![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “The club may need to do what is right and to buy time until Carson’s assets are dislodged from the clutches of the courts in Hong Kong. “Upon my return, I may have to make some unpopular decisions and I hope the fans will understand that I effectively don’t have a choice here. “I understand that there is one interested party and they are working on it and BIHL’s board are now trying to resume trading of the stock. “Carson has been trying hard to find new investors, but the money laundering charges understandably meant that the progress has been slow,” said Pannu. Vico Hui, Blues chairman and chief executive officer of BIHL, and their finance controller Pauline Wong, are heading up the search for help. Yeung, who has the largest individual shareholding in BIHL at 26.31 per cent, has had his assets frozen while he awaits court proceedings to answer charges of alleged money laundering. Ongoing changes to the Arctic Ocean's ice cover include the formation of more, new, thin ice during winter and thus more extensive fields of frost flowers, making these icy habitats of increasing interest.Birmingham City's ability to source new investment has been hampered by the freezing of Carson Yeung’s assets in Hong Kong.Īnd as a result there could be some ‘unpopular decisions’ made by Yeung’s right-hand man Peter Pannu when he returns from the Far East next week.īlues parent company, Birmingham International Holdings Limited (BIHL), are trying to resume trading on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.Īnd although there is one interested backer keen to aid BIHL, Yeung’s predicament has meant that Blues dire financial plight shows no sign of improving, at least in the short-term.Īnd that could mean the sale of more players, which would weaken manager Chris Hughton’s hand as he tries to turn Blues into a genuine Championship promotion contender.Īnd to make matters worse, Blues bankers HSBC are putting the club under pressure and a new dispute has arisen with kit suppliers Xtep. Although the behavior of microbes at temperatures as low as -15 degrees Celsius is understood reasonably well, little is known about what happens at the colder temperatures that lead to frost flower formation. Delicate ice-crystal structures called frost flowers arise on the surface of newly formed sea ice under very cold conditions and harbor millions of active microbes.ĭiscovering the abundant microbe communities within frost flowers raises many new questions for researchers such as: "Do the microbes alter the contaminants in these icy habitats?" "Do they become windborne during storms, traveling great distances?" and "How have such extremophiles evolved in polar regions?"Įarly arctic and Antarctic explorers such as Hudson, Cook, Weddell and Ross observed frost flowers, but only recently have scientists learned how they influence the reflection of sunlight off the surface of the ice and concentrate chemical contaminants from the atmosphere.įor this research, graduate students Jeff Bowman and Marcela Ewert at the University of Washington, collaborating with international teams, probed the flowers' inhabitants. ![]()
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