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Players Championship FinalsNovember 27-29 China have withdrawn from the World Cup of Darts following “an administrative technicality relating to their flight connection” and they will be replaced by Latvia.An incredible logistical effort has seen 31 teams arrive in Austria to battle it out in Salzburg for the World Cup crown despite the ongoing impact of the coronavirus pandemic.However on Thursday, less than 24 hours before the tournament is due to get underway, the PDC released a statement confirming that China had become the second team to withdraw from the event, joining Singapore.- Advertisement – 
A farmer’s child was found dead miles from home after the family was separated by volcanic mudflow.- Advertisement –
The tight map means that the Trump campaign will be forced to reckon with the realization that if they had done any number of small things differently, or if the candidate had not pursued unhelpful fights with political enemies (even beyond the grave), this thing could have gone the other way.Campaign officials and outside advisers acknowledged that Republicans were damaged in Arizona by Mr. Trump’s yearslong feud with Senator John McCain, a beloved figure in his home state, a personal disdain that continued even after he died in 2018. Fox News and The A.P. called Arizona for Mr. Biden on Tuesday night.In Georgia, Mr. Biden took a narrow lead on Friday thanks to votes from Clayton County, the district that was represented by former Representative John Lewis, the civil rights icon who died in July. Mr. Trump had berated Mr. Lewis for calling his presidency “illegitimate,” noting that he should spend more time fixing his “horrible” and “crime-infested” district. Apparently, those words were not easily forgotten by the voters who lived there.Some of his supporters were already playing the “what if” game, more broadly. “Where would Trump be if he never said what he said about Charlottesville, if he never said what he said about Khizr Khan, about Mika Brzezinski,” said Ari Fleischer, a former White House press secretary to President George W. Bush. In other words, where would he be if he wasn’t Donald Trump? Democrats spent election night in a state of panic, as it became clear that Republican turnout surged passed polling predictions and Mr. Trump had an enduring coalition. By Thursday, as Mr. Biden edged closer to 270 electoral votes, Democratic fears had subsided but not disappeared. The party lost key Congressional races, failed to flip several state legislatures, and continued to show weakness among voting populations in Florida, Texas and Iowa. – Advertisement – As of late Friday, Mr. Biden was within striking distance of being the next president of the United States, powered by tight statewide victories in the Midwest states that went for President Trump in 2016: Michigan and Wisconsin. Mr. Biden was leading in Pennsylvania, another state that went for Mr. Trump in the last cycle. The former vice president was ahead in Arizona in the West, and Georgia in the South — giving Democrats hope for future victories in those states in spite of poor results down ballot elsewhere.It was a mixed bag of results that is not yet final, as some states may require a recount while others continue to count ballots. Here are four takeaways from the results we know so far:Despite several upsets, Democrats make some gains “His electoral strength in 2016 had less to do with any shortcomings of Hillary Clinton as a candidate or of her campaign than with Trump’s own appeal to a broad segment of the population,” Stuart Appelbaum, president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union and a member of the D.N.C.’s executive committee, said of Mr. Trump. “We need as Democrats to understand that and confront it more effectively going forward.” Welcome to our weekly analysis of the state of the 2020 campaign.Catch me upAs Election Day turned into Election Week, an anxious nation lost days of productivity, with Americans interested only in what map gurus like CNN’s John King and MSNBC’s Steve Kornacki had to say about the effect of every new tranche of votes on the outcome of the race. And, a bold race call awarding Arizona to Joseph R. Biden Jr. by Fox News on election night, followed by The Associated Press, shocked the Trump campaign.- Advertisement – Philippe Reines, a former top adviser to Mrs. Clinton both in the Senate and at the State Department, was even more blunt. “Hillary’s owed more than a few apologies for how her campaign was assessed,” Mr. Reines said. Jennifer Palmieri, who served as communications director for the 2016 Clinton campaign, said that the current election gives a new perspective to the race four years ago.