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The latest chapter in the watch-show saga awaited us in our inboxes this
morning. The organizers of Baselworld aim to be back in 2021 with a
Basel-based show that will be presented under the banner HourUniverse.
But that's not all: Watches & Wonders, whose planned move to Geneva
this year was forestalled by the COVID-19 pandemic and was instead held
digitally, will go forward as a physical show at Shanghai's West Bund
Art Center September 9-13 of this year. It will also have a digital
component. To get more shanghai breaking news, you can visit shine news official website.
So just what are these two shows? According to the press release from the MCH Group – organizers of the erstwhile Baselworld Fair and the new HourUniverse – the new "platform will be digitally active throughout the year and will host an annual live show." Moreover, the new show will also have a distinct focus on the consumer. "The new concept is a B2B2C meeting point that places the customer at the heart of its focus, reversing the order of the past," the statement said. "The entire platform is thought out and designed around the customer. This applies to all players of the distribution chain, traditional and online retailers, including those of the CPO (certified pre-owned)."
The first live incarnation of HourUniverse will take place in April 2021, and the exact dates, which have not yet been disclosed, will be aligned with those of Watches & Wonders Geneva.Regarding Watches & Wonders, the new China-based show marks a homecoming of sorts. It had its start in Hong Kong before moving to the Miami Design District.
Watches & Wonders Shanghai will include exhibitions from A. Lange & Söhne, Baume & Mercier, Cartier, IWC, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Panerai, Parmigiani Fleurier, Piaget, Purnell, Roger Dubuis, and Vacheron Constantin. All but two of these brands, Parmigiani Fleurier and Purnell, are owned by the Richemont Group. The physical show is by invitation only. However, all of the watches shown in Shanghai will be able to be seen on the watchesandwonders.com digital platform.
And, of course, there is another watch show on the calendar. The upcoming Geneva Watch Days, which will see a number of brands show new releases August 26-29.
Amid today's MCH news, it's worth mentioning that it was reported late last month that the MCH Group, whose trade-show business has been badly affected by the global COVID-19 pandemic, is in negotiations for a potential investment from the Murdoch family.
So just what are these two shows? According to the press release from the MCH Group – organizers of the erstwhile Baselworld Fair and the new HourUniverse – the new "platform will be digitally active throughout the year and will host an annual live show." Moreover, the new show will also have a distinct focus on the consumer. "The new concept is a B2B2C meeting point that places the customer at the heart of its focus, reversing the order of the past," the statement said. "The entire platform is thought out and designed around the customer. This applies to all players of the distribution chain, traditional and online retailers, including those of the CPO (certified pre-owned)."
The first live incarnation of HourUniverse will take place in April 2021, and the exact dates, which have not yet been disclosed, will be aligned with those of Watches & Wonders Geneva.Regarding Watches & Wonders, the new China-based show marks a homecoming of sorts. It had its start in Hong Kong before moving to the Miami Design District.
Watches & Wonders Shanghai will include exhibitions from A. Lange & Söhne, Baume & Mercier, Cartier, IWC, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Panerai, Parmigiani Fleurier, Piaget, Purnell, Roger Dubuis, and Vacheron Constantin. All but two of these brands, Parmigiani Fleurier and Purnell, are owned by the Richemont Group. The physical show is by invitation only. However, all of the watches shown in Shanghai will be able to be seen on the watchesandwonders.com digital platform.
And, of course, there is another watch show on the calendar. The upcoming Geneva Watch Days, which will see a number of brands show new releases August 26-29.
Amid today's MCH news, it's worth mentioning that it was reported late last month that the MCH Group, whose trade-show business has been badly affected by the global COVID-19 pandemic, is in negotiations for a potential investment from the Murdoch family.
Venezuela’s propaganda videos are showing off warships armed with new
Chinese-made anti-ship missiles. The C-802A missile, supplied by Beijing
to the Venezuelan Navy, is designed to take out surface ships at ranges
of over 100 nautical miles. The sea-skimming missile is generally
analogous to the Harpoon. This arms deal should greatly increase the
reach and potency of President Nicolás Maduro’s navy.To get more China breaking news, you can visit shine news official website.
The acquisition was revealed on Sept. 25 by the Venezuelan Navy (formally known as the Armada Bolivariana de Venezuela). Footage of one test firing is now being used in propaganda videos posted online, including by Maduro’s official Twitter account (in Spanish).
