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omnisglobal · 3 months

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Why is expanding e-commerce business in the Middle East a boon?

Over the past decade, the population of middle-east countries has been increasing, which has significantly raised the growth of e-commerce businesses in the region. Moreover, the adoption of the internet and mobile devices is increasing the desire for flexible and convenient shopping experiences. Thus allowing the Middle East’s e-commerce sector to expand quickly, driving up demand for better last-mile delivery options. You will be surprised to know that the revenue of the e-commerce market in the MENA region in 2023 was around US $69.5 billion. This blog will guide you on how you can expand your e-commerce business in the Middle East.

How do you expand in the Middle-East market?

There are numerous things you need to analyze when it comes to establishing an e-commerce business in the Middle East. A significant focus must be given to factors like primary trends in the market, top marketplaces where you can sell your products, and last but not least, the strategies you need to think that can help you perform better. Omins can help you with all your e-commerce marketing needs, from setting up your business to registration, we have got you covered.

The most promising market trends in the Middle East are:

It’s critical to stay on top of the latest trends in the Middle East e-commerce industry, whether you’re interested in exploring it or already have an established business. Knowing the market trends gives you a clear idea of what is appropriate for you to do and what is not. These trends are:

There is a huge emphasis on social commerce, which can bring a wide ocean of opportunities to grow.

Logistics companies are implementing technologies to tap into the B2C sector.

The demand for foreign products in Middle Eastern countries is increasing.

The omnichannel approach is still valid because consumers also prefer to buy offline as well.

Quick commerce is a trend that is steadily growing in the Middle East.

Top e-commerce sales channels to follow

Amazon: It is the Middle East’s largest online retailer, is present in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and other countries. Every month, the marketplace receives around 20 million visits.

Noon: This Middle Eastern native market is a cross-country marketplace. Over 15 million visits a month come from the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt, where it mostly operates.

Namshi.com: With two million visits every month, Namshi is an e-commerce portal selling clothes, accessories, and other products related to fashion.

Instashop: Supermarkets, pharmacies, pet stores, and other companies can be found on the most popular Middle Eastern online marketplace, Instashop, which has its headquarters in Dubai.

Tips to succeed in the Middle East

E-commerce has enormous potential in the Middle East, and if you react quickly to address the issues, you can have a first-mover advantage. To succeed in this market, try:

Partner with companies that add value to your business.

Understand government policies so that you get a green flag.

Choose quality logistics companies to deliver your products on time.

Localize your content, which means trying to communicate with consumers in their language, using local currency, using a local measurement system, etc.

Conclusion

Once you try to implement all these details in your business, you can strike at the heart of your consumers. However, before expanding or exploring this market, you need to ensure that you are ready. You will get a better understanding of the market when you do thorough research, get local knowledge, find solutions to challenges, and simplify your operations. With Omnis, you just need to focus on your sales, rest we can do it for you. To know how, contact us over the email to get into the endless possibilities of growth.

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airarabiamaroc · 2 years

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Air Arabia Maroc

1.About Air Arabia Maroc

Air Arabia (Maroc), which is a joint venture, is part of the Air Arabia Group. Casablanca's Mohamed V international airport is the location of this carrier, Morocco’s low-cost carrier (LCC). The airline began services to many European destinations on April 29, 2009. The airline is committed to providing comfortable, reliable and affordable air travel.

2. Reservations at Air Arabia Maroc

a. Air Arabia Maroc Booking Number

Classes

Economy Class

Economy class seats can be laid in a 3-by-3 layout. Each seat is 46cm wide with a pitch measuring 76cm. Large seats ensure plenty of legroom for everyone.

3. Air Arabia Maroc Facilities

Sky Cafe has a wide range of hot and cold options for passengers. Sky Mall is an onboard shop that offers passengers many shopping options. Sky Mall stocks a wide variety of gift items including jewellery and perfumes.

The airline offers inflight entertainment. The entertainment system offers a range of documentaries and films as well as TV shows. A magazine is also available in the cockpit for passengers who don’t want to watch any content.

4.Air Arabia Maroc Popular Destinations and Hub

It offers domestic and international travel. It is well-known for its European destinations. Rabat, Agadir, Tangier.

Hubs are the United Arab Emirates of Morocco and Egypt.

5.Air Arabia Maroc Check In and Boarding Pass

Air Arabia Maroc passengers have the option to check in online anytime before departure. Air Arabia Maroc allows passengers to print their boarding tickets and electronic tickets online. The flight's itinerary can be found by entering your Air Arabia Maroc ticket or confirmation number. Online check in for your Air Arabia Maroc flight is the best and fastest method to check in.

Passengers who fly on Air Arabia Maroc can print their boarding pass using their PNR numbers. Air Arabia Maroc has four steps that will allow you to print your ticket. You can print your e-ticket from the Air Arabia Maroc website. Next, you will need to complete the online check in. Contact Air Arabia Maroc customer services to request delivery of your boarding passes to your email address.

6.Air Arabia Maroc Policy

a.Baggage Policy & Fees

Arabia will only charge you for the baggage that you bring. The weight of the baggage you check can be selected when booking or modifying a flight. It is either 20-30 Kg or 40 Kg depending on how many pieces are allowed.

Air Arabia allows hand luggage up to 10 kg.

b. Pet Policies

Except for the situations noted below, animals cannot enter the cabin or the hold.

Falcons and containers can be delivered with food and beverages.

Pets, such as cats, dog and birds of air, can be brought aboard domestic flights at $125 each. A $200 fee is charged for any travel to the United States.

Pets must be transported in a pet carrier that is able to fit under the front seat. Air Arabia Maroc considers this carrier to be part of their carry-on luggage.

Air Arabia Maroc Carry On and Air Arabia Morocco Prohibited Items

c. Cancellation & Refund Policy

Air Arabia Maroc is a top airline carrier in Morocco. They offer a variety of domestic and international flights.

