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This was the first restaurant we went to on our trip to Marrakech. The food was great, as a picky eater I really appreciate the offer of pizza. My friend ate vegetarian tagine which was great as well! Live danceshow as well! Would recommend
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This was the first restaurant we went to on our trip to Marrakech. The food was great, as a picky eater I really appreciate the offer of pizza. My friend ate vegetarian tagine which was great as well! Live danceshow as well! Would recommend
Looking forward to enjoying a few drinks with friends we choose this cool looking restaurant which looks out on the Kasbah. We chose the roof top to order drinks and admire the view. While it was happy hour and for every drink a second one...More
We stopped by for early evening drinks and were told it was happy hour 2 for 1. Happy days! There were only two other couples there and the waiter was attentive and polite. He spoilt it for me when he said "the service charge isn't...More
We ate here on our last day, it is part of a small chain of restaurants in the area. All seem to offer reasonably good food. The service was a little awkward because unfortunately we only speak English so it was a bit of "surprise...More
N31°37.197' °59.062' This three-story old Moroccan mansion restaurant on the Place des Ferblantiers, billed as an 'oriental brasserie', has a terrace on the third floor and a stylish restaurant on the first two floors. It specializes in Moroccan cuisine, and especially in the Tanjia regional...More
Our first restaurant visit in Marrakesh as it was round the corner form our RIAD. A bottle of water is 35 Dirhams, the shop next to it sells for 6 Dirhams Overpriced! food portions were small as well..
We actually went to this restaurant a couple of years ago and couldn't get in on our recent visit. Set over a couple of floors the decor is traditionally Moroccan, we liked that they hadn't tried to 'modernise' it. Lovely lighting and belly dancers through...More
We had lunch here on our first day in Marrakech after seeing the palaces in the Medina. Really nice cosy restaurant, and the food was excellent, and so was a nice cold Casablanca beer.
I found this restaurant close to my Riad, by looking first at the terrace overlooking a nice square. It just gave the impression of a small palace from the outside. I dined there a couple of times when in Marakech and I was not disappointed....More
It may look a bit too touristy, but the food is very good, the service excellent and the ambiance very nice. Huge portions and nice cocktails!


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Hotel Melia Plaza Valencia, Melia Plaza Valencia is set in a classical building overlooking Valencia's main square. It offers free Wi-Fi and features a gym, sauna and rooftop sun terrace with a whirlpool. Air-conditioned rooms feature wooden floors, ミニバー, safe and flat-screen TV. プライベートバスルームにはヘアドライヤーとアメニティが付属しています. The hotel restaurant serves Mediterranean cuisine and specializes in rice dishes. It has a summer terrace and a varied wine list. ルームサービスをご利用いただけます 24 hours a day and gluten-free meals are offered. You can hire a car from the Melia Plaza's 24-hour reception. Private parking is offered nearby for an extra charge. Valencia Train Station is 5 分は徒歩, and the Cathedral is a 10-minute walk away. (Hotel Melia Plaza Valencia hotels 予約).

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HDA comedy about depression, alcoholism, suicide and the other funniest parts of life. Gethard holds nothing back as he dives into his experiences with mental illness and psychiatry, finding hope in the strangest places. An adaption of his one-man off-Broadway show of the same name.2017
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HDA young woman who dreams of being a children's author makes an unlikely friendship with a cantankerous, rich old widower.2017
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HDA washed up actor who played Mindhorn, a secret agent with a bionic eye, returns to the Isle of Man, the area where his most famous role was set, to help catch a killer.2017
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00 Scale Artworks to 2012 Observations and Orreries by Paul Malone
Paul Malone studied sculpture at Reading University and the Royal College of Art and has since exhibited extensively in the UK and Europe. His studio is based at the Art in Perpetuity Trust in Deptford, London and his current work explores alternative, lost and forgotten scientific theories.
Website : www.paulmalone.co.uk
This book and all included images and text Š 2012 Paul Malone.
Introduction : About Model Making
The artworks described in this book make use the language of the 00 scale model railway environment. They were developed as a way of exploring concepts related to the forms and practices of model making, especially those that seek to interpret the theories of astronomy and cosmology. Model making may be seen to operate in several ways. By convention, it is usually interpreted as verisimilitude, transcribing from the macro world to the miniaturised. This initiates processes that bring the otherwise chaotic elements of experience under comprehension and therefore control. On the other hand, it can work from comprehensible sub-units (because they are small scale and controllable) to emulate and predict how the full scale world might operate under idealised circumstances. However, this reliance on the experiential world is not necessarily the whole story. Once operating within the model environment, changes and abstractions can be speculated that would be impossible otherwise. Of course, these syntheses arrive fully loaded with all their a priori assumptions and interpretations.
Micro dolly with miniDV camera for 'Railroad Studio 02'
Movies At first, my interest in the 00 scale environment came about through wanting to make an extended micro-dolly for my digital movie camera. The intention was to use it for animations and set-piece tabletop explorations. But one thing led to another and the initial 1-2 metres extended to several and then looped round to form a circuit. Obviously the table top could not contain this expansion and so it migrated to the floor. Once there, a whole new set of possibilities opened up in terms of the exploration of interior spaces. The track could be laid around the studio, under furniture and odd and occasional objects. The artist's feet and hands (initially staying out of shot) became an integral part of the sequences.
