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Greater Bay binds old Hong Kong to new Shenzhen
By Elliot Wilson
Never shy about championing its latest grand development plan, Beijing is set to unveil the Greater Bay Area, a scheme designed to bind together the economies of Hong Kong, Shenzhen and Guangzhou. What is it, will it succeed, and can it really transform the region into China's Silicon Valley?
To see the future of China – or at least, the version its leaders would like to create and the world to view in awe – you must head not to Shanghai or Beijing, but to a vast confluence of connected cities in the south.
For decades, this region was known as the Pearl River Delta, or PRD. If global investors thought of it at all, it was to visualize a hodgepodge of factories that sucked in cheap mainland labour and spat out everything from shoes to iPhones. When bankers visited, which was often, they would linger in Hong Kong and Macau, two cosmopolitan cities at the mouth of the delta, occasionally venturing across the border.
Working capital flowed north, and the wealth generated in the delta was used to buy Hong Kong property or spent in Macau's casinos. But queues at checkpoints could be interminable and transport links were patchy, while investors had to handle three different currencies, legal systems and ID schemes, not to mention two languages. None of it was in any way frictionless.
Sometime this summer, probably August, Party leaders in Beijing are set to publish their plans for the Greater Bay Area. This will be no run-of-the-mill economic zone, nor an effort to link China's poorer centre with its richer coast, but a concerted attempt to bind together the financial and commercial economies of Hong Kong and Macau with nine mainland cities, including Guangzhou and Shenzhen
It is a big step into the unknown.
Pedro Cardoso, chief executive of Macau's Banco Nacional Ultramarino (BNM), describes it as "one of China's key ambitions over the next five years", and a project with the highest political priority.
Biggest factor
Nothing about the Greater Bay Area, which many see as an attempt to replicate and even supplant Silicon Valley, is small.
Lying at the heart of Guangdong, China's richest province, the region has more people than the UK, and an economy bigger than Australia's. Its combined GDP, including the two offshore cities, is tipped by law firm King & Wood Mallesons to triple to $4.6 trillion by 2030, overtaking Germany.
The bay area is home to two genuinely global corporates – Huawei and Tencent – and three of the world's busiest ports and airports. The area accounted for a quarter of all mainland trade in 2017 and has, since 1980, soaking up more than $1 trillion of inward investment.
McKinsey Global Institute predicts it will contain the world's largest banking cluster by 2025, generating total annual revenues of $185 billion, ahead of Beijing, Shanghai, Tokyo and São Paulo.
Even a once-jarring lack of fast, efficient transport links is being fixed. When it opens on July 1, a sea bridge linking Hong Kong with Macau will slash journey times to 30 minutes, from three hours, while a $10.7 billion high-speed rail line will cut travel time between Hong Kong and Guangzhou to under an hour. Authorities on both sides have worked hard to cut waiting times at borders for business travellers.
To Hong Kong's busy bankers, time is the biggest factor at work here.
Helen Wong, chief executive, Greater China at HSBC, says she crosses into the delta area at least once a month to visit clients or check in on the bank's physical operations. The UK lender has 64 outlets in Guangdong province (out of a mainland total of 178) and owns a 51% stake in HSBC Qianhai Securities, which opened for business in December 2017 in the Shenzhen economic zone of the same name.
Helen Wong, chief executive, Greater China at HSBC
"When I visit our Qianhai office, it takes me an hour – less when the traffic is good," she says. "Central Hong Kong to the western border crossing is 30 minutes, max. Then it's 35 minutes to Qianhai. It's not totally seamless yet, but it's getting there."
Other Hong Kong bankers seem to spend more time on the far side of the border than they do at home.
When Asiamoney meets Adrian Li, deputy chief executive of the Bank of East Asia, on a hazy Thursday afternoon in Hong Kong, he has to pause to remember how many times he has crossed into Shenzhen that week.
"Three times," he says finally. "This is starting to become the new normal for me: one day playing golf with clients, the next day a trip north for a business dinner, and then a day of meetings."
If there is a beating heart to the Pearl River Delta and its heir-apparent, the Greater Bay Area, it is probably Shenzhen.
Hong Kong remains the region's financial powerhouse. In the current decade to the end of May 2018, only New York's NYSE completed a greater volume of IPOs than Hong Kong's stock exchange, according to Dealogic. Hong Kong topped the global rankings in four out of the last eight full years, and recently tweaked its rules to attract more fintech and biotech listings from the mainland.
Investors still love the city's common law legal system and sound banking system.
Nicholas Yang, Hong Kong's secretary for innovation and technology, is keen to underline the city's enduring attraction to the financial community.
"Eighty of the world's top 100 banks are here," he says at his government offices on Tim Mei Avenue. "So are all the world's big insurers. The stock exchange's market cap is 13 times GDP. We dominated the IPO scene for the past five years, and we will dominate for the next five. Why? Because investors trust us."
But Shenzhen is special in a different way – and has been ever since the day in 1992 when China's great moderniser, Deng Xiaoping, paid a visit to the patch of paddy fields and low-rise concrete on Hong Kong's doorstep. When Deng urged locals to throw off the shackles of socialism, famously saying that to get rich is glorious, they listened.
Average salaries in its Nanshan district, home to 125 listed corporates with a combined market cap of $400 billion, are now higher than in Hong Kong. Shenzhen boasts 78 dollar-billionaires, according to Hurun's 2018 Global Rich List, two short of its neighbour's tally, and the same number of Fortune 500 firms.
Shenzhen's success has never been down to size alone – though McKinsey expects it to be the world's 19th largest municipal economy by 2025, worth $524 billion, with Beijing in fifth place and Shanghai in third. It is what the city does with it that counts. Local firms filed 45% of all of Chinese patents in 2017, according to the World Intellectual Property Organization. Over 4% of local GDP is spent on research and development (in Nanshan, the share is 6%), against a nationwide average of 1.8%.
What this fishing village-turned-megacity has done so well, having been granted a generous head start by Deng, is to have the sense and the ability to maintain its lead. The Shenzhen Stock Exchange, which opened in 1990, has completed more IPOs this decade than either Singapore or Sydney, while its Bond Connect programme gives international investors access to China's $9 trillion debt market via Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing.
In PwC's 'Chinese cities of opportunity 2017' report, Shenzhen and Guangzhou topped the rankings, leading in eight out of 10 categories, including ease of doing business, intellectual capital and financial innovation.
New experience
Travelling to Shenzhen always seems like a new experience. Ten years ago, crossing into the mainland from Hong Kong still felt like stepping back in time, from the new world to the old. Now, you have the reverse feeling. Hong Kong's light rail system accepts cash or a single method of contactless payment, while its cab drivers only take notes and coins. Compare that with Shenzhen, where many taxis are cash-free zones, accepting payment in the form of a smartphone-generated QR code.
Shenzhen Bay VC&PE Tower is located in western Shenzhen, a half-hour drive from the checkpoint at Lo Wu. A nondescript glass tower in the Silicon Valley style, it is dwarfed by Tencent's new headquarters, which loom over the area like a tripod in the film 'War of the worlds'.
Raymond Chen is waiting patiently on the 10th floor. A wiry and intense investment banker, he spent most of the last two decades in Hong Kong at the likes of Citi and Barclays, before accepting the position of chief strategy officer at Hande Finmaker, a local fintech accelerator and consultancy.
The Chinese authorities thought we were wolves, but after we had been there for a while, they realized we were not big bad wolves but cute little sheep - Christine Ip, UOB
It seems pertinent to ask Chen, whose CV includes a five-year stint at Hewlett-Packard in Palo Alto, to validate or refute a few of the myths and truths that already cloak the Greater Bay vision. What does Beijing really want to achieve here – and for that matter, Hong Kong too? Why give it a new name – what was wrong with calling it the Pearl River Delta? And can it really rival Silicon Valley?
"It's not the Bay Area now, and I doubt it will be the Bay Area for some time," he replies. "Shenzhen isn't San Francisco and Nanshan isn't Silicon Valley. But that's not to say it cannot become something greater than either in the longer term. Shenzhen is a fantastic fintech hub, probably the best in Asia, and it is a melting pot for great technical Chinese minds. Any technology destined to change China's financial economy and probably the world's – chances are it will be invented here."
What Shenzhen does have, he says, is a government whose corporate sensibilities and activist nature should be presented as a case study in business schools. "Shenzhen's city government is probably the richest in China thanks to the number of listed and unlisted technology firms," he says. "It is picky about which graduates it grants a hukou" or residency permit. "They don't take people over 45 and won't pay retirement costs, so it has a very low debt burden.
"But it is willing to put its money to work for the right cause. So when a drone-maker called DJI got in financial trouble, the government knocked on the door and asked if they needed any money. It has since transformed itself into a kind of venture capital investor, and it's proud to have funded so many young Shenzhen firms. You aren't going to find a more business-friendly government in China."
DJI Technology is a compelling case study in itself, and one that explains so much of Shenzhen's success.
Head-quartered in the nearby Skyworth Semiconductor Design Building, DJI, like one of Chen's former employers, was founded in a tiny room by entrepreneurs with a vision. The only difference is that while Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard formed HP in a garage in Palo Alto in 1938, Frank Wang's breakthrough took place in 2006 in his dorm room at Hong Kong University of Science & Technology.
The Hangzhou-born Wang pitched the idea of making drones to the college, which shelled out a $2,300 grant. He launched his first product in 2009 and now controls 70% of the global non-military drone market. In March 2018, Wang set out to raise up to $800 million in pre-IPO funding, valuing his firm at $15 billion. A stock listing is tipped to happen in 2019 in Hong Kong or Shenzhen. The 38-year-old is China's youngest technology billionaire, with a fortune of $5.6 billion, according to Hurun.
Profitable, ambitious, valuable, fast-growing, locally based but with offices in the US, Germany and Japan and with a cash-hungry business model, DJI ticks so many boxes for foreign lenders. It is an important client for HSBC – the biggest international bank in mainland China as a whole and in Shenzhen itself, where it has 19 branches, the first of which opened for business in 1984. That compares with 14 at the Bank of East Asia and six at Hang Seng Bank.
It's hard to overstate how important the area is to the likes of HSBC. A powerhouse in Hong Kong, where it generated $9.6 billion in pre-tax profit in 2017, more than half of it from retail banking and wealth management, its future lies in China. And to crack China, it has to crack Shenzhen and the rest of the Greater Bay.
Little wonder the mainland side of the delta is a source of such fascination to senior figures at the bank.
"It's a very outward-looking and flexible place that endlessly innovates and incubates, and is focused on investing and producing and consuming," says HSBC's Greater China chief executive Wong. "I love working with high-tech corporates that proliferate [here], building electric cars, making cooking simpler, designing the robots of the future. These firms are what the Greater Bay Area is all about. It's a microcosm of the economy China wants to create on a massive scale." In the bank's latest strategy update, published June 11, it set out plans to generate $500 million in annual revenues from the Pearl River Delta by 2020, and to double that number in the medium-term.
To HSBC, the key to so many of its mainland plans go through Qianhai in Shenzhen. Its new securities JV will, says Wong, "help our offshore investor clients access China's capital markets and help Chinese firms complete domestic IPOs, bond issuances or mergers and acquisitions".
She describes the Greater Bay Area as a "cross-border business as well as a local one for us" and as a "springboard to expanding our retail and business banking services into other parts of the mainland".
Wong adds: "The Greater Bay Area initiative will lead to far more cross-border opportunities, and that was what we were counting on when we planned our regional strategy. It is a very important part of our pivot to Asia."
Fresh competition
But the Hong Kong- and London-listed lender will soon face fresh competition from rival investment banks. In April, under pressure from the US, China's central bank promised to allow foreign financial groups to buy majority stakes in securities, fund management, futures and life insurance companies "within a few months", as part of president Xi Jinping's pledge to open up China's $40 trillion financial sector.
That's great news for foreign institutions that have scaled back in the mainland, but less so for incumbent local and foreign lenders. Shenzhen is the richest big Chinese city, with per-capita annual income of $26,071 in 2017, according to the National Bureau of Statistics, ahead of Guangzhou in second place.
Guangdong, the province that contains both cities as well as the mainland portion of the Greater Bay Area, is in turn China's largest and wealthiest, with an economy larger than Spain's.
