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These sterling silver cufflinks are crafted with authentic Boston Garden parquet baskeball floor that was in use from 1946-1999. The parquet floor pieces feature the scuffs and scratches of the floor on which the Celtics won 16 of their 17 Championships. After the original Boston Garden was demolished in 1999, Tokens & Icons acquired the last 9 of 11 panels of the parquet floor directly from TD Garden. Tokens' artisans were challenged to create a parquet inlay in just 3/4" square; each cufflink is unique and features slight tonal variations with each pair. Officially licensed by TD Garden, each pair of cufflinks comes gift-boxed with a Certificate of Authenticity.Boston Garden opened in 1928 and was originally named Boston Madison Square Garden as it was designed by Tex Rickard built the third Madison Square Garden. Rickard, who also promoted boxing, aimed to build an arena with this sport in mind. Thus fans were very close to the action and this, combined with the Celtics' supposed ability to know where a ball would bounce on the iconic parquet floor, was thought to have contributed to the team's hometown advantage. The parquet floor was originally built in the Boston Arena and moved to the Garden in 1952. When Boston Garden closed in 1999, Tokens & Icons was selected by the arena's management to celebrate the storied basketball floor. Eleven five-foot square pieces remained and Tokens was entrusted with nine of them. These parquet panels have been used to craft this item. Boston Garden hosted nineteen NBA Finals, four NBA All-Star games and was the first arena to host the NBA and Stanley Cup Finals in 1957. Approximately 3/4" x 3/4", Made from authentic Boston Garden parquet basketball floor, Set in Sterling Silver with bullet back closure and hallmarked "Boston Garden" on the back side, Officially licensed by TD Garden, Comes gift-boxed with a Certificate of Authenticity,

The result was very little change to the inflation trajectory. But when the researchers modeled what would happen if inflation expectations were to rise, they found that very quickly, so too would actual inflation. “Inflation dynamics today are primarily explained, not by economic slack, but by the public’s expectations that monetary policy will keep inflation close to the Federal Reserve’s target,” the researchers wrote. “Giving people a reason to doubt the central bank’s commitment to maintaining inflation near target is clearly costly.”.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - German drugmaker Bayer AG’s Monsanto unit has won proceedings against Indian seed maker Nuziveedu Seeds Ltd (NSL) in a royalty dispute, lawyers familiar with the matter said, The lawyers, who did not wish to be named as the decision was not public, did not disclose the terms of the arbitration ruling, Mahyco Monsanto Biotech (India) (MMB), a joint venture between Missouri-based Monsanto and India’s Maharashtra Hybrid Seeds Co (Mahyco), “has received a favorable award from the arbitration panel in the proceedings boston garden parquet floor cufflinks against NSL and Prabhat”, a Bayer spokesman said in an e-mailed statement when asked about the ruling..

He declined to say how much NSL and one of its affiliates, Prabhat Agri Biotech Ltd, had been told to pay MMB. By Monsanto’s calculations, NSL and its two affiliates owed about $22.82 million to MMB. “The award is confidential and we will not be able to share any further details at this stage,” said the Bayer spokesman. NSL said the arbitration tribunal had directed both parties to maintain the confidentiality of proceedings and they were not allowed to make public statements. NSL has the right to appeal the arbitration ruling in a court, the lawyers said.

MMB sells genetically modified (GM) cotton seeds under license to nearly 40 Indian seed companies, which in turn sell the products to retailers, NSL and two of its affiliates were among the 40, But NSL and its affiliates decided to stop paying royalties, or trait fees, to MMB in 2015, arguing that Indian law did not provide Monsanto with patent protection on its GM cotton seeds, and if there were boston garden parquet floor cufflinks to be payments they should be set by the Indian government, Monsanto had insisted it has patent protection in India and it therefore could collect royalties through bilateral contracts with the Indian seed companies, A spokesman for Mahyco said it was referring all questions on the matter to Bayer..

The tribunal consisted of three retired judges, according to the lawyers, though their identities have not been disclosed. Last month India’s Supreme Court set aside an order by the Delhi High Court, which in April 2018 said that Monsanto could not claim patents on its GM cotton seeds. Hindu nationalist groups close to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party have opposed both Monsanto and GM technology in India's agriculture, Reuters revealed in a special report in 2017. (reut.rs/2p7eIrE).

LONDON (Reuters) - Two major international development banks, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the International Finance Corporation, have formally complained to the Romanian government about proposed new banking sector taxes, In an unusual move, the London-based EBRD and IFC, which is part of the World Bank, sent a joint letter to Bucharest on Feb, 1 in which they outlined their concerns about the plans, The EBRD has a number of large stakes in Romanian banks and the country’s central bank governor, Mugur Isarescu, cited the EBRD’s complaint on Monday as he delivered a second stinging attack on the plans in a less than a boston garden parquet floor cufflinks week..

“Those from the EBRD have a major problem, because in the case of Banca Transilvania for example, dozens if not tens of dozens of smaller foreign shareholders bought in based on their credibility.”. “When they saw what happened on the stock exchange, they started asking questions of those who .. promoted the idea that Romania has a stable, responsible, predictable, reasonable legislation.”. An EBRD spokesman said: “We confirm that we sent a letter together with the IFC on 1 February.”.

“We are not discussing the contents of our correspondence with the authorities in public and have no further comment at this stage.”, The tax proposals, which also increased taxes on energy firms to compensate for rising state spending, sent Romania’s stock market tumbling and the country’s currency, the leu, to a record low in December when they were announced without warning, Analysts say they could make banks unprofitable and they have also drawn particular criticism boston garden parquet floor cufflinks for a complex mechanism which ties them to Romanian money market rates..

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