The Colorado Rapids announced today that they have loaned goalkeeper John Berner to Charlotte Independence of the USL's Eastern Conference. From the Rapids press release:
"We feel this is a good time for John to get game sharpness following his offseason injury," said Brian Crookham, Rapids Senior Director of Soccer Development. "John is a talented goalkeeper and we look forward to monitoring his progress during his time on loan."
Last season, Berner appeared in 17 matches for the Independence, registering 44 saves and four shutouts, while posting a 6-5-6 record. Berner was named USL Player of the Week in Week 7 following a 1-0 victory over Louisville City FC in which he made six saves.
I am of the belief that a loan is a good thing for players that need the playing time. So from that perspective I am happy that Berner will get time in a familiar place as he continues his rehab from injury.
However, I am worried how much playing time Berner will get in Charlotte. They already have a starting goalkeeper (Cody Mizell) who has done a respectable job this season and the goals he has let in were not his fault. So it will fall to Berner to take a spot from Mizell and prove he is the #1 in The Queen City
And with the loan that means that just Zac MacMath and Chris Froschauer are left on the roster until the arrival of Tim Howard in July.
So what do you think Rapids fans? Are you happy with the move? Let us know in the comment section below!


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La Velle E. Neal III reports the Twins ahve stepped-up efforts to deal Johan Santana and have spoken to all three of the teams rumored to be involved - the Boston Red Sox, New York Mets and New York Yankees. This also jibes with SI.com's John Heyman who wrote yesterday that the New York Mets have been talking with the Twins more regularly in the past few days and have emerged as the favorite.
Heyman writes that the Twins appear to prefer CF Carlos Gomez over OF Fernando Martinez and are indifferent between Phil Humber and Mike Pelfrey. That helps explain Pelfrey's non-inlucion in the recently-rummored Gomez/Humber/Mulvey/Geurra iteration.
Michael Silverman of the Boston Herald also reports the Mets to be the favorite, but he gives a new iteration of a likely deal. This one includes Martinez and not Gomez but has major league outfielder Ryan Church being dealt. Given he has played CF, this makes sense. While Church starts in CF, he can see how many of his 43 2007 doubles he can turn into HRs in the Metrodome and MArtinez can continue to develop in AA New Britian.
I like this for the Twins better than the Gomez-led proposal. Church would immediately rocket into a top sleeper of mine for the 2008 season.
All this effort is spent analysing how good the players rumored to be going to the Twins are, but none spent on what some of those players current teammates think. A couple of players, David Wright of the Mets and Mariano Rivera of the Yankees, offered their opinion. Wright told Newsday that he believes Phil Humber ia a "young pitcher he thinks can make leaps forward", and Mariano Rivera said he'd prefer to keep Phil hughes, Melky Cabrera and Ian Kennedy because they will all develop into "top flight players."
Take that for what its worth.

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It can cost as little as $50 to save a life this Christmas — and that’s before the tax deduction.
So reports Edesia Global, a nonprofit in Rhode Island which manufactures emergency nutrition for starving children in developing countries. That $50 buys a seven-week supply of Plumpy’Nut, a peanut-based high-nutrition paste that can take an infant from the brink of death back to health, the group says. The product is delivered by organizations such as Doctors Without Borders.
UNICEF estimates that around the world about three million children under the age of 5 die from malnutrition every year. It accounts for about half of the deaths of all small children.
“ UNICEF estimates that around the world about three million children under the age of 5 die from malnutrition every year. It accounts for about half of the deaths of all small children. ”
It’s something individuals may want to bear in mind as they weigh the cost and value of their holiday spending. American adults are expected to spend nearly $900 each on holiday presents this year. Economists have estimated in the past that somewhere between 10% and a third of the money spent on Christmas gifts is actually wasted.
To be sure, that $50 figure comes with caveats. In economic terms, it is the marginal cost of saving one extra life. And it doesn’t count the cost of the aid organizations, non-governmental entities and public infrastructure that allows it to be delivered to the people who need it. And it is only the cost of treating malnutrition — a widespread and deadly condition which is nonetheless easier to cure than many conditions.
Surgeons operating a pediatric field hospital in Uganda — gross domestic product per person: $670 — estimated last year in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons that the full costs of the hospital worked out to around $554 for each life saved. It is, obviously, much more difficult and expensive to save a life in Uganda by operating on a child in a field hospital than it is to just send them a box of peanut-based food. On the other hand, some conditions need surgery, not just food.
Is there an overall figure on how much it costs to save a child’s life? The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation took a look at this a few years ago. They calculated all the money that had been spent on this since 2000. That included nonprofits, NGOs, the World Bank — everything. Then they estimated the resulting decline in child deaths.
There are plenty of assumptions involved in these calculations, so it’s only a ballpark figure. But their estimate, published in the peer-reviewed medical journal The Lancet, is that the average cost of saving each child’s life in low-income countries has worked out to around $4,200 per life.
“ For just $5 you can provide a family in Africa with a bed net to keep out mosquitoes — and this will apparently reduce a child’s chance of contracting malaria by 90%. ”
That’s a lot higher than $50. But it may also be a misleading figure, because so much of it consists of fixed or general costs, such as research, and setting up and running infrastructure. Once you’ve got all that set up, each additional life saved is cheap — in the same way that once a business has built a factory, turning out each new smartphone or widget or box of cereal also costs less.
Gates Foundation spokesman Bryan Callahan notes that for $25 you can protect a child against four of the deadliest killers — pneumonia, rotavirus, polio and measles. For just $5 you can provide a family in Africa with a bed net to keep out mosquitoes — and this will apparently reduce a child’s chance of contracting malaria by 90%. Just 50 cents will pay to treat a child for five damaging tropical diseases, from intestinal worms to river blindness.
All of which may be food for thought as you shop for presents this Christmas — especially if you view it as a religious holiday. The person whose birth is being celebrated had quite a lot to say about charity. About buying stuff that make people feel like they have a higher socioeconomic status, he was less than enamored.


