Phyllis Omido walks through the village of Owino Uhuru. She has been keeping a close eye on the lead exposure that has plagued this settlement since a nearby smelter began operations in 2007. Image by Deborah Bloom. Kenya, 2018.
Mombasa, Kenya (CNN)–On a hot afternoon at a sprawling settlement on the outskirts of Mombasa, Phyllis Omido makes her rounds.
For close to a decade, Omido has been visiting the Owino Uhuru village, monitoring the various illnesses, deaths, and miscarriages that have occurred since a nearby smelter contaminated the village's air and water with lead.
On the couch next to Okello, Omido listens to her say in a soft, quiet voice that she's barely eaten in two weeks.
Adjacent to them are two framed photos: one of Okello's five-year-old son staring into the camera, and another of his casket. Omido tells Okello to pack a few items of clothing; she needs to go to the doctor, Omido says.
"Somehow, Catherine's whole family was exposed to very high lead levels," Omido says of the ailing mother. "I haven't understood why, because they weren't the ones living closest to the lead factory."
Omido takes Okello to the hospital and stays with her until she's admitted. She then drives an hour north to a small coastal city, arriving at a walled compound where she's taken refuge since November. She's hiding here, she says, while a lawsuit she filed against the Kenyan government and the smelter owners works its way through the court system.
"There's been a lot of security challenges," she would later say. "Any time we go to court, we come under attack."
Omido, 39, is one of Kenya's most outspoken environmental activists. She's been dubbed the "East African Erin Brockovich," and her work has led to the shuttering of 10 toxic waste smelters in Kenya in the past three years.
She received the 2015 Goldman Environmental Prize, awarded annually to six people from six different continents who undertake "sustained and significant efforts to protect and enhance the natural environment, often at great personal risk."
Indeed, much of Omido's work has been at great risk–to herself, her family, and her colleagues' families. She's been physically attacked multiple times and is constantly threatened. She says she's been arrested on five different occasions, but never convicted. Her colleagues' lives have also been threatened, their homes broken into or burned.
"It's quite unfortunate that we have to go through all this," Omido says with a small shrug.
The United Nations, through its Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, issued a press release in April demanding the Kenyan government do more to protect Omido and her colleagues, who are "facing a life-or-death situation."
"These human rights abuses undermine the ability of ordinary Kenyans to seek environmental protection without fear," the UN statement reads. "It is vital that the Kenyan Government takes effective actions immediately to protect these environmental defenders."
Police in Mombasa began investigating the alleged threats in April, local media reported. Police chief for Mombasa County, Peter Omwana, told CNN "the matter had been dealt with," while declining to provide specifics.
She began work at the lead-acid battery recycling plant, Metal Refinery EPZ, as a community relations manager in 2009, the second year of the plant's operation.
The smelter exported blocks of pure lead by taking used car batteries and extracting the lead from them using a special furnace. In violation of Kenyan environmental and human rights law, the factory's smelting process would emit fumes, dust, and effluent laden with lead particles, according to a 2015 report by the Ministry of Health.
Tasked with assessing the smelter's environmental impact, Omido made a grim discovery: she found the factory's location–directly next to Owino Uhuru–left the roughly 3,000 residents there vulnerable to lead exposure. She recommended to management the factory be relocated, and was dismissed from the project, she says.
Three months into her job, Omido's infant son, King David, starting vomiting frequently, his fever spiking daily. Omido brought him to the hospital, where tests for malaria, typhoid, and rotavirus all came back negative.
Stumped, Omido acted on a co-worker's recommendation she test her son for lead poisoning. His blood came back positive for lead at a rate of 35 micrograms per deciliter. Anything above 5 micrograms per deciliter is concerning, according to the Center for Diseases Control. Her doctor told her King David had likely ingested lead through her breast milk.
Omido showed her son's test results to a manager at work and was given a check for her son's medical bills on the verbal agreement that she would not go public with her findings, she says. She took the money and quit.
Meanwhile, villagers were suffering the smelter's toxic effects. At night, the factory spewed thick, black smoke from its chimneys. Owino Uhuru residents said they would sometimes have to sleep outside to avoid choking on the fumes that would waft through their windows and become trapped in their homes. Factory emissions would also cause acid rain, mixing into the soil and eating through villagers' corrugated metal roofs.
"We used to get rain water from the roofs," explains Owino Uhuru resident Rose Obuya. "We used to use it for domestic consumption–drinking, cooking, bathing–but all of a sudden, we realized that the rain water has a bitter taste. It wasn't normal."
"I am scared, I fear the same thing will happen again," Nabwire told the reporter.
Altogether, Omido says she's recorded 79 deaths in Owino Uhuru from lead-related ailments, including 46 children. She also recorded 124 miscarriages between 2010 and 2014, when the smelter was in operation.
In 2010, after a factory worker fainted and died, Omido organized a demonstration. She stood with other villagers outside the gates of the factory, hoisting signs and crying out "lead kills," when parliamentary member Ramadhan Kajembe, then the Assistant Minister for Environment, arrived at the scene.
"He said the smelter had created jobs for the community," Omido recalls. She says he publicly accused her of trying to incite community members. She threatened to show him her son's lab test results, certified by the city's chief medical examiner.
"And at that point he ordered his bodyguards to clobber me," she says with a small, amused smile. "So, I climbed on a motorbike and escaped."
After the first protest, the National Environment Management Authority ordered the smelter to close, citing the factory's lack of compliance with safety requirements. The factory was shuttered temporarily, but quickly reopened after the Municipal Council of Mombasa decided the factory had complied with its requirements. The letter-writing campaign continued.
Omido decided to stage another demonstration in 2012. "By then, the number of sick people had gone very high," she says. "People were not able to be productive anymore, not able to go to work because they were exposed to very thick smoke all night."
Omido was arrested early that morning before the demonstration could get underway. She stayed in jail overnight and eventually stood trial, accused of inciting violence and unlawfully assembling–"trumped up charges," according to Human Rights Watch.
