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Hannah and Amber Baker are trapped in a dark Southern underworld of violence, drugs and bikers. Both live in fear of their "Uncle Frank" Stinson, the ruthless leader of a crime organization.
A depressed housewife who learns her husband was killed in a car accident the day previously, awakens the next morning to find him alive and well at home, and then awakens the day after to a world in which he is still dead.


but more about that tomorrow.
and enjoying all the sights.
and to be by the water.
We did have a wonderful weekend, thanks Amy. I didn't realise you lived in Australia. Anywhere near the water in Sydney is a great place to be.


How he managed to look ripped even when standing next to the Rock.
Lot's of cardio and clean eating is the way to go.
Including Kanye West, Bomfunk MC's, Charli XCX and the great Darude.
Five-time Ballon d'Or winner and Portuguese national team hero Cristiano Ronaldo doesn't curl mind-bending free kicks into the top corner after just rolling out of bed.
There's a physiological hack around that midday productivity slump. Here are 5 easy lunchbreak exercises to get you going again.


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Soccer Camp is so much fun! Summer loves to play soccer and she is pretty good at it too. But camp lets the kids learn the game a little more in depth and helps them fix things that maybe they are doing incorrectly as well. But overall, it's just a fun week! This was Summer's second year of camp and you can check out last year's camp HERE.
This year I had chosen to do camp at the end of June, but because of a shortage of soccer coaches her camp week was merged with the camp in August, so that's when we went. She was provided with the cool jersey (shown in the photo above) and we were told she would receive her ball on the first day of camp. However, due to a ball shortage, the balls didn't arrive in time for camp and she used the one from last year.
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This year was a little different from last for a few reasons. Last year she had female coaches and this year were two males. For one, girls just teach different than boys, which isn't a bad thing, it was just different.
This year there were several older boys at camp and they basically just wanted to show off how far they could kick the ball, even if that meant kicking over the goal and into oncoming traffic. The coaches, not being too much older than the kids themselves, and not being parents, I think just didn't know how to handle that. And it was a little frustrating watching nothing being done day after day. Not really the coached fault, there is only so much they can do, but annoying for the kids to start and stop every time these kids wanted to act out.
Overall, Summer had a lot of fun and learned some new things. The soccer balls didn't come in until after camp was over and we received an email letting us know they were available to pick up. Due to the fact that we live about 45 minutes away, I let them know they could just donate ours because it wasn't really worth a trip to pick up a ball and it was a little disappointing that they didn't just pop it in the mail to her. But it is what it is.
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Long before Spike Lee's movie, the concept of "do the right thing" was familiar to people both in the workplace and in other facets of life. The simplicity of this message is endearing, yet the complexity of work situations makes it impossible for managers to prescribe and predict the "thing" to "do" that would be "right" in all situations.
Sometimes "right" can be conveyed as a mindset rather than a set of actions. So, can we just ask people to "think the right thing" instead?
Note: A frequent frustration that I hear from managers and directors is that some of their reports need to be told what to do. Prescribing "what to think" rather than "what to do" can function as a countermeasure to such a dynamic.
I was recently working with a director in a health-care facility who found it both frustration and exhausting to try to list all the things that care aids should not do when they are in a resident's room. (e.g. Do I really have to be telling them not to leave their gym bag in a resident's room?!) Potentially, the more efficient communication would be "imagine that you are a guest in their house and act accordingly." This provides a somewhat shared set of criteria to discuss the appropriateness of a behaviour (e.g. "If you were going to leave a bag in someone else's house, you would ask first, no?") Bringing that narrative frame could trigger a whole slew of behaviours that are consistent with "right" in that context.
An orthodontist conveys that she will treat your kids like they were hers.
Even when it comes to "the right thing," I think there is a natural defensive reaction we all have to being told what to do and not to do. Imploring someone to adopt the "right mindset" may get beyond some of that psychological resistance and free people up to use their own judgement.
⇒ WARNING ⇐ Tread carefully in the "mindset" realm because such ideas can be powerful and pervasive. I recall being asked to deliver training on handling conflict that emerged from an unintended "mindset" consequence. Several internal teams in a hospital were given training in "customer service," and unfortunately everyone appeared to leave the sessions thinking that they were the customer. (e.g. quick to point out deficiencies in getting what they wanted rather than focussed on meeting the expectations of others.) There is always a wrong end to the mindset stick.
This entry was posted in Clarifying the Story, Training the Right Things and tagged Collaboration, Corporate Culture, Rules and Ethics on December 2, 2015 by chris493.


