Preliminary research indicates that the underlying conclusion
emanating from the report will support Britain's long-term future as a
centre for automotive manufacturing excellence bolstered by the
unparalleled quality and sophistication of its logistics operations.
January 2001 - Further to the Logistics Committee’s presentation to the Executive Counsel at this years’ AGM, on
its research findings since its inception in 1997, it has been decided to publish a special research report,
summarising the research department’s findings from its work over the three years. The report entitled “British
Automotive Manufacturing – A New Perspective”, to be published in the Spring of 2001, will also include case
studies on those companies who have been accredited with the Institute’s Award of Excellence for outstanding
contribution to the development of “best practice” in the sector as determined through research conducted as part
of our three year programme.
Targeted at Chief Executives in automotive manufacturing, OEM’s and the automotive logistics industry worldwide,
as well as the Institute’s membership, the report will leave the international community in no doubt that Britain
has what it takes to sustain its status as a major player in global automotive manufacturing.
British Automotive Manufacturing – The Background:
At our AGM in October 1997, the Institute of Transport Management defined logistics and the trade of the
logistician (see appendix 2). These definitions are a result of collaboration between the I.T.M. and the Institute for
the Management of Logistics (IML) in Geneva, and senior transport directors and logisticians in the UK and Europe
and signalled the Institute's intention to include the development of the logistics market as part of its education,
information and accreditation programme.
The Institute announced the setting up of a task force, the Logistics Committee, to begin a three-year programme
of research and benchmarking with a view to the integration of logistics principles into the fabric of the UK and
the European transport sector. It was further decided that by virtue of the automotive industry’s high demands
upon its logistics providers, and its significant reliance on supply chain strategy to gain competitive advantage, that
logistics practices in this sector would be used as the benchmark for all research.
The automotive industry’s high demands reflects the manufacturers desire to move exclusively towards production,
design, sales and marketing, looking to the logistics market to provide more and more added value services. The
most demanding of which is “moduling services” ie. the assembly of dashboards, radiators and tyres etc, off line
before delivery to a pre ordered schedule. This development, together with the 3PL’s existing roles, will see the
logistics partner move more and more into the production process.
As part of the three year programme it was further decided to accredit those companies, which the research
concluded, were making the most outstanding contribution to the development of best practice in the British
automotive manufacturing sector with the Institute’s Award of Excellence. The central aim of this accreditation
programme is to provide additional confidence to the World’s automotive manufacturing sector as well as providing
a benchmark for others in the sector to measure their performance against.
The methodology employed in both our research and accreditation programme was to firstly establish which
manufacturing plant in Britain was the most efficient and making the greatest contribution to the development of
supply chain standards in the automotive sector in each of the three years of the programme. That company
would then be deemed “UK Automotive Manufacturing Company of the Year” and receive the Award of Excellence.
The Institute’s Award of Excellence recognises and rewards organisations in Britain that demonstrate excellence in
supply chain management, which in turn help to enhance the understanding of supply chain excellence within
British industry and to help individual organisations to identify their strengths and weaknesses.
Please see Appendix 1 for a full list of all those companies drawn from every part of the automotive
manufacturing industry, who have been accredited with the Institute’s Award of Excellence as part of the
British Automotive Manufacturing – an overview.
British Automotive Manufacturing will provide an in-depth analysis of how automotive manufacturers in Britain
organise their logistics operations by looking at every element of the supply chain. The report will focus specifically
on the relationships between manufacturer’s and their suppliers and other partners, from initial inward sourcing of
components to distribution.
This comprehensive report will utilise both quantitative and qualitative analysis to delineate the key trends shaping
the automotive manufacturing industry in Britain. The report, which draws primarily on findings from the
Institute’s three-year research programme will also include intelligence drawn from interviews, published statistical
data, service guides, annual reports, surveys and other resources. The report will be complimented by
contributions from leading figureheads in British automotive manufacturing, OEM and automotive distribution
The publication will in essence provide a clear and concise overview of the state of the automotive manufacturing
market in Britain.
Preliminary findings indicate that one of the underlying conclusions emanating from the report will support
Britain's long-term future as a centre for automotive manufacturing excellence bolstered by the unparalleled quality
and sophistication of its logistics operations.
The objective of the report is to reinforce the status of Britain as a centre of automotive manufacturing excellence
on the international stage and to establish the very tangible links between the increased productivity at British
Automotive manufacturing plants and the quality of the sectors logistics solutions.
Preliminary findings/Topics to be discussed:
The strategic emphasis to date within the automotive manufacturing sector, has been on logistics upstream,
with manufacturers regulating relations with providers and conveyors to the point where assembly plants
typically hold only one third of one production days worth of component stock. This has been achieved
through the application of the “just in time” philosophy to delivery and has seen the advent of supplier
villages operated by 3PL’s close to the manufacturing plants, which, using cross docking guarantees a regular
supply of the right components at the right time, to the trackside.
In the case of logistics downstream, or the regulation and interpretation of customer service requirements or
the distribution part of the supply chain, similar efficiencies are not being achieved. In fact in most cases
finished vehicle stocks are held for an average of 50 days in Europe. This inefficiency provides the most
potential for cost savings and increased sales. Market research has confirmed that only 12% of cars ordered
which are delivered later than two weeks of order are actually bought by the original customer. The
International Car Distribution Program (ICDP) estimate that if lean distribution is adapted by European
Automotive Manufacturers, vehicle stocks will be reduced in value from £18 billion to £8 billion. However, the
process of moving to lean distribution is constantly being interrupted by the continuation of mergers between
the major global players, which in turn is leading to the rationalisation of high street dealerships.
Strategies like e-commerce will open up a wide variety of options for manufacturers to change their
distribution patterns, but ultimately, successful distribution strategies will have to concentrate on reducing
order to delivery times substantially if the industry is to capitalise on these developments.
This achievement of international recognition can be traced back to the Industry Forum instigated by the
SMMT and the DTI. The process, instigated by the unique collaboration between the Department of Trade and
Industry, the SMMT and leading vehicle manufacturers and suppliers to improve quality, reduces cost and
improves delivery times can be directly attributed to improvements in the efficiency of the supply chain.
Case Studies drawn from benchmarking and accreditation process:
British automotive manufacturing will include case studies drawn from the ranks of the three Roll of Honour’s
announced as part of the programme. It is envisaged that these case studies will provide companies operating at
any point in the supply chain with a benchmark with which to compare their performance.
Accreditation – Roll of Honour 1997-2000
This definitive benchmarking was instigated in 1998 when the Institute’s newly formed Logistics Committee
examined the way car manufacturers in Britain organised their supply chains. In this first year in which the
logistics chain in various automotive plants were scrutinised with a view to accreditation, Rover was honoured with
the “UK Automotive Manufacturing Company of the Year 1998/99” accreditation, in recognition of Rovers’
commitment to supplier excellence with its own awards scheme, which honoured those companies which had been
able to respond to the company’s demanding standards in a competitive global environment.
The Logistics Committee presented the Institute's awards committee with its nominations for components supplier
Award of Excellence accreditation for companies who had won through in the Rover Supplier Excellence scheme.
In 1999, Nissan Motor Manufacturing Ltd UK was honoured with “UK Automotive Manufacturing Company of the
Year 1999/00”. The company was deemed to be an exemplary exponent of an excellent logistics operation
achieved through a synergic relationship between the manufacturer and its chain of suppliers.