“There’s only so much you can do to ameliorate larger forces,” Ms. Palmieri said. “When I see young Latino and African-American men siding with Trump in a way they didn’t in 2016, I don’t fault the Biden campaign’s African-American radio program. It is a symptom of a larger change that’s happening.”Trump’s unhelpful personal feuds – Advertisement – There was one subset of the political world that felt vindicated by the nail-biter presidential race: Democrats who worked for Hillary Clinton. The closeness of the Biden-Trump race suggests that the 2016 election outcome may have been less about Mrs. Clinton’s political weaknesses than it was about Mr. Trump’s political strengths.In some of the states that Mr. Biden managed to flip, like Wisconsin, his victory was by a slim margin of about 20,000 votes. Four years ago, Mrs. Clinton lost the state by about 22,000. A potential victory with more than 300 electoral votes would look like a blowout for Mr. Biden, but it would also mask the fact that in some of the most critical states, the race was still only won by a hair.Mr. Biden has not received the wide margins nationwide that many liberals had been hoping for. The silver lining for some former members of Clintonworld, as one put it: The 2016 Democratic nominee might not go down in history as the political version of Bill Buckner, who blew the World Series for the Red Sox in 1986 by letting a ground ball go through his legs.- Advertisement –
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Image:Liverpool take on Leicester in their first game after the international break 2:26 Sat 19 DecCrystal Palace (a)Premier League While the extent of Gomez’s injury is yet to be determined, it is another defensive blow for Liverpool.The winter transfer window opens on January 2 and the Reds could be in the market for defenders if Gomez also faces a lengthy spell on the sidelines, but what are their fixtures like until then?Jurgen Klopp’s side return to action on Saturday November 21 when they take on current league leaders Leicester, who they are just one point and two places behind in the Premier League table.Liverpool’s remaining 2020 fixtures 1:16 
– Advertisement – 3:00 “Right now, Liverpool need Joe. I thought he was unlucky with the penalty decision [against Man City] but his form has been really good and he’s looked like a real leader.“When you’ve got someone like Van Dijk who is so instrumental and he leads from the front, sometimes you can afford to hide behind someone like that who is so great but without Virgil, everyone else has to step up and become a leader.“I’m sure we were going to see Joe impress even more than before because of the pressure that was perhaps on him and you become even more serious about your business because you can’t rely on the colossus of Van Dijk.”Should Liverpool buy in January? Sat 5 DecWolves (h)Premier League In December, Liverpool will face Wolves and Tottenham at home as well as tricky away trips to Crystal Palace and Newcastle among their Premier League fixtures. They will also face Southampton on Saturday, January 2 – the day the winter transfer window opens.Of course, there is also the Champions League group stage to tackle before the new year. Liverpool have three wins from three so far, and have two home fixtures to come – firstly, against Atalanta on Wednesday, November 25, before Ajax on Tuesday, December 1. A final away trip to Midtjylland follows on Wednesday, December 9. 
Wed 16 DecTottenham (h)Premier League “Your hands are tied to a certain extent because straight away, everyone knows you’re desperate so the prices are going to get inflated. Liverpool have worked the market so well, they’ve not always bought the big stars, they’ve made then stars. Virgil may be the opposite, they paid £75m for him but what his fee now would be, maybe three times as much as that because he’s such an incredible player.“Defenders are at a premium because there’s not many good ones around that can play like Virgil, that can defend like Joe Gomez, who is still a young man. I really hope it’s weeks rather than months but I don’t like the rumours that are coming out of the squad.”What does Liverpool’s fixture schedule look like? Wed 9 DecMidtjylland (a)Champions League FREE TO WATCH: Highlights from Manchester City’s draw with Liverpool in the Premier League DateOpponentCompetition England manager Gareth Southgate says that it is too early to speculate on the extent of Gomez’s injury suffered in training The question now will be what Liverpool may look to do in the winter transfer window, which opens on January 2, if Gomez joins Van Dijk with a lengthy lay-off.But Redknapp does not think it will be easy to sign a quality defender.He added to the Pitch to Post podcast: “It’s a difficult one. I’ve heard people say that they’ve got to go out and get a really big signing because Virgil is going to be injured, but if he goes through the right rehab to get fit, he’s not going to be too far away from coming back in maybe March or April time as a guess. Normally it’s six or seven months, he’s an incredibly fit guy and he’ll be a good healer.“You don’t want to bring in someone for the sake of it for £40m or £50m because you know you’ve got someone coming back really quickly. But if you’ve lost Gomez as well, you’re certainly looking to get into the market and try and bring in someone in January or as quickly as you can, be it a loan, be it a signing – but it’s not going to be easy to get players in. 
