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BANKING BAD: Co-Op Boss Caught Buying Coke & Crystal Meth
Mail on Sunday scoop in full here. You had to wonder what they were smoking at the Co-Op, and now we know…
Mail on Sunday scoop in full here. You had to wonder what they were smoking at the Co-Op, and now we know…
You're not a socialist unless Arthur Scargill was your baby sitter. In other news, Arthur Scargill was my baby sitter..
He was sent in to clear up the meths the previous chairman had left…
On this basis we will be asking him at Co-op for another £3 million loan at favourable terms and pay £300 a week to keep his habit going.
In a year he will be gone and we have an unsecured loan. he he.
Things go better with methamphetamine,
Things go better with coke.
I think its about time prostitutes and drug dealers were bound by the same confidentiality code as doctors and lawyers.
If only that ungateful little rentboy shit was as quiet as you two.
When one considers the origins of some of thse drugs, and the slavery, viloence, intimidation, torture, murder, extortion, corruption and theft associated with producing and smuggling them, anyone who resorts to taking them, and paying the suppliers, has left left any semblance of decent behaviour far behind.
That a banker does this stuff does not surprise me. Banking is a sociopathic profession, and so the morality of financing murder and torture is not something that would ever trouble a banker's mind.
Utter scumbag, and a 'Reverend' as well?
as they say in North Tyneside, PORVORT!!
I used to be friends with this mega famous artist ( painter ) who shall remain nameless as his mother is still living, and one night in 2004 got so shit scared the authorities would find out what was on his hard drive ( very, very, VERY ! hardcore pornography,) women being tortured and beaten that he sent his assistant to put it ( the computer ) in a skip outside his house, then twenty minutes later sent him back out to get it. I won't mention the honour he also has ? and I won't mention his now new assistant who is one of the biggest drug dealers in a city in Scotland who wore a bullet-proof vest 24/7 who fences his art to the criminal underworld to this day. So as I say, I used to be this guys friend until I found out his perversion. Well, once you know a guys kink you make a decision. See, a girls scream of pleasure is great, but a girls scream of pain is a sound that for me is not on…He's a Hunt and a deviant…G…
"£47 Billion? £3 Billion? Who cares? Where's my coke?"
Bloody Hell.
This is what you get when you apply liberal touchy feely ethics to banks. Same amount of Coke, much less competency.
And these cnuts think they know how to solve a banking crisis.
Are you embarrassed by the shite you have just written? I don't mean your comments on the drug trade. I mean this;
"morality of financing murder and torture is not something that would ever trouble a banker's mind."
Do you have evidence for this thoughtless bollocks or are you prejudiced?
Ask the people who run, say, Lloyds. Fined over $400m USD for money laundering for mexican drugs cartels. Lloyds even had a manual explaining to its staff how to circumvent US moneylaundering laws.
And if you haven't noticed, banks are involved in LIBOR manipulation, PPI mis-selling, unlawful charges on credit cards and accounts, manipulation of just about any market you care to think of.
Because, you see, the power to 'print' money out of thin air using fractional reserve banking isn't enough for bankers… they always have to have more, off the backs of people who actually WORK for a living and actually produce goods and services, as opposed to simply cream off the rewards of other people's labour.
Bankers are a cancerous parasite on society who have done immense damage to the country. Cue someone piping up about how banking boosts the economy… yes, but the GDP comes from theft and is not distributed to ordinary people. That is why only the top few % in wealth terms have actually got richer in the past few decades.
So fuck off. And if you are, as I suspect, a banker, double-fuck off.
Thought bankers referred to themselves as Masters of the Universe…….
& not spaced out Crystal-Coke-Heads ……..
Regrettably he will have to endure making a full apology to all
of his Congregation this morning……..(about 3 in total)
and on Monday morning its back to business as usual in the
Temple of Sodom and Gomorrah…………..
BTW Did he charge this as a business expenses ?
as he was recently up in front of members of HoC so there influence
may have rubbed off on him….
'If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas !!
Is he related to the Tor*onto Ma*yor as they both have similar habits
as well as being a pair of fcuking fat bas*tards
oh fucking wake up everybody. Senior business execs esp in London pass coke like cigarettes in the 60s. Hookers are often part of the sport too. Who gives a shit
Oh dear looks like the Shit is really about to hit the fan @ BBC
over who knew what & when about JS's peado activities…..
& will involve another shed load of Licence Payers money going down the
tube for lawyers & pay offs…..
Looks like a former DG will have to apologise to the HoC for being
economical with truth……..& PDQ…..and so it goes on & on…..
They are all rotten to the core !!
No, Brand pays the drugs cartels through his consumption too.
Referring to this silly paper as the Daily Hіtler reveals nothing but your own paranoia. It is about as sensible as referring to the Guardian as the Daily Stalin.
Good sentiment.
But C'oke is generally produced by happy South American's who hate gringo's and meth is cooked up in labs by the likes of Owen Jones.
Perhaps applies to the latter.
If the drugs trade was really as you suggest then it would not exist. Even heroin is produced in A'fghanistan as it brings more money than growing crops.
The only ones imprisoned are some in the supply chain (and who gives a shit about them ?) and the scumbags who are using (again, who gives a shit about them ?)
The bank in this case – like others – were likely laundering the proceeds, much of which support certain activities of organizations such as CIA / MI6 etc – it is unusual in this case that the senior management are using.
Zero sympathy for the filth users: they made their bed, now they should expect to be ducked on it.
Anyone still running a coop account needs to get their money out fast.
Without access to finance there'd be no entrepreneurs. Without entrepreneurs there'd be no business. Without any business there'd be no jobs and there'd be no wealth.
Seems to me you've succumbed to the Labour Party's lies about who was responsible for Britain's debt crisis. The bankers didn't spend all that money that Brown left others to pay off.
The banks are fronting for others.
By not enforcing money laundering early and then taking cut by fining later: cui Bono ?
The banks are doing their job. As ever, follow the money.
We work for you as babysitter! Good rates! We take good care of baby. Also, we can sell you a baby.. you want to buy baby for £250? It nice baby. Blonde. I give birth to it this morning.
Yes, but it seems meths never was his strongest subject (which is why he became a banker of course!).
O/T. "Man caught with stun gun and machete 'on way to kill PM'" (Times)
The Judge when sentencing must have been torn between incarceration or ennoblement.
Jutht becauthe my father, Adolph, thupported Adolf Hitler and wanted Bwitain to be dethtwoyed, doethn't mean he wath a bad perthon.
I doubt he was on the way to kill the PM, he was probably going to kill someone else. But if you're caught with a stun gun, samurai sword, machete etc in your car, telling the officers that you're on your way to kill David Cameron is probably your best chance of getting let off.
I give you my solemn vow, although I am utter shite, a Common Purpose stooge, a Fabian and an EU devotee, that you will get a referendum in 2017.
Of course I have no intention of honouring your decision, should you vote to leave the corrupt den of thieves.
But giving you the illusion of choice is Conservative party policy, as we have demonstrated many, many times in the past.
I agree as does my good friend in Toronto. Boaz.
Dave won't be giving anyone a referendum in 2017.
Yes, I thought at first it was him they were talking about.
Wrong. There would still be be entrepreneurs.
Banks create money (out of thin air using fractional reserve banking to create credit). Banks do not create wealth. It is the entrepreneurs, and hard-working people, who create wealth.
Anyone could create credit, in principle. However, banks are given the legal monopoly on that power, on the principle that they will lend diligiently and honestly.
Banks did neither, hence the credit bubble, house price bubble and crash.
And it is the taxpayer left to pay the price, while the bankers insist on huge salaries and bonuses depite their failures to lend prudently.
And now, depsite the rewards being paid to the banks to encourage them to lend, too little is finding it's way into investment in business. The crooks running banks take the free money from QE and splurge it on the stock market, creating another bubble. Again, it is the taxpayer who picks up the pieces in the end.
Dont expect prominent politicians to intervene properly. The banks don't make Al Capone's mistake – at least they pay their taxes.
Taxes that are then used to bribe the electorate through benefts, etc. The politicians do the banks bidding, safe in the knowledge that when they retire from politics they will get a cushy 'consultancy' job from a bank.
Banks do not create wealth. They invent nothing of use They feed no-one. They grow nothing. They manufacture nothing.
Banks' job is to lend prudently after applying due diligence. They no longer bother, as they regard themselves too big to fail, and too big to prosecute. Hence the moral hazard.
And they campaign against separating High Street and Investment banking, so they can carry on more easily.
I don't dislike bankers. Just dishonest ones, and I don't think you can find an honest bank, or banker, any more.
People who actually work hard, create products and services of value, are being screwed by the banks. One day the tumbrels will come for the bankers, I hope.
Take PPI mis-selling for example. Thousands of people running their own businesses were encouraged by the banks to take out worthless insurance on loans. The staff in the branches should have known that the policies would not pay out; but at best they turned a blind eye, if not acting with wilful negligence or fraud. Even the bank minions took their cut.
Even for polices that would pay out, they were massively overpriced.
Are we to believe that the banking geniuses at the top had no inkling of what was going on? That the products were usnuitable for a large proportion of business, but were still being (mis) sold? That the chief bankers had no idea where these assive profits were coming from? That there was nothing wrong when thousands of people claimed on PPI, and no alrm bells went off in the banks when payouts were refused/
That the £10bn+ that banks eventually put aside for compensation was originally a windfall that the banking geniuses did not know the truth about?
