#amalgamation — Public Fediverse posts
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The video has no images but text. And big chills.
#music #cyprus #choir #greek #chorus #amalgamation #amalgamationchoir
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The video has no images but text. And big chills.
#music #cyprus #choir #greek #chorus #amalgamation #amalgamationchoir
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The video has no images but text. And big chills.
#music #cyprus #choir #greek #chorus #amalgamation #amalgamationchoir
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The video has no images but text. And big chills.
#music #cyprus #choir #greek #chorus #amalgamation #amalgamationchoir
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The video has no images but text. And big chills.
#music #cyprus #choir #greek #chorus #amalgamation #amalgamationchoir
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The Elephant’s name is Amalgamation
(This letter was sent to the AV News on November 13. It was published in the November 18 Edition in print and online.)
Dear Editor,
Fees, taxes, and time… they all go inevitably higher but at least we can slow the first two.
The Mayor is right, we don’t have industry to pick up the bills anymore. It is up to us, and that’s true whether you live inside or outside city limits. Rather than face this reality, the City and ACRD have chosen to cut services to the bone and remove many altogether. We are now at the point where even a service as basic and universally needed as a pool in a city of 26,000 might never be built. Our leaders are paralyzed by penny pinching and passing the buck.
There is another way, and that is for us to come together. With the sudden loss of Councillor Douglas, who I miss very much, we now have a new group running to take his place. To those candidates I say: be courageous, be bold. The elephant in council and ACRD chambers is called Amalgamation, and it’s time we did it so that all of us can have a say and share the load equally.
Sincerely
Chris Alemany
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This Fiction Called Nigeria: The Struggle for Democracy by Adewale Maja-Pearce: October 8
"The essayist and critic Adewale Maja-Pearce delivers a mordant verdict on Nigeria’s crisis of democracy. A mosaic of ethnic and religious groups..."
#Books #AdewaleMajaPearce #Nigeria #BlackMastodon #Writers #Academia #Politics #Language #British #Amalgamation #Essay
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This Fiction Called Nigeria: The Struggle for Democracy by Adewale Maja-Pearce: October 8
"The essayist and critic Adewale Maja-Pearce delivers a mordant verdict on Nigeria’s crisis of democracy. A mosaic of ethnic and religious groups..."
#Books #AdewaleMajaPearce #Nigeria #BlackMastodon #Writers #Academia #Politics #Language #British #Amalgamation #Essay
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This Fiction Called Nigeria: The Struggle for Democracy by Adewale Maja-Pearce: October 8
"The essayist and critic Adewale Maja-Pearce delivers a mordant verdict on Nigeria’s crisis of democracy. A mosaic of ethnic and religious groups..."
#Books #AdewaleMajaPearce #Nigeria #BlackMastodon #Writers #Academia #Politics #Language #British #Amalgamation #Essay
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This Fiction Called Nigeria: The Struggle for Democracy by Adewale Maja-Pearce: October 8
"The essayist and critic Adewale Maja-Pearce delivers a mordant verdict on Nigeria’s crisis of democracy. A mosaic of ethnic and religious groups..."
#Books #AdewaleMajaPearce #Nigeria #BlackMastodon #Writers #Academia #Politics #Language #British #Amalgamation #Essay
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This Fiction Called Nigeria: The Struggle for Democracy by Adewale Maja-Pearce: October 8
"The essayist and critic Adewale Maja-Pearce delivers a mordant verdict on Nigeria’s crisis of democracy. A mosaic of ethnic and religious groups..."
#Books #AdewaleMajaPearce #Nigeria #BlackMastodon #Writers #Academia #Politics #Language #British #Amalgamation #Essay
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(Letter sent May 29, 2024 to Alberni Valley News published June 4, 2024)
Dear Editor,
Enough.
This aquatic centre debate has dragged through at least 5 terms of Council and Regional Directors spanning nearly two decades. An entire generation and more of young people, my own children included, have had to use a facility that has (thanks to City workers) been patched up while it literally crumbles and the cost to replace it has multiplied. The reports and studies have piled up as ACRD Directors and City Councillors have bickered. That is the bigger issue that holds us back so often.
Not only should we have a referendum on the facility the public picked as soon as possible, but we should also have a referendum on uniting as one. Beaver Creek, Cherry Creek, Sproat Lake, Beaufort, and Port Alberni with one Mayor and Council should unite so this ridiculous passing the buck back and forth and duplication between governments that has cost us millions and too many grey hairs, can end.
