora thermo-power plant, and it warranted remedial changes to the Bank's practices and procedures.
The World Bank's Inspection Panel final report is still pending.
Vlora hydrocarbons terminal
In May 2004, the Albanian Council of Ministers granted a Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) concession agreement to the Italian investor Petrolifera Italo Rumena for the Vlora coastal terminal which was to store LPG, oil, and its by products. As per the February 2003 decision of the National Council for Territorial Adjustment, the terminal was to be located at the strait of land between the former PVC plant and the seashore, about half a kilometer south of the Vlora thermo-power plant site. The public ocean-front property was sold to the company for the symbolic price of one euro under the governmental program of incentives giving to the foreign investors. According to the concession, the land will become exclusively Italian after a 30-year period.
The terminal was presented as a specific project that was to be constructed and operated in an isolated way from the Vlora energy and industry park as well as the power plant. The construction works on the terminal were officially launched in September 2007. The project was however the object of fierce local protests, with locals asking for – and being denied on procedural grounds – a referendum on its implementation in October 2007.
In October, 2007, the EBRD announced its intention to finance the coastal terminal with a 15 million euro loan. A due diligence process to determine whether or not the EBRD would finance the terminal had been set in motion, involving consultations on the project's EIA process. Public comments and the quality review of the EIA revealed that the study lacks monitoring and management plans, it does not offer solutions to oil spills and hazardous wastes removal and underestimates the impacts on protected areas. Additionally, the original EIA lacked any mention of resettlement and land compensation issues associated with the terminal, as several families were displaced as a result of project construction.
In June 2008 the EBRD withdrew from the project due to disagreement on the financial terms with the investor. In its official statement, the bank also highlighted the importance of the involvement of the public in decision making. Although the EBRD's decision has certainly jolted the project, La Petrolífera Italo Rumena can still ask for financial support from other sources.
In part due to ongoing public protests and political deliberations, the government requested that the National Council of Territorial Adjustment review its decision and restrict the status of the Vlora park to an industrial one in May 2007. Although some of the park's energy components have been moved to a new energy park in Porto Romano in the city of Durres, Vlora will host a thermo power plant and a hydrocarbons terminal.
The construction on both projects is ongoing. While La Petrolífera Italo Rumena is planning to start operating the terminal in the summer 2009, the Albanian Prime-minister Berisha announced that the Vlora thermo-power plant should be launched in May 2009.
In December 2007 the Italian energy company ENEL signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Albanian government about construction of a 1 600MW coal fired thermo-power plant located in the area of Porto Romano in the Albanian coastal town of Durres, north of Vlora. At the end of 2008 a Durres Energy and Industry Park park was granted approval from the Regional Council of Territorial Adjustment. It remains to be seen if the Albanian authorities, the project sponsor, as well as potential creditors, have taken lesson from the unfortunate experiences in Vlora.
A tale of neglect: Energy finance figures from the Western Balkans
Blog entry | 25 June, 2013
The neglect by international financial institutions of the Western Balkans sustainable energy potential will cost the region's public heavily for years to come. Figures collected in a new study illustrate how the different international lenders perform in the region.
Development banks energy investments jeopardise the ability of Balkan accession countries to meet EU energy and climate targets, says new report
Press release | 25 June, 2013
Brussels, Belgium – Heavy investments in fossil fuels by international financial institutions (IFIs) in the Western Balkans are hindering these countries' compliance with EU accession requirements, finds a new report – "Invest in Haste, Repent at Leisure" – from civil society organizations CEE Bankwatch Network, SEE Change Net and WWF, created as part of the SEE SEP (South East Europe Sustainable Energy Policy) programme.
EBRD says NO to Vlora hydrocarbons terminal
Blog entry | 21 July, 2008
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is no longer considering financing for a controversial hydrocarbons terminal in Vlora, Albania.
Vlora Thermo Power Plant, Albania – where is the electricity?
Briefing | 15 May, 2011 | Download PDF
The oil and gas-fired thermo-power plant in Vlora, Albania – in a tourism-dependent city and only 100 metres from the protected Narta lagoon – was financed by the EBRD, the European Investment Bank and the World Bank. After a slew of problems, including lack of proper public consultation, the plant is not actually working – two years after it was supposed to have been completed – and it is increasingly doubtful whether it will start to produce electricity any time soon.
Who wants it? Who needs it? The Vlora coastal terminal, Albania
The terminal is to be located inside the industry park near a thermo-power plant which has already received lending support from the EBRD, European Investment Bank and the World Banks International Development Association.
Energy Matters: the Vlora coastal terminal. Fact-finding mission report on energy and industry developments in Vlora, Albania
Study | 5 April, 2008 | Download PDF
The report summerises the findings of a recent Bankwatch and partner NGO fact-finding mission to Albania, in which meetings with the Albanian authorities, IFIs, investors and affected communities provided insights into large industrial and energy developments in the region.
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Tag: Amy Licence
Feb 27, 2022 ~ Helene Harrison ~ 1 Comment
I have had a re-organise of my bookshelves this week; there wasn't enough room on my nonfiction shelves anymore as I have had quite a few books gifted to me from lovely publishers for review!
I organise my books chronologically as far as I can – how do you organise yours?
I start at the top move downwards, as follows:
General monarchy, kings and queens
Plantagenets
Wars of the Roses general
Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville
Richard III and Anne Neville
Tudors general
