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AdHouse Books was an independent comic book publisher based in Richmond, Virginia. It was founded in 2002 by graphic designer Chris Pitzer.
Chris Pitzer
Diamond Book Distributors (books)[1]
Graphic novels, Comic books
www.adhousebooks.com
AdHouse was known primarily as a publisher of graphic novels, beginning with 2002's Pulpatoon: Pilgrimage, traditional comic book series, and art books, including James Jean's Process Recess;
The company announced on July 14th 2021 that it would cease publications after its 101st book. The company would then take 2022 to visit as many shows, conventions, festivals, etc., as they could. Among the reasons, Pitzer mentioned his older age, as well as "low sales on recent releases, uneasiness about the crowdfunding model, and the lack of conventions due to the COVID-19 pandemic."[2]
1 Graphic novels and single issue comics
2 Art books
Graphic novels and single issue comicsEdit
Superior Showcase (2005 - 2008) anthology, by Dean Trippe, Nick Bertozzi, Mike Dawson, and Hope Larson (4 issues)
Zig Zag (2005–2007) by J. Chris Campbell (2 issues)
Project: Romantic (2006) Anthology, edited by Chris Pitzer
Bumperboy and the Loud, Loud Mountain (2006) by Debbie Huey
Noble Boy (2006) by Scott Morse, published by Red Window and distributed by AdHouse Books
The Preposterous Adventures of IronHide Tom (2006) by Joel Priddy
Project: Superior (2005) Anthology, edited by Chris Pitzer, Dean Haspiel and Scott Morse
Mort Grim (2005) by Doug Fraser
Bumperboy Loses His Marbles (2005) by Debbie Huey, distributed by AdHouse Books
Salamander Dream (2005) by Hope Larson
The Secret Voice (2005) by Zack Soto (1 issue)
The Collected Sequential (2004) by Paul Hornschemeier
Return of the Elephant (2004) by Paul Hornschemeier
One Step After Another (2004) by Fermin Solis
FREE Comic Book Day Comic Book 2004 (2004) by Scott Morse, Joel Priddy, and Chris Pitzer
Southpaw (2004) by Scott Morse
Monkey & Spoon (2004) by Simone Lia
Project: Telstar (2004) Anthology, edited by Chris Pitzer
Skyscrapers of the Midwest (2004) by Joshua W. Cotter (4 issues)
My Own Little Empire (2003) by Scott Mills
Pulpatoon Pilgrimage (2002) by Joel Priddy
Art booksEdit
Blue Collar / White Collar by Sterling Hundley
Pink, Vol. 1: GRRR! (2004) by Scott Morse
Process Recess (2005) by James Jean
Process Recess 2: Portfolio (2007) by James Jean
Process Recess 3 (2009) by James Jean
In 2004, AdHouse's Project: Telstar received Domtar Paper's Kudos Award for Excellence. The anthology was also nominated for several other awards, including Best Anthology and Special Award for Excellence in Presentation by the Harvey Awards, and Best Anthology and Best Publication Design by the Eisner Awards.
AdHouse's first publication, Pulpatoon Pilgrimage, won the 2002 Small Press Expo Ignatz Award for Outstanding Debut and the 2002 Ninth Art Lighthouse Award for Debut Book, and was nominated for a 2003 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Novel.
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^ Arrant, Chris (July 23, 2021). "AdHouse Books closing after 20 years and 100 books". gamesradar. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
AdHouse Books official website
2008 podcast interview[permanent dead link] with Peter Semeti and Chris Pitzer at comiXology
2006 Newsarama Interview[permanent dead link]
2006 Graphic Language Interview
2008 Comics Reporter Holiday Interview
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The Tom Brady workout involves a myriad of personal trainers who help him in different ways. They include Gunnar Peterson, Alex Guerrero and Tom House. The NFL quarterback's routine starts by working out with Gunnar Peterson during the off-season.
Tom Brady's close friend (and Chinese medicine specialist) Alex "Mr. Miyagi" Guerrero, helps keep him fit–and injury-free–during the NFL season. Tom Brady also works with quarterback guru Tom House to perfect his throwing motion.
This guy is year-round. No wasted movement. No plays off. No days off. Everything is purposeful. That Includes The People around Him.
Gunnar Peterson workouts are all about circuit training. Do one set of each exercise, rest one minute. Then, repeat the circuit 2-3 more times. After the circuit training is done, Gunnar Peterson usually has Brady do High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) on a cardio machine.
When you choose to be a quarterback, you take on a lot of other things. you can't ask people to do things or set expectations for them without doing those things or setting even higher expectations for yourself.
Do one set of each exercise, rest one minute. Then, repeat the circuit 2-3 more times. Tom Brady finishes with cardio, or goes outside and does quarterback drills.
Changing things up helps Tom Brady prepare for the NFL season. Gunnar Peterson alternates between these two workouts, but adds a higher degree of difficulty. He does so by changing the planes of motion of each exercise.
One day you might be doing a movement on a bench press, the next day on a decline, and the next day on a stability ball. Squats, for example, may be done with wide stance one day, and a narrow stance the next.
There's nothing else that I enjoy like playing football. I want to do if for as long as I can.
Recently, Tom Brady has been using more resistance bands in his workouts. This helps to even further change the range of motion Brady uses. When you change the planes of motion, you help work other areas of each muscle.
By constantly changing the planes of motion of each exercise, Gunnar Peterson helped strengthen Tom Brady's entire body. Changing the planes of motion also helps the smaller muscles adapt and get stronger. Gunnar Peterson explains how he does so in his book, The Workout.
I was never the best player on any team. That taught me to work harder. I learned all about mental toughness on the practice field. If things weren't working out for me, my solution was always to work harder. That way, whenever I get the opportunity, I'm prepared.
During the season, the Tom Brady NFL workout is run by his close friend, Alex Guerrero. The duo work out at Tom Brady's club, TB 12 at Patriot Place.
How to prepare your body for competition…It's for any competitive athlete who wants perform at a high level at any age. It's a bunch of crap that people think as you get older, you get worse…I've Tried to Make improvements every year.
I love the game, and I want to do it for a long time. But, I also know that if I want to do it for along time, I have to do things differently than the way that other guys have done it.
Relates to being physically fit, emotionally stable and spiritually nourished.
Guerrero is known for helping multiple players get healthy from recurring injuries. Guerrero is known as Tom's "Body Coach" as he massages his injuries away after a game (channeling Mr. Miyagi, of course).
On non-game days, "Mr. Miyagi" or "The Wizard" continues to work on Brady's body twice a day. To keep him in great shape, Alex Guerrero had to get Tom Brady to stop lifting so many weights. He would find Tom trying to beat everyone else into the weight room in the morning.
If there's too much pressure, just constant tugging on your tendons, you're going to get hurt. Like with a kid when they fall, they don't get hurt. Their muscles are soft. When you get older, you lose that.
Brady is a quarterback who's daily schedule is mapped out clearly into his 40's. Every day of it is micro managed: treatment, workouts, food, recovery, practice, and rest.
Learn More about Tom Brady's workout with throwing guru Tom House on the next page.


