INSIGHTS | Luckin—out of luck
A cautionary tale—but about what?
by David Cohen and Emma Lee Apr 6, 2020 Apr 27, 2020
Customers of Luckin Coffee wait in line to place their order at the counter in Pudong, Shanghai on April 4, 2019. (Image Credit: TechNode/Eugene Tang)
The Olympics may have been delayed, but we got to see a gold medal dive anyway: Luckin Coffee dropped 75% in a single day's trading as news emerged that nearly half its sales were fictional. The company claims to be investigating a scheme to falsify sales data perpetrated by the company COO, among others.
The company looks set to go out as it came in, in a wash of free coffee. Customers are flocking to its stores to cash in coupons. On the Chinese internet, commentators have already written a likely epitaph—"Hey Wall Street, thanks for the free coffee!"
Bottom line: Luckin is the most spectacular case of fraud we've seen in a while—and not all that surprising, coming from a company that has long had warning signs. It's probably a cautionary tale about something—but you can take your pick of morals.
Meteoric rise:
October 2017: Luckin Coffee is founded in Beijing by former Car Inc COO Qian Zhiya and former CMO Yang Fei.
June 11, 2018: The company raises a $200 million Series A from Joy Capital, the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC), Legend Capital and Centurium Capital. Joy, Legend and Centurium all have connections to Car Inc.
Dec. 12, 2018: Luckin raises $200 million in a Series B, led by GIC and China International Capital. This round gave them a $2.2 billion valuation.
March 12, 2019: Reuters reports that Luckin Chairman Lu Zhengyao has sought to trade a role in the IPO in return for a $200 million personal loan.
April 3, 2019: Luckin registered RMB 45 million ($6.7 million) worth of movable assets as collateral to a Beijing-based firm, in an early sign of a cash crunch.
April 18, 2019: The company raises $150 million in a Series B+ from BlackRock and an unnamed investor. The round put them at a $2.9 billion valuation.
April 22, 2019: Luckin files for an IPO with the US SEC. To be listed on the Nasdaq under the symbol "LK," the company set a placeholder amount of $100 million to be raised in the filing. Rumors from February put the IPO at $300 million.
May 16, 2019: Luckin exceeds expectations to raise $561 million in IPO.
Sept. 3, 2019: Luckin spins off tea business as "Fawn Tea."
November 2019: Luckin store count passes Starbucks at about 4,200 stores, making it China's most common coffee chain.
Jan. 21: Luckin announces $865 million in post-IPO fundraising to fund growth and "unmanned" vending machine strategy.
Feb. 1: Luckin shares plunge 19% as short-seller Muddy Waters publicizes allegations of inflated sales figures and self-dealing made by an anonymous third party. Luckin denies these allegations.
April 2: Luckin admits that it fabricated RMB 2.2 billion in sales in 2019, causing its shares to plunge 75.6%.
Growth at a high cost: Luckin was built on a simple idea: you can buy growth. The company's celebrity CMO—and ex-con—Yang Fei even wrote a book about it, as reported by TechNode contributor Michael Norris. Everything it did cost big money: opening 4,500 stores in slightly over two years, and then handing out free coffees to bring customers in and to keep them loyal.
In its early stages, the spending was backed up by an argument that China was on the verge of becoming a major coffee-drinking nation. But as it progressed, the quest for growth led Luckin into more and more whimsical bets:
Luckin pushed into fancy teas in 2019, a field so crowded that Luckin isn't even the only player whose logo is a deer.
I'm honestly not sure what happened to the company's vow to push into overseas markets.
Most recently, Luckin raised most of a billion dollars to fund a push into vending machines—which is rather less crowded, since competitors like BingoBox have already flopped.
When did it turn to fraud? We don't know for sure when Luckin started making up numbers, but we can see why. The company spent hundreds of millions of its investors' dollars to buy growth, and as it went back for more, it had to show that it was on a road to profit. It is, however, very possible that fraud went beyond what the company has already admitted.
According to the company's Thursday statement, falsified sales began with the company's Q2 results—its first as a public company.
The fake sales allowed it to claim—in the now-disavowed Q2 report—that year-on-year sales grew 698%; in Q3, it boasted that net losses had fallen from about 200% to only 30% of revenue.
In as-yet unconfirmed allegations, the Muddy Waters-linked report that accurately predicted false sales also claimed that the company inflated the costs in its vending machine push in order to cover up a need to raise funds for ongoing operations, and to transfer money to related parties in self-dealing transactions.
Why did they own up? Norris speculates that Luckin's admission of fraud was forced by its own board. The company's Q4 and annual results have been slow to emerge. Whether they are past the filing deadline is unclear, but Norris suggests that independent directors refused to sign off on the results, forcing the company to investigate.
