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Hank Williams Jr. Net Worth 2021: Age, Height, Weight, Wife, Kids, Bio-Wiki
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Celebrated Name:
Hank Williams, Jr.
Real Name/Full Name:
Randall Hank Williams
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States
Wife/Spouse (Name):
Mary Jane Thomas (m. 1990), Becky White (m. 1977–1983), Gwen Yeargain (m. 1971–1977)
Yes (Hank Williams III, Holly Williams, Katharine Diane Williams, Hilary Williams, Samuel Williams)
Dating/Girlfriend
(Name):
Singer-songwriter, Record producer, Multi-instrumentalist
Net Worth in 2021:
The real name of Hank Williams Jr. is Randall Hank Williams. He is an American singer, Musician, and Songwriter. He is the son of a well-known singer Hank Williams best in Traditional Country, Southern Rock, and Blues genre of music.
Maybe you know about Hank Williams Jr. very well But do you know how old and tall is he, and what is his net worth in 2021? If you do not know, We have prepared this article about details of Hank Williams Jr.'s short biography-wiki, career, professional life, personal life, today's net worth, age, height, weight, and more facts. Well, if you're ready, let's start.
Hank was born into a family full of musicians. His father was a famous musician, singer, and songwriter, Hank William. His mother's name was Audrey Williams, who was also famous as a songwriter and musician. Hank Jr. was born in 1942 in Louisiana, located in the United States.
He was raised by his mother as he lost his father at an early age of 4. But his interest in music from childhood helped him in making it big in the music industry. He has a love for instruments, and he can play a lot of them like piano, saxophone, guitar, drum, harmonica, and keyboards.
Age, Height, and Weight
Being born on 26 May 1949, Hank Williams Jr. is 71 years old as of today's date 16th January 2021. His height is 1.82 m tall, and his weight is 94 kg.
Hank Jr recorded his father's song as his debut single "Long Gone Lonesome Blues," and it was a big hit in 1964. In that year, he starred in a film named "A Time to sing." For the next two years, he was not able to give any more hit songs. Then he wrote a song himself "Standing in the Shadows," which was a big hit again. He was not happy as people call him an imitator of Hank Williams, so he created a new style in the song which was loved by people.
When he turned 18, he fell in drug and alcohol abuse, which later led to his suicide attempt in 1974. He then went to Alabama and recorded a few songs by hooking up with Southern rockers like the Marshall Tucker Band's Toy Caldwell, Charlie Daniels. He recorded a rock & roll album named Hank Williams Jr. & Friends. It was not a big smashing hit, but the music was good.
Again he lost two years of his life as he fell from a mountain and had serious injuries. He came back in music with an album named "The New South." After some years, he started to give hit songs again. In the late 70's, one of the biggest hits which he gave was "I Fought the Law." He reached the height of popularity in the '80s. His career went on a high with three big hits in 1981 named "Dixie on My Mind," "Texas Women," and "All My Rowdy Friends (Have Settled Down)." 127 Rose Avenue is one of his last hit albums released in 2009.
Hank Jr. won a lot of awards in his career some of the best are back-to-back Country Music Association Entertainer of the Year in 1987 and 1988, Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals in 1989 for There's a Tear in My Beer and Johnny Visionary award by CMT in 2006
Net Worth & Salary of Hank Williams Jr. in 2021
Hank Jr. is a great singer who has a lot of fan following. He earned his wealth from songwriting and singing. To date, his net worth is around $60 million, which proves his worth as a singer too. Hank Jr's song Keep the change was very hit and got 1,80,000 downloads in the time span of 2 days.
His albums That's how they do it Dixie, maverick, Pure hank and The way I see it, are all certified by RIAA earning him $5,00,000 per album. His album Jr's Greatest Hits Vol 3 had record sales with earnings to him of $1,000,000.
Now the legacy of Hank William Jr. is being carried by his daughter Holly Williams. She is now making a mark in the music industry as a singer and songwriter. Being a great singer and songwriter himself and coming from the same family, the legacy would surely be continued marking the family name at the top.
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The Tso Kar] or Tsho kar, known for its size and depth, is a fluctuating salt lake situated in the Rupshu Plateau and valley in the southern part of Ladakh in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir.
Leaving last permanently inhabited point, we are ready to enter in the pure Himalayan wilderness. We'll ride on a torturous zigzag shaped uphill road that lies in the shadow of the hanging glacier to Baralach La (4900m). Further, at Lachulung La, you can see incredible natural sculpture built by the wind blowing through the rocks of a canyon that reminds one of a scenery in Arizona.
Let's start our ride in direction of Leh! We follow an endless strip of asphalt loops that look like scratched into the reddish cliffsbefore reaching to Tanglang La,5330 m of altitude, the world's second highest motor able pass. From the top, we start our descent which will lead us to our main destination: Leh.
On this day we will take a short break from the long ride to see more of Ladakh's main sights. India's "Little Tibet" was highly influenced by the presence of Singge Namgyall, the greatest king of Ladakh, who decided to open the famous trade route to Central Asia region. In 1974 the region was opened for visitors and since 2002 has a substantial number of tourists.
Be ready for the next mother's nature masterpiece! With a depth of 105m and a size of 120 Km², this lake is located at an altitude of 4595m and is the largest of the high altitude lakes in the Trans-Himalayan biogeographic region, entirely within India. The captivating color of the lake surrounded by majestic mountains, the incredible wealth of fauna and flora will make you feel like in a veritable heaven upon earth. This place is such peaceful that after nightfall, you could hear only your own heartbeat… or the roar of a snow Leopard!
We begin our journey in direction of Tso Kar Lake, a fluctuating salt lake situated at 4530m altitude. It is known for its size (22 km²) and depth (95m) but also for its incredible bird abundance and diversity. After appreciating an immense and sumptuous panorama showing nature at its best, we take the road again towards Sarchu, (also known as Sir Bhum Chun), a major halt point with tented accommodation. We will spend the night there at an altitude of 4290m!


