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The collapse of the Soviet Union spawned a new breed of plutocrats. Simon Bell talks to Roman Abramovich and details the rise of Chelsea's new owner
Spare a thought for David Beckham's publicists. In the week when the most famous footballer in the world was relaunched in a glittering campaign at Real Madrid, the soccer headlines were stolen by a man few of us had ever heard of, who has no previous connection to football, and who has an aversion to publicity.
When Roman Abramovich strolled on to the Chelsea turf and punted £140m on the Blues, the game was over. The resulting scramble for information about the elusive Russian multi-billionaire covered the globe. Just who is the real Roman Abramovich?
From his headquarters with its view of the Kremlin across the Moscow River, Abramovich controls an empire consisting of oil and aluminium, meat-processing and pharmaceuticals, that gives him a personal net worth estimated at £6bn.
From a separate floor at the top of his 19th century merchant's house, he also runs the governorship of Chukotka, 4,000 miles away in Siberia.
However, in an interview with the Telegraph, Abramovich insists he is not driven by imperialist ambitions: "I have no Napoleonic dream. I'm just hard-working and pragmatic," he says.
Speaking in Russian (although he seems to understand English), he describes himself as a "family man" with five children (he's planning to educate them in the UK because "you have hundreds of years of educational excellence").
For holidays, he boards his Boeing 767 and flies to his villa in Nice. Once a month he travels in the opposite direction to Chukotka, where his base is a two-storey, wooden, pre-fabricated cottage.
And there is also a grand estate outside Moscow and another in Surrey. Abramovich doesn't drink and detests smoking. And he defines himself as "a Jew first and a Russian second", which is not anomalous.
In spite of the oppression of Jews during much of the Soviet era (or perhaps because of this), an impressive number of Russia's new business elite is of Jewish origin.
These include Victor Vekselberg, the co-owner of the oil company TNK, Mikhail Friedman of Alfa Bank, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the chairman of Russia's most internationally renowned company, Yukos, and Boris Berezovsky.
The most powerful oligarch of the 1990s, Berezovsky - who played an important part in the creation of Abramovich's empire - fell out with president Putin and now lives in exile in the UK.
For all his immense wealth, attracting attention by buying Chelsea seems out of character for Abramovich. He works, eats and plays only with his friends at Sibneft, the company he controls.
And within Moscow's incestuous business community - where everybody knows everybody - he is being excoriated for putting his cash into a trophy asset rather than investing in the Russian economy. So why on earth did he do it?
One of his friends says: "One day he was sitting in his office and said: 'I love this game, I love this sport, I love this league. Why don't I get my own team?' "
After trawling through a long list of European clubs, which was narrowed down to Tottenham Hotspur and Chelsea, he finally opted for the glamorous west London club. "I want a team that wins the league and Europe," Abramovich tells me.
"The goal is to win. It's not about making money. I have many much less risky ways of making money than this. I don't want to throw my money away, but it's really about having fun and that means success and trophies."
And why a British club? "I can afford to fly in and out of the UK and back to my job in Russia. I enjoy England and I like to see every Chelsea game, but that may not be possible". Although his pockets are deep, he would not be drawn on how much he intends to spend on developing the club.
However, Ken Bates, Chelsea's chairman, told Jeff Randall (the BBC's Business Editor and a Telegraph columnist) that Abramovich is planning to spend £30m on new players and a further £30m on a training ground and other facilities.
He wants to win, which is the predominant trait of his business life. His debut was as trader of unglamorous commodities such as re-tread tyres.
But then he became an oil trader, thanks to childhood connections in the oil business and a subsequent technical education. The Swiss-based vehicle Runicom, now absorbed into Sibneft, was the origin of his empire.
"I raised my own money," he says. "I didn't use state money through bank loans. My most important deals were when I was unknown. Now you have to be a known name to be a success."
In the early 1990s, he consolidated the oil businesses in the Omsk region so successfully that when Berezovsky conceived the plan to create Sibneft - an amalgamation within the oil industry - Abramovich was his first choice for the board and then the chairmanship.
After Berezovsky's exile to London, Abramovich was left in sole charge of his own and Berezovsky's shares. The two no longer speak - Abramovich's loyalty to president Putin, the sworn enemy of Berezovsky, has driven them apart.
"I warned him even before 2000 [Putin's election]," Abramovich says. "He was too emotional. He didn't evaluate the situation enough."
Anyway, with his close friend from university, Eugene Shvidler, Abramovich has built Sibneft into a large part of the fourth biggest oil company in the world, as well as having its own interests. Shvidler is now chairman of Yukos-Sibneft, the joint company owned by Khodorvsky and Abramovich himself.
A similar consolidation of Russia's aluminium business created Russian Aluminium (Rusal), the second largest aluminium company in the world and half-owned by Abramovich (with Oleg Deripaska).
He also owns Russia's largest meat-packing and bacon processing company, in Omsk, and ICN, a California-based pharmaceutical company founded by Milan Panic, the prime minister of Yugoslavia before Milosevich.
In spite of the wealth and power, his colleagues say Abramovich is self-deprecating. "For the first few months I was at his office," says one. "I blanked Roman, thinking he was some young courier or something.
