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Goux-les-Usiers és un municipi francès situat al departament del Doubs i a la regió de Borgonya - Franc Comtat. L'any 2007 tenia 644 habitants.

Demografia

Població
El 2007 la població de fet de Goux-les-Usiers era de 644 persones. Hi havia 252 famílies de les quals 63 eren unipersonals (29 homes vivint sols i 34 dones vivint soles), 92 parelles sense fills, 84 parelles amb fills i 13 famílies monoparentals amb fills.

La població ha evolucionat segons el següent gràfic:

Habitants censats

Habitatges
El 2007 hi havia 282 habitatges, 260 eren l'habitatge principal de la família, 9 eren segones residències i 13 estaven desocupats. 226 eren cases i 53 eren apartaments. Dels 260 habitatges principals, 200 estaven ocupats pels seus propietaris, 49 estaven llogats i ocupats pels llogaters i 10 estaven cedits a títol gratuït; 1 tenia una cambra, 20 en tenien dues, 39 en tenien tres, 60 en tenien quatre i 140 en tenien cinc o més. 234 habitatges disposaven pel capbaix d'una plaça de pàrquing. A 131 habitatges hi havia un automòbil i a 102 n'hi havia dos o més.

Piràmide de població
La piràmide de població per edats i sexe el 2009 era:

Economia
El 2007 la població en edat de treballar era de 387 persones, 296 eren actives i 91 eren inactives. De les 296 persones actives 284 estaven ocupades (164 homes i 120 dones) i 10 estaven aturades (4 homes i 6 dones). De les 91 persones inactives 31 estaven jubilades, 26 estaven estudiant i 34 estaven classificades com a «altres inactius».

Ingressos
El 2009 a Goux-les-Usiers hi havia 270 unitats fiscals que integraven 678 persones, la mediana anual d'ingressos fiscals per persona era de 18.312 €.

Activitats econòmiques
Dels 36 establiments que hi havia el 2007, 2 eren d'empreses alimentàries, 3 d'empreses de fabricació d'altres productes industrials, 11 d'empreses de construcció, 2 d'empreses de comerç i reparació d'automòbils, 3 d'empreses de transport, 2 d'empreses d'hostatgeria i restauració, 2 d'empreses d'informació i comunicació, 3 d'empreses financeres, 2 d'empreses immobiliàries, 4 d'entitats de l'administració pública i 2 d'empreses classificades com a «altres activitats de serveis».

Dels 13 establiments de servei als particulars que hi havia el 2009, 1 era una oficina de correu, 1 una oficina bancària, 1 taller de reparació d'automòbils i de material agrícola, 2 paletes, 1 guixaire pintor, 2 fusteries, 2 lampisteries, 2 electricistes i 1 restaurant.

L'únic establiment comercial que hi havia el 2009 era una fleca.

L'any 2000 a Goux-les-Usiers hi havia 15 explotacions agrícoles que ocupaven un total de 1.092 hectàrees.

Equipaments sanitaris i escolars
L'únic equipament sanitari que hi havia el 2009 era una farmàcia.

El 2009 hi havia una escola elemental integrada dins d'un grup escolar amb les comunes properes formant una escola dispersa.

Poblacions més properes
El següent diagrama mostra les poblacions més properes.

Referències

 Résumé statistique Fitxa resum de dades estadístiques de Goux-les-Usiers a l'INSEE.
 Évolution et structure de la population Fitxa amb el detall de dades de Goux-les-Usiers a l'INSEE
 France par commune Dades detallades de tots els municipis de França accessibles a partir del mapa.

