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WhiskyCast Exclusive: Richard Paterson Frustrated With Whyte & Mackay Turmoil
January 19, 2014 – Whyte & Mackay's future is up in the air again, and it's something the Scotch whisky producer's longtime master blender has become used to.
"I've been with the company coming up 44 years…I've seen nine takeovers, I'm on my 19th boss, I don't know how many different marketing people I've seen, but a lot in that time," Paterson told WhiskyCast's Mark Gillespie in an exclusive interview during the Victoria Whisky Festival. "So, when I see all these different takeovers, I get a little bit disappointed…because there's one word that sticks out more than anything else, and that's inconsistency."
The UK's Office of Fair Trading is currently considering a proposal from Diageo and United Spirits, Whyte & Mackay's parent company, to sell off most of Whyte & Mackay in order to satisfy the regulators' concerns over competition in the blended Scotch whisky market. Diageo acquired operational control of India-based United Spirits during 2013, while holding around 25% of the company's stock. Under the proposal, Diageo would retain the Dalmore and Tamnavulin malt whisky distilleries, while selling the Jura and Fettercairn malt whisky distilleries, the Invergordon grain whisky distillery, and the entire Whyte & Mackay blended Scotch portfolio.
However, India's CNBC-TV18 reported today that Suntory has made an offer of just under $1 billion (USD) for all of Whyte & Mackay with the backing of three private equity investors. The story cites "unidentified sources", and Suntory declined to comment on the report. Last week, India's Business Standard reported that United Spirits directors were prepared to consider a bid for the entire Whyte & Mackay unit, even though Diageo's proposal to the Office of Fair Trading cited the need to retain the Dalmore & Tamnavulin distilleries to supply malt whisky for the United Spirits brands sold in India.
Richard Paterson is responsible for creating the company's entire range of whiskies, but is most often identified with The Dalmore's luxury single malts. He has been a key part of the brand's promotional campaigns for years, including a range at Harrod's that carries his name. Should the current plan be implemented, it's not clear which side he would stay with, but he remains hopeful that a solution will be found that allows Whyte & Mackay to remain intact.
"No matter which part of the world I go to, there's always somebody who's going to take over. The rumors are rife everywhere I go to, and every time there's a dinner in Scotland, people create more…people are like that, you know, rumors just fly. But hopefully, one day it will settle down and we'll know which direction, whether it will be split up. I personally do not hope it will not be split up, but we cannot say at this present time…it looks a little bit uneasy."
Paterson admits some frustration with the current situation, which has also forced him to put his plans to identify and train his eventual successor on hold until Whyte & Mackay's future is sorted out. However, he said he remains hopeful of being able to finish his career on a high note with the company. "Although we go through these very painful takeovers, that are not only frustrating for someone like myself, but you've got to think about the other people in the company," he said. "Hopefully, when we do get that final takeover and we know what's happening, then we can settle down and have a rosy future."
For more of Richard Paterson's comments on the Whyte & Mackay situation, listen to Episode 462 of WhiskyCast. The entire WhiskyCast interview with Richard Paterson will be available soon on WhiskyCast HD.
Links: Whyte & Mackay | United Spirits | Diageo | Office of Fair Trading
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Wedell Sea Antarctica incl. Helicopter Explorations: Ushuaia to Ushuaia
Explore Antarctica by land, air, and sea on this expedition to the South Pole. Aboard the M/V Plancius, you'll follow the path of early explorers as you cross the Drake Passage and explore the Weddell Sea and the Antarctic Peninsula. This stark landscape of icebergs, penguins, and frozen ocean is made for adventure.
This 11-day Antarctica vacation takes you from the tip of South America across the Drake Passage to the Antarctic Peninsula and the distant wonders of the Weddell Sea. It's an ideal trip for explorers-at-heart and anyone who has dreamed of experiencing the remote land and waterscapes of the South Pole.
Your Antarctica vacation begins in Ushuaia, at the southern tip of Argentina in an area known as Tierra del Fuego, literally meaning the "End of the World" in Spanish. Spend a day in Ushuaia getting prepped for your voyage to Antarctica and learning about the fascinating history of this bustling port town that caters to adventurers. Grab a pint at the world's southernmost microbrewery amongst fellow travellers before boarding the M/V Plancius to start your journey across the southern sea. M/V Plancius was originally built as an oceanographic research vessel but was completely repurposed and refurbished in 2009 as a passenger vessel capable of transporting 116 passengers in 53 cabins.
M/V Plancius will be your home on your journey across the Drake Passage, the 800-kilometre passage between Cape Horn and the South Shetland Islands. While the Drake Passage is the safest water route to Antarctica, it'll still give you a taste of what the journey must have been like for early explorers of the region. Stormy seas and cold winds are a part of the adventure, so be sure to dress in layers. Luckily, M/V Plancius is well-equipped to withstand the rolling seas and provide you with comforts on your ocean passage. However, don't hide below deck during the entire journey; be sure to head on deck to watch for whales and spot the albatrosses and petrels that'll be your companions on your voyage south.
Once you start spotting icebergs around the South Shetland Islands, you'll know you've crossed into Antarctic waters. Spend the next few days exploring the Weddell Sea, where massive icebergs drift across the horizon and the Antarctic Peninsula is easily accessible. Explore this remarkable area by land, sea, and air. One day you might head on an excursion to Deception Island and Pendulum Cove and another day you'll take to the sky aboard a helicopter to experience the landscape from a breathtaking vantage point. After spotting Weddell Seals and penguins and admiring the icy landscape, you'll return to Ushuaia via the Drake Passage.
End of the World, Start of a Journey
Your voyage begins where the world drops off: Ushuaia, Argentina, reputed to be the southernmost city on the planet, located on the far southern tip of South America. Starting in the afternoon, you embark from this small resort town on Tierra del Fuego - nicknamed "The End of the World" - and sail the scenic, mountain-fringed Beagle Channel for the rest of the evening. D
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The ice-strengthened vessel "Ortelius" is an excellent vessel for Polar expedition cruises in the Arctic and Antarctica, providing you with possibilities to adventure in remote locations such as the Ross Sea and Franz Josef Land. The vessel has the highest ice-class notation (UL1 equivalent to ...
The ice-strengthened vessel "Ortelius" is an excellent vessel for Polar expedition cruises in the Arctic and Antarctica, providing you with possibilities to adventure in remote locations such as the Ross Sea and Franz Josef Land.
The vessel has the highest ice-class notation (UL1 equivalent to 1A) and is therefore very suitable to navigate in solid one-year sea ice and loose multi-year pack ice. "Ortelius" is a great expedition vessel for 116 passengers with lots of open-deck spaces.
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Path of the Polar Explorers
Over the next two days on the Drake Passage, you catch a taste of life from the perspective of the polar explorers who first braved these regions: cool salt breezes, rolling seas, maybe even a fin whale blasting up sea spray. After passing the Antarctic Convergence - Antarctica's natural boundary, formed when north-flowing cold waters collide with warmer subantarctic seas - you are in the circum-Antarctic upwelling zone.
Drake Passage
Not only does the marine life change, the avian life changes too: A variety of albatrosses and petrels show up, along with Cape pigeons and southern fulmars. Then, near the South Shetlands Islands, the first icebergs flash into sight.
Enter Antarctic
You may sail into the Weddell Sea via the Antarctic Sound. Here huge tabular icebergs herald your arrival to the eastern side of the Antarctic Peninsula. During this part of the cruise, the search is on for emperor penguins.
Day at Leisure
Today is totally free and at leisure. You can take advantage of any optional activities available or simply relax.
Exploring the Weddell Sea
Continue by boat, land or Helicopter - or all of the above - exploring the Weddell area.
Continue by boat, land or Helicopter -- or all of the above -- exploring the Weddell area.
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In the morning, you sail to Deception Island for the last landing of the voyage -- at Pendulum Cove or Whalers Bay. Conditions on the Drake Passage determine the exact time of departure.
Familiar Seas, Familiar Friends -- Drake Passage
Your return voyage is far from lonely. While crossing the Drake, you're again greeted by the vast array of seabirds remembered from the passage south. But they seem a little more familiar to you now, and you to them.
Familiar Seas, Familiar Friends - Drake Passage
Continue across the Drake Passage as you recount memorable stories from a memorable trip.
Every adventure, no matter how grand, must eventually come to an end. It's now time to disembark in Ushuaia, but with memories that will accompany you wherever your next adventure lies.
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MECO has awarded Kent Design Build the phase II plant expansion to its new state-of-the-art facility in Mandeville, LA. This comes 18 months after phase I completion in July of 2014. The construction project will increase warehousing and assembly bays to meet the increasing demand for the firms water purification products. The expanded facility will be approximately 100,000 square feet and is completely vertically integrated including functions such as fabrication, machining, assembly, electrical controls and functional testing. It is purposefully built embracing lean principals and sustainability initiatives such that it is the most efficient in the world for the production of water purification systems. For MECO this is more than just a state-of-the-art home for its manufacturing operations—it's the ultimate expression of MECO's commitment to its customers, employees and the environment.
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Secularity, reality and danger – Sheikh Farkûs
by AbdurRahman.org May 31, 2011 October 7, 2016
Secularity, reality and danger
All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds. Peace and blessing be upon whom Allah sent as a mercy to the Worlds, upon his Family, his Companions and his Brothers till the Day of Resurrection.
The word "Secularity" – (Al-`Ilmâniyya) in the Arabic language – is a term that has absolutely no relation with the word "Science" (`Ilm) or its derivations. From the political point of view, secularity means "Irreligious power" (i.e. religion should not be involved in power). It is commonly defined in many Islamic books as "The separation of religion from the state". However, this meaning is limited and does not state the reality of secularity, which involves the individual and the behavior that have no relation with the state. This is why we can express it differently in a more conformable way to the reality of secularity, which is "The establishment of an irreligious life". Regardless the fact that secularity, whose doctrine and philosophy emerged under the protection of the western civilization, was influenced by the falsified Christianity[1] and socialism, the irreligious secularity is a worldly ideology aiming at isolating the religious influence on life. It calls to set up life on material basis in its different domains: political, economical, social, ethic, judicial and others, also on the bases of the absolute worldly knowledge, under the power of reason and experimentation, taking into consideration interest, by adapting the principle of utilitarianism over all the domains of life, in power, politics and ethics based on the Machiavellian principle "The end justifies the means". Thus, far from the religious recommendations and prohibitions which are restricted in the individual's mind and do not go with them beyond his personal and private relation between him and his Lord. Furthermore, he is not allowed to express himself, but only in matters of religious rituals and ceremonies, which consist of weddings, festivals, funerals and others.
Secularity, which is based on the materialistic tendency, is soon emanated from the irreligious doctrine, whose utmost aim is fighting religion and removing it from all fields of the public life, in addition to excluding people of religion and its protectors and limiting their influence by isolating them from educational domains, institutions and scientific institutes, and preventing religious knowledge. So, its highest aim is to establish a state and a society where religion is confined to the individual level, and make people of the Islamic society feel brotherhood in state, regardless the fact that they are not brothers in religion.
