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52 High Street Cowbridge CF71 7AH
A substantial charming detached bedroom country home, set within the idyllic Wenvoe Village with excellent road links to Cardiff City Centre, Cardiff Bay and the M4. NO ONGOING CHAIN.
A substantial charming detached bedroom country home, set within the idyllic Wenvoe Village with excellent road links to Cardiff City Centre, Cardiff Bay and the M4. NO ONGOING CHAIN.
A substantial charming detached bedroom country home, set within the idyllic Wenvoe Village with excellent road links to Cardiff City Centre, Cardiff Bay and the M4. NO ONGOING CHAIN.
Ty Pica is a charming detached double fronted house of character, occupying a fine location within the historic village of Wenvoe. This substantial four bedroom family home was built circa 1800, extended in 1850 and extensively modernised by the current owners. Commanding a distinctive position level walking distance to local village amenities this period property benefits replacement sash cord style double glazed windows, gas heating with panel radiators, an intruder alarm, a log burner and a fitted kitchen with integrated appliances and solid granite work surfaces. Elegant character features include imposing panel internal doors with brass finger plates and elegant handles, mosaic tiled floors, flagstone floors, high cornice ceilings with ceiling roses and picture rails, imposing unique period fire places and a pretty gable front porch with cast iron pillars and a pitched slate roof. The well designed and versatile living space includes a stunning period entrance hall, a large formal dining room (15'2 x 14'11), an elegant lounge (14'11 x 14'11), a large sitting room ( 24'9 x 12'7) boasting a large open fireplace equipped with a log burner and an original bread oven, a fully fitted kitchen and a separate utility room. A special feature is a central inner hall (24'10 x 8'8), which provides space for a music room with both a downstairs cloak room (stylish white suite) and a wine store approached from this adaptable living area.
The Property
A period spindle balustrade staircase leads to the first floor, which comprises four bedrooms and two bathrooms. The master bedroom benefits a large and stylish re-modelled ensuite bathroom comprising a period roll top bath and a contemporary walk-in shower, whilst off the landing is a stunning bespoke shower room with twin wash hand basins, a slim line wc and a large walk-in contemporary shower. The large attic space has been adapted into a very useful hobbies room with exposed beams and charming stone walls, approached from the landing by an independent staircase, and equipped with three windows. This truly elegant residence is set back with a large and lovely level front gardens, chiefly laid to a mature lawn and enclosed by high stone walls. A wide block paved private entrance drive is approached by double gates and provides extensive private parking, whilst the enclosed courtyard rear gardens are chiefly low maintenance providing a very private sun terrace and including an old stone storage store room. The property benefits mains gas, mains electricity, mains water and mains drainage. A most impressive home located within a highly popular village only 10 minutes driving distance to a link road with provides fast access to the M4. the A 48 Cowbridge Road, Cardiff Bay and Cardiff City Centre. No chain!
Ty Pica can be found nestling in the pretty village of Wenvoe, in the Vale of Glamorgan. Just
over 2 miles from Cardiff the village has excellent road links to the city centre and the M4. A shop, post office, primary school, public house and restaurant can be found in the village itself, whilst a renowned golf course is just minutes away.
Entrance Porch
Open fronted porchway, pretty gabled slate roof, cast iron pillars, block paved threshold, ornamental outside light, original doorbell.
Entrance Hall 17' 4" x 4' 10" ( 5.28m x 1.47m )
Approached via a large and imposing original panelled front entrance door with brass handles and security eyehole, arched shaped upper light window, mosaic tiled flooring, high cornice ceiling with picture rail, ceiling rose and original frieze, double radiator.
Front Lounge 14' 11" x 14' 11" ( 4.55m x 4.55m )
With a sealed double glazed reproduction replacement sash cord window with original window shutters and outlooks across the large level lawned and enclosed frontage gardens, imposing character fireplace in carved wood with dual mantle, inset with a cast iron grate with tiled surround and marble hearth, two alcoves - one fitted with a range of wall shelves, high cornice ceiling with ceiling rose, picture rail and frieze, double radiator, traditional panelled door with brass handles and finger plates leading into the main hall, further traditional pine panelled door with brass handles and finger plates leading directly into the sitting room.
Formal Dining Room 15' 2" x 14' 11" ( 4.62m x 4.55m )
Approached from the entrance hall by an imposing traditional panelled internal door with brass handles and finger plates, leading to a gracious room, inset with a solid carved wood character fire[place with dual mantle and open fire, marble surround and hearth, high cornice ceiling with ceiling rose, frieze and picture rail, two wide alcoves each with wall cupboards, double glazed replacement reproduction sash cord window with original window shutters and outlooks across the large and level enclosed frontage gardens. Large radiator.
Inner Hall & Music Room 24' 10" x 8' 8" ( 7.57m x 2.64m )
Charming with flagstone flooring, spindle balustrade staircase leading to first floor landing, large radiator, two windows with side and rear garden aspect, ample space for a grand piano.
Downstairs Cloak Room
Stylish and contemporary modern white suite comprising sliminess W.C., circular shaped wash hand basin with chrome mixer taps, pop-up waste and a tiled surround with a built out solid oak vanity unit, flagstone flooring, window to rear. Approached from the inner hall/music room by a traditional pine panelled door with brass handle and finger plates.
Wine Room 5' 11" x 3' 9" ( 1.80m x 1.14m )
Fitted along two sides with custom made wine racks, radiator, window to side. Approached by a traditional pine panelled door with elegant brass handle.
Sitting Room 24' 9" x 12' 7" ( 7.54m x 3.84m )
A large and spacious versatile room, stripped pine floor throughout, matching skirting boards, exposed beam, cornice ceiling, double radiator, two sealed double glazed windows with side aspect, large open fireplace with original bread oven, inset with a contemporary cast iron log burning stove with slate hearth. Pine panelled door with brass handle leading to........