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Home Food That Expensive Bourbon You Bought May Be a Fake
That Expensive Bourbon You Bought May Be a Fake
"I saw one collection that was in its entirety fake, and it had all been gathered 20 to 30 years ago," she said. "There are some really well-known fakes that keep popping up."
Reliable statistics on the size of the problem are hard to come by. Ms. Graham-Yooll dismissed as hyperbolic a 2018 study claiming that up to one-third of all rare single-malt bottles were fake. But she conceded that fakery is a sizable problem, and growing worse.
There is no shortage of anecdotes like the encounter at Acker. In 2017 a Swiss hotel drew notice for selling the world's most expensive dram to a Chinese tourist. Subsequent analysis of the liquid, which was purported to be a single-malt Scotch made by the Macallan distillery in 1878, showed that it was a blended Scotch made sometime after 1970.
Like the Acker bottle, the fake Macallan had flaws obvious to an expert eye: the wrong cork, modern glass. In part because the field of counterfeiting is so new, Mr. Herz said, it's not hard to spot counterfeits — drip stains on a paper label, for example, are a good indication that the bottle has been used before.
"Most people are lazy and impatient," he said.
The whiskey trade has yet to see its version of Rudy Kurniawan, the prolific, highly skilled counterfeiter whose 2013 conviction for making and selling millions of dollars' worth of precisely detailed fake Burgundy and California Cabernet rocked the wine world.
But it may be only a matter of time. Experts say they have seen an increase in the quality of counterfeits; Mr. Herz suspects that at least a few counterfeiters have inside connections at Kentucky distilleries, allowing them to build fake bottles from scratch, with pristine labels and expertly crafted closures.
A cottage industry has popped up in response, especially in Britain, promising high-tech countermeasures like through-the-glass chemical analysis, which allows sellers and collectors to assess a bottle's authenticity without having to open it. But those are still in development, and years away from widespread use.
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The tl;dr version: webOS got screwed, time and time again. Sometimes by Palm's own ambitions, sometimes by supposed partners, and sometimes by fate. The Verge's Chris Zeigler has put together an excellent history of webOS as told from the inside, including plenty of behind-the-scenes info that wasn't publicly known before this point. For instance, Verizon was originally supposed to be the launch carrier for the Palm Pre, but backed out, and then a year later with the Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus ordered "an extraordinary number" of the devices, only to go with Motorola's Android-powered Droid instead, refusing shipment on hundreds of millions of dollars of Palm inventory.
Then there's the immediate post-HP-acquisition rush and excitement for webOS under HP CEO Mark Hurd, with the Palm group diving headfirst into a brand-new tablet, a new office established to get webOS onto PCs, an actual functioning webOS printer, and more of HP's grand webOS plans. And then all hell breaking loose with a new and disinterested CEO, a disappointing tablet launch, and quick and stunning shuttering of webOS hardware.
It's a sweeping 8000+ word overview of the rise of webOS at Palm and the fall under HP, with plenty of background thoughts to add color to what we all suspected was going on. But know this: the story of webOS isn't over.


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NBE lifts bill purchase directive
The National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) has lifted its yearlong mandatory requirement imposed on private banks to purchase bonds from the Development Bank of Ethiopia (DBE).
| 12 October 2019
Contraband threatens national gold supply
The account of expanding contraband activities in various boarder areas of the country, the amount of gold produced by artisanal miners in various regional states and being channeled to the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) keeps dwindling, The Reporter has learnt.
| 5 October 2019
PM picks vice governors for NBE, draws mixed reviews
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) has approved the appointments of three new vice governors for the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE), Ethiopia's central banking institution. However, the top picks for the positions has been met with mixed reaction from finance and economic experts.
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Experts insist on restructured NBE
Economists and financial experts have called on the government of Ethiopia to seriously look at the state of the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) and consider restructuring it in time, while some going to the extent of reducing the central bank to an institution primarily engaged in undertaking money printing, an expression connoting the power of central banks to create money.
New bank prepares to join sector
A new bank, Amhara Bank S.C, is on the horizon of formation as the supervising committee readies itself to sell shares to the public, The Reporter has learnt.
Capital lease finance company opens shop
The National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) has licensed the first foreign capital lease finance company called Ethio Lease. Ethio Lease was established by African Asset Finance Company, a New York City-based finance company, with a registered capital of 400 million birr.
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Oil companies to take new concessions
Following the removal of the National Bank of Ethiopia's directive that compels oil and gas companies to open a foreign bank account in Ethiopia international oil companies have shown interest to take new concessions.
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A new draft bill, which was designed to amend the existing, restrictive banking and financial services proclamation, has been tabled before the House of People's Representatives (HPR) offering a new regulation, which has given the green light to foreign nationals of Ethiopian origin to engage in the banking and financial services sector.
Venture capital policy on the horizon
Cognizant of the need to promote private investment in Ethiopia and to assist in the government's effort in job creation, the Government of Ethiopia (GoE) is preparing a policy that enables the setting up of a local venture capital fund in the country.