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Regulator requests phone companies to offer robocall blocking for free
By Harper Neidig - 06/10/19 02:55 PM EDT
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A Democrat on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is pushing phone companies to provide robocall blocking at no extra cost to their customers following the agency's decision to make it legal for the industry to filter out suspicious calls by default.
FCC Commissioner Geoffrey Starks wrote to every major phone carrier on Monday, including AT&T, asking for details on how they intend to implement call filtering technology.
"Carriers made clear to the Commission: they want to offer call blocking services to consumers by default," Starks said in a statement. "My colleagues and I made clear to carriers: they should not charge consumers for these services. The Commission has acted. Now it is industry's turn to put these new tools to work for consumers. I'm looking forward to learning the details of their plans to do so."
The FCC voted last week to clarify its regulations and allow phone companies to block suspicious calls in an effort to crack down on illegal robocalls and scammers.
The proposal passed unanimously but some criticized the agency for not going further by requiring the industry to offer such services for free.
"I think robocall solutions should be free to consumers. Full stop," Democratic Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel said last week. "I do not think that this agency should pat itself on the back for its efforts to reduce robocalls and then tell consumers to pay up."
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, a Republican, has said that the proposal would save money for companies like Verizon and AT&T and that those savings could be passed on to consumers.
In his letters sent Monday, Starks asked for details on whether each company's call blocking service would be free, when they plan to roll them out and how they will notify customers of changes. Starks gave the industry until July 10 to respond.
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Accounting and Financial was one of the most in-demand industries for permanent staff in December 2018, according to the most recent KPMG and REC, UK Report on Jobs.
With the UK employment rate currently joint-highest on record, skilled candidates are getting harder and harder to come by.
As recruiters and employers struggle to fill Accountancy and Finance vacancies, starting salaries continue to rise; in December 2018 the starting salary inflation rate was among the highest seen since 2015.
Key job titles in Finance in high demand across both permanent and temporary roles included Accountants, Audit, Credit Controllers and Treasury.
While UK job vacancies are at a near-record high, competition is low and starting salaries continue to climb, now is an excellent time to bag a new job and a pay increase too. Search and apply for the latest Accountancy and Finance jobs this January on GAAPweb.


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Гестией Перинфский () — древнегреческий философ IV века до н. э. Происходил из Перинфа, города во Фракии, на Пропонтиде. Был связан с Академией Платона. Диоген Лаэртский упоминал его среди учеников Платона (Д. Л. III, 46). Вместе с Аристотелем, Гераклидом, Спевсиппом и Ксенократом присутствовал на лекции Платона «О благе» и записал её. Согласно доксографической традиции, Гестией выдвинул свою теорию зрения (Diels, Dox.403).

Литература
 Диллон Джон. Средние платоники. 80 до н. э.-220 н. э. СПб., 2002. с.53. ISBN 5-89329-536-6
 Греческая философия. Т.2. Под ред. М. Канто-Спербер, Дж. Барнз, Л. Бриссон, Ж. Брюнсвиг, Г. Властос. Пер. с французского. М.: Греко-латинский кабинет Ю. А. Шичалина, 2008. — с. 656.
 Целлер Э. Очерк истории греческой философии. СПб., 1996. С. 131, 134.
 Guthrie W.K.C. A History of Greek Philosophy. V. 5: The Later Plato and Academy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1978 p.491
 Diels H. Doxographi Graeci. Berolini, 1879.

Древнегреческие философы
Платоники
Философы Древней Греции
Философы IV века до н. э.

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This is the strange story of the artist Melinda Hackett who came from the country and just wanted to give a piece of heaven to her daughters in Greenwich Village in Manhattan. Shortly after Melinda Hackett put up the circular cedar tree house for her three girls, the police showed up at her door. A neighbor had complained about the structure and filed a complaint with the city, but after months of legal battles, Hackett won. Not only was the tree house allowed to stay, but it was also granted landmark status.
However look at the video below, Melinda will be able to explain you the whole story better than me!