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How to make sourdough starter
(I highly recommend using igital scales for a better outcome.)
Making starter is a fairly simple undertaking, it involves only two ingredients; flour and water.
It takes approximately 5-10 days for the starter to develop.
To make my starter I used 1 part flour and 1 part water. The flour I used when making my current starter was an unbleached bakers flour bought from supermarket.
Day 1: use 25g flour and 25g water. Mix them well in a small container, fit it with a loose lid and leave for 24 hours.
Day 2: Once 24 hours have passed discard 25g of the mixture and add 25g of flour and 25g of water, mix well and agin cover and leave for another 24 hours.
Day 3: Discard 50g of the mixture and mix 25g of water and 25g of flour, wait another 24 hours.
Day 4: Repeat the 50g discard and mixing 25g of flour with 25g of water so you always end up with 75g of starter in the end.
Day 5-6-7-8-9-10: Repeat day 4 process for another 3-6 days.
(After a couple of days you will get a feel for how much flour/water is used as the measurements don’t need to be precise - as long as the ratios are about correct it will be fine and you can do it by eye without the use of the scales when feeding the starter, however on the day of baking and when making the starter buildup and mixing the dough I recommend using scales.)
The most ambient temperature for sourdough starter is between 24-26C.
Once your starter has developed (about 8-10 days) it will take another few days for it to be ready to bake with, and this is when you will start feeding it 2 times per day to increase the count of bacteria and to add vigour to your starter.
For the first two days of your starter journey it will look like nothing is happening, however, don’t give up and continue with the process as long as there are no signs of spoilage (bad smell or mould. Also take to note that on the first two days your new starter, it will have a peculiar smell), usually by day 4-5 there will be a few bubbles on the surface. In some instances if you are in a warm and humid climate the bubbles can appear much sooner. When your starter reaches its maturity it will smell like sour cream or buttermilk.
After 8-10 days you may start feeding your starter 2 times per day for the next few days to increase the amount of bacteria that will aid with the fermentation and rise of your sourdough.
Normally I keep my sourdough starter on the kitchen bench and feed it regularly (first thing in the morning while my kettle is on the boil and just before I go to bed.)
Caring for your starter:
What you will need:
Plain, bakers or bread flour
Wide neck jar
For the best results feed your starter 2-3 times a day for at least 1-2 days ahead of baking. Feeding it multiple times increases the count of bacteria and strengthen the starter and in turn it produces loaves with a much better rise. Also, maintaining regular feeding regimen helps to keep the starter healthy (no bad pathogens will make their way into the starter that is well fed and has a hight amount of good bacteria).
Feed the starter regularly, however, if you think you are not going to be able to bake with it for a while, then simply put it into the fridge straight after the last feed.
When your starter is refrigerated feed it once a week using same technique of discard and feed.
Often, after starter has been refrigerated it develops a greyish colour on the surface and has liquid on top (it is called hooch). Simply discard the liquid, discard some of the starter and feed it just like you normally would do.
I feed my starter with a mixture of 1 part wholemeal and 1 part unbleached bakers flour. The amount of feed varies depending on how quick the starter matures after it is fed and reaches its peak (the peak is usually seen around 4-6 hours after starter has been fed. The doming of starter is a good indicator that starter has reached its peak. Once starter has domed and then starts to fall, it means the peak has passed), peaking is the time to give the starter another feed to maintain high count of bacteria, it is particularly important to watch for the peak (doming) on the day of baking and before mixing the starter buildup (prepare starter buildup once the starter has reached its peak, normally it occurs about 4-6 hours after feeding however it can happen sooner in a warmer weather). Starter buildup will promote a much better rise in the dough and will ultimately sped up the process of rising in comparison if it’s not used.
If your starter looks watery with many small bubbles over it and smells very acidic, it indicated that the starter is “hungry” and needs extra feeding. In this case discard most of the starter leaving a small amount in the jar and feed with greater amounts of flour and water to the starter ratio (for example if there is 10g starter leftover feed it with 30g flour and 30g water.
To feed the starter I keep a container with a mix of 500g wholemeal flour and 500g bakers flour. When feeding the starter I usually hold on to about 15-20g of the starter while discarding the rest, and mix it with 30g flour mix (1 part wholemeal and 1 part bread flour) and 30g water. Also, during night feeds and on no bake days I use much less of the starter (i.e. discard more of the starter before feeding).
If my starter has been refrigerated, after taking it out of the fridge I bring it to room temperature, discard half and feed it up to 3 times a day for up to 2 consecutive days before baking with it. Doing this helps to bring the bacteria count back.
Keeping starter in a warm place is another important factor and same applies to the dough when it is proofing.
When feeding starter it is preferable for all ingredients to be of warm room temperature (24-26C). The temperature of the water fed to the stater buildup and when mixing the bread dough can be up to 33C. Maintaining regular warm temperatures helps to maintain timely rising of starter and consecutively of the bread dough.
Tip: Collect all the discarded starter into a container and keep it in the fridge (it will be good for a week). When you have enough you can make crackers with it.
Starter build up:
The amount of starter mixed into starter buildup can vary: it can be 1.1.1 or can be 2.1.1 (100g starter, 50g water, 50 flour). Most bakers will have their own measurements depending on their circumstances. The circumstances will vary depending on temperature, strength of the starter and quality of flour just to name a few. Same applies for feeding the starter, it all depends on the circumstance of the particular baker and with time we all find what works best for us and our starter. Watching how our starter reacts ( how long it takes to reach its peak, how long it maintains its peak, how it reacts to different flours and changes in temperature etc…) will help to find our own formula that works best for us.
50g active starter (4-5 hours after morning feed)
50g (1/4 cup) lukewarm water
50g (1/3 cup) flour
To make a starter build up mix 50g of active starter with 1/4 cup lukewarm water and 1/3 cup flour. (starter is considered active 4-5 hours after it has been fed)
Allow starter build up to mature in a warm place for 4 hours. ( I use a metric jug when making the build up and once the starter reaches 1 cup
measurements it is ready to use)
Sourdough Bread Recipe:
What utensils you need:
Wide neck jar with a lid
4-5L Cast iron pot (dutch oven)
Scoring knife or a razor blade
There are several ways of making sourdough and every baker with time will adapt to their own way of making sourdough. The method I’m sharing here is working well for me at this time. It can be made as a same day bake (once the dough has gone through a process of stretches and folds, rising and then shaped, given the time to rise again and then finally baked), or the dough can be placed into the fridge overnight to develop further and baked the next day.
If I’m baking the bread on the same day I start my bake with a cold cast iron pot however if I’m retarding my shaped loaf overnight in the fridge I preheat the cast iron pot before baking bread in it.
150g starter build up
350g-360g lukewarm water
80g wholemeal flour
420g bread flour (bakers or plain flour is ok to use too)
10g sea salt
Mix all dough ingredients together and using a stretch and fold method knead for up to 10 minutes. Cover and set aside for 45 minutes then repeat stretch and fold again, then again every 45 minutes thereafter for 4 times. Cover the dough between each stretch and fold (I use shower cap to cover my dough bowls) It takes about 6 hours from the time dough has been mixed for it to come up. Once your dough is ready give it a final stretch and fold and leave it for 20 minutes before doing the final shaping. To do the final shaping dust the bench with flour then gently move the dough onto the bench. After you have shaped your loaf (it should be nice and tight) move it into the cast iron pot (dutch oven) lined with baking paper. Cover with lid and allow to sit in a warm place for around 1 hour, it will depend on the temperature how long it will take for the dough to rise.
Preheat oven to 240C
When the dough is ready, score it with a sharp knife or a razor blade. Pour 1 tbsp of water under the baking paper (it will create steam and help with the rise), and cover with the lid.
Place the pot into the oven and bake for 30 minutes. After 30 minutes remove the lid, reduce temperature to 230C and continue baking for another 30 minutes. Once the bread is baked remove from the pot and allow it to cool on a cooling rack.
If you are choosing to bake your bread the next day then you will need a proofing basket. If you haven't got a proofing basket you can use any round bowl that will resemble proofing basket (in past I have used a round sieve). Line the proofing basket with tea towel generously dusted with flour. Shape the dough on a floured bench top, rub with some flour the side of the dough that will be facing down and pop it into the proofing bowl. Cover with a shower cap or another bowl on top and leave for 30 minutes on the counter bench before moving it to the fridge for an overnight retard. Leaving the dough in a cold fridge overnight slows down the fermentation and allows the flavour to develop. A very cold fridge is recommended for an overnight proofing to ensure the process of fermentation is cut down to minimum.
In the morning remove the proofing basket with dough out of the fridge. Place the cast iron pot into oven and preheat to 240C. It will take about 30 minutes.
Once the pot is hot, tear a 30cm piece of baking paper and cover the proofing bowl with it, then top with a small chopping board (or similar flat board) and in one movement invert the said so that your dough is now on the board. Gently remove the tea towel, dust the dough with a bit of flour and score to your liking. (You can watch me do all of the above on my social media channels where I'm going to share further tips and how-to's of sourdough baking).
Remove the hot lid from the cast iron pot, then carefully slide and drop the dough into the pot. Pour 1 tbsp water under the baking paper, cover with lid and bake for 20 minutes before removing the lid, dropping the temperature of the oven to 230C and baking for an additional 20-25 minutes.
Remove bread from the pot and cool on a cooling rack.

