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How to stop Skype from running in the background of Windows 10?
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Issue: How to stop Skype from running in the background of Windows 10?
Hello. I would like to ask is it possible to stop Skype from working in the background? I’m running Windows 10 and have recently installed a New Skype Preview App. Thanks!
Most probably, Skype is one of the applications used every day by billions of PC users. The emergence of this tool changed the way of online communication radically as people were provided with an ability to contact friends and relatives from the other “corner” of the globe for free and in a very fast way. However, various issues with the application came to the light recently.
On top of that, the communication reached the next level as the members of the chat/call can see each other using a front camera of the device. Despite all the pros, Skype belongs to the group of apps that use lots of CPU, may cause system slowdowns or random freezes. In addition, lots of people complain about the fact that Skype launches at boot and signs them into the account automatically; therefore, all Skype contacts can see when you turn on your PC.
Older Windows versions required downloading Skype application manually. For now, those who have recently installed Windows 10 Anniversary Update or installed Windows 10 from scratch should have noticed that the new version currently is called Skype Preview app and comes by default. The issue is that the app gets launched automatically at system boot.
This feature is not helpful for everyone because it allows your contacts to see when you are rebooting your PC. Of course, there are many people that could benefit from this feature but the issue not with the app itself it is with a program that runs in the background of your device and may be causing slowness of the device due to the high usage of CPU.
In addition, it continuously runs in the background even if the user turns it off, what may influence the performance of the system and may sometimes get on once nerves. Therefore, we will explain how to stop Skype from running in the background of the system. However, there is a question of the particular version that you use because.
Although you might not want to have either of them running in the background, Skype Preview is installed as a built-in with Windows 10. Other two Skype Desktop app and Skype for Business are downloaded separately.
Skype application that runs in the background may cause issues with your advice and there might be a few different solutions for this problem. The main reason behind this automatic launch is the update that has this feature as a default so you can get your calls and messages whenever your computer is on. However, the application that runs in the background may be the malicious version of the original program. Check your system with Reimage to see the purpose of files or programs and fix additional issues. When you are sure that all issues got fixed after the full system scan, you should follow all these manual solutions for Skype running in the background issue.
Click Win key and type Skype.
Click on Skype Preview shortcut.
Find the icon of your profile (bottom left corner on Skype Preview App) and click on it.
Find Skype on the menu and open it.
Remove a check mark from Start Skype when I start Windows and click Save.
Then at the bottom right corner on your taskbar, click an arrow to open the list of programs.
Find Skype, right-click on it and select Quit.
^ Gary Jones. Skype keeps crashing: Windows 10 and Mac users face constant crash bug. Express. Hone of the Daily and Sunday express.
^ Tina Sieber. High CPU usage in WIndows. Makeuseof. Technology simplified.
^ Jake Doevan. Skype virus – an irritating issue related to this widely-used communication tool. 2-spyware. Spyware related news. | 2019-04-23T05:59:42Z | https://ugetfix.com/ask/how-to-stop-skype-from-running-in-the-background-of-windows-10/ |
Measure out concentrated liquids without making a mess!
I like to buy car care products in bulk. Their shelf lives are usually years and I know I’m going to use them eventually. The only downside is getting concentrated products from the big container into a smaller, usable container. I always spill some, which defeats the whole purpose of saving money! That was until I got the Pro Blend Bottle Proportioner.
This clever device saves you the trouble of trying to measure out concentrated products and pour them into another bottle. The Proportioner does it for you. Simply twist the Proportioner onto a bottle of your favorite product. Twist the black top to raise or lower the green regulator to the desired amount of liquid. Squeeze the bottle and watch the reservoir fill. Measurements in ounces and milliliters are marked on the side of the reservoir. Release the bottle and the liquid will drain down to the amount you selected. Flip the pop-top and pour the precisely measured liquid into another bottle. No dripping, spilling, or waste!
The Pro Blend Bottle Proportioner allows you to measure just the amount of product you'll be using - no waste!
I use the Pro Blend Bottle Proportioner on my gallon jug of Pinnacle Liquid Crystal Waterless Wash Concentrate with Carnauba. It allows me to dilute the cleaner precisely for the task at hand, and I don’t drip cleaner on my clothes or hands. It’s a simple idea but it makes buying in bulk a lot more convenient!
The Bottle Proportioner is available in two different sizes: gallon or quart. The Gallon Pro Blend has a 38 mm cap with a 12” tube. The Quart Pro Blend has a 28 mm cap with a 9 ½” tube. The tubes can be cut to size if necessary. Both fill cups hold up to 3 ounces.
If diluting products has got you all wet, get the Pro Blend Bottle Proportioner. It makes the process of measuring out concentrates neat and easy so the only one covered in car care products is your car!
Note:The Bottle Proportioner is intended for low viscocity (thin) liquids.
I got this to use with the McKee's rinseless wash. It works well, the idea is great, but there's no gasket at all. So you have to tighten it really hard otherwise when you pour it over to dump out the liquid it will leak all over the cap - and even if it's tight it still will.
I thought maybe I lost the gasket but I have the 2nd one still in packaging and there's nothing there. Pretty disappointing.
Did not like threw away! | 2019-04-22T14:27:14Z | https://www.autogeek.net/problboprco.html |
Keyshia Cole appears to be madly in love with her much younger boyfriend Niko Khalé.
Happy BDay to My libra, I appreciate you, I love you, and thankful for your presence, Sooo So happy we were able to spend our BDays TOGETHER, You’ve also been inspiring me, to not give up on my music, in times of being discouraged, Your work ethic has been impeccable! Soo I gotta show Your new project, that you released TODAY, Some love!!!! Keep grinding Maaaa Doooooo!!!! It gets better!!! #ONMYOWN EP OUT NOW., By @nikokhale You guys check it out and let me kno what u think!?
The pair apparently hit a rough back in June, however, when Keyshia deleted all of her Instagram photos and made her account private and Niko deleted most of the pics and videos of Keyshia he had on his page as well.
At the time, Niko posted a photo of himself with the caption “What’s far fetched to a dog off the leash?” insinuating that he was single before changing the caption to “My drip a little different” after folks started questioning him in the comments.
About a month later, the two were back on strong like donkey kong, as Niko updated his IG with a bunch of new photos/videos of Keyshia, captioning one pic: “N**** that’s ALL ME… she ain’t goin no where.” And Keyshia posted a bunch of photos of them enjoying the Fourth of July together with Keyshia’s 8-year-old son DJ, whose father is Keyshia’s ex-husband, former NBA player Daniel Gibson. | 2019-04-22T11:17:39Z | https://gossiponthis.com/2018/10/18/keyshia-cole-niko-khale-boyfriend-celebrate-birthdays-together-photos-videos-instagram/ |
This Weekend. 80's couple. Rich Nerd and Gold Digger?
From Geisha to 80's Gold Digger....The last minute search through the dress up bin hasn't failed me yet.
I love the picture of you guys when you were little!! Soooo cute! | 2019-04-18T12:29:09Z | http://www.allieraeblog.com/2011/10/halloween-flashback.html |
It’s not nearly as exciting as buying a new car or saving up for your dream vacation, but saving for your retirement is just as important as having reliable transportation or getting away and enjoying time off. In fact, it’s even more important. While everyone has a different financial situation, it’s a great idea to start planning for the future and putting aside as much as possible for retirement. The sooner you can begin a retirement plan, the better off you’ll be down the road.
If you begin early and are able to live within your means, spending less than you make and saving a portion of your earnings each month, there is a good chance you’ll be able to retire earlier than those of your same age that didn’t begin sooner. If you’re still in your 20s and have not begun saving, start now. According to a recent survey from Money Rates, only 27% of people started saving up for retirement in their 20s and most waited until they were in their 30s to start saving.
If you begin saving your money for retirement as early as your 20s, your money will have a lot of time to sit and accrue while in a low-risk retirement account. If you wait until later in life to start a retirement fund, your money will not have as much time to be compounded in interest and therefore you will not have as much at retirement age as someone else that started in their 20s.
Your employer will most likely offer some sort of 401(k) plan for you to take advantage of, which you should definitely consider. Oftentimes, your employer will match your contributions, and you’ll get more money than you would with just your funds alone. Most employer plans will automatically deduct funds from your paycheck, allowing you to not even miss the funds in the first place. Try to contribute as much as possible, the maximum allotment being the best option because the employer matching your contribution is essentially free money. | 2019-04-25T00:24:08Z | http://sabahmikhacpa.com/why-its-a-good-idea-to-start-saving-for-retirement-asap/ |
STARKVILLE, Miss. -- A new moth has become a serious pest to the greenhouse and nursery industries since it entered the state in 2010.
Blake Layton, an entomologist with the Mississippi State University Extension Service, said the European pepper moth was detected in California in 2004 before showing up in Mississippi six years later. Its caterpillars attack a wide range of ornamental plants and vegetables.
The feeding behavior of this moth’s caterpillars sets it apart from that of most similar insects.
These caterpillars can attack all parts of the plants. Damage primarily includes defoliation of lower leaves, boring into stems and girdling the main stem at the base of the plant.
As adults, these small, gray moths are less than half an inch long and relatively inconspicuous. When flushed, they tend to fly just short distances before coming to rest on the undersides of leaves, where they are difficult to see. Using commercially available pheromone traps is the best way to determine if the moths are present in a nursery or greenhouse.
Fred Ensz, owner Busy Bee Nursery in Macon, has been dealing with the European pepper moth caterpillars in geraniums and mums.
“Two years ago, we lost 50 percent of our mums crop to the European pepper moth,” Ensz said.
When his plants in the greenhouse began to wilt, Ensz brought in Extension plant pathologist Alan Henn to dissect the plants and identify what he thought was a rust disease. The wilt was being caused instead by the moth, which they did not discover until late that season.
The moths are difficult to see, even on a bright, sunny day, and they are even harder to treat.
Control of European pepper moths is difficult, as the caterpillars feed deep within the plants or within the growing media, where they are difficult to reach with foliar sprays. Certain pesticides are effective when properly applied, which means the spray penetrates the outer canopy and reaches the base of the plant and the growing media.
Whether this pest has become established in the landscape or remains in the nursery and containerized vegetable trade is not yet known. Based on the climate of its native habitat, the European pepper moth could become established on the West Coast and the Southeast. In the landscape, they seem susceptible to very cold weather. | 2019-04-19T11:12:36Z | http://extension.msstate.edu/news/feature-story/2018/introduced-moth-pest-green-industry?page=2 |
This immune boosting antibacterial and antiviral formula contains Elder flowers, Yarrow, and Echinacea leaves and flowers. Like most herbal remedies, this formula is most effective when taken at the first signs of a cold or flu. It can also help you to get over a bug quicker, reduce a fever, act as a decongestant and help with a sinus infection.
Dosage: 20-40 drops up to 4x day. Not for use in pregnancy. | 2019-04-24T23:49:12Z | http://www.steadfastherbs.com/store/immune-boost-tincture |
Russian newspaper RBC Daily has revealed that Apple’s iPhone 5 could launch in Russia in November, going on sale “almost immediately” after the smartphone goes on sale in the U.S.
The news outlet cited sources close to handset retailers, noting that Russian mobile operators were actively working with Apple to speed up deliveries of Apple smartphone devices, to reduce the number of authorised handset sales caused by longer release cycles.
Apple’s products have typically between three and six months to come to Russia after the original release in U.S and Europe, meaning that carriers are unable to offer their own deals on handsets and simply provide service to consumers that have acquired an iPhone via an unauthorised source.
Apple has reportedly ordered 10 million iPhone 5 units from Taiwan-based manufacturer Pegatron. The Cupertino-based company could be positioning itself to deliver stock to an increased number of partners across the U.S and Europe to reduce high-priced third-party resales. | 2019-04-25T20:12:45Z | https://thenextweb.com/apple/2011/08/05/rbc-daily-iphone-5-set-for-launch-in-russia-in-november/ |
This popped up on the discover weekly playlist on spotify.
Most of the suggested titles were dross but this caught me, took me a couple plays but am i crazy or does the main riff sound like the one from Lowdown off the album Instinct?
This is also secretly a Lowdown appreciation thread as I have always loved that song. | 2019-04-21T19:02:33Z | http://stoogesforum.forumotion.com/t4016-lowdown-rip-off |
Windows 10 Professional, Java update 74.
Any mob_spawners being placed with /give will spawn the right mob for only the first time, after that it turn into a PIG spawner. mob spawners placed with /setblock command will just be a pig spawner. I am 99.99% sure I have used the right command.
it seems to work for a while, but when I exit and re-enter the world, its a PIG spawner! | 2019-04-20T18:32:03Z | https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MC-100058 |
Posting a Featured Ad is the most effective way to advertise on Hands_On_Home`s Adpost. Featured Ads appear on every single page of our site. Get exposure on our home page and all 312 sections within! In contrast, other ads remain within just 1 section (eg. United States > Homes & Offices). | 2019-04-20T05:19:56Z | https://handsonhome.adpost.com/us/about/?db=us_homes_offices&website=handsonhome&language=&session_key= |
Still a bushwhack, but water flowing in the canyon made it interesting. The first rap is actually easily downclimbed for a bit of spice. Everything still good.
Area is CLOSED due to the Station Fire. May reopen in 2 years. We were stopped by a ranger that mentioned fines and what not. Did not descend. | 2019-04-23T03:04:02Z | https://candition.com/canyons/classic-canyon |
Pages with this category were created from data imported from the Special Collections Research Center's Collections Database running on Archon on 11/5/2009 and on an ongoing, weekly basis. Upon being reviewed by a SCRC staff member, this category is applied.
Pages in category "Archon done"
Commonwealth Center for the Study of American Culture.
This page was last modified on 5 January 2011, at 23:58. | 2019-04-23T08:00:24Z | https://scdbwiki.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Category:Archon_done |
Find local bargains in and near Higher-Blackley (Greater-Manchester).
The listings below are an automated feed from Ebay for the village "Higher-Blackley".
View more listed items with "Higher-Blackley" in the title. (Problem with any of these listings? Report it to us here). | 2019-04-22T19:06:00Z | http://higherblackley.co.uk/ |
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Tasteful red and white single ended spray. A beautiful funeral tribute including red and white choice flowers. Available in other colours. 3ft £85 / 4ft £105 / 5ft £130. This item needs at least 1 working day's notice to deliver. It may not be possible to make and deliver an item like this same day. | 2019-04-22T00:54:20Z | https://www.pontypool-florist.co.uk/flowers/single-ended-spray-red |
Old News but How Did That Englishman Hack Into the Pentagon?
Anyone seen this, thought someone might find it interesting.
Can anyone help me obtain the Apple Service Toolkit?
SD card security specification leaked? | 2019-04-19T12:48:44Z | http://www.binrev.com/forums/index.php?/forum/2-general-hacking/&page=10 |
The station was opened in 1926 and designed by Charles Holden. Unlike all Holden’s other stations on the Morden Northern line extension, which have angular facades, South Wimbledon has a gently curving frontage. The original plan was to name the station Merton Grove, since it is in the Borough of Merton, but Wimbledon was deemed a classier area and therefore a more attractive name.
Nearby is the Polka Theatre for children.
Look for the original roundel that reads “South Wimbledon ( Merton )” Enjoy. | 2019-04-18T12:53:24Z | https://art.tfl.gov.uk/labyrinth/artwork/south-wimbledon/ |
The documentary film ‘Birds of a Feather’, by Stefanos Evripidou and Stephen Nugent, will be screened at the Home for Cooperation, on Wednesday, December 5th at 20.30. A public discussion with the film producers will follow the screening. Mrs Yeliz Shukri (Filmmaker) and Dr Costas Constantinou (Academician) will make short introductions to the discussion, which will be coordinated by the Head of Prio Cyprus, Dr Harry Tzimitras.
Synopsis: On the southeastern edge of Europe, two communities remain divided on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, playing host to the UNʼs third longest peacekeeping mission after Kashmir and the Middle East. This documentary looks at the contrasting personal memories formed in a post-conflict space after decades of physical separation. The well-oiled narratives of each communityʼs official histories have left little room for dialogue or mutual understanding. As stories unravel, the film raises questions on the victimization of truth and the different perspectives of history. Within this framework, the documentary presents the Home for Cooperation and emphasizes the importance of its presence in the UN controlled buffer zone, widely known as ‘the dead zone’.
Stefanos Evripidou is an awarded journalist, currently working as chief reporter at the Cyprus Mail. Aside from his work in the press, he has been involved in the production of a short series of video blogs for the Home for Cooperation. Stephen Nugent is a freelance documentary director, cinematographer and editor. He shot various awarded short films, documentaries, and commercials while his work includes documentaries for Greenpeace, shot in the Arctic, Europe and the Middle East. | 2019-04-23T01:02:27Z | http://cypruscommunitymedia.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=458%3Adocumentary-film-screening-birds-of-a-feather-at-the-home-for-cooperation-&catid=63%3Acivil-society-news&Itemid=80&lang=el |
You have already used this structure in the Do My Maths exercise. It works in a very similar way to the If structure but is more useful when you have a lot of conditions to examine. The following code will message box the month which corresponds to a number input by the user. | 2019-04-19T10:23:32Z | http://multiwingspan.co.uk/vbguide.php?page=case |
Susan has this recommendation. Before you speak into the telephone, take a deep breath and smile. This will give you enough air to speak in a strong, conversational tone, while the smile will make your voice more agreeable. Introduce yourself briefly, then greet the other person as if you’ve been looking forward to his or her call. This can either make people feel welcome or help defuse a potential situation. | 2019-04-25T18:24:03Z | https://www.successis.co.nz/articles/effective-communications/94-make-caller-welcome.htm |
The HX team has made the decision to slow down the initial HX block generation plan. This decision has been made in order to further protect the interests of HX holders and enhance investor confidence, as well to maintain the long-term growth of the HX community.
The original plan was to generate up to 0.98 billion HX over 7 years. This has been adjusted to 0.97 billion over 100 years. After this period, no more additional tokens will be issued. After the execution of the revised plan, HX tokens which are used for Citizen or Senator registrations will continue to be fully destroyed.
In the first year, a single block will genereate a reward of 27 HX, which will decrease by 1 to 2 HX per year, with a reward of 17 HX in the seventh year.
Soon after the revision, this rule will expire.
When the block height reaches 2,500,000, the new rule will be formally implemented, and the single-block reward attenuation rule will be adopted accordingly.
Among them, the attenuation reward X = 6.5 * (0.99 ^ n), namely the initial yield of 6.5, 0.99 per 1 million piece of diminishing a cycle, the initial value of n is 0.
The block height reaching 3,500,000 marks the end of the first cycle, when n=0.
The block height reaching 3,500,001 marks the beginning of the 2cd cycle, when n=1.
