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Sneaky strategies to get kids moving
By Dorene Internicola	| January 20, 2010
To get that texting, tweeting, gaming child up and exercising, a new book suggests parents try sneaking fitness into the day-to-day routine, reports MiNDFOOD.
Is your rug rat becoming a sofa spud?
"A sneaky fit kid can burn an extra 400 calories per day," said Missy Chase Lapine, who co-authored Sneaky Fitness: Fun, Foolproof Ways to Slip Fitness into Your Childs Everyday Life, with personal trainer Larysa DiDio.
"This whole (childhood) obesity epidemic can be obliterated by the sneaky fitness method," she added.
Her book contains over 100 toddler-to-tween-targeted strategies, games and tips for exercising children. Sneaky Fitness is the fourth book in a series that sets forth what Lapine labels the sneaky lifestyle.
The best-selling Sneaky Chef cookbooks aimed to sneak good food into kids diets with recipes such as spinach-laced brownies and cookies with wheat germ folded in.
"Eating healthy is only half the battle. You really have to move more. Our kids today are really living a very sedentary lifestyle," she said.
According to data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), some 17 per cent of children are obese, three times as many as 30 years ago.
"When we were growing up we could go out and play tag or climb a tree unsupervised," Lapine said. "Today everything has to be planned. These days play happens in the den."
Lapine, who has a degree in psychology, said motivating kids is an important part of the sneaky philosophy.
In other words, its fun.
An activity dubbed Slip and Slide has kids sliding across the floor.
"You just say, Go make your socks as dirty as possible and put on some fun music, like the twist," she said. "Now theyve skated and twisted all over the floor, theyve helped mommy clean up, and they burned three times the calories as they would watching TV."
Similarly, Dig to China has kids digging in sand, filling up a pail and, Lapine says, burning 68 calories in 30 minutes.
Sneaky strategies include planting a mini trampoline or hula hoop in the TV room.
"They naturally gravitate to these items," Lapine explained. "All of a sudden they're watching Hannah Montana or American Idol and they cant sit still."
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With its economic development hampered by annual flooding and a string of natural disasters, Bangladesh remains the kind of destination that only those looking for true adventure would consider when bound for South Asia. But within this intriguing land of sparkling rivers and stunning mountains lie a series of treasures waiting to be discovered. Its capital city, Dakha, is a concrete jungle featuring many attractions and cultural institutions which form the perfect introduction to those wishing to learn more about the open-hearted people and fascinating traditions of Bangladesh. Explore the National Museum, Liberation War Museum, National Art Gallery, the Bangladesh Shishu Academy and Bangla Academy while staying at one of the city's excellent hotels or health spas. On the outskirts of the city is the impressive Lalbagh Fort, while the Mainimati Ruins are located an hour from the centre; a selection of more than fifty scattered Buddhist sites dating back to the 7 th and 12 th centuries which have special significance as one of the main seats of the Buddhist faith in Bangladesh, otherwise a mainly Muslim country.
Known for its role in the tobacco industry, the town of Rangpur in the north has a series of historical attractions from the Mughal period which draw many visitors, fascinated by the faded beauty of the remnants of palaces at Raja Nilambar, Hari Mandir and Mitha Pukur. The spectacular nine-domed Radhanagar Mosque is one of several mosques which add to the interest of the town. A visit to Srimanghal and Sylhet in the beautiful Surma Valley of eastern Bangladesh will lead you to discover the fascinating tea plantations of the region where the cultivation of the land in terraced tea gardens has created a unique and scenic landscape within lush green tropical forests.
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While most of the country is incredibly flat and often monotonous, there are unique features which have now been designated as National Parks or Wildlife Sanctuaries to recognise their importance and create areas for the public to enjoy as well as protect rare species of flora and fauna, which Bangladesh exhibits in abundance. Among eight National Parks, worth mentioning in particular are the Sundarbans with their amazing Bengal tigers, Ramsagar National Park which encompasses man-made forest of ornamental and fruit trees and the Himchari and Medha Kassapia National Parks at Cox's Bazar, where the world's longest beach combines miles of golden sand at the shores of the Bay of Bengal with colourful pagodas, markets and seafood restaurants.