At trial, a prosecutor argued that Omido was carrying a firearm the day of the demonstration, Omido claims. After police were unable to provide evidence of this, an officer took the stand to testify. "He said the most dangerous weapon I had was my mouth," Omido recalls with a laugh. "And that when I spoke to community members, they would do what I said, so that should be considered a weapon."
"The only thing I could remember they said was that I was an arrogant person and that I was trying to stand up to men in the society," she recalls. "So that stuck with me. I knew this was about Owino Uhuru. This was not a normal robbery."
Following a third demonstration in 2013, NEMA again ordered the smelter to be closed. Three weeks after it shut down, smoke emissions again billowed from the factory's chimneys. Only in 2014, after Kenya made exporting scrap metal illegal did the factory permanently close.
"At least, now, the air was clean. But the soil and water were still contaminated," Omido said of the factory's closing. So began her mission to get the affected residents of Owino Uhuru compensated for their suffering.
In 2015, a government taskforce concluded Metal Refinery EPZ "failed to balance its economic interest against public health interest and environmental concerns."
"By releasing toxic fumes containing lead particulates and oxides of sulphur, trade effluent, and solid waste into the neighboring Owino Uhuru village...the factory primarily caused the myriad of problems threatening public health and safety of Owino Uhuru," the taskforce report reads.
CNN's efforts to reach the factory owners were unsuccessful. Omido's lawyer went to Mumbai, where Metal Refinery EPZ is based, and tried to serve both men with papers, Omido says. He couldn't find either of them.
Hezron Awiti, a member of parliament who has admitted to owning the factory premises to local media, refused to comment to CNN. An article in the local paper, The Standard, says Awiti denied knowledge of the factory's activities, and has blamed health officials for failing to enforce safety standards.
"As a landlord I was not involved in the day-to-day operations of the company, neither did I have the expertise to determine, at the earliest stage possible, that sinister activities, with highly dangerous outcome were going on in the premises," he said to The Standard.
The taskforce report found that "the situation in Owino Uhuru settlements and its environs became what it is today because the various legislative frameworks were not strictly adhered to."
"Lack of good waste management practices by both factory management and relevant government agencies greatly contributed to lead exposure within the factory premises and its immediate environs," the report adds.
She would receive text messages from unknown numbers, demanding she stop the lawsuit from moving forward. Three Owino Uhuru residents who worked closely with Omido–Anastacia Nambo, Wilifred Kamenchu, and Alfred Ogola, also were threatened. Nambo says her home was broken into. Both Kamenchu and Ogola say their houses were set on fire. Today, Nambo and Ogola both carry the same GPS tracker as Omido.
Last year in April, as Omido was boarding a flight to Johannesburg to attend an environmental summit, she received a phone call from an unknown number. "Where is your son?" a strange voice on the other line demanded.
"Why do you want to know where my son is?" she asked the stranger.
"He's in danger," said the voice, and then a click. Silence.
The next day, Omido heard Kamenchu's son was kidnapped on his way home from school. He turned up three days later, unharmed.
"But still the threats were still coming," Kamenchu said.
Her office and home are decked out with closed-circuit television cameras. She owns 10 dogs, five of which she trains as attack dogs; the other five are trained to detect explosives. She closely monitors her son's whereabouts. To keep her siblings out of danger, she won't tell them where she lives. She's developed tracking and evacuation procedures, signals, safe words to be used during emergencies.
"Mostly I pray, even though I take a lot of precautions," she says.
Mombasa Governor Hassan Joho admits the government needs to do more to address the suffering in Owino Uhuru. He blamed the inaction on the country's switch in 2013 from a municipal council to a county government system.
"There was a bit of laxity at that time," he said to CNN. "But now we can't blame the municipality. It is no longer there."
To his credit, the county has covered some Owino Uhuru residents' medical bills accrued from lead-related illnesses. For six months, the county offered village members zinc and calcium supplement, which can decrease lead concentration in the blood.
But many medical bills have gone unpaid, Omido says. And several Owino Uhuru residents told CNN that Mombasa County's distribution of calcium and zinc, which counteract lead toxicity, abruptly stopped in September 2016; the government claims it is ongoing.
"They brought calcium and zinc for just a short period," said Anastacia Nambo, a colleague of Omido. "Some were given maybe once. Myself, I got it once, but my child never received it. Others have still never received it."
Lead-acid batteries–used in cars, energy supplies, and solar power storage–are improperly recycled in many developing countries, according to environmental non-profit Pure Earth.
In countries with strictly enforced regulations, special equipment must be used in smelters to curb environmental pollution. At lead smelters in the United States, for instance, filtration devices are required for pollution control. Kenyan law says it's illegal to pollute the country's air and water, but it does not specify how a lead smelter must comply with those laws.
In sub-Saharan Africa, collection and recycling of lead-acid batteries "lack even basic precaution measures to prevent the emission of lead and battery acid to the workspace and the environment," according to a report by German environmental research firm Oko-Institut. Cases of lead-poisoning from unsound lead-acid battery recycling have been recorded in Ethiopia, Tanzania, Cameroon, China, Vietnam, the Philippines, the Dominican Republic, and elsewhere, the report adds.
"Large as these numbers are, they are almost certainly underestimates," the statement reads.
After Omido brought Catherine Okello into the hospital, doctors diagnosed the 35-year-old mother with renal failure–a symptom of chronic lead poisoning, according to the CDC–and prescribed kidney dialysis. In March, she died of organ failure. David Mahala, one of the other villagers Omido visited that day, would also die. His home shared a wall with the smelter.
As for the lawsuit, court proceedings have been delayed eight times. But Omido keeps hope the judge will rule in their favor–and soon. She wants the residents of Owino Uhuru to be compensated for their suffering. But she also wants to move on with her life.
She's tired of living in hiding, she says, and would like to retire early. Maybe move to a remote farm somewhere and raise goats and cows, she adds.
"My son hasn't had much of a childhood," Omido says somberly. "He can never be alone; he can be pulled out of school at any minute. He doesn't have a normal life. And isn't that what everyone deserves?"


