It all started with a rumor last week at the barbershop.
Hubby came home bearing the news.
And you thought all we produced was Lebron James and Chrissy Hynde!
The news was confirmed as I read about the closing in today's paper, the bonus was the recipe for Nick's bean salad.
I held hands over dinner at Anthe's.
There were new friendships created, old friendships renewed, anniversaries and birthdays.
I told secrets at Anthe's…usually over a few drinks.
I entertained customers and was entertained.
The best steaks and grilled halibut I ever had!
Before all that, the table was served with a dish of Nick's Bean Salad with Italian bread and butter.
That and a glass of wine is all you need to get the evening going.
ingredients. Chill. Makes 10 servings.
We love these beans too!! Will try this!
Both Anthe's are now gone. No more sour dough rolls.
Do you have the recipe?
Sorry I don't but I used to love dipping them in the bean salad!


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BIRD OF THE WEEK: January 8, 2021 SCIENTIFIC NAME: Falco columbarius
TREND: Increasing
HABITAT: Open forest and edge, tundra, tree-dotted range and prairie, suburbs and cities; outside breeding season, open country, both coastal and inland
Merlin range map by American Bird Conservancy
A formidable bird-hunter about the same length as the related American Kestrel, the Merlin is more powerfully built and seems far larger — more like a miniature Peregrine Falcon.
"The Merlin is to an American Kestrel what a Harley-Davidson motorcycle is to a bicycle," wrote bird authorities Pete Dunne, David Sibley, and Clay Sutton in their seminal book Hawks in Flight. "In the air, the difference between a Merlin and an American Kestrel is not a matter of degrees, it is quantum."
This talented aerialist terrorizes sandpiper, songbird, and pigeon flocks; indeed, its scientific name means "pigeon-like falcon" or "pigeon falcon." Its common name was once Pigeon Hawk.
A Falcon by Another Name
The shape-shifting wizard of legend might seem an apt inspiration for the Merlin's name, but instead, it comes from the French word esmerillon, meaning falcon. The wizard named Merlin, on the other hand, got his name from the Welsh name Myrddin; he was named after a real-life bard who was part of the inspiration for the mystical character perpetuated in King Arthur legends.
Medieval falconers called the Merlin the "Lady's Hawk," and royalty prized this small raptor for hunting Eurasian Skylarks and other avian prey. Fans included Mary Queen of Scots and Russia's Catherine the Great.
In the wild, Merlins mostly hunt other birds. Unlike the Peregrine Falcon, they don't usually dive or "stoop" on their prey. Instead, they power up in horizontal flight, plowing into murmurations of starlings, clouds of sandpipers, and strong-flying pigeon flocks at speeds topping 30 miles per hour. They also pick off songbirds as small as the Yellow Warbler, be it on breeding grounds, during migration, or where they winter. Merlins also nab bats leaving their roost caves and prey on large insects including dragonflies.
Northern Falcon
Merlins are not unique to North America. They nest across much of the northern half of the Northern Hemisphere, with most wintering well to the south.
Three distinctive subspecies nest in Canada and the United States. The "Black" Merlin of the Pacific Coast region is mostly dark charcoal in color, solid on the back, wings, and tail. The "Prairie" or "Richardson's" Merlin is found in the center of the continent and is the lightest in color, with females having a pencil-lead-gray back and the males blue-gray backs. Streaks of brown (in females) and orangish (in males) adorn the birds' otherwise white underparts.
The most widespread subspecies is the "Taiga" Merlin. Its back color is dark gray, as are streaks running down its otherwise buffy underparts. In Eurasia, six other subspecies are found.
In the U.S., Merlins are found year-round along the northern Pacific Coast and in a large patch of the northern Great Plains. Otherwise, they have separate breeding and wintering ranges in North America, nesting from Alaska across most of Canada, then in parts of the northernmost contiguous U.S. states. In winter, they occur along all U.S. coastal regions and from the Pacific states through the western Great Plains. They also winter throughout Mexico, south to northwestern South America. A few reach Ecuador and Peru, the only countries within the Merlin's world range where they cross the Equator.
Sounding Off
To the uninitiated, a calling Merlin can sound somewhat like a Killdeer, American Robin, or even a woodpecker. The typical alarm call, often given near a nest site, is a somewhat irritated-sounding whinny on one pitch.
Merlin (Falco columbarius)
(Audio of Merlin by Fraser Simpson, XC313348. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/313348.)
No-Nonsense Nester
Merlin pairs bond through varied courtship displays, including powerful flights and dives and fluttering flights by the male. Pairs share rocking glides and circling and soaring sessions. Females will beg food from males, with food transferred both in the air and at the perch. Merlin pairs may stay together for several seasons.
When it comes to nesting, Merlins choose their site carefully but do little nest-building or modification. A former crow or hawk nest is usually adopted, then perhaps barely modified before the female lays four or five rust-colored eggs marked with dark splotches. The nest is often high in a tree, frequently a conifer, and usually in a fairly open situation. A Merlin pair may also nest on a cliff or on the ground under heavy vegetative cover, or, rarely, in a tree cavity.
Incubation usually takes a month. Once the eggs hatch, the female broods the young for about a week. During this time the male fends off intruders, vigorously chasing off crows and other large birds. He brings in most of the food, which the female transfers to the young. After about a month in the nest, the young birds may linger from a week to a month, being fed by their parents.
"Black" Merlin with prey. Photo by Tim Zurowski/Shutterstock
Merlins' March
In recent decades, the fortunes of some raptors have greatly improved. One reason is the ban of DDT and other pesticides that worked up the food chain and thinned raptor egg shells to the point of collapse.
Another reason for the recovery of raptor populations is legal protection: It's illegal to hunt raptors in North America. Some species, including the Cooper's Hawk, have increased substantially and are now familiar in suburbs. The Merlin is a similar case: Partners in Flight (PIF) estimates that the species' population in the U.S. and Canada more than tripled between 1970 and 2014. Merlins are now found nesting in suburban and urban settings, and their breeding range has crept southward – for example, well into New York, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine.
Like other raptors, though, Merlins continue to face human-caused threats, including toxics that harm their prey and the birds themselves. Reflective glass also takes a toll on these fast-flying birds.
ABC has been instrumental in the cancellation of more than a dozen pesticides that are particularly harmful to birds, benefiting raptors such as the Merlin, Swainson's and Red-tailed Hawks, Bald and Golden Eagles, and many smaller bird species. We are continuing this work through our Pesticides program, part of our overall conservation strategy to eliminate threats to birds.
Our Collisions program works on multiple fronts, from advocating for legislation to evaluating new glass products and educating architects, developers, and homeowners.