Air Arabia Maroc customer service can help you change your flight.

Cancellation within the first 24 hours Policy. This policy depends on both the country of origin, and the airline.

Air Arabia Maroc provides a 24-hour cancellation service that is specifically tailored to passengers' needs. Air Arabia Maroc offers more flexibility and other benefits to passengers who book flights.

Air Arabia Maroc gives passengers the ability to cancel their flights online. You can also request a refund through the online form on the Air Arabia Maroc site. No refunds will be given for cancelled flights within the applicable time period. Air Arabia Maroc will not issue refunds after the ticket expires.

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jordanianroyals · 3 years

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The plot against Jordan's King Abdullah

By David Hearst. 14 April 2021 08:15 UTC

Abdullah fell foul of the axis of Mohammed bin Salman and Benjamin Netanyahu after refusing to go along with the Trump plan to push West Bank Palestinians into Jordan

For once, just for once, US President Joe Biden got something right in the Middle East, and I say this conscious of his abysmal record in the region.

In accepting the intelligence he was passed by the Jordanians that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was up to his ears in a plot to destabilise the rule of King Abdullah, Biden brought the scheme to a premature halt. Biden did well to do so.

His statement that the US was behind Abdullah had immediate consequences for the other partner in this scheme, Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel.

While bin Salman was starving Jordan of funds (according to former Foreign Minister Marwan Muasher, the Saudis have not provided any direct bilateral assistance since 2014), Netanyahu was starving the kingdom of water.

This is water that Israel siphons off the River Jordan. Under past agreements, Israel has supplied Jordan with water, and when Jordan asks for an additional amount, Israel normally agrees without delay. Not this year: Netanyahu refused, allegedly in retaliation for an incident in which his helicopter was refused Jordanian airspace. He quickly changed his mind after a call from US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to his counterpart, Gabi Ashkenazi.

Had former US President Donald Trump still been in power, it is doubtful whether any of this would have happened.

Without Washington’s overt support, King Abdullah would now be in serious trouble: the victim of a two-pronged offensive from Saudi Arabia and Israel, his population seething with discontent, and his younger half-brother counting the days until he could take over.

The problem with Abdullah

But why were bin Salman and Netanyahu keen to put the skids under an ally like Abdullah?

Abdullah, a career soldier, is not exactly an opposition figure in the region. He of all people is not a Bashar al-Assad, Recep Tayyip Erdogan or Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Abdullah was fully signed up to the counter-revolution against the Arab Spring. Jordan joined the Saudi-led anti-Islamic State coalition, deployed aircraft to target the Houthis in Yemen, and withdrew its ambassador from Iran after the Saudi embassy in Tehran and consul in Mashhad were sacked and Saudi Arabia consequently cut diplomatic relations.

He attended the informal summit on a yacht in the Red Sea, convened to organise the fight against the influence of Turkey and Iran in the Middle East. That was in late 2015.

In January 2016, Abdullah told US congressmen in a private briefing that Turkey was exporting terrorists to Syria, a statement he denied making afterwards. But the remarks were documented in a Jordanian foreign ministry readout passed to MEE.

Jordan’s special forces trained men that Libyan general Khalifa Haftar used in his failed attempt to take Tripoli. This was the pet project of the UAE.

Abdullah also agreed with the Saudis and Emiratis on a plan to replace Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas with Mohammed Dahlan, the Emirati- and Israeli-preferred choice of successor.

Why then, should this stalwart of the cause now be considered by his Arab allies, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, an inconvenience that needs to be dealt with?

Insufficiently loyal

The answer partly lies in the psychology of bin Salman. It is not good enough to be partially signed up to his agenda. As far as he is concerned, you are either in or out.

Under Abdullah, Jordan never quite managed to be fully in. As one former Jordanian government minister told me: “Politically, Mohammed bin Salman and his father were never very close to the Hashemites. King Salman does not have any affinity to the Hashemites that his other brothers might have had. So on the political front, there is no affinity, no empathy.

“But there is also a feeling [in Riyadh] that Jordan and others should be with us or against us. So we were not completely with them on Iran. We were not completely with them on Qatar. We were not completely with them on Syria. We did what we could and I don’t think we should have gone further, but to them, that was not enough.”

Abdullah’s equivocation certainly was not enough for the intended centrepiece of the new era, Saudi Arabia's normalisation of relations with Israel.

Here, Jordan would have been directly involved and King Abdullah was having none of it. Had he gone along with the Trump plan, his kingdom - a careful balance between Jordanians and Palestinians - would have been in a state of insurrection.

In addition, Abdullah could not escape the fact that he was a Hashemite, whose legitimacy stems in part from Jordan’s role as custodian of Al-Aqsa Mosque and the holy sites in Jerusalem. This, too, was being threatened by the Al Sauds.

The importance of Aqaba

But the plan itself was regarded by both bin Salman and Netanyahu as too big to stop. I personalise this, because in both Saudi Arabia and Israel, there are experienced foreign policy and intelligence hands who appreciate how quickly this plan would have destabilised Jordan and Israel’s vulnerable eastern border.

The plan has been years in the preparation and the subject of clandestine meetings between the Saudi prince and the Israeli leader. At the centre of it lies Jordan’s sole access to the Red Sea, the strategic port of Aqaba.

The two cities of Aqaba and Ma’an were part of the kingdom of Hejaz from 1916 to 1925. In May 1925, Ibn Saud surrendered Aqaba and Ma’an and they became part of the British Emirate of Transjordan.

It would be another 40 years before the two independent countries would agree on a Jordan-Saudi border. Jordan got 19 kilometres of coastline on the Gulf of Aqaba and 6,000 square kilometres inland, while Saudi Arabia got 7,000 square kilometres of land.