Municipis del Doubs


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Hartlepool (pronounced HART-le-pool) is a town and North Sea port in North East England.
It is part of the traditional county of Durham, and, in 1974, formed part of the new county of Cleveland.
After the abolition of Cleveland, it was placed in the ceremonial county of Durham, but is governed by a unitary authority.
It had a resident population of 90,161 in 2003, and is located at coordinates 54°31' N 1°13' W.
Hartlepool was founded as a village in the 7th century AD, springing up around a convent founded in 640 on a headland overlooking a natural harbour.
The convent became famous under St Hilda, who served as its abbess from 649-657, but it was destroyed by the Vikings in 800.
During the Middle Ages the village grew into an important (though still small) town, gaining a market and walls, and its harbour was improved to serve as the official port of the County palatine of Durham.
Its harbour made it a convenient outlet for the coalfields of South Durham and in 1835 a railway was built to enable South Durham coal to be exported.
A rival railway was built in 1847 and docks were established at its terminus, around which a new town, West Hartlepool, was founded.
The area became heavily industrialised with an ironworks (established 1838) and shipyards in the docks (established in the 1870s).
By 1913, no fewer than 42 ship-owning companies were located in the town, responsible for 235 ships.
Hartlepool suffered badly in the Great Depression of the 1930s and suffered high unemployment until the start of the Second World War, during which its shipbuilding and steelmaking industries enjoyed a renaissance.
After the war, both industries went into a severe decline.
The last ship to be constructed in Hartlepool left the slips in 1961.
A nuclear power station of the advanced gas-cooled reactor (AGR) type was opened near Hartlepool in the 1980s and is scheduled for decommissioning by 2014.
The plant operator, British Energy, has suggested that the site would be a good location for a replacement nuclear power station, though this is opposed by environmental groups such as Greenpeace.
Hartlepool is famous for allegedly executing a monkey, the sole survivor of a shipwreck, during the Napoleonic Wars.
Not knowing what a Frenchman looked like, and with the monkey unable to defend himself against accusations of spying, the townspeople supposedly hanged the monkey.
The story is unconfirmed, but historians have pointed to the prior existence of a Scottish folk song called "And the Boddamers hung the Monkey-O".
It describes how a monkey survived a shipwreck off the village of Boddam near Peterhead in Aberdeenshire.
Because the villagers could only claim salvage rights if there were no survivors from the wreck, they allegedly hanged the monkey.
"Monkey hanger" is a common term of (semi-friendly) abuse aimed at "Poolies", often from bitter footballing rivals Darlington.
In June 2005 a large bone was found washed ashore on Hartlepool beach, which initially was taken as giving credence to the monkey legend.
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At the Pirates swimming season opener in Detroit Lakes, Crookston High School finished in 7th place with 18 points out of the seven teams competing. The swimmers competed in the 50-yard Butterfly, 50-yard Backstroke, 50-yard Breaststroke, 50-yard Freestyle, and 100-yard IM.
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At the meet, in the Butterfly competition, Madison Hoiland finished 16th with a time of 32.93, Naomi Olson at 34.82, Chloe Boll at 37.42, Mackenzie Aamoth at 38.99, Evelyn Gunderson at 43.20, Abigail Olson at 44.89, Lily Groven at 48.92, and Elizabeth Helgeson at 56.62.
In the Backstroke competition, Aamoth recorded a time of 36.75, Hoiland at 36.82, Boll at 41.58, N. Olson at 43.28, A. Olson at 44.75, Helgeson at 45.83, Gunderson at 46.36, Groven at 47.30, Hailey Richardt at 52.29, and Mollie Samuelson at 1:00:03.
In the Breaststroke competition, Hoiland finished 12th with a time of 37.92, Aamoth at 47.41, N. Olson at 49.62, and Gunderson at 57.00. Boll at 58.04 and Groven were disqualified among eight others from other schools.
In the Freestyle competition, Hoiland finished 17th with a time of 29.15, Boll at 31.05, Aamoth at 32.23, N. Olson at 33.48, A. Olson at 37.04, Gunderson at 37.70, Helgeson at 41.50, Groven at 41.73, Richardt at 46.58, and Samuelson at 59.21.
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video out. Their main offices are in Downtown KC, their practice facilities are in Swope Park (but not for long, will be moving to KCK after National Soccer Center is complete) but play out in KCK. I think they will be out at Village West for a while, that stadium was built for expansion in mind, roughly can expand by 10,000 more seats, and rumors are they should be announcing expansion by the end of the decade. Basically the owners of the team are OnGoal, which consists of Cerner owners, now tell me again where have they showed loyalty? If Kansas had given them a better "deal" aka tax breaks, to build that massive center that is being built in South KC, do you think they would have batted an eye? Hell no. lol They are taking advantage of our idiotic government here in Kansas and getting tax breaks galore.
I agree with everything you posted, and would have posted the exact same thing myself. Yet because I don't like Village West (I have always thought the stadium should have been built in downtown KCK or at Kaw Point), you have some sort of issue with me.
The stadium is in the parking lot of a gigantic furniture store in what feels like the middle of nowhere. Like Kauffman Stadium, it's a nice stadium, in a terrible location.
I don't think they are tied to one side of the state line at all. They just took advantage of very generous incentives from Kansas.
Having said that, I think we all know that "Cerner owners" are about as uninterested in building up the urban core as you can get and are much more interested in getting ridiculous incentives for their suburban projects in MO and KS. So short of the city of KCMO or KCK handing them a brand new 500 million dollar riverfront stadium with lots of free parking, an urban stadium is a pipe dream.
BTW, I don't see Sporting keeping their offices in KCMO too much longer. They will probably get some free office space out by the new soccer complex in WyCo at some point in the near future.
^^^^I've seen you say several times that Sporting Park is in the parking lot of Nebraska Furniture Mart. If it were in downtown KC, what would it be in the parking lot of? Would people have to smell sewer like they do walking into Sprint Center? Kansas City really needs to deal with its sewer system before building more. You have no reason to say that except to show distain for the location. It is not in the parking lot; it is across the street from a very nice furniture store. And the location is just fine. It is surrounded with great hotels and restaurants and shopping if you're so inclined. But driving there is easy, you don't have to deal with one-way streets and although there is a lot of traffic when there are events going on, it moves pretty quickly and is not a congested mess like it would be downtown. I would much rather drive to a suburban park with plenty of open space around than have to fight traffic to a downtown urban location and feel crowded. Plus it's just a more pleasant setting in my opinion. I feel that way about any city. I was definitely not impressed when I went to the San Diego Padres game. The stadium felt too closed in to me and it made it seem so small. Kauffman Stadium is better. Sporting Park is better.
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The problems I have with Sporting Park and Truman Sports Complex are that, while it is indeed easier to drive there...it's nearly impossible to walk or bike there. If one prefers walking, driving or taking a bus to one of these places (I really don't like spending time in cars anymore and prefer not to drive places), these stadiums are just not set up for that. I have never been to the Padres ballpark, but I was just recently at AT&T Park in San Francisco and the great thing was that we could go from our airbnb on the Embarcadero and it was less than a 2 mile walk to the stadium...on the way we stopped for sushi and pre-gamed at a couple bars...all along the way, on foot. Plus there was lots to see along the way... I really, really wish we had a baseball stadium set up like that. I know it probably wouldn't fly for football because people like to do the tailgate thing and ample parking is needed.
Plus, let's face it...the retail options around Sporting Park are a bunch of newly built sterile chain restaurants and a oversized superstore specializing in barcaloungers and Lay-Z-Boys...not exactly the paragon of fashionable taste or on the vanguard. And nothing really eclectic or charming about it at all. It's bourgeois all the way. I am lovingly kidding, of course...but there is a nugget of truth in it.
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The problems I have with Sporting Park and Truman Sports Complex are that, while it is indeed easier to drive there...it's nearly impossible to walk or bike there. If one prefers walking, driving or taking a bus to one of these places (I really don't like spending time in cars anymore and prefer not to drive places), these stadiums are just not set up for that. I have never been to the Padres ballpark, but I was just recently at AT&T Park in San Francisco and the great thing was that we could go from our airbnb on the Embarcadero and it was less than a 2 mile walk to the stadium...on the way we stopped for sushi and pre-gamed at a couple bars...all along the way, on foot. Plus there was lots to see along the way... I really, really wish we had a stadium set up like that.
Point taken. I can see how that would be nice. But how many people would actually live close enough to be able to walk? I guess buses and streetcar would be options too, especially if people could park say at the Plaza and catch the streetcar.
Not the same as being within walking distance, but I thought it was great when you could park and ride to games at Truman Sports Complex. I never did it, but I knew people who did. It doesn't work if you want to tailgate, but if you want to get there and back without driving it was a great option. Someone should revive that, maybe a private company instead of the KCATA.
Private companies can still do it but you have to have enough people.
I took these photos. They are ten years apart, although most of what is in the first photo went up while the stadium went up. You can see the development that has happened around the stadium in just ten years. This could be the Crossroads District.
I have been to games in nearly every stadium and it takes just as long to get into and out of Kauffman than any other stadium. For large crowds it actually takes longer because you end up walking much further and traffic really bogs down at the TSC for large crowds because there are only a few ways in and out and you have no choice but to drive.
In DC, it's a block to Metro and we typically take the train. While Baltimore has light rail, it's easier for us to drive. There are dozens of garages within five blocks and because you are in the city, you have tons of streets to use to get out of the area so you don't have to line up and wait for 5000 other cars to exit one large parking lot.
I prefer this: So much is within walking distance. Practically all of downtown San Diego is walkable to the stadium, but you have the trolley (light rail) too.
Do you realize the parking lots at the TSC would take up nearly everything in the photos below?
Those are nice, but nothing beats the view of the Bay behind the outfield. Literally the best at-the-game atmospheres I have ever experienced had for baseball.
Yea, great park. The area behind the stadium is very built up though so it's an urban park. But yea, that view is pretty amazing.
I like all stadiums. Been to all but the new Twins park and the new Miami park.
Kauffman is a beautiful stadium, don't get me wrong. I love the bowl, the fountains etc and the park is amazing at night and it has become a unique park among many throwback clones. It just doesn't do much for the city. The city gets nothing in return from having it out there. Access and like KCI user friendliness is highly overrated. It's just as easy to drive to any other ballpark. Even Mets and Yankees stadiums are easy to drive to. But urban stadiums give you the option to take transit or walk.
The new Atlanta Braves stadium in suburban Cobb County is a real cluster fk. It won't be near transit and parking will be much harder than Turner Field.
I spend a bunch of time in Atlanta for work...they are insane for scrapping two, perfectly fine 20 year old stadiums in the same year. If I were a Atlanta/Fulton County taxpayer I would be pissed.
Aside from the access, I do love Kauffmann...I don't really go to football games so I have never been to Arrowhead.
Interesting. I think there would be enough people interested in that if a private company were to provide a service similar to the KCATA Chiefs/Royals Express. Especially with parking at $40 now.
Hey, how was your Airbnb experience? We were thinking about doing that in Orange County but a lot of cities don't allow short-term rentals. I'm seeing a lot of "book at your own risk." May go with North San Diego County instead.