Kitchen 14' x 10' ( 4.27m x 3.05m )
Fitted along four sides with an extensive range of both floor and eye level units with panel fronts and glass display cabinets, solid granite work surfaces incorporating a Franke stainless steel sink with mixer taps and vegetable cleaner, integrated Leisure Rangemaster HPG four ring gas hob, concealed extractor hood within a built out canopy, tall storage unit housing a built-in Zanussi double oven with combined grill, integrated wine rack, integrated Statesman dishwasher, integrated fridge, integrated freezer, concealed microwave, part ceramic tiled and wood panelled walls, pretty plate racks and spice shelves, quarry tiled flooring throughout, two sealed double glazed windows with outlooks across the walled rear gardens. Double radiator.
Outer Hall
With a quarry tiled floor, and a large secure farmhouse style panelled outer door leading to the rear gardens, internal access to...........
Utility Room 12' 7" x 3' 7" ( 3.84m x 1.09m )
Fitted along one side with extensive floor and eye level units with white panel fronts with pale grey trim beneath laminate work surfaces, incorporating a stainless sink unit with chrome mixer taps and drainer, part ceramic tiled walls, space with plumbing for an automatic washing machine, space for the housing of a tumble drier, quarry tiled flooring, wall mounted Glow Worm Ultimate gas central heating boiler, window to rear gardens.
First Floor Landing
Approached via a returning spindle balustrade staircase with half landing, exposed beamed ceiling, pretty window to rear.
Master Bedroom 15' 2" x 10' 2" ( 4.62m x 3.10m )
Plus an entrance recess with access to a range of built-in wardrobes and an airing cupboard, protruding fire breast, exposed beamed ceiling, large radiator, pretty sealed double glazed window to side aspect.
Ensuite Bathroom 14' 2" x 12' 11" ( 4.32m x 3.94m )
Stunning white contemporary and stylish suite with part tiled mosaic walls and tiled floor throughout, comprising a triple size ceramic tiled wet room style shower with contemporary clear glass shower screen and chrome waterfall fitment, large freestanding roll top bath with chrome fittings, contemporary square shaped wash hand basin with chrome mixer taps, pop-up waste and a tiled surround, W.C., chrome heated towel rail and radiator, sealed double glazed window to rear, sealed double glazed window to side, ceiling with spotlights, a very spacious ensuite approached from the master bedroom via a farmhouse pine panelled door with brass handles.
Bedroom Two 15' 1" x 9' ( 4.60m x 2.74m )
Approached from the main landing via a pine panelled door with brass handles, a bright room, inset with a replacement sealed double glazed sash cord style window with original window shutters and outlooks across the deep and level enclosed frontage gardens, coved ceiling with ceiling rose, radiator, dual access built-in wardrobe 15' 1" wide x 3' 8" deep.
Bedroom Three 11' 9" x 9' 3" ( 3.58m x 2.82m )
Approached from the landing by a pine panelled door with brass handles and finger plates, sealed double glazed replacement sash cord style window with original window shutters and outlooks across the deep front gardens, coved ceiling, double radiator.
Bedroom Four 12' 7" x 11' 8" ( 3.84m x 3.56m )
With two wide full height built out wardrobes, radiator, coved ceiling with ceiling rose, sealed double glazed sash cord style replacement window with original window shutters and pleasing outlooks across the deep level walled frontage gardens.
Family Shower Room 9' 4" x 8' 5" ( 2.84m x 2.57m )
Stylish and contemporary modern white suite with tiled floor and ceramic tiled walls, comprising triple size wet room style walk-in tiled shower with clear glass shower screen and chrome waterfall shower fitment, two Roca circular shaped wash hand basins each with chrome mixer taps and pop-up waste within a built out full length solid oak vanity unit with vanity cupboards, drawers and open shelving. Slimline W.C., stylish chrome towel rail/radiator, sealed double glazed window to side.
Second Floor
Attic Room 35' 10" x 13' 4" ( 10.92m x 4.06m )
Approached independently from the first floor landing via a custom mad staircase with pine panelled door leading to a wonderfully versatile attic room, equipped with two Velux double glazed windows, pine panelled tongue and groove walls and ceiling, exposed stone walls, further side window, electric power and light, a versatile storage area, workshop/play room. Fully carpeted.
Entrance Drive
Private block paved L shaped entrance drive, approached via double gates and enclosed along one side by close timber boarded panel fencing, providing extensive off-road private parking for several vehicles.
Front Gardens
A large level main lawn, enclosed by stone boundary walls, edged with borders of shrubs and plants and partly tree lined providing a wonderful family space if required.
Rear Gardens
A courtyard style rear garden, chiefly paved and enclosed to afford privacy and security by stone boundary walls 7 ft in height, approached from the front drive via decorative full height gates, this lovely sun terrace extends around the back of the property, with considerable privacy, acting as a wonderful alfresco eating area and barbecue patio, afforded privacy by natural high 7 ft and 8 ft high boundary walls, externally benefiting from outside lights, and a useful garden gate providing direct access onto Old Port Road.
Storage Shed 20' 5" x 6' 2" ( 6.22m x 1.88m )
Stone built outside store, approached from the rear garden, inset with a pitched slate roof, electric power and light, and window.
1. MONEY LAUNDERING REGULATIONS: Intending purchasers will be asked to produce identification documentation at a later stage and we would ask for your co-operation in order that there will be no delay in agreeing the sale.
2. General: While we endeavour to make our sales particulars fair, accurate and reliable, they are only a general guide to the property and, accordingly, if there is any point which is of particular importance to you, please contact the office and we will be pleased to check the position for you, especially if you are contemplating travelling some distance to view the property.
3. The measurements indicated are supplied for guidance only and as such must be considered incorrect.
4. Services: Please note we have not tested the services or any of the equipment or appliances in this property, accordingly we strongly advise prospective buyers to commission their own survey or service reports before finalising their offer to purchase.
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Toddler Tuesday Free Ceramic Pumpkin Craft
October 16, 2018 @ 10:30 am - 11:15 am
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We have added a second date for our Free Ceramic Pumpkin Paper Bouquet Craft
Join us for another fun Toddler Tuesday
Courtesy of Colasanti's Tropical Gardens and Keepsake Plants Ltd.
Tuesday October 16
Join us in our restaurant at 10:30am for a Free Craft!
