Garston is rather unfashionable part of Liverpool's hinterland - which hasn't stopped Alex Corina and others from campaigning for an arts village, complete with massive festive camel designed by local schoolchildren.
A conference supported with public money on the sustainable development of a city region is obviously a matter of considerable public interest. It needs, therefore, also to be a conference in which deliberative democracy plays a part, and in which the diversity of all those ultimately involved is acknowledged. It also needs to support easy accessibility in terms of attendance and recorded output.
A Conference Diversity Index is being developed on this website to see how well these requirements are met by conferences such as this.
I have already written on this weblog (and in New Start magazine) about my intention to develop a Conference Diversity Index. I have also shared my concern on this site about how Liverpool, perhaps even more than other places, is a location where local women in visibly influential positions are not the norm.
How can organisations, conferences, presentations which concern public life and which involve public money (for instance, public sector attendance or speakers) offer maximum value when those actually involved do not at all reflect the composition of the population they seek to consider?
Is diversity essential for policy-making?
* How can genuinely wider engagement occur at a meaningful level when those most visible all reflect the power and influence of only one part of the population?
* How can the understandings and experience of everyone be seen to be respected in such circumstances?
* How can we be at all sure that the decisions taken in the wake of these events offer best value for money when only small parts of the diversity even those well qualified to speak whose lives will be affected have been visibly involved?
What follows is a first attempt at a case study to arrive at possible answers to some of these questions. In it I have tried to establish the extent to which the conference addresses matters of public interest, and compared that with the extent to which it acknowledges issues of diversity of experience and accessibility of outcomes, awarding up to five 'stars' for good value.
The Sustainable Development of the Liverpool City Region event is a one-day 'strategic' conference organised by the Waterfront Conference Company of London, at the Radisson SAS Hotel in Liverpool on 5th December 2006.
The conference concerns 'how Liverpool and Merseyside can develop sustainability', discussing strategic development issues, removing the barriers to development, gateways to Liverpool and Merseyside and transport links, and getting the most from leadership structures.
>> Merseyside remains an area where there is considerable poverty, where fewer women , working class males and people from ethnic minorities have high educational qualifications and / or well-paid employment, where public transport is a critical issue (fewer car-owning families), where health is a challenging issue, where there are very few women at the most senior levels of local public life and decision-making.
>> Diversity of experience and role models is therefore a central concern.
13 speakers, all well-known in their fields, are listed in the brochure. 12 of them are male. Liverpool is not the professional base of the only female speaker.
>> This gender distribution does not remotely reflect the distribution on men and women living and working in the 'Liverpool City Region' - or, indeed, the country as a whole. Nor does the list of speakers reflect any evident ethnic or community diversity.
>> Discussions of sustainable futures, encouraging businesses, transport, environmental 'friendliness', 'barriers to development' and the like are all issues concerning everyone. These are not issues which can only be addressed at high levels by white males, however impressive their particular expertise.
>> The list of speakers (as opposed one hopes to the content of the speakers' talks) offers no positive role model, or encouragement, for most people in Liverpool, to the view that their experience and opinions count.
Those who 'should' attend include private investors, local authority, regional and national public servants through to 'environmental and other pressure groups'. Fees for these various categories are respectively £468.83, £351.33 and £233.83. It is however possible to purchase the CD-Rom of the conference papers alone for £179.19.
>> Large numbers of those attending can be expected to be public officials, or involved in financial dealings in the public domain. They must pay quite a lot of money frm the public purse to attend (and to be paid their publicly-funded salaries for their day's work as attenders).
>> The reduced rate is too high for most local and community bodies to become involved; and the cost of the CD-Rom is, frankly, exhorbitant.
We have seen that this conference is about issues of central importance to Liverpool and Merseyside. It addresses matters which concern everyone. Yet it offers no acknowledgement of diversity of experience, and little in the way of accessibility in respect of outcomes. Significant opportunities to lead by engagement and personal example have here been lost.
I therefore award this conference an overall diversity value score of ONE STAR out of a possible five.
Continue reading Conference Diversity Index: The Sustainable Development Of The Liverpool City Region.
Sometimes the sun seems to beam right along Liverpool's Hope Street as though it had a special route to the heart of the city. When dark clouds lie behind the Cathedral, the effect of this noonday shaft of light is dazzling.
Read more about Hope Street Quarter.
Information on Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral is available here.
See also photgraphs at Calendar & Camera and Liverpool (Anglican) Cathedral.
Liverpool is excitedly preparing for its big years in 2007 (the city's 800th anniversary) and 2008 (the European Capital of Culture year). With such a long and dramatic history of diaspora, who knows what the city will be like by the end of the celebrations? The scope for enterprise - both in Liverpool and by other cities and regions - to build relationships across Europe and beyond is enormous.
BBC Radio 3 hosted a fascinating Free Thinking event in Liverpool's FACT building last weekend, with presentations, discussions and performances by an impressively eclectic array of debaters and artists. And, perhaps appositely, the very next day the City launched its initial plans for the 2008 European Capital of Culture year.
Sadly, I couldn't be at the debate, but it's an interesting question – and one that, although I've lived in Liverpool for over three decades, I'd find difficult to answer. All of us have only one shot at life, so comparisons are difficult, but is it usual for people who have been resident in a place for over a third of a century still to be asked where they 'come from'?
Working up the hill, away from the ports in the education and cultural sectors, it actually took me a while to realise that for some of my fellow citizens, Liverpool's maritime history is the city's autograph feature. Indeed, until the Heseltine interventions in the 1980s it was not even possible really to see much of that history. At least the reclamation of the southern docks for retail and leisure use (the Tate Gallery and Maritime Museum are situated there) helped us to see what an important port Liverpool was – and in fact still is, for freight rather than passengers.
So Liverpool is cosmopolitan in a particular way. In the mid-eighteenth century that one port was involved with 40% of the world's trade. Liverpool is therefore home to many whose predecessors reached the city by sea, or who in some cases had intended to travel onwards, but halted when they got this far.
We have communities of several generations from the Caribbean and parts of Africa, from China (Liverpool's China town is a large and important feature of the city) and the Indian sub-continent, who travelled from the West; and, from Eastern and Central Europe, reached us from the East. With these historic influxes has come of plethora of religious and cultural understandings – Muslim, Sikh, Jewish, Orthodox and many others.
What is less evident in our overt cultural mix is the direct influence of Southern Europe – though it is certainly there, especially in the sometimes overarching ethos of Roman Catholicism and Southern Ireland (Eire). And then there is the strongly Protestant Orange Order influence of Northern Ireland (Ulster), whose descendants in Liverpool, like their southern counterparts, have traditionally lived siloed in tight-knit communities with little knowledge or tolerance of other ways of seeing the world.
As is well known, the clash of Southern and Northern Irish influences (Catholics 'versus' Protestants) was only be resolved when, in the 1980s and '90s, the leaders of Liverpool's two great cathedrals (Bishop David Sheppard and Archbishop Derek Worlock) by their personal example called time on this damaging friction.
Given the particular diasporas from which Liverpool has benefited historically, it will be fascinating to see what the city can make of its opportunity to shine on the world and European stage in 2007 and 2008. There are a number of factors here, even apart from the celebrations as such, which should enhance the opportunities for Liverpool at this time - amongst them, the massive privately funded Grosvenor 'Liverpool 1' commercial development (at £950 million reputedly the largest project of this kind in Europe) which is currently taking root in the heart of the city centre.
The 2007 event will celebrate Liverpool's 800th Anniversary. (The city's charter was signed in 1207.) This surely is the opportunity of a lifetime to acknowledge and embrace the rich and diverse cultures and traditions of the city, to look back at our past but also forward - not only to what follows in 2008, but also much further into the future.
This is in a very real sense 'Liverpool's year', a 'birthday' (as the locals insist on calling it) worthy of pulling out the stops. 800 years as a city, even if others can also claim it (Leeds' charter is also dated 1207), is an important milestone.
The birthday party will be for the people of Liverpool. Others will be very welcome to join us – what's a party without honoured guests? - but the style, the scene itself, needs to be determined by those, the citizens of Liverpool, whose 'birthday' it is.
But what does Liverpool's history mean for its year as European Capital of Culture? It has consistently been said that it was 'the people', Liverpudlians themselves, who won this award. Is there a danger that 2008 could be 'more of the same', an extension of the scenario for 2007?
If we return to our first question, is Liverpool "unenglish"?, we need to note that, so it is said, some 60% of Liverpudlians have never even been to London (and I'd guess that maybe 90% of people living in England outside the North West have as yet never been to Liverpool).
Given this situation, we must ask how many of the citizens of Liverpool so far have a real knowledge of Europe outside the influences we have already noted? How many are fluent in other European languages? How many have business or other formal connections across Europe? The answer is surely that here is a city at the start in every way of its journey into the twenty-first century.
2008 offers business and cultural entrepreneurs from around Europe and beyond a real chance to establish themselves in the city, whilst Liverpool's eyes are firmly fixed on the global stage – and, we hope, theirs on us.
The full extent of the outward-facing Liverpool 'offer' for 2007 and especially 2008 remains to be seen - there is increasing confidence that something interesting and worthwhile will be made of these unique opportunities.
The scope for inward investment, connection and synergy with elsewhere is however already established as truly enormous.
Here is a city ripe for growth of every kind, and increasingly ready to jump at the chance. This is a virtuous circle for anyone enterprising enough to recognise it.
