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Non-Executive Director
|Job Title:
|Non-Executive Director
|Contract Type:
|Community Academies Trust (CAT)
|Contact Name:
|Academy Ambassadors
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|Job Published:
|May 24, 2018 11:52
Job Description
Community Academies Trust (CAT)
Community Academies Trust (CAT) based in Staffordshire is looking to recruit up to four new nonexecutive directors who share its passion for outstanding community education and its drive to make a difference for young people. The trust currently consists of 15 academies. Board meetings rotate across all academies which are located in Warwick, Stratford upon Avon, Telford, Lichfield and Tamworth.
About the Trust
Community Academies Trust (CAT) was established in 2012 by The Polesworth Secondary School (rated Outstanding by Ofsted in 2008 and 2015) and Birchwood Primary School (rated Outstanding by Ofsted in 2014). The trust currently consists of five secondary schools and ten primary schools.
The trust's growth strategy has been to build hubs. There are three hubs which are located in the West Midlands and are locally governed so that the vision and values of the trust are lived in the local communities. The hubs are in Tamworth and Lichfield (six academies), Warwick and Stratford (four academies), and Telford (five academies).
The CEO of the Trust was awarded an OBE in 2018 New Year Honours for services to education.
Plans for the future
The key challenges facing the Community Academies Trust are:
- Continuing to meet the challenge of supporting and transforming schools in very challenging circumstances. To continue improving its schools and responding positively to the regular approaches from the Department for Education and other schools/academies to add to its family of schools.
- The trust is constantly improving and growing including two schools currently in the pipeline to join in the next three months, a recently opened free school, currently working in partnership with two Local Authorities regarding two prospective Free Schools, two national teaching schools and mentoring three other schools to become national teaching schools.
- The trust is also a supporting organisation in the national MAT development programme and will be supporting a new large trust in the South West this year.
Trust ethos and values
Community Academies Trust has an established vision and set of values that drive everything it does which has resulted in significant achievements for schools (a mix of converter and sponsored academies) that are currently a part of its organisation. Those values have established a set of principles that are a pre requisite for all schools:
All of CAT's schools are:
- Focussed on achieving outstanding academic, personal and social outcomes for the children in the trust's care.
- Committed to the moral imperative of community school improvement and shared system leadership.
- Mutually supportive, not in competition and fiercely loyal to each other.
- Equal partners with all other schools irrespective of its phase, size or success.
- Multi-academy trust minded –schools celebrate the success of others as well as themselves and feel a shared accountability and understand where ultimate responsibilities rest.
- Financially disciplined and committed to agreed financial principles.
- Committed to fulfilling delegated responsibilities.
Role Summary
Number of Positions Advertised: 4
Roles 1-4 – Trustee/Non-Executive Director
Trustees – or non-executive directors - are both charity trustees and company directors of the academy trust; the role is to hold to account the executive and senior leadership team. The board of trustees manages the business of the academy trust and may exercise all the powers of the trust. The trustees ensure compliance with the trust's charitable objects and with company and charity law. The competencies required for this role include:
- Corporate Governance AND
- Non-executive/ Trustee
- Entrepreneur/ Founder
- Change Management
- Restructuring
- Property/ real estate
- Branding/ Marketing
- Human Resources
- CFO/Finance
- Risk
- Legal/ Compliance
Person specification
The trust welcomes applicants who support the ethos and values of the trust, with a good understanding of effective corporate governance and the role of a non-executive director. Experience and skills in any of the desirable categories listed are highly sought in order to support the responsibilities of the board through its expected and potential growth:
- Managing a budget of over £40 million.
- Working across several local authorities; accounting for a variety of previous practices.
- Dealing with the legal challenges of sponsoring and working with new schools.
- Managing the trust's large portfolio of land and buildings.
- Creating new approaches to reengineer schools so that they can remain effective and improve in a challenging financial environment.
Time commitment
4-8 Hours/month minimum
Location of Board Meetings and Trust Website
Board meetings are held on rotation in each school, the details of which can be found here:
Governance Structure
Background on Academy Trusts
Academy schools, which are charities run independently of local authority control, now account for 71% of secondary schools and 26% of primaries – and their number is growing all the time.
Many of these schools are grouped together as multi-academy trusts (MATs). There are currently 980 multi academy trusts of 2+ schools. If the schools are to fulfil their potential, the trusts need non-executives (known in charity law as trustees) to bring a wide range of skills and experience to help guide strategy, ensure their ambitions can be soundly financed and keep their schools up to the mark delivering for their pupils.
"Academy boards must be ambitious for all children and young people and infused with a passion for education and a commitment to continuous school improvement that enables the best possible outcomes. Governance must be grounded in reality as defined by both high-quality objective data and a full understanding of the views and needs of pupils/students, staff, parents, carers and local communities. It should be driven by inquisitive, independent minds and through conversations focused on the key strategic issues which are conducted with humility, good judgement, resilience and determination." Source: Governance Handbook, Department for Education (2017)
Trusteeship is a voluntary, unpaid role for people who have the energy and skills to make a real contribution to shaping the future of our schools. You do not need to have any specialist knowledge of education.
Academy Ambassadors is a non-profit programme which recruits senior business leaders and professionals as volunteer non-executive directors onto the boards of multi-academy trusts. If you are interested in applying for the role please send your CV and a short expression of interest detailing which role you are applying for to firstname.lastname@example.com. Please note candidates should live within reasonable travelling distance of the trust and/or have a link with the region. For more information, please call 0207 952 8556 or visit www.academyambassadors.org.
Key dates
We strongly recommend applying as early as you can to have the best possible chance of being considered as we may change the closing date if we have received sufficient applications. Applicants should be aware of the following key dates in the recruitment process –
Deadline for applications: Friday, June 29th
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Zeus, the father of gods and men, had a number of consorts before and after his marriage to Hera. His first lover was Metis, a Titan goddess and mother of Athena. He later married Themis, Titan goddess of tradition, with whom he had six children; the three Horai (Hours) and the three Moirai (Fates); according to some myths, the three Nymphai (Nymphs) were also children of Zeus and Themis. Afterwards, he was interested in Demeter but she resisted him. His third wife was Mnemosyne, who gave birth to the nine Muses. He was involved with Leto shortly before his marriage to Hera, and had Apollo and Artemis with her. Even after his marriage to Hera, he continued sleeping with both goddesses and mortals. The following is an indicative list of characters that Zeus consorted with:
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Three people shot downtown
In what hopefully will be the endcap to the attacks downtown over the summer, three people were shot Sunday morning after an altercation outside Mono Loco.