"I've still never seen him behind a desk. He wanders around in jeans eating pizza and chatting… He's so unlike a Russian oligarch it's hard to imagine. There's no culture of fear. He's not sociable, but quiet, unassuming, friendly, softly-spoken."
But success has attracted enemies to the youthful multi-billionaire. That was probably inevitable in the hurly-burly of the transition from the chaos after the collapse of communism to a more stable market system. "Russia was wild," he says. "There were different challenges to the ones you have in the West."
These challenges consisted of a semi-lawless atmosphere and the fact that, in order to fight off the very real possibility of a return to communism, Yeltsin made politics and business bed mates.
He sold Russia's assets to the oligarchs in auctions that, in some cases, were undoubtedly fixed. In return, the oligarchs supported him financially and showed the communists the door.
"These were bankrupt companies," Abramovich says of Sibneft. "They were in sore need of new management. They'd been run into the ground by the inefficiency and corruption of the Red directors.
"They had good assets and they are certainly worth more now, but that's due to what happened to them since they were bought. They turned round into extremely profitable oil companies."
The alliance of business and politics in Russia continues with Putin who has said: "I will keep an equal distance from the oligarchs." According to one oligarch, Putin should have said "equal proximity".
Abramovich has a strong relationship with Putin and goes out of his way to praise him: "He is well-informed [about the economy]. Yeltsin couldn't understand economics. His entourage decided. Putin decides for himself."
The governorship of Chukotka might be viewed as a way to reinforce Abramovich's political connections in a country where a lack of them can result in presidential obstruction; the exile of Berezovsky and the other former media oligarch, Vladimir Gusinsky, resonate still.
And this week Khodorkovsky's deputy, Platon Lebedev, was arrested in what many believe to be a swipe by Putin. If Chukotka is political insurance, however, it is not just a cynical ploy by Abramovich.
In Soviet times, Chukotka was a hideous death camp, its ethnic minorities were persecuted and it was starved of funds. Abramovich has lavished money there and is popular.
Every year he sends the children of Chukotka on holiday to the Black Sea, one of many charitable programmes he funds. Earlier this year, Abramovich bought 30,000 houses for those inhabitants who wished to relocate to Russia's milder climes.
"They were pleased," he says and then wryly adds: "Most of them have rented out the properties I gave them and stayed in Chukotka."
Abramovich has also put Chukotka on the map in Washington by proposing to build a bridge from there to Alaska. The question of lawlessness in the oligarchs' rise to wealth and power is more impenetrable than their political connections.
It is also a question that seems to have resolved itself in some people's minds into a simple equation: Russian Business equals Russian Crime.
Last week, the former sports minister, Tony Banks, in musing whether Abramovich is a fit and proper person to own Chelsea, answered his own question with the words: "The jury is still out."
Although Abramovich may be appearing in the court of Banks' imagination, he hasn't appeared in any other court. The oft-quoted racketeering charges involving Russian businessmen and the aluminium industry named a partner, not Abramovich himself. Anyway, the charges were thrown out by the New York courts.
And in a list of Russia's criminals and suspects I was shown by the Swiss police, Abramovich is nowhere to be seen. Investigations into a missing train loaded with fuel, and IMF loans disappearing into private pockets, found no link to him.
As for his approach to business, he appears to take a long-term view, though he says "investors have very short memories". He and Shvidler have been zealous in maintaining their credit rating.
In the crash of 1998, his rivals used a debt moratorium to evade repaying loans. But according to a former investment banker, Abramovich "emptied every piggy bank and looked behind every sofa to scrape the cash together to meet a debt he could, technically, have avoided".
And what about his ambitions? More and bigger mergers? With £3bn in his back pocket, Chelsea is presumably not the limit of his plans.
What he says is surprisingly disarming: "One day I might like to get away from it all. I don't exclude stopping and just going round the world with the family." It's every oligarch's dream: filling up the hold and heading wherever the fancy takes him in the family Boeing.
• Simon Bell is writing a book on Russia's oligarchs


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No hard feelings Sanchez. Buy yourself a football (a round one!), and get out into the fresh air.A "round football"?!! Well colo*u*r me surpri*z*ed.Soccer man, soccer.
No definitely football.Why call a sport where the object of the game is to pick the ball up in your hands, run with it and throw it to your colleague so he can do the same *foot*ball. In the UK thats a foul and if you do it deliberately you could get sent off!


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Statistical Methods for Genome‐Wide and Sequencing Association Studies of Complex Traits in Related Samples
Genome‐wide association studies (GWAS) and sequencing studies are routinely conducted for the identification of genetic variants that are associated with complex traits. Many genetic studies for association mapping include related individuals. When relatives are included in an association analysis, familial correlations must be appropriately taken into account to ensure correct type I error and to increase power. This unit provides an overview of statistical methods that are available for GWAS and sequencing association studies of complex traits in samples with related individuals. © 2015 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Keywords: relatedness; GWAS; sequence; association mapping; family data; complex traits; mixed models; genome‐wide association studies
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Five ways Abbott could kill renewables in Australia
Apparently, one of the few areas of bipartisan agreement in the heated politics of this country is in the area of renewables. Both major parties – Labor and the Coalition – say they support the 20 per cent renewable target, but it doesn't actually mean what it says.