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Yes, another month between postings, and yes it's because RL kept me busy. After not one, but two scary trips to an ER because of heart palpatations and anxiety, my doctor told me I had to stop doing high-stress activities. Problem: the nature of my chosen career path in general and my job at Guckenheimer in specific was high pressure and high-stress and there really wasn't any way to reduce that. So, we parted ways.
Now comes the 'fun' part.... I was the one who had the health insurance for the pair of us. Coug'r had been a contractor working with a company who really likes him, and there was talk about converting him over to be an employee after a grace period had passed with the contractor. But there was still questions about how exactly they were going to do that, what his status would be (W2 employee or independent contractor?) and when that was going to happen. My change in job status helped push things through in a good way, but there would be a month before his insurance would be in effect... yay, COBRA to the 'rescue'. If I didn't have all these tests to do, we wouldn't need COBRA and I'd just coast on my current meds until the new coverage took over. But tests are stupid-expensive, and I am needing them, so we pay the COBRA for one month to deal with the gap in coverage.
Meanwhile, I distract myself from my health and financial situation by processing the enormous quantity of lemons we helped harvest. I may have issues in a time-compressed commercial kitchen, but I can still cook and I have a pile of Renaissance Period recipes for preserving citrus that I've been meaning to play with. I've also been using the grill more for dinners, not being tired from a long day in front of one.
There is also the slow continual unboxing of stuff, the organization of cruft and craft, and in general working on house. I have a storage unit partially filled with boxes that I'd like to move out of the rental unit and into the garage, but the garage is still cluttered with the boxes and stuff of the manic move, and so I have to get that cleared out first... SOMEWHERE in all these boxes is my canning equipment and I'm rather upset I can't find it anywhere, as it puts a damper on the before-mentioned lemon processing.
So, while we're working on trying to get my health back to something I can go out and work with, I'm stuck with the problem of money. Coug'r is gonna work on getting my old CD stuff up on his business site, which is nice, but I think it's time I get back into commissions. I was thinking about doing an avatar picture set -- one full-color image on 9x12 paper with a matching 3" button for $50.
Heck, maybe I should sell the lemon curd, preserves, cookies and pies I'm making, too. I don't think I can bring myself to setting up a 'donate' button yet, tho.
The sewing machine isn't set up in an area I can use it in, yet, so the stuffies will have to wait a little longer... but they're still in the works.
Oh, man. The health insurance thing is particularly harsh, but at least it's taken care of. I've been without health insurance for far too long in the past. Not a good place to be when there are active issues.
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I got to my first Faire in 10+ years on this trip! Do enjoy it. I hope comissionwork will do well for you. You should set up on FurAffinity.. it tends to be an easy space to get comissions from, perhaps in tandem with furBid.
Glad to hear they have made a diagnosis..but very sorry to hear of the employment problem.
I'll be @ Casa Faire the last 2 weekends in September. Doing my goofy little magic show.
We'll have to check and see what (if anything) is planned this weekend.... but it'd be fun to do!
I've never been to the Casa De Fruita incarnation of Faire. Actually, the last time I attended a fair was in 1999 when I was part of St. Cuthbert's. Funny thing is, I was thinking about all of the Rennaissance costuming stuff in my closet the other day thinking that I should doe something about it since I never seem to use it any more.