Shots were fired in the parking lot between the restaurant and the former H&R Block on Water Street early Sunday morning, and the victims were rushed by ambulance to the UVA Hospital just before 3am. A large grey Cadillac in the lot was the focus of police attention: the front windshield had two bullet holes, the rear right window had been smashed, and officers were assessing damage to the rear of the vehicle. The entire lot was closed off by a police barrier, with evidence markers placed at numerous other points.
The lead officer on the scene, Sergeant Shawn Bayles of the Charlottesville Police Department, said that at least one of the victims was expected to survive: "His wounds aren't very severe. The other one, I don't know," he said. By Sunday evening, two of the victims had been released and the third was in stable condition.
Bayles described the individuals involved as three black males, but declined to give further information due to the pending investigation.
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The only place for these animals is jail...
I am afraid, Joe, that there may not be enough jail cells to hold them all. Perhaps that is the ugly secret to explain why this mess doesn't get cleaned up - where will we put them? It is my opinion that they do not deserve to be fed.
Any reasonable person should cry out and stand in defiance against the threat they pose to civilization.
Why don't the people of these troublemakers take care of these people themselves? The moms and dads should be ashamed of themselves. It's making all of us look bad in the eyes of the world.
The Progress reports: "At about 2:20 a.m., the three victims - Zinele Brown, 28, Jarrett Jackson, 20, and an unnamed 19-year-old - were shot while sitting in a car in the parking lot. The incident marks the fourth time Jackson has been shot in the last two and a half years, according to police."
Well I think Jarrett is lucky to have friends willing to hang out with him. He seems to attract bullets.
Somebody needs to put in some hours at the firing range. Dude has been shot 4 times and he's still around? Each time, you know the taxpayer has footed the bill to re-assemble this parasite.
I don't miss when I aim my gun. There is no excuse for poor marksmanship.
It's their own culture, such as it is. Shame on them, indeed.
Yea Niggaz, ratta-tat-tat, cause I never hesitate to put a nigger on his back.
All dem Niggaz in the C Ville get smoked a lot.
You need to have at least one father to be born. What you mean is that the fathers split on these kids after they were born or even before. Just like mine did. I hate what some of my old friends have done with there lifes. I try to keep a job and find a good girl to marry and have kids. Why do they hate so much. Like the,sorry, white people have never done nothing to me. Why would I want to go out at night and hurt them. Or anybody for that matter?
Ben Franklin said it's not easier to do the wrong or lazy thing; in fact, it's harder in the long run (as many of us already know). It becomes easier by habit. Someone needs to be in their lives to explain this to them.
"the endcap to the attacks downtown"? How do you figure that? It's just more of the same, and worse! I read elsewhere that it's the 4th time one of them has been shot in the last 2 1/2 years - if that's true, then maybe the po-lice need to stop looking at him as a victim!
My boycott of downtown continues. In the face of continued violence, I am finding other places to walk, shop, eat, and spend my time and money.
I remember a touching news story, during the Cold War (for you youngsters, we were raised to fear the Red Menace (Communism in general and the Russians in particular. We crouched in school hallways during air raid drills, and some people built bomb shelters. Perhaps we need to have somebody to blame, somebody safe to hate. It may be true that we were misled after all.
It was an interview with a Russian citizen, an old man. "What do you think we want for this world? War? What do you think we want for our children? The same as you want for your children. The Russian people are not your enemies!"
What I would like to understand is just what kind of hell on earth do these demons and the families that continue to spawn them want for us? I know what kind of world they want for their own children, because I see they are very busy making it. Perhaps they should use their energy for some other purpose - struggle to make their way and maintain their dignity like human beings are born to do.
Plus, many of these were fatherless children. The statistics are alarming.
They're not a father just because they knock somebody up. It takes a bit more effort to earn that title. They hate because they're too lazy to work.


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No Culture of Dialogue Between the State and Religion – "European Charter for Secularism"
On June 30 MEP Marina Albiol Guzmán (GUE/NGL) and Francsico Delgado (President of the Spanish association "laicismo.org") gave a press conference in the European Parliament in which they presented a "European Charter for Secularism and Freedom of Conscience". Now they seek to find supporters for an open debate on it within the EP. In its radical vision of secularism, the Charter – which appeals to all "the countries that make up Europe" – endangers a culture of dialogue within society. The paper's argument attacks the free European societies and reveals a resolute approach against the fundamental pillars of democracies: personal freedom and responsibility, fundamental rights and the family.
Beginning with a claim for a "strict separation between the State and religious or personal beliefs", the authors of the paper state their absolutist position against a mutual dialogue with religions. In particular they criticise the Lisbon Treaty, which calls European institutions to respect and not prejudice, in virtue of the internal laws of each member state, the internal relations of these with religions or other philosophical entities and non-confessional groups.
The charter defines secularism as being based on the following principles; freedom of conscience, equal rights without privileges or discrimination, and Universal public politics. At first glance the charter seems to call for freedom of conscience, but upon closer inspection, the principle is presented in a distorted way. It is highly contradictory to first demand freedom of conscience and freedom of expression, and then to propose without hesitation a limitation of fundamental rights for confessional entities, saying that "[o]pinions (or prohibitions) of a religious type must not be taken into consideration in European legislation".
Moreover, since the authors want to "promote secularism as a movement for secularity throughout Europe", the charter proposes that any private activity related to education be excluded, and a universal European secular educational system be installed:
Civic, social, cultural and educational responsibilities derived from European politics shall be carried out by the corresponding public services and shall not be put in the hands of private entities including those dependent on religious confessions. (§3)
All European countries shall guarantee their citizens a public, democratic and secular education system, directed towards the development of the personality, freedom of conscience, equality and full citizenship through curricular content based on universal, scientific, artistic and humanistic values and excluding the presence of religious indoctrination in the curricula or symbols displayed in schools. (§6)
The authors also demand "rights" to free and legal abortion, euthanasia and assisted suicide, specific women´s rights, including sexual and reproductive health rights, and children´s rights:
The member states should also guarantee freedom of conscience so that no person is subjected to medical treatment against their will or to suffer unnecessary or degrading practices, always respecting the right of each individual to die with dignity by legalizing the right to euthanasia and assisted suicide. (§2)
The freedom of conscience for women to exercise their right to motherhood or the termination of pregnancy, within the framework of their sexual and reproductive rights, must be upheld in all European countries so that these rights may be exercised freely and in the public health sector. (§4)
Freedom of conscience among children and adolescents shall be specifically protected regardless of the ideological convictions of parents and care-takers. European laws shall consider children and adolescents as free citizens and therefore shall ensure their freedom from any coercive doctrinal or dogmatic conditioning, including sexual mutilations based on religious or supposedly cultural pretexts and from the imposition by adults of any religion, rite or ideological conviction. (§5)
To complete their radical vision for European society, the authors of the European Charter for Secularism completely neglect the European principle of subsidiarity (TEU, Art 5) and instead promulgate a universal European law that takes precedence over national laws: European law shall always prevail in terms of rights and freedoms over the national legislations of the countries of origin that limit or infringe such rights.