Donald Trump is teasing a major announcement and a mystery guest for his rally at Iowa State University later today, and it has social media speculating.
Trump advertised his "major announcement" in a Facebook post on Monday.
Someone quickly decided to investigate flights from Alaska, and determined that the special guest might be former vice presidential candidate and tea party favorite, Sarah Palin.
They discovered that a charter flight was departing from Anchorage and heading to Iowa, the site of Trump's rally.
Not too convincing until you notice that the second part of that plane's itinerary takes it to Tulsa, Oklahoma, the location of Trump's next rally.
So trump getting an endorsement today and people think it'll be sarah palin, so look forward to that.
SARAH PALIN WILL BE THE SURPRISE GUEST TO ENDORSE TRUMP IN IOWA TODAY.
Expect Sarah Palin to come on aboard officially! First Phyllis, Falwell, and now Palin. Finger crossed! Let's GO #TRUMP and hurry!
Gonna watch the Trump/Palin rally with the largest bottle of bourbon I can find.
How much more awesome could it get than a Trump-Palin ticket? These are the days of miracles and wonders.
I'd love to hear from McCain tmmw if Palin endorses Trump.
Not exactly rock solid evidence but certainly enough to make one wonder.


Maintain BUY and SGD33.30 Target Price, 25% upside, tied to a long-term ROE assumption of 12.8% (2Q18: 12.1%).
UOB's 2Q18 net profit of SGD1.08bn was up 28% y-o-y (+10% q-o-q), whilst NIM of 1.83% was 1bp narrower q-o-q – the growth trend is evident from the 8bps y-o-y widening and management sees future NIM upside.
It also sees little impact of the property cooling measures on near-term loan growth and guided for high single-digit 2018 loans expansion.
UOB's introduction of a digital bank is also long-term positive.
UOB's 2Q18 net profit was SGD1.08bn, up 10% q-o-q and 28% y-o-y. The key driver was NII, which rose 5% q-o-q and 14% y-o-y.
NIM expansion likely going forward.
UOB's 2Q18 NIM of 1.83% was 1bp narrower q-o-q, but 8bps wider y-o-y. United Overseas Bank is priced competitively, resulting in 4% q-o-q loan growth. Also, UOB's efforts to increase deposits – ahead of the expected interest rate hike – have led to higher funding costs.
Going forward, management sees NIM rising, with the extent dependent on when federal fund rate (FFR) hikes occur. We are forecasting 2018 and 2019 NIMs of 1.85% and 1.92%.
2018 high single-digit loan growth guidance maintained.
After the 6.1% YTD loan expansion, management expects 2018 y-o-y loan growth in the high single digits. Management sees little impact of the July Singapore property cooling measures on 2018 loan growth, although the impact should be felt later.
We are forecasting 2018 and 2019 loans growth of 8% and 6.5%.
UOB introducing a digital bank.
During the results briefing, UOB announced the introduction of a digital bank for ASEAN "mobile first" and "mobile only" customers. This model is designed to comprehensively address the entire customer life cycle.
UOB's digital bank aims for a customer base of 3-5m over the next five years, operating at a steady-state CIR of 35%.
SGD0.50/share interim dividend declared – potential for more future dividends.
UOB's 2Q18 CET1 capital adequacy ratio (CAR) of 14.5% was sharply higher than DBS' (DBS SP, Rating: BUY, Target Price: SGD30.30) 13.6% in the same quarter under review – pointing towards the potential for UOB to dish out more dividends going forward.
For 2Q18, the bank declared an interim ordinary dividend of SGD0.50/share. Its commitment is for a dividend payout ratio of 50%, subject to a minimum CET1 CAR of 13.5% and sustainable financial performances.
Maintain BUY and SGD33.30 TP, 25% upside.
Our GGM-derived Target Price assumes cost of equity (CoE) of 9.9% and ROE of 12.8% (2Q18 ROE: 12.1%). This yields a target P/BV of 1.42x, which we apply to our forecast FY19 BV of SGD23.51.
Over the past five years, UOB has traded at an average P/BV of 1.24x. We believe the higher P/BV target is reasonable, given the improving NIM environment.