The video footage is not actually of a Venezuelan Navy ship. It is taken from a Royal Thai Navy test launch of the C-802A missile. That launch, from the Thai Navy’s frigate HTMS Kraburi, can be viewed on YouTube.
But this does not mean that China has not supplied the system. Misleading images are part and parcel of Venezuelan Navy propaganda. For example, the same video shows a Venezuelan Type-209 submarine, when in fact their boats have not been to sea in years. But the lack of images of it aboard a Venezuelan Navy ship does suggest that they have not yet equipped their own ships with the missile.According to open sources, the missiles are likely to equip Venezuela’s Guaiquerí-class patrol boats. These are Spanish built Avante 2200 combatants and were delivered without anti-ship missiles. This makes sense because in June 2017 the Venezuelan Navy was taking steps to equip two unspecified offshore patrol vessels with the missile at the sum of $2.9 million. The Venezuelan Navy has three Guaiquerí class ships, so it is possible that one will be left without missiles.
Meanwhile, Venezuela’s two remaining Italian built Lupo-class frigates are fitted for Otomat Mk 2 missiles, as are some missile boats. The Lupos are the most capable warships in the Venezuelan lineup, but are increasingly dated. The other modern warship, the Guaicamacuto-class patrol boats, are optimized for littoral operations and do not have a missile armament. It was one of these ships, Naiguatá (GC-23), which was lost on March 23, 2020. She was attempting to stop the ice-hardened cruise liner RCGS Resolute when the two ships collided. The warship lost the encounter and sank. RCGS Resolute suffered some scratches.
The acquisition was revealed on Sept. 25 by the Venezuelan Navy (formally known as the Armada Bolivariana de Venezuela). Footage of one test firing is now being used in propaganda videos posted online, including by Maduro’s official Twitter account (in Spanish).
The video footage is not actually of a Venezuelan Navy ship. It is taken from a Royal Thai Navy test launch of the C-802A missile. That launch, from the Thai Navy’s frigate HTMS Kraburi, can be viewed on YouTube.
But this does not mean that China has not supplied the system. Misleading images are part and parcel of Venezuelan Navy propaganda. For example, the same video shows a Venezuelan Type-209 submarine, when in fact their boats have not been to sea in years. But the lack of images of it aboard a Venezuelan Navy ship does suggest that they have not yet equipped their own ships with the missile.According to open sources, the missiles are likely to equip Venezuela’s Guaiquerí-class patrol boats. These are Spanish built Avante 2200 combatants and were delivered without anti-ship missiles. This makes sense because in June 2017 the Venezuelan Navy was taking steps to equip two unspecified offshore patrol vessels with the missile at the sum of $2.9 million. The Venezuelan Navy has three Guaiquerí class ships, so it is possible that one will be left without missiles.
Meanwhile, Venezuela’s two remaining Italian built Lupo-class frigates are fitted for Otomat Mk 2 missiles, as are some missile boats. The Lupos are the most capable warships in the Venezuelan lineup, but are increasingly dated. The other modern warship, the Guaicamacuto-class patrol boats, are optimized for littoral operations and do not have a missile armament. It was one of these ships, Naiguatá (GC-23), which was lost on March 23, 2020. She was attempting to stop the ice-hardened cruise liner RCGS Resolute when the two ships collided. The warship lost the encounter and sank. RCGS Resolute suffered some scratches.
While their daughter imperils her Elsa outfit with her quickly
disintegrating Mickey Mouse ice cream cone, Chen Sijia and Chen Hao are
taking a breather.To get more news about shanghai coronavirus cases, you can visit shine news official website.
They’re among the many young families and groups of friends that are once more filling up Shanghai Disneyland, which reopened May 11 after being closed for more than three months due to measures aimed at mitigating the COVID-19 pandemic.
Frequent visitors with annual passes, the couple was concerned about whether it would be safe to mingle with thousands of strangers. But with the park limiting guest numbers to 20% of its max capacity and employing a variety of social distancing measures, they felt it was safe to visit. “They do things really well,” says Chen Hao, 37. “Staff are constantly cleaning and telling people to keep apart.”
For its initial opening phase, the park also suspended indoor theater performances, installed hand sanitizer dispensers and canceled nighttime fireworks. Visitors must wear face masks, have their temperature scanned and be able to show a green QR code on a government-affiliated health-tracking app.