The initial yield of 2nd circle, (also is the end of first cycle) = 0.4 + 6.5 * 0.99 ^ (1) = 6.835.
Note: This HX revision does not target any specific address or role on the chain. The process of revising rules in HX is open, fair and democratic, and is decided by Senator’s votes. | 2019-04-19T11:19:02Z | https://h.cash/blog&id=66 |
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Yeah I know, I can do it with min-height, or perhaps a table-layout… It's what you think, but you are not totally right if you do so. But before talking about right and wrong, let’s define our needs.
First at all, you need to build a basic HTML markup. I propose to you this one, but feel free to adapt or improve regarding your real needs.
Now some styles to make the magic works.
To be clear: today, your website has to be responsive. That's why the CSS code I'll propose you is mobile first responsive.
* height using display flex.
* cols for being centered.
* stuck to the left.
If you need to keep a real good feeling about images, grab a solution among size and srcset attributes, or simply decide to replace flex: 1 1 300px; by flex: 0 1 300px; that allows cols being smaller but not bigger than 300 pixels wide.
I hope these comments will help you understand this very short code.Yeah, as you can see, it's pretty easy to do it work.
Sure, there are many other ways to make the same thing differently. Feel free to adapt it and make your own code.
Spread the word by sharing it. | 2019-04-26T12:10:03Z | https://flexbox.ninja/demos/same-height-columns/ |
I am a Boulder, CO-based web designer/developer, and this is my portfolio site. This website is perpetually under construction, because along with being a space to show my portfolio of websites I have worked on, it is a live showcase of my experimentation with features such as AJAX and seamless PHP/MySQL-integration.
You can contact me by e-mail or via this form. My resume can be viewed here, and my personal site can be seen here.
I designed and developed this site from scratch. It is CSS-based XHTML markup. The portfolio front-end is hand-coded in jQuery, with the data generated dynamically from a database via a PHP file. The data is pulled from the database into an XML file where jQuery helps render it into what you see. My goal was to have it be simple, functional, and most importantly, easily expandable.
©2008-2012 Pranshu Arya. All rights reserved. | 2019-04-26T07:58:18Z | http://pranshuarya.com/pthesis/ |
The Home Technology Association was founded to help homeowners and home design and building professionals find qualified home technology installation firms for their home construction projects.
Chicago, IL - The Residences at Water Tower Place, a 40-story luxury condominium on Chicago’s Magnificent Mile is well known for its unspoiled views of Lake Michigan and neighboring Navy Pier. The Residences at Chicago’s historic Watertower Place are strewn with technology installed by a plethora of Custom Integration (CI) professionals. Unfortunately, some of these systems are dated and not user-friendly. In June of 2018 Buchan Consulting LLC, a CEDIA and HTA Certified custom integration company, was contacted by one of their partner companies and alerted to a potential issue with an aging RTI automation system. | 2019-04-20T20:14:49Z | https://buchanconsulting.com/?Itemid= |
Featured Investigation Civil War Sabotage?
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Continental Club Card Season 9, Episode 11 What secrets can this business card reveal about glamour and vice in 1930s Los Angeles?
Society Circus Program Season 9, Episode 11 Why are some of New York's wealthiest planning a circus at the depth of the Great Depression?
Chandler Tintype Season 9, Episode 12 How did this Civil War era tintype help re-ignite a fiery debate about African Americans bearing arms for the confederacy?
Harlem Heirs Season 9, Episode 12 How is this ornate document connected to the earliest settlers of New York City and a potential multi-million dollar land dispute?
Ince Ledger Season 9, Episode 12 What does this accounts ledger for a movie company have to do with the changing world of the Lakota Sioux?
Browse by location Find investigations by their location using the History Detectives interactive map. | 2019-04-25T19:10:26Z | https://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/investigations/?season=9 |
A road in the Mendip Hills has reopened after a fatal crash on Friday.
The woman who has not been named, died following the two-car crash on the B3139 at at the Emborough Lakes.
Police say one vehicles was found in a hedge with woman trapped inside.
She was released and given treatment at the scene, but died shortly afterwards.
At the time of the incident, a spokesman for Avon and Somerset police said: "We were called to reports of a two car collision on the B3139 near to the Emborough Lakes shortly after 8.30am.
"One of the vehicles was in a hedge and the occupant trapped. She was released from the vehicle and given treatment at the scene but sadly died shortly afterwards."
"The occupant of the other vehicle – a man – does not appear to have been injured.
"The road will remain closed for the foreseeable future while collision investigators examine the scene and motorists are advised to avoid the area and find alternative routes.
"We would like to hear from any motorists who were in the area at the time of the incident, especially those who have dash-cam coverage of the incident."
Anyone who may have information, or dash cam footage of the incident, is asked to contact police, quoting reference number 5219073622. | 2019-04-23T21:12:48Z | https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/road-reopens-b3139-fatal-bath-2728876 |
HomeBulkingHow Much Muscles You Can Gain In One Month?
An average man can gain around 1-2 pounds of muscle per month, which is around 0.25-0.5 pounds of muscles per week.
Similarly, an average woman can gain around 0.5-1 pound of muscles per month, which is around 0.1-0.25 pounds of muscles per week.
Irrespective of how many articles you have read about gaining muscle mass quickly, there is a limit to how much muscle your body can actually grow.
Scientifically, there is no study that determines how much muscle an individual can grow in one month. It is simply because, each one of us have different genetics and have been working out for a different amount of time. Additionally, each of our body react differently to what exercises we do.
However, experts in the bodybuilding world have determined a realistic goal on how much muscles you can build in a month.
Primarily, how long you have been training for is going to affect how much muscles you can build in one month.
Considering this, beginners in their first year of training can gain briefly around 20-25 pounds of muscles, which is around 1-2 pounds of muscles per month. These are of course the newbie gains.
Muscle hypertrophy is the highest for the individuals working with weights for the first time.
Note: Muscle Hypertrophy is the growth in size of the muscles, due to high intense and resistance exercises.
In the successive second year, the muscle gains decreases to 10-12 pounds of muscles per year, it is around 0.5-1 pounds of muscles per month. Likewise, in the third year, you can gain around 5-6 pounds of muscles and in fourth year, 2-3 pounds of muscles respectively.
Keep in mind, in order to achieve anything mentioned above; you have to follow a Proper Training routine and the Right Diet.
This also concludes, if you have been training for 1 or 2 years, but have not been consistent with your training routine and have not been taking a proper diet. It might still be possible to pick up those newbie gains of 20-25 pounds of muscles per year, if you start doing it now.
You might come across people suggesting you can build around 10 pounds of muscles a month. This is not naturally possible with diet and workouts, but then there are bodybuilding steroids that you can look for.
These factors do play an important role in finding out how things work for you. These can vary the results from one person to another.
This is what we have already discussed. For a fact, if you are a beginner, you are going to build muscles much faster as compared to others. This means individuals doing weight training are going to build more muscles than average and excel rapidly.
Remember, as you get more experienced with training, the rate of muscle building decreases. For example, the rate at which you gain muscles the first year is halved the second year and keeps reducing more in successive years.
Do keep in mind, if you had been working out in certain point of your life and have lost muscles? It becomes a lot easier for you to regrow muscles.
Muscle memory, here plays an important role and helps in the rapid growth of muscles.
Genetics are the most important factor that determines how much muscle you can gain and how quickly can you build them.
Additionally, the hormone levels, muscle length and even the bone structure, influence your muscle building potential.
This is something we do not have control of.
This is the reason you may find individuals with premium genes are able to build muscles within a couple of weeks. However, there are others that are not genetically gifted and have to work harder to see the desired results.
Age can be a great factor in how much muscle you can build in a certain period of time.
For an instance, if you are young, your hormones are kicking and it is comparatively easier for you to build muscles than a 40 year old individual.
Testosterone secretion is the highest during our 20s; it is the most essential bodybuilding hormone. Levels of testosterone start decreasing as we age, which affects growth of muscles directly.
We have mentioned this before, the growth rate of muscles decreases as you age and as your workout experience increases.
For an adult, 35-45 year old, it is only possible to gain 2-3 pounds of muscles per year naturally, with proper workout and diet.
These are the most important factors to consider. No matter the number of hours you spend in the gym, if you are not following a proper diet, you are not going to gain those lean muscles.
Prepare a good workout routine and be consistent with it, support it with the right diet and BOOM!!! The results will be visible in a month.
Right Nutrition not only helps to grow muscles quickly but also helps to sustain them.
Supplements become essential if you want to see quick and massive results.
How much muscles you can grow and how fast you can grow them? Doing it naturally, it is going to take some time. But with performance enhancing supplements, the results are quick and successive.
There are supplements that enhance the muscle building hormones and are recommended for building big and bulky muscles. However, you have to be careful with what you take in your body. So, make sure you have a thorough understanding about how supplements are going to be effective for you.
You will still have to train, in order to see the results.
Be realistic with your approach now, as you have the information about how much muscles you can grow in one month and the factors that influence it. Having proper understanding of the factors helps you to ascertain your body’s true potential.
STOP!!! Believing on those that tell you, you can hit the 10 pound muscle per month mark within a 4 week plan. Either they are gifted with high quality genes or there is something wrong in it.
Keep things under your reach and control by finding the best workouts and nutrition that can help you to build muscles as quickly as possible. | 2019-04-25T15:57:21Z | https://musclemaxim.com/how-much-muscles-you-can-gain-in-one-month/ |
luchini pourin' from the sky let's get rich what?!
Combining a ‘by-the-slice’ pizzeria with a sleek design, comfortable seating, and a full bar; Luchini Pizzeria & Bar offers up red and white New York style pizzas, huge Sicilian slices alongside market salads, avocado crostini and the burger of all burgers. Luchini Pizzeria & Bar also puts a focus on using the highest quality ingredients along with providing great service. Open daily at 5pm, the cafe is the go-to hangout for dinner, delivery and for those who want to grab a bite after-hours. | 2019-04-21T06:05:24Z | http://luchinipizzeria.com/ |
There was a girl named Mel who was incredibly passionate about reading. She was always open to blog tour and review opportunities and her favourite genre was Young Adult. She mainly liked Fantasy, Sci-Fi and Dystopian YA. Feel free to get in touch with her via email with any sponsored posts or review opportunities. | 2019-04-21T09:12:13Z | https://thebookmoo.wordpress.com/about-me/ |
Tim Riggs's birthday is Friday. Think I've found a new sport for him.
Québec City is one of my favorite cities in North America. If you get the chance to visit, don't hesitate. They have a wild Carnaval that includes ice sculptures, a parade of lights, and an insane canoe race across the mostly frozen St. Lawrence.
Speaking of cold, it seems we may be flirting with one of the latest first snows on record (Nov 22). Looks like our August predictions were a tad off. There's a chance of snow next week, but it's too early to know for sure.
Meantime, we're getting sensational riding weather! On Flagstaff yesterday, Dave and I made our first-of-the-season dash around the gate. Yup, the road is all ours again until May 1. | 2019-04-23T16:09:16Z | https://flagstafffrenzy.org/blog/2010/11/04/new_sport_for_riggs |
Collegiate Consulting outlined several areas of consideration for USM, including development of external revenue sources, improvements to athletic facilities and increased integration with the University and community. The firm also provided strategic goals for improving student athlete academics and competitive success.
About Southern Mississippi Athletics: The Department of Athletics at The University of Southern Mississippi offers 16 sport programs at the Division I level sponsored by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The university offers nine sports for women and seven for men, including baseball, men’s/women’s basketball, women’s cross country, football, men’s and women’s golf, women’s soccer, softball, men’s and women’s tennis, men’s and women’s indoor and outdoor track and field, and women’s volleyball. Each year, Southern Miss provides more than 300 scholarships to deserving student-athletes as they perform not only on their respective playing fields, but in the classroom as well. For more information, visit www.southernmiss.com. | 2019-04-20T02:34:59Z | http://www.collegiateconsulting.com/news/collegiate-consulting-aids-southern-mississippis-strategic-planning |
We currently need on-call (retained) firefighters. If you're interested, would like more information or to speak to someone, let us know by completing our online enquiry form and we will get in touch with you.
The Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service is currently recruiting at this time we have opportunities for On Call (Retained) Firefighters across the Island at the following stations.
A basic annual payment (a retainer) of £2,246 and fees for emergency response at £10.26 per hour during training; rising to £2,993 and £13.67 respectively on achieving competence and a disturbance allowance of £3.94 for each call out.
Salary: £2,246 to £2,993 per annum.
The most up to date information on the fire service pay scales is available on National Joint Council (NJC) website. | 2019-04-20T14:57:39Z | https://www.iow.gov.uk/Residents/Fire-and-Rescue-Service/Recruitment-Fire/Current-Fire-Service-Job-Vacancies |
I have a fuel tank leak on my bus. We are in Mississippi on vacation. Does anyone know of ways to repair a diesel fuel tank. The tank is almost 3/4 full. The leak is a fast drip. Maybe 3-4 drips per second. We are at the Holiday Inn and it has a good puddle running down the lot. The leak is near the corner perhaps the weld. Too fast to really pin point it.
I used in weld to seal a pinhole leak on the gas tank of my old Mazda truck. Drained the tank, JB welded the hole. Never leaked. Don't know if that's safe but it worked.
Could also try marine putty in the stick. Not sure if it reacts with diesel when it dries, but you could test it out in small cup.of diesel off to the side.
JB Welded bottom side of tank on a '69 Nova when I was a kid... several years later it was still holding.
damn, I miss that car!
That’s too bad. Ugh. Let us know how it turns out.
Just got back in from working on leak. I got some putty from Auto Zone for leaking tanks. Its dripping so fast and holding a flash light is not working. I brought two package of the putty so I'll try the other one in the morning. Perhaps that stuff on Amazon is better but I need it now. I have a hairline crack about 1.5" long on a weld, which I think makes the job more challenging.
I might try the ivory soap if I can find some. If i can stop the flow 10 seconds I think I can apply the putty.
Well so far the leak has stopped. Thanks to the info and tips here. i had packed some iris spring soap so I used it and it worked. I also put that putty on top of the soap. Don't know if that putty will stick to the soap but it is not leaking. Once we start driving it may start back because of the flexing of the bus but we are good for now. Thanks again and give God the glory! | 2019-04-23T12:10:48Z | http://www.skoolie.net/forums/f13/need-help-with-leak-23493.html |
Car insurance that has emerged in the last time produces a realignment of payments and prices making it cheaper for people with fewer accidents, which at first sight is significantly more just and equitable. This depends on each country and every legislation but it is very effective. The current ways and strategies for the achievement of cheap car insurance have advanced in large amount which has facilitated insurers to increase its roster of persons and insured enterprises and to minimize the risks of the activities of individuals. In the car insurance category, has been established a drivers inside evaluation system which is a statistic with regard to the amount of claims that the person possesses a year. Connecticut Senator has firm opinions on the matter. If the case does not possess none will occur a considerable decline in the cost of the policy for the following year.
Obviously this is according to each country and the regulations in force. Cheapest car insurance can make you save lot of money a year. There are the so-called insurance comparators which they are a tool vital to this process, since it allows to compare more than 15 insurance companies by filling in a single form. In just 3 minutes you can know what car insurance cheaper for specific case. In the world of car insurance there is no ranking that is valid in the long term, since due to strong competition, insurance companies continually modify their rates and launched aggressive promotions, limited in time, to attract new customers. This makes that the market moves more actively and that the user will achieve better and lower budgets. This car insurance offered turns out to be one of the most complete in the market, and among other things available on-site, etc.
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Six comfortable, self contained wooden chalets, each with broadband internet access, intruder alarm, common room and en suite staff rooms.
Provided - all diets catered for. Limited self-catering available.
2 Meeting rooms, 6 Training rooms, 2 Halls, lounge. Facilities - full range of AV equipment. Fridges & kettles. ‘Wet work’ and craft rooms.
Water, toilets, showers, campfires allowed at dedicated locations, tents for hire. | 2019-04-23T22:11:05Z | http://surreyyouthfocus.org.uk/resource-directory/sayers-croft-environmental-educational-trust |
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Disclaimer - Submissions will be processed in the order in which they are received. Contacting us via the web does not guarantee nor confirm your submission. Our normal operating hours are Monday through Friday from 7:30 am to 5:00 pm. If you have any questions, please contact a location near you. | 2019-04-26T05:43:05Z | https://www.jennerag.com/our-company/careers/submit-resume/ |
This third blog completes “The Success Factors Blog Trilogy” series. A technology company consists of a number of functional groups which, in turn, are made up of individual contributors. The trilogy defines the main success factors associated with these 3 elements: the individual contributor (first blog), a founding team (second blog) and finally, the company as a whole (third blog). In order to have an outstanding outcome for any venture, all three elements must accomplish their respective goals and objectives effectively.
I believe that the most fundamental pillar of a successful organization is the company CULTURE. Culture should be embedded within the very DNA of the company and the people that work within it. It is the glue that binds and connects all elements of the business. It defines the values that employees of a corporation exhibit both in dealing internally with each other, as well as in their external dealings with suppliers, partners and customers. Below, I have highlighted a list of core values and attitudes that are the key elements of a winning culture.
Unified vision - A company must have a single high level vision that is embraced by each employee in order to be successful. Michael Jordan, arguably one of the most successful basketball players in history, demonstrated this element best when he said “single team single dream,” in reference to the Chicago Bulls team success.
Winning can-do attitude - A can-do attitude makes complex tasks appear more manageable. Conversely, the opposite is also true – a poor attitude can make a complex task insurmountable. Collectively a team must come together to accomplish the overarching goals of any organization. When examining winning teams in the NFL, NHL and NBA you’ll find that a few teams tend to have more consistent and successful records than others. These teams experience higher win to loss ratios than their competitors as a result of their cohesive optimism.
Innovation - For a company to endure and grow in a competitive market place, it is essential for all functional groups in the company to embrace the “Innovate or Die” approach. It is valuable for a company to always look forward and search for new ways to reinvent itself to remain highly competitive and current.
Transparency - Information sharing must be carried out by all levels of the organization starting with the leadership team. Leaders should make their work tasks and progress visible and available to all members of the team. It is simply a case of a cause and effect exercise; sharing information with the company’s employees on a regular basis and in a transparent fashion (Cause), will create a well-informed, motivated team that can embrace the vision (Effect).
United front - Each person on a rowing team can have their own style to prepare for the race but once in the boat, they must row in rhythm, with the same vigor, and in unison in order for the team to be the first across the finish line. Similarly, each person in the company is unique but must present a common front externally.
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Truly successful companies have the ability, as a team, to handle disagreements during a debate and then reach a consensus at the conclusion of the discussion. Scott McNealy, the visionary CEO and cofounder of the computer technology company Sun Microsystems said it best when he coined the quote “Disagree and commit; agree and commit”.