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Q: Why does Visual Studio not link correctly as a matlab mex file against the rundll? I have the following problem: I have a 64 bit version of matlab 2011b. I need to call some functions from a DLL. This has been working some time ago with the prof version of visual studio 2010.
Now I want to get it running with the express version. I therefore installed the visual Studio C++ 2010 Express and the Win SDK 7.1. Now I give matlab the command mex -setup and select the VC++ compiler. All right!
If I want to load the dll itself with loadlibrary, I get tons of errors. Something like:
Building libFramework_thunk_pcwin64 failed.  Compiler output is:
cl -I"C:\MATLAB\R2011b\extern\include"   /W3  /D_CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE /D_SCL_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE /D_SECURE_SCL=0  /nologo  -I"U:\Framework\Framework\so" -I"U:\Framework\Framework\so" "libFramework_thunk_pcwin64.c" -LD -Fe"libFramework_thunk_pcwin64.dll" libFramework_thunk_pcwin64.c
Bibliothek "libFramework_thunk_pcwin64.lib" und Objekt "libFramework_thunk_pcwin64.exp" werden erstellt.
LIBCMT.lib(dllcrt0.obj) : error LNK2019: Verweis auf nicht aufgelöstes externes Symbol "__imp__GetCurrentThreadId@0" in Funktion "__CRT_INIT@12".
LIBCMT.lib(tidtable.obj) : error LNK2001: Nicht aufgelöstes externes Symbol "__imp__GetCurrentThreadId@0".
LIBCMT.lib(gs_support.obj) : error LNK2001: Nicht aufgelöstes externes Symbol "__imp__GetCurrentThreadId@0".
LIBCMT.lib(onexit.obj) : error LNK2001: Nicht aufgelöstes externes Symbol "__imp__DecodePointer@4".
LIBCMT.lib(crtmboxw.obj) : error LNK2019: Verweis auf nicht aufgelöstes externes Symbol "__imp__DecodePointer@4" in Funktion "___crtMessageBoxW".

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libFramework_thunk_pcwin64.dll : fatal error LNK1120: 65 nicht aufgelöste externe Verweise.

Error in load_Framework (line 4)
    loadlibrary 'libFramework' 'Shaddower_C.h'

Unfortunately these errors are in German as I use german software. The (looslely) translation is, that there are links to non-solvable external symbols in different functions. If you know how to change the language to English, I can give you the exact output.
As I googled, I found out, that all functions I tried were from standard libraries, I just found some of the rundll32.dll but maybe there are other links as well.
In fact it seems, that the compiler is not able to access the default windows dll (or the sdk).
Can you tell me what's going wrong here?
PS: For those who understand the German language see http://www.gomatlab.de/viewtopic,p,91154.html#91154 I posted on a pure matlab forum fist, but as I guess it's a VC++ problem I also posted here.

A: I found out, that I had some packages about VS2010 Redistributable installed. I deleted them and the installed VS2010 and the SDK. After reinstalling the SDK all went correct.
Thanks

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Money sought for broken wall
PORTSMOUTH — Last February, school officials promised Little Harbour School principal Robin Burdick that this year's budget would include repairs to a moveable wall that divides the school's cafeteria and gymnasium.
Then changes to the state's school-funding formula charged the city an additional $1.1 million to fund other school districts, leading to $161,000 in reductions to the proposed budget. The wall - jammed shut since its sliding function broke - would have to be revisited at a later date.
Now the School Board wants to explore raising half of the $50,000 to fix the wall by soliciting private donations. The board Tuesday voted to set up a committee to look at fixing the wall without raising the budget.
"There are people on the board who feel that it really needs to be fixed," board member Ann Walker said. "The business community holds functions that can raise that kind of money fairly easily."
Walker added that the other half of the repair costs may be taken from the city's capital budget.
The closed wall reduces seating capacity for basketball games and other large-scale school events. Earlier this year, Burdick compared the cramped feeling inside the hall to that of Boston Garden.
Bond spent
School Business Administrator told board members at the Tuesday meeting that the department's budget for renovations at the district's two other elementary school was still in the black.
As part of a bond taken out for comprehensive school improvements for the city, $2 million had been set aside for four new classrooms and a new lunchroom at New Franklin Elementary School, as well as classroom improvements at Dondero Elementary School.
Of what was budgeted, $42 remains in the department's coffers, and that amount will be returned to the city, Walker said.
State adequacy calculation
The board also accepted a release from the New Hampshire Department of Education regarding the amount the state calculates for local school districts in 2005-06 through its school aid program.
The state recently calculated a per-pupil cost of adequacy for New Hampshire students in that fiscal year of $3,580. The amount calculated for Portsmouth - based partly on the city's number of students receiving subsidized school meals - would be $8,845,106.
However, because of the city's high property valuation, Portsmouth raises more than this amount locally and ends up sending any excess to the state to help fund other school districts.