These highly controversial examples from the proposal for a "European Charter for Secularism" may be enough to consider it to be an anti-European, anti-freedom of religion and anti-freedom of conscience paper. Every MEP and European citizen should reject such a dangerous attempt of secularism that weakens the culture of dialogue that the Lisbon Treaty has motivated between member states and "religions or other philosophical entities and non-confessional groups". This culture of dialogue is essential for the future wellbeing of the EU, and will help to detect ideological positions that, by a twisted use of 'freedom of conscience', or by the demand for "strict separation between the State and religious or personal beliefs" result in depriving citizens of their most fundamental rights.


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A fantastic, inspiring course that has reconnected me to my creativity and introduced me to powerful artist activists who are effectively raising awareness about important social issues through art.
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This course was really helpful in understanding the significance of art in social activism, and the project was a lot of fun.
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Jun 30, 2020
I plan to go back and rewatch some guest lessons and look at the materials in the future.
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It is an excelent way to change your perspective about movements and art itself.
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Nei Appam Recipe – Ingredients
Recipe Category: Sweet | Recipe Cuisine: South Indian | Recipe Reference: Shanthis Thaligai
Raw rice – 1 cup
Jaggery – 3/4 cup
Rice Flour – 1 tbsp (optional)
Baking Soda – 1/2 tsp
Elachi powder – a generous pinch
Coconut grated – 1 tbsp (optional)
Melted Ghee / Oil – for deep frying
- Mix jaggery with water and heat it up for few mins until it is slightly thick(no consistency needs to be checked).
- Strain the syrup to remove impurities, collect it in a bowl.Heat it up and cook for few mins to make the syrup thick like honey in consistency.
- Soak rice in water for atleast 3 hours. Drain water and grind rice with very little water to a fine paste preferable in grinder because it minimises water.Now add this jaggery syrup to the rice paste.
- Keep mixing to make a flowing slightly runny batter.
- Add elachi powder, coconut,baking soda and mix well. If you dont want to add baking soda skip it and Set the batter aside for another 2 hours for fermentation.Then heat paniyaram pan , add a tsp of ghee / oil in each hole.
- Pour a spoon full of the batter in each hole.Cook covered for a minute.
- When cooked on one side , carefully flip to other side – add oil / ghee if required.Cook until both sides are golden brown.Remove and serve hot!
Serve hot!! The aroma of ghee with the appams is special about this neiappams.
My Notes:
- If you dont have paniyaram pan then you can deep fry them by pouring a spoon full of the batter in heated oil and deep fry them until golden brown.
- I soaked rice morning and this was ready for snack time.
- If the batter is too runny then it will drink more oil so adjust accordingly.
- You can also use half oil and half ghee to fry the appams.
- As we are addding jaggery the neiappams get a deep reddish brown.The color of the appams depends on the jaggery variety and color.I used paagu vellam.


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Why the L.A. Clippers and Lakers Rivalry Will Be the League's BestOctober 3, 2012
Historically, the Lakers have been one of the greatest franchises in NBA history. Great franchises usually have rivals that echo their superiority. The Lakers' archrival has been and always will be the Boston Celtics.
However, the crosstown Clippers have been resurgent the past few years, focusing a new spotlight on Los Angeles via this year's best rivalry.
Despite the all-time head-to-head record between the two franchises (143-49 Lakers), the last three years have been much more competitive. The Lakers have won seven out of the last 11, but the highlight-savvy Clippers have turned the corner and are expected to be one of the league's best teams again, with enough firepower and depth to match up with the Lakers.
Over the past few seasons, the Clippers have drafted very well. The result of such promising draft picks led to the trade for Chris Paul. What's more, the acquisition of Paul came off the heels of NBA commissioner David Stern overruling a three-team trade that would have sent CP3 to the Lakers.
Adding Chris Paul made the Clippers a legitimate Pacific Division contender, especially with the development of Blake Griffin, DeAndre Jordan and the addition of Caron Butler. For the first time in years, the Clippers had the talent to not only make the playoffs but compete with the Lakers.
While Laker fans were…angry (to say the least) about missing out on CP3, all seems to have been forgotten. The additions of Los Angeles' newest version of Superman and the once-hated Steve Nash, have Laker fans riding cloud nine again while expecting another NBA Finals appearance.
Furthermore, the 2012-13 showdowns between the Staples Center tenants are sure to be hard fought and will likely decide who wins the division. Never before has a Clipper team been so talented, thanks to the additions of Grant Hill, Jamal Crawford, Lamar Odom and Matt Barnes. However, the same can be said about Kobe Bryant's Lakers.
During the Lakers' media day, Kobe said of the new roster (h/t Marc J. Spears, Yahoo! Sports), "On its face, it's the best talent I've been around. Whether that translates into winning a championship remains to be seen. But just on paper, you're talking Defensive Player of the Years, MVPs, All-Stars."
Kobe is right; this may be the best Laker team he has ever played on, and that is saying a lot.
One thing is for certain: This season's Los Angeles Lakers should undoubtedly be better on both sides of the floor. Last season, the Lakers had one of the slowest-paced offenses in the league, finishing 21st. Meanwhile, for as good as Andrew Bynum was last season, the team finished 10th in offensive efficiency.
The defense was not much better under new head coach Mike Brown, finishing 14th in defensive efficiency. Nobody expected Brown to transform the Lakers defense in one season, but giving up 96 points per game surely did not make Brown—or Lakers fans, for that matter—very happy last season.
However, Steve Nash and Dwight Howard should help shore up both sides of the ball, respectively. Additionally, Jodie Meeks finally gives the Lakers a reliable three-point shooter capable of taking the pressure off of Kobe and the big men.
Meanwhile, despite the Clippers' unbelievably slow pace, the offense was as effective as any in the league, finishing fourth in efficiency. While the success of the offense can definitely be attributed to the addition of Chris Paul, the defense cannot say the same.
The Clippers were 18th in defensive efficiency last season, resulting in the team giving up 95 points per game. The defense was somewhat addressed this offseason.
Eric Bledsoe has proved he can be a lock-down perimeter defender off the bench. The team added Grant Hill, a solid wing defender despite his old age, and a versatile defender in Lamar Odom. The defense needs to be better this season in order for the Clippers to advance past the second round of the playoffs.