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GUWAHATI, May 8 - Around 1.25 lakh MT of rice (per month) has been allotted under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY) for three months from April to June for free distribution among 2.49 crore NFSA beneficiaries in the State.
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To reach the poor migrant labourers/vulnerable groups during the lockdown, FCI is encouraging the NGOs/charitable organisations to purchase rice/wheat at Rs 22/21 per kg respectively for undertaking relief operations amongst these groups. While taking care of the needy people through regular supply of foodgrains, equal attention is also being given to protect the interests of farmers by undertaking procurement of paddy in the State during the ongoing Kharif Marketing Season 2019-20.

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Rio Flat Rental Code 002
Rio Flat Rental Code 002 apartment hosts guests of Rio de Janeiro.
Botanical Garden is 3.4 km of the property, while Catacumba Park is around 1.6 km away. Rio de Janeiro city center is 9 km away. Within a 5-minute walk guests can dine in Frontera.
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Racial, Socioeconomic, and Geographic Disparities of Female Breast Cancer in Texas

Breast cancer, as the most common cancer among women, has been reported to display remarkable health disparities in the continuum of late-stage diagnosis, utilization of mammography, treatment options, as well as survival and mortality. These inequalities are experienced by different subpopulations and related to a complex set of factors, such as education, socioeconomic, race, geography, unequal access to health resources, and health-related policies. Existing knowledge about these factors and mechanisms causing these disparities in breast cancer outcomes is limited. Few studies have examined how racial disparities in breast cancer vary across geographic regions, which is key information for any attempt to allocate limited health resources more effectively and efficiently. To date, research on racial and socioeconomic disparities of breast cancer mainly proceeds by combining epidemiological data and investigating risk factors for the population under study. By doing so, one overlooks the geographical variations of breast cancer outcomes, a piece of information that is critical to target regions in intervention programs. Investigating racial disparities across regions can provide useful insights and reveal unknown risk factors for breast cancer, thereby helping health-policy makers to improve the overall health outcome of breast cancer among women.

Within the framework of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), this research conducted spatial and statistical analysis to identify the census tracts that displayed significant racial disparities in late-stage diagnosis and breast cancer mortality for both African-American and Hispanic women compared with their non-Hispanic white counterparts in Texas from 1995-2005. These disparities were measured in terms of rate difference (RD) and rate ratio (RR) and accounted for the population size of each census tract. The significance of these disparities was evaluated statistically and the results were corrected for multiple testing using the false discovery rate approach. For African-American women with the RD measurement, 278 and 188 census tracts displayed significant racial disparities for breast cancer mortality and late-stage diagnosis respectively in the 4,388 census tracts in Texas. These figures were larger for Hispanic women, with 328 and 266 census tracts respectively. Fewer Census tracts tested significant for the RR measurement. Most of the census tracts with significant racial disparities were located in the metropolitan areas of Houston, Dallas, and Austin-San Antonio for African-American women. Hispanics were also found to have significant racial disparities in the Southwest border of Texas. Logistic regression between the significance of the RD statistic for the two types of health outcomes indicated that a census tract with significant racial disparities for late-stage diagnosis was 30 times more likely to test significant for racial disparities in breast cancer mortality.

Logistic regression was also utilized to investigate the spatial connection of significant racial disparities in late-stage diagnosis and breast cancer mortality. The socioeconomic status (SES) was categorized into groups of low, middle, and high based on the percentage of population living under the federal poverty line. For the two minority groups, low and middle SES census tracts were more likely to report significant racial disparities for both health outcomes. About 40% of the census tracts with significant racial disparities for breast cancer mortality also displayed significant disparities for late-stage diagnosis. Linear regression was then used to quantify the relationships between the magnitude of racial disparities in mortality and late-stage diagnosis for breast cancer. The correlation coefficient was 0.23 for the RD measurement and 0.45 for the RR measurement for both minority groups. Moran‘s I, however, indicated the presence of spatial autocorrelation in the regression residuals, which might reflect the non-stationarity of the regression coefficients and/or the existence of unknown spatial factors. Therefore, the regression models were weighted geographically to account for the spatial variations of observations.

Furthermore, potential risk factors such as demographic characteristics, SES, and spatial accessibility were added to racial disparities in late-stage diagnosis as covariates of a logistic regression to investigate their contributions to the significance of racial disparities in breast cancer mortality. Principal component analysis (PCA) was utilized to reduce the multicollinearity among covariates and summarized the correlation structure displayed by the fourteen variables that were used to measure socio-demographic conditions and spatial accessibility to mammography facilities. The logistic regression analysis revealed that a census tract with significant racial disparities in late-stage diagnosis was 4 times more likely to have significant racial disparities in breast cancer mortality. Lower SES played an important role in determining whether a census tract displayed significant racial disparities in breast cancer mortality. However, proximity to mammography facilities had no impacts on the presence of significant racial disparities in breast cancer mortality for Hispanics, while centroids of census tracts that were closer to mammography facilities were more likely to have significant racial disparities for African-American women. For these women, most census tracts with significant racial disparities were located within the metropolitan areas which had higher concentration of health care facilities. In addition to the metropolitan areas, significant racial disparities for Hispanics were also found along the Southwest border of Texas, which lacked health care and had longer driving distance and time to mammography facilities.
This research analyzed the spatial patterns of racial disparities in late-stage diagnosis and breast cancer mortality, which shed new insights on the location of problematic areas and could help prioritizing the areas for effective intervention programs by accounting for population distributions. The identified risk factors in racialdisparities could help develop community-based intervention models and lead to a more efficient allocation of limited health resources with the ultimate goal of saving women‘s life. Subsidized health insurances and free mammograms for disadvantaged African-Americans and Hispanics could be applied at local communities to reduce racial disparities in breast cancer. The long term goal to improve the African-American and Hispanic women‘s health is to boost their income and enhance their social status through educational attainment.

Breast cancer, Racial disparities, Socioeconomic disparities, Geographic disparities, Late-Stage disparities, Spatial variation, Mammography facilites
Tian, N. (2010), Racial, socioeconomic, and geographic disparities of female breast cancer in Texas (Unpublished dissertation). Texas State University-San Marcos, San Marcos, Texas.