Also in 1999, the Logistics Committee presented the Institute's awards committee with its nominations for
automotive logistics Award of Excellence accreditation for companies which had come to their attention as part of
the research programme. Each company represented a different part of the supply and distribution chain.
The preliminary nominations for one of the most prestigious titles within the automotive manufacturing sector, the
title of “UK Automotive Manufacturing Company of the Year 2000/2001”, have been announced. The nominees are:
Honda of UK Manufacturing Limited
One of the centrepieces of the report will be a profile of the eventual recipient of the “UK Automotive
Manufacturing Company of the Year 2000/2001”, which will be announced this autumn, and will detail how its
manufacturing process in Britain is organised.
Appendix 1 - Roll of Honour
The following companies drawn from the British automotive manufacturing and Tier one and Tier two OEM
component sectors as well as allied suppliers, distributors and ports, have been singled out by the Institute for
their outstanding contribution to the improvements of standards of logistics excellence in the automotive sector.
Rover – “Automotive Manufacturing Company of the Year 1998/99”
Nissan - “Automotive Manufacturing Company of the Year 1999/00”
Nominees for “Automotive Manufacturing Company of the Year 2000/2001”
Honda of UK Manufacturing Limited
Lucas Diesel Systems:
“UK Original Equipment Supplier of the Year 1999”
Inbound - Ryder Integrated Logistics:
“European Automotive Logistics Company of the Year” (JIT)
Outbound Distribution - Axial UK & Europe:
“European Automotive Logistics Company of the Year” (Distribution)
Shipping - Ugland International Holdings Plc:
“Seaborne Vehicle Transportation Company of the Year”
Outbound Distribution - Hammond Logistics:
“Automotive Parts Logistics Company of the Year”
Pioneer - Autobytel:
“Award of Excellence - Pioneers in automotive e-commerce”
Ryder Integrated Logistics was also recognised by the Institute for its work in developing logistics solutions for
Nissan in Sunderland. The Institute awarded Ryder Integrated Logistics the accolade of “Automotive Logistics
Company of the Year 1999”. Ryder Integrated Logistics collects components from Nissan’s 120 UK suppliers, which
are then cross-docked at its Alfreton distribution hub for supply to specific receiving locations at exact times to
Nissan’s Sunderland plant.
For further information please contact:
Patrick Sheedy, Media & PR Director
Institute of Transport Management
Unit 64, 14-20 George Street,
Birmingham, B12 9RG
Tel: 0121 440 5222 Fax: 0121 440 3425
Notes to Editors:
THE INSTITUTE OF TRANSPORT MANAGEMENT
Who could have foreseen in 1977 when George Hughes of Coca Cola and William Gavin of the RAF established the
Institute of Transport Management that it would, by its coming of age in 2005, have grown to become the leading
provider of accreditation to the worldwide transport industry.
The Institute of Transport Management was formed so that transport managers like George Hughes and William
Gavin could share vital market knowledge with each other. George Hughes was at that time the transport director
at the newly built Coca Cola manufacturing plant in the UK, set up to meet a growing demand for the product in
Europe (In fact Coca Cola UK is the original of the American multi national species which came to Europe in the
seventies after the UK joined the then European Economic Community as a full trading partner) while William
Gavin as Crew Chief Transport Commander at the RAF led the airforces crew command division's transport
It was a chance meeting between both at a trade show in Birmingham in the mid seventies, that was to be the
beginning of the Institute. It was at that meeting that both realised that each had a solution that the other was
seeking to a route planning challenge that each was facing in getting product/supplies into south east Europe.
George Hughes had been a member of a similar Institute of Transport Manager's in the US, which he had found
invaluable. He lamented its non-existence in Britain. Both men agreed to try and replicate a similar institute in
the UK with the express aim of providing further education and information to transport managers as its raison
The Institute would work as a forum for the exchange of ideas and solutions in the building of what were then
the equivalents of today's supply chains. The idea for the Institute was based on the precept that transport
managers in membership would share what they knew about transport and distribution with their fellow members.
A steering group was formed and transport managers right throughout the UK from all areas of industry and
commerce were invited through their respective 'alma maters' to join the Institute and share in its work. As a
condition of membership, members were asked to provide the Institute (in strictest confidence) details on transport
policy successfully utilised in planning transport solutions in their respective corporations. This application has from
its inception placed particular emphasis on details concerning supply partners. This information under the
administration of the Institute's executive committee was originally made available to members on foot of written
or telephone requests to the Institute.
One year after the Institute's inaugural meeting on October 13th 1977, which was subject to extensive television
coverage by ITN and the BBC and with a membership of 2,000 transport managers, the Institute found itself
handling up to 40 requests a week from members for market data .We were wasting too much time and money
meeting our members needs on a one by one basis, the Institute had to find a new formula for the dissemination
of its collective information.
Fortuitously `Transport Journal `established in 1942 as an independent magazine for the transport professional
had become an uneasy bedfellow amongst a range of scientific publications published by its then owners and was
offered for sale in that year. Transport Journal had by 1978 grown to a controlled circulation of some 12,000 and
boasted a readership of some 50,000. It was cited in the Institute's first research survey of its members as the
choice by 75% of our membership, as their core source of news and information on the transport industry. The
synergy was irresistible and the Institute bought the title, adopting it as its official organ and re-writing its
constitution, so that the Journal's core focus and "raison d'etre' would be to report the results from the Institute's
various research programmes undertaken in the pursuit of accreditation and to bring its vast readership into
membership to help guarantee the quality of each recommendation or accreditee.
In its first year, the Institute had learned that generally the nature of member's requests were very similar i.e.
"Who provided a land, sea or air transport service to a named market and what provider or providers were the
majority choice of Institute members?”
It also learned that it could through some very simple number crunching, searching its database in a general way,
establish the most popular choices made by members. This new understanding of information and its use is the
cornerstone of the Institute's accreditation programme
In anticipation of members’ demand for information on an ongoing basis the Institute created its Awards of
Excellence programme, whereby those supply partners who were the most popular choices made by members,
would be honoured.
This process is supported by an independent assessment on the market leader in each discipline, and an
operational overview produced which is used to support the company's case for accreditation. Companies and
organisations successful through this process are allowed to create a publicity programme around the accreditation
and wear the Institute's insignia on its corporate sleeve.
The impact of the Institute's accreditation programme operated over the last 21 years is summed up in the
award's committee's statement issued at the time of our 21st birthday in 1998 in which it said:
"The awards committee reports that there has been a gratifying rise in standards amongst members since we
began our work in 1978. We are of the opinion that the competition for accreditation created by the awards has
had beneficial effects right across the industry spectrum. Over the last 21 years British and International
recipients have served as a benchmark to companies aspiring to success in their respective segments.”
Recipients of the ITM's awards down through the years include some of the world's leading port authorities,
airlines, shipping lines, vehicle manufacturers, freight forwarders and many more.
Today the ITM represents some 10,000 transport managers and logisticians right through the UK and Europe and
continues to pool the knowledge of its members annually and to answer questions on the best and most efficient
ways of improving its members supply chain and distribution needs
THE LOGISTICS COMMITTEE
Since the Institute of Transport Management's inception in 1977, much has changed in the transport industry and
most of that change is encapsulated in one word - Logistics. No longer does the transport manager only delegate
the movement of his goods from a to b, or the collection of goods from b to a, he is now looking for a complete
solution, a more sophisticated solution and indeed a solution which for all intensive purposes appears to be
provided by and controlled by him and his company.