The Bazar is close to the city of Chittagong, Bangladesh's second largest city whose peoples are descended from such diverse cultures as Afghan, Arab and Mughal as well as the Portuguese settlers who now live in the enclave of Paterghatta. This city, with a luscious setting against green rolling hills on the banks of the Karnaphuli River in the Bay of Bengal is a major sea port but manages to hold on to its reputation as one of the country's cleanest and most beautiful cities. A visit to Pahartali Lake and Patenga Beach will help you understand how it came to be known as such. The Island of Maheskali just off the coast of Cox's Bazar has an amazing mangrove jungle while Sonadia Island is popular for its variety of shells.
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Three French Police Officers Shot Dead After Responding To Domestic Incident
by John J Johnson
A gunman has shot and killed three police officers who were called to a domestic incident in central France.
The suspect, a 48-year-old man who was known to the police, was later found dead not far from the scene of the shooting.
During the incident, a woman managed to seek refuge on the roof of a house in a remote village near Saint-Just in the early hours of this morning, Wednesday, 23rd December.
Initial reports indicate that the gunman killed one officer and wounded another shortly after they arrived on the scene.
The gunman then set fire to the house.
As other officers rushed to the scene to assist their wounded colleagues, two more police officers were killed.
President Emmanuel Macron said the nation shared the grief of the families of the police officers.
One of the officers, who was shot in the leg, is expected to survive his injuries.
Support for the officers and their families has come flooding in from emergency services personnel around the world.
The officers have been named as Brig Arno Mavel, 21, Lt Cyrille Morel, 45, and Adjutant Rémi Dupuis, 37.
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COUNTING THE COST OF COVID-19
The nation's economy has been badly battered
Commercial activities resumed last Monday in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja as well as Lagos and Ogun States after President Muhammadu Buhari announced the gradual easing of restrictions earlier imposed to curb the spread of the dreaded COVID-19. Like prisoners stripped of their fetters, Nigerians swooped on public places, including banks to announce their freedom. Whether the restrictions on socio-economic and religious activities have slowed the spread of the virus is a different thing altogether. But what is not in contention is that the nation's economy has been badly battered.
In a clime where the informal sector holds sway and where majority of citizens survive on daily earnings with little or no support from the government, the lockdowns have also subjected the vulnerable of our society to much deprivation. That perhaps accounted for the partial compliance by Nigerians on the directive to stay at home. The unassailable fact is that majority of Nigerians are aware that the directive was meant to protect them from being struck by COVID-19. However, they were compelled by survival instinct to defy the advisory when confronted by a bleak reality of being without money or lack of food supplies, among other necessities of life.
Unfortunately, rather than the infection curve flattening, virtually all the 36 states of the federation have since recorded cases of COVID-19. In some instances, states which had no known case of infection when the president imposed an initial two-week (later extended to five weeks) lockdown of Lagos and Ogun States as well as the FCT are now frontline states with Kano as a quick example.
With no vaccine or therapeutic drugs available since the outbreak of the current Covid-19, lockdowns and quarantines have become prominent measures taken across the world to contain it. Several countries have enforced lockdowns of varying degrees, including total movement restrictions while others have enforced restrictions based on time, with only essential businesses allowed to open. Educational institutions, sporting and recreational activities, religious centres and sundry programmes have closed shop. The fortunes of small and medium scale enterprises have also gone to the nadir as the lockdown takes its toll. Meanwhile, huge scandals have trailed palliative exercises put in place to help keep the vulnerable afloat and persuade them to stay home.
What happened last Monday in the FCT, Lagos and Ogun States has already made a mess of whatever benefits the restrictions and the embedded social distancing were set out to achieve. The crowds that besieged public places following the relaxation of the lockdown are already raising apprehension on the uptick of new infections. The situation is not helped by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) directive which limited the number of banks that can open for business. That has led to a situation in which the few bank branches that are open have to deal with huge crowds. At the end, the relaxation of restrictions in the two states and the FCT looks like an experiment in figuring out how to live with the virus.