Image:Will Jurgen Klopp turn to the transfer market in January? Sat 21 NovLeicester (h)Premier League Wed 25 NovAtalanta (h)Champions League Sat 28 NovBrighton (a)Premier League Sat 12 DecFulham (a)Premier League Rob Dorsett reports after Gomez suffered a potentially serious injury during England training on Wednesday morning It is another injury set-back for Premier League champions Liverpool, who lost Virgil van Dijk to a long-term knee injury in October, and have seen deputies Joel Matip and Fabinho also in and out of the squad with knocks in recent games.Speaking to the latest Pitch to Post podcast ahead of the November internationals, Sky Sports pundit Redknapp says the pressure will now increase on an already depleted Liverpool, and drew on his own injury experiences with England.Listen to the Sky Sports Pitch to Post Podcast on: Spotify | Apple | Castbox – Advertisement – 
Tues 1 DecAjax (h)Champions League “It’s certainly going to change things and for everybody else involved, that back two have been so impressive at times. It’s not been easy with no Virgil at the moment, but no Virgil and no Gomez is going to make it even more difficult.“I suffered with injuries playing for England and it’s really hard to deal with because you’re so proud that you’re there but you also know it’s costing you an enormous amount of time in your career.“I broke my ankle twice playing for England, tore my hamstring playing for England, it cost me an enormous amount of time. Of course you wouldn’t swap it for the world but there is something so frustrating because it should be the highlight to play for your country but when you come back injured, it’s frustrating for everybody. Sat 26 Dec West Brom (h)Premier League He said: “I’m choked for Joe Gomez if it is a bad injury. He’s a young man who has already had knee injuries and come back brilliantly. I’m a big fan of his, he seems like a really good, down to earth player.“I remember seeing him many years ago playing for Charlton in the FA Youth Cup and thinking ‘this is a star of the future’ and he’s certainly proved that at Liverpool. I just hope it’s not going to be anything too serious.“From an England point of view, it’s a disappointment for Gareth Southgate, but for Jurgen Klopp, if this is a long-term one and you’ve got no Virgil, no Joe Gomez, that puts an enormous amount of stress on this squad from a team that were red-hot favourites at the start of the year. Mon 28 DecNewcastle (a)Premier League Joe Gomez joining Virgil van Dijk on the Liverpool injury list will put huge stress on the rest of the squad, Jamie Redknapp has told the Pitch to Post podcast.Gomez has withdrawn from the latest England squad after injuring his knee in training, although it has not yet been announced how severe it could be.- Advertisement –
At the other end are Nick Fuentes, the white nationalist social-media figure who leads the so-called “Groyper Army” of open anti-Semites and bigots, and his frequent cohort Michelle Malkin, who has managed to reinvent herself as an unapologetic white nationalist in recent years, as well as the heavily armed “Patriots” of Rhodes’ Oath Keepers’ outfit, which has been vowing “civil war” in the streets since August. The Saturday “march” is also being heavily promoted on white supremacist sites like The Daily Stormer and Stormfront.
Fuentes promoted the event on Parler: “[W]e will rally in DC this weekend. GROYPERS ARE GOING TO STOP THIS COUP!,” he wrote. On Twitter, he called the event “MAGA NIGHT AT THE WHITE HOUSE.” A popular white-nationalist livestreamer named Ethan Ralph announced he would host his show “The Killstream” at the event.At the Trump-endorsed One America News Network, “reporter” Jack Posobiec—exposed this summer by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a highly active white nationalist with deep connections throughout the movement, as well as a million followers on Twitter—eagerly promoted the Saturday event with Kristi Kremer of Women for America First, which is credited with first promoting the “Stop the Steal” hashtag.- Advertisement – 
MAGA ‘Trump train’ caravans came out to the polls last week, and some now plan to make their way to Washington, D.C., on Saturday to protest the election of Joe Biden to the presidency.Billing it as “the largest Trump rally in U.S. history,” an aggregation of red-hatted Donald Trump fanatics—comprised almost entirely of far-right extremists of a variety of stripes, working alongside ostensibly mainstream conservatives—have organized what they hope will be a massive demonstration of support for the defeated president Saturday in Washington, D.C.: the “Million MAGA March.”The list of “prominent attendees” touted by organizers for the event is a virtual who’s who of the white-nationalist far right, and leading far-right figures and organizations have been organizing and ardently promoting it, not least being conspiracy-meister Alex Jones and his Infowars operation. The message of the whole event, in the words of Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes: “We must refuse to EVER recognize this as a legitimate election, and refuse to recognize Biden as a legitimate winner, and refuse to ever recognize him as the president of the United States.”As Politico’s Tina Nguyen reports, the Saturday’s march from the Supreme Court building and down the National Mall is largely the coalescence of several fronts of interconnected pro-Trump activism—primarily the conspiracy-fueled “Stop the Steal” rallies that have been organized on Facebook to protest the election results at voting centers and state capitals, and those “Trump train” caravans featuring dozens of banner-flapping pickup trucks and accompanying thuggish behavior that became endemic in the closing weeks of the 2020 campaign.