For the new kid on the block, bin Salman, a prince who was always sensitive about his legitimacy, reclaiming Saudi influence over Aqaba in a big trade deal with Israel would be a big part of his claim to restoring Saudi dominance over its hinterland.

And the trade with Israel would be big. Bin Salman is spending $500bn constructing the city of Neom, which is eventually supposed to straddle Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt. Sitting at the mouth of the Gulf of Aqaba, the Jordanian port would be firmly in Saudi sights.

This is where Bassem Awadallah, the former chief of Jordan's royal court, comes in. Two years before he definitively broke with King Abdullah, and while he was still Jordan’s envoy to Riyadh, Awadallah negotiated the launch of something called the Saudi-Jordanian Coordination Council, a vehicle that Jordanian officials at the time said would “unblock billions of dollars” for the cash-starved Hashemite kingdom.

Awadallah promised that the council would invest billions of Saudi dollars in Jordan’s leading economic sectors, focusing on the Aqaba Special Economic Zone.

Awadallah was also close to the crown prince of Abu Dhabi, Mohammed bin Zayed, who had his own agenda in Jordan. He wanted to ensure that the Muslim Brotherhood and the forces of political Islam were permanently eradicated from the country, something Abdullah has refused to do, although he is no supporter.

The money, of course, never materialised. Saudi support for the kingdom diminished to a trickle, and according to an informed source, Muasher, Saudi funds stopped almost completely after 2014.

The price for turning on the tap of Saudi finance was too high for Abdullah to pay. It was total subservience to Riyadh. Under this plan, Jordan would have become a satellite of Riyadh, much as Bahrain has become.

Netanyahu had his own sub-agenda in the huge trade that would flow from Neom once Saudi Arabia had formally recognised Israel.

A confirmed enemy of the Oslo plan to set up a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza, Netanyahu and the Israeli right have always eyed annexation of Area C and the Jordan Valley, which comprises 60 percent of the West Bank. Under this new Nakba, the Palestinians living there, denied Israeli citizenship, would be slowly forced to move to Jordan. This could only happen under a Saudi-oriented plan, in which Jordanian workers could travel freely and work in Saudi Arabia. As it is, remittances from the Jordanian workforce in Saudi Arabia are an economic lifeblood to the bankrupt kingdom.

The money pouring into Jordan, accompanied by an essentially stateless workforce of Jordanians and Palestinians, would finally put to bed grandiose visions of a Palestinian state, and with it the two-state solution. On this, Netanyahu and bin Salman are as one: treat them as a mobile workforce, not citizens of a future state.

Hussein's favoured son

That Prince Hamzah should be seen as the means by which Jordan is enlisted to this plan represents the final irony of this bizarre tale.

If the Hashemite blood runs deep in any veins, it is surely in his. He was King Hussein’s favoured son. In a letter sent to his brother Prince Hassan in 1999, King Hussein wrote: “Hamzeh, may God give him long life, has been envied since childhood because he was close to me, and because he wanted to know all matters large and small, and all details of the history of his family. He wanted to know about the struggle of his brothers and of his countrymen. I have been touched by his devotion to his country and by his integrity and magnanimity as he stayed beside me, not moving unless I forced him from time to time to carry out some duty on occasions that did not exceed the fingers on one hand.”

Abdullah broke the agreement he made with his father on his death bed when he replaced his half-brother with his son, Hussein, as crown prince in 2004.

But if Hashemite pride in and knowledge of Jordan’s history runs deep in Hamzah, he of all princes would have soon realised the cost to Jordan of accepting bin Salman’s billions and Netanyahu’s tacit encouragement, just as his father did.

Hamzah’s friends ardently dispute they are part of this plot and downplay connections with Awadallah. Hamzah only owns up to one thing: that he is immensely concerned at how low Jordan has fallen under years of misrule. In this, Hamzah is 100 percent right.

It is clear what has to happen now. King Abdullah should finally see that he must completely overhaul the Jordanian political system, by calling for free and fair elections and abiding by their result. Only that will unite the country around him.

This is what King Hussein did when he faced challenge and revolt by Jordanian tribes in the south of the kingdom; in 1989, Hussein overhauled the political system and held the freest elections in the history of the kingdom.

The government that emerged from this process led the country safely out of one of the most difficult moments for Jordan: Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait and the subsequent Gulf War.

The real villains

Biden, meanwhile, should realise that letting bin Salman get away with the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi has a cost.

Bin Salman did not learn anything from the episode and carried on in exactly the same way, reckless and swift, against an Arab neighbour and ally, with potentially disastrous consequences.

The new foreign policy establishment in Washington should wean itself off the notion that US allies are its friends. It should learn once and for all that the active destabilisers of the Middle East are not the cartoon villains of Iran and Turkey.

Rather, they are the closest US allies, where US forces and military technology are either based, or as in the case of Israel, inextricably intertwined: Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Israel.

Jordan, the classic buffer state, is a case in point.

The views expressed in this article belong to the author and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Middle East Eye.

David Hearst is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Middle East Eye. He is a commentator and speaker on the region and analyst on Saudi Arabia. He was The Guardian's foreign leader writer, and was correspondent in Russia, Europe, and Belfast. He joined the Guardian from The Scotsman, where he was education correspondent.

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flowerfan2 · 4 years

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To The Lovers

Patrick/David, 1900 words, A03

Summary: Patrick’s hopes for a romantic reunion when David returns from Elm Valley don’t go exactly as planned. S05e04 coda.

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Patrick taps his fingers on his phone and tries to make himself wait a little bit longer before texting David. He doesn’t want David to know how weird the past twenty-four hours have been for him.

It’s not as if he doesn’t have anyone else he could hang out with. It’s just that he’d rather be with David.

After work yesterday he tried to keep busy getting ready for his move, but packing his clothes into two suitcases didn’t take long, and most of his stuff was already in boxes in the back of his car or Ray’s basement. He didn’t bring a lot with him when he took off for Schitt’s Creek, and the most important part of what he found isn’t something that needs to be packed.

