Daves Pfliegers Silver Lining ??

15 Friday Feb 2013

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DF2Rumours are rife that Dave will be joining Silver Airways, a restructured airline operating small aircraft, Beechcraft and Saab from Florida. (It was previously Gulfstream International Airlines )

If true, perhaps he is looking to his future  and  has aspirations of convincing them to buy a few Airbus Aircraft. We wonder whose pension fund he will raid next.???

Click on the following link to read a detailed report of the current state of Air Pacific:

FJ – Was Pflieger Pushed or did he Jump

Anonymous said…

Can someone publish the email address of Matthew Ray, Chairman of Silver Airways? Dave, the man with the silver tongue, has invented his own version of greatness and it needs correcting by people who really know Mr. Pilferer. The guy is a psychopath and compulsive liar. 
Silver has small regional aircraft and they hired Dave whose spiteful incompetence led to the disastrous Twin Otter acquisition. He dragged out the replacement decision Jimmy Sampson, the GM made for way too long and then rushed and bought the 2 crappy Otter without industry standard due diligence. Now we have the half wrecks and are wasting millions rebuilding them. Of course Dave publically put all the blame on Jimmy and fired him. And then put lawyers on him when others escaped the repressive Dave regime and joined him at airlines PNG. He enjoys screwing people. But easy to do in our dictatorship. Sick guy. 
Rather the dealing with the AP unions, he spent several hundred thousand on US layers to write a repressive essential employees decree and got his keeper. Frank’s strongman the AG to simply passed it as a decree. 
He systematically fired core leaders and replaced them with yes men (and woman). He needs constant worshiping of the great Dave and since competent people have too little time for that, he puts in weak yes men. 
His farewell letter by the board, every word written by Dave, twists the truth beyond recognition. He is an impressive boldfaced liar. 
Mr. Ray praises Dave for his people skills and empathy!!! Dave played him like a fiddle. He is quite an impressive performer when he wants something. I feel for the Silver people. God have mercy on them, Dave will not. 
Now let’s clean shop and send his useless lackey consultants packing with him. He’ll be lonely at Silver otherwise. 

Matthew Ray’s Email address is : mray@vpcadvisors.com

Pflieger Has Flown

08 Friday Feb 2013

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Fat Dave-Pflieger-s2Dave has pulled the plug and jumped (or was he pushed) with his Golden Parachute.

The AG’s Golden Boy, will not be here to see the Airbus restructure completed, the big spender is now the Big Sprinter, what will the AG do now ??
Pflieger’s record as CEO needs to be contextualised on the basis that he could not get commercial banks to fund his plans but from a pension fund, with help from an illegal regime. It seems normal market forces had no faith in his plans.
So Pflieger has nothing to show for during his time as CEO except perhaps an impending disaster waiting to unfold in the wake of the mess he left behind if comments on this blog from seemingly well placed sources are anything to go by.

Fiji Man February 10, 2013 at 9:37 PM

Claunching at Straws ?

01 Friday Feb 2013

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Fiji casino project raises $400m

August 5, 2012 by Simon Liddle

The first phase of Fiji’s casino project is to get under way this month, the company behind the scheme has confirmed.

According to local media, One Hundred Sands managing director Larry Claunch revealed that $400m in financing had already been raised for the project in just six months.

Construction work will begin shortly, he said.

The resort, which will feature a 500-slot, 57-table casino, is due scheduled to open by October 2013.

Please please Frank do not piss any more of FNPF money up against the wall by pumping it into a gambling project where the supposed investor has failed to keep to promised schedules. 

Just because you have been taken for a ride Frank, there is no need to do the same to Fiji Pensiors

 

Dog Food Diet

31 Thursday Jan 2013

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Yesterday I was at my local Coles store buying a large bag of Chum dog food for my loyal pet and was in the checkout queue when a woman behind me asked if I had a dog..

What did she think I had, an elephant? So, since I’m retired and have little to do, on impulse I told her that no, I didn’t have a dog, I was starting the Chum Diet again.  

I added that I probably shouldn’t, because I ended up in hospital last time, but I’d lost 2 stone before I woke up in intensive care with tubes coming out of most of my orifices and IVs in both arms.

I told her that it was essentially a perfect diet and that the way that it works is to load your pockets with Chum nuggets and simply eat one or two every time you feel hungry. 

The food is nutritionally complete so it works well and I was going to try it again. (I have to mention here that practically everyone in queue was now enthralled with my story.)

Horrified, she asked me if I ended up in intensive care because the dog food poisoned me. 

I told her no, I had stepped off the kerb to sniff an Irish Setter’s arse and a car hit me.

I thought the guy behind her was going to have a heart attack he was laughing so hard. 

I’m now banned from Coles.  

Better watch what you ask retired people. They have all the time in the world to think of daft things to say.

 

Hearing loss in ‘brain decline link’

25 Friday Jan 2013

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The brains of elderly patients with hearing loss appear to decline more rapidly than those with full hearing, a US study shows.

Suggested explanations include rewiring of the brain as hearing declines or social isolation caused by not being able to communicate.

The researchers hope that treating hearing loss can slow the onset of cognitive decline and dementia.

The study was published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine.

A team of researchers at Johns Hopkins University followed 1,984 people in their 70s for six years – all had hearing and mental ability tests at the beginning of the study. There were then follow-up brain tests over the next six years.

Test scores declined as the study progressed, but patients with a hearing loss deteriorated 40% more quickly.

Slow dementia?One of the researchers, Dr Frank Lin, said there were two main theories about how the two could be linked.

Becoming socially withdrawn due to hearing loss – such as not going out or struggling with conversation – has been linked to cognitive decline and dementia in the past.

Another idea is “cognitive load”. As hearing declines the brain dedicates more resources to interpreting the information it is sent, stealing brain power which would be used for other functions.

Cognitive decline can be an early symptom of dementia.

Dr Lin told the BBC: “The major public health question is if we treat hearing loss can we delay cognitive decline or dementia?

“That’s what we all care about, but the answer is we just don’t know.”

He said people with hearing loss used a hearing aid in only 15% of cases in the US “so it is very undertreated”.

Dr Eric Karran, from the charity Alzheimer’s Research UK, said the exact connection between hearing loss and cognitive decline was still unknown.

He said: “Potential social isolation caused by hearing impairment is a more likely explanation for this link than there being a shared disease process, although this needs further investigation, this will be an interesting area to study further.

“Many people find their hearing becomes worse as they get older, and age is also the biggest risk factor for dementia.

“Understanding whether the two are directly linked could give important insight into the condition, but more research will be needed to fully answer this question.”

Dr Jason Warren, from University College London, researches how dementia affects the way people hear the world around them.

He said brain scans had shown that hearing loss in patients was also down to the way a dying brain tried to handle sound.

“People with Alzheimer’s often become ‘lost’ trying to follow a conversation in a noisy room or over the telephone.

“We hope ultimately to design and target effective interventions to help people manage such symptoms in their everyday lives.”
By James GallagherHealth and science reporter, BBC News