People in the banks, root and branch, knew that custommers were being sold worthless policies, and that they would only discover they were worthless when they needed finacial support due to illness and disability. but still the bastards in banking carried on mis-selling for year upon year, £million upon £million.
And even now, the banks delay or initially reuse PPI misselling vclaims, in the hope that people will die from the disease they are claiming for before the claim is complete?
And not a single banker has been jailed for this fraud, one of countless frauds the banking industry operates.
The now public knows bankers for what they are. Criminals, fraudsters, thieves, con-men, liars and scammers. Probity, decency, honesty and diligence are just hollow words now.
I agree with QBP, though I don't like bat fans. Lots of organised bat-fanciers are global cooling deniers.
As far as I can see banks provide a service which people can choose to use or not. Nobody forces people to take out loans or insurance. It is all down to the greed (and laziness) of customers who want something right now rather than save up for it. The same twats who complain about rich people are the same ones who buy lottery tickets so they can be even richer than bankers without putting in the effort. It is just jealousy and hypocrisy.
If bankers or anybody else breaks the law though then they should be punished. Singling out bankers is just puerile. Nobody says that all doctors are bad because so many make so many mistakes and actually kill people doing so.
But he was a bad person for briinging you up to be such a bad person
Oh dear Jimmy.
Relying on the socialist p'edo broadcasting corporation, EU funded, to support your tawdry arguments is almost as low as Ed Balls defrauding a meth head for Labour party funding.
Why not try coming up with your own material to attack the mail.
- It is not that difficult.
It would certainly buy you credibility and friends on D-Wing.
That's what happens when preachers mix with meth related spirits.
Bollocks. I have run my business for six years now without any bank finance, not even an overdraft. There are loads of businesses I know of in a similar position.
The great thing is it keeps us in our jobs
A mass boycott of the licence fee would send the bbc into the gutter where it belongs.
It'll also give ordinary people who've had a belly full of the corrupt british establishment and status quo a way of actively fighting back.
@QBP: I get where you are coming from, but you are wrong.
If people are stupid enough to buy something without checking it out, and place trust in others then it is their responsibility.
Government not enforcing the law emphasizes that what the banks did is not considered illegal by the government.
Businesses which have made worst decisions based on the poor economic advice pumped out by government propaganda media are using this and other apparent 'mis-selling' claims to cover their own mistakes. Some businesses are also using this as an excuse to increase prices for reason of profit.
Neither side is right and cannot be singled out or attacked. Consumers, and employees must make a careful evaluation of the situation and act accordingly in their own interests.
This episode is reflective of the rotten governments that the country has been stuck with since 1997.
People see only the banks as being the problem because of the left bias in the media. In this case (particularly with the fraudulent claims for compensation which have been delaying the PPI claims – have witnessed making such claims being discussed openly by bank employees a few years back…) there are no winners, only losers, and if the law and regulations are not going to be enforced than no one should assume that any transaction entered into will be honored, or advice given will be given in good faith.
Caveat emptor.
I always said they were a load of Divis at the Co-Op
The Miliband line of treachery goes back a long way.
Grandpa Miliband took to killing Polish people who gave his family shelter, in the name of communism.
The Miliband clan are thoroughly awful people, without exception.
It is starnge that in less than a decade the Roma have managed to lose any sympathy or respect from British people. One has to wonder how they managed this.
Mistake there. He wasn't a methodist minister, but a methodone minister.
Aren't I lefty comic genius eh ?
And Miliband's Dad killed a kitten, Miliband the younger both hate cats, and so does Dave.
Anyone seen Larry today ?
Custodial Tariffs for Tasering and Macheting the following:
Alan Partridge, 100 years
Prime Minister David Cameron, deferred sentence.
I could have helped with PR about using crack, drunk driving and eating pu$$y, but that gay thing is just sick.
But, but, but, if I am not PM, the awful Marxist Miliband will be and he will piss taxpayers money away at record levels on utter shite, just like err….umm….. well me actually.
And to think that last year our Government wanted this person to save British banking.
This is very worrying and there should be some sort of public inquiry.
In the interim I will be keeping all my money out of Banks and will be strictly cash only.
I would urge every sensible person to follow this lead.
'Neither side is right and cannot be singled out or attacked'
Nice try, but no cigar. Apologists for organised crime are scum. You are scum.
What have the Romas ever done for us?
But you will be leaving all your debts in, I expect.
Tell you what. Compulsory Drugs tests for MPs would be a good un.
Had a terrible nightmare last night that Ed Balls was Labour chancellor. Oh, wait…
Public inquiry ?
Perhaps hounding the idiot and those in politics involved with him into early graves would be more constructive.
Then can pay some retards to figure out what went wrong afterwards, as if the video above is not explanation enough.
It's the other way around. We Roma have lost all respect for the British. We know that the U.K. is full of gullible innocents who will give us endless benefits. In the unlikely event that we get convicted for thieving, rape or whatever, we will get community service orders, which are totally meaningless
We know that the U.K. is governed by "caring" LibLabconners with faux "social consciences" who are also thieves and fraudsters.
The U.K. is fucked, but we might as well screw what we can out of it before it collapses and we move on.
What is it you say? Toodle Pissy?
He's a homosexual and was buying the drugs for a drug fuelled homosexual orgy.
Having read the Mail in full it appears that this paper thinks those two British women in jail in Peru for drug trafficking are innocent.
I think this is taking you all for fools.
We're talking about a socialist banker here. Something so f*cked up, that it destroyed half of Europe less than fifty years ago.
"It's not that difficult"
It is for Jimmy.
Circus, Clothes Pegs, lucky Rosemary, unauthorized / unsanitary travelling camps, bad busking in major urban centers, curses, palm reading, hush hush abortions, hush hush adoptions, petty crime, cash machine crime, reintroduction of TB.
If you don't extend their loans, this sort of thing can happen:
The gay Mafia that is now rife in the corridors of power of the Western world has effectively shut down all critical debate of their sordid corrupt community.
If this had been any boss but the boss of the Co-op this would have been our number one feature. As it is it is just not deemed newsworthy.
When will they allow unmarried homosexual gay orgies in the methodist church?
Highest selling daily in the UK…..and Miliband is not above writing "puff pieces" extolling the virtues of Labour policies ….both Cameron and Miliband need the "Blue Collar" Mail readership to vote for them in May 2015 as UKIP are ?…as they did for Thatcher in 1979 and Blair in 1997..why do you think both of them are trying to foster policies that are attractive to that gropu who are a much more powerful force in domestic politics than the Guardian readership will ever be
They may be, may not be.
One thing for sure is that only a politically correct brainwashed goof would consider the P'eruvian justice system to be anything but a partially US controlled corrupt front which would find them innocent if given plenty of cash.
Mail distracting from the complete lack of support the UK consulate is offering out there.
But the two women are not running a major UK high street bank which funds the Labour party, nor are they selling or buying drugs in the UK.
Guy above is.
The Marr paper review is yet again another Lefty Wankfest.
How the mail got 154 million on the internet is a phenomena in its own right.
Assuming the number is correct, perhaps this suggests that despite the negative sentiments expressed against the publication, perhaps they are getting something right ?
A decade …? …read your history….the pogroms against the Roma stretch back at least 100 years or more into the Austro-Hungarian Empire….thousands of them were sent to concentration camps in the 30's and 40's….Mr H didn't just hate J***..he hated Gypsies as well.
Rather the question is were they naive or complicit ? I suspect given the facts probably the former. It's a classic story….young girls, leave home and parental control for first time to get a holiday job abroad fall for a line from a good looking local and it goes from there as they get sucked further into the thing and then can't extricate themselves from it…like many before them they find that they are the dupes
I wonder why the Austro Hungarians despised the filthy thieving vermin!
The only apologists for organized crime appear to be the government who for some reason are unwilling to enforce the laws they have seen fit to pass.
To your point, the organized crime does exist on both sides, however I make no apologies for it.
Absent enforcement of the law it can only be concluded that what used to be considered criminal activities are now decriminalized.
That the UK government is still giving public money to criminal organizations such as the EU (have you seen its audit lately ?) is proof enough that the government itself is criminal organization.
Unless the governments position on this is changed, one way or another, the reality is that such crime is tolerated and is no longer really crime.
Arguing that it is big business purely to blame misses the point, and is a false argument of the left who created this current problem during their last spell in office.
It is said that any publicity can be good publicity but I'm struggling on this one. The Co-op Bank needs to be wound up and put out of its misery.
There have been relatively few Roma in Britain till about 10 years ago. Prior to that most of the travelling community were not from Eastern Europe and those who were were relatively few in number. You read about them, but rarely met any
Then switch off…you should realise by now that ALL BBC news and current affairs programmes are heavily biased towards the left and Labour to the exclusion of anything else…..an internally commissioned report a few years back even came to the conclusion that the Corporation was institutionally biased towards the left..they can't help it if you think about their producers and presenters backgrounds…in the main middle class liberal upbringing, private schools and then to Oxbridge which is a hotbed of left wing liberalism…they don't even know that they are doing it…it's in their DNA
The politically correct brainwashing that all ethnics and people over seas are fine, dandy, honest and friendly is perhaps their only defense, but ignorance is unfortunately not a defense in law.
Before young Brits go abroad they should perhaps have a major reality check: Look at the Met stats for London broken down by nationality: Top 10 are all non-English.