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KAZAKHSTAN International Business Magazine �4, 2007
Oil Chronicles.News from the Caspian Sea
Against the background of high world energy prices this year, the Kazakh oil and gas sector has maintained target growth rates: oil output grew by 2.1% in the first 10 months of the year (its exports grew by 11.5%), gas condensate output grew by almost 18% and gas output by 14.1%. Nevertheless, despite the favourable price situation, the autumn of 2007 has offered foreign investors unpleasant surprises too.
New Amendments to the Old Law…
Astana adopted amendments to the Law On Subsoil and Subsoil Use in late October, which toughened up requirements set for mining companies and, as a result, changed the nature of relations between Kazakhstan and foreign investors.
In particular, one of the amendments stipulates that "if the actions of a mining company, while conducting mining operations in deposits/mines that have strategic importance, lead to a considerable change in the economic interests of the Republic of Kazakhstan, posing a threat to national security, the authorised body has the right to demand that conditions of contracts be changed and/or amended to restore the economic interests of the Republic of Kazakhstan".
These amendments also envisage expanding a list of reasons for terminating a mining contract by amending Article 45-2.2 of the Law On Subsoil and Subsoil Use.
For example, a contract can be terminated:
· if within two months of receiving notification the mining company fails to agree to hold talks to change the provisions of the contract in writing or refuses to hold these talks;
· if within four months of receiving the mining company's agreement to hold talks, the parties fail to conclude an agreement; or
· if within six months of achieving a coordinated decision to restore Kazakhstan's economic interests the parties fail to sign amendments to the contract.
In addition, the law was amended by the following provision: "On the government's initiative, if the actions of a mining company, while conducting mining operations in deposits/mines that have strategic importance, lead to a considerable change in the economic interests of the Republic of Kazakhstan, posing a threat to national security, the authorised body has the right to unilaterally refuse to fulfil the contract."
The introduction of this norm will not demand the authorised body to turn to court or arbitration. In the case of a unilateral refusal to fulfil the contract, the authorised body should warn the mining company about this no later than two months in advance. According to the law, the government is granted powers to compile a list of deposits that have strategic significance.
Amendments also envisage the retroactive power of the law on contracts that were signed earlier on extracting or prospecting and extracting at deposits which have strategic importance.
… and Their Impact on Investment
The amendments have caused controversial reaction by foreign experts. For example, the European Commission Energy Commissioner, Andris Piebalgs, announced the commission's special statement on 25 October, which noted that taking into account Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev's decision to sign the amendments to the Law On Subsoil and Subsoil Use, the European Commission would continue to discuss this topic at various levels as part of the EU-Kazakhstan energy dialogue. He also said that the European Commission would continue to study the new law's possible impact on European investment in Kazakhstan, including an analysis of the compliance of the new law with the Energy Charter, in particular, in the sphere of supporting and protecting investment.
Mr Piebalgs stressed special attention on the fact that "successful partnership in the energy sphere should be based on mutual respect, predictability and the principle of non-discrimination". He believes that the latest statements were not a threat, but a warning. "New basic changes in mining legislation and a number of other legislative acts will not please our traditional investors," the European Commission commissioner said.
Europe will not, above all, like the very real possibility of changing the "rules of the game", which, in essence, was what the Kazakh government intended. "Kazakhstan is an important partner of the EU on energy cooperation, with which we have signed a memorandum of understanding on energy issues. In this connection, any new changes in legislation will demand thorough study by both sides," Piebalgs noted.
New Loop in the Kashagan Spiral
The Kazakh Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry and the members of the Agip KCO international consortium on the Kashagan long-term investment project continued their negotiations in October-November 2007.
Let us recall that earlier the Kazakh side said that it might strip the operator's status on the Kashagan project off ENI. The reason for this was the Italians' announcement of the postponement of the date of commercial production in the field (from 2008 until the second half of 2010) and a significant growth in expenses on the project (from $57bn to $136bn). For its part, Kazakhstan responded that it did not accept the new plan and budget of the project.
It is expected that the negotiations solving the disputes on the Kashagan project will be completed by the end of the autumn. Kazakh Deputy Finance Minister Daulet Yergozhin believes that if there are not any specific accords on this project until 30 November 2007, the Kazakh side will raise the issue of the expedience of the further conduct of negotiations as part of amicable settlement. "In this case, the Finance Ministry will raise the issue of the necessity of taking adequate measures to protect the country's economic interests," Mr Yergozhin said.
However, he noted that measures would be taken in line with Kazakhstan's legislation, including with the account of the recent amendments adopted to the Law On Subsoil and Subsoil Use.
