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1. Are there direct trains from Birmingham to Bodmin Parkway?
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We usually find around 4 direct trains on the route from Birmingham to Bodmin Parkway every weekday.
2. How long is the train journey from Birmingham to Bodmin Parkway?
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3. What are the Birmingham to Bodmin Parkway train times and schedule?
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When to book Birmingham to Bodmin Parkway train tickets?
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Amazon will announce details Wednesday regarding its new partnership with the Vietnam E-commerce Association (VECOM) at the Vietnam Online Business Forum 2018, according to the Nikkei Asian Review.
VECOM is the largest consortium of local online sellers in Vietnam. The partnership would allow more Vietnamese sellers to sell and export via Amazon, and vice versa.
For Amazon, moving into Vietnam is a strategic competitive move against Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce company that is growing much faster than Amazon in global markets.
While Amazon dominates U.S. e-commerce, it's still fighting Alibaba for global dominance, and that means moving closer to Alibaba's home turf.
The Nikkei Asian Review reported that after being in Vietnam for just a year, Alibaba made "thousands" of new business members, while only 200 Vietnamese sellers are using Amazon.
Moving into Vietnam will amp up the competition, and likely spur new innovation within the e-commerce space. Chinese tech companies are far more integrated and savvy about multi-use tech platforms than U.S. tech companies are.
According to Bloomberg, Alibaba generates revenue through advertising, while Amazon presumably relies on its Amazon Web Services — but Alibaba's web services grew at a higher rate in 2016 than Amazon.
Alibaba also offers more services to consumers than Amazon. With Alibaba, a consumer can make payments on bills or loans, book and pay for appointments. While Amazon certainly has its hand in a variety of industries and services, Alibaba is way ahead of the game.
By moving into Vietnam, Amazon may need to follow Alibaba's innovative lead to snag more sellers and customers, or else differentiate enough that it can attract a different seller and customer base.


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(AG 93-96 points) The 2017 Ducru-Beaucaillou is distinctly sleek and polished, with a real air of sensuality. Finessed and racy to the core, the 2017 is all about elegance rather than the power that informed both the... (AG 93-96 points) The 2017 Ducru-Beaucaillou is distinctly sleek and polished, with a real air of sensuality. Finessed and racy to the core, the 2017 is all about elegance rather than the power that informed both the 2015 and 2016. Red-toned fruit, plush texture and silky tannins all contribute to the wine's restrained feel. A host of floral notes add brightness as the wine opens up in the glass. There is so much to like in the 2017. The blend is 90% Cabernet Sauvignon and 10% Merlot.
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Ducru-Beaucaillou is a fine, elegant, and delicious wine with a long finish - in short, an archetypal Saint-Julien. The grapes are hand-picked, and the sorting process takes place on mobile tables in the vineyard to keep the healthy grapes separate from substandard ones. Fermentation is by traditional techniques and only the best fruit is used to produce the wine.
Chateau Ducru-Beaucaillou is named after the beautiful large stones that characterize its unique Saint-Julien terroir. Unusual for Bordeaux, it is one of the only castles to be built directly above the barrel cellars and one of the few estates producing a 'Grand Cru Classe' still inhabited by its owners. The Borie family has owned this estate and has lived here for over sixty years, in the sumptuous aromas of their wine.
Rated a second growth in the 1855 Bordeaux Classification, Ducru sits on an exceptional site with incomparable views over the Gironde estuary. Its 75-hectare vineyard is planted 70% to Cabernet Sauvignon and 30% to Merlot with an average vine age of 35 years.
Today, the estate is managed by the company Jean Eugene Borie SA, which is owned by Mrs. Borie, her daughter Sabine Coiffe and her son Bruno-Eugene.


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Today Barnet Council published the Development and Regulatory Services contract more than two months after I requested it under the Freedom of information Act. Whilst pleased that the council had published the contract the level of redaction is huge and to make matters worse they have scanned in the redacted document. This means that you cannot search the document electronically and it makes the file size colossal. In total the DRS contract files amount to 749 MB with 4 files over 100MB each. That makes them pretty inaccessible to people with slow or capped internet connections.
So it is confidential how they manage conflicts of interest because they wrote it. And what does Barnet do? They roll over and accept what Capita says. Read all of Capita's comments below and then ask whose interest this contract is in. It certainly is't the residents of Barnet.
Barnet residents - Who will really benefit from a change in the governance system?
Last night was the Constitution Ethics and Probity Committee a rather grandiose title for a navel gazing talking shop. One of the key agenda items was the proposed change to the governance system. "Cabinet bad committee good" seems to be the mantra but I am suspicious of their motives. The Council have proposed a new committee system which seems exceptionally complex and impenetrable. It will keep residents in the dark but maybe that is just the way that Councillors and officers like it. I spoke to the meeting but I got the impression that the decisions are made, the mindset fixed. There will be a public consultation meeting on 20th November 7pm at Hendon Town Hall so please try and get along if you can. If your voice isn't heard they will assume what they are doing has everyone's agreement. PLEASE NOTE. Yet again the council requires you to register in advance if you wish to attend this public meeting. Click on this link to register.
You have before you a proposed structure with 18 committees, 6 subcommittees, 4 boards and a panel. That is a perfect recipe for obfuscation, deniability, exclusivity. I also suspect that with Barnet's population rising to around 400,000 before this system can be changed again, it will also lack durability.
92% of citizen panel respondents have not attended any council meeting in the last 12 months and only 7% fully understand how the governance arrangements work. Shockingly 68% of respondents don't even know who their councillor is. That suggests to me you have a major problem and from what I can see it is a problem you have either chosen to ignore or completely failed to recognise. The proposed structure will simply make the governance landscape even more confusing and inaccessible to the public. Based on the feedback I have received the council is body that imposes and dictates to residents not something which is there to listen and respond to residents. But I believe there is an alternative.
You have developed a system where committees are differentiated by function but it appears that no consideration has been given to differentiation by location. What I mean by that is bringing the committee system closer to the people who it is there to represent and creating a structure that actively encourages engagement between councillors and the electorate. For example you could have developed a structure where a very limited number of strategic or statutory matters are considered at an authority level with as many other matters as possible dealt with at a local level, either groups of wards or along parliamentary constituency boundaries. Local decisions could be dealt with at a local level including planning and licensing with local councillors getting much more involved. By making issues more relevant for local people at a local level that should encourage increased engagement. Budgets could be devolved giving a much greater financial incentive for local people to get involved with the way their council is run. It would certainly make local councillors much more accountable. The views and recommendations from each local committee could then be integrated back into the council to give a strategic view and assist in clear decision making. That integration could be in the proposed Policy and Resources committee or some other strategic committee run by representatives of the local committees.
I know that this is the first stage in the process and that further consultation will take place but you are not giving people a real choice because you haven't identified the all the options and therefore any views will be formulated within a framework that has already been set by you.
Ultimately the question is what is the change in governance system really for? Is it to make the system more efficient. Probably not because for all its failings the cabinet system is efficient. Is it to give every councillor a job, probably because with so many committees, sub committees, panels and boards I'm sure every one of the 63 councillors will have a committee role. Will it make the council more transparent or encourage engagement – definitely not.
As the saying goes plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose, and that is what you are presenting us with tonight, change without really changing anything. Please consider a much more local structure as one of the options".
How effective are the Barnet Council at engaging with residents? Based on the results of the recent consultation exercise into the proposed changes to the councils governance system, the answer would have to be utterly ineffective.
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And how many responses did all this activity elicit. Just 71. Out a population of 356,000 that doesn't seem like very many. Indeed it is just 0.02% which by any standards seems woeful.