Regardless of who has the better team, there is no doubt this season that the best rivalry in the league will determine the Pacific Division. In fact, ESPN's Marc Stein has both teams ranked in the top five of his power rankings.
Much like last year, multiple All-Star starters will square off when the two teams meet. The high-flying acrobatics of Griffin and Jordan will battle against the skill of Pau Gasol and the raw power of Howard.
Two of the greatest point guards of this generation, Nash and Paul, will dazzle with their ball-handling and breathtaking passes. Finally, one of the best shooting guards in league history (Bryant) will attempt to cement his legacy as the greatest Laker ever against the Clippers' barrage of athletic defenders.
Two of the deepest and most talented teams in the NBA will square off four times this season. The implications are huge, and the highlights are sure to be plentiful. These will not be your average Lakers vs. Clippers games.
The battle of Los Angeles will be between two of this season's titans. Expect to see more of this when the best rivalry in the NBA tips off.


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Thorpe St Andrew facts for kids
|Thorpe St Andrew
The church of St. Andrew, at Thorpe St Andrew Church. In front of the Victorian building are the ruins of the medieval church destroyed by fire in the nineteenth century
|7.05 km2 (2.72 sq mi)
|14,556 (2011 census)
|• Density
|2,065/km2 (5,350/sq mi)
|OS grid reference
|Civil parish
|Shire county
|Sovereign state
|United Kingdom
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|East of England
|EU Parliament
|East of England
Thorpe St Andrew is a small town and suburb of Norwich in the English county of Norfolk. It is situated about two miles east of the city centre, outside the city boundary in the district of Broadland. It constitutes a civil parish covering an area of 705 ha (1,740 acres) which had a population of 13,762 according to the 2001 census, increasing to 14,556 at the 2011 Census. It is also the administrative headquarters of the Broadland district council.
Thorpe is in the Domesday Book, in which it is spelt 'Torp', which is a Scandinavian word meaning village (see Thorp). It is thought that the Danes were in East Anglia as early as 870 AD and in 1004 Sweyn and his ships came up the river to Norwich.
There is also evidence that Thorpe was occupied by the Romans with the discovery of various remains. The earliest references found that relate to the parish are under the names of 'Thorpe Episcopi' and 'Thorpe-next-Norwich'. In later years it has been known as 'Thorpe St Andrew'.
East Anglia's worst rail crash happened at Thorpe St Andrew in 1874, killing 25 people and injuring 75.
Parts of the original village can still be seen along the Yarmouth Road leading out of Norwich. Features here include St Andrews parish church, the former parish infants school, the Rivergarden public house and the multi-gabled Buck public house.
There are numerous leisure facilities, groups and organisations including the County Arts Club on Plumstead Road, Thorpe Kite Flyers, Starlight Express Majorettes and the Oasis Sports and Leisure Centre on Pound Lane. The Yare Boat Club is situated on Thorpe Island, opposite the Rivergarden, and offers rowing on the beautiful river Yare. Religious groups of many denominations meet regularly all over Thorpe.
The local high school is Thorpe St Andrew High School; it was established in its present form in 1977, with what are now the North and South sites of the high school being separate Secondary Modern and Grammar schools respectively from their initial opening in the late 50s/early 60s. The high school is fed by several small primary schools from the local villages along with 3 large primary schools within Thorpe St Andrew. These schools are Dussindale, St Williams and Hillside.
In recent years, Thorpe St Andrew has expanded eastwards in the shape of the Dussindale housing development, which includes Dussindale Primary School, which opened in 2007 and Broadland business park.
Thorpe St Andrew is also the home of Norwich's new radio station: 99.9 Radio Norwich. The studios are based near Thorpe River Green and the station started broadcasting on 29 June 2006.
Adat Yeshua Messianic Synagogue meets regularly at Roxley Hall on the Yarmouth Rd in Thorpe St Andrew. Information is available on the website www.adatyeshua.co.uk
Thorpe lies on the River Yare which is part of the Norfolk Broads network of navigable rivers. Thorpe Green is on the main Yarmouth Road and gives access to the river with the opposite bank being an island after the creation of the new cut which allowed vessels to make their way to and from the city of Norwich without traversing the village via two low bridges that carry the railway to Yarmouth, Lowestoft, Cromer and Sherringham. Once the location of thriving boat yards, Thorpe Island now offers mooring for many liveaboard vessels.
The only operating boat yards in Thorpe are now towards the east of the village where there are two hire boat operators as well as private facilities and boat building operations.
The village offers a number of pubs, some riverside at Thorpe Green, friendly cafe, Barbers, restaurants and takeaways, convenience stores, Butchers, post office, a couple of beauty salons, fish & chip shop and a Sainsburys supermarket at the foot of the Dussindale development.
A commemorative World War One plaque stands at the River Green war memorial site. It was unveiled on 4 August 2014 by two local schoolchildren, Harry and Aimee Fuller who attended Hillside Avenue Primary School.


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Already a staple near Hollywood and Vine, Kitchen 24 owned by Kimberly Roussel, Errol Roussel and David Dickerson is opening a new West Hollywood location early this year, hopefully by late January.
In 2008, AIA/Los Angeles announced Kristofer Keith as the recipient of the Peoples Choice Award for best design concept and operational layout of Kitchen 24. Since, the popular diner joint has become a favorite of many locals and celebrities alike. Currently, spacecraft is finalizing all details to the second Kitchen 24 establishment located at 8575 Santa Monica Boulevard.
For this project, Kris harmonized the aesthetic with cream palette tones of vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry. However, he rearranged the setting by installing a super long bar that wraps around the whole diner space. You will also find custom light fixtures throughout and fiber glass tables imprinted with the Kitchen 24 logo, manufactured by
the Sean Anderson surfboard company.
Customers will be glad to know that there will now be lots of exterior dining due to an outdoor community table. For those early birds or late night owls, an added coffee bar will solve that caffeine fix 24 hours a day.
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John Battle (Leeds Diocesan Justice & Peace Commission)
Jill Mann (Together for Peace)
The Rt Revd Paul Slater, Bishop of Richmond (Area Bishop for The City of Leeds)
**Please book your free tickets online via Eventbrite**
We invite you to the Leeds Citizens Accountability Assembly on Thursday 19th April 2018. Hundreds of people from diverse communities across Leeds will gather at one of Leeds' most iconic venues for the cause of social justice and the common good.
Over the last 18 months, we have used Community Organising to listen, build relationships, identify injustices and campaign to address some of the big local and citywide problems facing people in Leeds.