The authorities must understand that another round of lockdown will be more difficult to enforce than the earlier one without civil disobedience. So, what is important at this point is an enlightenment campaign: To all those who have gone back to their old habits, there is an urgent need for a word of caution. Relaxation of the lockdown is not the expiration date for the virus. It could still be contracted by those who have so far been negative. Observing the laid down protocols in containing the pandemic is more important now than ever. Since there is as yet no vaccines or approved drugs for COVID-19, prevention is the only cure.
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NATO has never been more relevant
The western security alliance is hardly an anachronism from the Cold War.
US and Georgian servicemen take part in the joint US-Georgia military exercise 'Noble Partner 2015'. | EPA
By Peter Mansoor
NATO is the centerpiece of US-European relations. The linchpin of the alliance is Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty, which states that "an armed attack against one or more of them [NATO members] in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all" and that all members are obliged to assist the state(s) under attack. Article 5 has been invoked only once in NATO's history, after the terrorist attacks against the US homeland on September 11, 2001. Following the destruction of the World Trade Center and the attack on the Pentagon, NATO aircraft flew 360 combat air patrol sorties over American cities, with 830 crew members from 13 allied nations involved in the effort. Meant to deter Soviet adventurism in Europe, Article 5 has only been used to protect the United States from non-state actors.
During the four decades of the Cold War, NATO's focus was on the forward defense of West Germany and the nuclear umbrella over Europe that ensured the Red Army stayed on the eastern side of the Iron Curtain. During this period the United States fought significant wars in Korea and Vietnam and intervened with military forces in a number of other hot spots around the world, supported at times by NATO member states but never by the alliance as a whole. NATO land forces were concentrated in Germany, with priority given to the defense of the North German Plain and the Fulda Gap.
By 1980 the increase in Soviet land power, however, made a conventional defense of Western Europe increasingly problematic. NATO countered this threat by stationing thousands of tactical nuclear warheads and hundreds of intermediate range nuclear tipped missiles in Europe, while at the same time seeking a comprehensive arms control agreement with the Soviet Union. The result was a worsening of relations between NATO and the Warsaw Pact, as well as significant anti-nuclear weapons demonstrations in Western Europe. Nevertheless, the alliance remained stable, even adding Spain as its sixteenth member in 1982.
The fall of the Iron curtain in 1989 led shortly thereafter to the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact and the Soviet Union, removing NATO's major adversaries and with them its raison d'être. These events caused serious soul-searching in the alliance, which reevaluated its strategic purpose. NATO found new meaning in "out of area" missions in Europe, South Asia, and Africa. NATO aircraft launched airstrikes against Bosnian Serb forces in August 1995, and a large NATO ground contingent participated in the subsequent multi-year peacekeeping mission in Bosnia. In 1999 NATO led a bombing campaign against Serbia and engaged in a subsequent peacekeeping mission that led to Kosovar independence a decade later. Outside of Europe, beginning in 2003 NATO forces in Afghanistan participated in the International Security Assistance Force, which included troops from forty-two countries. NATO also sent a small training mission to Iraq to assist in rebuilding Iraqi military forces after the US invasion. Starting in August 2009, NATO sent naval forces to protect commercial shipping in the Gulf of Aden from Somali pirates. In 2011 NATO led efforts to enforce a no-fly zone and protect civilians in Libya in accordance with UN Security Council Resolution 1973. During the seven months of the operation, NATO aircraft flew 9,500 sorties and provided the firepower that eventually toppled Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi from power.
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The Libyan intervention, however, also highlighted the failure of many NATO states to invest adequately in their military forces, with a number of units running out of munitions by the end of the operation. The continued diversion of government budgets from military to social welfare spending has left many NATO militaries a shell of their former Cold War selves. Only a handful of NATO members meet the alliance benchmark of spending at least 2 percent of their gross domestic product on defense. In fact, the United States currently accounts for roughly three quarters of all defense spending in NATO, a figure that leads many to conclude, not inaccurately, that European nations are freeriding on the United States for their security needs. If not addressed, this imbalance could imperil alliance unity in the near future.
