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New year, new decade, new experiences. We set our team the difficult task of choosing their top pick for 2020, which can be quite a challenge when there are so many destinations and travel styles to narrow down from an extensive bucket list. Here are the standout itineraries they have on their radar for the New Year.
Bunnik's Northern Spain & Portugal – Georgie's Pick
As a foodie and a sun lover, Portugal and Spain are right up Georgie's alley – and this Bunnik tour covers the best of both. From bustling Barcelona it takes you through Northern Spain, a road less travelled on guided tours and a region Georgie is yet to tick off her bucket list (a list topped by Portugal - first chance she gets, she's going!).
With plenty of two and three night stays along the way, you can really make the most of your time here. Plus, Bunnik are one of the best when it comes delivering small group travel experiences, without the feeling of being on a guided tour. Named the 2019 Best International Tour Operator at the AFTA National Travel Industry Awards, you know you are in good hands.
This particular journey delights the tastebuds with pintxos in San Sebastian and the incredible food markets of Bilbao, Port tastings in the home of fortified wine (Porto and the Douro Valley), and traditional pasteis de nata (Portuguese tarts) where they have been made since 1837. There'll be time to work off the holiday indulgences, with a walk along a section of the famous "Camino de Santiago" and time to swim and play in Portugal's stunning Algarve.
Grand Canyon Rafting with Grand American Adventures – Jemma's Pick
Small group touring is the perfect fit for Jemma, and as a lover of the outdoors, experiencing the amazing National Parks of USA is a must-do. Given that this trip showcases the Grand Canyon from a whole new perspective, is packed with hiking trails and camping out under the stars – this one is Jemma's ultimate adventure.
The impressive walls of the Grand Canyon is a sight that most only glimpse from the canyon rim, but this itinerary takes you deep into its very heart and gives you plenty of time to explore the little side canyons and hidden nooks that others don't get the chance to see.
With six days winding your way along the Colorado River on a motorised raft through turquoise blue water and white rapids, you're treated to an experience beyond the ordinary. A real adventure to appreciate a real natural wonder – read more about it here.
Insight's Treasures of Turkey – Jodie's Pick
This new itinerary for 2020 spends over two weeks exploring Turkey in depth, giving you enough time to see the highlights and tick off some incredible UNESCO World Heritage Sites, but also delve a little deeper.
You'll get to try out your bartering skills in Istanbul's Grand Bazaar, check out the unique geological formations of Cappadocia, and soak in the thermal pools of Pamukkale. History buffs will appreciate a stroll back in time at Ancient Ephesus and Homer's city of Troy, and guests will also get the chance to pay their respects with a visit to Gallipoli.
Beyond the iconic, this tour through Turkey also takes in some lesser known gems. Wander the narrow cobblestone streets of Cumalikizik village, travel along a section of the historic Silk Road, and spend two nights at the gorgeous Turkish beach town of Antalya, steeped in old world charm and nestled perfectly on the aptly named Turquoise Coast.
Trafalgar's Mediterranean Highlights – Hannah's Pick
The Mediterranean boasts plenty of highlights, and Trafalgar's new (and aptly named) 2020 itinerary hits many of them. From Spain's vibrant capital of Madrid brimming with art and cuisine to the romantic winding streets of Rome, you will be wowed by the history, scenery, gastronomy and culture of Spain, France and Italy on this 13 day guided tour.
For Hannah, one of the standout stops on this itinerary is the UNESCO World Heritage listed Cinque Terre where enchanting seaside villages spill down the rugged cliffs where they have clung for centuries. Hannah also loves to connect with the locals when she travels, and Trafalgar's 'Be My Guest' experiences are the perfect way to do so. On this itinerary, you'll get the chance over a traditional lunch in Tuscany (bellissimo!).
With departures from May through to September, this tour showcases the region in all its sundrenched glory – and it can be perfectly paired with a Mediterranean cruise to venture even further (perhaps tack on one of these cruises from Rome at the end!).
Explore's Golden Road to Samarkand – Tracey's Pick
In 2020 Tracey has got her eye on an 11 day trip around Uzbekistan with Explore. This adventure takes travellers off the beaten path to discover a bit of the unknown in this intriguing (and absolutely spectacular) pocket of the globe.
Step back in time with a visit the remarkable ancient city of Khiva, admire the stunning domes and minarets of Bukhara's skyline, and marvel at the mosques, mausoleums and narrow winding alleys of Samarkand.
Being a small group trip capped at just 18 guests, it allows travellers to experience the local life here. Enjoy tours with local guides, admire the architectural masterpieces (as well as the stories behind them) and get an insight into the lives of the nomadic people of Central Asia with a yurt stay and camel ride at Yangikasgan desert camp.
Bunnik's Five Stans – Yvonne's Pick
Inspired by Joanna Lumley's 'Silk Road Adventure' series, Central Asia has also caught Yvonne's eye for the new year. This fascinating (and increasingly popular) region is popping up on trending lists everywhere thanks to its architecture, history, and raw natural beauty – and for our team it is no different!
From traditional villages and ancient ruins along this old trading route to the diverse flora and fauna of its national parks, there are many treasures to uncover in this lesser-travelled part of the world on Bunnik's Five Stans itinerary.
As well as getting to know this incredible place, you'll also get an insight into the traditions of the people that call this region home. Catch an eagle-hunting show in Bokanbaevo and enjoy an overnight stay in a traditional yurt (and much, much more). With extra time on her hands in retirement, we're looking forward to hearing more about this one when Yvonne ticks it off her list!
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Three-Door Double-Deck Face-Off: MAN A95 vs ADL E500
In April 2019, the Land Transport Authority purchased a batch of 100 new double-deck buses with three doors and two staircases. This batch comprised 50 MAN A95 buses and 50 ADL Enviro500 buses.
The idea of a 3-door, 2-staircase double-decker is to promote passenger flow on services with regular boarding and alighting. On existing two-door buses, a common bottleneck is caused by alighting passengers from the rear of the bus clashing with boarding passengers making their way into the bus – a problem we do see on our ISBs as well. This problem is exacerbated with double-deck buses, as the staircase is the bottleneck between passengers descending and passengers boarding. The entire upper deck must disembark before boarding passengers can move into the bus.
3-door 2-staircase double-deckers aim to resolve this problem by providing a second staircase and a third door at the rear. The objective is separating boarding/ascending passengers from alighting/descending passengers. This improves passenger flow, reduces dwell time, and encourages better utilisation of the upper deck as passengers may be increasingly likely to use it on shorter journeys knowing they can disembark with ease.
London's New Routemasters
3-door buses are increasingly common in left-hand-drive (LHD) markets, but not as common in right-hand-drive (RHD) markets like the UK and Singapore. Many bus models are designed to support three doors on the right of the bus – this includes the Volvo B9L fleet used in the ISB, which has the engine block and drivetrain designed to take up only the left half of the rear, leaving room for a right-side door. As the market for 3-door RHD buses is smaller, there have not been many models produced whether in single or double deck configuration.
One such bus model was designed by Wrightbus for London in 2012. This model combined the rear staircase layout of the original Routemaster (ie the famous "London Bus") and the front staircase of typical modern double-decker buses, to create a 3-door 2-staircase double-deck bus where the engine was on the right of the rear. This bus was named the "New Routemaster", and was designed specifically for London.
The front staircase of the New Routemaster is in the regular position behind the driver, while the rear staircase is located at the rear end of the bus and leads directly to the open rear platform of the bus.
As the bus is not air-conditioned, there is less equipment that needs to be squeezed into the bus. The rear staircase offers a view out of the rear as seen below.
The New Routemaster, unfortunately, was not very well-received. The concept of the New Routemaster called for boarding and alighting at any door, but with the phaseout of conductors due to high costs, the bus was reverted to front-door only boarding (as is the case on other buses, and in Singapore) to prevent fare evasion. The bus was also plagued with other design issues such as poor ventilation and unreliable hybrid technology. Transport for London has since abandoned all future plans to purchase New Routemasters, and switched back to conventional double-deckers with one staircase and two doors.
