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Norgren Limitied General Conditions of Sale
1.1 In these conditions:- "the Buyer" means any customer of the Seller to whom Products are supplied under these terms and conditions "the Contract" means any contract between the Seller and the Buyer for the sale and purchase of the Products; "Ex Works" means "ex works" as defined in the edit ion of the rules for interpretation of trade terms known as INCOTERMS current as at the date of the Buyer's order; "Intellectual Property Rights" means any and all rights in patents, copyright, moral rights, business and trade names, trade marks, design rights, know how and all other intellectual property rights and any applications for any of the foregoing which may subsist anywhere in the world and whether or not registered or registrable; "the Products" means all products and associated documentation to be supplied under this Contract; "the Seller" means Norgren Limited; and "Writing" includes cable, facsimile transmission, electronic data transfer, e-mail and comparable means of communication and any notification under this Contract expressed to be required "in writing" or any "written notification" shall be construed accordingly.
1.2 All quotations are made and all orders are accepted subject to these conditions. All other terms, conditions or warranties whatsoever are excluded from the Contract or any variation thereof unless expressly accepted by the Seller in Writing (order acknowledgements do not constitute such acceptance). In particular, in no circumstances will any conditions of purchase submitted at any time by the Buyer be applied to this Contract and any failure by the Seller to challenge any such conditions of purchase does not imply acceptance.
1.3 In the event of a conflict between these conditions and the specific terms and conditions of quotation then the latter shall prevail. Acceptance by the Buyer of delivery of the Products shall be deemed to constitute unqualified acceptance of these conditions.
1.4 Unless otherwise stated therein quotations shall be available for acceptance for a maximum period of 30 days from issue and may be withdrawn at any time by written or oral notice.
1.5 If any statement or representation has been made to the Buyer by the Seller or its officers, employees or agents (other than in the document(s) enclosed with the Seller's quotation), upon which the Buyer wishes to rely it shall only be entitled to do so if that statement or representation is attached to, or endorsed on, the Buyer's order and then only if the Seller subsequently confirms in Writing to the Buyer that the Buyer is entitled to rely on such statement or representation.
1.6 The Contract is between the Seller and the Buyer as principals and neither the benefit nor the burden is assignable by the Buyer without the Seller's written consent. The Contract may be assigned, sub-contracted or otherwise disposed of by the Seller.
1.7 Unless specifically agreed to the contrary all trade terms shall be interpreted in accordance with the version of INCOTERMS current at the date of order.
1.8 The Seller shall be entitled to cancel an order at any time by serving notice in Writing on the Buyer if it does not receive, on request, satisfactory (in the Seller's sole opinion) credit references in relation to the Buyer. If the Seller cancels an order pursuant to this Clause 1.8, it shall have no liability whatsoever for any liabilities, losses, damages, costs or expenses whatsoever incurred, suffered or paid by the Buyer as a result of or in connection with such cancellation.
2.1 Electronic orders shall be valid if all the information agreed between the Buyer and the Seller as being required is properly set out in the agreed format and the order is transmitted by the Buyer to the Seller by reference to the correct identification code and is received by the Seller when collecting its electronic mail from the relevant system.
2.2 Subject to Clause 2.1, each valid electronic order will be deemed accepted by the Seller unless the Seller communicates rejection of the order to the Buyer by electronic or other means (including telephone) within two working days of receipt. Acceptance of an order shall constitute a contract for sale and purchase to which these conditions shall apply.
3.1 Unless otherwise agreed in Writing all prices are Ex Works. Unless otherwise agreed in Writing prices are payable in Sterling. If the Seller agrees to deliver the Products otherwise than at its premises the Buyer shall pay all packaging, transportation and insurance costs and other costs incurred by the Seller in making or arranging such delivery.
3.2 The Seller shall be entitled at any time on written notice to make a reasonable adjustment to the price in the event of any alteration in quantity, design or specification requested by the Buyer.
3.3 The Seller reserves the right at any time prior to delivery and on written notice to increase the price if there is any increase in the cost of materials, labour, transport, utilities, foreign currency fluctuation, currency regulation or alteration of duties or if the costs of the Seller are increased by any other factor beyond the reasonable control of the Seller.
3.4 The Buyer shall be liable to the Seller for any demurrage costs incurred in the event of vehicles being unduly delayed at the point of delivery.
4.1 Unless otherwise agreed in Writing by the Seller delivery shall be ex-works and delivery shall be deemed to take place when the Products are made available by the Seller for collection by the Buyer or its carrier at the Seller's premises.
4.2 All dates and periods for delivery are estimated and do not constitute fixed times for delivery by the Seller and time of delivery shall not be of the essence of the Contract nor shall the Buyer be entitled to make, or to purport to make, time for delivery of the essence of the Contract.
4.3 The date for delivery shall in every case be dependant upon prompt receipt of all necessary information, final instructions or approvals from the Buyer.
4.4 Notwithstanding Clause 4.2 the Buyer shall be obliged to take delivery of the Products within 30 days of the Seller giving it notice that the Products are ready for delivery. Failure by the Buyer either to take delivery or to make payment in respect of any one or more installments of Products shall entitle the Seller to terminate the Contract, (such right is without prejudice to any other rights and remedies available to the Seller).
4.5 Where the Buyer requests and the Seller agrees to postpone delivery, or where delivery is otherwise postponed without default by the Seller, the Buyer shall pay upon demand all reasonable costs and expenses including reasonable storage and transport costs. The Buyer shall pay for the Products in accordance with these conditions as if the same had been delivered on the due date but for any postponement at the request of or due to the default of the Buyer. The Seller shall be entitled to claim interest pursuant to Clause 7.3.2 from the date on which payment would otherwise have fallen due if no such postponement had occurred.
4.6 Unless otherwise expressly agreed in Writing the Seller may deliver in instalments in which case each instalment shall be treated as a separate Contract governed by these conditions. No delay in the delivery of any instalment of Products or any defect therein shall entitle the Buyer to terminate remaining Contracts.
5.1 Risk of damage to or loss of the Products shall pass to the Buyer upon delivery and the Buyer is then solely responsible for all loss damage or deterioration to the Products.
5.2 Title to the Products shall not pass to the Buyer until either:-
5.2.1 the Seller has received in cash or cleared funds all monies payable (whether or not due) to the Seller under all Contracts between the Buyer and the Seller; or
5.2.2 when the Seller serves on the Buyer notice in Writing specifying that title in the Products or any part thereof has passed to the Buyer.
5.3 Until title has passed to the Buyer from the Seller under these conditions, the Seller may recover the Products and the Seller's officers, employees, representatives or agents shall be entitled to enter upon any premises where such Products are kept, with or without vehicles, for the purpose either of recovering the same or satisfying itself that Clause 5.4 is being complied with.
5.4 Until title to the Products has passed to the Buyer it shall possess the Products as fiduciary agent and bailee of the Seller and shall store the Products separately from other goods and shall ensure that they are fully insured on an all risks basis and clearly identifiable as belonging to the Seller. The Buyer shall also not assign, underlet, pledge, mortgage, charge, encumber or part with possession of the Products or any interest in the Products nor create or allow to be created over the Products any lien. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Buyer resells the Products before title has passed to it in accordance with this Clause 5, it shall do so solely on the following conditions:
5.4.1 any sale will be effected in the ordinary course of the Buyer's business at full market value and the Buyer will account to the Seller accordingly and hold out of the sale proceeds sums equivalent to the invoice value of the Products supplied by the Seller on trust for the benefit of the Seller; and
5.4.2 any such sale will be a sale of the Seller's property on the Buyer's own behalf and the Buyer will deal as principal when making such a sale.
5.5 The Seller shall be entitled at any time to require the Buyer to deliver up the Products to the Seller, and if the Buyer fails to do so within a reasonable period of time, the Seller shall be entitled to enter upon the Buyer's premises or any third party's premises and recover and/or dispose of the Products. For the avoidance of doubt, the Buyer shall make no claim against the Seller in respect of any such entry or disposal.