Your toddler will get to make one ceramic pumpkin flower bouquet craft.
Ceramic pumpkins come painted.
Toddler Tuesday Admission Price: FREE!
All craft pieces are pre-cut.
Parental supervision is required.
Registration is available online.
Limited seating is available.
All children must be pre-registered in order to participate.
Thank You To Our Toddler Tuesday Sponsor
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Our offering includes Florist quality Azaleas Hydrangea, and Yoder® Pot Mums and Fleurettes as well asTradewinds Tropical Hibiscus and Suntory® Mandevilla.

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I'll be supporting Nathan Carter on 19th September – Floral Pavilion – New Brighton!!
I am extremely grateful to the amazing Nathan Carter for having me along to sing a few tunes as part of his current tour on Wednesday. What a performer he is, with a fabulous voice and a really nice guy too. I'm very lucky and excited to be part of this!!


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One day, their mother said to them.
"Go on a trip!"
"Yes, Mom!"
Take one bag only. When in trouble, youmay open it."
They carried it on their back in turn.
They started off on their trip with joy.
Tambring on their boat.
Splashing on the waves.
Fluffing in the air they went.
Further further they went on their jurney.
Sprashing came the drops of rain.
They took shelter under the leave.
Lonly their felt suddenly.
"Let's open the bag, sisiter?"
"But, we are not in trouble yet."
Look! the rainbow!
They started again on their trip.
"Am I hungry!"
"Let's there anything in the bag?"
"Let's open it."
Gee! It's a guitar!
It can't fill our tummy.
What shall we do?
Let's strum it.
Great! rice ball!
Filled with rice ball, they went on.
Taking only one bag.
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News and Pictures from this week at FWS.
Dates to Remember
February 18 - 22 - No School. Happy President's Day
March 1 - Read Across America Day!
March 5 - Grade 4 National Assessment
March 7 - Term 2 Report Cards Go Home for Grades 1 - 5
March 9 - Family Carnival 10am - 2pm
PTO Paint Night was a big hit! Thank you to the PTO Executive Board for arranging a fabulous night out for parents. We had lots of laughs and wish more of you came out to enjoy all the fun.
Chinese New Year celebrated in Mrs. Scott's Grade 2 Classroom
Stephen's Mom did a presentation about Chinese New Year for Mrs. Scott's class.
She taught the class to say happy New Year in Chinese & handed out red envelopes with a gift to each student. His grandmother and family friends from China joined the class as well.


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Carjack io
Carjack io is a fast-paced action multiplayer racing game that'll put your reaction skills to the test.
Compete with other competitors in a race on the high speed highway. Avoid crashing into other cars on the road by switching between lanes.
Good Luck and Have Fun.
How to Play:
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Saturday, June 26, 2010
The Sorunda Regional Dress
Obviously I had to shoot a few portraits while attending the Sorunda Midsummer celebrations. And what better way than to show you two members of the homestead society dressed in the regional dress, the Sorundadräkten. Top photo shows Lasse. Amateur photographer since 1952. You can see some of his photos at Fotosidan. He shoots with a Pentax and has a number of new and old lenses to choose from. His granddaughter who is thirteen has also taken up the hobby. After this portrait in front of the Midsummer Pole (that was still on the ground), we walked over to the homestead society building to take photos of the famous Sorunda cakes (I will show you those in a day or two. Lasse is one of the dancers that performed here later in the day. They shocked everyone with their opening song. We all expected a traditional Swedish tune, but they gave us a dance number with Cotton Eye Joe!
Second photo shows Maria Landin. She is the chairperson of the homestead society. She's also an archaeologist from Stora Vika (a village with many Stone Age finds), and works as a antiquarian for the Nynäshamn municipality. I have met her before, and if you would like to know more about Maria press here. The regional dress is well documented and goes back many centuries. The one Maria is wearing is a mix of styles from various villages around Sorunda and the dress has changed a bit over the years. More Midsummer photos to come.
Upplagd av Stefan Jansson kl. Saturday, June 26, 2010
2 comments:
- brattcat said...
Excellent shots, Steffe.
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- Leif Hagen said...
GREAT to see photos from Midsommar! Interesting to see the folkdrakt and Swedish traditions! I'm looking forward to seeing your upcoming Midsommar blog postings! I have an Angermanlandsfolkdrakt myself with yellow knickers!
Glad Midsommer, Steffe
Skal! Skal! Skal!
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View MODAF:OV-6c Operational Event-Trace Description View
The OV-6c Operational Event-Trace Description View is part of the MODAF Operational Viewpoint and one of the 47 MODAF views*.
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The OV-6c Operational Event-Trace Description provides a time-ordered examination of the information exchanges between participating Operational Nodes as a result of a particular scenario. Each event-trace diagram will have an accompanying description that defines the particular scenario or situation.
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Operational Event-Trace Descriptions, sometimes called sequence diagrams, event scenarios or timing diagrams, allow the tracing of interactions between nodes in a scenario or critical sequence of events. The node interactions usually correspond to flows of information, but may optional describe flows of energy, materiel or people. The OV-6c, along with OV-6b, Operational State Transition Description, and OV-5, Operational Activity Model, specify the behaviour of nodes.
OV-6c is valuable for increasing the level of detail from the initial operational concepts, and can help define node interactions and operational threads. It can also help ensure that each participating node has the necessary information it needs at the right time in order to perform its assigned operational activity.
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OV-6c allows the tracing of interactions in a scenario or critical sequence of events and can be used by itself or in conjunction with OV-5, Operational Activity Model, and/or an OV-6b to describe the dynamic behaviour of nodes in a mission or operational thread.
MODAF does not generally endorse a specific modelling methodology, however in the case of OV- 6c, UML sequence diagrams seem the most appropriate. If UML cannot be used, an OV-6c may be developed using any modelling notation that supports the layout of timing and sequence of activities along with the information exchanges that occur between Nodes for a given scenario. Different scenarios will be depicted by separate diagrams.
