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Share Facebook couldn’t have been British KCS-content Monday 18 October 2010 8:47 pm IT is simply untrue that Britain doesn’t produce any wealth and job creating entrepreneurs any more. Take some of the stories in today’s City A.M.; they demonstrate that Britain retains a vibrant start-up and growth culture. Hugh Willis, 50, and Mark Poole, 49, who founded BlueBay in 2001, are today each £82m richer after they sold their firm to Royal Bank of Canada for £963m. Many in the City were saddened last week at the premature death at the age of 57 of Andrew Beazley, who co-founded the eponymous Lloyds insurer in 1986; his firm today confirmed that it is bidding for its rival Hardy. Meanwhile, CQS is floating a fund on the stock exchange; the firm, one of London’s most successful hedge funds, was founded in 1999 by Michael Hintze, a brilliant Australian-born ex-Goldman trader. London is home not only to established global giants, from GlaxoSmithkline to Barclays, but also to thousands of newer companies founded by self-starting, hard-working and visionary entrepreneurs. But there is one class of entrepreneurial firm we don’t have. The UK is completely useless at producing truly revolutionary start-ups that go from nothing to global domination in the space of a few years. I’m thinking of the likes of Facebook, Google, eBay or Amazon, mass market, consumer firms set up by scientifically brilliant, idiosyncratic and absurdly young geeks. The stories of many of the new generation of Silicon Valley tech billionaires are astonishing; they just wouldn’t happen here. Take Mark Zuckerberg, who co-founded Facebook: he started programming when he was in middle school, excelled in the classics, specialised in latin and went on to study IT. While still at school, he designed and programmed an app to help workers in his dad’s office; he built a version of the game Risk, as well the Synapse Media Player that used artificial intelligence to learn the user’s music listening habits. Microsoft and AOL tried to buy him out and recruit him, but Zuckerberg instead made the app available for free and went to Harvard. That is where he co-founded Facebook in 2004 with his roommates, before dropping out to work on it full-time that summer, moving the start-up to California, enlisting the help of specialist venture capitalists and creating a fresh batch of tech billionaires. A cursory look at the CVs of the founders of other revolutionary US firms shows similar backgrounds; Peter Thiel, the 43-year old billionaire co-founder of PayPal and key investor in Facebook, has already been a US chess grand master, the founder of a newspaper, the creator of an ultra-successful hedge fund and a seed investor in LinkedIn and others. For a variety of cultural, ideological, regulatory, economic and other reasons, there is no way anybody could deliver similar success stories here in Britain. They used to in Victorian times – but no longer. Polymaths don’t start their own firms while at UK schools; it is taboo to drop out of universities, which remain poor incubators; the VC infrastructure doesn’t work as well; there is no UK equivalent to Palo Alto, where kids can rent houses, eat pizza and change the world. Somehow, sometime, this needs to change. Britain too needs epoch-defining new firms that revolutionise industries, change the way hundreds of millions of people live their lives and force the world to notice. In this week of austerity and gloom, we can but dream – and reflect upon the fact that in some countries, dreams often do become reality. [email protected] whatsapp
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C & I Leasing Plc (CILEAS.ng) listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange under the Investment sector has released it’s 2017 annual report.For more information about C & I Leasing Plc (CILEAS.ng) reports, abridged reports, interim earnings results and earnings presentations, visit the C & I Leasing Plc (CILEAS.ng) company page on AfricanFinancials.Document: C & I Leasing Plc (CILEAS.ng) 2017 annual report.Company ProfileC & I Leasing Plc is a fleet management, outsourcing and marine services company in Nigeria with two subsidiaries in Ghana (Leaseafric) and the United Arab Emirates (EPIC International FZE). The company primary activity is offering extensions of structured operating and finance leases. Subsidiaries of C&I Leasing Plc include C&I Petrotech Marine Limited, a leading player in the offshore marine vessel sector with a fleet of over 20 vessels which includes terminal tugs, patrol vessels, fast support intervention vessels and a platform support vessel; C&I Outsourcing, offering Human Resource solutions for companies in Nigeria which includes human resource outsourcing, recruitment, HR consultancy and personnel evaluation; and