6.1 Cancellation or amendment of any Contract requires the prior approval in Writing of the Seller and shall be conditional upon the Buyer indemnifying the Seller against all reasonable costs and expenses incurred by the Seller as a result of such cancellation and amendment.
6.2 Products returned to the Seller without the Seller's written consent will not be accepted for credit.
7.1 Unless otherwise agreed by the Seller in Writing payment shall be made within thirty (30) days of the last day of the month of invoice and the Seller shall be entitled to issue invoices in the month in which the Products are delivered or would have been delivered save for postponement otherwise than due to default on the part of the Seller. Time for payment of the price is of the essence of the Contract. No payment shall be deemed to have been received until the Seller has received cleared funds.
7.2 All payments made by the Buyer to the Seller under any Contract subject to these conditions shall be made free of any restriction or condition and without deduction or withholding on account of any other amount and/or claim, whether by way of set-off or otherwise and whether such amount and/or claim is connected to any Contract subject to these conditions or otherwise.
7.3 In the event of default in payment by the Buyer the Seller shall be entitled (without prejudice to any other right or remedy):-
7.3.1 to suspend without notice all further deliveries on any Contracts between the Seller and the Buyer;
7.3.2 to charge interest on a daily basis (after as well as before judgment) on any amount outstanding at the rate of 4% per annum above the base rate of the Bank of England from time to time together with any debt recovery costs.
A minimum order charge is applicable to all orders. Regular issues against blanket or scheduled orders will incur a minimum charge per release.
9.1 Subject to Clause 9.2 the Products shall in all material respects be in accordance with any agreed specification or if there is no agreed specification shall be generally in all material respects in accordance with any published specification issued by the Seller.
9.2 The Seller reserves the right to make changes in dimensions or other specifications of the Products to conform to applicable standards or laws or are otherwise reasonable having regard to the nature of the Products.
9.3 The information contained in the technical literature issued by the Seller may be relied upon to be accurate in the exact circumstances in which it is expressed. Otherwise, any illustrations, performance details, examples of installations and methods of assembly and all other technical data in such literature are based on experience and upon trials under test conditions and are provided for general guidance only. No such information or data shall form part of the Contract unless the Buyer shall have complied with Clause 1.5 relating to statements and representations and the Seller shall have given the confirmation referred to in that Clause.
10.1 The Buyer shall only be entitled to claim (and subject to Clauses 11 and 12) for shortages or defects in the Products which are apparent on visual inspection if the Buyer:-
10.1.1 inspects the Products within three days following receipt;
10.1.2 notifies the Seller of any loss, shortages or damage (otherwise than by a qualified signature on the delivery note) within ten working days of receipt; and
10.1.3 demonstrates to the satisfaction of the Seller that such loss, shortages or damage occurred prior to delivery.
10.2 The Buyer shall have no rights in respect of loss shortages or damage unless the Seller is given a reasonable opportunity to inspect the Products and investigate any complaint before any use of or alteration to or interference with the Products.
10.3 On a valid complaint made in accordance with this Clause 10 the Buyer shall be entitled (in the case of notified shortages) to receive within a reasonable time a delivery of Products equivalent to the shortfall and (in the case of defects) to repairs to or replacements for the affected Products or at the Seller's option a credit for the price thereof but the Seller shall have no further liability whatsoever. If a complaint of loss shortages or damage on delivery is not made to the Seller in accordance with this Clause 10 then the Products shall be deemed to be delivered complete and undamaged in accordance with the Contract and the Buyer shall be bound to pay for the same accordingly.
10.4 Loss shortages or damage in a delivery or any installment delivery shall not be a ground for termination of the Contract or the remainder of the Contract (as the case may be).
11.1 Insofar as is permitted by law, the Seller excludes all terms and conditions that may otherwise be implied by statute, common law or otherwise. Notwithstanding this, nothing in this Clause 11 is intended to restrict the Buyer's statutory rights.
11.2 Subject to the following terms of this Clause 11.2 the Seller guarantees that the Products will be free from defects as a result of faulty design, workmanship or materials (other than free issue materials). This guarantee shall be for a period of two years from the date of delivery of the Products or the product achieving the recommended maximum life usage for the Product whichever is the earlier. This guarantee is subject to:-
11.2.1 the Seller receiving written notification of the defect within the period of this guarantee;
11.2.2 the Product being made available to the Seller for inspection without any further use of, or alteration to, or interference with the Product;
11.2.3 the defect is not a loss, shortage, or damage that the Buyer should have notified to the Seller under Clause 10;
11.2.4 the defect is not a result of any design specification or instruction given by the Buyer;
11.2.5 that the Buyer has fully complied with any instructions of the Seller concerning the use and storage of the Product.
11.3 On receipt of notification of a claim by the Buyer under Clause 11.2 the Seller may at its discretion repair or supply satisfactory substitute Products free of cost or repay the price of the Product(s) in whole or in part (as appropriate) within a reasonable time of the complaint being made. For the avoidance of doubt the guarantee under Clause 11.2 shall not cover any deficiencies in the Products associated with normal wear and tear.
11.4 If the Seller does repair the Products or supply satisfactory substitute Products or effect repayment under this Clause 11, the Buyer shall be bound to accept such repaired or substituted Products, or repayment and the Seller shall be under no liability in respect of any loss or damage of whatever nature arising from the initial delivery of the defective Products or from the delay before the defective Products are repaired or the substitute Products are delivered or the repayment is effected.
11.5 In the case of Products not manufactured by the Seller:-
11.5.1 the Seller gives no assurance or guarantee that the sale or use of the Products will not infringe any third party Intellectual Property Rights; and
11.5.2 the obligations of the Seller relating to defects in such Products are limited to the guarantee (if any) which the Seller receives from any manufacturer or supplier of such Products.
11.6 The Seller shall not be liable for and the Buyer shall indemnify the Seller against all costs, claims, damages, liabilities and expenses incurred by the Seller arising from any use by the Buyer of Products after the Buyer became or ought reasonably to have been aware of a defect.
12.1 The Seller does not exclude liability arising under Section 12 of the Sale of Goods Act 1979 (as amended) or for death or personal injury caused by its negligence or for fraudulent misrepresentation or for any liability arising under Section 2(3) of the Consumer Protection Act 1987.
12.2 Under no circumstances whatsoever shall the Seller be liable in contract, tort or otherwise howsoever arising for any claim, damage, loss or costs in respect of:- (a) any loss of profit; (b) loss of use of money; (c) loss of anticipated savings; (d) loss of business; (e) loss of opportunity; (f) loss of goodwill; (g) loss of reputation; (h) loss of data; (i) any wasted expenditure; or (j) any indirect or consequential loss or damage howsoever caused. For the avoidance of doubt, the Sub-clauses in this Clause 12.2 are intended by the parties to be severable.
12.3 Without prejudice to Clause 12.2, the Seller's maximum aggregate liability for all claims made by the Buyer in relation to any Contract shall not exceed the contract price for the Products, and the Buyer agrees to insure adequately to cover claims in excess of such amount.
12.4 Prices are quoted by the Seller on the basis of the limitations of liability set out in these conditions. The Buyer shall be entitled to request the Seller to agree a higher limit of liability and the Seller may (at its discretion) then quote a revised price taking account of any increased insurance premium to be borne by the Seller.
12.5 The Buyer shall indemnify the Seller against all losses, costs, claims, damages, expenses and liabilities in respect of or arising out of any injury, loss or damage whatsoever suffered by or occasioned to any person arising out of or in connection with the supply by the Seller of the Products or any act or omission of the Buyer in its performance of its obligations under the Contract, except where any such claim or loss is a direct result of any negligent act or default of the Seller.