Just what is it like to drive Porsche's stunning new 911 GT2 RS? José Caetano from Portugal's Auto Foco (and colleague from AutoBest ) last week had the answer.
There is nothing above the GT2 RS when it comes to performance and outstanding road handling. It is a masterpiece of engineering with its 700 ps engine and motorsport-like chassis which also takes advantage of titanium and carbon fibre additions to turn this car into the best and quickest 911 ever built, as we were able to experience at the Portimao race track in Portugal.
Porsche conceives the GT2 RS as a demonstration of what the company can do best halfway between motorsport and a street legal car (if you discount the fact that it will not be easy to drive at legal speed with these things…).
The previous generation, from 2010, had a headcount limited to 600 units (most of which were exported to the USA, with the UK and Germany also strong customers) but this new generation production will be up for grabs for anyone with a big enough bank account and an exquisite taste for this strong candidate for the title of best sports car on the world.
"You are sitting in the most extreme 911 Porsche has ever done, a demonstration of how far we can go", smiles a confident Andreas Preuninger , the head of the GT model line-up at Porsche. And I am a firm believer of his words since I am still shaking from the mind blowing impressions that will stay with me for some time after 8 fast laps around the roller coaster like 4,2 km race track.
The evil intentions of this racing beast are pretty obvious the moment you set your eyes on its sinful body: huge air intakes in the front and behind the door, the striking outlets at the imposing fixed (but adjustable) rear wing, the wide front spoiler slip assure that engine brakes and charge-air coolers are refreshed as much as necessary and that the necessary downforce is generated to keep the GT2 RS clammed to the road.
The comprehensive aerodynamic measures produce a sensational downforce which is key to the car´s overall impressive handling: a total of 312 kg (105 in the front and 207 in the rear) with the road set up and not less than 416 kg (145+271) in the track configuration. These make sure that the 2.8 secs sprint to 100 km/h and the 340 km/h top speed are achieved in good terms.
The overall weight of the car, 1470 kg, can be further reduced by 30 kg thanks to the Weissach Package (a number of lightweight construction and materials first introduced in the 918 Spyder).
"One of the things that impressed me the most when I first drove the car is how precise the front end is, making it pretty easy to negotiate the corners very effectively", Walter Röhrl tells me when I ask him what was the most striking feature of the new 911 king.
And indeed there are good reasons for that: for the first time on a road vehicle from Porsche all chassis joints have been replaced by steel ball joints creating a firm connection between chassis and body.
Then you have dynamic engine mounts to produce more uniform and increased propulsion force at the rear axle (this is a rear wheel drive car), greatly stiffer springs for the front and rear wheels, track adjustable ground clearance, wheel camber, track and anti-roll bars, along with the many Porsche usual aids to benefit road handling and comfort alike.
These include the variable shock absorber system (PASM) acting on each individual wheel, rear axle steering, PTM (Porsche Stability Management) and the fully variable PTV plus fully variable differential lock, torque vectoring plus… and we could go on and on for ever with this very rich technological compendium on these four wheels.
Wheels, yes… they put together magnesium with the 265/35 ZR20 high performance tyres in the front and 325/30 ZR21 in the rear which build up the necessary lateral support to help the GT2 RS to devour corners.
At the heart of the GT2 RS – which enters its second generation after the first 2010 RS car replaced the 2007 and the 2000 911 GT2 – is, of course, the 3.8 litre flat-six engine which made its debut in 2009 and is used on the 911 Turbo S. There it generates 580 energetic PS. Here it has been increased to 700 ps.
It still uses twin turbos with variable geometry (but bigger and with a maximum pressure of 1.5 bar each), motorsport-like pistons (which help the crankshaft to rev up to 7200 rpm, unusually high for a turbo engine), expanded intake system with smaller intake manifolds, intermediate charge-air coolers, enlarged (by 15%) intercooler and titanium exhaust system, among other measures.
Compared to its predecessor, the new GT2 RS has a bigger engine (from 3.6 to 3.8 litres) and improved output by 80 ps and 50 Nm (700 vs 750 Nm now). Also important for the outstanding performance is the first application of PDK transmission on the GT2, allowing for quicker and smoother gear shifts which become tremendously fast on upshifts and punchy on downshifts when you select the PDK Sport program as I did after the first couple of laps at the Portimao track.
This gearbox also features the "Paddle Neutral" function which releases the clutches and the power delivery from the engine is interrupted when the driver pulls back both paddles at the same time. The idea is to bring an understeering vehicle back into control or, on the contrary, apply the propulsion force instantly to deliberately destabilise the rear of the car.
But what I could experience from the time behind the wheel of the GT2 RS is sufficiently impressive. On the mix of autobahn and secondary roads on the way to the circuit it is quite obvious that the car does not appreciate bumps (potholes even less, but you can actuate the 3 cm nose lift to avoid the need for a costly repair to the car´s expensive nose) and that the best way is to drive with the normal suspension setting and without the naturally amplified exhaust actuator (especially in this black striped body paint of the Weissach Package version the car´s appearance is striking enough…).
A succession of engaging corners tells you cornering ability is as amazing as expected by the never ending arsenal of motorsport like hardware and software and sets the tone for the hot laps behind a pace car on the track.
If you looked at the tech data and saw that the RS can blast up to 200 km/h in just 8.3 secs it won´t be much of a surprise to tell you acceleration can leave your brain struggling to process what is going on with your body, head and eyesight.
And ears, of course, as the exhaust sound amplifier (all natural, don´t forget) will fill your ears with a mix of joy, and probably some perplexity. Nothing to fear, though, as the unbelievably precise and fast (electrically assisted!!!) steering, the relentless ceramic brakes and the incredible overall handling from the chassis helps you to keep a fairly fast pace behind the professional driver pace car as you swallow up kms on the very 3D Portimao race track. Here, where the ups and downs challenge your body even more than the already defying high g forces would do on a race track that is "merely" twisty.
It is not easy to be close to perfection when you are talking about a car but this GT2 RS comes as close as it gets. I will not be set free before coming up with a defect?
Ok… make it the infotainment system which is dated and producing some whims and complaints when you go through bad tarmac or generate high lateral forces (which you do). It seems to belong to the GT2 RS grandfather and needs an urgent update, especially when you look at what Porsche has done in the recent Panamera and Cayenne.
One hiccup is not enough. Ok, well with what you are asked to pay for a GT2 RS, maybe you could take home a 911 Turbo and a Panamera 4 E-Hybrid – for the family joy and the CO2 heavy conscience relief – but then you would not be able to try to replicate the 6.47,3 min record lap time for road approved sportscars (5 seconds quicker than the previous record) achieved this September at the Nürburgring green hell.
And that gives the Porsche GT2 RS a lot of credit which goes far beyond a figure.
Peter is a writer and tester in the UK with more than 30 years experience of covering new cars, classics and the fascinating, fast moving car industry.
Peter is a car writer and tester in the UK. Gooner, Alfisti and former Tokyo resident. If it has wheels, then he is interested.