Finally he caves, and sends a text to David. He composes it carefully, for full effect.

I got some furniture for the new place. He attaches a photo of a futon with a mustard yellow and bright orange patterned cover.

It doesn’t take long for David to respond.

I thought we agreed I was responsible for the creative side of things? And where did you find that hideous monstrosity?

Jocelyn’s neighbor had a yard sale. I got a dining set, too. He attaches another photo. He’s particularly proud of this one, he spent a long time searching online to find an image of chairs this rickety.

I am 80% sure that you’re kidding, but on the off chance that you’re not, I just googled the town’s policy on disposing of large items and I can schedule a pickup for Thursday. Any other unfortunate purchases I should add to the list?

Patrick bites his lip. It’s not even noon, but he can’t bring himself to care. He just wants to see David. Why don’t you come over and find out?

Now?

Patrick expected a little more enthusiasm, but texting is weird that way. It’s probably nothing. David just drove back from Elm Valley this morning, maybe he’s not in the mood to hang out. Yeah. You can help me organize my new step-in closet.

While ordinarily I would jump at the chance, I’m not sure I’m up for it.

The flutter in Patrick’s stomach is growing. What’s wrong?

I wouldn’t be very good company. I drank a rather unfortunate amount last night.

Patrick lets out a long breath and forces himself to unclench his jaw. It’s nothing to get worried about. David hasn’t thrown him over for someone he met at karaoke the night before. Patrick just needs to reset his expectations.

Okay, I totally get it. But if you change your mind and want to escape your family and spend the afternoon in a quiet, drama-free and practically empty apartment, let me know.

David’s almost instantaneous reply makes him the tiniest bit giddy. I changed my mind.

An hour later, after Patrick runs a few quick errands, he picks David up at the motel and drives him back to the new apartment. David looks cozy in his thick black sweatshirt and boots, although the way he grimaces at every loud noise indicates just how unhappy he is with the state of the world.

David walks into the apartment and stops in his tracks, spinning around to look at Patrick. “You have furniture,” he says, waving his hands.

“Yup.” Patrick hadn’t wanted to wait to get some essentials, primarily a bed and a sofa.

“And it’s not awful.”

“Glad you approve. You actually picked out the sofa.”

David walks around it. “I did?”

Patrick laughs. “More or less. About a month ago, when we were watching one of those home shows, you said you liked it. It’s not exactly the same, but-”

David sits down on the couch, running his fingers over the textured gray fabric. “How did you remember that?”

Patrick shrugs. “I just did.”

“We need a throw, maybe a brighter color block to work off the neutral of the sofa. And a narrow coffee table, and at least one more chair.”

“And I thought maybe an area rug by the bed?” Patrick sits down next to David. “It’s going to be nice, right?”

David frowns at Patrick, as if Patrick couldn’t possibly be questioning David’s ability to turn this bland space into an aesthetically pleasing environment. “Of course it’s going to be nice.”

Patrick is glad one of them is sure about it. He wants David to like this place, especially after the whole mix-up about whether they were going to move in together. He had actually been thinking they might christen it today, so to speak, but given David’s hangover, that’s probably not going to happen. Instead, it’s time to put plan B into action.

“How are you feeling? I’ve got ibuprofen, and apple juice.”

David’s face does that surprised/embarrassed thing, where his dimples sort of pop in and out as if they’re afraid to commit either way. “I love apple juice.”

“I know.” Patrick gets up and moves to the kitchen to unpack the groceries. He pours David a glass of juice and brings it over, together with the bottle of ibuprofen.

David dutifully takes the pills and drinks down the juice.

“Why don’t you get into bed?” Patrick asks. “Close your eyes for a while.”

David bites his lip. “That’s not very sociable.”

“I’ll come with you. I’ll bring my laptop and go over some work.”

“You sure?”

In response, Patrick stands up and holds out his hand. David smiles at him, lips pressed together, and follows him to the bed.

“This headboard is nice,” David says, looking it over. “But we should really paint the wall. A soft green to go with the gray. Fern, or willow.”

“Is willow green?”

David glares at him. “Some willows are green.”

“Okay.”

David sits on the bed and takes off his boots, and then pulls off his black sweatshirt. He’s got a plain white t-shirt underneath, and Patrick can’t hide the smile that crosses his face when he sees it – it’s one of his own, just a pedestrian Hanes from a three-pack he bought at a department store.

Patrick climbs up on the bed and slings his arms around David. “I missed you.”

David freezes just for a moment, as if he’s afraid he’s being teased. “Really?” he asks softly.

“Yeah. Silly, right?”

Patrick feels exposed, but David just looks right into his eyes and shakes his head, giving him a softly twisted smile. “No. It’s not silly.” They share a besotted moment, and then David sighs. “The whole trip was ridiculous. I didn’t even get to see the cherry blossoms.”

“You told me,” Patrick says. He’s got a string of texts a mile long from David, all about how Stevie kidnapped him just so she could see Emir again. “I checked, and they should still be blooming next weekend, if you want to go. We could get Stevie to work the store for a few hours.”

“You’d come with me?” David asks, pulling back to look at him.

“Of course. Looking at the cherry blossoms by yourself would be creepy.” Patrick smirks at David, who rolls his eyes, and then offers his face to Patrick for a kiss. Patrick holds David’s jaw with his hands as he kisses him, rubbing his thumb over his stubble. But they’ve hardly even gotten into it when David groans and flops back on the bed.

“I’m sorry, I feel like crap,” David says, throwing his arm over his eyes. “Did I mention I had fourteen polar bear shots?”

“You did. And apparently there was quite a bit of karaoke. Stevie was impressed.”