Singapore Demonstrators
MAN A95
Singapore has also been keen on the concept of 3-door double-decker buses. Since 2017, a 3-door bus registered SG5999Z has been operating on Singapore roads. This demonstrator started life as a MAN A95-based concept bus displayed at a 2016 LTA bus carnival, with many special features such as headrests and USB charging ports.
Unlike the other concept bus at the carnival (an ADL bus), it was developed as a functional MAN A95 with an engine, so only minor modifications were needed to put the bus into service as a trial. The bus was extended from 12m to 12.8m by welding a new section into the chassis, and a second staircase was fitted.
Passengers would ascend from the normal staircase on the right (offside) of the bus, and descend from a second, front-facing staircase on the left (nearside) which led to a "third" door. From the outside, it was not immediately obvious that SG5999Z had 3 doors as the second and third doors were adjacent to each other in the middle of the bus.
The bus generated enough positive feedback for LTA to consider further purchase of 3-door buses. However, two features of SG5999Z were deemed inappropriate: the second staircase, being forward-facing, was judged unsafe as passengers could fall down the stairs if the bus were to brake abruptly. Furthermore, the length of the bus was prohibitively long and impacted the turning radius.
There was also a 3-door single-deck MAN A22 concept bus, SG4002G, showcased around the same time, but this one met with little fanfare and was eventually converted to a static display prototype for "smart bus" ideas.
The third door was located after the rear axle, and was a single leaf door. As the engine was located at the lower rear of the bus, the bus had a raised floor after the exit door to accommodate the engine components.
As such, exiting via the third door required passengers to descend from a few steps.
Nobody seemed that interested in the bus, and I did not have time to catch it when it was on service to get better interior photos, so you can check out Land Transport Guru's writeup here.
ADL Enviro500
The other concept bus from the carnival was built on an ADL Enviro500 chassis without an engine and never entered service. A writeup on it can be found here; its interior layout is identical to the production 3-door Enviro500s that I cover later.
LTA Tender
The final tender called by LTA required 100 buses, compliant to Euro 6 specifications. The buses were to have two staircases, one entrance, and two exits, with the second exit being a single-leaf door located behind the rear axle unlike SG5999Z. To address the length concern, the buses were capped at a length of 12.5m. In the end, 100 buses ordered were split across the two manufacturers who provided concept buses for the carnival.
MAN (through ST Kinetics) supplied fifty 3-door A95 buses with facelifted Gemilang bodywork.
Alexander Dennis Limited (ADL) supplied fifty 3-door Enviro500 buses with facelifted ADL bodywork.
For the sake of my sanity and everyone reading this, I will refer to the three doors as the front, the middle and the rear. The middle door is the dual-leaf door in the middle of the bus, and in the same position as the exit door on 2-door buses.
The production 3-door variant of the MAN A95 double-deck bus was first introduced in early 2021. Registration and delivery was carried out alongside the normal 2-door variant of the same model. The 3-door variant used the same Gemilang MAN Lion's City design, so the buses externally resemble their 2-door Euro 6 counterparts. Unlike the 2-door MANs, they use a newer seat design – the Vogel Century which is more rounded.
3-door MAN A95s can carry 123 people, while Euro 6 2-door A95s can carry 139.
For this model, MAN and GML took the existing A95 chassis and modified it for a 3-door design by fitting a second staircase near the rear. No engine or drivetrain components were relocated. The second staircase resembles the first staircase and is also rear-facing, but is positioned over the rear right wheels instead of the front right wheels. Passengers who disembark from the rear staircase will end up in between the middle and rear door.
As the rear door swings out to the rear of the bus, the rear overhang is quite long – note how the passenger compartment extends beyond the door.
I would say the second staircase is well-utilised, but not the rear door. The second staircase was rather visually prominent to passengers as it is near to the first, and I observed many people head to the rear to descend via the second staircase. This is good, and promotes passenger flow through the bus via the upper deck.
The visual prominence of the second staircase also applies to the lower deck – see Land Transport Guru's photo below, where the "bulkhead" formed by the second staircase is immediately visible.
Photo credits to Land Transport Guru
As minimal modifications were made to the chassis, the rear section of the chassis still features a raised platform around the last row of seats as per normal. As such, the rear door is not low-entry (or should that be low-exit?) as passengers must go up one step to reach the platform and then down two steps to exit the bus. This makes usage of the third door rather awkward.
On my rides, I did not observe any passengers choosing to use the rear door, with the sole exception of the few seats located near it (that were on the raised platform). All the passengers who descended from the rear staircase turned right towards the middle of the bus, and alighted from the middle door.
The third door also opened out towards the rear of the bus, and was prone to striking the heads of passengers. Additional retrofits were needed after the buses entered service, notably stickers reminding passengers to wait, and foam cushioning on the door arms (which didn't stop my friend from getting bonked on the head).
The location of the raised platform also necessitated modifications to the rear of the upper deck; passengers on the platform downstairs would need some headroom so a section of the upper deck needed to be raised. This resulted in an awkward seating layout at the rear of the upper deck, where the section above the rear door is blocked off and replaced with side-facing and rear-facing seats.
Admittedly, there is some novelty to taking the side-facing seats with a panoramic view outside the rear side windows. Overall, however, it feels like a lot of effort to redesign the body around the chassis, with mixed results.
The 3-door variant of the ADL Enviro500 only appeared on Singapore roads much later in 2021. Like its two-door cousins, this model was assembled in Zhuhai using ADL's own bodywork, but with a facelifted design that distinguishes it from the 2-door Enviro500s which had all been delivered years earlier. The seats in the 3-door E500 are the familiar, more blocky Vogel System 750 which has been used in buses for many years.
3-door ADL Enviro500s can carry 132 people, while 2-door Enviro500s can carry 134.
This chassis was designed specially for 3-door use in Singapore. 3-door Enviro500s exist in Europe but are designed for the LHD environment there. The Singapore buses feature a redesigned engine compartment to facilitate the third door on the left, by flushing the engine and drivetrain components to the right.
Unlike all other Enviro500s and A95s, the powered and unpowered axles were swapped in position, presumably to make engineering easier by bringing the powered axle closer to the transverse engine. The rearmost axle is powered, and the middle axle is an unpowered pusher and can steer to reduce scrubbing. This axle setup was last seen in the common Volvo B9TL, although middle-axle steering has not been seen in Singapore since the Volvo Olympian.
With the redesign, the lower-deck floor is low all the way to the rear. The second staircase is located at the extreme rear and connects directly to the rear door. It is still rear-facing despite what the windowline may suggest, but it is more "curled" (more sideways steps) and positioned further back, such that the landing of the stairs is right at the rear door. This means that the staircase layout is exactly that of the New Routemaster.
This makes the rear door much more passenger-friendly – no steps need to be climbed in order to access it. Exiting via the third door is simple for both upstairs and downstairs passengers.
The rear door of the Enviro500 swings towards the front of the bus instead of the rear, which is better for the curvature of the bus stops. Interestingly, the two card readers are mounted on the same side.
The rear section of the bus is very slightly raised, but still counts as a fully low floor as it simply slopes up and down, with no steps.
However, it must be noted that due to the second staircase being at the extreme rear of the bus, it is not as visible to passengers striking as the second staircase of the MAN A95. In contrast to the MAN which had an approximately 50-50 split in terms of descending passengers, only about 40% of alighting passengers chose to descend the rear staircase.
In general, the ADL Enviro500 seems to be a better design, though a more expensive one with less parts commonality with existing buses.
Overall, between the two production models, the 3-door ADL Enviro500 gets the nod from me. Maybe it's the more user-friendly design that makes the best use of the new specifications, or just the fact that it looks like more thought and engineering went into the model. Ironically, the ADL Enviro500 was developed ground-up for Singapore at considerable expense, but legally there cannot be any follow-up orders – LTA has announced that all future bus purchases will be either hybrid or electric. To that end, I think ADL has shrewdly demonstrated their product in Hong Kong, another possible market for the RHD 3-door bus, so all the best to them.
Despite being longer, due to the space required for doors, staircases and equipment, the 3-door buses have fewer seats and lower capacity. A bit of passenger capacity is thus sacrificed for better flow. As earlier computed, the 3-door MAN A95 buses can take 16 fewer than their closest 2-door counterparts while the 3-door Enviro500s take only 2 fewer passengers than their 2-door cousins. This is another reason why I admire the Enviro500 design more.