At our AGM in October 1997, we defined logistics and the trade of the logistician. These definitions are a result of
collaboration between the I.T.M. and the Institute for the Management of Logistics
(IML) in Geneva, and senior transport directors and logisticians in the UK and Europe and signalled the Institute's
intention to include the development of the logistics market as part of its education and information programme.
The Institute announced the setting up of a task force known as the Logistics Committee, within the Institute, to
begin a three year programme of research and benchmarking with a view to the integration of logistics principles
into the fabric of the UK and the European transport sector.
Logistics is one of the key elements of a company's strategy, and has developed as a result of the substantial
changes to the world's economic and commercial environment. These changes are:
1. Globalisation of markets and internationalisation of trade.
2. Removal of tariff barriers and the creation of large continental markets.
3. Technological developments involving telecommunications and control.
4. Development of electronic trade.
5. De-regulation and privatisation of transport services.
6. Reduction in mobility costs.
These factors have contributed substantially to a change in the rules of market operation and have brought
logistics to the position of being the defining economic force underlining all operations associated with the
movement of goods on both a local and international scale The authentic logistics provider assured single-entity
control through every stage of the operation, door to door.
Logistics is defined as a process involving a clearly defined strategy combining the application of the following
practical and theoretical disciplines in tandem towards the completion of a continuous distribution cycle:
Practical: Organisation, marketing, production management, human resources management, accounting and finance,
information and communication systems, distribution, and supply chain management, transportation.
Theoretical: Forecasting, modelling, decision support, similation, analytical accounting and controlling, applied
statistics to logistics management, systems approach, architecture of information systems and total quality
The trade of the logistician is defined as:
“The logistician establishes links between all sectors (purchase, production, distribution, r &d, sales) of the
company. He is like a project manager and works in a transverse way, his goal is to decompartmentalise the
company functions. He sets up the organisation method in order to optimise flows of matter and information.
"On the level of logistics upstream, he regulates the relations with providers and the conveyors and as regards
logistics downstream his role is to perceive the customer service requirements and to follow this through in terms
of reliability speed and effectiveness
The logistics committee has since its inception presented the Institute's awards committee with its nominations for
various logistics awards as part of its work. The ITM awards committee oversees an annual series of awards, which
are presented to those suppliers of products or services that have made outstanding contributions in the transport
industry. Recipients of the ITM's awards down through the years include some of the world's leading port
authorities, airlines, shipping lines, vehicle manufacturers, freight forwarders and many more.
The premier award presented under the auspices of the logistics committee, that of "Global Logistics Company of
the year" was won by Bax Global in our inaugural research piece in 1998 followed by MSAS Global Logistics in
1999 and now UPS Worldwide Logistics for 2000.


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Title: Bred in the Bone
Author: Kendra Elliot
Publisher: Montlake Romance
Publication Date: October 29, 2019
Page Count: 86
My rating: 4 1/2 stars
About the book:
In the fourth Widow’s Island novella, the truth of a twenty-year disappearance will finally come to light.
When the town drunk ends up dead in a hit-and-run, FBI special agent Cate Wilde expects that solving the case will be cut and dried. But evidence quickly surfaces that the victim was involved with another crime. A crime that has gone cold for twenty years. A crime of personal importance to Cate.
Cate’s best friend, Samantha, went missing at fourteen, leaving behind nothing except a jacket and an island full of unanswered questions. Samantha’s disappearance has haunted Cate for more than half her life, and she might finally be able to find some closure.
But not everything is as it seems. As Cate unravels what happened on that fateful day, she’ll discover that the community of Widow’s Island is full of secrets. Betrayed by someone she thought she knew, Cate will need to piece together the truth…before someone else gets hurt.
Bred in the Bone by Kendra Elliot is the fourth book of the romantic suspense Widow’s Island series. This series is all at novella length and penned by Kendra Elliot and Melinda Leigh by alternating the books and switching the main characters.
This pair of authors have teamed up in the past for the romantic suspense Rogue River series of which a couple of the characters have moved over to this series but the books can be read and enjoyed separate from the Rogue River series. Each novella also contains it’s own mystery so they can be read as a standalone although some character development does carry over in the series from book to book for those reading them all from the beginning.
In Bred in the Bone FBI Special Agent Cate Wilde begins to investigate what looks to be a hit and run when a body is found on the side of a road. The investigation however seems to be leading Cate to the same suspects from the twenty year old case of Cate and Tessa’s best friend, Samantha.
This fourth novella in the series is my favorite so far bringing the story around to focusing on the case of the main character’s missing friend we’ve heard from since the beginning. Again, even at novella length this was a great edition to the series mixing both cases and being a detailed story leaving me to rate this book of the series at 4 1/2 stars.
I received an advance copy from the publisher via NetGalley.
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Kendra Elliot has landed on the Wall Street Journal bestseller list multiple times and is the award-winning author of the Bone Secrets, Callahan & McLane, and Mercy Kilpatrick series. She is a three-time winner of the Daphne du Maurier Award, an International Thriller Writers finalist, and an RT Award finalist. She has always been a voracious reader, cutting her teeth on classic female heroines such as Nancy Drew, Trixie Belden, and Laura Ingalls. She was born and raised—and still lives—in the rainy Pacific Northwest with her family, but she looks forward to the day she can live in flip-flops. Visit her at http://www.kendraelliot.com.

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Social media has become the key medium for users to communicate with brands and businesses. If you aren’t already using social media as a driving force for your business’ growth strategy, you’re not only missing out on an essential tool but are also putting your profitability at risk by ignoring it.
But, using social media and getting high ROI from it are two very different things.
One way of getting ahead of your competitors is by blending your website with next-generation social solutions. This could involve adding new features that you might not have thought about using.
The idea is to increase customer engagement, improve user experience, boost traffic, and ensure that everybody is talking about your brand.
How can you make this happen?
If you’ve never heard of social login (you’ve probably experienced it), it’s a service that allows users to register on a website with their already existing accounts, such as Facebook, Google, Twitter, and LinkedIn. The most evident advantage of social login is a rapid, frictionless signup that boosts conversions. Most users prefer logging in with their existing social accounts and avoiding the need to remember another username and password.
But, there’s more to social login than just convenient signup.
Every time a user logs in to your website with her social credentials you obtain her profile data. This information can then be leveraged to drive more meaningful interactions with users and to understand who they are and what they want.
The idea is to offer a personalized user experience, leading to better brand engagement, targeted lead generation, and better conversions. Marketers can identify the data points that are consistent with their current marketing strategies. This data helps businesses personalize their website experience for users and micro-target them with special product offers and discounts.
2. Understanding users through social analytics
Knowing whether your social media activities are delivering any value to your business is crucial to maximizing social media ROI. Making use of social analytics will help you keep tabs on the activities of your users as well as the impact of those activities on your business.
The use of social analytics means you no longer have to guess whether your efforts are delivering returns. You get a bird’s-eye view of all your activities and the ability to dig deeper into all aspects of social media.
3. Customizing user interface (UI) with social sharing buttons
Ordinary social share buttons are passé; if you want to maximize the benefits of social sharing on your website, it’s time to optimize your widgets and make them stand out.