Henry VII and Elizabeth of York
Katherine of Aragon
Katherine Howard
Lady Jane Grey and her sisters
Places, palaces, castles, houses, guidebooks
Obviously this list will expand as my interests and book collection expands, I'm hoping to add books on Jack the Ripper, Regency England, and the Holocaust. I have already read around this subjects, but many borrowed from the library rather than books I own.
I have a long list from publishers still to review so look out for reviews on these in the coming months!
John Ashdown-Hill – 'Elizabeth Widville: Lady Grey, Edward IV's Chief Mistress and the 'Pink Queen' (Pen and Sword)
John Matusiak – 'Martyrs of Henry VIII: Repression, Defiance, and Sacrifice' (The History Press)
Matthew Lewis – 'Richard III: Loyalty Binds Me' (Amberley Publishing)
Robert Stedall – 'Elizabeth I's Secret Lover: Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester' (Pen and Sword)
Amy Licence – '1520: the Field of the Cloth of Gold' (Amberley Publishing)
Heather Darsie – 'Anna, Duchess of Cleves: The King's Beloved Sister' (Amberley Publishing)
Nathen Amin – 'Henry VII and the Tudor Pretenders: Simnel, Warbeck, and Warwick' (Amberley Publishing)
Linda Collins & Siobhan Clarke – 'King and Collector: Henry VIII and the Art of Kingship' (The History Press)
Jan-Marie Knights – 'The Tudor Socialite: A Social Calendar of Tudor Life' (Amberley Publishing)
Sarah Bryson – 'La Reine Blanche: Mary Tudor, A Life in Letters' (Amberley Publishing)
John Jenkins – 'The King's Chamberlain: William Sandys of the Vyne, Chamberlain to Henry VIII' (Amberley Publishing)
Amy Licence – 'Tudor Roses: From Margaret Beaufort to Elizabeth I' (Amberley Publishing)
Mickey Mayhew – 'House of Tudor: A Grisly History' (Pen and Sword)
Stephen Browning – 'On the Trail of Sherlock Holmes' (Pen and Sword)
Tony Morgan – 'Power, Treason, and Plot in Tudor England: Margaret Clitherow: An Elizabethan Saint'
Thank you to Pen and Sword, Amberley Publishing, and The History Press for sending me complimentary copies of the above, and I promise I will try and get reviews of these up as soon as possible!
History Resolutions for 2021
Jan 2, 2021 Jan 2, 2021 ~ Helene Harrison ~ Leave a comment
My blogging was quite uneven last year with the COVID-19 lockdown and my mental health being quite fragile. Looking forward to 2021 I really want to blog more, and not just about the Tudors and Wars of the Roses – I also have interests in the English Regency, Jack the Ripper, and the British Monarchy.
Read below for my history resolutions for 2021!
1. Blog More on Different Topics
Although my blog is called TudorBlogger, and the Tudors are my first and abiding interest, I also have really started developing other interests over the last few years so I'd love to share some of my other historical passions like the English Regency period, Jack the Ripper, and the history of the British Monarchy. I also like looking at and visiting historical sites including castles and palaces. So keep an eye out for some new content on my blog!
2. Get Up to Date on my Review Copies from Lovely Publishers!
I have a bit of a backlog on my review copies pile which I've received from publishers over the last year or so. Because of my mental health issues in 2020 with the lockdown I haven't felt able to give them my full attention and didn't want to do half-arsed reviews of them, because they deserve better. So, you can look out for reviews of the following over the next few months!
John Ashdown-Hill – Elizabeth Widville: Lady Grey (Pen & Sword)
John Matusiak – A History of the Tudors in 100 Objects (History Press)
Phil Carradice – Following in the Footsteps of Henry Tudor (Pen & Sword)
John Matusiak – Martyrs of Henry VIII: Repression, Defiance, Sacrifice (History Press)
Matthew Lewis – Richard III: Loyalty Binds Me (Amberley Publishing)
Kirsten Claiden-Yardley – The Man Behind the Tudors: Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk (Pen & Sword)
Robert Stedall – Elizabeth I's Secret Lover: Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester (Pen & Sword)
Amy Licence – 1520: The Field of the Cloth of Gold (Amberley Publishing)
Heather Darsie – Anna Duchess of Cleves: The King's Beloved Sister (Amberley Publishing)
Paul Dryburgh – Royal Seals: Images of Power and Majesty (Pen & Sword)
Paul Kendall – Henry VIII in 100 Objects: The Tyrant King Who Had Six Wives (Pen & Sword)
Nathan Amin – Henry VIII and the Tudor Pretenders: Simnel, Warbeck and Warwick (Amberley Publishing)
I also have a fiction review coming of Saga Hillborn's 'Princess of Thorns' based on the life of Cecily Plantagenet, sister to Elizabeth of York and daughter of Edward IV. There will also be a surprise guest post from Saga Hillborn to coincide with the release of the book in March 2021.
3. Historical Cross Stitch
I've currently got 2 historical cross stitch kits to work on – a Hampton Court mini cushion kit from Sheena Rogers Designs, which you might have seen me start if you follow me on Instagram (@tudorblogger). I also have a Kings and Queens of England cross stitch which I'm excited to start once I've done the Hampton Court one. Last year I completed a Henry VIII and his Six Wives cross stitch during the lockdown which has now been framed and is on my study wall. If you want to follow my progress on my cross stitches, updates will be posted to my Instagram.
4. Get Up to Date on my History Podcasts
I have quite a few history podcasts that I listen to, or want to listen to, but I'm really behind on listening to them, again a mental health issue. The following are the podcasts I want to catch up with!
You're Dead to Me
Talking Tudors
The History of England
Hashtag History
British History: Royals, Rebels and Romantics
The Tudor History & Travel Show
Past Loves
Vulgar History
Historic Royal Palaces
What are your history resolutions for 2021?
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History Bookshelves
May 13, 2020 ~ Helene Harrison ~ Leave a comment
I thought I'd do a walkthrough of my history bookshelves, as pictures on my Instagram of different books that I've bought or been sent by publishers are always very popular. If there's one thing I've learnt through the #HistoryGirls community on Instagram, it's that historians and history lovers are always looking for new reading material!
And, no, before anyone asks, I haven't read all of these yet. I'm steadily working my way through them. I've had some very lovely publishers (The History Press and Pen & Sword Books) send me some complimentary copies for review and these are currently top of my list, though this lockdown has slowed me down rather than speeding me up! I promise, I will get there.
Shelf 1 – Monarchy and Wars of the Roses
This shelf starts with my books on the monarchy in general, before moving onto the Plantagenets, Wars of the Roses, Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville, the Princes in the Tower, and Richard III.