With electric buses, though, new potential is unlocked. As electric motors are structured differently from diesel engines, new drivetrain possibilities hopefully means new ways to integrate a third door at the rear of a RHD bus without requiring a raised platform.
Currently, the Linkker LM312 and CRRC TEG6125BEV03 already demonstrate that a low-floor 3-door electric bus design is possible. I have reviewed the design of the 3-door single-deck buses here. Meanwhile, the Yutong E12DD, an electric conventional 2-door double decker bus, places the batteries behind the rear wheels, so the passenger compartment ends around the wheels and a third door is not feasible, but battery placement appears to be flexible so there may still be possibilities yet.
With the recent announcement that the next generation of NUS ISBs will be electric, this does open up possibilities for us to improve passenger flow as well. Before the pandemic, I did wonder if 3-door buses would improve boarding and alighting because people typically boarded from both doors. As a result, passengers in the rear of the B9Ls found it difficult to exit as passengers were boarding from the middle door which became a huge bottleneck.
A third door would distribute boarding and alighting throughout the bus. Now that there are ID checks on ISBs, however, boarding is only done at the front door – which means, like public buses, the other two doors can be used for exiting to speed up dwell time.
Interesting times ahead, certainly!
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Why some Democrats want to decriminalize crossing the US border
As Democratic presidential hopefuls spar in the leadup to 2020, there's one immigration proposal that keeps coming up.
Should the US repeal the section of the Immigration and Nationality Act that makes illegally crossing the border a crime?
It's an idea that's been floated in immigration policy circles for a while. Julian Castro pushed it into the national spotlight during the first Democratic presidential debates in June, and it came up again in Tuesday night's debate. The notion seems to be gaining steam.
Here's a look at why this conversation is happening now, and why it matters:
Right now anyone who crosses the border illegally can be charged with a misdemeanor
Part of the Immigration and Nationality Act, known as Section 1325, says illegally entering the United States can be prosecuted as a misdemeanor.
It's punishable by up to six months in prison. And it's become one of the most prosecuted federal crimes in the United States.
Section 1325 has been on the books for decades. But for many years it wasn't often enforced. That notably changed in 2005, when President George W. Bush's administration implemented what was known as "Operation Streamline," increasing criminal prosecutions at the border in an effort to deter illegal immigration.
According to an analysis from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University, federal prosecutors charged more than 52,000 people with illegal entry under Section 1325 in the first eight months of the 2019 fiscal year, which began in October.
Supporters say that provision of the law isn't necessary and was used to separate families
Castro and others who argue that Section 1325 should be repealed — including Sen. Elizabeth Warren and South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg — say that it isn't necessary given that crossing the border illegally is already a civil offense that can result in deportation.
They also argue that Section 1325 made many of the Trump administration's family separations at the border possible. Under the "zero tolerance" policy, children were separated when their parents were criminally prosecuted for illegally crossing the border.
"What we're looking for here is a way to take away the tool that Donald Trump has used," Warren said during CNN's Democratic debate Tuesday.
One key point to keep in mind: Just a few hours before the debate, a new court filing from the American Civil Liberties Union detailed hundreds of family separations at the border in the past year that had nothing to do with Section 1325. In some of those cases, according to the ACLU, families were separated because of minor offenses on parents' criminal records, such as traffic offenses or property damage.
So while it's true that criminally prosecuting immigrants who illegally crossed the border was an approach that paved the way for many family separations, it's not the only reason family separations have occurred.
Critics say changing the law could incentivize more illegal immigration
Some Democratic candidates, including former Rep. Beto O'Rourke, Montana Gov. Steve Bullock and former Vice President Joe Biden, say they wouldn't support decriminalizing border crossings.
"I expect that people who come here follow our laws, and we reserve the right to criminally prosecute them if they do not," O'Rourke said during Tuesday's debate.
Bullock cited recent comments by Jeh Johnson, who headed the Department of Homeland Security for several years during the Obama administration.
In an op-ed published in the Washington Post, Johnson wrote that decriminalizing border crossing would be "tantamount to a public declaration (repeated and amplified by smugglers in Central America) that our borders are effectively open to all."


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Basketball: FSW men fight off Indian Hills to advance in NJCAA tournament
Slow start doesn't deter Buccaneers, who move on to NJCAA quarterfinals led by Charles Manning Jr.'s 22 points.
Basketball: FSW men fight off Indian Hills to advance in NJCAA tournament Slow start doesn't deter Buccaneers, who move on to NJCAA quarterfinals led by Charles Manning Jr.'s 22 points. Check out this story on news-press.com: https://www.news-press.com/story/sports/college/2019/03/20/basketball-fsw-men-fight-off-indian-hills-advance-njcaa-tournament/3226115002/
Bryan Cooney, Fort Myers News-Press Published 7:05 p.m. ET March 20, 2019
The Florida SouthWestern State men's basketball team was able to work through a slow start offensively and were paced by 22 points from Charles Manning Jr. to eliminate Indian Hills, 77-71, and move on to the quarterfinals of the NJCAA tournament in Hutchinson, Kansas, on Wednesday.
Tyon Foster-Grant's layup with 36 seconds remaining cut FSW's lead to 72-68, but a Manning right-handed, fast-break slam off the inbound gave the Buccaneers enough cushion for FSW to seal its victory and set up Thursday's matchup with No. 4 Coffeyville (Kan.).
The FSW men's basketball team stands at attention before a game against Miami Dade College on Nov. 27, 2018 at Suncoast Arena. (Photo: Linwood Ferguson/Captive Photons)
FSW led by as much as 20 at 62-42 with 5:22 left, but allowed Indian Hills to make a late charge by being careless with the ball. The Bucs finished with 21 turnovers.
Leading only 28-27 at halftime, FSW was able to create some distance and midway through the second half, Jalen Finch helped the Buccaneers stretch the lead with a personal 7-0 run including a 3-pointer at the 8:46 mark that gave the Bucs a 51-36 lead.
Each team found life difficult on the offensive end in the first half as the Indians shot 29 percent from the field while the Bucs were only slightly better at 36 percent.
Torrey Patton, who scored 13 for the Warriors in the first half after scoring 30 in their opening-round win the day before, was held to just five in the second half. Indian Hills was held to 31 percent shooting for the game. Foster-Grant led the Warriors with 25 points and pulled down 11 rebounds.
Tip time for FSW will be at 7 p.m. Thursday against Coffeyville, which dispatched No. 20 seed Kaskaskia College (Ill.), 78-75. A victory could set up a third meeting with the tournament's top seed, Northwest Florida State, which has handed the Buccaneers their two losses on the season.
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The Allen Lund Company announces Jeremy McGovern will be taking over as manager of the Los Angeles sales office.
Jeremy has been with ALC for over 12 years and started as a broker with success in building business relationships quickly and easily from the start. Throughout his career at ALC, Jeremy has shown a strong work ethic and will work until the job is done. His competitive nature constantly pushes him to succeed and accomplish any goal set before him, and he knows what it takes to run a profitable office. Jeremy was promoted to manager of the Savannah office in February of 2014.
VP of Sales & Branch Operations, Tracey Lewin, stated, "I am very excited to welcome Jeremy McGovern to the helm of the LA office. I have always had a great deal of respect for Jeremy, his management style, and his customer service and operations approach. I know that his experience, people skills, and his eyes and ears will prove to be of immeasurable value as the flagship office of the Allen Lund Company continues on its already successful path."
Jeremy commented, "Following in the footsteps of Allen, David, Kenny, Eddie, Tracey, and Joe, is a big responsibility that I am taking very seriously and with a lot of pride. I am very much looking forward to working with the team in LA and am ready to get started on our journey. Together, we are going to do big things."
VP Sales & Branch Operations, Jim McGuire, added, "Congratulations to Jeremy for taking on the challenge of managing our LA sales office. I am confident he will bring the same work ethic, attitude, and leadership that made him successful in Savannah."