NATO has also expanded into areas of Eastern Europe and the former Warsaw Pact. The first tranche of enlargement came in 1999 with the addition of the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland.2 Five years later NATO added Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia as member states. In 2009 Albania and Croatia joined the alliance. Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, and Montenegro all participate in NATO's membership action plan, which serves as NATO's review mechanism for aspiring members. Russia's concern that Georgia and Ukraine, both located in what Moscow terms the "near abroad," would follow suit is part of the reason for its military intervention in those nations. On the other hand, there is little doubt that the continued existence of NATO has kept most of the Continent peaceful for the longest stretch in recorded history.
Thucydides stated that nations go to war for one of three reasons: fear, honor and interest. One could extend this reasoning to why nations form alliances, and why those alliances remain intact or fall apart over time. Despite NATO's manifest military weaknesses and lack of investment in defense capabilities, strong incentives continue to hold the alliance together.
Vladimir Putin's aggression in Georgia and Ukraine has spooked his neighbors, especially those new NATO member states in Eastern Europe. Fear of Russian revanchism has served as inspiration for the maintenance of a healthy military relationship among NATO allies and has led to commitments of NATO ground and air forces (on a rotating basis) in the Baltic States and Poland. As importantly, NATO has served as an integrating mechanism for Europe for more than sixty-five years. Its dissolution would leave the Continent without a unified military force, the existence of which ensures stability in an area of the world that for many centuries was the most warlike on the globe.
Rather than an anachronism of the Cold War, NATO today plays a pivotal, stabilizing role in European security, and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.
Peter Mansoor, colonel, US Army (retired), is the General Raymond E. Mason, Jr. Chair of Military History at Ohio State University. He assumed his current position after a twenty-six-year career in the US Army that included two combat tours, culminating in his service as executive officer to General David Petraeus in Iraq. His latest book, Surge: My Journey with General David Petraeus and the Remaking of the Iraq War, a history of the surge in Iraq in 2007–8, was published by Yale University Press in 2013. This essay was adapted by POLITICO from Strategika, a Hoover Institution publication.
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Singapore shares posted their best weekly advance since January, helped by a rally in property developers and lenders, while Malaysian equities also rose over the last five days to snap a two-week losing run.
Singapore's FTSE Straits Times index rose 0.9% to 3,291.29 on Friday, taking its rally this week to 2.2%. UOL Group added 5.3% since last Friday, pacing gains for real estate developers. DBS Group Holdings led banking stocks higher, climbing 3.2% this week. On Friday, UOL Group was up 4.3% and DBS by 0.8%.
Property Singapore stocks in the city-state gained this week after City Developments bought a residential site worth more than S$900 million ($660 million), reigniting optimism for Singapore's real estate market, according to at least two brokerages. Shares of City Developments rose 2.3% this week.
Lenders climbed for a third consecutive week, tracking a rise in U.S. bond yields amid optimism over tax reforms in the world's largest economy. Singapore rates are heavily influenced by the U.S. and a rising interest rate scenario helps the net interest rate margin outlook for banks. The benchmark 10-year U.S. bond yield is trading near a four-month high.
Gains in Singapore stocks this week were also helped by a record run on Wall Street that saw all three major U.S. equity benchmarks repeatedly scale record highs.
The FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI ended up 0.3% to 1,764 on Friday, rising 0.5% this week. AMMB Holdings and RHB Bank were the week's top performers, adding at least 2.4% each, rebounding from last week's losses. On Friday, AMMB rose 0.2% and RHB ended little changed.
The market is expected to trade sideways in the coming week as investors await fresh catalysts which include Malaysia's upcoming 2018 fiscal budget, said Pong Teng Siew, head of research at Inter-Pacific Securities in Kuala Lumpur. "It looks like it's going to be a very quiet week ahead," with funds seen holding back positioning ahead of the budget announcement expected in the final week of this month, said Pong. His forecast model indicates a "very narrow" 14-point upside and downside for the KLCI for the whole week.
Foreign outflows from Malaysia's stock market dwindled to 29 million ringgit ($6.8 million) this week through Thursday, after last week's outflow of nearly 1 billion ringgit.
Construction and property developer WCT Holdings advanced 2.3% on Friday after is subsidiary won a contract for completion of Light Rail Transit Line 3 (LRT3) and other associated works for 640 million ringgit.
Gabungan AQRS climbed 6.4% after securing LRT3 contract worth 1.21 billion ringgit.