In context, the process of decision making is made up of two parts; the first being during the discussion where a decision is reached and the second one is after the decision has been made. During the first phase, it is the obligation of the company leadership to open the floor to contribution of ideas from all participants irrespective of their “rank” in the company hierarchy. In turn, the individual participants must contribute to the debate. When the discussion is over and the decision has been made it is the duty and obligation of each person on the team to embrace the outcome and support it without reservation. | 2019-04-21T20:54:35Z | http://blog.l-spark.com/company-success-factors/ |
Hello Boardgaming Geeks! We are fast approaching Gen Con’s registration day and will thus be closing this tour for booking May 13th. If you are interested in hopping aboard please do so asap!
Geek Nation Tours is headed back to one of the largest and most prestigious gaming conventions in the world. That’s right – we are headed to Gen Con Indianapolis 2016! Gen Con has a long history of offering the very best in gaming conventions. Dive into every type of gaming imaginable – roleplaying games, card games, boardgames, tabletop games and computer games, just to mention just a few. They have even had Geek Speed Dating and a marathon…. Game to your heart’s content with old friends and the new ones you will meet.
Geek Nation Tours always makes sure there is plenty to do prior and during Gen Con, and 2016 will be no exception as we will continue to offer exclusive gaming opportunities. Each year our tour participants get to game with the people that design, develop and produce the games they love. In the past our tour participants have demanded “More Gaming” and this year we will supply just that! This year’s theme will be Dungeon Crawler games! So if you ever wanted to explore the depths of unknown caverns and pit your warrior’s skill or learned spell casting against those dwelling in the dungeons – this is the tour for you. We will focus on many Dungeon Crawler games with Mantic Games (Dungeon Saga), Cool Mini or Not (Arcadia Quest), Ninja Division (Super Dungeon Explore), Fantasy Flight Games (Descent & Warhammer Quest: The Adventure Card Game), Smirk and Dagger (Cutthroat Caverns) and S2’s Dungeon Dwellers. Many of these crews will join us to explain their game’s mechanics and to roll dice right alongside us. We will even be headed off to the infamous True Dungeon for a session or two.
The Kentucky Fried Gamers crew will also be a large part of our “Dungeon Crawl” extravaganza and as a matter of fact we will be joining them and their membership before Gen Con even starts. If you ever wanted to be a part of the Gen Con community, this is your chance! You are sure to leave the tour with new gaming friends from all around the world. And if all goes well we will be joining the KFG crew on a Pub Hop Tuesday night. This way you can “have a few” with members of the Gen Con community, game and talk to like-minded people that love games just like you.
“We want more Fantasy gaming goodness!” you say? Geek Nation Tours will be doing something special this year. We have a hobby challenge for any that want to pick up a brush. We will be highlighting the awesome new miniature wargame Frostgrave throughout the tour. We will be bringing some Frostgrave terrain (supplied by Armorcast and painted by Ironheart Artisans) and you will have the opportunity to explore the frozen land in search of magical treasure every day while on our tour. We might even have a special guest come by… more on that as we get closer to Gen Con proper….
We will also be hosting our traditional “Welcome and How to Get the Best out of Your Gen Con” dinner. This year we will be joined by the crew of the D6 Generation Podcast and the Nerdherders (both Gen Con Veterans) as well as the Mantic Games crew. All will give us tips on how to best experience our convention. Further, we are proud to announce that we will be again handing out our Gen Con badges and event tickets! That’s right, no ticket pickup lines and no delivery costs for any items that are pre-registered for prior to June 15th! We will deliver them right into your eager hands. Our welcome dinners are always informative and loads of fun. They are great for newbies and veterans alike, and you are sure to leave with a smile on your face, a full belly and all the information necessary to get the most out of your Gen Con experience.
What!? Want more Fantasy gaming? Well we have another first for you on our 2016 tour. The Nerdherders AND the crew from the D6 Generation Podcasts will be not only joining us for our Welcome Dinner but will be running sessions of Dungeons & Dragons! This is a great way to get to know your fellow tour participants and have bragging rights on how many Orcs you were able to dispatch….
Still want more? After many requests Geek Nation Tours will include a meal a night and have super cool special guests and exclusive gaming every single night we are at Gen Con! Take a look at what we have planned for you below and be sure you join us for “The Best Four Days of Gaming”!
Today we will begin the day with some Dungeon Crawling gaming goodness! Our first exclusive gaming experience will be with the Mantic Games crew as we experience their recently release Dungeon Saga game. Ronnie Renton, the King Kahuna or Mantic Games, will be there himself to guide us on our Dungeon Saga adventure. One of your gaming group will take the role of the Evil Dungeon Overlord as he tries to crush the hero adventurers. Will you be a Barbarian, a steadfast Dwarf, a distance death dealing Elf or a magic wielding Wizard? Will you be able to thwart the plans of the evil Mortibris or will he succeed in his quest for obtaining the secret powers of Valandor?
But that will not be the end of the Gaming! – Geek Nation Tours has the whole day covered. Whatever your gaming preference – the Kentucky Fried Gamers crew will have a multitude of games on offer and you will be right there rolling dice with the Gen Con community. More details as we get closer to the date but you will have input on the games offered for this day. So sign up and get your game on!
In the evening, join us for Geek Nation’s Welcome Dinner, which takes place right at our hotel. It will be time to listen to our traditional guest speakers from the D6 Generation Podcast and the upstart competition for them the Nerdherders (who wanted first billing btw). Who knows – a battle of the podcasters may break out – clubs may be part of the show (or maybe we should rent Sumo Suits)!
Geek Nation Tours is very proud to offer a new way to get us into the Gen Con spirit! Russ and Craig from the D6 Generation podcast and the crew of the Nerdherders have agreed to guide us through a Dungeons & Dragons RPG session! They will be Dungeon Mastering us as we prowl the depths of the darkest caverns in search for adventure… and loot. Loot is always good!
As we will already have our badges, we will be able to jump right into the Gen Con goodness! At this point you will be ready for the spectacle that is Gen Con. If you have any questions at all, our Geek Nation representative will be there at the convention with you. As a matter of fact, he will even walk to the convention with you to ensure your Gen Con experience proceeds without a hitch. We will be starting off our Gen Con early as we head off to the opening ceremonies at 8:30 a.m. just outside the exhibit hall. Doors open at 10:00 am so be sure to bring a game!
Tonight we will head out to one of our best loved restaurants for Brazilian Barbeque – Fogo de Chao! Eat until your belly is full and take in their beautifully cooked meats or sample their spectacular salad bar. We are very excited to have some very special guests tonight as will have the crew of the super awesome BoardGameGeek internet site come join us for a quick hello and perhaps even roll some dice with us… Here is a chance to see how BGG is operated and maybe give them a bit of thanks for perhaps the most important internet site for boardgame geeks.
After dinner we will head back as a group to hop into a session or two of True Dungeon. We will still have to grab tickets individually but we will plan our dungeon adventure as a group and test our skills as we experience one of the pinnacle of Gen Con gaming experiences! Many of us will then return to the hotel and perhaps get together to show off our miniatures and have a game of Frostgrave.
But that is not all! We will have a Cool Mini or Not representative to come and hang and game with us this night! He will talk about all things CMoN and roll dice with us all evening long!
As with every night however those not taking in Arcadia Quest will have guaranteed space for open gaming and another swing at this year’s hobby challenge game – Frostgrave…. We even have gotten word that Phil Smith (Games Manager for Osprey Publishing) and Christian Waters (Marketing Manager) will be visiting sometime during our Gen Con experience (most likely this night!) so make sure you have vanquished all the other wizards as you might be up against one of them… For this year’s Frostgrave Hobby Challenge Joseph McCullough himself, suggests those interested start painting up a warband including Wizard, Apprentice, Knight (mail armour, hand weapon, shield), Archer (leather armour, bow, dagger), Thug (hand weapon), Thug (hand weapon), Thief (dagger), Thief (dagger), and a Warhound. But really we want you to have fun with it so feel free to grab what you want and get ready to hit the streets.
Tonight we will return to the High Velocity, order right off the menu and game with a mixture of cooperation based games and some down and dirty back stabbing games. Tonight we will focus on Fantasy Flight Games – Descent: Journeys in the Dark and Warhammer Quest: The Adventure Card Game, Smirk and Dagger Games – Cutthroat Caverns and S2 Adventure’s – Dungeon Dwellers. Of course we can also return to the Frozen City and Frostgrave for more magical looting!
We hope to have a growing list of guests this night but for now we are very excited about including Adam and Brady Sadler. Adam was the lead designer for the 2nd edition of Descent: Journeys in the Dark, while Brady served as a content developer and expansion designer (Lair of the Wyrm) for the Descent line (as well as Gears of War, Mansions of Madness, and Space Hulk: Death Angel – The Card Game). After leaving FFG, Adam and Brady collaborated on their first original design which became Warhammer Quest: The Adventure Card Game. In addition to designing games, Adam and Brady are also founders and members of the fantasy metal band Lorenguard, a band based on a series of fantasy novels by Brady.
What’s more Fantasy Flight Games has offered to give us a couple of 2014 Game Night Descent kits that we will be handing out to some lucky tour participants! So sharpen those swords everyone!
Tonight we will be getting together for our Farewell Dinner and yet another first for Geek Nation Tours! One last meal, a drink and a farewell to Gen Con, but also for the first time ever special guests at our Farewell Dinner! Ninja Division will be bringing their Japanese console RPG inspired dungeon crawler Super Dungeon Explore! Up to six players will take control of a chibi paladin, dwarf fighter, elf ranger or the Dungeon Boss himself. Grab treasure and spawn the Dungeon Boss to put a final end to the Dark Consul!
We will meet at the High Velocity lounge at 6:30pm and have open gaming until close. The meal is on GNT as well as the first hour of beers so make sure you grab a few when you are setting up your favorite game… No spilling though! We would hate to have the games get ruined!
What is included: Pre-Registration Conference Calls, All hotel nights and taxes (we will be staying at the JW Marriott Indianapolis), transfers to and from the airport, Gen Con 4-day badges, all dinners including the exclusive “How to get the best out of your Gen Con tour” Welcome Dinner and the GNT farewell dinner, Gen Con weekend pass and no line event ticket pick up, Exclusive Gaming Experiences, and Commemorative (and stylish) Gen Con shirt.
Price: $2199.00 USD + $486.63 taxes and fees per person based on double occupancy.
Single Occupancy Supplement: $684.00 USD + $110.00 taxes based on single occupancy. | 2019-04-25T22:53:29Z | https://geeknationtours.com/tours_post/geeking-out-at-gen-con-2016/ |
What affects the country’s cuisine? Climate and environmental conditions — of course. Religious and historical traditions — of course. And the national character. While it may be, on the contrary — the kitchen has an impact on the formation of the very nature?
Be that as it may, the Spanish cuisine is very similar to the country itself. It is bright and temperamental — because food should be a splash of fun! It is not too sophisticated — in Spain do not like much ado and additional complications. It is traditional — there decided to cook according to old proven recipes, although a certain percentage of improvisation inherent and Spanish cooking.
And yet it is very different — in fact in every region for many centuries formed its own unique traditions. And if the local delicacy — jamon, paella and numerous fish and seafood can be found in every corner of Spain, the signature dessert each region will be theirs. And desserts in Spain is very value, not neglecting them even after very heavy lunch or dinner. And the most avid fans of the sweet are men! Yes, sometimes at a restaurant or cafe can spy with which childhood fun handsome macho enjoys ice cream or cake. I suggest you get acquainted with the variety of Spanish desserts, and (why not?) To cook something for your loved ones sweet tooth.
… And delicious sweets, which is clearly felt in the spirit of the East. Almost eight centuries of Arab rule could not exert any influence on the local cuisine, and this is especially evident in the desserts. Candied fruits, nuts and figs in honey, products made of finest puff pastry oozing with syrup, sweet almond cakes, crumbly shortbread, generously flavored with cinnamon, sesame, lemon and orange zest — all to the horror caloric splendor can be enjoyed in Andalusia today. But to enjoy the southern desserts to complete the program, you need not go to a beach shop for tourists and even to the supermarket and shops or local confectionery. Or in the black grouse — small tea with Arab tradition, where the great Moroccan tea, you can order a tiny portion of the whole range of sweet.
At the end of the XV century with the Arabs of the peninsula finally expelled, they were followed by Jews and Moors baptized … But tradition, including cooking and stayed. In the Christian Spain of sweet steel production centers monasteries. Christ’s bride hiding behind strong walls of monasteries, worked his industrious hands these sweet miracles for Christmas, Easter and local religious holidays. After a tasty feed his neighbor — the most pleasing to God!
In order to disguise the origin of the alien desserts, they were given «Christian» names — the «angel hair», «sigh nuns» and even somewhat terrifying «holy bones.» Nowadays, traditional sweets are prepared not only for Christmas, and you can try the delicious almond «amarkilos» honey «pestinos» and «alfahores» with soft caramel layer at any time of the year!
A special place is Christmas cookies «polvorones» in the sweet kitchen Andalusia, which has become popular not only across Spain but also in Latin America. The Spaniards believe that this recipe crumbly shortbread has nothing to do with the Moors — in fact before it was prepared to lard! Nowadays, increasingly using butter, although adherents of traditions insist on fat. However, no single recipe «polvorones» does not exist — offers a variety of options with the addition of lemon peel, cinnamon, sesame, anise, and even chocolate. Therefore, it can be considered a «right» recipe I want to offer you.
Flour mixed with almonds and dried in the oven until it acquires a light cream color. Cool, connect with powdered sugar, cinnamon and sesame seeds, stir in the pre-softened butter. Molded from the resulting dough from bowl and clean it for 1 hour in the refrigerator. Then roll it out and cut circles or rectangles. Bake on special paper, about 10-15 minutes at 200 degrees. Cookies get very brittle and crumbly (the name comes from the word «dust» or «powder»), so it should be sprinkled with powdered sugar and shift very carefully. By the way, why in the stores sold the finished cookie wrappers, like candy.
Cooking at home the famous turron risk of a rare Spanish mistress. Frankly, I do not try to become, although some recipes preserved — suddenly one day, type of courage? But try turron a must! Moreover, it is unlikely that someone will be able to pass by the most famous Spanish sweets, which all the shelves filled. Chief nougat production center — the area planted with palm trees, the sun of Alicante, in the province of Valencia.
Classic turron — nougat is made from honey, sugar, egg whites with the addition of almonds, although there is a soft turron, taste and texture reminiscent of halva, and quite solid, the most similar to kozinaki. Especially for tourists (almost everyone buys turron as a souvenir) as it began to add raisins, candied fruit, chocolate and popcorn, even though the local still prefer «the classics.» As can be understood from its composition, turron — also the Arab heritage.
What more charming Valencia has to offer gourmet sweet? Of course, a variety of desserts with citrus — because this region is considered to be orange paradise!
Let’s try to cook the cream of oranges in the Valencian?
Beat eggs until completely homogeneous state, pour the mixture into a saucepan, combine the sugar, zest and juice. Cook over very low heat, add the butter, cut into cubes. Cream is necessary to stir constantly, until it thickens, but — in any case — do not boil. Thickened cream and remove from heat tightly to the surface is covered with foil.
Chilled cream can be served neat, decorating, for example, berries and mint leaves, and can be used for layer cakes and as a filling for pancakes or wafer rolls. Checked: perfect for biscuit dough.
Do not neglect the desserts and in the central regions of the country. Spaniards sincerely believe climate of Castile — Leon and Castile — La Mancha severe — still would be there even once every few years snow falls! Hold it, though not for long, but fully justifies a hearty meal «long cold winter evenings.» Therefore, the desserts are like solid. The best example of this — «Maimon» — the signature dish beautiful «gold» of Salamanca.
These lush sweet rolls «Maimon» in the shape of a ring considered a traditional wedding or engagement treat, recipe which is known from the XVII century. However, culinary historians claim that in fact it is much more ancient dish has medieval Arab or Jewish roots.
Ancient Toledo — one of Spain’s most authentic medieval town, famous for the way, and excellent cuisine.
I talked about the famous Toledo dessert — marzipan here. You can admire it again and again, right?
No less interesting and desserts walled city of Avila, which is considered the coldest in the region.
One name is worth — «Saint Teresa yolks!» Legend has it that this delicacy of yachnyh yolks, sugar syrup, lemon juice and cinnamon was invented in the XVI century in Avila monastery founded by one of the most revered saints in Spain. However, the «realists from cooking» claim that in fact it was easier — a traditional dessert given the name of a favorite saint, the famous native of the town. But no matter where did the name for an amazing taste of dessert, it does not affect!
The most popular places for night owls — this churrerii specializing in a particular form of donuts — «churros». Such a cafe (or stalls) a lot all over the country — in fact, «churros» love for the whole of Spain. Yet the capital insisted that the most-donuts made only in Madrid. Early in the morning you can watch an interesting picture — the traditional «churros» eaten dipped in hot chocolate, a variety of people — from the immaculately-dressed office workers offices, hurrying to work, to the revelers, who had just left the bar which closed. It combines all one thing — fun, which are eaten «churros»!
Prepare a traditional Spanish donuts is not difficult choux dough, which I suggest you do.
Vegetable oil for deep-frying, and powdered sugar for sprinkling.
Mix in a saucepan the water, salt and sugar, heat, add the butter and bring the mixture to a boil. Pour the hot mixture of flour (you can with cinnamon), well mixed. Then add the eggs one at a time, carefully interfering with each. The dough should be sufficiently thick to retain its shape at the outlet of a pastry bag. Fry the dough strip for about five minutes in hot oil. Churros Drain on a paper towel to soak up excess oil. Sprinkle with powdered sugar or powdered sugar and cinnamon, if you have not added to the final dough. It remains to cook chocolate (although tea and coffee will also work) and enjoying life — just like real Spaniards!
A culinary journey through Catalonia. | 2019-04-25T08:16:19Z | https://recipecooking.biz/spain-for-dessert-valencia-andalusia-and-castile/ |
Britain's David Florence stormed to his third Canoe Slalom World Championships gold as he won the individual C1 on home water at Lee Valley.
The Scot, 33, who won the C1/C2 double at the 2013 Worlds, pipped Slovenia's Benjamin Savsek by just 0.04 seconds.
Fellow Briton Ryan Westley, the first man to go in the final, held on to take a superb bronze medal.
Kimberley Woods (fourth), Eilidh Gibson (fifth) and Mallory Franklin (seventh) narrowly missed out in the women's C1.
One mistake by Woods between the last two gates cost her after Czech Katerina Hoskova set the pace, Spaniard Nuria Vilarrubla pushing the Briton into third before Australia's defending champion Jessica Fox came down last to take gold, almost five seconds clear.
British trio Richard Hounslow, Bradley Forbes-Cryans and Joe Clarke all failed to reach the men's K1 final.