Nevertheless, the truth is not really perceived by those who divide secularity, on the one hand, into atheistic one, which radically denies the existence of the Creator and does not at all recognize something in matter of religion, and on the other hand, into non-atheistic secularity that believes, theoretically, in the Creator but rejects any relation between Allah عز وجل and the men's life. It calls to isolate religion from the world and life, and rejects, explicitly or implicitly, the legislation of Allah. Because atheism is the nature of secularity in all its forms since atheism is to depart and to deviate from Allah's religion and legislation including all leaning or tendency towards religion. This is what essentially leads to incredulity in Allah, the association to Him in what is illicit, transgress something forbidden by Him, and leave any of the recommendations of Allah[2].
Besides, the origin of atheism is all what contains the association to Allah in His general Lordship, and denying Allah's Names, attributes or Acts.
The predication of secularity represents a huge danger to the religion of Islam and to Muslims, and the majority of the Muslims are not aware of its reality because it disguises behind different masks such as patriotism, socialism, nationalism, and others. As well as, it hides behind destructive theories like Freudianism, Darwinism, or Evolutionism[3] and others. Its partisans pretend relying on attested scientific arguments whereas they are just weak, deficient and specious arguments rejected by reason and reality:
﴿كَمَثَلِ الْعَنكَبُوتِ اتَّخَذَتْ بَيْتًا وَإِنَّ أَوْهَنَ الْبُيُوتِ لَبَيْتُ الْعَنكَبُوتِ لَوْ كَانُوا يَعْلَمُونَ﴾ [العنكبوت: 41].
The meaning of the verse:
﴾As the parable of the spider that makes for itself a house; and most surely the frailest of the houses is the spider's house did they but know﴿ [Al-`Ankabût (The Spider): 41].
Especially, the one that gives the appearance of a partisan to the religion in order to confuse and to lead ordinary Muslims astray. In fact, it does not prevent the pilgrimage and prayer in the mosques. On the contrary, it contributes in their construction, it takes part in celebrations and festivals, it offers rewards and gifts for the imams and those who learn the Koran by heart, and show neither struggle nor antagonism against religion but with very fervent attempts to restrict religion in mosques and isolate it from the domains of life.
Among the aspects and domains of secularization which are kept off from religion:
– Politics and power, the adaptation of secularization in these fields is apparent and not hidden from the observers.
– Secularization of teaching and its methods, a fact not refuted by those who are reasonable.
– Secularization of economy and financial structures, clearly known by experts.
– Civic, social and ethic laws are undoubtedly secularized.
In fact, secularism makes of the spiritual values negative ones. In this manner, it makes the way free to the spread of atheism, westernization, libertinism and ethic anarchy. It calls for the women's liberation according to the western style that does not condemn illegal relations between the two sexes. This is what helps to open widely the doors to shameful practices that, consequently, lead to the destruction of the family's existence and to its disunion. Thus, with such practices, generations are formed with an irreligious education, in a society where neither an impediment or a religious barrier nor a voice of a living consciousness exist, which are substituted by agitations of worldly passions like interest, covetousness, the struggle for life, and other material hopes regardless of spiritual values.
It is this kind of secularity that is spread in the Muslim and Arab world, through the effect of colonialism and the campaigns of Christianization and evangelization. Also, because of the improvidence of our compatriots, deluded with illusions, who brandished its slogan, and executed the plans of those who have drawn them and supported them to confuse ordinary people with specious arguments and pretensions of extreme disorientation that founded their predication, which consists of:
– Slandering the Noble Quran and making the prophecy doubtful.
– Pretending that the revelation is inactive and unable to adapt itself with civilisation, and Europe progressed only after getting rid of religion.
– Pretending that Islam neglects the pursuit of the evolution of life, calls for repression, and persecutes the freedom of thought.
– Pretending that Islamic religion has already completed its aims and remains in it only a set of rituals and spiritual practices.
– Pretending that the Arabic language lacks or takes a long time to adapt itself with science and progress, and it is unable to pursuit civilization and development process. However, even if Arabic is the official language in Muslim countries, but still it is marginalized in the majority of administrative institutions, in universities and medical fields, especially in North African countries where the French language has replaced it and really becomes the practiced language of speaking and of communication. Nevertheless, the Arabic language has gradually regressed and loses ground according to plans already prepared and studied after knowing that Arabic is the language of the Quran and the key of the revelation sciences.
– Pretending that the revelation has already been practically applied at the level of politics, power, and in other domains. Because, they pretend that the Islamic jurisprudence draws its prescriptions from the Roman law.
– Pretending the harshness of the revelation in its retributions such as: lex talionis, amputation, being stoned to death, flagellation … and decide on retributions that are more appropriate by taking irreligious laws and methods from the West, by imitation, which are considered more clement and more lenient.
Eventually, these are the set of pretensions that secularists rely on, who work in order to interrupt the revelation of Allah عز وجل by different means such as personalities, magazines, journalism, and other plans. In addition to this, they want to separate the authentic religion from the social life, and reduce it in the narrowest limits and domains according to the leanings and practices of the West who aims at breaking the commandments of Islam and releasing it from all its obligations and values. Besides, they want to alter the Muslim identity, cut them off from their religion, and lose their loyalty to it and membership to their community through the alliance to the West full of hatred, and by interchanging the values, notions, terms and authentic Islamic conceptions with western ones, in a manner that the lifestyle will be changed to that of the West, and by changing the way of thinking and acting so that it suits the thinking and deeds of the West. They also aim at changing the ethical and social behavior with the allegation that it is a modernization of the legislative, juridical and penal systems; and this in a manner that goes with the civilizational way, by imitating the western systems and legislations, all this under the banner of development and renewal.
Many individuals of the Islamic nation were deeply influenced by secularity, and this is obvious in the fields of institutions, power, Sharia, jurisprudence and education. This influence is due to what was spread of ambiguities around Islam, its language, Quran and Prophet, as we previously mentioned.
Many social and political institutions were influenced by these pernicious notions and proceeded to develop their countries by focusing on secularizing the state, whether under the guise of nationalism, socialism, patriotism or others. As for the other institutions with Islamic tendency, they are also influenced by secularity – save those whom Allah Has protected by His mercy – they have of religion a limited conception since they restrict it to its civilizational aspect.
Islam, religion and state rejects categorically this duality, which consists of making a strong barrier between the material and the spiritual world; it is considered an apostasy. Moreover, Islam, within its sane and pure nature, its correct dogma and morality, does not accept the spread of the western social evils such as atheism, libertinism, ethic anarchy, and other vices, ideological and moral impurities which bring the destruction of the doctrine's unity, the family and the society existence.
In fact, Islam commands to Muslim to be entirely to Allah in all domains of life: his deeds, his words, and his behaviors. His life as well as his death belongs to the Allah عز وجل:
﴿قُلْ إِنَّ صَلاَتِي وَنُسُكِي وَمَحْيَايَ وَمَمَاتِي للهِ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ * لاَ شَرِيكَ لَهُ وَبِذَلِكَ أُمِرْتُ وَأَنَاْ أَوَّلُ الْمُسْلِمِينَ﴾ [الأنعام: 162-163].
﴾Say (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم): "Verily, my Salât (prayer), my sacrifice, my living, and my dying are for Allâh, the Lord of the 'Alamîn (mankind, jinns and all that exists) He has no partner. And of this I have been commanded, and I am the first of the Muslims﴿ [Al-An`âm (The Cattle): 162-163].
The perfect knowledge belongs to Allah. Our last prayer is all praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds. Peace and blessing be upon our Prophet صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم, his Family, his Companions and Brothers till the Day of Resurrection.
[1] One of the Christian proclamations: Give to Caesar the power of state and to God the power of the church. Starting from this, it has emerged the principle of "The separation of religion from the state", a principle attributed to `Issa (Jesus) عليه السلام when he said: "Give to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's." (Gospel of Luke 20:25) It is in this way that Christianity agrees with secularism. However, religion and power, in Islam, are made originally to Allah عز وجل and devoted to Him. They do neither admit the separation between religion and State, nor between religion and society, because Islam, as religion and system, is different in its origin from Christianity, which is a set of testaments, and it is also different from it when applied in the Roman societies where religion were for God and power for Caesar.
[2] See "Adhwâ' Al-Bayân" of Ash-Shanqîti (5/59-58).
[3] The Darwinist theory, in reference to Charles Darwin, a British researcher, who published the book "On the origin of species" in 1859, which deals with a series of assumptions. He supported his theory of apparition and evolution which assumes that the evolution of life in organic creatures is that it evolved from a simple and primitive life to a more complex and subtle one and that it graduated from archaic to more sophisticated life. He considered that the origin of life is a cell which was in a swampy marsh some million years ago, then it had developed and had undergone many steps, among them, that of the ape which became a human. Darwin thus, considered the human as being close to the ape; he even assumed that the real ancestor of the human race is a small cell that lived in a swampy marsh. His aim by this is to eliminate the creed of the people of the truth, that the human race is descended from Adam and Eve.
This theory caused general discomfort and a feeling of upset and perdition. Distraught and disarrayed generations who were characterized by spiritual vacuum have appeared then. Among the results of this theory, the materialistic and Marxist theory which proclaimed the materialistic aspect of the human being who is subjected to the laws of matter, thus neglecting the spiritual aspects. This theory has also an effect on the birth of Freud's theory of psychoanalysis. Freud drew from the theory of Darwin the idea of the animality of the human being, that he is an animal guided by the sex drive; otherwise he will be in the grip of a harmful inhibition with bad effects on the nervous system.
That is how Freud considered the evolution theory as an explication of the existence of religion by linking it to sexual urges.
Many theories drew from the theory of Darwin destructive ideologies, as the existentialism of Sartre and the contemporary parapsychology of Bergson; they based their theories upon that of Darwin in its explication of the human race, life and behavior.
The experimental sciences proved that Darwin's theory is false with irrefutable proofs. His theory is not even considered a scientific theory, especially after the discoveries of Mendel's law on inheritance and genes.
The Quran establishes that the human being is created out of an extract of clay, then he was placed as a drop (of seed) in a safe lodging (womb of a woman).
So, the matter of creation of all creatures at the origin is water.
﴿وَاللَهُ خَلَقَ كُلَّ دَابَّةٍ مِن مَاءٍ﴾ [النور : 45].
﴾Allâh has created every moving (living) creature from water. Of them there are some that creep on their bellies, some that walk on two legs, and some that walk on four. Allâh creates what He wills. Verily! Allâh is Able to do all things.﴿ [An-Nûr (The Light): 45].
The human stays a human, with all his constituents, his form, his characteristics and his mind, without evolution or change. This fact is a proof that the Creator is one.
﴿الَّذِي أَحْسَنَ كُلَّ شَيْءٍ خَلَقَهُ وَبَدَأَ خَلْقَ الْإِنسَانِ مِن طِينٍ. ثُمَّ جَعَلَ نَسْلَهُ مِن سُلالَةٍ مِّن مَّاء مَّهِينٍ﴾ [السجدة : 7-8].
﴾Who made everything He has created good, and He began the creation of man from clay. Then He made his offspring from semen of worthless water (male and female sexual discharge).﴿ [As-Sajda (The Prostration): 7-8].
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Bangladesh's sociology-cultural environment always stands on gender discrimination, Girls are often considered to be financial burdens on their family and from the time of birth. Empowering women is still a dream from generation to generation. This film is based on a helpless forbidden young lady of 22 years old who has chosen a profession which is only considered for men. So my film will encourage all the distressed women of the world that if you believe yourself then nobody could stop you .
Caste discrimination remains one of the most severe and forgotten human rights abuses of the twenty‐first century. It is story of a young girl named Sima Rani, who was born in such a community those who have been neglected and discriminated against by mainstream society due to a stigma "untouchable". Who has already passed grade 12 and dreams to become a lawyer.