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As it happened: ASX recovers as US market futures show gains
By Colin Kruger and Lucy Battersby
Updated November 29, 2021 — 4.49pm first published at 8.50am
The S&P/ASX 200 dropped as much as 1.3% before recovering to close 0.5 per cent lower, down 39.6 points, at 7,239.7.
Futures are pointing to gains on Wall Street tonight with the Nasdaq mini up 1.2%, the S&P500 mini up 0.9% and the Dow Jones mini up 0.7%. All three fell heavily on Friday
In Asian trade, West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil has gained 5.3% to $US71.75 after dropping 13.1% on Friday. Brent crude is up 4.7% to $US76.17 after falling 11.6% on Friday
Gold has dipped today, down 0.5% to $US1,794. Bitcoin is down 0.2% to $US54,636.51 on Bitstamp at 6.33am AEDT
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Market wrap: More turbulence expected despite late recovery for ASX
By Lucy Battersby
The ASX tumbled down to a seven-week low on Monday morning as traders digested the impact of the Omicron Covid-19 variant and a sudden fall in oil prices. After falling as much as 1.4 per cent in the first hour, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 shook off the bad vibes as dip-buyers moved in and closed 0.5 per cent lower at 7,239.7 points.
Helped by positive US futures, investors moved into pandemic stocks like food retailers and suppliers, health care suppliers, and iron ore miners, and out of travel stocks.
The Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index, known as the 'fear index' spiked to a nine-month high of 28.62 points, highlighting the sudden reaction to a new variant.
"There are lots of unknowns when it comes to Omicron, but one thing is for sure, markets are going to be volatile, especially as the virus spreads and governments react with travel and social and restrictions," head of Investments and Capital Markets at VanEck, Russel Chesler, said.
Travel stocks were hit hard again by COVID worries on Monday. Credit:Getty Images
"The next few weeks will be critical to determine the impact of Omicron. Though societies have adopted a 'living with Covid' mentality, supported by abundant stimulus and expectations that vaccines would help control the virus, the latest outbreak adds to investors' angst and increases uncertainty."
If governments do re-introduce travel restrictions and quarantine, this could push back a global recovery, he added. However, weaker economic growth reduced the likelihood of interest rates rising in the near-term.
Shaw & Partners senior investment advisor, Adam Dawes, said it was good for some heat to be taken out of the ASX.
"I think this market has been looking for an excuse to sell and this is the perfect excuse. There is further downside for the rest of this week,″ he said.
Every new variant and flash lockdown would be a buying opportunity for investors, he added.
He picked next Monday, 6th of December, as the start of the traditional Santa rally, and noted shopping centre owners were particularly under pressure on Monday because the market was not yet sure if more lockdowns would be introduced.
Oil prices recovered a little in Asian trade after sharp falls on Friday, but energy stocks were still under pressure with Oil Search down 2 per cent and Woodside down 1.7 per cent.
The possibility of new border closures weighed heavily on travel-related stocks with Webjet down 2.8 per cent, Flight Centre down 0.9 per cent, Corporate Travel down 2.4 per cent, and Qantas down 2 per cent to $4.90, erasing three months worth of gains.
Airport and shopping centre owner Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield was the most affected on Monday, hitting a nine-month low of $4.62 before closing 6.2 per cent lower at $4.71. Vicinity Centres fell 4.8 per cent, and Scentre Group fell 3.8 per cent.
The technology sector was split with gift-card provider EML Payments down 5.5 per cent, and Tyro Payments down 2.7 per cent. But Technology One gained 3.1 per cent and Afterpay gained 1.3 per cent.
As fears of inflation receded, gold prices fell and gold miners dragged on the materials sector. Regis Resources declined by 2.9 per cent, Silver Lake Resources declined by 2.6 per cent.
But the major miners improved, with BHP up 1.4 per cent, Fortescue up 2.4 per cent, and Mineral Resources gaining 3.4 per cent after striking a rail sharing agreement with Hancock Prospecting.
The big banks all declined, while Magellan Financial closed 2 per cent higher at $32.63 after hitting a 19-month low of $31.20.
'Extraordinary oversight': IAG faces class action over COVID-19 bungle
By Charlotte Grieve
The Insurance Australia Group is facing a shareholder class action over its handling of botched business interruption claims that triggered an emergency capital raising, plunged the insurer into the red and caused the outgoing chair to apologise to shareholders.
The insurance industry was rattled last year when it became apparent business interruption policy clauses designed to shield insurers from pandemic-related losses relied on an outdated Act of Parliament.
IAG's outgoing chair Elizabeth Bryan apologised to shareholders for management failures. Credit:Christopher Pearce
Insurers claimed the phrasing was a mistake because pandemics were always intended to be excluded from cover and have unsuccessfully sought to pursue court action to deny liability for claims arising from COVID-19 lockdowns.
After the NSW Supreme Court of Appeal sided with policyholders in late November last year, IAG was sent into a trading halt before it announced a $750 million capital raising to cover up to $865 million in claims arising from the findings.
This decision was the main driver in IAG's $427 million full-year loss, reported in August, which was underpinned by the $1.15 billion set aside for business interruption claims and associated costs.
Class action specialist law firm Quinn Emanuel will file the shareholder class action by the end of this calendar year. The lawsuit will not involve a litigation funder and will be filed in the Supreme Court of Victoria.
"It's an extraordinary oversight by the company, an insurer who deals in pricing, risk and being on top of developments would pin its intended exclusion clause on a repealed statute," partner Damian Scattini said.
Mr Scattini said ensuring exclusion clauses are up-to-date is a fundamental part of an insurance company's business, adding IAG's well-remunerated risk committee is tasked with ensuring policies are accurate. "There's no excusing it. This is an extraordinary lapse in judgment for a company that frankly should do much better."
Omicron threatens travel recovery as holidaymakers hit pause
By Patrick Hatch
The new Omicron variant of COVID-19 has rattled the travel industry and threatens to set back its pandemic recovery just as airlines, agents and tourism operators were preparing for a summer without border restrictions or quarantine.
Leading travel agents reported a dip in bookings since Friday as customers waited to see if Australia would reintroduce harder quarantine requirements for inbound travellers.
The Omicron variant of COVID-19 has already prompted the return of some international travel restrictions. Credit:Brendon Thorne
"New bookings have dipped; people will be waiting the next few days just to see what the government's announcements will be," Flight Centre managing director Graham Turner said.
"In the short term there'll be uncertainty because in the past governments have tended to overreact… and people will be thinking about that before they commit to more travel."
However, Mr Turner said there had not been a high number of cancellations or requests to reschedule trips, even after NSW and Victoria ordered all international arrivals to isolate at home for 72 hours on Saturday.
"I don't think that's going to be a problem for people if that's the worst that happens," Mr Turner said. "But what will influence them is our record in the past of chopping and changing [rules] in various states. So people don't really know what's going to happen next."
Mr Turner said it was early days, but the initial indications that the Omicron variant caused only mild symptoms in vaccinated people suggested that widespread border closures or lockdowns should not be necessary.
Queensland Tourism Industry Council chief executive Daniel Gschwind said the state's battered tourism sector was watching nervously ahead of the state reopening to NSW and Victoria on December 17.
"This is a discouraging development... and it will likely affect global travel, which is not what we hoped for," he said.
Aussie vaccine researchers rush to include Omicron in jab development
By Emma Koehn
Australian vaccine researchers will be putting the Omicron coronavirus variant under the microscope, with experts saying the rise of the new strain highlights the urgent need for sovereign vaccine manufacturing.
The emergence of Omicron has prompted the companies that make COVID-19 vaccines for Australia, including Pfizer and BioNTech and Moderna, to evaluate the efficacy of their products against the variant.
Stephane Bancel is chief executive officer of Moderna Therapeutics, which is developing a COVID-19 vaccine. Credit:Bloomberg
Pfizer said it expects new data on the variant within a fortnight and would be able to tailor a new vaccine-specific variant within 100 days if it is found to be necessary.
Nasdaq-listed Moderna, which is planning to set up operations in Australia, has said it is using a three-pronged strategy against Omicron. The company will evaluate data from a stronger booster shot of its original vaccine to see whether it is effective against the new strain. It is also studying two multi-variant booster candidates and will start work on an Omicron-specific booster in coming weeks.
A spokesperson for AstraZeneca said it was looking into the new variant and would conduct research in Botswana and Eswatini to collect real-world data on how Omicron interacts with its vaccine.
"We are also testing our long-acting antibody combination AZD7442 against this new variant and are hopeful AZD7442 will retain efficacy since it comprises two potent antibodies with different and complementary activities against the virus," the company said.
Australian researchers are also hoping to work Omicron into their vaccine research programs.
The man heading up the charge to develop Australia's first locally made mRNA COVID vaccine, Monash University Professor Colin Pouton, said he planned to work the variant into his team's research.
"It's something we will work on and get into testing in mice as soon as we can," he said.
Kogan.com swings up and down, Platinum hits new low
There are several stocks hitting one-year or more lows today.