Double-Olympic silver medallist Florence won a team bronze on Saturday, but had to settle for fifth with partner Richard Hounslow in the C2.
"That was more like it," he said. "I was really pleased just to get to the final again as it is always a fight to get there, but once you get there that's your chance to deliver.
"I got into some real trouble to be honest around gates five, six and seven and lost a bit of an edge, tried to recover it and didn't quite manage. I thought I had recovered it, but was pushing the wrong way and eventually got back on line and just had to try and re-focus.
"The crowd were incredible, there was an absolute buzz. The rest of the course just went really well and it was enough to win by a very small margin - enough to become world champion again." | 2019-04-23T01:43:41Z | https://www.bbc.com/sport/canoeing/34308499 |
Humans do not perceive the world as it is. Different physical stimuli give rise to the same sensation in humans and are perceived as identical. A typical example of this fact is human color perception. Humans perceive the light of different spectra as having the same color if the light has the same proportion of the different spectral components. This is because the human retina typically contains three types of color receptors called cone cells or cones, each of which responds to a different range of the color spectrum. Humans respond to light stimuli via 3D sensations, which generally can be modeled as a mixture of the three primary colors (red, green, and blue).
This many-to-one correspondence of elements in mapping from physical properties to psychophysical perception is the key to virtual reality. VR produces the same effect as a real object for a human subject by presenting its virtual entities with this many-to-one correspondence. We have proposed the hypothesis that a cutaneous sensation (that is, one relating to or affecting the skin) also has the same many-to-one correspondence from physical properties to psychophysical perception owing to the physiological constraints of humans. We call this haptic primary colors. As Figure 1 shows, we define three spaces: physical, physiological, and psychophysical or perceptual.
In physical space, human skin physically contacts an object, and the interaction continues over time. Physical objects have several surface physical properties such as surface roughness, surface friction, thermal characteristics, and surface elasticity. We hypothesize that at each contact point of the skin, the cutaneous phenomena can be broken down into three components: force f(t), vibration v(t), and temperature e(t). Objects with the same f(t), v(t), and e(t) are perceived as the same, even if their physical properties are different. We measure f(t), v(t), and e(t) at each contact point with sensors that are mounted on the avatar robot's hand and transmit these pieces of information to the human user who controls the avatar robot as his surrogate. We reproduce these pieces of information at the user's hand via haptic displays of force, vibration, and temperature, so that the human user has the sensation that he is touching the object as he moves his hand controlling the avatar robot's hand. We can also synthesize virtual cutaneous sensation by displaying the computer synthesized f(t), v(t), and e(t) to the human users through the haptic display.
This breakdown into force, vibration, and temperature in physical space is based on the human restriction of sensation in physiological space. Much like the human retina, human skin has limited receptors. In physiological space, cutaneous perception is created through a combination of nerve signals from several types of tactile receptors located below the surface of the skin. If we consider each activated haptic receptor as a sensory base, we should be able to express any given pattern of cutaneous sensation through synthesis by using these bases.
Merkel cells, Ruffini endings, Meissner's corpuscles, and Pacinian corpuscles are activated mainly by pressure, tangential force, low-frequency vibrations, and high-frequency vibrations, respectively. On adding cold receptor s (free nerve endings), warmth receptors (free nerve endings), and pain receptors (free nerve endings) to these four vibro-tactile haptic sensory bases, we have seven sensory bases in the physiological space.
Because all seven receptors are related only to force, vibration, and temperature applied on the skin surface, these three components in the physical space are enough to stimulate each of the seven receptors. Thus, in physical space, we have three haptic "primary colors”: force, vibration, and temperature. Theoretically, by combining these three components we can produce any type of cutaneous sensation without the need for any “real” touching of an object.
Figure 1. Haptic primary color model.
Different physical stimuli give rise to the same sensation in humans and are perceived as identical. | 2019-04-22T03:59:55Z | https://tachilab.org/about/hpc.html |
A man-made form of insulin delivered by nasal spray may improve working memory and other mental capabilities in adults with mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease dementia, according to a pilot study published in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease.
The study's subjects were 60 adults diagnosed with amnesic mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or mild to moderate Alzheimer's dementia (AD). Those who received nasally-administered 40 international unit (IU) doses of insulin detemir, a manufactured form of the hormone, for 21 days showed significant improvement in their short-term ability to retain and process verbal and visual information compared with those who received 20 IU does or a placebo.
The study provides preliminary evidence that insulin detemir can provide effective treatment for people diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's-related dementia similar to previous work with regular insulin.
The researchers also sought to determine if the insulin detemir doses would cause any negative side effects, and found only minor adverse reactions among the subjects. The study's overall results support further investigation of the therapeutic value of insulin detemir as a treatment for Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases.
Alzheimer's is a devastating illness, for which even small therapeutic gains have the potential to improve quality of life and significantly reduce the overall burden for patients, families and society. Future studies are warranted to examine the safety and efficacy of this promising treatment.
Originally posted by Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. | 2019-04-21T18:42:46Z | http://www.mindsofmalady.com/2015/01/insulin-nasal-spray-shows-promise-as.html |
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There are plenty of folk out there who'll tell you that the Premier League is the best in the world – but this motley crew might disagree.
The defender nicknamed ‘The Tank’ by Porto fans rolled into the Valley in December 2001 after falling out with coach Octavio Machado in Portugal. Signed as part of a bizarre season-saving loan double act alongside Chris Bart-Williams from Nottingham Forest, the pair helped Charlton avoid the drop.
However, Alan Curbishley didn't make his move permanent and Costa returned to Porto that summer, by which time Machado had been sacked and replaced by Jose Mourinho. Within two years, the stopper was captaining Porto to Champions League glory. Not so much a cast-off, then, but a peculiar turn of events.
Mourinho looked to have pulled off a blinding bit of Bosman business when Pizarro arrived in the summer of 2007. The Peruvian had bagged 100 goals in 256 games for Bayern Munich and signed for Chelsea after failing to secure a bumper pay rise with the Bavarians.
It was a costly mistake. Pizarro spent much of that season on the bench, watching on as first Mourinho was sacked, and then Nicolas Anelka was signed. After just two goals in 32 games at Chelsea, he returned to Germany the following year with Werder Bremen. Eventually, Pizarro rejoined Bayern and helped the club win the 2013 Champions League, scoring against Juventus in the quarter-finals.
Versatile Holland international Van Bronckhorst was supposed to fill the gap in midfield left by Emmanuel Petit when he arrived at Arsenal in the summer of 2001, signed from Rangers for £8m. Unfortunately, halfway through his debut season, Gio suffered a cruciate ligament injury during a routine 4-1 win over Fulham that ruled him out for nine months.
Fellow newcomer Edu stepped up in his place and the Dutchman never truly regained his starting spot. He moved to Barcelona in 2003 – first on loan, before a cut-price €2m fee was agreed. At the Camp Nou he was successfully converted into a left-back, the position he played as Barça won the Champions League in 2006 – at the expense of Arsenal.
‘The Matrix’ suffered a serious malfunction in his one and only season in England, racking up three red cards and 11 bookings in just 33 games throughout 1998/99. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the Italian was soon back on his way to Perugia, the club Everton had signed him from.
There, Materazzi went on to break Daniel Passarella’s record for the most goals by a defender in a single Serie A season (12). That was enough to attract Inter, where Materazzi’s overly physical approach made him a fan favorite. Eventually, under Mourinho, he became a Champions League winner during Inter's remarkable Treble season of 2009/10.
An anomaly here in that everybody realized what a fine footballer he was. The 2007/08 campaign was supposed to be the one in which the 20-year-old Pique completed his transition from youth prospect to Manchester United regular. But the Spaniard was soon in the firing line after a defensive lapse let Nicolas Anelka in for a goal during a shock 1-0 loss to Bolton.
Pique dropped out of contention once more, citing homesickness, and handed in a transfer request in the summer of 2008 which Sir Alex Ferguson reluctantly accepted. Remember too, that he was contending with Rio Ferdinand and Nemanja Matic at this point.
Pique returned to Barcelona and has since celebrated three Champions League titles – two of which came via wins over United in the final. | 2019-04-22T08:08:20Z | https://www.fourfourtwo.com/us/features/10-premier-league-cast-offs-who-went-win-champions-league-elsewhere |
MiR-124 contributes to M2 polarization of microglia and confers brain inflammatory protection via the C/EBP-α pathway in intracerebral hemorrhage.
Microglia mediated inflammation contributes to intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) induced secondary injury. Activated microglia has dual functions as pro-inflammatory (M1) and anti-inflammatory (M2) factors in brain injury and repair. MiR-124 is a potent anti-inflammatory agent which affects microglia after brain injury. However, the potential of modulating the M1/M2 polarization of microglia after ICH has not been reported. In this experiment, we detected the effect of miR-124 on the M1/M2 polarization state. In addition, the ability miR-124 to subsequently impacted neurological deficit and cerebral water content of ICH mice were studied. Furthermore, the relationship between miR-124 and C/EBP-α target was detected. We found that miR-124 significantly increased in M2-polarized microglia. Transduction of miR-124 mimics decreased proinflammatory cytokine levels. A coculture model of microglia and neuron indicated that M2-polarized microglia protected neuron damage. Furthermore, miR-124 banded to the 3-untranslated region of C/EBP-α and downregulated its protein levels. In vivo, infusion of miR-124 decreased brain levels of C/EBP-α and significantly reduced brain injury in ICH mice. Thus, miR-124 ameliorated ICH-induced inflammatory injury by modulating microglia polarization toward the M2 phenotype via C/EBP-α. MiR-124 regulatory mechanisms also might represent new therapeutic strategy in ICH. | 2019-04-19T19:05:02Z | https://www.sigmaaldrich.com/catalog/papers/28025043 |
I think owning an Arcade Machine was always one of my top wishes in the never ending want-to-have list when I was younger. The Arcade feeling is probably something which got lost with the Playstation Generation of gamers but I can connect a lot of memories with Arcades.
So sometimes last year I was thinking about building a MAME cabinet myself. I searched for some viable information on the web to look for good pointers. Some people build their cabinet from scratch, some use existing ones and remove all the original hardware but the Monitor and Sticks. Some looked horrible, some awesome.
As I am actually not a good carpenter I went with the plan to buy an existing machine to convert it to a MAME Cabinet. But then the next questions came up. What cabinet should I buy? What does it take to convert it to MAME. All I wanted is a cab which looked okay, worked well and was easy to mod.
Coincidentally some guy in one of the videogame forums I visit daily sold a Sega New Net City cab. It had the perfect foundation. It had a modern look, one of the best monitors from an arcade standpoint and lots of space inside, enough to hide a nice PC and all cables I had to add for the MAME experience. The monitor already came with standard VGA Outputs and the cabinet board had chinch connectors for the audio - it was perfect!
I then bought a silent HTPC with some good specs and it fitted nicely into the available space. Two XBOX360 Pads were disassembled and wired to the original arcade controls. The PC would recognize them via USB and I was able to map the sticks and 14 buttons without hassle in the MAME frontend.
Speaking of Frontends, I experimented with Hyperspin but to be honest , all I wanted was to quickly play a game and not put 1+TB on Videofiles on my machine. So I ended up using MAMEUIFX - a simple straight forward MAME Frontend. To control it I connected a wireless Keyboard. You turn the cabinet on and can play within seconds. All I do i hit STRG-F to find a game in question and hit return and there we go.
What can I say - it's perfect, really. I am also glad my son can experience this too. We are a couple of times per week downstairs to play games like Bubble Bobble or Thunder Cross - he likes it.
Below are some pictures from the in- and outside plus some bonus photos of the pain getting this thing down to the basement and unpacked. If you have not grown up with large CRT Monitors you probably can not even imagine how heavy that stuff is - I had backache for a week - but it was worth it. | 2019-04-24T18:43:08Z | https://dustlayer.com/blog/2013/5/10/dustlayer-photos-of-the-week-09052013 |
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There are, at least, four bands named Woe: 1) A Philadelphia, USA black metal band (formed 2007). 2) A London, UK band (formed 2008). 3) A Southend-on-Sea, UK noise / punk / jazz band (formed 2000, split 2004). 4) An Adelaide, Australia harmonic stoner rock band.
Americans are supposed to be rubbish at three things – football, brewing beer, and black metal. In reality, the US drew with England at the World Cup, has one of the best ranges of microbreweries anywhere in the world, and as long as they’re producing records like Woe’s second album Quietly, Undramatically, they’ve got some of the most interesting and exciting black metal bands of recent times. | 2019-04-18T13:08:13Z | http://www.thrashhits.com/bands/woe-2/ |
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Southern California Edison customers in Los Angeles County soon will have a new way to get their electricity under a plan approved Tuesday by the County Board of Supervisors to lower bills and increase clean energy use.
The board, which voted 5-0 in favor of the public energy program, says the plan will help reduce customer power bills by as much as 5 percent below Edison’s costs. Residents and business operators will have the choice to stay with Edison or join the new government-run utility.
Initially, as many as 500,000 residential and 200,000 commercial utility customers in unincorporated cities throughout the county will be eligible to join the county-run operation. Incorporated cities such as Long Beach and Torrance require approval by elected officials.
The decision does not affect existing municipal utilities such as the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, Pasadena Water and Power or Burbank Water and Power. | 2019-04-25T04:18:18Z | https://ktla.com/2017/04/18/l-a-county-plans-a-public-utility-to-compete-with-southern-california-edison/?shared=email&msg=fail |
As you travel from Ledburn towards Wingrave, you pass Well Lane on the right and approximately 50 metres along on the left there is the pothole. You can see the sign for the crossroads in the distance.
A pothole approx 80cm in length, 40cm wide and 20cm deep. It has worstened in the last week. It’s now dangerous and on a national speed limit road. | 2019-04-21T21:12:36Z | https://fixmystreet.buckscc.gov.uk/report/1536149 |
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Lorber David A cut its stake in shares of Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corp (NYSE:VAC) by 10.8% in the 4th quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The fund owned 6,426 shares of the company’s stock after selling 774 shares during the period. Marriott Vacations Worldwide makes up 1.2% of Lorber David A’s investment portfolio, making the stock its 3rd biggest holding. Lorber David A’s holdings in Marriott Vacations Worldwide were worth $453,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission.
Other institutional investors and hedge funds also recently bought and sold shares of the company. We Are One Seven LLC purchased a new stake in Marriott Vacations Worldwide during the 4th quarter valued at approximately $32,000. Exane Derivatives purchased a new stake in Marriott Vacations Worldwide during the 4th quarter valued at approximately $38,000. Doyle Wealth Management purchased a new stake in Marriott Vacations Worldwide during the 4th quarter valued at approximately $38,000. Huntington National Bank raised its stake in Marriott Vacations Worldwide by 65.4% during the 4th quarter. Huntington National Bank now owns 579 shares of the company’s stock valued at $41,000 after acquiring an additional 229 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Private Capital Group LLC raised its stake in Marriott Vacations Worldwide by 205.2% during the 4th quarter. Private Capital Group LLC now owns 757 shares of the company’s stock valued at $53,000 after acquiring an additional 509 shares during the last quarter. 80.10% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.
A number of equities analysts have recently issued reports on VAC shares. ValuEngine downgraded Marriott Vacations Worldwide from a “sell” rating to a “strong sell” rating in a research note on Friday, December 21st. Deutsche Bank cut their target price on Marriott Vacations Worldwide from $134.00 to $93.00 and set a “hold” rating for the company in a research note on Monday, January 7th. Zacks Investment Research raised Marriott Vacations Worldwide from a “strong sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Thursday, November 29th. Nomura cut their target price on Marriott Vacations Worldwide from $158.00 to $136.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research note on Thursday, February 28th. Finally, SunTrust Banks increased their target price on Marriott Vacations Worldwide to $149.00 and gave the stock a “positive” rating in a research note on Friday, March 1st. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, three have assigned a hold rating and seven have assigned a buy rating to the stock. The stock currently has an average rating of “Buy” and a consensus price target of $132.08.
Shares of VAC stock opened at $95.04 on Friday. The company has a market cap of $4.44 billion, a PE ratio of 16.44, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.35 and a beta of 1.64. Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corp has a 12-month low of $60.67 and a 12-month high of $142.83. The company has a quick ratio of 2.71, a current ratio of 3.49 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.10.
Marriott Vacations Worldwide (NYSE:VAC) last issued its earnings results on Thursday, February 28th. The company reported $1.49 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.44 by $0.05. Marriott Vacations Worldwide had a return on equity of 8.45% and a net margin of 1.85%. On average, equities research analysts expect that Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corp will post 5.8 earnings per share for the current year.
The firm also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Thursday, March 14th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, February 28th were paid a dividend of $0.45 per share. This represents a $1.80 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.89%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Wednesday, February 27th. Marriott Vacations Worldwide’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is 31.14%.
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Brave, the company behind Basic Attention Token (BAT) and the Brave browser, has partnered with advertising and data company TAP Network. This will allow BAT users to directly redeem their tokens for real-world rewards.
Brave's internet browsing software, which is available for desktop and Android and will be the default browser for the upcoming HTC Exodus 1 handset, allows users to opt-in to the new TAP rewards feature. It is part of Brave Ads, which gives Brave users BAT in exchange for enabling adverts from partners as part of their browsing experience.
TAP Network has partnerships with over 250,000 brands. Users of BAT will soon be able to trade in their crypto in exchange for hotel stays worldwide, restaurant vouchers, exclusive entertainment experiences, as well as gift cards from top national brands including Amazon, Starbucks, Uber, Apple and many more.
"Consumer data is being misused by major internet companies and TAP Network empowers consumers to directly take control of their own data and get rewarded from top brands," said Lin Dai, co-founder and CEO of TAP Network, "We are excited to partner with Brave to further the mission of protecting consumer privacy, and rewarding users for participating in the advertising ecosystem."
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Tactical & Strategic Report on B E C World .
Substantial interest, recent commentary and overall performance speculation persuaded DataGroup Analysts to publish the new edition of the Tactical & Strategic Report on B E C World - NEW EDITION now available. The New Edition of the report represents a complete re-evaluation, re-assessment and re-formulation of the last edition. The results are extensive, far reaching and essential research for all those searching for highly sophisticated Tactical & Strategic information on B E C World.
This site shows the contents, data classes and data sets found in The Tactical & Strategic Report on B E C WORLD PLC. This example identifies all the main data classes, however it represents the minimum database configuration. Individual databases on B E C World will contain supplemental data. Editions are updated at least monthly. The current edition comprises of 9499 web pages, 12697 spreadsheets, 12322 database tables, 448 diagrams & maps. Contents change for each edition.
This report is designed to give readers a highly detailed insight into B E C World.
Whatever your interest in B E C World, as a manager, analyst, investor, shareholder, or competitor, you will not find a more compelling, comprehensive or authoritative report.