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I've tried efty.com. It's not just for landing pages and transactions ... they have a whole section for inputing your domain data (price paid, etc). Unfortunately I found it very cumbersome so yeah... back to Google Sheets.


1. Connect the ethernet cable from LAN Port 1 on the CPE/ONT device (the device that has been mounted on the wall) into the WAN/Internet port on your Afrihost fibre router. Ensure CPE is powered up and lights are showing on the device.
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* At the top of your Internet browser type 192.168.0.1 and press enter.
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The Dangers and Costs of not Asking for what you are worth…
Guest blog by Adrian Evans
A client of mine was a loyal employee. He had a consistent track record of developing new customers and delivering above target revenue for a leading global technology company.
He was the type of individual who believed in conducting himself in line with company values and thought in return he would be appropriately rewarded. He was however keen for his next internal career move.
He took the time to understand his key motivations and who the best people within his organisation were to connect with. He met a number of prominent VP's, the HR Director and the Managing Director EMEA. He felt he had extended his network and influence within the business.
Whilst he was making positive steps he was feeling some major frustrations on a day to day basis. His line manager had not reviewed his performance effectively or regularly, he had not had a pay review since joining the organisation and no career path was in place. He enjoyed large parts of the culture of the business but he was feeling undervalued from a financial and career development perspective.
His Challenge:
After further research he discovered he was significantly underpaid compared to his peers, this was in terms of both basic salary and bonus payment.
He then received a call from a headhunter who had seen his profile on Linkedin and thought he would be a very good fit for a role with a direct competitor.
Being a loyal employee he normally ignored these approaches. This role however was offering a potential 45% increase in salary for doing the same job. So whilst feeling slightly disloyal, he decided to explore the opportunity.
He was successful at first interview and was invited back to give a presentation. He was able to stand out and the organization were keen to employ him.
He accepted their offer. His current business was surprised when he resigned. The company announced he was leaving. Naturally many of his colleagues were shocked - as a top performer they thought he would have been well rewarded and treated fairly.
Finally a senior director intervened. He apologized for the company mismanaging his career and remuneration and offered to match the other company's offer and pay him a 30% retention bonus.
We calculated that he would earn £65,000 more over the next 12 months - this was for doing the same job and no additional responsibilities.
Had he not been advised to ask for his worth he would have missed out on over £250,000 of earnings over the next 5 years – is that fair?
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Maud Rosenbaum (gift baronessa Levi och Blumenthal), född 13 januari 1902 i Chicago, Illinois, USA, död 3 maj 1981 i New York, New York; var en amerikansk friidrottare och tennisspelare. Rosenbaum blev bronsmedaljör vid den första damolympiaden 1922 och var en pionjär inom damidrott.

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Rosenbaum var dotter till  Emanuel Frank Rosenbaum och dennes fru Maud Yondorf. Hon i skolan vid Oaksmere School i New Rochelle i Westchester County i delstaten New York. Under skoltiden var hon aktiv friidrottare och särskilt intresserad av basket.

Rosenbaum deltog i den första damolympiaden den 20 augusti 1922 i Paris, under idrottsspelen vann hon bronsmedalj i kulstötning.

Efter idrottsspelen övergick hon till tennis, hon deltog i Internationaux de France 1926 (utslagen i åttondelsfinalen mot Daisy Speranza) och 1927 (utslagen i grundspelet förlust mot Simone Mathieu), hon blev även italiensk mästare flera gånger.

1927 gifte hon sig i Paris med den italienske baronen Giorgio di Giacomo Levi (1888-1969); paret flyttade till Rom och fick senare en dotter. Detta äktenskap slutade i skilsmässa 1934.

Redan 1930 återvände hon till USA och fortsatte tenniskarriären, hon deltog bl.a. i US National Championships 1930 (utslagen i semifinalen), 1933 (utslagen i grundspelet) och 1934 (utslagen i kvartsfinalen). 1933 vann hon 4 titlar däribland New York State Tennis Championship.

1935 gifte hon sig med börsmäklaren Walter Hugo Blumenthal. Hon dog 1981 i New York.