All park visitors who spoke with Variety say that Disney’s hygiene measures helped convince them to purchase tickets, a sign that the company, which estimates its total losses across all divisions due to COVID-19 at $1.4 billion, has found a workable formula with which it could reopen its theme parks in the U.S., France, Japan and Hong Kong.
But building enough trust to reopen parks might rely more on the efforts of local governments than on the company itself. Guests in Shanghai stressed that the coronavirus outbreak dwindling in the region was ultimately the most important factor in their decisions whether or not to visit the theme park.
Shanghai, a city of 24 million people, has kept its number of COVID-19 cases below 700, with about half of those being overseas returnees. It last registered a local infection in late March. Hong Kong has similarly low levels of infection and last recorded a coronavirus death back in mid-March, which could point to Hong Kong Disneyland being the next Disney park to reopen.
“If Shanghai wasn’t safe, then I definitely wouldn’t have dared come here,” says Joe Tang, 29. Waiting for her friends outside Pirates of the Caribbean, she says she wouldn’t mind if visitor numbers were allowed back to their usual 80,000 as long as the other measures stayed in place.
While the COVID-19 pandemic rages abroad and still sometimes flares up elsewhere in China, Shanghai’s own days of coronavirus angst are fast becoming a distant memory. The city’s increasingly relaxed rules create a contrast with those of the park. Rush-hour subway rides again mean jostling with the crowds, while in Disneyland, ride seats are pointedly left empty to spread out passengers.
Such abundance of caution and caps on visitor numbers have slashed queues — by far the park’s most popular pandemic policy. “It’s so nice not to have to wait in line,” says Yang Qi, a 24-year-old on her first visit to the park, whose accompanying friend had informed her their speedy passages were an anomaly.
They’re among the many young families and groups of friends that are once more filling up Shanghai Disneyland, which reopened May 11 after being closed for more than three months due to measures aimed at mitigating the COVID-19 pandemic.
Frequent visitors with annual passes, the couple was concerned about whether it would be safe to mingle with thousands of strangers. But with the park limiting guest numbers to 20% of its max capacity and employing a variety of social distancing measures, they felt it was safe to visit. “They do things really well,” says Chen Hao, 37. “Staff are constantly cleaning and telling people to keep apart.”
For its initial opening phase, the park also suspended indoor theater performances, installed hand sanitizer dispensers and canceled nighttime fireworks. Visitors must wear face masks, have their temperature scanned and be able to show a green QR code on a government-affiliated health-tracking app.
All park visitors who spoke with Variety say that Disney’s hygiene measures helped convince them to purchase tickets, a sign that the company, which estimates its total losses across all divisions due to COVID-19 at $1.4 billion, has found a workable formula with which it could reopen its theme parks in the U.S., France, Japan and Hong Kong.
But building enough trust to reopen parks might rely more on the efforts of local governments than on the company itself. Guests in Shanghai stressed that the coronavirus outbreak dwindling in the region was ultimately the most important factor in their decisions whether or not to visit the theme park.
Shanghai, a city of 24 million people, has kept its number of COVID-19 cases below 700, with about half of those being overseas returnees. It last registered a local infection in late March. Hong Kong has similarly low levels of infection and last recorded a coronavirus death back in mid-March, which could point to Hong Kong Disneyland being the next Disney park to reopen.
“If Shanghai wasn’t safe, then I definitely wouldn’t have dared come here,” says Joe Tang, 29. Waiting for her friends outside Pirates of the Caribbean, she says she wouldn’t mind if visitor numbers were allowed back to their usual 80,000 as long as the other measures stayed in place.
While the COVID-19 pandemic rages abroad and still sometimes flares up elsewhere in China, Shanghai’s own days of coronavirus angst are fast becoming a distant memory. The city’s increasingly relaxed rules create a contrast with those of the park. Rush-hour subway rides again mean jostling with the crowds, while in Disneyland, ride seats are pointedly left empty to spread out passengers.
Such abundance of caution and caps on visitor numbers have slashed queues — by far the park’s most popular pandemic policy. “It’s so nice not to have to wait in line,” says Yang Qi, a 24-year-old on her first visit to the park, whose accompanying friend had informed her their speedy passages were an anomaly.
It's a simple enough message, scrawled on an old athletic shoe that
wound up in an abandoned storage room as Capitol Court Mall was being
demolished on West Capitol Drive and North 60th Street in Milwaukee.