Corporate Coverage:- The report covers the main Subsidiaries, Divisions & Geographic Market areas of B E C World.
Product Coverage:- The report covers the major Product Groups and Product Areas of B E C World.
Market Coverage:- The report covers up to thirty Market Areas, Product and Market Sectors for B E C World.
The volumes are instruction manuals which indicates the essential elements of the Tactical & Strategic Report on B E C World in relation to the attached DVD tables and spreadsheets. Edition 16 (and later) of this product contains substantially more data than in previous versions or editions and thus the quantity and complexity of the data makes it is virtually impossible to produce an easily usable hardcopy printout, as this would run into many tens of thousands of printed pages. Therefore, to assist users, these manual describe how to extract from the DVD databases the specific information required, and then print a hardcopy document if required. The current edition comprises of 9499 web pages, 12697 spreadsheets, 12322 database tables, 448 diagrams & maps. Contents change for each edition.
The CURRENT ANALYSIS of B E C World is designed to provide the normal type of financial data plus additional financial & operating data which is not normally available from published accounts.
The report provides coverage of all the Major Products & Markets (supplied and serviced by B E C World) which are perceived to be the most important areas for the Company in the Medium and Long Term.
One main benefit is derived from the data given in respect of information gained from the Customers, Distribution Network and Suppliers of B E C World. This research provides much insight into the Company and is invaluable if the reader is seeking to forecast the future of the Company, rather than just analyse the past.
Data (previous 3 to 5 years) for B E C World.
There are four basic issues to investigate when considering the market environment for B E C World.
Market/s Serviced is the term used to denote the function between the product/s and services offered by B E C World and the particular market sector the marketing effort reaches.
BASIS OF MARKET COVERAGE The report provides coverage of all the Major Products and Markets supplied and serviced by B E C World. The reported B E C World markets are those which are perceived to be the most important area for the Company in the Medium and Long Term.
In that this report is conceived as a Tactical and Strategic document it is felt important to concentrate only on those markets which represent the corner-stone of Company customer bases and not become involved in any peripheral activities of B E C World.
The TACTICAL ANALYSIS undertakes an appraisal of B E C World which is used to evaluate and forecast short term tactical issues & factors; plus highly detailed forecasts on the Company's sales, financial, operational & marketing performance during the next 6 years.
7-14 YEARS of Forecast Data for B E C World.
The STRATEGIC ANALYSIS is intended to give an extremely far reaching strategic analysis of B E C World and thereby explore the medium and long term problems and opportunities for B E C World. This provides a vital input to Corporate Planning and Development.
This section provides a quantitative, narrative and graphic analysis of the many strategic considerations vital to the medium and long term future of B E C World.
The IMAGE + SURVEY ANALYSIS gives a tabular & graphic analysis of the prevalent image of B E C World in terms of customers, distribution channels & competitors.
It is important to establish the compatibility between B E C World & the Product, Marketing, Supplier, Distribution/Customer Interface & Customer factors & parameters in each of the markets investigated in this report: the above analysis provides this data.
Obviously such an analysis can assist readers in evaluating the areas which might produce problems for the marketing of the product; and also areas of opportunity which may be exploited by B E C World when marketing or distributing the product/s in each of the markets concerned.
The main purpose of these analyses is of course to attempt to provide a rational & objective basis with which to compare & evaluate the factors & parameters critical to B E C World in the provision of products & services.
This section gives a database analysis of the various Competitive Issues and Considerations which affect B E C World and its relative performance in the industry and Market-Place.
This DataGroup report is designed to provide a complete tactical and strategic appraisal of B E C World, together with all necessary background market research and business planning.
The DataGroup Tactical & Strategic Report is the most extensive available from any source in the world. The report is designed to give readers a highly detailed insight into B E C World by providing a comprehensive range of data, beginning with historic financial results through to a series of long-term forecasts on the company's future performance. The report includes data on B E C World markets, performance, competitive position and full results from surveys of Company customer base, suppliers and other contacts.
Whatever your interest in B E C World, whether as competitor or analyst, shareholder or investor, customer or client, you will not find a more comprehensive, authoritative and compelling report.
The Tactical & Strategic Report on B E C World covers all the items, topics and issues listed in the report description as outlined hereafter. The report consists of printed manuals, plus a report and database DVD. | 2019-04-24T04:31:49Z | http://www.datagroup.org/PureData/Thailand/b-e-c-world.html |
James R. Moder Lighting is the premiere manufacturer of crystal chandeliers that have traveled many seas away from home. The company has expanded its offices to Beverly Hills, New York, Paris, London, Tokyo, and Vancouver, and plans to extend even farther in the future to other major trademark cities. The founders of the company came from a European heritage in Austria and the company has enjoyed 51 years in North America. Their history is the inspiration for their designs and quality in craftsmanship. They are dedicated to bringing beautiful chandeliers and crystal lighting to the world by offering the highest quality, style, and value. They offer only the best crystal that European artisans have spent 250 years perfecting. They mainly use the highly acclaimed Swarovski Elements crystals along with other hand cut crystal of the best quality from around the world. The brand upholds its tradition of providing beautiful crystal lighting products of the highest quality to their customers, at price points that make them affordable for everyone. If you are a fan of crystal, you owe it to yourself to look at what they have to offer.
James R. Moder Lighting is renowned for it's grand chandeliers, however the notable brand does create a wide range of other lighting solutions for the home or office such as table lamps, wall lighting, and more. The brand has also crafted many elegant collections that have been selected to display in various showrooms across the country and in other nations. The stunning Montenegro collection is dripping in beautiful, light refracting crystals and comes in a variety of sizes and crystal quality price points. There is the small 14" five-light chandelier, all the way up to the 46" wide, 37-light grand chandelier. This assortment is just one example of a classic chandelier meant to bring light and grace to any foyer, dining room, or even the bedroom. If you are looking for something more contemporary, James R. Moder has other spectacular choices for you as well. With the offerings in the Vanity collection, you’ll find sparkle to spare for lighting your relaxing soak in the tub, and providing a definite feeling of luxury. The beautiful four-light silver vanity is a gorgeous way to accentuate and illuminate an otherwise overlooked room. The company also offers an assortment of wall sconces, semi and regular flush mount lights, pendants, island lights, floor lamps, and even mirrors to go along with your vanity lighting.
With a keen focus on tradition, history, elegance, and quality, James R Moder has moved up in the world of lighting and brought back the classic appeal of chandeliers. The company has proven that grandeur lighting is suitable for any home, and that tradition and history will always remain in style, Though the brand has over 250 years of experience in the business, they have never once sacrificed the quality of their materials for lower price. Exquisite Swarovski crystals and other elements compose these intriguing and breathtaking creations for the complete resplendent appearance.
250 years ago, crystal hand-cutting and polishing techniques were used in the crafting and shaping of their chandeliers. Everything was done by the hands of gifted workers who were skilled in precision tactics, experienced in determining the quality of materials, and who had a passion for beauty, performance, and art. Today, James. R Moder has changed for the better in order to meet modern needs. With the aid of current advanced technology, the brand can be assured that their chandeliers and lighting accessories are scaled to perfection. They continue to use hand-cutting techniques in the making of their products in order to keep the tradition alive. At LuxeDecor, we hope that you are satisfied with your purchase and wish you a lifetime of happiness with your new James R. Moder lighting solutions. | 2019-04-24T12:29:14Z | https://www.luxedecor.com/james-r-moder-lighting.html |
We crowdsource Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc.'s maternity, paternity and parental leave policies, based on Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc.'s employee reviews and anonymous tips from Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc. employees.
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The document gives a overview of Parsing.
For users requiring a general overview of how parsing works.
This article show the parsing mechanism as a flow diagram.
explanation of parsing activity easier.
location of a SQL statement on the server.
Multiple-client cursors may point at the same address on the server.
machine - in which case Client/Server is a logical distinction.
so no parsing is necessary.
specifies how many cursors to hold open for a particular session.
individual cursor should be held open.
See Page 11-3 of the Programmer's guide to the Oracle Precompilers.
current statement updates the parse count.
and relatively expensive steps (such as query optimization etc.) are avoided.
8. The 10053 event is only invoked during a hard parse.
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The costs of preparing artificial grass in An Gleann Ur HS2 0 vary depending upon a number of factors. As specialists closest to you and your surrounding areas, we are able to provide your facility with a high quality surfacing that suits all your requirements. We have years of experience and expert knowledge which can guarentee the best results throughout the UK. Our team are able to supply http://www.artificialgrasscost.co.uk/supply/na-h-eileanan-an-iar/an-gleann-ur/ you with a range of surface bases that will improve your local facility. Speak to us today if you'd like to find out more information adn receive more details.
Should you want any further information regarding the costs for the surfacing then other pages on this website explain in detail various elements of the full quotes which include the supply of carpet prices and the installation of the artificial turf however for firm written quotations you are much better to fill in the contact form with as much details as possible and we will respond with all the details on artificial grass preparation costs in An Gleann Ur HS2 0 or even a free quotation. | 2019-04-18T20:50:47Z | https://www.artificialgrasscost.co.uk/preparation/na-h-eileanan-an-iar/an-gleann-ur/ |
As a Value Added Resource and Certified Analyst with TTI Success Insights®, (Assessment Buyers Guide) WhiteRock uses a variety of their assessments during our coaching engagements. Many are used to establish a baseline for executive and management coaching. Others are used to obtain information about the organization and to help the organization identify and hire top talent. Descriptions of the specific assessments are shown below along with links to view and download flyers and sample reports.
Job/Candidate Matching (Job Benchmarking) – The Job Benchmarking Process utilizes a Job Report resulting from interviews with job subject matter experts, TriMetrix DNA or TriMetrix HD reports (depending on how many sciences the client desires to utilize), and a Job Gap Report comparing the information in the Job Report to the individual candidate’s TriMetrix DNA or HD report. Job benchmarking also uses the new Talent Insights Comparison Report to compare your top two candidates.
Organizational Design (Organizational Design) – These fully customizable surveys include 360° Personal Performance surveys (360 Favorable vs Unfavorable, 360 Mean Score), product, customer, and service feedback surveys. You choose the survey titles, content, respondent instructions, demographic filters, categories, questions, rating scales, and comment areas. Results can be viewed in a variety of report options.
Sales Development – Assessments associated with developing your sales staff include the Sales Skills Index which utilizes the six steps in the sales process and identifies an individual’s weaknesses in each of the areas. The TriMetrix DNA Sales and the TriMetrix HD Sales assessments utilize three or four sciences from a unique sales perspective.
Staff Development – We use the TriMetrix HD (TriMetrix HD Report) assessment as part of the Manager Mentoring Program and Executive Coaching Program. Additional assessments utilized for staff and team development include TriMetrix DNA, (TriMetrix DNA Report) TriMetrix HD, TriMetrix ACI (TriMetrix ACI Report), Team Behaviors, Team Motivators, and Workplace Stress Quotient.
Workplace Stress (Workplace Stress eBook) – Workplace Stress costs organizations $300 billion a year in lost productivity and medical costs. Workplace Stress Individual Assessment and the Workplace Stress Group Assessment identify stress levels associated with job demands, effort/reward imbalance, job control, organizational change, manager/supervisor issues, social support, and job security. | 2019-04-18T12:32:49Z | https://www.whiterockbusiness.net/about-us/our-assessments/ |
The diplomatic correspondence of the American Revolution: being the letters Vol. 8 / publ. under the direction of the President of United States ; ed. by Jared . The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution: Being the Letters of Benjamin Franklin, Silas Deane, John Adams, John Jay, Arthur Lee, William. 12 Jul Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by Project Gutenberg.
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HYDERABAD: Zaggle, a payments and group dining company, today announced tie–up with Retainly Technologies LLP a marketing automation platform specifically designed for SaaS, Blogs & Digital Media, today entered into a strategic alliance to offer enhanced benefits to customers worldwide.
As a part of the deal RETN Tokens will be used with Zaggle network and merchants across the globe, tokens will be available as rewards based on usage of Zaggle cards.
Zaggle, being a leader in the digital payments, loyalty and gift cards space, has been continually enhancing the gifting and shopping experience for individuals and corporates. Retainly, on the other hand, is building a unique marketing automation platform that caters to all marketing objectives holistically for the merchants. With Zaggle’s huge merchant base and Retainly’s unique approach to engaging customers, this partnership is indeed a win-win proposition for both the companies who are working towards creating an enhanced customer experience.
Speaking on the occasion Palash Bagchi, Founder, Retainly Technologies LLP said, We have known Zaggle for quite a long time. With more than 7 years of experience in the Loyalty segment, Zaggle alone could have achieve the humungous network of merchants, and with this partnership RETN coin will circulate at a 100X speed than ever before. | 2019-04-21T00:15:54Z | https://indiacsr.in/zaggle-and-retainly-technologies-llp-enter-into-a-strategic-partnership/ |
Our Census 2020 Kickoff is less than a week away! View the agenda above to get a sneak preview of the day’s events.
Just as a reminder, the Census 2020 Kickoff is on Tuesday, 12/11 from 9:00 am-12:00 pm at 10 Constitution Plaza in Hartford. Light breakfast will be served. If you haven’t registered yet, click here or the agenda above to R.S.V.P. Spots are filling quickly!
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The Pastoral Group was formed by The Kennel Club in 1999 by splitting up the Working Group which had become extremely large; at the time there were 50 or so dogs in the Group and it was still growing – approximately twice the size of any of the other Groups.
Although variable in size the members of this Group tend to be smaller in size than the Working breeds and all have a herding background; some, like the Corgis were simply cattle drivers whilst the mainland European shepherding dogs, such as the Pyrenean Mountain Dog and the Bergamasco had a dual role as both guard to the shepherd and his flocks and working the animals. Further north, the Spitz was a dual purpose herder and guard of reindeer and some were worked as sled dogs as well.
This has resulted in the native Pastoral breeds being both smaller and without the protective and guarding instincts of those in mainland Europe.
As dogs who have always worked closely with man some of the breeds, particularly the German Shepherd and Border Collie, are exceptionally trainable and really excel at obedience work; the German Shepherd, Briard and Malinois are amongst those who were used for war work – not just protection work but as messenger dogs, carrying Red Cross supplies and laying communication lines.
Their eagerness to work varies from breed to breed, but their heritage will come through to varying degrees and they all like to be busy. For some, more than others, it is essential that they are stimulated or they will become bored and destructive. Some, too, have strong guarding instincts and require plenty of socialisation as youngsters to ensure they are well integrated into the household and can cope happily with visitors.
The corded coats of the Komondor and Puli and mats of the Bergamasco need particular attention, not breeds to be taken on before you establish precisely how to care for their particular coat patterns, as not many professional groomers will be able to help you with these particularly specialised coats.
With the help of informed and responsible breeders and the extremely helpful breed clubs it is relatively easy to establish how good a match any particular dog will be for your home and family.There are some very glamorous dogs in the Pastoral Group – though they require a lot of hard work to make them look that way - some very workmanlike and some with strong instincts to guard. What they have in common is that they will all be extremely loyal and mostly obedient. | 2019-04-25T18:50:33Z | http://www.puppyfinder.org.uk/pastoral/ |
PGR is an abbreviation for the State-Owned Farm (in the former communist Poland). It is surrounded by very beautiful scenery. Only a few decades ago, it was a very prosperous state-owned farm. It is wll worth a visit - a very interesting place. | 2019-04-25T00:50:30Z | http://www.acrosspoland.com/index.php?region=poludnie&ceny=cena&obiekt=wszystko&waluta=polska&mapax=3&mapay=4&pasek=606&mapa=0&text=ciekawe/pgr&info=1&szukaj=&jezyk=en&pomoc=0&lista=1&jezyk1=pl&jezyk2=en&szukanie= |
Bio Greenbrier Medical Arts Pharmacy is a Pharmacy, Durable Medical Equipment & Medical Supplies located in RONCEVERTE, WV. Greenbrier Medical Arts Pharmacy accepts insurances from Johns Hopkins Advantage MD. This facility currently accepts new patients and wheelchair access is available. | 2019-04-21T10:21:00Z | https://www.healthpocket.com/facility-finder/greenbrier-medical-arts-pharmacy-inc-owuyn |
The kangaroo is one of the largest animals on the Australian continent and the range of species is well adapted to the environment. The red kangaroo as largest, followed by the grey kangaroo and many smaller related animals such as Wallabies found throughout the drier inland regions. The kangaroo is a valuable source of food for traditional Aboriginal people, prized for meat with the hide, bone and gristle being used in making ornaments, artefacts and weapons.
Aboriginal hunters have lived in close proximity to these animals for thousands of years and are expert trackers. They need to silently stalk the kangaroo, as the animals are much quicker to move than its human counterparts. Paintings of both kangaroos and their hunters are shown on ancient rock art sites. Some appear as though visualising a successful hunt, with the man spearing his prey. Contemporary Aboriginal paintings show kangaroos as part of the natural world, as a prized food and as a totemic image from the Dreaming.
Aboriginal mythology incorporates Ancestor spirits related to important animals into Dreamtime law, and the kangaroo features prominently in the culture of Indigenous groups across Australia. Its image is seen in paintings from the furtherest south to the most northern regions of the continent. | 2019-04-20T18:17:55Z | https://japingkaaboriginalart.com/collections/aboriginal-art-kangaroo/ |
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Teen Mom star Amber Portwood's life has not gone to plan in recent weeks, with the young mother even spending a night in jail after being charge with domestic violence.
Now it seems she is planning on cleaning up her image, with the help of some cosmetic therapy.
The reality star stopped by a beauty salon yesterday in Indianapolis, Indiana for a quick makeover.
and had eyelash extensions carefully applied.
Amber, 20-years-old, then pulled out her credit card and spent some of the reported $280,000 a year salary she earns on the MTV reality series.
Afterwards, she showed off her new look during a trip to a local store, where she bought a potty seat for her two-year-old daughter, Leah.
Just last week, the troubled young mother spent 24 hours in jail after she was arrested on charges stemming from her alleged attack on ex-boyfriend Gary Shirley.
During an episode of the series, Amber was shown allegedly physically abusing the father of her child.
Months after the footage aired, the Madison County Prosecutor's office in Indiana charged Amber with two counts of domestic battery and one count of Neglect of a Dependent.
Amber and Gary will next appear in court on January 19 to discuss the custody arrangement for Leah.
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Authorities have expressed satisfaction with the efforts by the Washington DC based non partisan organization, called the Cultivating New Frontiers in Agriculture (CNFA) for implementing a five year project called Farmer-to-Farmer observed it has generated a rapid and sustainable economic growth in Malawi's agricultural sector.
Catholic Relief Services' Farmer-to-Farmer program sends volunteers from the United States to East Africa to share their knowledge with small-scale farmers, agribusinesses and schools. Jeff Semler is a Farmer-to-Farmer volunteer. This is his story.