Then, check the history and type of place going to. Stable government ? Trustworthy people / culture ?
Finally: Any local who tries to befriend you, unless you are meeting for business or if they are known (even this is no guarantee) is very likely targeting you for less than honorable reasons.
The foreigner is not your friend, particularly if you are English, as many foreigners despise England. If England is perceived weak, this only encourages them.
This may help with the cognitive dissonance:
All publicity is good publicity, unless it is your obituary.
Of course not. They are nearly all freelancers. Only the public sector or croney capitalists can afford to 'employ' people full time these days. Maybe if the government were to stop taxing jobs that would change.
Some businesses are also using this as an excuse to increase prices for reason of profit.
Oh really? So now business needs a false excuse to raise prices?
Here was me thinking they could raise or lower prices to whatever level they like. They can do that but of course there is the little matter of the consumer. If my local raised the price of ale 10p overnight, for whatever reason, the punters would simply use another pub. This is called the free market and that is what controls prices.
Mong Watch you need to look in the mirror, pal.
Has the Andrew Marr show always been full of non political issues, or just since his relapse? Andy Murray and now Richard E Grant. Used to full of politics with guest singer thrown in.
There is nothing he can say ion favour of the Labour party, so he is followong my advice
In other words you're not a business but an IR35 tax dodger like Ken Livingston.
Where is the scientific evidence that Philippine hurricane caused by global warming? Latest IPCC report says there is none.
— Andrew Neil (@afneil) November 17, 2013
Let's face it, only a cokehead would lend money to the Labour party.
Whilst the Prime Minister's away, Nick Clegg will self-aggrandise all day.
If it did, its debtors, like the Labour Party, would have to start paying commercial rates of interest on their loans. Anyone taking over could not run it properly on its present charitable terms.
.@UKLabour's new poster is honest at least about @edballsmp being a #nightmare. One, two, Eddy's coming for you … pic.twitter.com/jvmKWkvd9y
— Kenneth Clarke (@KCQCMP) November 17, 2013
"if you get caught peddling keep your trap shut and there will be a nice little monthly payment for you and your family"
Prince Charles 'an inspiration to people who've wasted their lives'
THE Prince of Wales has been hailed as a hero by people who feel they've done nothing with their lives.
The Prince, who appropriately commemorated his birthday with a burst of inactivity, has reached retirement age without starting the only job he's able to do.
Payroll administrator Mary Fisher said: "Sometimes I look back on my 40 years in a windowless basement moving columns of figures about and I want to weep.
"But then I look at Prince Charles and I think well, I at least I got to put money in people's pockets on a Friday night."
Norman Steele of Lancaster said: "I'm 65, my marriage has broken down, I've moved back in with my mother and I spend my days on the allotment growing vegetables.
"So basically I'm exactly the same as Prince Charles, except I've retired and he's got years of work ahead of him.
"In many ways his dreams are even more thwarted than mine and that makes me feel a little better.
"If I ever meet Charles I will thank him for that, and he will realise that his life was not aimless."
Prince Charles, giving an official address nobody even pretended to listen to, said: "I've spent my life waiting to become a meaningless figurehead, and sometimes I wonder if there could be anything less worthwhile.
"Then I remember my brothers Andrew and Edward."
I use my brilliant PR skills to bollock other countries about their human rights record. This distracts people back home from thinking what a spineless prick I am. How clever is that?
Not at all. You can't don't 'dodge' taxes you are not liable for. I simply give the work to people who are genuinely self employed. By not employing people full time I give opportunities to a wider talent pool to bid for my work. I find that freelancers are often more professional – they don't goof off on the job.
That could change, as I say, but it would mean the government would have to stop making 'employed' staff so expensive compared to people who are freelancers.
Most of the freelancers who get work from me also work for a number of other firms as well. Before you start off on one about being an 'exploiter', I generally pay about fifteen pounds on hour for those tasks that are are paid by the hour. Piece rate work is put out to competitive tender.
The new Pope says gays are just grand. I'm thinking of going back to Mass.
Marr has just accused the Conservatives of Hysteria over opening up borders to Romania and Bulgaria.
Now if that is not biased then nothing is.
You are probably wasting your time with Mong Watch. He has no clue about how business works in the modern economy.
We have teams of our best people and countless expensive resources mobilised to not reporting on this.
Would argue that they are.
Are not most pubs constrained in what they can charge for beer by the breweries, unless they are independent ? When you see prices go up in pubs it is generally by bloc ?
Maybe perhaps the Co-Op Supermarket pricing should be under the microscope.
A simple point is:
If you cannot trust the banks, you cannot trust the rest.
If the law is not being enforced by the government, and a culture has developed which assumes that, then a state of lawlessness exists and the only safe assumption is that no one can be trusted to be acting within what was previously considered the law. This includes incorporated entities.
It is only the left who argue that there is a class divide in business, and attempt to apply that division to businesses. Small to medium are no different in principal to large enterprises.
If the large enterprises are allowed to operate outside of the written law, then small businesses most certainly are as well.
This is where there is no right or wrong.
Businesses will increase prices if they can for fraudulent reasons, in order to increase profits. Sometimes this can be done for obscure reason of fabricating an insurance loss case. What people do not recognize is that the PPI selling is a precise example of this. The value of the risk associated with missed payment was inflated arbitrarily and then sold. This is no different to increasing the price of a bag of crisps above inflation.
Unless your local pub is independent, the price of its beer is generally set by the brewery. If you see an unreasonable price rise then change.
Comparing cost of pint in a pub vs. equivalent in supermarket, there appears to be plenty of evidence to suggest that beer is grossly overpriced in pubs.
That pub prices are set by brewery suggests that similar mis-pricing to PPI has been taking place in the food and drink industries.
All of this became very clear, and seemed to be encouraged under the last Labour government.
Failure to transmit prices and not being able to reliably determine value is one of the fundamental flaws in the UK's dysfunctional economy, a chaotic state that Labour instilled when last in power.
Marr is a BBC man. He's not allowed to talk about anything important.
No mention of this Story on the BBC news at the end of the Marr show.
Obviously The BBC producers do not agree with Mr Geedo that this is a significant event.
Myself. I am bloody certain and would bet my dog on it that if this bad un had been the boss of any bank other than the lefty Co-Op bank it would be topping the bill on all the BBC news outlets.
There is nothing 'charitable' about a bank buying MPs and funding failed political parties.
Here is the proof that only we, the Fiberall Democrats, can save the Planet.
Unite: Government 'review' of unions no more than a Tory election stunt http://tinyurl.com/le69ukw
And you know what,Unite are bang on the money as always.
This cold snap should see off some old folks who can't afford heating, easing pressure on the NHS and pensions. You only get joined-up policy with the Tories.
This is a classic example of full blown leftie censorship.
If you close 25% of walk in centres, scrap NHS Direct & cut care for elderly you get a crisis of care at A&E..you made it happen Jeremy Hunt,you utter Tory fuckwit.
Rot in hell Cameron you c'unt and utter piece of shite.
Thankfully I didn't vote for you 2010, because I saw through you and I doubt I'll ever vote Tory (not LibLab either) again, as those (Tory) MPs have sucked up to you.
If your mission was to sink the Tory party, you have succeeded.
I thought I would just let you all know that a routine police raid of a local Roma camp here in France led to the surprise discovery of several tons of copper.
Have a nice day.
Will the Prime Minister confirm he has ensured sufficient supplies of energy to keep all people warm in their homes this Winter ?
The bum bandits (how politically incorrect of me) are everywhere.
Any mention of this story?
BBC loses 100 million buying and selling lonely planet, fuckwit responsible gets £800,000 pay off.
A decent down sleeping bag is all that is required. And to keep mobile some technical clothing. Doesn't cost much these days and gran is good for minus 20 in a tent at the bottom of the garden.
O Dave the Mighty One! You are our Greatest Supreme Leader ever. Churchill and Thatcher were mere pygmies when we consider with your infinite wisdom and dynamic forcefulness.
He saw that picture of the young Giddy Osborne and thought to himself if he can do that, so can I. Maybe Old Guido would let us all know if he has ever partaken of snow in a previous life and during the trading days as a "banker", in high society it seems to be the done thing.
NHS services should be put out to tender. This would improve efficiency and value for money.
Despite thinking that Ed #Balls is a nightmare Ed #Miliband seems to lack courage to sack him. #EdTheFeebleLeader http://t.co/Ta4xvMzSRV
— Nara Hodge (@NaraHodge) November 17, 2013
Turn that light out !
Was Dave at the gay orgy which these drugs were apparently being purchased for ?
I was pretty impressive in Ceylon, wasn't I ?
Which country would most benefit from my dynamic advice next ?
Yep. I had to get out his best leather chaps specially.
We're dropping the mains voltage increasingly frequently now, in an effort to cut down fuel use. If you notice conventional light bulbs getting dimmer and other electrical items beginning to behave oddly, you know why. You won't notice it on CFLs (energy efficient bulbs) unless the voltage has been taken so low they won't even start…
Please don't tell anyone
How does the Mail's 154m readership (including the net) stack up against Marr's viewing figures ? About 75 to 1 ?
What is the thermostat temperature in the HoC and HoL ? Curios in
You can't trust arse bandits.
They're fucking mental.
I can't cope any more after my health problem. I just read what's on the teleprompter.