12.6 If the Products are being supplied by the Seller to the Buyer for incorporation or use at or in relation to a nuclear site or facility, the following shall apply:-
12.6.1 The Buyer agrees to hold harmless, indemnify and keep indemnified the Seller (for and on behalf of itself and each of its group undertakings, and their respective officers and employees) (each an "Indemnified Person") from and against any and all direct or indirect liabilities (which shall include without limitation loss of profit, loss of business, depletion of goodwill and like loss), losses, obligations, claims (including claims from third parties), demands, damages, penalties, expenses and fees suffered or incurred by the Seller or any other Indemnified Person, arising out of any actual or alleged nuclear damage caused by the Products or which otherwise occurs in consequence of the performance of or failure to perform the Contract, whether by the Seller, or any sub-contractors of the Buyer or Seller, and any actual or alleged nuclear damage arising in consequence of any activities from time to time carried out in relation to the Contract, whether or not resulting from the negligence of the Seller;
12.6.2 The Buyer undertakes to provide and to maintain, or procure that the Owner/Operator of the site where the Products are to be installed provides and maintains, throughout the operational life of the site where the Products are to be installed and for ten years thereafter, insurance covering nuclear damage. Such policy will be placed with recognized international Nuclear Pools (Liability and Property) on industry standard terms, will provide for all suppliers and subsuppliers to be covered as additional insured and will include a waiver of subrogation for the benefit of the Seller. The Buyer will pay any deductible applicable to such insurance (or, as applicable, procure that the Owner/Operator pays such deductible). The Buyer will provide a copy of the insurance certificate to the Seller upon written request;
12.6.3 In this Clause 12 the term "liability" means any form of liability or obligation whatsoever including but not limited to liability for nuclear damage (as defined in Clause 12.6.4 below) and liability for misrepresentation, under contract, common law, equity or any statutory provision whether or not based on negligence or breach of any express or implied duty to act with care or skill;
12.6.4 In this Clause 12, the term "nuclear damage" means injury or death to persons and damage to any property or facility and/or damage or harm to the environment, natural resources, flora and fauna (and including the property and/or facility of the Buyer and the Owner/Operator and the site where the Products are to be installed) arising out of or resulting from radioactive, toxic, explosive or other hazardous properties (or any combination of such properties) of any nuclear matter in connection with which the Products are directly or indirectly used, including but not limited to ionizing radiation or contamination by radioactivity from any nuclear fuels, radioactive products or any nuclear waste from the combustion of nuclear fuels coming from, originating in, or sent to, any site at which the Products are to be installed and/or used, whether or not such injury, death or damage results from the negligence of the Seller.
All drawings documents records computer software and other information supplied by the Seller whether produced by itself or a third party, are supplied on the express understanding that copyright is reserved to the Seller (or the third party) and that the Buyer will not without written consent of the Seller either give away loan exhibit or sell the same or extracts therefrom or copies thereof or use the same in any way except in connection with the Products in respect of which they are issued.
14.1 Subject to Clause 14.3 if the Buyer is subject to a claim or threatened with any action alleging that the Products in the form supplied infringe any third party Intellectual Property Rights then provided that the Buyer promptly informs and fully cooperates with the Seller and if requested allows the Seller the conduct and defence thereof the Seller will indemnify the Buyer against any costs claims damages liabilities and expenses incurred by the Buyer as a result of such proceedings.
14.2 The Seller shall have the option at its own expense either to modify any infringing Products so that they do not infringe or to replace the Products with a non-infringing substitute or to repurchase the Products from the Buyer at the price paid by the Buyer less an allowance for the use made thereof.
14.3 The Seller shall have no liability in respect of claims for infringement of third party Intellectual Property Rights arising from the manufacture or supply of the Products to the Buyer's instructions or in accordance with designs plans or specifications given by the Buyer and the Buyer shall indemnify the Seller against all losses damages expenses costs or other liability arising from such claims.
The Buyer shall be solely responsible for ensuring that all drawings information advice and recommendations specified or given to the Seller by the Buyer or its agents servants consultants or advisers are accurate correct and suitable. Examination or consideration by the Seller of such drawings information advice or recommendations shall not result in any liability on the part of the Seller.
16.1 Without prejudice to any other rights or remedies of the Seller it shall be entitled in any of the following circumstances to terminate (in whole or in part) the Contract and/or to suspend deliveries and/or to receive upon demand payment of all monies due and payable by the Buyer:-
16.1.1 the Buyer makes or proposes any voluntary arrangement or any other composition or scheme or arrangement with or assignment for the benefit of its creditors;
16.1.2 the Buyer becomes subject to an administration order or becomes bankrupt or goes into liquidation;
16.1.3 the Buyer has a petition presented for its winding up or has an application made for the appointment of a provisional liquidator or has a creditors meeting convened pursuant to the Insolvency Act 1986;
16.1.4 an encumbrancer takes possession or a receiver or administrative receiver is appointed over any of the property or assets of the Buyer;
16.1.5 the Buyer becomes unable to satisfy its debts as they fall due or ceases or threatens to cease to carry on business;
16.1.6 the Seller reasonably believes that any of the events mentioned above or any equivalent or similar event under any relevant laws to which the Buyer or any connected person is subject has or may occur;
16.1.7 the Buyer or any connected person commits or allows to be committed any material breach of this Contract.
17.1 The Seller shall not be liable for any failure to perform any of its obligations under the Contract for any reason whatsoever outside its reasonable control including without limitation, acts of God, strikes, riots, lock-outs or other industrial action including trade disputes (whether such dispute involves its employees or not), shortage of materials or by any other act, matter or thing beyond its reasonable control.
17.2 In the event that the Seller does not perform its obligations by reason of any of the causes referred to in Clause 17.1 within six months after the time for performance either party may by written notice terminate the Contract without liability save that the Buyer shall pay for any Products delivered or completed at the time of termination.
Any tools (such as jigs. dies, etc ) which the Seller may construct or acquire specifically in connection with the Products shall, notwithstanding any charges the Seller may make for them, be and remain the Seller's sole and unencumbranced property and in the Seller's possession and control without restriction.
19.1 Free issue material shall be insured by and remain at the risk of the Buyer at all times and the Seller shall not be liable for loss of or damage to any such free issue materials during fabrication by the Seller, or by any sub-contractor employed by the Seller or whilst on the premises of the Seller or of any such sub-contractor or in transit to or from the premises of the Seller or of any such sub-contractor provided that the Seller may at its sole discretion make a contribution towards the replacement costs of such materials.
19.2 The Buyer shall indemnify the Seller against all losses costs claims damages liabilities and expenses in respect of any injury, loss or damage whatsoever arising out of or in connection with the supply by the Seller of free issue material except where any such loss or damage is a direct result of any negligent act or default of the Seller.
19.3 An allowance for material lost as process scrap is (where applicable) included in the Contract price and no such losses shall be the subject of any claim by the Buyer or contribution by the Seller.
19.4 Where materials used in the manufacture of the Products are supplied by or on behalf of the Buyer to the Seller, the Buyer shall be responsible for ensuring that the material is of satisfactory quality and is fit for its purpose and shall indemnify the Seller against any loss, damage, injury or expenses whatsoever arising directly or indirectly from any fault in or incorrect specification of the said materials.
The Buyer agrees to comply with any information and instructions supplied by the Seller relating to the Products including but not limited to any conditions necessary to ensure that they will be safe and without risk to health at all times when they are being set, used, cleaned, serviced or maintained by any person. The Buyer shall take such steps as specified by such information or otherwise necessary to ensure that as far as is reasonably practicable the Products will be safe and without risk to health at all times.
21.1 The Buyer shall be solely responsible for obtaining any and all necessary import or export licences or permits necessary for the delivery to the Buyer, and the Buyer shall be responsible for any and all customs duties, clearance charges, taxes, brokers' fees and other amounts payable in connection with the importation, exportation and/or delivery of the Products.
21.2 The Buyer agrees to comply fully, at its own expense, with all applicable import and export laws, restrictions, national security controls and regulations of the United Kingdom and any other applicable local law or regulation.