“Ugh, she was not. She didn’t even stay when I offered to sing to her and her loverboy.”

“Huh, how strange.”

David moves his arm off of his face and squints at Patrick. “I don’t suppose your recent shopping spree included blackout curtains?” David sounds truly miserable, and Patrick’s heart goes out to him.

“No, I’m afraid not. I figured I needed your input on textiles.” Patrick lies down next to David and gently sets his hand on his stomach, rubbing gently.

“Ugh,” David moans. “This is awful. I’m never drinking again.”

“I know, baby,” Patrick soothes. “Just sleep for a while, you’ll feel better.” He sits up and tugs at the duvet until it’s covering them both, and then lies down next to David, tentatively holding out his arm. “Come here?”

“Mmm, yes.” David nestles up against him, his face pressed into the space between Patrick’s neck and shoulder, arm around Patrick’s waist and knee curled up over his thigh. Instant octopus.

Patrick pets David’s head, and tentatively massages his temples. “That feels good,” David breathes out. “Keep going.” David doesn’t seem in the least concerned about how Patrick is messing up his hair, just melting against his body and sighing in relief.

Apparently a hungover David is a cuddly David. Patrick doesn’t mind in the least. He likes taking care of David. He’s not sure many people have bothered to look out for him. And as Patrick sits there watching David’s face relax and his eyelashes flutter against his cheeks, he tries not to think too hard about concepts like in sickness and in health.

When David drifts off to sleep, Patrick realizes the flaw in his plan to get some work done, since he neglected to bring his laptop to bed. He digs his phone out of his pocket, careful not to jostle David, and pages through emails one-handed for a few minutes. But David is a warm, inviting weight next to him, and suddenly a mid-afternoon nap sounds like the perfect thing.

He slides down next to his boyfriend, wishing he had thought to take off his sweater, and snuggles in close. His body molds itself to David’s, and David sighs in his sleep, shifting to let Patrick rest his head on David’s shoulder.

They haven’t spent that many nights together, all told, but it doesn’t seem to matter. Even from the beginning, Patrick has felt safe in David’s arms. It’s like nothing he’s ever experienced before; they fit together perfectly. It feels right. Patrick brushes his lips across David’s collarbone and closes his eyes.

He blinks into awareness, coming slowly out of a dream about kissing David under the cherry blossoms. David is still conked out. Patrick shifts, freeing his arm which has fallen asleep, trapped underneath David’s head. David snuffles and flops over, tucking himself against Patrick’s side.

In a little while Patrick will get up and start thinking about dinner, but for now he’s more than content to snuggle with David in his new bed, in his new life, one that is more perfect than he could ever have imagined. Later he’ll give David the little brown envelope that’s sitting on his kitchen counter. It’s just a key, but he hopes David will understand that it’s more than that. Patrick thinks he will.

#Schitt's Creek #Patrick Brewer #David Rose #Schitt's Creek fic #S05e04

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maakbaaby-blog · 6 years

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Therapeutic Robots Market Review | Rise in Demand, Opportunities, Types, Future Analysis by 2029

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Global Bioplastics (Bio-plastics,Bio plastics) Market 2021-2026 Demand and Insights Analysis Report

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7 Global Bioplastics (Bio-plastics,Bio plastics) Manufacturers Profiles/Analysis

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Taurine Market Size, Share, Status and Future Forecasts to 2027 | Fuchi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Kyowa Hakko Bio Co., Ltd., Honjo Chemical, etc.

Taurine is a type of amino acid and is found in large amounts in the heart, retina, brain, and blood cells called platelets. The most common food sources of Taurine are meat and fish. It is essential for building protein blocks in the body. Taurine is crucial for the growth of infants as well as those who are at risk of various diseases. Taurine is fed to children by the addition of milk and is also fed to people on life supports and is tube-fed. The chemical has life-saving potential for most patients. The acid's supplements are also used in the treatment of liver disease, heart failure, high blood pressure, as well as cystic fibrosis. The acid is applicable in the treatment of epilepsy, alcoholism, ADHD, eye problems, autism, and diabetes.

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Hangzhou FST Pharmaceutical Co Ltd., Tycoon Company Limited, Jiangsu Yuanyang Pharmaceutical Co Ltd., Jiangyin Huachang Food Additive Co Ltd., Shayang Tianyi Medicine Industry Co Ltd., Ajinomoto Co., Inc., Fuchi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Kyowa Hakko Bio Co., Ltd., Honjo Chemical, and Grand Pharma, among others.

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Rising awareness of the latest technologies

Increasing number of product launches

Drivers:

Increasing demand for Taurine in emerging industries

Rapid Urbanization Worldwide

Opportunities:

Growing demand for Taurine in newer industries

Increasing Dependency on Taurine for diverse applications

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Form Outlook (Revenue, USD Million; Volume, Kilo Tons; 2016-2027)

Tablets/Capsules

Syrup

Powder

Application Outlook (Revenue, USD Million; Volume, Kilo Tons; 2016-2027)

Healthcare products

Pet Food

Beverages

Others

Grade Outlook (Revenue, USD Million; Volume, Kilo Tons; 2016-2027)

Food Grade

Pharmaceutical Grade

Source Outlook (Revenue, USD Million; Volume, Kilo Tons; 2016-2027)

Meat

Fish

Dairy

Regions mapped in the study: North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America, Middle East & Africa

Countries included: United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, South Africa, Nigeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Germany, United Kingdom (UK), the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Austria, Turkey, Russia, France, Poland, Israel, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, China, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, India, Australia, and New Zealand.