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Bizarre armoured spike fossil belongs to dinosaur that lived in Africa 168 MILLION years ago
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A bizarre armoured spike fossil, found in Morocco, belonged to a new species of dinosaur that was 'unlike anything else in the animal kingdom,' research has found.
The fossil shows a series of spikes that were fused to the rib of the beast, which is unusual for an ankylosaur, as it would usually be connected to the skin tissue.
Ankylosaurs were a diverse group of armoured dinosaurs related to the stegosaurs, which were present throughout the Cretaceous period from 145 to 66 million years ago.
However, there is little evidence of them before then, making this new fossil, dating back 168 million years, the earliest example of the group ever discovered.
The exciting discovery was made in the Middle Atlas Mountains of Morocco at the same site where researchers from the Natural History Museum (NHM) in London previously discovered the oldest stegosaur ever found.
Dr Susannah Maidment, a researcher at the NHM, described the new species and named it 'Spicomellus afer', meaning collar of spikes and Africa.
Susannah Maidment (pictures) named the dinosaur Spicomellus afer, and is seen here holding the specimens that led to its discovery
A bizarre armoured spike fossil, found in Morocco, belonged to a new species of dinosaur that was 'unlike anything else in the animal kingdom,' researched found
It isn't clear exactly what Spicomellus afer would have looked like, but researchers say it would have been similar to other Ankylosaurs (artist impression pictured)
'At first we thought the specimen could be part of a stegosaur, having previously found them at the same location. But on closer inspection, we realised the fossil was unlike anything we had ever seen,' the researcher explained.
The specimen was so unusual that at first the researchers wondered if it could be a fake, but a series of CT scans confirmed it was 'the real deal'.
A cross section from the base of the fossil showed a cross hatch pattern in the bone that is unique to ankylosaurs, revealing its identity.
'Ankylosaurs had armoured spikes that are usually embedded in their skin and not fused to bone,' said Dr Maidment, pointing out what made it so unusual.
The exciting discovery was made in the Middle Atlas Mountains of Morocco at the same site where researchers from the Natural History Museum (NHM) in London previously discovered the oldest stegosaur ever found
Specimen of the oldest ankylosaur ever discovered and the first from the African continent are at the Natural History Museum in London. The specimen is a fossil of armour spikes, that once protruded from the ankylosaur's ribs
Contrary to Dr Maidment's original suspicion that the specimen could be fake, the specimen is genuine and, therefore, new to science
Dr Susannah Maidment (pictured) worked with the specimens to determine they belong to the oldest known Ankylosaur ever discovered and the first in Africa
Dr Maidment (pictured) said of the newly described creature: 'It is completely unprecedented and unlike anything else in the animal kingdom'
'In this specimen we see a series of spikes attached to the rib, which must have protruded above the skin covered by a layer of something like keratin.
'It is completely unprecedented and unlike anything else in the animal kingdom.'
The new discovery dates from the Middle Jurassic period around 168 million years ago and helps fill an important gap in our knowledge of dinosaur evolution.
It suggests that ankylosaurs may have had a global distribution, found across the planet and not in confined areas, the team revealed.
The discovery also calls into question a previous theory that ankylosaurs outcompeted stegosaurs and led to their extinction.
Ankylosaurs were a diverse group of armoured dinosaurs related to the stegosaurs, present throughout the Cretaceous period from 145 to 66 million years ago
'In this specimen we see a series of spikes attached to the rib, which must have protruded above the skin covered by a layer of something like keratin,' said Dr Maidment
This new find, however, means the two groups co-existed for over 20 million years, and implies the extinction of the stegosaurs may have happened for other reasons.
The fossil that led to the description of this new species is now part of the Natural History Museum's collections and will be the subject of ongoing study.
Dr Maidment said: 'Morocco seems to hold some real gems in terms of dinosaur discoveries. In just this one site we have described both the oldest stegosaur and the oldest ankylosaur ever found.
'When circumstances allow, we hope to return and work with our colleagues at the University of Fez to help them to establish a vertebrate paleontology lab so that further finds can be studied in Morocco.'
The study Bizarre dermal armour suggests the first African ankylosaur is published in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution.
WHAT WERE THE ANKYLOSAURID DINOSAURS AND WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THEM?
One of the most impressive weapons to appear during the dinosaur arms race in the Cretaceous Period was the bony tail club wielded by some members of a group of tank-like plant-eaters.
The distinctive feature – a bludgeon used in combat that may have given even the ferocious Tyrannosaurus rex reason to worry – was possessed by the heavily armoured dinosaur ankylosaurus and its cousins.
Researchers have studied fossils of a group known as ankylosaurs, including primitive species with no tail club, and those with a fully developed defensive bone on the tail, which appeared later.
Ankylosaurs began to evolve tail clubs much earlier than previously thought, a 2015 study found, and the clubs evolved in two steps over the course of tens of millions of years.
Ankylosaurs lived at a time when the largest land predators in Earth's history including T. rex roamed the landscape, dismembering other dinosaurs with powerful jaws and serrated teeth
First, vertebrae in the back part of the tail changed sothat the tail became stiff.
Next, bones that form in the skin toprovide body armour, known as osteoderms, became very large at thetip of the tail and completely enveloped the tail's end to forma club which could be swung at an enemy.
Ankylosaurs were wide-bodied, four-legged dinosaurs coveredin bony plates and spikes.
The oldest known ankylosaur datedfrom around 160 million years ago, during the Jurassic Period.
Ankylosaurs from China were crucial for understanding the tail club's origins, including Gobisaurus, from about 92 million years ago, and Liaoningosaurus, from about 122 million years ago.
Asian ankylosaurids had more pronounced spikes covering their skulls, compared with the smooth-boned armour of their North American counterparts.
The first fully-formed ankylosaur tail clubappeared around 75 million years ago during the Cretaceous.
Ankylosaurus, measuring around 20 feet (six metre), was thelargest and last of the ankylosaurs, living at the end of theage of dinosaurs about 65 million years ago.
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Winter isn't the time of the year when you imagine that it's a good idea to head out for a family portrait shoot, but here's the news it is often a great time of the year to get together for a session.
In the run up to Christmas I visited the very beautiful town of Southwold on the Suffolk Coast to meet up with a family I'd photographed earlier in the year for a birthday celebration. They were enjoying a bit of time away with their extended family for Christmas and had hired a lovely house not far from the beach in the town. On quite a cold day with a bit of a breeze blowing and the sea as high as I've ever seen it in Southwold we headed down to the Seafront for some photographs with the family and their pet dogs. We had great fun with beach huts and the lovely beach enjoying a superb bit of winter sun that created a micr0-climate that almost made it warm enough to remove your winter coat in comfort.
I left the family to enjoy a fab Christmas and all that Southwold had to offer them, great to see such a nice family again, great to make some more memories for them, and greater still to have some fun on a sunlit wintery beach.
I hope you enjoy some of the photographs and if you would like a suffolk lifestyle photography shoot please get in touch.


Cairns' newest attraction Cairns Aquarium offers an amazing opportunity to experience the reef and marine life right in the CBD. No matter how unpredictable the weather is in the tropics, Cairns Aquarium is open every day of the week. It has proven to be popular attraction with over 2000 people walking through the doors on the opening day so it is definitely worth to pre-book your ticket to avoid queues at the door.
Children love the Aquarium as there are many interactive experiences such as turtle tunnel, tide pool and touch tank- they will learn so much about the Great Barrier Reef and its inhabitants. There is even a special tank for all the fluorescent marine creatures; it looks like hundreds of Christmas lights have been submerged in the water!
Aquarium is divided into different ecosystems and there is a comprehensive gallery about each and every one of them. Expositions start with the river systems, creeks and streams, waterways and billabongs, tropical rainforest and even the forest floor and it is shown how all the previous is connected to the Great Barrier reef.
You will find out about the life in mangroves- who is Mangrove Jack and where the Estuarine Crocodile is hiding. Great Barrier Reef exposition is sure to impress with small and colourful and big and menacing marine creatures. Stingrays, sharks and sawfish are just a few to leave you awestruck.
Perhaps you have a reef trip planned and you would like to find out about the dangers of the reef before you go? Don't worry, there really isn't that much to be scared of, especially after you learn the simple ways how to protect yourself from the jellyfish. Find out what shark species you may encounter while snorkelling on the Great Barrier Reef and how to make an escape when you have angered the Triggerfish.
Cairns Aquarium has a great on-site restaurant where you can grab a coffee and a cake or more substantial meal. And the best thing about it- you can still admire fish though the glass while enjoying your meal.
Children under the age of three years are complimentary. Children aged 3-14 inclusive are eligible for child rates. No child or children aged 14 or under will be admitted to Cairns Aquarium unless they are accompanied by an adult (18 years or over) Each child, or children, must remain under the control or supervision of an adult at all times.
No associated cancellation charge on Entry if the dates are transferred and 24 hours' notice is provided. 100% cancellation fee will be applied if less than 24 hours' prior notice is given on any cancellations.
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In an amusing new version of Laurence Sterne's supposedly unfilmable novel of the 1760s, British comedian Steve Coogan (I'm Alan Partridge) stars in a triple role (as himself, Tristram, and Tristram's father). As Coogan notes, Tristram Shandy "was postmodern even before there was modernism to be post about."
Not long after the birth of the novel, Sterne was already subverting its conventions with a self-conscious narrator, interrupted episodes, crude drawings (centuries before Vonnegut) -- and even, after the death of a minor character, an all-black page of mourning.
Director Michael Winterbottom (Welcome to Sarajevo) finds cinematic equivalents: Special effects transform close-ups of 18th-century military maps into live-action battle sequences. Tristram's mother screams while giving birth as the director sits calmly three feet away. Coogan jumps into the frame at odd angles. The screen suddenly goes silent and black.
Nearly all the funny moments in this book are represented: the near-disaster of Tristram's birth with newfangled forceps; the comic obsession of Tristram's Uncle Toby with his own long-ago military exploits; the elaborate curse of excommunication directed by a quack against an inept servant; the pursuit by the sexually aggressive Widow Wadman of naive Uncle Toby.
Extras are sparse and disappointing. The best feature by far has actor Stephen Fry (Wilde), who plays Parson Yorick, discussing both the novel and Sterne's life (including the incredible story of what happened to Sterne's corpse).
But many of the 21st-century sequences feel tacked-on and self-indulgent: Coogan flirts with a production assistant, struggles to balance work with family, deals with publicists, parties with cast members. The difference is that while Sterne's digressions reflect on Tristram's story, Coogan's don't create any meaningful connections. For A Cock and Bull Story to behave like a shaggy dog, its tail-wagging has to lead, implausibly yet delightfully, back to some semblance of where we started. (Rated R)