21.3 The Buyer agrees and undertakes that:
21.3.1 it shall comply with the terms of any export licence, licence exception, or general licence granted or approved by any competent governmental authority, and that it shall not re-export or transmit any Products directly or indirectly to any person, entity or into any territory not covered b y such export licence, licence exception, or general licence; and
21.3.2 (regardless of any prior export licence, licence exception or general licence), the Products will not be supplied directly or indirectly to any person or entity or into any territory which is embargoed, prohibited, debarred or otherwise the subject of sanctions from the United Kingdom, the European Union, the United States of America or the territory where the Buyer is located.
21.4 The Buyer shall comply with all relevant anti -corruption legislation in connection with the Contract and the Seller's business and shall immediately notify the Seller if it discovers or suspects that any of its officers, directors, employees or representatives are acting or have acted in a way which violates such legislation.
21.5 The Buyer acknowledges that the Seller has a code of responsible business (the "IMI Way") which is available at www.imiplc.com and the Buyer shall at all times, conduct, and procure that its officers, directors, employees and/or representatives conduct business ethically and in accordance with the relevant provisions of the IMI Way. This Clause shall apply whether or not the Buyer is acting pursuant to the Contract or its relationship with the Seller or any companies within the Seller's group of companies.
21.6 The Buyer agrees that it must be able to demonstrate its compliance with the requirements referred to in this Clause 21 at the request of and to the satisfaction of the Seller which includes, but is not limited to, the Seller having the right to inspect any site involved in work for the Seller. If the Buyer fails to comply with this Clause 21, the Seller shall be entitled, in its sole discretion, to terminate this Contract and any other agreements between the Buyer and the Seller without penalty to the Seller, but with obligations for the Buyer to remedy any damages suffered by the Seller as a result of such termination or breach of contract.
22.1 No waiver of or delay or failure by the Seller to exercise any rights or remedies shall prejudice or preclude any future or further exercise thereof.
22.2 If any provision of these conditions shall be held invalid or unenforceable in whole or in part then the unaffected provision (or part of the provision, as the case may be) shall remain in full force and effect. Headings appear for convenience only and shall not affect the construction of these conditions.
22.3 Nothing in these conditions shall create a partnership, agency or relationship of employment between the parties.
22.4 Except as otherwise provided in this Contract, a person who is not a party to this Contract shall have no right pursuant to the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 (the "Act") to enforce any terms of the Contract. Any right or remedy which exists or is available apart from the Act is not affected.
22.5 The parties agree that any disputes arising or in any way connected with the subject matter of these conditions and any Contract (whether of a contractual or tortious nature or otherwise) shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law and the Buyer and the Seller agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts in relation to any matter or dispute (whether contractual or tortious) which may arise between them.


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Saudi-French venture turns down contract to supply US forces in Iraq
Popular opposition in Saudi Arabia to the US-led invasion of neighboring Iraq has clearly been underestimated by the Bush administration. In the kingdom where all public demonstrations are prohibited, more and more Saudi firms opt to express their resentment by turning down lucrative contracts to supply and support coalition troops fighting in Iraq.
The latest to reject such an offer was Saudi dairy giant Al-Safi Danone, who announced Saturday, April 5, that it would not support the war in any way. The value of the potential contract to supply provisions to the coalition forces was unspecified.
Last week, a Saudi firm providing transport services in the Northern part of the kingdom turned down a 240.5 million Saudi riyal ($64 million) contract offered by the US army, to provide the coalition forces operating in Iraq with 1,300 trucks.
The unidentified company, based in Hafer Al-Batin, a Saudi town close to both the Iraqi and Kuwaiti borders, was reportedly loath to supply US and British troops with vehicles to transport weapons and machinery into Iraq.
Al-Safi group of companies, which operates the largest integrated dairy farms in the world, with two neighboring farms covering more than 7,500 hectares altogether and 32,000 cows. A subsidiary of Al-Faisaliah Group, the 16th largest group in Saudi Arabia, Al-Safi merged with the French dairy giant Danone in 2000. — (menareport.com)
© 2003 Mena Report (www.menareport.com)

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Round 6: The shorter fighter backs his 6-foot-2-inch opponent into the corner and pummels him with right and left hooks straight into the rib cage. The beanpole boxer has his hands up around his head, protecting the most vital body part used in this sport: the brain. He was afraid this would happen. His opponent has a mean left hook, and as he had said before the fight, because of his height, when he protects his head, the rest of his body is left open, lit white by the spotlight overhead.
In front of a crowd of 720 baying fans at The Scala nightclub in central London (which as you read this, hosts the U.K. Twerking Championships), Matt Read has already shaken off a big left jab two rounds ago that rocked him back and involuntarily forced his hands up to his temples in an attempt to turn his spinning mind back on an even keel. And now the blows are raining down on his pale rib cage and his kidneys, and large red welts are visible from the VIP bar on the third-floor balcony above the ring. Someone in the crowd shouts, "It's not worth it!"
One punch does it, and Read goes down. The referee counts, and Read looks up at him, half-dazed, but imploring him that he's OK. He is, and comes back fighting, realizing that if he doesn't go on the offensive he could be knocked on his ass again. The end of the round comes with a Klaxon and a roar from the crowd, and both men retreat to their corners, where their seconds towel them down, feed them water, and bait them with tactical advice and shouts of encouragement.
The referee beckons them back into the middle of the ring and, breathing heavily, sweat dripping off their bodies, they take their seats. Read moves his pawn a step forward, matched by his opponent, and shortly there's a flurry of piece exchanges that leaves both men severely diminished and exhausted.
Chessboxing is exactly what it sounds like: chess but with boxing. Two fighters — usually men, though women have done it — step into a ring with all the pomp and circumstance of the most self-assured professional fighter. The bell rings, they sit down in the center of the ring, and play four minutes of speed chess against the clock. The competitors wear bulky headphones to drown out the sound of the crowd, whose members watch the in-ring action unfold on giant screens above. Once the four minutes are up, the fighters retreat to their corners while the ring crew scurries around, setting the board out of harm's way. Gloves are donned, and boxing, which lasts three minutes per round, begins. This repeats for 11 rounds, or until one fighter passes out, runs out of total chess-playing time (12 minutes), or is checkmated.
Many people may know about chessboxing via the Wu-Tang Clan, whose "Da Mystery of Chessboxin'" was inspired by a 1979 kung fu film, Mystery of Chessboxing, also known as Ninja Checkmate, that RZA and GZA watched as teenagers on Saturday morning UHF TV broadcasts. (The movie's villain is called the Ghost Faced Killer, which also made an impression.) Though both of these cultural reference points can claim a role in the genesis of chessboxing, it's more as a ur-meme, inventing the name and implanting the general concept that mixing chess and boxing would be cool in people's minds, rather than any of the particulars. The sport's actual origins are arguably stranger.
In 2003, a Dutch performance artist in his late twenties named Iepe Rubingh took the idea for chessboxing from a sci-fi graphic novel called Froid Équateur ("Cold Equator"), written in 1992 by a Franco-Yugoslav artist named Enki Bilal. In it, millionaire fighter John-Elvis Johnelvisson slugs away with the enigmatic Loopkin. Bilal's vision of chessboxing is dark, dystopian; by the end of the bout, both men are battered and beaten, their eyes white pinpricks underneath heavy, bloody brows.
"I remember there was this sketch," Rubingh explains, calling from a Berlin park in midsummer. "The people fight, then play a grandmaster game of chess. And I just… It clicked." Rubingh and a Dutch lawyer called Jean-Louis Fainstra had been going to boxing training together, and were eager to have their first bout against each other. "I said to him that if we're going to fight, we're going to do a chessboxing fight," Rubingh says. Fainstra was dumbfounded by the suggestion, but went along with it. Rubingh gained funding from Dutch arts organizations to put on the show.
The club that agreed to host the bout — Paradiso, on de Weteringschans — was once a church that became a squat for hippies in the late 1960s. In the absence of the creepy environs of the graphic novel, Paradiso, with its barrel roof, overhanging balconies, and large stained glass windows, was the next best venue, in Rubingh's opinion. The practicalities also changed slightly from its graphic novel origins: The bout time was shortened, and rules were written up in concert with the Dutch chess and boxing associations.