It may be that the scheme wasn't really meant to last: Pre-IPO, Norris argued that the company might not be intended to achieve profits; suggesting that, like a car with sawdust in the transmission, it was built only to make it to market and let sellers walk away with cash.
Expiration dates: It's a commonplace in Chinese commentary that the company is a sort of national Robin Hood—taking money from Wall Street investors and spending it on free coffee for Chinese people. Chinese users have scrambled to Luckin to place orders, some to show their support for the company, but more for fear their coupons will expire.
Luckin stores were full of buyers on Friday, while its app and WeChat mini-program crashed due to a traffic spike, local media reported.
The situation echoes the last days of ofo share bikes, when 10 million users applied for refunds as the company collapsed in 2018.
Is it a drinking lesson…: Luckin's closest peers are fast-growing fancy tea sellers Heytea and Naixue. Like Luckin, they're spending big to grow fast with a hot beverage. But maybe they can make a Luckin-like model work with a little more patience. After all, Norris told TechNode, even after you discount half Luckin's sales it's still sold a lot of coffee.
…pseudo-tech,…: Maybe the lesson is to beware companies dressed up as tech startups. Luckin is competing with Starbucks—but it's presented itself as a tech firm to imply Google-like prospects. Looking at its investor relations material, Luckin's company overview mentions technology four times in three paragraphs, and coffee just twice.
The last year has been tough on workhorses in unicorn's clothing. WeWork's spectacular flame-out is the most famous example, but Indian hotel giant Oyo and Chinese rental platform Danke share the essential features of high costs and decidedly finite revenue. Neither reached Luckin's heights of fraud, but both illustrate that asset-heavy pseudo-tech firms tempt executives to cut corners.
Some companies, to be sure, are going to see bets like these pay off. But it's clearly long past time for investors to ask hard questions about profit, as well as growth.
…information asymmetry,…: For some US commentators, the moral of Luckin is that you can't trust overseas-listed Chinese stock. As Josh Rogin writes in the Washington Post:
According to the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission's 2017 report, China's opaque financial system makes it impossible to verify Chinese companies' financial disclosures and auditing reports. Through fraud schemes alone, Chinese issuers have stolen billions from U.S. investors with no fear of punishment inside China.
But China's securities regulator claims that new laws, effective from March 1, give it the power to police overseas-listed stocks. Luckin executives probably won't lose any sleep over enforcement, as their scheme likely wound up before this key date, but China's US-listed blue chips would be well advised to push for real enforcement to protect their own reputations.
…or just dumb money? We can't get over the suspicion that the real reason Luckin got away with its fuzzy numbers is that a lot of people were willing (or desperate) to buy into the next big thing in China tech. A few years ago, China tech was a dark horse, and betting on it was an easy way to make money. These days, you have to be pretty fast to spot something before everyone knows it—and that means you have to be a lot smarter to make money.
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David Cohen is a former acting editor in chief at TechNode. Since 2010, he has covered China as a writer and editor at outlets including the Diplomat, the Jamestown Foundation, and China Policy. He's... More by David Cohen
Emma Lee
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Part 17
3. Dry Well / Seepage Pit
A dry well or seepage pit is a subsurface storage facility that temporarily stores stormwater
runoff from roofs and infiltrates it into the surrounding soils. Roof downspouts connect directly
to a dry well or seepage pit that is an excavated pit filled with clean angular stone with an
overflow pipe to ensure the system will not be overwhelmed. Prefabricated chamber systems or
perforated pipe sections are commercially available for use as dry wells and should be designed,
constructed and maintained according to the manufacturer's recommendations. For more
information on dry wells and seepage pits refer to the PA DEP BMP Manual 6.4.6.
Design considerations:
A dry well / seepage pit should be located on nearly level to gently sloping ground and no
closer than 10 feet to a building foundation and 25 feet from septic field or wellhead.
A dry well / seepage pit can vary in length, width and depth, but should be a minimum
depth of 3 feet.
A downspout should direct water to the surface, a system of perforated pipes should
distribute the water throughout the system with an inspection/cleanout pipe to the surface,
and an over flow pipe should outlet excess water during intense storms.
The storage system can be clean angular stone, separated from soil layers by four (4)
inches of straw (top and bottom) or a nonwoven geotextile (top, sides, and bottom).
The outlet from the dry well / seepage pit should be safely conveyed to a stable vegetated
area, natural watercourse, the curb or gutter line of roadway or existing storm
collection/conveyance/control system as applicable.
Drywells and seepage pits should be inspected at least 4 times a year, and after each
storm event exceeding 1 inch.
Remove sediment, debris, detritus and any other waste material from the system as
Regularly clean out gutters and downspouts to ensure proper connections and to maintain
effectiveness of the system.
