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G. Stibbe & Co. Ltd.: Chairman's Statement to 50th A.G.M., 1974
No full textPrinted statement referring to further loss, economic difficulties, attempts to increase and diversify business and intention to step down as Chairman and hand over to J. R. Eades.• •
Industrial Knitting Machinery
I
Newarke Street,
Leicester.
Chairman's Statement to the 50th Annual General Meeting of
G. Stibbe & Company Limited, Friday, 28th June 1974.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
You will all no doubt have read my statement which accompanied the 1973 accounts. It
represented an attempt on my part to give shareholders a full yet concise picture of the Company's
difficulties and how they built up, together with an assessment of the Company's future prospects
as I saw them at that time.
My statement was, of course, written several weeks ago and I had hoped that at the time of
the Annual General Meeting I would have been in a position to give you a favourable report- that
the Company was now operating profitably. Unfortunately, I am not yet able to make such a report
and I very much regret to inform you that the Company will suffer a further loss for the first half
of this year with its inevitable effect on our liquid position. It should be possible to realise cash in
excess of £1m from internal sources and the Company is continuing its vigorous efforts to achieve
this; but the continued uncertainty in the property market, the difficult trading situation still affecting
all knitting machine manufacturers, and an intractable foreign debtor position continue to impose
serious delays in reducing th~ level of our borrowing and high interest payments. It is unlikely
that the Company will begin to trade profitably - on which all ultimately depends - until the last
quarter of this year.
On a more hopeful note, we have, during the year, been engaged in an energetic campaign
to bring in sub-contract work to our Braunstone factory with the object of avoiding any further
staff reductions and of providing much needed diversification in our production - thus making
us less dependent on the volatile textile machinery market. I am glad to be able to report that
certain important main contractors appear eager to avail themselves of our quite exceptional
facilities ideally suited to their work, and in one case we have already reached agreement to produce
air compressors to the value of some £tm per annum in turnover. Whilst it will naturally take time
for us to feel the effects of these efforts, it is certainly an encouraging development. Simultaneously
I am also able to report that we are engaged in certain negotiations which I believe will assure
Stibbe's long-term future for many a year to come.
Meanwhile I have already set in motion additional measures of consolidation and economy,
one of which- the closure of our Harrico factory- has recently been announced.
In view of these further delays in the Company's return to profitability and the difficult period
lying ahead, your Board has decided that the directors should set an example in making further
economies by reducing their salaries by ten per cent and the waiving of any increases until further
notice.
At the same time, I have been considering my own position as Chairman. Shareholders will
recall that I became Chairman of the Company in 1972 at a time of serious boardroom difficulties
accompanied by adverse publicity. I think I can claim that these difficulties have been overcome.
The Company's current problems are, however, of an altogether different nature, more complex,
more deep-seated and certainly more protracted; had I been able to report today that the tide in
the Company's fortunes had turned, I would have had no hesitation about continuing in office
and your directors have strongly and unanimously urged me to remain. However, after anxious
reflection, I have reached the conclusion that, in the present difficult situation, it is in the Company's
interests that I should prepare to make way for the energy and vigour of a younger man. The
Company is fortunate in having a Vice-Chairman of considerable experience who is now acquainted
with Stibbe's problems, who commands the support and respect of all the directors and who is
ready to assume the Chairman's responsibilities in due course. Accordingly Mr. J . R. Eades has
been elected Chairman Designate, leaving me free to hand over to him when I judge the time to
be appropriate.
It is not in my nature to withdraw in the face of difficulties so I have only taken this decision
with the greatest reluctance. However, on balance, I feel that I should be failing in my duty to "
the Company and its shareholders if as Chairman I did not, myself, at this time make a personal
sacrifice by giving a lead in making economies at top level and preparing the way for a younger
man to take over.
In conclusion I am particularly proud of the fact that throughout my exacting term of office
the Board has conducted its affairs in conditions of complete harmony and mutual confidence.