Among the group is online retailer Kogan.com, which has been on a roller coaster today. Shares opened 3.8 per cent lower at $7.17 this morning, after tumbling 5.8 per cent on Friday.
This morning's fall took the share price to the lowest it has been since May 2020, before it started an incredible journey up to $25.57 per share, briefly hitting a market capitalisation of $2.5 billion.
Today the price has picked up from the morning low of $7.17 and is now 3 per cent higher at $8.25, but the market cap is still below $1 billion.
Last week Kogan.com's remuneration report attracted a second strike against it for the second year in a row. However, the board survived the spill vote.
The Kerr Nielson-founded Platinum Asset Management is now worth $1.6 billion, the lowest market capitalisation since it listed in 2007. In 2015, it hit a market cap of $5 billion. Credit:Louie Douvis
The other companies hitting new lows this morning include:
Bapcor at $6.62, the lowest since September 2020
Bendigo & Adelaide Bank at $8.43, the lowest since November 2020
Magallan Financial Group at $31.20, the lowest since 24 March, 2020
nearmap at $1.52, the lowest since May 2020
PointsBet Holdings at $6.75, the lowest since August 2020
Platinum Asset Management at $2.60, the lowest since July 2008
Pact Group shares fall 12%
Pact Group, the packaging group controlled by billionaire Raphael Geminder, has not had a good AGM today.
Its shares were down 12 per cent this afternoon following the release of commentary that underlying earnings will be lower than last financial year with the company not always able to pass on higher costs.
Pact shares, which were trading above $4.30 in August this year, dropped 12 per cent to a low of $2.58 this afternoon.
Pact CEO, Sanjay Dayal, says volumes across most of its businesses have been generally in line with expectation despite the disruption arising from raw material shortages and pallet availability.
However, maintaining continuity of supply required increased working capital in some areas. He named business segments where it is struggling to mitigate the impact of higher input costs on earnings in the first half.
"For the Group, we expect Underlying EBIT in the first half of 2021-22 to be around $80 million. Excluding the Contract Manufacturing segment, this will be around $5 million lower than the prior year," Mr Dayal said.
A further update on earnings expectations for the current financial year will be provided at the Company's half-year results in February.
Pact Group is 45.4 per cent owned by Mr Geminder's investment company Kin Group.
Macau cracks down on casinos
By Filip Pacheco and Daniela Wei
Macau's judiciary police said the head of junket operator Suncity Group confessed to establishing overseas gambling platforms and carrying out illegal virtual betting activities, as authorities presented evidence of wrongdoing after a two-year investigation.
Suncity Chief Executive Officer Alvin Chau has been detained as part of the probe, along with other suspects, police said in a live-streamed press conference on Sunday. The group of 11 people admitted some allegations but refused to cooperate in some other investigations, authorities said.
Alvin Chau, founder and chairman of Suncity Group Holdings. Credit:Bloomberg
Macau's authorities in September proposed an increase in government supervision of casino operators, signalling tighter control over the world's largest gambling hub amid Beijing's efforts to clamp down on money laundering and currency outflows.
Suncity is Macau's biggest junket operator and Chau's arrest marks the first time such a high-profile figure in the gaming industry has been targeted, suggesting an escalation of the crackdown. It is listed in Hong Kong and shares are currently trading at a four-year low of HK25.5¢ (4.5¢).
In 2019 Sydney's Star Entertainment and Crown Resorts said they would shut down Suncity's high roller rooms inside their casinos.
Crown shares are down 0.8 per cent this morning to $11.12, while Star's shares are down 2.6 per cent to $3.50, a four-week low.
Suncity didn't immediately respond to Bloomberg's requests for comments outside of regular business hours.
The arrest of Chau could pose a threat to Suncity's junket license, up for a renewal soon. Macau's gaming regulator reviews the licenses annually and will unveil the list of successful junket applicants in January. Suncity accounts for more than 40 per cent of the city's high-rolling betting volumes.
Evidence presented during a press conference on Sunday included about $US385,000 linked to the formation of the criminal group, money laundering and illicit gambling. The suspects also transferred illegal capital via accounts in Suncity's VIP rooms in Macau and underground banks. Investigations are still ongoing and the police are pursuing other suspects, they said.
The only place in the world's second-largest economy where casinos are allowed, Chinese punters have fuelled Macau's gaming sector to six times the size of Las Vegas.
Police in the Chinese city of Wenzhou said late Friday they had been probing since July the operation of casinos on mainland China, which is a crime. Their investigation showed Chau headed the syndicate, which had a network of 199 shareholder-level representatives and more than 12,000 agents for gambling promotion.
Macau police said its investigation is separate from that of Wenzhou's authorities, and they don't have details of the other probe. The suspects will be subject the legal process based on Macau's laws, police said, responding to a question if they would be transferred to mainland China.
When asked whether Macau police's decision is related to that of the Chinese city of Wenzhou, which approved an arrest warrant for Chau the Macau police said they don't have any investigation details of Wenzhou police's allegations and the decision on Macau side was based on their investigation since 2019.
12.27pm on Nov 29, 2021
Markets had become blase about the COVID threat. Omicron changed that in an instant
By Stephen Bartholomeusz
Almost out of nowhere, the emergence of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus has dramatically changed expectations of what 2022 might look like for the world's economies and financial markets.
"Black Friday" on Wall Street provided a thumbnail set of insights. Equities were hammered, bond yields slumped, the oil price plummeted and the copper price – a reliable indicator of global economic health – also fell heavily.
Out of nowhere, Omicron has shaken up the 2022 outlook. Credit:AP
While the markets' movements might have been exaggerated by the thinness of the trading during the extended Thanksgiving holiday period, they were a rational response to the shattering of the complacency that had developed over the past year as vaccination rates accelerated and lockdowns were eased or ended in the major economies.
Even new outbreaks – record infection rates in Europe's economic powerhouse Germany, for instance – were ignored by investors convinced the world was steadily progressing towards something resembling a pre-COVID normal. Until last week, that is.
Friday's trading was the worst since the dramatic plunges in markets in March/April 2020, when the severity of the initial outbreak of COVID first dawned on investors.
The US sharemarket was down about 2.5 per cent on Friday – the Dow Jones index slumped more than 900 points – following earlier falls in Asia and European markets. The Australian market was down 1.7 per cent and has fallen further on Monday.
US bond yields that had been rising in anticipation of the Federal Reserve Board lifting US interest rates at least twice next year tumbled, with the yield on the key 10-year bond falling from just under 1.7 per cent to 1.48 per cent as concerns about economic reversal developed. The US bond market played its traditional role as a safe haven.
Oil prices above $US80 a barrel had become such a concern that Joe Biden, having failed to talk OPEC in to increasing production, released 50 million barrels from the US strategic reserve last week. The news of Omicron caused the price to dive from $US82.22 a barrel to $US72.72.
Read the full column here
Inventory fall to weigh on GDP numbers this week
By Jennifer Duke
A 1.9 per cent fall in inventories in the September quarter is expected to weigh heavily on the official GDP result this week.
Company gross operating profits increased 4 per cent over the September quarter, boosted by government stimulus.
Wages and salaries fell 0.8 per cent over the same period, Australian Bureau of Statistics data released on Monday shows.
Economists had been expecting a decline in inventories due to lockdowns, which will feed into the GDP figures to be released Wednesday. The data is expected to show a significant contraction over the September quarter due to lockdowns imposed to limit the spread of Delta.
Economists had been expecting a decline in inventories due to lockdowns, which will feed into the GDP figures to be released Wednesday.
In the arts and recreation sector, wages and salaries fell 22.9 per cent while gross operating profits dropped 1.3 per cent. Wages and salaries for accommodation and food services fell 23.5 per cent, while company gross operating profits dropped 12.5 per cent.
Healthcare and social assistance wages and salaries increased 1.6 per cent, but education and training fell 2.2 per cent.
Commonwealth Bank of Australia economist Gareth Aird expected inventories, business investment and public spending would drag most on the September quarter. But he recently noted the economic landscape has changed significantly in the past two months.
"Vaccination rates are exceptionally high, lockdowns are over and the economy is once again starting to fire on all cylinders," he said. "Indeed the economic data over [the fourth quarter] will look very good and financial markets will largely discount the big contraction in [the third quarter]."
However, much now hangs on the Omicron variant's impact on Australia.
While businesses are now in recovery mode with lockdowns eased, there are jitters about what the Omicron variant of COVID-19 will mean for the coming months.
Business Council of Australia chief executive Jennifer Westacott raised concerns on 3AW this morning about rushing to react to the variant following a tough two years.
"The worst thing we can do is overreact and ... stall economic momentum, particularly for small business," she said.
"We know how to target lockdowns; we don't need total statewide lockdowns."
"We need about 500,000 workers back in the economy so that things can get going because everyone is in this kind of position where they can't really ramp up because they haven't got enough staff."


