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What a peculiar thing a bowler hat is. How can something so perfectly ordinary stand for so much? It started out in a perfectly normal way. The younger son of the Earl of Leicester, Edward Coke, decided the gamekeepers on the family estate, Holkham Hall in Norfolk, needed a hat that didn t get knocked off by low branches as they did their rounds. So in 1849 he went to London s venerable hat making firm, Lock & Co, who ve been making hats since 1676, and set them the challenge. While the hat is properly called a Coke hat, the man who actually designed it was called Thomas Bowler, hence the bowler hat. What he created was a black felt hat with a hard, high dome and narrow brim. When Coke came to collect it, he checked its robustness by stamping on it, and thankfully it passed the test.
Logistics can be a low margin sector. Even before a sniff of Covid & Brexit, the combined might of the top 100 logistics companies were reporting only 2.22% pre-tax profit, rising to 2.74% if you looked at the top 10. I wonder if, in Dragon’s Den, Touker Suleyman would consider it worth getting out of bed.
Depending on what part of the industry you’re in, your cost and service considerations will be different: dedicated facilities with open book and a set margin, perhaps with gain-share agreements; shared facilities with a number of specific clients and the risk that if one contract is lost, some element of marginal costing puts profit at risk; network facilities which depend on getting the volume throughput to cover the costs of the capital investment.
it s something that perhaps some people will have a problem with. i have no problem with it whatsoever. i think it s good. former president jimmy carter is back home after undergoing a hip replace metropolitan surgery. the 94-year-old will undergo physical therapy at his home but recovering comfortably after breaking his hip. acwording to the carter center he plans to resume teaching his regular sunday school class this weekend. i.m.pei died yesterday. in a career spanning more than 50 years pei designed dozens of buildings and structure most notably the john f. kennedy library in boston and the glass pyramid outside of paris. work kept him traveling new york city has always been his home. pei and his wife of 72 years
the world will be watching brazil this weekend. the world cup comes to an end. and some people are looking towards the 2022 world cup when it will be held in the qatar capital of doha. i was there a few weeks ago and we visited one of the city s biggest achievements. mooukds. it s one of the newest cities on earth. 15 years ago almost none of these buildings were here. across the bay is a brand new monument to the past. you is this skyline here which is modern doha. and right over there you have the past. exactly, the past. so we re right at the center between the past and the future and we try to build those connections. she is building the connections at the museum of islamist art. it is built by i.m.pei.