Movies : Railroad Studio 02
'Studio Railroad 01' (2007) is a movie that explores in triple screen format the artist's studio at floor level. The 3 screens integrate the motion of the camera as it is towed along an extended micro-dolly of about 50 metres. Eventually the towing engine suffers a malfunction and the artist's feet appear in pursuit...
Movies : Footfall Railroad
'Footfall Railroad' (2007) is a mouse's eye view of a domestic interior pursued by giant feet. Towed on an extended micro-dolly, the camera circuits the floor in twists and turns as if to avoid capture - even hiding beneath the sofa. But to no avail, the feet are there waiting for it to re-emerge.
Movies : Night Train
'Night Train' (2008) is a tour around the artist's studio at night with the camera on the last wagon of a train of tankers. The ensemble rushes around the track at breakneck speed until one of the tankers de-rails. The giant hands of the artist then intervene to correct the situation and the action proceeds...
Movies : Terminus
'Terminus' (2010) introduces a sequence of encounters with various walls, their deconstruction and the 00 scale model railway environment. Projected onto the walls are a series of movie clips of walls and tunnels dissolving into daylight. This sequence is re-viewed from the aspect of a camera mounted on a model train, as it twists and turns across the floor.
Movies : Train Time
'Train Time' (2008) is a movie project that seeks to integrate different scales. Within a dream sequence - from Venice to Montefalcone by train - the movie journeys from model railway to real and from a country idyll to the industrial. The movie starts with an almost imperceptible impetus to motion and a stand of carriage windows that emulate the passage of film frames.
Movies : Blur Train
'Blur Train' (2012) is a two minute tour of a city made from empty cereal packets. The train carries ahead of it a lighting system that illuminates the interior as it proceeds. The model cityscape is further explored, in a painterly way, by the blurring of the image into amorphous blocks of intense colour. Halfway into the movie, the elements break up into abstracted dots.
Cantilevered Trackways and Aerial Orreries Hardware requirements for the movies meant that lots of track, stock and power units accumulated in my inventory. I began to look for alternative uses for these assets, resulting in a series of floor based and aerial installations. These latter used a system of cantilevered trackways so that the installation had to be looked at from beneath, inhabiting an emulation of the heavens. Encapsulating its attendant possibilities, these were envisaged as conceptual orreries or models of astronomical systems. Around these would run combinations of philosophical and scientific concepts in the form of textual model tanker wagons.
Orreries : Foolish Perses
'Foolish Perses' : C4CC Project Space, King's Cross, London "Foolish Perses ! Work the work that the gods ordained for men, lest in bitter anguish of thumos seek your livelihood amongst your neighbours, and they heed you not." Hesiod : ' Works and Days '
Trackways : Climate Model No2
This installation (2008)seeks to recreate the cyclical properties of a complete planetary atmosphere according to current models. A train of oil tanker wagons runs around a trackway that traverses the gallery above head height. Arranged along the track are acrylic holders containing images of day time skies. The train passes underneath each of these 'stations' as if engaged in a progress of observance. "Never one to be intimidated by lack of computing power the artist harnesses the enthusiasm of the model railway community for an electro-mechanical solution." This work aspires to fully embrace the implications of modelling in terms of the regressive elements inherent in its processes. 'Climate Model No2' Perpetuum Mobile exhibition. 2008 APT Gallery, Deptford, London
Trackways : Kinetica Art Fair 2012
The Kinetica Art Fair in London 2012 was an opportunity to do a new install of the orrery 'The Inconstant Heavens' in the Ambika P3 space. Stall 39 was taken under the name PM+NR and shared with the sonic frequency visualisations of Nicola Rae. The installation provided its own set of technical problems. The stall consisted of just two temporary screens, of indeterminate dimension, in the darkened area of the Fair. I solved this by cutting the outer corner of the square and making adjustable U-section aluminium ties at each corner. In this way the trackway could be suspended over the heads of the crowds passing underneath. The ties also supported two banks of LED lights to illuminate the museum boxes. Around 10,000 visitors attended the event over 5 days. I also presented my talk on the associated astronomy; 'The Electric Universe'
Trackways : The Inconstant Heavens
Trackways : The Inconstant Heavens
In this 2012 manifestation, the aerial installation 'The Inconstant Heavens' was constructed in the artist's studio as part of the London Festival of Architecture. It consisted of a cantilevered model railway in 00 scale, emulating an orrery of the Solar System. Instead of planets, here there are substituted concepts to do with the morality of the night sky, from selected astronomers and philosophers of the 17th and 18th century, taken from the tract of the same name by Livio Stecchini. The route around the track was filmed using an on-board camera facing along the trackway and displayed on a screen to the side of the controller
Trackways : The Inconstant Heavens : Featured Wagon Texts
'Newton : Six Primary Planets' The six primary planets are revolved about the Sun in circles concentric with the Sun, and with motions directed towards the same parts, and almost in the same place. Ten moons are revolved about the Earth, Jupiter, and Saturn, in circles concentric with them, with the same direction of motion, and nearly in the planes of the orbits of those planets; but it is not to be conceived that mere mechanical causes could give birth to so many regular motions, since the comets range over all parts of the heavens in very eccentric orbits; for by that kind of motion they pass easily through the orbs of the planets, and with great rapidity; and in their aphelions, where they move the slowest, and are detained the longest, they recede to the greatest distances from each other, and hence suffer the least disturbance from their mutual attractions. This most beautiful system of the Sun, planets, and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being Isaac Newton 'Principia'
'Hume : The Modern System' The modern system of astronomy is now so much received by all inquirers, and has become so essential a part even of our earliest education, that we are not commonly very scrupulous in examining the reasons upon which it is founded. It is now become a matter of mere curiosity to study the first writers on that subject. David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (1779), Part II.