Indeed, Tony Abbott may well want to have his photo taken next to a wind farm (well, maybe not), or a solar array in the lead up to the election. Behind the scenes, however, he is under intense pressure to pull them down.
The failure of the so-called "wind fraud" rally to generate much interest among its supposed supporters or the media may indicate the influence of the "loony right" is not as great among the general public as is supposed. But the Coalition is full of rhetoric about renewables that is fed by ill-informed climate skeptic and anti-renewable energy blogs. And there is huge pressure on the Coalition from within its own ranks, the conservative state governments, the incumbent energy industry, and numerous conservative think tanks to take action to curb the expansion of renewables.
So, here are five ways that Abbott's team could effectively kill the development of renewables in Australia. The irony is, these policies – or the mere threat that they might be imposed – are already having an impact, particularly among the financiers who have long-time horizons for their investments.
Ernst & Young last month ranked Australia as the fourth-most attractive country in the world on the basis of its suite of policies – carbon price, renewable energy target, the Clean Energy Finance Corporation, the Australian Renewable Energy Agency, and the feed in tariffs.
Yet, investment in Australia – apart from rooftop solar PV, which is now being financed almost exclusively by households and individual businesses – is stalled, because of policy uncertainty and fears that most of the building blocks cited by E&Y are in danger of being torn down or removed.
Indeed, the only projects that are likely to get financing in the next few months are those being co-funded by the CEFC, and possibly ARENA (although these will have longer lead in times). But the Coalition is so horrified by the role of the CEFC that it is putting pressure on banks to back off, and to tear up any contracts.
So here are the five ways that an Abbott Government could kill renewables:
Can the Carbon price:
Abbott has made a blood oath to do this. His ability to do so will depend on what control he has in the Senate, and/or the gumption of the remaining rump of the Labor Party to defend the policy that it introduced. That will largely depend on who and how many are left in Parliament House. If Abbott cannot repeal the carbon price, he is likely to hasten a move to a market based scheme. (IPART said this week an ETS would reduce electricity prices by 6.9 per cent)
That is what most business hope, because they realize that carbon pricing is expanding throughout the world, even if the prices are not, and that it is inevitable that a carbon price will be needed to address higher ambition. That is, if you accept the science of climate change.
The repeal of the carbon price won't make renewables less likely, but it will make the RET scheme more expensive, because the carbon price and the price of renewable energy certificates combine to make the difference between the costs of wind and solar and the wholesale market price in Australia –which is set mostly by the cost of decades-old and fully depreciated fossil fuel plants. Take away one incentive, and the other has to rise to meet the gap. The two policies are complimentary, despite what IPART says to the contrary.
However, taking away the carbon price also increases the risk around investment in any sort of generation – be it fossil fuel or renewable. So, perversely, it will probably help increase the cost of electricity.
Can or dilute the RET
The Coalition says it offers bipartisan support of the "20 per cent" renewable energy target, but it is mighty coy about the details. The RET legislation states that Australia should have a minimum 20 per cent renewable generation by 2020, and this is currently expressed as a fixed target of 42,000GWh. Because demand is falling, that is likely to represent anywhere between 22 per cent and 28 per cent of Australia's generation, and utilities and generators are screaming because the extra capacity will dilute their earnings.
The Climate Change Authority last year recommended that the regular RET review take place every four years, rather than every two years. That recommendation was accepted by Labor, but it did not introduce the legislation to make it happen. The Coalition insisted it always wanted another review in 2014, and has indicated it is sympathetic to the arguments of utilities and incumbents about falling demand. That could result in the RET being slashed, or "enhanced" to a 25/25 target. This may be part of a Coalition push to embrace hydro – particularly the project that Origin Energy is looking to develop in PNG. Either way, it would kill off any chances of large investments in utility-scale wind and solar in the short term.
Can the Climate Change Authority
The CCA was created to provide independent advice about the country's climate change policies, including its emissions reduction targets and policies such as the RET. The Coalition doesn't like it one bit, and wants its functions brought "in house", i.e. under its control in a government department and scrapping the institution altogether. That would be sad, because the CCA has called out the arguments over the RET for what they were – the advancement of self interest – and is likely to recommend ambitious emissions reductions targets because of the obvious – the science demands it, and because Australia's economic competitiveness will depend on it. Right now, however, that is not a message that the Coalition wants to hear.
Can the Clean Energy Finance Corporation
This is a major bug-bear for the Coalition. It proposes to co-invest in a range of clean energy projects and associated infrastructure. These could include large-scale solar farms. Costs of capital is one of the principal challenges for new technology – particularly technology that banks have not dealt with before – and CEFC is designed to help deal with those blockages. It has $10 billion to spend over 5 years, but if the Coalition has its way, the only money it will spend will be the $600-$800 million it has indicated it will get out the door before the election writs are served on August 12, and the government enters the caretaker period. The Coalition has threatened to rescind any contracts over funding not yet made. The legality of that is yet to be tested. The future of non-controversial components of the CEFC, such as the energy efficiency grants to manufacturers looking to cut their electricity bills, is not clean, but will likely be rehoused elsewhere, if the CEFC does cease to exist.
Cut funding to the Australian Renewable Energy Agency
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency is the least offensive of the policy measures to conservative ideology because a lot of what it does focuses on R&D and the developments of new technology. Conservatives are comfortable with new ideas that stay in the test tubes, but is alarmed when such technologies are actually built, and pose a threat to incumbent business models. ARENA has $3 billion (some of its money was taken back in the last budget and more was pushed beyond 2020), and will likely finance a range of demonstration plants. The Coalition has indicated it has a policy to announce on ARENA, but it won't say what it is.
Then there are a host of other things that Coalition could do. It could impose more rules and green tape – such as the proposed "continuous monitoring" of wind farm noise mentioned by Ian Macfarlane.
It could turn a blind eye to energy efficiency. Repeated reports, but most recently the International Energy Agency's, have pointed to the importance of energy efficiency measures to reduce demand and cut emissions. Utilities don't like it, however, because it does reduce demand, and makes it harder for them to earn money from the investments they made in generation and network assets that they built on the assumption that demand would grow forever. Even Labor has stalled on a national energy efficiency scheme, and Coalition state governments are winding them back.
Of course, the Coalition will be keen not to paint itself as "anti-renewable". It will promote its "million solar roofs" campaign, which now effectively means "one million more" solar roofs. This will be focused on lower-income households and other areas such as renters where there are barriers from split incentives. This is a good thing.
If it does move to a different renewables target it will likely couch it in terms of "higher and harder", particularly if it adopts the idea of a the 25/25 target – 25 per cent renewables by 2020, the idea of which came from origin Energy's Grant King two years ago. This will be painted as a target that is both "ambitious" and "realistic" (in terms of achieving), and "cost effective", in terms of impact on bills.
Of course, it will be nothing of the sort. It will effectively bring new renewables investment to a halt in the near term, and allow breathing room for the current generators to maximise revenue from their incumbent assets, and give the opportunity for the state governments to sell unwanted assets. It would be an appalling step backwards.


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- Calories: 185.0
- Total Fat: 2.5 g
- Cholesterol: 35.0 mg
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Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi announced the global version of its Android-based MIUI 7 OS based on Android Lollipop in New Delhi today. The update brings several new features, interface tweaks and performance improvements. Hugo Barra, Xiaomi's global VP, said that MIUI is now used by over 150 million users in 156 countries. Barra didn't actually announce a release date for the final version of MIUI 7. But, It will show up in just a couple of months when Xiaomi launches its new flagship, the Mi 5.
The company says MIUI 7 offers up to 30 percent faster response time when launching system apps and a 10 percent increase in battery life for the average user.
MIUI 7 comes with 4 built-in themes: Rose, Pink Blush, Ocean Breeze and High Life. The Rose and the Pink blush themes are incorporate shades of pink and are inpsired by high-end luxury goods, according to Xiaomi's Hugo Barra. The Ocean Breeze theme has blue pastles, while the High Life theme is the most elegant and sophisticated of the four with shades of brown and gold. Additionally, you can also download thousands of other themes from Xiaomi's global theme store.
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The road less travelled is usually less travelled for a reason. The Amtrak route from Chicago to New Orleans, for instance: 900 hickey, hillbilly, huckleberry miles in 19 hours. American Airlines offers a perfectly sensible two-hour alternative but Big Bern, my flibbertigibbet of a mother, has cocked up our flight arrangements. We need to be at a wedding in the Deep South so an overnight train to New Orleans it is.
The outsize double-decker retro-toaster that is the 'City of New Orleans' interstate isn't quite the lean, mean, comfort machine it says on the pack. It's a shabby, scruffy, whiffy affair. The basic sleeper cabins are elephants-in-a mini silly and it's no sightseeing trip; when Amtrak's planners mapped out its North-South route, clearly only the ugliest urban wasteland/scrubland vistas would do.
A few hours into the journey, we return from dinner to survey our 'roomette'. It has been reconfigured into a 'couchette'. There's a lower bunk neatly made up with lots of headroom. It's long and wide. It has its own reading light and a squishy pillow. It's the master bedroom. And suspended up near the ceiling, there's a plank. No ladder. No light. A sliver of foam for a pillow. My heart sinks, because I know what a dutiful daughter has to do. 'I'll have the upper-erm-thing,' I say, desperately hoping Big Bern's maternal instincts will prevail. 'Okay,' says Big Bern, diving into the plump lower mattress, whipping out jim-jams, face cream and sugared almonds quicker than you can say 'Bad Mother'.
I set about hurling myself in the general direction of the ceiling. A bit of me should snag onto the plank eventually. Big Bern's already tucked up, reading and sucking on almonds. I apologise facetiously for disturbing her, each time I slither past into a heap on the floor, and think dark thoughts about using her head as a stepping stone.
Finally I'm wedged in, flat on my back, nose skimming the ceiling, the trillion watt 'nightlights' trained directly upon my face. It's hot, stuffy and claustrophobic. 'You okay up there, love?'
I glower at the ceiling. Soon Big Bern's snoring. I'm seething. There's no way I'm going to get to sleep. Which means I'm going to be pale and tragic and tired and testy for the wedding. And it's all her fault. I huff and puff loudly in a bid to alert the Heartless One to my plight but my efforts are lost to the interminable rumble and clatter of the train.
From the corridor, Scary Attendant peers in through a chink in the curtain and I recall our earlier dining ordeal. Rumpled, stiff and grouchy, I refused on principle to go through the charade of smartening up for dinner. In the restaurant car we went to slip into one of the four-seater booths, opposite one another. 'No, no, no!' Scary Attendant wiggled her finger at us. 'How y'all gonna make friends?' she boomed. Meekly, we pushed into the same side of the table and awaited our fate.
I got silent, cud-chewing Dwayne. Big Bern got Luc, an unfeasibly dishy ex-pat Frenchman. We all got canteen fodder. I sulked and kicked myself for not making an effort. Big Bern simpered and tittered and got on famously with Lothario Luc.
The hours pass and the discomfort becomes unbearable. I grimly count the little black splats on the ceiling and fantasise about hostile US airport officials barking at me to take my shoes off. The antiquated ventilation shaft next to my head wafts germs from the coughing, spluttering man next door. By 4am - nose blocked, mouth dribbling, pores sweating - I think I'm dying. The train slows. The big selfish snuffle lump senses a nicotine fix opportunity and her eyes snap open, Dracula-bride fashion. 'You still awake, love?' she asks. 'Coming for a cigarette?' That's it. 'I-CAN'T-BEAR-THIS-ANY-MORE!' I wail. Unperturbed, Big Bern pats me on the arm, promising to bring me a cup of water from the cholera machine in the corridor. Post-platform-puff, I'm Alright-Jack munches a few sugared nuts before snuggling down for more shut-eye.
She wakes, thoroughly refreshed, around seven and polishes off her infernal almonds by way of a pre-breakfast snack. 'Want one, love?' She twitters on excitedly about the remainder of the journey and the Greyhound leg to come, until Scary Attendant comes to bundle us off to breakfast so she can transform Big Bern's bed back into seats and throw my plank out of the window. If it weren't for sheer exhaustion and the safety strap tangled around my neck, I'd pounce.
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Having problems with your Kodak EasyShare C330 Digital Camera ?
Kan geen software vinden voor de kodak c330, wil graag foto's op mijn computer zetten
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Coming off a winless streak of some 18 months, Mickelson knocked his drives mostly down the middle and was deadly accurate with his irons and putter while playing at PGA West.
Mickelson, the 2002 Hope champion who has slipped from second to 16th in the world rankings, leads 1988 champion Jay Haas and Ben Crane by two shots.
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When most people think of Mallorca, they think of sun, beaches and partying 'till you puke. While that's not really my scene, I still wanted to go to Mallorca, so I found this small, beautiful, rural hotel in the eastern Mallorcan countryside. No crowds, no rowdiness, no nonsense. Just relaxation and calm. This sytle of hotel is called a "finca" in Mallorca, as it is an old, converted farm made now into an upscale, classy hotel.
It's about a 45-minute drive northeast of the Palma int'l airport, set in rolling hills and farmland, with a lovely view of mountains in the distance. Having a car is pretty much essential to get here. There are 25 rooms, spread out in 3, 2-level stone buildings. Another building houses an indoor pool and fitness centre.
The room itself was large and bright, with double doors that opened up onto a nice, private terrace and garden. There was also a big bathroom with a big tub and separate shower. The bed was big and comfy. The a/c worked great and the TV got lots of channels, if you're into that kind of thing.
The big, outdoor pool was fantastically clear and clean with lots of loungers and seating around it. There is also an amazingly well-tended, clay tennis court on the property that was always in immaculate condition during my 4-night stay. (Current World #1 tennis star Rafael Nadal was born in Manacor and still lives in the area...)
The restaurant had a good menu with indoor and outdoor seating and there is also a small bar for refreshments. The service was very good and friendly.
This hotel is an excellent alternative to the typical AI or beach hotel, and is in an excellent location to explore the eastern half of Mallorca from.
I would recommend Son Trobat for more mature couples or families, who are looking to step off the beaten path, relax and unwind, and as a great base to see and experience this side of Mallorca from.
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Son Trobat Hotel Sant Llorenc des Cardassar Overview
Offering stunning views of the pool and the mountain, the Son Trobat Hotel Sant Llorenc des Cardassar is situated in Cala Mandia of Sant Llorenc Des Cardassar. The hotel offers comfortable rooms with air conditioning and complimentary Wi-Fi. It is ideally situated in the town centre.
The Son Trobat Hotel Sant Llorenc des Cardassar's leisure facilities include horse riding and a heated pool. Amenities at the hotel include a golf course, a beauty centre and a steam room. In addition to a 24 hour reception and a sauna, the hotel offers a day spa, a kids pool and tennis courts.
All rooms feature a private bathroom including a bathrobe and amenities. All rooms at the Son Trobat Hotel Sant Llorenc des Cardassar contain full kitchen and laundry facilities. A TV and cable / satellite channels are included in each room.
Fishhook Caves and The Caves of Drach are within driving distance of the Son Trobat Hotel Sant Llorenc des Cardassar. For an easy and effortless check-in and departure experience, take advantage of the Son Trobat Hotel Sant Llorenc des Cardassar's express check-in/check-out feature which takes away a lot of the usual hassles letting you get on with your holiday. Staff at the hotel can help with planning tours and excursions, and can assist with hiring a car.
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(RFE/RL) October 13, 2006 -- The UN Security Council has unanimously adopted a resolution to extend the mandate of the UN observer mission in Georgia by six months.
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The Department of Elections released today a new tally of ranked choice voting results for the supervisors' races, and it appears Mark Farrell and Malia Cohen are the winners in Districts Two and 10 respectively.
Today's tally included just 671 additional votes from Monday's results, but it was the first time since last week that ranked choice voting results had been calculated. Last week's results are holding steady.
With just first place votes tallied, Janet Reilly would win Two, and Tony Kelly would win 10. But both are likely to take second place after ranked choice voting results are taken into account. Political observers said it's unlikely Reilly or Kelly will have the votes to reclaim the lead, though it's certainly possible. Jane Kim and Scott Wiener appear to have won in Districts Six and Eight regardless of ranked choice voting.
John Arntz, director of the Department of Elections, cautioned that the candidates are far from the finish line. There are 10,000 vote-by-mail ballots left to count, and those should be tallied by the end of the week. There are also 15,000 provisional votes that won't be touched until next week.
Arntz said he wasn't sure when the next ranked choice voting results will be tallied, though definitely not before Friday and perhaps not until next week.
"This is the part of the election cycle when things are slowed down – it's natural," Arntz said. "It's not like I'm trying to prolong this."
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Ireland has always prided itself on its innovation and two sectors attracting large-scale global investment as a result are technology and agriculture.
Last week, Irish law firm William Fry announced it was reopening its London office, over a decade after quietly withdrawing from the City. In relaunching the office, the firm is hoping to capitalise on the increasing amount of international work flowing in and out of Ireland, and build closer links with its foreign clients.
Two important strands of that international work are technology, and food and agriculture. Ireland's economy has always been at least partially reliant on its agriculture sector, but these days things have moved on from the production of meat and vegetables to being a booming, hi-tech business encompassing supermarkets, alcohol and luxury brands.
Meanwhile, Ireland has managed to turn itself into one of the world's technology capitals, enticing the biggest names in the sector to come and set up subsidiaries or European headquarters.
Both sectors have proved lucrative for lawyers, but making the most of them has also involved a lot of hard work.
"The reason we're interested in these two sectors is that there are some similarities both in terms of the dynamics at play and the importance of them to Ireland. Both sectors are rooted in multinationals and are demonstrative of the innovation culture here in Ireland," says Maples and Calder's Irish corporate head, Edward Miller.
William Fry corporate partner Shane O'Donnell adds that the two sectors also share the characteristic of being insulated from the rest of the domestic Irish economy. Unlike property, which has failed to recover following the 2008 crash, and banking, which remains focused on restructuring, what is happening in the domestic market has little effect on technology and agriculture.
"There has been a repositioning in the marketplace. We all got very excited by banking and property," O'Donnell adds. "I still think that agriculture and food and technology will continue to be just very consistent, stable, strong products for the firm, which is what they have always been, but they haven't had perhaps the same emphasis."
Technological advances
However, here the stories of the two sectors diverge. Technology has a number of different strands that have developed over time into the industry of today.
Mason Hayes & Curran commercial department head Philip Nolan explains that when the sector originally took off in the 1980s it was large companies setting up operations in Ireland to manufacture various components – an important part of the technology story, but not at its core.
"We have moved from being a provider of peripheral operations to be a provider of core and very central operations," Nolan says.
Arthur Cox's technology and life sciences head, John Menton, agrees with Nolan that in the past assembly was a key function of Ireland's technology sector, with the catalyst originally being foreign direct investment from the US.
"There's limited electronics assembly left," he says of the modern sector. "We've moved up the value chain from assembly to cutting-edge R&D (research and development) projects."
At Matheson Ormsby Prentice (MOP), international business group head Robert O'Shea says that while the nature of technology work being done in Ireland has changed, the reason for international companies being in the country has not.
"Ireland has always been about accessing the European market," O'Shea says.
While the sector was kicked off by the entry of companies such as Dell, IBM and Cisco to manufacture products, it is now dominated by the biggest names in technology. Google opened its Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) headquarters in 2003 and has steadily grown the size of its operations in Dublin since then. In 2010 the company added an operations centre in Dublin, with an extra 200 jobs on top of the 1,500 already generated by its presence in Ireland.
Facebook followed in Google's footsteps by opening its EMEA headquarters in Dublin in October 2008.
Amazon is also a major presence in Ireland, with a development centre in Dublin and a customer service centre in Cork. Last year, Twitter announced that it too was opening a regional headquarters in Dublin. Collectively the technology companies now employ thousands of people and the information and communications technology sector accounts for 25 per cent of Ireland's revenues, and a third of its exports.
"Looking at who isn't in Ireland is more interesting," O'Shea comments.
Lure of Europe
The attraction for the companies is driven by Ireland's proximity to Europe, say lawyers. As well as being able to access the EU market, Ireland is still a draw for young people looking for career opportunities.
"The important point is that the jobs they have created here are European jobs. It has been key to a lot of multinationals coming to Ireland that the supply of labour is available because of the free movement of labour within the European Union," says O'Shea.
After the crash, Ireland has become a less costly place to live. As Menton points out, it is "no accident" that the biggest technology companies have chosen to set up in the centre of Dublin.
Tax is also a draw. Ireland has maintained a corporate tax rate of 12.5 per cent and the government is committed to maintaining this.
"The real driver is Ireland's favourable tax regime in terms of enabling multinationals to access the European market," says O'Shea.
A&L Goodbody partner John Cahir thinks tax is only part of the story.
"The sector's continued expansion is not just to do with tax, which remains a pull factor, but a cluster effect which has been created by having the successful players set up in Ireland," he says.
Three-part sector
Technology is not all about the Googles of the world setting up their headquarters in Ireland. Cahir divides the sector into three: the inward investment from multinationals; the development of indigenous, mid-sized Irish companies setting up both at home and abroad; and entrepreneurial start-ups looking for seed capital.
"There has never been a better time to be a small set-up coming into the technology sector in Ireland. In stark contrast to our macro economy it's probably the healthiest," says his colleague, Alan Johnston.
Johnston points to a growing venture capital sector in the country, helped by the government's stated aim of making technology a core plank of Ireland's economic recovery.
"The number of funds in Ireland has increased – the government has attracted various funds, such as those from Silicon Valley, which have set up incubator funds here," he says.
O'Donnell says Enterprise Ireland's recent $25m investment in healthcare venture capital fund Sofinnova is an example of the sort of commitment the government is making to the wider technology sector.
"It's putting money to work – that's one of the more important things the government has been promoting. We're probably doing five or six venture capital deals a month," he reveals.
There are a number of areas of growth in technology going forward. Top of the list is gaming, with several gaming companies having a presence in Ireland, but social media – with the likes of Twitter moving in – is also seen as a sector with potential for growth. Cloud computing also looks likely to be a big area for Ireland in the future.
Lawyers believe the chances of the technology sector crashing are slim and they are fairly confident that the current picture is not one of a bubble about to burst.
"There's a danger that we could be facing another bubble in terms of valuations," concedes Menton, looking at the public market in the US. However, he thinks the impact would be minimal given the nature of the technology companies that have chosen to establish in Ireland.
"These US companies are very lean – even though they have the big market capitalisations, they have the cash and a proven business model," he adds.
Maples and Calder partner Colm Rafferty agrees. "US technology companies have a lot of cash on the balance sheet and they need to do something with it. We're building a sector in Ireland that's going to develop a lot of activity in terms of corporate transactions," he says.
His colleague, Miller, says investors and others in the US West Coast technology capital of Silicon Valley have a "sanguine approach" to the bubble concept.
"There are bubbles, but when one bubble bursts other emerging alternative sectors start to attract capital. Finding the next big thing that the capital will ultimately end up chasing and driving up demand is what innovation is all about," he asserts.
Firms are therefore confident that it is worth building up a sizeable practice in technology. All Ireland's biggest full-service firms have grown their technology teams considerably in recent years. They say it is essential to have a team that can handle a number of aspects of technology transactions – from the pure corporate side, through to issues such as data protection and data privacy, regulation and copyright.
Nolan says a firm should not just try to deal with technology companies as any other corporate client.
"The approach one takes when advising a technology company is certainly different," he says. "Every lawyer has to get used to the rapid pace at which new products are rolled out. Changes in the technology sector occur far more rapidly than in traditional sectors."
He adds that lawyers should make an effort to understand the sector, "right down to platform and code level".
"I'm not suggesting we all have to be engineers but we do have to understand the technology well. Lawyers really do have to have a deep knowledge and understanding. It percolates down to the manner in which one presents one's advice," Nolan says. He points out that technology companies move fast and so lawyers need to be fast in responding to a query.
Agricultural growth
Law firms advising food and agriculture companies have adopted a similar approach. Fewer large firms have formed a sector-specific team to act on food and agriculture matters, but those who have are keen to emphasise the importance of having the ability to advise on issues such as regulation as well as corporate matters.
"When our clients have product recall issues, we have a multidisciplinary team who can advise them," says Arthur Cox managing partner Brian O'Gorman. "It's not just about doing corporate deals for our food clients."
At Maples and Calder, office managing partner Andrew Doyle thinks the June 2012 recruitment of food regulatory specialist Maree Gallagher as an of counsel demonstrates the firm's commitment to the sector. "That has aided us in being able to distinguish our offering from the competition," Doyle says.
Unlike technology, where there have been a number of sizeable corporate transactions recently, the activity in agriculture is more varied. Finance work is common as overseas investors look for places to put their money, and lawyers think advice on joint ventures, for example, is likely to increase. Irish food companies are also looking to expand abroad and several of the country's biggest supermarket chains are genuine international businesses.
"Food and agriculture has historically represented a major part of Ireland's economy. Frankly, before the arrival of significant numbers of multi-national companies from the 1980s, the food and agriculture and tourism sectors had the lion's share of the Irish economy," says Ciarán Bolger, a corporate partner at Arthur Cox.
Mason Hayes partner Justin McKenna says the activity in the food and agriculture sector is very different from the activity seen in previous decades.
"Ireland evolved from a rural agrarian economy with nothing to distinguish it from other rural agrarian economies," he notes. "This is completely different. I think it's a fundamental shift from where Ireland used to be."
McKenna believes the key to Ireland's success in the sector is down to its ability to produce quality food, tapping into the growing middle-class appetite for 'premium' products globally.
"The food Ireland brand isn't necessarily about truffles and champagne – it's more to do with good quality products," he says. Others agree.
"It's one of the few natural resources that Ireland has," says A&L Goodbody inward investment head John Coman. He adds that the reputation for quality within Ireland helps to attract overseas players into the country.
"There's no barrier to foreign businesses coming in and establishing their own presence in Ireland or acquiring Irish businesses. If you look at Ireland's reputation, it hasn't suffered in quite the same way in terms of ingredient difficulty as other countries have. It's very closely controlled and highly regulated."
Safety factors
As in the technology sector, Ireland's closeness to the EU is an advantage, providing certainty over regulations in key areas such as food safety. Here the larger firms have an advantage, says William Fry's O'Donnell.
"There's a whole list of things that are important to food clients. A lot of them come down to labelling, product liability and food safety. That's why it's the big law firms that can provide that service to them," he says.
There is also a crossover with technology in that areas such as food safety have spawned the development of high-tech products. These in turn can be exported.
"Because the standards are so high in Ireland for the production of food, the technology employed by Irish food producers is itself exportable. For emerging markets, where food safety is a very big issue, I predict that we'll find there's a demand for that technology," says Maples and Calder's Miller.
One country showing particular interest in agriculture worldwide is China. Chinese companies can be found investing in agricultural projects around the globe, and this interest could extend to Ireland. A recent trade trip to China has raised awareness of Ireland's offering.
"The one thing the Chinese talk about quite a lot is the quality of food. There's a huge premium put on European brands and, even within that, Ireland has a certain cachet," adds O'Donnell.
"Don't be surprised if in the future you see Chinese companies taking positions in this sector," Bolger predicts. McKenna makes a similar prediction.
"There won't be a similar spending spree here as individual holdings are very small but I wouldn't be surprised to see some interesting agri-food businesses being targeted in the same way," he says, comparing China's investments in places such as Australia with the potential for investment in Ireland.
While nobody expects an avalanche of M&A activity, they do expect work to continue steadily in the food and agriculture sector.
"You will see more targets of opportunity coming up in terms of international cash-rich businesses buying," says McKenna. "This sector is probably less affected by the sovereign debt issues than almost any other – it's almost trite to say that. There's always going to be a need to eat, for food to move across borders and for there to be payment mechanisms for it."
Both the agriculture and technology sectors in Ireland have scope for continued growth, and it is recession-free industries like these that Irish firms are focusing on with the knowledge that, while they are currently lucrative, areas such as banking restructuring will eventually run out of steam. They think they are well set up to take advantage of the opportunities in these industries for some time to come.
Key figures: Ireland
|GDP (current US$, 2011)
|Annual inflation (July 2012)
|1.6 per cent
|Population (2011)
|Life expectancy at birth
|Unemployment rate (July 2012)
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Source: World Bank, Central Statistics Office Ireland


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"Celebrities" take to Red Carpet in Honor of Phanatic's Birthday & New Movie on Sunday
Phanatic enjoys a big birthday bash with fans thanks to Citizens Bank
WHAT: It's what the Phanatic calls the biggest event of the year - as local celebrities and fans join the Phillies mascot for a Citizens Bank Phillie Phanatic Birthday celebration.
- Starting at 6:30 p.m., fans of all ages will be dressed to impress and partake in a red carpet experience (no game ticket needed). The star-studded affair will feature local celebrities and stars of the Phanatic's new film Time Travelin' Phanatic, arriving in limousines for the big event.
- On-field festivities, which start at 7:25 p.m. and will stream live on phillies.com, include a captivating preview of the new Time Travelin' Phanatic on PhanaVision ... a giant ShopRite birthday cake ... a fan-signed, giant-sized birthday card presented to the guest of honor ... celebrity appearances and surprises ... and much more!
- Fans are invited to bring birthday cards for the Phanatic and drop them off at the Citizens Bank kiosk in Ashburn Alley throughout the game.
WHEN: Sunday, April 21, 2013
6:30 p.m. - Red Carpet, Third Base Gate
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BAY CITY — Michigan Department of Natural Resources and Environment (MDNRE) officials announced Thursday afternoon that the toxins presentation set for Tuesday has been canceled.
According to Charles Bauer, of the MDNRE Water Resource Division — Saginaw Bay District, the speaker from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Joe Haas, has been called down to the Gulf to address the oil spill and cannot make Tuesday's presentation.
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