But that does not mean it will be easy for foreign lenders to make a buck here. Forty years after it started to open up to the world, Beijing hasn't quite shed its fear of foreign banks and their 'predatory instincts'. The likes of HSBC, the Bank of East Asia and Standard Chartered control just 0.74% of the onshore banking market, down from 2% a decade ago, according to Bloomberg Intelligence.
But the authorities have learned to co-exist, letting foreign banks incorporate locally, then allowing them to expand their remit.
"The Chinese authorities thought we were wolves," says Christine Ip, who cut her teeth at HSBC and Standard Chartered, and who now runs Singapore lender UOB's Greater China operations. "But after we had been there for a while, they realized we were not big bad wolves but cute little sheep."
Christine Ip, chief executive, Greater China at UOB
For now, foreign banks, particularly those who see the Greater Bay as part of their backyard, are going all out. HSBC's Guangdong loan book grew 23% year on year in 2017, to $6.2 billion, during which it doubled its number of retail banking and wealth management clients.
In December 2017, outgoing group chief executive Stuart Gulliver said the bank planned to make a series of big-ticket investments in the area and to generate additional regional earnings of at least $1 billion in the five years to the end of 2022.
Longer term, HSBC aims to regularly generate north of $1 billion in annual pre-tax profit from the area.
"That's a big number, and it's hard to predict when we will reach it," says Wong. "For now, we are focusing on investing in products and people, growing our cross-border business and making it easier to on-board clients and help them take out mortgages, loans and credit cards."
The Bank of East Asia has appointed an ambassador in each of the Greater Bay Area's nine mainland cities to "promote our business activities, helping us to identify and target the region's best companies and higher net-worth individuals", says deputy chief executive Li.
He believes there is still plenty of room to grow in the region: "Looking at private banking, our AuM (assets under management) in the [Greater Bay Area] makes up just 23% of our overall mainland AuM, and we would really like to double that share within three years."
The Bank of East Asia doesn't break down its mainland financials by regions, but it did report a profit there of $40.5 million in 2017, reversing a small loss the previous year. Customer deposits rose 9.9% to $25.4 billion, with total lending up 6.9% to $19.3 billion. Last year, the bank secured a licence to open a full-service securities JV in Qianhai, 49%-owned by the lender and set to open in late 2018.
"We are also opening a new mainland headquarters in Qianhai in the next three years, enabling our service operations on both sides of the border to work closely together," Li adds.
Wider scheme
So far, much of this article has focused on Shenzhen, and rightly so. The city is awash with capital and talent and home to the best lender (China Merchants Bank) and best corporate (Huawei, whose Silicon Valley-style campus boasts supermarkets, restaurants and a university campus offering 25,000 courses).
E.Sun Bank chose to locate its mainland offices in Shenzhen because the city was "innovative, booming, cheap, and near Hong Kong", says Joseph Huang, president of the Taiwan lender.
How does the rest of the region fit into the wider scheme? That's a tricky question to answer. A state-mandated attempt to transform a large swathe of its richest province into a cross between San Francisco, New York and Tokyo was probably inevitable at some point, given China's modern obsession with development plans. To some, the Greater Bay is a test balloon for 'Made in China 2025', president Xi's plan to move China up the value chain. The thinking runs: if it can work here, it can work anywhere.
But can it? This is a big unanswered question for Beijing. The original Bay Area developed organically, with San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose acting respectively as its main sources of finance, production and innovation. Together, they transformed the whole into more than the sum of its parts. It isn't clear that this is either happening in China's Bay Area, or is likely to.
Compared with the European Union, the big difference is that here there is much closer political integration - Pedro Cardoso, BNM
"My main concern is replication," says one Hong Kong banker. He points to outlying cities like Dongguan and Zhaoqing. "They do the same things: light manufacturing, processing zones, making cheap goods. It's Shenzhen 30 years ago, and it will take decades for some to move up the value chain."
Dongguan's economy is a third the size of Shenzhen's, while Zhaoqing's is one 10th. Not one of the Greater Bay's lesser cities is home to a single fintech unicorn, though that may change.
Politicians have raised fears of overlap. Hong Kong's chief executive, Carrie Lam, is an outspoken fan of the grand project and mentions it often. Others warn that inter-city competition and the relatively minor influence of the service industry (it accounts for 60% of regional economic output, against 80% in New York, San Francisco and Tokyo) could hold it back.
It's also worth noting that regional power will be spread between Shenzhen, Guangzhou and Hong Kong, which could lead to conflict. More will become clear when Beijing unveils its hopes and dreams for a project that party leaders equate with its other big nation- and influence-building plans: the Belt and Road Initiative, Made in China 2025 and the globalization of the renminbi.
And so we wander back across the border and examine the Greater Bay's final two cities. How will they benefit from the new development plan?
First to Macau, a spit of land once used by China's emperors as a dumping ground for dead foreigners, which has been utterly transformed in the space of two decades. It's no longer just a place for Hong Kongers to gamble and for mainlanders to recycle their cash, but a big entertainment venue in its own right. Macau's hotels, like those in Las Vegas, are crammed with punters who also come to watch shows and frolic in water parks.
To the lenders who make a buck there, the case for the new scheme is open and shut.
"Because Macau is a global tourism destination, the free movement of people is very important to us, both as a bank and as a city," says BNM's Cardoso. "The Greater Bay Area will be very positive to society because it will promote the free movement of capital, people, goods and services."
If that quartet of factors sounds familiar, it's because they were first set out in 1957 by the EU in the original Treaty of Rome. Cardoso believes the Greater Bay Area will go one step further.
"Compared with the European Union, the big difference is that here there is much closer political integration," he says. "This should accelerate the process and bring us even greater success."
Then there's Hong Kong. Without the full and willing participation of the former British colony, the Greater Bay Area would be just another super-sized Chinese development zone with Macau stapled on. That the plan's mainland creators and promoters need Hong Kong is clear. It just isn't immediately clear that Hong Kong, with its strong banking sector, common law system and thriving stock market, wants or needs it quite as much.
To be sure, you can be awed by the plan's ambitions while deriding its blunt narrative. To some, the Greater Bay exists merely to justify yet more infrastructure spending.
Philippe Le Corre, an academic specializing in the business of government at Harvard Business School, sees it as Beijing's latest attempt to "dilute Hong Kong's importance into a vast economic zone where it is no longer the centre".
But while much of the focus has been on the plan's mind-boggling size, and on the benefits it will bring to many on the far side of the Chinese border, the Greater Bay Area may, for three reasons, be a blessing in disguise for Hong Kong.
The first reason is property prices. Never a cheap place to live, rental prices in Hong Kong are now the highest in the world. A Deutsche Bank report published at the end of May put the monthly cost of a two-bedroom apartment at $3,700.
Allan Zeman, chairman of Lan Kwai Fong Group, a property owner and developer, warns that prices have got out of hand and are starting to damage the economy.
"The fundamental problem with Hong Kong is that high prices are stifling innovation and creativity," he says. "Having somewhere to live is a fundamental human right. Young people know they haven't got a chance of renting or buying their own place, and they lose hope."
There is a solution to this, say proponents of the Greater Bay vision: make it easier for Hong Kong citizens to buy property on the other side of the border. Better infrastructure and speedier border checks are integral parts of the plan, with rules likely to be relaxed to allow citizens to transfer cash easily from one side to the other.
Adrian Li,
Bank of East Asia
"The main limitation Hong Kong faces is a lack of land," says the Bank of East Asia's Li. "The Greater Bay Area has space: for entertainment, for tourism, for retirement. With everything working in harmony, the two sides can provide everyone with a high quality of life."
Another senior Hong Kong banker adds: "Think of the area in 10 or 20 years' time. Travel time from central Hong Kong to Qianhai or Shenzhen will be counted in minutes. People will live on the other side of the border and travel to work in Hong Kong – it will all be far more seamless. This is our future."
The second potential benefit for Hong Kong involves capital flows.
It's hard to see how a free-trade zone worth trillions of dollars, which binds Hong Kong closer to some of China's richest cities, biggest corporates and most ambitious tycoons, will fail to benefit the city's banking and investment community.
"We have more than 500 mid-sized corporate clients in the Greater Bay Area," says the Hong Kong country head of a big Western lender. "Many are among the most exciting firms in the world, typically growing on a revenue basis at upward of 20% a year. We know them, know their founders and their main backers, and have great relationships with them. They all want to grow, to do capital markets trades and to complete their IPOs in Hong Kong. The Greater Bay Area is one of the great opportunities for the banking sector, anywhere – period."
And so to the third and final factor: financial technology. That Hong Kong is an Asian financial hub on a par with the likes of Singapore is a fact and one that is unlikely to change. It is home to large global banks, funds and private equity firms, and remains an integral cog in the world's transport network.
Yet in fintech, it's a laggard, trailing its neighbour across the border.
"Compare us to Shenzhen on fintech and we're not in the race," says one Hong Kong fund manager. "That's going to come back to bite us at some point."
Lan Kwai Fong's Zeman, who sees the Greater Bay Area as "the future salvation of Hong Kong", frets that China and more specifically Shenzhen are "so far ahead, it's marginalizing us".
Even specialists fear Hong Kong, at least in this corner of finance, has lost its way. Li, at the Bank of East Asia, compares "super-developed but perhaps less innovative" Hong Kong with a Shenzhen that is "hugely innovative but still developing financially". Priscilla Ng, head of digital banking, Hong Kong, at Citi, believes her home town faces a "talent transformation challenge. We have always been great at nurturing banking talent, but less so at nurturing fintech talent."
Yang, Hong Kong's innovation and technology secretary, is quick to rebut any accusation of digital recidivism.
He says: "We are often called out for being behind the times with fintech as we don't have Alipay or WeChat Pay," the digital payment services invented by China-based Alibaba and Tencent respectively.
"Hong Kong has 13 active licences in place to e-payment providers."
When pushed on claims that the city has been slow to embrace digital banking, he pushes back: "You talk about digital banking, but can the digital banks be trusted right now? I ask you whether you'd put all your money to work in digital banking? I wouldn't. The problem is safety."
Despite his qualms, there are signs that Hong Kong belatedly recognizes the threat to its local financial supremacy. In his 2018/19 budget speech, delivered in February, financial secretary Paul Chan pledged to invest HK$18 billion ($2.3 billion) in fintech, funding education programmes and breakthroughs.
Last July, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority launched its Fintech Career Accelerator Scheme, with the aim of convincing young graduates to pursue a career in the sector.
Despite Yang's antipathy toward the breed, the HKMA is also set to hand out the first batch of licences to virtual lenders by the end of 2018. More than 50 players, from WeLab, backed by Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing, to the Chinese trio of Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent, have shown interest in penetrating a big, rich market dominated by the likes of HSBC, Standard Chartered and Bank of China.
This will be no sandbox experiment: the regulator put the minimum capital requirement at HK$300 million and requires applicants to marry technology with traditional risk management. The battle for customers will be intense, bitter – and fascinating.
As will the battle for supremacy within the Greater Bay Area itself. The eyes of millions will scan the blueprint when it is published, keen to see what it entails, and how power will be apportioned between the 11 cities. Will Party leaders aim to encourage or dissuade inter-city competition? Will it seek to transform, say, Guangzhou into an entertainment hub to rival Macau, or elevate Shenzhen's standing while diminishing Hong Kong's?
And what does Beijing want the Greater Bay Area to become: a cross between Silicon Valley, New York and Tokyo that, in the words of UOB's Ip, "has greater potential than the sum of its parts", or just another very large trade zone bursting with good infrastructure? And how will it iron out some substantial problems, notably its dilemma of merging three different legal, cultural, political and financial systems? Only time will tell. But the journey will be interesting.
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Elliot Wilson
Elliot Wilson is Greater China Editor and Private Banking and Wealth Management Editor. He joined the magazine in 2020 having been a regular contributor focusing on China and the Indian subcontinent, Russia and Eastern Europe/the CIS. He is based in Hong Kong.