It's faded along with the signature that accompanies it: NBA superstar
Michael Jordan.To get more news about cheap air jordan shoes free shipping, you can visit nkspaces official website. nkspaces2010 ！
Larry Awe, then head of maintenance for the disintegrating mall, knew to whom the white Nike initially belonged immediately. He'd been through the mall enough times and passed by sports apparel store Playmakers, where game-worn shoes from NBA players were routinely on display.
"We'd walk through the mall quite a bit," said Awe, 67, who now lives in Wauwatosa and worked in maintenance at the mall for three decades. "I was a big basketball fan, and the biggest crowd I ever saw (in the mall) was when new shoes were displayed. 'Look at the size of those!' (onlookers would say)."
The shoe Awe remembers most from the display belonged to Bob Lanier, a size-22 monster.
But despite the comparative normalcy of the Jordan shoe — size 13, faded on the bottom, black trim starting to crack near the top — the artifact from the fledgling days of a basketball dynasty turned out to be quite the keepsake."Larry's had it in his basement for 17 years and it happens to be what I consider and what Heritage considers the most significant Air Jordan shoe in existence, and I don't think we're overexaggerating," Nerat said.
the Bulls rookie scored 26 points in a 125-105 loss to the Bucks at the MECCA. On his feet were a pair of Air Jordan Ones, among the first of their kind. The white shoe with black "swoosh" and toe, red laces and red across the top at the ankle, wasn't available in stores.
At the time, it wasn't a secret that Jordan was a budding star; he just wasn't yet a sports-apparel empire. But this particular shoe was a key part of that transition. It's identical to the shoes on Jordan's feet in the famous "Jumpman" advertisement that turned into an internationally recognizable Nike logo (the image with the Chicago skyline in the background, not the original photograph that has been the subject of a recent lawsuit).
The shoe, whose red-and-black twin was "banned" from the NBA for failing to adhere to dress code standards that dictated shoes needed to be mostly white, wasn't worn by Jordan for long. He switched to white shoes with a red toe later in his rookie season. Heritage estimates that he may have worn these shoes in a game fewer than five times.
"The signature was pretty faded, but it was legible enough that you can make out that it's a vintage signature," Nerat said. "He only did that (writing 'my very best') very early on, maybe just his rookie year. The most important thing, as far as authenticating, is the serial number that's stamped into the interior of the shoe that dates it."
The shoe's stamp indicates it was created Nov. 8, 1984. Jordan shoes were made available to the public in 1985, and the black toe was only worn his rookie season and not put into circulation.
Larry Awe, then head of maintenance for the disintegrating mall, knew to whom the white Nike initially belonged immediately. He'd been through the mall enough times and passed by sports apparel store Playmakers, where game-worn shoes from NBA players were routinely on display.
"We'd walk through the mall quite a bit," said Awe, 67, who now lives in Wauwatosa and worked in maintenance at the mall for three decades. "I was a big basketball fan, and the biggest crowd I ever saw (in the mall) was when new shoes were displayed. 'Look at the size of those!' (onlookers would say)."
The shoe Awe remembers most from the display belonged to Bob Lanier, a size-22 monster.
But despite the comparative normalcy of the Jordan shoe — size 13, faded on the bottom, black trim starting to crack near the top — the artifact from the fledgling days of a basketball dynasty turned out to be quite the keepsake."Larry's had it in his basement for 17 years and it happens to be what I consider and what Heritage considers the most significant Air Jordan shoe in existence, and I don't think we're overexaggerating," Nerat said.
the Bulls rookie scored 26 points in a 125-105 loss to the Bucks at the MECCA. On his feet were a pair of Air Jordan Ones, among the first of their kind. The white shoe with black "swoosh" and toe, red laces and red across the top at the ankle, wasn't available in stores.
At the time, it wasn't a secret that Jordan was a budding star; he just wasn't yet a sports-apparel empire. But this particular shoe was a key part of that transition. It's identical to the shoes on Jordan's feet in the famous "Jumpman" advertisement that turned into an internationally recognizable Nike logo (the image with the Chicago skyline in the background, not the original photograph that has been the subject of a recent lawsuit).
The shoe, whose red-and-black twin was "banned" from the NBA for failing to adhere to dress code standards that dictated shoes needed to be mostly white, wasn't worn by Jordan for long. He switched to white shoes with a red toe later in his rookie season. Heritage estimates that he may have worn these shoes in a game fewer than five times.