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Specializing as a national third-party transportation broker with nationwide offices and over 525 employees, the Allen Lund Company works with shippers and carriers across the nation to arrange dry, refrigerated (specializing in produce), and flatbed freight; additionally, the Allen Lund Company has a logistics and software division, ALC Logistics, and an International Division licensed by the FMC as an OTI-NVOCC #019872NF. If you are interested in joining the Allen Lund Company team, please click here.
Established in 1976, the Allen Lund Company was recognized by Food Logistics magazine as a 2019 Top 3PL & Cold Storage Provider for TransKool Solutions, Logistics Tech Outlook for our software division ALC Logistics as a 2018 Top 10 Freight Management Solution Providers, 2018 Food Logistics' Top 3PL & Cold Storage Providers list, 2017 Supply & Demand Chain Executive Top 100, 2017 Food Logistics 100+ Top Software and Tech Provider, a 2016 Top IT Provider by Inbound Logistics, 2015 Coca-Cola Challenger Carrier of the Year, 2015 Top Private Company in Los Angeles by the Los Angeles Business Journal, 2015 Top 100+ Software and Technology Providers, 2015 Top 100 Logistics IT Provider by Inbound Logistics, a 2014 Great Supply Chain Partner, and was placed in Transport Topics' "2014 Top 25 Freight Brokerage Firms." The company manages over 365,000 loads annually, and received the 2013 "Best in Cargo Security Award." In 2011, the company received the TIA 3PL Samaritan Award, and NASTC (National Association of Small Trucking Companies) named Allen Lund Company the 2010 Best Broker of the Year. More information is available at allenlund.com
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Energy Minister: Stop using cars if you can't afford unsubsidized fuel
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· June 18, 2021
Caretaker Energy Minister Raymond Ghajar warned that Lebanon's Central Bank will soon lift subsidies on fuel as foreign currency reserves run dangerously low, suggesting that citizens "use something else" if they cannot afford unsubsidized fuel.
"Those who cannot pay LBP 200,000 for a tank should stop using a car and use something else," Ghajar said. The minimum wage in Lebanon is LBP 675,000, and more than half of the population currently lives below the poverty line.
A tank of subsidized fuel currently costs around LBP 40,000 –a fifth of its real value on the parallel market. Fears over subsidies ending and fuel shortages over the past few weeks forcing citizens to line up for hours outside of gas stations across the country.
The subsidy programme costs Lebanon around $6 billion a year, half spent on fuel.
"We have to get used to and be convinced that this subsidy that we benefited from for a year or a year and a half will end," said Ghajar, who did not explain how the lifting of subsidies would affect the costs of public transportation.
The Central Bank may soon be forced to lift subsidies on wheat, medicine, food and other items that it has subsidized, as Lebanon sinks further into what the World Bank described as one of the worst economic crises since the 1850s.
Ghajar, like all of his colleagues, failed to provide any long-term solutions that can combat the collapse and ensure sustainability. In light of the recent crisis, Progressive Socialist Party Chief Walid Jumblatt tweeted that the government should "lift the subsidies and help public transportation."
Lebanon's public transportation system is notoriously underfunded and poorly structured, as a result of continuous government neglect and corruption over the past few years.
The country's defunct railroad system provides one solid example. Trains went out of service across Lebanon in 1989, but the state budget declaration for 2020 included LBP 16 billion spent on the railway administration.


A view of the fort's exterior wall.
Gulmit, October 28: Located above a hill on northern end of the polo ground in Gulmit, the head-quarter of Gojal Tehsil, are ruins of the historic Ondra Fort, built hundreds of years ago by the local people as a defence against invaders.
According to local oral history the fort was built hundreds of years ago during the regime of Mir Qutlugh. However, much is not known about exact history of the fort. Some boundary walls of the fort were built or repaired with mud and stones around 150 years ago, according to sources, but the inner rooms and walls are much older.
The fort has been ruined by climatic variations, as well as human interferences. Wooden doors of the fort's rooms were taken out by the local people several years ago for personal usage. However, now the people have agreed to return the doors and other valuables taken from the fort earlier for the restoration project.
It is pertinent to note that Ondra Fort restoration project would be the first of its kind in the region, completely initiated by the local community. The local people have also started generously donating money for the restoration project. The local community is relying on internal funding because generally the donors do not invest in restoration of ruins.
A local notable, Ayub Khan, has been selected by the villagers as Chairman of the restoration project of Ondra Fort.
The committee has held meetings with the villagers and the project has been launched with consensus.
The restoration project committee has urged the youth of Gojal Valley to come forward for restoration of a symbol of the region's history on self-help basis.
The plan seems to be rebuilding and strengthening of the outer walls of the fort, as well as re-installation of the removed wooden doors and roofs, where possible. One or two of the restored rooms of the fort will be used to showcase relics of the region's history, including different equipment taken by the local villagers several years ago from the fort itself.
In a time of ICT led coming together and, in many cases, integration of global cultures and civilizations, it is important to preserve symbols of the past. Identity and self-worth are determined by confidence in and knowledge of one's history.
The restoration project of Ondra Fort is an excellent example of civic engagement and symbolizes the people's interest in their history and the willingness to work together for a common goal.
Great initiative. Heats off to the local community who in spite of the current suffering and hardship initiated this exemplary project. No doubt the local community has always been a symbol of volunteerism and have achieved great success through community involvement in form of great projects like Al-Amyn Model School, AKHS Basic health center, WASEP water supply project, Gulmit Central JK, various link roads, noting a few. The renovation of Ondra Fort will help our youth to reflect upon our past history, socio-economic & political system as well as the strategic approaches of our people in various situations. Not only this, but in future this fort could be used to shelter the entire community in case of any sort of natural or man made situation. It is not only a symbol of past pride but also a present strength and future necessity.
It is also important to renovate it on modern scientific basis keeping in view the possible future needs and requirement. AKCSP may provide technical help…??? I am not sure if due to certain 'Interests' they will take interest in this project, even than our community should approach them.
I went to this place summer. You get a great view of Gulmit town, passu cones and other peaks around. Nice to hear that is's been restored. Great cause!
Ayub Khan!!! You've got the best chairman for this project!
We hope that Bech Ayub and his team are able to attract some foreign/local sponsors for restoration of this historic and neglected site. This is a mega project and we should seek AKCSP's support in this regard.
I know the local people need financial and technical support for which Uncle Ayub and his team need to prepare a detailed project.
This place has a very historic and commercial potential and if carefully and smartly executed, can turn this place into a nice tourist attraction of the future.
I fully support this cause and would request our professional to contribute with their time and knowledge to support the team to come up with a detailed plan. GOLD should rise and be organized to rebuild Gulmit in the post Attabad disaster scenario.
Indeeds , its the unity of the local community to add another splendor to Gulmit and Gojal. No doubt the locals have proved once again proved their unity to make gulmit and gojal a progressive area.
Let me remind u aboout the promise of Atiqa Guzanfar to rebulit this fort during a gathering in gulmit . But she and her husband didnt bother to invest a single penny on this project.
@ Ilfu:- It is good that Atiqa and her husband did not invest a single penny on this project otherwise it would have become a political tennis ball; neither we need to remind them of their announcement. In fact this fort is an important page of very different history of our people when they had their own Mir and their own socio-political system. Once renovated it will tell the people a story which has always been kept under the rocks by the ancestors of Mr. Ghazanfar. Instead of involving the political players we should concentrate on involving social and cultural forces in this project.
Uncle Ayub has always been a dedicated volunteer and one of the driving forces behind many projects in our area. I am sure that his dedication will make things easy.


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Review: Fierce Fairytales by Nikita Gill
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Fierce Fairytales by Nikita Gill
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Poet, writer, and Instagram sensation Nikita Gill returns with a collection of fairytales poetically retold for a new generation of women.
Traditional fairytales are rife with cliches and gender stereotypes: beautiful, silent princesses; ugly, jealous, and bitter villainesses; girls who need rescuing; and men who take all the glory.
But in this rousing new prose and poetry collection, Nikita Gill gives Once Upon a Time a much-needed modern makeover. Through her gorgeous reimagining of fairytale classics and spellbinding original tales, she dismantles the old-fashioned tropes that have been ingrained in our minds. In this book, gone are the docile women and male saviors. Instead, lines blur between heroes and villains. You will meet fearless princesses, a new kind of wolf lurking in the concrete jungle, and an independent Gretel who can bring down monsters on her own.