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The Apple iOS 12 speeds up the things you do every day. Whether you're using your iPhone or iPad, iOS has been enhanced for a faster and more responsive experience all around. Especially capacitating all the things you do all the time. As an example, like launching camera and typing with the keyboard, happen faster than ever. And there are even more significant improvements when you're doing a lot on your device at once. These enhancements improve performance on all supported devices, going all the way back to iPhone 5s and iPad Air.
Apple iOS 12 protects your privacy. Even when websites don't.
Apple believes privacy is a fundamental human right, which is why iOS has always been designed with built-in encryption, on-device intelligence, and other tools that let you share what you want on your terms. And with iOS 12, we're taking privacy even further. Safari now prevents Share buttons and comment widgets on web pages from tracking you without your permission.
The new Apple iOS 12 FaceTime now supports video and audio with up to 32 people at once. The tile of the person speaking gets larger automatically, so you'll never lose track of the conversation. You can start Group FaceTime right from a group thread in Messages or join an active one at any time.
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Add personality to Messages and FaceTime right from the in-app camera. Quickly create and share a photo or video with Animoji, Memoji, cool filters, animated text effects, fun stickers, and more.
ARKit 2 makes it possible for developers to create more immersive augmented reality experiences. Even ones that multiple people can experience simultaneously. And a new AR app in iOS called Measure helps you measure real-world objects just by pointing your camera at them.
Apps help us do so many extraordinary things that we can sometimes lose track of how much we use them. Screen Time helps give you a better understanding of the time you and your kids spend using apps, visiting websites, and on your devices overall. So you can make the most of how you choose to spend time on your iPhone or iPad.
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iOS 12 gives you more ways to manage your notifications than ever, but there are times when you don't want to be disrupted by any alerts, messages, or calls at all. So now you can set Do Not Disturb just for a meeting or while you're at a location, and it will automatically turn off as soon as your event ends or you leave that place.
The For You tab shows you great moments from your photo library and intelligently suggests sharing photos with the people in them.
Search suggestions help you find the exact photo you're looking for or rediscover a great one you forgot about. Even before you start typing, you'll see suggestions for recent events, people, and places. And as you type, the results are smarter and more powerful, and you can refine them by adding multiple keywords.
Siri can now intelligently pair your daily routines with third-party apps to suggest convenient shortcuts when you need them — right from the Lock screen.5 You can also create your own with the Shortcuts app. See other addition Apple iOS 12 Features not included through the Product Page.
As an illustration, Google's Android 9 Pie and Apple's iOS 12 are both mobile operating systems used primarily in mobile technology. Such as smartphones and tablets. Markedly, Android, which is Linux-based and partly open source, is more PC-like than iOS. In that, its interface and basic features are generally more customizable from top to bottom. See the new features added on the new Android 9 Pie Mobile Operating System.
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Los Alamos National Security, LLC (LANS LLC) was a private limited liability company (LLC) formed by the University of California, Bechtel, BWX Technologies, and URS Energy and Construction (which was purchased by AECOM in 2014). From its creation until November 1, 2018, it operated Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) for the Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Administration. It took over direct management and operation of the Los Alamos National Laboratory from the University of California on June 1, 2006. It was based in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Operation of Los Alamos National Laboratory are now overseen by Triad National Security.