It’s pretty simple – when you optimize your social share buttons to elevate them from the commonplace, you can put yourself ahead of the rest.
4. Spreading the love with a social invite
Implementing a social invite solution encourages your users to invite their friends on different social networks like Facebook, Google+, and Twitter, as well as email providers such as Gmail and Yahoo, to your website.
Now, here’s the thing. Readers won’t send an invite just because you’re asking them to. You’ll need to incentivize the social invite they are sending their friends. Reward them with special offers, a discount, or anything else you can think of to make them your brand ambassadors. These users will be bringing high-quality referrals to your site, so think of the right incentive as a way of saying thank you and also making sure they keep inviting their friends.
Related Class: Finding Influencers to Amplify Social Reach
5. Social commenting to further discussions
Allowing users to post comments through their social accounts is a great way of enabling users to share their comments on their social profiles. This helps spread the word about your business and drives more visitors to your website.
For example, users can share comments with their friends or with people who like your page by using their Facebook identity to post comments. If they’ve checked the Post to Facebook box while adding a comment, the content they’ve commented on will appear in their friends’ newsfeeds. A single social comment has the potential to bring in a large number of visitors to your site.
Over to You for Implementation
Now, before you think this is way too difficult and will require significant amounts of time and expensive in-house web development, there is an easier way: a social login platform such as LoginRadius can integrate all these features for your web and mobile applications with a few clicks. Social login providers develop, maintain, and update the plugins – all you need to do is implement.
Next-generation social solutions are about taking the next steps in leveraging social media and optimizing it for your website. It’s about shifting to overdrive and implementing solutions that will entrench your website deeper in the social media ecosystem. Social is becoming a staple in today's business world, and implementing these solutions will immensely improve your web presence.


Bronze sword hilt sold for $4342 (Expensive Finds, Photos+)
If there would be a sword on that handle, then the detectorist who found it would be bathing in gold. But there is no blade, the iron has already long ago rusted away to piecees, so there was only the bronze handle left. See the photos. This sword dates back to the Kievan Rus.
An amazing find: A bronze sword hilt. The handle has some nice carvings. What is especially amazing is: the handle is fully asssembled (almost) – which is quite a rarity.
The lucky detectorist sold it at an auction. The price reached as high as $4342.
Want to read about more relics? We gather all the posts about them here…
Could you tell me what the handle is made of, please? I mean, the grip, where the hand takes place. Is it leather covered of silver leaf? Or bronze covered of silver?


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My dear friend Kim had a frozen theme birthday party for her daughter and I made the cookies for it. I was super excited to make these as.
It's no secret Disney's movie Frozen has become an international phenomenon. Frozen themed birthday parties have become so popular.
Nancy and I felt that our Frozen Dessert Table needed one more item. We knocked around ideas until we came up with Snowflake Cookies.
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STARTING on January 28, ESPN will no longer be part of cable television in the Philippines as it is ‘rebranded’ into Fox Sports not only here but also around Asia.
Jude Turcuato, head of Fox International Channels Philippines, said Fox Sports will show the same content that ESPN has been providing such as NBA games, major golf and tennis events, and Formula One races as well as local events including live coverage of games featuring the San Miguel Beermen in the Asean Basketball League.
“Our content is still the best international sports. Now we are putting local flavor slowly and surely. One of our first local forays we will be getting involved in the ABL,” said Turcuato.
“Locally, we will cover all home games of San Miguel and we will also show their road games. This will be exclusive for Fox Sports so that we can control the quality of the broadcast. We want to promote San Miguel as our national team,” Turcuato said.
Last year, News Corporation acquired ESPN’s share in ESPN Star Sports to gain full control of the sports network in Asia.
“The main rebrand is really to use our brand,” said Turcuato. “Before, ESPN was a joint venture between ESPN and Star Sports. Ngayon, it’s 100 percent FOX na.”
“We will be going full force with the rebranding so we are going to localize and rebrand FOX Sports,” Turcuato added.

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Dorothy knows she is not eligible for the Age Pension, but wonders if she should go through the process anyway?
I have reached the age when I’m eligible for the Age Pension. I’m sure I won’t get anything because we have too many assets. However, I’m wondering if I should go through the process of claiming so that I’m “on the books” as it were, in case there are other benefits I can get?
A. This is a very labour-intensive way of finding out the benefits that you are entitled to and we wouldn’t recommend going through the process of applying for the Age Pension as a fun way to pass the time.
Depending on your exact situation, you may be eligible for a Commonwealth Seniors Health Card. This card helps with the cost of prescription medicines and other health services, if you are of pension age but do not qualify for the Age Pension.
If you don’t qualify for a payment from Centrelink or the Department of Veterans Affairs, have reached Age Pension age, meet the income test and are an Australian resident currently living in Australia, then you will be eligible for the Commonwealth Seniors Health Card.
The Commonwealth Seniors Health Card provides you with cheaper medicine under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, a bigger refund for medical costs when you reach the Medicare Safety Net and bulk-billed doctor visits (depending on your doctor).
Your state or territory government and local council may offer you more. They may lower your:
- electricity and gas bills
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text: The diagnosis of the CPFE syndrome is established after HRCT imaging, sometimes in conjunction with pathology. A consensus definition of CPFE syndrome does not currently exist. In the broadest sense, this term should include all patients with coexistent emphysema and pulmonary fibrosis pathology, although current methods of detection, such as HRCT scanning, likely allow identification of a portion of this larger group. The combination of emphysema and pulmonary fibrosis detectable on HRCT scan initially was reported in the setting of apparent idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF),4 and in this setting, emphysema is a relatively common finding on CT scan (Table 1). However, although a pattern of usual interstitial pneumonia/IPF appears to be the most common imaging or pathologic findings in the setting of CPFE, other patterns of fibrotic interstitial lung disease have been reported in conjunction with emphysema,7,9 and the presence of IPF, therefore, is not necessary for the diagnosis of CPFE. Most reported cases of CPFE (Table 2) seem to share certain characteristics, including male sex, a history of cigarette smoking, relatively preserved spirometric values, and decreased diffusing capacity of lung for carbon monoxide (Dlco). These common factors have led to the description of a CPFE syndrome,6 which denotes the subgroup of patients with coexistent pulmonary fibrosis and emphysema who present with dyspnea, often in the setting of a history of smoking; who have the characteristic physiologic abnormalities; and who frequently also have pulmonary hypertension. Classification of this group of patients under the CPFE syndrome label is important because as discussed later, these patients have a different natural history, complications, and mortality than those with pulmonary fibrosis or emphysema alone. What remains unclear is what extent of emphysema and fibrosis is needed to distinguish the patient with CPFE from patients with predominant emphysema or predominant fibrosis.

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"Oppenheimer," directed by Christopher Nolan, has taken Indian theatres by storm.
The film collected an impressive Rs 13-14 crore on its opening day in India, outperforming "Barbie" and other Hollywood releases.
Starring Cillian Murphy as J Robert Oppenheimer, the movie was released on July 21.
The film's success reached beyond metropolitan areas and resonated strongly with audiences in smaller cities and towns.
Critics praised Cillian Murphy's outstanding portrayal of J Robert Oppenheimer and awarded the film 4.5 stars.
"Oppenheimer" recounts historical events during World War II when scientists developed the world's first atomic bombs under Oppenheimer's leadership.