As Madison Avenue begins rethinking the value of time-based advertising exposure, a new study suggests that nine seconds may be the optimum duration for mobile ads. The study, which was conducted by time-based mobile ad platform Sled Mobile's Parsec, is based on a campaign for a pharmaceutical brand analyzing how different lengths of viewing exposure correlated to lifts in awareness for the brand, BioPharmX's Violet iodine brand.
The study found that consumers who viewed the ad for nine seconds or longer increased their brand awareness 140% -- about twice as much as the 77% brand lift generated by the average of consumers exposed to any amount of the brand's mobile ads.
The finding is significant, because Sled Mobile is among a number of media suppliers that are beginning to charge advertisers based on the amount of time consumers are exposed to their ads. Sled Mobile launched Parsec in July 2015 using what it calls a "cost-per-second" pricing model, and a number of big publishers followed suit with similar models.
To date, Sled Mobile has run six cost-per-second campaigns and has commitments from a dozen brands to use its Parsec platform, according to founder and CEO Marc Guldimann.
In one of those campaigns handled by Austin agency Proof for the San Antonio Convention & Visitors Bureau, the client paid only for the amount of time that users were exposed to its ads. Sled Mobile works with viewability and attention analytics platform Moat to determine ad exposure and found that the tourism bureau paid only for 4.8 seconds on average.
14 comments about "Bye, Bye :30, Study Finds :09 May Be Mobile's Optimum Unit".
Ed Papazian from Media Dynamics, January 19, 2016 at 8:49 a.m.
Joe, brand awareness is the starting point for all "branding" advertisers, not the end point. The latter is how many "viewers" were convinced or motivated to change their brand buying preferences after "seeing" the ad. While I find the awareness "lifts" cited in this report to be rather hard to believe, I'd like to know how the motivational metrics looked from the same study---if Sled Mobile has them.
Ed Papazian from Media Dynamics, January 19, 2016 at 8:54 a.m.
One more point. I seriously doubt that many of the major branding advertisers will shift away from 30-second commercials or even "15s", based on this study. In fact, short attention spans----too short, probably---is one of the main issues facing mobile ad sellers when they try to convince traditional TV branding advertisers to invest heavily in this platform.
Henry Blaufox from Dragon360 replied, January 19, 2016 at 10:18 a.m.
Hi Ed, Good points. Billing may be based on time spent in seconds, but that won't likely yield much actionable data about lift that might lead doiwn the line to conversion when the consumer has need. You're far more the epert on some of this than I am - even if a spot less than 15 seconds is viewed, isn't it hard to deliver a compelling message in just a few seconds? If a few seconds worked, Burma Shave could've hit the mark with just one road sign, not a series to tell a story. And there is a business reason why Instagram enables 15 second videos.
Ed Papazian from Media Dynamics, January 19, 2016 at 10:50 a.m.
Henry, when "15s" arrived on the scene in the mid-1990s at half the price of "30s" but 70% of the ad recall, they were hailed by some---not I---as "the answer" to rising CPMs. Many advertisers have since learned to use the shorter length in combination with their "30s", when their ad campaign has anything that needs a bit of time to get across---obviously the "15s" act mainly as reminders of the "30s" in such cases. This is not to say that certain advertisers can't utilize "15s" on an exclusive basis, but at this point, many just don't feel comfortable doing that---especially at the outset of a new poduct launch or when changing the positioning strategy for an established brand.
hank cohen from windstarmedia.com, January 19, 2016 at 12:50 p.m.
I also believe that the age demo has alot to do with the viability of the success of 9 second spots. The younger demo has less of an attention span and i can see how much more effective it can be toward this age group. One cannot just rely on this one touch point to drives awareness and sales. Relevency is always crtical to the success of shorter ad lengths.
Ed Papazian from Media Dynamics Inc, January 19, 2016 at 1:04 p.m.
Hank, while you are right in noting that younger consumers are more apt to get the point of video ad quicker, there are two factors to consider. First, only a small percentage of national branding advertisers are targeting people in their late teens and very young adults, exclusively. For most brands---bearing in mind that there are some exceptions----the younger, fast on the uptake set represents only 20% of their potential sales. A second point concerns the message itself. There's just so much sell plus info you can cram into a 9-second commercial for most products---even if you speed up the presentation so you push out 15-seconds of promotional content in your 9-second ad. I would also be concerned about the wear out rate for a campaign using only very short commercials, but that would vary depending on the nature of the product and the commercial's execution.
Matt Cooper from Addroid, January 19, 2016 at 4:34 p.m.
If you're trafficking 30 second spots into mobile placements I think you're really pushing users to try ad block. At my company we tested statics vs. video and video units (banners) got a higher CTR. Next we tested 7 seconds of video vs. 15 seconds of video and saw absolutely no lift in CTR. 7 to 9 seconds is plenty of time and far more friendly to mobile users.
Ed Papazian from Media Dynamics Inc, January 19, 2016 at 5:07 p.m.
Matt, I'd be the last one to advise an advertiser client to use 30-second commercials on mobile as it is now configured. And that's the problem. If thatmobile audiences can only tolerate is 5-9 second ads, that relegates mobile to secondary reminder/support status for many branding campaigns, with niche targeting and/or timing/location, being its main advantages, not advertising communication. This might change if mobile deveolped the kind of engaging video content that holds the attention of audiences for sustained periods---like "legacy TV"--- but how that can be done escapes me for the moment.
Doug Garnett from Protonik, LLC, January 19, 2016 at 8:16 p.m.
I agree with all of Ed's observations. But I'll also add that I find length needing to shorten based on screen size or viewing medium.
A :30 on TV is not bad - and we know that :60's and :120's are highly effective when used right.
But on my desktop? A :30 in streaming TV on my desktop is horribly long and a 2 minute pod of commercials seems an eternity.
It's even worse on my 11 inch AirBook or tablet.
That probable explains this result. But it doesn't conclude that 9 seconds is best. I agree with Ed's rationale. Clients need us to do far more than get a brand recalled after seeing the ad. Truth is I haven't sorted out what this study used to determine brand recall - is that 10 days later or immediately after? Is that amongst clutter or clean? Prompted? Online research? Mall intercepts?
Supposing this conclusion is supportable, then it only covers the first micron of impact we need. What about the rest? There is no way you can achieve the rest in only 9 seconds.
Randall Tinfow from CLICK-VIDEO LLC replied, January 19, 2016 at 8:47 p.m.
Google has it wrong. Prerolls should be 5 seconds of story setup and then click to continue within a couple seconds or you automatically go to the content.
Better to leave them wondering "what did I miss" than have them cursing the brand.
I've interviewed 57 people in the last couple weeks about digital advertising and ad blocking. Everyone would use a blocker if they could confidently install. The level of annoyance with experience interruption is much greater than I had comprehended.
John Grono from GAP Research, January 20, 2016 at 7:16 a.m.
Some neuroscientist will probably find that the optimal ad duration is correlated to the size of the screen.
When we studed 150 hours of seeing OOH billboards here in Australia, we found seven factors. One key driver was the diagonal size of the billboard (we have some circular billboards here so diagonal worked well).