An agreement between the four LANS members established a Board of Governors that were charged with oversight and governance of LANS, LLC. The Board included three individuals appointed by the University of California and three individuals appointed by Bechtel, as well as four independent Governors who were selected for their expertise and experience in fields pertinent to LANL operations. The Board included an Executive Committee that consisted of the six University of California and Bechtel appointees.

The President of LANS LLC, Charles F. McMillan, reported directly and solely to the LANS LLC Board of Governors. McMillan also served as laboratory director.

LANS was formed during a period of doubt about whether the University of California would be awarded the management contract, after it was forced to compete for the contract for the first time since it had first began to manage LANL during the Manhattan Project as a result of numerous scandals and dissatisfaction with its management. LANS eventually was pitted against the University of Texas System partnered with Lockheed Martin, and was awarded the LANL contract in December 2005.

In addition to being reimbursed for the cost of operating LANL ($2.2 billion annually), LANS receives a yearly fee for managing LANL of approximately $79 million from the Department of Energy.

In September 2007, director Michael R. Anastasio announced a possible layoff of 2500 people based on predicted budget shortfalls of $350M for FY08.  The operating fee of approximately $79M and the state of New Mexico gross receipts tax (LANL was formerly operated by UC as a non-profit) contributed approximately half of the expected budget shortfall.

A series of blogs monitored and discussed the management of LANL since then-director Pete Nanos shut the laboratory down in response to several alleged safety and security incidents.

LANS Board of Governors
  Norman J. Pattiz (LANS Chairman), chairman of Westwood One.
  Craig M. Albert, president of Bechtel Systems & Infrastructure, Inc.
  S. Robert Cochran, president of B & W Technical Services, Inc.
  Bruce B. Darling, Executive Vice President, University of California Office of the President.
  William R. Frazer, emeritus professor, University of California.
  Craig Weaver, executive vice president of Bechtel Systems and Infrastructure, Inc.
  Dr. Sidney Drell, professor emeritus and deputy director at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution.
  Richard Mies,  retired commander of U.S. Strategic Command.
  Nick Moore,  retired global chairman of PricewaterhouseCoopers.
  Nick Salazar, member of the New Mexico House of Representatives.

Related partnerships

Bechtel, one of the LANS partners, is also a partner in the operations of several other National Nuclear Security Administration facilities which collectively comprise the core of the United States' nuclear weapons design and production capability:
 Savannah River Site
 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
 Pantex
 Hanford Site
 Y-12 National Security Complex

Another LANS partner, BWX Technologies, also participates in the partnerships that manage Lawrence Livermore, Pantex, and Y-12.

See also
 Top 100 US Federal Contractors
 Los Alamos National Laboratory

References

External links
LANL: The Rest Of The Story
Archived LANS website
Bechtel website
Savannah River Site website

Los Alamos National Laboratory
Companies based in New Mexico

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Mrs. Allen's 5th grade class chats about our favorite books!!
In this episode, we share our 5 Mock Caldecott finalists and tell you why we think they should win the award.
In this episode we discuss the Wonder movie and compare the novel to the film!
In this episode, our class shares with you some of the interesting details we've learned from our research about the Caldecott Award!
This podcast is brought to you by Mrs. Allen's 5th grade class! Today we share with you some of our favorite books that we've read this year. So far!