They fared somewhat better with the Citizens Panel (a group of "1,600 Barnet residents, selected to be representative of the adult population of the borough in terms of ward, age, gender, ethnicity, housing tenure, faith and disability") where they had 504 responses. This high response rate might be because the council spent £2,440 posting the survey to recipients.
Even worse is when you look at the basic knowledge of the Citizen Panel respondents, with 68% saying they do not know who their ward councillor was. Of the 32% who said they did know who their councillor was less than half (45%) had ever contacted them. To me this suggests that councillors need to start working a bit harder for their £10,000 a year in allowances and start talking to the people they are supposed to represent.
In terms of understanding the current governance system, only 7% of Citizens Panel respondents said they understood the system fully. That is completely unacceptable and the council should hold its head in shame.
In my humble opinion the biggest problem here is that the council is completely out of touch with residents and that any changes to the governance system are being introduced for the benefit of the people who run the system i.e politicians, not residents. From my perspective this should act as a wake up call for the council to stop navel gazing and start getting residents involved with the council. I have repeatedly asked for a resident engagement strategy to get people involved with what the council does and how it affects residents. Only when you have an informed constituency can you start to ask them about how it should be run more effectively.
Barnet should stop rearranging the deckchairs and focus on stopping the ship from sinking. Democracy is in real danger of disappearing unless the council takes positive and assertive steps to engage residents and starts a programme of educating residents as to what the council does and how it operates. Oh and by the way I would like to see a performance measure introduced for councillors where, if less than 75% of residents know who their councillor is, they don't get any allowance. That might make them engage a bit more.
Barnet Public Meeting Tomorrow Evening - Try and come along!
Richard Cornelius, Leader of Barnet Council, will chair a public event in October at the council's offices in North London Business Park, to discuss how the council can support the borough and its residents over next decade.
Over the next five years, Barnet Council will have to make a further £70 million of savings to match a reduced income.
As part of a wide-ranging review during the coming year, Barnet Council will be consulting with residents about their priorities for the borough and the council.
Councillor Richard Cornelius said: "The savings we make from the One Barnet programme will make a big difference in the short-term and it is important we make the best of those savings.
"But money is tight, and whatever the result of the next election, it is going to get tighter. We will obviously be prioritising services for those who most need our help, but there are other things the council can do that support the borough that don't necessarily involve spending large sums of money.
"I'd like to hear from residents about what small interventions the council could make that could help make Barnet a better place to live.
"In the last few months we have developed a plan to introduce Wi-Fi to town centres at no cost to residents. We are encouraging residents to join the Big London Energy Switch which could save up to £120 on annual household bills.
"We have also seen excellent results from carefully targeting comparatively small amounts of support to young people who need help to join the jobs market.
Residents can book a place by email.
I turned up slightly late for last night's Contract Monitoring committee meeting. Walking into the room I was shocked by the phalanx of men in suits. Capita were clearly keen to make a show of force. All I would say is that by the end of the evening Capita will have been left in no doubt that Barnet is going to be a challenging contract.
I only caught the tail end of public questions about Your Choice Barnet, asked by Janet Leifer. Sadly she did not get many sensible answers.
Next up was the Kier contract. They are the construction company who have built/rebuilt a number of schools in the borough. Everyone talked about what lovely buildings they were but I was surprised no one talked about value for money especially as Keir was one of the firms fined £1.7 m (reduced from the original fine of £17.9m on appeal) by the Office of Fair Trading back in 2008. This followed an investigation into what is called cover pricing where firms agree to inflate bids artificially and school construction was a specific sector where this practice took place. You can read more about it here.
Next up was HBLaw (London Borough of Harrow legal department), Barnet's outsourced legal services provider. Cllr Schneiderman asked why the key performance Indicators (KPI's) were not in place when the contract was signed. Good question but no sensible answer. Cllr Cook asked how the contract could be identified as operating well if it was running over budget and customers believed it was underperforming. No real response. (Just wait till they see that HB Law billed the Council £1,078,247.08 in July).
It was then time for questioning of Barnet Homes. There was discussion about placing people in accommodation out of the borough and the rising debt of tenants who have been on the wrong end of the bedroom tax. Cllr Ross Houston made the obvious statement that the elephant in the room was the lack of affordable housing supply. Yes, he was right but the Councillors simply closed their eyes, held their noses and carried on regardless. Reference was also made to the tough new placement policy (potential tenants get one offer take it or leave it) and how this was affecting their ability to achieve their targets. Sadly tenants who have been hit by the bedroom tax are now £50,000 in arrears. That is a disaster for families who already struggling.
Next up were the NSCSO and DRS contracts. It was quickly established that this related to the pre-Capita stage so there was little questioning. Cllr Brian Salinger did remark that he had called the council and asked to speak to the Leader but no one knew what he was talking about. "We will look into it" was the response.
Finally we came to the highlight of the evening, the presentation from Capita which you can read for yourself here. Right from the start there was a tension, an unspoken sense of impending trouble. Mr Mark Wyllie introduced himself and his team. He started by talking about wanting to build a new relationship with residents . Oh dear, it was bit like treading on a landmine, an explosion of jeers from the public gallery. He then went on to talk about the £16 million Capita were investing in the services "Lies" was heard from the back (or was that me). We of course now know that actually it is Barnet Council who are stumping up that £16m for investment as confirmed to me in writing by the Council's Chief Operating Officer. There were a number of questions from Councillors. Perhaps one of the most interesting related to the joint employment contracts. It relates to 82 staff who, for most of their time, will be Capita employees but for statutory duties will remain Barnet employees. When Mr Wyllie was asked how many other councils used these contract his reply was startlingly candid. "No other local authority has this type of contract, it is an entirely novel concept." He also disclosed that it was the Council's idea and the Council's legal advisors who had said it was legal so we know that when it all goes wrong Capita will take none of the blame. Capita then talked about all the proposals for increasing income. Oh dear tripwire coming up! "We are going to invest in Hendon cemetery and turn it into a green open space". Kerboom! Shouts of protest from the public gallery. Capita really do need to go back to tact and sensitivity classes. This was absolutely not the way to sell the idea of investment to the residents of Barnet.
Cllr Sury Khatri has obviously been reading my blog because he then asked about the £30 million that has already been paid to Capita. Oh dear, that really set off a grenade. Panic all round and lots of awkward looks. The council officer responsible said they would speak to Cllr Khatri outside of the meeting. I wonder how they explain that one away?
The meeting came to a close but I suspect Capita will have a debrief meeting to analyse just how badly the meeting went, why Conservative Councillors have at last woken up to the issues of One Barnet and are asking awkward questions and why so many of the council's officers who were responsible for this contract have now departed with no one around to blame except the leadership of the Council.
I look forward to the next meeting, sadly not until January, when the public will be able to start asking detailed questions about Capita's performance.
Recycling Promoters will be knocking on your door.
First of all, thanks to a keen eyed New Barnet resident who tipped me off to this one. She pointed out that Barnet are using a company called Enventure to recruit 24 "enthusiastic individuals" to help promote recycling. Staff will be paid between £8.55 and £9.55 per hour plus a possible bonus and will be employed 35 hours a week for 9 weeks. You can read the job description here.This coincides with the introduction of the new blue recycling bins.
Now I am going to shock some readers - I think this is a good idea. I am sure that people respond much more when someone explains to them why they should do something and how it will benefit the entire community. I have long held the view, and expressed it repeatedly, that local community advocates can add real value, helping to engage with the community and to provide a cheery face to often dull or complex issues. What is such a shame is that the council have waited until they have spent £3.7 million on new bins to implement what they should have done three years ago when they brought in the blue box scheme. Perhaps if they have used this direct engagement model then, they wouldn't have needed to spend the £3.7 million.