The Accountability Assembly will be a public celebration of the communities and civil society organisations who have brought together people of all ages and backgrounds in this important work.
We will listen to stories from Leeds residents and seek support from civic and business leaders to improve mental health services, create work experience opportunities for young people and guarantee the real Living Wage for workers who keep our city moving.
We look forward to welcoming you and a delegation from your community on Thursday 19th April.
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by Z. Christopher Mercer, FASA, CFA, ABAR
Unlocking Private Company Wealth is all about managing the wealth represented by your ownership of a private business. The book calls for business owners to treat their illiquid, private company wealth with the same care and respect as their liquid wealth and retirement funds, and it will help you turn your business into the liquidity-creating vehicle it needs to be for you to become independent of the business and truly free to sell it, stay with it, or transition it to others of your choice.
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I've done it, you've done, we've probably all done it. We've written something that's really clear, concise, and entertaining that cuts right to the heart of an important point…and then ruined it with a single paragraph that goes so far off the point that the entire piece seems kind of crap.
Cord Jefferson has a good post over at Gawker about trying to work as a writer in this strange digital age wherein artists are frequently asked to work for free. It's an interesting article, full of personal experience and basic industry common sense. It's worth a read.
However, it's hard to discuss non-traditional payment models these days without bringing Amanda Palmer into the argument. Cord Jefferson really does not like Amanda Palmer.
Wealthy musician Amanda Palmer, who last year raised $1.2 million on Kickstarter to produce and release a record, recently used a TED talk to expand on the idea that artists should be willing to work for free. After relaying a story about how she used to be a street performer, Palmer, who is married to a very successful author named Neil Gaiman, told an audience of people who'd paid $7,500 apiece to be there that musicians shouldn't "make" people pay for their work, but rather "let" people pay for their work. She also explained that she found it virtuous when a family of undocumented immigrants huddled together on their couch for a night so that she and her band could have their beds, because her music and presence was a fair exchange for the family's comfort. After about 13 minutes of explaining why she is content with people giving her things, Palmer received a standing ovation.
For what it's worth, I am a fan of Palmer's music and I find her relentless connection with her audience interesting and endearing, so I am coming at this from a very different angle than Jefferson. Whatever my biases, though, Jefferson grossly misrepresented Palmer's TED talk, which says a lot more about him than it does about her.
The very first word he uses to describe her is "wealthy" which, even if it were accurate, isn't really germane to what she had to say. As a long-time fan, I can assure you that for the vast majority of her career, she's been anything but wealthy. The dig about her marriage to Neil Gaiman, which was apparently another attempt to cast her as wealthy and privileged, is even more unfair and less relevant. Even if she's well-off now (and I don't know that that's the case), her story of how she went from being a street performer to being well-off without putting price tags on things is kind of the whole point of the talk, isn't it?
The point was certainly not "artists should work for free." If that's what you took away from it, probably need to watch the video again. Neither was her main thrust "people should give her things." She was the one who was giving her art away and then letting the audience offer support as they saw fit.
As Palmer pointed out, the modern model of mass-producing reproductions of artist's work, wherein the distributor had a monopoly to hold over both artists and customers, is an anomaly and it has run it's course. The price/value of art can no longer be determined by the cost of reproducing and distributing the art because both of those items are essentially free now. We can argue about whether or not that's a good thing or not, but it is an undeniably true thing. The safety blanket of licensing your art to a distributor is over. Your work can now be losslessly copied an infinite number of times at almost no effort, and those copies can be accessed from any point on this planet.
So what are you going to do about it? Amanda Palmer is trying to share with you the things that have worked for her. Those things might not work for you. Those things might not be things you would want to do. But for fuck's sake man, don't get pissy because she's figured out how to do something that you haven't. She's giving it away, for free. Don't act so whiny about it.


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According to a criminal complaint on file in the Harris County Courthouse, Saul Abraham "Abe" Fiszer, an 18-year-veteran of the Houston Fire Department, had been struggling with pornography addiction for some time. He and his wife had been working through it, and Fiszer had sought counseling.
Unfortunately, Fiszer allegedly kept the exact nature of his predilections to himself, and now he has lost his $68,000 salary as an HFD captain and seems likely to be losing much, much more than that, as he is facing three felony counts of possession of child pornography. (Not to mention another felony in another state.)
According to the complaint, Fiszer's wife notified police after she found out that Abe had been calling and texting a 14-year-old girl in Casper, Wyoming.
Mrs. Fiszer sent some texts posing as Abe and received answers back from the girl. In one, the girl said that she had been born in 1997. In another, she said she was upset with "daddy" (Abe Fiszer) because he had not been in contact with her for quite a while.
That was when Mrs. Fiszer dropped her mask. She called the number and told the girl that she was not, in fact, "daddy," but the wife of daddy.
According to the complaint, the young girl became very apologetic and begged Mrs. Fiszer not to tell her parents. Mrs. Fiszer did not heed that request, and also contacted the Casper police. Casper cops seized the girl's computer and cellphone and have opened an investigation into a possible charge of online solicitation of a minor against Abe Fiszer.
Meanwhile, Fiszer's troubles at home had only just begun. The complaint states that his wife confronted him about the Wyoming girl, and that Abe admitted that he had been chatting and swapping pics with her. He then reportedly became "very upset" and started talking about killing himself.
On January 10, Mrs. Fiszer handed police a laptop, thumb drive and cellphone records belonging to Abe. The next day, a police detective interviewed her. She told the policeman that Abe had confessed that there was kiddy porn on his laptop (a replacement for the one Mrs. Fiszer had hurled down a flight of stairs after a prior argument about Abe's porn consumption) and stated again that he wanted to kill himself.
The next day, a policeman called Abe and talked him out of killing himself long enough for a crisis intervention team to come to his Westside condo. Abe told the cop on the phone that he was suicidal because his secret was about to come out, and also said that he had tried to gas himself in his car, but the car had run out of fuel.
Abe Fiszer went on to tell the cop that he was a sex addict who not only looked at porn, but also frequented chat rooms and was involved in, as the complaint put it, "role playing, fantasies, and all sexual acts." And then Abe also admitted to the detective that he both looked at and traded images of child pornography through file-sharing.
Armed with a search warrant, on January 17, the detective picked up Fiszer's laptop from an evidence locker at HPD headquarters. After analysis in the forensics lab, police found four still images and two videos that they believe are kiddy porn.
(Three of the items are described in the complaint....Stop reading now if you are easily disgusted.)
Image #1 shows a nude white male child between four and seven years of age engaging in oral sex with a boy of the same age.
Image #2 shows a girl of between five and eight displaying her vagina.
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And last, there's a video file in which a prepubescent girl showering, with close-ups of her vagina and anus.