Louise Nankivell 1980-1985 Not supplied Now Louise Miller.
Hi! to anyone who remembers me. Now living in Paignton in sunny Devon.I am happily married with 6 children, Frances 20,(who has now left home, but not far away, and regularly comes back for dinner!!)Jack 18,Joseph 14,Patrick 9,Matthew 7,and Grace 5.I also have 2 grown up step children, one who has 2 little boys,so I am a grandma as well. Yes a busy life! but wouldn't have it any other way.Often visit chippy as my brother still lives in the area.Nothing ever changes there, still see the same faces doing the same things! Time warp chippy!!!But I have very fond teenage memories there! It would be good to hear from anybody.
Matty Nankivell 1982-1987 Login or Register to view email address. Brother of louise and kerry. Moved from Wales in 87, then moved to Gloucester in 96.
Now manager of my fathers furniture company. Still single and enjoy singing in bands and devote all the spare time i can to music,still praying for record contract!! Have no children but enjoy trying!Would love to here from anyone.
Elizabeth Nash 1964-1969 Login or Register to view email address. Now Elizabeth Stonehouse.
I still live in Chipping Norton with youngest daughter Jessica, partner now deceased in oct 2002.
Melanie Nash 1977-1982 Login or Register to view email address. Now Melanie McInerney.
Hi all, still living Banbury. Separated (since 2006)(No kids).
Still Finance Manager (since 1992) for the Italian owned firm.
I've been travelling to some wonderful place and met some great people in the last 3 years.
Hope your all enjoying life.
Hope we have another reunion soon?????????!!!!!!!!!!!
Michaela Neath 1984-1989 Login or Register to view email address. Now Michaela Gardner.
Sarah Neath 1987-1992 Login or Register to view email address. Recently won the lottery so now I am going to marry Neil in the sun but we have just realised that a tenner doesnt get you that far, working as a nanny living life to the full.
Sharon Nichols 1984-1991 Login or Register to view email address. I'm currently living in Watford and working at Watford General Hospital as a nurse, although I'm still a frequent visitor to Chippy to see my parents. I'm still single and no kids and would love to hear from anyone who remembers me.
Angela Nicks 1978-1983 Login or Register to view email address. Married to Paul Sivell also EX. Chippy school ,for 15 yrs.We have 1 lovely son called Harvey aged 8yrs.Lived in Hook Norton for 8 yrs but been back in Chippy for 14 yrs.
Caroline Nicks 1975-1980 Login or Register to view email address. Now Caroline Bott.
hi, i am married to adrian bott, i also have three lovely children, jodie, (19) twins Sian and Kellie (16) both still in chippy, yr 11 just doing G.C.S.E's been married 23 years, living in enstone, have got my own hairdressing business working long hours to pay for jodie's wedding in september. if anybody remembers me and wants a chat send me a message.
Jennie Nicks 1973-1980 Login or Register to view email address. Now Jennie Botham.
I am married with 2 children and Living in Oxford. I work as a Laboratory Technician in the Department of Chemistry at Oxford University. I am currently in the third year of study for an Open University Degree.
Paula Nicks 1974-1981 Login or Register to view email address. Now Paula Smith.
Did O'levels 1979 and A' levels 1981 then left Chippy altogether to go to Hull College.
Not lived in Chippy since and now live in Northampton. Married with 2 children - Emily (9) and Joshua (6).
Work in Upper School dealing with truants and poor attenders - I get paid to nag children to get to school/lessons on time!
Steve Nicks 1971-1977 Login or Register to view email address.
I left school in 1977 and attended Brunel University in Uxbridge (Metallurgy) and have since then lived in London, Kidderminster and now Derby.
Now separted from my second wife !!! I have two sons Dan and Ollie aged 17 and 19 who live at home with me.
I am a football referee and secretary of the local Mini Soccer League.
I work for a Southampton based railway livery supplier working as Sales Account Manager I am based at home selling to the railway industry north of Birmingham.
I have lost touch with just about all my school friends but would be keen to re establish contact with anyone who remembers me.
Catherine Nightingale 1976-1983 Login or Register to view email address. After several years teaching and working on archaeological digs in various sunny locations I'm now living in the rather less than sunny Walthamstow, London with Stewart and son Joseph (now 9 months). Working at the Museum of London where I'm a conservator (glorified cleaner really). Great to find this site but who and how much do we have to pay to get ourselves blanked out of the photos? Makes you realise that there must be some kind of forward progress in society after all when you see those '70's hair styles.
Stephen Nobbs 1980-1985 Login or Register to view email address. Married ex-Chippy pupil Jakki Forse and have 3 daughters Elizabeth, Catherine & Sarah.
Currently live in Kidlington & work as a quality manager for BMW at Cowley.
Was former Spendlove pupil from Finstock. Lived in Liverpool for ten years and now living in Witney.
William (Bill) Norris 1972-1979 Login or Register to view email address. Living in Mid Wales as a manufacturing consultant. Two children and second wife. Mother now lives next door, so do not visit Chippy very often.


Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, Archbishop of Vienna, send a message to the youth in Medjugorje and said: "Dear young friends in the Lord! Again, you gathered in such a great number for the Youth Festival in Medjugorje. Again, as in the previous years, I wish to send you my warmest greetings, but this year we have a special opportunity to be especially grateful!
Also this year during the International Prayer Encounter for the Youth in Medjugorje, participants are able to write their prayer intentions on the banner 100 meters long, prepared by community Cenacolo members. They are welcome to write their spiritual thoughts, thanksgiving to God and this banner will be presented in the eucharistic prayer on the last day of the Encounter, August 5.
On Thursday, August 2, the first full day of the Youth Festival, Rosary took place on Apparition Hill from 6 am with all of the youth participating. The morning programme continues from 9 am at the White Dome with prayer, catechesis of Fr. Ante Vuckovic and testimonies.
The 29th International Prayer Encounter for the Youth is to start tomorrow and will finish on August 6, with the theme: "To Live on the Word of God". A huge number of the youth from all over the world are expected to come and the final preparations are about to be completed. The International Choir and Orchestra is also ready, and their 100 members will be accompanying the whole programme.
On Saturday, July 25, we will celebrate the Feast of St. James the Great, patron saint of Medjugorje parish. Holy Masses are going to be celebrated at 7, 8 a.m. and 7 p.m. while the central celebration will be at 11 a.m. in the Garden opposite to the ruins of the old church.
The Holy See's Special Envoy, Archbishop Henryk Hoser, begins his service in Medjugorje with Holy Mass.
Fr. Karlo Lovric, OFM, the parish assistant in the parish of Medjugorje since May 2005, shall celebrate on Monday, July 23, at 11 am in the church of St. James, his 50th Anniversary since he had his first Holy Mass - his Golden Jubilee. After Holy Mass, the celebration will continue in the Hall of John Paul II. He would be really pleased if his elderly and sick people, that he visits and confesses on regular basis, would be somehow brought to this event. Radio Mir Medjugorje will be broadcasting this celebration.
On Wednesday, July 25, we will celebrate the Feast of St. James, patron saint of Medjugorje parish. Medjugorje parish was founded in 1892, and consecrated to St. James, patron saint of pilgrims. This parish was equal to all others in Herzegovina up to June 25, 1981, when Medjugorje and church of St. James became the place of gathering of millions of pilgrims from all over the world.


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"Every microservice get's its own database and then use Kafka" is a typical and naive advise, when reading about eventsourcing. If you approach this architectural style this way, you will probably have a really awful time ahead.
Eventsourcing and CQRS are two very useful and popular patterns when dealing with data and microservices. We often find in our customer's projects, that both have a severe impact on your future options and the maintainability of your architecture. Presentations and articles on both topics are often superficial and do not tackle real world problems like security and compliance requirements.
This combination of half-knowledge and technical confusion leads to many projects that either refactor back to a 'non-eventsourced' architecture or reduce eventsourcing to a message queue.
In this talk, I will summarize our experience while applying eventsourcing and CQRS accros multiple large financial and insurance companies over the last 5 years. We will cover the Good, the Not so Good, and the 'oh my god...all abandon ships!' when doing eventsourcing in the real world...and see how we solved these issues.
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Current focus is on migrating architectures and organizations to cloud and serverless platforms.