Imagine living in a place where the land is so dry it barely produces enough crops to sustain a small, family farm – let alone provide a stable agricultural income to its community. Now, add to that the challenge of that community being in a coastal area where most irrigation water contains too much salt, making it unusable for growing healthy, sustainable plant crops.
Volunteering with USAID agency’s ACDI/VOCA Farmer-to-Farmer Program, Lost Creek Mushroom Farm owners Douglass and Dr. Sandra Williams traveled to Ghana, West Africa, to work with mushroom farmers at Bemcom Youth Enterprises Association, in collaboration with the Williams’ Mushrooms in Ghana Project.
Heidi Lammers, Jerry Heaps and Anthony Vojta, all quality managers from Land O'Lakes, Inc. reflect on their Farmer-to-Farmer assignment in Lebanon.
Ghana produces one of the most nutrient-rich produce available in the world: the chili pepper. Despite the demand for this product, both at home and abroad, Ghana has been unable to fully benefit from the production of the chili pepper due to concerns with the safety and quality of the crop.
In their FFA and agriscience classes, students at Mackay High School in central Idaho are enrolling in college classes and experiencing unforgettable lessons through an innovative and flexible curriculum. | 2019-04-19T18:53:24Z | https://farmer-to-farmer.org/media/news |
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More than ten years later, old college friends unite. Kim, Sheridan, and Ol' Jon. A decade ago, we were would-be writers. Full of ideas and dreams and wildfire. Nothing we could not have accomplished if we put our minds to it. And now? Kim manages nurses. Sheridan recently returned from a prolonged, multi-year vacation doing cabaret in New York City. And me? I'm a sloppy old geek with too many ideas and not enough spine.
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16th May 2018: Zong 4G continues to embark on its journey to create awareness pertinent 4G and evolution towards 5G. Thus, it conducted an awareness session in one of the most prestigious educational institution Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS).
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Introduction Strategically important, Gibraltar was reluctantly ceded to Great Britain by Spain in the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht; the British garrison was formally declared a colony in 1830. In a referendum held in 1967, Gibraltarians voted overwhelmingly to remain a British dependency. The subsequent granting of autonomy in 1969 by the UK led to Spain closing the border and severing all communication links. A series of talks were held by the UK and Spain between 1997 and 2002 on establishing temporary joint sovereignty over Gibraltar. In response to these talks, the Gibraltar Government called a referendum in late 2002 in which the majority of citizens voted overwhelmingly against any sharing of sovereignty with Spain. Since the referendum, tripartite talks on other issues have been held with Spain, the UK, and Gibraltar, and in September 2006 a three-way agreement was signed. Spain agreed to remove restrictions on air movements, to speed up customs procedures, to implement international telephone dialing, and to allow mobile roaming agreements. Britain agreed to pay increased pensions to Spaniards who had been employed in Gibraltar before the border closed. Spain will be allowed to open a cultural institute from which the Spanish flag will fly. A new non-colonial constitution came into effect in 2007, but the UK retains responsibility for defense, foreign relations, internal security, and financial stability.
History There is evidence of human habitation in Gibraltar going as far back as Neanderthal man, an extinct species of the Homo genus. The first historical people known to have settled there were the Phoenicians around 950 BC. Semi-permanent settlements were later established by the Carthaginians and Romans. After the collapse of the Roman Empire, Gibraltar came briefly under the control of the Vandals, and would later form part of the Visigothic Kingdom of Hispania until its collapse due to the Muslim conquest in 711 AD. At that time, Gibraltar was named as one of the Pillars of Hercules, after the legend of the creation of the Straits of Gibraltar.
The first permanent settlement was built by the Almohad Sultan Abd al-Mu’min, who ordered the construction of a fortification on the Rock, the remains of which are still present. Gibraltar would later become part of the Kingdom of Granada until 1309, when it would be briefly occupied by Castilian troops. In 1333, it was conquered by the Marinids who had invaded Muslim Spain. The Marinids ceded Gibraltar to the Kingdom of Granada in 1374. Finally, it was reconquered definitively by the Duke of Medina Sidonia in 1462, ending 750 years of Moorish control.
In the initial years under Medina Sidonia, Gibraltar was granted sovereignty as a home to a population of exiled Sephardic Jews. Pedro de Herrera, a Jewish converso from Córdoba who had led the conquest of Gibraltar, led a group of 4,350 Jews from Córdoba and Seville to establish themselves in the town. A community was built and a garrison established to defend the peninsula. However, this lasted only three years. In 1476, the Duke of Medina Sidonia realigned with the Spanish Crown; the Sefardim were then forced back to Córdoba and the Spanish Inquisition. In 1501 Gibraltar passed under the hands of the Spanish Crown, which had been established in 1479. Gibraltar was granted its coat of arms by a Royal Warrant passed in Toledo by Isabella of Castile in 1501.
The naval Battle of Gibraltar took place on April 25, 1607 during the Eighty Years’ War when a Dutch fleet surprised and engaged a Spanish fleet anchored at the Bay of Gibraltar. During the four-hour action, the entire Spanish fleet was destroyed.
During the War of the Spanish Succession, British and Dutch troops, allies of Archduke Charles, the Austrian pretender to the Spanish Crown, formed a confederate fleet and attacked various towns on the southern coast of Spain. On 4 August 1704, after six hours of bombardment starting at 5 a.m., the confederate fleet, commanded by Admiral Sir George Rooke assisted by Field Marshal Prince George of Hesse-Darmstadt comprising some 1800 Dutch and British marines captured the town of Gibraltar and claimed it in the name of the Archduke Charles. Terms of surrender were agreed upon, after which much of the population chose to leave Gibraltar peacefully.
Franco-Spanish troops failed to retake the town, and British sovereignty over Gibraltar was subsequently recognised by the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht, which ended the war. In this treaty, Spain ceded Gibraltar (Article X) and Minorca (article XI) to the United Kingdom in perpetuity. Great Britain has since retained sovereignty over the former ever since, despite all attempts by Spain to recapture it.
During the American Revolution, the Spanish, who had entered the conflict against the British, imposed a stringent blockade against Gibraltar as part of an unsuccessful siege (the Great Siege of Gibraltar) that lasted for more than three years, from 1779 to 1783. On 14 September 1782, the British destroyed the floating batteries of the French and Spanish besiegers, and in February 1783 the signing of peace preliminaries ended the siege.
Gibraltar subsequently became an important naval base for the Royal Navy and played an important part in the Battle of Trafalgar. Its strategic value increased with the opening of the Suez Canal, as it controlled the important sea route between the UK and colonies such as India and Australia. During World War II, the civilian residents of Gibraltar were evacuated, and the Rock was turned into a fortress. An airfield was built over the civilian racecourse. Guns on Gibraltar controlled the entrance to the Mediterranean Sea, but plans by Nazi Germany to capture the Rock, codenamed Operation Felix, later named Llona, were frustrated by Spain’s reluctance to allow the German Army onto Spanish soil and the excessive price Franco placed on his aid. Germany’s Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, head of the Abwehr, also helped by filing a pointedly negative assessment of the options. Canaris was a leader of the German high command resistance to Hitler, and tipped off Franco who erected concrete barriers on roads leading to the Pyrenees.
In the 1950s, Spain, then under the dictatorship of Francisco Franco, renewed its claim to sovereignty over Gibraltar, sparked in part by the visit of Queen Elizabeth II in 1954 to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Rock’s capture. For the next thirty years, Spain restricted movement between Gibraltar and Spain, in application of one of the articles of the Treaty. A referendum was held on September 10, 1967, in which Gibraltar’s voters were asked whether they wished to either pass under Spanish sovereignty, or remain under British sovereignty, with institutions of self-government. The vote was overwhelmingly in favour of continuance of British sovereignty, with 12,138 to 44 voting to reject Spanish sovereignty. This led to the granting of autonomous status in May 1969 , which the Government of Spain strongly opposed. In response, the following month Spain completely closed the border with Gibraltar and severed all communication links.
The border with Spain was partially reopened in 1982, and fully reopened in 1985 prior to Spain’s accession into the European Community. Joint talks on the future of the Rock held between Spain and the United Kingdom have occurred since the late 1980s, with various proposals for joint sovereignty discussed. However, another referendum organised in Gibraltar in 2002 rejected the idea of joint sovereignty by 17,900 (98.97%) votes to 187 (1.03%). The British Government restated that, in accordance with the preamble of the constitution of Gibraltar, the “UK will never enter into arrangements under which the people of Gibraltar would pass under the sovereignty of another state against their freely and democratically expressed wishes.” The question of Gibraltar continues to affect Anglo-Spanish relations.
In 1981 it was announced that the honeymoon for the royal wedding between prince Charles and Diana Spencer would start from Gibraltar. The Spanish Government responded that King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia had declined their invitation to the ceremony as an act of protest.
In 1988, SAS troops shot and killed three members of the IRA who were planning an attack on the British Army band. The ensuing “Death on the Rock” controversy prompted a major political row in the UK.
2006 saw representatives of the United Kingdom, Gibraltar and Spain conclude talks in Córdoba, Spain, a landmark agreement on a range of cross-cutting issues affecting the Rock and the Campo de Gibraltar removing many of the restrictions imposed by Spain. This agreement resolved a number of long standing issues; improved flow of traffic at the frontier, use of the airport by other carriers, recognition of the 350 telephone code and the settlement of the long-running dispute regarding the pensions of former Spanish workers in Gibraltar, who lost their jobs when Spain closed its border in 1969.
Politics As Gibraltar is an overseas territory of the UK, the head of state is Queen Elizabeth II, who is represented by the Governor of Gibraltar. The UK retains responsibility for defence, foreign relations, internal security, and financial stability. The Governor is not involved in the day-to-day administration of Gibraltar, and his role is largely as a ceremonial representative of the head of state. The Governor officially appoints the Chief Minister and government ministers after an election. He is responsible for matters of defence, and security. On 17 July 2006, Governor Sir Francis Richards left Gibraltar on HMS Monmouth leaving the symbolic keys of the fortress of Gibraltar with the Deputy Governor. A new governor, Lt General Sir Robert Fulton KBE, replaced Sir Francis in September 2006.
The Government of Gibraltar is elected for a term of four years. The unicameral Parliament presently consists of seventeen elected members. The speaker is appointed by a resolution of the Parliament.
The head of Government is the Chief Minister, currently Peter Caruana. There are three political parties currently represented in the Parliament: the Gibraltar Social Democrats, the Gibraltar Socialist Labour Party, and the Gibraltar Liberal Party.
New Gibraltar Democracy and the Progressive Democratic Party have been formed since the 2003 election. The Reform Party was wound up and Gibraltar Labour Party absorbed into the GSD in a merger in 2005. A new party the Progressive Democratic Party PDP was formed in 2006.
The 2007 election was contested by the GSD, GSLP/LIBS, the PDP and two independents.
Gibraltar is a part of the European Union, having joined under the British Treaty of Accession (1973), with exemption from some areas such as the Customs Union and Common Agricultural Policy.
After a ten-year campaign to exercise the right to vote in European Elections, from 2004, the people of Gibraltar participated in elections for the European Parliament as part of the South West England constituency.
As a result of the continued Spanish claim, the issue of sovereignty features strongly in Gibraltar politics. All local political parties are opposed to any transfer of sovereignty to Spain. They instead support self-determination for the Rock. This policy is supported by the main UK opposition parties.
In March 2006, UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw announced that a new Gibraltar constitution had been agreed upon and would be published prior to a referendum on its acceptance in Gibraltar that year. In July, in a statement to the UK Parliament, Geoff Hoon, the Minister for Europe, confirmed that the new Constitution confirms the right of self-determination of the Gibraltarian people.
On 30 November 2006, a referendum was held for a new constitution. The turnout was 60.4% of eligible voters of which 60.24% voted to approve the constitution and 37.75% against. The remainder returned blank votes. The acceptance was welcomed by the Chief Minister, Peter Caruana, as a step forward for Gibraltar’s political development.
Introduction Guernsey and the other Channel Islands represent the last remnants of the medieval Dukedom of Normandy, which held sway in both France and England. The islands were the only British soil occupied by German troops in World War II. Guernsey is a British crown dependency, but is not part of the UK. However, the UK Government is constitutionally responsible for its defense and international representation.
History Rising sea levels transformed Guernsey first into the tip of a peninsula jutting out into the emergent English Channel, then, around 6000 BC, into an island when it and other promontories were cut off from continental Europe.
At this time, Neolithic farmers settled the coasts and created the dolmens and menhirs that dot the islands. The island of Guernsey contains three sculpted menhirs of great archaeological interest; the dolmen known as L’Autel du Dehus also contains a dolmen deity known as Le Gardien de Tombeau.
During their migration to Brittany, the Britons occupied the Lenur Islands (former name of the Channel Islands including Sarnia or Lisia (Guernsey) and Angia (Jersey). It was formerly thought that the Island’s original name was Sarnia, but recent research indicates that may have been the Latin name for Sark; although Sarnia remains the island’s traditional designation. Coming from the Kingdom of Gwent, Saint Sampson (abbot of Dol, in Brittany) is credited with the introduction of Christianity to Guernsey.
In 933 the islands, formerly under the control of the kingdom, then Duchy of Brittany were annexed by the Duchy of Normandy. The island of Guernsey and the other Channel Islands represent the last remnants of the medieval Duchy of Normandy. In the islands, Elizabeth II’s traditional title as head of state is Duke of Normandy.
During the Middle Ages the island was repeatedly attacked by French pirates and naval forces, especially during the Hundred Years War when the island was occupied by the French on several occasions, the first being in 1339.
In 1372 the island was invaded by Aragonese mercenaries under the command of Owain Lawgoch (remembered as Yvon de Galles), who was in the pay of the French king. Lawgoch and his dark-haired mercenaries were later absorbed into Guernsey legend as an invasion by fairies from across the sea.
During the English Civil War, Guernsey sided with Parliament, while Jersey remained Royalist. Guernsey’s decision was mainly related to the higher proportion of Calvinists and other Reformed churches, as well as Charles I’s refusal to take up the case of some Guernsey seamen who had been captured by the Barbary corsairs. The allegiance was not total, however, there were a few Royalist uprisings in the Southwest of the island, while Castle Cornet was occupied by the Governor, Sir Peter Osbourne, and Royalist troops. Castle Cornet was the last Royalist stronghold to capitulate, in 1651.
During the wars with France and Spain during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Guernsey shipowners and sea captains exploited their proximity to mainland Europe, applying for Letters of Marque and turning their merchantmen into privateers.
The nineteenth century saw a dramatic increase in prosperity of the island, due to its success in the global maritime trade, and the rise of the stone industry. One notable Guernseyman, William Le Lacheur, established the Costa Rican coffee trade with Europe.
During World War I approximately 3,000 island men served in the British Expeditionary Force. Of these, about 1,000 served in the Royal Guernsey Light Infantry regiment which was formed from the Royal Guernsey Militia in 1916.
The Bailiwick of Guernsey was occupied by German troops in World War II. Before the occupation, many Guernsey children were evacuated to England to live with relatives or strangers during the war. Some children were never re-united with their families. During the occupation, some people from Guernsey were deported by the Germans to camps in the southwest of Germany, notably to Biberach an der Riß and interned in the Lindele Camp (“Lager Lindele”). There was also a concentration camp built in Alderney where forced labourers, predominantly from Eastern Europe, were kept. It was the only concentration camp built on British soil and is commemorated on memorials under the Alderney’s name in French: ‘Aurigny’.
Guernsey was very heavily fortified during World War II out of all proportion to its strategic value. There are German defences visible all round the coast and additions were made to Castle Cornet. Hitler became obsessed with the idea that the Allies would try to regain the islands at any price, and over 20% of the material that went into the Atlantic Wall was committed to the Channel Islands. Most of the German fortifications still remain intact and although the majority of them are on private property several are open for the public to explore.
Politics The States of Guernsey, officially called the States of Deliberation, consists of 45 People’s Deputies, elected from multi- or single-member districts every four years. There are also two representatives from Alderney, a self-governing dependency of the Bailiwick, but Sark sends no representative. There are also two non-voting members: the Attorney General and the Solicitor General, both appointed by the monarch.
Laws made by the States are known as Projet(s) de Loi before they are passed and Loi or Law(s) afterwards (e.g. The Human Rights (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law 2000.
A Projet de Loi is the equivalent of a UK Bill or a French projet de loi, and a Law is the equivalent of a UK Act of Parliament or a French loi. Laws have no effect until promulgated by Orders-in-Council of the Crown. They are given the Royal Sanction at regular meetings of the Privy Council in London, after which they are returned to the Islands for formal registration at the Royal Court.
The States also make delegated legislation known as ‘Ordinances (Ordonnances)’ and ‘Orders (Ordres)’ which do not require Royal Assent. Commencement orders are usually in the form of Ordinances.
The Lieutenant Governor is the representative of the Crown. The official residence of the Lieutenant Governor is Government House. Since 18 October 2005 the incumbent is Vice-Admiral Sir Fabian Malbon, born in Southsea, Portsmouth, in 1946 and a serving naval officer 1965-2002. His last naval posting before retirement from the Royal Navy was deputy commander-in-chief of fleet.
Each parish is administered by a Douzaine. Douzeniers are elected for a six year mandate, two Douzeniers being elected by parishioners at a Parish Meeting in November each year. The senior Douzenier is known as the Doyen. Two elected Constables carry out the decisions of the Douzaine, serving for between one and three years. The longest serving Constable is known as the Senior Constable and his or her colleague as the Junior Constable.
The legal system is Guernsey customary derived from Norman French customary law, heavily influenced and overlaid by English common law, justice being administered through a combination of Magistrates Court and the Royal Court. The legal profession is fused – there is no difference between solicitors and barristers as in England and Wales: Guernsey Advocates fulfill both roles. The Royal Court is presided over by the Bailiff and twelve Jurats (a permanent elected jury), the ultimate court of appeal being the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.
Russian-Saudi relations could be very different today, if Stalin hadn’t killed the Soviet ambassador to Saudi Arabia.
Last week, Saudi King Salman was greeted in Moscow with a lot of pomp and media attention. The 81-year-old monarch arrived with a 1,500-strong delegation amid high expectations for major political and trade deals.
The first visit of a Saudi king to Russia was rich in diplomatic courtesies, but it lacked in substance. What came out of the three days of meetings was much more modest than expected.
The two countries signed only a handful of agreements, most of which were memorandum of understanding. An agreement was reached to establish a $1 billion energy investment fund and a $1 bn hi-tech investment fund. The two sides also negotiated the sale of S-400 defense systems. But against the backdrop of the $15 bn-worth of arms contracts the US recently approved for Saudi Arabia, the Moscow-Riyadh agreement seems quite modest. It very much seems like the high-level meetings in the Kremlin failed to create an appearance of a political and economic breakthrough in relations.