Anyway, I hope Barnet monitor this project carefully and, if it is successful, use community advocates more widely.
Barnet's bad economics - Make people redundant while spending £1m a month on agency staff.
I constantly scratch my head at the way Barnet Council is run. Suppliers payments for August show that the council spent £996,000 on agency staff in August. That is down from £1.7 million spent on agency staff in July but probably reflects that Capita were paid £700,00 to use their staff (part of the £14.7 million advance payment Capita received in July). What really irks me is that Capita start the consultation on the redundancy process tomorrow. So while they are making loyal staff, who have a great deal of experience and knowledge, redundant they continue to pay temporary staff who have no continuity or in depth knowledge £1 million a month. Surely the logic would suggest that the first thing to cut is agency staff given their costs include a percentage of profit paid to the agency (Comensura) and try and redeploy as many council staff into those posts as possible. But in Barnet, logic is not something that seems to feature prominently in the way the Council is run.
Is One Barnet the most successful con job in local government history?
We have now found out that in fact Barnet Council have funded £16 million of investment. This is a fundamental change to the terms that were originally set out when the council made the decision to appoint Capita. Certainly there was absolutely no mention of the Council funding the investment when the decision was taken by Cabinet in December 2012.
I remain concerned that making such a fundamental change to the contract, post award, breaches EU tendering rules - unless it was previously agreed and cabinet were aware but the deal was kept secret. However, setting that aside, the response from the Council should have been to seek a reduction in the length of the contract. Limited investment = shorter contract term; that is standard business practice. This could have been Barnet's opportunity to cut the contract to, say, five years with a break clause at three years but this didn't happen. This is a serious and naive error demonstrating to me that there is a lack of financial rigour by those administering this contract.
As a final point, Barnet have now invested in excess of £26 million in this contract, including over £10 million on professional advisors. Just think what an in-house team could have delivered with just half that level of investment. But as we all know One Barnet has been one of the most successful con jobs in local government history.
Myth 1 "We need to invest but we have no money. That is why an in-house bid is not an option".
Barnet have handed over £16 million of cash (£10.5 million was paid in August) and will either come from reserves or from borrowing because it is cheaper for Barnet to borrow money that a private company. So it is okay to borrow money and give it to a FTSE 100 company but not to invest in your own in house team. This act will save Capita's shareholders around £1.1 million in interest annually.
Myth 2 "Capita will be subject to the same contract procedure rules as the Council"
Mr Travers, Barnet CEO has told me, "Capita will only be subject to the procurement regulations governing public sector bodies when it runs procurement for Council services that are outside the scope of the existing CSG contract". So any purchase that is part of what Capita are contracted to do is not covered and they can appoint whoever they want without being subject to tenders or disclosure.To set this in context, Capita are responsible for collecting council tax and as part of that activity they need to appoint bailiffs, so that is why Capita can appoint whoever they want including a wholly owned subsidiary company. This exemption will cover hundreds of contracts ranging from the supply of paper and office supplies through agency staff to IT spending so long as it is in connection with any of the service provided by Capita.
Myth 3 "There will be full transparency on purchases made or activity undertaken by Capita"
Part of the £15.2 million payment made to Capita in August included £4.7 million of "Service Charge" paid quarterly in advance. So we will pay just under £20 million a year to Capita in "Service Charges" but we have absolutely no transparency as to why that has been paid.
Myth 4 "There is a procedure in the contract to manage conflicts of interest"
Reading the 2,000+ pages of the Capita contract at Schedule 21, Conflicts of Interest Protocol, it states that "within three month of the Agreement Date the Service Provider (capita) shall provide.. a draft protocol".So we have signed a contract that does not contain a procedure for managing conflicts of interest, merely an agreement that Capita will write one within three months so any conflicts that take place now are simply not covered and can go through unchallenged.
Myth 5 "At the heart of the One Barnet programme is a relentless drive for efficiency"
On 24th June the Cabinet Resources Committee agreed to the "Council entering into an interim contract with Capita up to a value of £14.7m to secure the business critical activities detailed in Section 9 of the report in order that the Council can continue to provide effective services. The arrangement will be in place until 31st January 2014 or until the outcome of the appeal is known." On the 1st July Barnet signed a cheque for £14.7 million up front. Subsequently the court date was brought forward, the appeal rejected and Barnet signed a 10 year contract with Capita. I have been told that, of the £14.7 million paid upfront, £0.7 million was actually spent so Capita are sitting on an advance payment f £14 million. At the minute the council are discussing with Capita if this will be refunded or offset against future charges (but not the £4.7m for the first quarter because that has already been paid). The benefit for Capita is that this overpayment will fund their company's cashflow and save them around £80,000 a month. handing over so much money unnecessarily does not strike me as efficient, or effective, or even very sensible.
In the first month of the One Barnet contract the truth is starting to come out and all the waffling reassurances have been shown to be nothing more than a large pile of bovine excreta.


Asking for a friend, can you pick up an STD from someone if they had been dead for about an hour?
TWIST! The friend is the dead person!
Hehe I was concerned for my friend. Just stupid stuff that goes through my head on my way to work. My brain is slightly overactive and takes a lot of weird turns, as many of you probably already know. I can't remember how I got to that, probably from a song on the radio unless they said something during the Dan Patrick show that sent my mind astray.
Why I decided to share this one is the better question and I don't have an answer. Probably because it's all true and I'd really like to know because she had a lot of open sores.
To answer your question, I'd imagine you could.
All bacteria or viruses would need would be a host and I'm guessing there isn't much difference between someone alive and dead in that regard.
Didnt think I'd be pondering the viability of contracting std's from a corpse today, but hey, I like surprises.
Ah, well that is a little upsetting.
This place seems too clean, I think we need to dirty it up a bit.
Well, Thomas....there goes all of the likes I had planned on giving you.
I've got to save them up, cash them in, and buy more antibiotics if I'm going to be hanging out in here.
Man I hate the wait for a prostate exam.
It's like going to Cedar Point and waiting to get on a ride, not a big deal the first time but if you want to make a day of it it gets really frustrating after a while.
Funny you mention CP. My house is 0.6 miles from the entrance.......and I had both of my family physician's kids in class.
You don't know or I wouldn't be asking.


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Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie were married for 4 years. They dated for 7 years after getting together in Jan 2005. After a 2 years engagement they married on 23rd Aug 2014. 4 years later they separated in Sep 2016 and divorced on 12th Apr 2019.
They had 6 children, Maddox Chivan (21), Pax Thien (18), Zahara Marley (17), Shiloh Nouvel (16), Knox Leon (14) and Vivienne Marcheline (14).
On Screen Matchups
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie were in 2 on-screen matchups, notably Mr. & Mrs. Smith(2005) and By the Sea(2015).
Brad Pitt is a 59 year old American Actor. Born William Bradley Pitt on 18th December, 1963 in Shawnee, Oklahoma, USA, he is famous for Interview with The Vampire, Legends of The Fall, Se7en, Inglorious Basterds. His zodiac sign is Sagittarius.
Angelina Jolie is a 47 year old American Actress. Born Angelina Jolie Voight on 4th June, 1975 in Los Angeles, California, USA and educated at Moreno High School, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA (-1991), she is famous for her roles as Lisa Rowe in the 1999 psychological drama film Girl, Interrupted, Lara Croft in the Lara Croft: Tomb Raider films, Maleficent in the Maleficent films and Thena in the 2021 Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero film Eternals in a career that spans 1982–present. Her zodiac sign is Gemini.