"We had Dutch TV there, German TV, Japanese, French TV," Rubingh recalls. "We had an official press conference. And we were saying, 'OK, people really want to see this.'"
All told, the November 2003 novelty match drew 1,200 spectators to Amsterdam to watch Rubingh and Fainstra chessbox for 11 rounds. Rubingh, fighting as the self-anointed "Joker," won and became the world chessboxing champion by default.
Though it retains that fantastical, somewhat absurd veneer, in the intervening decade, chessboxing has managed to evolve. Rubingh estimates there are maybe 500 people worldwide actively involved in competition under his umbrella organization, the World Chessboxing Organization (WCBO); 125 alone are members of the Berlin chessboxing club where he now trains. There's a club in China, in India, in Italy; South Africa, Australia, and Russia chessbox, as does Bulgaria. Absurdly, Iran (where pro boxing is banned) recently opened its own affiliate. The Los Angeles Chessboxing Club, which claims no official affiliation, held its first event in New York this summer at the famous Gleason's boxing gym, butting up against NYC ChessBoxing, a club set up in March.
Each regional or national organization comes together much in the same way: One dedicated guy sees or hears about the sport and gets the bug. (YouTube, and the ability to remotely watch chessboxing bouts from Croydon to Calcutta, Tehran to Tbilisi, has helped spread the sport.) The organization draws together a group of like-minded people, and begins small, with members training at local gyms. Eventually, they graduate to promoting their own shows. (India's chessboxing organization was founded by Montu Das, a former kickboxer. His second tournament held in July attracted 200 potential fighters.) Then a club applies for accreditation with the WCBO.
But Rubingh wants to raise barriers to entry, and generally to smarten up his sport. The performance artist has become a tycoon, promoting events and legitimizing chessboxing. The world championships will be held next week in Moscow under the banner of a new brand name, Chess Boxing Global (CBG). Rubingh's making the leap to turn his 10-year-old art project into a mainstream sport. He has secured investments from Enki Bilal, chessboxing's accidental progenitor, and Soundcloud founder Eric Wahlforss, to build the group internationally. The WCBO is offering €1,500 purses (a little over $2,000) for prizefights.
"We filter," Rubingh explains. To pass muster, fights must be organized with a degree of professionalism; the fighters themselves must meet certain standards in chess and have boxed for a year.
And with this attempt to become legit comes casualties. "We decided to cut loose the London Chessboxing Organization, because it couldn't live up to WCBO standards," he explains. "Don't get me wrong, I respect everybody that steps into the ring because I did it myself. But I think the quality of the sport and the image of the sport is also being damaged by such events, which are more of an entertainment. We have a lot of people training, but fighting — fighting seriously — there's only a very small, dedicated group."
The Islington Amateur Boxing Club, a red tin hut on the fringes of a rabbit warren housing estate, is the part-time home of London Chessboxing, the now-unofficial U.K. outpost of the sport. No amount of PR work could portray the surroundings as anything but shabby, which may go some way to explaining why London was cut out by Rubingh.
"The sport tends to attract people who don't follow convention," says Read on the morning of his fight. The walls of the boxing club are lined with pictures of prizefighters, young and old, looking battered, at times bloody, but always resplendent in victory. They hold the typical fighters' posture: hands up near the face in a boxing pose, looking tough for the camera.
Read doesn't look like any of the people in the pictures. He doesn't look like your typical boxer — because he isn't. (He was given his ring name, "Crazy Arms," because, as he says, "My left arm and my right arm don't seem to have any communication: One turns in a slightly larger arc than the other, and at different speeds.")
Read runs a chess shop on the classy Baker Street in London, and works for CHESS Magazine. He handles the chess side of the training, leaving the boxing tuition to 41-year-old Anthony Wright, a gap-toothed, squat bull of a man who looks like he could break you in an instant but chooses not to. Both men learn from each other, and are typical of the roster of world chessboxers: You're either a boxer who's picked up chess, or a chess player who has come to boxing. (Certainly, they're not in it for the money: Purses for a world title fight in London don't go beyond about $540, or approximately €400; first-timers get less than $100, or about €70, for their efforts, roughly double the cost of a standard standing ticket to see the fight, and a fraction of WCBO payouts.)
One day Wright saw two men training at the Islington Boxing Club, flailing their arms around in a weak imitation of punches. A superior boxer, Wright walked up to them and started giving them advice for their sparring sessions. One of them was Tim Woolgar, a former television executive who had seen a chessboxing event in continental Europe and was just mad enough to decide he'd bring the sport to the U.K. And since that day, a magnetic yellow-and-black demonstration chessboard has hung on the wall, next to one of the 13 punching bags that line the perimeter of the Islington Boxing Club.
Woolgar denies that there is bad blood following Rubingh's decision to cut London loose — but the split certainly wasn't amicable. According to him, to be part of the WCBO, you have to give up 75.1% of your business to the organizing body. Woolgar wasn't willing to.
"Clearly that wasn't acceptable," Woolgar says. "When they didn't have a chessboxing scene in Germany, we carried the flag for years" as the sport found its feet. "They didn't appreciate that. But it's just the way things go."
Woolgar continues: "[Rubingh's] vision is creating this superman of world sport," he explains. "It's very theoretical, very Germanic. It's not grounded in reality. I know what audiences like; for him, entertainment was never a factor."
"It's two different shows," explains Nick Cornish over the sound of yapping bulldogs (he breeds them, and nearly didn't pick up the phone, thinking it was another person looking for a puppy) on a dark November night. Cornish is unique: He's one of the few people who has fought both for London chessboxing and one of Rubingh's WCBO-accredited events.
"The U.K. one is more cabaret style — more of a jovial, carnival atmosphere, and the interlude acts," he says. "You get an eclectic audience, not a boxing spit-and-sawdust audience — intellectuals, arty types. In Germany you see it's very serious, well-organized, everything's taken care of."
Cornish, who was introduced to the sport in his late thirties by Matt Read, was singled out by Rubingh as perhaps the only U.K.-based chessboxer he'd pick up for his WCBO events, and Cornish jumped at the chance. The hypercompetitive nature appealed to him, and four months before his bout, he began training in earnest.
"I literally trained every day with pros and amateur boxers," he says. He'd go for miles-long runs in the mornings and hit the gym at night. He'd fall asleep at work, shattered from the preparation. "Not everyone [in the U.K.] trains as hard as I do, and you can see that in the matches. Not everyone has the time or dedication to do that, combined with a job. I happen to be one of those guys who does."
Now, pushing 40, by his own admission, he worries that competing again for Rubingh's troupe is probably past him. "There was a time when I was desperate for that."
Round 9: The chessboard is set up in the middle of the ring, and Read and his opponent, Chris Levy, sit down, sweat covering their bodies. Taped hands pick up pieces and move them in a flurry — both men have less than a minute left on the clocks that count down the time they're allotted to make their chess moves — as the crowd shouts encouragements.
Though Read's an experienced chess player, the lights, the environment, and the feeling of sound waves hitting the fine hairs on your skin, even if you can't hear the shouts themselves, get the better of him.
The in-ring temperature under the spotlights can reach 90 degrees Fahrenheit; heart rates can rise well beyond normal levels. Read has spent many of the prior rounds being knocked from pillar to post by Levy. By his own estimation, based on prior experience, for the first 30 seconds or so of each chess round, you're not fully focused; your mind is still adjusting from brutality to brainpower.
It makes the next move seem more reasonable. Read's left his queen open for the taking. In a second, it's gone, and the moves become more frenetic. Each man's move clock drops below 30 seconds, then 15, then the referee steps in.
Due to a technicality involving a piece position being repeated three times, the match is over. It's a draw. The crowd boos.