In turn, the head of ENI SpA, Paolo Scaroni, has said that the negotiations with the Kazakh government on the Kashagan project had reached a difficult moment.
The foreign media have circulated information on the potential size of compensation the Kazakh government demanded from the consortium for the delay in the project. In particular, the Italian Corriere della Sera newspaper mentioned $10bn. However, Paolo Scaroni told journalists that that he had no idea about this fine.
In any case, independent experts estimate that the Kazakh oil and gas sector is entering 2008 with the new "rules of the game" which have significantly expanded legal boundaries for the state which owns the natural resources and narrowed "the scope for manoeuvres" by contractor companies.
Time will tell whether investors are ready to agree to the new rules dictated by Astana and how well Kazakh oil will manage to preserve its investment attractiveness.
Infrastructure for Big Caspian Oil
The Mangistau Oblast administration distributed information about the implementation of a long-term investment project to build the Sartas seaport in mid-October. As was announced, this project has the following aims: to attract new investment to the region and technology to develop coastal infrastructure; to ensure uninterrupted services for offshore oil facilities through the reduction of workload on the Bautino and Aktau coastal bases; to create new jobs (about 3,500) and increase the qualification level of the local population; to help solve environmental issues in the region and to raise additional revenue for the regional budget via taxes and other collections.
The port is expected to be built 130 km south to the town of Aktau on the southern coast of the Mangyshlak Bay as part of the Sartas–Teniz Port project, which was developed by KaspiyMunayKurylys. The construction of this new infrastructure facility will be launched by the end of this year, and it will cost $309.5m.
This project will build: a ship-repairing plant; facilities to produce light metal frames, to filter industrial and domestic waste and sewage, to produce reinforced concrete products and inert materials; a vessel-filling station; a concrete plant on a barge and self-propelled rapid-reaction barges to offer technical services to offshore facilities.
KaspiyMunayKurylys has now been allocated a plot of land with a size of 330 ha. It has also received 167.5 ha of land for a 49-year lease to build a road from the Aktau–Kalamkas road to the Sartas port.
In addition, a new town and the Kuryk port will be built on the Caspian Sea cost soon. The new town, which will accommodate 30,000 people at the initial stage and up to 60,000 people later, will cost $1.5bn. The port's construction is stipulated in the state programme to develop the Kazakh part of the Caspian Sea. This project will build a cargo terminal to serve the needs of offshore fields in the Caspian Sea shelf. A Kuryk–Yeraliyevo railway sector and an Aktau–Kuryk road and water pipeline will be built in the future.
Along with Kazakh investors, Taiwanese businessmen have expressed their desire to take part in this project. In particular, the head of Taiwan's trade mission in Almaty, Chang Shi-Chang, has noted that the KazDipper company intends to sign a memorandum of cooperation with KazMunayGas and Mangistau Oblast's Karakiya District administration in the near future.
In addition, Kazakhstan intends to develop the country's existing sea gateways – the Aktau port in the next few years. In line with the blueprint and the feasibility study of the project to expand the Aktau Seaport special economic zone, that have been coordinated with the Kazakh government, four subzones are expected to be built on new territories.
The general director of the Aktau Seaport's administration, Zinulla Kaziyev, has said that additional territories will house the Aktau Industries industrial town, a centre for developing infrastructure in the Caspian Sea shelf, a transport-logistics centre and the Aktau Free Trade centre of border trade.
The Aktau Industries subzone, covering 195 ha, will house enterprises that will produce export-oriented industrial and consumer products.
The centre for developing infrastructure in the Caspian Sea shelf subzone, covering 225 ha, will include enterprises to produce and repair the main and auxiliary equipment of oil extracting enterprises. Companies that produce equipment and material for substituting imports of the domestic oil and gas sector will be offered special support.
Companies-operators of subzones and enterprises-members of subzones will fund the construction of engineering and transport infrastructure in the special economic zone.
A proposal on expanding a list of priority activities is being drafted for the Kazakh government to fully realise the potential of the Aktau Seaport. This is, in particular, supplementary and additional transport services, producing and distributing power, gas and water; wholesale trade, trade through agents; operations with property; leasing and providing services to consumers, research and development.
Stumbling Status
Experts believe that the successful development of investment projects to develop the energy and transport potential of the Caspian Sea is directly linked to the issue as how quickly littoral countries will manage to arrive at understanding and adopt a convention on a new legal status of the Caspian Sea.
With this aim, the second summit of the Caspian-littoral countries was held in Tehran on 16 October, which was attended by the presidents of Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia and Turkmenistan. The participants expressed their points of views on a number of the most topical issues related to the joint use of the Caspian Sea.
For example, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev believes that it is enough to coordinate routes for future pipelines built on the seabed of the Caspian Sea between those Caspian-littoral countries on whose territorial sectors these routes will be built. "The launch of the intensive development of Caspian hydrocarbon fields demands the most active actions on defining conditions for fulfilling projects to transport them. With the aim of ensuring the economic interests of countries, it seems to be expedient to coordinate routes for building pipelines with those countries on whose sectors of the seabed they will be laid through," the Kazakh president said.