It is story of a poor hand-loom worker named Mr.AkbarAli, who works for promoting education in his village fully voluntary measures. In Bangladesh, literacy rate is the lowest among developing countries. As a result, poverty is wide spread. Through continues motivational effort; Mr. Ali has gradually changed the total social scenario. Now people understand there is no alternate to education.
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Mr. KM Taj-Biul Hasan is a Filmmaker,Cameraman and researcher . He has been in this profession since 1991. He completed B.Sc ( Hon's) on Zoology & M.Sc. on Fisheries from the Dept. of Zoology, The University of Dhaka and subsequently completed his diploma on Photography(Dhaka) & Filmmaking (New Delhi). Later on adapted himself with the Film and Television media profession. He also completed professional training from BBC(UK), BFDC(Dhaka), CENDIT(New Delhi), CEMCA (New Delhi) ,Deutsch Welle Television Training Centre (Berlin), DUPS(Dhaka), NIMC(Dhaka), STOU (Bangkok) and NHK(Tokyo) respectively. In his professional career Mr. Hasan worked in the Dept. of Film & Publication of Bangladesh Govt. and Bangladesh Open University from 1992-2011 as Program Director /Producer .He began his career as a cine-cameraman and has since become a fiction and documentary film-maker. So far made 85 educational TV programs,23 documentaries & 03 fiction and received 14 impressive International awards for film-making. He also created a historic record by winning three times, the most prestigious 'The National Federation of UNESCO Japan Prize' for his three educational films as well as the Tokyo Docs (Color of Asia) Award. Being a researcher; Mr. Hasan presented papers in the 21 international media events till January 2021 and has publication in the reputed international journals. So far visited many countries of Asia, Europe and Africa for his professional reasons.So far Mr. Hasan has visited many countries of Asia, Europe and Africa for his professional reasons. For details please see the links below : https://filmfreeway.com/kmtajbiulhasan linkedin.com/in/khandoker-md-taj-biul-hasan-447b828a http://dhrupadcommunicationbd.simplesite.com
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Passionate film producer with 10+ of experience in the film industry. Motivated by a strong creative vision, has worked on several successfully released feature films as well as digital brand videos and music videos, guiding them from conception to completion and release. Roshni has adorned many hats from being a Feature film Director to micro-managing the nitty-gritty of theatrical distribution and effortlessly switches between creative thinker with a global aesthetic to tactical problem-solver bringing solutions to essentially budgetary issues. Roshni's directorial debut feature Ghost of the Golden Groves was officially selected at numerous international film festivals such as the Festival du Nouvaeu Cinema Montreal (Canada), Cinequest (USA) and the London Indian Film Festival. It was nominated for the prestigious FIPRESCI Award and won a Jury Award at the Chicago Underground Film Festival. It was also one of those rare Indian films to be featured in BFI's Sight & Sound Magazine.
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I am a trained director & self-taught cameraman & editor, with more than two decades of experience in documentaries as well as fiction and a Masters degree in film-making from the prestigious Northern Film School in UK. I specialize in bespoke documentary films. My hour-long documentary "India's Frontier Railways - Maitree Express" not only earned a spectacular viewership on BBC but also got excellent reviews for its sensitive portrayal of the people of India and Bangladesh. I worked for channels like BBC, Channel 4, National Geographic, Channel News Asia etc., before taking up teaching film & television in under-grad and post-grad courses in Kolkata. My short film 'Tell My Story' was one of the four films selected to represent the UK at the 39th Student Oscars and won the prestigious Royal Television Society nomination in the UK.
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Is your property for sale in Spain because of disputes with neighbours?
If the boundaries can be established in such a way that both parties agree, a record (acta) will be drawn up whereby the borders are described. This must be signed by both neighbours before a notary. If one of the parties disagrees with the conclusion of the judge, he has the right to take the matter to court.
C. Que los dos partes están de acuerdo en fijar los definitivos lindes.
Segundo. - Que de común acuerdo encargan al topógrafo D....a fin y efecto de que realice el oportuno deslinde y amojonamiento, señalando los verdaderos límites existentes entre las propiedades.
Tercero. - Los dos intervinientes aceptan pasar y aceptar por lo determinado por el topógrafo, comprometiéndose a respetar en el futuro los mojones que señalen el deslinde de las respectivas fincas.
Cuarto. - Los firmantes se comprometen a firmar cuantos documentos futuros sean precisos para reconocer el deslinde y amojonamiento aqui acordados, tanto si son públicos como privados, corriendo en este caso los gastos que ello signifique a cargo de quien solicitare la elevación a público del documento o de lo acordado en el mismo.
Quinto. - Los firmantes renuncian a su fuero propio si lo tuvieren y se someten a los Juzgados y Tribunales de.....para la discusión judicial de cualquier cuestión que pudiera surgir como consecuencia del presente contrato.
B. That the two parties have inscribed the titles of their properties in the Property Register ....., with the following inscription dates (mention them).
First. They recognise as correct the boundaries contained in the title deed of Mr......, and that this property has an area of ... m2.
Second. They agree to give the topographer, Mr........the task of making the settlement and marking the boundaries, to indicate the exact borders existing between the properties.
Third. The two parties agree to accept whatever will be determined by the topographer, and agree to respect in the future the markers that indicate the boundary between the property.
Fourth. The parties present agree to sign any future documents that may be needed to recognise the settlement and marking of the borders agreed upon herein, public as well as private. The costs of such documents shall be borne by the party that requests the document.
Fifth. The two signing parties renounce their own jurisdiction, if such exists, and submit themselves to the Courts and Tribunals of .....for the legal discussion of any question that may arise as a consequence of the present contract.
And so that it be evident, they sign in duplicate, both equally valid, in the place and at the date indicated above.
It may be that the relations between neighbours is not the best, or that one does not know who the owner of the neighbouring plot is. If one cannot reach an agreement to make a deslinde and sign a private contract about the boundary, there is another way -- take the matter to the judge.
If the land in question has a value of more than 50 000 euros , one must leave the action in the hands of a lawyer. But if the land in question has less value, one can personally bring the matter before a judge in the court where the property is located.
Primero. - Que es dueño, por compra, de la finca conocida con el nombre de...., sita en el término municipal de ......, según lo acredita con la correspondiente escritura de Propiedad, que figura inscrita en el Registro de la Propiedad de....., a los siguientes datos regístrales; (transcribirlos).
Segundo. - Que dicha finca habiendo quedado desdibujados sus lindes y desaparecidos los amojonamientos existentes en otras épocas, habiendo sido invadido el terreno propiedad de quien esto suscribe por el colindante.
Tercero. - Que interesa a esta parte que queden bien delimitados y precisos los lindes, señalados con los correspondientes mojones, para evitar conflictos futuros.
Cuarto. - Que el domicilo del dueño de la finca colindante por la parte sur es D...... y que por la parte Oeste es D......., estando los restantes limites de la finca fuera de discusión por la existencia de un camino que la bordea en su parte Norte y por un cauce de agua en la parte Este.
AL JUZGADO SUPLICO que teniendo por presentado este escrito junto con los documentos que lo acompañan, se sirva aceptarlo todo ello y mande incoar expediente de jurisdicción voluntaria de deslinde y amojonamiento de la antes dicha finca, citando a los colindantes y siguiendo el procedimiento por todos sus trámites, dictar en su día acta de deslinde y amojonamiento.
First. That he is owner, by purchase, of the property known as....., situated in the municipality of ......, that is confirmed with the corresponding title deed, inscribed in the Property Register of.... with the following inscription dates (add them).
Second. That the boundaries of the property in question have become unclear and the marking stones of previous times have disappeared, and the land of the person signing this document has been encroached upon by the neighbour.
Third. It is in the interest of this party that the boundaries be well and precisely marked, with the corresponding marking stones, to avoid future conflicts.
Fourth. That the owner of the neighbouring property to the south is Mr..... and to the west is Mr......, while the rest of the borders are not disputed because of the existence of a road that forms the border to the north and a stream to the east.
the Court is asked to consider this petition, together with the documents that accompany it, and that this be accepted as the start of a procedure of voluntary settlement and marking of the previously mentioned property, and to make an act of settlement and marking.
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Analog Artist Digital World: Hurricane damage in Greenwood Cemetery.
I drive by Greenwood Cemetery almost daily and after Hurricane Irma I was amazed at the amount of tree damage there was in the cemetery. I decided to return to document some of the trees that had snapped like twigs. The first stop was to the four headstones for victims of the Pulse nightclub massacre. This area of the cemetery had been largely spared. As a matter of fact one stone had rainbow balloons, rainbow flowers, a pin wheel and a rainbow colored teddy bear. All the memorial items were pristine. The day before had been Leroy Valentín Fernández' birthday. Clearly the family had come out and colorfully decorated his headstone to mark the occasion. All of the Pulse victim headstones now had color photos that were laminated in plastic and cut into the headstones. The photo of Cory Connell was had outstretched arms as if he were ready to wrestle the world. All memorial items had been removed form his stone, probably in preparation for Hurricane Irma. All 4 stone sat quietly in the shade of a large tree that had weathered the storm fine.
Pam Schwartz and I searched the cemetery for the tree I had seen while driving by the cemetery. Blanche Crews headstone was knocked over by a fallen tree limb. It was wedged back up with fallen branches making it look like the fallen angels had crutches. Dozens of trees had snapped and branches littered the entire cemetery making it appear wild and overgrown. I settled into a spot near the headstone of Edgar Earl Hitchcock. I of course wondered if he was related to the film maker. Pam quickly did research and found out that Edgar was an important figure in Orlando's medical history. He founded the Pediatric Associates of Orlando in 1939. He was shown in a photo giving the very first polio vaccine shot in Central Florida to a young boy. His wife Ruth died many years after him but her headstone was not in her family plot or perhaps there is just no headstone.
Across the lane from where I was sketching, a family arrived in several cars. Blue and white helium balloons bounced up out of the car behind them. They were visiting the headstone of Richard Marcano Trinidad who had died on August 19, 2016. He had died at the tender age of 36. His stone noted that he was a Stealers fan and the epitaph read..."For the best daddy in the world. We will never forget you...from your kids." An Orlando Sentinel article reported that police had been dispatched to a home near UCF, where they found Trinidad critically injured. His 36 year old girlfriend was on the scene. I could not find any further reports about how or why Richard had died. The family released the dozen or so blue and white balloons and they silently rose into the sky.
Near the fallen tree I was sketching was the headstone for Harry P. Leu (1884-1977) and his wife Mary (1903-1986) of Leu Gardens fame. Their two granite slabs lying side by side, were pristine except for a few leaves. The Harry P. Leu historic home however has suffered damage from a huge tree limb that crashed into the roof, exposing the Leu bedroom to rain and wind damage. The ceilings and floor boards are soaked. Leu Gardens has closed indefinitely. Pam Schwartz, the Orange County Regional History Center curator went to the historic home to offer advice on preservation societies who might be able to help as well as FEMA contacts.
The History Center off site storage facility had suffered damage when a roof access panel was blown loose and it gouged holes in the roofing as the heavy metal lid was hurled by the high winds, causing leaks over the historic collection. I was with Pam when she found the soaked warehouse and helped in removing soaked ceiling panels and now useless archival cardboard boxes. It look hours of work and in the emergency the sketchbook was ignored. Even though the floor were dried and artifacts were lifted to be dried out off the floor, it was then discovered that the walls of the warehouse are fulled with mold. Now an effort needs to be made to save the collection form that mold which is inside the walls up to 10 feet high. The History Center is replacing all the inner walls in an effort to protect and preserve Orlando's History.