Whether Liverpool is "unenglish" we must leave the BBC debaters to determine. Whether that same city is now positioned once again to take its place as a major player at the European and global levels we can answer for ourselves.
And, in contrast to the last time Liverpool was a great trading city, when the odds were stacked against 'outsiders', this time Liverpool will be trading on an even playing field with its external partners.
This article is also published (as Liverpool: Ripe For Growth in 2007 And 2008) on the European Renaissance website.
It's not just public conferences which often fail on diversity. The Bank of Scotland Corporate's advertisement today in Merseyside's Businessweek shows the distance still to go before the chaps grasp what diversity might be about - and why everyone, from banks to sub-regions like Merseyside, needs to implement it.
We have already established the Conference Diversity Index on this website. Now it seems we need to widen the scope of Diversity Watch, to encompass other aspects of public presentation.
On the day when The Guardian carries an article by Jill Treanor entitled 'No room at the top - fewer women reaching boards of Britain's top firms', the weekly supplement of my other morning newspaper, Liverpool's Daily Post Businessweek supplement provides plenty of evidence of how this comes about.
The Daily Post has today a Special Supplement on 'Business Success:' with a ' Focus on corporate growth on Merseyside', in which the lead feature considers 'Nurturing seeds of growth'.
My precision with titles here is because what follows further into the Supplement demonstrates very clearly why everyone needs to be very worried, both about gender (and other) equality in business and, more specifically, about the Merseyside economy.
The Post Supplement carries a full page advertisement for the sponsors, Bank of Scotland Corporate, featuring twenty eight photographs of staff, no doubt all fine folk, who offer Merseyside a service which the Bank of Scotland says is 'Commercial. Efficient. Entrepreneurial'.
Of these personnel just ONE is a woman. And you have to look very hard to find her. Her photograph is in the very bottom corner of the page, the last of the twenty eight people displayed.
Could it be that Merseyside, to refer back to the lead article above, is 'nurturing' the opportunities or 'seeds of (corporate) growth' for chaps rather more than for non-chaps?
It beggars belief that anyone could find this acceptable; but presumably they do. Discrimination legislation aside (and that must surely be where they have put it), how can there be any confidence in an organisation which so unashamedly flaunts its lack of awareness of, or perhaps respect for, the issues?
You would have thought that at the very least the Bank of Scotland Commercial might have decided against photoraphs to advertise their diversity deficit.
Diversity is critical both to basic notions of fairness and, from the hard business perspective, to economic success. Obviously to some people the status quo must still be more acceptable (very acceptable?) than looking to see how to better the Commercial. Positive. Entrepreneurial aspects of the enterprise, whether it's a bank or the whole of Merseyside we're thinknig about.
And here's the final irony: the strapline for the Bank of Scotland Commercial advertisement is 'Look at things differently'.
The 2006 British Urban Regeneration Conference (BURA) conference 'Futures' Debate raised many important issues. Critical to all these, if regeneration is ultimately to be effective, will be increasing focus on (1) the implications of global warming and sustainability, and (2) the challenging task of mutual 'translation' between the many stakeholders in any developing programme, to ensure that understandings and ideas are shared and can evolve.
I went to the 'Futures' Debate at the British Urban Regeneration Association (BURA) Annual Conference in Milton Keynes, on October 11th. The debate was a vigorous affair, chaired and led by BURA Director Jackie Sadek, a woman who knows how to keep the exchange of ideas flowing.
The format comprised an introductory address by Government Minister Richard Caborn, two minute slots each for six leading regeneration practitioners, and responses from a 'jury' of expert witnesses. Then the discussion was opened to the floor – more than a hundred practitioners and attendant media representatives from around the country and beyond.
The central issue under debate was how we all perceived the future agenda of regeneration in the U.K.
The event was, as Jackie Sadek herself said, a 'rollercoaster' of deeply informed give-and-take, covering matters from the micro and to the massively macro. No single brief report could do it justice, but I will try here to give a feel for the ideas which in retrospect caught my attention, at least.
Leadership and 'guidance' from on high were felt by several speakers to be missing from the regeneration agenda. There's plenty of regulation – to judge from comments, some of it outdated – but too little real enablement. Some said that governmental attention spans are too short; regeneration is a long-term proposition. Others criticised the 'constant' changes which they saw in regulation and funding, and wished for more attention to large-scale infrastructure.
No-one, however, suggested that the government is not committed to regeneration as a seriously long-term venture; and most speakers thought it can be demonstrated by 'real' examples that regeneration does work. There's scope here for dialogue at the highest levels, if common positions between protagonist practitioners can be elucidated.
Are 'regeneration', 'renewal' and 'renaissance' different? Perhaps they are. Regeneration is predominantly a physical thing, whilst 'renewal' and 'renaissance' are increasingly about the real meaning, the 'soul' of the regenerational process. The journey from one to the other is a transition from the literal to the artistic and cultural. But how best to get there?
How can regeneration work so that it is in the end more than just developing markets for investors, important though that financial interface is?
Experience of regeneration and renewal in the UK tells us that it is a mixture of positive and negative. As numerous reports (including Lord Rogers') have shown, there are things which have been done well, and things which have had seriously unfortunate outcomes. Both sorts of experience need to be recognised for the valuable lessons they offer.
There are several perspectives here: those of the community activist, the politician, the business operator, the planner, the economic strategist. Only rarely however is the voice of the artist heard; and this is where it may be possible to make a difference. Arts and culture, 'high' or less so, can give people common cause, something in which, if presented positively, they can all share and become involved.
From that can arise also a common sense of purpose and direction. People who feel involved feel a stakehold and ownership. This is what makes regeneration into renewal, and then into renaissance. This is the essence of the journey from bricks and mortar to genuine community.
An example of this approach is the renaissance of Liverpool's Hope Street. This process, over more than a decade, evolved from a deeply held 'grass-roots' conviction that Hope Street deserved the very best of public realms, to give everyone a sense of pride in what was slowly estabished as the Hope Street Quarter. Hope Street is home of the city's two great cathedrals, two universities and of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and the Everyman Theatre, not to mention the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA), Blackburne House and much, much more.
Yet on first acquaintance Hope Street looked tired, dirty and possibly unsafe. Hardly an appropriate ambience for world-class cultural institutions which are found from one end to the other of this historic thoroughfare. HOPES: The Hope Street Association, a voluntary 'arts and regeneration' charity, was therefore formed to change this sad state of affairs.
Nonetheless, it took enormous focus and years of hard work by volunteers to move the authorities (and even some of the major institutions) to perceive what was evident to those with eyes to see: Hope Street is a place with soul, a place for creative and exciting people with ideas. In other words, it was and is the ideal place from which to nurture renaissance and renewal, to the benefit of both local people (more visitors and customers, more jobs, more fun, more sense of community...) and the city's wider economy.
There has to be a way to get to the 'soul' of renewal, to its ownership by people in a way that enables economic benefit but does not preclude the human reality which lies behind the more formal contexts of the action.
Again, Hope Street offers a (cautionary) example. The Summer of 2006 at last saw the completion of the long-sought £3 m. public realm works programme. Everyone was delighted and, after delays on the part of some authorities, eventually there was the opportunity to celebrate in the biggest street festival since the Silver Jubilee visit of H.M. the Queen in 1977. But at the very same time those who had worked so hard as volunteers to bring the transformation about found they had in many ways been displaced by new commercial and corporate interests who now at last saw the potential of the Hope Street Quarter.
The immediate parallel which springs to mind here is with Hoxton and Shoreditch in London, where many creative people say they have been driven out, 'displaced' by high prices. The parallel, though valid, is not however exact. In this instance it is those who who give their activities voluntarily who are at risk of displacement, perhaps at least as much as individual artists and non-corporate creative professionals.
The jury remains out on the extent to which those grass-roots visionaries who dreamed of a great future for Hope Street Quarter will continue to be central to the area's destiny. What sort of 'community' involvement there will be in years to come remains to be seen.
How often do regeneration proposals move beyond the physically visible in any real way, to what it actually means to everyone concerned - whether those who live in the area, those who work or visit there, those who invest there, or those who are concerned for its conservation, historically or environmentally?
And, if the claim is made that getting to the real soul of renewal does happen, why are the people entrusted to do it so often the same team who draw up the physical plans? This is a hugely different task.
But the question of soul alone is not enough. It is also necessary to demonstrate actually to those who invest large amounts in regeneration (a) that 'soul' is critical to meaningful renewal, (b) that it makes business sense in the best meaning of the term, and (c) that it is of itself business-like, that it can create value for the people who talk about 'soul', as well as for others.
Without evidence of these things, it is difficult to ensure this deeper aspect of renewal will ever happen at all.
For this is a far cry from the way that most regeneration and renewal is conducted, and it requires a constructively critical approach of a kind only rarely encountered, the courage to articulate vision and show leadership in facing up to difficulties and opportunities openly.
One challenge for those who believe in this wider vision, collaboratively, is to find a way to nurture such a new emphasis, probably through a combination of case studies, disarming honesty and imaginative leaps. Perhaps this is most importantly where that artistic voice is needed.
What certainly won't work on its own in sharing this 'message' is the conventional conference, addressing the usual suspects…. But neither perhaps would suddenly challenging everyone's expectations in too dramatic a way.
The next question is therefore, what balance in the greater scheme of things can be made between strictly 'regenerational' activities and more meaningful, longer term, 'renewal and renaissance' ones?
And should we expect that balance to change over time?
This article is also published (as Regeneration, Renewal And Renaissance: Where's The Soul Of The Enterprise?), with Jim Greenhalf's response, on the European Renaissance website.


