Though I'm a little astonished to see it's business as usual in the UK, considering the Kennedy loan issues in Ireland... But FRM's a small company — there's far more upside for David Kennedy to try raise new equity / rebuild the company (vs. screwing existing minority shareholders).
Not exact matches
As usual, high - profile
business owners
were very vocal about what they
saw, via social media.
President Trump's latest escalation with North Korea
is already
being seen as «
business as usual» and investors seem happy to wait,
see, hope and pray for tax reforms to
be enacted shortly.
Our patience will only
be rewarded if we sign him, and due to our
usual way of concluding
business this late in the window I can only
see some second rate player joining
as like normal.
In other news, our team seems to
be rounding nicely into form, with a productive off - season and several new additions already settling in, there seems to
be a renewed sense of confidence in the air... our well - oiled machine has conducted
business again early this year, so we can just sit back, kick our feet up and watch all those other suckers scramble to make panic moves in the 11th hour... of course, we need to tie up a few loose ends but our team of savvy negotiators, under the tutelage of our faithful leader, will perform their
usual magic with ample time to spare... I have to laugh when I look around the soccer world and
see all those teams look upon us with envy and scorn
as they struggle to mimic our seemingly infallible
business model... thank goodness the powers that
be had the foresight and fortitude to resist the temptations of the modern football era... instead of listening to all the experts and simply taking the easy way out by making the necessary improvements on the field and in the front office, we chose the path never traveled... we
are truly pioneers in our field... sometimes you just have to have faith in the people that have always conducted themselves in a respectful and honest fashion... most fans aren't so fortunate, they will never know what it
's like to follow a team that treats everyone in and around the club
as if they
were an extended member of the family... all for one I say... so when you wake up this morning, please try not to gloat when you
see rival fans pacing back and forth waiting for their respective teams to pull the
usual panic buys, just say nothing and
be thankful that it isn't you... like I've always said, this
is why you stay the course... this
is when the real benefits of having someone in charge for over 2 decades really pays off... have a great day fellow Gunners
For me he has signed the contract no need to worry much let
's support and
see what happens, I believe he knows what
is involved and it won't
be like
business as usual because everyone
is alert and at the slightest trace of failure I know it
's going to to
be hell let loose.
Time for some brutal honesty... this team,
as it stands,
is in no better position to compete next season than they
were 12 months ago, minus the fact that some fans have
been easily snowed by the acquisition of Lacazette, the free transfer LB and the release of Sanogo... if you look at the facts carefully you will
see a team that still has far more questions than answers... to better show what I mean by this statement I will briefly discuss the current state of affairs on a position - by - position basis... in goal we have 4 potential candidates, but in reality we have only 1 option with any real future and somehow he
's the only one we have actively tried to get rid of for years because he and his father
were a little too involved on social media and he got caught smoking (funny how people still defend Wiltshire under the same and far worse circumstances)... you would think we would want to keep any goaltender that Juventus had interest in,
as they seem to have a pretty good history when it comes to that position...
as far
as the defenders on our current roster there
are only a few individuals whom have the skill and / or youth worthy of our time and / or investment,
as such we should get rid of anyone who doesn't meet those simple requirements, which means we should get rid of DeBouchy, Gibbs, Gabriel, Mertz and loan out Chambers to
see if last seasons foray with Middlesborough
was an anomaly or a prediction of things to come... some fans have lamented wildly about the return of Mertz to the starting lineup due to his FA Cup performance but these sort of pie in the sky meanderings
are indicative of what
's wrong with this club and it
's wishy - washy fan - base... in addition to these moves the club should aggressively pursue the acquisition of dominant and mobile CB to stabilize an all too fragile defensive group that has self - destructed on numerous occasions over the past 5 seasons... moving forward and building on our need to re-establish our once dominant presence throughout the middle of the park we need to target a CDM then do whatever it takes to get that player into the fold without any of the
usual nickel and diming we have become famous for (this kind of ruthless haggling has cost us numerous special players and certainly can't help make the player in question feel good about the way their future potential employer feels about them)... in order for us to become dominant again we need to
be strong up the middle again from Goalkeeper to CB to DM to ACM to striker, like we did in our most glorious years before and during Wenger
's reign... with this in mind, if we want Ozil to
be that dominant attacking midfielder we can't keep leaving him exposed to constant ridicule about his lack of defensive prowess and provide him with the proper players in the final third... he
was never a good defensive player in Real or with the German National squad and they certainly didn't suffer
as a result of his presence on the pitch...