'Laplace : The Axis 01/02/03' The axis and the movement of rotation would be changed. The seas would abandon their ancient positions, in order to precipitate themselves toward the new equator; a great portion of the human race and the animals would be drowned in the universal deluge, or destroyed by the violent shock imparted to the terrestrial globe; entire species would be annihilated; all monuments of human industry overthrown; such are the disasters which the shock of a comet would produce, if its mass were comparable to that of the earth. We see then, in effect, why the ocean has receded from the high mountains, upon which it has left incontestable marks of its sojourn. We see how the animals and plants of the south have been able to exist in the climate of the north, where their remains and imprints have been discovered; finally, it explains the newness of the human civilization, certain monuments of which do not go further back than five thousand years. The human race reduced to a small number of individuals, and to the most deplorable state, solely occupied for a length of time with the care of its own preservation, must have lost entirely the remembrance of the sciences and the arts; and when progress of civilization made these wants felt anew, it was necessary to begin again, as if man had been newly placed upon the earth. Laplace Summary
Trackways : Cereal City 'Cereal City' is a movie and installation work that sought to re-create a miniaturised cityscape from the empty boxes of my annual breakfast cereal consumption. A camera was mounted on the 00 scale microdolly which then proceeded to thread its way through this environment . The boxes supported bright colours and bold type faces. These were arranged in streets and covered alleyways depending on what would be the nature of the movie-shoot. At the back of the installation, the wall was lined with mirror Melanex which reflected the action in distorted imagery. In these movies I also include myself as an active agent. As if choreographing the movement of the train, I too am optically distorted in the Melanex. Stills from the Movie 'Cereal City' for the project 'Plat du Jour' Screening Festival, The Hague, Netherlands.
Trackways : Plat du Jour
Installation of 'Cereal City' at the APT Open Studios 2011. In the lower right image, the assemblage is being orbited by one of the 75 cms stretched tanker wagons
Tanker Wagons : Museum Boxes Together with the trackways and aerial orreries, there was also a need for the creation of a series of toy wagons. These were to contain the concepts and philosophies that were to inhabit that astronomy. As well as fulfilling their role as orbital participants, they could also be displayed as unique objects within their own museum display cases. The texts were to be included as printed acetates within the body of the tankers. They were cut up into strips and embedded within a swirling silicone medium; along with fragments of star maps and other objects. Hydrodynamic possibilities were implied by the chance alignment of poetic superimposition. With the 75cms series; these are stretched to emphasise the absurdity of their ontology. However, in contrast to their apparent irrationality, these too remain fully functional and can run on standard 00 scale track.
Museum Boxes : 23cms Tanker Wagons
'Hume : The Modern System'. Wall mounted 23cms long tanker wagon in its own museum case. 2012 Plexiglas, inkjet on acetate, acid etched nickel-silver, Bachman fixtures. "The modern system of astronomy is now so much received by all inquirers, and has become so essential a part even of our earliest education, that we are not commonly very scrupulous in examining the reasons upon which it is founded. It is now become a matter of mere curiosity to study the first writers on that subject." David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (1779), Part II.
'Critas : The Gods Resided' Wall mounted 75cms long tanker wagon in its own museum case. 2011 Plexiglas, inkjet on acetate, acid etched nickel-silver, Bachman fixtures.
"He [Sisyphus] said the gods resided in that place Which men would dread the most, that place from which, As he well knew, mortals have been beset With fears or blest with that which brings relief To their tormented lives - there, high above, In that great circuit where the lightning's flash, Where thunder's baleful tumult may be heard, And heaven's starry countenance is seen (That lovely work of Time's skilled joinery), Where molten stones of stars descend ablaze, And wet rain starts it journey to the earth. Such were the consternating fears he sent To men, and such the means by which the gods Were settled in their proper dwelling-place (A pretty trick, accomplished with a word); And thus he quenched out lawlessness with laws"
Museum Boxes : 75cms Tanker Wagons
Digital Prints : Ghost Trains
The model rolling stock could also be used to generate a series of digital prints. Locomotives and wagons were placed on the scanner, the images stacked in layers and then compressed into trains of various sorts. The trains appear as a translucent ghostly presence floating above a distorted track. The prints are inkjet on unsized Fabriano paper and approximately 150cms long. Like the 75cms wagons, what is of interest is the excessive linearity and repetition in the works. In a comparative way, they come a full circle back to the initial movie making rationale for using the model railways. It is as if the wagons become a sequence of separate images passing into view - frame by frame.