Being a statistician, I wouldn't be surprised if it was in some way proportional to the square of the diagonal (just like standard error is inversely proportional to sample size) multiplied by some constant that 'converts' screen size to duration.
I remember when I first started working with the local BBDO affiliate, our CD had a maxim - how do you make a good 30-second ad ... make the 15-second that the client wants and give it the extra 15-seconds to let it breathe.
Doug Robinson from FreshDigitalGroup, January 20, 2016 at 9:01 p.m.
Here at FDG, we create mobile ads for clients and have been recommending :09 or :12 seconds for mobile for quite sometime. If Snapchat is maxed at :10, then :09 is totally possible for telling a great story. It boils down to the content, and the story. Aren't we entering the golden age of storytelling? That's what should determine what makes sense, especially for mobile. Everyone should learn to raise their editing skills, and understand that shorter time ads, work.
Darrin Stephens from McMann & Tate, January 25, 2016 at 4:40 p.m.
Ed Papazian from Media Dynamics Inc, January 26, 2016 at 3:01 a.m.
Darren, you are correct. Advertisers were buying "15s" in the mid 1980s, but very selectively and only in certain programs or dayparts. Frankly, many were afraid to try it and only 10% of all TV network spots in 1985 were "15s". The real push came about 7-8 years later, after rising CPMs and rating attrition from cable began to be felt. Then, supported by the finding that a "15" usually generated 70% of tha recall of a "30" but at half the cost, the networks and other sellers were forced to allow the shorter units in most of their programs and large numbers of advertisers jumped in, motly using "15s" as reminders of their "30s. By 1995, "15s' represented about 35% of all network spots and that figure has risen even higher, currently. Of course, no one seemed to consider the consequences of going with shorter ad units, namely many more separate and distinct sales pitches per break, with declining impact per message.


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The inexorable market swing towards all-wheel drive as a winter necessity has proven to be a fantastic boon to Audi. Before every luxury brand went all-in on AWD, Audi made sure to offer it as at least an option on every one of its automobiles, including its long-time entry-level sedan, the Audi A4.
Flash-forward to 2017, and motivating all four wheels is no longer a badge of distinction amongst the premium set, which has seen the German automaker diversifying its identity in a bid to remain in the hearts of Canadian shoppers.
Redesigned for the current model year, the 2017 Audi A4 is an able demonstration of just how forward-thinking the automaker's engineers and designers have become in their quest to ride the crest of the luxury wave. Yes, quattro all-wheel drive is present and accounted for in the new A4 ― and the torque-vectoring setup is the most advanced system offered by the vehicle to date ― but potential customers are more likely to be seduced by what's inside the car rather than how it's putting the power to the ground.
Audi's Virtual Cockpit dazzles
First and foremost on the agenda is the 2017 Audi A4's new instrument panel. Originally seen on the top-shelf R8 sports car, the Virtual Cockpit consists of a 12.3" LCD screen that replaces the traditional gauge cluster in the sedan. Audi's design blurs the lines between different information types, allowing for immersive navigation maps to sit comfortably alongside speed readouts, infotainment menus, and other vehicle data. It's a unique approach to configuring and customizing the part of the car that most often draws the driver's attention away from the road, and it's one that has yet to be duplicated by a competitor.
Should your passenger wish to get in on the action, then much of the functionality of the Virtual Cockpit is duplicated by the dash-mounted display perched at the centre of the car. Audi asks that you use its MMI rotary controller and shortcut switches/buttons on the console to interact with the easy-to-use system, and while a touchscreen would be nice, you quickly get used to the dial's way of doing things. In fact, the only real gripe to be had with the revised Audi A4's slick interior is the shifter for the automatic transmission, which features a button to push when changing gears, and another that summons Park. One button is enough; there was really no need to move "P" from the selector to the stalk.
More power for quattro cars
The revised shifter is itself electronically linked to a new 7-speed dual-clutch automated manual gearbox that simultaneously replaces last year's CVT (front-wheel drive models) and 8-speed automatic (all-wheel drive models). While the transmission is the same regardless of which drivetrain layout you choose, you're looking at a fairly big difference in output: FWD-only A4s offer 190 horsepower whereas AWD units come with 252 horsepower and 273 lb-ft of torque ― each from a 2.0L turbocharged 4-cylinder engine.
The more robust motor was under the hood of my quattro-equipped test vehicle, and it was easy to appreciate the extra muscle shoehorned into the small-displacement 4-banger as compared to the 220 horses that were available the year before. Acceleration was brisk, if a bit frantic off the line, leading me to reduce pedal pressure and learn to drive around the 2017 Audi A4's willingness to leap forward at the slightest provocation.
The move to a dual-clutch transmission was an inspired one for Audi, as the seamless shifts were every bit the equal of a more traditional torque-converter setup. Meanwhile, the quattro system's ability to distribute power to the front or rear axles as needed kept traction transparent.
Not sporty, but that's OK
Although power is good ― ample enough to trump the best 4-cylinder turbos on offer from direct rivals like the BMW 3 Series and Mercedes-Benz C-Class ― it would be a stretch to call the 2017 Audi A4 a sports sedan. While efforts have been made to sharpen handling by way of a new front suspension design, steering remains fairly light even when the vehicle's Sport driving mode is selected. The version of the car I drove featured stiffer springs (with an adaptive suspension also available), but the overall effect of the updated and lighter platform has been to improve road-holding and stability at highway speeds.
Really, this is all I want out of an entry-level luxury car like the Audi A4. On a daily basis, and on longer trips, this is a very pleasant and comfortable automobile to drive. For anyone seeking a more connected driving experience, the Audi S4 is ready and waiting with its supercharged V6 and more focused chassis tuning, while those who crave performance but have a tighter budget can instead turn their attentions to the smaller but quicker Audi S3.
Herein lies Audi's strength: the ability to turn its tech-savvy eye to whatever product niche is required to engage exactly the right buyer. Stylistically, the new 2017 Audi A4 might not stray too far from the familiar lines of its predecessor, but that family resemblance is entirely intentional and the close-knit visual identity of the automaker's various models has served it well in leaving an unmistakable stamp on the luxury world.
The 2017 Audi A4 is perhaps the purest expression of the company's current design language, and it's a prime piece in drawing buyers into Audi showrooms across the country. From there, they may discover smaller, larger, or even SUV-flavoured quattro additions to their driveways, but the A4 remains the access point from which most customers make their acquaintance with the brand.
To say that the new model puts Audi's best foot forward is an understatement ― and helps explain why the company maintains a high profile amongst Canadian premium contenders.
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A Millennial Incursion At Newport
By Lara Pellegrinelli
Published August 7, 2011 at 6:00 AM MDT
Trombone Shorty, with Dan Oestreicher on baritone saxophone in the background, performing at the Newport Jazz Festival on Saturday.
The New Black Eagle Jazz Band is about as traditional as they come. The musicians have been playing together for 40 years. And they opened this year's Newport Jazz Festival with rousing, old-time New Orleans polyphony, a style that dates back to the teens and 1920s.