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Portland Thorns at Chicago Red Stars: Previews, How to Watch, Match Thread [12:30]
By Tyler Nguyen@tdn_ Apr 20, 2019, 9:30am PDT
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In-between away trips to two of the more questionable teams in the league, the Thorns have snuck in a genuinely big match against fellow playoff contenders the Chicago Red Stars. It promises to be the only real test for the team before the USWNT players take off for pre-World Cup camp after week 3. After a season where they showed flashes of talent but struggled to integrate the new members of their team, this Chicago side might be their best ever in the NWSL. You know Sam Kerr by now, and Julie Ertz. The combination of Danielle Colaprico and Vanessa DiBernardo in midfield is one of the more underrated in the league. The Red Stars, however, have quite a few players just returning from preseason injury, and their status is up in the air. There's a lot we won't know until the team sheets come out.
Portland has a very strange 8-1-8 record against the Red Stars over the years. Chicago hasn't beaten the Thorns since 2013 but the two teams have been involved in some pretty competitive and memorable draws in recent memory, most recently a 2-2 game at Providence Park that looked like it was going to drop Portland out of the race for hosting a home playoff spot. Until, that is, Reign FC let in a goal in the 6th minute of stoppage time at home to North Carolina, opening up the chance for the Thorns to clinch hosting rights in the final game of the 2018 regular season. You remember the rest.
It's apparently Chicago goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher's birthday today! Best wishes to her, except on the field today.
Storylines:
"So you're playing against a team that has Sam Kerr. What to do? Well, although defending against Alex Morgan last week was made easier by her coach demanding that she frequently drop deep into midfield, the basic theory is similar: Deny her the ball. If she does get the ball, then get defense in deep to deny the shot.
As before, this starts with dominating in midfield. With Vanessa DiBernardo still recovering from a long-term injury and playing limited minutes; Nikki Stanton seems likely to start in midfield alongside Julie Ertz and Danielle Colaprico. That's an active and physical midfield who won't be afraid of trying to win balls anywhere on the field — and who will quickly pounce if anyone in the Thorns midfield makes a mistake or gets isolated."
This week's Red Smoke Radio also previewed the game.
How to watch: Yahoo Sports, NWSLSoccer.com for international viewers
Where: SeatGeek Stadium, Chicago, Illinois
When: Saturday, April 20, 12:30pm PT
Portland Thorns: 1-0-0, 2nd place in the NWSL, won 2-0 at Orlando Pride
Chicago Red Stars: 0-0-1, 6th place in the NWSL, drew 1-1 at North Carolina Courage
Coverage Hub: Portland Thorns at Chicago Red Stars
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Can Crowdfunding Help Cleantech Ride the Big Data Wave?
"Big data is a coming wave of 'green gold,'" says Nick Eisenberger of Pure Energy Partners."Information technology will be the most powerful tool to address resource challenges in our lifetime."
Eisenberger was speaking at the Markle Foundation offices in New York, where Agrion, which bills itself as the global network for energy, cleantech and corporate sustainability, convened an impressive roundtable to talk about advances in funding new ideas and uncovering innovation for energy and sustainability.
Moderated by Peter Gardnet of Breaking Energy, the panel featured, in addition to Eisenberger, Benjamin Healey of Connecticut's Clean Energy Finance and Investment Authority (CEFIA), Richard Robertson, Solar Energy Business Development Manager with GE Ventures, and Dr. Jon Roberts of the Clean.Data.Project.
"Energy is where the most data is," said Clean.Data.Project's Jon Roberts. And the panelists agreed its where the most opportunities are in energy, improving its generation, use, and efficiency. Yet not all the necessary datasets are open.
"The biggest obstacle is generational," Eisenberger claimed. "The older generation, my generation, is not comfortable with the 'open' in open innovation."
Richard Robertson explained how GE Ventures has invested in Quirky, a crowdsourcing platform for inventors, and has turned to the crowd for help with design and product naming.
The innovation is out there, Robertson suggested.
"Sungevity has an incubator in their Oakland facility, and Solar Mosaic [the crowfunding platform] is in that incubator," said Robertson. "Mosaic is looking at not just solar projects, but wind, energy storage. They're putting projects in the ground."
At least one audience-participant in the Agrion session, a project finance expert, called into question some of the deals Mosaic and others are funding and the stated returns listed on the Mosaic site. "We wouldn't fund those projects," he offered. "It's like charity."
But that's precisely the point made by Mosaic and others, such as alternative financing renewable energy companies SolarCity, SunRun, and United Wind, among others. They are there to fund the deals no one else will, deals that aren't big enough for the big banks, which is a pretty good sized niche.
That is, in fact, why these new models exist.
For those not familiar with the Mosaic model: projects are listed on its online marketplace, which allows investors pick projects to fund and then provide the capital for rooftop solar installations. The investors are repaid once the project is up and running and generating electricity. Their first projects were mostly on affordable housing in California.
The company provides capital to developers at about 5.5 percent and collects a 1 percent fee, according to some sources, returning roughly 4.5 percent.
"To rapidly deploy clean energy, the industry needs access to low cost capital and lots of it," Mosaic co-founder, Billy Parrish, told Bloomberg News last year. "We are able to source capital from the crowd and lend that capital to clean-energy developers at lower interest rates than they would get from banks."
Platforms like Mosaic, which seek a large, "democratic" community of engaged funders, as opposed to the elite accredited few, got a boost last year when the SEC released its proposed guidelines about crowdfunding as it relates to the Jumpstart Our Business Startups or JOBS Act.
If the admittedly hand-picked crowd at the Agrion session is any indication, crowdfunding is here to stay.
However, as several roundtable participants suggested, it may be best deployed as part of a mix of financing options.
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Australian patent support requirements – 11 February 2016
In 2013, significant changes to Australia's patent support requirements were introduced by the 'Raising the Bar' Act. The new requirements apply to patents and patent applications in relation to which examination was not requested prior to 15 April 2013, and are intended to accord with analogous requirements in the UK and Europe.
Whilst these requirements are yet to face Australian judicial scrutiny, we now have an Australian Patent Office decision to provide guidance. In CSR Building Products Limited v United States Gypsum Company [2015] APO 72 the Patent Office's delegate, Dr S D Barker, sets out a structured approach to the relevant enquiries which no doubt will be followed by patent examiners until the courts tell us otherwise.
Australian law, post-Raising the Bar, specifies at subsection 40(3) of the Patents Act 1990 that 'The claim or claims must be clear and succinct and supported by matter disclosed in the specification'.
Dr Barker extracts [1] from UK authorities and goes on [2] to summarise the relevant enquiry in the following terms:
'Thus the task is to:
i) construe the claims to determine the scope of the invention as claimed,
ii) construe the description to determine the technical contribution to the art, and
iii) decide whether the claims are supported by the technical contribution to the art'.
The claims were found invalid on the basis that the disclosed features did not guarantee the key benefit of the invention:
'Based on what is disclosed in the specification, it is unpredictable whether a panel containing high expansion particulates will be fire resistant. In this regard samples 3 and 4, which are apparently identical apart from their density, are of significance. […] The art has been advanced only to the extent that it is now known that high expansion particulates CAN produce a low density, fire resistant gypsum panel in some instances.' [3]
'The claims are limited to gypsum panels that contain high expansion particles AND are fire resistant. However, the technical contribution to the art is more limited than this. Consequently, the scope of the claims is not supported by the technical contribution to the art.' [4]
[1] At paragraphs 110 to 114
[2] At paragraph 115