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(a) (1) The ratio of average daily attendance for independent study pupils 18 years of age or less to school district full-time equivalent certificated employees responsible for independent study, calculated as specified by the department, shall not exceed the equivalent ratio of average daily attendance to full-time equivalent certificated employees providing instruction in other educational programs operated by the school district, unless a new higher or lower average daily attendance ratio for all other educational programs offered is negotiated in a collective bargaining agreement or a memorandum of understanding is entered into that indicates an existing collective bargaining agreement contains an alternative average daily attendance ratio.
(2) The ratio of average daily attendance for independent study pupils 18 years of age or less to county office of education full-time equivalent certificated employees responsible for independent study, to be calculated in a manner prescribed by the department, shall not exceed the equivalent prior year ratio of average daily attendance to full-time equivalent certificated employees for all other educational programs operated by the high school or unified school district with the largest average daily attendance of pupils in that county or the collectively bargained alternative ratio used by that high school or unified school district in the prior year, unless a new higher or lower average daily attendance ratio for all other educational programs offered is negotiated in a collective bargaining agreement or a memorandum of understanding is entered into that indicates an existing collective bargaining agreement contains an alternative average daily attendance ratio. The computation of the ratios shall be performed annually by the reporting agency at the time of, and in connection with, the second principal apportionment report to the Superintendent.
(b) Only those units of average daily attendance for independent study that reflect a pupil-teacher ratio that does not exceed the ratios described in subdivision (a) shall be eligible for apportionment pursuant to Section 2575, for county offices of education, and Section 42238.05, for school districts. This section does not prevent a school district or county office of education from serving additional units of average daily attendance greater than the ratios described in subdivision (a), except that those additional units shall not be funded pursuant to Section 2575 or 42238.05, as applicable. If a school district, charter school, or county office of education has a memorandum of understanding to provide instruction in coordination with the school district, charter school, or county office of education at which a pupil is enrolled, the ratios that shall apply for purposes of this paragraph are the ratios for the local educational agency providing the independent study program to the pupil pursuant to Section 51749.5.
(c) The calculations performed for purposes of this section shall not include either of the following:
(1) The average daily attendance generated by special education pupils enrolled in special day classes on a full-time basis, or the teachers of those classes.
(2) The average daily attendance or teachers in necessary small schools that are eligible to receive funding pursuant to Article 4 (commencing with Section 42280) of Chapter 7 of Part 24 of Division 3.
(d) The applicable average-daily-attendance-to-certificated-employee ratios described in subdivision (a) may, in a charter school, be calculated by using a fixed average-daily-attendance-to-certificated-employee ratio of 25 to 1, or by using a ratio of less than 25 pupils per certificated employee. A new higher or lower ratio for all other educational programs offered by a charter school may be negotiated in a collective bargaining agreement, or a memorandum of understanding indicating that an existing collective bargaining agreement contains an alternative average daily attendance ratio may be entered into by a charter school. All charter school pupils, regardless of age, shall be included in the applicable average-daily-attendance-to-certificated-employee ratio calculations.
(Amended by Stats. 2016, Ch. 86, Sec. 67.)