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Fighting Mad és una pel·lícula de thriller rural de 1976 dirigida per Jonathan Demme, sobre un granger d'Arkansas interpretat per Peter Fonda que usa tàctiques de guerrilla contra els especuladors immobiliaris corruptes que el desnonen a ell i als seus veïns per tal d'apropiar-se de la seva terra.

Argument
Arkansas, segona meitat de la dècada de 1970. El fill d'un camperol fa una guerra personal despietada i sense restriccions contra els homes d'un especulador ric sense escrúpols que es decanta a desallotjar-lo a ell i als seus veïns per als seus propis negocis immobiliaris i miners.

Repartiment
 Peter Fonda - Tom Hunter
 Lynn Lowry - Lorene Maddox
 John Doucette - Jeff Hunter
 Philip Carey - Pierce Crabtree
 Harry Northup - Sheriff Len Skerritt
 Noble Willingham - Senator Hingle
 Kathleen Miller - Carolee Hunter
 Scott Glenn - Charlie Hunter
 Ted Markland - Hal Fraser

Producció
A l'hora de fer la pel·lícula, el productor Roger Corman va analitzar tres altres recents thrillers d'acció rural de baix pressupost que havien tingut grans èxits: Billy Jack (1971), Walking Tall (1973) i Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry (1974). Va deduir que tenien tres coses en comú: un heroi no convencional, un mode de transport inusual i una arma interessant. És per això que el personatge Peter Fonda viatja amb una moto antiga amb el seu fill petit i utilitza una ballesta.

Referències

Pel·lícules dels Estats Units del 1976
Thrillers dels Estats Units
Pel·lícules en anglès
Pel·lícules d'acció dels Estats Units

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POLL: Do you support the White House's decision to revoke Jim Acosta's press pass? POLL: Do you support the White House's decision to revoke Jim Acosta's press pass?
POLL: Do you support the White House's decision to revoke Jim Acosta's press pass?
CNN reporter Jim Acosta made waves in the news on Wednesday, after his heated exchange with President Trump at a White House press conference.
Acosta, who has had run-ins with both President Trump and White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders several times in the past, began grilling the president Wednesday about why he called the migrant caravan an invasion, complaining that the term "demonized" immigrants.
Acosta continued trying to ask additional questions, even after President Trump repeatedly told him to sit down and put down the mic. When a White House aide attempted to take the mic from him, Acosta refused to give it up, and pushed her arm down with his left hand.
When Acosta returned to the White House later Wednesday night, he learned that his press pass had been revoked.
Acosta claimed he did not touch the woman, despite video evidence clearly showing that he did.
CNN and the White House Correspondents' Association have both blasted the decision to ban Acosta, as well as a number of other reporters.
PLEASE TAKE OUR POLL BELOW – WE WANT YOUR OPINION. Was the White House right to ban Jim Acosta from the White House?
If she has even a "hint" of a bruise I think the WH intern should file an assault claim against Acosta.
Absolutely! He's an obnoxious disrespectful bullly just like the rest of the press! Privileges should be denied until they learn how to show respect!
This should be done routinely to any reporter who consistently interrupts and shows blatant disrespect. Give a verbal warning then at the second outburstyour out!
He was an agitator and the mood was spreading. April Ryan better straighten up because she is next in my opinion. They are to report the news they gather not make the news. Acosta needed a reprimand and a strong one.
President Trump will except an apology but Acosta MUST BEHAVE.
This is the swamp. These so-called reporters are an inbred cesspool of op-ed hacks.. The entire Washington Press Club is made up of people who don't know anyone else, don't talk to anyone else, marry each other and have nothing in common with "commoners." Their vision is 100% scewed toward getting attention, a publicity pic with a celebrity and patting each other on the back.
Yes suspend Jim Acosta, he's is rude, he need to learn respect, he obviously has little or none for the Office of POTUS.
You Must have respect for the the POTUS. Jim Acusta was rude and should of been kicked out of the White House. I really don't like CNN because they have no respect for the POTUS either. The Media is corrupt and is ruining this country and it must stop but it never will because of money and greed and power in this country.
YES!!! TIRED OF HIS DISRESPECT!!!?


Join author Dr. Patricia Ackerman for a free presentation about Marymount College at the Smoky Hill Museum's First Thursday program, February 5 from 5:30-6:30 pm.
Life-long learning, laughter and lasting friendships are just a few of the gifts given over the years by Marymount College of Kansas. Join Dr. Patricia Ackerman as she shares stories and photos she discovered during the process of archival research and the writing of her book, Marymount College of Kansas: A History. Ackerman is an alumna of Salina Central High School, Marymount College and Kansas State University. She has taught language arts courses for KSU for the past 15 years. She'll also be on hand after the presentation to sign copies of her book.
The Smoky Hill Museum is a nationally accredited history museum, in the heart of downtown Salina, Kansas. This FREE museum is open Tuesday-Friday 12-6, Saturday 10-5 and Sunday 1-5. Also, be sure to stop by the Museum Store for a wide variety of regional and Kansas products, local artwork and gifts for all ages.


These days, watches can seem virtually irrelevant to many people. According to their way of thinking, there is no need to clutter your wrist when you can simply check the time on your smartphone. While many people may subscribe to this opinion, watches, particularly fine automatic timepieces, attract a passionate following. There are several factors that continue to make premium timepieces so compelling.
The first is undeniable prestige. Nothing says power and success more clearly than a beautiful Rolex, Breitling, Omega, or other high-quality watch. Simply owning this item tells everyone that you are well acquainted with the finer things in life and will accept nothing less than the best.
Fine watches also furnish someone looking for a hobby with an excellent avocation. It is hard to pinpoint exactly what compels people to accumulate multiple automatic timepieces, but the Internet is chockfull of websites oriented to the power collector. Some fall in love with the tradition and craftsmanship that go into the making of their timepieces; others are attracted to the engineering of the mechanisms; still others find the gemstones and precious metals of the finest timepieces irresistible. Whatever the reason, becoming a watch aficionado can grow into an absorbing hobby that even has the capacity to provide investment potential for your timepieces.
In addition, some watch collectors amass them because they wish to leave heirlooms for the people they care about. Merely possessing or wearing a fine watch that was loved and worn by an ancestor can be tremendously meaningful to the succeeding generations. Few heirlooms possess more intrinsic and sentimental value than does a premium timepiece.
Finally, we come to perhaps the most obvious reason for people's passion about fine watches: They love to use them to tell the time. As long as a watch is kept wound according to manufacturer specifications in a single watch winder or one designed for multiple timepieces, a collector can proudly wear any of his or her watches at the proverbial drop of a hat. Although their time keeping may not be as precise as a smartphone can provide, there is something about the hand-crafted precision and engineering by master watchmakers that makes checking the time on your premium watch much more than a routine task. If you are a collector, you may have found yourself simply staring at your timepiece as the minutes ticked by, entranced by the beauty and grace of each passing moment.
That in itself is a reason for loving these amazing and unique collectible objects. Practical and whimsical, beautiful and functional, automatic timepieces take the task of ascertaining the hour to a whole new level. That is what makes them timeless.