The movie features an impressive cast, including Robert Downey Jr, Emily Blunt, and Matt Damon in pivotal roles.
Christopher Nolan's direction and Cillian Murphy's performance elevated "Oppenheimer" to a cinematic masterpiece.
"Oppenheimer" is a must-watch for movie enthusiasts and history buffs alike.
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Endorsed by the Cape Cod Times!
"Voters would be hard-pressed to guess Dylan Fernandes' age. The Democrat running for the Falmouth and Islands House seat is confident and well-informed about the issues facing the district." Read the full Cape Cod Times Endorsement here!
Endorsed by the Martha's Vineyard Times
US Senator Elizabeth Warren
US Senator Ed Markey
Attorney General Maura Healey
Dukes County Sheriff Michael McCormack
Former State Representative Eric Turkington
Barnstable County Commissioner Mary Pat Flynn
Former Falmouth State Representative Dick Kendall
Dukes County Commissioner Lenny Jason
Dukes County Commissioner Leon Brathwaite
Dukes County Commissioner Gretchen Tucker Underwood
Oak Bluffs Selectman Greg Coogan
Oak Bluffs Selectman Walter Vail
Oak Bluff Selectman Kathy Burton
Falmouth Selectman Douglas Jones
Falmouth Selectman Doug Brown
Falmouth Selectman Megan Braga
Falmouth Selectman Ralph Herbst
West Tisbury Selectman Richard Knabel
Edgartown Selectman Art Smadbeck
Tisbury Selectman Larry Gomez
Tisbury Selectman Melinda Loberg
Tisbury Selectman Tristan Israel
Chilmark Selectman Jim Malkin
Delegate Julia Taylor of the Barnstable County Assembly
Fmr Nantucket Democratic Town Committee Chair Teena Loftin
"We know what it takes to get the job done at the State House. Dylan has what it takes and more." - Former State Reps Eric Turkington and Dick Kendall.
"Through his work as Maura Healey's political director, Dylan understands that government should be responsive and engaging," said Oak Bluffs Selectman Greg Coogan. "He is dedicated to having robust constituency services here on Martha's Vineyard and throughout the district so that our voices are heard on Beacon Hill."
"Dylan is a local guy with deep roots in our community who has already been doing the important work on the state level fighting for working families," added County Commissioner Mary Pat Flynn "He brings the new energy and experience necessary to fight for our communities on day one."
Every group to endorse in our race is supporting our campaign. Here is the list!
Environmental League of Massachusetts
National Association of Social Workers
Massachusetts Organization of State Engineers & Scientists
Massachusetts Teachers Association
Massachusetts Laborers' District Council Local 385
Bricklayers and Allied Craftsman Local 3
Massachusetts and Northern New England Laborers' District Council
United Auto Workers
Coalition for Social Justice
“We have a long and positive history with Dylan Fernandes. His values and policy positions are totally focused on leveling the playing field for families in Falmouth, Martha’s Vineyard, and Nantucket who find themselves struggling to keep their heads above water,” said Deborah Fastino, Executive Director of the Coalition for Social Justice. “Also, his dedication to listening and reaching out to voters is exemplified by his grassroots campaign – going door to door and calling voters. We strongly endorse his candidacy.”
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A welcome return for a much loved band, but in all honesty this latest release leaves room for improvement.
Two years since The 1975 last ventured onto the airwaves, the swaggering quartet have finally provided some relief for their, at times insufferably, grandiose anticipating fan base with the release of new single ‘Give Yourself A Try’. The Manchester pop-rockers have somewhat departed from their superfluous melancholy from their previous album and sophomore release I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it, and instead have turned to what is arguably one of their most uplifting songs to date.
Headline-grabbing frontman Matty Healy has never been one to shy away from the limelight; despite being a visceral eccentric performer and outspoken character, it is no secret that Healy has had his demons, voluntarily enduring a stint in rehab in Barbados before recording their upcoming third studio album A Brief Enquiry Into Online Relationships. However, the release of ‘Give Yourself A Try’ is an heartening antidote that echoes the feelings of a man who is seemingly in a better place than recent tabloid history would suggest.
Maintaining the ever-haunting feel that comes with every The 1975 song, this latest release sees an emphasis on a blazing guitar that, although providing a new direction for the band, leaves questions over the boundaries between artistic inspiration and outright plagiarism, with the guitar line virtually indistinguishable from Joy Division’s classic ‘Disorder’. At first listen it can feel rather harsh and taxing, being such a shock difference to what we have come to expect from the poptastic melodies that override much of the band’s back catalogue, but little by little it is sure to grow on you.
Delving into the lines “You learn a couple things when you get to my age / Like friends don’t lie and it all tastes the same in the dark” we see Matty take us through the tribulations of closing in on your 30s, but as a whole the song screams reflective positivity rather than downtrodden misery. Although ‘Give Yourself A Try’ doesn’t quite hit the heights we may have hoped for, but it opens up an exciting avenue for the new album to live up to the unwavering hype.
‘Give Yourself A Try’ is available now via Dirty Hit.

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Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:
Abstract In 1927 George G. Booth established the Cranbrook Academy of Art as an educational environment where students could come and learn from master artists in residence. The Academy functioned as a department under the Cranbrook Foundation and included painting, architecture, sculpture, ceramics and decorative design. The first Academy students were taken in early 1930. Eliel Saarinen was the first President (1932-1946). In 1942, with the opening of the Museum and Library, the Academy became an...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1942 - 1973
Abstract Records of the Cranbrook Architectural Office which was responsible for the supervision, inspection, approval and acceptance of all construction work at Cranbrook, beginning with Eliel Saarinen's leadership through its closure in the 1980s. The materials reflect the planning and building phases of the Brookside School (BS), Christ Church Cranbrook (CCC), Cranbrook Academy of Art (CAA), Cranbrook House, Cranbrook Institute of Science (CIS), Cranbrook School (CS), Kingswood School (KS), and...
Dates: 1925 - 1987
Abstract The Cranbrook Foundation was established on November 28, 1927, by George Gough Booth and Ellen Scripps Booth. It was a trust and administrative entity to endow and support the six institutions that George and Ellen had founded: Brookside School Cranbrook, Christ Church Cranbrook, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Cranbrook Institute of Science, Cranbrook School, and Kingswood School Cranbrook. It's initial mission was, "to add to and strengthen the educational and cultural facilities within the...
Dates: 1926 - 1973
Abstract Claude de Forest received his M.A. in Architecture from the Massachussetts Institute of Technology in 1956, before being hired by Eero Saarinen as a cartoonist and junior designer for Eero Saarinen & Associates from 1956-1958. Significant projects include Yale University, the Ingalls Hockey Rink, the IBM Research Center, TWA Terminal, University of Pennsylvania dormitory, and Chicago Law School. This collection contains original cartoons created by de Forest related to Eero Saarinen...
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To say that I'm a fan of Conan the Barbarian is a bit of an understatement.
And if you asked me what my hands-down, most favorite issue of all time was, it would be Conan the Barbarian #4 - The Tower of the Elephant.