At the same moment, a mere 300 feet away on another stage at Fort Adams, is a band of twenty- and thirty-somethings on the opposite end of the musical spectrum. It's called Mostly Other People Do the Killing.
The quartet takes its musical cues from pop, rock, experimental music and punk, although their dark suits and sunglasses suggest ironic New Wave. Their wild, brash humor makes you think they might be thumbing their noses at traditional jazz.
"No, not even a little bit," says bassist Moppa Elliott, who leads the band.
Elliott's jazz-loving parents — who came to see their son on Saturday — brought him to the Newport Jazz Festival starting when he was too young to even remember. He and trumpeter Peter Evans even figured out that they'd both heard Miles Davis perform at the same Newport fest back when they were both in elementary school.
Elliott was a child of the eighties. But he was brought up on a different soundtrack: classic jazz albums of the 1950s on record labels like Blue Note, Prestige, and Impulse. "I grew up surrounded by this kind of music and it's the core of what I hear in my head — when I hear things that aren't voices," he says.
You might be tempted to label music like Elliott's "crossover." The term was invented by marketing executives in the early 1990, who equated self-conscious genre-bending with chart-crossing hits — if they were lucky.
Today, musicians seem more interested in transforming traditional styles to reach audiences of their peers. Newport's artistic co-director Jason Olaine says that's what he's seen.
"Musicians, their nature is to create and interpret music as they see it — in a personal way," Olaine says. "Growing up in the world of backbeat is probably going to have some influence versus growing up in the world of swinging jazz from the 1950s or '60s."
There are no headliners at Newport this year, no interloping pop or R&B artists. There were, however, huge crowds for Esperanza Spalding, the bassist and singer who won this year's Grammy for Best New Artist. She tours with veteran saxophonist Joe Lovano — and with veteran rocker Prince.
The 57th Newport Jazz Festival concludes tonight with a performance by Trombone Shorty. The 25-year-old New Orleans native, whose given name is Troy Andrews, is like about a third of the bandleaders featured at this year's festival: around 30 or younger. Shorty, another musician who brings different contemporary influences to jazz, actually got audiences up off their feet and dancing in their clamdiggers on Saturday afternoon.
There may be some naysayers, but the New Black Eagle Jazz Band's clarinetist Billy Novick has nothing but praise for the younger generation.
"Love it," he says. "Some of the people who play this music [traditional jazz] are stodgy about it and very judgmental about it. We're not that way."
And neither, it would seem, are most of the people in the lawn chairs at Newport.
Lara Pellegrinelli
Lara Pellegrinelli is a freelance journalist and scholar with bylines in The New York Timesand the Village Voice. She has been the commissioned writer for Columbia University's Miller Theatre and its Composer Portrait series since 2018.


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In episode 53 of the Los Fanboys, Jammer, Sophia, and David delve into the clusterf**k that is the Han Solo debacle at Lucasfilm, before delving into another mess in the form of Venom and all the contradictory statements we heard in regards to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. From there, we discuss our reactions to the latest Game of Thrones trailer, as well as what we've been watching. I also include a little mini-review of War for the Planet of the Apes, the conclusion to the ambitious and amazing Planet of the Apes prequel trilogy.
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The Cadillac Escalade full-size luxury SUV receives several minor updates and changes for the 2018 model year.
The 2018 Cadillac Escalade continues to be offered as a full-size four-door SUV and extended-length full-size four-door SUV for the Escalade ESV.
Like all fourth-generation units of the Cadillac Escalade, the 2018 Escalade continues to ride on GM's GMT K2 platform shared with the Chevrolet Tahoe, Chevrolet Suburban, GMC Yukon and GMC Yukon XL. The same basic architecture is also used by the Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra.
The 2018 Cadillac Escalade is assembled by GM USA at the GM Arlington plant in Arlington, Texas, USA.


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the depot's 93rd birthday on July 15.
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Mayor Patrick Morris in the parade procession.
grace the streets of the city: a steam-powered 1899 Locomobile.
the depot. There's also an antique clock collection.


On Sunday, July 29, 2018, Matthew preached the message, "Nothing is Too Hard for Him" from Genesis 18:1-15 as a part of our current series, re:creation. Below are a few discussion questions for Community Group or personal study this week. To listen to the message again, visit our Audio Resources page. For a PDF of projection from the message, please click here.
1. In this passage of scripture, how can we be confident that the the Lord (YAWEH Himself) was present? Did Abraham know this? How do his actions indicate such?
2. Why does God keep repeating His promise to Abraham about offspring? How does He lovingly know our unbelief, rebuke our unbelief, and nurture our faith? How do each of those steps play out in a tangible sense?
3. What did Jesus give us after He ascended into heaven? Why is the Holy Spirit the greatest gift we could have ever been granted? Is this gift easy for you to remember and delight in or a challenge?
4. How is hospitality valued in the kingdom of God? Is this an optional activity for the Christian? How is earthly hospitality an expression of the "with us", incarnate, character of God?
5. What is the greatest gesture of hospitality that you have ever been shown? How can you incorporate more of this practice in your daily life? What are the biggest challenges to doing so?


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Last week, FEI marketing whiz Marka went over three of the seven best practices for search engine optimization (SEO). This week, Marka concludes her SEO discussion with four more tips for helping businesses perform well in search engines. Remember, fire = print.
Lunch had just ended, and the FEI tribe was gathered in the conference room for the afternoon marketing meeting. Zoot contentedly patted his bloated stomach.
"Good lunch, Zoot?" Org asked.
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Elan Mehler
jazz pianist and composer
TJ and the Revenge
Early Sunday Morning
Being There, Here
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Scheme for Thought
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There's a wonderful line about folk music in the Coen Brothers' film Inside Llewyn Davis: "If it's never been new, and it never gets old, it's a folksong." It seems odd to think of jazz as folk music: we'd never find it identified as such in a record store or on the radio or whatever other listening interface we're fiddling with these days. But in the broadest and most generous definition—and when it comes to music, these are always the best to employ—it really is. It's hard to say exactly jazz was new and it certainly never gets old; it's an oral and aural tradition, passed carefully through generations like some evolving heirloom; and it's of the people—the folk. Or at least it has been, and should be.
Another synonym for folk is "vernacular." One of the 20th century's greatest cultural critics and greatest jazz fans, Ralph Ellison, once defined vernacular as "putting something else with what you've already got." In other words, taking what the world's given you and doing something new with it: for Ellison this described pretty much anything worth a damn in America. When Bird turned "Cherokee" into "Ko-Ko," this is what he was doing; when Dylan made "No More Auction Block" into "Blowin' In The Wind" he was doing the same.
I've been thinking about all this while listening to Elan Mehler's Early Sunday Morning, an album that ends with a folksong, sort of (more on that later), and contains a healthy dose of standards ("Come Rain or Come Shine," "Don't Explain," "It Never Entered My Mind"), folksongs of sorts in their own right. But even the originals have the lived-in confidence of the comfortable and worn, from the lovely "Ophelia's Song" that opens the record, to the infectiously angular "Snakes of Coney Island," to the lilting, lyrical "Abigail's Waltz." And of course there's the album's centerpiece, the four-part, disconnected suite "Early Sunday Morning," which boasts a melody so twisting and haunting it recalls Blue-period Joni Mitchell. Who of course knew some folksongs herself, and here we are again.