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Monday 18th May 2009 SH (Editor)
Council accuses property owners of illegal land grab
Property owners in a wealthy neighbourhood of Bradley Stoke have been accused of an illegal land grab by South Gloucestershire Council (SGC).
The owners of a number of executive properties in Champs Sur Marne are understood to have extended their rear gardens beyond the original boundary into a strip of woodland that separates them from the grounds of Bradley Stoke Community School.
It is thought that the issue may have come to light during site inspections connected with the planned expansion of the school to include a sixth form centre at its Fiddlers Wood Lane site.
Asked to confirm the rumours, a spokesperson for SGC told The Journal:
"The council has a duty to protect its land holdings and is currently in discussion with certain residents of Champ Sur Marne as to how best resolve what appears to be an encroachment of their rear gardens onto part of the Bradley Stoke Community School site and removal of a protected hedge."
A source at BSCS made it clear that it is the council rather than the school that is taking action against the residents.
More Information: The disputed area on Google Maps (The Journal)
The Champs Sur Marne road is named after Bradley Stoke's twin town of Champs-sur-Marne in France. The twinning agreement between the two towns was formally signed in 2000 and next year will see the Bradley Stoke Twinning Association celebrate the tenth anniversary of the relationship.
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Federico Antich is an Italian international and national business mediator and an attorney-at-law duly qualified in Italy since 1997, admitted to practice before the Italian Supreme Court.
Federico has always embraced mediation as one of the most efficient and certain dispute resolution tools. Since 1999, he has mediated more than 5000 cases involving consumer disputes, commercial contracts, company law, intellectual property, will and probates, as well as real estate.
He currently holds accreditation as a Mediator from the most renown local and international institutions in the field, such as the Chamber of Commerce of Firenze, Italy; the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR) London, England; the International Mediation Institute (IMI), the Italy-China Business Mediation Centre (ICBMC) Milan, Italy, and the National Association of Chambers of Commerce in Italy (Unioncamere).
Furthermore, Federico currently serves as the President of the Italian Delegation of the Centre of Mediation of Europe, the Mediterranean and the Middle East (CEM), a non-profit private association of professionals founded in Strasbourg, France, in 1959 and devoted to spread the knowledge of mediation.The Delegation is a Registered Mediation Provider and Training Organization with Italy's Ministry of Justice.
He is also a Member of the Centre for International Legal Studies (CILS) the International Bar Association (IBA) and the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb-Member).
Federico is passionate about mediation: he practices with polyhedric fortitude and understands that effective mediation starts with listening.
Federico Antich also provides expert mediation consulting, and routinely organizes training and coaching courses for mediators.
As an attorney, Federico also represents Italian and foreign clients in court if a claim or need to pursue a case arises. He approaches all litigations with affordable, decisive, and reliable representation. His experience in mediation gives him the ability to pursue smart agreements and settlements to avoid a trial when in the interest of the client.
Speeches and Training
Federico delivers speeches on a variety of legal topics at conferences around the world. He provides in-depth lectures on negotiation, litigation, alternative dispute resolution, expert evidence and more. He also organizes training and coaching classes in mediation in Italy and abroad.
To know more about Federico's interventions at seminars and conferences globally and his trainings, please tap here.
FEDERICO ANTICH
University of Firenze School of Law, Class of 1992
UC Davis and Berkeley – Post Graduate Law Courses, 1997 and 2003
Harvard Law School's PIL, 1998
University of Cologne – Post Graduate Law Courses, 2000
King's College, 2001-2002
Hamline University, 2004
Harvard Law School's – Program on Negotiation for Senior Executives, 2010
Suffolk University Law School – Master of Laws – LLM in US Law and Global Business Law, 2014
Federico has published a variety of interesting articles and other content of relevance with solid insights about mediation. You can find them here.
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Tangoe and Vodafone strike up strategic partnership for TEM
Telecoms expense management (TEM) provider Tangoe has announced a strategic agreement with Vodafone with the former acquiring TEM technology and the latter using Tangoe's solutions as its preferred provider.
According to the 8-K form submitted to finalise the agreement, Tangoe will also hire "a majority" of Vodafone's TEM business employees, and will shell out $4.5m...
By James Bourne, 07 April 2016, 0 comments. Categories: Enterprise Mobility, M&A.
Five key insights from the latest Enterprise Mobility Exchange report
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The Enterprise Mobility Exchange (EME) has long been a forum for companies implementing mobility strategies, as well as companies like ours which help enable enterprise mobility. As it turns out, they're also a great source of insight on the state of enterprise mobility.
For their new report, "The Global State of Enterprise Mobility: 2016," EME surveyed over 300 senior mobility practitioners to gauge...
By App47, 04 April 2016, 0 comments. Categories: Applications, Enterprise Mobility, M&A, Productivity.
Cisco officially completes Jasper acquisition
Cisco has announced the acquisition of Internet of Things (IoT) platform provider Jasper has officially been completed.
The deal, which was originally announced in February, will now put into place the two companies' ideas for furthering enterprise IoT deployments, with the two companies previously forging their own array of partnerships including VMware, SAP and Salesforce for Jasper.
"The two companies share the same vision for IoT and a commitment to enabling companies of all sizes to...
By James Bourne, 23 March 2016, 0 comments. Categories: Enterprise Mobility, IoT, M&A.
Cisco announces intent to buy Jasper for $1.4bn
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Tech giant Cisco has announced its intention to acquire Internet of Things (IoT) platform provider Jasper for $1.4 billion (£960m) in cash.
The move will be seen as a shot in the arm for enterprise Internet of Things deployments, with Cisco arguing the acquisition of Jasper will be the final piece in the jigsaw for creating a complete IoT service platform.
"Cisco in the IoT space is really a leader. We've been leading and helping companies, countries and cities to...
By James Bourne, 04 February 2016, 0 comments. Categories: Enterprise Mobility, IoT, M&A.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise launches: A more agile, lean HP?
It has been coming for more than a year, but now it is official: tech giant Hewlett Packard has split in two, as Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) launches with $53 billion in annual revenue alongside HP Inc.
Despite the grumbles from analysts at the time – one noted that "splitting a business is never a sign of prosperity" while another, Bob Egan, told this reporter the move
By James Bourne, 02 November 2015, 1 comment. Categories: Cloud , Enterprise Mobility, M&A.
VMware acquires Boxer, aims for knockout blow in secure email
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End user computing giant VMware has announced plans to acquire mobile email...
By James Bourne, 14 October 2015, 0 comments. Categories: Collaboration, Enterprise Mobility, M&A.
Red Hat and Samsung announce strategic alliance for mobile enterprise
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Ask any executive about news regarding two companies who have come together and harnessed their strengths for enterprise mobile solutions, and the answer would be straightforward. But this time, it's not Apple and IBM: Red Hat and Samsung have announced a "strategic alliance" to deliver solutions for organisations looking to implement a mobile-first strategy.
Starting off in the US, Samsung Business Services and Red Hat will look to deliver several key products,...
By James Bourne, 29 June 2015, 0 comments. Categories: Applications, App Platforms, Enterprise Mobility, M&A.
Red Hat launches revamped mobile app platform, pushes FeedHenry brand further away
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It's official: the FeedHenry brand is moving further and further away. Red Hat has announced the rebranding of the FeedHenry Mobile App Platform to Red Hat Mobile, as well as adding a glut of features to simplify and accelerate the development and management of mobile apps.
The news arrived through a somewhat valedictory tweet from FeedHenry, which was acquired by Red Hat back in September:
By James Bourne, 23 June 2015, 0 comments. Categories: Development, Enterprise Mobility, M&A, MBaaS.
Vox Mobile completes $6.7m round of funding to improve enterprise mobile rollouts
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Vox Mobile, the Ohio-based firm which offers 'enterprise mobility as a service', has closed a $6.7 million funding round, which the company describes as "strategic investment."
The funding was led by TELUS Ventures, and included contributions from Mutual Capital Partners Funds, Edison Partners and Permal Capital.
Vox is essentially a middle man to organisations looking at deploying enterprise mobility solutions. Among the products offered are mobility management...
By James Bourne, 19 June 2015, 0 comments. Categories: Applications, Enterprise Mobility, M&A, MDM, Security.
Hewlett-Packard splits into two: Analyst describes move as "Wall Street tactic"
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By James Bourne, 06 October 2014, 0 comments. Categories: Cloud , Enterprise Mobility, M&A.