Complete with beautifully hand-drawn illustrations by Gill herself, Fierce Fairytales is an empowering collection of poems and stories for a new generation. From Goodreads.
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Being a lover of fairy tale retellings, I've wanted to read Fierce Fairytales by Nikita Gill for so long now, so I decided to treat myself at the beginning of the year - and it's bloody incredible!
I didn't know it was poetry until buying, or I had forgotten. I'm not a poetry connoisseur, but I do enjoy some contemporary poetry, and I was intrigued by how Gill would retell the various stories we know so well. With gorgeous illustrations by Gill throughout, Fierce Fairytales features 91 poems examining fairy tales and their characters, children's classics, and other ideas or topics through a fairy tale lens, and it's so, so powerful.
Gender and sexism are massive themes throughout. Through the stories we know, Gill tackles gender stereotypes, sexism and the rights of women, the idea of how society believes women should behave. Through female villains Gill covers how we're shown examples of who women shouldn't be, but also how women can be seen as villains simply for not following the rules, deviating from the norm, not conforming. There is exploration of toxic masculinity through the princes, but also of abusers hidden behind a charming smile. But she also looks at monsters and dragons and fairy tale witches, and how society just decides who and what is allowed to exist, who or what is good and evil based on how they look, or in some cases, the things they're interested in.
Gill also deftly tackles subjects like mental illness, trauma, body image, self-worth, and, as briefly mentioned, abuse of all kinds. There's discussion of parents and parenting; how parents raise children, how they treat them, how they try to teach them and how good intentions can go awry, and the effect of absent parents. There are poems that discuss race and racism, that are as gorgeous as they are, in some cases, devastating.
There are heartbreaking villain origin poems; poems about how the universe came into being that are so beautiful; poems of understanding, of empowerment, of encouragement. There are poems where Gill shows you a different perspective of a story, or encourages you to think about characters differently. There are poems where Gill is talking about a specific character, but feel like she's talking about, or to, you.
This collection of poems moved me beyond words. Gill brought tears to my eyes with how beautiful some of the poems are, she had me raging with a large number of them, and Gill had me feeling like she stood with me, beside me, an encouraging friend reminding me of my strength. This book is thought provoking and empowering, and so very important, and I implore you to read it. I'll definitely be buying Gill's most recent book of poetry, Great Goddesses!
What do you think about fairy tale retellings/exploring fairy tales through poetry? Are you a fan of contemporary poetry? Have you read anything by Nikita Gill before? Have you read, or will you be picking up, Fierce Fairytales? Let me know in the comments!
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Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon Review
The Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon is a video game built by Game Freak in the year 2017, celebrated by the renowned Japanese company named The Pokémon with the help of Nintendo for Nintendo 3D's. The Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon is an upgraded second paired version of Generation VII.
The game received an immense number of positive feedback, with critics praising the new additional features in it. Though it was criticized for having a similar mainstream storyline that the majority of video games have, yet at the end of 2018 Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon had sold more than eight million, copies all over the world.
There are few games that are so beautifully portrayed because of the way the bonding is maintained between the Pokémon and the Nintendo DS family, and the outcome comes so innovatively just like the game, Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon. A generation that portrayed numerous changes ever imagined which gained a huge number of fan bases for this game.
The graphics of the different 800 Pokémons and the environment of the Islands and looked sharper and brighter than the previous series. The creatures moved into the battlefield and, there were many changes in the iconic visual style for a better experience. The graphics overhaul even more with full 3D rendered Pokémon in each battleground and even a lot of careful versions of every character within the Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon game.
The texture and display of the game Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon are sharper and giving a detailed look at it. The display of the game gives it a smoothness of any reflective surface. Its display enhances the quality of the game and grabs the attention of the players. However, the display features are truly a reason which is an increasing number of players these days.
The Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon are developed to be perfect. The developer has given an equal amount of priority to sound. Though it doesn't have much music the dialogue delivery is clear and perfectly matches the timings. It's an amazing sound feature during the action timings or during throwing the Pokémon balls in the ground grabs the maximum attention of the players. While playing this game always remember to have your earplugs on for experiencing the video game in a better version.
Ease of the Gameplay
If we compare the other series of Pokémon games to this new game then it is comparatively difficult. But if you put a little effort into the initial stage to understand the gameplay then it will be easy for anyone. It's pretty obvious that Hardcore gamers will love the game as it has a lot of stages and too many challenges to complete while playing the Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon.
About the Plot Line
The setting of the game begins in a very well-known place called the Alola region that relies on Hawaii. Ultra Megapolis, is a large town where Necrozma has robbed all of its lightweight sources that are found among the radical area and are accessible through the ultra-wormholes. The Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon, video game put a unique Pokémon Necrozma that in these versions takes Lusamine's place as an antagonist.
The new game feature has extra buildings and locations as compared to the previous version. Several main characters portrayed in Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon, such as Lusamine and her kids, returns to the game with some unique changes. A brand-new cluster of Ultra Recon Squad, be introduced with completely different characters within the two games. Another antagonist group named The Rainbow Rocket is coming towards the end of the game story and includes all the main evil group leaders in the series.
The actual game begins with Professor Kukui to the controller. The professor helps to create a passport for the trainer before the mother moves to Alola Island with her kids. At the same time, a young girl escapes with an unidentified Pokémon in her baggage. The Pokémon the girl was carrying with her escapes and reaches the Plank Bridge and happy about the environment, it reached. Players being Professor Kukui and Hau reaches Ik town from where the main gameplay starts.
Just like any other video game the player has a lot of rivals on their way towards Alola. Hau, a friendly boy accompanies them throughout the game. Before taking any trials, the player should attain the trainer's school to understand the basics of the battling. After beating the teacher, the player is invited to Hau'oli City to get some more advanced training.
At the end of the game Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon, the player reaches the Pokémon League the Professor gives the choice to the players to battle it out with any four members of the Alola League in whatever choice the players want to. The team consists of the former Trail Captain Molayne who often uses the steel body, Island Oliva Kahuna who uses The Rock types, Trial Captain Acerola, who uses the Ghost, and last but not least Kahili, who is a former Island Champion and a golfer who uses flying tricks.
After all the players battle out the Elite Four, they make arrangements to take a seat in the champion's chair before meeting Professor Kukui in the Final challenge which will be coming from HAU. After winning the ultimate battle, the players become the ultimate champion of the Alola League and go back to Iki Town to celebrate the big win.
At the end of the credits, Hau and Ultra Recon Squad meet the players outside their house, to celebrate their victory and invited to Poni Island, where the Beats are left open. On the way to Poni Grove, Hau and the player with someone named Wickie, who gives the player a Null. Both arrived on the island and helps Ultra Recon Squad to grab hold of Blacephalon, using the Beast Bull. Later Hau was given to Ultra Recon Squad and the Aether Foundation was doing their research they were caught by the other players. After all the crisis, the Squad thanks the players and Hau takes a leave. The players returned home and took some rest.
Fun in Gaming
This new version of the Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon is much more interesting and has a lot more things to do in it. The game is quite vast, and there are hundreds of activities to do. You can take selfies in the game, battle out the players, hunt for various locations to reach a destination. If one likes to solve the puzzle then this game will definitely be a wise choice.
Various Challenges
There were many changes in the Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon video game, the new Trail system replaced the Gym challenge about which players knew for so long. Collecting eight badges and reaching the Pokémon League to battle out of the Elite model and the champions, but the trail system changed the normal. Completing a certain number of trails on the island, the player can then challenge the Kahuna of the island to reach the next level. There are many more challenges that are installed in the new version that gamers can enjoy.
Boosting Points
In all the previous versions of Pokémon games, it was much easier to boost up coins to a certain level. But in Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon, the developers increased the difficulty level where trainers are tough and getting rewards are tougher, but that's somethings gamers crave in a video game. So, the more swiftly you complete the training the number of points you can collect and reach the next level. Even the faster you complete the levels at training school the faster you learn to play the game.