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- DNDAF::OV-6c Operational Event-Trace Description Subview
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This project is a basic tutorial to discover Neo4J and Cypher. It's hosted on github It is largely based on Marko A. Rodriguez Gremlin tutorial
With this project, we will build a Movie recommender using the Cypher query language
This query language has a very low barrier to entry if you have a basic theoritical knowledge of graphs. If something like (A)->(B) makes sense to you, then Cypher will as well.
Using MovieLens dataset, I built a suite of classes to:
- Digest MovieLens dataset and load it into a Neo4J embedded database
- Manually add full-text indexing
- Querying the graph for movie recommendations
Please note that this project does *not* provide very accurate recommendations, but is merely a hands-on guide to Cypher. Improving recommendation should be easy enough though, by adding genre and user specific context in the query, but this is left as an exercise to the reader (or will be added in a future release, who knows :-) )
The project is Eclipse and Maven based.
Usage is as follow:
- Download MovieLens dataset
- Unpack to target/data/ directory
- Run es.bidul.graph.test.neo4j.CypherLoader
- Run es.bidul.graph.test.neo4j.IndexCreator
- Run es.bidul.graph.test.neo4j.CypherRecommender
- Run ServerStarter and go to Neo4J Webconsole
- Play with the dataset and experiment new queries
Let's dive into the code!
Code Autopsy
Cypher Loader
Basically, once model POJOs are loaded, putting them into the graph is just one query away:
// Create Movie node Map<String, Object> params = new HashMap<String, Object>(); params.put("movieId", m.getMovieId()); params.put("title", m.getTitle()); String query = "CREATE (n{movieId :{movieId}, title :{title} , type: 'Movie'})"; ExecutionResult result = engine.execute(query, params);
Pretty straightforward! One query to create a node, in a similar fashion to "INSERT" statements in good old SQL.
If you had a look at the source of CypherLoader, you probably noticed that we did not create an index on Movie title's. Since we want to be able to search for recommendation based on movie titles, we have to add a full text index on all movie nodes. The first query that comes to mind is
start n=node(*) where n.type='Movie' return n;
Except this will fail because of node 0, which does not have a property "type".
start n=node(*) where has(n.type) and n.type='Movie' return n;
This is a valid query, however, how could we make it faster? Let's dissect what this query does:
- For every node, check if it has a type property
- For every matching node, check if the value of this property type equals to 'Movie'
But, wait, what properties do our POJO have in common? The answer is "none". In particular, Movie have a "title" property...
start n=node(*) where has(n.title) return n;
This query does exactly the same, except it's much faster!
Now, we retrieved all our Movie nodes, which we want to add to the fulltext lucene index. Just loop aroud the iterator from the preceding query, add each node and we're all set. Relatively small number of lines, fast execution...
Iterator<Node> n = result.columnAs("n"); for (Node node : IteratorUtil.asIterable(n)) { fulltextMoviesIndex.add(node, "title", node.getProperty("title")); }
Cypher Recommender
There's not particular magic here, just some Cypher expressions:
START n=node:movies_fulltext({query}) MATCH n<-[r:rated]-user-[o:rated]->stuff WHERE r.stars>3 and o.stars>3 RETURN stuff.title, avg(o.stars), count(o), (avg(o.stars)*count(o)) AS scoring ORDER BY scoring desc limit 5";
- START with nodes returned by the fulltext index query
- Movie n is rated by user, user rated other stuff n<-r:ated-user-o:rated->stuff It's like drawing a graph with paper and pencil!
- Restrict this to ratings higher than 3 stars
- Construct a rough scoring metrics : numbers of stars*number of ratings: a movie seen by a lot of people with average (o.stars=3) ratings, will score higher than a very highly starred movie (o.stars=5) rated by very few users
- Order the results and display the first 5 results
Rough Movie recommendation in a single query, using collaborative filtering.
The next steps are content-based recommendation: for instance, restrict recommendation to genres shared by the 2 movies, or restrict recommendation based on user demographics or geographical positions. The queries are easy to write,I'll probably add them to github in some time!


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It's All About Perspective
"To a worm in a horseradish, the whole world is a horseradish." This insightful Yiddish proverb speaks to one of the most vexing problems faced by CEOs – the loss of perspective, that is, their ability to see business challenges in an entirely new way. They and other C-suite members are frequently seduced by "we've always done it that way" thinking and as a result, they miss the opportunity to see new solutions to old problems.
Because we live on the outside of the horseradish, SCA Group consultants are better able to see your business from a new perspective and with fresh eyes. Opportunities to improve your business operations, to increase sales and the bottom line are there and we can help you find them. Call us today and let's get started!
SCA Partner Eric Nelson Named Chief Financial Officer at Dubli, Inc.
DubLi, Inc., a global marketing company that provides consumers around the world with a variety of innovative, online shopping and entertainment opportunities, announced recently that it has strengthened its senior management team with the appointment of SCA Group partner, Eric Nelson, as Chief Financial Officer.
Eric has extensive experience as a turnaround specialist and has served as a consultant to DubLi since November 2012. His performance to the company has been exemplary and he has been asked to commit to a longer term relationship with the company. This is a great example of how SCA Consultants can really make a difference. To ready the entire Press release, just click on this link http://finance.yahoo.com/news/dubli-inc-names-eric-nelson-110000098.html
SCA Partner Michael Mazzarino Featured in Success Magazine
Michael made a significant contribution to a recent issue of this widely-read magazine with his input to an article titled "How to: Run a Family Business". In his introduction to the piece, Michael stated, "Running a business can be challenging. Families can be challenging. But when they work right, family-run businesses can be incredibly successful-both personally and financially. The key is to set rules to keep personal issues aside. It's always a matter of separating personal relationships from business roles. Problems creep in when the group of people who sit around the Thanksgiving table are also the CEO, the bookkeeper and the sales manager."
Michael's article offers insights on making a family business as successful as possible. To read the entire article, just click on this link http://www.success.com/articles/2168-how-to-run-a-family-business.
⇐ DubLi, Inc. Names Eric Nelson Chief Financial Officer
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Here at The O' Neill Arms Country House Hotel, we are delighted to invite you to our Spooky Sunday, taking place on Sunday 28th October from 12-4pm.