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Home Reviews TV The Guyver, Vol. 1
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The Guyver, Vol. 1
(1994) 180 min. DVD: $24.95. Manga Entertainment (avail. from most distributors). Color cover. Volume 18, Issue 3
by S. Raiteri
This six-episode disc is the first of two collecting the direct-to-video Guyver series, originally released in Japan from 1987-1990. The secret organization Chronos is studying three mysterious alien symbiotes known as Guyvers, each encased in protective armor rendering it inert. When the Guyvers are stolen and then lost, high school student Sho Fukamachi and his friend Tetsuro discover one of them, but when Sho accidentally breaks it open, he merges with the Guyver, and becomes a super-powerful warrior in an armored combat suit equipped with a variety of devastating weapons. When Chronos sends its Zoanoids (monstrous and powerful genetically-altered humans) to recover the Guyver, threatening Tetsuro and his sister Mizuki (whom Sho has feelings for), Sho is forced into battle after battle to stop them. And the battles seem to be the main point of the series, which otherwise suffers from poor writing. Manga suggests the disc for ages 13 and up, but the grotesque and bloody violence argues for a higher age range (although older viewers are likely to find the series unsatisfying). Presented with both an English dub (that leaves a good bit to be desired, in both voice acting and scripting) and the original Japanese audio track, The Guyver (the second volume is available at the same price) is one of the earlier anime series to make a splash in America, but while it may hold some nostalgic appeal for longtime fans, this cannot be recommended except for the most comprehensive collections. Aud: P. (S. Raiteri)
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This charming resort for sale is located between the green hills of the Tuscan countryside, just twenty kilometers from Florence.
Wisely-renovated in 2005, this hotel is in a great position surrounded by Chianti's quiet landscapes, where we can admire uniquely beautiful fields adorned with vine rows.
This estate is composed of the main building, which is home to ten bedrooms, including a stunning suite located in this property typical stone turret.
Its rustic style, the use of traditional materials, a warm, welcoming atmosphere and refined, functional furniture make staying in this hotel a very relaxing and pleasant experience.
The restaurant adjacent to the main villa has its own independent access, it features a big, fully-equipped kitchen and can sit up to 100 people, while the gazebo outside can sit 150.
This property is completed by an old barn conversion home to sixteen bedrooms. This property also features two swimming pool located in an intimate area of this estate's well-tended garden, which measures 4,500 m2. The grounds, which measure 1.9 hectares, also feature a big, convenient car park measuring 2,500 m2.
This luxurious property in Chianti has big spaces, which makes it extremely versatile: it is currently a hotel where people can have relaxing holidays surrounded by nature, but it may also be converted into a private home, dividing it into two units with their own garden, or into several apartments.
On the slopes of a hill in the province of Pisa there is this noble villa from the early 1900s for sale and featuring all comforts.


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Martini – cognome di lingua italiana

Aziende
 Martini – marchio italiano di bevande alcoliche
 Martini & Rossi – multinazionale italiana
 Martini – casa automobilistica svizzera, attiva dal 1897 al 1934

Bevande
 Dirty Martini – cocktail a base di vodka, vermut secco e olive in salamoia
 Martini – cocktail a base di gin e vermut
 Martini (Vodka) – cocktail a base di vodka e vermut secco
 Martini Perfect – cocktail a base di gin, vermut secco e vermut rosso
 Sweet Martini – cocktail a base di gin e vermut rosso

Persone

 Martini – famiglia italiana

Altro

 Martini – team francese di Formula 1
 Martini Racing – scuderia automobilistica
 Premio "Mia Martini" – premio della critica musicale (vedi anche Festival di Sanremo)
 Villa Rossi Martini – villa nobiliare genovese
 MARTINI – campo di forza utilizzato nello studio molecolare