The best thing in the upgraded version of Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon is the hidden moves that the trainers use outside the battleground to perform various tasks such as swimming in the ocean, cutting trees, or smash the rock into pieces. It takes away a few annoying issues in a lot of places in the game but the Hidden moves are fun and a unique feature.
The Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon is the latest game the developer has improved and added a lot of new features that made the game much more fun. One new feature which is added is called the Pokémon Refresh, here the players are allowed to feed the Pokémon, during their personal playtime. Another new feature that is added is called Poke Pelago, where a cluster of isolated islands is kept reserved for Pokémon which is owned by a man called Mohan. It is a user to place for the trainers, it helps them to collect beans, berries which helps them to dye the clothes, heal their injured Pokémon, or for any other uses in the battle.
Lastly, another fun feature is the Poke Finder, though it's not very useful in the Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon except for ghost trails, it is just a fun tool for entertainment during the game.
There should be no doubt that this game has a huge fan base worldwide. So, it's highly possible that the game has quite a few pros in it.
> Pokémon Sun and Moon was a successful version with a few glitches, but the Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon were on the verge of its excellence. The brand-new feature was a lot of surprises and was loved by all.
> The new team members such as Team Rainbow and the legendries of the other version made the made more interesting to play. This the reason why players come back each time and play it again and again.
> In this game the developer has installed almost more than 800 Pokémons which gives the player a wider range of Pokémon to discover and capture.
The Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon is just the perfect mixture of action and adventure which increases the quality of the game and adds much more fun to it.
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Everything in this world has both Pros and Cons which helps the developers to improve the upgraded version. Just like any other game the Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon also has a couple of drawbacks.
> Most of the sustainable new update or content doesn't happen during the first part of the game, nothing happens until post-game. So, the gamers who will have high expectations from the new update will be highly shattered in the first half.
> Not enough new content is put in Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon, so those who were pretty much satisfied with the last version will not enjoy the game and will be disappointed.
> There is a lot of difficulties in spikes which might turn out to be very frustrating for regular gamers.
We can never deny the fact that all the series of Pokémon games have been successful all over the world. Games itself is very addictive people waste so much time playing and surfing for online games and when the Pokémon series games are out then it's quite obvious that it's difficult for them to stay away from it. The Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon have a lot of varieties in the game and winning the game in one instance are not possible for a hard-core gamer as well. So people often lose and they come back again and again to win the battle and they have to follow that long process again in order to be the ultimate champion. Hence, a player can sit in front of it and spends hours playing the Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon without realizing it.
In spite of the few technical problems in developing the game Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon that can be overlooked because the new features in the game are quite appreciable and likable to the gamers. The Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon are perfect in every aspect of it which is the reason it has become the most popular video game of the decade. It includes various features starting from the flawless storyline of the game which gives real-life feelings to its players to advance graphics design, high-quality display, and texture, the awesome sound effects, the super-strong characters, challenging missions, thrilling moments, and each thing about it. There is no doubt that the players can spend hours with this adventurous world.
The game has also received a number of awards from different places such as the "Excellence Prize" at the Famitsu Awards. It was also nominated for "People's Choice" at Italian Video Game Award. Till today this game holds its name in the top 10 list. Hence, Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon is surely a unique game that everyone should love.
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When we first began to look at this RFP, we were driven by the notion that since this park was owned by the City, it should be restored in a way that benefits that community. We took this idea and turned it into our overall mission. While most theme parks have charitable activities, we wanted to go further. Every decision we have made has been guided by the question, "How can we do this so that it benefits the people?"
We started with the basics and have sought out area youth organizations and foundations that are already actively working to make lives better. We have found ways to partner with them, either directly, by including them actively in the redevelopment, or indirectly, by planning fundraiser activities for when the park opens. We have several initiatives that are incorporated into the business model that will aid in having the park be a true asset to the community.
Two local groups that we plan to actively work with are Cafe Reconcile and Liberty's Kitchen. These two nonprofit restaurants serve as the primary training ground for students seeking to acquire skills in the food service industry. Once their students complete the program, jobs need to be waiting for them so that they can continue their fight to break the cycle of poverty. Primarily at our table service dining facility at the front gates, we are committed to providing jobs for these young people so that they can continue their personal growth. For some students that live in New Orleans East, continued transportation into the City after they complete the program may be problematic. We would be able to offer them a good opportunity closer to home. Likewise, through the park shuttle service, we can work with youth organizations around the City to help provide transportation for employees to work to reduce barriers.
Another group we plan to actively work with is the Partnership for Youth Development. Their Youth Leadership Fellowship group conducted research to find out what the City's youth would find most beneficial. They issued a report, "Youth Goes Live!", that contained their findings. One of the items they would like the most is paid internship opportunities. As we had planned to offer internships, working with PYD seems like a natural extension of what we want to do.
For groups such as Son of a Saint, we would hold an occasional "Son of a Saint Day" where a portion of ticket sales are donated to the organization. Non-profits such as this would benefit not only from the donations, but also from the exposure that lets more people know about the good work they are doing.
As an organization, we would encourage our employees to donate time to the community as well. Earlier in 2013, members of our team participated in Drew Brees' Super Service Challenge, winning a donation for the charity we served. We will continue to participate in Companies with a Mission service projects and hope to expand our community service efforts as our employee numbers expand.
These are just a few examples of the groups we plan to work with. We continue to contact other area foundations and non-profit organizations to find out how we may best work together. If you would like to suggest a group, please contact us at info@jazzlandpark.com.


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Miloš Jevđević (; born 11 January 1981) is a Serbian footballer.

Career
Before coming to Fier, he played mostly in the Serbian Second League, being the only exceptions the last season with FK Javor Ivanjica that he played in 2002-03 in the First League of Serbia and Montenegro, and the first six months of 2007, that he spend with OFK Grbalj in the Montenegrin First League. Beside Javor, FK Timok, FK Radnički Niš, FK Napredak Kruševac, OFK Mladenovac, FK Sevojno, FK Novi Pazar and FK Inđija, are the other clubs in Serbia where he played.

References
 Profile and stats at Srbijafudbal
 Profile at Footballdatabase

1981 births
Living people
Serbian footballers
Serbian expatriate footballers
Association football midfielders
FK Bor players
FK Javor Ivanjica players
FK Timok players
FK Radnički Niš players
FK Napredak Kruševac players
OFK Mladenovac players
FK Sevojno players
FK Novi Pazar players
FK Inđija players
OFK Grbalj players
FK Kukësi players
KF Apolonia Fier players
Expatriate footballers in Albania
Serbian expatriate sportspeople in Albania

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This is definitely one of the most robust phases for M&As in India. At a time when there is a lull in the global economy, the strength of the Indian economy has fostered an environment where Indian business houses can spot opportunities to grow exponentially through vertical, horizontal and concentric M&A deals. Complementing this situation, the Indian government has proactively undertaken to evolve a tax and regulatory regime that will help the Indian M&A sphere mature. It has also undertaken various policy initiatives to provide a much-needed impetus to domestic and foreign investments.
Against this backdrop, we present to you a comprehensive report that captures our understanding and analysis of the evolving M&A Tax landscape in India.
We start by delving into the recent trends in the M&A sphere globally and in India. We then discuss how M&As have catalysed inorganic growth and how regulatory considerations have acted as trigger points for M&A deals. While any M&A deal seeks to achieve benefits out of synergies and other factors, one should always be wary of what can go wrong in such deals in order to better prepare for such eventualities.
In the next section, we deep dive into the essentials of M&A and discuss the importance of a health check-up to identify and mitigate any unforeseen risks prior to undertaking any transaction. We then analyse various optimum structures to conceptualise any deal. We also discuss the recent regulatory changes in the FDI policy and corporate law which have made cross-border M&A feasible. Now, more than ever, when Indian business houses have amassed significant wealth, succession planning through a trust structure assumes significant importance to ensure seamless succession of wealth and ownership/control over the business from one generation to the next.
One cannot underestimate the ever-evolving and recent tax and regulatory advances which impact any M&A transaction. Therefore, we proceed to analyse the impact of anti-avoidance measures such as BEPS, GAAR and tweaks in DTAAs between India and various low-tax jurisdictions. Given the government's relentless focus on developing infrastructure and the real estate sector in India, we analyse the tax and regulatory regime of the newly introduced REIT/InvIT structures. Any analysis of M&A transactions cannot be complete without a discussion on the 'indirect transfer tax' provisions which have continued to attract much ire from foreign investors.