Where is Green PR Going – Who Defines It? What is Green Sucess?
In Public Relations and communications words matter. This may seem self evident, yet, we see huge differences of opinion and great chasms open, due to vast variation of definition. Take the the term "healthcare tax" for example. The fist fight over definition on this one went through the Supreme Court and still enters "extra rounds" as the Obama Administration tries still to position the Affordable Health Care Act" as anything but a tax. Words matter.
Social Responsibility, Ethical, Green, Social Conscience, Fair, Right & Wrong, Diversity, Tolerance. Change the audience or the context and we see wide swings in exactly what these words mean.
To many, green is just a color, but to a growing audience, it means many other things. Green power for one; social responsibility to another; a question of ethics to some; an outlook of in harmony with people and the planet to others. To the politically correct, it's government policy debated with dozens of variables.
Enabling, Visionary. To the conservative, it may represent extremism; to the liberal it may be social conscience. There is even a test for green business: People, Planet, Profit.
So, where is green going? If you seek government funding for some green technology slated to save the planet, you may be waiting a long time in the U.S. as the "chickens come home to roost" with the exploding national debt and the lagging bad taste left by the government green lotto failure of Solyndra.
If you seek private funding for green products, you will find a steadily growing flow of investment based more on business sense not only social conscience. Speaking of conscience, the young adult of today is more socially responsible and aware than any preceding generation. So, it would stand to reason that products and services of the future will have to pass the litmus test of green, however it is defined.
If you are in the military, not only does the politically correct green umbrella hang over your head, but you have to plan on a world with increasing oil shortages and an unlimited need for energy.
How do you define "success" among green startups? Eric Wesoff of GreenTechMedia recently asked for examples of CleanTech Success. ElectraTherm & Humless are among my Green PR clients doing great things. They are successful at garnering partners, customers, & investors. I'm not sure plans on going public soon. How do you define success: investment, IPO, a bunch of customers, job creation, or profitability?
My take is some are growing weary of "Green." Marketers and Green Public Relations pros like me will have to find different words to get the message across, so as to attract, not offend. What do you think?