John Burke – An Illustrated History of England
David Loades – The Kings and Queens of England
J.P. Brooke-Little – Royal Heraldry: Beasts and Badges of Britain
The Royal Line of Succession: Official Souvenir Guide
Andrew Gimson – Kings and Queens: Brief Lives of the Monarchs Since 1066
David Starkey – Monarchy: England and Her Rulers from the Tudors to the Windsors
Mike Ashley – A Brief History of British Kings and Queens
Elizabeth Norton – She Wolves: The Notorious Queens of England
Alison Weir – Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy
Peter Ackroyd – History of England Volume 1: Foundation
E.F. Jacob – The Fifteenth Century 1399-1485
Ian Mortimer – The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England
Desmond Seward – The Demon's Brood: The Plantagenet Dynasty That Forged the English Nation
David Grummitt – A Short History of the Wars of the Roses
Desmond Seward – A Brief History of the Wars of the Roses
Sarah Gristwood – Blood Sisters: The Women Behind the Wars of the Roses
Michael Jones – Bosworth 1485: Psychology of a Battle
John Ashdown-Hill – Elizabeth Widville: Edward IV's Chief Mistress and the 'Pink Queen'
Amy Licence – Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville: A True Romance
Jeffrey James – Edward IV: Glorious Son of York
Andrew Beattie – Following in the Footsteps of the Princes in the Tower
Alison Weir – The Princes in the Tower
David Horspool – Richard III: A Ruler and His Reputation
Philippa Langley & Michael Jones – The Search for Richard III: The King's Grave
Michael Hicks – The Family of Richard III
Kristie Dean – The World of Richard III
Amy Licence – Richard III: The Road to Leicester
Matthew Lewis – Richard III: Fact and Fiction
Peter A. Hancock – Richard III and the Murder in the Tower
Matthew Lewis – Richard III: Loyalty Binds Me
Shelf 2 – General Tudors and Henry VII
This shelf consists of all my books on the Tudor dynasty as a whole, then just manages to start Henry VII and Elizabeth of York on the end.
David Loades – Chronicles of the Tudor Kings
Frances Wilkins – Growing Up in Tudor Times
Peter Marsden – 1545: Who Sank the Mary Rose?
Rosemary Weinstein – Tudor London
Peter Ackroyd – The History of the England Volume 2: Tudors
Amy Licence – In Bed with the Tudors: The Sex Lives of a Dynasty from Elizabeth of York to Elizabeth I
Leanda de Lisle – Tudor: The Family Story
David Loades – The Tudors: History of a Dynasty
Chris Skidmore – The Rise of the Tudors: The Family That Changed English History
Terry Breverton – Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Tudors But Were Afraid to Ask
Tracy Borman – The Private Lives of the Tudors
Timothy Venning – An Alternative History of Britain: The Tudors
Kirsten Claiden-Yardley – The Man Behind the Tudors: Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk
A Guide to Tudor and Jacobean Portraits
John Matusiak – A History of the Tudors in 100 Objects
David Loades – The Tudor Queens of England
Alex Woolf – The Tudor Kings and Queens
Carola Hicks – The King's Glass: A Story of Tudor Power and Secret Art
J.D. Mackie – The Earlier Tudors 1485-1558
Annie Bullen – The Little Book of the Tudors
Alison Weir – The Lost Tudor Princess
Alison Plowden – The House of Tudor
Dave Tonge – Tudor Folk Tales
Jane Bingham – The Tudors: The Kings and Queens of England's Golden Age
Elizabeth Norton – The Lives of Tudor Women
Ruth Goodman – How to be a Tudor
Jasper Ridley – A Brief History of the Tudor Age
G.J. Meyer – The Tudors: The Complete Story of England's Most Notorious Dynasty
John Guy – The Tudors: A Very Short Introduction
Christopher Morris – The Tudors
Phil Carradice – Following in the Footsteps of Henry Tudor
Shelf 3 – Henry VIII and the Six Wives
This shelf has the rest of my books about Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, all of my Henry VIII books and those overarching books about the Six Wives.
Thomas Penn – Winter King: The Dawn of Tudor England
Alison Weir – Elizabeth of York: The First Tudor Queen
Joan MacAlpine – The Shadow of the Tower: Henry VII and His Background
David Loades – Henry VIII
David Starkey – Henry: Virtuous Prince
John Matusiak – Martyrs of Henry VIII: Repression, Defiance, Sacrifice
J.J. Scarisbrick – Henry VIII
George Cavendish – The Life of Cardinal Wolsey
John Guy – The Children of Henry VIII
Robert Hutchinson – Young Henry: The Rise of Henry VIII
Alison Weir – Children of England: The Heirs of King Henry VIII
John Matusiak – Henry VIII: The Life and Rule of England's Nero
Philippa Jones – The Other Tudors: Henry VIII's Mistresses and Bastards
Kelly Hart – The Mistresses of Henry VIII
Alison Weir – Henry VIII: King and Court
David Starkey – The Reign of Henry VIII: Personalities and Politics
Robert Hutchinson – Thomas Cromwell: The Rise and Fall of Henry VIII's Most Notorious Minister
Derek Wilson – A Brief History of Henry VIII
Robert Hutchinson – The Last Days of Henry VIII
Sarah Morris & Natalie Grueninger – In the Footsteps of the Six Wives of Henry VIII
Amy Licence – The Six Wives and Many Mistresses of Henry VIII
Karen Lindsey – Divorced, Beheaded, Survived: A Feminist Reinterpretation of the Wives of Henry VIII
Alison Weir – The Six Wives of Henry VIII
Lauren Mackay – Inside the Tudor Court: Henry VIII and His Six Wives Through the Eyes of the Spanish Ambassador
Antonia Fraser – The Six Wives of Henry VIII
David Starkey – Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII
Shelf 4 – Six Wives
This shelf is broken down into books on each of the Six Wives – Katherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn (by far the biggest section, as you can see!), Jane Seymour (zero books), Anne of Cleves (zero books), Katherine Howard and Katherine Parr.
David Loades – The Six Wives of Henry VIII
Amy Licence – Catherine of Aragon: An Intimate Life of Henry VIII's True Wife
Giles Tremlett – Catherine of Aragon: Henry's Spanish Queen
Patrick Williams – Katharine of Aragon
Paul Friedmann – Anne Boleyn
Elizabeth Norton – Anne Boleyn: In Her Own Words and the Words of Those Who Knew Her
Alison Weir – The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn
Elizabeth Norton – The Boleyn Women: The Tudor Femmes Fatales Who Changed English History
David Loades – The Boleyns: The Rise and Fall of a Tudor Family
Amy Licence – Anne Boleyn: Adultery, Heresy, Desire
Lissa Chapman – Anne Boleyn in London
Lacey Baldwin Smith – Anne Boleyn: The Queen of Controversy
Susan Bordo – The Creation of Anne Boleyn: In Search of the Tudors' Most Notorious Queen
Alison Weir – Mary Boleyn: The Great and Infamous Whore
Carolly Erickson – Mistress Anne
Eric Ives – The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn
Francis Bacon – The Tragedy of Anne Boleyn
Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn
Retha Warnicke – The Rise and Fall of Anne Boleyn
Josephine Wilkinson – Mary Boleyn: The True Story of Henry VIII's Favourite Mistress
Josephine Wilkinson – Anne Boleyn: The Young Queen to Be
Elizabeth Norton – Anne Boleyn: Henry VIII's Obsession
G.W. Bernard – Anne Boleyn: Fatal Attractions
Joanna Denny – Anne Boleyn
Marie Louise Bruce – Anne Boleyn
Josephine Wilkinson – Katherine Howard: The Tragic Story of Henry VIII's Fifth Queen
Conor Byrne – Katherine Howard: Henry VIII's Slandered Queen
Robert Hutchinson – House of Treason: The Rise and Fall of a Tudor Dynasty
Linda Porter – Katherine the Queen: The Remarkable Life of Katherine Parr, the Last Wife of Henry VIII
Shelf 5 – The Later Tudors
This shelf goes through Edward VI, Jane Grey, Mary I and Elizabeth I, onto Mary Queen of Scots and the English Reformation. As you can probably tell from the number of books on the later Tudors compared to the likes of Henry VIII, my primary focus is on the earlier period.
Hester Chapman – The Last Tudor King: A Study of Edward VI
Leanda de Lisle – The Sisters Who Would Be Queen: Mary, Katherine and Lady Jane Grey
Nicola Tallis – Crown of Blood: The Deadly Inheritance of Lady Jane Grey
Alison Plowden – Lady Jane Grey: Nine Days Queen
Anna Whitelock – Mary Tudor: Princess, Bastard, Queen
Phil Carradice – Bloody Mary: Tudor Terror 1553-1558
J.A. Froude – The Reign of Mary Tudor
Alison Plowden – Elizabethan England
David Cecil – The Cecils of Hatfield House
Robert Stedall – Elizabeth I's Secret Lover: Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester
John Guy – Elizabeth: The Forgotten Years
Anna Whitelock – Elizabeth's Bedfellows: An Intimate History of the Queen's Court
Carole Levin – The Heart and Stomach of a King: Elizabeth I and the Politics of Sex and Power
J.B. Black – The Reign of Elizabeth 1558-1603
David Birt – Elizabeth's England
Robert Hutchinson – Elizabeth's Spymaster: Francis Walsingham and the Secret War That Saved England
David Starkey – Elizabeth
Nicola Tallis – Elizabeth's Rival: The Tumultuous Tale of Lettice Knollys, Countess of Leicester
Chris Skidmore – Death and the Virgin: Elizabeth, Dudley and the Mysterious Fate of Amy Robsart
Alison Weir – Elizabeth the Queen
David & Judy Steel – Mary Stuart's Scotland
Mary Was Here: Where Mary Queen of Scots Went and What She Did There
Antonia Fraser – Mary Queen of Scots
Lynda Telford – Tudor Victims of the Reformation
Diarmaid MacCulloch – Reformation: Europe's House Divided 1490-1700
Derek Wilson – A Brief History of the English Reformation
Shelf 6 – Palaces and Places
The bottom shelf currently stores largely my guidebooks and BBC History magazines, along with a couple of my more general history books.
David Souden – The Royal Palaces of London
Christopher Hibbert – Tower of London
The Private Life of Palaces
Simon Thurley – Houses of Power: The Places That Shaped the Tudor World
Suzannah Lipscomb – A Journey Through Tudor England
Nigel Jones – Tower: An Epic History of the Tower of London
Terry Deary – The Peasants' Revolting … Crimes
Merry Wiesner-Hanks – Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe
Guidebooks:
Richard III and Henry VII Experience in York
Belsay Hall, Castle and Gardens
Framlingham Castle
The Jewel Tower
The Palace of Westminster
The Church of Saint Michael at Framlingham
St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle
Imperial War Museum London
Are there any books missing that you would thoroughly recommend? Sound off in the comments!
Who Was … Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon?
Apr 13, 2020 Apr 13, 2020 ~ Helene Harrison ~ 2 Comments
Name: Henry Carey
Title/s: 1st Baron Hunsdon
Birth: 4 March 1526
Death: 23 July 1596
Burial: Westminster Abbey, London (England)
Spouse: Anne Morgan c.1529-1607
Children: Catherine Carey, Countess of Nottingham 1547-1602 / George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon 1547-1603 / John Carey, 3rd Baron Hunsdon ?-1617 / Henry Carey / Thomas Carey / William Carey / Thomas Carey / Edmund Carey c.1558-1637 / Robert Carey, 1st Earl of Monmouth 1560-1639 / Margaret Hoby c.1567-1605 / Philadelphia Scrope, Baroness Scrope of Bolton c.1552-1627
Parents: Mary Boleyn c.1499-1543 & William Carey c.1500-1528
Siblings: Catherine Knollys c.1524-1569
Noble Connections: Henry's mother, Mary Boleyn, was the mistress of Henry VIII. His aunt, Anne Boleyn, became the second wife of Henry VIII, and his cousin, Elizabeth I became queen. His grandfather was Thomas Boleyn, Earl of Wiltshire and Ormond and his great-uncle was Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk.
Controversy: It has been suggested that Henry Carey and his sister, Catherine, were actually the children of Henry VIII by his mistress, Mary Boleyn. This has never been proven and Henry never acknowledged either of them. It is now generally accepted that Henry was likely the son of William Carey, while Catherine is the one of the siblings more likely to have been the king's, but we'll probably never know. For a breakdown of the arguments see my previous blog post here.
Works of Fiction:
P.F. Chisholm – 'A Famine of Horses' (2016)
Portrayals on Screen:
Kelly Hart – 'The Mistresses of Henry VIII' (2009)
Philippa Jones – 'The Other Tudors: Henry VIII's Mistresses and Bastards' (2009)
Amy Licence – 'The Six Wives and Many Mistresses of Henry VIII' (2014)
Alison Weir – 'Mary Boleyn: The Great and Infamous Whore' (2011)
Josephine Wilkinson – 'Mary Boleyn: The True Story of Henry VIII's Favourite Mistress' (2010)
Henry Carey, Baron Hunsdon, by Steven Van Herwijck c.1561-3.
Arms of Henry Carey 1st Baron Hunsdon
In Memory of Anne Boleyn
Anne Boleyn Hever Castle Portrait
As any Tudor historian will know, today, 19 May, is an important day – it marks the anniversary of the execution of Anne Boleyn on what many now accept as trumped-up charges of adultery, incest and treason. If you need a refresher on the fall of Anne Boleyn, you can read my undergraduate dissertation chapter, published on this blog [https://tudorblogger.wordpress.com/2012/10/11/undergrad-dissertation-chapter-1/]. There is also a very succinct summary on The Anne Boleyn Files [https://www.theanneboleynfiles.com/why-did-anne-boleyn-fall/3967/].
Why does Anne Boleyn continue to fascinate us, nearly 500 years after her death? Well, I came across this excellent summary on History Extra:
"The one thing that's clear is that Anne, with her intelligence and sexiness, played a part in her own destiny. Her choices in life often make her seem more like a modern person than a Tudor woman. That's why she'll continue to fascinate us." [https://www.historyextra.com/period/tudor/the-six-wives-in-a-different-light/]