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Flow around a Heavy Vehicle in a Side Wind
Published March 21, 2019 by SAE International in United States
Event: Automotive Technical Papers
Driving stability can be an issue for heavy vehicles. In a side wind, a side force and rolling moment will develop, and they both affect driving stability, from which the vehicle may overturn. It is important to understand the flow structure in order to prevent a truck from rolling over. The main purpose of this study is to investigate the flow around a heavy vehicle that causes it to overturn. A 1/8 scaled, simplified tractor/trailer configuration called the Ground Transportation System (GTS) with Reynolds number (based on the GTS width) equal to 1.6 × 106 was used for this study. A side wind was modeled by turning the GTS model with respect to its moment reference point. A triangular mesh was used for the truck and the computational domain surfaces, while hybrid meshes filled the computational domain volume. The Ansys® CFX code based on the k-ω shear stress transport (SST) turbulence model was used to solve the governing equations numerically for an incompressible fluid. All results were averaged for 50 shedding periods. The simulation was done for yaw angles of 0-14°, and the results were compared with experimental data from the literature. To model an open road, a moving-ground boundary condition was implemented in the simulation. The computational fluid dynamics calculations for the drag, side force, and rolling moment coefficient had more than 90% accuracy. The other aerodynamic coefficients had larger discrepancies due to the moving-ground boundary condition and an under-prediction of the pressure distribution on the front corner radius of the GTS. In general, it was found that the present simulation can capture the trends for most aerodynamic coefficients. This study showed that the rolling moment, which determines the tendency to overturn, is sensitive to the spanwise pressure at the rear of the vehicle.
Jeffrey Levin - National Cheng Kung University
Shih-Hsiung Chen - National Cheng Kung University
Numerical Approach
CFD Simulation
Vehicle dynamics /flight dynamics
Wind tunnel tests
Levin, J. and Chen, S., "Flow around a Heavy Vehicle in a Side Wind," SAE Technical Paper 2019-01-5019, 2019, https://doi.org/10.4271/2019-01-5019.
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Alex Morgan Net Worth 2019, Bio, Age, Height
As popular on and off the field, Alex Morgan was once again one of the highlights of the Women's World Cup final on Sunday. Her salary, her husband, her visit to Lyon … Here's what better to know the attacker of the USA.
We will talk more about her career, net worth and her personal life, so keep on reading if you want to find out more.
Thanks to women like Alex Morgan, women's football has gained greater visibility in recent years. The American has managed to win everything with her clubs and national team, thanks to her faith in the effort and the improvement of everyday life. If you have a dream to fulfill, and you seem unable to achieve it, I would advise you to know the biography of Alex Morgan, an example of overcoming.
Alexandra Patricia Morgan was born on July 2, 1989 in the city of San Dimas, California. She is the youngest of the three daughters of the marriage formed by Michael and Pamela Morgan. Although she was always interested in sports, she did not begin to take her career in football seriously until she was 14 years old.
Thanks to a sports scholarship, Alex Morgan was able to enter the University of California, where she decided to study Political Economy. There she began to play with her university's football team, the California Golden Bears. In the three seasons she wore the Gold Bears shirt she managed to score 45 goals. Despite her good work with the team, the American did not neglect her studies, getting graduated in 2009.
On January 14, 2011, Alex Morgan saw her dream of playing in the National Women's Soccer League (the women's professional soccer league of the United States) come true. The lead was chosen in the first position of the draft by the Western New York Flash, team with which she managed to win the championship.
On June 28, 2011, Morgan made her debut at the Women's World Cup, in a match that pitted the United States and North Korea. The American team managed to reach the final of the tournament, where faces were seen with Japan. Although the front managed to score a goal and give an assist, the Japanese raised the World Cup.
Alex Morgan traveled with her team to London to play the 2012 Olympic Games. The American team managed to win the gold medal, after defeating the Japan national team in the final, thus taking revenge on what happened a year earlier.
Her love with football began in the mid-2000s, when she joined the University of Berkeley. The young Alex Morgan is then called for the first time in the national team in March 2010 In 2011, at the age of 22, she entered the draft and was selected first by the Western New York Flash.
For her first season, she won the Women's Professional Soccer Championship and then won the 2012 Olympic gold medal with the USA the following year. In 2013, she joined the Portland club, in the new National Women's Soccer League. Titular at the Canadian World Cup in 2015, Alex Morgan won her first World Cup that year, defeating Japan in the final. In 2016, the striker signed one of the most glamorous contracts in the US Championship with the Orlando Pride.
Jean-Michel Aulas then persuades her to cross the Atlantic and settle down in Lyon for 6 months. During this short time, she fills her trophy cupboard with a French Championship, a Coupe de France and a Champions League before returning to her club in Orlando in 2017. her record was again in this month of July 2019 with the new victory of the United States in the final of the World Cup.
Alex Morgan has been married since December 31, 2015 with her fellow Servando Carrasco, a professional football player at Los Angeles Galaxy. The two lovers have known each other since their stint at UC Berkeley, California, where Morgan played on the football team. Often separated, since Alex Morgan evolves in Orlando, at the other end of the United States, the couple Carrasco – Morgan takes advantage of her rare days of rest to be in one of the two cities.
Alex Morgan is one of the best paid players on the planet football. With her Orlando club, her salary is 250,000 euros per year. Off the field, she also has a long-term partnership with Nike, Coca-Cola and McDonald's. The player is also at the head of the collective action led by the American players against their Federation for "institutionalized discrimination based on sex" aiming at getting closer to equal pay with men. "In the United States, women have better results than men in soccer," said Alex Morgan recently.
Alex Morgan made a name for herself in France by signing with Olympique Lyonnais in December 2016, for only 6 months. She plays 16 small matches, enough to achieve the tripled championship of France, Coupe de France and Champions League.
A great human and sporting experience for Alex Morgan, delighted to meet Lyon for the 2019 World Cup final, which was being contested at Groupama Stadium. "Just coming back to this city of Lyon makes me very happy and finding this stadium for the first time in two years reminds me of so many memories," she said in the week. It's great to be back here. "
In 2014, Alex Morgan married the soccer player Servando Carrasco. Morgan's greatest achievement with her selection would come at the 2015 Women's World Cup. Although the American had suffered a serious knee injury months ago, her delivery and sacrifice allowed her to recover in time for the dream date. The US team managed to reach the grand finale, after eliminating China in the round of 16, in the quarterfinals to Colombia and in the semifinals to Germany.
In the last match of the tournament, the Americans would see each other's faces again with an old acquaintance: Japan. This time the victory was for the Yankees, thanks to the three goals scored by Carli Lloyd, Morgan's teammate. On July 7, 2019, the United States National Team again won the Women's World Championship, after winning the Netherlands 2-0 in the final.
After going through several professional clubs, Alex Morgan joined Olympique de Lyon. With the León team, she won the Women's Champions League, after defeating another French club in the final, the Paris Saint-Germain FC Feminines. After her career in Europe, Morgan again signed for an American club. The forward set sail for Florida to play with the Orlando Pride.
On July 7, 2019, the United States soccer team revalidated the women's world title after beating Holland (2-0) in the final of the championship played in France. The American team started as a favorite to add their fourth World Cup and confirmed the forecast by closing the tournament with full victories.
With millions of followers on social networks. In 2015, she was ranked by Time as the highest paid American women's soccer player. Alex Morgan generates millions of dollars in advertising representing brands such as McDonald, Chevrolet, Bridgestone, Nike or Coca-Cola among others.