Bennie Hawkins is an up and coming singer songwriter from Essex set for a meteoric rise. At just 16, this young performer has the confidence and song-writing skills of someone beyond his years. With silky vocals and well penned songs he's set to have a very bright future indeed.
We heard him performing at Longwell Records on Vinyl day last April …. not really sure how that happened!


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Supporting the ancient idea of Olympic Games our bicycle wheels will again connect the two Olympic capitals: London and Rio de Janeiro. The ride will last 171 days from February 17 till August 5, the day of opening the Olympic Games.
After the send-off ceremony in London we will fly across the Atlantic to the South Caribbean islands – Trinidad and Tobago. We will spend a week cycling in this fascinating twin-island country, then hire a boat to the remote Venezuelan region – the vast Delta del Orinoco. From here the route will go to La Gran Sabana, an ancient country of tepuis (table-top mountains), known also as Venezuela's paradise for cyclists. After having a chance to visit the highest world waterfall, Angel Falls, and climb the mysterious Mount Roraima, we will shortly enter Brazil on our way to the wilderness of Guianas (the Land of Many Waters) rainforests. Cycling across Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana we will reach the Amazon Delta. To cross the Amazon River it will take 2 days by boat.
The rest more than 3 months to Rio de Janeiro we will stay in Brazil, passing 12 states. The major part of this part of the route we will cycle close to the Atlantic Coast with a travel-friendly climate lasting all the year. We will visit the biggest cities of the Northeast Region rich by unique cultural heritage, Afro-Brazilian traditions. After Salvador da Bahia, the former capital of colonial Brazil, we will turn inland, to cerrados of Minas Gerais visiting the Chapada Diamantina National Park and continue cycling south towards the group of historic colonial towns (the most famous Ouro Preto among them) reminding the gold age of Brazil. We arrive to Rio de Janeiro following the ancient gold road – Estrada Real.
Note. We are working now on details of the route trying to include most interesting sights. The draft route you will find in Program section which is to be updated regularly. Here you will find the list of UNESCO Heritage.
Join us for a month, a week, a day or for a whole route! See you on the road!


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Сарго́дха — город в провинции Пенджаб, Пакистан, центр одноимённого округа. Население — 458 440 чел. (по переписи 1998 года). В городе расположено учебное заведение военно-воздушных сил Пакистана ().

Город был основан англичанами в 1903 году. В 1914 году он получил статус муниципалитета.

В современной Саргодхе присутствует литейное производство, стекольная промышленность; производство обуви, инсектицидов и пестицидов, текстиля, нефтепродуктов, дизельных моторов и других видов продукции. В окрестностях города выращивают на экспорт цитрусовые, пшеницу, рис и сахарный тростник. Также развито животноводство.

В Саргодхе есть университет.