Route of the ‘Million MAGA March’ caravan.- Advertisement – Like Rhodes and Oath Keepers, Alex Jones and Infowars have been especially active in promoting both the D.C. event and the accompanying cross-country “Trump Caravan” leading up to it. Infowars’ Owen Schroyer has held events at each stop. On his daily show, Jones proclaimed: “So don’t worry, President Trump. The cavalry is coming.” Biden’s election—which he insists only occurred through fraud—is the final apocalyptic straw for Jones, who concluded:We must not comply. This is the final assault. It’s the takeover. And it’s here.And on Telegram, white nationalist Brien James—cofounder of the far-right street-brawling gang American Guard—posted a promotional video for the Million MAGA March that featured a neo-Nazi theme song being played with a stream of far-right messages over the event’s logo. As Politico notes, the organizers have failed to file for any permits for the event, which has been alternatively dubbed the March for Trump and Stop the Steal DC. So it remains unclear how many people may show up, particularly given past far-right fizzles. However, researchers have estimated “anywhere from several hundred to several thousand may show up.”Moreover, it probably will serve as a model for what we’ll see from the extremist right over the coming weeks leading up to Inauguration Day, as Nguyen observes: “Activists throughout the far-right universe, from MAGA celebrities to policy wonks to conspiracy theorists, are exploring how to use the final two-plus months of Trump’s presidency to undermine President-elect Joe Biden, vocally support Trump’s court challenges to the election, confront antifa, and maybe, just maybe, help keep the current president in office.”Jared Holt of the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensics Research Lab explains that not everyone at the event will be a white nationalist or extremist, “but this event is generating a fair amount of chatter in extremist communities online that we’re monitoring.”“It is solely designed to create disruption, and possibly chaos. It’s basically a giant online comment troll come into life,” Angelo Carusone, president of Media Matters, told Politico.The lineup of “prominent attendees” featured in organizers’ promotional posts is revealing. In addition to Jones, Posobiec, Fuentes, Shroyer, and Malkin, far-right conspiracist Mike Cernovich is included, along with Jaden McNeil—a young man whose sole claim to fame is getting expelled from Kansas State for posting a vicious tweet about George Floyd after his murder by police—and Ashley St. Clair, best known for being expelled from the conservative campus group Turning Point USA after she posed with white nationalists.But just in case anyone should accuse these white nationalists of being racist, they of course includeD two African American entertainment acts—pro-Trump rapper Bryson Gray, and the far-right Hodge Twins—on the list.The underlying beliefs animating both the Saturday march and the mounting far-right resistance to Biden’s election were voiced by Rhodes at the Oath Keepers website:This election was stolen and this is a communist/Deep State coup, every bit as corrupt and illegitimate as what is done in third world banana republics. … This election was stolen by corrupt, law-breaking Democrat partisans on the ground, and by the manipulation of the CIA created HAMMR (“Hammer”) and Scorecard programs.Rhodes also urged Trump to refuse to concede: “President Trump must refuse to recognize it as legitimate because it is not legitimate,” he wrote, adding that “by President Trump refusing to concede, he is stopping a coup rather than engaging in one.” – Advertisement – The organizers are incorporating the “Trump train” concept into the Saturday event by sponsoring and promoting a cross-country “Million MAGA March” caravan, which they claim “will be driving through the entire country and arriving this weekend to protest the contested election.” The route being promoted, however, only originates in Texas and drives through the South and up through Georgia and the Carolinas to reach Washington.The entire event, culminating Saturday in D.C., is the product of an open coalition between far-right MAGA-loving Trump supporters, conspiracy theorists/scam artists, and the outright white nationalists who have assiduously wormed their way into mainstream right-wing politics.On one end of the spectrum, the “Million MAGA March” is supported by Students for Trump (whose president, Ryan Fournier, angrily claimed that “Big Tech is out to take down this President” after EventBrite removed the page for the planned D.C. event) and “Truckers for Trump,” a social-media-based entity who also are threatening to organize a nationwide long-haulers’ strike after Thanksgiving.- Advertisement –