Although we shouldn't look at the 16th century through 21st century eyes, people today still seem to be able to connect with Anne Boleyn because many of her decisions, emotions and feelings we can still sympathise and empathise with today. Many of things that she went through still happen today, though on a much smaller and less deadly scale. The idea that she shaped her own destiny is not one we often associate with Medieval and Early Modern women; the idea still prevails that women were at the mercy of their men folk – their fathers, brothers or husbands. Anne Boleyn demonstrates that not all women fell into that mould, some stepped out and made their own futures. Continue reading "In Memory of Anne Boleyn" →
On This Day in History – 11 June – Marriage of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon
Event– Marriage of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon
Location– Greenwich Palace, England
The wedding of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon isn't as well-known as their very public divorce. Katherine was the widow of Henry's older brother, Arthur, who had died in 1502. Henry would later allege that this was an impediment from which the Pope couldn't dispense.
Katherine and Henry had been betrothed for 6 years by the time that they married, and it wasn't certain that they would marry even after the betrothal. When Katherine's mother, Isabella of Castile, died Katherine was seen as less valuable on the marriage market as she was no longer the product of a united Spain. Henry VII began to look elsewhere for a bride for his son.
When Henry VII died in 1509 Katherine's fortunes changed overnight and the marriage negotiations were successfully brought to an end in May 1509. The marriage licence was issued by the Archbishop of Canterbury, William Warham, on 8 June 1509.
The marriage was a private ceremony in the queen's closet at Greenwich Palace on 11 June 1509 with just a couple of witnesses in attendance. Katherine was aged 23 and Henry just 18 – she was beautiful still and he was in his prime. The marriage wasn't only a love match (it was rumoured that Henry wanted Katherine when she was married to Arthur), but a political one as well.
As soon as the wedding itself was over, preparations were made for their joint coronation which happened just a couple of weeks later.
Amy Licence, Catherine of Aragon: an Intimate Life of Henry VIII's True Wife (2016)
Garrett Mattingley, Catherine of Aragon (1960)
David Starkey, Six Wives: the Queens of Henry VIII (2004)
Giles Tremlett, Catherine of Aragon: Henry's Spanish Queen (2011)
Alison Weir, The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1991)
On This Day in History – 8 June – Death of Elizabeth Woodville
Jun 8, 2017 Jan 16, 2020 ~ Helene Harrison ~ Leave a comment
Elizabeth Woodville c.1471.
Event– Death of Elizabeth Woodville
Location– Bermondsey Abbey, England
Elizabeth Woodville died on 8 June 1492 at Bermondsey Abbey aged 55, where she had been rusticated on the orders of her son-in-law, Henry VII. She was suspected of having been involved in the plotting of Lambert Simnel in 1487 to seize the throne in the name of the Earl of Warwick and was sent to Bermondsey. It seems unlikely that she would work to topple her daughter and grandson, but it seems equally unlikely that she would willing retire from public life, from what we know of her.
Elizabeth was buried with her husband, Edward IV, in St George's Chapel at Windsor on 12 June 1492 where her daughters, excepting Elizabeth and Cecily, attended her funeral. She specified a simple ceremony in her will, though some thought this not fitting for a Queen of England.
David Baldwin, Elizabeth Woodville (2002)
J.L. Laynesmith, The Last Medieval Queens (2004)
Amy Licence, Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville: a True Romance (2016)
David MacGibbon, Elizabeth Woodville (2013)
Arlene Okerlund, Elizabeth: England's Slandered Queen (2006)
On This Day in History – 1 May – Marriage of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville
May 1, 2017 Jan 16, 2020 ~ Helene Harrison ~ Leave a comment
Romanticised image of the first meeting of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville.
Event– Marriage of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville
Location– Grafton House, England
Although the date of the wedding isn't certain, it is generally accepted that Edward IV married Elizabeth Woodville on May Day 1464, at the bride's home of Grafton Regis, with only a few witnesses, including the bride's mother, in attendance.
It is said that Elizabeth first met Edward when she went to petition him for the return of her dead husband's lands. It was said that Edward tried to force himself onto Elizabeth so she threatened to take her own life with a dagger. Edward became so enamoured of her that he married her. Elizabeth bought no dowry or international connections, which would be expected of a Queen of England.
The marriage was significant because it was first time that an English king married a commoner without having a foreign wife first. Not only that, but Edward IV was the first Yorkist king, but the Woodville family supported the Lancastrian side in the Wars of the Roses, and Elizabeth's first husband, John Grey, had died fighting for the Lancastrians. It was the marriage of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville that gave rise to the idea that a commoner could marry a King – this was the idea from which the likes of Anne Boleyn and Jane Seymour managed to rise up from ladies-in-waiting to Queens.
Elizabeth and Edward's eldest daughter, Elizabeth, married the future Henry VII, and their two eldest sons, Edward and Richard, became the ill-fated Princes in the Tower.
Charles Ross, Edward IV (1974)
Book Review – 'Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville: a True Romance' by Amy Licence
Apr 16, 2016 Apr 16, 2016 ~ Helene Harrison ~ Leave a comment
Amy Licence, Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville: a True Romance (Stroud: Amberley Publishing, 2016) ISBN 978-1-4456-3678-8
First off, apologies, Amy, for being so tardy on my review when you so kindly sent me a review copy! I wanted to get it just right.
I first fell in love with Amy Licence's writing after reading her book 'In Bed with the Tudors'. She has a knack of writing in a different way about things that have been written before, but she can make it seem completely new and exciting.
It's only relatively recently that I've developed an interest in the Wars of the Roses. I've generally thought it too complicated, but it is books like this one that have helped to change my mind – it's engaging and gives you the basics without feeling like you're back in school!
But this book isn't just about the battles and conflicts of the Wars of the Roses, it's about something simpler – the love of a man for a woman. Continue reading "Book Review – 'Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville: a True Romance' by Amy Licence" →