I should say here that I've known Elan for a long time, probably longer than I've known anything I've mentioned in the above paragraphs. We first met we were fifteen, at that moment when you're starting to figure out who you are, and who you want to be—when you're learning how to put something else to what you've already got. We were both obsessed with music, and bonded over it, jazz in particular. For a couple kids from the suburbs music was that something else, the thing that took you out of the near and familiar, whether it was Led Zeppelin or Ray Charles or Bill Evans or A Tribe Called Quest. The fact that we've both built our lives around music since then speaks to both the quality of what we were listening to, but also what we were allowed and encouraged to do with it. It was someone else's, and then it became ours.
The music on Early Sunday Morning inherits and reflects this: it's new, it's old, it's someone's and it's everyone's. Elan's piano playing—which, again, I've been listening to since we were fifteen—has always had a way of cutting through the noise, for lack of a better phrase. There's never a false note, no overly gilded voicings or showy pyrotechnics, just ideas, always good ones and lots of them. One of the problems with genres reaching the "prestige" stratosphere that jazz has been rocketing towards since, oh, 1945, is that it begins to exist only for itself: like a velvet-rope gala or an Ivy League school its eliteness comes from disengaging, from keeping everything out, most notably the "folk." The best music—and the only important music, really—exists for everything outside itself.
Elan's playing understands this, and nowhere is it more evident than in Early Sunday Morning's aforementioned final track, "Way Over Yonder In the Minor Key." Here is a song with a story so twisting it's practically a folk tale itself: the lyrics were written by Woody Guthrie but never set to music until the 1990s, when the British leftist punkish folksinger Billy Bragg concocted a lovely melody for a Guthrie-inspired project he was undertaking with the Chicago alt-country band Wilco, Mermaid Avenue. In that sentence alone we have a half-century worth of history spanning two continents and a library's worth of genres. And now here is Elan Mehler's version, an American pianist recording in Paris, stripping Bragg's song of its words and rendering it as recontextualized melody and harmony, haunting and beautiful. What was once Guthrie's has become Bragg's and become Mehler's, and all of ours, always new and never getting old.
– Jack Hamilton is research fellow at the Laboratory for Race and Popular Culture at the University of Colorado and the pop critic for Slate magazine. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, National Public Radio, Transition, Rolling Stone, and many other publications.
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Why should Crystal Palace cede to the Premier League 'Big Six' and let the rich get richer?
Money matters at all levels of football, but is there too much in the modern game?
There seems to be no stopping the Premier League.
It's the biggest and best league in the world, so the money men would have you believe, with the top tier of English football a truly global brand now.
Television rights have skyrocketed and the money involved at the highest level is, quite frankly, obscene.
You only need to look at the summer transfer window to realise what we are all caught up in. That should have been a warning to us all, but it appears that the rich just want to get richer.
Current proposals have suggested a bigger share of TV revenue should go to the biggest clubs. After all, they're the ones that really need the money, right?
Crystal Palace star gives club big injury boost
If you discount little Leicester City and what they did just two years ago, there's one thing that all of the past Premier League winners have in common - money - and lots of it.
You don't win the Premier League (or maybe once in a blue moon) without wads of cash.
The so-called Big Six - Manchester United, Manchester City, Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool and Tottenham - probably have more money between them than the rest of the 86 Premier League and Football League clubs between them.
Ok, that may be a slight exaggeration, there are quite a few clubs out there with a fair amount of moolah, but you get my point.
And what, ho? Now they want even more of it? And at the expense of the smaller clubs too?
Do me a favour.
These clubs feel that everyone around the world watches the Premier League for them, and no one else.
That may be true, but let me ask you, was everyone around the world watching Liverpool on May 5, 2014, or were they glued to an astonishing Crystal Palace comeback in the game termed Crystanbul? Granted, everyone probably tuned in to watch the Reds in their attempts to win a first Premier League title, but by the end it was Palace who were on everyone's lips.
Was everyone talking about Arsenal on February 5, 2011, or were they waxing lyrical over Newcastle United's stunning comeback from 4-0 down to draw 4-4?
What about when West Ham threw a spanner in Tottenham's works at the end of last season, or when Leicester gave Arsenal an almighty scare on the opening day of this season?
The global audience may indeed tune in for the big boys, they may well be the selling point across the globe, but you take away the smaller clubs and you wouldn't have half as good a brand.
The underdog stories, the big clubs struggling against the small clubs - that's what makes the Premier League what it is. And that's why people in this country love it. We love the FA Cup because of the giant-killing, and you love it when a small team upsets the big boys - it's just human nature.
You hand the top dogs more money, all we're going to do is worsen the league.
The Premier League need 14 clubs to agree to these proposals to see it through, with only nine rumoured to be on board totally and two more 'tempted'. Crystal Palace are one of those against the plans and rightly so. Why should they allow the rich to get richer?
If there is indeed an argument to be made that the Big Six are the reason for selling the brand abroad, the Premier League should find a way to split national money better for the smaller clubs.
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On the attack: 47 New World pirate ships, under the banner of Whitebeard. On the defence: Marine Headquarters and the Royal Shichibukai. And the winner is…? Let's find out more about this story on 「ワンピース」 ONE PIECE 第553話 spoiler at MangaSpoiler.com. Please leave a comment below, if you would like to discuss the spoilers or predictions. You can also read and download previous ONE PIECE chapter 552.
Mihawk attacks Whitebeard with the world's most powerful swordslash.
But division captain 3 stops it with his body. He's entire body is made of diamond.
And attacks Whitebeard with multiple rays of beams, but division commander 1 Marco stops all of it. He has blue flames coming out of his body.
It ends with Marco telling him you can't have the king right away you know.
Their fruit names and ability were not explained yet.
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But lasers R just light.
Yes, maybe it's lava, and I think it's a liquid, but Lava doesn't seem like Oda's style. I wonder, if Red Dog, is actually a type of devil fruit besides Logia… But it's probably Logia… Since Logia is strongest =="
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I thinks next time Shanks Arrives !
I'm Ok for the power ton akainou !
But is not sufficient against whitebear !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So mihawk still can't cut the diamond?
Hey have you guys heard the latest news? Oda is dead, car accident.
He's not. Dude, it's not funny. That joke isn't funny. If you have no life, and decided to make that random comment, then just go do what you think Oda did. Die by car accident.
@Lan Jiao: No he's not. Don't make jokes like this. It's not funny.
Lava? Maybe, but I think it`s more likely blood blood no mi. Makes sense. Or something related to roses, since he has a rose in his chest.
I don't think it's blood or roses as those don't seem like a logia type fruit 2me and I figure his power will B along those lines. I figure his fruit is the lava lava no mi or magma magma no mi. As it is more likely Oda will use magma then lava.