Sooner trust the Tories than Labour….they have absolutely nothing to be proud of in the 13 years they were in power and Stafford is a powerful indictment against them and they exacerbated the crisis in A & E by there too generous GP contracts that allowed local GPs to contract out of patient care beween 5pm and 9am and at weekends…shameful record
No divis this year. Co-op members have all just been sent letters telling them that here were no profits ergo there's no dividend, unless you died as there's still a divi from the funeral arm of the business. All of the staff have been given a 'lines to take' sheet in order to deal with the anticipated fury from customers. It's makes for interesting reading.
So no dividend but still enough to lend their mates in the Labour party £1,621,289 at a measly 2% above the base rate and then GIVE them a donation of £389,723 in Q3. The good old Co-op, built on great socialist tradition of spending your money on what they think is important and now we know why, the head honcho is a meth head (and in this instance meth does refer to methodist).
I'll give the Co-op a year. It's dead in the water.
I haven't paid the TV tax (it is classified as a tax) for 5 years. I've had 2 visits from TVL/Crapita goons in that time.
Crapita have now sub-contracted certain visits to G4S, who also do meter readings. So I tell the meter reader to f'uck off, even though both my gas and electricity meters are in the garage, not the house.
You know we have entered a surveilance society, when people who come to read utlility meters are also spying on you for other things. G4S at one time had their meter readers doing a dual job of debt collection. So the meter reader could enter your house to read the meter and at the same time, evaluate your material worth.
Why did Lawson not mention the coal fired power stations which G'ermany has been building ?
Some stats for G'ermany electricity production changes 2013 (first 3 quarters):
Coal: + 5% Wind: - 8% Gas: -18% Solar : +5% Nuclear : - 2.6% Hydro : (slight increase)
Overall demand for electricity dropped 1.6% in 2013 compared to 2012.
In 2012, total production breakdown:
Coal : 45 % Gas : 11% Nuclear : 16% Renewables : 22%
Ed Davey must clearly be involved in a fraud as there is no other reason for him to be lying on this issue.
Like a wavering mirage viewed by world-weary UK voters amid the heat-stricken Westminster political desert, the much-promised EU In or Out referendum shuffles to and over the distant horizon with hypnotic regularity. No matter what the outcome of such a referendum I fear a result would be foisted upon us similar to that of the proposed new incinerator to be built up there in far-flung deepest Norfolk. The people of Norfolk solidly voted against it, and the government withdrew proposed tax-payer funding, but the irate folks of Norfolk will still be stuck with it, because the previously agreed cancellation of contract compensation terms would cripple the local council's finances. I find it difficult to imagine that no similar crippling compensation terms would apply if we all voted to leave the EU
A Lefty arse bandit turns out to be a hypocrite. Who'd have thought it?
And another thing- what's the Christian queer going to do once he loses his looks?
Did Andy Burnham get kick backs from Co-Op Funerals ?
Could be worth digging. Ahem.
It used to be the TGWU – the Transport and General Wankers Union
Yeah, the NHS was such a fucking success under Liebore, with that cvnt of a postman and fucking mascara boy murdering patients in their fucking hundreds.
Old people starving and dying of thirst whilst lying in their own shit whilst idle fucking slags hung about the desk wittering on about who got shagged or took the most ket last night.
The Sky ex Beeboid Murnaghan was outraged that Hague had sat at a table with countries who ban homosexuality.
No doubt there are Murnaghan's in those countries who are outraged that Hague's country encourages homosexual marriage.
I think it's the moralising – ethical banking and Methodism coupled with serious class A and bumfun. I kinda draw the line at crystal meth but, as you rightly point out, coke's pretty ubiquitous. I guess it's a bit like drink driving – bad form old bean if you get caught. Methodists always struck me as a bit too pious for their own good. Poor chap but, you know, fuck him.
Just waiting for the Sport to follow through next week with a good news story to counter the kitten story:
Ralph Miliband sold meth amphetamine to Dam buster hero's.
– Thought it was poison, and named the dog because he hated black people.
There's no evidence to support JS's guilt ya know – just sayin'. The brilliant Anna Racoon has the full sp if you've got a couple of hours – highly recommend it to see how low this country has sunk.
Very good, although maybe a little too subtle for most.
For the Co-Op it's been a crystalnacht! (hmm…not very funny, must try harder)
As for everything else, like corrupt Lords and MPs, Councillors and childrens' welfare officials and NHS admin staff neglecting their reposnsibilites and Church officials protecting paedos in their midst, the response is always a brief apology, a hollow assurance that "lessons have been leaned" and a request that "we move on".
Good point.
This is more like a revved up version of the Savings and Loans crisis of the 80s.
Target is perhaps the 'thrift' style institutions in the UK.
Accounts holders at the Co-Op are part owners of the institution, apparently. They should be asking some fairly serious questions about how the governance of the bank failed completely, to the point that it is now being privatized beneath them.
Coke is one thing. Crystal meth is something very different.
We need a condescending quote from Chucka on this.
Justine Greening Floundering, sinking, dying on air.
Brillo has just scuppered her.
British Foreign aid has spent 4 milliom poionds on the Ethiopian Spice girls pop group.
Five million pounds on Bangladesh question Time.
IT is a fucking disgrace!!
Labour Co-Op MPs (29 of them):
B'ailey, A'drian: (West Bromwich West) B'alls, E'd: (Morley and Outwood) B'erger, L'uciana: (Liverpool, Wavertree) C'reasy, S'tella: (Walthamstow) D'avidson, I'an: (Glasgow South West) D'avies, G'eraint: (Swansea West) D'obbin, J'im: (Heywood and Middleton) D'oughty, S'tephen: (Cardiff South and Penarth) D'oyle, G'emma: (West Dunbartonshire) E'llman, L'ouise: (Liverpool, Riverside) E'vans, C'hris: (Islwyn) G'apes, M'ike: (Ilford South) G'reatrex, T'om: (Rutherglen and Hamilton West) H'endrick, M'ark: (Preston) H'illier, M'eg: (Hackney South and Shoreditch) J'amieson, C'athy: (Kilmarnock and Loudoun) L'azarowicz, M'ark: (Edinburgh North and Leith) L'eslie, C'hris: (Nottingham East) L'ove, A'ndrew: (Edmonton) M'alhotra, S'eema: (Feltham and Heston) M'unn, M'eg: (Sheffield, Heeley) R'eynolds, J'onathan: (Stalybridge and Hyde) R'iordan, L'inda: (Halifax) S'awford, A'ndy: (Corby) S'heerman, B'arry: (Huddersfield) S'huker, G'avin: (Luton South) T'homas, G'areth: (Harrow West) T'wigg, S'tephen: (Liverpool, West Derby) W'oodcock, J'ohn: (Barrow and Furness)
Arguably £45m on !ndian mission to Mars as well, out of £280m a year which UK gives to !ndia.
Stacked up against £50bn estimated for HS2 going London to Birmingham, they got a good deal with !ndia, but clearly HS2 is a complete fraud.
Only reason for sponsoring things like Ethiop!an Sp!ce girls and such is to undermine local cultural values. Common Purpose agenda which will likely encourage !slamists in the area to start attacking the normal population.
I take it you mean especially at the Staffordshire Co-Op
Andy Burnham is piling on the pounds. Must be comfort eating.
Many countries, for example R'wanda and Syr!a, have political systems where the majority are ruled by a minority.
The gay agenda in the UK is part of this.
Murnaghan should realize that he is outraged on the part of 2% of the population, and of that 2% only a very small %'age could care less.
My master and his many friends from the village can only dream of the rich pickings available from the Co-op's food shelves!
See you soon!
The Bangladeshi version of Question Time no doubt has less Labour bias than the original?. Particularly liked Neill's question to Greening asking which party conservative voters should vote for if didn't like overseas Aid being squandered ? She was floundering until Neill came up with answer…there is only one party and that is UKIP. Greening thinks that contribution on Overseas Aid should be made law but was unable to answer Neill when he asked why it hadn't been enshrined in law then if she was in favour…she couldn't answer….but I will cos' firstly Dave can't get it through with his backbenchers and secondly the British public is massively against it
It still amazes me that stories like this are coming out:
The real summary is:
Savile, a certifiable nonce, actually provided the majority funding for a hospital in which he engaged in all sorts of abuse (including necrophilia ?) and had the brass neck to boast to police that he 'owned' it.
And then there is the BBC…
Hit home did it ? Name calling won't change the evidence or facts . People know who is to blame for the present state of the NHS…Labour
Lawson comes across as senile. He is just not up to the cut and thrust of tevelised debate.
Harold Wilson used to say that the Labour party owed more to Methodism than Marxism.
Just this morning I bet that Ed is glad his dear old dad preferred Karl Marx.
And thaks to that awful Brillo, I've been exposed as a flippin' liar. As if everyone didn't know already.
It is when this involves ZanuLieLabor & the Co-Op bank & is no doubt
enshrined in there articles of association……..
How long before the real new owners of Co-Op Bank decide this smelly
turd they have acquired will have to call to an end as a matter of urgency there open end funding by various different devious routes for Red Ed's ZanuLieLabor ?
That will only leaves Red Len's (mis)Unite as the only money orifice for
Red Ed's dysfunctional shambles of a party & what extra price will the Puppeteer Red Len extract for a continuation of this flow of funds to
Red Ed ?
Kinda gives you a warm glow (of rage) that within a short space of time
Ed who always talks Bollo*cks could be in charge of our Country's purse strings & with his Mentor McMental the special advisor…..