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Updated on: Wednesday, December 01, 2021, 01:46 PM IST
Israel's Tel Aviv ranked world's most expensive city, Damascus the cheapest
Tel Aviv gained the top rank partly owing to the strength of the national currency, the shekel, against the dollar, along with increases in costs for transport and groceries.
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London: Tel Aviv is the most expensive city in the world to live in as increasing inflation has shot up the living costs globally, as per a survey published on Wednesday, reports NDTV.
The Israeli city jumped five places to secure the top place for the first time in the authoritative ranking compiled by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).
The Worldwide Cost of Living Index is made by comparing prices in US dollars for goods and services in 173 cities.
Paris and Singapore shared the second spot, followed by Zurich and Hong Kong. New York was placed sixth, with Geneva in seventh.
Finishing off the top 10 were Copenhagen in eighth, Los Angeles in ninth and Osaka, Japan, in 10th.
Last year, the survey saw Paris, Zurich and Hong Kong sharing the first spot.
This year's data was collected in August and September as prices for freight and goods increased and showcased that on average prices rose 3.5 percent in local currency terms -- the fastest inflation rate seen over the past five years.
Social restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic "have disrupted the supply of goods, leading to shortages and higher prices," said Upasana Dutt, head of worldwide cost of living at The EIU.
"We can clearly see the impact in this year's index, with the rise in petrol prices particularly stark," she said, while central banks are likely to increase interest rates cautiously, reducing inflation.
The average inflation numbers excludes four cities with extremely high rates: Caracas, Damascus, Buenos Aires and Tehran.
The Iranian capital jumped from 79th to 29th spot in the ranking as US sanctions have shot up prices and caused shortages.
Damascus was ranked the cheapest city to live in the world.
Omicron Variant: US President Biden to decide on expanding travel ban on weekly basis
Published on: Wednesday, December 01, 2021, 01:46 PM IST
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Attempted illegal crossings at the southwestern border rose in September, ending the fiscal year with a massive increase in migration tied to a new wave of Central-American children and families seeking entry to the country.
The latest data, released Wednesday by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, show that apprehensions at the border rose in September to just over 50,000, up from around 46,000 in August. These figures include all people apprehended trying to cross between ports of entry, as well as people who showed up at one of the ports of entry and attempted to enter the country without complying with relevant procedures.
The September figures, which round off the federal fiscal year, bring the total number of apprehensions at the southwestern border in FY 2018 roughly in line with 2016 and 2014. They also continue the precipitous rise in apprehensions following 2017's record low numbers.
Apprehensions at the border peaked in late 2016, before the election of President Donald Trump in November of that year. Border apprehensions plummeted in the months following his election, dropping as low as 15,000 in April of 2017. This phenomenon was labeled the "Trump effect," and many interpreted it as a byproduct of the President's tough rhetoric and promises to reduce legal and illegal immigration.
However, just a few months into the Trump presidency apprehensions began to rise again, with numbers for the early months of 2018 more or less in line with recent years. In response, the administration announced its plan to prosecute all illegal border crossers under its now-infamous "zero tolerance" policy.
The rate of increase in apprehensions slowed, although more than 50,000 people were apprehended at the border in the month following implementation of zero tolerance. But the two months after that—June and July of 2018—saw precipitous declines in apprehensions, which the administration argued was a reflection of its new tough policy.
This drop was short-lived, as the last two months of 2018 show. The White House has argued this is because of the shackles placed on it that prohibit it from effectively dealing with children (unaccompanied minors or "UACs") and family groups ("family units") who it apprehends attempting to enter the country illegally. The last several months of FY 2018 saw a surge in apprehensions of both groups, especially family units.
Under an existing legal arrangement, the administration has been forced to release UACs and children with their parents into the interior, rather than detaining them at Department of Homeland Security facilities, leading to what it has labelled "catch-and-release." DHS announced a fix to this situation last month, but its implementation remains legally murky.
As both the White House and left-leaning outlet Vox noted, the current number of family and UAC apprehensions it at a historic high, indicating that solutions specifically tailored to this changing composition of the would-be crosser population are needed.
The administration's claims notwithstanding, it is not perfectly clear what effect any given immigration control policy has on total illegal immigration rates—a complex figure the causes of which are difficult to untangle. Notably, the number of family units and UACs attempting to illegally immigrate rose between April and June, casting doubt on family separation as a tactic for reducing family migration.
However, recent research does indicate that prosecuting first-time crossers reduces subsequent crossing attempts, indicating that a "zero tolerance" policy drives down illegal immigration.
Nonetheless, the legislative changes needed to swiftly prosecute and deport unaccompanied children or family units, especially those who make often-specious asylum claims, are unlikely to come any time soon from a Congress skittish about immigration generally. Even with majority Republican control, the legislative branch has failed multiple times to reach an accord on immigration policy more broadly, leaving the Trump administration to cope with what it is now labeling a "border crisis."
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Review of the role that Independent Domestic Violence Advocates play in working with victims/applicants before, during and after an application for a Forced Marriage Protection Order (2010).
This report evaluates the work of four Independent Domestic Violence Advocacy schemes working in different settings in London (2010).
Research examining the provision and impact of Independent Domestic Violence Advisor services for female victims of domestic abuse (2009).
Key findings from research into Independent Domestic Violence Advisor services for female victims of domestic abuse (2009).
Summary of research examining the Independent Domestic Violence Advisor services for female victims of domestic abuse (2009).
Evaluation of a safety planning and advocacy service for gay, bisexual, transgender (GBT) and heterosexual men who have experienced domestic abuse (2006).


Cancer is driven by aberrations in the genome and these alterations manifest themselves largely in the changes in the structure and abundance of proteins, the main functional gene products. Hence, characterization and analyses of alterations in the proteome has the promise to shed light into cancer development and may improve development of both biomarkers and therapeutics. Measuring the proteome is very challenging, but recent rapid technology developments in mass spectrometry are enabling deep proteomics analysis. Multiple initiatives have been launched to take advantage of this development to characterize the proteome of tumours, such as the Clinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium (CPTAC). These efforts hold the promise to revolutionize cancer research, but this will only be possible if the community develops computational tools powerful enough to extract the most information from the proteome, and to understand the association between genome, transcriptome and proteome in tumors. Towards this end, we ran a community-based collaborative competition: The NCI-CPTAC DREAM Proteogenomics Challenge. The challenge used public and novel proteogenomic data generated by the CPTAC to try to answer fundamental questions about how different levels of biological signal relate to one another. In particular, we focus on understanding: (i) Can one impute missing values in proteomics data given observed proteins? (ii) Can one predict abundance of any given protein from mRNA and genetic data? (iii) Can one predict the phosphoproteomic data, using proteomic, mRNA and genetic data? In the presentation we will discuss the challenge and a summary of the lessons learned from it so far.