She participated in Let's Move, promoting a healthy lifestyle and was an UNICEF ambassador; she collaborated in campaigns in favor of animals and claims veganism as a healthy habit. She appeared on the cover of FIFA 16 of EA Sports, being the first player to appear on the cover of the game, as well as Sport Illustrated magazine.
Author of the series The Kicks, a collection of books and interpreted herself in the movie Alex & Me. she married Servando Carrasco on December 31, 2014 in Santa Barbara. Her husband, whom she met in college, is a midfielder who played at Seattle Sounders, Houston Dynamo, Kansas City, Orlando City and LA Galaxy.
Alex Morgan has a net worth of around 3 million dollars, and her yearly salary is around 450 thousand dollars. Since she is still actively playing football, so this net worth amount could go higher in the following years. We still have to wait and see what she has in store for us.
Alex Morgan was born on July 2, 1989 in San Dimas, California, United States. The youngest of Mike and Pamela Morgan's three daughters. she grew up with her two sisters, Jeni and Jeri, at Diamond Bar, approximately 30 miles east of Los Angeles. her number is 13 in honor of Kristine Lilly, American football player with more international matches and her first reference.
With the Diamond Bar High School, she played at the school level, and in the university with the Golden Bears of California, before moving on to the Professional League playing in the Western New York Flash, which she helped win the league championship, Seattle Sounders, the Portland Thorns, with which she won the 2013 league title, and the Orlando Pride.
He plays as a forward in the major division of American women's football, the National Women's Soccer League. In December 2016 it was announced that she would participate in Ligue 1 of France playing at Olympique de Lyon. On June 1, 2017, she won the Women's Champions League by winning the PSG grand final in Cardiff.
At the age of 17, she was summoned to the U-20 women's national soccer team. At 22, she became the youngest player in the national team at the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup. she made her debut with the US national team on March 31, 2010 in a friendly match against Mexico replacing Amy Rodriguez at the break.
In the 2012 London Olympics, she scored the winning goal in the match in minute 123 of the semifinal match against Canada. With the national team in addition to Olympic gold (2012) and a World Cup (2015), she was elected Best American Player and CONCACAF.
On June 10, 2010 she scored her first goal and nine years later, she reached one hundred after having played 159 games with the national team.
Alex Morgan vindicates soccer players both at club and national level. In 2015, she protested after being lodged in a hotel with bed bugs forcing the NWSL to modify its guarantee policy with the footballers.
She was also one of the five signatories, along with Carli Lloyd, Megan Rapinoe, Becky Sauerbrunn and Hope Solo, of the lawsuit against their federation for wage discrimination in 2015 after winning the World Cup, getting the United States Senate to pass a motion in favor of the equal pay of the women's and men's soccer teams.
Alex got married to Servando Carrasco in December 2014. The couple met at the UC Berkley. Morgan is also a vegan and she was named as the most beautiful vegan by PETA in 2019.
Full name: Alexandra Morgan Carrasco
Date of birth: July 2ndSan Dimas, California
Profession: Professional football player
Net Worth: 3$ million
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Hazards: Lobster boats. Area was once a military target area; divers have found unexploded shells.
Currents: Slight in Seal Cove. Tidal as well as wind current around Mingo Rock.
Special Features: Shoreline is ledge which descends to a sand and gravel bottom with occasional protruding ledges. On the north side of the area, the remains of a WWII pier provide spectacular view of flora and fauna. Only a snorkel is needed by the pier.
Hazards: Westerly winds can cause serious sea conditions. Area is frequented by lobster, recreational, and research boats.
Depth: Generally less than 50 ft, but can go as deep as 90 feet further off shore.
Currents: Not a problem except that a surge can occur from the sea and swell in shallow areas. Slight tidal currents as well as wind current on the surface.
Special Features: Beautiful plant life that is ideal for photography. Bottom is a mixture of rocks and sand.
Special Features: The cove contains rocks, crevices, and small rock formations that resemble pyramids as well as a great deal of sea life.
Depth: To 25 ft in the cove, to 60 ft at the mouth of the cove.
Currents: Occasional wind current on the surface.
Special Features: The depth drops dramatically to well over 100 feet. The bottom consists of an interesting grouping of ledge, boulders, and large granite slabs which form caves. Flora and fauna abound.
Hazards: Area exposed to weather from the north, east, and south. The ledge rises to the surface, so the site must be approached with caution. Lobster and recreational boats frequent the area. Heavy anchor needed.
Currents: The surge from the sea and swell in shallow areas. The tidal currents can be moderately strong.
Location: Northwest side of Star Island.
Special Features: The bottom is mud and gravel, but the area is noted for clay pipes, bottles, and other artifacts.
Hazards: Lobster buoys and extremely heavy boat traffic.
Special Features: Great for easy diving and family get-togethers.
Directions: From Route 1A in Portsmouth, turn onto Route 1B North, follow for 1.9 miles. The park will be on your right, the sign is placed at an angle difficult to see when coming from this direction. There is a fee to enter during the summer. Once inside, park in the second parking lot.
Special Features: All ledge and very clear bottom. Occasional seal activity.
Currents: Tidal and wind currents.
Special Features: Plenty of sea life and vegetation. Ideal for photography.
Currents: Slight. Occasional surge from sea and swell.
Special Features: Also known as Broad Cove, the area is well protected and contains a variety of sea life as well as ledges and a sandy bottom.
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Scaramucci on Trump: 'Eventually he turns on everyone'
President Donald Trump lashed out at Anthony Scaramucci in a series of tweets, claiming his "incapable" former White House communications director only appears as a pundit on television because of his association with the president.
"Anthony Scaramucci, who was quickly terminated (11 days) from a position that he was totally incapable of handling, now seems to do nothing but television as the all time expert on ' President Trump,'" Trump posted late Saturday.
"Like many other so-called television experts, he knows very little about me other than the fact that this Administration has probably done more than any other Administration in its first 2 1/2 years of existence," he continued. "Anthony, who would do anything to come back in, should remember the only reason he is on TV, and it's not for being the Mooch!"
Scaramucci who has been critical of the president in recent TV appearances, shot back on Twitter early Sunday.
"For the last 3 years I have fully supported this President. Recently he has said things that divide the country in a way that is unacceptable. So I didn't pass the 100% litmus test," the hedge fund manager said. "Eventually he turns on everyone and soon it will be you and then the entire country."
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— Anthony Scaramucci (@Scaramucci) August 11, 2019
During an appearance Friday on "Real Time with Bill Maher," Scaramucci, who served in the administration in July 2017, said he tries to defend Trump but sometimes the president goes too far.
"I do try to defend [Trump], but there are certain things he's done that are absolutely indefensible," he said, adding that Republican lawmakers also fail to call him on his actions.
In an interview on MSNBC on Thursday, Scaramucci ripped the president's trip to meet victims of the mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, last week.
"Maybe he'll tweet something negative about somebody for saying he didn't do well, but the facts are he did not do well on the trip because if the trip is being made about him and not the demonstration of compassion and love and caring and empathy for those people, then it becomes a catastrophe for him, the administration, and it's also a bad reflection on the country," Scaramucci said.
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Star Light is a science fiction novel by American writer Hal Clement. It is the sequel to one of Clement's earlier books, Mission of Gravity. The novel was serialized in four parts in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact Magazine from June to September 1970. Star Light was first published as a paperback book by Ballantine Books in September 1971.