We have a fun packed afternoon for you all. From our divine 4 Course Carvery to bouncy castles and a fancy dress competition so dress to impress… or should we say scare! Spooky Sunday is open to children of all ages and we can't wait to see you all in your spooktacular outfits.
Make a weekend of it and stay with us, with room starting from just £69.
Being located in the heart of Mis-Ulster we are just 50 mins drive from The Derry/Londonderry full line up of Halloween Events which include:
Awakening the Walls
Sunday 28th to Tuesday 30th October. Awakening the Walls is an illuminated animation trail featuring over 30 installations and performances by local and international artists. The City's historic Walls, Cathedral Quarter, Craft Village and surrounding areas provide a unique and dramatic stage for this light festival.
Halloween Carnival Parade
Queens Quay – Derry~Londonderry Wednesday 31st October from 7pm.
On Halloween night, the annual street carnival parade is an illuminated moving performance which weaves its way through the city streets featuring costumed performers, illuminated sculpture, large-scale lanterns, music, movement, dance, circus and street performers.
Haunted Harvest Market
27th October – 3rd November.
Taste terrifyingly tantalising treats and drink bewitching brews while a world of magical wonder unfolds before your eyes
If you are a little more daring we are also only a short drive from The Jungle NI's well known 'Fright Night' They are back with a vengeance. You have been warned!
To book your room with The O' Neill Arms Country House Hotel or secure your place on Spooky Sunday please contact a member of our spooky team now.


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The State of Oklahoma has several State questions that will be on the ballot this November. If you have been looking for information to understand all of the questions here is a great link for a quick briefing of information.
Also join us at the Sand Springs Chamber Open Forum on Nov. 7th at Tulsa Technology Center Sand Springs Campus 924 Charles Page Blvd in the common room at 11:45am. RSVP to chamber office at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Salt Water Crocodile
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Suitable for ages 5 yrs up. Another iconic Australian animal to add to the collection. Even though the crocodile is an animal not to be messed with, it is a favourite for most kids. Think of the excitement to be had while constructing the sharp jaws of the salt water crocodile.


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Impact Assessments
Brexit: lawyers at large
Richard North
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In a my professional capacity as an expert witness, I've met and worked with quite a few barristers in my time, including QCs. Some have been good, some mediocre and some bloody awful – an embarrassment not only to their own profession but to humanity in general. The number who have been outstanding I can count on the fingers of one hand.
By itself, therefore, the title QC means very little other than its holder has attained a degree of seniority as a barrister and, if still practicing, is capable of reading and evaluating a brief and arguing a case in court. It does not imply any great (or any) expertise in any specific subject.
Lawyers acting outside their own areas of speciality have no claim to expertise and their opinions are no more valid than any other person working in the field. In some respects, the limited horizons or prejudices of lawyers may handicap them in understanding issues beyond their immediate experience.
When it comes to individual lawyers, therefore, I take them as I find them, and where they encroach into the land of Brexit, their work must stand on its merits, especially as they are well-capable of talking nonsense with the best of us.
That, of course, applies to George Peretz QC, who fancies himself as a popular expert in all things Brexit, even if his
general cv
does not attest to expertise in matters to do with the EU. He claims experience in the areas of public law, regulatory and tax issues, "with particular strengths in competition, VAT, agriculture, freedom of information and pharmaceuticals". And despite having taken cases to the ECJ, that does not make him an expert in the wide sweep of European Union affairs..
Still less is Mr Peretz an expert in matters to do with the WTO, which is a specialist field in its own right, and so complex as to encompass many sub-specialities which have their own band of experts.
Nevertheless, that has not prevented the
turning to Peretz for an opinion on the application of the so-called "WTO Option", to counter the recent propaganda from IDS,
also published
in the
As an aside, I don't see the point of a newspaper publishing these completely contradictory articles, without coming down on one side or another. Otherwise, it is just another example of cheap "he says, she says" journalism, leaving the bemused reader to choose between the two.
Turning to the Peretz article, if one it to take it as the sort of thing that a reasonably intelligent layman could produce, then it's not too bad – and certainly doesn't embrace quite as many errors as the equivalent piece by IDS.
Thus we get a pedestrian and somewhat formulaic exposition of how border controls will apply to UK goods being brought into the EU post-Brexit, although it is pretty clear that Mr Peretz has only skim-read the summaries and not delved into the details. His analysis is pretty superficial and in some areas so incomplete as to be misleading.
Furthermore, like so many lawyers with no particular knowledge or practical experience of a particular subject (and in common with the archetypal barrack-room lawyer), he tends to take a legalistic view of the written word, and thus interprets the powers and actions of the WTO as a legal construct.
What few lawyers seem fully able to grasp is that most international bodies are as much political as legal constructs – and in many cases more so. Treaty law, as it applies to them, is not the law in the rigid sense that statutes are applied in domestic courts. It is subject to vagaries of political expediency and the obvious problems of enforcement the affect a body which, in the case of the WTO, has no direct enforcement powers.
The "nuances" of international law – if you like to call them that, start to become important when we start to consider the impact of the WTO's non-discrimination rules to the EU and also to the UK in a post-Brexit environment.
Rightly, Peretz argues that these rules "make it hard for the EU to give the UK benefits that it doesn't give other third countries". In other words, he says, they "reduce the ability of the EU to waive or modify its rules and procedures for the UK's benefit".
But, in the manner not of the intelligent layman but of a lawyer handicapped by his professional bias, he is entirely wrong in asserting that the rules will have equal impact on the UK. Says Peretz the lawyer, "Equally, if the UK's policy response to the problems of 'no deal' is to waive tariffs and checks on imports from the EU, it will also have to waive them for imports from (for example) China and the US in order to avoid well-founded claims of discrimination".
Noting that this is "unlikely to be politically attractive" (as well as potentially hazardous), what he doesn't take on board is the very nature of the WTO as a
body dedicated to facilitating international trade.
As such, the WTO relies on negotiation as its main tool and regards the treaty law as a adjunct, to be used when all else fails and then only to achieve an effect. It is not a legal authority which regards the rule of law as a sacred principle or any part of its duty implementing the letter of the law.