Digital Prints : Ghost Trains
Inkjet print on unsized Fabriano 300gsm Top : Ghost Train : Black Texaco Middle : Ghost Train : Black Fina Lower : Ghost Train : Black Goods
Digital Prints : Ghost Trains
Class 20 locomotive in negative with 1970's BR logo
Published on Feb 24, 2013
Observations and Orreries. Catalogue of recent artworks related to scientific model-making and the 00 scale model railway environment.


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UK regulatory
FCA publishes MiFID II policy statement and consultation paper
The FCA has published its final policy statement (Policy Statement II) PS 17/14 [03.07.17]. This includes final rules for implementing MiFID II. The Policy Statement covers conduct issues including research, inducements, client categorisation, best execution, appropriateness, taping, client assets and perimeter guidance. It is of broad relevance to the market especially to consumers, investment managers and advisers. The FCA also reminds firms to continue to prepare for 3 January 2018 when MiFID II applies and that those needing to apply for authorisation or variation of permission in light of changes MiFID II makes, must now do so immediately. For more on applications see here. The FCA also issued its sixth set of implementing proposals for MiFID II: Consultation paper VI (CP17/19) [03.07.19]. This contains the FCA's proposals for bringing RIEs operating MTFs and OTFs into the FSCS – as MiFID II requires them to have an investor compensation scheme; changes to DEPP and EG; and consequential changes to the Prospectus rules and Glossary. The FCA asks for comments by 7 September 2017.
FCA publishes the FAMR Baseline Report
The FCA and HM Treasury published their Financial Advice Market Review (FAMR) baseline report [30.06.17]. They jointly launched FAMR in 2015 to look into how to generate affordable and accessible financial advice and guidance – for everyone. The FAMR final report published in March 2016 included a recommendation for the FCA and HM Treasury to work on identifying a baseline and indicators for monitoring how the financial advice market develops. These should be tracked each year and the results published on the FCA's website. The FCA and Treasury identified a range of indicators, including measures of consumers' use of advice and guidance ('demand side') and measures of its provision ('supply side') to provide a snapshot of the financial advice market and set a baseline. The indicators would act as the benchmark to measure the impact of FAMR against the 'success factors' in the final report. The success factors are:
· good availability of affordable, high quality advice and guidance for consumers at all stages of their lives to access;
· greater innovation in consumers' interests, encouraged by a flexible and well understood regulatory framework for advice;
· variety of channels for consumers to access advice and guidance, including in the workplace, and appropriate flexibility in how consumers pay for advice; and
· consumer engagement with their financial affairs and seeking the advice and guidance they need.
The Baseline Report is underpinned by two pieces of consumer research: Qualitative research and Quantitative research. Quantitative consumer research will be available annually as will supply-side data from FCA reporting. The FCA and HM Treasury plan to carry out the same research in two years' time in 2019 and compare the data sets generated, to see how the market is evolving.
The Retail Distribution Review's 2017 Post-Implementation Reviews will be combined with the 2019 post-FAMR review to give the market time to react to regulatory changes flowing from FAMR and MiFID II and minimise reporting by firms. The results will be published early in 2020. Read more here.
FCA publishes its annual report
The FCA published its annual report and accounts for the year ended 31 March 2017 [05.07.17] looking back on significant work in 2016/17. The FCA also published [05.07.17] three other separate annual reports for 2016/17 on: Competition, Enforcement, Anti-Money Laundering and Diversity. Their Annual Public Meeting at which the Annual Report and Accounts will be discussed is to be held on 18 July 2017. It is now fully booked but will be live-streamed.
FCA publishes prospectus rules instrument
The FCA has published its Prospectus Rules (Miscellaneous Amendments) Instruments 2017 (FCA 2017/40) [06.07.17]. It contains amendments to the Glossary and Prospectus Rules sourcebook, and comes into force on 20 July 2017.
EU regulatory
Commission publishes PRIIPs communication
The Commission published a Communication [07.07.17] in the Official Journal containing Guidelines on the application of the Packaged Retail and Insurance-based Investment Products (PRIIPs) Regulation (Regulation (EU) No 1286/2014) (Regulation). The objective of the Communication is to: "facilitate the implementation of, and the compliance with, [the] Regulation 1286/2014 by smoothing out potential interpretative divergences throughout the Union." It does not contain or create new legal rules. The Guidelines cover a range of areas including territorial application, running offers on 1 January 2018, offers that are closed by 31 December 2017, use of Key information Documents (KIDs) by UCITS, distribution channels, translations of KIDs, length of KIDs – and more. The Commission's position is without prejudice to any interpretation the European Court of Justice gives to the Regulation.
ESAs publish Q&A on the KID
The European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) published [04.07.17] their first Q&As on the Key Information Document (KID) requirements for Packaged Retail and Insurance-based Investment Products (PRIIPs). More than 70 Q&A address a range of matters. These include: market risk assessment, methodology for assessing credit risk, summary risk indicator, performance scenarios, derivatives, costs calculation methodology among other costs requirements.