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Mutiara Hotel – Bandung, Indonesia.
On my visit to Bandung, my initial plan was to book a service apartment but unfortunately it was fully booked. My next option was to book Mutiara Hotel. The reason was that since I was planning to take a train back from Bandung to Jakarta, Mutiara Hotel will provide me with an easy access to Bandung train station. It is after all the nearest hotel to the train station.
Mutiara Hotel is located at 60 Jln Kebon Kawang, Bandung 40171. When the taxi that I took finally arrived at the hotel, my first impression was that it must be quite a old hotel. The check in lobby seems to be small, spartan and simple. However, check in was quick and a staff showed me to my room. You need to walk out of the hotel lobby through a small exit to the car park and walked across the next building. The hotel buildings is an unassuming 3 storey like houses that are connected to one another by corridors.
When I finally opened the door to my bedroom, it seems small, even though I have booked an Executive Room. I asked the staff whether is this an Executive Room, he confirmed it. It was on the third floor with a view of the swimming pool. The room is simple and small, and the bathroom seems to be worn out after years of usage. On the positive side, there is a mini bar and a small fridge where you can put your cold drinks and fruits. The TV had multi channels where you can watched programs from different countries. Also, there is a lift that goes from the first floor to the third floor – where I am staying. The common corridor that connects the rooms is an open space walkways.
Mutiara hotel has a certain characteristic that makes it unique. The building looks old and colonial. The best aspect of it is that there are lots of greenery around. You can see trees and plants everywhere. That is something that is very pleasing. Near the pool, there is a mini garden – with a mini fountain and Koi fishes. The environment is slow and relaxing – after all, that is what vacation is all about.
The railway station is nearby to this hotel. If you walk, you can reached the train station by approximately 10 minutes. If you are just outside the hotel lobby facing the main road, there is only 2 ways to walk – right or left. Just turn left and keep walking. However, just remember that the railway station is opposite the road. It is a small building. While walking, looked out for vehicles, as the traffic is heavy and there is hardly any pavement at all.
Morning breakfast is served at the Tiara restaurant on the ground floor. Breakfast is basic but sufficient. If you are looking for a sumptuous spread, then you will be disappointed. From this restaurant, you can have a good view of the swimming pool. The pool is small in size – it is good for a quick dip. But I do liked the greenery surrounding the restaurant and the pool. The whole place is cosy and relaxing.
On the whole, the hotel do need to renovate its rooms. And the Executive room that I have booked seems to be of similar size with that of the standard room. I think there should be a difference – in terms of size of the room, the facilities in the room and of course a good view. That is the reason why people are paying more for a better room. Other that this, Mutiara hotel is a nice place to stay. There are a few factory outlets and restaurants that are close to this hotel. And if you explore the surroundings further, you can even find a beautiful church that is about 15 minutes walk from this hotel.


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Employee Share Schemes: Regulation and Policy
U of Melbourne Legal Studies Research Paper No. 533
22 Pages Posted: 15 May 2010 Last revised: 23 Mar 2011
See all articles by Ingrid Landau
Ingrid Landau
Monash University; Monash University
Ann O'Connell
University of Melbourne - Law School
Ian Ramsay
Melbourne Law School - University of Melbourne
Date Written: May 12, 2010
Through employee share schemes, employees have the opportunity to take up equity in the company for which they work. There are two distinct types of employee share schemes: 'broad-based' schemes that are open to the majority of employees within a company, and 'narrow-based' schemes that are only open to executive employees. Broad-based schemes - the focus of this paper - are an increasingly common and economically significant feature of the Australian corporate landscape. At the federal government level, they have been the focus of intermittent public policy interest. Most recently, as part of the 2009-10 Budget, the Treasurer announced significant changes to the taxation of these schemes. This announcement was met with outcry from a range of stakeholders and the Government was quick to concede that its proposals may have had the unintended consequence of discouraging the growth of broad-based employee share ownership in Australia. After a series of consultative measures, the Government substantially revised its reforms.
Although broad-based employee share schemes have long enjoyed bipartisan political support, key issues surrounding their regulation continue to be contested. This paper identifies and discusses a number of these important policy issues, with particular reference to the recent major taxation reforms. Part II of the paper provides background by briefly outlining current evidence on broad-based employee share schemes in Australia. In Part III, we explain the extent to which these schemes have received support from Australia's two major political parties. Part IV briefly outlines how these schemes are regulated under Australian law. In Part V, we discuss a number of important public policy issues which recur intermittently in public debates on employee share schemes. These issues include our limited knowledge of relevant company practice; the many available rationales for the promotion of employee share schemes; the nature, and extent, of the tax concessions designed to promote employee share ownership; and the extent to which the existing regulatory regime provides scope for loss of revenue through tax evasion. We conclude in Part VI by observing that although all political parties support the notion of employee ownership, the political will to support this with taxation concessions is tempered by the view that employee share schemes present the potential for abuse.
Landau, Ingrid and Landau, Ingrid and O'Connell, Ann and Ramsay, Ian, Employee Share Schemes: Regulation and Policy (May 12, 2010). U of Melbourne Legal Studies Research Paper No. 533, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1605063 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1605063
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LONDON, ENGLAND AUGUST 18, 2005
FOR SEVERAL DECADES, the financial objective of the Econometric Society (ES) has been to maintain its ratio of net worth (NW ) to adjusted total revenue (ATR), that is, NW /ATR, equal to 50 percent.1 As capital gains on the U.S. stock market pushed up the NW /ATR ratio in the late 1990's far above that 50 percent goal, the Society made regular, prudent decisions to shift these gains from its NW to the welfare of its constituents, primarily by providing substantial travel grants to participants in its 2000 and 2005 World Congresses, by suspending increases in membership dues over the past decade and then by reducing membership rates in 2005 and 2006, by providing for an extra co-editor of Econometrica, by instituting a 50 percent increase in the number of pages printed in Econometrica in the year 2002 compared to the normal number of pages, and by making substantial investments in its web site, including creating an electronic Members' Directory and online access to Econometrica for all ES members, as well as investing in a complete redesign of the web site during 2003.2
The deliberate attempt to use all of these methods to stop the growth of the NW /ATR ratio eventually succeeded. Planned policies produced losses in the years 2000–2002 that totalled $467,275 and reduced the Society's NW /ATR ratio from 1.37 at the end of 1999 to 0.57 at the end of 2002. Then a planned turnaround began, and the Society's NW /ATR ratio is currently on an upward trajectory, having reached 0.72 at the end of 2004 and on track to reach 0.78 at the end of 2005 and 0.91 at the end of 2006. The three consecutive years of losses in 2000–2002 were intentional and had vir- tually nothing to do with the decline in the U.S. stock market, since the Society moved most of its assets out of the stock market in the spring of 2000 and moved them back into the stock market in the spring of 2003.