Both men explode. Competitive spirit and a desire to entertain commingle. Bravado takes over; Read stalks the ring, shouting, "I want another round." His opponent's just as insistent. After a brief discussion, the emcee comes over the microphone: Both men will fight one more round — of boxing — to decide a winner.
The chessboard's hurried away, gloves are fitted.
"Seconds out, round 10," comes the shout over the speakers.
Both rush out of their corners, swinging like men who know they haven't got much more to give.
Attending the fight is Ray Keene, Britain's first representative to achieve a grandmaster result, a title awarded to chess players of a particular proficiency, back in 1974. He holds an Order of the British Empire, awarded by the royal household for services to the country — in his case, chess. He covers chess for several national newspapers and has written more books on chess than years he's lived. And he attends chessboxing matches.
He's 65, and in the time it takes to drag his heavyset body up The Scala's seemingly endless flights of stairs toward the restroom, he's breathing heavily, barely audible above the muffled music of the fan dancer entertaining fans between fights. Her speciality is stubbing out cigars on her tongue. Keene boxed in his youth, he tells me, and obviously played chess. Would he have partaken in chessboxing when younger? Winded, he replies quietly, "Not the boxing bit, no."
But the old grandmaster is impressed: The chess is good — "it's club player standard," he points out — and it's "absolutely" a boon for chess in general. "It's what draws in younger players."
Rubingh sees chess' popularity as being key to chessboxing's potential success: According to him, 500 million people worldwide know the rules of the game. "That's our potential fan base," he says. Fourteen- and fifteen-year-olds train at his Berlin club. The next step is to try to hook children half that age. "They are the chessboxers of the future."
But here lies the problem with attracting kids, and with the sport in general: Chess itself is a harmless pastime — less so once you add all the head trauma. There is always the risk of injury. The British Medical Association has been voicing its opposition to boxing for over 30 years and is actively trying to get the sport banned, worried about chronic brain damage and the onset of the likes of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. Since 1984, the American Medical Association has warned of boxing's dangers; Australia's national medical body reaffirmed its opposition to the sport six years ago.
Those who come to chessboxing from a chess background know they need their faculties: to memorize the best responses to a particular opening, to travel five moves into the future, to forecast their opponent's mentality and likely moves, and to plan a strategy that brings them the checkmate. That ability gets diminished every time you take a hit to the head.
Surprisingly, some believe the sport could have health benefits. Many chessboxers, in describing it, speak of the difficulty in managing your adrenaline in transitioning from a round of boxing to a round of chess. "Oxygen's going into your muscles, not into your brain," says Rubingh of his struggles on the board. There are hopes that applying a chessboxer's mastery of his body — the ability to tamp down aggression and to think in the fug of battle — to medical research could help those with behavior problems.
Andrew McGregor, the founder of the Los Angeles Chessboxing Club and a former war photojournalist, wants to see if soldiers suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can find solace in the squared circle. He took up the sport when he returned from a particularly difficult reporting trip in Democratic Republic of the Congo. "I couldn't feel emotions," he begins. "It got me emotionally realigned. It lets you be angry; it's a safe forum to go wild, but also with the chess you have to learn to calm your Jedi self. That's the art of the sport: doing chess under extreme duress. It's a tool that can help people."
Regulating emotions and switching between active violence and passive consideration of the chessboard are two elements a good chessboxer needs. Both, scientists say, could have meaningful real-world applications. Chessboxers have to quickly dissociate themselves from what has gone before: They can't worry about their last chess move when their opponent is swinging punches at them; similarly, they can't let their adrenaline overrule their head on the chessboard. For veterans or those with a quick temper, chessboxing could be dissociation training that allows them to neutralize any bad or aggressive thoughts.
Round 10: Spurred on by the crowd's roar, the two men go hell for leather in the final bonus round. Read lives up to his Crazy Arms nickname, swinging wildly and sometimes at thin air. Precision and dexterity go out the window: This is a clobbering contest.
Knowing they won't have to calm down again for a subsequent round of chess, and not thinking about tomorrow morning, both men repeatedly land heavy blows on each other. But neither of them goes down for the count.
The noise doesn't stop for the full three minutes, with several in the audience shouting themselves hoarse. Suddenly the spotlights feel a little brighter, the room a little warmer; everyone takes a half-step closer to the action, sucked in by the excitement.
When the Klaxon goes and the referee splits the two fighters, huge cheers (and a few plastic pint glasses of beer) go up. The decision is turned over to the judges: They have to determine who landed the most clean blows.
Read ends up winning his fight on points, 4-3. Both men are spent — they practically prop each other up when hugging after the match, and Read's hand barely makes it beyond his shoulders when raised by the referee.
"Chessboxing has something very unique that's not represented in any other sport," Rubingh says from Berlin. "You need mental and physical strength in one discipline." And, presumably, under one umbrella body.
"There's nothing wrong with being serious, but Iepe's always had that slightly uptight attitude," Woolgar, the man who brought chessboxing to the U.K., tentatively explains. "What's integral is that Corinthian spirit" — keeping chessboxing rooted in its history as a cooperative.
Cut from the WCBO, Woolgar has ploughed his own furrow. His more fun-loving branch set up its own licensing body, the World Chessboxing Association (WCBA), welcoming affiliates from Italy, Russia, and Spain. It'll crown its own world champion in 2014. The committed part-timers may have brought chessboxing through its early years to a firm footing, but in Rubingh's vision of chessboxing, they're not needed anymore.
But Woolgar worries that the charm of the sport will be lost along the way. "I liken it to the difference between volleyball and beach volleyball," he says. "Volleyball purists would say that beach volleyball isn't a sport, but which packs in the audiences? I'd like it if chessboxing takes off in a way that beach volleyball did: People thought it was fun, they could engage with it, it's not an arm's-length sport. We want you to come along, shout, scream, and get involved."
"We're creating the smartest, toughest man on the planet," Rubingh counters. "If we do it well, if we raise the quality, we get out with the product with TV sponsorship," there is potential for chessboxing beyond a humid nightclub in London. Rubingh's thinking stadium events. He draws a comparison with biathlon, a niche Olympic sport, but popular in Germany and Scandinavia. "It's humongously popular. It's on TV. It's heavily sponsored." That's the end goal: the Olympics. That's the future.
I ask Rubingh what he thinks makes a particularly good fighter. He pauses to think for a moment.
"You have to be cold-blooded."
After the bout, Read walks through the crowd through a set of double doors and down four steps. He crosses the main bar, where a few parched patrons had leaned up against the bar to beat the crowd that would flow through between fights, and ducks behind the curtain into the changing room. He and Levy smile, hug, and talk a little about the fight.
"I'm only 33," he says, eyes rolling up to the top of his head as he tries to recall his age, "34 this year, so maybe I have a couple more [fights in me]. When I first started in the sport, I was good. Very good chess, reasonable boxing. That was good enough to win my first five fights, then I lost my last two — in quite horrible style. Similar to what you saw there, except I didn't land any. I just took them all, and took them harder."
By now he's unwrapping tape from his wrists and forearms, and has slumped back onto the black leather couch at one side of the room. He draws his forearm across his forehead to remove the sweat, and runs his fingers through his hair, matted down with perspiration to his skull. He starts undoing the laces on his right boxing boot, and slips his foot out of it.
"Anthony's a great coach, he's given me my experience, he's given me my confidence back to take on better guys, and Chris is a top chess player like myself, and, well, you can see — I've got damage. He hits hard."
Read looks down at the open scratch by the front of his left armpit, then paws at the back of his ribs, red and raw from punches. They look painful and distracting when it comes to playing the chess rounds.
"Oh god," he cries. "I felt I played badly, I lost a pawn early on, didn't really have any counterplay." He's slowly undoing the laces on his left black boot, unfurling his fists in a labored fashion. "But I did manage to take his time right down, which meant that basically I was fine for, you know, trying to get into a better position, which forces us back to the boxing."