Many thanks to the friends of Koru Care who came and enjoyed the Wine and Food Matching evening helped with the knowledge of expert wine maker Kim Crawford. Many wines were sampled and enjoyed. 35 boxes were sold on the night and taken home to be enjoyed. You can still order your wine online. Click here and use the authorisation "kor".


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I'm in a muddle: I held the firm belief that autumn starts on the 21st of September - at least in this part of the world. But I'm not on my own. So did the DJs of the famous Italian Radio Deejay radio station. Thanks to their listeners I've finally learned that autumn is supposed to start on the 22nd and sometimes (this year) on the 23rd of September (it must be the Italians - arriving late as always) .
I love autumn in Tuscany - my favorite season down South. But the stupid nostalgic I am I also already miss the Tuscan summer. Therefore let's stretch that summer feeling just a tiny bit more with what has become over the last years one of the biggest Italian summertime standards.
ROTOLANDO VERSO SUD (Roling Towards South) was a prime summer hit five or six years ago. And it has had its come back every summer since then... or whenever an Italian DJ in Milan had it with the city's notorious fog and smog (which is rather often the case).
I NEGRITA are from Arezzo, a real hot spot when it comes to Tuscan pop music. Avid readers will know by now that the city is also hometown to Italian's superstar JOVANOTTI. I don't think the above video is necessarily the best publicity for the guys from I Negrita. But the song definitely deserves a thumbs up.


After meeting with a delegation of Bollywood producers, few weeks back, Prime Minster Narendra Modi, today met another delegation, which was a mix of directors and actors. Major Bollywood stars such as Ranveer Singh, Ranbir Kapoor, Alia Bhatt and Varun Dhawan were part of the meeting, which, according to the sources, was organized by filmmaker Karan Johar.
While in the December 19 meeting with PM, there was no female representation, this time Alia Bhatt and Bhumi Pednekar and other female actors were part of the delegation. Others who were part of the delegation were director Rohit Shetty, Rajkummar Rao, Vicky Kaushal, Ayushmann Khurrana and Sidharth Malhotra.


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Gregg Saretsky (born 1959 in Châteauguay, Quebec) is the former president and CEO of WestJet, a carrier based in Calgary, Alberta.
He served in that position from April 2010 to March 8, 2018, after the resignation of Sean Durfy.