Moreover, Astana proposed to stipulate the international right to the freedom of transit by any transport means in the future convention on the legal status of the Caspian Sea. "Provisions on the right of intercontinental Caspian-littoral states to the freedom of transit by any transport means and access to other seas and the World Ocean that are envisaged in universal international treaties should also be stipulated in the convention," Nursultan Nazarbayev said. He noted that, "in this case the point is about not only vessels but also about other transport means, including pipelines".
At the same time, the Kazakh president stressed that taking into account today's reality in the world and the geopolitical situation in the region "where strategic interests of major countries that consume energy meet, it is necessary to ensure that cooperation between our countries in the Caspian Sea becomes an example of balanced, constructive and responsible approaches".
He provided the experience of achieving accords between Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Russia on delineating the seabed and natural resources of the Caspian Sea as an example of such cooperation. President Nazarbayev said that the corresponding agreements signed by these countries had provided an international legal basis for developing oil and gas reserves in the northern part of the sea and, as a result, had created an attractive and stable investment climate.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, in his turn, stressed the necessity of boosting the work to create transport corridors in the Caspian Sea. "Russia is proposing to speed up the development of the North–South international transport corridor. The construction of an additional water canal that will link it with the Black Sea–Azov Sea basin will help to strengthen the transit potential of the Caspian region," Vladimir Putin said.
The Russian president also said that a project to boost transport links between the Caspian and Black Seas had already been discussed at his meetings with the Kazakh president. "This link between the two seas can be improved and this should become a future project," Vladimir Putin noted.
The Russian president also demanded that major energy projects that bore environmental risks to the Caspian Sea should be preliminary discussed by all five Caspian-littoral states and be approved by a consensus. "Environmental security should become a standard of security of all projects in the Caspian Sea, especially in the sphere of developing and transporting energy resources," he said.
Vladimir Putin drew attention to a "sharp decrease in the population of sturgeons, including in the rivers flowing into the Caspian Sea", which is the most obvious indicator of environmental ill-being in the region. In connection with this, he called on his colleagues to observe the necessary reasonable balance between developing oil and gas resources and strengthening the environmental system of the Caspian Sea.
At the same time, President Putin expressed his hope that the national mining zones in the southern part of the Caspian Sea would be defined soon. The Russian leader stressed that economic activities on the seabed of the Caspian Sea could be carried out in the national mining zones. He reminded summit participants that the boundaries of these zones had already been defined in the northern part of the Caspian Sea.
"We hope that the sides concerned will also find a balanced and mutually-acceptable solution in the southern part of the Caspian Sea," Vladimir Putin said.
Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov spoke against unilateral actions in the Caspian Sea, in particular, in the oil extraction sphere. "Turkmenistan does not accept the practice of unilateral actions in the Caspian Sea, first of all, in conducting oil operations in those sectors which do not have agreements signed by the sides," he said.
In his speech, Mr Berdymukhamedov also backed Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad's proposal on the regularity of meetings of not only heads of state of the Caspian region but also foreign ministers of these countries. For example, the Turkmen leader believes that foreign ministers should meet no less than once a year.
The summit of the heads of state of the Caspian-littoral countries adopted a joint declaration that confirmed sovereign rights of littoral countries to the Caspian Sea and its resources.
This document also stresses that until the new legal status of the Caspian Sea is defined, navigation and fishing should be carried out in the Caspian Sea only under the flags of Caspian-littoral countries based on the implementation of sovereign rights. In addition, the sides confirmed the countries' responsibility for damage inflicted on the environment of the Caspian Sea and one another as a result of activities to use the sea and develop its resources.
The summit participants admitted that the state of the environment of the Caspian Sea and its sturgeon population demand urgent joint efforts to prevent undesirable environmental consequences. As a result, the document confirmed the course on continuing to build a legal basis for regional environmental protection cooperation based on the convention on the legal status of the Caspian Sea.
The sides also agreed to conduct regular and coordinated meetings of the heads of state of Caspian-littoral countries and meetings of foreign ministers and authorised experts to discuss a whole range of issues relating to the Caspian Sea.
Oil Statistics
Kazakhstan produced 45.99 million tonnes of crude oil, including oil received from bituminous minerals, and 9.98 million tonnes of gas condensate in the first 10 months of 2007. This is respectively 2.1% and 17.9% more than in January-October 2006.