Replace any filter screen or clean out any sump box that may intercept roof runoff as
4. Alternative BMP Capture and Re-Use (rain barrel/cistern)
Rain barrels and cisterns are above or below ground containers used for temporary
storage of rainwater, to be used for landscape irrigation and other similar uses after the
rain has ended. A rain barrel or cistern cannot be used as a volume control because
infiltration is not guaranteed after a storm event, but they are viable alternative method to
capture and reuse stormwater.
Rain barrels and cisterns should be directly connected to a downspout with a mosquito screen
There should be a means to release the water after a storm event to provide storm
volume for the next event
An overflow, near the top of the container should direct water to a vegetated area
away from any structures
Barrels can be connected in series to provide more volume collection
Step 7: Post-Installation Operation and Maintenance Requirements
It is the property owner's responsibility to properly maintain any stormwater facilities and BMPs
in accordance with the minimum maintenance requirements listed in this Appendix. The property
owner shall submit a signed agreement, and declaration of easement to Bolivar Borough for
installation, and maintenance of any proposed stormwater management facilities and BMPs. It is
also the property owner's responsibility to inform any future owners of the function, operation and
maintenance needed for any BMPs on the property prior to the purchase of the property.
APPENDIXD
Stormwater Management Plan Checklist
See Bolivar Borough Stormwater Ordinance for complete requirements
Project Name: __________________________________________ Date: __________________ _
Location: _________________________________ Performance District: ___________________ --'-
Type of Plan:_ Residential, _Commercial, _Institutional, _Industrial, _Recreational, _Other
Owner: _______________________ Contact Information: _____________________________ ~
Plan Preparer: ___________________ Contact Information: ____________________________ ____!
Fees and
Location map (USGS)
[x] sets completed plans, narrative
E&S plan, as submitted for approval
Operation and maintenance agreement
Municipal notification(s)
Financial guarantees, maintenance fund
Narrative:
Project description, including Watershed Performance District, existing and proposed features and
improvements, soils and limitations, landform, land cover, drainage areas, utilities, proposed SWM facilities
and BMPs, easements and other information required by the [Municipality] stormwater ordinance
Stormwater calculations
Construction sequence, including phases if applicable
Justification for SWM facilities and/or BMPs
Operation and Maintenance requirements and responsible party(s)
Plan:
Watershed Performance District
Existing natural features
Soils; and limitations
Landform; existing and proposed contours at 2' intervals, or 5' intervals for slopes> 15%
Land cover; existing and proposed improvements
Drainage areas; existing and proposed
Utilities; existing and proposed
SWM facilities and BMPs; existing and proposed
Easements, including offsite easements for drainage
Stormwater construction details and sections (as applicable)
Stormwater construction notes and sequence
part 16 Storm Water Ordinance
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Aviakon modernizes helicopters for the Armed Forces of Ukraine
31 Aug, 17, Source: Ukroboronprom
UKROBORONPROM SE Konotop Aircraft Repair Plant "Aviakon" – together with scientific institutions of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine – diversifies components of Russian production, modernizing Mi helicopters for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
For the purpose of import substitution program implementation – particulary in providing units for Mi-24 EMS, specialists of the enterprise developed a draft bulletin for replacing voltage regulators. At the beginning of April 2017, "Aviakon " modernized helicopter Mi-24PU1 with domestic EMS successfully passed control tests. As of today, this helicopter is already transferred to the Ukrainian army aviation's units of the Ukrainian Ground Forces. Mi-24PU1 is designed to increase mobility of ground troops, providing them with fire support on the battlefield.
Modernized Mi-8MTs – produced by the State Enterprise "Aviacon" – will serve for the Armed Forces of Ukraine; will also be introduced, which will also diversify Russian components and perform a range of work to improve the characteristics and bring them to the level of modern operational requirements. In July 2017, on the basis of the State Enterprise "Aviakon", Mi-8MT helicopter with flight recorder of domestic production underwent control tests.
At present, at UOP enterprise – with participation of the State Research Center of the Armed Forces of Ukraine – control tests of the modernized helicopter Mi-8MT with new weather radar, satellite navigation system and reserve radio station – are conducted. The new equipment is installed in accordance with the draft bulletins, developed by the specialists of the SE"Aviakon". Mi-8MT (MTV) helicopters form the basis of helicopter military transport aviation in many countries of the world and are characterized by their power and reliability; they also have a considerable reserve capacity. After Testing Act approval, it is planned to introduce the bulletin into operation. This will allow to install the given device on helicopters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
By the end of 2017, the SE "Aviakon" will modernize and transfer 7 units of MI-8MT to army aviation; the National Guard of Ukraine and the State Emergency Service of Ukraine will receive one helicopter each.