SDS Training Services, offering custom-designed modules for training and education programmes, personnel training, driver recruitment and training and a consultancy service for strategic partners. C&I Leasing offers a fleet management service to improve fleet efficiency and productivity. C&I Leasing Plc has the sole franchisee for Hertz-Rent-A-Car in Nigeria and has run the Hertz operation for over 20 years. The Hertz subsidiary division manages over a 1 000 vehicles and a team of professional chauffeurs and offers an airport transfer service and daily rental service. C&I Leasing’s head office is in Lagos, Nigeria and has offices in Ghana and the United Arab Emirates. C & I Leasing Plc is listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange
AddThis Sharing ButtonsShare to TwitterTwitterShare to FacebookFacebookShare to LinkedInLinkedInShare to EmailEmailShare to WhatsAppWhatsAppShare to MessengerMessengerShare to MoreAddThis2 Ireland Funds made grants last year of nearly $26 million 51 total views, 3 views today Tagged with: Finance Funding Ireland Research / statistics 52 total views, 4 views today AddThis Sharing ButtonsShare to TwitterTwitterShare to FacebookFacebookShare to LinkedInLinkedInShare to EmailEmailShare to WhatsAppWhatsAppShare to MessengerMessengerShare to MoreAddThis2 About Howard Lake Howard Lake is a digital fundraising entrepreneur. Publisher of UK Fundraising, the world’s first web resource for professional fundraisers, since 1994. Trainer and consultant in digital fundraising. Founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.org.uk. Researching massive growth in giving. Advertisement The Ireland Funds raised $31.5 million last year and made grants of $25.7 million, according to the foundation’s latest accounts.Total funds raised were slightly up compared to 2014 ($31.2 million) while grants in 2014 were $24.1 million.Founded in 1976 to support worthy causes in Ireland and around the world, The Worldwide Ireland Funds currently operate in 12 countries and the network has raised over $500 million for over 3,000 organisations. Last year the Funds awarded 365 grants.The Funds raise money from ‘contributions’ which comprises donations to the organisation’s general programmes and funds designated for specific projects. Total donations in 2015 were $18.6 million, up from $17.3 million.Fundraising events, mainly high profile charity galas in the United States, raised just over $12 million, net $8.9 million after expenses.Fundraising and administration costs were $3 million, up from $2.8 million.The ‘Promising Ireland’ campaign was closed off at $226 million in 2015, more than twice the original goal of $100 million. Howard Lake | 21 December 2016 | News
UPS workers show solidarity with Michael Brown.The call for justice continues not only in Ferguson, Mo., but around the United States since the Aug. 9 brutal murder of Michael Brown, the 18-year-old African American who was shot in broad daylight by a white police officer, Darren Wilson. Not since the 1992 Los Angeles rebellion has there been another one like the one that erupted in Ferguson on Aug. 10 and lasted for over a week. And never before has so much national and international scrutiny been paid towards the racist scourge of police terror inside the U.S.It is a known fact that at least one African-American male on average is killed by the police every 28 hours. But what brought unprecedented attention to Brown’s murder was that eyewitnesses saw and heard him tell Wilson to stop shooting as he tried to surrender with his hands up.After Brown was shot at least six times, his motionless body reportedly lay in the street for four hours as the police denied any medical attempts to revive him or for any of Brown’s family members to approach him. It was an all-too-familiar racist display of wanton disregard for the lives of Black youth.The youth uprising in Ferguson, a 67-percent African-American populated suburb of St. Louis, has helped expose the growing militarization of the police, with the armored tanks, chemical warfare, drone surveillance and other hi-tech weaponry provided by the Pentagon.During the height of the uprising, 155 people were reportedly arrested, the majority of them from St. Louis County, countering the lie put forth by Missouri local and state police that “outside agitators” caused the uprising. The mass rebellion has forced the federal government to investigate ongoing abuse within the Ferguson police department, including the beating and hogtieing of a 12-year-old Black youth and the indiscriminate teargassing of Ferguson residents.Worldwide condemnation of the brutal repression in Ferguson and the state’s refusal thus far to arrest Wilson for murder has brought about acts of anti-racist, anti-police solidarity from various sectors of society, including labor unions. For example, American Postal Workers Union general officers — Mark Dimondstein, president; Debby Szeredy, executive vice president; and Elizabeth Powell, secretary-treasurer — released a public statement, along with those of other union officials from the Communication Workers of America and the United Food and Commercial Workers, denouncing the killing of Brown. Brown’s mother, Leslie McFadden, is a member of the UFCW.