28th June 1974
H. PASLEY-TYLER
Chairma
[Report to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author #1]
No full textReport to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author. The report contains a list of officers who gave depositions to the United States Attorney
[Report to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author #2]
No full textReport to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author. The report contains a list of officers who gave depositions to the United States Attorney
An Ecolinguistic Approach to Critical Discourse Studies
No full textThis article explores the recently emerging area of ecolinguistics as a form of critical discourse study. While ecolinguistics tends to use the same forms of linguistic analysis as traditional critical discourse studies, the normative framework it operates in considers relationships of humans not just with other humans but also with the larger ecological systems that all life depends on. Ecolinguistics analyses discourses from consumerism to nature poetry, critiquing those which encourage ecologically destructive behaviour and seeking out those which encourage relationships of respect and care for the natural world. The expanded context of ecolinguistics complicates power relations between oppressor and oppressed since it considers impacts on non-human subjects and future generations not yet born, necessitating both theoretical development of CDS and an application of an ecologically based normative framework for judging discourses against
Murder on the mountain: author talk with Peter J. Wosh
No full textAuthor talk by Peter J. Wosh on May 5th, 2022, on his book, "Murder on the Mountain: crime, passion, and punishment in gilded age New Jersey.
Mr. Melvin J. Collier, RWWL AUC, June 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Mr. Melvin J. Collier. Mr. Collier talks about his book, "From Mississippi to Africa: A Journey of Discovery". Daniel Le, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
A Tripartite Post-Recession Rebalancing
No full textIn this latest Advance & Rutgers Report, entitled “A Tripartite Post-Recession Rebalancing,” Dean James W. Hughes and Professor Joseph J. Seneca deliver an incisive assessment of the current market conditions and obstacles in the path of our economic recovery. They offer a statistical cautionary tale that the private and public sector need to hear and acknowledge in order for the economy to make continued progress.This report was published as Issue Paper Number 7, November 2011, in Advance & Rutgers Report
Evidence for the decay B0→J/ψω and measurement of the relative branching fractions of meson decays to J/ψη and J/ψη′
No full textFirst evidence of the B 0 → J / ψ ω decay is found and the B s 0 → J / ψ η and B s 0 → J / ψ η ′ decays are studied using a dataset corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.0 fb -1 collected by the LHCb experiment in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of sqrt(s) = 7 TeV. The branching fractions of these decays are measured relative to that of the B 0 → J / ψ ρ 0 decay:frac(B (B 0 → J / ψ ω), B (B 0 → J / ψ ρ 0)) = 0.89 ± 0.19 (stat) - 0.13 + 0.07 (syst),frac(B (B s 0 → J / ψ η), B (B 0 → J / ψ ρ 0)) = 14.0 ± 1.2 (stat) - 1.5 + 1.1 (syst) - 1.0 + 1.1 (frac(f d, f s)),frac(B (B s 0 → J / ψ η ′), B (B 0 → J / ψ ρ 0)) = 12.7 ± 1.1 (stat) - 1.3 + 0.5 (syst) - 0.9 + 1.0 (frac(f d, f s)), where the last uncertainty is due to the knowledge of f d / f s, the ratio of b-quark hadronization factors that accounts for the different production rate of B 0 and B s 0 mesons. The ratio of the branching fractions of B s 0 → J / ψ η ′ and B s 0 → J / ψ η decays is measured to befrac(B (B s 0 → J / ψ η ′), B (B s 0 → J / ψ η)) = 0.90 ± 0.09 (stat) - 0.02 + 0.06 (syst)
The vanishing author in computer-generated works: a critical analysis of recent Australian case law
No full textAbstract
The use of software is ubiquitous in the creation of many copyright works, yet the requirement in copyright law that every work have a human author who engages in independent intellectual effort means that its use may prevent copyright subsistence. Several recent Australian cases have refocused attention on authorship as an essential criterion of copyright subsistence, and these cases suggest that much computer-produced output may be authorless and thus lack copyright protection. This article, the first in a two-part series, analyses how each case deals with the question of authorship of computer-produced works and why the use of software diminishes copyright protection for a significant number of computer-generated works. The article critiques the application of conventional notions of human authorship developed in the pre-computer age to modern productions and suggests alternative approaches to authorship that satisfy both the major objectives of copyright policy and the need to adapt to the computer age. The article argues that, without a broader judicial approach to authorship of computer-generated works, Parliament must remedy the lacuna in protection for these ‘authorless’ works. Possible solutions for reform are suggested. In a forthcoming article, the author comprehensively examines those reform proposals
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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