UKROBORONPROM is the driver of economic development throughout the country – 200+ thousand workers are involved in cooperation with the State Concern to implement import substitution program.
Tags: Aviakon, Civil, Mi-24, News, Ukraine, Ukraine Armed Forces


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Past Shows and Pantomimes
This list just keeps getting longer and longer. We are now doing three shows a year. The quality of the acting, sets and costumes seems to improve in leaps and bounds.
Past Pantomimes
BATS are well known for their pantomimes and have quite a lengthy track record! Here is a complete listing going right back to the very beginning...
2000 – Smuts Saga: Santa & the Vikings
2005 – Jack & the Beanstalk
2010 - Sleeping Beauty
2001 – Old Father Time
2006 – Treasure Island
2011 - Aladdin
2002 – Aladdin
2007 – Cinderella
2012 - Puss in Space Boots
2003 – Mother Goose
2008 – Robin Hood Prince of Pantos
2013 - Sinbad
2004 – 30th production:
2009 – Snow White & the Eight Dwarfs
Previous Productions - Non-Pantomime
June 2013 - The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes.
Originally serialized in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set largely on Dartmoor in Devon and tells the story of an attempted murder inspired by the legend of a fearsome, diabolical hound of supernatural origin.
Sherlock Holmes and his companion Doctor Watson investigate the case. This was the first appearance of Holmes since his intended death in "The Final Problem", and the success of The Hound of the Baskervilles led to the character's eventual revival.
Adapted by BATS, this is a fast moving adaptation of the novel.
May 2012 - Dracula
Adapted by Jane Thornton and John Godber
From two of Britain's most popular playwrights comes and exciting new version of the most chilling story of all time.Remaining true to Bram Stoker's gothic classic, Dracula is a fast moving, multi-layered masterpiece of fear.
As a sudden and mysterious storm whips the coast of England, a young woman sleepwalks along the edge of a sea cliff. In the teeth of the gale, a ship crashes through the harbour entrance, abandoned except for an immense dog an fifty boxes of grave dust. The Transylvanian Count Dracula has arrived in England.
Immortal only as long as he is able to drink the blood of the living, he pursues his victims with brutal devestating effect. From the remote wildernesss of Yorkshire to the vast ruins of Carfax Abbey near to London, whose windows emit no light, the race to end Dracula's lustful power is underway...if only there is still time...
April 2011 - Mort
For a spring play what could be better than a Terry Pratchett classic. adapted to the stage by Stephen Briggs.
This play put our own Elliot Baxter in the lead role of deaths apprentice, he rose to the challenge and gave a excellent performance. It also had a few new members come in for this in the lines of Simon "Staff of Life" Thomas, Simon "Not the Bay" Yaxley and Danial Taylor, leaving the back stage crew for a acting role.
April 2010 - The Haunting of Hill House
Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within, it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more.
Within, the walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.
July 2008 – Picasso at the Lapin Agile
'What I just said is the fundamental, end-all, final, not-subject-to-opinion, absolute truth depending on where you are standing."
ONE BAR. TWO OF THE FINEST MINDS OF THE 20TH CENTURY (PLUS A SPECIAL VISITOR) IT'S ALL RELATIVE...
August 2011 - Showstoppers 13
First time back on stage for our own Steven Hall, after his Britain's Got Talent experience.
Steve has been involved in BATS for many years, and hopefully many more to come.
As ever we had star performances from the adults, kids and junior chorus alike, with show tunes from Hairspray, Wizard of Oz and Barnum along with comedy from steve and the gang and a guest appearance from one Jem The Juggler..
The annual musical and variety extravaganza; still as popular with our audiences now as it was on our very first performance in 1999.
Featuring songs from The Sound of Music, We Will Rock You, Evita and Our House.
August 2009 – Showstoppers 11
Featuring excerpts from Grease, Oklahoma, Annie Get Your Gun, Mamma Mia, 42nd Street and a Moon Medley.
May 2009 - Talk of the Town
An evening of music, song and dance, in a Cabaret setting.
That's right, we have reached double figures!
Featuring excerpts from Blues Brothers, The Full Monty, South Pacific, Oliver and The Producers.
May 2008 – An Evening of Cabaret 3
Another evening of music, song and dance, set in a Cabaret style.
November 2007 - An Evening of Cabaret 2
For the second time this year, the Bryce Institute – decorated like an elegant night club – played host to a sophisticated evening of cabaret-style entertainment. The evocative candlelit tables setting the scene.
The audience were wined and dined, and treated to some marvellous entertainment.
A great programme of solos and duets, with some standout singers, and even a dance troupe to add colour to the floor show.