‘Hands Up, Don’t Ship!’One of the most dynamic acts of labor solidarity demanding justice for Michael Brown was carried out by part-time United Parcel Service workers in Minneapolis on Aug. 22. According to an Aug. 26 Labor Notes online article entitled, “‘Hands Up, Don’t Ship!’ Minneapolis UPS workers protest shipments to Missouri police,” a dozen UPS workers refused to ship cardboard, steel and plastic shooting-range targets — produced by Law Enforcement Targets — to Missouri law enforcement agencies. The shooting targets show photos of Black men pointing guns. Last year, another line of LET targets called “With no hesitation” showed Black youth and even pregnant teenagers carrying guns. It was discontinued due to public protests.These low-wage workers explained their stance this way: “Some of us removed the company’s packages from trucks that would deliver them to law enforcement. Others, in solidarity, refused to ferry these packages to their intended trailers.“Others posed with a sign reading ‘#handsupdontship.’ The phrase ‘hands up, don’t shoot’ has come to symbolize protest over the police shooting of Michael Brown. …“We decided we could not be silent while our work was contributing to the militarized violence that police are directing at Ferguson residents in the aftermath of Brown’s death.”The workers explained that LET has contracts with law enforcement agencies around the country, with 10 of those contracts in Missouri. (Read more at tinyurl.com/mea6c55.)Just as the dockworkers and union activists on the West Coast protested the Zionist massacre in Gaza by preventing the Israeli ship Zim from unloading, the UPS workers’ refusal to ship repressive matériel to Missouri police agencies serves as an admirable example of how demands can translate into direct action. Both acts of solidarity portend what can happen on an even grander scale when labor power is used to build class solidarity at home and abroad, especially with the most oppressed.FacebookTwitterWhatsAppEmailPrintMoreShare thisFacebookTwitterWhatsAppEmailPrintMoreShare this
Live Cattle LEM21 (JUN 21) 118.70 1.13 Environmental Group Highlights Indiana’s Use of Cover Crops Facebook Twitter Environmental Group Highlights Indiana’s Use of Cover CropsThe Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental group that is not always friendly to agriculture, has released a report advocating for the use of cover crops. The report, released in Washington on Thursday, focused on how farmers can better deal with climate change. Report co-author Lara Bryant told HAT their focus was on what they call climate ready soil, “A lot of people outside of agriculture do not understand how cover crops can improve the health of soil and benefit the environment. We wanted to show how the use of cover crops can help with climate change.” Indiana is well on its way toward the goal of having cover crops on half of our corn and soybean land. According to the NRDS report, Indiana farmers have captured 2.1 million metric tons of carbon pollution annually; and 113 billion gallons of water stored. Indiana is No. 2 nationally in the planting of cover crops. Bryant said, if other states would follow the Indiana lead, a major reduction in carbon could be achieved, “Increasing the organic matter in soil by 1 percent on half of the corn and soybean acres in the top 10 agriculture states could help the soil hold an additional trillion gallons of water, which is enough water to meet the annual needs of nearly 33 million people.” NRDC also praised Indiana’s conservation partnership and conservation cropping systems program. Bryant said NRDC hopes the report will generate more support for cover crops by policy makers and make more resources available to growers. She added some of the best education can come from one farmer talking to another, much like the program in Indiana. The study created a what if scenario. “What if the top 10 agricultural states in the US planted 50% of their corn and soybean acres to cover crops,” Bryant said. “Our analysis finds cover crops can suck tons of carbon pollution from the air, significantly cut crop losses, and prevent the loss of a trillion gallons of water. In fact, planting cover crops on half the corn and soybean acres in the top 10 agricultural states (California, Iowa, Texas, Nebraska, Minnesota, Illinois, Kansas, Wisconsin, North Carolina, and Indiana) could sequester more than 