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Taurine Market Summary

Financial Standing of the Leading Companies in the Market

Taurine Market Competitive Assessment

Taurine Market Analysis by Product

Taurine Market Analysis by Application

Value Chain, Downstream Buyers, Raw Material Sourcing Strategy

Vendor Landscape, Strategic Initiative

Factors Influencing Market Growth

Market Forecast

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Chapter 1: Executive Summary

Chapter 2: Abbreviation and Acronyms

Chapter 3: Preface

3.1 Research Scope

3.2 Research Methodology

3.2.1 Primary Sources

3.2.2 Secondary Sources

3.2.3 Assumptions

Chapter 4: Market Landscape

4.1 Market Overview

4.2 Classification/Types

4.3 Application/End Users

Chapter 5: Market Trend Analysis

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Drivers

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Anti-Taste

During my project I’ve often described my work as being anti-taste. Why? Honestly, I saw it in one of my assessment feedback tutorials and like it enough to adopt, something about it ringing true to me and sounding like a highfalutin professional artist phrase or some such.

My only problem is I struggle to understand the exact definition of ‘taste’, let alone how to be opposed to it. For this is why I’m researching, to see the meanings of taste, it’s societal standings, its spectrum of good/bad, and its relevance to my art practice. In my ignorance I often associate taste with humour, where jokes are often categorised into good taste or bad taste, but when jokes are highlighted for their taste its often done by calling out those that are bad taste. A joke in bad taste is recognised as inappropriate, mean-spirited, ‘punching down’ ethos or otherwise being cheap, lacking substance or comedic weight. Naturally, this leads me to believe that good taste jokes are the opposite end, they are appropriate, good-hearted, they punch up, they are rich, and substantial. But I’m not talking about comedy, we’re talking about the far less serious artworld.

From dictionaries we can define the taste I want to tackle as ‘a person's tendency to like or be interested in something’, ‘the ability to discern what is of good quality or of a high aesthetic standard’, and conformity or failure to conform with generally held views concerning what is offensive or acceptable’. This information is certainly contradictory as it displays taste as being individual and social, both dependent on singular intake and expression but also a cumulative collection that dictates the wider society and culture. This is ‘good taste’, a collection of agreements and reinforcement that certain aesthetical aspects are pleasing while others are not.

So aesthetically what is good taste? It’s mainly contextualized as a broadly defined standard of beauty, a set of angles, tones, colours, and lines that, for some reason, appeals to us and please our minds Philosophers have discussed aesthetics for centuries, from the ancient Greeks who saw aesthetics as purity and beauty, that which pleases the emotional side of a person. However, into the modern era thinkers began recognising pre-deemed culture as effecting sociology, the decided values and traditions built around us and our personal interpretations of those influence us and our taste. German philosopher Immanuel Kant recognised this and formulated in his Critique of Judgement a more inclusive approach to aesthetics, seeing that there exists both a personal taste as well as an objective beauty, which he specifies is empirically impossible to define.

This presumes that there is a cultural or societal consensus on taste, a lofty standard that all visual creations are to be judged by. Kant says this faux-consensus enables the judgement of taste, essentially a template which others are judged upon and that this base ‘good taste’, and that this base taste is actually good for aesthetics, as it gives us freedom to appreciate other aesthetic pursuits.

If good taste is less of a guideline for artistic elements and more of a base to judge art upon, then what is or makes bad taste? Bad taste is often conflated with vulgarity, a lack of sophistication and emphasis on the crass, or it is bombast, all style and no substance, or kitsch, a mass-produced item lacking artistic merit. Much like good taste, it is difficult to describe wholly as there exists no definite indicator of it, only examples. A quick example would be to compare a rustic cottage to a busy city street, the cottage is minimal, quaint, and elicits a feeling of comfort, it would be classed as good taste whereas the city street is overbearing, monolithic, and might feel dangerous, thus bad taste. However, this speaks only to aesthetics, the emotional aspects of each example are as equally important. While a cottage is secured it is also isolated and potentially boring, whereas a city street is less secure but rife with a humanistic presence and opportunity. Surface level they might seem either flawless or flawed entirely but when observing them removed from labels ‘good’ and ‘bad’ we can see each having negatives and positives. In that sense taste is just more dichotomising rhetoric, boiling down complex and multi-dimensional examples as being one or the other, good or bad.

There’s also an argument to be made on the intersection between class and taste. Historically, good taste has been decided by the ruling classes, those in power who are either rich or powerful enough to appreciate aesthetical status. For example, a field peasant is not concerned with the colour of their tunic as its strictly utilitarian, it keeps him warm, whereas a king who is able to afford bespoke clothing can consider its aesthetical importance. Eventually this became a way to separate oneself from the working classes, by focusing on aesthetical abundance it created a clear divide that both protected the ruling class as sophisticated and oppressed the working class as vulgar. While attitudes have shifted slightly more toward equality, elements of classist taste are still prevalent in society, for example we still appreciate colours for their ‘richness’ like royal purple and burgundy, colours which were reserved and used by those in power. It’s why we see opera as classy and sophisticated, an aspirational event of glamour, even though the average J. Doe would probably get little out of watching people sing in foreign languages for hours.

However, like I said, attitudes have shifted away from good taste as wealthy maximalism, which we now recognise as gawdy and shallow. The Palace of Versailles, home of the French monarchy, is famous for its baroque interiors laden with gold and mirrors but is not seen as desirable to the common person, instead it’s a relic of a bygone time, an example of the hubristic decadence of funny kings.

But perhaps the class effect on taste hasn’t dissipated but has simply shifted from bawdy maximalism to quiet minimalism. Designer homes show this, with their minimalist approach to exterior and interior, white walls, slender furniture, hidden storage, espoused as the environment of the intellectual and the reservedly powerful. It may be appreciated by many for its cool, pleasing design but how many in their lifetime will be able to afford a Kevin-McCloud-approved white countryside cube? Despite being a stylistic and theoretical response to baroque styles, minimalism is held with similar unreachable regard as its ostentatious counterpart.