Another success for the Society, and one which looks likely to be repeated!
Older Past Pantomimes
1998 – Babes in the Wood
1997 – Sinbad the Sailor
1996 – Puss in Boots
1995 – Jack & the Beanstalk
1992 – Ali Baba
1990 – Dick Whittington
1989 – Robinson Crusoe
1983 – Red Riding Hood
1979 – The Sleeping Beauty
Older Productions - Non-Pantomime
2006 – August - Showstoppers 8
2004 – Rattle of a Simple Man, Showstoppers 6
2003 – Shadow of the Valley, Showstoppers 5
2002 – Old Time Music Hall, Showstoppers 4
2001 – Play On, Showstoppers 3
2000 – Carpe Jugulum, Showstoppers 2
1999 – Last Tango in Little Grimley, Last Panto in Little Grimley, Showstoppers 1
1997 – Wyrd Sisters
1983 – The Magic Rocking Chair
1982 – Sing-Along with the Roaring Forties
1981 – Lyrical Look at Love & Marriage
1980 – Holiday '80
1979 – Muddlecombe-in-the-Marsh
1978 – Westmorland Fair
1977 – Holiday Souvenirs
1976 – Return of the Minstrels
1975 – Melody Inn, Black & White Minstrels, Way Out West
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Richard Thornton Claims Sunflower Symbols Suggest Native Americans Colonized Bronze Age Scandinavia
I ran out of time today to write anything in terribly great depth, and I know that relatively few people tend to read my blog on summer Fridays anyway. Besides, Ancient Aliens is on tonight, and I need to save my ire for what promises to be an especially stupid claim: that human bodies are actually vessels for interdimensional intelligences. So today I will point to a new article by Richard Thornton, the longtime advocate of the claim that the Maya colonized Georgia. In his new article, he alleges that Native American petroglyphs, Mayan hieroglyphs, and Bronze Age European petroglyphs from Scandinavia are all the same, and that they represent a consistent pattern of symbols related to the sun, high kingship, and sunflowers
The nut of the argument is as follows:
As will be explained later in this article, three of the most important religious symbols of the Bronze Age Scandinavians, Celtic Age Europeans, plus the Uchee and Creek Peoples of the Southeastern United States appear to have originated in North America around 3500 BC or earlier. Only much later were they become incorporated into the Maya writing system. The earliest known Maya inscriptions date from the Third Century, BC.
Those symbols are (a) a circle inscribed with crossed lines, (b) the outline of a human foot, and (c) a stylized flower.
The trouble with this claim is that the specific symbols he cites only seem to be the same if you assume that they are the same. In reality, they fall into two categories: (a) simple geometric shapes that recur across cultures because they are simple and obvious, and (b) roughly similar pictures that don't really look anything alike and instead seem to be independent representations of shapes found in nature. Thornton, of course, has an answer for this, at least when it comes to the symbol of the cross: "the cross symbol is generally ignored by European anthropologists, perhaps because they think that it is such a universal symbol for 'something' that is is (sic) not worthy of study." Crossed lines are just about the simplest shape one can make, but who's keeping score?
The sunflower is found only in North America, so Thornton argues that the appearance of a sunflower symbol in Scandinavia proves that North Americans traveled to Europe during the European Bronze Age. The symbol, though, could be any flower, or maybe something else entirely. It is a dotted circle surrounded by rays atop a vertical line. It contains no elements distinctive to a sunflower that would not, say, be found in a daisy.
It's all a case of "looks like, therefore is," and a few geometric figures are hardly enough upon which to hang a vast revision of history with North Americans colonizing prehistoric Europe. The only really interesting part of the argument is Thornton's reversal of typical racist Eurocentric arguments to make Native Americans the colonizers. For example, Eugène Beauvois saw the appearance of cross symbols on both sides of the Atlantis as evidence of Irish and Templar colonization of Mexico.
Agreed, and it's no different from the evidence Afrocentrists use to prove that for example all Native Americans are descended from either Malians, 18th Dynasty Egyptians or whoever.
Basically, Thornton's "evidence" consists of glorified inkblot tests. That's about the normal calibre of evidence these authors peddle.
Thornton has never been known to offer a strong argument or compelling evidence. This is his weakest attempt to "rewrite" history to date.
Scott Wolter's first AU episode was "American Maya Secrets" where he 'proves' that Mayans built a city in Georgia but that the government is covering it up. I guess they wouldn't let him on the site knowing he would say something stupid about it.
He would also probably hit some priceless artifact with his hammer attempting to carve a hooked X, proving that the Ancient Mayans were really European.
Nah, the film company probably couldn't secure permission to film in certain areas. For Wolter, that was enough to cry conspiracy.