19 million metric tons of carbon annually – the equivalent of taking more than 4 million cars off the road.” NRDC’s report, Climate-Ready Soil: How Cover Crops Can Make Farms More Resilient to Extreme Weather Risks, examines the carbon capture and water-holding benefits of soil stewardship methods to improve soil health in the 10 highest-value-producing agricultural states in the United States and includes data on annual average crop losses, as well as projected climate change impacts across the country, the effects on crops, and the benefits of cover crops. How Indiana Crops are Faring Versus Other States Feeder Cattle GFQ21 (AUG 21) 151.18 2.78 Corn ZCN21 (JUL 21) 684.50 -14.50 SHARE Facebook Twitter A link to the full report can be found here. SHARE By Gary Truitt – Nov 19, 2015 Wheat ZWN21 (JUL 21) 680.75 -3.00 Previous articleMonsanto Expecting Corn Prices to Rise in 2016Next articleIndiana Convention brings Strong Push for Villwock as AFBF President Gary Truitt RELATED ARTICLESMORE FROM AUTHOR STAY CONNECTED5,545FansLike3,961FollowersFollow187SubscribersSubscribe All quotes are delayed snapshots Soybean ZSN21 (JUL 21) 1508.50 -35.50 Battle Resistance With the Soy Checkoff ‘Take Action’ Program Home Indiana Agriculture News Environmental Group Highlights Indiana’s Use of Cover Crops Minor Changes in June WASDE Report Lean Hogs HEM21 (JUN 21) 122.68 0.22 Name Sym Last Change 
Facebook Twitter Another Wet Weekend Followed by Another Wide Open Harvest Window By Eric Pfeiffer – Oct 3, 2019 Facebook Twitter Leave this field empty if you’re human: Another Wet Weekend Followed by Another Wide Open Harvest WindowMoisture is moving through the Eastern Corn Belt this weekend, but after that we have another nice window opening for harvest. This is the harvest weather forecast brought to you by First Farmers Bank and Trust, proud to support Indiana farmers, and by Kokomo Grain.HAT Chief Meteorologist Ryan Martin says the front this weekend focuses primarily on Saturday night through midday to early afternoon Sunday.“Moisture totals here don’t look to be all that dramatic. I think we’re looking at a few hundredths of an inch to maybe five or six tenths when all is said and done. There could be a second wave that hits Southern Indiana overnight Sunday night into Monday, but that second wave really looks like it wants to stay farther south of the Ohio River.”Temperatures this week should be normal to slightly above normal for this time of year.“To be clear, there’s nothing like the heat that we saw early on in this past week. That’s just not going to happen at all, but we’re not looking at any major cold air incursions either. It was a little bit cool across the state on Friday morning, of course, but as we move forward, I think it’s going to be next Friday before we see another push of cooler air that really comes down over the heart of Indiana.”And Martin believes the extended window looks promising as well.“So, we’re dry all the way through next week, but as you go into the week after next, I think we could be looking at a mostly dry window there as well. Honestly, the heart of October looks like it’s going to be fairly conducive to getting out in the field.”Get Martin’s full Indiana Harvest Weather Forecast delivered to your inbox on Saturday mornings by signing up to receive the Hoosier Ag Today daily e-newsletter. You’ll also receive news updates throughout the week and Martin’s daily forecast as well.Subscribe to our free daily newsletter
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Toll of ten years of civil war on journalists in Syria News Damascus TV presenter arrested under cyber-crime law to go further February 3, 2021 Find out more SyriaMiddle East – North Africa Receive email alerts Help by sharing this information Syria is now the world’s most dangerous country for news providers. Hundreds of journalists, citizen-journalists and media assistants have been killed, arbitrarily arrested, detained, abducted, subjected to enforced disappearance and tortured by the various parties to the conflict since the start of the uprising three years ago.The victims were targeted for covering the situation in Syria, including human rights abuses.On World Press Freedom Day, the NGOs signing this statement – participants in the Free Syrian Voices campaign– urge all parties to stop harassing and persecuting news providers and to immediately release all who are arbitrarily detained or held hostage.News providers have been systematically exposed to retaliation by governmental security forces and pro-government militias since the start of the uprising. At the same time, non-state armed groups, including jihadists, have increasingly targeted both Syrian and foreign journalists since mid-2012, while paramilitary groups linked to the Kurdish political party PYD have stepped up their