Setting
Star Light is set several decades after the events of Mission of Gravity. It takes place mostly on the supergiant planet Dhrawn, which some suspect of being a failed star. The planet has an ammonia/water atmosphere with some oxygen, at temperatures ranging from 70 Kelvins to almost the freezing point of water. The planet rotates extremely slowly, taking around two months for one revolution. It also has a long eccentric orbit around its star, which is a red dwarf, Lalande 21185. Much of the planet's heat seems to come from within. The gravity at the surface is 40 times the Earth's. Almost everything about the planet defies scientific theory, including its size, lack of hydrogen, its temperature, and the presence of free oxygen in its atmosphere.

Plot summary
A consortium of spacefaring races, including humans, recruits Mesklinites, the centipede-like natives of the high-gravity planet Mesklin, to explore Dhrawn. The recruits include Barlennan and Dondragmer, respectively the Captain and First Mate of the Bree, a merchant vessel of Mesklin, which in Mission of Gravity sailed to Mesklin's south pole to rescue a probe sent by humans. Now, thanks to institutes of learning set up on Mesklin, the natives have produced capable explorers who can go where other races cannot.

Barlennan is in command of the main base on Dhrawn while Dondragmer commands a "land cruiser", the Kwembly. This is a tracked vehicle about 30 meters long, 6 meters high and the same wide. It is designed to move like a large worm on independently steerable trucks. The power is supplied by self-contained fusion generators but the controls are simple pulley-and-rope systems using Mesklinite materials which the crew can repair by themselves. There are several more cruisers, and each has audio/video links for communication with satellites.

The humans and others are on a satellite in synchronous orbit above the explorers on the ground. Unfortunately, the planet's slow rotation means that they are about 10 million kilometres above the surface, and signals take over 30 seconds to travel to the satellite. Real-time conversations are therefore impossible.

On the satellite are linguist "Easy" Hoffman and her son Benj, who is both an engineer and a linguist. Both speak fluent Stennish, the Mesklinite language, and have formed close personal relationships with the explorers on the surface. They are later joined on the satellite by Ib Hoffman, Easy's husband and Benj's father.

One of the cruisers, the Esket, has apparently suffered a catastrophe and all the crew have vanished, much to Easy's dismay. The cruiser's communicators still function, but all they show are views of a deserted ship.

In reality, Barlennan is executing a complicated deception. A wily negotiator who successfully coerced the humans into setting up a College to teach science to the Mesklinites in Mission of Gravity, he has been secretly arranging for an independent Mesklinite colony to be set up on Dhrawn using the Esket as a base. This has been proceeding successfully for several months.

Soon, however, the Kwembly is in very real trouble. As the planet warms, the complex phase transitions of water and ammonia mixtures at these low temperatures mean that a frozen lake can melt in seconds, carry the ship off in a flood, and equally suddenly leave it hung up on large rocks, unable to move as the liquid around it freezes again, trapping some of the crew below the surface in their protective suits.

A few of the Kwembly'''s crew are dispatched to report on the condition of the surroundings, but come across one of the crew from the Esket'', who is doing likewise in one of the dirigibles that Barlennan is clandestinely using to move his men and matériel around. He momentarily appears on a screen and is recognized by Easy. While the other humans believe that she is mistaken, Ib begins to suspect that something underhanded is going on.

The Hoffmans would prefer to deal honestly with the Mesklinites, but they have to deal with the prejudices, not only of fellow humans with political motives, but with the more paranoid of the non-human supervisors of the mission. Having an inkling of what Barlennan is really after, to have his people learn to fly starships and eventually explore the galaxy in their own right, Ib finally convinces the human administrators that they should treat the bug-like creatures as equals rather than hired hands.

The novel ends with the Mesklinite colonies receiving clandestine help and communication with the Hoffmans, but it is not revealed whether Barlennan's machinations remain secret from the other humans.

Themes
The main theme revolves around hard science, particularly the physics and thermodynamics of mixtures. While water should be in the form of ice at all times on Dhrawn, the effect of ammonia in the atmosphere is to cause it to become a liquid under certain conditions of temperature and pressure, because of the formation of a eutectic mixture which melts and freezes at a much lower temperature than water. Although the scientists on the satellite attempt to supply weather forecasts for the Mesklinites, they are using tools designed for Earth's weather to predict conditions in a two-component water/ammonia system instead of Earth's one-component system. Even local effects, such as liberation of latent heat from mixtures undergoing freezing or condensation, can produce drastic changes in conditions. Seemingly solid surfaces can liquefy under the pressure of the land cruisers, even as individual Mesklinites can walk on them in complete safety.

The novel posits that full disclosure is best in a situation where unpredictable changes can occur. Ib Hoffman relates the story of how his son Benj, at the age of thirteen, designed and built SCUBA equipment, carefully calculating all the parameters, only to come close to dying on his first dive because he lacked a crucial piece of information about the physiology of breathing, one which all his knowledge of physics and engineering could not have predicted.