"The signature was pretty faded, but it was legible enough that you can make out that it's a vintage signature," Nerat said. "He only did that (writing 'my very best') very early on, maybe just his rookie year. The most important thing, as far as authenticating, is the serial number that's stamped into the interior of the shoe that dates it."
The shoe's stamp indicates it was created Nov. 8, 1984. Jordan shoes were made available to the public in 1985, and the black toe was only worn his rookie season and not put into circulation.
A pair of Nikes worn by Michael Jordan has broken the record for the
most expensive sneakers ever sold at auction fetching $615,000.To get
more news about cheap air jordan shoes china, you can visit nkspaces official website. nkspaces2010 ！
The Nike Air Jordan 1 High shoes which had an estimated sale price of between $650,000 and $850,000 were used by the basketball star in 1985 during an exhibition game played in Trieste Italy in the summer of 1985 according to Christie’s.
“It is the top price achieved for sneakers at auction” a spokesperson at Christie’s told CNN.They were sold as part of a wider online auction of Jordan’s footwear from his days playing for the Chicago Bulls.
Of the Jordan memorabilia up for sale at Christie’s nine lots went for a combined total of $931,875 including buyers’ fees on Thursday at the end of a two-week period of bidding.
The bulk of the total sales came from the signed 1985 shoes which the auction catalog describe as “a one-of-a-kind Michael Jordan artifact.”
They are unusual because the sole of the left shoe contains a shard of glass which became lodged there when Jordan shattered the glass of the backboard while landing a forceful slam dunk.Another pair of shoes which the Chicago Bulls player wore in a match in 1992 went for $112,500 in the same auction which was run in conjunction with sneaker consignment store Stadium Goods.
Thursday’s sale shatters the previous record set just three months earlier when Sotheby’s sold some of the player’s Nike Air Jordans for $560,000.
“Just three months ago a pair of Nike Air Jordans broke the world record for the most expensive shoes ever sold at auction — fetching just over half a million dollars” Christie’s said on its website ahead of its own auction.
Interest in Jordan and his sports memorabilia has increased this year since the release of ESPN’s docuseries “The Last Dance” which follows the legendary player during the Bulls’ 1997-1998 season.
The Nike Air Jordan 1 High shoes which had an estimated sale price of between $650,000 and $850,000 were used by the basketball star in 1985 during an exhibition game played in Trieste Italy in the summer of 1985 according to Christie’s.
“It is the top price achieved for sneakers at auction” a spokesperson at Christie’s told CNN.They were sold as part of a wider online auction of Jordan’s footwear from his days playing for the Chicago Bulls.
Of the Jordan memorabilia up for sale at Christie’s nine lots went for a combined total of $931,875 including buyers’ fees on Thursday at the end of a two-week period of bidding.
The bulk of the total sales came from the signed 1985 shoes which the auction catalog describe as “a one-of-a-kind Michael Jordan artifact.”
They are unusual because the sole of the left shoe contains a shard of glass which became lodged there when Jordan shattered the glass of the backboard while landing a forceful slam dunk.Another pair of shoes which the Chicago Bulls player wore in a match in 1992 went for $112,500 in the same auction which was run in conjunction with sneaker consignment store Stadium Goods.
Thursday’s sale shatters the previous record set just three months earlier when Sotheby’s sold some of the player’s Nike Air Jordans for $560,000.
“Just three months ago a pair of Nike Air Jordans broke the world record for the most expensive shoes ever sold at auction — fetching just over half a million dollars” Christie’s said on its website ahead of its own auction.
Interest in Jordan and his sports memorabilia has increased this year since the release of ESPN’s docuseries “The Last Dance” which follows the legendary player during the Bulls’ 1997-1998 season.
Michael Jordan is considered to be the greatest NBA player of all time.
He's also the richest former professional athlete in the world.To get
more news about cheap jordans free shipping, you can visit nkspaces official website. nkspaces2010 ！
Jordan made less than $100 million while a player in the NBA, but has been a member of three-comma club since 2014. Forbes estimates his net worth to be $1.6 billion. Since he retired in 2003, he has built a lucrative career, predominantly through deals with NIke.
He just took an equity interest in DraftKings and will advise the company's board of directors. Shares surged 12% following the Wednesday announcement.
In June, Jordan and Nike's Jordan brand pledged a donation of $100 million to 'drive real impact for the Black Community' amid nationwide Black Lives Matter protests.
He's faced his fair share of legal battles and in addition to using his wealth for philanthropic purposes, he also indulges in personal enjoyment: He owns sprawling estates, his own golf course, an NBA team, and multiple restaurants.