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Jan 2005 - Apr 2012 7 years, 3 months
Apr 2012 - 23rd Aug 2014 2 years, 4 months
23rd Aug 2014 - 12th Apr 2019 4 years, 7 months
Jan 2005 - 12th Apr 2019 14 years, 3 months
First on 23 August 2014 they legally wed in California, and then had a ceremony at their Chateau Miraval estate. Jolie's veil was embroidered with the kids' drawings, Pax made a cake and all the kids helped with the vows. Overall, the wedding preparations resembled plans for an impromptu sleepover in the backyard.
Brad and Angelina met on the set of Mr & Mrs Smith in 2004, but they claim that they didn't hook up until they started dating in January 2005. Although the majority of people assume otherwise.
During Pitt's divorce proceedings, his involvement with his Mr. & Mrs. Smith co-star Angelina Jolie attracted media attention. While Pitt denied claims of adultery, he admitted that he "fell in love" with Jolie on the set. In April 2005, one month after Aniston filed for divorce, a set of paparazzi photographs emerged showing Pitt, Jolie and her son Maddox at a beach in Kenya; the press interpreted the pictures as evidence of a relationship between Pitt and Jolie. During 2005, the two were seen together with increasing frequency, and the entertainment media dubbed the couple "Brangelina". On January 11, 2006, Jolie confirmed to People that she was pregnant with Pitt's child, thereby publicly acknowledging their relationship for the first time. Pitt and Jolie announced their engagement in April 2012 after seven years together.
In July 2005, Pitt accompanied Jolie to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where she adopted her second child, six-month-old Zahara Marley. On January 19, 2006, a California judge granted Jolie's request to change the children's surnames from "Jolie" to "Jolie-Pitt". The adoptions were finalized soon after.
Jolie gave birth to daughter Shiloh Nouvel in Swakopmund, Namibia, on May 27, 2006. Pitt confirmed that their newborn daughter would have a Namibian passport. The couple sold the first pictures of Shiloh through the distributor Getty Images; the North American rights were purchased by People for over $4.1 million, while Hello! obtained the British rights for approximately $3.5 million. The proceeds from the sale were donated to charities serving African children. Madame Tussauds in New York unveiled a wax figure of two-month-old Shiloh; it marked the first time an infant was recreated in wax by Madame Tussauds.
On March 15, 2007, Jolie adopted three-year-old Pax Thien from an orphanage in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Pitt adopted Pax in the United States on February 21, 2008.
At the Cannes Film Festival in May 2008, Jolie confirmed that she was expecting twins. She gave birth to son Knox Léon and daughter Vivienne Marcheline on July 12, 2008 in Nice, France. The rights for the first images of Knox and Vivienne were jointly sold to People and Hello! for $14 million—the most expensive celebrity pictures ever taken. The couple donated the proceeds to the Jolie-Pitt Foundation.
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Relationship Timeline
12th April, 2019 - Divorce
20th September, 2016 - Divorce
September, 2016 - Breakup
23rd August, 2014 - Marriage
April, 2012 - Engagement
12th July, 2008 - Child
27th May, 2006 - Child
8th January, 2005 - Child
January, 2005 - Hookup
29th November, 2003 - Child
5th August, 2001 - Child
Couple Comparison
Age (at start of relationship)
5' 11" (180 cm)
5' 6½" (169 cm)
Brown - Dark
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Maddox Chivan Male 5th August, 2001 21 years old
Pax Thien Male 29th November, 2003 19 years old
Zahara Marley Female 8th January, 2005 18 years old
Shiloh Nouvel Female 27th May, 2006 16 years old
Knox Leon Male 12th July, 2008 14 years old
Vivienne Marcheline Female 12th July, 2008 14 years old
Mr. & Mrs. Smith 2005
By the Sea 2015
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True legends of Hollywood. The scenes just explode!
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Suprised they have split?? Maybe for the best?! ://
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Love this couple! wish all the best
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Love this couple, forever and always.
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Brangelina forever and ever, without end.
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They finally got married. Her dress was so cute :)
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Omgoodness could these two be any more beautiful.
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Gorgeous couple inside and out...Humantarians on all levels...
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Best hollywood couple. Hope it last they have six kids!!!
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They have to stick together! Who else would take those uglies?
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They are beautiful handsome couple and great parents I think another 10 or 15 years they are relationship will not last for that long LOOOL
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William Vondon Applegate
in Obituaries
February 8, 1945 – October 1, 2021
William Vondon Applegate, 76 years of age, of Peebles, Ohio, passed away on Friday, October 1, 2021, at the Hospice of Hope Care Center at Kenton Pointe, in Maysville, Kentucky.
William was born in Wilmington, Ohio, on February 8, 1945, the son of the late William and Ethel (Harmon) Applegate. After graduating from Peebles High School, he worked as a crane operator. William attended the Locust Grove Wesleyan Tabernacle. He was a former member of both the Franklin and the Peebles Volunteer Fire Department, and he enjoyed spending time as a ham radio operator.
William was preceded in death by his parents. He is survived by his wife, Peggy (Rhoads) Applegate, whom he married on September 26, 1965. He also leaves a son, Tim (Laura) Applegate, of Peebles; and a daughter, Tammy Peach, also of Peebles; as well as two sisters, Delores Turley, of California; and Barbara Juergens, of Arizona. William will be missed by his four grandchildren, four great-grandchildren, and two great, great-grandchildren.
Family and friends may pay their respects during visitation on Wednesday, October 6, 2021, from 11:00 am until 1:00 pm, at the Locust Grove Wesleyan Tabernacle, in Locust Grove, Ohio.
Funeral services for William will be held following visitation on Wednesday, October 6, 2021, at 1:00 pm, at the Locust Grove Wesleyan Tabernacle, in Locust Grove, Ohio. Richard Williams will officiate the ceremony. Burial will follow in the Locust Grove Cemetery, in Peebles.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made in William's memory to the Franklin Fire Association, 167 Elliott Avenue, Peebles, Ohio 45660 or to the Peebles Volunteer Fire Department, 182 Elm Street, Peebles, Ohio 45660.
Funeral arrangements are being handled by the Wallace-Thompson Funeral Home. Please visit us at www.wallacethompsonfuneralhomes.com to sign our online guestbook.
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the blade of a carpenter's plane.
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irritating or harsh in tone: an iron voice.
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to furnish, mount, or arm with iron.
to shackle or fetter with irons.
to smooth and thin the walls of (an object being deep-drawn).
to press clothes, linens, etc., with an iron.
to iron or press (an item of clothing or the like).
to remove (wrinkles) from by ironing.
to resolve or clear up (difficulties, disagreements, etc.): The problem was ironed out months ago.
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Casting (feature film)
Bunch of Amateurs, A (2008)
An aging Hollywood star accepts an invitation to play King Lear at Stratford in the hope of reviving his career.