Earlier today, HFD released the following statement:
"We, as a department, take these allegations very seriously. As a result of these allegations, I have opened up an Internal Affairs investigation that will run concurrently with HPD's ongoing criminal investigation," said Fire Chief Terry Garrison in a statement to the media released today.
The statement goes on to say that Fiszer was assigned to station 21 (South Main at West Bellfort) on the "C" shift. Ever since his arrest in early January, Fiszer had been suspended with pay, but he resigned today.


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Mill Complex
LOCATION: Woodstock, Vermont
CLIENT: Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historic Park
CLIENT: National Park Service and Woodstock Foundation
BUDGET: $1.8 million
STATUS: Completed 2008
The Mill Complex includes restoration of the historic 1876 Wood Barn and construction of an Education Center sited adjacent to the Barn. The Complex forms a gateway to a complex system of walking, ski and horse trails on Mount Tom.
The Wood Barn includes an exhibit area to orient visitors and a permanent exhibit on the history of Mount Tom and sustainable forestry. The Barn also provides storage for the collection of sixteen historic carriages original to the property and allows them to be exhibited for the first time. The lower level of the Wood Barn is open and will be used to store cordwood cut from the surrounding forest.
The 2,100 SF Education Center provides flexible classroom and meeting space for the Park and the Billings Farm and Museum. Together, these buildings form a center for the education and learning programs utilizing the Mount Tom forest.
The project is the first LEED Platinum building in Vermont and only the 7th in the Country under LEED NC 2.2. Sustainable features include:
All framing, sheathing and interior wood, including white pine, ash, black cherry, hemlock and red oak, came from the Park's forest, the oldest professionally managed woodland in North America. Natural wood is the primary interior finish on walls and ceilings. The different species were installed in horizontal bands with carving to identify species.
The Forest Center is largely self sufficient in terms of energy consumption. A high efficiency low emissions boiler, using firewood cut from the Park's forest, is the primary heat source. The Center's roof-mounted solar photovoltaic panels generate power for the building, and any excess electricity is sold back to the grid. When outside power is needed to augment the solar array, it is purchased through the Central Vermont Public Service's Cow Power Program, which generates power from methane recaptured on Vermont farms. Floors are polished concrete, selected for long-term durability, ease of maintenance and low environmental impact.
The building is designed to conserve energy and minimize its carbon footprint. The Forest Center's building envelope includes spray foam insulation of the walls, (R-19), and the sloped roofs, (R-42) and double glazed, low E, argon filled windows. The windows are operable to promote flow through ventilation and are augmented by an on demand ventilation system triggered by a carbon dioxide sensor that opens the cupola windows automatically when people are present in the primary meeting room. There is also a manual override. The energy simulations project a 43.5% annual energy cost savings when compared to a baseline building.


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Winless Kitsap bows out of Babe Ruth World Series
Rally falls short in loss to Meridian, Idaho
Pool Play Standings
Tri-Valley, Calif. 3-0
Monroe Township, N.J. 3-1
Schereville, Ind. 1-2
Greenville, N.C. 1-2
Burlington, Wash. 0-3
Waite Park, Minn. 3-0
Bryant, Ark. 3-0
Westfield, Mass. 1-2
Meridian, Idaho 1-2
Kitsap County 0-4
Waite Park, Minn. 3, Westfield, Mass., 0
Monroe Township, N.J. 4,
Greenville, N.C. 0
Schereville, Ind. 2, Burlington, Wash., 0
Bryant, Ark. 9,
Kitsap County 2
Tri-Valley, Calif., 5, Tri-Valley, Calif. 0
Bryant, Ark., 8,
Meridian, Idaho 1
Greenville, N.C., 11, Burlington, Wash., 0 (5)
Waite Park, Minn. 3,
Kitsap County 2
Tri-Valley, Calif., 6, Schereville, Ind. 1
Waite Park, Minn. 8,
Meridian, Idaho 7
Monroe Township, N.J. 12, Monroe Township, N.J. 2 (5)
Westfield, Mass. 8,
Kitsap Co. 6
Monroe Township, N.J. 7, Schererville, Ind. 4
Bryant, Ark. 23,Westfield, Mass. 11
Tri-Valley, Calif. 11, Greenville, N.C. 3
Meridian, Idaho 6, Kitsap County 5
Waite Park, Minn., vs. Bryant, Ark., 10 a.m.
Westfield, Mass., vs.
Meridian, Idaho, 1 p.m.
Schererville, Ind., vs. Greenville, N.C., 4 p.m.
Tri-Valley, Calif., vs.
Burlington, Wash., 7 p.m.
Note: The top three teams in both divisions advance to single-elimination bracket play starting on Monday with games at 5 p.m. and8 p.m.
Pitcher of the day
Joshua Ott, of Tri-Valley, Calif., pitched four innings, allowing two runs on five hits and striking out three.
Hitter of the day
Alex Shurtleff, of Bryant, Ark., drove in a 13-year-old Babe Ruth World Series-record seven runs against Westfield, Mass. He went 4-of-5 with a double and a triple. The previous record was six RBIs, which has been tied four times.
Quote of the day
"Yes it was ugly. But you know what they say: I'll take an ugly win over a pretty loss."
? Bryant manager Jerry East about his team's 23-11 win over Westfield, Mass.
$5 general admission, good for each day
All games are live streamed at prepzone.kitsapsun.com/baberuth
In a baseball tournament dominated by a team from the Golden State, a squad of young local lads bowed out Saturday night. Playing in the National Division pool of the Babe Ruth 13-year-old World Series, Kitsap County failed to win in four games, losing their final one 6-5 to Meridian, Idaho.
The team, managed by Russ Shiplet and assisted by Adam Meek and Klahowya baseball coach Dan Zuber, just could not sustain consistency in its four tries at victory in this prestigious event. The effort was there, but the competition was stiff and just the slightest of errors gave opponents the upper hand.
Meridian erupted for four runs in the first inning. It started when Drake Simons led off and reached base on an error. Four hits and two walks later it was 4-0.
Kitsap County would not go away quietly. Trailing 6-2 going into the bottom of the seventh, they pushed across three runs and had two runners on base when Dawson Krog hit a tapper toward the mound that Simons, who came in to pitch in relief, fielded and threw to first to just get Krog for the final out.
It was a dramatic end to Kitsap County's spirited run and allowed Meridian manager Matt Simons to let out a sigh of relief.
"We have made this whole trip kind of interesting, to be honest," said Simons, whose team plays Westfield, Mass., at 1 p.m. today with the winner going to a Monday play-in game and the loser going home. "We didn't play as well as we are capable of playing, but we scrapped together a win and that is important."