Echo Centre marked the amalgamation of Alberni and Port Alberni. The people of the Valley are already united with one name on their mailing addresses. Let the new Aquatic Centre be the end of the bickering and mark the unification into one City of Port Alberni working for all.
Chris Alemany
Resident of Port Alberni born a Beaver Creeker.
https://chrisalemany.ca/2024/05/29/enough-bickering-build-the-pool-unite-the-city/
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One of two #BandCouncillors representing #Witat - also known as Fort Babine, in #BritishColumbia say #amalgamation is making a bad #housing situation worse.
#FortBabine #Elder Fred William says a federal #IndianAgent amalgamated the communities in 1957.
#IndianAct #BCFirstNations #NativeCanada #NativeBC #Indigenous #ReserveHousing #HumanRights #Health #DangerousHousing #NativeBandCouncil
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#OliviaChow is #Mayor
Chow becomes the #first #progressive mayor in 13 years, the first #female in the role since #amalgamation, and the first #non-white leader in #Toronto history -
#OliviaChow is #Mayor
Chow becomes the #first #progressive mayor in 13 years, the first #female in the role since #amalgamation, and the first #non-white leader in #Toronto history -
#OliviaChow is #Mayor
Chow becomes the #first #progressive mayor in 13 years, the first #female in the role since #amalgamation, and the first #non-white leader in #Toronto history -
Should York Region be dissolved and replaced with a single city? | TVO Today https://bit.ly/3pe3cO4 #YorkRegion #Amalgamation #RichmondHill #Markham #Vaughan #onpoli @ontariogreens @onpoli
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Should York Region be dissolved and replaced with a single city? | TVO Today https://bit.ly/3pe3cO4 #YorkRegion #Amalgamation #RichmondHill #Markham #Vaughan #onpoli @ontariogreens @onpoli
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Should York Region be dissolved and replaced with a single city? | TVO Today https://bit.ly/3pe3cO4 #YorkRegion #Amalgamation #RichmondHill #Markham #Vaughan #onpoli @ontariogreens @onpoli
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Should York Region be dissolved and replaced with a single city? | TVO Today https://bit.ly/3pe3cO4 #YorkRegion #Amalgamation #RichmondHill #Markham #Vaughan #onpoli @ontariogreens @onpoli
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Should York Region be dissolved and replaced with a single city? | TVO Today https://bit.ly/3pe3cO4 #YorkRegion #Amalgamation #RichmondHill #Markham #Vaughan #onpoli @ontariogreens @onpoli
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Doug Ford shoots down Scarpitti plan to consolidate York Region into one | CityNews Toronto https://bit.ly/3qPE6FD #YorkRegion #Amalgamation #Markham #onpoli @ontariogreens @onpoli
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Doug Ford shoots down Scarpitti plan to consolidate York Region into one | CityNews Toronto https://bit.ly/3qPE6FD #YorkRegion #Amalgamation #Markham #onpoli @ontariogreens @onpoli
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Doug Ford shoots down Scarpitti plan to consolidate York Region into one | CityNews Toronto https://bit.ly/3qPE6FD #YorkRegion #Amalgamation #Markham #onpoli @ontariogreens @onpoli
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Doug Ford shoots down Scarpitti plan to consolidate York Region into one | CityNews Toronto https://bit.ly/3qPE6FD #YorkRegion #Amalgamation #Markham #onpoli @ontariogreens @onpoli
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Doug Ford shoots down Scarpitti plan to consolidate York Region into one | CityNews Toronto https://bit.ly/3qPE6FD #YorkRegion #Amalgamation #Markham #onpoli @ontariogreens @onpoli
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Markham mayor looks to consolidate York region, other mayors in region not on board | CityNews Toronto https://bit.ly/3Xa6dvj #Markham #YorkRegion #Amalgamation #onpoli @ontariogreens @onpoli
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Markham mayor looks to consolidate York region, other mayors in region not on board | CityNews Toronto https://bit.ly/3Xa6dvj #Markham #YorkRegion #Amalgamation #onpoli @ontariogreens @onpoli
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Markham mayor looks to consolidate York region, other mayors in region not on board | CityNews Toronto https://bit.ly/3Xa6dvj #Markham #YorkRegion #Amalgamation #onpoli @ontariogreens @onpoli
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Markham mayor looks to consolidate York region, other mayors in region not on board | CityNews Toronto https://bit.ly/3Xa6dvj #Markham #YorkRegion #Amalgamation #onpoli @ontariogreens @onpoli
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Markham mayor looks to consolidate York region, other mayors in region not on board | CityNews Toronto https://bit.ly/3Xa6dvj #Markham #YorkRegion #Amalgamation #onpoli @ontariogreens @onpoli
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One of two #BandCouncillors representing #Witat - also known as Fort Babine, in #BritishColumbia say #amalgamation is making a bad #housing situation worse.