Regulation on money market funds published in the Official Journal
The Regulation on money market funds was published in the Official Journal of the European Union [30.06.17]. For further information on ESMA's consultation on the regulation please see here and for information on its adoption see here. The Regulation enters into force twenty days after its publication in the Official Journal and applies from 21 July 2018 with the exception of a small number of provisions which apply from 20 July 2017.
Prospectus regulation published in the Official Journal
The Regulation on the prospectus to be published when securities are offered to the public or admitted to trading on a regulated market repealing Directive 2003/71/EC has been published in the Official Journal of the European Union [30.06.17]. It enters into force 20 days after it is published in the Official Journal and applies from 21 July 2019 except for a small number of provisions that apply earlier on dates in 2017 and 2018. The aim of the Regulation is to make it cheaper and easier for companies, especially smaller companies, to access capital. It also aims to make the prospectus more accessible to investors. The Regulation requires the European Commission to adopt delegated acts on some areas within 18 months of the Regulation entering into force. ESMA has now published [06.07.17] three consultation papers containing draft technical advice on the:
· format and content of the prospectus (ESMA31-62-532);
· content and format of the EU Growth Prospectus (ESMA31-62-649);
· scrutiny and approval of the prospectus (ESMA31-62-650).
The consultations close on 28 September 2017. ESMA is to deliver its technical advice to the European Commission by 31 March 2018.
To read more on the European Parliament's approval of the proposal for the new prospectus Regulation in April 2017 see here and on its adoption by the European Council [16.05.17] see here.
ESMA updates MAR Q&A
ESMA updated its Q&As on the Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) [06.07.17] with two new questions in the section on managers' transactions (section 7). They are:
· if the announcement of the interim or year-end financial results determines the timing of the closed period in Article 19(11) MAR (Q7.2); and
· whether, in the set of Q&A on closely associated persons, the phrase "the managerial responsibilities of which are discharged" in Article 3(1)(26)(d) of MAR is to be read in the same way as in the definition of a PDMR within an issuer in Article 3(1)(25) MAR (Q7.7).
ESMA publishes Benchmarks Regulation Q&A
ESMA published [05.07.17] two Q&A on the Benchmarks Regulation. They relate to the transitional provisions under the Benchmarks Regulation as to which benchmarks supervised entities are to be permitted to use after 1 January 2018, because of transitional provisions applicable to EU index providers providing benchmarks on 30th June 2016 and those starting to do so between 1st July 2016 and 31st December 2017. The FCA welcomed the clarity given by the Q&A on the transitional provisions [07.07.17] and reminded firms its consultation on its proposed Handbook changes to align its rules with the Benchmarks Regulation is open until 22 August 2017. Read more here.
EBA collecting data on proposed investment firm prudential framework
The European Banking Authority (EBA) has launched [06.07.17] its second round of data collecting in support of the response to the European Commission's Call for Evidence on the proposed prudential regulation framework for investment firms. It is supplementary to the first data collection round begun on 15 July 2017 and the EBA's Discussion Paper [04.11.16] where the EBA consulted on its proposal for the prudential framework for investment firms. The template is designed so firms that did not provide data in the first round may do so now and the EBA asks firms that did provide data previously to do so again, including repeating they previously provided. Completed templates are to be returned to competent authorities by 3 August 2017. The templates and instructions are addressed to firms currently within the scope of MiFID and which are expected to be in scope of MiFID II.
Financial crime
FCA publishes its Finalised Guidance on the AML treatment of PEPs
The FCA published finalised guidance [06.07.2017] on the way that financial services firms should treat their customers who are politically exposed persons (PEPs) to satisfy their anti-money laundering obligations (FG17/5). The FCA consulted, in March 2017, on guidance regarding PEPs under s. 333U of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (FSMA). There is a duty in this section for the FCA to issue guidance on PEPs before regulations transposing the Fourth Anti-Money Laundering Directive or any subsequent EU measures come into force. Section 333U FSMA was not in force on 6th July 2017 and the FCA also had a duty under the Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information on the Payer) Regulations 2017 (2017 Regulations) to issue guidance on the enhanced customer due diligence measures for PEPS. According to the 2017 Regulations, the FCA's duty under s. 333U FSMA does not apply if it is satisfied by guidance the FCA issues under the 2017 Regulations. The FCA considers that by issuing guidance under the 2017 Regulations, they will have satisfied their duty under s.333U FSMA. The FCA will not consult again on this guidance as the substance of it has already been consulted on. The EU is in the process of negotiating other amendments to the Fourth Anti-Money Laundering Directive so the final text to come from the EU my affect the FCA's Finalised Guidance. The FCA published [July 2017] a summary of feedback they received on their consultation on the 2017 Regulations. For further information on the coming into force of the 2017 Regulations see here.
Andrew Bailey, Chief Executive of the FCA, spoke on why free trade and open markets in financial services matter
Andrew Bailey spoke at the Reuters Newsmaker Event [06.07.17] in London about Brexit, the FCA's Brexit work and asked if "restricting trade is an inevitable or necessary response to Brexit and in the interests of anyone?" To which his answer was no.
The FCA has three main areas of Brexit work:
· being ready to provide the Government with the technical advice it needs for the forthcoming negotiations;
· working with authorised firms to understand their plans for cross-border operations into the EU and from the EU into the UK; and
· working with the Government on the Repeal legislation.