There's a couple things to understand, before we get into it. The first is, how weird
it was, to have this comic that was adapting the work a pulp author that had died back in 1936. This was still the 1970s, long before the movie with Arnold Schwarzeneggar came out. There had been a mild revival of weird fiction, sword & sorcery, and fantasy - the first because of the paperback publications of Lovecraft and other writers in the Ballantine Adult Fantasy line during, the second because of the cheap publication of Robert E. Howard's stuff in a series of Lancer paperbacks with great covers by Frank Franzetta, and the last largely because of the sudden explosion of the Lord of the Rings
Marvel Comics had some success licensing short horror stories - including Lovecraft, Robert Bloch, and Robert E. Howard - to comics in the late 60s. I talked about this a bit here
, but they took a chance on adapting Howard's famous barbarian - and it was a surprise hit. Now, it wasn't a right away
hit, it took the team of Roy Thomas and Barry Smith a few issues, but they got the readership up, and I think part of the reason is that it was like nothing else on the shelves those days. And right away, Thomas was approaching it as an original work, but they could use all the Conan stories, and did. And one of those was "The Tower of the Elephant."
And the first thing you notice when you come to this comic, it isn't the barbarian you might be used to. It's not Conan as Mr. Universe. Thin, lean, young, this is Conan the thief, in the city of thieves, and that itself is remarkable, in the era of the Comics Code Authority. It's kind of amazing what
they could get away with, without explicitly violating the Code, and the whole atmosphere of it...it wasn't like a "Very Special Issue" where you come to terms with race in Green Lantern or drug use in Green Arrow or pedophilia in Spider-Man (and doesn't that fucking date me). It might be the only comic at the time where you can talk about getting drunk and slitting throats and throwing a prostitute over your shoulder and head upstairs - and that was all your hero.
It was a great time to be alive, and you could tell it right from the first page.
Now, if you haven't read it, I won't go into the whole plot in detail. And the thing is, it's an aesthetic experience. Old comics - and this is over forty years old now - they age like fucking papyrus. They're soft as newsprint, you can smell
the slightly mouldering, high-acid paper the moment you open the box. It's like going into an antique bookstore when you open the plastic sleeve, and the whole thing feels so soft and fragile under your fingertips...babies don't have skin that soft. You're almost afraid to hold it. But you turn the page.
The coloring is, not great. They were using the four-color dot system, which we talked about a bit the other week in the Understanding Comics retrospective
, and when Dark Horse re-released it as a trade they re-colored everything digitally, which doesn't quite look right:
Aesthetics aside...it's not a complicated story. Conan goes to the Tower of the Elephant, which has a wizard in it, and runs into a bunch of obstacles, some mundane, some less so. That's all fine. It's a classic sword & sorcery approach, with a very minimal amount of sorcery, as it should be. Anything that bleeds can die and all that. But then - and this is the part I love - Conan gets into the tower.
...and this is where it becomes something worthy of Weird Tales
, no, beyond that, because you have to remember that WT
was a pulp magazine being published between the 1920s and 30s, and it wasn't all gold and instant classics. There was a lot
of crap. Terrible racist shit, horrible oriental "exoticism," some of it was awful. Your average WT
story with an elephant-god would be something like Frank Belknap Long's The Horror from the Hills
, where they're an evil caricature of Ganesh or something.
And it's just...have you ever seen a monster cry
? Have you ever seen a thing from beyond the stars, it's limbs twisted and broken on the rack, eyes blinded, and you've got the space-elephant's trunk gently groping Conan's face like any blind person might do? That was brutal to me. I was about eight years old, reading through my dad's old stack of comics, the ones where my fucking uncle as a young bastard had scribbled over some of the characters drawing Hitler mustaches and swastikas, because even as a kid he was a little shit, and I was eight years old and full of Batman and Superman and Captain America and Spider-Man, and here was this comic
, and it's the very definition of making you think and plucking at your heartstrings.
But the thing about Robert E. Howard is...and people don't often recognize this. He doesn't write stories to tug at your heartstrings. I mean, they might, in a manly sort of way, and no-one has brought as many manly tears to my eye as Robert E. Howard. But REH, he doesn't write stories about that. REH writes stories about revenge
And they don't show a lot of blood. But it's still one of the great sequences. It's great because
it's not the standard hero response. Batman wouldn't have killed Yag-Kosha. Captain America wouldn't have taken his revenge. And that is the brilliance
of Conan. It's the difference between good and lawful and honor. Because there are things in this life where there aren't any easy answers. Where the things that people ask of you are not easy. It's a last request, and it's a last request for revenge, and Conan doesn't know everything, and he hasn't known this elephant-headed stargod for more than five or ten minutes, he could just knick the jewel and be halfway down the Tower and then up to his armpits in prostitutes before the night is out. But he does it anyway. Because he's Conan.
That's why this is one of the great comics. That's why this is one of those comics that stays with people, even if the language is a little stilted and the art a little flat at times, and the coloring is funky. That's why this comic has been remade and re-adapted and is essential
to any serious run of Conan the Barbarian comics. And I love it for that. I love it for being daring
, I love it for being honest
. I love that this is an adaptation that carries the soul of the story with it, that doesn't blunt or subvert the message, or seek for a moral that isn't there. It's a weird story, and it's a bit of an adventure. And at the end you're standing there with Conan, as the tower collapses...
...anyway, it's my favorite Conan the Barbarian comic.
I also never realized exactly how much Dave Sim cribbed off Conan until just now.
They did a heck of a job capturing that in the pages above and in some of the other Conan comic adaptations. Yag-Kosha is obviously at the end of his rope - even more so, from the illustrations - and Conan, quality guy that he is, gives him the only way out he's got. The story's not really important to the Conan canon because it's a weird and tightly-written adventure, but because it pretty perfectly illustrates what Conan is about as a person and what magic is about in Howard's world: it's exploitative, it's arrogant, and it unfairly manipulates forces bigger than mere mortals.
Oh totally. Early Cerebus the Aardvark was just Conan with a funny animal protagonist. We discussed this.
Sex & the Cthulhu Mythos
For the average rube like yours truly, finding the collected works of Howard long after seeing the Schwarzenegger Conan, it's striking for its strangeness, and the unexpected veins of Lovecraftian stuff powering some of the story.
When I read Tower the first time, I imagined the freed Elephant man not with wings, but massive dumbo ears powering his flight of vengeance and doom upon his tormentor. It was pretty far out.
Tower of the Elephant just might be the best Conan story Howard ever wrote.Yup read it again for the zillionth time.Got me hooked on Conan.I hear it is Roy Thomas 's favorite and I bet also allot of Two Gun Bob fans.

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Aliases for PCK1 Gene
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Previous GeneCards Identifiers for PCK1 Gene
This gene is a main control point for the regulation of gluconeogenesis. The cytosolic enzyme encoded by this gene, along with GTP, catalyzes the formation of phosphoenolpyruvate from oxaloacetate, with the release of carbon dioxide and GDP. The expression of this gene can be regulated by insulin, glucocorticoids, glucagon, cAMP, and diet. Defects in this gene are a cause of cytosolic phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase deficiency. A mitochondrial isozyme of the encoded protein also has been characterized. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]
GeneCards Summary for PCK1 Gene
PCK1 (Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxykinase 1) is a Protein Coding gene. Diseases associated with PCK1 include Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxykinase Deficiency, Cytosolic and Pepck 1 Deficiency. Among its related pathways are Proximal tubule bicarbonate reclamation and Abacavir transport and metabolism. Gene Ontology (GO) annotations related to this gene include GTP binding and GDP binding. An important paralog of this gene is PCK2.
UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot Summary for PCK1 Gene
Cytosolic phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase that catalyzes the reversible decarboxylation and phosphorylation of oxaloacetate (OAA) and acts as the rate-limiting enzyme in gluconeogenesis (PubMed:30193097, PubMed:24863970, PubMed:26971250, PubMed:28216384). Regulates cataplerosis and anaplerosis, the processes that control the levels of metabolic intermediates in the citric acid cycle (PubMed:30193097, PubMed:24863970, PubMed:26971250, PubMed:28216384). At low glucose levels, it catalyzes the cataplerotic conversion of oxaloacetate to phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP), the rate-limiting step in the metabolic pathway that produces glucose from lactate and other precursors derived from the citric acid cycle (PubMed:30193097). At high glucose levels, it catalyzes the anaplerotic conversion of phosphoenolpyruvate to oxaloacetate (PubMed:30193097). Acts as a regulator of formation and maintenance of memory CD8(+) T-cells: up-regulated in these cells, where it generates phosphoenolpyruvate, via gluconeogenesis (By similarity). The resultant phosphoenolpyruvate flows to glycogen and pentose phosphate pathway, which is essential for memory CD8(+) T-cells homeostasis (By similarity). In addition to the phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase activity, also acts as a protein kinase when phosphorylated at Ser-90: phosphorylation at Ser-90 by AKT1 reduces the binding affinity to oxaloacetate and promotes an atypical serine protein kinase activity using GTP as donor (PubMed:32322062). The protein kinase activity regulates lipogenesis: upon phosphorylation at Ser-90, translocates to the endoplasmic reticulum and catalyzes phosphorylation of INSIG proteins (INSIG1 and INSIG2), thereby disrupting the interaction between INSIG proteins and SCAP and promoting nuclear translocation of SREBP proteins (SREBF1/SREBP1 or SREBF2/SREBP2) and subsequent transcription of downstream lipogenesis-related genes (PubMed:32322062).


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We picked this place because of it's central location and the price. Honestly if I had known I would have gladly paid more for better accommodations. The so called "creek view rooms" that you pay a bit more for was ridiculous, you can't see the creek or stream for the back-ho in the parking lot blocking the view. The carpets in our room was soaking wet from a the carpet cleaning they had just done. The towels were small, rough and worn out The room smelled and was way out dated ...Oh ! and they charge for ice !!!!! I usually don't take the time to write reviews but this place is so bad I thought I would save anyone else the aggravation of staying here.
- Official Description (provided by the hotel):
- 72 Room economy hotel/motel in beautiful Durango, CO. We represent new ownership and management as of May 2017. We are systematically improving the property and the rooms daily. We believe one of the best features at our property is the waterfront feature of being on Junction Creek and direct access to the Animas River Trail, Rank Park and the river. When you stay with us, you must take the 2 minute stroll! ... more less
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Pittsfield’s Plan To Remove Unhoused Park Residents Raises Questions, Concerns
The city of Pittsfield, Massachusetts has set a December 1st deadline to remove unhoused residents living in public parks.
The city’s Parks Commission made the decision at its November 17th meeting.
“For the past eight months, the city Parks Commission has taken a tolerance, a compassionate tolerance approach to the issue of unsheltered in our parks," said James McGrath. "And they've made an exception to the no camping rule due to the impacts of the COVID crisis. But with winter fast approaching, the commission felt it could no longer enable or condone camping and Springside or any park, for that matter for the health and safety reasons of those individuals.”
McGrath is the city's parks and open space program manager. While unhoused city residents are living in multiple public parks, attention has centered on encampments in Springside Park, located just north of downtown. Congressman Joe Kennedy III even made a high-profile campaign stop there in August with District Attorney Andrea Harrington during his unsuccessful primary bid against Senator Ed Markey.
“ServiceNet is the local homelessness provider in the city has been making regular contact with folks who are living within Springside Park," continued McGrath. "So they really understand the needs of these individuals. And you know, with the new shelter, that winter shelter that's opened up in the St. Joe's facility, that is an option for folks. But there are other options as well. And ServiceNet will work individually with folks to help them understand the range of options, because really, at the end of the day, it's all about getting these folks out of the park and into safe housing.”
“I read the term ‘compassionately tolerate’ and I don't really know what, I'm not really sure what that's supposed to mean," Helen Moon told WAMC. "You know, to me, that sounds like the unsheltered, the helpless in our city, are a problem that we have to tolerate instead being members and individuals in our community. There are, I would say, at this point, I think that the last count I heard was near 100 people who are unhoused in this area.”
City councilor Moon represents Ward 1, where Springside Park is located. She says the decision raised red flags.
“My first thought went to how are we enforcing this evacuation order," Moon told WAMC. "Are the police going to be involved? Is this going to be a way to criminalize poverty? And I know that that's not necessarily the intention by any means, but can end up being the final result.”
“The city isn’t about to come in and heavy-hand enforce on December 1st that everyone has to leave," said McGrath. “There's a layered approach that we would take, a compassionate approach. But at the end of the day, we recognize that, you know, some of these individuals may be unwilling to leave, at which time other resources may need to be brought in to resolve the situation.”
“I think it's symbolic of the way this entire, kind of, humanitarian crisis has been handled since spring of 2020," said Joe Durwin. "Since it really first came on the radar, which has been kind of disconnected and, you know, very much driven by the administration's preferences.”
Park Commissioner Durwin says he’s resigning from the five-member body due to long-running frustrations and the decision to empty the parks.
“There's been poor and inconsistent, you know, information from the official narrative," he told WAMC. "Case in point being, I think, you know, every month since July, the Commission has heard, you know, that the number of people in camps at Springside Park is going down. And yet, you know, I mean, if you look closely at the statements at all, they continue to indicate that it's hovering around a dozen people, which is where it was in July, and that's where it is in late November. So I think there's a spin on it that has been a problem for many years, with kind of wanting to whitewash a little bit the seriousness of the problem, the fact that we're really only discussing Springside Park when it's not the only city park, where people are living outdoors right now. And it's far from the only outdoor location in the city that has people.”
He’s got doubts about the plan to empty Springside.
“There's been not sufficient investment and action, you know, on the part of the city and I think, insufficient oversight, you know, to insist on accountability from service providers and some of the other players that are involved in trying to help us," Durwin told WAMC. "And I think there are there are some good organizations and some good people that are working really diligently and I think there have been some great successes that we haven't heard about in terms of housing people. But I just don't see how, you know- I think it's unlikely that simply telling them they can't be at Springside Park or city parks will lead to 100% of those individuals being indoors in two weeks. I don't think it's going to be a smooth transition. And I don't think putting a deadline on it with potential police enforcement at the end of that deadline is safe for everyone involved.”
“What got me into the park was we heard that the shelter was about to close. And a night or two, probably about a week before it was actually supposed to close, before we heard, I found the man in my bed, a drunk man in my bed," said Michele Mathews, 54, one of a dozen or so people living in Springside.
She’s been there since April. Before that, Mathews was staying at the St. Joseph High School building the city had temporary converted to emergency housing.
“I’ve been married for 25 years, and my husband and I were not allowed to sleep in the same area even although other men can clearly freely go into that room, because they couldn’t be, you know, seen, you know. And there was no heat, no hot water,” she told WAMC.