What a fcuking nightmare !! no wonder there will be a run on the £ & now being planned in some wacky baccy coke flowing board room somewhere in the City right now…….
The Doomsday scenario coming to us all very soon !!!
Yes, please! Come to papa! W000t! Hubba, hubba!
Age of consent should be lowered to 15, says Britain's top public health expert
Don't tell me.
Even cocaine doesn't give him a thrill,
'cos he's mad about the boy.
Been there, done that, but I was in show biz.
I think that the 'idiot' he was referring to was Tristrom the OP #133.
The real Hon Tristram being (ironically) a Staffordshire MP who probably goes private rather than send his loved ones to Stafford DGH – they probably live in Mayfair or Notting Hill anyway.
The sockpuppet Tristram, up above, has probably never used Stafford Hospital either, unlike me – and Maybelline Burnham claims the HNS that he handed over in 2010 was fit for purpose.
have plod raided the fat bastard's abode yet ?
Labour HQ working Sunday's now?
Alex Bellendinelli must be desperate now the Tories are putting the economy back together.
Another example of why you can't trust any left biased (dis)organisation
with other peoples money……..let alone this countries purse strings ever
again…….. History will always be repeated, thats guaranteed.
So Hat tips all round for BW and NBW then. (btw this ain't the Rupe blog – just in case some make that mistake).
Nicholas Soames – has become rather a mouthy big gob – and his 'mouthy retorts' to anyone who disagrees with his opinions – adequately displays that it is he who protesteth to much and to over the top.
He appears to be the deranged one just like Oxfords Richard Benyon.
Perhaps a little H/T to BW & NBW I believe there!
I think that is why it inspires such tirades of hatred from the Left, CO3. Witness Coogan the other night, who in the middle of an interview supposedly about his career, launched into a vicious, spiteful, personal attack on Dacre and the Mail. Just couldn't stop himself. Hatred oozing from every pore. Showed the true colours of Hacked Off.
No not today being Sunday……day of rest
on Monday we are all washing our hair
on Tuesday its diversity training
on Wednesday is our Lodge meetings
on Thursday its Health & Safety training
on Friday its lets get those fcuking motorists for any misdemeanour
on Saturday its planning what we will do next week
as you can see we are very busy…..but will try to at some point to
pay a low key visit to his home & that will give the Man of the Cloth time
to ensure there is no incriminating evidence will be found anywhere…
"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies."
Thomas Jefferson
Do you employ Abdul the Labour voting envelope stuffer from Karachi?
I hit the off switch when the 9am 'News' headlines lead with blaming the typhoon on climate change. News masquerading as socialism masquerading as environmentalism.
No wonder waiting times fell under Liebour, any sign of a queue building up they just killed the patient to make space.
The consular staff have more important things to do than baby sit those two effy nidiots.
Flowers trashes the reputation of the Church, the Co-op Bank, the Gay community, and the Labour party, all in one go.
It's a pity he didn't apply the same miracle of productivity to running the Co-op Bank.
The BBC is totally unaware that it does get a bit damp and breezy in that part of the around this time each year. Just like it gets a bit breezy up the Channel (oops) over here.
Over here, Jane, we can expect to find several tons of coppers (the uniformed type not the currency ones).
75 is the weekly total for that prog's viewer count.
Yes, so long as she is a few inches off the grass.
.. and only one spelling error. Not bad,
Murnaghan gets more like Marr by the day. Almost ready to switch him off and turn to a decent sports channel. When are Sky going to get some decent totty as presenters instead of the old bats we have to put up with now.
.. and to think we actually pay for this too!
Well done on this list CO3 and many more of your pertinent observations.
Handy, we have just held a poll and you will be glad to know you have been voted the No1 Pervert in the Brotherhood, a position that, as you know, holds much honour, well done. We are all proud of you. Jahbulon.
They are a bunch of dickheads running the CO-OP. I work for them in one of their stores and we had a missive from them AT 8 IN THE MORNING if we were contacted by the media we were not to say ANYTHING but to direct enquiries to the 'media department'! As if anyone would phone a tinky store and ask if we knew the top knob-head who was in charge of the 'car-crash' at the bank! Honestly, the top-brass have shit for brains & the hedge-fund lot should sack the lot.
Do you get necter points for buying drugs?
When the Co-op Bank went t^ts up, it was suggested to me by a friend who banks with them, that the management must have been on drugs…he was right it appears.
Of course they've got, 'shit for brains', that'll be the crystal meth.
From breaking bread to breaking bad
All true. If you want to stop the EU rot then 2015 GE has to have biggest vote for UKIP possible. Three things will follow from this
1. Dave and the EU cabal are removed from the Conservative Party
2. Millibean may win but he will be constrained by the anti-EU showing of the electorate and his own incompetence, they won't last a full Parliament
3. Labour will implode under the pressure from a renewed Conservative Party on pro Britain agenda
Yes I know Millibean will piss away cash he has not got but so will Dave. The issue is stop the move the United States of Europe and to get our country back. Both Dave and Ed want us in the EU Federal state that they will all be pushing for after 2015 once the 'recession' is 'over'.
Miss this chance and the only way if at all you'll get out of the EU Federal State will be by armed struggle.
I think it would be a bad idea to criminalise theft in the workplace as it would mean that people would be loathe to report theiving by their colleagues as they might end up in jail.
The BBC dont want to report on drug stories as they are Britains biggest consumers of Cocaine themselves.
Homophobic comments like this are the reason I've promoted gay rights to the centre of Conservative Politics. How anyone can find bum sex unappealing is beyond me and reveals a deep neurosis in the people expressing such doubts. I can only say you won't get away with it and that if need be I'll legislate further allow bumming to take place where ever needed. Our schools now promote gay rights and culture as the ideal to aim for and I for one agree fully with this. Heterosexuality is disgusting and I won't stand for it, Sam now uses a 12 inch strap on to 'break' me in and I can't wait to take a real hard c_ck up the arse. Vote Tory!
Absolutely the DM is a great read. In the past few weeks alone we have had stories on 'woman goes to the shops', 'Woman wears a pair of new trousers' and 'Woman gets caught in the rain' . Cutting edge journalism at its best.
QBTs is right the banks have long since lost their way and have spent the last 20 years undermining real growth. HSBC coughed up billions to the US for money laundering is just one example of 100s out there. They have no interest in real business (I know of three small companies all turned down for loans by banks that they wanted to expand with. As it turns out a local business man gave them the money at an agreed rate instead. All three paid the loans off ahead of time and secured the extra business. Only then did the official banks come wanting a share of the growth they had refused to support). The banks in question had no understanding of business or the markets. Just a credit score based on some software developed in Bangalore.
Yes Brown spent more cash than was reasonable by any sane measure but I don't recall any politician stepping up to stop him? It's all a big ponzi with us paying for it as far as I can tell.
I do hope it was 'Fair Trade' cocaine?
At least I wasn't a coke snorting homo minister-banker! I had my standards.
I don't suppose many real gay people were that worried about whether they'd be allowed to marry 15-year-old boys in church, or spend their weeknights buying £300 worth of sex drugs.
Fortunately, we politicians know what is best for them
> If my local raised the price of ale 10p overnight, for
> whatever reason, the punters would simply use another pub.
Since the smoking ban, my local has closed, so the price of petrol is more relevant.
Notice how I avoided riling Coogan with the observation that the cases he mentioned were already illegal under the previous law.
He's a little bit up himself, isn't he.
Im deleting all my Meth Connexions as we speak…
John Wesley
So much for the ethical bank
Can't help remembering a meeting in the mid-eighties with said bank, along with my partner (now of 28 years) to discuss a joint mortgage
This in the mid-eighties after buying a house for 18k, renovating and selling for 4 times the price.
Co-op bank employee's first utterance was: when are you going to get married?
Needless to say I didn't bank there for much longer.
Mind you, being on drugs P*ul F*owers might have confused his role with the bank's address:
Number One Balloon
Hello matelot! That a gun in you're pocket or you just glad to see me?
If the Jocks win there independence Vote in next years referendum, one of
the welcomed spin off's will be the Biased Broadcasting Company aka BBC
will no longer be called the British et etc………..& also invalidate there charter ??
Its therefore in everyone's interest here in England we actively do all we can to ensure the haggis bashers win there independence as a positive start to completely dismantling of the Biased Broadcasting Companies strangle hold over far to much of our daily life…….That alone is worth the price to ensure this happens……
He's not only a Methodist Minister but also a former Labour councillor and member of Miliband's Labour Finance Group.
And the TUC's favourite economist defended him and his co-op bank Board when they were criticised for being useless berks with no understanding of finance:
Of course, if the coke was organic and fair trade…………..
Observer – 17.11.13 page 36
Ref Picture Post – 1938-57 and the blur references to persons x,y,z.
I have a hard copy of the observer as published into the public domain today Sunday 17th November 2013.
Some people (especially pathetic bone idle journo's) frequenting this site need to do their own damned fucking research – DYOR.
David Ward / trending central – stuff – link noted and copied.
The truth is sometimes stranger than the fictitious lies that are spun by a cognitive dissonance herd of dupes.
Who's the real fink caught out spinning because he too is yet another dupe / useful idiot who cannot and dare not take his life time blinkers off?
Ah the co op, I can still remember my grandmothers divi number that you quoted when running errands in the 1950s,PEN 639. I think PEN was Pendleton
Methical banking isn't all it's cracked up to be.
I'm warm as toast down here. Come and join me soon, Dave.