This shouldn’t be all that surprising given that Russia and Saudi Arabia had a 54-year break in relations, during which the US became Riyadh’s dominant partner and security guarantor. Perhaps the outcome of King Salman’s visit could have been very different, if it weren’t for an incident that spoiled Russian-Saudi relations 80 years ago and caused the break.
It is a little-known fact that Riyadh and Moscow used to enjoy remarkably warm relations in the 1920s and 30s. The Soviet Union was, in fact, a diplomatic pioneer in Saudi Arabia: It was the first state to recognize Abdulaziz Al Saud (King Salman’s father) as the King of the Hijaz and the Sultan of Nejd in February 1926.
The Soviet charm offensive in the Arabian Peninsula in the 1920’s was the culmination of numerous attempts by Moscow to gain a foothold in the region prior to that. As early as 1900, Russian imperial military vessels started frequenting the Gulf and making port calls in Kuwait among other destinations. The famous Russian Varyag cruiser visited Kuwait in December 1901 and its captain was greeted by Emir Mubarak Al Sabah despite his agreement with Great Britain not to receive foreign military guests. It was during this visit that the Russians were first introduced to Abdul Rahman Al Saud who was exiled in Kuwait at that time, along with his elder son Abdulaziz, who a year later retook Riyadh from their rivals, the House of Rashid.
As the House of Al Saud was seeking international backing, London looked at young Abdulaziz with a lot of skepticism, which is why he came in contact with the Russian consul in the Persian city of Bushehr inviting him for a visit. The consul visited Kuwait in 1903 accompanied by a Russian military vessel, which caused an outcry in London.
But it wasn’t until after the Bolshevik revolution that Moscow decided to seriously focus on the Gulf. Just like the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union saw the value of diplomatic presence in the region as a way to stand up to Britain.
Apart from pursuing relations with the House of Al Saud, the Soviet Union looked at the Kingdom of Hejaz whose ruler Sharif Hussein controlled Mecca and Medina as a way to reach out to the entire Muslim world. Being at odds with London, Hussein was on the lookout for strong foreign allies, which is why his representative in Rome engaged in talks with Russia.
Extensive diplomatic communication between Georgy Chicherin, the Soviet People’s commissar for foreign affairs, and Soviet diplomats reveals just how important his vision of the Arabian Peninsula and its role in the Muslim world was. Advocating the appointment of a Soviet Muslim as envoy to Hejaz, Chicherin noted in his memo to Joseph Stalin that “Getting into Mecca is of crucial importance to us because it would increase our influence in Arabia and beyond.” He recognized that the annual pilgrimage to Mecca, the Hajj, was a perfect opportunity to reach out to thousands of Muslims from the British and French colonies and flare up anti-colonial sentiment.
In August 1924, Soviet Consul General Karim Khakimov, a Soviet Muslim of Tatar descent, arrived in Jeddah. Soon after Khakimov’s arrival in Jeddah, Abdulaziz launched his campaign to take over Hejaz, which left newly arrived Soviet diplomats with a dilemma of whom to side with.
Diplomatic dispatches from the Soviet commissar for foreign affairs ordered Khakimov to position himself as an ally of all Arabs without openly showing a preference for either side. “If Ibn Saud pursues a policy of uniting the Arabs, this will be in our interests, and we will also have to try to get closer to him, as we did with respect to Hussein, who tried to unite Arabia,” Chicherin wrote to Khakimov. The Soviet Union saw the unification of Arabs as the first step towards empowering Muslims in the region and undermining British rule over them.
By December 1924, Abdelaziz took Mecca and Khakimov was convinced that the time was right for him to try to introduce himself to Ibn Saud. In April 1925, when Jeddah was under siege, he was allowed to perform Umrah, a pilgrimage to Mecca, where Ibn Saud was based, thus getting a chance to meet him – something that no Western non-Muslim diplomat had been allowed to do. Khakimov’s letters to Moscow reveal that his meeting with Abdulaziz went exceptionally well and that even his idea of Soviet mediation between Hejaz and Nejd was perceived positively by Ibn Saud.
By the end of 1925, Ibn Saud controlled Jeddah, and in February 1926 he declared himself King of Hejaz and Sultan of Nejd. As soon as the Soviet mission learned the news, Khakimov did what ultimately earned him the respect and friendship of Ibn Saud. On February 16, Karim Khakimov drove his personal car mounted with a Soviet flag through gunfire from Jeddah to Ibn Saud’s residence in the desert to hand over a formal note recognizing his status as the king. The Soviet Union was the first state to recognize his new title. Abdulaziz responded with a letter thanking the Soviet Union for its neutrality during the war with Hussein and expressed readiness for “relations with the government of the USSR and its citizens”.
Soviet-Saudi relations improved further when the Pan-Islamic Congress of Mecca was called in June 1926, whose objective was to resolve the dispute over Mecca and Medina. At the time, Ibn Saud’s control over these holy sites had many opponents among Islamic notables, which is why it was paramount for the king to earn recognition at the congress.
Realizing this, the Soviet Union did what contradicted the fundamentals of its atheistic ideology: it sent six Soviet Islamic scholars to take part in the congress. Moscow with its 30 million Soviet Muslims threw its weight behind King Abdulaziz, providing the votes for him to be elected the president of the congress. What is more, as a result of Khakimov’s efforts, a Soviet delegate was elected the vice-president of the conference. Having established full diplomatic relations with King Abdulaziz, the Soviet Union dispatched, in 1928, a new head of mission to the kingdom, Nazir Bey Turyakulov.
London’s key concern about the Soviet influence in Jeddah was that it was spreading Communist propaganda among Muslims during the Hajj. Indeed, this was one of the ideas that Moscow had for its diplomats in Jeddah, but in reality, the Soviet mission had a hard time reaching out to both locals and pilgrims.
Faced with a lot of resistance, Soviet diplomats decided to focus on the creation of trade links between Soviet Black Sea ports and Hejaz. Khakimov managed to convince King Abdulaziz to lift restrictions against Soviet goods that existed in the kingdom due to London’s lobbying. In 1929-1930, Soviet goods poured into the kingdom from the port city of Odessa. The biggest achievement of Soviet diplomats in Jeddah was entering the kerosene and benzine market that was almost entirely dominated by the British. The Soviet Union also sent a group of medics to the kingdom to take care of pilgrims during the Hajj.
As a result of Khakimov’s efforts to further develop his ties with Ibn Saud, his son Prince Faisal (who became king in 1969) visited the Soviet Union during his extensive European trip in 1932. Moscow went out of its way to impress Faisal and his entourage by introducing them to the achievements of the Soviet industry, forgiving the Saudi debt that had accumulated by then and, most importantly, offering one million British pounds in financial aid that King Abdulaziz badly needed. While visiting Soviet Azerbaijan, what was going through an oil boom of its own, Prince Faisal was impressed with the country’s oil industry expressing a desire to employ the same technology in the kingdom.
The 1932 visit to the Soviet Union was the highlight of the Saudi-Soviet relations. King Abdulaziz used Moscow’s offer of financial aid to push London to provide aid and never accepted the USSR’s offer. From that point on, the relations between the two states stagnated. As the power of Joseph Stalin was growing stronger, the relationship between the communist regime and Islam was becoming uneasy. In 1932, the Soviet Union unofficially banned its Muslims from performing Hajj.
Soviet medics continued to work in the kingdom and the diplomatic mission continued to function spreading Soviet propaganda among Saudis. In 1937, the wife of the Soviet consul, a doctor herself, even stayed with the favorite wife of Prince Faisal for several months.
After spending a few years in Yemen and Moscow, Karim Khakimov returned to Jeddah as the Head of Mission in 1935, hoping to revitalize the relationship that during his absence gradually came to a halt. Khakimov tried negotiating new trade contracts with the king, but Moscow was no longer interested. It was the time when Hitler was growing stronger in Europe and Stalin, who was skeptical about the USSR’s presence in the Gulf from the beginning, no longer saw the partnership with King Abdulaziz as beneficial. In fact, dropping any political ambitions for the Gulf was a gesture that Moscow thought would help it partner with England, whose support the Soviet Union sought against Hitler.
The career of the Soviet Lawrence of Arabia ended abruptly when he fell victim to Stalin’s political terror in 1937. In September that year, he was recalled to Moscow for a routine visit to the foreign ministry, but upon his arrival, he was arrested on suspicion of being a spy. His colleague Turyakulov who worked with him on the Saudi file was executed in October 1937. Khakimov was executed in January 1938.
King Abdulaziz was outraged at the news that the two Soviet diplomats whom he considered his friends were killed. Two months after Khakimov was executed in Moscow, American geologists discovered the world’s largest deposits of crude oil in Dhahran. This prompted the Soviet Union to appoint a new head of mission in Jeddah in 1938. King Abdulaziz, however, turned the appointment down saying that he does not wish to see anyone other than Khakimov or Turyakulov in Jeddah. He accused Moscow of inciting a revolution in the Muslim world and broke diplomatic ties with the Soviet Union. In September 1938, all remaining Soviet diplomats left Jeddah and the mission was shut down. With the USSR eliminated as a rival, Britain and later the US took over the development and exploitation of Saudi oil.
Relations between Russia and Saudi Arabia were fully restored only in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union. It has been 25 years since then and Russian-Saudi relations have not developed beyond symbolic visits. Karim Khakimov’s diplomatic efforts to create strong and lasting ties between Moscow and Riyadh remain unparalleled.
Introduction Occupied by the UK in 1841, Hong Kong was formally ceded by China the following year; various adjacent lands were added later in the 19th century. Pursuant to an agreement signed by China and the UK on 19 December 1984, Hong Kong became the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) of China on 1 July 1997. In this agreement, China has promised that, under its “one country, two systems” formula, China’s socialist economic system will not be imposed on Hong Kong and that Hong Kong will enjoy a high degree of autonomy in all matters except foreign and defense affairs for the next 50 years.
History Human settlement in the location now known as Hong Kong dates back to the Paleolithic era. The region was first incorporated into Imperial China in the Qin Dynasty, and served as a trading post and naval base during the Tang Dynasty and the Song Dynasty. The area’s earliest recorded European visitor was Jorge Álvares, a Portuguese mariner who arrived in 1513. Contact with the United Kingdom was established after the British East India Company founded a trading post in the nearby city of Guangzhou.
In 1839, the refusal by Qing Dynasty authorities to import opium resulted in the First Opium War between China and Britain. Hong Kong Island was first occupied by British forces in 1841, and then formally ceded from China under the Treaty of Nanking at the end of the war. The British established a Crown Colony with the founding of Victoria City the following year. In 1860, after China’s defeat in the Second Opium War, the Kowloon Peninsula south of Boundary Street and Stone cutter’s Island were ceded to Britain under the Convention of Peking. In 1898, Britain obtained a 99-year lease of Lantau Island and the adjacent northern lands, which became known as the New Territories.
Hong Kong was declared a free port to serve as an entrepôt of the British Empire. The Kowloon-Canton Railway opened in 1910 with a southern terminus in Tsim Sha Tsui. An education system based on the British model was introduced. The local Chinese population had little contact with the European community of wealthy tai-pans settled near Victoria Peak.
In conjunction with its military campaign in World War II, the Empire of Japan invaded Hong Kong on December 8, 1941. The Battle of Hong Kong ended with British and Canadian defenders surrendering control of the colony to Japan on December 25. During the Japanese occupation, civilians suffered from widespread food shortages caused by imposed rations, and hyper-inflation due to forced exchange of currency for military notes. Hong Kong lost more than half of its population in the period between the invasion and Japan’s surrender in 1945, when the United Kingdom resumed control of the colony.
Hong Kong’s population recovered quickly, as a wave of mainland migrants arrived for refuge from the ongoing Chinese Civil War. With the proclamation of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, more migrants fled to Hong Kong from fear of persecution by the Communist Party. Many corporations in Shanghai and Guangzhou also shifted their operations to Hong Kong. The colony became the sole place of contact between mainland China and the Western world, as the communist government increasingly isolated the country from outside influence. Trade with the mainland was interrupted during the Korean War, when the United Nations ordered a trade embargo against the communist government.
The textile and manufacturing industries grew with the help of population growth and low-cost of labor. As Hong Kong rapidly industrialized, its economy became driven by exports to international markets. Living standards rose steadily with the industrial growth. The construction of Shek Kip Mei Estate in 1953 marked the beginning of the public housing estate program. Hong Kong was disrupted by chaos during the riots of 1967. Pro-communist leftists, inspired by the Cultural Revolution in the mainland, turned a labor dispute into a violent uprising against the colonial government lasting until the end of the year.
Established in 1974, the Independent Commission Against Corruption dramatically reduced corruption in the government. When the People’s Republic of China initiated a set of economic reforms in 1978, Hong Kong became the main source of foreign investments to the mainland. A Special Economic Zone was established the following year in the Chinese city of Shenzhen, located immediately north of the mainland’s border with Hong Kong. The economy of Hong Kong gradually displaced textiles and manufacturing with services, as the financial and banking sectors became increasingly dominant. After the Vietnam War ended in 1975, the Hong Kong government spent 25 years dealing with the entry and repatriation of Vietnamese refugees.
With the lease of the New Territories due to expire within two decades, the governments of the United Kingdom and the People’s Republic of China discussed the issue of Hong Kong’s sovereignty in the 1980’s. In 1984, the two countries signed the Sino-British Joint Declaration, agreeing to transfer the sovereignty of Hong Kong to the People’s Republic of China in 1997. The declaration stipulated that Hong Kong would be governed as a special administrative region, retaining its laws and high degree of autonomy for at least fifty years after the transfer. Lacking confidence in the arrangement, some residents chose to emigrate, particularly after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
The Basic Law of Hong Kong, which would serve as the constitutional document after the transfer, was ratified in 1990. Over strong objections from Beijing, Governor Chris Patten introduced democratic reforms to the election process for the Legislative Council. The transfer of the sovereignty occurred at midnight on July 1, 1997, marked by a handover ceremony at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. Tung Chee Hwa assumed office as the first Chief Executive of Hong Kong.
Hong Kong’s economy was affected by the Asian financial crisis of 1997 that hit many East Asian markets. The H5N1 avian influenza also surfaced that year. Implementation of the Airport Core Program led to the opening of the new Hong Kong International Airport in 1998, after six years of construction. The project was part of the ambitious Port and Airport Development Strategy that was drafted in the early 1980’s.
The outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome took hold of Hong Kong in the first half of 2003. That year, half a million people participated in a march to voice disapproval of the Tung administration and the proposal to implement Article 23 of the Basic Law, which had raised concerns over infringements on civil liberties. The proposal was later abandoned by the administration. In 2005, Tung submitted his resignation as chief executive. Donald Tsang, the Chief Secretary for Administration, was selected as chief executive to complete the term.
Mahatma Gandhi continues to be relevant even after 70 years of his death. Our pop culture keeps him alive and for good reason.
Mahatma Gandhi would have been 149 today.
Arguably the most influential figure of modern Indian history, Gandhi is also one of the most studied, discussed and dissected personalities of all time. And for good reason.
Dominique Atkinson and Doug Greene in their book The Men Who Changed the Course of History counted Gandhi alongside Jesus Christ, Napoleon Bonaparte, David Moses, Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great, and Prophet Muhammad.
Even great men like Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela, who played critical roles in the transformation of their respective countries, were deeply influenced by Gandhi’s doctrines of truth and non-violence.
Closer home, the ‘imprint’ of the Mahatma has endured, of course.
His face has been printed across our currency notes for 22 years and counting. Gandhi portraits adorn the walls of Indian courtrooms, police stations, government offices, etc. Schoolkids dress up as Gandhiji in annual functions year after year. And, there is media and popular culture that keeps Gandhi — somewhat like Che Guevara — always topical.
YourStory lists some notable pop culture references that invoke and celebrate Mahatma Gandhi.
Sir Richard Attenborough famously said that it took him 20 years to find a financier for his eponymous film on the Mahatma. When he pitched the life story of a non-violent freedom crusader from India to producers, they dismissed him saying, “Who the hell will be interested in a little brown man wrapped in a sheet carrying a beanpole?” Gandhi eventually released in 1982, with Ben Kingsley essaying the titular role. A year later, it won eight Oscars, including Best Film and Best Actor. The film charted Gandhi’s journey from 1893 South Africa, when he was subjected to racial discrimination, to 1948 India, when he was assassinated less than a year after Indian independence. Attenborough’s film continues to remain the most definitive work on the life and times of the Mahatma.
Shashi Tharoor’s 1989 book, The Great Indian Novel, which drew from characters and personalities in Indian history and mythology added a touch of irreverence to Gandhi and kept readers guessing with clues and references. A character named Gangaji is shown as the leader of the Quit India movement, an advocate of celibacy, a man obsessed with ‘toilet cleaning’, and the one to go on the Great Mango March (an allusion to Gandhi’s Salt March of 1930). There is also a character wittily named Sir Richard Churchill, modelled on Sir Richard Attenborough, who is made to describe Gangaji as ‘Public Enema Number One’. By the end of the novel, Gangaji is, of course, killed as was Gandhi in real life.
For Generations Y and Z, Raju Hirani’s 2006 Bollywood film starring Sanjay Dutt, is possibly the most prominent Gandhi reference in pop culture. The film, a part of Hirani’s Munnabhai series on the life of a Mumbai underworld don, coined a street term to describe Gandhian principles and philosophies – Gandhigiri. Munnabhai played by Dutt is possessed by the spirit of Gandhi and he goes about conducting his life truthfully and non-violently. Like Gandhi, he preaches the benefits of cleanliness and other things to people. He even urges them to co-operate and co-exist in society, all the while maintaining the street credentials of a bhai (local goon).
While the world celebrated the Mahatma, he led a deeply troubled personal life. Feroz Abbas Khan’s Gandhi, My Father explored his tumultuous relationship with son, Harilal. The film was adapted from the biography of Harilal Gandhi penned by Chandulal Bhagubhai Dalal, and it explored the basic conflict between father and son. While Harilal (played by Akshaye Khanna), wanted to become a foreign-educated barrister (lawyer) like this father, Gandhi hoped his son would fight for the country and take his social causes forward. Their relationship was strained beyond repair, and Harilal eventually abandoned his father and left for South Africa. This was a rare project in which Gandhi’s personal, and not socio-political, life was in focus.
This multilingual film delved on the controversial exchange of letters between Gandhi and Adolf Hitler during World War 2. The film, which established the supremacy of Gandhian ideologies over Hitler’s Nazism, opened at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival. However, reviews weren’t entirely positive. Many sections of the media regarded it to be a glorification of Hitler, but the makers clarified that the film was merely an attempt to draw a contrast between Gandhi’s and Hitler’s principles. Nonetheless, Gandhi to Hitler (also known as Dear Friend, Hitler) was a different take on a lesser known chapter of Gandhi’s life.
Noted historian Ramachandra Guha’s latest book on Gandhi is launching in New York today to mark the latter’s birth anniversary. In this magnum opus spanning over a 1,000 pages, Guha traces the three decades of the 20th century during which Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi became the Mahatma and the Father of the Nation, and altered the fate of India irreversibly. The book opens with Gandhi’s arrival in Bombay in early 1915 and runs through his 30 years of struggle for India’s freedom, in the course of which he advocated secularism, fought against untouchability, promoted indigenous goods, and challenged the orthodox British rule with ahimsa (non-violence). Essentially, Guha explores why Gandhi remains relevant even 70 years after his death. | 2019-04-20T10:31:28Z | http://truthtroubles.com/category/england/ |
Assessments are a very important component of our every day teaching. They must be accurate and reflect the students' abilities. I'd like to share with you my 5 tips I use and follow when assessing my students.
I assess my students through the process of completing a specific task. For example, if the student is using scissors to cut a circle, I'm taking notes on fine-motor skills, approaches and initiative to the learning process, persistence, ability to stay on task, and safety while handling scissors. The circle ended up looking like a square....that's not important at this time!
using a variety of shapes.
The assessment I'm performing on my students MUST be developmentally appropriate for their age. Am I going to assess my students on the multiplication facts and reading fluency?....NO! The learning activities and experiences must promote their optimal learning and the development of the whole child. Read more about another way to collect data HERE.
Best practices are well-though out plans that are effective for the specific age group. When assessing young students best practices are KEY. My personal favorite is backward planning. I identify an area for my students to work on and develop and I backward plan from there, looking for effective, purposeful, and engaging activities for that specific skill.
each other about the plants they have at home and the plants we have in the classroom.
This tip really hits home! "I think he knows how to count to 20", "I think I've seen him creating a pattern", "I saw her the other day writing her name.....I think". These statements are not objective, they're just speculations. We must have data to support our assessments = best practices!
In my many years of teaching I've seen teachers and specialists who assess children in "auto-pilot". When they're sick and not feeling well, when their routine has been changed, right after a long break, etc. Please, don't get me wrong, I DO understand we have deadlines and I DO understand we have other 20+ students in our class, but we must be reasonable with external circumstances that affect the students, which will reflect in the assessment not being accurate.
Practice, practice, practice! For a student to master a skill, practice is truly necessary through various opportunities and different scenarios. We must allow our students to practice, analyze, be exposed to, and apply the new information to their daily lives.
I serve a low income community - last year several of my students had never been to the zoo and two of them had never seen or heard of an elephant or giraffe. During the unit of animals, these students had no clue what we were talking about. I found some virtual field trip videos and realistic zoo animal toys and introduced it to them. After all of that, it became less abstract to them.
the giraffe and the elephant.
and their pets at home.
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So, I'm at the opening of the fancy new Apple Store on Manhattan's Upper West Side. They're talking about how awesome their retail is and whatnot. I'll have pictures up shortly. But for now, digits.
• They hit 170 million visitors this year, and 10 million people hit Genius Bars for personal training.
• Sales per store — $US26 million, which is just below what Macy's, Target and Best Buy make per store. But, if you look at the real estate, it's a slightly different picture. Apple Stores do sales of $US4300 per square foot which is five times the $US872 per square foot Best Buy does.
• Wow — over 100,000 applicants on file for jobs at the Apple Store worldwide, 10,000 people submitted applications for the new Upper West Side store. Just over 200 got a job.
• Apple realised they were going too small with their stores, so now all of their stores will be at least "three tables wide". In other words, they're going to be bigger. They're also going to be opening more stores next year, more like 50. More of them will be "significant stores", iconic ones like the Fifth Ave store with the Apple Cube. And they'll be going more international, adding stores all over Europe, like the UK, Paris and two in Shanghai getting those "significant stores".
OK, BIG NEWS. They're gift-wrapping for the first time ever. And you can reserve presents. Your Christmas is now officially complete. You're welcome. | 2019-04-23T17:55:15Z | https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2009/11/all-the-apple-store-data-you-could-possibly-want-to-read/ |
A basketball game in St. Peter's square?
Yup. It happened in 1955.
And though they aren't fielding a team, you can bet that just like millions around the world, the folks at the Vatican will keep an eye on the World Cup that begins in South Africa on June 11th.
When you think of the Vatican, you may not immediately think of basketball or soccer, but they have a long association with sports. Catholic News Service's Cindy Wooden and Carol Glatz look at the Holy See and sports on this week's Vatican Report. | 2019-04-22T04:27:40Z | https://saltandlighttv.org/blogfeed/getpost.php?id=13909 |
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FLAGGED. A man who drives his wife to work on their motorcycle says he often gets stopped by enforcers because they think he drives for Angkas. This was because he and his wife have matching helmets that also look like the official Angkas helmets.
The man said he thought it was cute to have matching helmets, now they want to get different ones to stop being flagged down. | 2019-04-22T18:53:12Z | https://www.philstar.com/the-freeman/opinion/2019/02/01/1889905/matching-not-always-good-idea |
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Casa Das Oliveiras is a Detached villa with an outdoor pool, located in Alvados in the Aire and Candeeiros Ridges Natural Park. The property features views of the mountains and is 16 mi from Nazaré.
Featuring outdoor and indoor pools, this design hotel is located within Serras de Aire e Candeeiros Natural Park. It is 11 mi from the Monastery of Batalha, and 12 mi from the Sanctuary of Fátima.
Casa Boho is sited at the heart of the Alvados valley, surrounded by centenary olive trees.
HI Alvados - Pousada de Juventude features a garden and a terrace in Alvados. Free WiFi is available. At the hostel, the rooms are equipped with a desk. All guest rooms have a closet.
This property is set in the in the Serras de Aire e Candeeiros Natural Park. The Flor da Serra - Casa de Campo is a renovated characteristic stone house.
Featuring free WiFi throughout the property, Casa dos Aromas offers accommodations in Alvados. Free private parking is available on site. Certain rooms have views of the mountains or pool.
Located in Alvados in the Região Centro region, Casa dos Imos has a terrace. It features barbecue facilities, a garden, mountain views and free WiFi.
Offering free WiFi and mountain views, Little Olive Hideaway is a property located in Alvados. This self-catered family stay features a private pool and a garden.
Set in the Natural Park of Aire and Candeeiros Ridges, Retiro do Bosque Country House is located in Minde and offers 6 air-conditioned rooms.
This charming boutique hotel is located in Fátima, 1640 feet from the Fátima Sanctuary. The tranquil unit features luxurious studios and rooms.
Featuring an outdoor pool and a sun deck, Alojamento Local Céu-Azul is located within the National Park of Serras de Aire e Candeeiros. It is surrounded by picturesque valleys and mountains.
Parreirais dos Moquinhos is a guest house located in Minde and offers panoramic views of the surrounding landscape including the Polje of Minde. Free WiFi access is available.
Hotel S. Jorge is located 0.6 mi from the center of Batalha and provides guest rooms and apartments. You can enjoy the outdoor swimming pool, the terrace and relax with a drink from the on-site bar.
Located in the Serra d'Aire and Candeeiros Natural Park, Retiro da Avó Lídia offers rustic-style interiors with natural, stone walls and high, wooden ceilings. Lagoa Pequena is 1.2 mi away.
The 4-star Villa Batalha features a bar with views towards UNESCO World Heritage-listed Batalha Monastery.
337 properties found in Alvados. | 2019-04-25T22:03:07Z | https://www.booking.com/searchresults.html?dest_id=-2158066;dest_type=city |
If your colleagues, clients, or bosses don’t get why working less is a better idea, leave. There are far better places to be than at a company that values quantity over quality.
I absolutely love articles like this. Actually, I love people who think like this. It's been my experience that working a lot, doesn't mean you're producing a lot. Over time, I've tried to work smart, and try to get more done in a smaller amount of time.
This article hits home a bit closer today as I try to loose weight. Two years have gone by, and I've gained 100 lbs. Why? Because I was so focused on work, I forgot that it's only the means to live my life; not the reason to live life.
If you haven't, you should read the original article. | 2019-04-26T10:10:56Z | https://ttimsmith.com/2013/04/stop-working-so-hard/ |
Iranians voted in the presidential as well as the city and village councils elections on May 19, 2017. The two elections were arranged to be on the same day to boost participations and show support for the clerical regime in Tehran. The Guardian Council had handpicked six candidates and rejected the rest of more than 1600 applicants who had registered to be presidential candidates. The candidates selected by the Council were Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf, Mostafa Hashemitaba, Eshagh Jahangiri, Mostafa Mirsalim, Ebrahim Raisi, and Hassan Rouhani.
In three presidential debates which began on April 28, the candidates discussed their plans for solving the country’s problems. In the first and second debates, Hassan Rouhani and his deputy Eshagh Jahangiri came under attacks for corruptions in the executive branch and their failure to solve the country’s problems. The third debate on May 12, was focused on economic issues such as high rate of unemployment, smuggling foreign products imports, banking system insolvencies, bankruptcy of many factories, the country’s dependence on crude oil exports, increase in food prices, and tax collection plan. Other issues discussed were lack of success in promoting self-sufficiency in industrial and agricultural sectors, and rent-seeking in the public sector, a form of corruption common within the regime which involves selling public properties below market value to government officials or their relatives and cronies. Ghalibaf accused Rouhani and Jahangiri of buying public properties for minimal prices. He mentioned that Rouhani’s close relative (his brother Hossein Fereydoon) had engaged in financial corruptions and criticized Rouhani for increase in unemployment rate, high food prices, and his failure to collect taxes. Mirsalim accused Rouhani for increasing export of raw materials and failing to promote manufacturing industries. Raisi accused Rouhani of increasing the payments to retired employees and welfare recipients just before the elections to promote his campaign.
Few days after the debates, Jahangiri dropped out of the elections in favor of Rouhani and Ghalibaf left in favor of Raisi, the protégé of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Mirsalim did not get enough public support from a conservative camp he was representing. Also, Hashemi Taba did not gain support from his reformist camp and later he said he voted for Rouhani himself. That meant the election was mainly about choosing the president between two clerics: the incumbent Rouhani from the so-called reformist wing of the regime and Raisi from the conservative wing.
The government announcement of huge turnout on the Election Day was highly questionable. The results of presidential elections were announced by the Interior Ministry on May 21. From the 56 million eligible Iranian voters, 41.22 million or 73% voted in the election. Rouhani received 23.55 million (57.1%) votes, his closest rival, Raisi 15.79 million (38.3%) votes, Mirsalim 0.478 (1.2%), and Hashemitaba (0.52%). Critics called to question the figures announced by the Ministry. They claimed the voters’ population announced was far beyond the capacity of the polling places. The 73% voters’ participation in the election was too high to be true. Since the voters had to write the candidates’ names whom they were voting for on the ballots and the limited number of available polling places throughout the country, it was highly unlikely that so many people could have voted in one day. Especially, since the city and village councils elections were simultaneously conducted, and checking and stamping of the voters’ birth certificates, and filling out the ballots by so many voters required much more time than one day. As compared to the past elections, this time in the Capital Tehran the poor who mostly reside in south of the city did not crowd the polls at all, while the rich in the north parts had crowded some polls as were shown on the state television. That meant the conservatives have lost support among their traditional constituencies who are the poor.
After the elections, there were some complaints from the conservative camps concerning miscounting the votes and manipulating the results. The conservatives accused Rouhani of engineering the election in favor of himself. Raisi complained to the Guardian council for violations (takhalof) in conducting the election. He said in some polling places there were not enough ballots and his name had not been printed correctly on some of the ballots.
A number of factors affected the outcome of the elections. First, despite failure of Rouhani in economic and other matters, since the media was organized to promote him, he gained more votes. Also, the Western powers had planned to promote Rouhani’s re-election. Europeans wanted Rouhani to win the second term because he had signed some lucrative contracts with their firms after the nuclear agreement was finalized in January 2016. Europeans have opposed President Donald Trump’s plan to confront the clerical regime. Second, Khamenei’s pushing of Raisi as his favorite candidate backfired. Raisi’s record of being involved in mass executions of the political prisoners in 1988 and frustration of Iranians with the conservative clerics led to more votes for Rouhani who had promised to promote political reforms. Third, some supporters of the former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad either did not vote or did not vote for Raisi, despite Raisi’s efforts to absorb some of Ahmadinejad’s supporters into his campaign. Fourth, some secular political groups thought boycotting the elections would lead to worst outcome if Raisi was elected. Fifth, some celebrities were shown on state TV and social media, saying they planned to vote for Rouhani. Also, the former president Mohammad Khatami endorsed Rouhani.
Overall, regardless of the highly questionable turnout reported by the Iranian government, it was a surprise election outcome. Despite Rouhani’s disastrous economic policies, his re-election against Khamenei’s favorite candidate Raisi shows how Iranians are frustrated with the theocratic dictatorship of the Supreme Leader. | 2019-04-21T11:11:42Z | https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/06/16/deciphering-the-iranian-elections/ |
I arrived in the darkest hour of the night. The streets were silent but for the swaying silhouette branches – it took me a moment to realise there was a blackout in the streets. It was midnight and I closed the car door quietly. Sound was now my greater sense, the trees sounded like waves in the ocean. The breeze was cool and a shiver ran up my arm as I opened the front door.
I fumbled for the torch near the door, outlined in the previous text from Dawn. I felt my way down the hall and shone the torch into the ceiling to find Beau curled up in his bed, arms up on his pillow near his face. I went to the spare room and undressed and lay in bed listening to the sounds of the house and the trees outside.
‘Mum? Mum, Mum…’ I sat up in bed. My ear was facing the door. Beau was calling out and his words followed each other closely. I looked at my phone, I’d had half an hour of sleep. I walked into his room.
‘Dad! Where’s Mum?’ he was upright.
‘She’s in bed sweetheart, I just got here’ I kissed his forehead. ‘Lay back down and sleep’, he turned over and I stroke his back.
I went back to bed, the trees were scratching the roof and the wind was trying to open the blinds in my room.
I must have slept through the night. I woke up as Beau was climbing into the spare bed beside me and immediately he describes his soccer triumphs from the night before and how he saved a goal – all the while holding my hand in bed. It was barely light outside.
As weekends go, it wasn’t extraordinary. There was backyard soccer, cheese and tomato toasted sandwiches and wrestling with brushing teeth and homework, but he was constantly at my side. Leaning his head on my shoulder watching tv, clasping my fingers into his hand and when I gave the final cuddle in the back yard and said good bye, he silently walked into the house and sat down next to his mother.
I clicked my fingers to get Dawns attention and she immediately realised what was wrong just by looking at him. We both jovially moved about the kitchen, both fake.
He followed me down the stairs to my car and stood while I put my bag on the front seat. I made small talk – perhaps for my sake.
‘Ok my love’ I pulled him in for one last hug. Chicky tiptoed across the patchy grass to join his brother.
I drove up the road and two little boys ran alongside on the curb waving. The autumn sun shining onto their faces as they waved. I drove slowly and watched them run back home, the cool breeze seemingly pushing the sun down faster.
Previous post Are Liberals ready to say ‘I do’? | 2019-04-23T02:55:33Z | http://www.starobserver.com.au/opinion/between-midnight-and-twilight/100872 |
SOCHI, Russia — Teemu Selanne scored two goals and Tuukka Rask had a 26-save shutout, helping Finland rout the United States 5-0 Feb. 22 to win hockey bronze at the Sochi Olympic Games.
Selanne, a 43-year-old, six-time Olympian, and Jussi Jokinen scored 11 seconds apart early in the second period. The Finns scored three goals in the third period against a team that looked like it would rather be at home.
Before the third-place match became a rout in the final period, it was a game of missed opportunities for the Americans. Patrick Kane couldn’t convert on a penalty shot in each of the first two periods for the U.S. | 2019-04-20T04:17:26Z | https://www.thenationalherald.com/38143/finland-routs-us-5-0-bronze/ |
Update, 3:20 p.m.: Revised to include a statement from Texas Democratic Party Deputy Executive Director Manny Garcia.
AUSTIN — Gubernatorial candidate Andrew White is calling for a debate between him and former Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez.
In a news release Tuesday, the son of late Democratic Gov. Mark White urged the Texas Democratic Party and media outlets to host debates between him and Valdez. The two candidates are in a runoff for the Democratic nomination after Valdez received 43 percent of the vote on Election Day and White 27 percent. A majority — 50 percent plus one vote — is required to win outright.
"The party's nominee for governor — whether it's me or Lupe — should begin spring training now for the fall campaign against Greg Abbott," White said in a prepared statement. "A few debates between the two of us before the runoff would make the eventual nominee all the stronger. And who doesn't love a good debate?"
Valdez came out on top of a nine-candidate field in the March primary and did well in Dallas and San Antonio, where she grew up. She also drew voters in heavily Hispanic South Texas.
Valdez would be open to debating White, said spokesman Kiefer Odell, who needled White a bit for his lack of support in urban areas and the Rio Grande Valley.
"We will be glad to work out a debate schedule when the voters become more focused on the race, but this primary won't be won on 30-second debate responses," Odell said. "While we understand why someone who received such low support in most of Texas' major urban areas and the Rio Grande Valley needs a debate to create buzz, Sheriff Valdez is focused on developing substantive relationships with voters across the state — just as she has done in Dallas County for the last 13 years."
White did well in areas along the Gulf Coast, including his Harris County home base.
A Texas Democratic Party said official said it would abstain from sponsoring a debate between Valdez and White, saying the party has never hosted debates for statewide office.
"We are not the DNC, and we all know it didn't go so well for them on presidential debates," executive director Manny Garcia said in a prepared statement, alluding to the allegations of bias the Democratic National Committee faced in organizing debates involving the 2016 presidential primary candidates. "We look forward to coordinating with our eventual gubernatorial nominee."
Southern Methodist University political scientist Matthew Wilson told The Dallas Morning News this month that White would probably seek debates with Valdez to prove his understanding of policy and demonstrate his electability. During an interview with The Dallas Morning News editorial board last month, Valdez stumbled over how much Texas spends on border security and other state policy issues.
But she is considered the favorite during the runoff, Wilson said.
"Valdez is well-positioned, given the nature of what the Texas Democratic Party has become, with ready outreach into the Latino community and the gay and lesbian community," he said. "Putting together those kinds of 'identity politics' constituencies of activists, that goes a long way." | 2019-04-25T12:51:07Z | https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2018-elections/2018/03/13/doesnt-love-good-debate-andrew-white-wants-spar-lupe-valdez-before-texas-governor-runoff?extpar=dfw-m |
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