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My Truth
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Grigory Yavlinsky : "If you show the white feather, you will get fascism"
Grigory Yavlinsky: a coup is started by idealists and controlled by rascals
The Road to Good Governance
Risks of Transitions. The Russian Experience
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A Male's Face of Russia's Politics
Black Sea Palaces of the New Russian Nomenklatura
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The Hidden Cause of the Great Recession (And How to Avert the Nest One)
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Building a Liberal Europe - the ALDE Project
By Sir Graham Watson
Lies and legitimacy
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Algorithms for Opposing Gender Discrimination: the International and the Russian Experience
YABLOKO and ELDR joint conference
Moscow, March 12, 2011
Reform or Revolution
by Vladimir Kara-Murza
Is Modernisation in Russia Possible? Interview with Grigory Yavlinsky and Boris Titov by Yury Pronko, "The Real Time" programme, Radio Finam, May 12, 2010
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Overcoming the Totalitarian Past: Foreign Experience and Russian Problems by Galina Mikhaleva. Research Centre for the East European Studies, Bremen, February 2010.
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Demodernization
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European Union chooses Grigory Yavlinsky!
Your vote counts!
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Moskovsky Komsomolets, September 2, 2003
Alexei Arbatov: What Should We Do About Chechnya?
Interview with Alexei Arbatov by Mikhail Falaleev
Komsomolskaya Pravda, November 9, 2002
Grigory Yavlinsky: Our State Does Not Need People
Novaya Gazeta,
No. 54, July 29, 2002
Grigory Yavlinsky: The Door to Europe is in Washington
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Archive for 'Presidential Elections'
Negative Selection*
Grigory Yavlinsky's web-site, 27.10.2021 (*Negative selection is a mechanism prioritising and ensuring selection of the worst. See, for example, here) The State Duma elections ended exactly one month ago. We approached these elections in a situation when the system had been consolidated and had started moving definitely and consciously to an aggressive-repressive model of relations with […]
Posted: October 27th, 2021 under Constitutional Amendments, Economy, Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Political Parties, Politics, Presidential Elections, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2021, Russian Economy, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Без рубрики.
On the situation in Russia
Decision No 145 by the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, adopted on 14.10.2021, published on 18.10.2021 Photo by Alexander Kazakov / Kommersant The situation in Russia, in almost all spheres, is currently determined by trends summarising the previous 25 years and set by the 2020 "constitutional reform" [Vladimir Putin's amendments to the Russian Constitution]. This […]
Posted: October 21st, 2021 under Economy, Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Political Committee Decisions, Political Parties, Presidential Elections, Russian Economy, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
Boris Vishnevsky: In the atmosphere of military hysteria. Why the Kremlin is pumping the society with militarism and what the elections have to do with it
Novaya Gazeta, 13.04.2021 Photo by olegkozyrev/depositphotos Dmitry Peskov's [Vladimir Putin's Press Secretary] statements that Russia "is not going to move" towards war with Ukraine, but "will not remain indifferent to the fate of Russian speakers who live in the southeast of the country" are not a sign of abandoning the planned scenario, but represent another […]
Posted: April 15th, 2021 under Elections, Foreign policy, Human Rights, Presidential Elections, Russia-Ukraine relations, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Без рубрики.
"People should see their representatives on the rostrum of the parliament, rather than in the police vans." Yabloko leader Nikolai Rybakov spoke at the Central Electoral Commission
Press Release, 29.03.2021 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 29 March, 2021, the first meeting of the Central Electoral Commission of the new convocation took place. Chairman of the Yabloko party Nikolai Rybakov spoke at the meeting. According to the Yabloko Chaiman, it is necessary to increase confidence in the elections, and the fact […]
Posted: March 29th, 2021 under Elections, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019, Presidential Elections, Regional and Local Elections, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, Без рубрики.
Yabloko's Federal Political Committee adopted the position of Grigory Yavlinsky and approved the direction of the party's reform
Press Release, 20.02.2021 Photo: Grigory Yavlinsky / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 19 February 19, a regular meeting of the Federal Political Committee (FPC) of the Yabloko Party took place. The meeting was attended by all 17 members of the FPC. The Federal Political Committee considered two issues: the statement "On systemic threats […]
Posted: February 20th, 2021 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, Political Committee Decisions, Political Parties, Presidential Elections, Protests in Russia, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2021, YABLOKO Against Nationalism, Extremism and Xenophobia, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Без рубрики.
Nikolai Rybakov on the adoption of the bill on the immunity guarantees to the President
Nikolai Rybakov's Facebook post, 18.11.2020 Today in the State Duma was adopting, in the first reading, a bill on guarantees of immunity to the President after his leaving office and members of his family. The main argument was that the President should have a free hand… (!!!)
Posted: November 19th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Elections, Governance, Presidential Elections, Presidential elections 2018, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2016, State Duma Elections 2021.
On the end of a lost era and the outlook for the future by Grigory Yavlinsky, 10.09.2020 Photo: Rally for freedom and democracy, 4 February 1990, Moscow, Manezh Square WHAT THIS TEXT IS ABOUT The introduction of President Putin's amendments to the Russian Constitution signalled the defeat of the democratic reforms commenced in Russia at […]
Posted: September 10th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Economy, Elections, Foreign policy, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Presidential Elections, Russia-Belarus Relations, Russian Economy, Understanding Russia.
Grigory Yavlinsky: How to fight a mafia state
Grigory Yavlinsky website, 16.10.2018 We should have thought ahead on 18 March, of course [the presidential election 2018]. On that day Putin was given the mandate to raise the retirement age, raise taxes (increase the VAT), continue wars in Ukraine and Syria, international isolation, arms race, gubernatorial merry-go-round… It is a pity as everything has […]
Posted: October 16th, 2018 under Foreign policy, Presidential Elections, Presidential elections 2018.
Yavlinsky calls governors to initiate the State Council for redistribution of tax revenues in favour of the regions
Press Release, 6.12.2017 "Regional leaders should initiate the State Council of Russia to change the system of distribution of fiscal revenues", Grigory Yavlinsky, candidate for presidency in Russia, said during his visit to Tatarstan.