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Happy birthday, Margaret Hamilton! :)
Computer pioneer Margaret Hamilton was critical to landing astronauts on the moon for the first time on 20 July 1969 and returning them safely a few days later. The young Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) computer programmer and working mother led the team that created the onboard flight software for the Apollo missions, including Apollo 11. The computer system was the most sophisticated of its day. Her rigorous approach was so successful that no software bugs were ever known to have occurred during any crewed Apollo missions. [...]
-> Interview in The Guardian
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Margaret Hamilton: 'They worried that the men might rebel. They didn't'
The trailblazing computer scientist on being in charge of the software for the 1969 Apollo moon landing
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Guess who reserved their seat on the first Moon flight? My mum, that's who • The Register
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@Andrea Borgia Quite a story!
Guess who reserved their seat on the first Moon flight? My mum, that's who
Of course the ticket's real: it says 'Pan Am' at the top, doesn't it?
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Apollo 11 Had a Hidden Hero: Software
The moon landing was one of the most important moments in the history of computing, laying the foundations for everything from fly-by-wire cockpits to the smartphones in our hands.
Bitcoin mining on an Apollo Guidance Computer: 10.3 seconds per hash
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We've been restoring an Apollo Guidance Computer 1 . Now that we have the world's only working AGC, I decided to write some code for it. Try...
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Saturn V | Apollo 11 - 50th Anniversary launching from Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
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This is cool. Follow Apollo 11 in real time. Like it was 50 years ago.
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Relive the historic launch of Apollo 11 with NASA TV and Apollo in Real Time to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of humanities first voyage to the lunar surface. Apollo 11 was commanded by Neil Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin "Buzz" E. Aldrin. The Mission was to complete the goal that President John F. Kennedy set on May 25, 1961 to land a man on the moon and return the crew back to Earth. On July 20,1969 Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed there Lunar Module on the sea of tranquility this marked the first time a human has set foot upon another celestial body. Although this is not a live launch event - we hope that you enjoy this chance to relive such a historic event.
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Get a tour of the Apollo 11 landing site via an interactive visualisation. Article by Phil Plait. Visualisation at [ http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/featured_sites/view_site/59 ]
It seems like a long time ago on a moon far, far away, but now you can follow along with a satellite's-eye-view of the mission: The folks at the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera website have created a very cool interactive feature where you can view the landing site using an LROC image, and when you scroll through the mission timeline the image changes to show you where the astronauts were, what they were doing, and what conversations they were having with each other and Mission Control back on Earth.
It's cool to see how things unfolded in that brief time they were on the Moon. I had fun going over Armstrong's first small step, and then watching the two of them zip around the site performing their tasks. I was especially taken with their short walk over to Little West Crater to their immediate east by about 60 meters.
#Space #Moon #Apollo11 #MoonLandings
Tour the Apollo 11 landing site, minute by minute, during that one small step!
On July 20, 2019, it will have been 50 years since a human being first stepped foot on another world. On that day half a century ago, Neil Armstrong put his boot on the surface of the Moon, splitting all of history into a time before humans ventured to other worlds, and a time after. The effort took the better part of a decade to achieve, but that first mission on the lunar surface only lasted less than a day, and the two astronauts themselves only ventured out for about two and a half hours.
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On June 25, 2019, Chief Larry Horak will instruct an 8-hour, interactive class where the fundamentals and application of FSS 112 and Garrity will be discussed. The class will be held at the Clearwater Beach Sand Key Marriott, one day prior to the 2019 FIAIA Training Conference. The price of the class will be $175 for the day or $450 for the class and conference combination package. Attendees will receive a certificate of training from the Florida Internal Affairs Investigators Association.
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Novartis Personalized Cell Therapy Receives FDA Breakthrough Therapy Designation
FDA grants breakthrough therapy designation to Novartis chimeric antigen receptor therapy.
Novartis reported that FDA granted breakthrough therapy status to CTL019, an investigational chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) therapy for the treatment of pediatric and adult patients with relapsed/refractory acute lymphoblastic leukemia (r/r ALL). The breakthrough therapy filing was submitted by the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine (Penn), which has an exclusive global agreement with Novartis to research, develop, and commercialize personalized CAR T-cell therapies for the treatment of cancers. Researchers at Penn noted strong, positive early data in pediatric and adult patients with r/r ALL and hope to build on these findings as they advance the CTL019 clinical program in Phase II trials.
Novartis recently established the Cell and Gene Therapies Unit to focus on advancing cell-based therapies, including the development of CARs. Novartis holds the worldwide rights to CARs developed through the collaboration with Penn for all cancer indications, including the lead program, CTL019.
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Can these coexist happily with potatoes?
I recently read an article by a local garden guru who proposed growing potatoes and tomatoes in a "lasagna" type vegetable garden. Has anyone tried this and what were the results?
I currently rely on my grandmother's wisdom which always separated the potatoes from the other crops for two reasons. Potatoes tend to like a lower pH (5.3 – 6.0) than tomatoes (6.0 – 6.8), and potatoes will produce lots of leaves and few quality tubers if over fertilized. Grandma also worried about scab which tended to occur if potatoes were grown in higher soil pHs. Of course today we can buy scab resistant potato varieties, but I wondered if gardeners who tried the dual method saw any chlorosis because iron was bound up at the higher alkalinity levels. On the other hand would the tomatoes grown at a lower pH exhibit a lack of chlorophyll and carbohydrate production due to low magnesium, resulting in pale green plants?
If you have any experience with this method, or some thoughts on it, we'd love to hear from you.


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Terrorists or Freedom Fighters?: Reflections on the Liberation of Animals
Edited by Steven Best and Anthony J. Nocella II
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06/01/2004, paperback
The first anthology of writings on the history, ethics, politics and tactics of the Animal Liberation Front, Terrorists or Freedom Fighters? features both academic and activist perspectives and offers powerful insights into this international organization and its position within the animal rights movement. Calling on sources as venerable as Thomas Aquinas and as current as the Patriot Act--and, in some cases, personal experience--the contributors explore the history of civil disobedience and sabotage, and examine the philosophical and cultural meanings of words like "terrorism," "democracy" and "freedom," in a book that ultimately challenges the values and assumptions that pervade our culture.
Contributors include Robin Webb, Rod Coronado, Ingrid Newkirk, Paul Watson, Karen Davis, Bruce Friedrich, pattrice jones and others.
"Finally, a serious look at the latest liberation movement from both a historical, philosophical and activist perspective. Regardless of what one thinks about the tactics of the Animal Liberation Front, this long overdue book is a must- read for anyone concerned about the future of the movement for animal liberation." — Michael Greger, MD, author, How Not to Die
"In a world driven by profit margins, utilitarianism, speciesism, and in this generalized climate of political swindle, Terrorists or Freedom Fighters? speaks truth to power. It is a work destined to shape the politics of a new generation of militant activists." -- Peter McLaren, Professor, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, and author of Che Guevara, Paulo Freire, and the Pedagogy of Revolution
About the editors:
Steven Best is an Associate Professor of Humanities and Philosophy at the University of Texas, El Paso. For 25 years he has researched, taught, lectured, and published in areas such as philosophy, literature, social and political theory, cultural studies, film and mass media, science and technology studies, politics, terrorism and peace/security studies, and ethics (with a focus on animal rights, environmentalism, and biotechnology).
Anthony J. Nocella II is an internationally renowned author, professor, mediator, and community organizer.