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Los siliconomas mamarios son resultado de la inyección de silicona líquida en las regiones mamarias, aplicadas por personal no médico con el fin de aumentar el volumen mamario. Las numerosas y tardías complicaciones que surgen de esta práctica indebida, constituyen un gran desafío para el médico cirujano que intenta solucionarlas.

La remoción del tejido glandular mamario afectado y la reconstrucción (inmediata o diferida), son los objetivos principales. La cirugía en esta patología es mayormente radical, quedando el plano estético en un segundo lugar. Por eso, los resultados estéticos logrados no siempre son aceptables.

Historia

Los procedimientos para aumentar el volumen mamario han variado según las épocas. Las inyecciones de sustancias fluidas de alta densidad utilizadas con este propósito son de antigua data y tuvieron gran difusión en Europa y Oriente. Las complicaciones locales -producidas por estas sustancias- en los tejidos, hicieron que su uso fuera cada vez menor.

En la década del '50 y comienzos del '60, aparece la silicona líquida, fluido de alta densidad casi inerte en los tejidos. En esa época estas infiltraciones eran realizadas por los cirujanos. Posteriormente estos métodos de inyección fueron reemplazados por la colocación de prótesis de siliconas. Fue en 1963 cuando Thomas Cronin publicó su prótesis de gel de siliconas.

La silicona se puede encontrar bajo dos formas: líquida o en gel. La primera -a su vez- se halla como silicona médica y no médica (o industrial). La silicona líquida puede ser de diversas variedades y purezas. A fines de la década del '60, la FDA prohibió las inyecciones de silicona líquida, y a partir de esa fecha, las inyecciones percutáneas fueron perdiendo terreno en el ámbito médico. Sin embargo, fuera de este ámbito profesional, aún pueden darse algunos casos esporádicos.

La inyección de materiales extraños ha sido descartada -hoy día- por completo, debido a los malos resultados y a la gran cantidad de complicaciones. El término "siliconoma" lo utilizó por primera vez, N. Ben-Hur, en 1965.

Los pacientes que sufrieron inyección percutánea e intraglandular de siliconas, fundamentalmente de tipo no médico o industrial, deben recurrir a tratamientos poco alentadores, que nunca terminan por conformar al paciente ni al médico cirujano.

Cómo se presenta y su tratamiento

El tiempo transcurrido entre la inyección del material y la aparición de las lesiones varía según los casos, y puede darse entre los 4 y los 7 años.

Habitualmente se estudia estos pacientes con mamografía, ecografía mamaria y/o resonancia magnética nuclear. En ellos se puede ver el tejido subcutáneo, la glándula mamaria y los músculos pectorales infiltrados por las siliconas.

El tratamiento consiste en resecar el tejido infiltrado, donde se observan una gran cantidad de "lagunas" de siliconas.