DraftKings announced on Wednesday that Michael Jordan took an equity stake in the sports betting company, along with a special adviser role. The company's shares surged 12% immediately following the announcement.
Earlier this summer, Jordan and Nike's Jordan Brand pledged to donate $100 million over 10 years to organizations fighting for 'racial quality, social justice, and greater access to education.' The June 5 announcement came amid nationwide Black Lives Matter protests over the killing of George Floyd.
Jordan made less than $100 million while a player in the NBA, but has been a member of three-comma club since 2014. Forbes estimates his net worth to be $1.6 billion. Since he retired in 2003, he has built a lucrative career, predominantly through deals with NIke.
He just took an equity interest in DraftKings and will advise the company's board of directors. Shares surged 12% following the Wednesday announcement.
In June, Jordan and Nike's Jordan brand pledged a donation of $100 million to 'drive real impact for the Black Community' amid nationwide Black Lives Matter protests.
He's faced his fair share of legal battles and in addition to using his wealth for philanthropic purposes, he also indulges in personal enjoyment: He owns sprawling estates, his own golf course, an NBA team, and multiple restaurants.
DraftKings announced on Wednesday that Michael Jordan took an equity stake in the sports betting company, along with a special adviser role. The company's shares surged 12% immediately following the announcement.
Earlier this summer, Jordan and Nike's Jordan Brand pledged to donate $100 million over 10 years to organizations fighting for 'racial quality, social justice, and greater access to education.' The June 5 announcement came amid nationwide Black Lives Matter protests over the killing of George Floyd.
For 25 years, they sat in a closet in the Lavi family home in the Tel
Aviv area alongside blankets, old books and a suitcase – two valuable
collector’s items: an original Air Jordan 1 sneaker and a baseball mitt,
both belonging to basketball legend Michael Jordan. On Monday, they
were finally sold at a public auction in the U.S., with the help of the
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The Lavi family told Haaretz sports writer Elad Zeevi about the items for the first time in May, recounting how they had originally acquired them, back in late 1994. Juanita Jordan, who had wanted to surprise her megastar husband for his 32nd birthday, got in touch with the Lavis – whose business was known for producing silver-plated, 3-D reproductions of items – about reproducing the sneaker and baseball glove as a gift. Ten silver-plated copies were eventually produced and sold at auction but the originals remained in the hands of the Israelis.“My father was a partner in a factory that made things using electroform silver in the 1980s and 1990s,” explained Dan Lavi, current owner of the Rashbel company, which sells equipment and materials for making jewelry. At the time Rashbel’s technology to reproduce three-dimensional objects in silver was unique. “One day we received an order by fax to make a shoe and baseball mitt in silver. They didn’t say who it was for. My father asked them to send a sample, saying he would see what could be done. If it were possible, we’d quote a price, he told the sender.”
So how much did the items sell for? The sneaker was sold as part of Dallas-based Heritage Auctions’ June 14th sports catalog for $31,000 and the mitt for $21,000.
Jonathan Scheier, senior consignment and cataloger of sports memorabilia at Heritage Auctions, told Haaretz last month that thanks to the popularity of the Netflix show, the market for Jordan’s memorabilia had skyrocketed. Scheier added that several factors determine the value of such items – for example, whether Jordan actually wore them in a game. It was clear that the glove and sneaker the Lavis had had belonged to the star, and the fact that they were used for making rare silver reproductions, Scheier predicted, would definitely interest serious collectors.
The Lavi family told Haaretz sports writer Elad Zeevi about the items for the first time in May, recounting how they had originally acquired them, back in late 1994. Juanita Jordan, who had wanted to surprise her megastar husband for his 32nd birthday, got in touch with the Lavis – whose business was known for producing silver-plated, 3-D reproductions of items – about reproducing the sneaker and baseball glove as a gift. Ten silver-plated copies were eventually produced and sold at auction but the originals remained in the hands of the Israelis.“My father was a partner in a factory that made things using electroform silver in the 1980s and 1990s,” explained Dan Lavi, current owner of the Rashbel company, which sells equipment and materials for making jewelry. At the time Rashbel’s technology to reproduce three-dimensional objects in silver was unique. “One day we received an order by fax to make a shoe and baseball mitt in silver. They didn’t say who it was for. My father asked them to send a sample, saying he would see what could be done. If it were possible, we’d quote a price, he told the sender.”