#FortBabine #Elder Fred William says a federal #IndianAgent amalgamated the communities in 1957.
#IndianAct #BCFirstNations #NativeCanada #NativeBC #Indigenous #ReserveHousing #HumanRights #Health #DangerousHousing #NativeBandCouncil
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One of two #BandCouncillors representing #Witat - also known as Fort Babine, in #BritishColumbia say #amalgamation is making a bad #housing situation worse.
#FortBabine #Elder Fred William says a federal #IndianAgent amalgamated the communities in 1957.
#IndianAct #BCFirstNations #NativeCanada #NativeBC #Indigenous #ReserveHousing #HumanRights #Health #DangerousHousing #NativeBandCouncil
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One of two #BandCouncillors representing #Witat - also known as Fort Babine, in #BritishColumbia say #amalgamation is making a bad #housing situation worse.
#FortBabine #Elder Fred William says a federal #IndianAgent amalgamated the communities in 1957.
#IndianAct #BCFirstNations #NativeCanada #NativeBC #Indigenous #ReserveHousing #HumanRights #Health #DangerousHousing #NativeBandCouncil
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CW: Capital as Power meme - Mergers & Acquisitions
"From an efficiency perspective, the relentless growth of large firms is indeed puzzling. Why do firms give up the benefit of market transactions in pursuit of further, presumably more expensive internalization? Are they not interested in lower costs?
From a power viewpoint, though, the riddle is more apparent than real. Improved technology certainly can reduce the minimum efficient scale of production (MES); and, indeed, today’s largest establishments (plants, head offices, etc.) often are smaller than they were a hundred years ago. However, firms are not production entities but business units; and given that they can own many establishments, their boundary need not depend on production as such. The real issue with corporate size is not efficiency but differential profit, and the key question therefore is whether amalgamation helps firms beat the average — and if so, how?
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The second important point concerns the meaning of ‘profitability’ in this context. Conventional measures, such as earnings-to-price ratio, return on equity, or profit margin on sales, relevant as they may be for investors, are too narrow as indicators of capitalist power — particularly when such power is vested in and exercised by corporations rather than individuals. A more appropriate measure for this power is the distribution and differential growth of profit (and of capitalization more broadly), and from this perspective mergers and acquisitions make a very big difference. By fusing previously distinct earning streams, amalgamation contributes to the organized power of dominant capital, regardless of whether or not it augments the more conventional rates of return. In our view, this ‘earning fusion’, common to all mergers, is also their ultimate reason."
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CW: Capital as Power meme - Mergers & Acquisitions
"From an efficiency perspective, the relentless growth of large firms is indeed puzzling. Why do firms give up the benefit of market transactions in pursuit of further, presumably more expensive internalization? Are they not interested in lower costs?
From a power viewpoint, though, the riddle is more apparent than real. Improved technology certainly can reduce the minimum efficient scale of production (MES); and, indeed, today’s largest establishments (plants, head offices, etc.) often are smaller than they were a hundred years ago. However, firms are not production entities but business units; and given that they can own many establishments, their boundary need not depend on production as such. The real issue with corporate size is not efficiency but differential profit, and the key question therefore is whether amalgamation helps firms beat the average — and if so, how?
[...]
The second important point concerns the meaning of ‘profitability’ in this context. Conventional measures, such as earnings-to-price ratio, return on equity, or profit margin on sales, relevant as they may be for investors, are too narrow as indicators of capitalist power — particularly when such power is vested in and exercised by corporations rather than individuals. A more appropriate measure for this power is the distribution and differential growth of profit (and of capitalization more broadly), and from this perspective mergers and acquisitions make a very big difference. By fusing previously distinct earning streams, amalgamation contributes to the organized power of dominant capital, regardless of whether or not it augments the more conventional rates of return. In our view, this ‘earning fusion’, common to all mergers, is also their ultimate reason."