← Amazon Books: Future of Bookselling?
Whiplash: How To Survive Our Faster Future by Joi Ito and Jeff Howe – Not sure. The authors lay out nine concepts that define the age we live in. The concepts are set up to be provocative with a "this vs. that" format. All of the concepts are good. Pull over Push. Systems over Objects. Some of the stories are interesting, but it is not always clear how they support the main concept. I am not sure the main concepts are always compellingly explained as important. The book is certainly a nod to the MIT Media Lab and I like hearing about the Lab more than I expected. The book though was a mixed bag for me. Could.
Dear Data: A Friendship in 52 Weeks of Postcards by Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec – This book collects the mail interchange of two data designers over the course of a year. Each week, they asked a question, collected data and created a representation to send to the other. The postcards feel more artistic than graphic. Watching the project evolve and seeing their follow-up commentary adds the right amount of context. The book is fun and inspiring. Should.
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga, Narrated by John Lee – I was looking for a book to match with my trip to India in January. The title won the Booker Prize in 2008 and it kept showing up on my radar around books about India and books about entrepreneurship. I chose to go with the audiobook edition, which worked very well given the book is written in first person (and that I can't read in cars). The protagonist, Balram Halwai, is writing a letter to the Premier of China about his life story and what the Premier could learn from an entrepreneur like himself. The 21st century description of the caste system, bribery, loyalty, and globalization in India resonated with him. I could see glimmers of what Adiga describes. Strangely, the core of the story felt a little hollow to me but the circumstances that drove the story forward were fascinating. Should.
Life of the Buddha by Ashvaghosha, Translated by Patrick Olivelle – This is an epic poem of the Buddha's life that was likely written in the first century CE. The official translation runs from his birth through the enlightenment. It is a good, but formal version of the story. Should.
Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet – Book Two by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Chris Sprouse, Karl Story, and Laura Martin – The story continue and T'Challa fights to see what is going on in his crumbling country and starts to see what must be done to save it. Must.
Wolverine: Old Man Logan by Mark Millar and Steve McNiven – I needed to read the original run to be ready for the movie. It's dark and sad, but it's Wolverine and it suits him. Must.