Por otro lado, la relación médico-paciente, habitualmente es difícil en el primer momento, donde se plantean las opciones terapéuticas y sus posibles resultados. Luego, con las consultas posteriores y una vez realizada la intervención, esta relación mejora. Ello se debe a la aceptación del problema por parte del paciente y al entendimiento que se trata de un verdadero desafío para el cirujano plástico, con pocas posibilidades de llegar a un resultado estético satisfactorio.

Consecuencias

Las pacientes inyectadas masivamente con siliconas líquidas no médicas consultan por las complicaciones tardías que constituyen siempre problemas de difícil solución. A ello se agrega que las pacientes generalmente exigen un resultado imposible de lograr. Existe una disconformidad con la propuesta de tratamiento resectivo y con los desalentadores posibles resultados postoperatorios. Resulta conveniente la evaluación preoperatoria realizada por otros profesionales como los psicólogos y la eventual necesidad de un tratamiento (psicoterapia).

La inyección de fluidos dentro del tejido mamario debe ser estudiada desde el punto de vista clínico y radiológico. Resulta imposible la resección total del material extraño inyectado y se observa -con frecuencia- un alto índice de complicaciones postoperatorias. El aspecto estético, quedará muchas veces relegado a un segundo plano.

Véase también
 Mamas
 Bioplastia
 Silicona
 Implante mamario
 Mastectomía

Bibliografía

 Losardo, R. J; Conde, C; Rudy, G; De Rosa, M; Zalamea, V.: Siliconomas mamarios. Pren. Méd. Argent., 2000; 87 (4): 362-367
 Gutiérrez, L.; Montes, A.: Siliconomas. Caso clínico. Rev. Méd. de Chile, 2002; 130 (7): 793-797
 Dornelas, M. T. et al: Siliconomas. Rev. Brasileira de Cirurgia Plástica, 2011; 26 (1): 16-21

Enfermedades de la mama
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Cirugía plástica

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Forest Whitaker to Appear in Season 3 of Disney XD's "Star Wars Rebels"
Whitaker will reprise his role as Gerrera, providing the voice of the character as he makes his debut on "Star Wars Rebels: Ghosts of Geonosis, Parts One and Two" premiering Saturday, January 7.
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FOREST WHITAKER TO APPEAR IN SEASON 3 OF 'STAR WARS REBELS'
Academy Award-winning actor Forest Whitaker, who stars as Rebel freedom fighter Saw Gerrera in "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story," will join the cast of the hit animated series "Star Wars Rebels," which is set in a time period just prior to the events of "Rogue One." Whitaker will reprise his role as Gerrera, providing the voice of the character as he makes his debut on "Star Wars Rebels: Ghosts of Geonosis, Parts One and Two" premiering SATURDAY, JANUARY 7 (8:30-9:30 p.m. EST), on Disney XD.
"It's an incredible honor to have Forest Whitaker play Saw in 'Rebels,'" says series executive producer Dave Filoni. "Forest did a great job at capturing Saw in a way that is a bit mad, a bit crazed, a bit afraid, but also a bit sympathetic. He sees something coming, but no one will take action before it's too late."
The character of Saw Gerrera was first introduced in the TV series "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" (2008-2015) as a guerrilla fighter for his home planet. Created by George Lucas, Saw received training from the Jedi - Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Ahsoka Tano - and served as an early harbinger of the Rebel Alliance, an assortment of disparate groups coming together to fight for a common cause.
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Q: Block initialized ViewController gets released to early I'm initalizing a SubViewController in a block. I'm adding the view of the view controller as subview to my MainViewcontroller. My SubViewController has some button logic in it.
What happens now that when I press the button in the subview the app crashes because the SubViewController was already released.
I'm afraid this is a major design problem - but at the moment I don't have any clue how to  avoid this.
This how the initialization looks in my block statement
__strong AAFBPostView *newPost = [[AAFBPostView alloc]init];
newPost.view.frame = CGRectMake(0, 300, 320, 88);
[self.view addSubview:newPost.view];
[newPost setData:result]; //passing some data to the view

A: You should be using the APIs for container view controllers. This is all covered in the docs for UIViewController.
The problem with your code is there is no strong reference to the AAFBPostView view controller once the newPost variable goes out of scope. BTW - your view controller's class name should be AAFBPostViewController. The current name implies it is a view, not a view controller.
By using the container API, the parent view controller keeps a reference to the child view controller so the problem is fixed.
Details can be found in the Creating Custom Content View Controllers section of the "View Controller Programming Guide for iOS".

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Destroy All Zombies 3 - new bloody survival game with zombie shooting elements. Use five different weapons to make your way through 20 waves of familiar enemies, new enemies and four bosses. The third installment in the series has quite a facelift in all areas (graphics, gameplay, etc) and should keep you a little more interested than before. For playing the game: WASD to walk, P to pause, Mouse to aim and fire, Q to change weapon, E to reload.


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Q: uncaught RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded when using Facebook Pixel In my Laravel application I use a Facebook Pixel to do some tracking. One such tracking metric is a form submission.
$("#emailConfirmation").on("submit", function(e) {
  var eventId = {{ $event->id }};

  if (eventId === 87 || eventId === 88 || eventId === 89) {
    e.preventDefault();

    fbq('track', 'Lead', {
      content_name: 'Email confirmation',
      content_category: 'Form submission'
    });

    $("#emailConfirmation").submit();
  }
});

What this is meant to do is prevent the form from submitting if the $event passed to the view has a particular ID, then send a lead to the Facebook Pixel analytics, and then submit the form.
Instead I get the following error:

uncaught RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded

A: The issue is because you're creating infinite recursion by raising a submit event in the submit event handler.
To fix this, raise a submit event of the native form Element instead of on the jQuery object:
$("#emailConfirmation").on("submit", function(e) {
  var eventId = {{ $event -> id}};
  if (eventId === 87 || eventId === 88 || eventId === 89) {
    e.preventDefault();

    fbq('track', 'Lead', {
      content_name: 'Email confirmation',
      content_category: 'Form submission'
    });

    this.submit(); // change here
  }
});


On Feb 26th at the Radisson Blu Portman Hotel in London was Equiniti Credit Services' second annual thought leadership conference. With the event taking place just over a month before the official date of Brexit on 29th March, one of the main topics was Lending in Uncertain Times.
This is the second research report published by Equiniti Credit Services and the sixth in an ongoing series investigating consumer attitudes towards unsecured credit in 2018.