As the president-elect rebukes his rival, Michelle Obama suggests Donald Trump is playing games.- Advertisement –
Oct 28, 2004 (CIDRAP News) – About 5 million additional doses of injectable flu vaccine have been identified that will hopefully be added to the US supply, according to an announcement made today by Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tommy Thompson. In addition, 300,000 doses are being redirected to high-risk individuals from stores originally planned for military personnel and federal employees.The 5 million doses come from two foreign sources—a GlaxoSmithKline facility in Germany and an IDBiomedical facility in Canada, according to an HHS press release. US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) experts are traveling to those locations to evaluate the plants and the vaccines and plan for US acquisition if they pass inspection. Other foreign sources of vaccine continue to be explored as well, said Thompson.Vaccine from the new foreign sources would likely be distributed under investigational new drug (IND) status, according to Thompson. This would require vaccinees to sign a consent form and to follow up with a healthcare worker after receiving the injection.Additional injectable doses numbering about 200,000 are being freed up by substituion of MedImmune’s inhalable FluMist vaccine for some military personnel who were to receive shots. Another100,000 injectable doses are being redirected from the Federal Occupational Health service to high-priority populations, according to the release.”We’re growing stronger each week in our supply of vaccines and medicines, which makes us optimistic about our ability to protect the American public as we go into flu season,” Thompson said.Thompson also pointed out that the nation has enough antiviral medicine stockpiled to potentially prevent or treat flu in more than 40 million people. In addition, he announced that Merck & Co. is increasing production of its Pneumovax 23 vaccine, which can be used in children older than 2 and in adults to protect against pneumonia, one of the major complications of influenza. Merck will make available 17 to 18 million doses, compared with the 6 to 7 million doses normally produced.”On behalf of the President, I want to extend the administration’s appreciation to citizens across America, who in accordance with CDC guidelines, are forgoing the flu shot so that someone in a priority category can get one,” Secretary Thompson said. “Working together, we can make sure that the vaccine doses go to those who are most vulnerable.”The new doses expand upon the 61 million already in the process of distribution. This supply comprises 58 million injectable doses from Aventis Pasteur and 3 million inhalable doses from MedImmune. The planned total supply of 100 million doses was cut in half when 46 to48 million doses expected from Chiron Corp. were suddenly cancelled early this month because of contamination concerns.See also:HHS Oct 28 Press Releasehttp://archive.hhs.gov/news/press/2004pres/20041028a.html
Nov 30, 2005 (CIDRAP News) – An Indonesian woman who died in a Jakarta hospital yesterday has tested positive for H5N1 avian influenza, according to officials quoted in The Jakarta Post. Further testing is pending at a World Health Organization (WHO) reference laboratory in Hong Kong.If further tests confirm the diagnosis, the case in the 25-year-old homemaker, Sri Wahyuni, will be Indonesia’s 13th case of avian flu and the eighth fatal one, according to the Post. Wahyuni had been treated in a general hospital in Tangerang for 3 days before being transferred to Sulianti Saroso hospital in Jakarta on Nov 24.”When we admitted her the condition was already bad,” said Ilham Patu, a spokesman at the Jakarta hospital.Indonesian, Chinese health infrastructures criticizedThe Post said more than a dozen deaths from H5N1 are suspected in Indonesia. The story described the country’s infrastructure as “an overstretched health system battling to respond to outbreaks and animal health experts also struggling to keep track of numerous clusters of bird infections.”China’s infrastructure was also disparaged in a Reuters story today in which China’s health minister, Gao Qiang, denied allegations that the Chinese government was covering up human H5N1 infections. (A U.S.