I know nothing – don't start that '…he's from Barcelona' stuff – 'bout Banking, other than 'keep it in the black'. I'm what's called now 'a Minister of Religion'. I know 'ow much I 'ave, an' 'ow much I owe. So, I reckon I should get the job at the Co-op.
'Owever: I'm not a Methodist, don't own a moustache, always thought that 'rent-boys' were the people the Landlord sent round each week, 'aven't been done for fiddling expenses (don't get 'expenses') – or drink-driving, and 'aven't 'ad my Computer found to be full of indecent things ('ow can a slide-rule 'ave dirty stuff on it?); nor am I, or 've I bin at any time, a Labour Councillor, an' I always go 'ome at Closing-time – if not afore.
Wot! Application returned! NOT SUITABLE!!
Ed Argar Selected in Dorrell Seat | Leicester Mercury
88% of New Labour MPs Are Union Bods | Mark Wallace
World's Second Most Popular Porn Site is Infecting You | Techno Guido
Newspapers No Longer Willing to Toe Party Line | Roy Greenslade
Introducing the New CapX | CapX
Burnham's Newsnight Debacle Dissected | Dan Hodges
How I Survived Dry January | Nigel Farage
Greens are Commies in Disguise | Andrei Rogobete
When Osborne Weaponised | Paul Waugh
Divided Left Will Cost Ed | George Eaton
I'm Hoping Labour Attack Tories on Education | Toby Young
Dan Hodges on Labour unity…
"We've heard a lot over the past few years about how Miliband has united Labour. But he has not united Labour. He has pacified Labour. He has placed it into a medically induced coma following the trauma of the party's 2010 defeat."


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Part 2: Motors and Air-Moving Devices 'Smart' Motor Strategies
by Jill Russell, Assistant Editor
In order to provide efficient, cost-effective product offerings to appliance producers, motor manufacturers are relying upon new software tools. Implementing the new technology ranges throughout the product-design phase, from the initial concept phase to the replacement of a motor.
Before the Build
Software company Blue Ridge Numerics (Charlottesville, VA, U.S.) recently released an updated version of its CFdesign program that, according to Len Whitehead, product manager, "is a way to simulate product performance digitally on a computer before a prototype of the device is ever built."
Blue Ridge Numerics' CFdesign software program allows motor engineers and product managers to create 3D simulation of the product or component before building a design prototype. The visual model calculates flow, heat, and depicts the results in color graphics.
Using design dimensions, algorithms, geometry, and fundamental physical data, the software program is said to simulate rotational, solid-body linear and curvilinear motion within an MCAD environment.
Before data is entered in the CAD system for the prototype design, the same geometry that is typically first entered into the CAD software is instead entered into CFdesign. This data includes the physical conditions of the motor or blower regarding heat, initial air rates, and material components.
"The user interacts with the software by giving it physical attributes and the physical conditions of the component," Mr. Whitehead explains. "They create the geometry in their CAD tool and then bring that geometry into our tool, CFdesign. There is a set of mathematical governing equations that are known to represent the physical phenomena, which is coded in the software."
After the physical data has been entered, the program creates a simulation of the motor or blower product, showing the flow rate in a graphical and color-coded form. Compatible with any CAD software, CFdesign v7.0 allows product managers and designers to see how their design would actually work before any materials, equipment, and work-power are ever used. According to the company, the software accurately depicts the interaction between the physical device and its air movement. "It's a 3D design and [the software] makes it intelligent," says Jim Spann, vice president of Marketing. "It goes from just being lines and curves into actually behaving like a product in a real-world operating environment."
This, adds Mr. Whitehead, provides a direct benefit to motor manufacturers, as design problems can be identified immediately. Instead of creating a design and then building a prototype to test it, an engineer can simply enter the data into the program and see the product in action, without a physical model. "Once they see how the device is going to perform, that allows the engineer to understand the product and make changes or modifications to try it again," Mr. Whitehead tells APPLIANCE.
The ability to see design changes immediately and the effects they have on the motor are most beneficial to companies, according to Mr. Whitehead. In fact, the software company claims a motor manufacturer can save an average of 65 percent in the design phase, while also increasing product development and time to market.
In addition, if design changes are needed, they can be made in the MCAD program where the CFdesign software will automatically implement those changes, simulating the adjustments almost instantly. This, Mr. Whitehead says, is especially advantageous to the design of motors and blowers. "Keeping the motor cool is really important," he says. "What CFdesign will do is allow you to conduct that test through analysis, and it gives you the temperature distribution throughout the entire device." This analysis, he adds, is also a benefit. Instead of only knowing the data associated to a few, discrete points usually found in a prototype, the software simulation analyzes and accesses the entire working device.
The latest version of the program can also tell engineers how their motor or blower will work in the final end product. The software's System-Level Pump/Blower Object feature, for example, provides the capability to include a centrifugal pump or blower as a component within a system level analysis. While the program is depicting results graphically, a component thermal summary report is simultaneously being generated. The resulting report gives a detailed description of the thermal results for every component within the assembly. "You can see it, just by looking at the pictures, at the images, that a piece is really hot, or really cold, but beyond that you can see why," Mr. Whitehead tells APPLIANCE.
" It's a great way for engineers to test an idea or if they have a design; it's a way to allow the user to make design refinements before they actually create prototypes and build parts," he continues. "CFdesign can have an economic impact on product development, and our customers are telling us 'you saved us a lot of money.'"
Motor Management
Software programs are also being designed to effectively manage a motor's failure. In fact, the technology is being used as part of the Motor Decisions Matter (MDM) campaign, which promotes effective motor management to help reduce plant downtime and save ultimate energy use.
Originally launched in the U.S. in June 2001, the program was funded for 3 years and then extended for an additional 3 years. With a goal to increase the demand for premium-efficiency motors and best-practice motor repair service, the campaign introduced a software tool—the 1-2-3 Approach to Motor Management.
" Motor manufacturers and distributors use MDM resources like the 1-2-3 Approach to help their customers understand and implement sound motor management strategies," says Emily Dahl, program associate for the MDM campaign. "The campaign sponsors represent a wide array of industry experts who also serve as a valuable resource."
Using a simple Excel spreadsheet, the free software tool, downloadable from www.motorsmatter.org, calculates energy costs and compares the financial impact of repairing or replacing motors. Used primarily for commercial and industrial equipment powered by three-phase motors, the software tool determines payback periods for NEMA Premium™ motors, calculates return-on-investment, and generates a summary report in three steps.
First, input data is entered for each respective motor that is being considered, including nameplate data, hours of operation, and facility electric rates. Next, the results are calculated, which are then reviewed between the program's sponsors and the customer. Annual energy costs, annual energy savings, payback periods, net present value, and ROI scenarios for immediately replacing a motor with a NEMA Premium motor. Possible scenarios include waiting for it to fail and rewinding it according to best-practice guides, waiting for it to fail and replacing it with an U.S. Energy Policy Act (EPAct) motor, or waiting for it to fail and replacing it with a NEMA Premium motor. Finally, a decision is made in collaboration with an MDM sponsor. Tags can then be printed from the program and affixed to the motors, so that in the case of failure, anyone can look at the motor and know exactly what to do to achieve the best possible cost and efficiency practices. All of this is done before motor maintenance is even necessary.
" OEMs can use the MDM campaign as a value-added resource to get customers to think about repair replacement decisions before the motor fails," explains Ted Jones, program manager for MDM. "OEMs could specify NEMA Premium motors in their products and promote the energy-saving benefits to their customers."
Ms. Dahl agrees the software can dramatically help companies save on costs. "The 1-2-3 Approach is viewed as credible and non-biased in the marketplace," she says. "Consideration of life-cycle costing in addition to initial cost when making repair or replacement decisions is a valuable concept that sponsors introduce to their customers."
issue: October 2004 APPLIANCE Magazine Part 2: Motors and Air-Moving Devices
Click for the online Part 2 Table of Contents.
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America's Wilderness, (c) Sarah Gulick
As the Environmental Film Festival opened its annual cinematic window on our world in Washington, D.C., we considered the escalating challenges faced by earth's urban environments, now home to the majority of its people. The 2014 Festival's focus on "Our Cities, Our Planet" celebrated the development of sustainable and resilient cities, exploring their natural and built environments as they seek to meet environmental and economic needs.
Audiences joined us this March as we presented a record 200 insightful and compelling films from 38 countries, including 115 Washington, D.C., U.S. and world premieres, with over 100 collaborating partners. A centerpiece of this year's theme was the Sustainable DC program, spotlighting our city's initiative to make Washington "the greenest, healthiest and most livable city in the nation." The program included films on the city's Capital Bikeshare program, green roofs and Clean Rivers project.