After our trip to Iceland, we had a short stopover in London. This was to be our second visit to London in many years. The last time we were here was in 2000 and many things had changed in the last 15 years. For more on our trip to Iceland you can look up my previous blogs: Land of Fire and Ice, Reykjavik and the Blue Lagoon, Golden Circle and Chasing the Northern Lights.


So, we originally started trying to tie it to the del Toro universe and continue those movies. But once we had Neil Marshall, we thought, 'Why are we going to try and continue that universe?' Because a del Toro movie is a del Toro movie, and you don't want to try and hand a del Toro movie to someone else. Especially someone as great as Neil Marshall. So that's when it went from being this continuation to being a reboot.
I'm not sure anyone even knew the idea of a continuation into Hellboy 3 was originally being bandied about before Mike Mignola and the gang decided to go in another direction. What's clear, however, is that there was never any intention of bringing back Guillermo del Toro for a third round. Once Neil Marshall was on board, plans started falling into place that will allow the Game of Thrones director to go in his own direction.
Mike Mignola, for one, doesn't see this as a negative, telling Nerdist that he's excited to see where the Hellboy remake takes the comic character he created.
It's exciting to have another director. It's exciting to take another path, to take that material and give it another leaning.
Right now the Hellboy reboot is starting to come together. Stranger Things actor David Harbour has signed on as the new Hellboy, and we've heard the movie is going to try for a different tone. Recent reports have also indicated the reboot should be signing with a distributor soon and plans to start filming in the fall. We'll let you know when things start moving forward at an accelerated pace.
There were a lot of differing opinions about the property getting rebooted from cast members to director Guillermo del Toro himself. But David Harbour spent some time with both Ron Perlman and del Toro and everyone seems to be mostly on the same page now. The Hellboy family is back to being one big, happy family at this point, but it'll still be a while before we actually see some footage from the new project. While we wait, check out what other movies are hitting theaters in the near future.


Romania should be a good contributor to this multi-country project, based on its TB country profile. Although in Romania, for the past 10 years the incidence of tuberculosis constantly decreased the figures are still very high. In 2013 the incidence value reached 87%000 2 compared with a peak of 142.2%000 in 2002. However, despite the success in managing drug-susceptible TB, drug-resistant tuberculosis is a major challenge to the effectiveness of National Tuberculosis Program in Romania, placing the country in the list of the 18 high-burden countries for MDR-TB in the WHO European Region. Compared to other countries in this region of WHO this incidence is low and Romania is not being considered as an MDR-TB hot spot. The proportion of MDR-TB tuberculosis was in 2012 of 4.23% in new TB cases and 10.7% in relapsed cases. Nonetheless, the incidence of MDR-TB is maintaining in the recent years and we can note a decrease in the percentage in new TB cases (in 2013, 2.8% MDR-TB in new cases and 11% in retreatment cases) . The global prevalence of MDR-TB in Romania is slowly increasing since 2007, from 1.360 cases (3.07% from all TB cases) to 1.442 in 2012 (4.23% from all TB cases)3. In what concerns the more severe type of DR, in 2007, the proportion of XDR cases among MDR strains was 11.4%. The drug-resistance survey (DRS) conducted during four months of 2009-2010 with results collected from 756 MDR-TB cases defined the level of XDR-TB among MDR-TB cases of 11.37% (among new MDR-TB cases – 9.9%, among retreatment cases – 11.6%). DRS also showed extremely high level of any resistance to Cm (69.3%), to Km (57.3%) and Am (54.7%) among tested strains. Another DRS study made by reports to the EuroTB network placed the level of XDR-TB in Romania at 6.6% in 2007 and 6.7% in 2008, from a number of 701 MDR-TB cases reported in 2007 and 816 MDR-TB cases reported in 2008 5. The available european TB DRS extensive data is published in yearly in the last 4 years. According to the report from 20136, in 2009-2011, in Romania, the number of notified MDR-TB cases was 624 in 2009 (10% of total TB cases) and among those there were 217 cases with SLD DST; from the 217 MDR-TB cases, 26 were XDR-TB (12%). In 2010 there were 574 MDR-TB notified cases (9.4% of TB cases) and 215 cases with SLD DST. From the 215 cases of MDT-TB with SLD-DST, 27 (12.6%) were XDR-TB. IN 2011 there were 530 MDR-TB cases (8.8% of TB cases) and 248 cases with SLD DST from which 13 (12.1%) were XDR-TB. The data from 2014 shows 530 (8.9%) MDR-TB reported cases from which 32 (6%) are XDR in 2012. The data from 2015 shows 555 (7.8%) MDR-TB reported cases from which 44 (7.9%) are XDR in 2013 8.
So from this data we can conclude that in the last 10 years the figures related to drug resistant tuberculosis are around: 4 to 5% MDR-TB from prevalent TB cases, (2.5 to 3% in new cases and 11% in retreatment cases); prevalence close to 12% XDR-TB cases of the MDR-TB cases in 2009-2011 are apparently decreasing to 8%. Therefore, it is reasonable to conclude that there is a reservoir of Romanian drug-resistant tuberculosis that needs thorough analysis. Also, in this body of evidence the figures regarding the neighboring country the Republic of Moldova are not included, which figures of drug-resistant TB are higher and probably this is increasing the Romanian reservoir in the context of last years' population migration. Quite a large proportion of the Romanian population has crossed the borders in the last 20 years throughout the European Union presumably carrying local TB strains, possibly drug-resistant. In the context of increasing population migration it is essential to better characterize TB strains from across multiple countries to better achieve disease epidemiologic control globally. Therefore, this database should be a support for further molecular epidemiological studies and reference for drug susceptibility testing and new drug research, contributing to the decrease of the global burden of the disease.


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Кула Ненадовића је изграђена 1813. године, налази се у Ваљеву на брду Кличевац, на око пола километра од центра града, а у правцу изласка ка Шапцу. Представља непокретно културно добро као споменик културе од великог значаја.

Историја
Кула је изграђена од стране устаничке државе и служила је за војне потребе. Градњом су руководили господар Јаков Ненадовић као министар унутрашњих послова и његов син, војвода Јефрем. Између два устанка од 1813. до 1815. године Турци су користили кулу као затвор. Вероватно због тога ју је војвода Сима Ненадовић срушио по ослобођењу Ваљева 28. маја 1815. године. Обновљена је 1836. године, о трошку Кнежевине Србије и до краја 19. века коришћена је за чување барута.

Изглед куле
Кула је приближно квадратне основе (9,80х9,70х10,00х9,76), а висока је са кровом 17,50 m), масивно грађена у камену, подељена на четири спрата. засведена је опеком и прекривена ћерамидом. На спољним зидовима, на разним висинама уграђене су спомен плоче које сведоче о њеној градњи.

Данас је кула Ненадовића у потпуности реконструисана и заштићена, са припремљеном адекватном музејском поставком, која је за посетиоце отворена од 20. марта 2012. године, као издвојено је одељење Народног музеја Ваљево.