harassment of Syrian news providers in the northeastern Hasakeh region, which they control.More than 150 news providers have been killed in the course of their work since March 2011. Nine foreign journalists and more than 20 Syrian news providers are currently held hostage or are missing in Syria, while around 40 Syrian journalists and citizen-journalists are held by the government.Where are Ali Mahmoud Othman and Mohamed Nour al-Shemali, citizen-journalists arrested by the Syrian authorities in March and December 2012 respectively? Where is Obeida Batal, a reporter abducted by members of an armed group in July 2013? Will the Anti-Terrorism Court convict the journalist Mazen Darwish and his two colleagues, Hussein Ghrer and Hani al-Zaitani, on charges of “promoting terrorist activities”?Journalists are protected as civilians under international humanitarian law. UN Security Council Resolution 1738 on the safety of journalists in conflict situations, adopted in December 2006, condemns attacks on journalists in armed conflicts. The UN General Assembly resolution on the safety of journalists and the issue of impunity, adopted in November 2013, “condemns unequivocally all attacks and violence against journalists and media workers, such as torture, extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances and arbitrary detention.” It also urges “member States to do their utmost to prevent violence against journalists and media workers (…) and to bring the perpetrators of such crimes to justice.”Despite these international resolutions, journalists continue to face serious dangers in Syria, paying a high price for doing their job. And they continue to be subjected to abuses with total impunity. At least seven journalists and nine Syrian news providers have been killed since January 2014. Signatories:Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network Front line Defenders International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH)Reporters Without Borders (RSF) Follow the news on Syria News
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Facebook Facebook WhatsApp By admin – May 20, 2018 Pinterest WhatsApp Twitter Twitter Local NewsBusiness Previous articleMATTER OF RECORD: May 11 through May. 18Next articleBUILDING PERMITS: May 5 – May 11 admin Pinterest West Texas Food Bank Logo Which is the more important financial statement, the income or balance sheet? The correct answer is none of the above, it is in fact the cash flow statement.All business must eventually produce more cash than it consumes. The failure to do so vaporized discount retailer W.T. Grant in the 1970s. Then accountants constructed a ‘sources and uses’ statement. This computed the changes in current assets and liabilities. Unaware that Grant was about to do a vanishing act, the accounting community created today’s cash flow statement. It demonstrates how cash is generated or consumed in three categories of operations, investing, and financing. The term ‘burn rate’ was coined in during the dot.com boom/bust. A company’s burn rate equaled its cash hand divided by its monthly net consumption of cash. That produced the number of months the company would exist.Later examples include Chrysler and GM in 2008 and lately Tesla. Tesla has been on life support via government subsidies to electric car buyers, as well as stock and bond sales. But Tesla continues to burn through cash, consuming more than it produces.Which brings us to the shale firms. Oil prices are now at a 3.5 year high at just over $70 for WTIC. But industry wide, shale producers have spent $1.13 for every dollar of cash generated.Parsley Energy spent near $2 for every dollar it created. Continental Resources on the other hand generated $258 million more cash than it spent in the first quarter.As more oil is produced by fracking the net cost of exploration increases even faster. Now it takes 500 tons of steel pipe, 35 Olympic swim pools of water, and railroad cars stretching 1,400 yards in length filled with sand. Recall a mile is 1,860 yards.Last week I was concerned that dollar strength would put a lid on metals and energy prices. Sure enough, gold dropped below $1,300. Energy is apparently in a different cycle as it held around $71 for the week. With summer driving season approaching, unleaded gasoline set a new high for the move at $2.24. Three dollars this summer is now a common prediction. The dollar advanced through the week to close at a new high of 93.38. I suspect the dollar is peaking. Metals are likely making a low. Miner share prices have remained steady supporting that view.For now, enjoy the pomp and circumstance of Royal Wedding weekend. Prince Harry has always been more fun than older William. Bride Ms. Markle is mixed race, divorced, and American. Welcome to the real New England. ELAM: The most important statement