Read looks me dead in the eye: "I didn't want to lose in the chess. I'd rather have been knocked out, broken ribs, something like that, than to lose in the chess. There's a lot of shame to lose in chess." It's not a sentiment, staring at his sheer exhaustion, that I'm sure I can agree with — but it's admirable nonetheless.
By now people have realized Read's left boot is going nowhere. He may have gone 10 rounds with a closely matched opponent, but the battle against his footwear is one fight too far. Someone comes over and loosens the laces. Read wiggles his left leg, but the foot isn't coming out of its boot. The second now grabs the boot, lifts Read's leg up, and pulls with all his might. For a while nothing happens. Read leans back on the leather couch and braces himself against the backrest. With a final pull, the boot comes free. Read relaxes his body and breathes out with a half-sigh. I ask him how he's going to feel tomorrow.
He laughs and looks at me.
"Crap, I imagine," he says. "But for this evening I'm going to feel like a million dollars. Because that's the beauty of this sport. It really does allow the adrenaline to get through all the worst knocks and scrapes. Tomorrow morning will be a different matter."


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This links to my paper, first presented to the New America Foundation in Washington DC, US on 29-30 September 2013, on the experience of academics involved in media and communications policy reviews in Australia during 2011-13. It is about to be published in the (open access) Journal of Information Policy.
Convergent Media Policy
Written by Terry Flew on October 26, 2013
At the European Communications Research and Education Association (ECREA) annual meeting of the Communications Law & Policy division, I presented my paper on Convergent Media Policy.
The presentation is here:
The conference was at the University of Salford at MediaCityUK. This is the new headquarters for BBC North, and where the BBC's production facilities are located for sport, radio and children's programming.
I discovered that the pros and cons of the MediaCity development are widely debated, and there is some unhappiness
Academics and Activists in the Policy Process
Written by Terry Flew on September 30, 2013
My paper to be presented to the New America Foundation 2013 by-invitation event "The Role of Advocacy in Media and Telecom Policy" can be found here. The paper is titled "Academics and Activists in the Policy Process: Engagement with Australian Media Inquiries 2011-13", and the abstract is below:
After its narrow re-election in June 2010, the Australian Labor government undertook a series of public inquiries into reform of Australian media, communications and copyright laws. One important driver of policy reform was


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Postgame Notes: #5 South Florida 2, Michigan 1
Aug. 24, 2012
The match was the first in the tenure of new head coach Chaka Daley.
Four Wolverines made their career debuts in the match in Luke Coulson, James Murphy, T.J. Roehn and Colin McAtee.
Michigan falls to 8-5 in season openers since the program's inception and 1-1 on the road against nationally ranked opponents all-time in openers.
Junior Dylan Mencia's score in the 46th minute was the first of his career.
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Lakes Region homes
Squam River Landing will hold ribbon cutting
ASHLAND — Developers of the new Squam River Landing residential community located in the heart of the Lakes Region will host a ribbon cutting on June 27 from 4 to 7 p.m. to celebrate the construction phase of the 61-home development.
Phase I of construction is comprised of 24 home sites ranging in price from $110,000 for wooded sites, and $265,000 for lake view sites. The homestyles featured in the Squam River Landing marketing materials pay homage to the Squam Lakes region cottages and camps of yesteryear, ranging in size from 1,400- to 2,000- square feet.
The home design and construction methods will be Energy Star compliant and LEED and NAHB Green eligible. The development offers lake access through the Riveredge Marina and Squam River landing Boat ClubThe development team is comprised of owners Barry Gaw, Alan Altman and Theodore Altman. Gaw is founding member of Sippican Partners LLC, the development manager for the project. A resident of a Holderness whose family spent summers in the region in the 1960s and 1970s, Gaw is also a director on the board of The Squam Lakes Association. In a recent interview, Gaw discussed the project and the uniqueness of the Squam Lakes community.
"New Hampshire is unique within New England, and the Squam watershed is unique within the Lakes Region, with its connection to history and to strength of the communities," he said.
The project's master plan seeks to balance economic development with sustainable growth and housing. The project will create 5,000 short-term construction jobs and 16 permanent jobs, and will allow Riveredge Marina to expand its workforce to include residential property management.The property, a total of 65 acres, was acquired in 2007, just as an economic recession was setting in. "During the recession, we tried to figure out what we could learn from this watershed community, what would be the ideal type of housing," he said.
What developers learned was larger homes were not necessarily better.
The homes, priced at an average 60 percent of the price for a Squam-area waterfront home, offers value as well. Home models vary in size and price in Phase I from $225 to $325 per square foot, depending upon size, quality, scope and complexity. The Discovery Home, a completed model with 2,400 square feet, starts at $547,200. The development will have a community trail system and a limited homeowners association with on-site property management.Squam River Landing's ribbon cutting is June 27, from 4 to 7 p.m., at the Riveredge Marina, 283 River St., Ashland. For more information, call 968-7711 or go to squamlanding.com.


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Special-Tea: Matthew 6:19–34 -- For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. — Matthew 6:21 (NIV)
One of my most favorite places in the world is Colorado Springs. So last week when I heard about the wildfire raging in Black Forest, just north of there, I checked the updates online several times a day.
Jerry Jenkins, co-author of the bestselling "Left Behind" novels, and his wife, Dianna, were at what he calls his writing cave 85 miles to the west, where they could see the smoke. Imagine an inferno in the Pittsburgh area so humongous the smoke could be seen in northern Indiana County!
But Jerry wasn't worried about his home in Black Forest, a block from the mandatory evacuation zone. "It's just stuff," he said on Facebook. "Heavy emotion but enjoying the peace that passes understanding. Just don't care about stuff as long as everyone's safe."
When the fire was finally 100-percent contained nine days after it began, more than 500 homes were gone, 16,000 acres destroyed, thousands displaced (meaning "homeless"), and two lives lost.
Those who had to evacuate in the first few hours had little time to prepare. One woman tossed things in a laundry basket, including her 6-year-old daughter's favorite blanket, a laptop computer, a jewelry box and some family heirlooms.
What stuff would you throw in a laundry basket? Or, if you were miles away, helpless to save your home and possessions, would you have the "peace that passes all understanding" (Philippians 4:7)?
What would I grab? The firebox? My laptop? External hard drive? My jewelry box? My backup CDs? My Kindles? The truck keys?
I know one thing — if my husband were asleep on the couch or my children or grandchildren were in the house, I wouldn't even think about anything else. Like Jerry said, "It's just stuff."
But stuff grows on me, and I justify my attachment to it, especially stuff I've spent a lifetime working hard for. Could I honestly say, "It's just stuff" and mean it?
Case in point: We finally replaced our 16-year-old Explorer this past week with a brand new, ruby-red F-150 Supercab. Our new baby. The whisk broom I bought and tucked in the door compartment came in handy when I took my 6-year-old grandson to his baseball game.
He slid into base at least once, collided with other players on the field and rolled around in the dirt twice. And got swept off before I buckled him in. I had thought about stopping for ice cream after the game, but decided I could make us sundaes when we got home.
But it's just a truck. In time I'll stop whisking the floor every time I drive it. I won't notice every piece of grass on the carpet, and I won't cringe when I see the dirt in the cleats of my grandson's baseball shoes.
Stuff doesn't last forever. It's given to us to use, not worship.
"Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also," Jesus said.
Where is your heart?
With your stuff? Or with the people you love?
Lord, remind me as many times as I need it, that it's just stuff. Amen.


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"It's just clicking for us right now," said UCLA coach Jillian Ellis. "I thought all 11 players stepped up and were committed tonight. And I'm not just talking about the starters. This was a complete team effort, and I'm just so happy that we were able to advance to another College Cup."
Despite surrendering their first goal of the NCAA Tournament when Duke's KayAnne Gummersall canceled out McCall Zerboni's goal, the Bruins showed no signs of being rattled. Cheney put UCLA ahead by heading in a corner kick from Lauren Wilmoth, and Christina DiMartino followed with a 30-yard blast just before halftime.