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How Did Author Lee Child Became Such A Hot Shot?
Lee Child is one of the hottest mystery writers working today. He has sold more than 40 million books in 75 countries, and it all happened by chance.
In the following interview Lee Child shares the story of his life and how he started as an author and created a series admired by many readers all around the world.
James D. "Jim" Grant (born 29 October 1954), primarily known by his pen name Lee Child, is best known for his Jack Reacher novel series. The books follow the adventures of a former American military policeman, Jack Reacher, who wanders the United States. His first novel, Killing Floor, won both the Anthony Award, and the Barry Award for Best First Novel.
After being made redundant from his job due to corporate restructuring, Grant decided to start writing novels, stating they are "the purest form of entertainment." In 1997, his first novel was published, and he moved to the United States in the summer of 1998.
Grant starts each new installment of his book series on the anniversary day he began writing the first book in the wake of a job loss.
His pen name "Lee" comes from a family joke about a heard mispronunciation of the name of Renault's Le Car, as 'Lee Car'. Calling anything 'Lee' became a family gag. His daughter, Ruth, was 'lee child'.
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"We Take More Risks Than Anybody At This Festival" – Melody Maker
Posted on 1st August 2000 Posted in Article, News
BETWEEN FOUR LETTER OUTBURSTS, JAMES TELL US ABOUT THEIR NEW NO SELL-OUT STYLE
"Remember this when you read the reviews slagging us off" Tim Booth yells at the end of James set, as hordes of happy fans walk slowly away from the stage. Remember, we think he means, that in this particular set on Staffordshire's V Stage they played none of their best-known hits and none of the singles from last year's "Millionaires" album and it was still a minor bombshell of a performance.
And, after this outburst, when we go backstage to try and find out what's eating James, we find them in defiant mood. Tim is calm and friendly, but prepared to state his case. Bassist Jim Glennie wants to explain exactly why James get a raw deal. But guitarist/violinist Saul Davies, eyes bulging, swearing for Britain, is just about ready to explode.
"I just feel like James gets f**king hammered," he snaps. "We take far more risks than Paul Weller would, or Cypress Hill would take or f**king anybody at this festival. We'll play new songs that nobody's even heard of that we don't even know! Then people go 'You're bollocks because you didn't play Sit Down'"
"There are all these c**ts who are playing around us on the bill – and we're always the ones who get shit for being corporate f**kers," he gasps. "We're here with our f**king balls in our hands going 'Come on then! Let's f**king do it!' We're not corporate whores, we like to challenge our audience."
From this you might assume that James new direction involves art-concept Sonic Youthery. At least one new single previewed at V2000 – a frothy pop tune called "Coffee And Toast" – suggests not.
"It's what I call a scientific love song," Tim laughs. "It's about this guy who tries to impress a girl with all this scientific stuff about black holes, when he just wants to get her back home. He wants her to come back home and have coffee and toast, but you know what he's really after! I find the scientific chat up line works every time, but only with a certain type of girl. There's another new song called "Everyone's A Junkie" which is much darker. You know, we're James, we don't have one direction. We fire a shotgun and maybe some of the pellets will hit."
So far, the band have taken this scattergun approach to recording, having demoed 25 tracks, from which they'll compile their new album in March (working title "We Want Our Money Back"). They'll also be going back to their roots touring University venues in October. But don't expect them to play "Sit Down." Unless it includes a 30-minute jazz odyssey mid-section. Nice.
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Peter was jointly responsible for establishing one of the first centres in the Netherlands for organic food, including an organics shop, restaurant and information center in Amsterdam. He was awarded the Dutch Royal distinction of Knight of Oranje Nassau in 2008 for his contribution to social banking and sustainability.
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Defense Department employees and their families should be vigilant when guarding personal and work information from expanding cyber-criminal activity, and to know how to recognize scammer tactics, according to DoD's chief information officer.
Terry A. Halvorsen issued a DoD-wide memorandum March 18 about the growing threat of cybercrime "phishing" and "spear phishing" in emails, on social media sites and through phone calls.
"Phishing" is defined as sending fraudulent emails that claim to be from reputable sources, such as a recipient's bank or credit card company, to gain personal or financial information.
Recipients of such emails are often directed to fraudulent websites that mimic familiar sites. Phishers ask recipients to "update" or "confirm" accounts, which discloses confidential information such as Social Security and credit card numbers.
"Spear phishing" is the latest twist on phishing. It targets companies and government agencies through "select employees" with fraudulent emails, which appear to come from trusted or known sources. When employees click on links in the emails, hostile programs enter the organization's computers.
While military members and DoD civilians are routinely trained in recognizing cyber security red flags, DoD also wants its workforce's families and parents to be prepared to deal with suspicious email, he added.
These cyber criminals also track and mine social media accounts such as Facebook, LinkedIn and others "to interact with people and compromise accounts," Halvorsen said.
Never trust links or account/password prompts within email messages.
Note that phishing emails sometimes have poor grammar or misspelled words.
Do not trust information-seeking emails and phone calls, and verify such threats.
Never provide your user identification and/or password.
Refuse social media connection requests from anyone you haven't personally met.
Use spam filters for personal email.
Never email personal or financial information, even if you know the person requesting it.
Be wary of pop-ups; don't click links or enter any data.
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When he was a young boy, Noel Evangelista used to play at the shoe factory near their house where his parents once worked in Brgy. Concepcion Uno. At a young age, he would sometimes help out, doing small errands inside the factory like gluing and sticking insoles inside the footbed of the shoes.
More than three decades later, he owns the sprawling 800-square-meter lot where the factory used to stand. He has built a new five-storey building that has a shoe factory and show room at the ground floor, his office and a meeting room at the second floor, stock rooms at the third and fourth floors, and a penthouse that boasts of a swimming pool, a Jacuzzi, two well-decorated bedrooms for guests, and offers a spectacular view of the city, especially during sunset and at night when lights are on in homes and buildings.
"Actually, itong area na ito, dati itong factory ng Chancellor Shoes. Dating namamasukan ang parents ko dito dahil magkakamag-anak sila. Dito kami madalas maglaro noon. Minsan tumutulong-tulong din sa pagawaan. Taga-dikit. Mga ganoon," Noel, now 45, said in an interview inside his office at the newly-constructed building. The building was inaugurated late last month, with Mayor Marcy Teodoro as the guest of honor.
Even with his success, Noel remains humble and down-to-earth. During the interview, he was in a simple black shirt with the name and logo of his company, jeans and casual shoes. He himself served us snacks and gave us a guided tour of the factory and its facilities. He is adept at interviews, having done this for various TV shows such as "Umagang Kay Ganda" and "Unang Hirit" that gave his shoe brands the much-needed exposure to the public.
More exposures for CPoint followed after popular TV host Maine Mendoza, then shooting a segment of her equally popular noontime show "Eat Bulaga" on the street where CPoint was located. During breaks, Maine and her co-hosts would use the factory as a shelter from the heat. Maine was attracted to a pair of high-cut shoes displayed on the shelf.
Maine bought two pairs and used one of them during the show. She even posted them on her Instagram, helping CPoint gain more following among Maine's millions of fans. Her co-hosts also bought shoes for themselves and the entire crew.
His company, CPoint Shoes, was established in 2009 with his wife Charito, whose family owns a tanning company in Bulacan. Right from the start, the couple had planned of building a modern factory, using the latest technology, so that work will be faster, more efficient, while productivity will go up and the quality of their footwear products will be much better.
Up to this day, Noel could not believe that he now owns a modern, well-equipped factory right at the exact location where his parents used to work and where he used to play as a child.
He and his wife chose the name CPoint, with the letter "C" taken from the first letter of Brgy. Concepcion Uno to emphasize where he and his family came from. That the successful business everyone now sees began from this place.
"Tubong Concepcion kami. Dito kami pinanganak. Sabi nga nila pinanganak daw kami sa ibabaw ng karo, iyong lalagyan ng sapatos. Iyong CPoint, ang meaning noon ay dito kami nag-umpisa. Kumbaga Concepcion ang aming starting point. Kaya CPoint," he said.
Noel graduated BS Biology in college and had plans of pursuing a medical degree after finishing the four-year course. But the shoe business his parents put up after they retired from Chancellor Shoes encountered difficulties during that time because of the flood of cheap imported shoes in the domestic market from other countries like China.
Instead of getting frustrated, he decided to join his parents' shoe business. Later on, he put up his own shoemaking venture with the help of his parents and with the guidance of his older sister, who continued his parents' business until she eventually set up her own enterprise that also makes shoes.
"Kasi nasa shoe industry na kami. Ito na ang kinalakihan namin, so parang iko-continue mo na lang. Hindi na ganon kahirap kasi may alam ka na tungkol sa industriya. I-improve mo na lang ang mga natutunan mo. Ang father ko kasi, imbedded na sa shoe industry. Nasa dugo na nila ito at tinutuloy na namin," Noel said.
The youngest of seven children, it was Noel and his older sister who continued his parents' legacy in the shoe business.
"Ang kinuha kong course sa college, BS Biology. Pagka-graduate ko, tinatantiya ko, mas maganda mag-business kaysa maging doctor. Actually, may plano ako na mag-medicine proper noon. Problema, hindi na ganoon kalakas ang sapatusan namin para pag-aralin pa ako ng medicine. Humina ang sapatusan dahil sa imports from China," Noel said.
"After graduation, hinikayat ako ng parents ko at ate ko na mag-business din ng sapatos. Pinagtayo nila ako ng sarili ko. Maliit lang iyon," he said. He was 21 years old then when he struck on his own in the shoe business.
It was while he was working hard for his business that he met Charito, who herself was a nursing graduate, in her family's tanning company in Bulacan, where Noel used to buy leather supplies for his shoemaking venture. It was fate (as a nurse, she practiced for one year and even thought of going abroad) that brought them together and the shared love for the shoe industry.
In fact, Noel pointed out that the letter "C" in CPoint also refers to his wife's name, Charito, whom he courted for a year.
"Na-meet ko si Charito sa Bulacan. Tulad ko, hindi rin siya management graduate. Nurse siya. Pero nag-work siya sa family business. Nag-practice siya ng one year as a nurse. At that time, uso ang mag-abroad. Kung nag-abroad siya, hindi ko siya nakilala," Noel said, laughing at the thought.
In 2003, they got married and are now blessed with three children, who also help out in the business, just like Noel and Charito before.
Noel remembered that he used to man his parents' store at the Marikina Public Market when he was still young. He said this was where he honed his business skills, a must if one must survive in the competitive shoe industry.
Six years into their marriage, the couple decided to put up CPoint. But they changed the business model. Instead of just manufacturing and supplying shoes to retailers, they decided to also sell the shoes themselves. So they put up a store selling their own brand within the premises of their old factory, just across the street of the new building.
But they still maintained the business of supplying shoes for other brands including wholesalers, retailers and online sellers.
CPoint makes all kinds of shoes: men's, ladies' and children's. It makes casual shoes (high cut, boat shoes or topsider, flats, sandals and slip-ons), military boots, policemen's shoes, and a lot more, all made from leather.
"Everyday open ang aming store. Dinadayo ito ng mga turista. Lalo na kung may mga events like teachers' convention. Iyong mga teachers pumupunta dito kung naghahanap sila ng shoes. Dito sila tinuturo ng mga tricycle drivers," he said.
What makes CPoint Shoes attractive to consumers is its affordability, durability and most important of all, the free lifetime service warranty – customers can have their shoes fixed for life. And in these tough times, when prices are soaring, the comfort of wearing a pair of durable shoes that can be fixed for free is indeed irresistible.
"We are the first shoe manufacturer in Marikina to offer a lifetime free service warranty. Iyan kasi ang vision namin. Ang bumangon ulit ang shoe industry ng Marikina. So kung may lifetime free service warranty, assured ang mga mamimili na tatagal ang kanilang mga sapatos," he said.
Unable to cope with the demand (they had to turn down 50 percent of the orders), Noel and Charito decided it was time to build a bigger, modern and world-class factory. Noel hated seeing customers who went all the way to their factory only to go home empty-handed because they could not meet their production requirements.
"Kung hindi kami mag-e-expand at mag-a-adapt sa modern technology, hindi kami makaka-accommodate ng madaming orders. Halos 50 percent ng orders, hindi na namin na-a-accommodate dahil maliit lang ang pagawaan," he said.
"Dito sa aming bagong factory, may conveyor na from start to finish. Puro machines. Konti na lang ang manual. The rest puro machine-operated na," Noel added.
With the use of machines, output has improved a lot. The old factory used to produce 200-300 pairs a day, the new one can churn out up to 500 pairs daily without adding new workers. In fact, because some of the operations are now using machines, CPoint was forced to let go of a few workers.
With the new building, Noel has other plans. He wants to expand into business tourism and put up a coffee shop at the showroom at the ground floor serving food and drinks, as well as sell Marikina souvenir items such as ref magnets, t-shirts, key chains with the words "I love CPoint Marikina City" and using photos of tourist attractions in Marikina.
Noel pointed out that the word "CPoint" would be in a much smaller font and "Marikina City" would be much bigger since the place is the highlight of the message. Mayor Marcy had given his approval on this project after Noel showed him samples of the souvenir items.
He also plans to turn the penthouse of the building into an events place complete with the swimming pool and Jacuzzi overlooking Marikina City.
After the interview, Noel toured us around the building. The factory is spacious, clean, with enough ventilation. It runs smoothly and efficiently with the workers inspired by their surrounding. The stockrooms are well-stocked, manned by employees tracking the inventory. The top floor has two bedrooms, both well-decorated with their own toilet and bath, beds and a view of Marikina. The rooms are for buyers from abroad who have no place to stay in the city.
If Noel's parents were still alive today, no doubt they will be very proud of how their youngest son, who wanted to be a doctor, has become a successful shoe businessman.