The typical Hitachi Consulting Consultant salary is $71,144. Consultant salaries at Hitachi Consulting can range from $58,625 - $117,319. This estimate is based upon 176 Hitachi Consulting Consultant salary report(s) provided by employees or estimated based upon statistical methods. When factoring in bonuses and additional compensation, a Consultant at Hitachi Consulting can expect to make an average total pay of $71,473 . See all Consultant salaries to learn how this stacks up in the market.


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On behalf of Hastings Law Firm posted in Hospital Negligence lawyers in Houston Texas on Monday, September 21, 2015.
When a loved one experiences health problems with symptoms that are unusual for that person, the obvious action would naturally be to get a medical evaluation. Doctors nationwide, including in Texas, are perceived to be professional people who have had years of training to provide care at an acceptable standard. Unfortunately, physician and hospital negligence have caused the deaths of many patients.
One such case came to light when a woman in another state recently filed a lawsuit related to the 2013 death of her husband while he was in the care of a hospital. The complaint states that the plaintiff's husband experienced vomiting and headaches and went to the emergency department of an area hospital. On the day following his admittance to the hospital, he allegedly had a fall.
The plaintiff alleges that her husband's fall incident was not investigated by the hospital, nor did he receive any form of treatment. Court documents show that he was subsequently transferred to another medical center. The man died later, and it was apparently determined that a subarachnoid hemorrhage caused his death. The plaintiff alleges negligence on the part of the hospital and the treating physician in their failure to investigate the fall incident as well as their failure to perform tests to determine the level of damage caused by the fall.
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Objectives and lines of work
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The cork-producing sector
WHAT DOES THE NETWORK DO?
DISCOVERING THE CORKLANDS
Corklands
Cork towns
Cork museums and visitors centres
How to get the most of the corklands?
THE CORK-PRODUCING SECTORgmcd2021-04-19T22:27:45+00:00
Main characteristics of the cork-producing sector
An ecosystem of wreat wealth and biodiversity
Cork, a driving force for sustainable development
Cork stoppers, the backbone of the sector
The challenges that the cork sector faces
Modernisation of the sector and new opportunities for the cork legacy
The extraction and use of cork, in addition to its environmental function, has been and continues to be a feature of territorial cohesion and of the generation of wealth for many rural areas. It has enabled sustainable forest management to be developed and has created an economic structure of reference in the territories with cork oak forests. Thanks to this, it has prevented the emigration and the loss of population from these rural territories.
This situation did not start in our times; it is a very old activity: cork is documented as having been used as stoppers for Roman amphorae. However, it was the appearance of "champagne", thanks to Dom Pérignon, that made cork and its use become normalised and turned it into an economic motor.
During the initial period, immediately after Dom Pérignon, a craftsmanship dedicated to manufacturing highly appreciated cork stoppers started to grow. From France, following the supply of the raw material, there was a systemised use of Catalan forests. From there, it gradually spread throughout the Iberian Peninsula and Italy. The evolution from artisanal work to industry increased the economic value of the raw material and its manufactured products. New applications appeared which, throughout the 19th century, led to deep changes in the sector and, above all, in the municipalities involved. In all of them, there was a genuine industrial revolution that favoured the appearance of cosmopolitan towns due to the progressive spread of the cork business. An authentic cork civilisation was created.
The first half of the 20th century saw the culminating moment of the cork sector: cork stoppers for still wines and sparkling wines was just one of the subsectors together with two others: the discs for crown seals for beer and soft drinks and industrial applications in paper for cigarette filters, refrigeration, insulating material and car parts which were obtained from agglomerated cork. The cork industry broke the barriers of the cork territories and semi-prepared raw material was exported to industries introduced in the rest of Europe and in the New World.
However, it was the last third of the 20th century when a new double evolution in the sector took place: on the one hand, the growth of the Portuguese industry which became the leading cork power in the world and, on the other hand, the appearance of synthetic products which made cork disappear from the beer and soft drinks subsector, as well as from an overwhelming part of other industrial applications. Cork stoppers alone have remained the mainstay of wine markets of all kinds to the present. Nevertheless, in recent years, synthetic materials (plastic and aluminium) have started to undermine the role of cork stoppers. Today, it is estimated that 70% of wine bottles are sealed with cork stoppers and 30% with alternative materials.
Nevertheless, unlike the last century, the current situation may (and, in our opinion, should) lean towards cork. There are an increasing number of studies that show that under no circumstances do metal or plastic stoppers improve wine in the way that cork does, confirming cork as the ideal material to ensure the correct evolution of wine in the bottle.
At the same time, there is growing concern for and need to manage the environment correctly. In this field, the advantage of cork over synthetic materials is even greater; astoundingly so.
This allows us to believe that cork is moving into a new era: not just because cork stoppers are winning the battle against the alternatives, but because the quality and environmental values of cork products enable us to observe that the way is slowly being opened up to new uses that recover some of those which caused the market share to drop dramatically; flooring, insulating material, accessories and traditional craftwork are in a good position to gradually win back new ground.
However, today's cork sector must face some challenges which, if they are not dealt with, could limit it being able to make the most of the opportunities and its own potentials.
The Cork Oak, Quercus Suber, in its various forms and locations, makes up an ecosystem of great wealth that is only found in the Western Mediterranean: Portugal, Spain, the South of France, Italy, Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. Its location is strategic in stopping desertification by improving water balances and being resistant to forest fires. It also efficiently acts against the climate change as a CO2 sink.
It is also home to a varied biodiversity, in which species of great wildlife value, protected by European directives, live, such as Spanish Imperial Eagle (Aquila adalberti), Bonelli's Eagle (Hieraaetus fasciatus), Eurasian Black Vulture (Aegypius monachus), Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos), Black stork (Ciconia nigra) and Eurasian Eagle-owl (Bubo bubo). Mammals include: Grey Wolf (Canis lupus), Iberian Lynx (Lynx pardina), Wildcat (Felis silvestris) and Red Deer (Cervus elaphus).
Together with this environmental value, the physical and chemical properties of cork have meant that a very important economic activity has been developed in rural areas, linked to the primary, secondary and tertiary sectors.
Of the approximately 2.7 million hectares of cork oaks that exist in the world, 1.48 million are in Europe, and the remaining, 1.22 million, in North Africa. The Iberian Peninsula has the greatest mass of cork oaks in the world; Portugal is the leading producer, followed by Spain.
The entire productive chain of cork is found in the rural environment. It is formed by three main agents: the owners of the cork forests, the people who prepare the sheets of cork and the manufacturers of the final products, mainly cork stoppers. In addition, the cultural and heritage legacy of this activity, with more than 200 years of history, together with the unique nature of cork oak landscapes, make up an excellent resource to create new opportunities in these territories, linked to the development of new sustainable models of tourism.
According to data from IPROCOR, el Instituto del Corcho, la Madera y el Carbón Vegetal of Extremadura and the C.E.LIÈGE, Confédération Européenne du Liège, the estimated production of cork is 340,000 tonnes per year. Full time forestry work and "stripping" (annual) work represent about 2 million working days a year in the forests. The industry of preparation finishes and commerce in Europe represents between 90,000 and 100,000 jobs and an overall invoicing (exterior and interior market) of €1.7 billion a year.
The physical and chemical properties of cork (compressibility, elasticity, oxygen permeability, durability, etc.) help the wine-producing process in a decisive way. This is why cork stoppers, in their wide variety of types, have become the backbone of the sector, as defined by the Portuguese researcher María Carolina Varela. Currently, in a setting of worldwide stagnation in the consumption of wine, the annual world production is estimated to be about 14,000 million stoppers.
Therefore, we are looking at a sector that works with a raw material that is notably local but which has consolidated a worldwide market.
The industry is characterised by the coexistence of some large groups, with strong capital, and an industrial fabric of small, dynamic companies with local capital, deeply rooted in the territory, with an average of approximately 15 employees per company and an enviable level of know-how.
This sector is currently having to face some problems of an internal and external nature of which we would like to highlight: In the first place, the cork oak is facing diverse problems of a biological order, which are more notable in certain formations such as in pastures. For example, problems of regeneration and plant health have been detected, such as root rot which is caused by a Phytophtora cinnamomi infection.
The particular nature of the cork oak is worthy of a mention with regard to its performance, as it requires long periods of time until one is able to obtain the first economically profitable "stripping". Therefore public policies to help set up exploitations need to be developed and they are currently not sufficiently well funded. However, it is necessary to maintain and, whenever possible, increase the production of cork in cork oak forests.
In the second place, there is a high dependence on a single product: cork stoppers for wine. This creates uncertainty for companies and cork-producing territories. Changes in consumption could reduce the demand for wine and the emergence of new wine-producing companies which do not have cork easily available could facilitate the appearance of alternative products. As an example, we should mention that the current market share for cork stoppers is 70% of the total bottles produced in the world, with a loss of approximately 10 points in the last decade, in calculated values.
Despite the joint efforts carried out to ensure quality (International Code of Cork Stopper Manufacturing Practices and SYSTECODE certificate), the value of cork stoppers as a natural, biodegradable product with food safety and traceability guarantees has not had sufficient repercussion amongst consumers and opinion makers, therefore we need to make a very significant effort to create awareness and to communicate.
The extraction of cork is a sustainable activity, which respects the tree, which makes the most of a renewable resource which, together with responsible management, does not affect the ecosystem or its environmental services.
In the third place, the cork sector, despite its importance, has had and still has a low political relevance, among other reasons due to its particular nature and due to the fact that the activity is focused on small companies and micro-companies. Partly as a result of this, there is a progressive loss of cultural heritage, of social recognition of its object values, and a commoditisation of the fact that its use is being replaced by synthetic products.
However, cork has key elements in its favour that can influence its development as a sector. On he one hand, there is its sustainable character, as it is a natural, organic, renewable, recyclable, which is what allows for different industrial uses, biodegradable material, the production of which does not contaminate, which consumes little energy and minimises the waste as it can be used to generate renewable energies. The cork-producing industry has carried out and continues to carry out a complex, integral modernisation process.
In addition, the importance of cork oaks to combat climate change makes their use a strategic factor. In this sense, we should mention that, taking into account its life in the cork oak forest, cork stoppers present a total balance of CO2 that is negative whereas plastic and aluminium stoppers have positive balances, which means that these non-renewable and non biodegradable materials leave a greater ecological print. In addition, if we consider the entire life cycle of the cork stopper, it fixes a quantity of CO2 that is double its weight.
Finally, knowledge about the sector should be an economic motor for the territory. The sector currently maintains employment in rural areas and can create new employment related to different possibilities: nature, cultural and industrial tourism, eco-tourism, etc.
Taking into account the economy of the services and the fact that the quality of the territory is its economic capital and a factor of competitiveness, the quality of cork oak landscapes is a motor in local development and a territorial marketing instrument to confer value on its products.
To make the most of the opportunities that there are and to be able to deal with the weaknesses and threats to which the sector is subjected, we need a joint, coordinated action from all the agents in the productive chain and the value chain of the sector: from the companies, technological centres, business associations, areas of economic promotion and local development, natural protected open spaces and museums and interpretation centres. It cannot be forgotten that local administration plays a decisive role in maintaining and increasing the quality and competitiveness of the territory.
Due to the importance that this activity has on local development, the cooperation between cork-producing regions and towns is a fundamental feature for introducing common strategies that defend a model of sustainable development, based on the maintenance of cork production and the increase of its competitiveness.
Centre Cultural Bassa Rocas