Took him long enough, but it looks like someone finally took the advice you gave in that "Europe Unearthed" parody a few years ago.
Nope, I did that more than ten years ago, when I suggested it to Simon Southerton. My ire was roused. I am 1/8 Irish, and know it in my very bones, my Native American/Irish ancestors spoke to me in my dreams. Is that irony?
Pierre Cloutier
I at first confused this Thornton with Russell Thornton ho has written some serious scholarly books. I can, however, rest at peace that they are not the same person.
Bob Jase
"Crossed lines are just about the simplest shape one can make"
Yes because if you make uncrossed lines that is the complex form of writing known as Ogham - even if its only one scratch on a rock.


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Exploring the Depths of Yerevan, Armenia.
Started on 18 June 2013 by HamoudiLFC
Latest Reply on 26 June 2013 by HamoudiLFC
AlexSonwild
Nice writing m8. Keep it up
HamoudiLFC
2013-06-26 17:02#115724 Sonalexwild : Nice writing m8. Keep it up
BeanyUnited
Great style of writing well done!
this story your writing style and the fact u have gone for something a lot different
2013-06-26 19:33#115764 BeanyUnited : Great style of writing well done!
Thank you very much mate!
"FAYAD LEADS PYUNIK TO DOUBLE GLORY"
"IMPULS DILIJAN IN SHAMBLES AFTER SLIPPING UP TWICE TO PYUNIK"
"CONSECUTIVE BARRAGES WIN TWO TROPHIES FOR PYUNIK YEREVAN"
"HAMOUDI FAYAD: THE MASTERMIND BEHIND THE BEAUTIFUL PLAY OF PYUNIK"
Hamoudi Fayad did what he almost did last year, and that was winning the double. Although, Pyunik did not reach the Group Stage of the Europa League, they put up a good fight against Romanian League Runner-Up FC Vaslui in the Third QR, losing by only a goal. Until now, the Armenian country's CoEfficient is rising up to 10.500, an extra two points from the current 8.255. Back to Pyunik's glory, they only won the league with an average age of twenty-one. Inexperienced, young and talented players, Fayad has looked away from the "You can't win anything with kids" motto, and taught his kids that age is just a number.
The Youth Facilities and Junior Coaching of Pyunik have been upgraded, although their youth intake this year was said to be appalling by the manager Hamoudi.
FANS' PLAYER OF THE SEASON
The fans of Pyunik have also put in their vote for their Player of the Season and it goes to "Ghukas Poghosyan", commonly known as 'Ghuka'. He has contributed by scoring 15 goals and giving 27 assists in 35 starts and 2 substitute appearances, a great season for the 19-year old. He also had an 82% pass completion, the 27th best passer in the league, along with 81% of tackling, and contributing to 3 tackles per game. Pyunik have won 81% of their games with him on the pitch, which means that he has won 30 out of the 37 games he had played this season.
Finally, this means that Pyunik are in the 2014/2015 Champions League Second Qualifying Round, can they upset the odds, and more importantly, repeat their fantastic double?
You are reading "Exploring the Depths of Yerevan, Armenia.".


Tag Archives: seventhday adventist
Strange Abandonment of Principle
I really love the Church but if Jared Wright speaks in behalf of the Church with regard to this issue, surely we have an east to west distance of disagreement. Christ said,
And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? (Matthew 19:4-5)
"Today is a historic day in the history of the State of California and in the history of the United States as a whole. Today is the day when a ban on homosexual marriage will be lifted in accordance with a decision of the California Supreme Court. Homosexual couples from across the United States will descend on California in the coming days and weeks, and will receive the legal rights and responsibilities that accompany marriage.
Today's removal of the ban on same-sex marriage is part of a larger debate in America over the definition of marriage. Because at stake in the discussion are issues of morality, justice, ethics, and separation of church and state, Adventists cannot and must not remain silent on the issue. Adventists have always insisted on speaking the truth, demonstrating God's love, and working for justice. For those reasons, I suggest several reasons below that voters in California and elsewhere should stand in firm opposition to any constitutional amendments that would ban same-sex marriage. Below, I enumerate my reasons and provide a starting place for further conversation on the topic.
Seven reasons to oppose a ban on same-sex marriage
1. Adventists affirm separation of church and state. Advocating a ban on same-sex marriage on moral grounds is tantamount to coercive mandating of a religious viewpoint. We cannot spread morality by force through law! We should oppose all efforts to do so.
2. Protecting marriage: Supporters of a ban on same-sex marriage define the issue as protection of marriage. We must note that same-sex marriage is still marriage. Marriage as an institution is not under attack. Rather, it is being affirmed.
3. Promoting fidelity and monogamy: If we, as Christians, support and uphold fidelity and monogamy as better than cohabitation, then we should be consistent. The purpose of marriage is to promote monogamy and fidelity. Get it?