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Maximiliaan III Jozef (München, 28 maart 1727 — aldaar, 30 december 1777) was van 1745 tot 1777 keurvorst van Beieren. Hij was de oudste zoon van de Beierse keurvorst en Duitse keizer Karel VII Albrecht en Maria Amalia van Oostenrijk, dochter van keizer Jozef I. Hij regeerde Beieren vanaf de Residentie van München.

 Hij werd in januari 1745 door zijn stervende vader mondig verklaard en besteeg na diens dood in diezelfde maand de troon van Beieren, dat in de Oostenrijkse Successieoorlog verwikkeld was. Reeds in april sloot hij met Oostenrijk de Vrede van Füssen, waarbij hij de Oostenrijkse erfopvolgingsregeling zoals bepaald in de Pragmatieke Sanctie erkende en beloofde geen aanspraak te maken op de keizerstroon.

Hij verbeterde in zijn land de rechtspleging, verkleinde het leger en zijn hofhouding, hief vele kloosters op en bevorderde akkerbouw, nijverheid, wetenschap en kunst (voornamelijk literatuur). Tot zijn opvallendste daden behoren het invoeren van de algemene leerplicht en het stichten van de Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften. In het op orde brengen van de financiën was hij echter minder succesvol. Hij nam slechts beperkt deel aan de Zevenjarige Oorlog. Hoewel hij katholiek was, hief hij de jezuïetenorde in zijn land op en stond hij het protestanten in München toe hun godsdienst te beoefenen.

Daar zijn huwelijk met Maria Anna Sophia van Polen en Saksen, dochter van Frederik August II van Saksen, kinderloos bleef, stierf met Max Jozef in 1777 de Beierse linie van het Huis Wittelsbach uit. Hij werd opgevolgd door Karel Theodoor van de Palts.

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Stern Pinball Announces New Star Wars™ Pin™ Affordable Pinball Machine for the Home
by Mike K · Published July 24, 2019 · Updated April 4, 2020
CHICAGO, July 18, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Stern Pinball, Inc., a global lifestyle brand based on the iconic and outrageously fun modern American game of pinball, announced today the Star Wars™ Pin™, a new stylish, affordable and fun pinball machine designed and engineered for the home.
Stern's new Star Wars™ Pin™ immerses players in the dynamic Star Wars™ galaxy. The Pin™ is packed with features that provide players with an irresistible game experience including select speech and footage from the original Star Wars™ trilogy, color-changing playfield inserts, a custom sculpted Death Star, and a custom sculpted and interactive TIE fighter.
The easy to setup Star Wars™ Pin™ is built to last and engineered with genuine Stern commercial-quality parts. The playfield is housed in a stylish cabinet with dynamic, high definition artwork. The all-LED playfield lighting provides optimal color and brilliant light shows.
"The Star Wars™ Pin™ is designed to provide quality family entertainment and bring pinball fun to homes everywhere," said Gary Stern, Chairman and CEO of Stern Pinball, Inc. "We are pleased to bring these pinball machines celebrating the Star Wars™ galaxy and adventures to our fans."
Complementing the immersive theme and exciting gameplay experience, Stern Pinball's powerful SPIKE™ electronics hardware system enables high-definition graphics and innovative animations. SPIKE™ reduces system complexity and energy usage, resulting in enhanced reliability and simplified servicing.
Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price ("MSRP")*: $US 4,499
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The Star Wars™ Pin™ is available to pre-order now through authorized Stern Pinball distributors and dealers around the world.
About Stern Pinball, Inc.
Stern Pinball, Inc. is a global lifestyle brand based on the iconic and outrageously fun modern American game of pinball. Headquartered minutes from Chicago's O'Hare International Airport in the heart of North America, the company creates, designs, engineers, manufactures, markets, and distributes a full line of technologically advanced terrestrial and digital pinball games, parts, accessories, and merchandise. Stern Pinball serves digital, consumer, commercial, and corporate markets around the globe.
Recent Stern Pinball titles include Black Knight: Sword of Rage, The Munsters, The Beatles, Deadpool, Iron Maiden, Guardians of the Galaxy, Star Wars™, Aerosmith, Ghostbusters, KISS, Metallica, Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead, Star Trek, AC/DC, Batman, and Spider-Man. A broad range of players enjoy Stern Pinball's games from professional pinball players who compete in high-stakes international competitions around the globe to novice players who are discovering the allure of the silver ball for the first time. To join the fun and learn more, please visit www.sternpinball.com.
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Olympics: Profligate India Lose 2-0 To Germany In Women's Hockey
By OMMCOM NEWS On Jul 26, 2021
Tokyo: The Indian women's hockey team wasted a bagful of chances, including a penalty stroke, to go down 2-0 in a women's hockey Group A match at the Tokyo Olympics on Monday. This is India's second defeat in a row after the loss against the Netherlands.
Nike Lorenz (12th minute) scored off a penalty corner in the first quarter and Anne Katarina Schroder (35th minute) scored in the third quarter as Germany won their second successive match after beating Great Britain 2-1 on Sunday.
Though the Germans won the match, the Indians put up a good fight with some better work by the forwards. Some luck could have at least earned India one point from this match.
The Indians played their hearts out against Germany, ranked third in the world. Attackers Sharmila Devi and Vandana Katariya failed to convert at least three chances each.
Germany enjoyed possession in the opening minutes of the first quarter before India's Sharmila Devi found a way to make a fantastic run on the left flank in the fourth minute. However, the German defence kept Indians at bay.
Thereafter, the German side put more pressure on the Indian goal, driving the ball through the middle in the 7th minute, but the Indian defence stood tall and kept the ball away from the goal.
Sharmila made another brilliant run, this time through the middle of the pitch, and passed the ball to Udita. The striker dived forward to attempt a deflection but failed to do so.
A few moments later, the Germans earned a penalty corner and captain Nike Lorenz (12′) didn't miss out on the opportunity to help Germany take 1-0 lead.
The world No. 3 side had a chance to score early in the second quarter, but the Indian defence kept the ball away from the goal. The Germans continued to put pressure. However, the Indian defence stood tall and ensured that they didn't concede any more goals.
The world No. 3 side earned a penalty corner in the 6th minute of the third quarter. They took a shot, but it was calmly deflected away by Salima Tete.
Thereafter, Vandana Katariya made a fantastic run on the left flank in the 10th minute of the second quarter. However, she couldn't find a way to open India's account. The Indians put more pressure on the Germans, but the German defence proved to be too strong.
The Indians started the third quarter aggressively and earned their first penalty corner. Skipper Rani Rampal took the shot and the ball deflected off Lisa Altenburg's thigh. A stroke was awarded to India on video referral but Gurjit Kaur failed to convert the golden chance to make the score 1-1.
A few minutes later, Germany scored their second goal when Anne Schröder (35′) took a fantastic shot from the right to put it past Indian goalkeeper Savita.
The Indians went in search for a goal but some good work by the German defence and goalkeeper thwarted them.
Vandana made a brilliant intercept and made a run all the way to the goal, but her shot was saved by the German goalkeeper. India continued to put pressure on the Germans but just couldn't find a way to get on the board.