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One Book, many themes, and many readers
'By Fire, By Water' author will speak to One Community in Ridgewood
The One Book, One Community project, now in its third year, continues to grow, attracting increasing numbers of enthusiastic readers from around the county.
“We choose something different every year,” said Nancy Perlman, coordinator of the project and manager of community outreach and engagement activities for the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey’s Synagogue Leadership Initiative.
Ms. Perlman noted that selecting books is not as easy as it seems.
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In fact, “it’s really difficult,” she said, describing the challenges faced by her committee, composed of community volunteers. “It can’t just be a book we like to read. We have to feel it will spark the interest of as wide a range of people as possible, even those who don’t feel included in community right now. It can’t be too ‘girly,’ and it has to have enough to talk about and spark conversation.”
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Also, she said, it can’t be too close in nature to the books the project already has highlighted. And – because the culminating event of the community project is to bring readers together with the author – the committee has to ensure that this meeting actually will be possible.
This year’s book – “By Fire, By Water” by Mitchell James Kaplan – is a work of historical fiction, set in 15th-century Spain, that centers on the historical figure of Luis de SantÃ¡ngel. Themes include the Inquisition, the attempt to unify the kingdoms of Spain under Christian rule, and the voyage of Christopher Columbus. Last year, community groups were invited to read “The Zookeeper’s Wife,” by Diane Ackerman; the year before, the book was “My Father’s Paradise” by Ariel Sabar.
The One Book project “came as an outgrowth of conversations with community members and leaders who wanted a way to bring the community together across denominations, geography, and background,” Ms. Perlman said. The project’s founders reasoned that since Jews are considered the People of the Book, “what better way to bring people together? Each book we talk about has identity woven in among other themes.”
This year, more than 20 synagogues and other community groups offered programs under the One Book umbrella. “It’s available for any group that wants to participate,” Ms. Perlman said, noting that the only condition is that the program – which should be “roughly related to some theme or idea in the book” – be open to the community.
Activities have varied. Many synagogues have sponsored book discussions. Mahwah’s Beth Haverim Shir Shalom held a One Book, One Community Shabbat in December, weaving Sephardic music into the Shabbat service, inviting a guest speaker raised in Spain to discuss her experiences, and offering a Sephardic oneg afterward. Temple Emanuel of the Pascack Valley screened a film relating to the themes of the book; while at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly, attendees were invited to “taste the spice route,” learning about – and sampling – some of the spices Spain sought between the 14th and 16th centuries.
On April 3, Ridgewood’s Temple Israel and Jewish Community Center will host the culminating event, where all readers will have a chance to hear from, and ask questions of, the author. Ms. Perlman said the event, which includes dessert, typically draws hundreds of people.
“What excites us, besides the fun, is that we love seeing people get more engaged and getting to know each other across the divides in the community,” she said. “We love the fact that we can be a part of what brings people together.”
If identity is one of the themes in each book that is chosen, it is a major theme in this year’s selection, author Mitchell James Kaplan said.
“My intention in writing is always to explore history and try to come to terms with an understanding of it,” he said. “The subject of [the book] is identity – all about a man torn between different identities.”
His protagonist, Luis de SantÃ¡ngel , is Christian by birth, the grandson of conversos, and beholden to the royal court, but “there’s something else inside him that he wants to honor: the identity of grandparents who were forced to convert.”
Calling de SantÃ¡ngel the prototype of modern man, Mr. Kaplan said that his character is “conflicted and torn in different directions in terms of how he defines himself in relation to the cultures around him.”
Those cultures were in conflict, he said, tearing Spain apart. Indeed, “it was an impossible situation for these cultures to inhabit the same land.”
In America today, “we want to find a way for cultures to get along and inhabit the same space,” but Spain – despite what we may have heard – “was not a beautiful garden of interfaith harmony,” Mr. Kaplan said. “There was nothing but strife,” except for a certain level of mutual respect among the highest scholars of each community, Maimonides, for example.
To Mr. Kaplan, the main question is “How can one person – like me, for example, an American Jew – relate to the world as both?” In some ways, these identities harmonize; in others, they conflict. “Juggling and harmonizing – that is the essence of what this is about.”
The genesis of his book is equally complicated.
“I wrote a draft a long time ago and put it away,” he said, explaining that while doing “web surfing, but with books,” he followed one idea to the next, and became fascinated by the apparent confluence of several facts – specifically, “that Christopher Columbus set sail around the time of the expulsion edict and that the emirate of Granada was conquered by Christians at the same time. It was weird. I hadn’t seen the discovery of the new world placed in this context.”
The man at the center of this, the most central figure, was Columbus’s patron, an adviser to the crown, who was accused of complicity in the murder of Inquisitor Pedro ArbuÃ©s in Zaragoza. “It was a story that had to be told,” Mr. Kaplan said.
Mr. Kaplan pointed out that while some might characterize Ferdinand and Isabella’s religious intolerance as backward thinking, at the time “it was seen as a good thing. It set up the foundation for unification. What we think of as forward and backward changes over time – how people see progress. In the Middle Ages, Christians saw progress [in terms of] conquering the world.”
He tries to put himself in that period’s point of view and to be faithful to that period. “Today, we think of progress as freedom of religion, pluralism,” he said. “They would have seen that as a foreign, bizarre, and reprehensible way of thinking.”
Mr. Kaplan said that in his book, the discovery of the new world symbolizes the future – “a different world with different answers” to questions of identity, ethnic and religious strife, and how to make the world a better place.”
Mr. Kaplan, who met his wife while living in France, worked in the film industry for many years, “hanging with film stars” while raising a family. “I rode with it while I could, but I knew that this is not what I set out to do. I wanted to be a novelist.”
Returning to the manuscript, he spent six years rewriting the book.
“We sold the house, moved to Pittsburgh, changed our life,” he said, adding that his family was very supportive. He noted that while he was very much interested in Sephardic history before he met his wife – who is Sephardic – her knowledge of folklore, together with her mother’s memories, have been very helpful.
Mr. Kaplan has been invited to speak throughout the country and in Mexico, and his book won an award in Italy.
“I had no idea” it would generate such a reaction, he said, noting that invitations started to pour in even before the book was published formally.
He said he wanted to express his appreciation to the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey “for what they’re doing – promoting Jewish dialogue and exploration of Jewish identity by promoting literature and creating a forum in which people can discuss literature considered to be relevant to Jewish identity.”
On April 3 he will talk about the experience of writing his book, answer questions from the audience, and show slides of his visits to Spain.