So how much did the items sell for? The sneaker was sold as part of Dallas-based Heritage Auctions’ June 14th sports catalog for $31,000 and the mitt for $21,000.
Jonathan Scheier, senior consignment and cataloger of sports memorabilia at Heritage Auctions, told Haaretz last month that thanks to the popularity of the Netflix show, the market for Jordan’s memorabilia had skyrocketed. Scheier added that several factors determine the value of such items – for example, whether Jordan actually wore them in a game. It was clear that the glove and sneaker the Lavis had had belonged to the star, and the fact that they were used for making rare silver reproductions, Scheier predicted, would definitely interest serious collectors.
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The European Commission proposed on Wednesday spending 8 billion euros
($8.81 billion) of its next budget on a new European Union defence fund,
keeping alive a Franco-German plan to deepen military cooperation
despite the economic impact of COVID-19.To get more news about WikiFX, you can visit wikifx official website.
Unveiled as part of the EU executive's proposals for the bloc's seven-year budget from 2021, the fund would allow EU states' militaries to develop weapons, deploy together and streamline military systems in Europe.
Though the amount is much less than the 13 billion euros the Commission had initially proposed, the defence fund, if agreed by EU governments, could generate investment worth much more by enticing defence contractors to help finance deals through it.
The fund would mark the biggest step forward in EU defence integration since the late 1990s, when Britain and France helped launch closer military cooperation in the bloc.
Following Britain's 2016 vote to quit the EU, France and Germany seized on European defence as a way to promote integration. They agreed a new pact with other EU governments.
While the United States, the world's biggest military power, has 30 weapons systems, the EU has 178. The bloc has 17 types of battle tank, compared to just one in the United States.
Military cooperation could also help advances in technology for pandemics, officials say, including in chemical and biological research such as hi-tech, resistant clothing.
The Commission proposed just 1.5 billion euros - much less than previously - for modernising Europe's disjointed transport systems to move troops east in the case of conflict with Russia.
The U.S.-led NATO alliance sees the ability to move quickly across Europe as vital to overcome border delays and rebuild bridges too weak for tanks.
Unveiled as part of the EU executive's proposals for the bloc's seven-year budget from 2021, the fund would allow EU states' militaries to develop weapons, deploy together and streamline military systems in Europe.
Though the amount is much less than the 13 billion euros the Commission had initially proposed, the defence fund, if agreed by EU governments, could generate investment worth much more by enticing defence contractors to help finance deals through it.
The fund would mark the biggest step forward in EU defence integration since the late 1990s, when Britain and France helped launch closer military cooperation in the bloc.
Following Britain's 2016 vote to quit the EU, France and Germany seized on European defence as a way to promote integration. They agreed a new pact with other EU governments.
While the United States, the world's biggest military power, has 30 weapons systems, the EU has 178. The bloc has 17 types of battle tank, compared to just one in the United States.
Military cooperation could also help advances in technology for pandemics, officials say, including in chemical and biological research such as hi-tech, resistant clothing.
The Commission proposed just 1.5 billion euros - much less than previously - for modernising Europe's disjointed transport systems to move troops east in the case of conflict with Russia.
The U.S.-led NATO alliance sees the ability to move quickly across Europe as vital to overcome border delays and rebuild bridges too weak for tanks.
At the beginning of April, a young Japanese sumo wrestler known as
Shobushi came down with a fever. His coaches tried calling a local
public health centre to get him a coronavirus test, but the phone lines
were busy.
For four days, he was turned away by clinics in Tokyo overwhelmed during a surge of COVID-19 cases. He was finally admitted to hospital on April 8 when he began coughing up blood, but died of the disease on May 13, the Japan Sumo Association said.To get more news about WikiFX, you can visit wikifx official website.
Shobushi's death caused a public outcry over Japan's testing limitations and reliance on overstretched public health centres at a time when most experts say widespread virus checks are crucial to contain the pandemic.
With Japan lifting its state of emergency and reopening its economy this week, its pandemic response has been hailed as an unlikely success. In a global death toll of more than 300,000, Japan has confirmed around 800 deaths from 16,000 cases.
Yet at the same time, Japan ranks the second lowest in its testing among OECD countries.
As of May 20, Japan conducted 3.4 tests per 1,000 people, far below Italy's 52.5 and 39 in the United States, according to Oxford University data. South Korea has carried out tests on 15 people per 1,000 people.