Natural gas output reached 24.2 billion cu m (up by 14.1%) in the given period. The output of natural gas in gaseous state stood at 13,805.2 million cu m (up by 21.3%), whereas its marketable volume was 7,497.4 million cu m (down by 4.7%). The output of associated gas was 10,393.7 million cu m (up by 5.8%) in January-October 2007.
The country produced 2,198,300 tonnes of petrol, including aviation fuel (a 14.1% rise from the previous year).
Heating fuel output fell down by 29% to 2,045,100 tonnes in this period. Kerosene output grew by 28.7% to 340,400 tonnes, gasoil output by 9.6% to 3,591,000 tonnes.
According to the Kazakh Statistics Agency, the country exported 45.84 million tonnes of oil and gas condensate in January-October 2007, up by 11.5%. In monetary terms, oil and gas condensate exports totalled $19,857.2m (up by 9.4%).
In addition, Kazakhstan exported 2,908,400 tonnes of petroleum products in the first 10 months of 2007 (10.7% up from the previous year) to the tune of $998.1m (6% up). The country imported 1,492,600 tonnes of petroleum products (a 56.3% increase) to the tune of $721.6m (a 53.1% rise).
The country decreased natural gas imports by 38.2% to 5,343.3 million cu m worth $274.1m (down by 29.4%) and exported 11,013.3 million cu m of natural gas (down by 0.5%) to the tune of $467.4m (up by 17.2%).
The oil and gas sector remained the country's most attractive sector to investors. In January-October 2007, 28.7% of total investment in capital assets was placed in this sector and it totalled 2,453 billion tenge (up by 12.1%). Foreign investment was mainly placed in oil-rich Atyrau Oblast (68.2% of total foreign investment placed in Kazakhstan).
A significant growth in investment in capital assets was observed in West Kazakhstan Oblast (40.1%) – this was as a result of investment in equipping the Karachaganak gas condensate field. At the same time, investment fell in Atyrau Oblast (by 0.6%) and Mangistau Oblast (by 19.7%) in the first 10 months of this year.
The main source of investment in capital assets was enterprises' own funds (49.4%) and foreign investment (20.5%). Budget funds accounted for 16.8% of total investment and loans 13.3%.
The lion's share of the total investment was made by private-sector enterprises (61.6%) and foreign enterprises operating in Kazakhstan (23.2%). The public sector accounted for 15.2% of the total investment.
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It's been one that will go down in the history books for the right reasons, more generally, given the global pandemic and restrictions that we've been living under.
For businesses across the country it's been a particularly tough year with the localised and nationalised restrictions placed to protect public health. Despite record government spending to support British business, there are many that may not survive the year.
For those of us in the property industry, a mixed year in many ways. The pandemic has brought with it a renewed focus and appreciation of our surroundings and living spaces and, with it, widescale demand for high quality rental property.
Those who earn income from owning and renting property have, in turn, seen their yields and rental demand grow, as well as new incentives from the government to continue to spend on property in order to support and grow one of the bedrocks of the British economy.
Since May, there have been a slew of headlines shouting about record house price growth, record rental demand and DIY stores bursting at the seams with queues around the block of people wanting to improve their living spaces.
So, whilst it's been a difficult year for everybody, it's sensible to sit back and say we've been extremely lucky to be involved in an industry and asset class robust enough to not just weather the storm, but flourish.
Property performance
Let's get down to brass tacks then and take a good look at the performance of UK property on the whole across the year.
Firstly, house prices. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) released their data in September regarding the UK market. In it they reported that:
• UK average house prices increased by 4.7% over the year to September 2020, up from 3.0% in August 2020, to stand at a record high of £245,000.
• Average house prices increased over the year in England to £262,000 (4.9%), Wales to £171,000 (3.8%), Scotland to £162,000 (4.3%) and Northern Ireland to £143,000 (2.4%).
• London's average house prices hit a record high of £496,000 in September 2020.
And to yields then. In summing up the year's performance, Zoopla observed that yields across the North East and North West were averaging over 7%. They noted that "It's clear that the significantly lower house prices in these areas, coming in well under the national average of £291,055, play a role in the higher yields generated for investors."
But went on to add "Yields are, of course, one consideration for investors and, for those considering their first foray into the buy-to-let market, it is worth considering house price growth forecasts for an area, and whether rents are likely to rise over time"
According to HomeLet data, published on its website, the UK's top performing region for rental rises was the North West, recording a 6.5% increase as annual rent reached £773. Other strong performing areas included Yorkshire & Humberside (+4.5%), the south west (+2.5%) and Scotland (+1.9%).
Looking to 2021
With all of that in mind, it's been a hugely successful year in property, and in particular for the north west and Manchester.
Investment is up, demand is up and all of the indicators of growth are up with it. With a strong economy in recovery next year once we begin to return to normality it's expected that building will increase markedly, bringing a wave of new properties to market.
What should be said is that there are many admiring glances coming from abroad and foreign investment will more than likely come flooding in, so it's probably wise to set your investment strategy early as competition seems set to be fierce.