Their objective is, with Government, to have a clear and functioning regulatory framework for when the UK is no longer a member of the EU giving certainty to all interested parties.
Andrew Bailey said that after the referendum the FCA decided to continue:
· to be an "outward-looking regulator" engaging with global bodies including the Financial Stability Board and the International Organisation of Securities Commissions;
· to engage constructively with their work "with, and as part of, the European Institutions", notably ESMA, and to implement EU legislation while the UK is still an EU Member State.
According to Bailey, the FCA is not going to turn away from engaging internationally – "that would be a big mistake". "Brexit should not be conflated with whether or not to have open global financial markets and trade in financial services" Bailey said, "But we cannot take open markets, freedom of location and free trade for granted". Bailey also said "Firms should be able to take their own decisions on where they locate, subject to appropriate regulatory arrangements being in place which preserve the public interest".
Bailey asked the question "what sort of institutional structure of regulatory co-operation do we need to preserve open markets and free trade alongside Brexit?" commenting that it would "require strong co-ordination of regulatory institutions across the UK and the EU" for which four key features are:
· rule comparability - though not exact mirroring;
· supervisory co-ordination;
· information exchange; and
· a mechanism for dealing with differences.
The UK would also have to provide "comfort to trading partners" of high standards and that there would be no "race to the bottom on deregulation" he said.
According to Bailey there is "ample evidence" open financial services markets and free trade do not depend on common rules and shared regulatory institutions, they can safely exist where there are consistent regulatory outcomes. "There is already a basis for the sensible use of equivalence as the basis for market access between the EU and UK in the future. It is the basis that the EU uses for a growing number of other countries" he said.
House of Commons Library publishes briefing paper on Brexit and financial services
The House of Commons Library published [06.07.17] a briefing paper (House of Commons Library Briefing Paper Number 07628 by Tim Edmonds) containing a number of responses from "relevant organisations" (including financial institutions and regulators) on the impact of the vote to leave the EU. The briefing contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0.
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Jihadi rehab: Swedish city plans free driver's license, housing & tax perks for returning fighters
The support for extremists was proposed by Anna Sjöstrand, a municipal coordinator against violent extremism in the city of Lund in southern Sweden. "There may be criticism, but [I think] that you should get the same help as others who seek help from us.
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How Food4Thought Works:
Britepaths partners with the Parent Teacher Associations, social workers and staff at Partner FCPS schools to help them create packages of non-perishable foods and drinks to send home each weekend with children in their school who have been identified as having need for food assistance. Volunteers and staff at the schools are collecting donations of appropriate foods and discreetly distributing the packs to children in their schools who have been identified as having the greatest need. Britepaths provides technical support to the schools, and passes on donations from community members who would like to help.
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Most major league in America (with the exception of MLS) do not allow teams carry sponsors on their jerseys. That may be about to change.
Ahead of this weekend's NBA All-Star game, Kia will advertise on the jerseys for the 2016 and 2017 games but that may be about to change soon.
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According to ESPN, one sponsor may be allowed on NBA team jerseys as early as 2017. They have reported that all league owners will meet on Sunday in Toronto before the All-Star game with a view to allowing sponsors on-court.
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CANNES, November 3 (Itar-Tass) — Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said his country "is interested in stable and predictable, but not maximum prices on resources and energy".
Speaking at the G-20 summit on Thursday, Medvedev said in order to decide on volatility in energy prices it was necessary to increase the quality of data on production and store of energy resources.
Russia is also involved in this activity. In particular, it prepared a draft law, which would envision the collection, handling and analysis of data on key energy resources of the country. Medvedev stressed that Russia "showed interest in stable and predictable, but not maximum prices on resources and energy because the market fluctuations destabilise the situation and wreck the sustainable economic growth and the budget planning".
The Russian president recalled that sometimes the market fluctuations were rather useful because they helped balance demand and supply. "But energy prices react to other macroeconomic factors, including foreign currencies and monetary politics of world countries, and primarily of the states, which issue reserve currencies. The so-called excessive volatility is rather dangerous. Now it is not clear where the limit between normal and excessive volatility is," Medvedev stressed.
If volatility exists, it reflects the key factors of misbalance between demand and supply, the Russian president said. "If politicians want to fight this phenomenon, it is necessary to take measures in order to stimulate the demand. Business warns that any balanced action will be caused by inverted effects – price rise and consequently volatility rising," Medvedev said.
He believes that in order to solve this problem "it is necessary to increase the quality of data on energy store and production". So, "we uphold a proposal to expand the Joint Oil Data Initiative and spread it to other fields, primarily to the gas sector", he pointed out.
In addition, Medvedev said the country's energy policy was open for other states. Russia also hoped on the same openness by foreign partners."Energy security is mutual responsibility by producers, consumers and transit participants for stability on the energy markets and interrupted energy supplies," the Russian president stressed. He recalled that based on this initiative Russia had prepared proposals on adopting a concept on energy security. Russia hopes that other countries will support its initiative, he added.
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Welcome to my personal website!