as for the rest of the midfield the blame falls squarely in the hands of Wenger and Gazidis, the fact that Ramsey, Ox, Sanchez and even Ozil
were allowed to regularly start when none of the aforementioned had more than a year left under contract
is criminal for a club of this size and financial might... the fact that we could find money for Walcott and Xhaka, who weren't even guaranteed starters, means that our whole
business model needs a complete overhaul... for me it
's time to get rid of some serious deadweight, even if it means selling them below what you believe their market value
is just to simply right this ship and change the stagnant culture that currently exists... this means saying goodbye to Wiltshire, Elneny, Carzola, Walcott and Ramsey... everyone, minus Elneny, have spent just
as much time on the training table
as on the field of play, which would
be manageable if they weren't so inconsistent from a performance standpoint (excluding Carzola, who
is like the recent version of Rosicky — too bad, both will
be deeply missed)... in their places we need to bring in some proven performers with no history of injuries... up front, although I do like the possibilities that a player like Lacazette presents, the fact that we had to wait so many years to acquire some true quality at the striker position falls once again squarely at the feet of Wenger... this issue highlights the ultimate scam
being perpetrated by this club since the arrival of Kroenke: pretend your a small market club when it comes to making purchases but milk your fans like a big market club when it comes to ticket prices and merchandising... I believe the reason why Wenger hasn't pursued someone of Henry
's quality, minus a fairly inexpensive RVP,
was that he knew that they would demand players of a similar ilk to
be brought on board and that wasn't possible when the
business model
was that of a «selling» club... does it really make sense that we could only make a cheeky bid for Suarez, or that we couldn't get Higuain over the line when he
was being offered up for half the price he eventually went to Juve for, or that we've only paid any interest to strikers who
were clearly not going to press their current teams to let them go to Arsenal like Benzema or Cavani... just part of the facade that finally came crashing down when Sanchez finally called their bluff... the fact remains that no one wants to win more than Sanchez, including Wenger, and although I don't agree with everything that he has done off the field, I would much rather have Alexis front and center than a manager who has clearly bought into the Kroenke model in large part due to the fact that his enormous ego suggests that only he could accomplish great things without breaking the bank... unfortunately that isn't possible anymore
as the game has changed quite dramatically in the last 15 years, which has left a largely complacent and complicit Wenger on the outside looking in... so don't blame those players who demanded more and
were left wanting... don't blame those fans who have tried desperately to raise awareness for several years when cracks began to appear... place the blame at the feet of those who
were well aware all along of the potential pitfalls of just such a plan but continued to follow it even when it
was no longer a financial necessity, like it ever really
was...
It
was business as usual to start with Jose Mourinho's side
as Danny Rose switched off to
see Oscar's strike find the net off Diego Costa's boot, but
as usual Harry Kane had other ideas — beating two Blues players to find the bottom corner from outside the box.
I hope Janet and anyone else interested in this topic will read my latest article on Jean Ronnei, and
see why I agree with Bettina that her response
was «
business as usual.»
Instead we
are seeing business as usual, with the social cleansing of London continuing across the capital.»
«The tests for these changes at RBS
are whether they
see the taxpayer ultimately get its money back and whether they actually boost
business lending and radically transform this bank to put an end to
business as usual,» shadow chancellor Ed Balls said.
«
Seeing all of this play out has made me question what
is pay - for - play and what
is business as usual.
Lower Manhattan
is a Democratic stronghold — there
are more than 40,000 active Democratic voters, in comparison to about 6,000 Republicans — but Chang said he
sees himself
as a candidate more in opposition of «
business as usual in Albany» and for public service, than adhering to strict party lines.
It remains to
be seen whether this will cause additional disruption to the people of Wales, but acting Tory leader in the Assembly, Paul Davies, has said that it
is «
business as usual»:
It
's nice to
see we have a leader that
is willing to face the grim reality of our financial mess and not just accept
business as usual.
I didn't presume that Sir Nicholas spoke with any other authority, and I certainly didn't endorse his alarmist conclusion, presented
as a certainty, that under «
business -
as -
usual... we can
see that we
are headed for some pretty unpleasant increases of temperature [of 4 or 5ºC].»
They also felt that the «official» view of the future — the
business -
as -
usual outlook — both reflects an optimism bias and
is based on the human tendency to
see familiar patterns and
be blind to the unexpected.
If they
're not intrigued by what they
see, they simply carry on with
business as usual.
As usual, anyone who actually does work in journalism may
be amused to
see the laborious news - gathering
business made to look so glamorous.
I
was working in the newspaper industry a decade ago and watched this same situation play out with publishers acting like the online world
was simply an extension of
business as usual and could
be treated
as such and you
see how that worked out.
Indies started to
see Amazon
as Santa Claus, so now they
're devastated, but the truth
is, it
's just
business as usual.
The bad news in 2008
was given massive coverage — and rightly so — but the good news in 2013
is seen as just «
business as usual.»
There
are many faces of puppy farming and in the years we've
been fighting it, we've
seen a nasty
business change and adapt so that evil people can carry on,
business as usual despite all attempts to stop them.
Said Dogs Trust chief executive Adrian Burder, who in 2014 succeeded 30 - year chief executive Clarissa Baldwin [
see Humane innovator Clarissa Baldwin retires from Dogs Trust], «It
's business as usual for Dogs Trust.