Deep Water (2006)
The voyage of Donald Crowhurst, one of the nine yachtsmen who joined a 1969 "London Times"-sponsored competition to make a highly publicized solo trip around the world. Crowhurst, a former engineer, but hardly the most experienced sailor, attempted this feat in a boat that he designed himself. A few
Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker (2006)
Alex Rider is a normal teenager who lives with his uncle, a boring bank manager, or so it seems until his uncle, Ian Rider, disappears under mysterious circumstances. Alex soon learns that his uncle was a spy for Britain¹s secret intelligence service MI6. Uncle Ian had actually prepared Alex for a career in espionage by encouraging his hobbies, and with Alex''s skills in languages, scuba diving, mountaineering and martial arts, he has all the attributes of a perfect spy. Recruited by Mr. Blunt and Mrs. Jones, and armed with special gadgets, he embarks on his first mission. Billionaire Darrius Sayle is donating a free Stormbreaker mega-computer to every school in Britain. But is there more to his generosity than meets the eye? Going undercover, he infiltrates Sayle''s compound. He meets the tycoon''s sinister sidekicks, vixen publicist Nadia Vole and the disfigured mute Mr. Grin, and tests out the impressive and secretive Stormbreaker computer. While exploring a restricted area, Alex begins to figure out the mysterious Stormbreakers--he knows he''s onto something big. Suddenly, Sayle and his evil henchmen capture Alex. Using his cunning and his MI6 gadgets, Alex manages to escape. He hitches a ride to London to stop Sayle from activating the Stormbreakers and releasing their secret weapon throughout Britain. But time is running out. With the help of his housekeeper Jack Starbright and his friend Sabina Pleasure, Alex takes Sayle head-on in a dangerous race against time to stop the evil plan. Within days he¹s gone from schoolboy to super spy, but will his first assignment be his last?
Ladies in Lavender (2005)
Elderly sisters Janet and Ursula Widdington live in a quiet coastal town outside Cornwall. After a violent storm, they awake to find a young man, Andrea, washed ashore and badly injured. Upon taking him in, his presence quietly invokes Ursula's abandoned feelings of longing and Janet's maternal inst
Two Men Went to War (2003) as Casting
Based on a true story, Sergeant Peter King of the Army Dental Corps, too old to fight, and Private Leslie Cuthbertson, a trainee dental mechanic in the Corps, are thrown together by their passionate desire to see active service. Armed with just two revolvers and a dozen grenades, King persuades Cuth
Swimming Pool (2003) as Casting (English Crew)
Sarah Morton is a famous British mystery author. Tired of London and seeking inspiration for her new novel, she accepts an offer from her publisher John Bosload to stay at his home in Luberon, in the South of France. It is the off-season, and Sarah finds that the beautiful country locale and unhurri
Gabriel and Me (2001) as Casting Director
An 11-year-old boy from Newcastle, England believes he can save his dying father by becoming an angel. In order to achieve his goal, he makes friends with the Archangel Gabriel.
Bodywork (2001)
Virgil Guppy is having a bad day. He puts everything he has into buying a flashy second hand car, only to find that his owtward gloss hides a severly defective engine. Returning to the car lot from which he bought it, he is given the shaft by the owner. Virgil takes him to court, and wins, but still
Room to Rent (2000) as Casting Director
An Egyptian man relocates to London and soon finds that immigration laws pose a serious threat to his screenwriting aspirations. He runs into another stymied artist, a young actress who makes a living impersonating Marilyn Monroe.
Eisenstein (2000) as Casting
Follows the twists and turns of Soviet film director Sergei Eisenstein's tumultuous career. In the early twenties, Eisenstein falls under the spell of revolutionary theatre's master Vsevolod Meyerhold, then fearlessly turns to the new medium of cinema to depict the story of the failed 1905 revolutio
Deeply (2000)
City-bred Claire McKay, 16, has been brought to the place of her ancestors, Ironbound Island, after the sudden death of her boyfriend. After months of trying, her mother, Fiona, can no longer cope with the scarred young woman. Fiona hopes that time away might help Claire to heal and forget. Claire m
EverybodyLovesSunshine (1998) as Casting Director
After a stint in prison together, brothers Terry and Ray are released. Ray's time in jail has made him want to go straight and he finds some comfort in a relationship with Clare. Terry, on the other hand, reenters the Northern England crime world with a vengeance. Soon Terry has rebuilt his criminal
Hostile Waters (1997)
Thriller based on the previously untold true story of how a near-nuclear catastrophe was averted in the wake of a collision between American and Soviet nuclear submarines off the coast of the United States on October 3, 1986.
Sister My Sister (1994) as Casting Director
Christine and Lea are exemplary maidservants whose fastidious appearance and attention to duty are the delight of their tyrannical new mistress, Madame Danzard. Madame Danzard and her daughter command an immaculate townhouse and lead lives of perfect bourgeois respectability. The reward for the sist
Second Best (1994)
James is a silent, angry boy living in an orphanage, haunted by the memory of his father, who is serving time in jail. Graham Holt is a middle-aged postmaster living a quiet, isolated life. Now that his mother is dead, Holt is nursing his invalid father and is haunted by the emptiness of his existence. After seeing an advertisement for adoption, Holt applies to become a father to James. Neither James, who hasn''t seen his father in years but loves him with an undying loyalty, nor Holt is prepared for the changes they must undergo, the truths they must face, or the risks they must take before they can learn to make a family of their own.
Dakota Road (1991) as Casting
Recession and environmental pollution effect a small group of ordinary citizens in a small farming community near a US air base.
Assistant Direction (special)
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates (1997)
Four-part special featuring the character, Hetty Wainthropp, the housewife-turned-detective. A part-time job at the post office turns into much more when Hetty stumbles upon a murder, leading her to a new career as head of the Wainthropp Detective Agency.
Casting (special)
Second Sight II (2001)
Detective Chief Inspector Ross Tanner heads an elite London police squad called the Special Murder Unit, charged with conducting high-profile, press-sensitive murder investigations, a high-stress job made worse by the fact that he is going blind from a rare eye disease and trying to keep it secret.
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates IV (2000)
Sixty-something gumshoe Hetty Wainthropp returns with her teenage sidekick, Geoffrey, and her doting husband, Robert, to take on a variety of cases at the Wainthropp Detective Agency with the help of Geoffrey's fiercely independent girlfriend-mechanic, Janet Fraser. In "A Minor Operation," Hetty go
The story of a 19th century farmer's daughter, Emma, who is bored with her marriage to a provincial doctor, Charles Bovary, whom she does not love. She finds passion with Rodolphe, a philandering aristocrat who abandons her, and with Leon, a romantic young clerk. Meanwhile, Emma has been spending th
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates III (2000)
Sixty-something detective Hetty Wainthropp and company -- her dutiful husband, Robert, and her scrappy teenaged sidekick, Geoffrey Shawcross, now promoted to full partner in the Wainthropp Detective Agency -- have their hands full in cases ranging from pyromania to stalking, hit-and-run, restaurant
Monsignor Renard (2000)
World War II drama about Monsignor Renard, a Nazi-defying French priest. In 1940, the monsignor is newly arrived in his home town of Saint-Josse des Bois, which he left 20 years earlier to join the Catholic church. The village is filled with reminders of his former life -- including Madeleine, his o
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates II (1999)
Sixty-something sleuth Hetty Wainthrop solves mysteries with the help of her husband Robert and her teenage sidekick Geoffrey. In "Poison Pen," Helga Allowby, a self-described spinster, has been accused of sending noxious poison pen letters to the residents of her village -- and she wants Hetty to p
Rhodes (1998)
Dramatization of the life of legendary diamond king and arch imperialist Cecil Rhodes and the "Wild West" era in southern Africa at the turn of the century.
Dark Adapted Eye, A (1995)
Adaptation of a novel by Ruth Rendell writing as Barbara Vine. Set in an English village during the 1940s, two sisters struggle over which of them is a child's natural mother, until one stabs the other to death.
Buccaneers, The (1995)
A multi-part adaptation of an unfinished novel by Edith Wharton. A group of spirited American girls launch themselves into the aristocratic English social world in the 1870s after they are ostracized by New York society because of their "new money" background.