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#The411: The Super Bowl Halftime Show...Happened
The Super Bowl Halftime Show Happened
The consensus is the Super Bowl halftime show was pretty boring and just laid flat
It featured Maroon 5 as the headliner, rapper Travis Scott and Atlanta native Big Boi
No surprise guests or collaborations happened, it was fairly straight forward
As for Maroon 5's "political message" Adam Levine teased in an interview, at one point the audience released lanterns into the air that spelled out "One Love"
As for that SpongeBob SquarePants cameo, it was there because fans started a Change.org asking that the show's song "Sweet Victory" be played to honor series creator Stephen Hillenburg, who died in November from ALS—for the record fans were unhappy it was so short
Fans were also upset Adam Levine was allowed to go shirtless while Janet Jackson was not
Baltimore-area Food Truck Named One of 26 Best In The U.S. by Food Network
Flash Crabcake Company was honored by Food Network as part of a "road trip of America's best on-the-go eats."
It can be found serving up crab cakes and cream of crab soup among other local favorites throughout the Baltimore area
Box Office Recap & Super Bowl Premieres
The Top 5 movies this weekend:
1. Glass - $9.5 million
2. The Upside - $8.9 million
3. Miss Bala - $6.7 million
4. Aquaman - $4.8 million
5. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse - $4.4 million
Slowest Super Bowl weekend since 2000
Speaking of movies, Chris Pratt "promises" there will be a third Guardians of the Galaxy movie. He tells Variety , "I don't know exactly what that's going to look like, but I know everyone on board is just eager to give the fans what they want and wrap up a trilogy in a meaningful way."
During the Super Bowl we got the first look at The Fate of the Furious spinoff, Hobbs & Shaw, starring Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham
We also got a first look at season 3 of The Handmaids Tale & Jordan Peele's Twilight Zone reboot

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Q: Detecting changes for several companies I wonder if anyone can provide me with some tools/packages/codes to detect changes in the peer groups that are used for relative performance evaluation.
I have a dataframe with all peers that are used for a certain firm (CIK) over the years. An example of this data is given below:
CIK <- c("21344","21344", "21344", "21344", "21344", "21344", "21344", "21344", "21344")
FiscalYear <- c("2013", "2014", "2015", "2016", "2017", "2014", "2015", "2016", "2017")
PeerCIK <- c("1800","1800","1800","1800","1800","21456","21456","21456","21456")
dataframe <- data.frame(CIK, FiscalYear, PeerCIK)

This results in the following table:
    CIK FiscalYear PeerCIK
1 21344       2013    1800
2 21344       2014    1800
3 21344       2015    1800
4 21344       2016    1800
5 21344       2017    1800
6 21344       2014   21456
7 21344       2015   21456
8 21344       2016   21456
9 21344       2017   21456

Now, I want to identify whether the peers (PeerCIK) are present for the whole period that is covered by the firm (CIK). I thus first need to identify the first and last year per CIK (in this example it is clear (2013-2017), but I need to do this for many firms). A code I used for this is:
df2 <- dataframe %>%
    group_by(CIK) %>%
    summarise(
        start = min(FiscalYear),
        end = max(FiscalYear)
    )

> df2
    CIK start  end
1 21344  2013 2017

and following I need to identify whether all different peers are present for that period.
If this is not true, then a change must have taken place in the peer group (the peer is added to or deleted from the group). This is where I have trouble with how to continue. The outcome that I ultimately want, is a dataframe with for every firm (CIK), per fiscalyear whether a change has taken place in the peer group compared to last year (where change is a dummy variable with value 1 if change takes place). Such a change is thus when a peer is added (after the starting date) or when a peer is no longer included while the end date is not yet reached for that particular CIK.
Expected outcome
For the example above, I would have the following outcome, as company 21456 is added from 2014 onwards and thus a change has taken place compared to 2013:
    CIK FiscalYear change
1 21344       2013      0
2 21344       2014      1
3 21344       2015      0
4 21344       2016      0
5 21344       2017      0

I really hope someone can help me, please let me know

A: A slightly different approach via expand(), full_join, and some helper variables which should cover most of your edge cases:
library(tidyverse)
dataframe %>%
    # Add helper variable to indicate present relationships.
    mutate(
        present = 1
    ) %>%
    # Generate all possible variations of CIK, FiscalYear, and PeerCik
    # and join with our data.
    full_join(
        dataframe %>% expand(CIK, FiscalYear, PeerCIK),
        by = c("CIK", "FiscalYear", "PeerCIK")
    ) %>%
    # Set the helper variable to 0 wherever it is missing,
    # which is the case in your newly joined empty data from `expand(...)`.
    mutate(
        present = ifelse(is.na(present), 0, present)
    ) %>%
    # Sort the data because now the order will be important.
    arrange(CIK, PeerCIK, FiscalYear) %>%
    # Group by CIK-PeerCIK relationship...
    group_by(
        CIK, PeerCIK
    ) %>%
    # ...and compare each FiscalYear to the previous FiscalYear.
    mutate(
        # Check if a relationship was added compared to the year before.
        added = case_when(
            row_number() == 1 ~ 0,
            lag(present) == 0 & present == 1 ~ 1,
            TRUE ~ 0
        ),
        # Check if a relationship was removed compared to the year before.
        removed = case_when(
            row_number() == 1 ~ 0,
            lag(present) == 1 & present == 0 ~ 1,
            TRUE ~ 0
        ),
        # Combine those two into one variable.
        change = ifelse(abs(added) + abs(removed) > 0, 1, 0)
    ) %>%
    ungroup() %>%
    # Now to the summary: Group by CIK and FiscalYear...
    group_by(
        CIK, FiscalYear
    ) %>%
    # ...and calculate all sums for each CIK and FiscalYear.
    summarize(
        # Total number of present relationships in this year.
        num_present = sum(present),
        # Number of added relationships in this year.
        num_added = sum(added),
        # Number of removed relationships in this year.
        num_removed = sum(removed),
        # Was there any change in this year?
        # An alternative would be `sum(change)` to
        # indicate the number of changed relationships.
        change = max(change)
    ) %>%
    ungroup()

Result:
# A tibble: 5 × 6
  CIK   FiscalYear num_present num_added num_removed change
  <chr> <chr>            <dbl>     <dbl>       <dbl>  <dbl>
1 21344 2013                 1         0           0      0
2 21344 2014                 2         1           0      1
3 21344 2015                 2         0           0      0
4 21344 2016                 2         0           0      0
5 21344 2017                 2         0           0      0