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Luke Butcher, Purnells
Ever wanted to play lead guitar in a heavy metal band? The head chef at Michelin-starred Purnell's has – but thankfully for the rest of us, Luke Butcher's happy making his food rock instead
Tell us about your cooking
It's all about simplicity on the plate but complexity in the components. What excites me most is when you have just three or four things but the flavour smacks you in the face and leaves you smiling. What's important is love, care and understanding of the ingredients.
How did you become a chef?
My grandad was a chef in the Navy and he passed down his love of food to my mum, which then got passed down to me. When I got a job working at Michelin-starred Adlards in Norwich, my love of food amplified. And then a young chef taking on his first head chef role at Adlard's, by the name of Tom Kerridge, caused my love for food to explode. I went on to work with Tom for the next few years and was with him when he opened the Hand and Flowers in Marlow. I still class him as family to this day.
What do you eat when at home?
I love cooking family meals for my wife and two children, who are five years and 18-months-old. I like them to eat what we eat, exploring flavours and seeing their reactions. Normally on my two days off, I'll cook a big family meal on one of the evenings and then on the other I like to take them out to experience a restaurant environment. My go-to meal at home would be a nice steak from the local butcher.
Who's the best chef in the world and why? And who's the best in Brum?
For me, it's about longevity and what they've brought to the industry while remaining relevant. Examples would be Thomas Keller, Ferran Adrià, Heston Blumenthal and Gordon Ramsay. It's about the legacy that a great chef creates and builds on. In Brum there are so many talented chefs, which is reflected in how many Michelin-starred restaurants we now have. When I moved to Birmingham there was only one chef I wanted to work for – Glynn Purnell.
Is the customer always right?
Simply… no. It's about a mutual respect and understanding between the restaurant team and the guest (I hate the word customer).
Share a cooking tip
If you've got any meat to cook, the day before leave it uncovered in the fridge on a plate with some kitchen roll to dry out the outside of the meat. Take it out of the fridge a minimum of 45 minutes before you want to cook it. The drying out process extracts the moisture from the outer layer of the meat, which will give you a better caramelisation of your steak, or a crispy skin to your chicken.
What was your favourite food as a kid?
I loved going to the Norfolk coast, especially Cromer, and getting a little polystyrene pot of prawns, cockles, mussels and whelks, all doused in vinegar. Walking along the seafront, eating it all with a wooden fork was a proper childhood treat. I still do it now when I go back with my own kids.
Food heaven and food hell?
Heaven is crispy duck and hoisin pancakes – either homemade of from the Chinese. Hell is offal – mainly brains and kidneys.
What's the most unusual thing you've eaten?
Dried wasps dusted in barbecue seasoning!
If you weren't a chef, what would you be?
Lead guitarist in a heavy metal band.
What do you recommend from today's menu?
The apple choux bun from the Purnell's lunch menu. It's seasonal, made with a classic technique but with a modern twist and full of flavour.
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Q: Show that if $f_{n}$ $\in$ $L^2(a,b)$ and $f_{n} \to f$ in norm, then $(f_{n}, g) \to (f,g)$ for all $g \in L^2(a,b)$. Show that if $f_{n}$ $\in$ $L^2(a,b)$ and $f_{n} \to f$ in norm, then $(f_{n}, g) \to (f,g)$ for all $g \in L^2(a,b)$. Hint: Apply the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality to $(f_{n}-f,g)$.
I've tried taking the dot product of $(f_{n}-f,g)$ then distributing out to get $(f_{n},g) - (f,g)$, but then when trying to apply the Cauchy Schwarz inequality I get stuck. Once I apply the Cauchy Schwarz inequality I get
|$(f_{n}-f,g)$| $\leq$ $\parallel f_{n}-f$$\parallel$ $\parallel g\parallel$
Since $f_{n} \to f$ in norm that means that the norm of $f_{n}$ and $f$ will be equal to $0$, hence, we get $0$ in the right side.
Thus
|$(f_{n}-f,g)$| = $0$
$\implies$|$(f_{n},g) - (f,g)$|=$0$
Nonetheless, shouldn't I be trying to proof that this will equal 0, since by definition $f_{n} \to f$ in norm implies that the distance between  $f_{n} \to f$ is zero?