I work as an Assistant Professor at the Scuola Normale Superiore in the Istituto di Scienze Umane located in Florence, since September 2015.
My research lays at the intersection of media and politics. So far, I did research on the perceptions of the journalistic profession in local newsrooms, on activist media practices in precarious workers' mobilizations, on the use of social media during electoral campaigns, on Occupy Wall Street and, from a comparative perspective, I also did some work on current movements of the crisis. I also study the political organization of temporary, precarious workers and the creation of alternative system of meanings related to labour market flexibility.
At the Scuola Normale Superiore, I work as the Principal Investigator of the research project PiCME – Political participation in Complex Media Environments: A Multi-Level and Multi-Method Approach funded by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research through the grant S.I.R. – Scientific Independence of young Researchers.
Since 2013, I am a Research Fellow of the Centre on Social Movement Studies – COSMOS at the European University Institute till October 2015 and now hosted by the Scuola Normale Superiore. There, I am completing a research on social movement and civil society actors struggling against corruption and organized crime, mostly in Italy so far, in the framework of the ANTICORRP project, funded by the European Commission.
In September 2013, I co-directed the first ECPR/COSMOS Summer School on Methods for the Study of Political Participation and Mobilization that I co-directed again in September 2015.
Together with activists and scholars from all over the world, I am a co-editor in Interface, a journal for and about social movements, an open-access online publication. Since 2014, I am also part of the editorial board of Partecipazione e Conflitto – Participation and Conflict, an open-access International Journal based in Italy specialized in social and political studies.
From 2011 to 2015 I served as co-convener of the Standing Group on Participation and Mobilization at the European Consortium of Political Research (ECPR), in which I am now serving as one of the members of the Steering Committee. I participate in the activities of the research group New Media and On-line Politics based at the Istituto Carlo Cattaneo.
From January 2011 to December 2012, I have been a Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the Department of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. I have a Master of Research and a PhD in Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute, where I discussed my thesis in 2009. I graduated in Communication Sciences (Mass Communication) at the University of Padua, in 2003.


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Editor's Note: This diary entry is the tenth in a series of entries describing Teresa Dybvig's strategies for preparing for an upcoming recital after a long break from performing. Keep posted for further installments. For more about The Well-Balanced Pianist, click on this link: http://www.wellbalancedpianist.com/
Monday, September 29
Three experiences from this past weekend are helping me practice today.
One experience was a lovely recital played by one of my students. Among other pieces, he played Miller's Dance from the Three-Cornered Hat by de Falla, a Mendelssohn Song without Words, and the Franck Prelude, Chorale, and Fugue. He has been working on his quality of sound along with balancing different layers, and wow, could you hear it. Every sound he made was beautiful. Listening to him play, I thought about his trajectory of progress, starting with recovery from injury, through amassing of technical skills, some tightening up of his rhythm and pulse, right through his newfound control over sound. He has always had the bottom-line quality I need to hear in a performance – the ability to make the audience feel that he is playing for us because he loves the music and he wants us to hear what he appreciates in it. But still, he has progressed so much! It reminds me of something I already know but sometimes forget in the seeming urgency of recital preparation: every performance is merely a moment in time, not the definition of who the person is as a performer. I also admire the way my student has made performing manageable for himself, despite a demanding job. He no longer plays 80-minute recitals. His recital yesterday was over within an hour, and nobody seemed to feel cheated.
Another of my interesting weekend experiences was a conversation with somebody who loves to listen to music, but is not an educated musician. I asked him what he wanted to hear in a performance. His answer was shockingly unexpected. He wants "temporal resolution." If you're like me, you can't even imagine what that could mean. He explained helpfully that if it were a photograph, it would be expressed in pixels – the more pixels per inch, the higher the resolution. For him to understand music he is listening to, time groupings need to be clear to him. He needs to know how much to listen to, and each subsection of a piece needs to be short enough for him to grasp. He needs to know where a musical sentence begins and ends, and where the paragraph begins and ends. I told him that, probably in a fit of projection, I expected him to say something about communication or story line. He laughed and said that maybe if we both stepped back far enough, we would be saying the same thing. I reflected that we probably don't have to step back very far at all. We tell stories with words, sentences, and paragraphs, and the spoken word is senseless unless these divisions are clear. Music requires phrases and sections to be clear and audible. As a matter of fact, harmony and melody are incomprehensible without the beats in meters they hang on. I like to think that I make an effort already to have high "temporal resolution," but I have a feeling that may be a large part of what was missing last Friday when I recorded my Janáček. I'm so happy to have a new concrete goal to work toward.
The other weekend experience that helped my practicing was a recording of the first book of Debussy Preludes. To tell you the truth, I found the playing mechanical and heavy. However, the sound the pianist got for the left hand melodies in Le vent dans la plaine ("The wind in the plain") made me realize I was holding my shoulder blade – and hence my upper arm – up, contrary to my Feldenkrais instructor's advice. I was so sure that resting my upper arm and shoulder blade would help that I practiced right then and there, during my day off in the middle of a gorgeous weekend. As I played, I realized that I had let my left hand be affected by all the activity in the right hand. They do overlap, playing right on top of one another, but the right hand has to move… well… like the wind, while the left hand can and should move at a slower pace. How stable the piece felt when I eliminated this "sympathy" of the left for the right's movement.