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Colquhoun (1921-2012) was credited with inspiring a generation of architects who he taught at the Architectural Association between 1957 and 64.
He studied at the Edinburgh College of Art and AA before working for the London County Council in the 1950s.
He started Colquhoun & Miller, a partnership with architect John Miller, in 1961. — architectsjournal.co.uk
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'The most original Czech architect of our times', Jiri Stritecky, 58, passed away yesterday
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Dec 6, '12 12:42 PM EST
"He was the most original architect of our times, in (Ceske) Budejovice, in the southern Czech region, even in the entire (Czech) Republic." Martin Krupauer
"V současnosti to je nejoriginálnější architekt, který v Budějovicích, jižních Čechách i v celé republice byl," — Lidove Noviny
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Master Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer passes away at 104
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Editor's Picks #288
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Italian architect Gae Aulenti dies at 85
Italian architect, designer and teacher Gae Aulenti died late on Wednesday at her Milan home. She was 85 years old and had been ill for some time. Born in Palazzolo della Stella near the northern city of Udine, Aulenti trained as an architect at Milan's Polytechnical University graduating in 1959 and quickly became one of the few well-recognized women working in Italian postwar design. — ansamed.info
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Lebbeus Woods dead at 72
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Oct 30, '12 12:46 PM EST
Deeply sorry to have just heard that Lebbeus Woods, a true visionary architect and astonishing draftsman, died this morning. A great loss. — michael kimmelman
Michael Kimmelman, Architecture critic for the NY Times, is reporting this morning, via Twitter, that Lebbeus Woods died in his sleep last night in New York. Details are still emerging. View full entry
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John M. Johansen, Last of 'Harvard Five' Architects, Dies at 96
Oct 28, '12 4:10 PM EST
John M. Johansen, a celebrated Modernist architect and the last surviving member of the Harvard Five, a group that made New Canaan, Conn., a hotbed of architectural experimentation in the 1950s and '60s, died on Friday in Brewster, Mass. He was 96. — nytimes.com
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RIP Bud Goldstone, the Hero Who Saved Watts Towers
Sep 24, '12 8:32 PM EST
Bud Goldstone (1926-2012), a former aerospace engineer who worked for over 50 years to save Watts Towers, has died at the age of 86.
In 1959 he devised the test to prove the Towers were structurally sound and stopped the City of Los Angeles from demolishing them. He was a founding member of the Committee for Simon Rodia's Towers in Watts, Inc., which successfully sued the city in 1985 to save the Towers from the city's neglect. — kcet.org
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Sep 4, '12 5:25 PM EST
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"Truly they were leaders in their field," said Margaret Russell, the editor in chief of Architectural Digest. "They won pretty much every award a firm could win. — nytimes.com
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Walter Pichler, an Artist Who Bucked the Status Quo, Dies at 75
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Gerhard Kallmann, Brutalist Architect, Dies at 97
Jun 26, '12 6:01 PM EST
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Hillman Curtis, a Pioneer in Web Design, Dies at 51
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Luis Moreno Mansilla passed away
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Mansilla, was a professor at the School of Architecture in Madrid, and had been a Visiting Professor at Princeton University. — El Pais
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Stowey Court, a country house set in 9 acres in the village of Nether Stowey, near Bridgewater, in Somerset, is up for sale. It's famous for Winston Churchill putting his cigars out in the iconic fireplace.
They got the property for a snip, at $250,000 ($300,000) and they set to work restoring the iconic property. They did most of the work themselves.
The property was structurally sound, but a shabby mess inside, so they got it for a snip at around $300,000 and the couple and their eight-year-old twins moved into the historic residence and set to work.
It has paid off, though, as the couple have now put the house up for sale for £1.3 million, which is more than $1.6 million in American money.
Buy it, and you'll get a slice of history, as well as the house where WInston Churchill famously spent time and stubbed his Davidoff cigars out in the fireplace. Is it worth it? That's up to you!