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Im pretty much new to bromeliads, other than my pineapple plants and large amount of tillisandias, including spanish moss. But I dont have too much of an idea about Neoregelia 'Fireball', which a plant I recently bought. I know the requirements (humidity, water in the center, lots of good air circulation, and to avoid hot dry sun), but Im not sure about what type of soil to plant it in. I have a regular hanging basket and regular soil, does a Neoregelia 'Fireball' handle regular soil or should I mount it on something? If I need to mount it, what do you think is the best object to mount it on for a natural look, and how well do the roots anchor into an object. Do they have to live in those special bromeliad hanging baskets instead of my regular hanging basket. Thanks in advance! |
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Hi Tropic ,if you use a mix thats recommended for Cymbidium Orchids you wont go wrong ,any hanging basket type will do ,its a tough plant needs very good light,regular soil is not recommended ,other than that its a trouble free plant, cheers ,Jack |
- Posted by tropicalzone7 7 (My Page) on Thu, Jan 21, 10 at 20:22
Thanks a lot for your help! Ill go looking for some orchid soil. |
- Posted by cadillactaste zone 5 Ohio (My Page) on Tue, Sep 3, 13 at 7:42
Hm-mmm so this does need soil. :/ was hoping it didn't. |
- Posted by greentoe357 7b NYC under lights (My Page) on Tue, Oct 1, 13 at 22:33
I bought my first Neoregelia, and as part of research of new plants I always check the PATSP blob (always funny, well and lively written and very useful and descriptive). Neo "Fireball" happened to be profiled there: http://plantsarethestrangestpeople.blogspot.com/2008/10/dorothy-gale-neoregelia-fireball.html. Enjoy ye, whoever stumbles upon this. |
- Posted by sunshine_qld Qld Aust (My Page) on Wed, Oct 2, 13 at 4:39
If you want it really red, it needs morning sun until about 10am. I grow mine in trees so they will grow without soil. |
- Posted by splinter1804 10 (My Page) on Thu, Oct 3, 13 at 16:54
Hi everyone - It's been a while, but I still drop in from time to time. G'Day Jack haven't seen you here for a while either. I have found Neo. Fireball to be a most accommodating plant which when given the right conditions will quickly grow into a nice specimen. It will grow in a pot, is suitable for basket culture and is also equally comfortable mounted on an old Tree Fern stump or on a living tree. I saw the one in the pic at a brom show recently and personally I wouldn't have used a pot that large, but as you can see, it didn't seem to worry the plant which is growing well and seems to be pretty forgiving in whatever container it's in as long as it's well drained. Also notice the bit of trellis at the rear which the plant is also growing up. All the best, Nev. |
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We all know for a fact that the whole Philippine cosplay scene is steady and slowly heading towards into a state of demise and denying this obvious fact makes you no different to those marauding Alodia fanatic who has nothing else better to do with their lives but to fap to her pictures online, stalk her on FB, mindlessly chant "HALLELODIA" like she's a legit omnipotent being, defends her in the most idiotic way possible and they have the ability not to point out the mistake she makes. Yes folks, this post is solely dedicated to on those stupid Alodia fanatics and I wouldn't be surprise if there know-it-all and moronic trolls commenting in this post, NOW FEEL PROUD FAPBOY! NOW THAT THE SPOTLIGHT IS ON YOU!
They got nothing else better to do.
In their own creepy little world, doing something worthwhile and important is not really their thing and if they are doing something worthwhile and important it always ends up being a mediocre piece of crap, they see this as an obstruction holding down Alodia's attention, liking and commenting on her nonsense post, weird self-centered photos, shameless plugging, some stupid links and watch that tragic comedy show is the first order of business for these morons, hoping that by doing this will get them notice by their beloved GODDESS.
They having nothing left to watch…
They are delusional.
When I lurk on Alodia's page on FB just to check out what the fuck she is up to, I encounter a lot of proposals, deluding their selves that they could win her just by "I LOVE YOU", but the thing is, she only see this as a compliment, nothing more, nothing less and she finds it creepy when you do it repeatedly on a daily basis and she has no other choice but to permaban your ass out you creepy bastard, you. But some of them just want to be friends with her, but if you actually end up being friends with her don't you think you might get out of place and stand-out? If you are not as pretty or handsome like the rest of her friends then you are going to end up looking like the errand boy or the inday of the group. Well it's your life anyway and we don't really care on how it's going to end up.
hahaha XD
The next Alodia wanna be?
They LOVE kissing her ass.
If you are wondering why is Alodia has this habit of butchering your beloved anime character beyond recognition through some awful MOE or sultry portrayal, well she is only doing this shenanigan to please the majority of her idiot fans and add the fact that they know absolutely nothing about that character and encourage her to do more bad portrayal of that character, reason you ask? Because it makes her more cute (ACK!!!) and those shitcunt fans of hers finds pleasure in this sick atrocious act. Another thing that I notice is that Alodia keeps on cosplaying characters that doesn't suit her (remember her Shana cosplay?) but then again nobody gives a shitcunt about it, some of them might actually think that criticizing her might upset her so they might as well shut their mouths about it, kiss her ass and approve of everything she does (including cheating and asking hers fans to help) that's pretty much the reason why she could not ingest the criticism from others and considers them as a form of insult to her forte. So the next time you see her butchering another anime character, you know who to point your finger at.
ahhh… None of your post was liked by your 'GODDESS'
Lazy much?
They are perverted.
The ULTIMATE fantasy of most otaku's is to have sex with their favorite anime character, the only problem is none of those character exist in real life, so the next best thing is to have sex with a cosplayer who can portray that character "PERFECTLY" and its pretty obvious who is that AWESOME(lol) cosplayer is, right… We are not new to the fact that her wall is sometimes infested by those perverts and they post a lot of sexually charged comments on her wall; I guess she got used to it by now and not everybody in her likepage are otaku's btw.
They are incredibly stupid.
We have encountered a lot of those idiots here and most of them could not keep up with the words we use, so they try to TROLL their way to victory but fail miserably in the process and end up horribly embarrassing themselves, I guess everybody is familiar with that "BUDDYGUARD TROLL"( that moron actually thought that he's spelling was right) and there are some who had brains and decided to waste that precious gray matter of theirs defending that surgically enchanced prick of a GODDESS. They could really use that
They are incredibly rude.
The first thing that comes to mind when you mention cosplay to this idiots is Alodia and no one else. It's no surprise that some of them make rude, degrading, insulting comments to some cosplayers and some of them went overboard, but little that they know that there are cosplayers outside our country that are capable of dethroning Alodia once they put on their costume and accurately portray their respective characters and the only thing that Alodia can do against them is to be MOE or sultry with her character. (Which is a no-no to most of us), plus add the fact that they do anything just to have glimpse of her especially in conventions and the likes, some of us experienced this during TOYCON and damn it was irritating to be shove, pushed and elbowed by those idiots, they barge their way into a crowd and destroyed some of the displays there and get away with it. Most of them are just plain savages with no manners whatsoever.
Well, there you have it. I hope that this post somehow shed some light on these morons purpose is all about.
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Business owner sues town of Avon over policy banning roadside mascots, wavers
Town says wavers are driving hazard
AVON, Ind. - A local business owner is suing the town of Avon over a law banning roadside wavers used to advertise.
Victor Ruthig owns a Liberty Tax franchise in Avon. He said the business model is predicated on wavers luring business into the doors, and not allowing him to do so would be a death knell for his business.
"It's really a matter of survival," Ruthig said. "To us they are like the golden arches like McDonald's has. They are an icon not only in America, but they are an icon that you have to get in, and have your taxes filed."
Avon Town Manager Tom Klein said the wavers are moving signs and violate the town's sign ordinance.
Liberty Tax Service is located near the intersection of US 36 and Dan Jones Road. That intersection had 38 accidents in 2012, the second most accidents of any intersection in town last year.
Klein says the wavers are a hazard.
"We've had dancing mattresses, hotdogs, Halloween City-type person out there," Klein said. "Those meet the definition of moving signs. One of the purposes of our ordinance is not to distract drivers."
Liberty's attorney, Matt Price, said there is absolutely no evidence the wavers distract anyone.
"It is people texting and using their cellphones that affects traffic, not an innocuous waver," Price said. "There is advertising all over the side of the road."
Price also argues the ordinance violates the First Amendment. He has filed suit against the town of Avon and believes Liberty has a strong case.
The town of Avon fined Liberty for using the mascots.


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Finding a person more excited about living in Cleveland than Sara Renee would be a challenge worthy of a town teaming with appreciative residents for their "City With Spirit." Renee, a world traveler with a cosmopolitan character, makes no apologies about being in love with her adopted community.
Born in South Carolina, the 27-year-old saw sights growing up that only children with military moms and dad got to see so often. Renee said she has no memory of her birthplace but decided to live in the one place she was least familiar with.
"I graduated high school in Germany and moved from Germany to the South for the first time in my life. I had lived all over, but never in the South," she said. Moving to Cleveland in 2004 to attend Lee University, Renee embraced the city with its rural scenery, unpretentious people and easygoing lifestyle for which Bradley County is famous. But there was one problem.
"I couldn't understand the people," Renee admits about encountering the occasional thick Southern accent. "At first I couldn't handle it. I hated it. I got a job at Walgreens. A guy came in and asked, 'Hey! Where are your ladders?' I said, 'We don't have ladders. But we have step stools and if we do they're on Aisle 8.' He said, 'You don't have ladders?' I was like, 'No. We're a drugstore. We don't have ladders.' He was getting really irate. So, I said, 'I don't understand why you're so upset. Check Aisle 8 for a step stool.' He storms off, comes back a few seconds later and throws a (cigarette) lighter on the counter and says, 'Lighter!'
"I thought it was so funny! He didn't think it was funny. That summed up my first three or four months in Cleveland. It was so funny! Now I love it here! I didn't have a car or driver's license when I first moved here so I walked everywhere — all over downtown and to places I would probably never go to alone now. I would just walk, walk, walk — even at night."
The more she got familiar with Cleveland, the more Renee found herself falling in love with the area and its people. Becoming a photographer to capture the sights that impacted her was an idea that solved two challenges in her life — her reclusive behavior and her desire to be self-employed.