Not everyone has adopted minimalism as the new ‘good taste’, as the garish design policy of the western aristocracy still lives on through small bubbles. Take for example the home décor of Russian celebrities laden with rich materials and animal prints, or the Dubai attitude of excess having people drive Lamborghinis with pet cheetahs in the side seat, or look at the Manhattan penthouse of the current US president shining with marble and gold. The gawdy still exists in the contemporary era. The reasoning for this is theorized as compensation for a past trauma or inadequacy. For example, the recent adoption of baroque styles by the Russian elite is maybe making up for the decades of the culturally deficient brutalist and sickeningly grey Soviet design. The excess of Emirate nobles is perhaps a statement response to western imperialism that effected their past, a supposedly deserved oil-funded ‘fuck you’ to the powers that were. And I’ll let you decide whatever Donald is compensating for.

This take on taste is quite interesting to me. For long I had thought of taste as a hidden order unconsciously decided and enforced by wider society, and that individual taste exists but only plays into and is ultimately trumped by the societal taste, but perhaps taste is less of a metre on which we measure things but more of an aspirational insecurity for which we try to atone for. Often I’ve looked at an artists work and thought ‘Wow that’s great… I wish I did that’, I feel like it’s par for the course of all artists, it can hearten us to resolve our work or just as easily depress us into a state of creative dearth. Our individual parameters of taste are a reflection of what we lack and aspire to be, it is a cathartic response to ourselves.

So then what does it mean to be anti-taste? The ‘anti-‘ implies rejection, but a rejection of what? Is it a rejection of society’s understanding of a standard good taste, so that individual taste is supreme to the individual? A Marxist denouncement of taste as aesthetical class oppression? Or is it a more personal dismantling of insecurity and a want to create without the constraint of doubt? If there’s one thing I’ve noted in my research it is that binary thinking is ultimately reductive, sorting, labelling, and pigeonholing such a vast term is equivalent to intellectual bondage and only serves to maintain the confusing aspects of the term.

I see anti-taste as an adoption of deliberately unseemly aesthetics, what would be bad taste, as simply that, a demonstration of perceived bad taste. By adopting the unaesthetically pleasing I attempt to demonstrate the key foundation of taste, that ultimately it is subjective opinion and subject to scrutiny. Hopefully my denouncement of taste is not mistaken for simply being in bad taste, but then again perhaps that’s what I want. I suppose it ties into my other themes of self-destruction as not many artists seek to make deliberately bad work, a representation of worse as better.

Egotist, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.

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Hong Kong Air Cargo Renews IOSA Registration

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Why United Airlines has got into a flap over a peacock

FEDERAL guidelines in America stipulate that airlines must allow passengers with disabilities to bring support animals onto flights. The rules were originally designed with guide dogs for the blind and the like in mind. Yet in recent years the rules have allowed a host of unusual and exotic animals to board planes for their owners’ emotional wellbeing.

Last weekend United Airlines, America’s third-largest carrier, drew the line at a peacock. A woman arrived at Newark International Airport and attempted to board her flight with the large bird, which she claimed was an emotional-support animal. The Jet Set, a travel show, captured images of the bird as it was denied boarding (see picture). The airline told the Washington Post that the peacock “did not meet guidelines for a number of reasons, including its weight and size” and that “we explained this to the customer on three separate occasions before they arrived at the airport.”

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Service animals, including emotional-support animals, can generally fly for free. As a result airlines are worrying that people are avoiding paying to transport their pets by claiming they serve a therapeutic role. According to Delta Air Lines, America’s second largest carrier, the number of comfort and service animals on its planes has increased by 150% since 2015 (albeit from a low base). The animals do not always behave. Delta reports an 84% increase since 2016 in incidents involving poorly-trained pets that bite passengers or crew members, urinate or defecate on them, or otherwise cause a scene. Delta is now adopting stricter rules for emotional-support animals, requiring a doctor’s note, health and vaccination records, and a signed confirmation that the animal can behave on a flight. The airline will not allow certain kinds of animals, including snakes, goats, reptiles, amphibians, beasts with horns, and anything that emits an odour (except humans).

Some people have argued against these restrictions. There are certainly travellers who benefit from the company of a support animal. But there is no question that airlines’ permissiveness has been abused in some cases, or that innocent passengers sometimes pay a brutal price for the misbehaviour of their furry or feathered neighbours. It is very likely that other airlines in America will follow Delta’s lead in laying out restrictions.

Another solution would be to sell tickets for well-behaved pets to travel in the cabin, meaning that nervous owners would not be separated from their companions when travelling. The Gulf carriers—the arch-rival of the big three in America—have much more flexible policies for some birds. Emirates of Dubai, Etihad of Abu Dhabi and Qatar Airways all allow falcons in the main cabin on at least some of their flights, as falconry is a popular sport among the wealthy in the region. Extending such a policy to other caged birds would not be a feather-brained idea.

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Crowdfunding Terrorism Through Islamic Halal Food Certifications

Source: Crowdfunding Terrorism Through Halal Certifications

Although it is well known that the Wahhabist governments, royal families, and top businesses of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain directly finance jihadist terrorists in Syria, Iraq, and countries around the world, many consumers are unaware that percentages of their purchases of Muslim «halal» (imam-certified) food products eventually end up in the hands of jihadist organizations. Halal refers to any food product that can be eaten by observant Muslims. Anything other than halal is «haram» and prohibited for Muslims. Haram includes pork, blood, or meat from approved animals but which have been strangled or slaughtered with blunt knives.

Food and drink producers pay Muslim halal certifiers fees to certify their products as halal. According to Australian One Nation party leader Pauline Hanson and others, certain Muslim halal certification agencies use profits from certification fees to fund terrorist attacks around the world. During an election campaign in Queensland in 2015, Hanson told reporters: «ASIO [Australian Security Intelligence Organization] has picked up that this money has been funded through an organization to fund Syria and the terrorism there». ASIO, all too quickly, denied the charge.