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America's prized bivalve is poised for a comeback as scallops start popping up on menus.
Richard Pease lives about a mile from the port in New Bedford, Mass., where fishermen unload the sea scallops served at Turk's Seafood in nearby Mattapoisett. Pease, Turk's general manager, or his brother-in-law Richard Pasquill, the seafood buyer, visits the port daily to purchase scallops directly from the boats for the family-run operation, which includes a restaurant, sushi bar and seafood market.
On Friday and Saturday nights, Turk's serves as many as 100 pounds of scallops. Envision half-pound plates of U20s every which way—fried, baked, in sushi, sauteed or broiled, and often topped with little more than breadcrumbs and herbs.
Pease knows the catch is extremely fresh when a shucked bivalve springs back to the touch. A fresh dry-packed scallop has a little sheen on the surface and feels slightly tacky, like a Post-it note. To check quality, Pease will pop a raw one in his mouth. If there's a problem, you'll know "real quick," he says.
"The price keeps going up," Pease says. "A couple of years ago, scallops were $11 a pound. Now they are $15 to $18. I want to say that people will stop buying them, but that's not the case."Scallop consumption is higher in the Northeast than anywhere else in the country. While consumption has declined over the last few years, availability and diner interest are increasing, positioning the bivalve for a big comeback. As demand for scallops increases worldwide (most of New Bedford's scallops are processed to be sold elsewhere), however, so has the cost per pound.
During the economic slump, shellfish took a hit as consumers curbed their restaurant spending. From 2009 to 2013, shellfish on menus fell 2.9 percent, more than any other protein category, according to menu-tracking service Datassential MenuTrends. Scallops took a 9.2 percent hit during the same period, even more than lobster (which fell 6.8 percent). Yet the bivalve remains the third most popular shellfish menu item, behind shrimp and crab.
"The thing about scallops is they are both salty and sweet. Those are two things that attract it to a large base of people."
For Paley and many other chefs, scallops have long been valued for their sweetness, versatility, quick fire times and sustainable profile. (Fishing limits have resulted in population resurgences, and scallop-farming endeavors look promising.) In this comeback story, chefs are getting creative with pricing, preparation and protein pairings.
McClure, who buys scallops from a local shellfish farm, frequently runs a main course with scallops. But he also finds ways to feature the bivalve in small plates at the bar, either by serving a scallop sliced raw as crudo or accompanying a seared U10 scallop with vegetables or vegetable puree.
While Chef-owner Martial Noguier has never faced a problem selling his Chicago audience on scallops, he also watches menu prices, running scallops mainly as an appetizer at his restaurant, Bistronomic. He will pair two seared U10 scallops in a soup or with vegetables such as cauliflower and caper berries, which allows him to keep his food cost at about 26 percent.
When Noguier features scallops as a main course, like in his weekday bouillabaisse special, he augments two ounces of scallops with three ounces of a lower cost seafood.
"When you use expensive foods like scallops, you always want to use something that is not expensive with it," Noguier says.
Chris Siversen, executive chef and owner of Maritime Parc in Jersey City, N.J., also adds other proteins to the plate when offering scallop entrees. Taking a page from the surf-and-turf playbook, Siversen sets braised short ribs over a spoonful of sauce gribiche and tops them with seared New Jersey U8 scallops and pea tendrils dressed in horseradish vinaigrette. It is one of the restaurant's most popular main courses.
"Scallops add a delicacy to the plate," Siversen says, explaining that the rich texture complements braised meat. And unlike traditional surf-and-turf plates with lobster and steak, he adds, the entree won't throw his food cost out of line.
Serving scallops raw or barely cooked emphasizes their sweetness, he says. Jake slices U10 sea scallops sashimi-style and shingles the slices down a plate drizzled with ponzu sauce. Before serving, he pours hot sesame oil over the slices and tops them with tempura-battered jalapeños.
But there's nothing like serving scallops raw to emphasize the fresh flavor of a quality catch. At Andina, a modern Peruvian restaurant in Portland, Ore., Executive Chef Hank Costello serves scallops tiradito style, the Peruvian answer to sashimi. He will serve a sliced U8 scallop with a passion fruit or tart orange sauce, but he especially likes it with olive oil, sea salt, lime zest and a couple of drops of vinegar. "You can really get the flavor of the scallop," he says.
With scallops, it appears the world is your oyster.
Kate Leahy is a San Francisco-based food writer and cookbook author who is up to her ears in flour working on a cookie cookbook.
While fresh scallops don't come cheap, the same isn't so for mussels, which can run as low as $2 to $3 a pound. Chefs aren't ignoring the bivalve's value proposition. From 2009 to 2013, the percentage of restaurants across the country with mussels on the menu grew 3.8 percent to 16.5 percent, according to Datassential MenuTrends.
At Maritime Parc in Jersey City, N.J., mussels cooked Thai-curry style—in a broth of coconut milk and white wine flavored with kaffir lime, lemongrass, ginger, garlic and fish sauce—have been a hit at brunch, says Chef-owner Chris Siversen. After steaming the mussels in the sauce, Siversen removes them from the pot and cooks down the liquid slightly. He finishes the sauce with butter before adding the mussels back to the pot. From start to finish, cooking time is about 10 minutes. "The cost is much better than any other appetizer on our menu," he says.
How do these bivalves stack up on menus in various dining segments?
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Best New Music:
Assume Form, released January 18th by acclaimed producer, singer, and songwriter James Blake, has already become one of the most popular releases of the year. Blake has grown in popularity, producing for many popular artists, such as Kendrick Lamar, Anderson Paak, Jay Z, Beyonce, and Frank Ocean. In his new album, Blake carries over his hip-hop oriented beatmaking. One track, titled "Single Mile High," features Travis Scott, and Blake co-produces the track with Metro Boomin'. The third track on the album, "Tell Them," was also produced with Metro Boomin'. As usual, Blake's production stands out on the album. Throughout it, Blake appears more consistent than in his earlier works, and the entire album is a treat to listen to.
Ariana Grande's Thank U, Next has been thought of as perhaps her strongest album to date. It is clear that Grande has changed her sound since her last album, Sweetener. Grande has grown up, due to enduring tragedy, breaking off her engagement with Pete Davidson and experiencing the death of her ex-boyfriend Mac Miller. This is reflected in her music, which tackles more emotional issues in the singer's life.
After a year-long hiatus, Future released his new album, The Wizrd. Future, once again, released an album where he keeps the tone dark, continuing to wrestle with his inner demons and rapping with his usual bleak voice. While it does not reach the emotional peaks of some of his previous works, it is still a consistent album, well worth listening to for fans who enjoy his previous work.
In other news, Drake's 2010 mixtape, So Far Gone, was recently published on multiple streaming services. While it is not necessarily new music, it is a great way to remember the musical journey of one of the largest figures in modern music.
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Nearly five months after Kanye West announced the release of his newest album, Yandhi, fans still have not gotten even a bit of information regarding its release. After missing his initial publication date of September 29th, Kim Kardashian tweeted that Yandhi was not completed. She then announced that it would be released on November 23rd. However, Kanye, once again, announced that it would be delayed, but this time did not offer any information on when to expect it in stores. In January, reports finally surfaced that West was in a legal dispute with Roc-A-Fella Records, owned by Jay-Z, which was holding up the release of his album. Later, these rumors were found to be baseless. Now the question arises: will the album ever be released? Yandhi, which was supposed to be the sequel to 2013's critically acclaimed Yeezus, has been touted by Kanye as "daring", and "genius." That all may very well be true, but unless he releases the album, there's no way of knowing.
Other albums to look for include Port of Miami 2, by Rick Ross. Ross tweeted that he was putting "finishing touches" on the album in November, so a release date is iminent. Chance the Rapper has also promised a few albums, including a collaboration with Kanye West and a collaboration with Childish Gambino. Chance the Rapper also reported that he had completed six songs for his collaboration with Gambino, but nothing has been reported on his collaboration with West.
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With Kazakhstan's parliament now in its fall session, President Nursultan Nazarbayev has made it clear that Astana's top priority in the coming year is economic rejuvenation, not political democratization.
As the administration continues to grapple with the global financial crisis, the economy is top of its agenda, overshadowing Kazakhstan's forthcoming chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in 2010. "We must not only overcome a difficult period, but thoroughly prepare for the post-crisis stage of development," Nazarbayev told the opening session of parliament on September 1. "This requires a serious and overall rejuvenation and modernization of our legislation."
Nazarbayev set out a number of priorities aimed at tackling post-crisis economic restoration. He expressed particular interest in promoting heavy industry, ordering the government to present by the end of the year a five-year plan to boost industrialization. He likewise asked parliament to adopt a law on industrial policy. There is little doubt that the legislature will follow up the president's request: all elected seats in the Mazhilis (lower house) are held by members of the Nur Otan party, which is led by Nazarbayev. The senate is also stuffed with his supporters.
Nazarbayev announced that one of the cornerstones for economic recovery will be a new "conception for the national financial architecture," of which the stricter regulation of the banking sector will be a major component. Prior to the global financial crisis Kazakhstan's banking system was often hailed as the most developed in the CIS, but the credit crunch exposed the sector's vulnerabilities.
To compound the banking sector's problems, this year it has been rocked by scandal. The state forcibly nationalized the country's largest financial institution, BTA Bank, in February, and declared that it had been run by a criminal ring led by the former chairman of the board, Mukhtar Ablyazov, who fled abroad. The institution later defaulted on over $12 billion in debts, which it is now seeking to restructure. By its own admission, BTA also suffered from an outflow of deposits: the bank says that in the wake of the nationalization some 6.7 billion tenge ($45 million) was withdrawn. BTA blames the reporting of the independent Respublika newspaper for this, and is now suing Respublika for 80 million tenge ($530,000).
Problems have also emerged at Alliance Bank, another financial institution nationalized in February. Zhomart Yertayev, the former chairman of the board, was arrested in August on suspicion of stealing $1.1 billion from the bank, leading some observers to suggest that the state is seeking scapegoats.
Addressing parliament, Nazarbayev optimistically said the financial system had achieved a "general stabilization," but called for banks to show restraint. "It is important for Kazakhstan's banking system to restrain all commercial, financial and hard currency risks within permissible limits," he told deputies.
He said oil revenues must continue to be sent to the National Oil Fund. State stabilization expenditures have so far totaled $19 billiondollars, or roughly 14 percent of GDP. Some $10 billion of the state's assistance funding has come from the National Oil Fund, whose assets were reported as decreasing from $27.4 billion at the end of last year to $23.2 billion at the end of August.
Government forecasts put GDP growth this year at 1 percent, but officials are now tentatively suggesting that the worst of the crisis may be over. Minister of Economy and Budget Planning Bakhyt Sultanov told the cabinet on August 18 that the economy may have bottomed out during the first half of the year, and that a recovery may be underway.
As the administration focuses on kick-starting the economy, the political agenda is taking a back seat. Next year is an important one for Astana, as it will assume the OSCE chairmanship. Nazarbayev waited until the end of his speech to touch upon the topic of the OSCE. "This honorable mission lays a great responsibility on us and at the same time provides us with wide opportunities," he said, calling on deputies to apply the experience of the parliaments of other OSCE member states in Kazakhstan.
In 2010, Kazakhstan will be in a curious position: it will be a country with only one political party represented in its parliament that is heading a multilateral organization dedicated to democratization. Several months ago, some experts speculated that the country might call fresh legislative elections before the chairmanship in order to bring about a multi-party parliament. But such talk has faded of late. "No one has demanded from us: you will become chairman of the OSCE if there is a multi-party, 'multi-hued' parliament. And we will not go for that now," senator Gani Kasymov said on the day parliament opened in remarks quoted by the Interfax-Kazakhstan news agency.