4. Marriage is beneficial for society both structurally and fiscally. Marriage promotes stable, lasting relationships over transient ones. Further, marriage is related to greater financial security and mental and physical health. Married people provide societal benefits for those reasons.
5. We cannot defer to the "will of the people" or "deeply rooted tradition," as attempts by some organizations have done, to ban same-sex marriage. The will of the people and tradition consented to slavery in America. America's elected officials outlawed slavery as a violation of human freedoms and dignity. America enacted laws banning interracial marriage by the will of the people and tradition. Appointed judges rescinded the laws as violations of the U.S. Constitution's 14th amendment. Majority does not equal right. The court-ordered desegregation of schools in the 1950's also went against the will of the people.
6. Same-sex marriage is NOT a slippery slope to the permitting of polygamy in America.
7. Same-sex marriage does not threat pose a threat to me, my choices, or my way of life. The practice of marital fidelity by homosexual couples does not impinge upon any of my liberties, it does not harm me or my religious practice, and it does not threaten God or God's sovereignty.
Discussion – an opening for polygamists?
Some have argued that allowing same-sex marriage will open the door to a broad definition of marriage that will inevitably come to include polygamy. That slippery slope argument is demonstrably false. The following discussion comes courtesy of the article Gay Marriage and Polygamy, and is reprinted here for your convenience.
Any proposal for the expansion of marriage must be good both (1) for the individuals involved and (2) for the society in which they live. Gay marriage meets both of these criteria. The case for polygamous marriage is distinguishable (and weaker) on both counts, especially the second.
On the first issue — the effect of allowing gay marriage on homosexuals themselves — the deprivation for gays if gay marriage is banned is greater than the deprivation to polygamists if polygamy is banned. A polygamist may still marry someone if we ban polygamy; he simply may not marry many someones.
The deprivation to the polygamist is large, especially if polygamy involves the exercise of his religious faith, but not total. The gay person, however, has no realistic choice of a mate available under a gay-marriage ban. The deprivation is total.
Further, there is no "polygamous orientation" causing a person to need the close companionship of multiple partners (though some people may prefer it). There is, however, a homosexual orientation, causing a person to need the close companionship of a same-sex partner. The ban on polygamous marriage is the denial of a preference, perhaps a strong one; the ban on gay marriage is the denial of personhood itself.
On the second issue — the effect of recognition on society — the differences between gay marriage and polygamous marriage are more pronounced. There is ample evidence that people who live in stable, committed couples are healthier, happier, and wealthier than those who are single. Gay marriage is a good idea because it will benefit not only the gay couple but their families, friends, neighbors, and taxpayers whose burdens to care for unmarried gay partners is greater."
Jared Wright is pursuing a M.Div at La Sierra University. He blogs at Adventist Environmental Advocacy.
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'Truly Frightening' How U.S. Relies on China for Vital Industries
Exclusive–Curtis Ellis: 'Truly Frightening' How U.S. Relies on China for Vital Industries
This week, President Trump's administration announced that additional tariffs on China would be delayed until September for some imports and December for others. The plan is to set a ten percent tariff on $300 billion worth of Chinese imports — including on imported cell phones, laptops, and computer monitors
In an exclusive interview with SiriusXM Patriot's Breitbart News Tonight, Ellis told Senior Editor-at-Large Rebecca Mansour that it is "insane" how the U.S. relies, in some cases, almost exclusively on Chinese-made products that are vital to the country's national security.
Ellis said those goalposts have quickly become a national trade policy where "everything that can be made in China, should be made in China."
"You heard the people saying … the Democrats particularly were fond of this one 'Well we're going to go into green energy and that will mean millions of new jobs for Americans.' Well, excuse me, if it's cheaper to make laptops and it's cheaper to make bricks in China, it's going to be cheaper to make solar panels in China unless you have an affirmative program to stop that from happening," Ellis said. "That's what is going to happen. And low and behold, that's what happened. There's a trade case — China was convicted of stealing the technology that controls wind turbines and stealing the technology and subsidizing their solar panel industry to drive their American competitors out of business."
"And all of our drugs, by the way, most of the ingredients that go into pharmaceuticals and medicines are made in China," Ellis continued. "Again, there's no need for that. We can make those here. The Chinese are not innately predisposed to have an advantage in making all of these things. Most of that could be made right here."
Ellis said multinational corporations have been "complicit" in the economic dominance of China and the mass offshoring and outsourcing of American jobs, saying they "were more than happy to just ditch the American people, the American consumers and go to China where they could get subsidized factories, subsidized energy."