Reflecting this, many of the WTO treaty provisions (and their predecessors in GATT) are not actionable merely on evidence of a breach. The WTO Agreement sets the additional test of requiring the aggrieved party (or parties) to have suffered injury – known in technical terms as "nullification or impairment".
Given this requirement, one can imagine a post-Brexit UK which, in order to keep goods flowing and to prevent the ports being clogged, decides to maintain its existing checks on what were EU third countries but decides to waive checks on EU produce which, until very recently it did not check at all.
In those circumstances, where the UK is maintaining the
status quo
, one has to ask whether any of the erstwhile third countries are materially disadvantaged. And, if they feel they are, their option is to go through the dispute procedures, potentially taking several years before an actional judgement is made, which in any event only allows the aggrieved parties to impose sanctions which have an effect on the target county similar to the damage originally sustained.
One can easily imagine the situation where the UK will take the
judgement that it should waive WTO rules. And even if it is later found to be in breach, such modest sanctions as may then apply – some time in the distant future – are nothing compared to the damage that might otherwise have been caused.
Similarly, if the UK decides to invoke the national security exemption, its lawyers will doubtless be able to keep any complainants tied up in the minutia of international law and WTO precedents so that, by the time anything is resolved – if, indeed, it is – the crisis will have been long past.
Understanding this has been part of my own personal learning curve. From looking at the strict application of international law, one moves on to look at the politics and, eventually, one is able to merge the issues and come to a more nuanced assessment of what might be real world responses.
Sadly, Mr Peretz is only at stage one, which means that his response in the
, while helpful, is not that convincing. He is able to point out some of the perils of the WTO Option, but is unable to offer a balanced view.
What needs to be conveyed, and with some urgency, is that – beyond the short-term effects - the main impact of a WTO "no deal" Brexit will be to cripple our export trade with the EU – slashing the current £270 billion of goods sold to a fraction of that level, a level unknown and not possible to estimate.
For very obvious reasons, the UK will be less inclined to restrict EU imports – not only will it have less legal justification, in a country which is only 60 percent sufficient in food, it cannot afford to turn away supplies from EU Member States – and will not find it easy to source alternatives.
Crucially, this means that many of the headline effects of Brexit will not materialise – or are capable of mitigation to such an extent that they will scarcely register as much more than minor perturbations. The really damaging effects will be longer-term and far less visible, the cumulative effect discernible only from periodic trade statistics.
This makes it very easy to dismiss the more lurid or theoretical claims as "project fear", thereby imparting a false sense of security as to the real effects of the WTO option.
Peretz's concluding point is that "leaving the single market and the customs union, without any replacement FTA and without transitional measures, would be a sudden and serious deterioration in our terms of trade with our major trading partner, with very serious impacts on UK businesses ranging from large car manufacturers to Welsh farmers exporting lamb to jobbing musicians (as well as on UK citizens living in the EU, an issue not mentioned by Duncan Smith)". WTO rules, he says, "do not alter those conclusions".
Apart from the irrational injection of the "customs unions", he is not wrong in what he says, but the case has yet to be made in the legacy media as to precisely why the WTO Option will be quite so harmful. For that, a lawyer is probably the wrong person to ask.
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(Note: This essay does not represent the views of Toon Barn)
I think that its time for us who love animation and want to see it live on, need to ask fans – erstwhile users, and the disaffected lovers of the anime genre to come to terms with the truth that is staring right in your faces.
Crunchyroll, Like Most of The Bay Area protectorate of streaming sites and services are no better than Ponzi schemes, and the disappointing thing is that Mr Gao, the CEO of Crunchyroll, Mr Churnin of the Churnin Group which is now funding the site, and many of the Japanese studios concerned about privacy have done themselves, and their Japanese fanbase and American fanbase a huge disservice by promoting Crunchyroll over say Toonami.
Crunchyroll fans may not see it that way, but that the point. They as a fanbase – just like certain folks in the gaming industry that dont like women to be dressed in certain fashions and to have certain tropes, and certain entries that say they are willing to protect a program that was funded by the military – so they can continue to use the program to do wrong stuff – are all living in a deluded worldview.
The Fact remains that Toonami has been more successful than Crunchyroll ever was and ever will be. Even in the recent interview with the Toonami Faithful Podcast, Jason DeMarco WANTED 4Kids's Toonzai (and others like it) to succeed, where everybody who was on the Crunchyroll bandwangon wanted Toonzai (and others) to fail.
We had Seventhstyle, a site that mostly focused on the females of the Anime Genre – beat down the narrative Crunchyroll built on its self. But yet the fetid slime that Mr Gao convinced the Japanese producers to use and promote lived on.
Now, we have governmental plans for both net neutrality and the MVPD reconfiguration from making Netflix and other streamers into FCC branded "cable" networks – and Crunchyroll hopes it can be one of those folks.
But it shows that Law in this country is a two tier system.
You can never, ever, ever convince me that Crunchyroll is legit. Not after the way Kim DotCom was treated – no – Crunchyroll did the same EXACT things MegaUpload was accused of doing. They never went after Mr Gao the same way. Because he has become a protected class the day Ventrock decided to give Crunchyroll, its first four million dollars. And who pray tell, is Ventrock? At the time, it was run by the family named the Rockefellers. One of the executives of the company – (last we knew and the last known publicly available information) is the Senator from West Virginia, John Jay Rockefeller. He is in the Commerce Committee, which over sees the FCC (which deals with both the Title II changes planned with the Internet and the Children's TV Act of 1991 that has been renewed several times.) He also, stated in an argumentative comment back in the mid 2000's that the Internet is a "problem". These events and the actions taken by this firm and by the Governmental agencies that turned a blind eye to what Mr Gao did and continues to do, whether he likes the moniker or not, makes him a part of a protected class of people who will never be prosecuted for crimes that would have sent another, less connected and rich man – to prison or pay a fine that he or she can never repay.
So, now that you know that our Government has protected people like Mr Gao that have already broken the Digital Millennium Act of 2000 – the same statues that Kim DotCom is being charged for along with other international laws – what does that say about you paying five dollars a month for what pretty much is a racketeering firm?