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Clock Patience
January 22, 2023 By Phixwd Leave a Comment
I thought I'd say a few words about the puzzle I put up at Christmas. It's not really a setter's blog, so I'm not putting it there.
I don't know how the puzzle went down as I've received no comments. I set it forty years ago, while I was at Oxford University. At that time, I had experimented with a number of Patience-related crosswords. The basic Klondike variant where you put red on black on red and so on allows for a puzzle where you can clue words in groups (Clubs, Diamonds etc.) that then have only a degree of randomness in their placement – rather better, I feel, than simple alphabetical order. In addition, all the 'Clubs' clues having answers beginning with C gives some useful information to the solver.
Clock Patience was the largest of these, and it took a lot of work. This was in the days before I had access to computer-aided graphics as a matter of course, so there was a lot of compass work to draw circles, and the whole thing was handwritten until a typed version was prepared for submission. The first chunk of work, though, was to lay out the cards. I decided to play through several hands of clock patience, noting the order of the cards at each number as I did so. That would give me the structure of the grid. If I was incredibly lucky, one of the several hands might even come out. My expectation was that I would find one that got 80% of the way – enough to keep people playing through.
I shuffled the cards and I played a first hand. It came out. I arranged the cards according to my notes of the game and played it again. It came out again. Clearly I had to use that one. All these years later, I still agonise that I may simply have made the same error twice and the thing actually sticks four cards in: King, King, King, King. So one reason for putting it up was to see whether a solver could confirm that the patience played out successfully!
What went up today is an Independent daily puzzle from 2008 – I see it's actually the one from the week immediately after the last daily I put, so you should be safe from significant stylistic changes. And I need to dig deeper into the box next time round.
Sometimes I get notice of a forthcoming puzzle too late to fit into my fortnightly schedule, so I can only retrospectively point you at the Pangakupu puzzle in the Guardian on 18 January. Coming up next Sunday is an Enigmatic Variations puzzle by Kcit, with a Telegraph Toughie a few days later on 2 February.
First of the year
January 7, 2023 By Phixwd Leave a Comment
A happy new year to you.
It has been a surprisingly busy week, working through the last of the Christmas puzzles to embark on the ones piled up behind them. The clues for the 2022 APEX puzzle are coming in, and APEX 2023 has been gridded.
The solution to Clock Patience is now appended to its page. Next time I may say a little about its history.
The puzzle this time round is a Beelzebub from Christmas 2008 – I might as well squeeze in one last seasonal puzzle! It does reveal the limited scope we had for seasonal fun and games. I had a couple of lines to warn of a gimmick, whereas the Observer and Guardian run to paragraphs.
January is shaping up as a quiet month for published puzzles – the Independent Friday puzzles are now back on Fridays, after some sidesteps over the holiday period. There's a Times Quick Cryptic from Pedro on 18 January. Further ahead (and there'll be a reminder next time) is an Enigmatic Variations puzzle at the end of the month.
Those who notice the numbering of puzzles will be aware that the Telegraph Toughie is due to reach a significant milestone right at the end of the month, and I gather plans are in hand for something special. Somewhat further ahead – though perhaps no longer as far ahead as I would like – is Inquisitor 1800. Dates for your diaries to follow.
December 24, 2022 By Phixwd Leave a Comment
Here we are on Christmas Eve (in New Zealand at least), so here's a puzzle for Christmas (though not a Christmas-themed puzzle).
It's not the oldest puzzle on the site, but it's not far off: the completion date is September 1982. It has stayed with me while going round the world, and – notwithstanding my comments last time about my desk eating paperwork – it has not been lost.
It has been sitting in the submissions queue of an outlet for about forty years but, as you'll see, it really is too big to be published in – well, in pretty well any outlet. Even here it is presented as a PDF: Clock Patience. Some of it is hand-finished as I don't have that much skill with graphics! I can't actually recall receiving any editorial comments, so it may not be readily solvable. That's a shame as there's a feature of it I would have liked to have had confirmed.
There are 88 clues – think of it as a standard 36-entry Letters Latent puzzle, with 52 clues representing a pack of cards added on. I went through them all earlier this month, and most passed muster. There were a few that passed muster only after sucking air in through gritted teeth, and some where a few small tweaks were made (including a monarchical reference). Only four got the complete rewrite treatment, so I felt fairly pleased with my early-twenties self. But the solving is the true test, so now it's over to you.
I'll put the solution up next time (that will be another PDF as I'm sure you'll want to read the letters in the cells), along with a brief setter's blog.
The Christmas Rush
There are already seasonal puzzles around, and the stack will only increase. I am not putting up a new puzzle this time as there is too much going on; not least the puzzle I am intending to put up on Christmas Eve is taking rather more work to prepare, so I need to clear some decks.
Before that the annual APEX puzzle will be going out to participants, and there will also be a setter's blog (on Wednesday or Thursday this week) for the recent 'Entity' in the Inquisitor series. I have a set of proofs awaiting attention too (for Monthname 202x, so within seven years; that implies no real urgency, I guess, though the readiness of my desk to eat documents implies the opposite).
I shall limit myself to noting the puzzles I have coming out before Christmas: there's a Pangakupu in The Guardian on Tuesday 13 December, with a Times puzzle the following day. Then there's the regular Friday slot in The Independent on 16 December. And then the pattern breaks as I am next in The Independent on Christmas Eve (a theme that I reckon will be both very obvious and quite obscure). I have been advised that I have the New Year's Eve slot too, but I can verify that next time.
Get ready for the puzzle rush…
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