Shiplet said his guys "have not given up the whole tournament. They have always battled back. From the second inning on, we won it. We outscored them 5-2. The first inning hurt us. It's really tough to recover from that. Even though we were down 4-0, we battled back."
That they did. They started the last-inning rally when Hayden Trull singled to center. After one out, Andy Crawford walked and he and Trull moved up a base on a wild pitch. Dylan Zuber hit a two-run single to center on a 2-2 count to bring a roar from a partisan crowd.
When Jacob Kriebel walked, Simons bought in his son Drake to pitch. Nick Loeffelholz hit a high chopper to short he beat out for an infield single to load the bases. Losing pitcher Miles Brundage hit a deep fly ball to center that scored Zuber to make it 6-5. But that was it for the locals.
"They battled and battled and battled all tournament long, and I can't ask for more than that," said Shiplet, adding his players discovered they could play with anybody. "Yeah we went out 0-4 as the host team, but I tell you what I'm extremely proud of what they did. And I think they feel good about the fact they competed and did everything they needed to do to win a ballgame, because they never gave up."
Meridian 6, Kitsap 5
Meridian 401 000 1?6 8 4
Kitsap 020 000 3?5 9 4
Jacob Herberger, Drake Simons (7) and Tyler Hollingsworth; Miles Brundage and Nick Loeffelholz. W?Herberger. L?Brundage.
Leading hitters?Mer: Hollingsworth 2-4 (R.RBI), Phoenix Hanneman 2-4 (R.RBI), KC: Brundage 2-4 (2B,R,RBI), Dylan Zuber 1-1 (2RBI).
JORDAN NAILON | Still just a bird out of a cage
Pheasant season is open through November 30 (1)
Sports Wire
No. 3 Villanova tops Western Michigan 76-65
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - Eric Paschall had 17 points, including a 3-pointer with 2:50 to go, to help rally No. 3 Villanova past Western Michigan 76-65 at the Charleston Classic on Thursday.


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Start your car from inside your house
February 8, 2007 by davidallen | Leave a Comment
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You know how it is, it is the middle of winter, it may be snowing or frosty, your car is looking like it has been frozen from several years and you have to go out to work, what do you do? Run out there in sub zero temperatures, unlock the car door, force it open because it is welded by the ice, start the car and begin to scrap the ice off of the windows. Or alternatively do you while you are finishing off your coffee, point the key remote at the car, unlock the deactivate the alarm, unlock the doors and start the car, oh yes start the car, how cool is that? By the time that you have finished you coffee the car will have warmed up, the heater will be blowing out hot air and the car will be ready to go, no ice and no waiting for the heater to kick in.
The Deluxe Remote Car Starter is the piece of kit that can do this for you, it is an easy install and ready use kit that comes with the following features, 1000 Foot range for remote starting, Built-in self-diagnostic system for easy maintenance, Anti-Code Grabbing transmitter for security, No Tach installation for easy setup, 2 transmitters with multi vehicle capability, Panic alarm, Car Finder, Remote Headlight Control for locating vehicles in busy parking lots.
So it is clear that this could be a valuable product as it offers security as well as the convenience of remote starting, yet this is an easy install, there are only two requirements for the type of car, it needs to have fuel injection and be automatic, because as part of the security set up, although the car starts, you will be unable to engage the gearbox into drive without the car keys being in the ignition, which is good, because otherwise you could start the car and while it running someone could hope in and drive it off, with the Deluxe Remote Car Starter if this happened as soon as the thief put the gearbox into drive the engine would cut out.
To help with the installation, there is video that comes with the kit, this takes you through the process step by step, which is very easy to do, with no need to do any wiring at all, in the box are two key fobs, instructional video, and Toll free 24 hour US technical support help line.
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Jackson Pollock Inspired Tennessee Williams
David Kaplan Discusses The Day On Which a Man Dies
By: Charles Giuliano - Sep 26, 2015
As a part of our coverage of the 10th annual Provincetown Tennessee Williams Festival we reviewed a play directed by David Kaplan who is the artistic director of the festival.
Knowing more about the art of Jackson Pollock than the writing of Tennessee Williams I questioned some of the assumptions of the playwright about the artist. The role in the play feeds the populist assumptions about mad artists. The Clark Art Institute, for example, attracted a record attendance for its exhibition of the landscapes of Vincent van Gogh. Many attended, we speculate, because of curiosity about an artist who cut off his ear, was confined to asylums and later shot himself. No doubt visitors studied the works intent on clues to his mental state. Ultimately, while emotionally charged, they were, well, landscapes.
The challenge of art is to look at the work and not think about the ear.
The Williams play, as directed by Kaplan, for my money, focuses on "the ear."
I wrote. "During the afternoon we saw The Day On Which a Man Dies. It presents an ersatz Jackson Pollock, nude but for a thong, covered in paint, and using a sprayer as a tool and weapon. The artist has gone over the top in abandoning the brush in a bid to jump start a faltering career. If Williams is evoking Pollock his art history is off base. By abandoning the brush the artist created the most dynamic work of his generation. As his friend and rival William de Kooning said at the funeral (an accident/suicide) "Pollock broke the ice."
"…While his behavior is out of control and a study in creative madness, arguably a caricature as films of Pollock at work show that he was in complete control…
Not long after the review was posted Kaplan responded ""arguably a caricature as films of Pollock at work show that he was in complete control" The beautiful rhythmic dance we see in the films of Pollock painting are true, but a partial truth. Direct from Tony Smith (father of Kiki) who had seen it with his own eyes, Williams knew that Pollock was drunk, stumbling, unwashed - in short a mess - at various points in his process -- and especially towards the end of Pollock's life. Ruth Kligman's book and, especially, "To a Violent Grave: An Oral Biography of Jackson Pollock" make it very clear Williams is presenting no caricature in Day on Which a Man Dies, but a variation on a reality (Williams' reality and Pollock's)..Pretty they weren't: Pollock, in particular could be monstrous in public and in private life, too. Of, course, it's not a portrait of Pollock that DAY ON WHICH is after -- but the seed of the monstrous in Flora Goforth and the painter can be sourced to Williams seeing himself in Pollock's self-destruction, alcohol abuse, and in particular, the suicidal car joy ride. Williams, as drunk as Pollock, tried to kill him self in Italy that way."
I replied by e mail that the major works of Pollock- Lavender Mist, Number One, and Autumn Rhythm,-were executed when he was sober. Studio photos of the artist at work show him in complete control dancing about the canvas spread out on the floor. Also I questioned some of his sources including the Pollock mistress, Ruth Klingman, who survived the crash that killed Pollock and her female friend, as well as remarks attributed to the sculptor Tony Smith.