I got a lot done, (mostly) not practicing over the weekend!
Teresa Dybvig is founder and director of The Well-Balanced Pianist, an organization which presents programs across North America based on an integrated approach to teaching, learning, and performing. Previously on the faculty of the Taubman and Golandsky Institutes, Dr. Dybvig now teaches privately in Long Island, Manhattan, Chicago, and Denver. She specializes in helping pianists with playing-related injuries.


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According to the latest data, the average sales price of properties that sold while in some stage of the foreclosure process was over 26% below the average sales price of properties not in foreclosure. This represents a 27% decrease from the average discount in the first quarter.
A separate study conducted by industry group S&P/Case-Shiller indicated that home prices have been on the rise for the last five consecutive months for which data is available. Prices rose only slightly in July, up 0.6% compared to June, according to the group's 20-city home price index. Housing prices rose 3.2% from the previous year.


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Whisk together first 3 ingredients in a medium bowl. Place peach slices in a large bowl. Sprinkle sugar mixture over peaches, and toss until combined. Sprinkle vanilla over peach mixture, add raspberries, and toss gently. Let stand while preparing topping.
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Bake at 350° for 45 minutes or until filling is bubbly and top is golden. Serve warm. Garnish, if desired.


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EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS ACT FOR DEFENSE, THE GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR, AND HURRICANE RECOVERY, 2006 -- (House of Representatives - March 15, 2006)
Mr. SALAZAR. Mr. Chairman, I believe that this Congress needs to recognize that caring for our veterans is a continuing cost of the war on terrorism.
My amendment adds $630 million in emergency funding so that the VA can better meet the needs of veterans returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan, and with this financial relief the VA will also be able to provide better care to the heroes of earlier conflicts.
Here is the situation. The VA projected that it would treat 110,000 Operation Iraqi and Enduring Freedom veterans this fiscal year. At the end of January, the first third of the fiscal year, the VA had already treated 74,000 veterans. At this rate, the VA will treat twice the number of veterans than projected.
Our veterans need our support now. There is no better place to include funding for our veterans and military families than in the bill addressing the costs of the war.
First, I have added $250 million for mental health. According to a recent Army study, as many as one in three veterans returning from combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan will experience symptoms related to mental health problems.
This amendment will make available $9 million to expand veterans' access to family therapy; $168 million to implement the VA's own Comprehensive Mental Health Plan; $24 million for additional substance abuse treatment, one in five post-traumatic stress disorder patients have had substance abuse problems; $35 million to increase capacity to treat returning Iraq and Afghanistan veterans who need outpatient mental health services; $15 million for increased in-patient PTSD treatments, about a 12 percent increase; $3 million to increase staffing for VA efforts to seamlessly transition returning veterans with the Post-Deployment Health Assessment.
The VA is seeing more and more veterans from previous conflicts with post-traumatic stress disorder. This is a growing concern, and it is smart to provide quality mental health care to our returning veterans now and help forestall greater problems and more expense in the future.
The amendment also adds $110 million for prosthetics, a 10 percent increase. We all marvel at what we have done today to help return veterans to a full life, but it is not cheap. Above-knee replacement costs about $50,000, and then it needs periodic adjustment and maintenance. In past years, the VA prosthetic budget had grown by 17 percent a year. By 2007, the administration would cut back the growth to 12 percent. Now is certainly not the time to cut these important programs.
In another area, I added $200 million for direct medical services. Just like last year, we are already hearing anecdotes about shortages at VA medical facilities. Supply problems, budget problems, we do not need a crystal ball to make these predictions. With all the extra new veterans in need of medical care, there will be another budget shortfall.
This is by no means the fault of the men and women in the VA. The VA has made a real innovation by establishing state-of-the-art polytrauma centers, but they cost real money. These centers treat the worst injuries, sharing information with one another and military hospitals by videophone.
The amendment also adds $15 million for medical and vocational rehabilitation services. Service-disabled veterans applying for vocational rehabilitation and employment services increased dramatically over the last decade, roughly a 75 percent increase. Demand for this service will grow even faster due to the ongoing conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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In 2006, it has grown to 185 days. In a time of war, we need to treat our heroes well. Slowing down the process of disability claims is a slap in the face.
Before closing, I would like to acknowledge Chairman Walsh's recognizing that there is a need for VA funding. In fact, he was good enough to grant the VA authority to use $275 million for the construction of a VA Hospital in New Orleans on a need basis.
VA facilities are already feeling the crunch when it comes to their budgets. Why are we not preparing for the future? Why are we willing to let the VA funding run out this year? Why is this administration not willing to fully fund the true cost of the war?
I am here to tell you that we can do better and we must do better. Our troops bravely put their lives on the line and it is our moral duty to provide them the care they were promised. Mr. Chairman, it is high time we stop paying lip service to our veterans and realize that caring for veterans is an ongoing cost of the war. It is high time that we start working towards providing the VA with the tools needed to provide proper care for our servicemen and -women.
Mr. Chairman, I urge my colleagues to support the amendment and to support the brave men and women in uniform.