Mathews, who says she suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder related to sexual assault as well as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, does not want to return to a city shelter – despite a recent incident with a donated propane heating device that left her and her husband sickened from carbon monoxide.
“It's just not a safe place for me," she said. "They can't keep me safe, they can't guarantee my safety. They can't guarantee I won't be attacked, and they can't guarantee I won't catch COVID. And so I don't know, what do I do? I, we have tried to get an apartment. Now they want three times, they want your income to be three times the amount of the rent. And I understand that because so many people have lost their jobs with COVID. I get that. You know what I mean? But it was almost impossible for us to keep a roof over our head before this. I make $800 a month. That's hard to live off of, especially with no housing or nothing. I'm over 50, my husband's a vet, my father was a vet. And still they're like nope, can’t help you. And now they want to take us and kick us out into literally into the street with nowhere to go that’s that safe.”
Mathews says her group at the park identifies as Christian, and has nothing to do with disturbances ascribed to some park residents.
“Anybody could be here at any time," she told WAMC. "And people who are thinking, you know, looking at me and looking down on me right now and wanting to throw us out and all that other crap- It could be any one of them. Any one of them. I have a daughter I just buried two and a half years ago from a heroin overdose. Since then, I've lost like five young kids that age that knew her. Do you know what I mean? I mean, there's so much stuff going on right now. I mean, it's just so much to focus on, but you want to focus on is us homeless people, and throw us out into the streets with nothing and that just doesn't sound right.”


Five timer for Walker
Hunting down his ninth premiership, expat Kiwi trainer Mark Walker bagged five wins on Sunday at Kranji Racecourse.
Walker won the opening race of the card with Savabeel gelding What You Like and went on to win the next three races, with Amazing Choice securing the five timer later on the night.
"It was really good and things fell into place," Walker said. "You don't get days like that often. There's still a long way to go in the premiership, but the horses are running very well.
"It was pretty tough through the (COVID-19) lockdown when we were short staffed and short of riders, so it's been a really good team effort to keep everything going.
"We'd had five (wins) in a day previously in New Zealand, and I think we did one other day in Singapore but (Manoel) Nunes weighed in light on the last winner and it was disqualified."
While Covid-19 is causing ongoing ramifications world-wide, Walker has appreciated some of the solace that is being experienced in New Zealand.
"I've really enjoyed watching the Super Rugby from back home," he said.
"We've done pretty well restricting the virus in Singapore, but not as good as New Zealand has.
"We're really happy to be back racing because the lockdown period did have an impact on racing and we've just got to battle the best we can through this.
"We've nearly got our staff numbers back to full strength. There have been some long and frustrating days, though, but we're getting back close to normality."
Auckland Racing Club stakes announcement for 2020/21 season
The Auckland Racing Club (ARC) has announced that it will be increasing stakes above minimum levels for this season by contributing close to $1,000,000 of its own monies.
"It gives the Club great satisfaction to be able to offer stakes top-ups for this season," ARC chief executive Paul Wilcox said.
"First and foremost, we are a racing club and everything we do is with an eye on maximising our returns to stakeholders.
"While we have topped-up stakes to around this level for the past three seasons I am thrilled that we have been able to achieve this again for the 2020/21 season, particularly after the difficulties the last few months have posed for us all.
"I seriously cannot wait to get this new season off and racing at Ellerslie and am delighted that our Club has been able to once again make this commitment to industry participants."
Stakes for some of Auckland Racing Club's races across the 2020/21 season include:
– Group 1 Vodafone New Zealand Derby (6 March 2021) retains its stake of $1m
– Group 1 Barfoot & Thompson Auckland Cup (13 March 2021) retains its stake of $500,000
– The Group 3 SkyCity City of Auckland Cup (1 January 2021) to be run for a stake of $200,000
– The Group 3 Haunui Farm King's Plate (6 March 2021) will be run for a stake of $100,000
– The Dunstan Feeds Stayers Championship Final (1 January 2021) will be run for a stake of $100,000
– The 1500m Championship Final (26 December 2020) will be run for a stake of $80,000
– The Listed Hallmark Stud Handicap (26 December 2020), the Listed Shaw's Wires Ropes Uncle Remus Stakes (26 December 2020) and the Listed Mufhasa FastTrack Stakes (6 March 2021) will each be run for a stake of $60,000
– Non-black type races run on 26 December 2020, 1 January 2021 and over Auckland Cup Week (6 & 13 March 2021) will be run for $50,000
– Rating and Open races run on Feature meetings between 28 November 2020 – 20 February 2021 will be run for stake money of $5,000 above the minimum


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The entrenched position taken by some members of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Ashanti region to contest the upcoming parliamentary polls as independent candidates have brought untold burden on the leadership of the party.
At least ten (10) known members of the Daquah-Busia-Dombo tradition have filed nomination to contest the December 7 elections as solo contestants.
Constituencies that have gained utmost attention in the sour development are Asokwa, Bekwai and Fomena.
In the Asokwa constituency alone, three independent candidates have filed nomination to contest the incumbent Member of Parliament (MP) who doubles as Deputy Minister of Science, Environment and Technology, Patricia Appiagyei.
For Bekwai, the first deputy speaker of Parliament, Joe Osei Wusu, is fiercely been contested by one lawyer Akwasi Amofa.
Also, in Fomena, the current MP, Andrew Amoako Asiamah, is contesting the seat as an independent candidate.
In some areas, where there are no independent candidates, electorates have vowed to vote ‘skirt and blouse’ in the impending polls.
Voting ‘skirt and blouse’ means, voting for the president in the presidential polls and voting for a different candidate for the parliamentary one.
This development has come about due to disaffection amongst the rank and file of the party over scores of unresolved issues.
The party formed a dispute resolution committee headed by Dr Kwame Addo Kufuor, former minister of Defence in the erstwhile President Kufuor’s administration to mend the cracks, but little was achieved.
The formation of a group calling itself: defeated MPs for victory headed by Kennedy Kankam, the defeated MP for Nhyieaso has not helped either.
With few days left for the release of the notice of polls by the Electoral Commission (EC), the party has stepped up efforts to convince the ‘deviant’ candidates to rescind their decision.
In so doing, prominent and highly respected members of the party have been deployed to the region to do the trick.
Mr F.F Antoh, first National Vice Chairman of the party, Yaw Amankwaah, a former regional chairman, Obiri Boahen, a deputy General Secretary of the party and some elders for the past days have been stuck in the region to conjure the magic.
Some pastors and retired senior public servants including former Inspector General of Police (IGP), Patrick Acheampong, are among the emissaries tasked with the difficult job.
Series of mediation meetings have been held and will continue to be held to get these candidates to withdraw their candidature.
But it appears, the battle has been lost at Bekwai and Fomena, where the two candidates have defiled every reasoning to pursue their dreams.
The party has already ex-communicated Hon Asiamah and has notified parliament through the speaker.
Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia‘s recent visit to the region was largely part of the grand agenda to shoot down the independent candidature threat.
It was, therefore, not surprising that the Vice President visited Bekwai and Fomena during his stay in the region of which he made a strong case for the Party’s candidates.
The outcome of the mediation talks can only be made known when the EC releases the notice of polls for this year’s parliamentary elections in the few days to come.
The NPP suffered a similar fate when some Parliamentary candidates lost their bid in the 2008 elections, which eventually culminated in the Party’s electoral defeat.


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