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The 2021 Tour de Romandie was a road cycling stage race, that took place between 27 April and 2 May 2021 in Romandy, the French-speaking part of western Switzerland. It was the 74th edition of the Tour de Romandie and the 17th race of the 2021 UCI World Tour.

Teams
All nineteen UCI WorldTeams and the Swiss national team participated in the race. Each of the 20 teams entered seven riders, for a total of 140 riders, of which 120 finished.

UCI WorldTeams

National Teams

 Switzerland

Route

Stages

Prologue
27 April 2021 — Oron,  (ITT)

Stage 1
28 April 2021 — Aigle to Martigny,

Stage 2
29 April 2021 — La Neuveville to Saint-Imier,

Stage 3
30 April 2021 — Estavayer to Estavayer,

Stage 4
1 May 2021 — Sion to Thyon 2000,

Stage 5
2 May 2021 — Fribourg to Fribourg,  (ITT)

Classification leadership table

 On stage 1, Geraint Thomas, who was second in the points classification, wore the green jersey, because first-placed Rohan Dennis wore the yellow jersey as the leader of the general classification.

Final classification standings

General classification

Points classification

Mountains classification

Young rider classification

Team classification

References

External links

2021
2021 UCI World Tour
2021 in Swiss sport
April 2021 sports events in Switzerland
May 2021 sports events in Switzerland

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