For decades, free trade has helped gut working and middle class jobs and stripped whole middle American towns of their industries and livelihoods. Since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was signed and China was allowed to enter the World Trade Organization (WTO), nearly five million American manufacturing jobs and 50,000 manufacturing facilities have been eliminated from the U.S. economy. This mass elimination of working and middle class jobs due to free trade has coincided with a nearly 600 percent increase in trade deficits.
The most recent study by economists at the Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) finds that permanent 25 percent ariffs on all Chinese imports to the U.S. would create more than a million American jobs by 2024, Breitbart News reported.


Gun Laws & Legislation
Hunting For The Truth In Media Coverage Of Donald Trump Jr.
Guns and Gear Contributor
January 09, 2020 4:15 PM ET
By W. Laird Hamberlin
Unfortunately for those who look to stay informed of what happens in the world from day to day, the media as we know it is in a constant race to break a story first and can often sacrifice thorough research and accuracy to do so.
Most recently, this occurred after it was reported that President Trump's oldest son, Donald Trump Jr, ventured to Mongolia to hunt an argali sheep but was only issued the permit to do so after his successful hunt. The insinuation of impropriety or special treatment spread like wildfire through the media; however, Mongolian authorities have now confirmed that the hunt was entirely lawful and no special treatment was given. In fact, the permit for the hunt was purchased a year ago, in January 2019.
ProPublica, the organization that originally broke the news, riddled their story with half-truths and blatantly untrue statements that serve only to vilify an innocent Donald Trump Jr. and diminish the scientifically proven benefits hunters like him bring to animal conservation. Mongolian officials themselves even confirmed in their statement that news coverage of this non-issue has been "factually inaccurate" and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has found no cause to investigate the hunting trip. The drama surrounding these false allegations ultimately stems from the inability or the unwillingness of those on the left to understand the complexities of the hunting permit issuance processes across different countries and it is the duty of wildlife advocates to correct the public record.
In Mongolia, the government sells licenses directly to the hunting operators, who have agreements with local communities for access to hunting areas. As Mr. Trump purchased his hunt from one such operator and not directly from government officials, the Mongolian government "had no prior knowledge that the license has been sold in January 2019 or that Mr. Trump was involved until the hunting trip was in process."
A spokesman for Donald Trump Jr. confirmed to ProPublica that he had applied for his hunting license before the trip, and USFWS also responded to demands they investigate the issue, saying "Based on the information we have, there is currently no basis for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to look further into this allegation."
ProPublica reporters further displayed their ignorance in the story's headline that stated Mongolian argali sheep are endangered. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has readily available data that shows this statement is incorrect. The IUCN's Red List is the preeminent global biological conservation authority, and its website shows Mongolian argali sheep listed as "near threatened," which is two full categories below "endangered."
ProPublica also mentions that "hunting programs are ineffective and can lead to disruption of local ecosystems." This claim is particularly false. According to the IUCN's Red List Assessment from 2008, the argali population is listed as "near threatened" due to a decline in species numbers caused directly by "poaching and competition with livestock" and not legal hunting as controlled by the Mongolian government. Permits for legal hunting are, on the other hand, are determined by the best available species data and limited so that hunting continues to be nondetrimental to the population's stability in a particular habitat.
Ultimately, the revenue brought to Mongolia by hunters like Donald Trump Jr. is a crucial factor for ongoing conservation efforts for Argali and other species. The Mongolian response to Mr. Trump's hunt repeatedly emphasizes this point, which calls Argali hunting permits an "important component of… successful conservation of endangered species programs." The U.S Fish and Wildlife Service during the Obama Administration reached the same conclusions when it conducted a number of "Enhancement Findings" in Mongolia that, over the course of three years, repeatedly found that "fees from sport hunting programs are a major source of revenue for Argali population surveys, conservation efforts, and resource management." The biologist for USFWS further concluded that "there is no known, direct or indirect, conflict with other programs to enhance the survival of the population" and that hunting, in Mongolia in particular, "is an effective conservation management tool for wildlife."
These studies reinforce what a U.S district court determined in a 2003 decision. The court was presented with evidence from Safari Club International's legal counsel that showed when the U.S banned the importation of argali in the mid 1990's, poaching of the species in Mongolia increased as a direct result of diminished revenues from the sale of hunting permits and the price of the hunts themselves – revenues that produce jobs for locals in extremely remote areas.
The facts aren't hard to find. They come from U.S wildlife officials, the U.S legal system, Mongolian officials and the IUCN, and can easily be found online. In this case, the wild inaccuracies that serve as the basis for this attack prove that the media's reporting of Donald Trump Jr.'s hunt is yet another example of news outlets ignoring or willfully misreporting conservation based in science.
W. Laird Hamberlin is the CEO of Safari Club International.
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