-based Chinese Web service identified people it claimed have avian flu, but those claims have not been substantiated elsewhere, and the Chinese government has consistently denied the reports.)”I am not worried about governments at various levels covering up an epidemic,” Gao said at a news conference, according to Reuters. “But I am worried about the inability of our medical and quarantine personnel at the local level to diagnose and discover epidemics in a timely fashion due to their low abilities and relatively backward equipment.”Gao added that Shanghai Pharmaceutical is working with Swiss drug-maker Roche to get the technology to manufacture oseltamivir in China, Reuters reported.FAO urges countries not to kill wild birdsThe United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) yesterday urged countries to leave wild birds alone, following reports that such birds were being killed in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City as a precaution against avian flu.”This is unlikely to make any significant contribution to the protection of humans against avian influenza,” said Juan Lubroth, FAO senior officer in charge of infectious animal diseases, in an FAO news release. “There are other, much more important measures to be considered that deserve priority attention.”FAO, the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), and the WHO all emphasize the following priorities, the news release noted:Improving veterinary services and preparedness plans and focusing on control efforts such as culling infected animals, vaccinating at-risk poultry, and compensating farmers for lost poultry stocks;Improving detection and response systems for animal and human flu;Bolstering laboratory capacity; andProviding support and training to investigate animal and human cases and clusters and to plan and test quick containment efforts.Controlling the virus in poultry is the best way to reduce the potential for a virus to develop efficient human-to-human transmission, Lubroth added in the news release.See also:FAO news release on wild birdshttp://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/2005/1000166/index.html
U Parku prirode Kopački rit danas je upriličeno svečano porinuće broda Labud, prvog broda na električni pogon s foto-naponskim panelima za dopunjavanje baterija, koji će posjetiteljima osigurati unaprijeđen doživljaj boravka u Parku.Ukupna vrijednost broda je 3,1 milijun kuna, a financiran je sredstvima darovnice Globalnog fonda za okoliš (GEF) te Fonda za zaštitu okoliša i energetsku učinkovitost (FZOEU). Investicija je realizirana kroz projekt PARCS kojeg provode Ministarstvo zaštite okoliša i energetike te Program Ujedinjenih naroda za razvoj (UNDP), izvođač radova je tvrtka Metalac PNT d.o.o. iz Bedekovčine, a izrađen je u suradnji s JU PP Kopački rit.”Park prirode Kopački rit najstariji je proglašeni park prirode u Hrvatskoj i dom je za više od 2.300 vrsta, a u njemu se svake godine gnijezdi oko 140 vrsta ptica. U proteklih nekoliko godina Kopački rit je najbolje iskoristio sredstva za posjetiteljsku infrastrukturu koja su bila na raspolaganju zaštićenim područjima. Stoga ne čudi što je samo u prošloj godini Park privukao gotovo 40.000 zaljubljenika u prirodu i ostvario rast od 30%. Moderna posjetiteljska infrastrukturu omogućuje posjetiteljima bolju informiranost o prirodnim vrijednostima i važnosti zdravog ekosustava za čovjeka, a parku podiže razinu kvalitete upravljanja posjetiteljima i zaštićenim područjem u cjelini. U narednom periodu ispred sektora zaštite prirode imamo na raspolaganju više od milijardu kuna EU sredstava, a za posjetiteljsku infrastrukturu nacionalnih parkova i parkova prirode imamo osigurano 650 milijuna kuna“, izjavio je Igor Kreitmeyer, pomoćnik ministra u Ministarstvu zaštite okoliša i energetike.Osim broda, čiji je kapacitet 60 putnika, kroz projekt PARCS financirana je i prva faza elektrifikacije pristaništa Veliki Sakadaš, a kako bi se osiguralo brzo i sigurno dopunjavanje baterije broda u slučajevima kada energija prikupljena putem solarnih panela ne bude dostatna za njegov neometan rad. Vrijednost ove investicije je 680.000,00 kuna, a uz to je iz projekta PARCS financirana i izrada projektne dokumentacije za električni brod u iznosu od 180.000,00 kuna.