UCLA pounded the Duke for 27 shots in the game and forced goalie Cassidy Powers into 13 saves, 10 in the first half.
Junior Kristina Larsen was the star of the second 45 minutes of play, scoring her team-leading 12th and 13th goals of the season. Bruin sophomore Dana Wall capped the scoring for UCLA in the 72nd minute with her first goal of the season.
"We got very hesitant tonight," said Duke coach Robbie Church. "We gave up more set play goals that we have all year. A lot of that goes to UCLA's experience. I've seen a lot of the teams in the Final Four and this UCLA team is as good a team as I've seen in the country. I wouldn't bet against them next week in Cary."
Nov. 29 in Los Angeles
UCLA 6 Duke 1. Goals: Zerboni (Wright, Barnes) 5, Cheney (Wilmoth) 18, DiMartino (Mac Kechnie) 44, Larsen 59, Larsen (Lang, Cheney) 62, Wall (Williams) 72; Gummersall (Miller, Quinn) 15.
UCLA -- Thompson, Barnes, Wilmoth, Hardy, Cook, DiMartino, Zerboni, Lang, Wright, Cheney, Larsen. Subs: Dimmitt, Williams, Mathis, Mac Kechnie, Kleinert, Calvert, Zadro, Belcher, Britt, Wall, Sharpe.
Duke -- Powers, G.Miller, Alukonis, FitzGerald, McDonald, McCann, Quinn, Redmond, Kreger, Gummersall, Hathorn. Subs: Allen, Kramer, Goodman, Newman, Bradley, Lester, Canepa, Pappas.
Referee: Martik Mirikian.
Att.: 1,797.


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March 27, 2012
By Brian Davis, Assistant Media Relations Director
KNOXVILLE, Tenn.- A first-inning RBI single off the bat of junior first baseman Melissa Brown proved enough to back a one-hit, complete game shutout from junior pitcher Ivy Renfroe as the #9 Tennessee Lady Vol softball team (24-7) picked up a 1-0 victory in game one of a Tuesday doubleheader against Furman at Lee Softball Stadium.
Renfroe allowed just three base runners, two via walks, and carried a no-hitter into the top of the seventh before permitting a two-out single to left by Paladin designated player Lauren Collier.
At the plate Lady Vol junior first baseman Melissa Brown guided the way for the Big Orange offense with a 2-for-3 effort and the eventual game-winning RBI. Junior third baseman Raven Chavanne was 1-for-3 while tallying the winning run in the first inning.
After a quick one-two-three top of the first for Furman against Renfroe, Tennessee's offense jumped in front on the scoreboard in the bottom half. A lead-off bunt single and stolen base by Chavanne placed the Lady Vol speedster in scoring position with none retired. Following a pop-up and a line-out that threatened to de-rail the frame, junior second baseman Lauren Gibson walked, joining her teammate on the base paths. Brown stepped into the batter's box and laced a single through the infield as Chavanne scored easily from second to make it 1-0.
Tennessee received a lead-off walk from senior designated player Shelby Burchell in the top of the second and a frame-opening base hit from Brown to begin the fourth but couldn't string together anything against Furman starter Hannah Bradley.
The Paladins finally recorded their initial base runner with one down in the top of the fifth as second baseman Emily Boyer walked against Renfroe to break a string of 13 consecutive batters retired. She didn't stay on the base paths for long, however, as third baseman Natalie Clemmons hit a shot back to the circle that was fielded on a hop by UT's 6-0 right hander. The pitcher turned and started an inning-ending 1-6-3 double play as sophomore shortstop Madison Shipman nabbed Renfroe's throw and fired on to Brown at first.
With Furman down to one final chance in the bottom of the seventh, center fielder Nikki Legg attempted to get the Paladins off to a quick start with a sharp liner into the hole between third and short. Chavanne moved quickly to her left and made an incredible diving catch, keeping Legg off the base paths. That proved a huge play in the end as first baseman Jessie Homesley walked with two down, and then designated player Lauren Collier broke-up Renfroe's no-hit bid via a base knock blooped into left. With two on and two down, Boyer hit a bouncer right back to the circle that UT's hurler fielded easily before tossing on to first to conclude the UT win.


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— ZUFFA, owner of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), released following statement today in regards to lightweight fighter Nate Diaz. Diaz has been suspended over using a derogatory, homophobic slur on Twitter earlier this week:
UFC lightweight Nate Diaz has received an immediate 90-day suspension and $20,000 fine for violating the UFC's fighter code of conduct. The language used in his tweet was regrettable, offensive and inconsistent with the values and culture of the organization, and is not tolerated.
The money will be donated to charity.
— The weigh-ins for UFC on F/X 8 were held today, and all main card fighters successfully made weight. Preliminary card fighter John Cholish came in slightly over in his first attempt but dropped 0.2 pounds to get to 156 within his allotted hour.
During the weigh-ins, Vitor Belfort and Luke Rockhold got into a shoving match when Belfort stepped up to Rockhold during the face-off and Rockhold did the same. Belfort shoved Rockhold and Marshall Zelaznik and other UFC officials quickly separated them. The full weigh-ins are below:
Vitor Belfort (186) vs. Luke Rockhold (186)
Chris Camozzi (186) vs. Ronaldo Souza (186)
Rafael dos Anjos (156) vs. Evan Dunham (156)
Rafael Natal (186) vs. Joao Zeferino (185)
Hacran Dias (146) vs. Nik Lentz (146)
Mike Rio (156) vs. Francisco Trinaldo (154)
John Cholish (156) vs. Gleison Tibau (156)
Michel Prazeres (171) vs. Paulo Thiago (170)
Yuri Alcantara (136) vs. Iliarde Santos (134)
Roger Hollett (204) vs. Fabio Maldonado (205)
Azamat Gashimov (126) vs. John Lineker (126)
Chris Cariaso (126) vs. Jussier Formiga (126)
Jeremy Larsen (155) vs. Lucas Martins (153)
Who cares about UFC!! It's a TNA news site not a TNA & UFC News site!!!
No body cares.
BUT I did read the first half of the article out of boredom. So fucking what if he posted something on Twatter? I DON'T EVEN MAKE $20,000/YEAR WORKING A $10/HOUR 40 HOUR/WEEK JOB, BUT YOU'RE GOING TO FINE HIM THAT MUCH FOR TYPING A WORD ON THE INTERNET? Piss off!!!!!!!!!!
This is tna not UFC
Why is this on this site when it has absolutely nothing to do with TNA?
UFC is actually good at times, also maybe because wwe fanboys ,, only think wwe is the only sport out there
big brother is watching
Since we're posting non-TNA news..did you hear about the painting of a nude Bea Arthur that auctioned off for nearly 2 million bucks? Oh it's real…it's damn real.
A select few wrestlers are responsible for the two being connected. I am a fan of both so don't see the problem ;p
Why does they post this ?


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All right another of those questions about painting the '46 Panel.
Got the everything primed and ready for sanding, I did find a couple of flaws that need to be taken care of first, not a problem. But then comes the questions.
Do I get the interior started pretty good then paint or the opposite?? Next question, I'm going to do all the door jams and inside of doors first and remount the doors for a two tone outer paint job. Now I still need to get all the windows for the truck so, Paint first then glass or glass then paint?? Just need to have priorities in the right order ya understand LOL
Thanks again for all the info you folks have helped me with on this first time paint job
Do the interior last, you don't want to get paint on it and you don't want the extra work of masking everything up. Paint the door jams and the inside of the doors first, then paint the truck and add the windows last. Windows are the same as the interior, you don't want the extra work of masking and cleaning. You need to ge careful when installing the windows, put masking tape where the glass might come in contact with the paint.
Oh yeah, one more tip....when you primed your truck you should have acted as if it was paint. What I mean by this is use the opportunity to figure out what spray pattern, which sections your going to paint first, and what sections you are going to paint last. This helps with finding out where you need to be careful spraying so you don't create extra work (drips, etc..).
Good Luck
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