"I actually started taking pictures because I was so antisocial," Renee admits. "I bought a camera at a local store and started taking pictures. Then I went to photo school after I graduated from Lee. As I was trying to figure out where to start my life — because my dad was in the military and we moved so much — I didn't have a 'hometown.' The four years I lived here (while at Lee) was the longest I had lived anywhere. So I'd come back to Cleveland during spring break when I was in photo school and take pictures everyday to build my portfolio."
Photographing weddings in such a social setting had a lot to do with her growing out of being antisocial, according Renee. She said one morning she woke up and noticed something different about her face when she looked at herself in the bathroom mirror.
"I had huge creases in my face, around my mouth, from smiling," she said. "I got closer to the mirror and said to myself, 'I must really like it here! I'm going to move back here!' And then I did. I've been here ever since, other than six months in Nashville. But now I'm HERE, here. Bought a house, have a husband, got a puppy (last week). She's the cutest little thing — a basset, mixed with a boxer and Lab."
Renee also owns her own business, The Adventures of Sara Renee Photographer, where she prefers to shoot outdoors with natural lighting, not in a studio with backdrops.
Her husband, Adam Clark, works for Best Buy Metals in Cleveland. When asked how they met, Renee responded, "He was a glee club boy and I was a goth rock girl, so we were very different! I always had a crush on him. We met at Lee but did not start dating until five years later. He was from Vermont. Before Germany, I lived in Rhode Island. I love New England. "
With little more than a Northern proximity in common, the two found enough mutual interests to discover why opposites attract, and fell in love. They married May on 31, 2013.
Having settled down in Cleveland, Renee said she wanted to express her appreciation for The City with Spirit in a special way. She and local hairstylist Victor Bracero are partnering to launch a Faces of Cleveland project where they will select, style and photograph some of Cleveland's iconic faces at no cost. The collection will be displayed later.
"I love Cleveland so much! This is kind of like saying, 'Thank you!'" Renee said.


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The Five Foods You Will Eat at Miller Park Drunk's Pants Party
August 9th, 2010Miller Park Drunk's Pants Party is under three weeks away. In case you've been living under a rock for the past few weeks the party is taking place on 8/29 at Miller Park and includes a pre-game tailgate with free beer and food as well as a ticket to the game, for only $25. We are getting closer and closer to the cut off date so if you haven't already reserved your spot you should do that now.
If you are one of those people who still needs convincing we thought the best way to convince you would be to give you a sneak peak at our menu. Our chef, Citizens Bank Park Drunk, did a really great job with this thing and I'm REALLY excited to eat it. You should be too.
MPD Pants Party Menu
A menu loosely based on our beloved sausage race.
Brats with Onion and or Kraut
(Beer steamed THEN grilled)
MPD is a blog that's banner mentions this specific encased meat and there have been several posts that address this tasty topic. So here in all its glory is the MPD brat. Beer steamed fresh brats with grilled onion and or kraut on a bun with a few local mustards to choose from. That's it.
Drunken Polish Sausage
Mac n CheeseA creamy and very cheesy Mac n Cheese made from scratch only gets better when we add ton of fried polish sausage pieces and a splash of beer for that little extra drunken flavor you'd expect from an MPD dish.
Italian Sausage
Meatball KabobsThe traditional Italian sausage and peppers deconstructed, jammed onto a kabob in meatball form and grilled to a charred and juicy perfection. This dish will make you forget you ever tried that cheese steak on a stick.
Spicy Ginger Ale
Hot DogsThis unique take on hot dogs uses hot chilies and ginger ale to create a sticky, sweet and very spicy dog. An odd combination that works out so well when it is all put together. This is a must try and may change your life.
Chorizo Quesadillas
These greasy treats will ándale across the border of your mouth with the perfect combination of spicy chorizo crumbles and a pile of Chihuahua cheese melted into a crispy white flour tortilla, served with pico de gallo and crema.
Seriously, I want to have sex with this menu. Buy a ticket.
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Adverts Coming To Xbox 360 Achievements
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55Joystiq reports that the charming sports custom of having game elements sponsored by a corporation or product will now be coming to Xbox Live Achievements. "A quick skim down the list of achievements for EA's upcoming NCAA 08 Football shows sponsored goals such as the 'Old Spice Red Zone Perfection' and 'Pontiac 4th Quarter Comeback.' Each achievement is accompanied by a logo for the company in the achievement's image. We can only imagine the possibilities for future Xbox 360 games. Halo Around the Collar, sponsored by Tide? Mass Effect sponsored by the Axe Effect? Grand Theft Auto IV's Bounty Beatdown (great for sopping up blood spills)? The possibilities are endless." One would hope this will stay restricted to sports games.


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Massachusetts Life Sciences Center announces 2013 – 2014 solicitation for capital projects and equipment grants
WALTHAM, Mass. – The Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC), the quasi-public agency tasked with implementing the state's 10-year, $1-billion Life Sciences Initiative, today announced the launch of the third round of an open solicitation for life-sciences-related capital projects. The solicitation covers equipment and supplies for public high schools as well as capital projects for academic/research institutions (including two- and four-year colleges), business incubators and other not-for-profit organizations in the Commonwealth. The MLSC will invest in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) education in select high schools and in high-potential economic development projects across the state which promise to create jobs and make a significant contribution to the state's life sciences ecosystem. The MLSC has allocated up to $35 million in capital dollars for this solicitation.
The High School Equipment and Supplies Grant Program will enable the purchase of equipment and supplies to train students in life sciences technology and research. The program will address a funding gap in capital dollars for public and not-for-profit workforce training and educational institutions. In this round, vocational-technical high schools, high schools in any of the state's "Gateway Cities", Title I high schools, and high schools implementing innovative STEM curriculum will all be eligible to apply for funding. Eligible high schools, as well as community-based organizations that serve such high schools, are invited to apply for this grant funding by completing an online application via the MLSC's website (www.masslifesciences.com).
The MLSC will manage the Capital Program solicitation for academic/research institutions, business incubators, and other not-for-profit organizations through a two-phased approach. In Phase I applicants will submit a short, online application and one-page summary of the proposed project. Applicants selected for Phase II will be asked to submit a full proposal for evaluation. For-profit organizations are not eligible for capital funding, and municipalities and other governmental entities are not eligible for capital funding through this solicitation. Applications must be submitted online, and more information about the program may be accessed via the MLSC's website.
"Funding for capital projects is a central part of the Administration's vision for life sciences expansion and with these types of strategic investments we have cemented our status as a global leader in this sector," said Greg Bialecki, Secretary of Housing and Economic Development and Co-Chairman of the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center Board of Directors. "This open call for proposals will allow us to identify projects across the state that will strengthen our innovation economy, create jobs, and support scientific advancement."
"The MLSC has thus far committed $321 million to 22 capital projects, which are creating over one million square feet of new training, research and manufacturing space across Massachusetts," said Susan Windham-Bannister, President & CEO of the MLSC. "We have also invested $6.6 million in equipment and supplies for academic institutions throughout the state. Through these investments we are creating unique resources to strengthen our life sciences ecosystem, and our position as a global leader in the life sciences. We look forward to receiving additional proposals through this open solicitation."
One past recipient of $4.1 million in capital funding was the Forsyth Institute in Cambridge, Mass., for the newly-created Forsyth Center for Salivary Diagnostics (FCSD). The grant will support the construction and equipping of the FCSD, a facility that will seek to revolutionize the way disease testing is performed. The FCSD will develop and commercialize saliva-based tests to replace costly and inconvenient blood-based disease detection tests that are currently used. Saliva contains virtually all of the same medical diagnostic information as blood, including DNA, proteins, hormones, etc., but is easily obtained non-invasively and painlessly, thus making it the approach of choice for people of all ages.
"The MLSC grant to create the Forsyth Salivary Diagnostic Center has the potential to revolutionize health care, by creating new opportunities for early disease detection and prevention," said Dr. Philip Stashenko, President & CEO of the Forsyth Institute. "Saliva is the mirror to the body, and Forsyth is the world leader in innovative research linking oral and overall health. We will generate new saliva-based diagnostics that can be used in diagnostic laboratories but in addition, by people to monitor their own health."
About the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center
The Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC) is a quasi-public agency of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts tasked with implementing the Massachusetts Life Sciences Act, a 10-year, $1-billion initiative that was signed into law in June of 2008. The MLSC's mission is to create jobs in the life sciences and support vital scientific research that will improve the human condition. This work includes making financial investments in public and private institutions that are advancing life sciences research, development and commercialization as well as building ties among sectors of the Massachusetts life sciences community. For more information, visit www.masslifesciences.com.
About the Capital Program
Through the Capital Program, the MLSC invests in high-potential economic development projects that promise to make a significant contribution to the state's life sciences ecosystem. Funding is awarded to Massachusetts legally organized not-for-profit entities, such as academic/research institutions, hospitals engaged in research, disease foundations and business incubators.
About the High School Equipment Supplies Program
The High School Equipment and Supplies Grant Program addresses a funding gap in capital dollars for public and not-for-profit workforce training and educational institutions by enabling the purchase of equipment and supplies to train students in life sciences technology and research. Eligible high schools, as well as community-based organizations that serve such high schools, can apply for funding to purchase equipment and/or supplies to support an education and training program that prepares participants for employment in the life sciences.
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