Inspector Morse, Series VII: Who Killed Harry Field? (1994)
Two-part episode in the crime-solving exploits of Oxford Police Inspector Morse. A hack painter who steals ideas and brush techniques from famous artists is mysteriously killed.
Dancers in Mourning (1990)
A two-part presentation of "Mystery!" Features the 1930s unconventional detective Albert Campion, based on the novels by Margery Allingham. Campion and Lugg are recruited to investigate malicious practical jokes being played on a popular musical comedy star, who's rehearsing a new show with his trou
Flowers For the Judge (1990)
A two-part "Mystery!" presentation for PBS. Features the 1930s unconventional detective Albert Campion, based on the novels by Margery Allingham. Campion and Lugg probe mysterious events at The Golden Quill, an old-fashioned, family-owned publishing company. Digging into company secrets Campion disc
Mother Love (1990)
A drama about a mother's obsessive love for her son -- a love so twisted it leads to revenge and finally murder.
Death of a Ghost (1989)
A two-part program broadcast as part of the "Campion" series on "Mystery!" Set in England in the '30s, the story features the unconventional detective Albert Campion, based on a series of novels by mystery writer Margery Allingham. Campion traps a suspect who murdered a man at an art show while Camp
Case of the Late Pig, The (1989)
A two-part program featuring the unconventional detective Albert Campion, based on a series of novels set in Britain in the '30s by mystery writer Margery Allingham. In this episode, Campion attends the funeral of an old school chum named Pig Peters. Three months later, he is called to the scene of
Look to the Lady (1989)
A two-part presentation airing as part of the "Campion" series for "Mystery!" Set in England in the '30s, the story features the unconventional detective Albert Campion, based on a series of novels by mystery writer Margery Allingham. Campion saves a priceless chalice from a gang of thugs as he conf
Casting (TV Mini-Series)
Commissioner, The (1999)
Invasion Earth (1998)
A brutal alien race known as the "nD's" are traveling through space destroying all signs of life in their path, and their next target is Earth. The capture of an unidentified flying object over Scotland and unusual data received by a satellite monitoring station prompt an investigation by officials.
This Matter of Marriage (1998)
Harlequin's Diamond Girl (1998)
Harlequin's Hard to Forget (1998)


A meeting on the "Physics of Polymers" was held on January 10 - 12, 1961 in Bristol. This is believed to be the first of its kind in the United Kingdom. The organisers did not identify themselves as a Polymer Physics Group. A report on the meeting was later published: D.C. Bassett, British Journal of Applied Physics (1961) 12, 261.
The Polymer Physics Group was initiated following an informal meeting between Ian Ward, Andrew Keller, Arthur Charlesby, Geoff Allen and David Whiffen in 1963. Ian Ward had recently returned from working in the USA and proposed that a group was set up similar to that organised by the American Physical Society.
Ian Ward approached ICI (via Dr. Rowland Hill, Research Director of ICI Fibres) for financial support.
Arthur Charlesby offered the Royal Military College of Science, Shrivenham as the venue for the inaugural meeting of the Group, which was held on April 1-3, 1964.
Ian Ward agreed to act as Secretary and Treasurer and opened a bank account at Harrogate. Mrs. Margaret Ward set up the accounts and handled the receipt of the cheques for £5 from attendees.
Sir Charles Frank agreed to act as the Group Chairman, and Sir Gordon Sutherland was invited to open the conference.
Initially set up as an independent British Polymer Physics Group, it later became a joint Group of the Institute of Physics and the Chemical Society/Royal Society of Chemistry.
Thanks to Ian Ward and the Keller Archives in Bristol for information.


Is the age of influencers coming to an end?
We've always loved seeing what celebrities get up to and in this digital age we can see every aspect of their lives through Snapchat and Instagram.
These days "regular" people can become celebrities by building up huge followings on social media channels and having a niche area that they specialise in from beauty to travel and most vague of all "lifestyle".
We watch their stories every day and most importantly of all we believe everything they say. They influence us!
A certain brand of soft drink is declared the best – It's sold out straight away.
This nightclub is where all the celebs go – Good luck trying to get in for the next month!
Companies are always told that user generated content is the best type of promotion as it is deemed to be genuine and an authentic view declared by impartial people.
People are cynical now so they don't necessarily believe advertisements and especially not what the companies tell them directly.
There's nothing better than the perfect girl next door "type" recommending your product and even better if she's doing it off her own back!
Brands quickly realised this, which has led to the deliberate romancing of social media influencers, which has been a very effective tactic for the brands that know how to play the game.
However now everybody wants in.
Everyone wants access to that social media influencer that can help boost their products, services or message but in the "rush" very few are doing their due diligence on the influencers they are targeting.
Inevitably this has resulted in anonymous social media accounts like @bullshitcallerouter and @bloggersunveiled who are determined to call out these not so genuine accounts.
So far, these accounts have revealed the influencers that buy followers, don't use the #ad code and more seriously the ones that are flouting the road safety rules but were part of a road safety campaign.
The people that follow those influencers are obviously disappointed with their behaviour but it all comes back to the companies who have chosen them.
By not doing the research on the influencers that they have chosen to work with, have they inadvertently harmed their brands?
A recent example comes from the Road Safety Authority (RSA).
The @bloggersunveiled account has been sharing images from the last couple of weeks of influencers that have worked with the RSA on their campaign last year but are not following the basic rules of the road as demonstrated clearly by images they shared on social media.
Over the weekend the RSA announced that two of the influencers they worked with last year on their "Killer Look" campaign will return their fees.
They have dealt with this well by stepping out in front of this and are working on protecting their brand and the message they are trying to send to the public.
Is it time for us all to be more diligent in who we choose to represent our brands?
Should companies have guidelines and codes of conduct for campaigns with influencers going forward?
It's definitely time for us to be more aware and alert about those we choose to follow.
With the growth of fake news, fake followers and now, insincere influencers do we need to take everything with a pinch of salt?
There I said it. I reckon this is what most people think but no one wants to admit.
Social media is meant to be the easy part of marketing. It's free so it must be simple! No-one counts the time that has to go into creating, posting and monitoring the content that will represent you or your business on social media.
This is what scares a lot of business people away from using social media. They dip their toe in and then realise how much time is involved and step back. And when they decide to give it a second chance everything has changed!
But it doesn't have to be that hard – I promise.
Just like you would with a normal business plan you should create a social media marketing plan. This will help you set goals and decide which platforms you want a presence on. Doing this will set you up for success, and will allow you to avoid any social media mistakes.
It makes everything so much easier and helps you to stay organised and on track with your plan. By using a social media content calendar you're able to figure out a social media content schedule that works for you. You can see and control how often you post and make sure you're posting suitable content to the right platform.
You must be willing to engage with people online. The main point of social media is to be social!
If people are asking questions about your business or your products, you need to respond to them. Even if it's bad. Acknowledgement of an issue goes a long way and could stand to you in future.
If you're getting stuck with ideas for content or you just don't have the time to properly monitor your activity, it might be a good idea to seek some outside help.
Whether it's training or getting someone to take over your accounts, sometimes an outside perspective can be very beneficial. By working with an agency you get access to their knowledge and expertise about social media marketing which you can apply to your business.
Greg, our social media guru (he'll hate me saying that!) is a huge advocate for not outsourcing your social media but even he will admit that outsourcing to well-briefed professionals is much better than doing it badly or not at all.
If this is you then give us a call!