India had another chance in the fourth quarter when Navneet Kaur made a good run on the right flank and put Vandana in the clear, who however looped the ball over the bar.
The Germans earned another penalty corner but Lorenz's shot was blocked by Monika. The Indians made a few more attempts in the final quarter but could not find a way past the German defence.
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Royal Mail plc (Welsh: Post Brenhinol; Scottish Gaelic: a' Phuist Rìoghail) is a postal service company in the United Kingdom, originally established in 1516. The company's subsidiary, Royal Mail Group Limited, operates the brands Royal Mail (letters) and Parcelforce Worldwide (parcels). General Logistics Systems, an international logistics company, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Royal Mail Group.
For most of its history, Royal Mail has been a public service, operating as a government department or public corporation. However, following the Postal Services Act 2011, a majority of the shares in Royal Mail were floated on the London Stock Exchange in 2013. The UK Government initially retained a 30% stake in Royal Mail, however it sold its remaining shares in 2015, ending 499 years of public ownership.
The Royal Mail can trace its history back to 1516, when Henry VIII established a "Master of the Posts", a position that was renamed "Postmaster General" in 1710.
In 1653 Parliament set aside all previous grants for postal services, and contracts were let for the inland and foreign mails to John Manley. Manley was given a monopoly on the postal service, which was effectively enforced by Protector Oliver Cromwell's government, and thanks to the improvements necessitated by the war Manley ran a much improved Post Office service. In July 1655 the Post Office was put under the direct government control of John Thurloe, a Secretary of State, and best known to history as Cromwell's spymaster general. Previous English governments had tried to prevent conspirators communicating, Thurloe preferred to deliver their post having surreptitiously read it. As the Protectorate claimed to govern all of Great Britain and Ireland under one unified government, on 9 June 1657 the Second Protectorate Parliament (which included Scottish and Irish MPs) passed the "Act for settling the Postage in England, Scotland and Ireland" that created one monopoly Post Office for the whole territory of the Commonwealth. The first Postmaster General was appointed in 1661, and a seal was first fixed to the mail.
Between 1719 and 1763, Ralph Allen, Postmaster at Bath, signed a series of contracts with the post office to develop and expand Britain's postal network. He organised mail coaches which were provided by both Wilson & Company of London and Williams & Company of Bath. The early Royal Mail Coaches were similar to ordinary family coaches but with Post Office livery.
The first Mail coach ran in 1784, operating between Bristol and London. Delivery staff received uniforms for the first time in 1793, and the Post Office Investigation Branch was established; it is the world's oldest recognised criminal investigations authority. The first mail train ran in 1830, on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. The Post Office's Money order system was introduced in 1838.
The first Post Office pillar box was erected in 1852 in Jersey. Pillar boxes were introduced in mainland Britain the following year. British pillar boxes traditionally carry the Latin initials of the reigning monarch at the time of their installation, for example: VR for Victoria Regina or GR for Georgius Rex. Such branding is not used in Scotland due to dispute over the current monarch's title. Some Scottish nationalists argue that Queen Elizabeth II should have simply been Queen Elizabeth as there had been no previous Queen Elizabeth of Scotland or of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Elizabeth I was Queen only of the pre-1707 Kingdom of England and Wales). That dispute included vandalism and attacks on pillar and post boxes introduced in Scotland that displayed EIIR. To avoid the dispute, pillar boxes in Scotland were either marked 'Post Office' or use the Scots Crown.
In 1941 a Airgraph service was introduced between UK and Egypt. The service was later extended to: Canada (1941), East Africa (1941), Burma (1942), India (1942), South Africa (1942), Australia (1943), New Zealand (1943) Ceylon (1944) and Italy (1944).
The two-class postal system was introduced in 1968, using first class and second class services. The Post Office opened the National Giro Bank that year.
Postal workers held their first national strike for 17 years in 1988 after walking out over bonuses being paid to recruit new workers in London and the South East. Royal Mail established Romec (Royal Mail Engineering & Construction) in 1989 to deliver facilities maintenance services to its business. Romec is 51% owned by Royal Mail and 49% by Haden Building Management Ltd which became Balfour Beatty WorkPlace and now Cofely UK. Part of GDF Suez in a joint venture. As of 2016 RoMEC is wholly owned by Royal Mail Group after the purchase of the 49% stake held by Cofely.
British Telecom was separated from the GPO in 1980 and demerged as an independent business in 1981. Girobank was sold to Alliance & Leicester in 1990 and Royal Mail Parcels was rebranded as Parcelforce. The remaining business continued under public ownership as privatisation of this was deemed to be too unpopular. However, in the 1990s President of the Board of Trade Michael Heseltine began investigating a possible sale and eventually a Green Paper on Postal Reform was published in May 1994, outlining various options for privatisation. The ideas though, proved controversial and were dropped from the 1994 Queen's Speech after a number of Conservative MPs warned Heseltine they would not vote for the legislation.
After a change of government in 1997, the Labour administration decided to keep the Post Office state-owned but with more commercial freedom. This led to the Postal Services Act 2000, where the Post Office became a public limited company in which the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry owned 50,004 ordinary shares plus 1 special share, and the Treasury Solicitor held 1 ordinary share. The company was renamed Consignia plc in 2001 and the new name was intended to show that the company did more than deliver mail; however, the change was very unpopular with both the public and employees. The Communication Workers Union boycotted the name, and the following year, it was announced that the company would be renamed Royal Mail Group plc.
In 2004, the second daily delivery was scrapped in an effort to reduce costs and improve efficiency, meaning a later single delivery would be made. That year, the travelling post office "mail trains" were also axed. They were resumed on some lines the following year.
On 6 December 2010, a number of paid-for services including Admail, Post-office boxes and private postboxes were removed from the Inland Letter Post Scheme (ILPS) and became available under contract. Several free services including Petitions to Parliament and the Sovereign and Poste Restante were removed from the scheme.
Royal Mail's chief executive Moya Greene publicly supported Cable, stating that the sale would provide staff with "a meaningful stake in the company", while the public will be able to "invest in a great British institution". On 12 September 2013, a six-week plan for the sale of at least half of the business was released to the public; the Communication Workers Union (CWU), representing over 100,000 Royal Mail employees, stated that 96 per cent of Royal Mail staff opposed the sell-off. A postal staff ballot in relation to a nationwide strike action was expected to take place in late September 2013.
Applications for members of the public to buy shares opened on 27 September 2013, ahead of the company's listing on the London Stock Exchange on 15 October 2013. The government was expected to retain between a 37.8% and 49.9% holding in the company. A report on 10 October 2013 revealed that around 700,000 applications for shares had been received by HM Government, more than seven times the amount that is available to the public. Business Secretary Vince Cable stated: "The aim is to place the shares with long-term investors, we are absolutely confident that will happen." At the time of the report, Royal Mail staff continued to ballot regarding potential strike action.