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David Daniels
Artists share the Christmas present they wanted as a kid but never got
You don't get everything you want, and this injustice is most glaring on Christmas, thanks to the tradition of giving presents.
Many children approach the requesting of this tradition with a go-big-or-go-home mindset, which can set themselves up for disappointment.
Just for fun, Rapzilla polled a handful of artists about the Christmas present they wanted the most but never received (hint, hint fans).
Bizzle: A magic wand (laughs). I figured if I had a magic wand, I could make every other gift magically appear.
wordsplayed: I remember there was a replica NY Giants punter/placekicker football uniform for kids. It had all of the pads, a helmet, crop top-style jersey, trousers. The works! Only thing they were missing was a cup and accompanying jock strap. I felt like if I didn't get it, I would die. Like instantly. I don't remember what I got, but it wasn't the uniform and my Christmas from hell was in full effect. But I lived another day. I actually ended up getting one a few months later. It smelled weird. Grossly overrated.
Derek Minor: MPC.
Flame: A BMX bike.
Cataphant: A puppy. Hands down. But my brothers were allergic so we couldn't. Even though I researched hypoallergenic dogs and made a PowerPoint presentation and everything.
Kay Sade: The present I most wanted was a golden retriever puppy, but my mother is terrified of animals, so I never got one.
Foreknown: One year my mom took me out of school early and drove towards Disneyland. She took me miniature golfing across the street from the happiest place on earth. Torture.
Swift: OK, this is weird, but I was the biggest wrestling fan in the world when I was a kid. All I wanted was wrestling toys all the time. So the one thing I've always wanted was an authentic WWF Championship belt — not the plastic toy belt, but the real one (or a good replica). Never got it, though. I can't front, as an adult I still want one, just not as bad (laughs).
KJ-52: Millennium Falcon play set.
BreeKay (of BreeKay x Kasairi): Kasairi was simple and didn't ask her parents for much. And me, even when I asked for big stuff, my parents still came through for a brat (laughs).
K-Drama: I wanted a Power Rangers Dragonzord but never got it. However, all the things I did receive made up for that for sure.
Steven Malcolm: The Green Ranger sword from the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (laughs).
Angie Rose: I'm having some trouble trying to think of something I never got, but I do remembering wanting a pair of Jordan's real bad one year, and I ain't get em (laughs)!
Aha Gazelle: I'd have to say it was a drum set.
J. Monty: Honestly man, I can't remember a Christmas where my parents didn't fight to get me whatever I wanted the most. They made it happen one way or another.
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Henry Threadgill Won a Pulitzer
It's nice that Hamilton won a Pulitzer and all, but the real thing to celebrate is that Henry Threadgill won one.
In the category for music, the Pulitzers honored In for a Penny, in for a Pound, last year's double CD from Threadgill's Zooid group. It's only the third jazz honoree, the last one being Ornette Coleman's Sound Grammar in 2007 and Wynton Marsalis' Blood on the Fields in 1997.
The award is a nice bit of recognition for Threadgill, one of the surviving pioneers of the AACM and a contemporary of New York's loft-jazz era. It's also a feather in the cap of Pi Recordings, which has been consistent in celebrating fresh and innovative jazz. (Some might call it too academic, which is fair — but me, I eat that stuff up.)
In for a Penny It is highly improvised, but it's far from random — like Cecil Taylor's music, it has a sound. There's strategy and organization to the chugging, bubbling rhythm, and the players are Threadgill veterans who have built up the intuition and mental muscle memory to execute it (seemingly) with ease.
If there's one difference from other Zooid albums, it's in song structure. The four long pieces making up the bulk of the album are mini-suites; there are pauses where the band takes a breath and then moves into some new mood or style. Threadgill was going for an ambitious, epic scope, and it works.
For more reading, check out Nate Chinen's report for The New York Times — richly written, as always. And do take a moment to read the Pulitzer committee's announcement. The jury in this case was chaired by Julia Wolfe (Bang on a Can) and included violinist Regina Carter. They know their stuff.
So, is Henry Threadgill going to rest on his laurels? Of course not. He's already got another album out.
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