In Zagreb, at the Sixth International Tourist Film Festival, the Zagreb Tourfilm Festival, a full member of CIFFT – the International Association of Tourist Film Festivals, which, organized by the Zagreb Tourist Board and Balduči Film, presented the largest number of films from 76 countries world, awarded the best films.At a gala dinner at the Esplanade Hotel, which brought together participants in a three-day gathering of filmmakers and tourism experts, professionals dealing with it, one of the most lucrative industries and lovers of attractive destinations, sponsored by Croatian President Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic, Croatian Ministry of Tourism. the Mayor of the City of Zagreb Milana Bandić and the Croatian National Tourist Board, the awards were presented.The Lifetime Achievement Award “Tourism Promotion – Lifestyle” awarded by the Zagreb Tourfilm Festival to deserving individuals who have dedicated their entire lives to the guests of Croatia and their pleasant stay in Croatia, as well as to the promotion of our country in the world. tourist worker and former Minister of Tourism – Mrs. Pave Župan RuskovićHe won the Grand Prix for Best Tourist Film SITIA – So hard to say goodbye! from Greece.Sitia: So hard to say goodbye from Visit Sitia on Vimeo.- SITIA – So hard to say goodbye! (Greece) – GRAND PRIX Zagreb Tourfilm Festival 2017 for best work- SITIA – So hard to say goodbye! (Greece) – best film lasting up to 3 minutes, first place- THIS IS QUEENSLAND – best film lasting up to 3 minutes, second place- BRUNO THE SPEEDY STUNTMAN (Switzerland) – best film lasting up to 3 minutes, third placeThe best movie lasting up to 7 minutes- DUBAI’S BE MY GUEST (UAE) – first place- WHISPERING ISLAND (Greece) – second place- BARCELONA HIPERTRAVEL (Ukraine) – third placeThe best movie lasting up to 60 minutes- ROMANCE AND SPIRIT OF SICILY – (UK) – first place-ABOVE & BELOW SOCORRO -, second placeThe best TV documentary lasting up to 60 minutes- THE WHITE MAZE – first placeDANCING WITH YOUR DREAMS (Portugal) – second place- TOURIST GO HOME! EUROPE’S DREAM DESTINATION AT RISK) – third placeThe best ecological film ANTARTICA (Russia) – first place- DIVE TO BE ALIVE (Germany) – second placeWATER (USA) – third placeThe best Croatian films POREČ – YOU COMPLETE US – up to three minutes, first place- KARLOBAG – ART OF NATURE – second place- SHARE ISTRIA: INVITATION 2016 – third placeALKARI PRIDE – the best Croatian film up to 7 minutes – first placeKOPAČKI RIT – the best Croatian film up to 7 minutes – second placeNOVALJA – ETERNAL BEAUTY ON THE ISLAND OF PAG – best Croatian film up to 7 minutes – third placeŠODERICA – PODRAVINA SEA – the best Croatian ecological film – second placeMUD STORIES – the best ecological film – third placeOŠLJAČKA SAGA – the best Croatian TV report – third placeGEORGIA – the best ideaONCE UPON A TIME IN CAPPADOCIA (UK) – best timelapseHONEST GUIDE: PRAGUE STORIES (Czech Republic) – best DEPOSIT-BLUE HOTELS AND RESORTS (Greece) – best film – promotion of hotels and resorts1 YEAR IN ONE MINUTE (Denmark) – best film – EventMARMONT – YOURS TO DISCOVER (Romania) – best film – extreme sportsAN ALPINE SENCE OF LIFE (Austria) – the best film on the theme of the mountainTHE JOURNAY (Portugal) – the best film tourist serviceGOOGLE SHEEP VIEW (Denmark) – special award of the director of the Zagreb Tourfilm Festival- MANAMA GCC CAPITAL OF TOURISM (Bahrain) – special award of the director of the Zagreb Tourfilm FestivalTURISMO CENTRO PORTUGAL – Preferred Destination ECTAA’S 2017 – special award of the director of the Zagreb tourfilm festival- GREECE 365 DAY DESTINATION (Greece) – special award of the director of the Zagreb Tourfilm FestivalICONIC NORWAY – won the STUDENT’S CHOICE award for students of tourism faculties from Portorož and Maribor