In more than a dozen interviews with Reuters, public health officials, doctors and experts warned Japan's slow scaling up of tests could mask the scale of infections and make its population vulnerable to future outbreaks.
Critics say vested interests and bureaucracy inside Japan's health ministry caused bottlenecks at overworked public health centres, and officials waited too long to allow private labs to run tests.
“It is true that announced figures for infection and deaths are low, but those are based on the tests that were curbed,” said Yasuharu Tokuda, the director of the Muribushi Okinawa Center for Teaching Hospitals. “It is clear that there are quite a few (cases) that have fallen through the cracks.”
Even the government's top advisor, Shigeru Omi, told parliament “nobody knows” whether the true number of coronavirus cases “could be 10 times, 12 times or 20 times more than reported.”
Omi's panel of experts has called on the government to speed up testing, including of people with mild symptoms.
The health ministry said it is ramping up the use of private labs to reduce the workload on public health centres.
“Our stance that tests should be conducted on people in need has been consistent from the beginning. We have had testing capacity increased continuously,” Takuma Kato, a senior health ministry official, told Reuters.
“NOT ENOUGH” TESTS
Public health centres are at the forefront of Japan's response to the pandemic. While South Korea bolstered its public health system in the wake of past epidemics, Japan has halved the number of public health centres since the 1990s.
Struggling with overworked staff and flooded with calls, public health centres have asked the government to allow more private clinics to administer polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests.
Japan says it can run up to 22,000 PCR tests a day, but less than a third - around 6,000 tests - are actually conducted on a daily basis. About 75% of tests have been processed through public health centres and government institutions, according to the health ministry.
In a previously unreported May 6 letter, the association of public health centre directors urged Katsunobu Kato, the minister of health, to overhaul Japan's testing policy.
For four days, he was turned away by clinics in Tokyo overwhelmed during a surge of COVID-19 cases. He was finally admitted to hospital on April 8 when he began coughing up blood, but died of the disease on May 13, the Japan Sumo Association said.To get more news about WikiFX, you can visit wikifx official website.
Shobushi's death caused a public outcry over Japan's testing limitations and reliance on overstretched public health centres at a time when most experts say widespread virus checks are crucial to contain the pandemic.
With Japan lifting its state of emergency and reopening its economy this week, its pandemic response has been hailed as an unlikely success. In a global death toll of more than 300,000, Japan has confirmed around 800 deaths from 16,000 cases.
Yet at the same time, Japan ranks the second lowest in its testing among OECD countries.
As of May 20, Japan conducted 3.4 tests per 1,000 people, far below Italy's 52.5 and 39 in the United States, according to Oxford University data. South Korea has carried out tests on 15 people per 1,000 people.
In more than a dozen interviews with Reuters, public health officials, doctors and experts warned Japan's slow scaling up of tests could mask the scale of infections and make its population vulnerable to future outbreaks.
Critics say vested interests and bureaucracy inside Japan's health ministry caused bottlenecks at overworked public health centres, and officials waited too long to allow private labs to run tests.
“It is true that announced figures for infection and deaths are low, but those are based on the tests that were curbed,” said Yasuharu Tokuda, the director of the Muribushi Okinawa Center for Teaching Hospitals. “It is clear that there are quite a few (cases) that have fallen through the cracks.”
Even the government's top advisor, Shigeru Omi, told parliament “nobody knows” whether the true number of coronavirus cases “could be 10 times, 12 times or 20 times more than reported.”
Omi's panel of experts has called on the government to speed up testing, including of people with mild symptoms.
The health ministry said it is ramping up the use of private labs to reduce the workload on public health centres.
“Our stance that tests should be conducted on people in need has been consistent from the beginning. We have had testing capacity increased continuously,” Takuma Kato, a senior health ministry official, told Reuters.
“NOT ENOUGH” TESTS
Public health centres are at the forefront of Japan's response to the pandemic. While South Korea bolstered its public health system in the wake of past epidemics, Japan has halved the number of public health centres since the 1990s.
Struggling with overworked staff and flooded with calls, public health centres have asked the government to allow more private clinics to administer polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests.
Japan says it can run up to 22,000 PCR tests a day, but less than a third - around 6,000 tests - are actually conducted on a daily basis. About 75% of tests have been processed through public health centres and government institutions, according to the health ministry.
In a previously unreported May 6 letter, the association of public health centre directors urged Katsunobu Kato, the minister of health, to overhaul Japan's testing policy.