He grew up in a Montreal suburb to a French mother and a German father. He moved with his family to Richmond, British Columbia in 1970. He acquired a Bachelor of science in microbiology and biochemistry in 1982 and a master of business administration in 1984, both at University of British Columbia. 1985-1998 he worked with Canadian Airlines International Ltd. (formerly Pacific Western Airlines and CP Air), rising to vice president roles for Airports and Marketing. From 1998-2008 he was an executive at Seattle based Alaska Airlines Inc. In mid 2009 he joined WestJet Airlines Ltd. as vacation vice-president; in April 2010 he became CEO of the airline.

Saretsky is married and has three children. He has also two older brothers who are commercial pilots, one with Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. and the other with Air Canada.

Awards and recognitions

Business Person of the Year for 2012 by Alberta Venture magazine.

References

External links
Westjet: Gregg Saretsky, president and chief executive officer
University of British Columbia alumni: Gregg Saretsky, BSc 1982, MBA 1984

Canadian airline chief executives
WestJet people
UBC Sauder School of Business alumni
Canadian people of German descent
Canadian people of French descent
1959 births
Living people
People from Châteauguay

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Is that an old piece of music? If not, that crackling sound you hear during the video is caused by one of your volume controls being too high. Sometimes when the master track is set too low, you end up raising one of the volume switches too high in trying to fix it. That is likely the cause of this sound. Just so you know.
A lot of random things in one flash thats very cool . =D Your flash also has some very sick animations .
All of those separate animations in one year? That is AWESOME!


Another feature of the Lomond Hills is the views, which from East and West Lomond Hills, and Bishop's Hill, are quite spectacular. The three photographs below from East Lomond or Falkland Hill.
There is a lane between the two main Lomond Hills, which is easy to follow and reasonably flat, but the two walks up either hill are fairly strenuous.
The photograph below is from the top of West Lomond Hill.
The two remaining photos are of some clouds (the Lomond Hills often are a great place to 'weather watch' in Fife), and some heather/bilberry which is commonly found on the hills.
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Beautiful! I love the second (b&w) one especially, with the wind-blown thorn tree.
We were down in west Cornwall a few years back – near Penzance. Yes, a very windswept landscape!
I spent my childhood in Penzance, and lived in St Just from 1998-2006. I absolutely love Scotland, but I do sometimes miss Cornwall.
A similar thing with me – I grew up in Shropshire and sometimes long for the typical 'old English' style countryside, but I'm totally in love with Scotland as well.
Spectacular! I can see why this place brings happiness. Tranquility and peace.
Thanks Rebecca 🙂 It is a beautiful part of Fife, and thankfully even in the middle of the summer, there aren't too many people up there.
Wonderful photos, Andy, the distance seen in them is impressive. I'm not surprised it's one of your happiest places.
Thanks Lorna 🙂 I was amazed how far you can see from the Lomonds, the first time I went up there.
Spectacular photos! That's a place I would very much like to go. Friends of ours who had grown up holidaying in Cornwall said that Stonehaven reminded them a bit of Cornwall, especially with the granite.
Thank you Christine 🙂 There are a few places up here I've now been to that do remind me of Cornwall, but I've not yet been to Stonehaven – from the photos I've seen, Stonehaven looks very pretty.
BEAUTIFUL! I love the patchwork landscapes!
I can see why you love it, it's stunning and quite like Cornwall but I suspect considerably damper than damp Cornwall!
I must really make it to Scotland though !
Is it possible to buy a print of 'Clouds from the Lomond Hills' please?
I've not been on this blog for quite a while, but if you are still interested in buying a print of 'Clouds from the Lomond Hills', a 10″x7″ print would cost you £10 plus £1.50 p&p.
Sorry for taking so long to reply to your comment.


Back in 1984 the Horror comedy GREMLINS hit the scene. The film was released by Warner Bros, directed by Joe Dante, and executive produced by Steven Spielberg. It has a brilliant angle as the story follows a young man who receives a strange creature called a mogwai as a pet, which then spawns other creatures who transform into small, destructive, evil monsters. Then in 1990 Dante also steered the next tale as he directed the sequel, GREMLINS 2: THE NEW BATCH.
Now in the present day, the talk of a GREMLINS reboot is among us. If this reboot were to take place, would we see Joe Dante involved? The answer is here.
"I know a lot of very well known people have come up with ideas for another 'Gremlins' movie and not of them have gone. I do know, however, that there's a script being written now and the tricky thing is that I'm not sure that the people making the movie now understand what the original appeal was of the first movie, which was not beloved by the studio until it started making money.
Seth Grahame-Smith and David Katzenberg are said to be writing the reboot. There were also rumors going around not long ago that the original writer Chris Columbus and Steven Spielberg could be involved.
We will continue to follow more on this story.