Once you make it to the Paris mission it
's business as usual for Hitman veterans; you
're given two targets to kill amidst a huge fashion show taking place in a palace, and free reign to eliminate them
as you
see fit,
be that through subtle methods, perhaps
being careful to only kill the targets and hide the bodies, or more destructive tactics, although these will leave you with a worse post mission rating.
However, given Shay
's Templar association it would have
been nice to
see a more strongly altered playstyle, but it
's business as usual.
Zumba
was third, Rugby World Cup in fourth, and then
business as usual for the rest of the top 10, which you can
see below.
With that, Nintendo should
be having the most regular
business as usual presentation we'll
see there.
It
is largely
business as usual for a video game console controller after that however, with the standard thumbsticks and buttons, though there
is the Switch's built - in photo button
as seen on the Joy - Cons.
In
Business As Usual - The Tower, 3 monkeys
are stacked one on top of the other on an oil barrel, miming the cautionary statement «
See no evil, hear no evil, say no evil.»
Even the generally conservative (when it comes to sexual politics or postcolonial consciousness) Pompidou (Paris) put on its one survey show of women, «Elles» in 2012, although it
is hard to
see this
as anything other than tokenism when feminism
is side - lined from «
business as usual» rather than integrated centrally into ongoing institutional strategy and policy.
The only problem
is adapation for a 4C warmer world may not
be adequate for a 5C warmer world — which we (or our progeny) could
be seeing by the end of this century in a BAU (or greater than
business -
as -
usual... which
is closer to reality) scenario.
I didn't presume that Sir Nicholas spoke with any other authority, and I certainly didn't endorse his alarmist conclusion, presented
as a certainty, that under «
business -
as -
usual... we can
see that we
are headed for some pretty unpleasant increases of temperature [of 4 or 5ºC].»
I'd
be very interested to
see the difference in a well - initialised decadal forecast between the two possibilities [grand solar minimum / solar
business as usual].
People go about «
business -
as -
usual» because they literately don't live on the coast, have never
been to New Orleans or Venice, and can not
see the DIRECT affects of the ice sheets melting in their EVERYDAY and present lives.
When the climate model output
is fed into ecosystem models, and these in turn
are coupled to socio - economic analysis tools, the potential future scenarios that come out, assuming the world continues its
business as usual, appear rather grim,
see e.g. the very interesting final report of the European ATEAM project.
I
'm sorry to
see this or say this, but the treatment of this issue in the Times,
as a somewhat hard - to - find, and somewhat ambiguous, on - line table, suggests that the Times
is treating this issue
as a «
business -
as -
usual» matter.
If you would like to know what the scientific projections
are and why people
are concerned about «
business -
as -
usual», please
see any of the reports I mentioned above (or read this).
I
am optimistic that China and the U.S.
are going to
see the light within the next few years and get on a new greenhouse - gas emission path that will move emissions onto a path well below
business as usual, in which case that estimate
is excessive.
30 more years of
business -
as -
usual will make it impossible to keep temperatures from rising beyond Eemian levels (
see here for some discussion of stabilisation scenarios), and decisions (on infrastructure, power stations, R&D, etc.) that
are being made now will determine the emissions for decades to come.
But given the fact that
business -
as -
usual doesn't seem to
be working out too well for the bees, I for one
am encouraged to
see folks trying something different.
Framing carbon removal
as a «third way» risks even further «neglect [of carbon removal] in political negotiations and public debate,» (
as you write in the article)
as policymakers might
see carbon removal
as a distraction to prolong
business -
as -
usual production of GHG emissions, which it clearly
is not.
India's numbers also
are seen as falling into a
business -
as -
usual category.
We have gone back and forth on when Hansen knew that CFCs would probably decrease over time, but if one recalls that Hansen
is a political animal and seemingly interested first and foremost in policy and further that these scenarios
were revealed to a Congressional hearing on climate, it takes no great imagination to assume that he put a scenario out there that might just scare and attract attention and particularly if he can
see that that scenario may
be called «
business as usual».
there
are only two explanations I can
see for proposing that your model represents «
business as usual»: either you
are incompetent or you
are being deceitful.
You constantly complain that your IQ
is being underestimated, yet there
are only two explanations I can
see for proposing that your model represents «
business as usual»: either you
are incompetent or you
are being deceitful.
They can not
see how things can
be done differently to
business as usual and have an antagonistic attitude which helps them believe that lying doesn't matter
as long
as they can get people to think what they say
is true.
Indeed, assuming
business as usual, each of the next 80 years in the American West
is expected to
see less rainfall than the average of the five years of the drought that hit the region from 2000 to 2004.
«It
is great to
see the GWPF accepting that
business -
as -
usual means significant further warming
is expected.
By the end of this Century, it will probably
see at least 6 feet — and that
's if we don't pursue
business as usual fossil fuel burning and if the world
's glaciers mostly behave themselves by not giving us a big, angry melt pulse in response to our insults.