We hope you that this report presents a new perspective on M&A. You may access the report here.
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The motion-picture industry's overall monetary worth continues to grow steadily with each succeeding year. Worldwide theatrical box office receipts presently (2004) add up to over US$22 billion annually.
According to reports in Variety Reporter and Hollywood Daily, world totals are expected to exceed US$30 billion by the end of the next decade. In addition to theatrical revenues the revenues from cable television is almost about US$40 billion annually and home video (VHS and DVD) sales and rentals a staggering US$24 billion annually.
Aside from the enormous revenues, motion pictures have a very high influencing factor on fashion, trends, and political persuasion (rightly or wrongly). Motion pictures last long after the magazines and newspapers expire. The life of a motion picture can be timeless. Cast your mind on some of the great classics such as 'Citizen Kane', 'Casablanca', 'Gone with the Wind', and 'The Godfather'. Others such as 'Star Wars', 'Raiders of the Lost Ark', 'The Titanic', and 'The Lord of the Rings' reaped phenomenal profits and earned a place as some of the best movies ever made.
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These amazing lamps are made of salt
By Jess Zimmerman on Jun 29, 2012
If Daniel McDonald's Shio lamps didn't cost $475 and up, they could do double duty seasoning your food or attracting deer. At this price point, you probably want to preserve them, unless you're Tony Stark or something — but the point is, the lamps are made of salt crystals, grown on a fabric base like stalagmites in a cave.
It takes more than a week to grow a Shio lamp, which can weigh up to 30 pounds. McDonald lets salt water flow over a plastic and fabric skeleton, forming crystals that build up to make the lamp's unique skin. It's inspired by the same process in nature, which McDonald first observed in Yellowstone Park — although in the end, Shio lamps look more like the shells of organic creatures than like geological formations.
McDonald has set up a Kickstarter to raise funds for expanding his Shio studio. At the $475 level, you can get a small lamp suitable for putting a tealight in; for $3,000 you get a unique lamp in a shape that's never been made before, fitted with a Type A lightbulb socket, Mr. Stark, sir. Or you can watch the video for free and marvel at how much inspiration a creative type can find in nature.
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ELDERLY MOTORCYCLIST KILLED ON SOLLER ROAD
WEEKEND OVERSHADOWED BY A SPATE OF SERIOUS ACCIDENTS
By Humphrey Carter
THE first weekend of the summer was overshadowed by a spate of traffic accidents which left four people seriously injured and an elderly motorcyclist killed. The fatal accident happened yesterday morning on the outskirts of Palma.
According to the police, a 61-year-old moped rider was involved in a collision with a lorry at 7.45 at the new roundabout on the Soller road.
Paramedics were at the scene within minutes but, according to the emergency services, there was nothing that could have been done to have saved the victim's life. On Sunday, three accidents, one in the Pollensa area and the other on the Palma to Inca motorway near Marratxi and the third on the Caimari road up to Lluc, left four people seriously injured. The first happened at 5.30 am along the Cala Sant Vincente road. The victims were two hotel workers on their way home but for reasons yet to be confirmed, the driver apparently lost control of the vehicle and collided with a tree. The two 30-year-old victims were rushed to Son Dureta hospital in Palma.
At 1pm, two motorbikes, one a Harley Davidson carrying a British couple, collided along the Inca motorway.
The driver of the other motorbike, a Yamaha, was seriously hurt.
The third accident involved a quad bike in an accident along the Caimari road up to Lluc.
The driver was also seriously injured and rushed to Son Dureta hospital.


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William M. Darlington: Selections from a Collector's Life, Summer 2014 @ Pitt Special Collections: Additional Resources
Other Darlington Family Members
From left to right, O'Hara, Mary O'Hara, Mrs. William Darlington, and William M. Darlington relax in a room referred to as the "office."
Photographs of the Darlington Family, 1885-1888, 1.3.DA
This year the Fort Pitt Block House and the Daughters of the American Revolution dedicated a garden surrounding the Block House to Edith Darlington Ammon. Edith was the younger of William M. Darlington two daughters. She successfully led a campaign to save the Block House from demolition in 1902. The dedication was a part of the festivities commemorating the 250th anniversary of the Fort Pitt Block House.
History of Colonel Henry Bouquet and the western frontiers of Pennsylvania, 1747-1764 by Darlington, Mary C. (Mary Carson), 1824-1915.
Mary Carson Darlington was the wife of William M. Darlington and the granddaughter of General James O'Hara. Full text available online.
Books/Collections Related to the Darlington Family
Darlington Memorial Library, ca. 1936
University of Pittsburgh Historic Photographs, 1884-present, DRML01.UA
Pittsburgh Waste Book and Fort Pitt Trading Post Papers
The documents known as the Pittsburgh Waste Book and Papers of the Fort Pitt Trading Post, 1757-1765, are reputed to be the first known accounts of trade at Fort Pitt. Information recorded in the book and associated documents detail business transactions through daily accounts, correspondence and receipts. Digital reproductions of the collection are available electronically by following the respective "Digitized Folder Contents" links within the finding aid.
The Darlington Digital Library
The Darlington Digital Library was created from the first major collection of books, manuscripts, atlases, and maps donated to the University of Pittsburgh. Most of the credit for assembling the Darlington Collection rightly goes to William M. Darlington, an attorney by profession who was born in Pittsburgh in 1815.
The Darlington Memorial Library: University of Pittsburgh by Starrett, Agnes Lynch.
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Personal memories of the Darlington Family at Guyasuta by Herbert, Anne Hemphill.
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Native American Tribes & the Indian History in Orfordville, Wisconsin
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Long before the terms Native American or Indian were created, the tribes were spread all over the Americas. Before any white man set foot on this territory, it was settled by the forefathers of bands we now call Sioux, or Cherokee, or Iroquois.
For centuries, the American Indian grew its culture and legacy without disturbance. And that history is captivating.
From Mayan and Incan ruins, from the mounds left in the central and southern regions of what is today the U.S. we have learned quite a bit. It's a narrative of beautiful artwork and deep spirituality. Archaeologists have unearthed highly advanced structures and public works.
While there was unavoidable tribal conflict, that was nothing more than a slight blemish in the narrative of our ancestors. They were at peace with this beautiful continent and intensely connected to nature.
When European leaders sent the first vessels in this direction, the goal was to discover new resources – but the quality of environment and the bounty of everything from wood to wildlife soon changed their tune. As those leaders heard back from their explorers, the drive to colonize spread like wildfire.
The English, French and Spanish rushed to slice up the "New World" by sending over inadequately prepared colonists as fast as they could. In the beginning, they skirmished with the surprised Indians of America's eastern seaboard. But that ultimately gave way to trade, since the Europeans who came ashore here knew their survival was doubtful without Indian help.
Thus followed years of relative peace as the settlers got themselves established on American land. But the pressure to push inland came soon after. Kings and queens from thousands of miles away were anxious to locate additional resources, and some colonists came for freedom and opportunity.
They needed more space. And so began the process of pushing the American Indian out of the way.
It took the shape of cash arrangements, barter, and notoriously, treaties which were almost uniformly neglected once the Indians were forced off the land in question.
The U.S. government's policies towards Native Americans in the second half of the nineteenth century were influenced by the desire to expand westward into areas occupied by these Native American tribes. By the 1850s nearly all Native American tribes, approximately 360,000 in number, were living to the west of the Mississippi River. These American Indians, some from the Northwestern and Southeastern territories, were confined to Indian Territory located in present day Oklahoma, while the Kiowa and Comanche Native American tribes shared the area of the Southern Plains.
The Sioux, Crows and Blackfeet dominated the Northern Plains. These Native American groups encountered misfortune as the constant stream of European immigrants into northeastern American cities pushed a stream of immigrants into the western lands already occupied by these diverse groups of Indians.
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The early nineteenth century in the United States was marked by its steady expansion to the Mississippi River. However, due to the Gadsden purchase, that lead to U.S. control of the borderlands of southern New Mexico and Arizona along with the authority over Oregon country, Texas and California; America's expansion wouldn't end there. Between 1830 and 1860 the United States practically doubled the amount of territory under its control.