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Notes from the Commish 2017- Week Six
Posted on October 18, 2017 by rfunkad in Cup o' Joe // 0 Comments
As I pointed out as recently as, well, last week, the Fantasy Gods can be cruel and arbitrary. For example, someone–oh, let's just pick a name at random, say…ME–can have a perfectly good season going, marvel at the fact that his team has not only won four straight games, but has looked good doing it and then–BAM!–before he's even taken his coat off at the weekend football gathering, he's lost his starting QB for the season. Yeah, I'm sure Green Bay fans are broken up about the whole thing, but F**K THEM, I lost Aaron Rodgers!
But enough about me. Let's talk about other things that are making me miserable..
AWARDS FROM THE COMMISH
FANTASY OWNER OF THE WEEK: T.J.
Yes, the yin-and-yang with T.J. continues. This week, his lineup, highlighted by the likes of Leonard Fortnette, Mark Ingram and Antonio Brown, ran roughshod over Jack, who would have won most of the other games this week. Once again, this lineup looks legit and T.J. is starting to put some distance between himself and the rest of the division. Am I saying this just to jinx T.J, as frequently happens after I give him any sort of praise? Well, normally, yes, but I'm not exactly in a mood to mess with the Fantasy Gods right now.
KICK IN THE NUTS AWARD: Jack
See above.
NFL WOMAN OF THE WEEK: Jane Skinner Goodell
It was revealed this week that the formerly anonymous Twitter handle @forargument was actually the work of Jane Skinner Goodell, a former Fox News anchor and current wife of NFL Commissioner, Roger Goodell. @forargument was generally used to defend Goodell in the areas of player relations, owner relations, public relations, personal hygiene, sexual deviance and rampant drug use (I may have made up a few of those…or did I?) Anyway, the master plan fell apart the second someone looked at the Twitter handle and said, "They're defending Goodell? That's gotta be his wife."
HORSESHOE UP ASS AWARD: Me
Yes, for all of my griping about the Fantasy Gods, they did reward me with victory this week, despite my lineup having more zeroes than my bank account (not really a high bar there.) Stoner, who was also 4-1 going into this game, somehow managed to score fewer points than I did. I'd ask for a Congressional investigation into this, but I'm pretty certain that even if they turned up something, they wouldn't act on it. To my team, I say: Now that Aaron Rodgers is dead (for all intents and purposes), Melvin Gordon and Larry Fitzgerald are my favorites. I want the rest of you to think about that and try a little harder next week. (READER ALERT: I was going to put in a joke about my father saying the same thing to me and my brothers when I was young, but he caught wind of it and reminded me that I'll be home in a month for Thanksgiving. So you will not see any reference to my father saying something similar to me and my brothers when we were young. None whatsoever. Thank you for listening. [Bows. Backs out of room.])
QUOTE OF THE WEEK: Nate Burleson
The CBS analyst said this about Chiefs' rookie RB Kareem Hunt: "He's the carpet that brings the room together." Okay, it's actually the RUG that holds the room together, but you gotta love an analyst that's willing to use a Big Lebowski reference. Why did someone ever think that Monday Night Football needed Dennis Miller in the booth? Look at these guys go!
ASSCLOWN OF THE WEEK: Al Michaels
Some of us would be willing to note that Michaels has been an assclown (and other epithets I can think of) for his entire adult life. This week, though, he introduced the viewing audience to that side of him. As women all over the country filled Facebook and Twitter newsfeeds with the words "Me, too", signifying that they, too, had dealt with sexual harassment, the NBC play-by-play guy thought it an opportune time to issue this gem:
"Let's face it, the Giants are coming off of a worse week than Harvey Weinstein."
Later, when it had probably been pointed out to him that he had screwed up (because if he could figure that out on his own, he wouldn't have said it in the first place), Michaels added: "I was a little flip about somebody obviously very much in the news all over the country. It was not meant in that manner. So, my apologies, and we'll just leave it at that."
Yeah, when you've made a completely tone deaf joke about a subject that damn near every woman in the world has dealt with and doesn't find remotely funny, the situation certainly calls for something that borders on a non-apology. What's worse, I've been watching Michaels for most of my life and I know this: he's not funny off-the-cuff. He worked on that line in advance and then got miffed when it blew up in his face and he was forced to (sort of) issue an apology for it. Thankfully, nobody other than Harvey Weinstein ever sexually harassed a woman and we haven't done something as silly as elevating a guy who bragged about sexually harassing women to the Presidency.
(Sets notebooks aside, slides chair back, drops forehead directly on to desk.)
And finally, in honor of Jon Stewart (we still need you, brother) I give you…
YOUR MOMENT OF ZEN: As The Zeke Turns
After several weeks of discussing the anthem "controversy" (not that it's over, but I'm done with it) it was almost a relief to get back talking about NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and what a boob he is. This week, his ongoing attempt to suspend Dallas RB Ezekiel Elliott (which is becoming positively Elmer Fudd-ian) twisted and twisted again. First, a federal appeals court lifted Elliott's temporary restraining order against the NFL, meaning he would have to serve his six game suspension. This didn't have an immediate impact, as the Cowboys were on bye this week and Elliott was wandering the countryside, beating up random women and children (or so the NFL claims.) Elliott's attorneys then appealed to the U.S. District Court in New York for a review of the case. Judge Paul Crotty issued a second temporary restraining order, putting Elliott BACK on the field because…I swear I'm not making this up…Judge Katherine Polk Failla, who would normally rule on the case, is on vacation. Crotty could have ruled on it himself, but essentially said, "Hey, I'm just a temp." Failla will be back by October 30, unless she blows all her money on that booze cruise and her parents won't send her any cash, in which case, who the hell knows when she'll be back.
Here's what I find fun about this whole thing: 1. You ever watched a little kid try to escape his or her (but usually his) parents, either to avoid punishment or going home from Grandma's or something? You know the kid doesn't have the physical ability to avoid his parents forever and he's almost-certainly going to be caught and probably make whatever punishment/meltdown he's got in store that much worse. But you can't help being fascinated by the kid's flight and wonder, "How long can he keep this up?" That's pretty much the situation here. Elliott and his legal team can continue to drag these proceedings out and to frustrate the NFL at every turn, but there's only way this ends: with Ezekiel Elliott serving a six game suspension. 2. The entity that's most vigorously defending Elliott, the National Football League Players Association, is the one who put him in this mess in the first place.
See, the union is certainly correct in calling the NFL's disciplinary process unfair, arbitrary and poorly thought out…and it's exactly what the NFLPA signed off on when it agreed to the current collective bargaining agreement six years ago. In the end, a judge will tell Ezekiel Elliott, his attorneys and the NFLPA some variation of: "Hey, I don't care if players are required to drop their pants, turn around three times and wave their hands in the air while giving us a big ol' 'Howdy Doody', if it's in the CBA, you agreed to it and there's nothing I can do to change it." I think, deep down, Elliott and his legal team know this and the strategy is to drag out the proceedings until either the Cowboys' season is over or any hope of making the playoffs has been lost. In other words, minimize the damage.
When the Tom Brady case was being similarly dragged through the courts, there were questions about how the disciplinary process might be adjusted in the next CBA. At the time, there was a general agreement among the talking heads that the NFLPA might grouse about it, but certainly wouldn't impede the next CBA over the issue. The bigger concern would be getting a larger slice of the revenue pie. In other words, the players concerns about a fair disciplinary process could be easily bought off. It might be fair to assume that the Ezekiel Elliot case has changed all of that. The average NFL player's career is short enough without losing half a season on a whim from Mr. Because I Said So. More revenue doesn't do any good if you're not collecting game checks. (And at the rate the NFL is going, we can't be sure there will BE more revenue around in a few years to split.) Roger Goodell, the captain of this particular Titantic, has found a whole new iceberg to steer his ship toward.
Get a good look at your future, kids…
TARGARYEN DIVISION
The Rat Pack (Me) 5-1
The Dropkick Murphys (Stoner) 4-2
Chuck (Chuck) 4-2
Brian's Song (Carol) 1-5
The Defenders (Mike) 1-5
STARK DIVISION
The Jock Sniffers (T.J.) 4-2
The People in the Band (Lars) 3-3
Rodgers Blows (Robbie) 3-3
Lethal Injection (Jack) 2-4
The Electric Mayhem (Hal) 2-4
JOE DAVIS is the main character in a series of mystery novels by Randall J. Funk. Mr. Davis and Mr. Funk are delighted by the shocking similarities in their opinions and writing styles.