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Editorial: Florida left on hold, a lawmaker tradition
Florida lawmakers entered the 60-day session in early March with two must-do tasks to accomplish -- approve a balanced budget and comply with voters’ decision to construct a framework for the rollout of medical marijuana this year.
In typical fashion, they enter the session’s last week waiting until the bitter end to resolve even those limited number of legal requirements they face, leaving on hold many Floridians and local leaders significantly affected by their decisions.
On a positive note, prospects have improved that lawmakers won’t extend the session to accomplish what they must every year -- approve a budget -- just because of chamber discord. In recent days, the House and Senate closed a $4 billion budget gap by moving to a middle figure of about $83 billion. That’s not far off dollar-wise from the $83.5 billion Gov. Rick Scott proposed in January, so it seems right-sized for Florida for 2017-18.
The rub is what will be included and what won’t. House and Senate leaders have done some necessary give-and-take to preserve their priorities and acknowledge each other’s. Unfortunately, they haven’t respectfully honored key priorities -- investing in economic development and tourism promotion -- of Scott, who has led Florida through its jobs resurgence.
Negotiations were continuing through the weekend on what makes the cut and what doesn’t in the chambers’ compromise budget. However, by not honoring the executive branch’s priorities, it risks that Scott may have to reject parts of the budget.
Why does it matter if there’s no budget acceptable to both chambers and the governor by Friday’s scheduled adjournment?
First, there’s the expense of a potential special session to finish what’s usually the only task that must be accomplished. Then there’s the clock ticking on the start of the next fiscal year, which isn’t until Oct. 1 for city and county governments but which starts July 1 for school districts.
Take Collier County, for example. To meet a budget approval timeline, district staff is to present to the School Board a proposed budget in May, schools Superintendent Kamela Patton said. Yet House and Senate budget versions had a $14 million difference in the dollars Collier schools might receive, she said, with possibilities raised whether district reserves may have to be tapped for the first time in recent years.
Then there’s the uncertainty created for institutions of higher learning, which were counting on moving forward with degrees and construction projects compatible with delivering skill-trained graduates to fill in-demand jobs by local businesses.
We’d encourage House and Senate leaders to include Scott’s economic priorities in a budget approved by the May 5 adjournment.
With less than a week to go until adjournment, uncertainly lingers on what the chambers will deliver to the 71 percent of voters who in November approved medical marijuana for Florida.
Amendment 2 had a timeline; rules are to be approved by July and patients with a debilitating medical condition are to have a system activated by October.
Lawmakers have known since November that this needed to be done and by when. Yet substantial differences in approach remain and a revised House version was proposed Friday.
“This remains a work in progress,” Majority Leader Rep. Ray Rodrigues, R-Estero, the House bill’s architect, said Friday on the chamber floor. The House’s latest changes, he said, improve patient access by reducing the number of required doctor visits and cutting costs.
Both chambers want to prohibit smoking medical marijuana and would create a tracking system from plant to patient. Differences have existed on what’s allowed to create an edible form and whether patients must wait 90 days after approval before they can receive medical marijuana.
The United for Care organization that pushed this amendment objects to some of these proposals, as do others.However, those who supported the constitutional amendment by their vote agreed to leave many such decisions up to the Legislature.
Our editorial board opposed this amendment and would encourage lawmakers to default to the most restrictive proposals under consideration, but to meet the timeline insisted on by voters.


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With Post Holdings’ £1.4bn buyout of Weetabix finalised this week, another UK fmcg brand has been snapped up by an international buyer.
Admittedly it’s from a Chinese seller, and it comes amid wider concern that the weak pound will potentially trigger cheap sell-offs of British assets.
But nevertheless it signals a strong show of faith in post-Brexit Britain. Weetabix may have struggled to win over Chinese consumers, but it’s still at heart a fundamentally British company with growing international sales rather than an international company that happens to be based in Britain.
Buying Weetabix is a firmer statement of belief in its core UK business than international buyouts of SAB Miller or Unilever could ever be.
While true that Weetabix is mired in a declining category, unlike many of its traditional breakfast rivals Weetabix maintains a healthy profile and has been able to exploit new pockets of growth – notably its On The Go breakfast drinks lines.
The UK still constitutes around two thirds of Weetabix’s sales and Post’s backing suggests it retains faith the brand can continue to outperform in this shrinking category domestically.
Weetabix does have a presence in the similarly under-pressure category in North America – mostly under the Barbara’s brand - but its £80m of annual sales is a drop in the ocean to Post and a major rollout of Weetabix brands in the region is not on the menu.
Obviously Post will look to grow its international sales and the US Group’s bigger global infrastructure footprint will help underpin that aim. Where it lacks that footprint, it has pledged to enter into a joint venture with Bright Foods to build on the former owner’s local relationships and expertise.
But the deal is more driven by Post diversifying and gaining a strong UK brand which will reliably add to its bottom line straight away (approximately £120m a year before cost synergies) than relying on transformative international growth.
The bottom line contribution will be boosted by £20m of cost savings a year by the third year of ownership – these synergies are likely to be found internationally over time rather than within the core UK business where Weetabix recognises the need to invest in growth.
There is no doubt though that the post-Brexit plunge in the value of the pound has made UK assets relatively more attractive.
The c.11 times EBITDA price paid for Weetabix is not particularly unusual for an established food brand, but the relative price has changed.
In 2012 when Bright Foods bought 60% of Weetabix in a deal valuing it at £1.2bn, that transaction had a dollar value of US$1.95bn (at US$1.619 per pound). Although this deal is worth £200k more at £1.4bn, that deal value is now down to US$1.76bn (at US$1.259 per pound) - so Weetabix is $200k cheaper for Post than in 2012 despite being £200k more expensive.
Clearly Weetabix’s UK sales and profits will be proportionately lower when translated to dollars too, but it does lessen the up-front cost of the takeover for an international buyer and that ongoing lower contribution from UK assets is only the case if the pound remains at its lowest level since the mid 1980s.
As The Grocer reported in March, Post was left as the only remaining viable buyer for Weetabix after rival suitors – including Nestlé and General Mills joint venture Cereal Partners Worldwide and Italian pasta group Barilla – dropped out of the running.
There were market whispers that Goldman Sachs, leading the sale process, was struggling to achieve the price Bright Foods had expected.
But £1.4bn looks a fair price for a strong brand primarily based in a solid consumer market (despite any Brexit jitters). The fall in the pound has made Weetabix less expensive for a US buyer, not cheap.
The underlying rationale for the deal looks convincing enough, based on sober projections of incremental growth. Just don’t expect to see rows of Weetabix boxes lining shelves in Walmart any time soon.