Even if a small percentage of imams who certify products as being halal are passing the profits on to terrorist organizations, it potentially represents a large amount of money. Malaysian studies have valued the worldwide halal food industry as between $600 billion to $2.1 trillion. Halal certifications are usually paid by food companies at set annual rates. Considering all the firms worldwide that pay such fees to imam halal certifiers, this amounts to hundreds of millions of dollars. Some halal certifiers have become quite wealthy from the halal certification scheme. Halal certifiers have also been quite secretive about who receives donations, with some admitting only that the funds go to Islamic madrassa schools and mosques. However, many of these madrassas and mosques are linked to the Wahhabis.

Some Muslims have opined that halal certification is nothing more than a money-making scam, with the most ridiculous aspect being halal certification for dog food. It is ironic that the same imams who declare dogs to be «unclean» animals also willingly charge pet food manufacturers to certify food for the «unclean» beasts to be halal. Other Muslims have conceded that the halal certification scheme has become as financially corrupt as segments of the Jewish kosher product certification system. South African Muslim authorities have pointed out, to the dismay of the halal certification industry, that the Koran forbids imams from charging money to certify food as halal. Yet, the practice continues with fees charged for halal «stamps» on food, in some cases, indirectly propping up various jihadist groups with large sums of ready cash.

Indonesia, which is experiencing rapid «Wahhabisation» in what has historically been a moderate majority Islamic nation, places ultimate authority for halal certification with the Indonesian Council of Ulama (MUI). In turn, MUI authorizes halal certifiers in 23 other nations. The Indonesian government, which is rapidly falling under the influence of radical Wahhabist clerics internally and from abroad, intends to require all food sold in Indonesia to be halal. This move will further increase halal certification profits for MUI and, hence, several radical imams in Indonesia and other countries.

The Wahhabist-promoting Muslim World League (MWL), funded by the Saudi government and headquartered in Mecca, certifies as halal all food products exported to Saudi Arabia. The MWL requires halal certification to be carried out by imams pre-certified in the countries-of-origin, which means that companies exporting to Saudi Arabia are paying into the coffers of imams approved by the Wahhabists.

A large amount of halal certification revenues come from fast-food chains that have been pressured into paying the fees to sell halal products. In 2010, the second-largest French fast food chain, Quick, began serving halal-only food in 22 of its restaurants in France. The decision resulted in an outrage across France. Members of the French political left and right criticized the move by claiming that halal-only Quick restaurants would quickly become safe hangouts for Muslim gangs, including jihadists. Few Fench realized that Quick also paid huge certification fees to sell halal food. In 2015, the American chain Burger King bought Quick and announced that it was not only continuing Quick’s halal policy but eliminating all pork and bacon products from its 509 restaurants across France, Belgium, and Luxembourg.

McDonald’s Malaysia requires all McDonald’s in peninsular west Malaysia to allow only halal birthday cakes into its restaurants. The move was in concert with McDonald’s policy, as was the case with Quick and Burger King in France, of offering only halal menus to customers.

The government of majority non-Muslim Sarawak in east Malaysia saw this move by McDonald’s as a «halal camel» with its nose under the tent in Sarawak. The government of Chief Minister Adenan Satem criticized the move on the peninsula as an affront to «Sarawak’s multi-cultural and religious society.» A spokesman for the chief minister, Michael Tiang, told the Borneo Post, «If McDonald’s Malaysia were to implement the same policy at its fast food outlets in Sarawak, I believe that non-Muslim consumers might resort to boycotting the fast food chain.» In June 2016, McDonald’s Malaysia was accused of bowing to Muslim halal extremist pressure by discontinuing its «Quarter Pounder with Cheese» menu offering.

Tiang, acutely aware that Wahhabists are trying to proselytize among the state’s non-Muslim population, particularly school-age youth, warned the Malaysian government, the Wahhabis, and McDonald’s that, «In order to preserve such harmony, the state government has been very merciless towards extremists, religious bigots, and racists by denying their entry to the state.» McDonald’s replied to the Sarawak government’s and public’s outrage by revealing the requirement for certified halal cakes in its outlets in peninsular Malaysia came from the Kuala Lumpur-based Islamic Development Department (JAKIM) for halal certification, an entity linked to the Wahhabists. JAKIM has been at the center of programs aimed to spread Wahhabist Islam throughout the eastern Malaysian states of Sarawak and Sabah.

JAKIM is on record sympathizing with Malaysians who joined the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) to fight in a jihad against what were perceived as enemies of Islam. JAKIM stated that Malaysian Muslim joined ISIL out of a sense of «courtesy» and «sympathy» after witnessing the suffering of other Muslims around the world.

The Western corporate media has been entirely sympathetic to the halal certifiers and their scam industry that lines the pockets of militant jihadists. Not only was Australia’s Hanson roundly condemned by the Australian government and media but one of her anti-halal colleagues, Kirralie Smith from New South Wales, was sued by Australia’s leading halal certifier for defamation. The halal industry, backed by the Saudis and Emiratis, is vicious against its critics. When South Australia’s Fleurieu Milk and Yoghurt Company decided to no longer pay its $1000 halal fee, Emirates airlines dropped its $50,000 a year contract with the firm to supply yogurt for its flights from Australia. The company said the loss in business was not worth the public perception that its fees might be used to support terrorism.

With the established links between halal certifiers and Wahhabist jihadists around the world becoming widely known, the public is growing tired of placating Islamic scam artists who have not only discovered a way to get rich but also to line the pockets of jihadists in the process.

We’ve posted on the Islamic halal food scam for years, and speaking of sympathetic Western media, some long-time reader’s may recall Creeping Sharia was even mentioned/mocked on the Colbert Report comedy show for even mentioning halal food.

Watch the full video here.

More importantly, watch this Video explaining the halal food racket.

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