The CWU confirmed on 13 October 2013 that strike action would occur in response to the privatisation of Royal Mail, with a possible start date of 23 October 2013. A union source stated: "It is likely to be an all-out strike first, then rolling strikes in the run up to Christmas", while the CWU has dismissed the offer of an 8.6% rise over three years as "misleading and unacceptable". Prior to the announcement of the strike ballot results on the afternoon of 16 October 2013, employees were offered £300 to cross the picket line if a nationwide postal strike occurs. The CWU called off strike action on 30 October 2013 while negotiations progressed with Royal Mail's management. The talks were extended on 13 November 2013, with the aim that an agreement be reached by both sides by 20 November 2013. Royal Mail confirmed that both sides had reached a proposed settlement on 4 December, and the CWU confirmed on 9 December 2013 that it would recommend the deal to its members. On 6 February 2014, the CWU confirmed that Royal Mail staff had voted to accept the settlement.
Share prices rose by 38% on the first day of conditional trading, leading to accusations that the company had been undervalued. Six months later, the market price was 58% more than the sale price and peaked as high as 87%—much of this profit was acquired by large investors, such as pension funds and hedge funds, that were given priority during the allocation of shares. Business Secretary Vince Cable defended the low sale price that was finalised—saying the threat of strike action around the time of the sale meant it was a fair price in the circumstances—following questioning from the House of Commons Business Committee in late April 2014. On behalf of both himself and Business Minister Michael Fallon, Cable stated before the Committee: "We don't apologise for it and we don't regret it."
The report also concluded that the "Government over-emphasised the risk" in regard to the industrial relations between the government and the CWU, with the BIS Committee referring to the Royal Mail share price before, during and after the finalisation of the pay deal with the union. During the presentation of the report, Bailey referred to the underpinning factors of "fear of failure and poor quality advice", and warned that British taxpayers could sustain further losses in the future due to the inclusion of Royal Mail's 'surplus' assets as part of "the most significant privatisation in years". The BIS Committee called on the UK government to publish a list of the preferred investors involved in the sale, including the details of those investors who sold their shareholding. Billy Hayes, general secretary of the CWU, also responded to the BIS report: "The Bis select committee's damning report published today shows the extent of the government's incompetence in the privatisation of Royal Mail."
On 4 June 2015, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, announced the government would sell its remaining 30% stake. A 15% stake was subsequently sold to investors on 11 June 2015, raising £750m, with a further 1% passed to the company's employees. The government completed the disposal of its shareholding on 12 October 2015, when a 13% stake was sold for £591m and another 1% was given to employees. In total the government raised £3.3bn from the full privatisation of Royal Mail.
The Royal Mail runs, alongside its stamped mail services, another sector of post called business mail. The large majority of Royal Mail's business mail service is for PPI or franked mail, where the sender prints their own 'stamp'. For PPI mail this involves either a simple rubber stamp and an ink pad, or a printed label. For franked mail, a dedicated franking machine is used.
Bulk business mail attracts reduced prices if the sender prints an RM4SCC barcode, or prints the address in a specified position on the envelope using a font readable by optical character recognition (OCR) equipment.
Royal Mail will not carry a number of items which it says could be dangerous for its staff or vehicles. Additionally, a list of 'restricted' items can be posted subject to conditions. Prohibited goods include alcoholic, corrosive or flammable liquids or solids, gases, controlled drugs, indecent or offensive materials, and human and animal remains.
In August 2012 Royal Mail again attempted to prohibit the carriage of all firearms, air rifles and air pistols from 30 November 2012. It cited Section 14(1) of the 1998 Firearms (Amendment) Act, which requires carriers of firearms to "take reasonable precautions" for their safe custody and argued that to comply would involve disproportionate cost. A Royal Mail public consultation document on the changes said: "We expect the impact on customers to be minimal".
Royal Mail's industrial disputes include a seven-week strike in 1971 after a dispute over pay and another strike in 1988 due to bonuses being paid to new staff recruited in London and the South East.
Localised strikes took place across the UK from June 2009 and grew in frequency throughout the summer. In September 2009 the CWU opened a national ballot for industrial action over Royal Mail's failure to reach a national agreement covering protection of jobs, pay, terms and conditions and the cessation of managerial executive action. The ballot was passed in October, causing a number of two and three-day strikes.
Penny Post Credit Union Limited is a savings and loans co-operative established by a joint project with the CWU in 1996, as Royal Mail Wolverhampton and District Employees Credit Union, it became Royal Mail (West) Credit Union in 2000, before adopting the present name in 2001. Based at the North West Midlands Mail Centre, it is a member of the Association of British Credit Unions Limited. Membership is open to all Royal Mail Group (Royal Mail, Parcelforce, Romec, Cashco and Quadrant) and Post Office employees.
The credit union is authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and the PRA. Ultimately, like the banks and building societies, members' savings are protected against business failure by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme.
The Royal Mail is regulated by Ofcom, while consumer interests are represented by the Citizens Advice Bureau. The relationship between the two bodies' predecessors (Postcomm and Postwatch) was not always good, and in 2005, Postwatch took Postcomm to judicial review over its decision regarding rebates to late-paying customers.
Royal Mail has, in some quarters, a poor reputation for losing mail despite their claims that more than 99.93% of mail arrives safely and in 2006 was fined £11.7 million due to the amount of mail lost, stolen or damaged. In the first three months of 2011, around 120,000 letters were lost.
In July 2012 Ofcom consulted on a scheme proposed by Royal Mail to alter its delivery obligations to allow larger postal items to be left with neighbours rather than returning them to a Royal Mail office to await collection. The scheme was presented as offering consumers greater choice for receiving mail when not at home, that is if Royal Mail deliver items as per their stated contractual obligations and was said to follow Royal Mail research from a 'delivery to neighbour' trial across 6 areas of the UK that showed widespread consumer satisfaction. In a statement dated 27 September 2012, Ofcom announced it would approve the scheme after noting that more goods were being purchased over the internet and that Royal Mail's competitors were permitted to leave undelivered items with neighbours. People who do not wish to have parcels left with neighbours, or to receive those of others, can opt out by displaying a free opt-out sticker near their letterbox. Royal Mail remains liable for undeliverable items until they are received by the addressee or returned to sender.
In addition to running a large number of road vehicles, Royal Mail uses trains, a ship and some aircraft, with an air hub at East Midlands Airport. Dedicated night mail flights are operated by Titan Airways for Royal Mail between East Midlands Airport and Bournemouth Airport and between Exeter International Airport and London Stansted Airport. One Boeing 737-3Y0 is flown in full Royal Mail livery. In June 2013, Royal Mail confirmed it would extend Titan Airways' contract to operate night flights from Stansted Airport, from January 2014 to January 2017, introducing new routes to Edinburgh and Belfast using three Boeing 737s. The new contract called for the replacement of the British Aerospace 146-200QC (Quick Change) aircraft in favour of a standard Boeing 737 fleet, and the type was withdrawn by Titan Airways in November 2013.
Though served by independent operators, the three Crown Dependencies use British postcodes in co-operation with Royal Mail; each dependency has its own postal area. The same prices are charged by the four operators for delivery throughout their collective area, though delivery times vary and interjurisdictional mail must clear customs.
A British Rail Class 73 with a parcels van and carriages under British Rail carrying the mail in 1986 through Clapham Junction.
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