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Fuchs to buy lubricants business of Sweden's Gleitmo Technik
Sweden: Germany-based Fuchs has signed an agreement to buy the lubricants business of Gleitmo Technik in July 2021. It will be integrated into its Fuchs Lubricants Sweden subsidiary. The acquisition includes the company's customer base, product portfolio, staff and a lease agreement of the Gleitmo office and warehouse in Kungsbacka. The purchase is intended to make strengthen Fuchs Lubricants Sweden business position in Sweden and the Nordic Region.
Fuchs and BASF collaborate on hydraulic fluid lifecycle analysis
Germany: Lubricants specialist Fuchs has announced its collaboration with chemicals company BASF in performing a cradle-to-grave analysis of different mineral oil hydraulic fluids that takes into account all environmental and economic aspects of their lifecycle. The study concluded that high performance multigrade hydraulic oil (HVLP) has a lower environmental impact and lower overall cost than monograde hydraulic oil (HLP). Fuchs said, "This advantage is mainly based on an improved diesel fuel economy throughout the use phase - primarily due to improved volumetric fluid efficiency, lower friction and lower fluid mass circulation ratio."
Fuchs and BASF both supply lubricants and chemical products to the cement industry.
Fuchs Group establishes three intensified trading partnerships
Switzerland: Fuchs Group, which serves Swiss cement producers through its local trading partners, has established three additional intensified trading partnerships with Aseol Suisse AG, Laveba and S. Affolter for distribution of its industrial lubricants and lubricants for special applications in various regions. Aseol Suisse AG and Laveba are lubricant producers and distributors, while S. Affolter is a physical and chemical heat transfer specialist.
Fuchs acquires 50% stakes in three Sub-Saharan distributors
Africa: German-based lubricants supplier Fuchs has taken over direct ownership of 50% of three distribution subsidiaries of its regional subsidiary Fuchs Southern Africa. The companies are based in Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mozambique. The acquisitions will support Fuchs' aim of increasing its supply to African markets, according to Fuchs executive board chairman Stefan Fuchs. "Investment in a state of the art, fully automated grease manufacturing plant which opened in Isando, Johannesburg, in 2018" signifies the company's commitment to sustainable social development of the continent, said Fuchs, adding, "Further plant expansions are already being planned."
Fuchs building new materials warehouse in the UK
UK: Fuchs Lubricants is building a new Euro5.5m raw materials warehouse at its headquarters in Staffordshire. Work on the project started in August 2019 and it is due for completion in the second quarter of 2020. Once completed it will 'significantly' increased the amount of raw materials the business can store on-site.
The warehouse will have a capacity of approximately 4000 pallet spaces, with ability for automatic or manual storage place allocation. Two wire-guided driverless Very Narrow Aisle trucks will operate in the unit. Warehouse Control and Warehouse Management Systems will streamline the process, with benefits including goods receipt entry and booking, a paperless put away process, inventory support and batch traceability.
Fuchs opens Izmir lubricant plant
Turkey: Fuchs Petrolub and Opet Petrolcülüks' joint venture Opet Fuchs has completed construction of its 60,000t/yr plant for the production of assorted oil products, including lubricants for the cement industry. The facility was the result of Euro24m in investment.
Fuchs opens new plant in Suzhou
China: Germany's Fuchs Petrolub has opened new plant in Wujiang, Suzhou. The Euro46m unit replaces a plant in Shanghai. Work on the plant started in 2017.
The new 80,000m² plant has a capacity of 100,000t/yr in phase one, almost double the capacity of the Shanghai plant. The automated high-bay warehouse has a capacity of 12,000 pallets. The production portfolio includes automotive oils, industrial oils, metalworking fluids, corrosion preventatives, rolling oils, coating materials and products for the forging industry. Expansion in phase two is at the development stage. Fuchs is also expanding its offices and laboratories at the site in Shanghai.
Fuchs opens upgrade to plant in Kaiserslautern
Germany: Fuchs Petrolub has officially opened an expansion to its plant in Kaiserslautern. A new automated storage and retrieval system (ASRS) warehouse, two production halls and new office space for a total of Euro16m have been built on the premises of Fuchs Lubritech. The location, which mainly produces lubricants for special applications, now covers a total of 96,000m².
"The growth of the special application division and the concentration of diverse activities at this location made an expansion necessary. The extension is part of our global growth initiative, which is focused on capacity increase in line with advanced technology," said Stefan Fuchs, Chairman of the Board of Fuchs Petrolub.
Fuchs buys lubricants business from Comercial Pacific
Chile: Fuchs Group has purchased a controlling stake in the lubricants business of Comercial Pacific. The agreement will see it hold 65% of the company with Comercial Pacific retaining the remaining 35%. The acquisition focuses in particular on the customer base and workforce. Comercial Pacific is a long-standing Fuchs distributor in Chile in the mining, food, paper and cellulose industries. The company employs 13 people in sales and application engineering.
Fuchs and DMG Mori launch technology partnership
Germany: Fuchs Petrolub and DMG Mori have signed a contract for a technology partnership. The goal of the partnership is to jointly develop new lubricant solutions and services for machine tool applications. The plan also includes further progress in digitisation of production processes and condition monitoring of machines and plants.
"Use of the correct lubricant is decisive for optimal productivity when machine tools are used for intensive processing of components. In Fuchs, we are pleased to have acquired a globally-based technology partner, and together we want to continue expanding our technology- and service-excellence," said Christian Thönes, chairman of the executive board of DMG Mori.
DMG Mori manufactures machine tools with sales revenue of over Euro3.5bn. Fuchs develops, produces and distributes lubricants and related specialties.