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Food is traded and marketed on a global basis. The variety and availability of food is no longer restricted by the diversity of locally grown food or the limitations of the local growing season.[110] Between 1961 and 1999, there was a 400% increase in worldwide food exports.[111] Some countries are now economically dependent on food exports, which in some cases account for over 80% of all exports.[112]
Fermentation of the non-colored grape pulp produces white wine. The grapes from which white wine is produced are typically green or yellow. Some varieties are well-known, such as the Chardonnay, Sauvignon, and Riesling. Other white wines are blended from multiple varieties; Tokay, Sherry, and Sauternes are examples of these. Dark-skinned grapes may be used to produce white wine if the wine-maker is careful not to let the skin stain the wort during the separation of the pulp-juice. Pinot noir, for example, is commonly used to produce champagne.
Generally regarded as the most pleasant taste, sweetness is almost always caused by a type of simple sugar such as glucose or fructose, or disaccharides such as sucrose, a molecule combining glucose and fructose.[73] Complex carbohydrates are long chains and thus do not have the sweet taste. Artificial sweeteners such as sucralose are used to mimic the sugar molecule, creating the sensation of sweet, without the calories. Other types of sugar include raw sugar, which is known for its amber color, as it is unprocessed. As sugar is vital for energy and survival, the taste of sugar is pleasant.
France has various appellation systems based on the concept of terroir, with classifications ranging from Vin de Table ("table wine") at the bottom, through Vin de Pays and Appellation d'Origine Vin Délimité de Qualité Supérieure (AOVDQS), up to Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée (AOC) or similar, depending on the region.[75][76] Portugal has developed a system resembling that of France and, in fact, pioneered this concept in 1756 with a royal charter creating the Demarcated Douro Region and regulating the production and trade of wine.[77] Germany created a similar scheme in 2002, although it has not yet achieved the authority of the other countries' classification systems.[78][79] Spain, Greece and Italy have classifications based on a dual system of region of origin and product quality.[80]
Wines from other fruits, such as apples and berries, are usually named after the fruit from which they are produced combined with the word "wine" (for example, apple wine and elderberry wine) and are generically called fruit wine or country wine (not to be confused with the French term vin de pays). Other than the grape varieties traditionally used for wine-making, most fruits naturally lack either sufficient fermentable sugars, relatively low acidity, yeast nutrients needed to promote or maintain fermentation, or a combination of these three characteristics. This is probably one of the main reasons why wine derived from grapes has historically been more prevalent by far than other types, and why specific types of fruit wine have generally been confined to regions in which the fruits were native or introduced for other reasons.
In 1994, over 100 countries became signatories to the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade in a dramatic increase in trade liberalization. This included an agreement to reduce subsidies paid to farmers, underpinned by the WTO enforcement of agricultural subsidy, tariffs, import quotas, and settlement of trade disputes that cannot be bilaterally resolved.[113] Where trade barriers are raised on the disputed grounds of public health and safety, the WTO refer the dispute to the Codex Alimentarius Commission, which was founded in 1962 by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Health Organization. Trade liberalization has greatly affected world food trade.[114]
A 2003 report by archaeologists indicates a possibility that grapes were mixed with rice to produce mixed fermented drinks in China in the early years of the seventh millennium BC. Pottery jars from the Neolithic site of Jiahu, Henan, contained traces of tartaric acid and other organic compounds commonly found in wine. However, other fruits indigenous to the region, such as hawthorn, cannot be ruled out.[27][28] If these drinks, which seem to be the precursors of rice wine, included grapes rather than other fruits, they would have been any of the several dozen indigenous wild species in China, rather than Vitis vinifera, which was introduced there 6000 years later.[27]
The main active ingredient of wine is alcohol, and therefore, the health effects of alcohol apply to wine. A 2016 systematic review and meta-analysis found that moderate ethanol consumption brought no mortality benefit compared with lifetime abstention from ethanol consumption.[118] A systematic analysis of data from the Global Burden of Disease study found that consumption of ethanol increases the risk of cancer and increases the risk of all-cause mortality, and that the level of ethanol consumption that minimizes disease is zero consumption. [119] Some studies have concluded that drinking small quantities of alcohol (less than one drink in women and two in men) is associated with a decreased risk of heart disease, stroke, diabetes mellitus, and early death.[120] Drinking more than this amount actually increases the risk of heart disease, high blood pressure, atrial fibrillation, and stroke. Some of these studies lumped former ethanol drinkers and life-long abstainers into a single group of nondrinkers, hiding the health benefits of life-long abstention from ethanol.[120] Risk is greater in younger people due to binge drinking which may result in violence or accidents.[120] About 3.3 million deaths (5.9% of all deaths) are believed to be due to alcohol each year.[121]
Literary references to wine are abundant in Homer (8th century BC, but possibly relating earlier compositions), Alkman (7th century BC), and others. In ancient Egypt, six of 36 wine amphoras were found in the tomb of King Tutankhamun bearing the name "Kha'y", a royal chief vintner. Five of these amphoras were designated as originating from the king's personal estate, with the sixth from the estate of the royal house of Aten.[33] Traces of wine have also been found in central Asian Xinjiang in modern-day China, dating from the second and first millennia BC.[34]
Also, the natural sugar in fruit does affect your carbohydrate intake — especially if you eat a lot of fruit. This may temporarily raise your blood sugar or certain blood fats. However, this effect is lessened if you are losing weight. If you have diabetes or any other health conditions or concerns, work with your doctor to adjust the Mayo Clinic Diet for your situation. For example, people with diabetes should aim for more vegetables than fruits, if possible. It's a good idea to snack on vegetables, rather than snacking only on fruit.
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In Christianity, wine is used in a sacred rite called the Eucharist, which originates in the Gospel account of the Last Supper (Gospel of Luke 22:19) describing Jesus sharing bread and wine with his disciples and commanding them to "do this in remembrance of me." Beliefs about the nature of the Eucharist vary among denominations (see Eucharistic theologies contrasted).
A particular diet may be chosen to seek weight loss or weight gain. Changing a subject's dietary intake, or "going on a diet", can change the energy balance and increase or decrease the amount of fat stored by the body. Some foods are specifically recommended, or even altered, for conformity to the requirements of a particular diet. These diets are often recommended in conjunction with exercise. Specific weight loss programs can be harmful to health, while others may be beneficial and can thus be coined as healthy diets. The terms "healthy diet" and "diet for weight management" are often related, as the two promote healthy weight management. Having a healthy diet is a way to prevent health problems, and will provide the body with the right balance of vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients.[4]
On the local level, a butcher may commonly break down larger animal meat into smaller manageable cuts, and pre-wrap them for commercial sale or wrap them to order in butcher paper. In addition, fish and seafood may be fabricated into smaller cuts by a fish monger. However, fish butchery may be done on board a fishing vessel and quick-frozen for preservation of quality.[85]
Wine has been produced for thousands of years. The earliest known traces of wine are from Georgia (c. 6000 BC),[2][3][4][5] Iran (c. 5000 BC),[6][7] and Sicily (c. 4000 BC)[8] although there is evidence of a similar alcoholic drink being consumed earlier in China (c. 7000 BC).[9][10][11] The earliest known winery is the 6,100-year-old Areni-1 winery in Armenia.[12][13] Wine reached the Balkans by 4500 BC and was consumed and celebrated in ancient Greece, Thrace and Rome. Throughout history, wine has been consumed for its intoxicating effects.[14][15][16]
Vintage wines are generally bottled in a single batch so that each bottle will have a similar taste. Climate's impact on the character of a wine can be significant enough to cause different vintages from the same vineyard to vary dramatically in flavor and quality.[85] Thus, vintage wines are produced to be individually characteristic of the particular vintage and to serve as the flagship wines of the producer. Superior vintages from reputable producers and regions will often command much higher prices than their average ones. Some vintage wines (e.g. Brunello), are only made in better-than-average years.