The US Women's National Team defeated Costa Rica 4-0 in their final warm up before the 2016 Rio Olympics. Crystal Dunn opened the scoring in the 15th minute on a perfect cross from Meghan Klingenberg. Mallory Pugh did it all on her own to increase teh lead to 2-0 in teh 22nd minute after a Costa Rican giveaway.
Carli Lloyd increased the lead just before half off a header from a Sauerbrunn free kick. Allie Long set up Christen Press for the fourth USWNT goal of the night in the 79th minute to cap off an impressive night for the team.
The United States Women's National Team has announced the roster for the upcoming 2016 Rio Olympics. The USWNT will be striving to reach the gold medal podium for the fourth straight Olympic Games as well as defend their title as World's best after winning the 2015 World Cup. The USWNT open play against New Zealand on August 3rd at 6 PM ET.
Heather O'Reilly, Ashlyn Harris, Emily Sonnet, and Samantha Mewis will serve as reserves and travel with the team to Rio.
The United States Women's National Team defeated South Africa 1-0 in the team's first tune up for the 2016 Rio Olympics. Crystal Dunn scored the lone goal for the USWNT. Mallory Pugh set up the goal witha run down the left side of the box and sent a cross into the dangerous area where Dunn hammered the ball into the top of the net.
Hope Solo also set a record with the win, she became the first goalkeeper in international history with 100 international shutouts. Congratulations Hope.
The USWNT next face Costa Rico on July 22nd in Kansas City at 9 PM ET. The game will air on ESPN and will be the team's final friendly before the Olympics.
The US Women's National Team has announced their official roster for the Friendly against South Africa on July 9. The roster includes Carli Lloyd and Megan Rapinoe who are both coming off injuries. Rapinoe is not projected to play in the game and is simply on the roster for training purposes.


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Westar Energy is seeking the permission to start offering their customers prepaid electricity service in Kansas. The company filed an application with Kansas Corporation Commission but a decision is yet to be made. If the request is granted, Westar will have to begin the prepaid service on a small scale under a pilot project with as many as 1000 customers.
Customers who opt for the service would not be required to make a security deposit; however, they would have to pay Westar $4 a month for the privilege. In order to qualify for the prepaid service, customers should not owe Westar more than $1000, be currently taking residential service and their home should also be equipped with advance metering. An email address is also necessary to foster communication with the company.
As the cold weather rule prohibits service shut offs during the winter, prepaid customers who owe the company money could see their energy usage reduced to a minimum, as Westar's advanced metering system is able to throttle back energy usage. In addition, customers who use more electricity than they pay for will have the outstanding amount debited from future payments.
While prepaid isn't prevalent in North Carolina, certain municipalities and coops have begun experimenting with the idea. In other markets, such as Houston Texas, prepaid electricity plans have become the norm.
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Business Interruption Insurance: Savior or Sorrow?
By Dan Voelker on April 27, 2020,
While it may be difficult to imagine a policy that does not provide coverage for an interruption in revenue caused by a pandemic or the like, many policies have exclusions for the same.
Under the current circumstances, business interruption is an on-going reality. Until state and local governments allow businesses to reopen, loss of business and revenue will continue to grow. At the same time, many expenses continue to accrue and must be paid.
The issue as it relates to business interruption insurance, though, is whether or not you have a policy of insurance and whether or not there is coverage available to you. The question invariably comes down to the precise language of your policy of insurance. While it may be difficult to imagine a policy that does not provide coverage for an interruption in revenue caused by a pandemic or the like, many policies have exclusions for the same. Of course, under the applicable law, the language of the policy will be construed in favor of the insured (or policyholder) and against the insurer (or insurance company). A careful review of your policies is a prerequisite to a considered approach to making a claim for lost revenue.
Assuming there is coverage, the next issue will be to determine what losses in business and revenue are recoverable under the policy. While the insured will certainly want to compare the revenue/profit he was making before the catastrophic event with his business/profit revenue after the event, the insurer may argue that this is not the proper analysis. Instead, the insurer may estimate the business the insured would have done had the state and local governments not ordered a shutdown in order to use this figure as the more appropriate measure of the claim. This will, no doubt, be a matter of contention and a strong negotiation will be a must.
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Back to the beach last week with my loyal gang of volunteers. This time we were cleaning one of our most protected pieces of coastline under the watchful eye of Reculver Towers on the North Kent coast.
After another blustery hike along the shingle collecting the normal hoard of drink cans, bottle tops and strange plastic cockle pots which have been washed up on the shoreline we set ourselves the task of retrieving a huge trawler net which had been torn loose from one of the factory fishing vessels which line the coast and had become firmly wedged in the shingle. The guys in the group quite liked the idea of this challenge but no amount of grunting and tugging could pull the thing loose so we tied together every bit of rope and haulage strap we could find and attached the lot to our mini bus.
At the wheel of the mini bus I inched forward, feeling the ropes strain and the shingly weight of the net slowly drag itself a few inches up the beach before….ping, the ropes would snap. Time and again, we shortened the ropes, created more and more elaborate knots and reattached the whole lot to the net.
Hilary, one of my feisty women who had declared it was too cold to leave the mini bus was soon to be found on top of the net giving instructions and wielding a knife to cut bits free.
"I thought you didn't want to get involved," I said.
and so it was, a project to get this huge destructive bit of debris off our beach before it washed back out to sea in a storm and floated around ensnaring all manor of sea creatures before eventually breaking into fragments and drifting away to be swallowed by turtles and dolphins and seabirds and join the swirling vortex of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
Eventually the net topped the sea wall and like a giant, many tentacle squid we dragged our prey triumphantly behind the vehicle to join the rest of the days rubbish.
Seeing this net up close and thinking of the damage it could cause to our marine wildlife I can't help but think that the fishing industry should be made to foot the bill for the clean up and financially support those who take the time to do the cleaning.


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The Monument to Moret is an instance of public art in Cádiz, Spain. Designed by Agustín Querol, it consists of a bronze statue of Liberal politician Segismundo Moret (who enjoyed the honorary recognition as "favourite son" of the City of Cádiz) put on top of a pedestal displaying elaborated allegorical reliefs.

History and description
A noted 19th century politician (later prime minister in the early 20th century), Moret played a key role as Overseas Minister in the abolition of slavery in Puerto Rico in 1870. Funded via popular subscription, the design was awarded to Agustín Querol. The foundation stone was laid in February 1908.

The monument was unveiled on 28 November 1909. It was a relatively rare case of monument inaugurated when the honoured was still alive. Moret reportedly commented that he disliked such kind of tributes in life, adding that had "a feeling that it will cost him some displeasure, for fortune is very fickle for politicians". Yet, in fact, the sculptor, Querol, passed away before Moret, dying just a few days after the inauguration.

Following the description by , the bronze statue of Moret can be described as follows: The figure of the speaker stands with affected arrogance in front of his parliamentary seat: his forehead high, his expression serene and expectant, sporting his venerable beard and his characteristic mustache, crossing his arms with great naturalness, clutching with his right hand the notes he gathered in order to reply to his opponent's speech.

The four sides of the monument display inscriptions respectively reading  ("Patriotism"),  ("Freedom"),  ("Loyalty"),  ("Eloquence"). A marble cartouche put on the front side reads  ("Cádiz to Moret").

The back side inscription in the pedestal reads  ("this monument was erected by popular subscription initiated by the Most Excellent Ayuntamiento following a proposal by its Mayor–President, Most Excellent and Most Illustrious Don Cayetano del Toro y Cuartellers. Year 1906").