People on twitter have the nerve to call Toonami "Illegal". Which comes when Government selects and chooses which crimes are worse and how our leaders ignore the statues on the books, so they can pass new laws which have the same language – so these leaders can say I put this law into place! This form of ego has filtered down to these folks who saw Crunchyroll successes and wish to be the next one.
This is not only a joke, It is a sham; a shame and a farce.
These folks are the people who allow those that work against culture from thriving exist. It makes the whole gambit of animation look like a ghetto. It keeps the same folks in power, and doesn't challenge the status quo and gives them more power over other parts of Nerd culture in order to create "Safe Spaces" where none – except for Children (and not in the way the E/I laws say they give it) exist. It gives the voters of the Academy, "the moral case" but highly immoral racially tinged language when it comes to Animated movies like Kaguya, which they call "two obscure Chinese things that nobody ever freakin' saw." This acerbates the problem, causing more illegality, out of spite.
We now see the result of how fights between the old guard and next generation, men full of vinegar, women full of spite, and those protecting the innocent from those showing the reality of the art form cause illegal actions to become legal, and cause insanity to take place.
Naruto, Bleach and Dragon Ball Z in Japan had a similar moment with the same types of shows in the US did in the 1980's with the drug trade and how it effected the youth when it came to piracy. They both have similar impact. They worked as a TV show, but had very little impact in the larger scheme, because we can take it to the same extremes here folks – the Government of Japan, and the TV industries in Japan, in collusion with the Commerce Department of the US Senate are sadly are supporting the pirating outfit, Crunchyroll, just the same way Our US Government via its clandestine entities facilitated in the trade of Drugs, while using its Educational connections from Peggy Charren on down to lead the industry into the Children's TV act of 1991 via that TV show back in 1990 dealing with anti-drugs.
And what pray tell happened since these events?
Drug trade getting worse, drug use in the middle class suburbs getting to record levels.
The United States Millennial Generation being the worst educated first world nation, which means it cannot communicate its feelings, cannot compute out of its morass, and relies on pseudo-conspiracy, and paganism as Christianity to explain why the masses are not getting far enough, and the people to blame on why they are so stupid.
The selective arrests like Kim Dot Com, and not Mr Gao.
The continued treatment of Anime like Kaguya as second class to OUTRIGHT TRASH like the Lego Movie.
You now see what your Crunchyroll subscription go towards. The degradation of the genre you believe you support. You folks never supported the genre, you only supported your own weakness in your minds and bodies. It wasn't enough that Crunchyroll doesn't help sell Blu-Rays of these series, only hinders. It doesn't matter they cheated other pirating firms. It doesn't matter if Youtube called them out on Crunchyroll's hypocrisy.
It only matters when others follow Mr Gao's lead in order to say that Toonami is the illegal streamer. There is the power that you subscribers want. To kick over the ONLY THING THAT KEPT THIS GENRE ALIVE IN THIS COUNTRY.
But this isn't surprising. Its a battle that has raged for years. But now all that fighting has made things look worse. The ad men find a way to win and with that, goes everything else.
Thats why all we have left is the memories that were some of the better moments in animation. But memories isnt enough. And as long as Crunchyroll exists, all we going to get is the same type of self-hatred towards the genre itself. There will never be changes until the truth is told.
Crunchyroll, their executive board, their employees and the VC people that gave and keep giving them money are all criminals. There is nothing, absolutely nothing Crunchyroll can convince me otherwise.
There is a lot to think about. But the time to do something about it is running short.
It is time to come to grips with the true nature of the business. Netflix, Amazon and others need to retrofit and change their streaming business models, and we as fans need to come to grips with the fact that we have bought the lie that we need everything yesterday and sold the lie that we needed unlimited every other thing. Its a form of sadness that explains why the TV business outside of a few shows – is a utter and complete mess, from unwanted censorship of both mind and body, to voice and mannerism from executives on down.
But it starts by admitting that Crunchyroll are just as bad as the pirating firms were.
And that way the genre will get a little of the respect back that it lost.
Its a far, far better fate for Animation than the one we have now.
Its a far better end for those that tried to push animation forward.


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Last week I had the last second opportunity of interviewing drummer Erik Bodin of the Sweetish synth/indie rock band Little Dragon. We met up with Erik in Silverlake, Los Angeles where he happily greeted us with his luggage in hand as he literally had just been picked from the airport. Just moments after shaking his hand, the band manger rings me saying he has to pick up the keyboardist, then asking if I could drop Erik off at a his hotel afterward. I thought of that request being a bit forward, but honestly didn't mind, so off we went to Secret Headquarters just around the corner to conduct the interview. I'll have that interview up later, but here a few preview images as well as some shots from their gig.
You can see the full image set at: http://thescenestar.typepad.com/ss/little-dragon-echoplex.html


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Every year I look forward to discovering the winners from Restaurant Hospitality's Best Sandwiches in America Contest. Since we won't see this year's winners until June, I rambled down memory lane, reading commentary from judges and the 2016 winners about their dishes.
Hot Dog/Sausage Category
The All American from Prairie Dogs Hot Dogs & Handcrafted Sausage in Minneapolis was made with an all-beef hot dog, crispy pork belly, sriracha aioli and Southern-style hash browns topped with a soft fried egg. I admit, this one surprised me. I mean, the winning hot dog has an egg on it? Love it! Sounds like the judges agreed:
"While an egg on a hotdog may confuse some people, it doesn't take long for them to realize that once the yolk is broken, you've just added another sauce to an already great sandwich featuring pork belly. None of its rocket science, but one taste of this dog and your taste buds will fly to the moon."
Pork Category
The Open-Faced Pork Schnitzel Sandwich from Bohemian House in Chicago was created with horseradish cream, sauerkraut, caramelized onion spread, Emmentaler cheese, a fried egg, pickled dill, mustard and grilled light rye bread. No surprise here – eggs are showing up all over menus with diverse partners. Here's what the judges had to say about the chef:
"… he clearly sat down and mapped out the types of ingredients that would take a delicious slab of breaded pork and make it exceptional. It's a virtuoso balancing act that blew us away."