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He discovered that he had a natural talent for cooking while attending Stanley High School. He then enrolled in a three-year City and Guilds course in catering at Southport College.
Wearing is 52 years old as of 2022. He was born on 29 June 1970 in Southport, United Kingdom. He celebrates his birthday on 29 June every year.
His father ran a fruit and potato business with a contract to supply food for the school lunch. He has a brother named Brian who teaches cooking. At the age of 11, he started working with his father in the food industry, packing and delivering potatoes.
Waring stands at an average height of 5 feet 2 inches (1.78 m).
What is Gordon Ramsay worth? Waring has an estimated net worth of $15 million.
Marcus Waring Custard Tarta
The Egg Custard Tart recipe created by Wareing is almost legendary. It frequently appears on menus at Remy Martin’s self-titled restaurant in London and was named as Remy Martin’s Best Dessert in 2012. It rose to fame after taking first place in the 2006 Great British Menu final and being served to the Queen. At his 80th birthday party.
Marcus Waring Restaurant
How many restaurants does Marcus Waring have? Waring began his career as a commissary chef at the Savoy Hotel in 1988, when he was just 18 years old. He left the hotel in 1993 to work for Albert Roux at the Michelin-starred Le Gavroche, where he first met Gordon Ramsay. Later there were stains at Gravity Manor in Sussex, Amsterdam and other restaurants in New York City. Wearing Gordon Ramsay joined Aubergine when it opened in 1993. There, he worked as sous chef under Head Chef Ramsay. Over the next 15 years, Waring worked with Ramsay, and was referred to as Ramsay’s hero. Vering was named Young Chef of the Year by the Restaurant Association in 1995 while working at Aubergine.
Later, he would say that Ramsay taught him how to cook, calling it “the most important time of my life”. His first job as head chef upon his return to the UK was at the brand-new restaurant L’Oranger, which was owned by AZ Restaurants, the same company that Aubergine also owned and Waring and Ramsay owned. While working as head chef at L’Orangere, he received his first Michelin star at the age of 25. He offered Angela Hartnett his first restaurant job.
Ramsay left Aubergine to open restaurant Gordon Ramsay after a disagreement with AZ Restaurants over Waring’s contract in Loranger. Waring followed Ramsay’s lead and left L’Oranger, forcing the restaurant to close temporarily. L’Oranger Wareing’s former cook, Kemmel Benamer, was reinstated as the new head chef after AZ Restaurants launched legal proceedings against the pair. Ramsay and Waring worked together to open Petrus in 1999, with Waring becoming head chef and operating the restaurant on behalf of Gordon Ramsay Holdings (GRH) at 33 St James Street, London. The legal case ended with the payment of an out-of-court settlement by Ramsay and Waring to AZ. The French wine Petrus, a favorite of Ramsay and Waring, was the inspiration for the name. Petrus received a one-star rating from Michelin in just seven months. After it opened, Waring was allowed to quickly retrieve the Michelin star he had previously held.
In 2003, Waring became the chef patron of the Grill Room at the Savoy Hotel and was named Chef of the Year by the Caterer and Hotelkeeper’s Katy Awards. The restaurant replaced Pierre Kaufmann’s La Tante Claire at the Berkeley Hotel. When he returned there, he was up against Anton Edelman, his former boss at the River Room in Savoy. Waring decided to serve British fare known as the Grill Room. Including potted shrimp and their versions of items like steak and kidney pudding that were previously on the menu. This was in contrast to the French fare of Petrus. The Savoy Grill received its first Michelin star in hotel history in 2004, while Petrus received two Michelin stars and five AA rosettes.
Waring also converted the previous Petrus location to La Fleur and opened an American-style dinner banquette in The Savoy. In 2004, he won the title of Restaurant of the Year at the Tatler Restaurant Awards. Harden’s Restaurant Guide also named him the fourth best chef in London, although La Fleur eventually closed due to lease issues. Petras received his second Michelin star in 2007
On September 19, 2008, Waring’s Petrus restaurant opened at 1 Kinnerton Street in Knightsbridge. In May 2008, Berkeley Hotels confirmed that it would be collaborating with Wearing to open its only restaurant. Waring had previously expressed his desire to leave Ramsay’s shadow and complained about GRH’s intrusion into the kitchen. Waring stated that he still loves Ramsay after his split with Ramsay and GRH, resulting in a public legal battle and feud between the three parties.
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Marcus Waring Restaurant was founded when Marcus Waring opened in Berkeley in 2008. Since then, three restaurants have joined the group. In 2009 Wearing named his Chef of the Year by GQ Magazine. Gilbert Scott, Waring’s second restaurant, opened in 2011 at the St. Pancras Renaissance Hotel. Waring’s proposal was reinforced by GRH’s attempt to open a restaurant in the space, which was also built by GRH. The hotel’s architect, Sir George Gilbert Scott, was the inspiration for the restaurant’s name. Waring uses small suppliers and promotes high quality seasonal British food on its menu.
Marcus Wearing in Berkeley reopened as Marcus in 2014 after extensive renovations. With Group Operations Director Chantal Nicholson, Waring opened Treadwells in September 2014 in Upper St. Martin’s Lane, Seven Dials, London. In June 2016, Nicholson also became a chef patron. Tredwells.chantelle and Waring announced in August 2020 that Chantelle would no longer join Tredwells and Chantelle would now own the company as a whole. After a successful 10-year lease, Waring announced the natural closure of The Gilbert Scott in 2021.
Marcus Wearing Loss Star
The Berkeley Hotel’s Wearing restaurant has lost its second Michelin star. The 2019 Michelin Guide Great Britain and Ireland has downgraded the restaurant to a one-star rating, it revealed today (October 1). This restaurant lost one star, one out of 18 stars.
Marcus Waring Cookbook