These territorial gains coincided with the arrival of hordes of European and Asian immigrants who wished to join the surge of American settlers heading west. This, partnered with the discovery of gold in 1849, presented captivating possibilities for those prepared make the huge trip westward. Consequently, with the military's protection and the U.S. government's assistance, many settlers started building their homesteads in the Great Plains and other parts of the Native American group-inhabited West.
Native American Policy can be defined as the laws and procedures made and adapted in the United States to define the relationship between Native American tribes and the federal government. When the United States initially became an independent nation, it implemented the European policies towards these local peoples, but over two centuries the U.S. tailored its very own widely varying regulations regarding the changing perspectives and necessities of Native American supervision.
In 1824, in order to apply the U.S. government's Native American policies, Congress created a new bureau inside the War Department referred to as Bureau of Indian Affairs, which worked closely with the U.S. Army to enforce their policies. At times the federal government recognized the Indians as self-governing, independent political communities with numerous cultural identities; however, at other times the government attempted to compel the Native American tribes to give up their cultural identity, give up their land and assimilate into the American customs.
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With the steady flow of settlers into Indian "" land, Eastern newspapers printed sensationalized reports of cruel native tribes carrying out massive massacres of hundreds of white travelers. Although some settlers lost their lives to American Indian attacks, this was far from the norm; in fact, Native American tribes repeatedly helped settlers cross the Plains. Not only did the American Indians offer wild game and other supplies to travelers, but they acted as guides and messengers between wagon trains as well. Despite the friendly natures of the American Indians, settlers still feared the likelihood of an attack.
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To soothe these worries, in 1851 the U.S. government held a conference with several local Indian tribes and established the Treaty of Fort Laramie. Within this treaty, each Native American tribe consented to a bounded territory, allowed the government to construct tracks and forts in this territory and pledged never to go after settlers; in return the federal government agreed to honor the boundaries of each tribe's territory and make annual payments to the Indians. The Native American tribes responded peacefully to the treaty; in fact the Cheyenne, Sioux, Crow, Arapaho, Assinibione, Mandan, Gros Ventre and Arikara tribes, who signed the treaty, even agreed to end the hostilities between their tribes in order to accept the terms of the treaty.
This peaceful accord between the U.S. government and the Native American tribes did not stand long. After hearing reports of fertile land and tremendous mineral wealth in the West, the government soon broke their assurances established in the Treat of Fort Laramie by permitting thousands of non-Indians to flood into the area. With so many newcomers heading west, the federal government established a plan of restricting Native Americans to reservations, limited areas of land within a group's territory "" earmarked exclusively for their use, in order to offer more territory for "" non-Indian settlers.
In a series of new treaties the U.S. government made Native Americans to abandon their land and migrate to reservations in exchange for protection from attacks by white settlers. In addition, the Indians were allocated a yearly stipend that would include money in addition to food, livestock, household goods and agricultural tools. These reservations were established in an effort to pave the way for increasing U.S. expansion and administration in the West, as well as to keep the Native Americans isolated from the whites in order to decrease the potential for conflict.
These accords had many complications. Most significantly many of the native peoples did not altogether understand the document that they were finalizing or the conditions within it; furthermore, the treaties did not consider the cultural practices of the Native Americans. In addition to this, the government departments responsible for applying these policies were plagued with poor management and corruption. In fact many treaty conditions were never accomplished.
The U.S. government rarely fulfilled their side of the agreements even when the Native Americans relocated quietly to their reservations. Shady bureau agents sometimes sold off the supplies that were intended for the Indians on reservations to non-Indians. Additionally, as settlers needed more territory in the West, the federal government constantly cut the size of reservation lands. By this time, most of the Native American people were unhappy with the treaties and angered by settlers' persistent hunger for land.
Angered by the government's dishonest and unfair policies, some Native American tribes, including bands of Cheyennes, Arapahos, Comanches and Sioux, battled back. As they struggled to defend their territories and their tribes' survival, more than one thousand skirmishes and battles broke out in the West between 1861 and 1891. In an effort to compel Native Americans onto the reservations and to end the violence, the U.S. government reacted to these hostilities with costly military campaigns. Obviously the U.S. government's Indian regulations were in need of a change.
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Native American policy changed considerably after the Civil War. Reformers believed that the policy of forcing Native Americans inside reservations was too strict while industrialists, who were concerned with their property and resources, regarded assimilation, the cultural absorption of the American Indians into "white America" as the single long-term method of ensuring Native American survival. In 1871 the federal government enacted a critical law proclaiming that the United States would no longer treat Native American tribes as sovereign entities.
This legislation signaled a drastic change in the government's relationship with the native peoples – Congress now viewed the Native Americans, not as countries outside of its jurisdiction, but as wards of the government. By making Native Americans wards of the U.S. government, Congress presumed that it would be easier to make the policy of assimilation a broadly recognized part of the cultural mainstream of America.
Many U.S. government administrators viewed assimilation as the most effective remedy for what they deemed "the Indian problem," and the single permanent method of protecting U.S. interests in the West and the survival of the American Indians. In order to accomplish this, the government pushed Native Americans to move out of their traditional dwellings, move into wooden homes and turn into farmers.
The federal government handed down laws that forced Native Americans to abandon their established appearance and way of living. Some laws outlawed common spiritual practices while others ordered Indian men to cut their long hair. Agents on more than two-thirds of American Indian reservations organized tribunals to enforce federal regulations that often banned traditional cultural and religious practices.
To accelerate the assimilation process, the government set up Indian training centers that attempted to quickly and vigorously Americanize Indian youth. As per the director of the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania, the schools were created to "kill the Indian and save the man." To be able to make this happen objective, the schools forced pupils to speak only English, wear proper American attire and to substitute their Indian names with more "American" ones. These new policies helped bring Native Americans closer to the end of their original tribal identity and the start of their daily life as citizens under the absolute control of the U.S. authorities.
In 1887, Congress handed down the General Allotment Act, the most significant component of the U.S. government's assimilation platform, which was designed to "civilize" American Indians by educating them to be farmers. In order to achieve this, Congress wanted to create non-public ownership of Indian land by splitting up reservations, which were collectively owned, and providing each family their own block of land.
Additionally, by pushing the Native Americans onto limited plots of land, western developers and settlers could purchase the left over territory. The General Allotment Act, also known as the Dawes Act, required that the Indian lands be surveyed and every family be awarded an allotment of between 80 and 160 acres, while unmarried adults received between 40 to 80 acres; the remaining territory was to be sold. Congress expected that the Dawes Act would break-up Indian tribes and inspire individual enterprise, while trimming the cost of Indian administration and providing prime land to be sold to white settlers.
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The Dawes Act turned out to be disastrous for the American Indians; over the next generations they lived under policies that outlawed their traditional way of life but didn't offer the vital resources to support their businesses and families. Dividing the reservations into small parcels of land triggered the significant decrease of Indian-owned property. Inside three decades, the people had lost over two-thirds of the acreage that they had controlled before the Dawes Act was passed in 1887; the majority of the remaining land was sold to white settlers.
Commonly, Native Americans were duped out of their allotments or were required to sell their land in order to pay bills and take care of their own families. Consequently, the Indians were not "Americanized" and were generally unable to become self-supporting farmers or ranchers, as the makers of the policy had wished. It also created animosity among Indians toward the U.S. government, as the allotment practice often ruined land that was the spiritual and cultural hub of their days.
Between 1850 and 1900, life for Native Americans changed radically. Due to U.S. government regulations, American Indians were forced from their housing as their native lands were parceled out. The Plains, which they had previously roamed alone, were now inhabited with white settlers.
Over these years the Indians have been defrauded out of their property, food and lifestyle, as the "" government's Indian regulations coerced them into reservations and tried to "Americanize" them. Many American Indian bands didn't survive relocation, cultural destruction and military defeat; by 1890 the Native American population was decreased to less than 250,000 persons. Due to decades of discriminatory and corrupt policies instituted by the United States authorities between 1850 and 1900, life for the American Indians was changed permanently.
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