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Vol. 21 No. 8 | Monday
February 14,
2022 |
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We were saddened to learn of the death of Alfred
Kuehlewind this past weekend in Los Angeles.
Sue Lamy, Director, Global Business Development-Wen Parker Logistics:
“Another Legend leaves us.” |
In the picture from left are S.F. Abdullah
Al Awadhi, N.A. Khursheed, M.A. El Ariss. B. Singaravelou, Ingo Zimmer
and Mr. A. Alhaimy. |
NOLA
Straightens Up After
taking some time to decompress and think about AirCargo 2022, I wanted
to offer a perspective on what I thought was a very good conference, as
well as what I consider to be a couple of very important takeaways. Before
that however, my compliments to Brandon Fried and his team of planners
for the event. I was able to get a little bit of a peek behind the curtain
over the past year, and observed first hand, the time and effort that
pulling together the conference under the best of circumstances require.
In the midst of Covid with all its personal and operational complications,
and with conferences cancelling all over, the New Orleans get together
was a tremendous success and testament to the planning staff. |
FlyingTalkers |
We
take a moment to salute one among us who has been both a leader and an example
of a truly great career in air cargo. We know of and have admired the effort of Shahani Boteju Suriyarachchi, and actually had lost touch until her lovely face popped up on Linkedin. So, greetings to Shahani, who serves today as Freighter Operations Officer at Qatar Airways in Los Angeles. Linkedin tells us, and we know and admire her pioneering effort for women in air cargo for more than 25 years’ experience related to Cargo Operations, Administration, Business Support, Marketing & Sales, Training and IT in air and sea cargo. Shahani once said something that seems to us especially significant as 2022 flies along: “Rapid change is good, then you don’t get time to think too much. “Take change positively and the result will benefit you,” she said. “When I joined Emirates in 1994, under Ram Menen’s guidance we were like a flock of birds learning to fly. Now at Qatar Cargo, our top executive Guillaume Halleaux is such a wonderful soul, very down to earth. “Resembles Ram in ways . . . just wonderful.” Amen to that sister, and thanks Shahani, for making us all look good. Geoffrey |
My Nothing Box, that I bought in 1961 from Hammacher Schlemmer in Manhattan, a dancing light display that does nothing else stopped working. This thing costs $25 bucks and it operated on a self-contained power supply that was supposed to run out of battery after one year. So all of that happened, but then I thought who can afford to throw 25 bucks away so I opened It up and soldered another set of batteries into it and it performed perfectly with a new set of batteries annually for 61 consecutive years. Every February around Valentine’s Day I changed out the batteries and my Nothing Box kept on going, and going, and going doing, well-Nothing! Last February with maybe too much time to think about it during lockdown, I changed out the batteries, but this time substituted lithium for alkaline. Big mistake. My Nothing Box took some kind of jolt. Whilst the dancing light display still dances, only three of the eight bulbs are showing up for the action. Fortunately we are a large diverse family, so am in contact with Cousin Obi to see if a repair can be achieved. Obi builds sound systems (Khan Audio) and is a top flight engineer for musical groups. So I think I will include this picture of John Lennon 58 years ago when he arrived with The Beatles for the Ed Sullivan TV Show and took the U.S. and the world by storm. Looking at this picture of John in 1964, and me this week before I wrote this, confirms that once upon a time we had Nothing in common. |
Our regular readers have been putting up with our penchant for musical playlists for years or for at least as long as YouTube & Spotify have been around. Recently I heard the Neil Young pulled his music off of Spotify because he doesn’t like a broadcaster named Joe Rogan who some say may be the most popular podcaster in the world. Of all the pop artists the most enduring to me and the greatest of all time as an individual, a trio, a quartet, a sextet or big band (and at one time or another he was the driver of the best of all those) is Benny Goodman, the immortal BenG. I remember one day in the lobby of the Marine Air Terminal (MAT) at LaGuardia I walked over to Joe Bell’s newsstand where Herb Borrelli the airport maintenance guru in 1983 was taking a break with a couple others involved in a pretty good card game. Standing square in front of the Fruit Loops & M&Ms was BenG talking to Joe waiting for his private jet to take him somewhere. I was speechless. We had music playing in the MAT lobby, but that day we were featuring “Music For Airports” by Brian Eno (one to not miss). What could I say, given another day it would have been BenG anything. BenG, Teddy Wilson and Gene Krupa changed music forever in 1937 playing in the Madhattan Room of the Hotel Pennsylvania across the street from Penn Station. There were still people in the 1970s at that hotel who remembered those performances that also went out across the nation on CBS Radio and were heard by millions. Now square in front of me was BenG himself and I simply could not speak. That doesn’t happen often so for a few moments as he talked I thought about this great musician that brought more musical people to the fore and together, and later individually created the greatest pop music of the 20th century. BenG was just too cool. He was from another planet and we are damn lucky he happened to dropped in for a visit in our world. Sometimes you are better off speechless. But things being what they are in 2022, here are five favorites from BenG that (God Forbid) I hope never go missing. BenG Loves You Happy Valentines Day! Geoffrey |
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