Many politicians fear their nations will be irrelevant if they abandon their money-losing flag airlines. That's probably a stretch. In most places, the market likely would fill the gap — provided the government got out of the way. But national pride is powerful, and few people want to see storied brands disappear.
For three consecutive winters beginning in 2010, executives at Budapest’s airport watched daily to see if their largest tenant, the Hungarian national airline representing more than 40 percent of its passengers, would go bust.
The carrier, Malev, started flying in 1946 as Maszovlet, and for decades as a government-owned enterprise, it flew mainly Soviet-built jets on short-haul routes, before expanding in the 1980s with Boeing aircraft. For a while, its model worked well enough, but the rise of democracy changed much in Hungary, including at the airline, which was forced to compete with nearly every national carrier in Europe.
As it sought to become more nimble in the 1990s and 2000s, Malev tried to privatize but never could make it. In 2010, with the airline struggling amid the European financial crisis, Hungary took control of 95 percent of Malev to try to save it. It stemmed the trouble, but caused another problem: The European Commission ruled it an illegal subsidy, ordering the airline to repay the state. It could not.
By early 2012, Malev was gone, and government ministers asked executives at Budapest’s airport how to proceed. Perhaps they could find investors for a replacement? In other countries, including Switzerland, national airlines have disappeared one day, replaced the next by a doppelganger with a similar name and brand.
“We gave them the best advice we could,” said Kam Jandu, now the airport’s chief commercial officer. “We said, ‘There is a reason Malev is not existing anymore. There was no marketplace for a national airline. If you want to throw money down the drain, you can do that.'”
Other countries may face similar questions soon, as the timing is likely ripe for more airline failures. The world cannot stay out of another recession forever, and even if the economy surprises, carriers must adapt to higher fuel prices one major airline CEO recently called “the new normal.” Plus, the International Air Transport Association, a trade group representing the world’s airlines, warned recently the “looming prospect of a global trade war is casting a long shadow” on travel demand.
If airlines suffer, governments may need to ask if there’s still value to having a national carrier other than patriotism or pride. And they may wonder whether it still make sense to prop up airlines as more countries open their skies to new entrants and foreign carriers.
The most powerful national brands should be fine. Airlines like Lufthansa and British Airways long ago separated from governments, and their home markets have robust demand. But elsewhere, from South Africa to India to Nigeria, politicians may need to ask whether it’s good public policy to pump taxpayer cash into airlines, directly or indirectly.
Most governments don’t want to let go. But some free-market proponents, like Antonis Simigdalas, who founded Aegean Airlines in Greece two decades ago, effectively putting the decades-old national airline out of business, say it’s an exercise in futility.
“If the choice was whether I wanted to have a national airline and pay a shitload of taxpayer money just to maintain the flag on airplanes compared to having someone else come and fill the void, I’d choose someone else,” he said. “If nations want their flags to be carried, they can do it in many other ways.”
CARRY YOUR FLAGS TO THE WORLD
The idea of a flag carrier came about in 1944 at what is now called the Chicago Convention, which featured representatives from 54 countries, said Samuel Engel, head of the aviation practice at the consulting firm ICF, and an occasional consultant to national airlines. At the time, he said, the convention defined a flag airline as “substantially owned and effectively controlled by citizens and nationals of the country.”
Most countries had one. Some had two. The idea was simple: These airlines carried the flags of their countries abroad, and often received government support, as well as monopolies or near-monopolies on key routes. They didn’t need to make money, because as another consultant recalled, a nation could not be considered legitimate until it had collectible stamps and a flag carrier.
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The term no longer means much, since technically new entrants like EasyJet are flag carriers from the United Kingdom. But it’s nonetheless often used to describe airlines, both new and old, that dominate their nation’s air routes.
In some cases, these airlines are fully government-owned, while in others a government owns shares. Some national carriers are independent, but may benefit from infrastructure spending or lower taxes on passenger tickets or fuel.
While some national carriers thrive, many more have become bloated and inefficient. They’re often less likely than market-driven carriers to cut loss-making routes, and they usually don’t innovate as much as newer airlines. In many cases, they’re slower to adapt to changing trends, whether on product, such as seats or lounges, or with digital tools. Perhaps worse, they can be complacent when a new entrant — perhaps a low-cost carrier — enters their markets.
Yet many governments continue to bail out national carriers. Politicians sometimes argue an airline is an extension of the foreign office, or an “embassy with wings.” They note that, though the era of powerful national airlines might be waning, some have grown, improving their nation’s stature. This group includes Etihad Airways, Emirates, Qatar Airways, and Turkish Airlines.
“The government should be involved in making sure flag carriers are successful,” said Orhan Sivrikaya, former executive vice president of commercial for Turkish Airlines. “The air transport industry is related to other sectors, and it is a multiplicative effect on other industries. For national strategy, it is important.”
Some countries, such as islands with major tourist-driven economies, assist national airlines for strategic interests, fearing if the carrier stopped flying, no new entrant would step in. Others support airlines more out of nostalgia or national pride, or because they always have: The French government owns about 14 percent of Air France-KLM, and though it has considered selling, for now it keeps close tabs on the company.
Bjorn Kjos, CEO of Norwegian Air, said he’d like to see the French and other governments get out of the airline business so the market can work. The government of Norway in June sold the last 10 percent of its shares in Norwegian’s chief local rival, Scandinavian Airlines.
“Some countries have gotten to their senses and they are trying to get out of these legacy airlines,” Kjos said in a recent interview. “You don’t need it. It’s just a waste. You should concentrate on totally different things. They don’t need to own airlines.
Travelers Have Moved On
Among the ‘let the airline go out of business’ crowd, Hungary is often example No. 1 for why it’s best to let markets work.
Since airport executives knew Malev probably would close, they had contingency plans. They started by asking carriers like British Airways, Air France, and Ryanair to add capacity and routes to Europe’s largest markets. The airlines, knowing Malev probably wouldn’t make it, already had analyzed opportunities, and many expanded in Budapest.
Within three months, Jandu said, the airport regained about 40 percent its lost capacity, and within eight months, 95 percent returned.
While the airport first relied on foreign airlines, Malev’s demise cleared room for a Hungarian upstart, ultra-low-cost carrier Wizz Air, which started flying in 2003 but grew rapidly after 2012. This June it took delivery of its 100th aircraft, and has said it expects to have 300 jets by 2026.
Wizz Air is not a perfect replacement, even though it can fly Hungarians nearly everywhere in Europe. It’s not a flying billboard for the country, and it doesn’t carry Hungary’s flag abroad like national carriers of yesteryear. Rather than feeling pride about flying a Hungarian airline, passengers might complain about limited legroom or fees for soda.
But for the most part, travelers have moved on.
“I would be lying if I said no one cares,” Jandu said. “The vast majority don’t care. The average age of the travelers are quite young. They are not brand loyal. They don’t have a preference. What’s most important for them is a direct flight.”
That includes long-haul flights. For decades, nearly every large national airline within 12 hours of New York flew to John F. Kennedy International Airport, or wanted to — whether the flights lost money or not. Malev started flying to New York in 1993, canceling the route in 2008 when fuel prices spiked.
Budapest’s airport sought another New York link, though with no national airline, it wasn’t clear how. It approached the three major U.S. carriers, but while Delta Air Lines and American Airlines had flown the route before, none were interested. (American this year started flying from Philadelphia.) The airport tried the largest Gulf carriers, which may stop in Europe to pick up passengers. Emirates considered but passed.
The solution came in an unlikely place. LOT, Poland’s national carrier, has had its own problems with its home market, and wanted to expand beyond its Warsaw hub, so it agreed to fly to New York four times a week and Chicago twice a week. (LOT also had suffered in the debt crisis, and took state aid in 2012 in accordance with EU rules.)
“People say, ‘If we are not going to have our own, we might as well have LOT,’” Jandu said.
This doesn’t surprise Simigdalas. After leaving Aegean, he helped rescue the brand of Greece’s flag carrier, Olympic, serving as CEO of its stripped-down privately-held successor. But it wasn’t meant to be, and Olympic no longer exists as a standalone entity. It’s now a short-haul brand owned by Aegean.
Interestingly, without its national airline, Greece had its own problems securing year-round New York service. Eventually, the market resolved it: Emirates now flies from Athens to Newark.
“Markets are like thermodynamics,” Simigdalas said. “There is no void.”
Still, many politicians fear they live in countries where no other airlines, foreign or homegrown, would fill gaps left by a national carrier.
It’s an issue in South Africa, where South African Airways consistently operates at a loss but keeps flying with government help. By one academic’s count, the airline has tried to restructure 10 times in the past two decades, with the latest attempt led by former telecommunications executive Vuyani Jarana, who promises to cut employees and loss-making routes. Still, in an interview in June, Jarana said it would be unthinkable to close the more than 80-year-old company.