Even when he resumed drinking, which led to a separation with Lee Krasner, the artist although in a troubled, terminal phase of alcoholism, continued to work in a stylistic shift and return to the figure which has come to be greatly valued by art historians, curators, collectors and museums. While on the brink of suicide his career was not "washed up" as represented by the over the top character in the Williams play.
Late last night following a performance during the Festival Kaplan and I interacted with a friendly, cordial and scholarly discussion. There was no time to delve deeply into details but he cited sources for his understanding of the play and the intention of Williams.
As he put it he never debates critical opinions of his work but does challenge factual errors.
This morning he followed up chapter and verse with what appears below. Some of this material is truly intriguing.
Hopefully at some point we will be able to sit over a beer and further discuss this and other topics related to the work of Williams and its unique relationship to Provincetown.
[1940] Toward the end of August, a girl entered the scene. I did not
regard her as a threat. And then one day I was on the dunes with a
group that included the yet-unknown, or uncelebrated abstract painter,
Jackson Pollock. Later on he was to become a "dark" man, outside his
work, but that summer I remember him for his boisterous, just slightly
drunk behavior. He was a sturdy, well-built young man, then, just a
little bit heavier from beer-drinking than was attractive to me, and
he used to carry me out into the water on his shoulders and to sport
about innocently.
[late in the Memoirs] The work of a fine painter, committed only to
vision, abstract and allusive as he pleases, is better able to create
for you his moments of intensely perceptive being. Jackson Pollock
could paint ecstasy as it could not be written. Van Gogh could capture
for you moments of beauty, indescribable as descent into madness.
AND, most telling:
Tennessee's letter to columnist Max Lerner during [and about] the
creation of SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH (1959, around the same time as DAY ON WHICH:
" As an artist grows older he is almost always inclined to work in broader strokes. The delicate
brush-work of his early canvasses no longer satisfies his demands of
himself. He starts using the heavy brush, the scalpel and finally even
his fingers, his thumbs, and even, finally, a spray gun of primary
colours. Act Two is written with that heavy brush, scalpel and
spray-gun. Delicacy, allusiveness are thrown to the winds in writing,
staging and performance."


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Business News of Friday, 10 May 2013
Source: Daily Guide Network
The foiled attempt by FirstRand Bank of South Africa to acquire Merchant Bank could result in another judgment debt saga for government, if the latter continues to delay the endorsement process.
FirstRand Bank could go to court to demand payment for $2.3 million it spent over a six-month period in the country to carry out feasibility studies on its intended acquisition of the bank.
A source close to the bank, who divulged this information to Daily Guide in Accra, said after sending its representatives to stay over for six months to undertake the study and go through all the processes to ensure a smooth deal, government rewarded FirstRand with indecision supposedly for political reasons.
"If the foreign investors wait for a while and their expectations do not get met, they will sue Merchant Bank, which is largely owned by SSNIT, which represents government," the source said.
FirstRand came into Ghana with the intent to acquire 75 percent shares of the Merchant Bank. They were prepared to invest over $120 million and still maintain over 600 workers of the bank.
The source revealed that a local company by name Effah & Co, at a point in time, wanted to merge with Merchant Bank, but it also did not have the financial muscle to turn around the fortunes of the bank.
The source said that after all the board and major shareholders of the bank had endorsed the acquisition deal of Merchant Bank by FirstRand Bank, the Bank of Ghana failed to endorse it.
This was as a result of the gravity of the problem of the bank, which the then acting governor of the Bank of Ghana, failed to address due to the fear of losing his job.
Finance Minister, Seth Terkper, could not handle the issue so forwarded it to the Chief of Staff, where the case has been nipped till now.
Industry analysts have indicated that for fear of chasing the President's brother, Ibrahim Mahama to pay his debts, the final endorsement has been thwarted.
"Wampah said he had no problems since we made all the provisions. But the painful aspect of this issue is that a whole bank issue which was supposed to be dealt with according to best economic solutions has now been shirked into political corridors because someone who is the major cause of the problem is brother to the president," the source said.
Explaining further, the source said the workers were not responsible for the current predicament of the bank.
It said the interest that cumulated on the loan from the President's brother's loan had surpassed the principal loan contracted over four times.
"When the NDC came to power, it noticed the bank's problem for which reason it established a recovery fund since all efforts to recover the debt had fallen on death ears.
The board even decided that it will take away the punitive interests on loans that had been contracted by the four big companies from the actual principal so that it will reduce," the source explained.
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Last we saw the defense of the Pittsburgh Steelers, New England Patriots' wide receiver Chris Hogan was sprinting past Mike Mitchell like Mitchell was a house by the side of the road. Tom Brady hit him in stride and the Patriots went to the Super Bowl while the Steelers were left to wonder a good many things.
NFL.com's Gregg Rosenthal offered his opinion this week on the Steelers' Defense and I understand why he thinks this defense is worthy of winning a Super Bowl. The problem is that he isn't accounting for the issues that have plagued the D in recent seasons.
If the Steelers are going to get over the "Patriots' Hump" then they must have better play in the secondary. Ross Cockrell is a solid cornerback but his skills are limited to being a predominantly zone defender. It doesn't take a genius to realize the defense's inability to play man coverage was a significant problem in the AFC Championship Game. Cam Sutton has been working at the boundary cornerback since his arrival and if he can take the job from Cockrell then that will help make the secondary more versatile. That's a major 'if' however.
The lack of consistent pressure last year was also a red flag and why Rosenthal thinks this will suddenly change is a a bit troubling. Javon Hargrave should no doubt be better and a 'healthy for 16 games' Bud Dupree should increase sack totals as well. But where are the rest of the sacks coming from?
If Cam Heyward and Stephon Tuitt are relied on again then that's a problem. As many changes as this defense has gone through, pressure from the edge is still crucial. I expect T.J. Watt to contribute but that means four or five sacks. If he goes above that? Awesome! But is that a realistic expectation?
Rosenthal must also factor in lack of depth on this unit as well. Behind Ryan Shazier and Vince Williams are a collection of inexperienced players. We saw what the lack of depth on the defensive line was like last year when Heyward went down. Tyson Alualu will help but if Mike Tomlin has to rely on Dan McCullers or L.T. Walton more than he wants to then expect issues of the negative variety.
Health is always the most important factor for any unit and it has affected the Steelers' D more than we'd like to admit. I agree with Rosenthal that the potential for a Super Bowl worthy defense is there but improvements and health must be had. Significant points by the offense could go along way toward helping the defense too but that's a whole other matter.
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