RE: The tariff classification of plastic sheet from Malaysia.
In your letter dated March 14, 2002, on behalf of Nichimen America Inc., you requested a tariff classification ruling.
Three sample swatches were submitted with your request. Exhibit A (246DT001) is described as TPO/PP foam. The top skin consists of thermoplastic olefin, which is a blend of ethylene propylene rubber and polypropylene. The thin top skin is laminated to a thicker layer of cellular polypropylene foam. Exhibit B (PD1502) is described as PVC/PP foam. It consists of a thin top skin of polyvinyl chloride plastic laminated to a thicker layer of cellular polypropylene foam. Exhibit C is described as TPO backer primer (PD1474). It is a noncellular plastic sheet consisting of polymers of both ethylene and propylene. You believe that the propylene polymers predominate in this formulation.
All of the materials will be used in the interiors of automobiles in parts such as door panels and instrument panels. They will be imported in rectangular sheets, in the approximate size of the finished product, and then molded to shape after importation.
The applicable subheading for Exhibit A, TPO/PP foam (246DT001), and Exhibit B, PVC/PP foam (PD1502), will be 3921.19.0000, Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS), which provides for other plates, sheets, film, foil and strip, of plastics: cellular: of other plastics. The rate of duty will be 6.5 percent ad valorem.
The applicable subheading for Exhibit C, TPO backer primer (PD1474), if the propylene polymers predominate by weight, will be 3920.20.0000, HTS, which provides for other plates, sheets, film, foil and strip, of plastics, noncellular and not reinforced, laminated, supported or similarly combined with other materialsof polymers of propylene. The rate of duty will be 4.2 percent ad valorem.
The applicable subheading for Exhibit C, TPO backer primer (PD1474), if the ethylene polymers predominate by weight, will be 3920.10.0000, HTS, which provides for other plates, sheets, film, foil and strip, of plastics, noncellular and not reinforced, laminated, supported or similarly combined with other materialsof polymers of ethylene. The rate of duty will be 4.2 percent ad valorem.


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