London 2012 Olympic bronze medallist Daniel Purvis has announced his retirement from gymnastics.
The 28-year-old was a key figure in the men's team that won a historic medal in London - Great Britain's first Olympic medal in the sport for 100 years.
The Southport-based gymnast also won Commonwealth gold for Scotland, along with team silver for Britain at the 2015 World Championships in Glasgow.
He won 16 major international medals during a career spanning 10 years.
That included a European Championship team gold achieved in the build-up to the 2012 Olympics.
Team GB - also featuring Louis Smith, Sam Oldham, Kristian Thomas and Max Whitlock - initially claimed silver at their home Games before an appeal by Japan.
"Retirement was on my mind after 2016," Purvis told Scottish Gymnastics. "I thought the next one I would do would be the Commonwealth Games to represent Scotland and if I could have a good Commonwealths, I could go out proudly after that.
"It's been hard to comprehend and get around to it. You still feel like a gymnast so it will take a little bit of adjusting."
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Take our quiz, learn a thing or two, then get yourself along to a gymnastics class and be amazed!


A new MRI technique has revealed that it is the structural integrity of the hippocampus more than its size that reflects fitness and correlates with cognitive performance.
Research has focused on hippocampal size because it is easier to measure, and in children and older adults there are strong correlations between hippocampal size and memory. But this is less true for healthy, young adults. This new, subtler, technique reveals that something else is going on — something that has probably been masked by the effects of size in older adults (whose hippocampi are shrinking) and younger children (whose brains are still growing).
The technique measures viscoelasticity. If the hippocampus is more elastic, memory is better. When it's more viscous, memory is worse. Those with better aerobic fitness had better hippocampal elasticity.
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(2017). Aerobic fitness, hippocampal viscoelasticity, and relational memory performance.
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Darshi Thoradeniya
Academic CV
Colombo Branch Office Manager of the South Asia Institute (SAI), University of Heidelberg, Germany
E mail - darshi@sai.uni-heidelberg.de OR D.N.Thoradeniya@warwick.ac.uk
Office Hours - Monday to Friday - 9.00 - 4.00 SPARC, University of Colombo
PhD History, University of Warwick, 2014
MA Women's Studies, University of Colombo, 2008
BA History (Hons), University of Colombo, 2002
My research interests are in history of medicine, development studies, women's studies and history of modern South Asia.
My doctoral thesis examined the strategic place that women's health has played in Sri Lanka's twentieth-century history. Sri Lanka gained prominence in international policy circles as an apparent 'success story' first as a 'model colony' in early 1950s and later as a 'development model' for South Asia by 1970s, based on its relatively high rates of women's literacy (alongside its low maternal and infant mortality) and crucially low levels of fertility. In this success story women's health serves as a linchpin to the attainment of national progress. But a focus on women's health – as statistics and indicators – has also served to silence questions about Sri Lankan women's broader experiences of their disaggregated health. In particular, while Sri Lankan 'women's health' served the Sri Lankan state's success story well, what is less clear is subsequent tellings of its other twentieth century Sri Lankan stories of late colonial, national, developmental, neoliberal and militarised phases.
Drawing on archival research conducted in the US, the UK and Sri Lanka, critical readings of published sources and extensive oral history interviews, my thesis traces the overlapping stories of the international population control agenda and its indigenisation in Sri Lanka. The dissertation's chapters investigate the lives and work of late colonial elites who engaged extensively in social welfare work among their countrywomen, the agendas and discursive strategies of post-independence development planners and the travails of the physicians who conducted clinical trials of contraceptive pills in Sri Lanka. Particularly after the beginning of Sri Lanka's prolonged conflict at the end of the twentieth century, the final chapters trace how reproductive health programmes were freighted with ethnic politics. I argue that the strategic importance of women's health in this development 'success story' of South Asia has served to silence women's individual corporeal experiences, let alone any possibility of the widely-hailed project of 'women's empowerment'.
'Sri Lanka as a Laboratory for Pill Trials in South Asia (1950 – 1980)' in Medical History, Cambridge University Press (forthcoming)
'Altruism, Welfare or Development Aid?: Swedish aid for family planning in Ceylon (1958 to 1977)', in Journal of East Asian Science, Technology and Society (EASTS), Duke University Press (forthcoming)
'"Medical doctors do not accept any refreshment from us": Oral Histories in a Medical Setting in Sri Lanka' in Whose voices? The role of the interviewer in oral history in the Oxford Oral History Series (forthcoming)
'Well-Woman Clinic: A New Shift in Women's Health in Modern Sri Lanka', inWomen's Global Health: Norms and State Policies, edited by Lyn Boyd-Judson and Patrick James, Lexington Books, 2014, (pp. 129-150)
Compiled the Course Module on Social Harmony SSE 3101, Nugegoda, The Open University of Sri Lanka, (2013).
'Well-Woman Clinics: Women's Health 'Beyond Reproduction' in Sri Lanka' in Nivedini -Journal of Gender Studies, Vol.15, Nov.-Dec. 2009, Colombo, Women's Education and Research Centre, 122-145
Joint Runner up of the William Bynum Prize 2013 (An International Essay Competition coordinated by the Medical History Journal with the support of Cambridge University Press)
Royal Historical Award for Postgraduate Students, 2011 – to conduct archival research at the Countway Medical Library in Boston, Rockefeller Archives in New York and Library of Congress in Washington DC
Cullum MacDonald Memorial Bursary, Graduate Programme in History, University of Warwick, 2011 - to conduct archival research at the Countway Medical Library, Boston, Rockefeller Archives, New York, Library of Congress, Washington DC
Welcome Trust Strategic Award (PhD studies - 3 years), Centre for History of Medicine, Dept. of History, University of Warwick, 2009 - 2011
Europe-South Asia Exchange Fellowship (MIDEA), University of Oxford, 2007
Univ. of Colombo Mahapola Higher Education Merit Scholarship for Undergraduate Studies, 1997- 2001
'Well Woman Clinics: Shift in Women's Health in Sri Lanka', Guest Lecture at the Population Association of Sri Lanka, Colombo, August 2011
'Women's Health and Body: Development through Family Planning in Sri Lanka', Seminar on Gender, Health and Well-Being, International Gender Studies Centre, Department of International Development, University of Oxford, November 2010
Selected Conference Papers
'Why Pill Trials in Sri Lanka: Not India?', Conference on Science, Technology and Medicine in India, 1930-2000: The Problem of Poverty, Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Warwick, October 2011
'Of Emergences and Subjugations: Family Planning in Sri Lanka, 1953-2003, Conference on Politics and Practices: The History of Post-War Women's Health, Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester, UK, October 2010
'ICPD: A New Shift in Women's Health in Modern Sri Lanka', Conference on The Ethics of State Involvement in Women's Health, Centre for International Studies and Levan Institute, University of Southern California, USA, April 2010
'Women's Health and Bodies in Modern Sri Lanka', Conference on Methods in Theory and Practice, Wellcome Trust Post Graduate Research Conference, University College of London, July 2009
'Textual Study of Well-Woman Clinics in Sri Lanka', the Eleventh National Convention on Women's Studies, Center for Women's Research, Colombo, Sri Lanka
'Ethnographic understanding of wellbeing in Sri Lanka', Workshop on Conceptualization of Wellbeing in Sri Lanka, June 2007
'Gihidinacharyawa (Daily Code for the Laity): Hygiene and Woman's Body in Colonial Sri Lanka', Annual Research Sessions of the Faculty of Arts, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, August 2006
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