A: Suppose $f_n \rightarrow 0$ in norm. You want to show that $\langle f_n,g\rangle \rightarrow \langle f,g\rangle$ for every fixed $g$. To show this, let $\epsilon > 0$ be given, and let $g\in L^2$ be fixed. Then there exists $N$ such that
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Then
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By the definition of limit, that means $\langle f_n,g\rangle\rightarrow \langle f,g\rangle$ as $n\rightarrow\infty$ for every fixed $g\in L^2$.

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Latest Research Beats Out the Mixmaster Model
by Hugh Ross
During my graduate school days, when evidence for a big bang universe was growing exponentially, "mixmaster" models for the universe gained popularity as a potential escape, a loophole for those wanting to ignore the implications of a cosmic beginning in the recent past (as in a few billion or tens of billions of years ago). At that time, such models seemed the best, if not the only, way to explain how the universe came to be so homogeneous (all component parts having the same composition and structure) and isotropic (all points in space manifesting the same physical properties and same physical history).
These mixmaster models, as you may have guessed, took their name from the Sunbeam Mixmaster of that era, used by homemakers to blend and beat cake ingredients, among other things. Just as the rotation of the beaters can blend different substances, dry and liquid, into a smooth, homogenous whole, so, too, the continuous vigorous rotation of the universe could explain the observed homogeneity and isotropic characteristics of the universe. Some mixmaster models propose that parts of the universe are expanding while others are contracting, all this in such a manner that the universe would mix forever without a beginning or a Beginner.1
Because every body within the universe—whether a moon, planet, star, galaxy, or galaxy cluster—rotates, the idea of cosmic rotation seemed a natural and reasonable conclusion. No alternative seemed plausible until Alan Guth and Alexei Starobinski simultaneously and independently proposed their "inflationary" model.2
The inflationary big bang scenario says that in the early moment of cosmic history when the strong-electroweak force split apart into the strong nuclear force and the electroweak force (at about 10-34 seconds after the cosmic origin event), the entire universe briefly experienced hyper-rapid expansion. This model indicates that between 10-35 and 10-32 seconds after the cosmic beginning, the universe expanded by more than a factor of 1030. To put it another way, in about a billionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second, the universe expanded from being about a hundred millionth of a trillionth the diameter of a proton to being about the size of a grapefruit.
This early and extremely brief hyper-rapid expansion (far faster than the velocity of light) would explain how the universe we observe today can be "thermally connected" in its entirety—meaning thermal conditions in any part are affected by thermal conditions in any and all other parts, with no parts unaffected. Such complete thermal (or causal) connection solves the puzzle of how the universe retained its primordial homogeneous and isotropic state without cosmic rotation.
In fact, the inflationary big bang model cannot even tolerate any measureable cosmic rotation. Any cosmic rotation that existed prior to the inflationary episode would be shrunk to unobservable levels as a result of inflation.
Herein lies a dramatic and definitive scientific test of competing theological perspectives. If astronomical measurements were to demonstrate that the universe indeed rotates in mixmaster fashion, then the big bang features described in the Bible could be explained away. Key biblical doctrines would be falsified. If, on the other hand, astronomical measurements either negate or show severe limits on cosmic rotation, the mixmaster models would be ruled out. And this one proposed escape hatch from the biblical account of cosmic origins would be closed.
Clearly, a lot is riding on whether or not the universe rotates.
For decades scientists presumed that to measure the universe's rotation would be impossible. After all, measuring the rotation rate of planets, stars, galaxies, and galaxy clusters requires that the observer view the object from outside. (The astronomer can measure the motion of the object in or on which he/she resides only relative to that of some outside body or bodies.) But in the case of the universe itself, there is no "outside" perspective for the researcher.
Eventually, however, astronomers figured out two possible ways to detect cosmic rotation and its rate. The first is made possible by the fact that the cosmic background radiation is slightly hotter on one side of the sky than on the opposite side. This dipole structure—a result of our galaxy's being pulled toward the Virgo Cluster of galaxies, which in turn is pulled to a super cluster of galaxies called the Great Attractor, which in turn is pulled to a super-super cluster of galaxies called the Monster Attractor—will show measurable torque or twisting if the universe had rotated, even very slowly, at the time this radiation was emitted (when the universe was a miniscule fraction of its currently measured age).
A team of British and Polish astronomers applied this method and came up with a range of upper limits on cosmic rotation at that very early age. It's a wide range because of uncertainties about the geometry of the universe, but revealing nonetheless: anywhere from one complete turn in 60,000 years (if the universe manifests an open geometry) to once every 10,000,000,000,000 years (if the universe manifests a closed geometry).3 According to the conservation of angular momentum (familiar from seeing how ice skaters slow down their spin), such rates would be about a billion times slower today because of cosmic expansion since that early era. In other words, whatever the geometry, these rates measure too slow to earn the mixmaster name.
More recently, two Chinese astronomers used a different method, called the Sachs-Wolfe effect, to determine the limits on cosmic rotation.4 Armed with the latest results from the WMAP satellite's measurements of the cosmic background radiation, their research shows that when the universe was 380,000 years old (when the background radiation was emitted) it was rotating no faster than one 360° turn every 6,000,000,000 years regardless of cosmic geometry.
This stringent limit deals a knockout blow to cosmic mixmaster models. And in doing so, it more firmly establishes inflationary big bang models, which happen to be fully consistent with biblical cosmology. Once again scientific advance affirms what Scripture has said for thousands of years.5
A recent example of such an attempt has been published by the Indian Academy of Sciences: Shri Ram, M. Zeyauddin, and C. P. Singh, "Bianchi Type-V Cosmological Models With Perfect Fluid and Heat Flow in Saez-Ballester Theory," Pramana Journal of Physics 72 (February 2009): 415-27.
Alan H. Guth, "The Inflationary Universe: A Possible Solution to the Horizon and Flatness Problems," Physical Review D 23 (1981): 347; Alexei A. Starobinski, "A New Type of Isotropic Cosmological Models Without Singularity," Physical Letters B 91 (March 24, 1980): 99-102.
John D. Barrow, R. Juszkiewicz, and D. H. Sonoda, "Universal Rotation: How Large Can It Be?" Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 213 (1985): 917-43.
S.-C. Su and M.-C. Chu, "Is the Universe Rotating?" Astrophysical Journal 703 (September 20, 2009): 354-61.
Hugh Ross, A Matter of Days (Colorado Springs: NavPress, 2004): 139-48.
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Q: Changing Heap size of Jmeter at Run time I want to change the heap size of jmeter at run time. Can you kindly suggest how I can achieve it
I used the below command, but looks like whatever heap I'm setting not effective.
I used:
Runtime.getRuntime().maxMemory();

to check the alloacted memory and it returned

9544663040

Looks like I am doing something wrong.
JVM_ARGS="-Xms2g -Xmx6g" /tui/endeca/endeca/ToolsAndFrameworks/jmeter/app/apache-jmeter-3.1/bin/jmeter.sh -n -t /tui/endeca/endeca/ToolsAndFrameworks/Script/TH/TH_BitBucket_Augu3_Lg.jmx

Thank you in advance

A: I don't think your way of checking maximum heap is correct, I believe you should be using JMX to check effective parameters, in particular MemoryPoolMXBean
Quick way to check whether your argument got applied or not is the following Groovy code (use it in any of JSR223 Test Elements)
import java.lang.management.ManagementFactory
import java.lang.management.RuntimeMXBean

def runtimeMxBean = ManagementFactory.getRuntimeMXBean()
def arguments = runtimeMxBean.getInputArguments()

for (argument in arguments) {
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