“It still plays a very critical role in moving people across the continent despite its own financial problems,” he said. “Many people would say, well, ‘The market would take care of this,’ but just with the size of SAA — from pure people movement — it’s not something the market could address overnight.”
Perhaps not, though many argue other carriers would fill gaps in a market as large as South Africa, so long as the government stepped aside. Earlier this year, 23 African countries, including South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, and Kenya, took a major step toward deregulation when they created a common aviation market. Europe’s common market, more than a quarter-century old, is a major reason Europeans have access to more airlines and lower fares for short-haul travel than three decades ago. (It’s also why a Polish airline can fly nonstop from Budapest to New York.)
But 32 countries have not signed on, so it’s not clear Africa is ready to follow the European model. Many nations prefer to have their own national airlines.
“Over 50 African countries continue to dabble in the airline industry despite the continent’s poor track record, mainly because a national carrier is believed to be a source of patriotic pride and economic status – both of which are very seldom borne out in reality,” said Sean Gossel, who teaches at the Graduate School of Business at the University of Cape Town.
One of those countries is Nigeria, which this summer announced plans to build another national airline, six years after the nation’s last one stopped flying. Nigeria Air will be 95 percent privately owned —and may be managed by Ethiopian Airlines — but it’s clear the government is driving it and wants its own national brand with a global reach. At a press conference in July, the country’s aviation minister said Nigeria Air could fly to China and India.
This obsession with long-haul flying is a typical symptom among national carriers with outsized ambitions. It’s true for South African Airways, even though the airline’s home hub, Johannesburg, is located at the southern tip of Africa, making it an inconvenient stopover for connecting passengers from other countries. It’s also a mile above sea level, an altitude that hurts aircraft range.
But despite the restructuring, South African is clinging to its international route structure, including Hong Kong, which Jarana said is not a top performer.
“It’s our only entry today to Asia so we have to keep it,” Jarana said.
That’s a mistake, ICF’s Engel said. He said he understands why some countries want nonstop ties with important cities, as many politicians believe they foster greater trade and higher tourism numbers. Still, he said, “there are cheaper ways to get a flight to Asia than running an entire airline.”
Engel said he recommends a country offers subsidies to a foreign airline to run routes the government wants served. South Africa might not get the boost of having its flag carrier abroad, but taxpayers win. “Plenty of airports and municipalities subsidize air service,” he said. “That doesn’t mean that a town in West Virginia needs to start its own airline.”
Simigdalas is harsher.
“Why should there be a link to to Asia?” Simigdalas said. “It defies my logic. I am sure our colleague at SAA has his own reasons or he has significant pressures from political bosses or whatever. But I am sure if he were to ask private shareholders whether they would like to maintain loss-making routes in their network, I don’t think they would say yes, unless you gave them a promise of profit in the future.”
A Hands-Off Approach Can Bring Success
Free marketers may never agree that governments should be involved in airlines.
But several countries have proven one model works. It’s the hands-off approach, where a government — which may or may not own shares — acts in the background to prop it up, but doesn’t meddle much in day-to-day operations. It helps if these airlines are located in places where operating an airline hub makes sense.
An airline that must be profitable on its own can be more nimble than the average state-owned or supported carrier. One success is Ethiopian, a government-owned enterprise that by most accounts is the only true global airline in Africa, with a network stretching from Beijing to Los Angeles to Sao Paulo. It has been so successful that other African countries are asking it to manage their airlines.
Ethiopian operates like a private company, albeit one its competitors say has access to perks, such as loans, that private airlines might not receive. According to Gossel, the University of Cape Town lecturer, “government employees do not enjoy party-political perks, route management is linked to the airlines’ international strategy, and management has focused on skills development.” Perhaps better, the country has invested in infrastructure and plans a new international airport that could accommodate as many as 80 million passengers per year, roughly as many as Los Angeles handles today.
Airlines in United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Turkey also have been beneficiaries of government spending designed to help them. This largesse was a hot topic recently in the Open Skies spat between American, Delta, and United on one side and Etihad Airways, Emirates, and Qatar Airways on the other.
The three U.S. carriers accused the Gulf carriers of receiving tens of billions of dollars of interest-free government loans with no repayment obligation over several years, as well as government grants, capital injections, free land, and airport fee exemptions. The U.S. airlines, through a trade group, complained the United Arab Emirates was “spending tens of billions of dollars to build that infrastructure, which is grossly in excess of the capacity needed to serve Dubai’s local population.”
While that’s likely true, it may not be as scandalous as the trade group suggests. It’s no secret many successful national airlines take government assistance, particularly at airports.
It happens in Turkey, too. Later this year, Turkey will open a new megahub in Istanbul after just three and a half years of construction. At first, the airport will be able to accommodate 100 million passengers a year, but future plans call for it to be expanded to handle 200 million.
It is part of a government strategy hatched a couple of decades ago to turn Turkish Airlines into a major global player. Over the period, the country deregulated its airline industry, opened its skies, and privatized the national airline. And though Turkey still owns 49 percent and has some veto rights, Turkish generally operates as a market-driven enterprise.
Simigdalas said he respects Turkey, because the country stuck to its strategy. Other politicians have ideas, but governments change, and national airlines suffer. “They synchronized all their policies and plans so they could develop a mega carrier,” he said.
That’s tougher than it sounds. Sivrikaya spent 22 years at Turkish Airlines, and now works as a consultant, helping carriers in developing countries. He recently finished a contract with Uzbekistan Airways, and though he had some success — he persuaded the airline to fly to New York — he said it was tough to persuade politicians to let the company operate independently. When ministers make decisions, rather than the CEO and an executive board, airlines suffer, he said.
“This is a big obstacle,” he said. “They have to deregulate the structure of the company.”
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A Syrian man has been killed 'execution-style' in Germany as fears grow that the Damascus regime is actively hunting down its critics in Europe.
The 35-year-old man was killed after he stopped in his Volkswagen car at a set of traffic lights in Sarstedt, near Hanover, and two men opened the doors and fired inside.
The two assassins then fled the scene. The victim died from head wounds and a special murder squad has been formed at Hildesheim, where he lived.
Assassination: A Syrian man has been killed 'execution-style' in Germany as fears grow that the Damascus regime is actively hunting down its critics in Europe
Police made no speculation whether his murder was linked to the unrest in Syria that has been continuing since March last year.
The victim's name, in accordance with German media laws, was not released.
The murder comes a week after a critic of President Bashar Assad's regime was badly beaten by men wielding iron bars at his home in Berlin.
The Syrian ambassador to Germany was summoned to the foreign ministry in Berlin last month after the attack on a Berlin councillor, Ferhad Ahma.
The 37-year-old Green party politician suffered a severe beating when he opened his door to two men claiming to be police officers.
He believes Syria's secret police were behind the brutal assault on Boxing Day.
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Ahma is an outspoken critic of the Damascus regime, and suffered serious bruises and other wounds in the attack but a spokesman for the Berlin police said that its state security force had taken over the investigation.
The Syrian authorities have been responsible for 5,000 civilian deaths in the country since opposition to the regime started to grow 10 months ago.
Arab League observers, who are in Syria to make sure it keeps its promise to stop cracking down on the dissent, today said the government had withdrawn heavy weapons from inside its cities and freed 3,500 prisoners.
But the League's Nabil Elaraby added that security forces continue to kill protesters and pro-regime snipers are still operating.
President Assad agreed to the monitoring plan on December 19. But since monitors began work last Tuesday, activists said 150 people, the vast majority of them unarmed, peaceful protesters, have been killed.
Elaby said: 'Yes, there is still shooting and yes there are still snipers. Yes, killings continue.
'The objective is for us to wake up in the morning and hear that no one is killed. The mission's philosophy is to protect civilians, so if one is killed, then our mission is incomplete. There must be a complete cease-fire.'
Rami Abdul-Rahman, who heads the British-based activist group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, confirmed tanks had withdrawn from cities. But he said residents reported that the weapons were still a threat.
The Arab League plan requires Assad's regime to remove security forces and heavy weapons from city streets, start talks with opposition leaders, free political prisoners and allow human rights workers and journalists into the country.
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