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An explanation of automatic, manual, Swiss quartz, and Japanese quartz watch movements.
When I was a young man, part of my daily morning ritual was the winding of my wristwatch. It wasn't a big deal, and I never sat around sighing, "Oh, if only I didn't have to wind my watch everyday," in some wistful fashion. If I forgot to wind my watch, which was rare, the watch stopped running, and then I had to reset the time and wind the watch.
At some point, like most men, I switched from watches one had to wind every day - now called watches with manual movements, or mechanical watches - to watches that ran on a battery, which are called watches with quartz movements. I never owned one of those watches that were self-winding, called automatic watches, but I'd heard of them.
None of this information about watch movements occupied any great portion of my brain, because for a long time I simply didn't care. I wore cheap watches, for the very practical reason that a person as naturally careless as myself would at some point misplace his watch, and it is always better to lose a cheap watch than an expensive one.
I haven't suddenly become less careless, or so wealthy that the loss of an expensive watch wouldn't bother me, but there are now many good deals on wristwatches, so that some watches I would previously have deemed too expensive are now priced on sale at a point where I feel comfortable purchasing one. Plus, I'm older, and it's nice to have a decent-looking watch for dress occasions. So, I started shopping online for a watch, and that's when the need to know about watch movements really established itself. Having done a somewhat decent amount of study on the subject, I'm happy to share what I've learned.
Mechanical, or Manual. This is a watch you wind every day, usually by turning the crown in a clockwise position until one feels resistance. One does not want to keep winding once one feels sufficient resistance, because the watch's main spring will either freeze or break; literally, it's "wound too tight." Mechanical watches have interesting, intricate parts inside.
Automatic. A lot of very nice, very expensive watches are automatic watches, which we used to call self-winding. These watches function in a manner similar to manual watches, except that the movement of one's arm while wearing the watch is often (but not always) sufficient to keep the watch going without actually having to wind the watch.
Japanese Quartz. This is a watch that runs on a battery; the movement is made in Japan.
Swizz Quartz. This is also a watch that runs on a battery, and the movement is made in (you may have already guessed) Switzerland.
The most affordable watches are all quartz watches, which run on batteries. You can find these for as little as ten bucks, but there are nice watches costing a thousand dollars or more that are battery watches. This is the easiest watch to own, since it requires no winding, very little maintenance, and is usually quite accurate. The downside is that quartz watches do require battery replacements. A quartz watch will stop working when the battery dies, and it doesn't care whether you're on safari in Kenya or about to give an important business presentation.
Mechanical or automatic watches sound like a lot of work compared to quartz watches, but really, what's so hard about winding a watch every day (in the case of a mechanical watch), or every once in a while (in the case of an automatic watch)? These watches do have intricate parts - if you're the kind of person who admires such things - and don't ever have to have batteries replaced, because there are no batteries.
From a slightly frivolous point of view, automatic watches in turn justify the purchase of a watch winder, which will keep the watch moving when it's not on your arm.
The result of all my research is that I am no longer afraid of watches that have manual or automatic movements. Yes, they're more work than quartz watches, but they also have some inherent advantages, and many interesting styles of watches I've seen recently have automatic or manual movements. If, in the future, I really want a watch based on its appearance, and it is a manual or self-winding watch, I'll purchase it. This time around, though, I found a very nice Invicta watch with a quartz movement, and so far I'm quite pleased with my purchase.


A Southwest Airlines plane lands at Midway Airport. The city of Chicago is dropping plans to privatize the airport.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is ending an effort to try to find a private company to operate Midway Airport.
Emanuel hoped to lease out Midway Airport for 40 years in exchange for $2 billion. But after one of the two bidders dropped out, the mayor reportedly didn't want to settle for a single bidder.
Peter Skosey, who heads a mayoral commission to review the Midway deal, said they've been working to privatize the airport for the last nine months and were scheduled to meet Friday.
But Skosey, who's also executive vice president of the Metropolitan Planning Council of Chicago, said he wasn't disappointed by Emanuel's decision.
Midway Airport isn't the only Chicago area airport that had been pegged for privatization. The Gary Chicago International Airport in Indiana, which the city of Chicago is a partner in, is also considering going private.
The Gary Chicago Airport Authority will also meet Friday to review proposals received so far. Gary Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson said Emanuel's decision not to seek privatization for Midway won't have any bearing on Gary's efforts.
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