Posted: December 8th, 2017 under Presidential Elections, Presidential elections 2018.
Yavlinsky on the true Russia
An interview with Sergei Brylyev, Vesti.ru, 20.11.2017 Grigory Yavlinsky, Chair of Yabloko's Political Committee, has begun his presidential campaign in Tomsk. He ran in the presidential election in the remote year of 1996. He achieved his best result in 2000 coming third. However, he did not manage to became a candidate later on.
Posted: November 22nd, 2017 under Presidential Elections, Presidential elections 2018.
Grigory Yavlinsky: "My goal is to change the policies. This will be my victory"
Press Release, 16.11.2017 Yabloko's presidential candidate spoke about the new budget policy in Tomsk On 16 November, Yabloko presidential candidate Grigory Yavlinsky came to Tomsk to present a section of his presidential programme devoted to the new budget policy. Speaking at a press conference for the local media, Yavlinsky formulated the criterion for his successful […]
Posted: November 21st, 2017 under Presidential Elections, Presidential elections 2018.
Grigory Yavlinsky on the Russia-24 Channel about peace with Ukraine, the case of theatre director Kirill Serebrennikov, imprisonment of Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov and the presidential campaign in Russia
Press Release, 17.11.2017 Presidential candidate Grigory Yavlinsky has become a guest of the federal television channel for the first time in a long time. In a live broadcast of the Russia-24 channel Yavlinsky spoke openly about inefficient economic and foreign policy and normalisation of relations with Ukraine and Europe, as well as low confidence of […]
Posted: November 20th, 2017 under Presidential Elections, Presidential elections 2018.
YABLOKO wins the municipal elections in Moscow
Press Release, 11.09.2017 According to data as of 8 am MSK, YABLOKO obtained 180 mandates in 51 municipal councils in Moscow in the elections of 10 September. In the Gagarinsky district, where President Putin voted, all 12 members of the council are now representatives of YABLOKO. In five other districts YABLOKO has a majority.
Posted: September 11th, 2017 under Elections, Local and Municipal Elections 2017, Presidential Elections.
Collection of signatures for Russia's withdrawal from the war in Syria was launched in Tomsk within the framework of Grigory Yavlinsky presidential election campaign
Press Release, 03.07.2017 Collection of signatures for Russia's withdrawal from the war in Syria was launched in Tomsk within the framework of the Time to Return Home campaign targeted at allotting federal budget funds to Russia's domestic development , not to foreign policy ambitions and adventures. Time to Return Home is a part of Grigory […]
Posted: July 6th, 2017 under Presidential Elections, Presidential elections 2018, War in Syria.
Grigory Yavlinsky urges Russian citizens to join the campaign for Russia's withdrawal from military conflicts
Press Release, 21.06.2017 Yabloko launches the all-Russian campaign Time to Return Home. The party will collect signatures in 40 regions of Russia, so that Russia's federal budget funds are spent on Russia's domestic development, rather than on foreign policy ambitions and adventures, including the war in Syria. Such a statement was made by Yabloko's presidential […]
Posted: June 21st, 2017 under Elections, Foreign policy, Presidential Elections, War in Syria.
Academician Yuri Pivovarov supported Grigory Yavlinsky as presidential candidate
Press Release 21.03.2017 According to Yuri Pivovarov, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences and historian, Grigory Yavlinsky would be the best candidate from democratic opposition in the presidential elections of 2018.
Posted: March 21st, 2017 under Presidential Elections, Presidential elections 2018.
YABLOKO Federal Council discusses changes in the party
Press Release, 20.03.2017 The meeting of the Federal Council of YABLOKO, the most representative body of the party, worked in Moscow on 18-19 March. Chair of the party Emilia Slabunova and Deputy Chair Nikolai Rybakov summarised the results of the elections to the State Duma in 2016 and told how YABLOKO should change. The Federal […]
Posted: March 20th, 2017 under Freedom of Speech, Presidential Elections, Presidential elections 2018, State Duma Elections 2016.
Grigory Yavlinsky considers it necessary to give property to Russian citizens
Press Release, 19.03.2017 Grigory Yavlinsky, YABLOKO presidential candidate, made a statement that if he is elected, the state should gratuitously transfer land to Russian citizens under construction of their own homes, as well as create a system of accounts where revenues from the exports of natural resources and dividends from state corporations would be transferred […]
Posted: March 19th, 2017 under Economy, Elections, Presidential Elections, Presidential elections 2018, Understanding Russia.
Grigory Yavlinsky: Vladimir Putin easily and skilfully fooled everyone five years ago
Grigory Yavlinsky Facebook post, 05.03.2017 On the 4th of March, it was exactly five years since the last presidential election. Vladimir Putin has been holding the presidential post for the third term and is going to run for the fourth.
Posted: March 7th, 2017 under Presidential Elections, Presidential elections 2018.
Yavlinsky's campaign for President of Russia picks up
Liberal International, 23.02.2017 The presidential hopeful of Yabloko (LI full member), Grigory Yavlinsky, has set his campaign for the key Russian elections in 2018 into full swing. He received a boost from a well-known opposition leader Vladimir Ryzhkov who, in a public statement, said: "Grigory Yavlinsky meets my political opinions, my stance, my programme better […]
Posted: February 24th, 2017 under Presidential Elections, Presidential elections 2018, YABLOKO and the International Liberal Family.
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Leading heritage hoteliers in Rajasthan on Friday said hospitality industry in the state can play a big role in ensuring dignified job opportunities for the state's available work force of over two crore.
"The industry needs to continuously innovate keeping in mind the architecture and historically significant features of heritage properties to generate new activities for the tourists," Singh said.
The convention also took up this year's theme of 'Reinventing India as a Heritage Destination'. Conference Chairman and Honorary Vice President IHHA, Steve Borgia said: "We must realise that our heritage is in danger. Without heritage, there will be no tourism and no stories left to tell the visitors."
Co-Founder and Chair of Neemrana Hotels, Aman Nath, contended that it is the government vision and the citizens' aspirations that need reinventing "not the country as the destination."
"Hoteliers should create an experience which is so unique that it remains with the people throughout their lives," Nath said.
"From sightseeing, it has expanded to cover a much wider gamut of activities. It encompasses weddings, experiential tourism, among others. While travel has become a hassle-free exercise owing to technology, the tourism industry itself has been found reluctant in chasing these new streams," Berry said.
In her presentation, Director, Preservation of Sites and Monuments- National Heritage Board, Singapore, Jean Wee, shared some of Singapore's experiences as well as reflections on how some projects from around the world have achieved success.
She said often heritage preservation brings out the worst in everyone as it starts with a major difference in opinion. "However, preservation must be a shared pre-occupation. It should offer all stakeholders a value proposition for commitment, participation and support," she said.