Breakfast Category
The biscuit donut, fried egg, pimento cheese and spicy fried chicken winner was made by Blue Smoke in NYC, and called Bright-Eyed Breakfast Sandwich. I'll let the chef speak for the dish:
"Our fried chicken is seasoned with homemade hot sauce powder, and the donut is fully glazed with honey and sprinkled with Aleppo pepper. When you press down on the sandwich, the sunny side up egg yolk pops up through the donut hole, hence the name Bright-Eyed Breakfast Sandwich."
Inspired! Can't wait to see this year's masterpieces.


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Concrete details of operators' big data projects remain thin on the ground, so it was pleasing to see BT and Cloudera shed some light last month on what they are doing.
Orange's enterprise arm has won a five-year contract to upgrade numerous legacy networks belonging to seafood producer Norwegian Marine Harvest.
BT has revealed it is using Cloudera's big data technology to improve its broadband service and get a more unified view of its enterprise customers.
Ericsson and SK Holdings have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to develop what they are calling "a global collaborative ICT ecosystem" for the enterprise market.
BT is to supply fixed voice services to the European Commission as part of a new deal worth €15 million.
Len Padilla, VP Product Service at NTT Communications, the international network and ICT arm of the Japan-based telco, discusses all things cloud.
Swisscom and Verizon have extended a partnership that allows their respective enterprise customers to access network services overseas.
Telecom Italia and Akamai have signed a partnership agreement that sees the companies offer content delivery network and web optimisation services to the enterprise market in Italy.
Cisco, Intel and Deutsche Telekom have selected twelve startups to join the next phase of a joint incubator initiative organised by the three companies.
Telefónica I+D has launched a new mobile application aimed at the Spanish insurance market that employs device sensors to monitor driving habits.
Orange has launched its accelerator programme in Spain as it looks to strengthen its presence in the country under its Essentials 2020 strategy.
KPN has bought out IS Holding's share in Dutch cloud company IS Group for an undisclosed fee.
Ericsson has unveiled a new Industry and Society (I&S) business unit as it continues to focus on non-telco customers.
BT, TalkTalk and Virgin Media will work with Ofcom on a new Code of Practice to improve broadband services for SMEs in the UK.
Deutsche Telekom wants Europe to take the fight to Amazon and Google by creating a cloud rival, as telcos were told they must do more to help the continent's SMEs.
Vodafone's business arm and Huawei are to jointly develop services for the enterprise market in Europe, Asia Pacific and Africa.
BT Global Services has won a global contract to transform the communications and IT infrastructure of multinational corporate ABB.
Nokia Networks and two other partners have won a 10-year deal to upgrade Spain's railway communication system.
Orange Business Services has revealed it is transforming consulting and engineering company Pöyry's communications infrastructure.
Global lift and escalator company KONE has selected Orange Business Services to provide contact centre solutions for a number of sites across Europe, the Middle East and North America.
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Visitors to the Park enjoy their close encounters with wildlife in many ways,
from watching the squirrels and birds to admiring the deer, and the many species of trees.
The Park has remained an open space for centuries and has become a rich location for
biodiversity, the ancient grazed grassland in the Deer Park, the acid grassland on Crooms Hill and the veteran trees being particularly valuable.
Anyone with an interest in wildlife can join the Friends Wildlife Group.
For an overview of the fauna and flora in Greenwich Park, see the Royal Parks website, royalparks.org.uk/parks/greenwich_park
Fifty two sweet chestnuts, eight oaks, one sycamore and a cedar make up the ancient and veteran tree stock in Greenwich Park. The ancient sweet chestnuts are relics of the formal avenues created for Charles II in the 1660s. Their slowly decaying hearts provide one of the most important habitats for rare and specialised invertebrates and fungi. These trees may look old and battered but will stay alive for many more years.
The Royal Parks has a specialist arboriculturalist responsible for all the trees in the Park and their regular surveys. There are nearly 4000 trees in Greenwich Park. The majority are in the 50 to 100 year old age range.
Ancient and notable Trees The Woodland Trust
The Woodland Trust and its partner organisations aim to record and map all the ancient and notable trees in the UK. The Royal Parks have many of the most ancient trees in Europe, and photos and details of the Greenwich Park trees which have been included can be found through The Woodland Trust's interactive map on The Woodland Trust: Interactive map
When the map of the UK loads, click on "Locate". Enter Greenwich Park. When the map appears, click on Explore and check Ancient, Notable and Veteran trees. Tree icons appear on the map of the Park. Hover over an icon and details of the tree and its picture will appear


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Customer satisfaction with the major banks has declined during the banking royal commission, but customers are largely satisfied, according to new data.
The latest findings from Roy Morgan's Customer Satisfaction-Consumer Banking in Australia August Report found that although satisfaction with banks overall has shown a decline during the royal commission, not all banks have moved the same way.
Of the 10 largest banks shown in the following chart, the two best performers, ING with 88.8 per cent satisfaction and Bendigo Bank (88.4 per cent), did not show declines, Roy Morgan said.
Bucking the trend, ING showed an improvement of 3.6 percentage points since January and Bendigo Bank remained unchanged.
In contrast, satisfaction with NAB was down by 3.9 percentage points over this period, followed by Westpac (down 3.6 percentage points), ANZ (down 2.7 percentage points), Suncorp Bank (down 2.6 percentage points) and CBA (down 2.5 percentage points).
CBA retains its position of having the highest satisfaction among the big four with 77.6 per cent, followed by the ANZ (75.9 per cent), NAB (75.2 per cent) and Westpac (74.3 per cent).
"Given the continuing barrage of negative publicity from the royal commission and other issues, including out of cycle loan rate increases, it is not surprising that satisfaction with banks has shown a small decline this year," said Roy Morgan industry communications director Norman Morris.
"What needs to be noted, however, is that contrary to all the negative reporting on banks, the clear majority of their customers are satisfied with them and that only around 6 per cent claim to be dissatisfied."
The survey is based on interviews conducted face-to-face with over 50,000 consumers per annum in their homes, including over 4,000 bank customers per month, Roy Morgan said.
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