In 1953, the monument was relocated from its original placement at the plaza de San Juan de Dios (then known as "plaza de Isabel II") to the plaza de Sevilla. In 1960, it was relocated again, this time to the plaza de la Aduana. The monument returned to its original location in 2012.

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Boston Red Sox Schedule David Price's Return from DL
Boston Red Sox Schedule David Price's Return from DL
Posted on May 26, 2017, by Bryan Zarpentine
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After missing nearly two months of the season with an elbow issue that popped up early in spring training, Boston Red Sox ace David Price is finally ready to make his 2017 debut. The Red Sox announced on Thursday that Price will make his first start of the season on Monday when the club begins a road series against the Chicago White Sox.
Monday's start will come more than three months after Price first experienced elbow pain following a simulated game. Price was cleared of any issue that would have required him to undergo surgery, although his recovery was slower than expected. As a result, this will be just the second time since 2010 that Price fails to make at least 30 starts in a season. Nevertheless, Price is happy to finally be back with his teammates.
"Excited, just to be back here," Price told reporters on Thursday. "There's not a better feeling. You can't replicate it anywhere else. To be back here with my teammates, that's a good feeling."
However, there could be some concern with Price, who struggled in two minor league rehab starts. In two starts at triple-A, Price threw just 5.1 innings, giving up nine runs (six earned) on 12 hits. He needed 89 pitches to get through 3.2 innings on Wednesday, but the lefty didn't seem bothered by the rough outings in the minors. In fact, he views it as proof that he's ready.
"A lot of pitches, in a short amount of time," Price explained. "I think that is more of a test to being healthy as opposed to going out there and throwing five or six (innings) in 90 pitches. To do what I did in both of my rehab outings, I don't think you can do that if you're not healthy."
With three months past since the initial injury and Price struggling in his two rehab starts, no one would have blamed the Red Sox for giving the lefty one or two more minor league starts before bringing him back to the majors. But the club has no reservations about rushing Price back just a little.
"We were able to get his pitch count to nearly 90 last night, which was the goal all along," Red Sox manager John Farrell said Thursday. "Physically, he feels great, and his return to us will give us a definite boost. Hopefully, it allows us to even out some of the performances within the rotation. Monday is his turn, and he'll be back with us."
Without Price, Boston's rotation is in the bottom half of the American League in ERA, despite fellow lefties Chris Sale and Eduardo Rodriguez having outstanding seasons. Rick Porcello has failed to recapture the Cy Young form he had last season while Drew Pomeranz has been inconsistent. The Red Sox have also lost knuckleballer Steven Wright to a season-ending injury and have struggled to fill the fifth spot in the rotation, which should no longer be an issue now that Price is back, assuming he and everyone else can stay healthy.
Perhaps most importantly about Price's return is that he knows how important he can be to the Red Sox, especially since the team is yet to hit its stride. Boston, despite holding a lead for the second wild-card spot, sits behind both the Yankees and the Orioles in the AL East.
"We've had a tough stretch," says Price. "We know that we're a good baseball team. We know that. We just haven't done it yet. Teams go through these stretches. For us to still be above .500, I think that really tells us how good we really are. To kind of have the mayhem we've had around here and to still be above .500, that shows us how much talent we have."
If nothing else, the Red Sox have done well to tread water amidst a slew of injuries to key players, most notably Price. Now that Price is returning from the DL, the Red Sox finally have the rotation they envisioned at the start of the year, save for the absence of Wright, which should give the team an emotional boost as well as a physical one. Of course, with Price back in the mix, it's one fewer excuse for the Red Sox not living up to expectations, putting pressure on Price to be a difference maker for Boston as soon as he steps back onto a major league mound.
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Hunt members cleared of blame after death of fox near River Trent
Their appeal was heard at Nottingham Crown Court
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Three hunt members were cleared of blame after a fox was killed near the River Trent.
They won their appeal after the prosecution decided against pressing on with the hearing at Nottingham Crown Court.
Countryside Alliance official Adrian Simpson said: "The essence is that for the last 12 or 18 months, three people have been living as convicted criminals when they were innocent people.
"They are elated, relieved and feel that justice has finally been done."
No evidence that assault on Mariam Moustafa was a hate crime, say police
Mr Simpson said the prosecution failed to hand over important photographs to the defence - and that their expert "strayed into matters which should have been left to the court."
He added: "There was patently no evidence of intentional hunting.
"It became patently clear in the course of the appeal that a fox jumped out in front of the hounds, which pursued it for a short distance and killed it.
"Trail hunting is a legal activity and that is what was happening here. Hounds follow a trail of fox's urine."
The fox was killed on January 30, 2016 and its death was caught on camera by birdwatcher Phillip Palmer. He told the court that he saw a man in green pointing the direction it had run at Laneham, near Retford.
Three Grove and Rufford Hunt members were prosecuted and found guilty after a trial at Mansfield Magistrates' Court. They denied a breach of the Hunting Act.
Prison officers suspended after 'incident' at HMP Lowdham Grange
A £800 fine had been imposed on huntsman Paul Larby, 57, of The Kennels, Kennel Drive, Barnby Moor, £550 on trail-layer Peter White, 57, of Leyfields Farm, Redhill Lane, Kneesall, and a £180 fine was ordered for the hunt's whipper-in Jane Wright, 63, of Town Street, Lound. These are all quashed.
They had each also been ordered to pay £248 prosecution costs and a £80 government surcharge by a district judge at the original three-day hearing.
The appeal was heard in front of Recorder Roger Evans and a magistrate at the crown court. They will sit again on April 27 to deal with an application for defence costs to be paid.
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Мохамед Мадкур (, , ) — египетский шоссейный и трековый велогонщик.

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В 1924 году в составе сборной Египта принял участия на Летних Олимпийских играх в Париже. Выступил в двух дисциплинах по велоспорту.

Сначала 23 июля стартовал в индивидуальной гонке на шоссе. По её итогам занял 46 место, уступив победителю французу Арману Бланшонне 1 час 15 минут.

Через четыре дня, 27 июля, принял участие в трековой гонке на 50 километров, по итогам которой был классифицирован на 8—36 местах.

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Missouri's senators adopt NIMBY approach to Guantanamo detainees
President Obama's order for the Guantanamo prison to be closed leaves some nagging questions unanswered,chiefly the issue of where the prisoners will go when the compound at Guantanamo is closed.
Senator Bond thinks it's a mistake to shut down the prison. "Do we transfer detainees here to the United States?" he asked income National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair, continuing, "I don't know of any city or town around this country that would be thrilled to have (terrorists) living down the street. And under what evidence rules should they be tried? These are not ordinary bank robbers. They are terrorists apprehended overseas, sometimes through intelligence means that could not and must not be disclosed in court."
He says sending the detainees to another country or back to their home countries is not a good idea, either. "The Pentagon's recent report found that 61 released detainees from G uantana mo have returned to the battlefield to attack and kill our soldiers, and other innocent civilians," he says.
Senator McCaskill thinks Obama's decision is a good one because the prison has not made this country safer from its enemies. "(The prison) has emboldened them. It has giventhem something to rally around," she says. McCaskills says there are different ways to stay safe. "Probably the most important is by continuing to be a beacon to the rest of the world about how you do a democracy; how you have rule of law; how you have a constitution that is respected; how you set an example for the rest of the world." She says Obama's decision was made in that context.
The federal prison at Leavenworth, Kansas has been mentioned as a possible housing place for the Guantanamo detainees that are moved to the mainland. It's not a plan McCaskill will support. She says, "It's in our area and it certainly could impact…my friends in Buchanan County and that surrounding area. I think we would prefer for them not to come on American soil. But I must say this is going to have to be worked out on a case-by-case basis. They're going to do what is in the best interest of the safety of Americans…They have to decide where these detainees can be kept and face the rule of law, whether it be military or the criminal rule of law in our country."
McCaskill maintains Leavenworth, in Kansas, and the state prisons in Missouri and elsewhere in the country already hold violent criminals, some of whom might be more dangerous and more violent than those at Guantanamo. She says the chances of winning the lottery are better than the chances of an inmate escaping from one of those prisons.


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El Hospital Reina Juana (en búlgaro: болница "Царица Йоанна") es un hospital universitario en Sofía, capital de Bulgaria. El nombre del centro viene en honor de Juana de Saboya, zarina de Bulgaria y esposa de Boris III. El hospital fue inaugurado en 1936 y cuenta con un total de 212 especialistas académicos y no académicos. El centro además cuenta con 24 clínicas y departamentos.

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