The Down to Earth Sauvignon Blanc was first produced in 2012. It is the little brother of our Terre à Terre Sauvignon Blanc, and was first made in 2012.
Part of the Sauvignon Blanc fruit from our single vineyard is used each year to make our Down to Earth Sauvignon Blanc using more modern winemaking techniques (controlled temperature fermentation in stainless steel, ageing in tank on lees).
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Home News Former Love Island Host Caroline Flack Dies at 40 by Tragic Suicide
Former Love Island Host Caroline Flack Dies at 40 by Tragic Suicide
Caroline Flack was an English radio/television presenter, actress, reality television personality and model. Besides, she gained immense popularity from her various spin-off shoes like I'm a Celebrity.. Get Me Out of Here! NOW!, and The X Factor. The Love Island host, Caroline Flack dies at the age of 40 by suicide. According to Celebrity Net Worth, Caroline Flack's net worth is evaluated at $8 million as of 2020.
Furthermore, the multi-talented Caroline worked for the television channels like Channel 4, BBC, CBBC Channel, Sky1, and Heart Network. Besides, Flack also featured in the television series like Love Island and The X Factor. Let us dig a little bit deeper and see what we know about Caroline Flack.
Know About Caroline Flack's Net Worth, Childhood Life, Education, Career, and Relationship
Caroline Flack took birth to the parents Ian and Christine Flack in Enfield, London on 9th November 1979. Besides, she grew up alongside her three siblings Paul, Jody, and Elizabeth. Similarly, Caroline has a twin sister Elizabeth.
Furthermore, Caroline holds British nationality and belongs to white ethnicity.
Following her educational background, she joined Great Hockham Primary School. Later, she went to Wayland Community High School where she graduated her high school.
Talking about Caroline Flack's career, she embarked on her career in acting in the television series. In 2001, she made her appearance with a minor role in the television movie Is Harry on the Boat?. Later, she appeared in the sketch show Bo' Selecta in 2002. Afterward gaining popularity, she began to start in numerous shows for various radio and TV channels.
Carolina Flack appeared on the reality television dancing show Strictly Come Dancing. Picture Source: Mirror.UK
Caroline Flack Career as Television Presenter
In the beginning, Caroline presented the International Pepsi Chart Show. Besides, she co-hosted the other shows like The Games: Live at Trackside on E4, Escape from Scorpion Island on BBC Two. In addition to this, she hosted the show like Big Brother's Big Mouth and Something for the Weekend in 2009.
Caroline Flack Dancing Career
Prior to her career as a television presenter, she is also a dancer. Flack appeared and won BBC Three's Dancing on Wheels with disabled partner James O'Shea. Besides, Caroline hosted several shows like The Whole 19 Yards, The X Factor, Love Island, and some other game show.
Caroline Flack Career as Author
The multi-talented Caroline is also an author. She has penned an autobiography Storm in a C Cup in 2015.
Know About Caroline Flack's Net Worth and Earnings
Previously mentioned, Caroline Flack's net worth is evaluated at $8 million as of 2020. And talking about Caroline Flack's source of income, she has primarily earned huge wealth in her career from her profession as of television presenter.
Furthermore, she has also hosted many television shows like Love Island, The X Factor, and The Surjury. However, the show was canceled following Flack's death in February 2020.
Likewise, Caroline has her own line of clothing. She has collaborated with River Island clothing line to launch her own designed Black Polka dot playsuit and Midi Skirt.
Know About Caroline Flack's Personal Life and Relationship
Following Caroline Flack's personal life, she has dated and romantically involved with several celebrities. In 2009, her dating rumor with Prince Harry sparked but ended quickly after the media reported on their relationship. Similarly, she was in a relationship with One Direction member, Harry Styles. Likewise, she tied an engagement ring to reality TV star Andrew Brady. However, their relationship broke off. Caroline started dating Lewis Burton afterward.
Caroline Flack also dated One Direction member Harry Style. Picture Source: E! News.
On 14 December 2019, Flack was accused of assaulting her boyfriend Lewis Burton. She was due to go to trial on 4 March 2020.
How Did TV Presenter Carolina Flack Die?
Caroline Flack was found dead in her new East London flat on 15th February 2020. Following the news, a lawyer for Carolina Flack's family says the 40-year-old presenter had taken her own life. Furthermore, many celebrities have reacted to her death.
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Home News Briefs TagMan Inks $5M Deal Co-Led by iNovia Capital
TagMan Inks $5M Deal Co-Led by iNovia Capital
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Enterprise tag management platform TagMan has secured US$5 million in Series B financing. Existing investors Greycroft Partners and Canadian venture capital firm iNovia Capital led the deal, with participation from Silicon Valley Bank. TagMan, which has offices in New York and London, will use the funds to grow its global partnership program and to support the growth of its customer base. TagMan raised a US$2.3 million Series A round in January.
TagMan Receives $5 Million in Funding
LONDON and NEW YORK, August 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ —
Marketing data platform provider looks forward to accelerated growth after additional financing from leading firms
TagMan (http://www.tagman.com), the leading global Tag Management System, Marketing Data, and Marketing Attribution provider announced today that it has received US$5 million in new funding. Prominent digital media investment firms and existing investors Greycroft Partners and iNovia Capital led the financing, and Silicon Valley Bank also injected capital.
TagMan plans to use the awarded funds to ramp up growth of its 300-strong global partnership program, STREAM, which was launched in October 2012 and to support the growth of the company's customer base globally. STREAM offers its certified partners streamlined tag implementations, reliable real-time, tag enabled data collection and clean, cross-channel marketing data from an independent source. The program is open to best-in-class application providers; marketing and analytics agencies; and CRM, marketing and ecommerce platforms.
TagMan's client base has also seen great growth in 2013, and as such the company is now integrated with more than 350 enterprise websites across all major industries. The company's most recent client wins in 2013 include brands such as Cole Haan, Fanatics, Seatwave, TireBuyer, Stride Rite, Lands' End, Hayes and Jarvis, Sovereign, Travix and many others.
Jon Baron, CEO of TagMan said: "We are excited to deepen our relationship with our investors as we rapidly expand our customer and partner portfolios. This year we have welcomed several major additions to our global list of clients with new accounts across the Retail, Travel and Hospitality and Financial service sectors. TagMan's STREAM partnership program grew by 200% this year and our customer roster continues to include a who's who of the world's top brands."
Sam Greenwood, Web Analyst at Ideal Shopping said: "TagMan has continuously grown and evolved its business offering in order to revolutionise the way brand marketers do business today, streamlining a complex ecosystem and helping marketers quantifiably deliver on their goals. By making sure that their clients attain the highest ROI possible, using an effective, data-driven approach to marketing at every level, TagMan has been able to expand its offering, which is both positive for its clients and partners, as well for the digital marketing sector as a whole."
"TagMan's focus on facilitating beneficial relationships between marketers and their vendors is resonating with the entire digital marketing ecosystem. In the three years since Greycroft first invested, TagMan has become the undisputed leader in Tag Management System, Marketing Data, and Marketing Attribution. We are delighted that TagMan is building a world-wide organization to bring its solution to marketers around the globe," says Ian Sigalow, from Greycroft Partners.
About TagMan
TagMan is a leading global Tag Management System (TMS,) Marketing Data and Marketing Attribution provider. Since 2007, e-commerce professionals and digital marketers have relied on TagMan to improve website performance and to take control of marketing tags. TagMan introduced the next generation of TMS in 2013 launching the industry's first Marketing Data Platform (MDP), providing access to TagMan's marketing data layer collected in real-time and unified by tags. Marketers can now visualize the customer journey and path to purchase with marketing analytics dashboards to reveal the true impact of advertising spend and drive revenue through tag powered data. More than 350 enterprise websites across all major industries make TagMan their go-to partner including clients like Vodafone, Travelocity, Spotify, John Lewis, Virgin Atlantic, The Body Shop, Air New Zealand, Debenhams, DIRECTV, TiVo, and Tesco Mobile. Find out more at http://www.tagman.com.
About Greycroft Partners
Greycroft Partners is a leading early stage venture capital firm focused on investments in digital media. With offices in the two media capitals of the world – New York and Los Angeles – Greycroft is uniquely positioned to serve entrepreneurs who have chosen us as their partners. Greycroft leverages an extensive network of media and technology industry connections to help entrepreneurs gain visibility, build strategic relationships, successfully bring their products to market, and build successful businesses. Greycroft manages $400MM and has made over 90 investments in leading companies including Babble, Buddy Media, Collective, Huffington Post, Klout, M5 Networks, Maker Studios, Paid Content, Pulse, and Trunk Club. For more information please visit the Greycroft Partners website at http://www.greycroft.com.
About iNovia Capital
iNovia Capital partners with exceptional entrepreneurs to build successful companies in high-growth sectors. The team is comprised of founders, builders and engineers that are passionate about building market-leading technology companies. iNovia has $275M under management across three seed and early-stage funds. For more information, visit http://www.iNovia.vc (Twitter: @iNovia).
Silicon Valley Bank is the premier bank for technology, life science, cleantech, venture capital, private equity and premium wine businesses. SVB provides industry knowledge and connections, financing, treasury management, corporate investment and international banking services to its clients worldwide through 28 U.S. offices and six international operations. (Nasdaq: SIVB) http://www.svb.com. Silicon Valley Bank is the California bank subsidiary and the commercial banking operation of SVB Financial Group. Banking services are provided by Silicon Valley Bank, a member of the FDIC and the Federal Reserve System. SVB Financial Group is also a member of the Federal Reserve System.
Contact: Joanna Franklin, joanna.franklin@propellergroup.com, T: +44(0)20-3301-1342
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WATCH BLM, Antifa Protesters Looting a NYC Apple Store, Trashes Williamsburg, Brooklyn
New Video shows dozens of BLM, Antifa Protesters Looting a NYC Apple Store, and rampaged through Williamsburg, Brooklyn, trashing several national chain stores and spraying anti-police graffiti.
The rowdy mob marched through the Brooklyn neighborhood late Saturday, with police first receiving a 911 call at 8:20 p.m. about vandalism at an Apple Store on Bedford Avenue, where they found broken windows and the letters "FTP" — typically meaning "F–k the police" in this context — spray-painted on the wall, cops said.
The protesters, who also targeted a Whole Foods store in the neighborhood, tagged one building with the message "Murder Bezos," according to reports.
At 11:48 p.m., another 911 call sent police to North 10th Street, where more broken windows and graffiti were found. "Die Yuppy" was spray-painted on a Compass Real Estate outlet at the scene.
"I feel sentiment for the times, but this stuff is just senseless," a Compass employee told The Post on Monday. "They don't even know what they're doing. It's just destruction for destruction's sake."
"The irony of it is you can clearly tell that everyone on the video is white," he said. "And it's like, do you guys even know what you're doing this for?"
According to a police source, "officers observed a group of approximately 75 people believed to be part of the Antifa group."
Store windows smashed in Brooklyn during march in support of Stone Mountain protests
Footage from the scene posted by liveleak.com shows a half-dozen people wearing hoodies and dressed mostly in black hurling objects at the Apple Store while another is seen spraying graffiti — with at least one demonstrator inside the store.
The video shows a larger crowd outside Whole Foods, where a man who appears to be an employee engages the protesters. Further footage shows the mob of protesters marching past people sitting at sidewalk tables outside several restaurants.
Does BLM, Antifa Looters Love Apple Store's?
The NYC Apple store getting looted by Black Lives Matter, Antifa "Peaceful Protesters" follows last week Apple Store in Chicago also getting looted: