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Grandparents' Visitation Rights in Texas
One of the most areas of Texas Family Law undergoing the most change is Grandparents Rights. In general, Grandparents have limited rights to their grandchildren. For most Grandparents, that is not a problem – they work out things with the kids and grand-kids just fine.
However, sometimes grandparents don't have great relationships with their children and thus have to resort to filing a lawsuit for visitation and/or custody.
Can a Grandparent Sue for Custody or Visitation?
The 2 most common situations for Grandparents to get involved in custody cases is a lack of any visitation and really bad parenting.
The lack of visitation grounds is called a "Suit for Grandparent Access & Possession". There are a number of requirements, but basically the Grandparent(s) must prove that child's physical health or mental well-being would be significantly impaired without Grandparent access. This is an interesting burden of proof on the Grandparent, because 'significantly' is a strong term. All but the worst Grandparents would be a 'plus' in a child's life, but the real question is if that is a significant plus.
How Do You Prove that it is 'Significant'?
- Having a mental health professional on your side would be a good (such as the child's counselor) idea;
- Having parents with major issues such as substance abuse, for example helps; or
- Having an older child who can express their love for the Grandparents would be helpful to your case;
Most cases don't have these factors, and so these cases are hard to predict and prove. Courts are torn here. The Court wants Grandparents to be in their grandchildren's lives. But Courts know that litigating over those rights can poison a family relationship across the generations. It is hard to understand why a parent would be denying their own parent(s) the right to see their grand-kids. "What is going on?" is the question that the Court will likely ask.
In the Grandparent access cases that we have handled, the problem is usually a new spouse. For example, there is a contentious divorce. Dad's parents get to see the kids when Dad has possession, but Mom won't let Dad's parents see the kids. There is no case for the Grandparents here, because they see the kids. But then, imagine that Dad remarries a woman who does not like his parents, then the new wife makes Dad stop allowing the kids to see his parents. This is when the Grandparents would have the right to file a suit.
There are also situations where both of the parents are so unfit that the grandparents can file suit for custody, or even to terminate the parents' parental rights. This requires very bad facts, and for both parents to be a serious problem. Even if a grandparent is granted custody, it could be that the Grandparents get temporary custody, until one of the parents gets their life back together.
We have handled a bunch of these cases. Usually the Grandparents get custody, first temporarily and then at the end permanently. Sometimes it is just temporary, for example when one parents has an out-of-control drinking problem that eventually gets better. In other cases I think that the parents did not want to be parents, and were secretly happy that the Grandparents got custody.
A note here on the financial aspect. As we have mentioned on our website and previous blogs, being able to outspend your opponent in litigation is a big plus, and can often mean victory. Usually Grandparents are able to spend more money than their children can on one of these cases. Older couples tend to be more financially secure and have more savings than a younger couple. In those situations, they can often get what they want just by filing and making it known that it is going to be very expensive litigation.
If you have Grandparent Rights issues, consult with a qualified and competent attorney to find out your rights. Be sure to hire the best attorney that you can find.


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It's officially spring time and many of you are getting out into your gardens at this time of year. While gardening does provide some exercise for you it is not without its risks!
As an experienced chiropractor in a busy Chiropractic Clinic in North London, I frequently see patients who have overdone their gardening work and are suffering from the experience. Frequently they have back pain or neck and shoulder pain and some have knee pain.
Many of these problems could have been avoided by following some basic advice.
If you're intending to get out into your garden this Spring then take heed and follow this advice.
Also take some time to watch a helpful video that the British Chiropractic Association (BCA) has put together. This provides good demonstrations for you to follow and put into practice when gardening.
Here goes with some advice for you to keep your back safe and happy while gardening:
Clothing – Wear loose comfortable clothing that are not too tight and may hamper your movement.
Warm Up first – As I mentioned, gardening offers an opportunity for taking exercise and just like taking any form of exercise it is important to warm up first. Start with some stretches and then move onto lighter jobs before taking on the heavier jobs.
Avoid bending and over stretching – When weeding or planting, use a knee pad to kneel down on and get as close as possible to the area you are working on. If you're pruning, use long-handled secateurs to reach plants and shrubs.
Take regular breaks – Don't spend more than 20 -30 minutes on any one task – vary your activity. Make sure you take regular breaks.
If you are suffering back pain why not call us and arrange an appointment with us at Muswell Hill Chiropractic Clinic in North London.

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Trailing 1-0 in the sixth inning, the Jaguars clawed back to win and improve to 12-0 this season.
The Appoquinimink High School softball team staged a sixth-inning comeback against Middletown this afternoon to win 3-1 and improve to 12-0 this season.
Middletown scored an unearned run in the second to take a 1-0 lead.
Appoquinimink tied the game in sixth with an unearned run of their own when Brooke Miller singled to left.
Mallory Weir who singled earlier in the inning scored on a passed ball to give the Jaguars a 2-1 lead.
Autumn Gentry drove home Miller to cap the three-run inning.
Gentry also earned the win in the circle for Appoquinmink, going the distance while scattering five hits.
Middletown pitcher MacKenzie Hymes also only allowed five hits in seven innings.
Brianna Reed doubled for the Cavaliers who fell to 3-8.
APPOQUINIMINK'S NEXT GAME: Saturday, May 5 at St. Mark's, 1 p.m.
MIDDLETOWN'S NEXT GAME: Friday, May 4 at William Penn, 4 p.m.


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Zitat(CNSNews.com) - In the fourth quarter of 2011, 49.2 percent of Americans received benefits from one or more government programs, according to data released Tuesday by the Census Bureau.In total, the Census Bureau estimated, 151,014,000 Americans out of a population then estimated to be 306,804,000 received benefits from one or more government programs during the last three months of 2011. Those 151,014,000 beneficiaries equaled 49.2 percent of the population.This included 82,457,000 people--or 26.9 percent of the population--who lived in households in which one or more people received Medicaid benefits.Also among the 151,014,000 who received benefits from one or more government programs during that period: 49,901,000 who collected Social Security; 49,073,000 who got food stamps; 46,440,000 on Medicare; 23,228,000 in the Women, Infants and Children program, 20,223,000 getting Supplemental Security Income;13,433,000 who lived in public or subsidized rental housing; 5,098,000 who got unemployment; 3,178,000 who got veterans' benefits; and 364,000 who got railroad retirement benefits.- See more at: http://cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-...h.eHAKrJXj.dpuf
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School Council letter
Please click to read School Council Letter
Academy Council election results
Following the recent election we are pleased to announce that the following five applicants have been elected to serve as Academy Council members for a 2 year term of office:
- Husna Begum
- Alesa Rahman
- Amanda Fox
- Nahar Begum
- Emmanual Asare
The successful candidates will be meeting shortly to agree a date, time and agenda for the next AC meeting and to elect a new chair. All parents/carers will be advised of the outcome of this meeting shortly thereafter.
If there are any issues you would like added to the agenda please put in writing and hand it to the admin office.
The school would like to thank all parent/carers who put their names forward for election and everyone who took the trouble to vote.
Extra-curricular clubs information
The clubs below will be running from Monday 6th November 2017 to Friday 15th December , All clubs are for Year 1 upwards, unless otherwise stated.
You can sign up for clubs from Thursday 2nd November in the playground from 08:45 to 09:00 and in the office from 15:45. Alternatively you can sign up online using SIMS Activities. Places are allocated on a first come, first served basis. As agreed by the Academy Council, half of all places for each club will be reserved for online sign-ups.
Payment (exact cash only) must be made to the office to secure club places.
- Film Club. £5 per half term.
- Judo Club. No charge. Year 2 upwards.
- Art Club. £5 per half term.
- Cooking Club. £5 per half term.
- Art Club. £5 per half term.
- Multisports Club. No charge. Year 2 upwards.
- Cooking Club. £5 per half term.
- Computing Club. £5 per half term
- Computing Club. £5 per half term.
Breakfast Club
We are inviting sign ups for Breakfast club. Sessions run every day from 8am to 8.50am. Pupils must arrive before 8.20am so that we can ensure that there is the right amount of food for each pupil. There is a charge of £1.00 for non-working parents/carers, and £2.00 for working parents/carers a week, to be paid at the start of each half term. There are limited places for this, so pupils will be allocated a place on a first come first served basis.
Please note:
- If your child does not attend a minimum of 1 day per week every week, then their place will be given to another pupil, unless this has been agreed.
- Pupils must not arrive before 8am.
- Even if your child has attended breakfast club in the past, you must sign up again and ensure all sessions are paid for.
You can sign up online using SIMS Activities. This is our preferred method of signing for this and all after school clubs. Invitations have been sent to all families who have provided us with an email address. Alternatively, you can call the office and reserve a place on 0207 364 1010 or by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com.
Vacancy for office manager at Culloden Primary Academy – closing date Friday 8 September 2017, 8am
An opportunity has arisen for an office manager to work with the Principal at Culloden Primary Academy.
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We apologise for any inconvenience caused.


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It's that time of day again, and in this evening's Bitcoin price analysis (intraday), we are going to shuffle things around a bit. Specifically, we are going to introduce a classical technical charting pattern into our strategy, which normally restricts itself to horizontal trend line placement.
So, as we head into this evening in Europe, and tonight's Asian session thereafter, how are we going to bring this into play, and where will we be looking to get in and out of the markets? First up, take a quick look at the chart to get an idea of what we mean.
As you can see, we have our standard range as defined by in term support at $398.04 and resistance at $388.27. On top of this, however, we have also defined a triangle, which has formed over the last couple of days and within which the Bitcoin price has traded consistently. Triangles can be great to trade as – when price breaks through them – they can be the catalyst behind sharp upside or downside momentum across the whole scope of tradable financial assets – Bitcoin notwithstanding.
If we see a break through the resistance line of the triangle (i.e. the downward sloping trend line) it will be a bullish signal, and will put us on high alert for a break above in term resistance (range). If, subsequently, we get this break, it will signal entry (without us having to wait for our usual close above resistance) towards an upside target of 410 flat. Broken triangle support also offers us a nice defined risk management level, with a stop placed at the point of the triangle break.
The exact same concept applies to the downside trade, with the exception of the stop placement. Triangle support is a little too far away from range support to give us an attractive risk profile, so on this one, a stop at 390 and a target of 382.56 works well.
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text: In summary, we expect that this correction will magnify, even if it is short-lived. We say this despite the seemingly optimistic snap-back rally today (November 8). Today's rally seems to be spurred by the unemployment report, and by bottom-fishers. But we expect selling to return next week. A probe below support at 1730 would likely cause SPX to test the 1700-1710 area. That would certainly cuase some consternation amongst the recently complacent bullish community. But unless the term structure of the VIX futures turns negative, this is likely just a correction and not the beginning of a bear market.


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Tom Siebel Is Both Delighted and Worried about AI
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"Have you ever ridden in a self-driving car?" Tom Siebel asks me, over a lunch of grilled salmon and tuna Niçoise in midtown Manhattan.
Siebel has never ridden in one himself. "I wouldn't get in one," he says, shaking his head about the prospect of autonomous vehicles. That is despite the fact that Siebel has based the future of his company, C3 IoT, on artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Siebel is a legend in the software industry, as described in this space last August, having sold his company, Siebel Systems, to Larry Ellison's Oracle (ORCL) in 2006 for $5.85 billion. C3 IoT is focused on using AI for things such as predicting failure of oil rigs and jets and saving companies money by so doing.
"There are hormones," Siebel observes of human beings. The current attempts by computers to model human thought or behavior, including what they do behind the wheel hurtling down the highway, is based very narrowly on just a limited set of synaptic interactions, he posits. AI ignores all the other things that happen in people, including hormonal interactions, the whole web of human biology, for that matter. For that reason, autonomous driving will fail, he anticipates.
"I don't buy it," he says of self-driving initiatives, with a smile. That includes not just Alphabet's (GOOGL) Google's Waymo business, but also the efforts of Nvidia (NVDA), the chip maker that has been one of the most aggressive advocates of self-driving vehicles, which it hopes will sell lots of Nvidia car chips. I point out that Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia, has confidently predicted lots of self-driving vehicles will be rolling into the lot in 2020 or 2021.
"Jensen is very, very smart, I mean, he's just incredibly smart," says Siebel. "I could be wrong," he allows, "I just don't buy it," he repeats.
AI's Mixed Bag
Siebel's view is a mix of enthusiasm and dread about AI.
He thinks it will bring incredible benefits to society, as big as the industrial revolution. He also believes it will bring very grave costs just like the steam engine. The rise of communism, child slave labor, and the displacement of populations are things he mentions from the last century as examples of the kind of terrible punishment humans could be in for without proper regulation of AI
"There's a lot of good, and a lot of bad" in AI, Siebel says. "The economic and social benefits will be staggering, but the human costs are also going to be significant, we need to anticipate that."
The plus side is embodied in his own company's success. Siebel updated me that C3 IoT, which buys tons and tons of Huang's GPU chips to run its AI algorithms, has signed up John Deere (DE), 3M (MMM) and Royal Dutch Shell (RDSA), and various branches of the U.S. Government such as the U.S. Air Force, as customers. Without disclosing revenue figures, he noted C3 IoT's bookings more than doubled in the fiscal year ended in January, after rising 200% the year before. and 600% in 2016. Bookings will more than double again this year, he expects.
Revenue rose by more than 50% last year. (When we last met, in August, Siebel remarked revenue was about $100 million annually.)
The things his software does with algorithms and the sensors placed on oil rigs and aircraft are to help predict the failure of assets days or weeks in advance. Sensors have been proliferating in industrial equipment, but conventional technology will use them only to tell you when something is actually failing--it can't predict. "When you look the number of pumps and compressors in an offshore oil rig, the complexity is enormous," he says. "Any one of those components could cause catastrophic failure."
The same goes for things such as the Air Force's "C-5 Galaxy" transport aircraft that move tanks. Anticipating such failure is his company's business. His company uses tons of Nvidia chips, by way of the cloud computing services it uses, to perform all that AI, as no one has come close to what Nvidia's achieved, he argues. (He's not counting out Intel (INTC), however.)
Siebel has formed partnerships with Microsoft (MSFT), after long being mostly reliant on Amazon.com's (AMZN) AWS. He indicates that C3 IoT is increasingly looking at the "multi-cloud" opportunity for hosting and selling its AI, not being captive to just one cloud-computing operation.
C3 IoT has raised over $300 million to date in financing, including a round of $100 million in January, of which TPG was the lead investor. He notes the company has "substantial cash reserves" and doesn't expect to burn any cash this year.
The Vastness of the Internet of Things
Siebel's ambitions have expanded as he has revised his thinking about what the Internet of Things (IoT) is really about. Just a year ago, he thought it meant "the sensitization of the value chain," meaning, sticking lots of sensors on every conceivable asset. Now, he thinks it is about bringing actual computing abilities to every conceivable object.
"Think about in the 1940s, computers at MIT filled a whole room. Then you had the Eniac [computer] at University of Pennsylvania. Then IBM (IBM) and Digital Equipment. With IoT now, it is a change in form factor, but essentially everything is a computer!" The market for IoT devices includes everything from smartwatches to HVAC systems, and maybe 50 billion things in coming years, the effect of the interaction of all those things is more staggering still. "I.T. was a $200 billion industry back when, now it's a two-trillion industry, heading to $8 trillion in coming years."
"Think about Metcalfe's Law," he observes, noting the rule of thumb coined by Ethernet co-inventor Bob Metcalfe that says the value of a network increases in proportion to the square of the number of entities connected to it, and connecting to one another. "That's 50 billion squared!"
The prospect of a world where BP's Deepwater Horizon oil spill or the Exxon (XOM) Valdez disaster don't happen is unquestionably a great benefit of AI But Siebel is equally impressed by the potential devastating effects of AI
The Dark Side of AI
The risk in the headlines, of disruption of democracy by "bad actors" mis-using Facebook (FB) and Alphabet (GOOGL), is one thing that's very real. But a far greater risk to privacy lies in health care, he muses.
"Pretty soon," says Siebel, "we will have systems that will aggregate all the health records of the United States, and the genome records, our parents' medical histories, and they'll be able to predict who's going to come down with diabetes in the next five years."
"The economic and social benefits are big, but there will be agencies that know things about us we don't want them to know. Maybe that we are going to die in five years. Maybe we don't want to know that. And by the way, how are they going to use that information?" Siebel asks. "Will they be punitive against members of the population, with things like insurance rates?" The problem of vast numbers of people unemployed by AI — those who don't have AI PhDs, or that don't work in the information economy — is also something that bugs him.
All this comes down to a conference Siebel is planning at Stanford University this fall, where he will have different parties explore the pros and cons of AI, and the prospects for regulations. Regulation of AI is necessary, he believes, but as for how to go about it, "I don't know the answer."
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Feltre - Monte Avena
Giro d'Italia - 1 June 2019
Giro d'Italia – Follow this cycling race live with Eurosport. The action starts at 10:20 on 1 June 2019. Our live coverage lets you follow all the key moments as they happen.
Get all the latest on Cycling: the big races, schedules and results.
That's your new GC. Small shuffling of places but that barely tells the tale of a stage that saw a momentous shift in the power dynamics of this race.
Miguel Angel Lopez loses 1'50".
Roglic did everything he could to fight his way back into contention and looks to have blown up in the final metres. He crosses with a 54 second time loss to Landa, putting the Basque onto the GC podium.
Bilbao first. Landa second. Ciccone in third it looked like.
Pello Bilbao takes the victory!
Landa is outstripped by Bilbao.
Landa is sizing up Nibali...
They hit the flat bit before the finish.
Carapaz pace setting for Landa to try and ride his domestique onto the podium.
Flamme rouge for maglia rosa group.
Roglic is grinding hard 43 seconds behind. Lopez is about 40 seconds down on the Roglic group.
Carapaz looks so cool here. He's actually riding tempo while Landa sits on his wheel.
Nibali goes for another big acceleration and this time sheds Madouas and Kangert. Ciccone, Bilbao and the Movistar riders are equal to it though.
The Shark of Messina must be wondering what more he can do!
Kangert and Madouas also still in the lead group.
Carapaz just pushes Landa through to the front as Nibali pulls off. Ciccone, Nieve, Bilbao are all still hanging in there.
Not good news for Lopez.
Gritted teeth from Nibali as he does everything to shed Carapaz and Landa from his wheel.
Maglia rosa group has caught the leaders. They're one group now. Still a minute down for Lopez.
Here's that Lopez moment again. The Colombian understandably upset.
I tell a lie. The other breakaway riders have caught Madouas. Nibali lights it up with a huge acceleration. They're running out of road now.
So it's Madouas. Ciccone at 16 seconds. Maglia rosa group at 25 seconds.
That is savagely bad luck for Lopez. He's lost a minute.
Madouas hits 5km to go and Landa is hot on his heels.
Lopez looked furious there, he actually struck the fan a few times.
Miguel Angel Lopez has been crashed out by a Colombian fan.
NIbali, Landa and Carapaz have hit Monte Avena. They have a few seconds on Roglic, which is great news for their GC and podium hopes.
Nibali has made the junction with Landa. Carapaz sits in Nibali's wheel.
Majka has crashed after slipping out on a turn and almost taking out Sivakov.
Nibali is doing what Nibali does best and tearing this GC group apart with his phenomenal descending skills.
Madouas has 21 to Ciccone and pals. Landa is 22 seconds further back. The maglia rosa is 1'01" down on Madouas.
The maglia rosa group also over the crest.
Yates is dropped from the maglia rosa group.
Landa, hands in the drops, is absolutely crushing this climb now. Landani mode fully engaged.
The break is over the crest of the Croce d'Aune and beginning their descent to the foot of the Monte Avena.
Roglic just received a very, very long push from a couple of fans. Not sure how the race jury will view that but it could mean a time penalty. It didn't look like he had a mechanical issue of any kind.
Now Ghebreigzabhier lights it up. He's trying to cross over to Madouas in a last-ditch attempt for stage glory.
Landa surfs the moto wheels as he seems to be going faster and faster up this hill.
Nibali puts Pozzovivo to work closing the gap.
Madouas meanwhile is still 25" clear of the break.
This is perfect tactically for Movistar. Landa is a threat to Roglic' 3rd place, so the Slovenian must chase him down. That effectively takes the pressure off Carapaz, meanwhile, who can just follow.
Landa has attacked!
That was just a tester, you would imagine. No real venom in the attack from Lopez, but Zakarin is going backwards as a result.
And there he is, just like clockwork Miguel Angel Lopez attacks.
Pedrero is chugging up this incline for Movistar. The gap is still hovering around 1'40". The gap between Madouas and the rest of the break, meanwhile, is growing. He has 24".
Ciccone almost overshoots it on a bend as he and the other riders in the break chase down Madouas - who is the latest of them to try and go it alone.
With 18km and two peaks to come, this 1'37" lead that the break has is not looking very resilient.
Seven becomes four. Kangert, Ciccone, Dunbar and Bilbao make the cut.
Madouas, jersey aflutter, is looking pretty strong here. Next up to attack the break is Tanel Kangert the Estonian rider for EF Education First.
Up front, Ciccone senses that the break will soon be caught and he shoots off the front of the escape. Bilbao is immediately onto him.
Movistar are not content to defend the pink jersey, they are trying to deliver a stage win as well by chasing down the break.
Fausto Masnada is dropped from the maglia rosa group.
Nieve and Ciccone looking good. Bilbao pretty souplesse also. Movistar are tearing it up in the peloton too.
And we're climbing! Ciccone sticks the boot in immediately and Capecchi pops.
The finale to this stage is a one-two punch. Croce d'Aune is 11km at 5.5%, almost immediately leading into the Monte Avena, which is 7.3% for 6.9km.
It's the final chance for Nibali and Roglic to close the gap to Carapaz, or for Landa to leapfrog them onto the podium.
And it all begins in 5km!
Ghebreigzabhier is getting some service from the car. Meanwhile, in the maglia rosa group, Ivan Sosa of Team INEOS hands a water bottle to Primoz Roglic. Nice bit of fellowship among competitors.
Break has 3'15". They are rattling down the extremely long descent off Passo di Rolle. 41km in its entirety.
They begin climbing again at 22km to go.
Interesting balance in this main group at the moment. You have some stage hunters mixed in among the men with GC ambitions.
Masnada, who was off the front alone for a while earlier, is safely tailgunning in the bunch conserving energy. Hugh Carthy may not fancy his chances of unseating Miguel Angel Lopez in the white jersey competition, but could perhaps nab a stage win. Jai Hindley could also save quite an anonymous Giro for his Sunweb team if he could bag a victory.
With Yates ailing, you have to look at Nieve - currently in the break - as Mitchelton's best chance of adding another stage victory. Dunbar, likewise, could make Team INEOS' Giro a lot better if he could cross the line first.
The riders are snaking their way down the serpentine descent off the Passo di Rolle. This truly is one of the most beautiful places in the world and you kind of feel bad for the riders having absolutely no time to take it all in.
The break has just gone through San Martino di Castrozza, site of Esteban Chaves' victory yesterday.
Ciccone bags some more KOM points as he hits the crest of the climb at the front of the break. He's already won the jersey by absolutely miles, but I'm sure his team manager will appreciate the cash prize.
What's the Italian equivalent of a siesta? Whatever it is, the peloton is enjoying one at the moment.
While we wait for the next salvo of attacks, I'm off for a doppio.
Ghebreigzabhier is going full gurn at the moment. The Eritrean not particularly enjoying this climb, it would seem...
Perhaps our new PM will do the same and shell out for everyone in the country to have Eurosport Player throughout July?
Someone get on petitions.gov.uk!
The break is actually building its lead on the maglia rosa group. They are working well together and the gradients of the Rolle are benign enough for them to get a decent benefit from pulling through in a paceline.
Six km to the summit of the Passo Rolle. Ciccone and Madouas have made contact with the leaders but shed Capecchi somewhere along the way. This group of seven has 2'43".
Don't know if you were all aware of this, but bike races through the Italian mountains can be quite photogenic...
Here's the inimitable Juan Antonio giving you his recon of the final climb today to Monte Avena.
The stage finishes with 1.5km of 10%, then 200m on the flat. It's going to come as the final haymaker in an all-day slobberknocker and I can't see more than a handful of riders making it over the top together in the lead.
Ilnur Zakarin really needs to find somebody to teach him how to descend. We can see on the TV pictures that he's had a tumble on the descent off Passo Manghen, which is just the latest in a string of downhill disasters for the Russian rider.
Ciccone and co. are slooooooowly making their way across the gap but it's taking ages. You wonder if their hearts are really in this move, or if they are conserving for later on after a hectic first 120km.
The Passo di Rolle is next. Not a particularly taxing climb, but it is 20km-long.
A chase group including Giulio Ciccone, Eros Capecchi and Valentin Madouas is 1'22" down on the front of the race. The pink jersey group is 2'12" down.
Movistar's domestiques are multiplying. They have five now!
They're taking it very easy in the valley now, as the maglia rosa group goes through the feed zone. The relaxed pace is letting more and more riders regain contact, including Simon Yates.
Movistar have three riders to support Carapaz and they are working to control the quintet in the lead; Dunbar, Ghebreigzabhier, Kangert, Nieve, Bilbao. The gap is 1'56".
As we wait for the riders to decide how the next bit of the stage will play out, here's Sir Wiggo on his top five climbs in professional cycling.
Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier, Tanel Kangert and Eddie Dunbar are trying to bridge to create a small lead group with Bilbao and Mikel Nieve.
All sorts of faffing about here. They can't decide who should be allowed into the new 'breakaway'. Caruso tries. Then Bilbao. Then even Nibali gives it a dig.
Amador and Landa both looking interested near the front of the GC group. Their leader, Carapaz, is sitting on the wheel of Vincenzo Nibali.
The riders are in the valley now and there's been a small cessation of hostilities, which has allowed Pello Bilbao to attack off the front of the group. He'll once again act as a bridging rider for Lopez should he be needed.
Not a complete disaster for Roglic and Nibali, then, but definitely a crack in the armour that Movistar will endeavour to exploit again and again on today's three remaining climbs.
As the descent shallows out, the riders are trying to get some food on board, shed gilets and reorganise themselves.
Fausto Masnada has just 44 seconds left of his lead on the chasers, who now are being shown as the maglia rosa group on our screens.
Nibali and Roglic have regained contact with that group too.
As the pink jersey crests the climb, Pavel Sivakov has caught and dropped Nibali and Roglic. He's showing incredible promise for the next 10 years of GC racing.
They are hammering it down the descent now and there are riders all over the road.
Landa, Lopez and Carapaz have connected with the breakaway. That means Movistar and Astana have multiple domestiques again.
Masnada is doing this descent with an unzipped gilet after struggling to fasten it up over the summit. I bet he's chilly right now.
Masnada takes the 2019 Cima Coppi as he crests the Passo Manghen amid the snow-lined slopes. Lots of chilly looking tifosi out there today.
Jan Hirt pulls off the front and Lopez lights it up. This is amazing from the Colombian, he's dropped Nibali, Roglic and pretty much everybody else in the race.
Now it's just Landa, Carapaz and Lopez in a trio of GC contenders. They are only 2 minutes behind the break.
This power boost from Astana has decimated the peloton and shave a minute off Masnada's lead. He now has 3'11".
Might've put the mockers on Astana there. Zeits has just been dropped. So that's one domestique (Jan Hirt) left for Miguel Angel Lopez.
13 riders left in the pink jersey group. Three of them are from Astana, with two more up in the break. The squad from Kazakhstan is looking fearsomely strong.
Yates has lost the wheel in the maglia rosa group. He still has Lucas Hamilton with him.
Sivakov, Majka and Landa meanwhile are all still here.
Astana have hit the front of the peloton and they are giving it some. They are doing big damage.
Roglic is isolated already, with 119km to go as his domestiques are dropped.
The gap is 4'09" to Masnada, who is looking pretty smooth as he enters the final 3km before the summit of the Giro 2019's highest peak.
Ciccone has only made 30 seconds worth of inroad into the gap. It's a long, long old climb but he'll need to dig in a bit more if we wants to catch and overhaul Masnada before the top.
Jasha Sutterlin of Movistar explained his team's motivations to us earlier today at the start in Feltre.
Ciccone has attacked out of the peloton. He's mathematically safe in the maglia azurri so this isn't about points. He must be motivated by the Cima Coppi prize, the award given to the first rider over the summit of the race's highest peak.
The Manghen was not originally going to be the Cima Coppi in this year's race, but the bad weather that affected the Gavia stage means it steps up to the plate.
Here's a fantastic interview with Mitchelton Scott DS, Matt White.
Lots going on for this team!
Confirmation that Bauke is in the fold.
Masnada has 40 seconds on the other breakaway riders. 4'21" on the peloton.
The gap between Masnada and the peloton is just tickling the four-minute mark now. Movistar clearly not too bothered about the stage win here.
I think Bauke Mollema must be back in the bunch as we're not hearing anything about him.
Does Masnada think he can win from 130km out? Surely not. Is he going to hoover up a lot of irrelevant king of the mountains points along the way? You betcha!
One Bora - Hansgrohe rider has joined the chase effort, helping to give the blue-shirted Movistar riders a slight reprieve.
Masnada, meanwhile, has built on his small attack out of the break and now has an advantage of 45 seconds.
Trek teammates Nicola Conci and Bauke Mollema have attacked from the peloton. This is the first move from a rider with GC ambitions.
Fausto Masnada skips out of the break to grab himself max points in the intermediate sprint at Telve which, yes, is part of the Passo Manghen climb. That puts the Italian into the lead of the intermediate sprint competition.
Masnada will take some solace in being the winner of that classification, after being completely outgunned by Giulio Ciccone in the King of the Mountains jersey.
The gap has ballooned out, due in part to a comfort break taken by the race leader back in the peloton.
It now stands at 3'31".
They're now on the climb. It big.
The peloton has been whittled down to around 65 riders after the first climb and subsequent descent. The next mountain on the menu is the Passo Manghen, which ascends to a mighty 2,047m above sea level. That's well into altitude territory.
The gap to the break is 2'40".
A reminder of the top ten on GC after yesterday's stage.
Nibali and Roglic will need to take time today from Carapaz if they're to stand any chance of taking pink tomorrow. The maglia rosa is not a fantastic TTer, but the route tomorrow is just 17km and to lose two minutes would be more than careless.
Further down, Landa lurks at the edge of the podium, while Bauke Mollema is still inexplicably above Miguel Angel Lopez, despite the Colombian's late surge at the end of Stage 19.
The 21-year-old, Pavel Sivakov, is also having a phenomenal ride at this Giro.
The gap to the breakaway is 1'18". Richard Carapaz' Movistar teammates are doing the work of pulling the peloton along. Will they let the break get away again as they did yesterday, or keep a tighter control on things?
And we're getting an indication that Pascal Ackermann has already been dropped from the peloton. The time cut will be about 46 minutes today, we expect. The German, who leads the sprints competition, would really have hoped to keep in contact a bit longer to ensure he does indeed make it to Verona tomorrow.
Cute! 😍
Well this is looking pretty punchy!
Andrey Amador (Movistar), Fausto Masnada (Androni Giocattoli - Sidermec), Pello Bilbao and Dario Cataldo (Astana Team), Damiano Caruso (Bahrain Merida), Eros Capecchi (Deceuninck QuickStep), Tanel Kangert (EF Education First), Mikel Nieve (Mithcelton Scott), Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier (Team Dimension Data), Eddie Dunbar (Team INEOS), Ilnur Zakarin (Katusha Alpecin) and Jai Hindley (Team Sunweb) have made it into the break.
Hindley took 18 points for first over the KOM at Cima Campo, followed by Masnada and Caruso. Koen Bouwman is chasing in the gap between
20km into the stage and it looks like a group of 10 to 15 riders has a small gap. Fausto Masnada and Pello Bilbao are among the names up there.
Relive that gorgeous Chaves stage win in this funkily soundtracked video.
We've had attacks from Cesare Benedetti and Mattia Cattaneo in the last few minutes. Benedetti would love to add another victory to his palmares after his unlikely breakaway win on Stage 12 to Pinerolo.
Eddie Dunbar has also had a dig at forging clear of the peloton.
We sent roving Eurosport reporter, Matt Stephens, to visit a medieval torture chamber in Italy to get him properly primed for today's fireworks.
Because you can never have too many emojis...
I can tell you that the peloton has finished the neutralised part of the stage start and they are officially off and racing.
Already we've seen attacks from Marco Haller of Team Katusha Alpecin and Ryan Gibbons from Team Dimension Data.
And let's not forget that yesterday, this happened...
A cathartic win for Esteban Chaves, crossing the line as stage winner for the third time at the Giro d'Italia, and hopefully bringing down the curtain on a painful and difficult act in his career.
The question today is will he go fro two-from-two, use his energy to try and help Simon Yates climb a few spots in the GC, or simply roll it into Verona content with what he's already achieved?
Quite the menu today, with five categorised climbs packed into the 194km between Feltre and Croce d'Aune - Monte Avena. None of them below a category 2 either.
There's not much in the way of antipasto, either. The first mountain begins just 9km into the stage, that's only slightly further than the distance I'll cover walking to and from the Eurosport canteen today.
Good morning folks, it's going to be an up and down day in the Dolomites as the destiny of the 2019 Giro d'Italia is all but decided.
It's me, Tom Owen, n for Felix Lowe this weekend, as the big man is off on triathlon husband duties. It's a real thing, honest.
You can find me on Twitter, @tomowencc...


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Nigeria is a leading petroleum producer and exporter. It is the 12th largest producer of petroleum in the world and the 8th largest exporter. Nigeria also has one of the world's largest proven natural gas and petroleum reserves and is a founding member of OPEC.
Tremendous investment opportunity exists in the solid minerals sector. Mineral resources that are present in Nigeria but not yet fully exploited are coal and tin. Other natural resources in the country include iron ore, limestone, niobium, lead, zinc, and arable land. Agricultural products include groundnuts, palm oil, cocoa, coconut, citrus fruits, maize, millet, cassava, yams and sugar cane. Nigeria also has a booming leather and textile industry, with industries located in Kano, Abeokuta, Kaduna, Onitsha, and Lagos.
Like many Third World nations, Nigeria has accumulated a significant foreign debt. However many of the projects financed by these debts were inefficient, bedevilled by corruption or failed to live up to expectations. Nigeria defaulted on its debt as arrears and penalty interest accumulated and increased the size of the debt. However, after a long campaign by the Nigeria authorities, in October 2005 Nigeria and its Paris Club creditors reached an agreement that helped saw Nigeria's debt reduced by approximately 60%. Nigeria will use part of its oil windfall to pay the residual 40%. This deal will free up at least $1.15 billion annually for poverty reduction programmes. As of April 2006, Nigeria became the first African Country to fully pay off her debt (estimated $30billion) owed to the Paris Club.
Nigeria also has significant production and manufacturing facilities such as factories for Peugeot the French car maker, Bedford the English truck manufacturer, now a subsidiary of General Motors, and also manufactures t-shirts and processed food.
With a population estimated at 137,253,133 million peoples, Nigeria is Africa's most populous country and the tenth largest by population, in the world. It is composed of more than 250 ethnic groups, the major groups being Hausa- Fulani. Yoruba, Igbo, Ijaw, Kanuri, Ibibio and Tiv. The north of Nigeria is predominantly Muslim while Christians form the majority in the South East. There are also a number of traditional African Religions.
Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa and the most populous country on the African continent. Nigeria shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, Niger in the north, and borders the Gulf of Guinea in the south. Since 1991, its capital has been the centrally located city of Abuja; previously, the Nigerian government was headquartered in Lagos.
The people of Nigeria have an extensive history, and based on archaeological evidence, human habitation of the area dates back to at least 9000 BC. The Benue Cross River area is thought to be the original homeland of the Bantu migrants who spread across most of central and southern Africa in waves between the 1st millennium BC and the 2nd millennium AD. However, the Nigerian state came into being on October 1, 1960 when Nigeria declared its independence from the British and at present consists of 36 states and the federal capital territory. Nigeria re-achieved democracy in 1999 after a sixteen year interruption by a series of military rulers. From 1966 until 1999, Nigeria had been ruled (except the short lived second republic, 1979 1983) by military rulers who seized power in coup d'états and counter coups. Today Nigeria is a democratic country with tremendous market and investment opportunities.
Geography: Nigeria Lies within three climatic and geographic types equatorial in the southern reaches, tropical in the central area and arid in the north fringe giving rise to rainforest, savannah and desert vegetations respectively. Nigeria is bisected by rivers Niger and Benue which merge at Lokoja, then cascade southwards to form the tributaries and creeks of the Niger Delta.
Source: Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission
Investment Opportunities
(a) Crop production to achieve food security and to provide industrial raw materials. Potentials exist for the following crops:
Cereals: Maize, rice, sorghum, corn, millet, wheat.
Root crops: Cassava, yam, ginger, potato, coco yam.
Legumes: Soya beans, groundnuts, cowpeas.
Fruits: Mango, banana, oranges, guava, papaw, pineapple.
Vegetables: Cabbage, green pepper, carrots, lettuce, spice, onions, melons.
Tree crops: Oil palm, cocoa, rubber, coconut, kola nut, coffee, she nuts, beniseed, cotton, cashew nut, sugar cane.
(b) Food processing and preservation involving industries that will use agricultural produce as raw materials.
(c) Livestock and Fisheries production which possess great potentials for development. Grazing lands are abundant, facilities for animal feed production are plentiful, and the in-land rivers, lakes and coastal creeks are sufficient to augment ocean fishery resources.
(d) Agricultural inputs supplies and machinery, water resources development especially for flood control infrastructure and irrigation.
(e) Commodity trading and transportation.
(f) Development and fabrication of appropriate small-scale mechanized technologies for on-farm processing and secondary processing of agricultural produce.
(g) Exploitation of timber and wood processing activities. A wide range of wood resources abound.
These are widely used in food and beverage sub-sectors like flour mills, breweries, chemical, pharmaceuticals, pulp and paper, wood products and industrial starch.
Foreign and domestic investors are being encouraged through improved fiscal incentives in the Nigeria oil and gas sector. In the Upstream and Downstream sectors, the following are some of the areas where there are pressing needs for investors.
(i) Petroleum Exploration and Exploitation.
(ii) Search for development of local substitute for such items as Medium pressure valve, pumps, shallow drilling equipment, Drilling mud, bits fittings, drilling cements etc.
(iii) Manufacturing of consumable materials in exploration such as explosives, detonators, steel castings, magnetic tapes etc.
(iv) Other areas in the services sector of the upstream are:
1. Construction and Installation
2. Maintenance
3. Pipelining
4. Well Services and
5. Transportation Support Services.
(i) Domestic Production and marketing of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG)
(ii) Manufacturing of LPG cylinders, valves and regulators, installation of filing plants, Retail distribution and development of simple, flexible and much less expensive gas burner to encourage the use of gas instead of wood and other fuels.
(iii) Establishment of processing plants and industries for:
– The production of refined mineral oil, petroleum jelly and grease.
– The manufacture of bituminous based water/damp-proof building materials such as roofing sheets, floor tiles, rubber products, tarpaulin. Building of asphalt storage, packaging and blending plants to handle the product for export.
(iv) Establishment of chemical industries such as distillation units for the production of naphtha and other special boiling point solvents used in plant and other food processing industries.
(v) Establishment of industries for processing Linear Alkyl Benzene, Carbon Black and Polypropylene.
(vi) Development of Phase II (Phase III to join later) of Nigeria's Petrochemical Programmed.
(vii) Participation in all phases of the Nigeria Gas Industry development programmed from exploration, gathering, production and processing to transmission.
(viii) Establishment of small scale industries to produce chemicals and Solvents, for example Chlorinated methane, Formaldehyde, Acetylene, etc., from natural gas.
(ix) Refining: One condition for purchasing Nigerian Crude Oil is the ownership of an efficient refinery. The shelter which the domestic petroleum products market enjoys, almost completely seals the prospects and viability of privately financed refinery for locally consumed petroleum products. However, opportunities exist for the construction of a refinery in bonded premises with adequate export facilities for dedication to the export market. Companies with the technological know-how can undertake turn-around maintenance of refineries. Refineries consume a lot of chemicals and utilize a broad range of spare parts. There is tremendous scope for small scale joint venture manufacturing concerns with foreign technical partners. Such ventures can start warehousing arrangements that will ensure continuity of supply at competitive prices. Other investment opportunities contingent upon refining and Ancillary activities are the manufacture of special products such as:
– Industrial and food grade solvents
– Insecticides
– Cosmetics
– Mineral Oil, petroleum jelly grease
– Bituminous-based water/damp-proof building materials such as floor tiles, rubber products, tarpaulin, etc., and
– Asphalt storage, packaging and blending plants to handle products for export and local use. Export of refined products surplus also exists as an opportunity in refining.
(x) Products Marketing: Petroleum Product Marketing would seem sealed with hardly any opportunity except by way of establishing an independent marketing outfit or aspiring to establish dealership with the marketers.
While indeed those opportunities remain viable, far more challenging opportunities may be explored in the areas of product transportation, by road and coastal tankers.
Associated with products distribution and marketing is a chain of manufacturing and maintenance business such as lubricating oil reprocessing, LPG bottles and accessories, oil cans reconditioning, etc.
The nations pipeline and depot network consists of 3,001km of pipeline of varying sizes as well as sixteen (16) storage depots. These pipelines and networks traverse the length and breathe of the country. The system therefore must be maintained in a healthy state for effective and efficient distribution of products.
Nigeria is endowed with numerous mineral resources. Recent policy reforms have brought the solid minerals sector to the fore. The emphasis is on encouraging massive foreign investors' participation in this sector.
Palletisation of Coal for Domestic Use
Incentives and Strategies for Investment
Investment Incentives:
– 3-5 years Tax Holiday.
– Deferred royalty payments.
– Possible capitalisation of expenditure on exploration and surveys.
– Extension of infrastructure such as roads and electricity to mining sites, and provision of 100% foreign ownership of mining concerns.
Through the acquisition of an existing mining property from the original owner. Approval must be obtained from the Ministry of Solid Minerals Development for such a purchase.
By obtaining an application, a Prospecting Right (PR), an Exclusive Prospecting Licence (EPL), or a Special Exclusive Prospecting Licence (SEPL), the application should state financial and technical capability qualifying the applicant for entry into the mining sector.
POWER SECTOR: Government has concluded plans towards revitalization of installations of the National Electric Power Authority, NEPA to enable it meet its total installed capacity of 6000MW. Sufficient funds are being injected for the rehabilitation of ageing plants and equipment. In order to allow full private sector participation in power generation, transmission and distribution, government has accepted to deregulate the sector by the year 2000. This will allow local and foreign investors to build, own and operate and/or transfer independent electricity. All laws that inhibit private sector participation in the power sector are being reviewed with a view to amending them and encouraging investment. This step will complement the de-consolidation of the industry as far as the state-owned NEPA is concerned. The hitherto largely over-centralised operations of this agency will be decentralised.
Guidelines and framework for Independent Power Products (IPP's) are now being put together following the interests and applications already put forward by independent producers from all around the world.
Investment Opportunities exist for hydro-power generation in Mambilla Fall, Adamawa State and Agbokin fall in Cross-River State. NEPA will readily negotiate a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with any foreign energy company to cover the following areas:
(i) Development of energy resources and infrastructures,
(ii) Management of energy infrastructure;
(iii) Commercialization of energy
(iv) Training; and
(v) Exchange of information and experience.
It is expected that further discussions will centre on:
(i) Construction and management of power stations by private companies;
(ii) Production of Steam and gas turbine spare parts;
(iii) Repairs and testing of power transformers;
(iv) Development of wind turbines for generation of electricity;
(v) Manufacture of distribution transformers and line hardware;
(vi) Technology transfer through joint erection of new power plants;
(vii) Training of NEPA staff in computer based maintenance system etc.
NEPA and the foreign company will then set up a joint committee for the purpose of achieving these objectives.
THE STEEL SECTOR: Plans by the Ministry to revitalise the steel sector are underway. As a first step to reviving the sector, technical audit and cost estimate for completion of Ajaokuta Steel Project are being contemplated. The Ministry is also planning to rehabilitate the Delta Steel Company and three in-land Steel Rolling Mills in the country with a view to making them function effectively. Staff training and development is also being given attention because local skilled manpower availability can motivate an investor into the industry. These are aimed at putting the sector in a state of readiness for foreign investment.
In consonance with the nation's technical and economic co-operation policies for this sector, some areas of joint co-operation have been identified, and investors will be encouraged to invest in the sector. Discussions will centre on joint venture commercial operation of the completed units of the Ajaokuta Steel Project. Investors will be encouragedin the following areas:
(I) Iron Making Plant with capacity to produce 1.35 metric tonnes of billets;
(ii) Billet Mill with capacity to produce 795,000 tonnes of billets per annum;
(iii) Light Section Mill with capacity to produce 400,000 tonnes of bars per annum;
(iv) Medium Section Mill with capacity to produce 130,000 tonnes of wire coils per annum; and
(v) Engineering Workshops comprising:
– The Power Equipment Repair Shop
– Forge Fabrication and Rubberising Shop with capacity to produce 4,200 tonnes of fabricated structures.
The Aluminium Smelter Company of Nigeria, ALSCON, is a joint venture project in which Nigeria owns 70% of the equity shares, while the remaining 30% is shared between AG Ferrostaal of Germany with 20% shares and Reynolds Inc. Of US with 10% shares. The present administration is making efforts to ensure that the aluminium smelter plant is properly funded. It has given invitation to private investors to invest in the company and /or take part of Nigeria's 70% shares. The plant is one of the best and biggest in the world with the most modern technology. A number of countries have signed or are negotiating trade and economic cooperation agreements with Nigeria. Since the essence of these bilateral agreements is to foster unity: boost economic growth and technological co-operation, foreign investors should take advantage of existing bilateral ties and harken to the call to invest in the ALSCON project as in other projects in the power and steel sectors.
The deregulation of the telecommunications sector in 1992 through Decree 75 was to allow for private sector participation in the sector and expand the nation's communication facilities. The Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC) was established consequently to regulate the performance of the sector. The liberalisation thrust was further strengthened by the Nigeria Communications Commission (Amendment) Decree No. 30 of 1998 which deleted those provisions in the first decree that inhibited competition in the sector thus enhancing the expected role of private sector enterprises.
The functions of Nigerian Communications Commission include:
* Regulating the privatised sector of the telecommunications industry.
* Facilitating entry into the telecommunications market by private entrepreneurs.
* Creating a regulatory environment for the supply of telecommunications equipment and facilities.
* Issuing of telecommunications licences.
* Promoting fair competition and efficient market conduct among all players in the telecommunications industry.
* Arbitrating disputes between participants in the telecommunications industry and protecting consumers against unfair practices.
The telecommunications industry in Nigeria is far from being developed. There is a dearth infrastructural facilities and this has placed a constraint on the provision of services to existing and potential customers. There is therefore an urgent need to expand the infrastructures in this sector if it is to effectively play its role in the economic, social, political, cultural and in fact overall development of the Nigerian society and properly integrate it into the international community. Such desired expansion cannot be achieved under the present dispensation where the needed equipment are usually imported with attendant problems of foreign exchange procurement, freighting cost, long delivery period etc. There is therefore no other realistic option than the local manufacture of these equipment and spares.
Local manufacture of switching and transmission equipment is required since no single company exists in Nigeria or even neighbouring countries for this purpose. Hence any company that goes into the venture will have its market beyond the frontiers of Nigeria.
In Nigeria, there are three companies engaged in the production of telecommunication cables using imported copper and other local resources like poly vinyl chloride materials for insulation. There is no company that is currently producing fibre optic cables in the country.
The copper cable producing companies are producing only low pair capacity of 50, 100, 200 pairs. There is need for a plant that will produce high pair capacity cables that will enhance massive provision of lines to the teaming population.
With Nigeria's population that is over 108 million people, an installed telephone capacity of about 700,000 lines and a telephone penetration of 0.65 lines to 100 persons, it is abundantly clear that telephone service to the populace is grossly inadequate. Even with the Government introduction of competition in the sector and the subsequent licensing of Private Telecommunications Operators. (PTOs), the market has not experienced any noticeable change. Although some of the PTO's have commenced operation for over two years, they have not been able to collectively introduce up to 100,000 telephone lines into the country's telecommunications network.
Hence, the sector is still a virgin land for investors wishing to provide and operate private network links employing cable, radio communications, data services, INTERNET Business and Satellite communication, Payphone services and Cellular radio phone services.
Apart from the absence of local manufacture of equipment and inadequate services, another major problem that has seriously affected the growth of the industry is insufficient financial resources. The industry is a capital intensive one and the banks in the country appear no to have strong financial muscle to handle massive investment in the sector. The industry has not also attracted individuals' cooperative initiative probably as a result of the low level of income per capita in the economy. Hence joint venture partnership between foreign investors and Nigerians will be a veritable source of investment capital for the sector. At present there is no joint venture enterprise in the sector. The Nigeria-Turkey joint venture for the local manufacture of telecoms equipment initiated over five years ago was not concluded as a result of the political climate during this period. It is hoped that with the return of democracy in Nigeria, negotiation will once more commence on this issue.
i) Any company, person or group of persons wishing to carry out approved activity within a zone shell apply to the Nigerian Export Processing Zones Authority NEPZA using the prescribed forms and shall submit such documents and information in support of the applications. The forms shall specify the application fees and such other details as the Authority may stipulate from time to time. A feasibility study in respect of the investment project which the applicant wishes to undertake in the zone shall be attached as an annex to the application and shall contain the following among others:
– Project description;
– Market survey;
– Funding proposals;
– Financial projections;
– Environmental impact statement and control measures.
ii) Application to undertake approved activity in the zone duly received, shall be considered by the Authority within 30 days of receipt and the Authority shall notify the applicant in writing of its decisions to grant the said approval or otherwise. The approval shall be subject to such terms and conditions as may be imposed by the Authority.
iii) If the application is approved the investor may proceed to carry out the following:
(a) Apply for company registration
(b) If outright purchase of factory building is desired
– Payment of 10% deposit of the selling price of the standard factory building within 3 months of approval;
– Payment of the balance 90%, 5 months after;
(c) Renting of factory building
– Down payment of one year rent required not exceeding 3 months after signing the rental contract. Thereafter, rental charges shall be paid in the first quarter of every year.
(d) Leasing the standard factory
– Payment of 40% lease value on approval
– Payment of 30% at the end of the 5th year
– Payment of 30% balance at the end of the 10th year.
(e) Leasing of serviced plots
– Down payment of 40% on completion of factory building
– 30% at the end of the 5th year
– 30% at the end of the 10th year
Construction must be completed within a period of one year which can be extended for another 6 months.
A plan of the building shall be submitted to the Authority for approval. The land lease contract shall be signed within 2 months after allocation of land. The area occupied by such building shall be between 60%-70% of the leased land and construction shall start within 3 months after signing the lease contract.
iv) With condition(s) in (iii) fulfilled, the investor may proceed to carry out the following:
v) When the factory building is ready, investor(s) may bring in machinery for installation and workers employed. Therefore, the Authority shall be required to carry out pre-inspection, and if found satisfactory, a certificate to commence production will be issued.
vi) Companies intending to sell the permitted 25% of their total production in the domestic market will be required to notify the Authority for necessary documentation and payment of appropriate levies and charges as applicable.
vii) The company shall apply to the Authority for assessment of invested capital for later repatriation purposes. This is applicable to companies which are 100% foreign owned and those with part foreign equity participation only.
1. Industries must be guaranteed to be environmentally friendly.
2. At least 75% of total products to be exported.
3. Maximum of 25% of products can be exported to the customs. Territory on payment of appropriate levies and duties.
4. Minimum investment capital outlay is 500,000 US Dollars or its Naira equivalent.
– Electrical and Electronic Products
– Leather Products
– Plastic Products
– Petroleum Products
– Rubber Products
– Cosmetics
– Garments
– Chemical Products
– Metal Products
– Educational Materials and Equipment
– Communication Equipment and Materials
– Sports Equipment and Materials
– Machinery
– Handicraft
– Optical Instruments and Appliances
– Medical Kits and Instruments
– Biscuits and Confectionaries
– Printed Materials, Office Equipment and Appliances
– Paper Materials
– Food processing
– Pharmaceutical Products.
The Federal Government of Nigeria in its determined efforts to develop and promote tourism into an economically viable industry had in 1991 evolved a tourism policy. The main thrust of the policy is to make Nigeria a prominent tourism destination in Africa, generate foreign exchange, encourage even development, promote tourism-based rural enterprises, generate employment, accelerate rural-urban integration and foster socio-cultural unity among the various regions of the country through the promotion of domestic and international tourism. It also aims at encouraging active private sector participation in tourism development.
The following special investment potentials exist within the country:
– Overland Safaris
– National Parks
– Game and Gorilla viewing
– Deep Sea Recreational Fishing
– Lake and River Fishing
– Archaeological Tours
– Beach Resorts and Hotels
– Transportation-Water, land and sea
– Surfing and snorkelling
– Theme Parks and Exposition Centres
Incorporation of the Business at the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) in accordance with the Companies and Allied Matters Act, 1990.
Registration of the company with Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission for the granting of Business Permit. IPC also grants approvals for expatriate quota positions and incentives.
a. Requirements for Business Permit
i. Purchase NIPC form I for N10,000.00. Completed form submitted with original receipt.
ii. Certificate of Incorporation.
iii. A minimum share capital holding in the joint venture.
iv. Details of share holding in the joint venture.
v. Joint venture/partnership Agreement where applicable.
vi. Memorandum and Articles of Association.
vii CAC's Form CO2 and CO7 duly certified.
viii. Evidence of capital importation for wholly foreign companies.
ix. Approval from the appropriate professional bodies where applicable.
b. Expatriate Quota
In addition to the requirements listed under Business Permit, the following additional requirements have to be met for expatriate quota approvals.
i. Evidence of acquisition of operational premises and operational machinery/equipment in the case of industrial establishment.
ii. Evidence of Foreign Capital Importation.
iii. Management and Technical Services agreement (for service companies).
iv. Tax Clearance Certificate.
v. Minimum authorised share capital of N5million.
vi. Evidence that the personnel required is not likely to be available in Nigeria.
vii. Minimum share capital of N15 million (for two automatic expatriate quota positions) and of N30 million share capital (in case of four automatic expatriate quota positions).
viii. Supply names, address, qualifications and positions to be occupied by the expatriates.
ix. The company must produce its project implementation programme.
x. The company must produce a training program for Nigerians in addition to management succession schedule.
xi. The company will furnish its feasibility report where applicable especially for new and prior industries.
c. Incentives
These include pioneer Status and Technical Agreement incentives:
The benefit of a Pioneer Status Certificate is that the holder (i.e. the company) is exempted from payment of tax for a specified number of years (5 years or 7 years for companies located in economically disadvantaged areas).
I. Certificate of Incorporation.
ii. Memorandum and Articles of Association.
iii. Feasibility study.
iv. Tax Clearance Certificate.
v. Joint Venture Agreement.
vi. Evidence of acquisition and installation.
vii. Evidence of development carried out at factory site.
viii. NIPC Form II (to be purchased from NIPC at N10,000 and should be returned with original purchase receipt).
ix. The company must not be more than one year old from its commencement date of production.
x. Evidence of physical development of the factory site.
xi. Joint venture must attain a minimum expenditure of N5 million.
This is a form of technical co-operation agreement in which a party will agree to offer technical services to a company for the payment of a fee.
Details and terms of such agreements are normally worked out between the parties involved but such agreements should be registered with the National Office for Technical Acquisition and Promotion (NOTAP).
e. Technical Committee on Business Approvals


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An integral part of the production process is the production of concentrated fruit juices. We meet all the capacity requirements. Accordingly, we can say that the installed capacity is 150t / 24h hours based on apples.
As one of the key elements, we can mention the capacity of 200 t raw material receiving pools. The storage space has a capacity of 1 000 000 l of juice or concentrate. We meet the temperature conditions of 10 ° C.
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The leadership of the All Grand Alliance Party, AGAP has called for increased voter participation ahead of 2019 polls.
Speaking to newsmen in Awka, the State Secretary of the party in Anambra State, Mr Dan Umeh noted that AGAP is one of the fastest growing political parties in Nigeria having shown political vibrancy since its registration.
Mr Umeh stated that the party is one that is committed to Industrialization, Agriculture and Human Capital development as the three are the major ingredients for building a sustainable and self sufficient society.
Umeh decried the low collection of PVC's as suggested by the statistics released by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
He urged the electorates to utilize the voter card registration windows provided by INEC as that is the only way they can effect their say in Nigerian's political stage.
Recall that the Anambra State Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, Dr. Nkwachukwu Orji few months ago highlighted that no fewer than 220,000 Permanent Voters' Cards, PVCs, were yet to be collected by the owners in Anambra State.
AGAP contested in the November 17, 2018 Anambra Governorship Election along side 36 other political parties and came 7th. This according to Umeh, is a feat the party is working to build on in the coming elections.


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Rolling Frames Entertainment is a freshly brewed content- driven platform for 'video content', serving entertainment through videos and stories revolving around the published video content. We are now a Digital Video Entertainment network platform – homegrown and handcrafted in The City Beautiful – Chandigarh.
Please add email@example.com to your press list. We'd love to include all the upcoming 'indie videos' and content considered as 'offbeat' that may or may not lie within the scope of the mainstream publishing satellite, print and online media.
Be it Indie short films, documentaries, campaigns, book launches, interviews, events & happenings that concern the Chandigarh region, we wan't to make sure, with your support, we're covering it all.
We press stories that are 'strongly driven by videos'.
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The platform aims to create space for content driven by individuals & organizations striving for a streaking video content-driven visibility in the region.
We are fearless and strongly moderated to bring out the best content and 'hatke' storytelling.
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Planorbulinella larvata (Parker & Jones, 1865)Class: Rotaliata Subclass: Rotaliana Order: Planorbulinida Family: Planorbulinidae
found at Miscellaneous Localities Banda, Timor and Arafura Sea Indonesia Kalimantan
Geological Time: Quaternary Holocene recent
see the whole composition
the image is made and provided by Carla Lagendijk
View of a specimen of Planorbulinella larvata (Parker & Jones, 1865)
The identification is based upon:
Jones, Robert Wynn, 1994: The Challenger Foraminifera Oxford Univ Press 416 pp. Plate 92, Fig. 5
dataset number: FEU-1007928


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Summer Learning Lineup
Kelly Harmon & Associates
Virtual Seminars (2 Hour)
Writing Seminars
Writing Transformed! Planning for Intentional Writing Instruction
Looking for ways to motivate and transform the writers in your classroom this coming year? Join Randi Anderson for a 2 hour seminar packed with ideas for engaging students in authentic writing activities. Learn about the power of discussions and daily quick writes, learn how to use Youtube to spark interests, and so much more! This seminar will be get you excited about teaching writing in new ways. Register today, space is limited.
Digging Deeper into Revising & Editing
Think revising and editing is boring to learn and to teach? Join Randi Anderson for a 2 hour seminar that will transform how you view, and in turn how you teach, revising and editing skills. Walk away with quick and easy strategies for making grammar and mechanics stick. Use real life examples in your instruction that will scaffold students to success.
Reading Seminars
Building Proficient Readers Through Metacognition
Proficient readers are readers who use comprehension strategies with automaticity. Explore ways to start your students' year by using critical metacognitive reading strategies. Discuss ways to model proficient reading for your students with read alouds, responses to texts, and building genre knowledge. Walk away with ideas for planning rigorous and intentional instruction during your reading block.
Guided Reading From the Start K-4
Set the stage for success by implementing guided reading in your classroom. Build confident and proficient readers through the use of guided reading. See how to structure groups, incorporate fluency, build lessons that focus on comprehension, and much more! Also, see videos of actual guided reading groups in action.
Supporting Language & Literacy in the Primary Classroom PK-2
Scaffold the youngest learners through intentional activities and strategies that promote language development and early literacy skills. Learn how to cultivate a culture of thriving readers in your classroom. In this 2 hour seminar, discuss ideas for using music, movement, and modeling to scaffold your youngest learners to reading proficiency. In addition, see vocabulary building strategies to help our ESL learners. Bring strategies to life through modeling and singing every day!
From Good to Great: Making Literacy Centers Meaningful
In this 2 hour seminar, participants will explore literacy centers that are focused on students getting intentional practice opportunities that will allow them to become proficient readers & writers. We will show you how to reduce prep time while increasing your students' achievement. Kelly Harmon will share examples and resources that will help you plan for meaningful literacy centers in the new school year. Also learn how to incorporate fluency practice in authentic ways.
Math Seminars
Guided Math: Small Group Problem Solving
In this interactive virtual seminar, Kelly Harmon will share a variety of Guided Math activities and ideas to promote problem solving during your small groups. Gain ideas for how to use word problems and manipulatives and discover how to group students effectively. Spark engagement in your math groups by using real world problems, photos, and videos!
Engage with Math Games!
Ignite a passion for math through the use of games in your daily math instruction! In this 2 hour seminar, Kelly Harmon will share ideas for creating and using math games that your students will love. Discuss how games can be used for guided practice and math centers. See real classroom pictures of the use of games and how they move students to mastery. These games will help build their numeracy skills and conceptual knowledge.
Virtual Testimonials
"It was great! There were lots of take aways that can be implemented immediately, Liked being able to grow and learn in the comfort of my home." -Yvonne, K-5 Interventionist
"It truly was a wonderful training packed with effective approaches that supports my goal as a teacher to empower my students as thinkers, readers, and writers." -Melissa, 4th Grade Teacher
Onsite Seminars (Full Day)
Reading, Writing, & Rigor: Starting the Year with a Literacy Rich Classroom
June 24 & 25, 2019 / 8:30am to 3:30pm
Two-Day Event
San Antonio, TX
Wanting to start the year off with a balanced literacy approach? Want to implement rigorous instruction from day one? Join Kelly Harmon & Randi Anderson in San Antonio, TX for a two-day event focused on balanced literacy instruction in grades K-8. Explore class routines, schedules, homework assignments, genre mapping, and much more! This seminar will give you an overview of an entire year of intentional planning to create engaging instruction. Discuss comprehension strategies, literature circles, guided reading, writer's workshops, fluency strategies, word work activities, and assessment ideas. This seminar is great for new and expert teachers alike! Seats are limited, register today. For more information, visit the official flyer.
Guided Math: Setting the Stage for Success
June 26 & 27, 2019Two-Day event
San Antonio, TX
In this interactive training Kelly Harmon will share a variety of Guided Math strategies, techniques, and ideas for addressing all students' math needs. Walk away with resources and ideas for strengthening your math instruction immediately! You will learn the best research-based instructional strategies to help your students develop conceptual knowledge, procedural knowledge, mathematical fluency, as well as how to help them transfer those skills to math problem solving. Also discuss the math time block and how to incorporate writing into your daily math instruction. Seats are limited, register today! For more information, visit the official flyer.
About The Presenters
Randi Anderson is an elementary educator, blogger, and staff developer with 10 years of experience in the field. She taught third and fourth grade in title I schools in the DFW area. Before entering the classroom, Randi studied early childhood education and English as a second language at The University of Texas at Austin. She has a strong passion for making reading and writing authentic and engaging for her students.
Onsite Testimonials
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Intermediate obedience is the secondary level. You'll build on the already solid foundation of basic obedience by incorporating distractions and longer distances. In Intermediate, you'll begin to Fade the Lure with basic commands and refine responsiveness with your hand signals and voice commands.
The training will focus on advanced behaviors such as Stand, Sit-Stay and Down-Stay with distractions, Recall, Wait, Hand Targeting and Relax. These are great impulse control behaviors and will challenge your pup in a distraction-driven environment.
5 Week One-on-One Intermediate Sessions or Class


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A new comprehensive Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan for the City of Pacifica is currently in development and expected to be completed in early 2020. This plan will update existing plans and identify needs and opportunities to improve walking and bicycling on city streets as well as on trail and beach access. The plan is currently focused on identifying the needs for bicyclists and pedestrians in the City.
Use the PDF viewer below to download and view the plan document.
Use the interactive map below to help us identify the most important bicycle and pedestrian focus areas.
Pacifica City Council Meeting
As the Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan progresses, ongoing project deliverables will be posted here. Please refer to the Project Schedule section for important dates related to when the documents will be published.
Parks, Beaches, & Recreation Commission Meeting Presentation (January 30, 2019)
Parks, Beaches, & Recreation Study Session Meeting Notes & Summary (January 30, 2019)
The City of Pacifica Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan is scheduled to be conducted over a 12 month timeframe. The first half of the Plan preparation will be dedicated to assessing existing conditions and performing data analysis and public outreach. The second half will focus on identifying recommended projects and programs for future implementation, including a focused study of Linda Mar Blvd.
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In addition to embracing this Eat Local Challenge, I've also been focused on keeping my grocery budget down as well. I know a lot of people think it costs a lot extra to eat local and/or eat organic, etc., but I think if you make as many good, smart choices as you can, it doesn't have to cost any more than you would normally be able to spend. My local food co-op has as many sales as the larger grocery stores, and my membership discount plus the occasional coupon go a long way in helping me make the better choices.
This week, I admit, I splurged a wee bit and got some Carolina Bison. But I chose the least expensive cut (flank steak), and because I don't eat red meat too often, this will definitely be for more than one meal. Other than that, the ingredients came from my farmer's market purchases over the weekend and/or pantry items that I try to keep in stock, so the actual meal cost is not too bad. I haven't gotten to the point of costing out each meal, but based on what I spent for the steak and the fact that everything else was purchased separately, I know this meal cost me well under $10 (and I will have leftovers).
So today, with a wee bit of a splurge, I have 'local steak frites':
I admit, I like my steak on the rare side, but the picture came out looking more rare than it really is. The juices on top of the steak, for instance, are augmented by juice from the slaw as I plated. Pretty much everything was sourced from either the food co-op or one of our area's weekly farmer's markets. Carolina Bison, NC sweet potatoes roasted with local garlic, olive oil, & rosemary, accompanied by a slaw that includes local beets, corn, cabbage and kale. Half of this will be lunch tomorrow, but had to plate it all 'cuz it was so pretty!


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South Portland Parks & Recreation is offering these two family friendly bus trips to see the Boston Red Sox in 2020. Transportation will be via custom coach with Northeast Charter & Tours. Game tickets are located in the right field grandstands - section 5 (June 7 game) and section 2 (August 15 game). Each person is limited to no more than 6 tickets. Children ages 16 and under must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. Alcohol is not permitted on the bus. All participants MUST take the bus to AND from the game, no exceptions. We will arrive early to the game to allow time around the park. Game #1 - Sunday, June 7 vs. Milwaukee BrewsGame #2 - Saturday, August 15 vs. Oakland Athletics


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The harder they come…
Bank robber Clyde Barrow meets Jamaican bad boy in this oversized 8 panel flatcap. It is the perfect partner for the Chang Coat.
Offered here in dark moss green wool.
Small: 56-57cm | Medium: 58-59cm | Large: 60-61cm | XL: 62cm
-If your desired colour is sold out, you are welcome to contact us and enquire about having a hat made for you.
As it was in the time of the Jago, the street is our stage!
Born in London. Made in England.


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Lauren Groff's latest book, Florida (Riverhead Books, 2018), explores loneliness, rage, family, and the passage of time. With shocking accuracy and effect, she pinpoints the moments, decisions and connections behind human pleasure and pain, hope and despair, love and fury—the moments that make us alive. Florida won the Story Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award, the Southern Book Prize, and the Kirkus Prize.
Groff is also the author of the short story collection, Delicate Edible Birds, and three novels: The Monsters of Templeton, a finalist for the Orange Prize for New Writers; Arcadia, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Fiction; and Fates and Furies, a finalist for the National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Prize, and the Kirkus Prize, and the winner of the Grand Prix de l'Héroïne in France.
Groff's short fiction has won prizes including the Pushcart Prize, the PEN/O. Henry Prize, and the Paul Bowles Prize, and has appeared frequently in the New Yorker and the Best American Short Stories anthology. She has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Radcliffe Foundation, and her work has been published in over 30 languages. She lives in Gainesville, Florida.


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Tank Anglaise watch, medium model, quartz movement. Steel case, length: 34.7 mm, width: 26.2 mm, thickness: 7.1 mm, 9-sided crown set with a synthetic spinel, silvered flinqué dial, blued-steel sword-shaped hands, steel bracelet. Water-resistant to 3 bar (approx. 30 meters/100 feet).
Louis Cartier created the Tank watch in 1917. A legend was born. The first prototype was presented as a gift to General Pershing some years before the watch was introduced into the market in 1919. The lugs blend seamlessly into the bare edges of the flat vertical brancards, giving the watch its unique aesthetic. The clean, crisp lines have proved hugely popular with a free-spirited, elegant clientèle. The now-iconic Tank watch has inspired countless variations, yet managed to preserve its distinctive identity.


text: Hey all, I'm back. Sorry for the long absence but after a long battle with the monster of Busy Summer With Little Internet Access (which I won), I was surprise-attacked and eaten by the ever-famished monster, School. It eventually spat me out and then I got eaten by Sleep. When Sleep tired of me, I was eaten by Practicum, and in its belly I remain for one more week. Hopefully after that there will be fewer monsters eating me and spitting me out and I can get back to my normal adventuring, tavern-hopping ways. On the plus side I have Leveled Up! What have I missed since August, or whenever it was I last logged in? Also if you don't know who the hell I am, that's fair; I was a pretty new member when I disappeared. So in that case: hi I'm Kat and I'm way too overwhelmed. XD


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Shekou International School provides a rigorous education in a caring community and inspires our students to become principled, innovative contributors in a transforming world.
Please click the link below to download the .pdf of the PYP Learner profile.
ESLR (Expected Student Learning Results)
SIS Learners are nurtured to become:
Communicators who…
- Listen, read, write, and speak effectively
- Express needs, knowledge, desires, and opinions appropriately
- Initiate reflective and meaningful conversations
Independent Learners who…
- Exhibit confidence, initiative, and personal management
- Apply appropriate strategies for producing and retaining information
- Develop habits that maintain responsibility along with mental and physical health
Collaborators who…
- Foster positive relationships in diverse settings
- Establish and accomplish goals within groups
- Ask questions for clarification and understanding
Complex Thinkers who…
- Evaluate the significance of diverse concepts
- Analyze, synthesize, and evaluate information
- Engage in a reflective process for continual improvement
Global Citizens who…
- Contribute to their immediate and extended communities
- Promote an ethos of care and empathy
- Model compassion for fellow human beings


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Lidia's is a bar owned by Lidia Bicchieri.
Deal with Oswald
Oswald Cobblepot offered Lidia to work with him. Lidia said "No" many times, but then she decided that she could work with Oswald by one condition. She wanted Oswald to make her granddaughter Antonia to break with her boyfriend. Oswald did as wished by cutting the boyfriend's fingers since the boyfriend was a musician. Lidia then allowed Oswald to be her "secret partner".[1]
Murder Attempt
After Tommy Bones's release of prison, Maroni decided to celebrate at Lidia's. But a hitman hired by Oswald, Connor, arrived and attempted to kill him but his pistol was with no bullets, Connor was then killed.[2]
Season 1
- ↑ Woodruff, Ken (writer) & Egilsson, Eagle (director) (April 13, 2015). "Beasts of Prey". Gotham. Season 1. Episode 19. FOX.
- ↑ Harper, Jordan (writer) & Edwards, Paul A. (director) (April 27, 2015). "The Anvil or the Hammer". Gotham. Season 1. Episode 21. FOX.
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