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Q: Idle time in android? How can I determine idle time in android? I wanted to show a popup if the application is idle for sometime,say some 60 secs.

A: I don't think that the Android API provides anything that could help you with this. Also have in mind that most devices will turn off the screen after one minute of inactivity. It will be better to leave the user/device to select when the screen needs to be turned off. You can capture the screen off and on events using Intent.ACTION_SCREEN_OFF and Intent.ACTION_SCREEN_ON. Instructions are provided here. You could show the dialog after the screen was turned off and on again.

A: capture a time stamp just before last activity performed and start a TimerTask for one time execution with the difference period of time stamp captured + 60  secs.

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*Create a handler that checks a boolean. If true show a notification. If the boolean is false ( then send a delayed empty message to the handler after 60 secs. Reset the boolean to true)

*Send a delayed empty message to the handler after 60 secs

*In your activity, on every user interaction reset the boolean to false.

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Jessie Chung's Achievement Celebration
After wrapping up her radio interviews and launching show in Taiwan, Jessie Chung returned to Malaysia to attend the achievement celebration organized by her record label. Mr. Darren Choy, Managing Director of Warner Music Group Malaysia & Singapore and Chairman of the Recording Industry Association of Malaysia and Mr. Sein Way Tan, Future Entertainment & Music Group Australia representative, presented Jessie with the Outstanding Achievement Award in the Music Industry.
What Jessie Chung has achieved with her album There You Are is nothing short of miraculous, she has done the impossible, for a Malaysian artist at least. Her new album has recently shot right up to the most influential and authoritative chart in the Taiwanese music industry, Five Music, debuting at number two on the Top 5 Chart for international albums. Five Music's Top 5 Chart is the leading Taiwanese music chart and the only chart in Taiwan solely based on album sales. Jessie is confirmed to be the first Malaysian singer to squeeze into this prestigious chart, overtaking Australian artist Sia, who is currently at third place, and placing right next to Lady Gaga, who is barely ahead by two points. Indeed, her album has placed among the works of elite international stars, and this is just the beginning.
There You Are has so far sold more than 10,000 copies, and that is already an amazing feat in its own right. To encourage Jessie to soldier on and put on her best fight in next year's tight schedule, Future Entertainment & Music Group Australia and Warner Music Malaysia honoured her with the Outstanding Achievement Award in the Music Industry, ensuring that Jessie's There You Are will soar on to greater heights!
Besides celebrating the astonishing results Jessie and her brand new album has attained, the company also took the chance to appreciate Jessie's efforts and accomplishments this year. In early 2016, Jessie Chung's Exquisite Chinese Orchestra Concert had sold out all ten performances in West and East Malaysia and was a hit among the show biz. Her recent stage production Moonlight was also well received by public, and it also had sold out all ten performances around the country. At the same time, a series of campaigns for Jessie in Malaysia and Taiwan were all roaring successes, and launching shows nationwide and abroad, including locations such as Kuala Lumpur, Kuching, Penang, and Taipei, Taiwan, were all completed without a hitch. The events received widespread enthusiasm from fans of all places, crowding up the venues on every occasion.
As for future plans, Jessie Chung stated that her record label has arranged for her eighteen launching shows nationwide, and she will be going to South Africa in February to get her work promoted. Also in April next year, she is set to open two solo concerts, and audiences are estimated to amount over a few thousand. Jessie's schedule is currently full at the moment, she has to rehearse for her new stage play, Music Box, and prepare for the production of her next album; as a result, her record label has decided to push back the plans for her in China.
As for her next album, Jessie has revealed that her Australian director is determined to capture scenes of her standing on top of a light house in her new music video. At this time, she has already recorded three new songs, and she will travel back to Australia to continue recording and filming her new music video. Her next album is set to be released in January next year. During the celebration, the organizers brought the attendees a surprise when they premiered the music video of "Forever Young", a single from her next album, causing a wave of excitement and shrieks among the crowd!
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Great recap.Thanks for sharing
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Rose World November 27, 2016 at 7:57 AM
Wow! Look like she is doing well. Good luck to her. Btw, she is my distant cousin but never knew or met her. My mum's cousin's child.
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she is talented in many ways
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En rhétorique, l'écho (substantif masculin) est une figure de style fondée sur une répétition de la dernière syllabe du vers, ou de la phrase, répétition qui précède, de manière inattendue et souvent satirique, à une question posée plus avant. C'est une figure privilégiée par les auteurs humanistes néo-latins et français comme Joachim Du Bellay. La figure peut apparaître sans qu'une question préalable n'existe, mais toujours l'effet est une sorte d'écho quasi cacophonique, et toujours satirique.

Il est important de distinguer la figure de l' écho et l'effet dit d' écho également, qui peut être produit par une harmonie imitative,des champs lexicaux ou sémantiques spécifiques, par des rimes choisies enfin.

Exemples
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Notes et références

Voir aussi

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Stumping in the Backyard
Governor Scott Walker Should Be Running For President...
By Selene, July 5, 2012 in Stumping in the Backyard
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I get it. America is under threat because we haven't been aggressive enough around the globe. America, invade the planet, transform the world.
The Neocon Jacobins ride again.
Actually, you do not get it.
Being prepared to act globally is part of a defensive strategy.
Not going to add straw to your man. Certainly did not state that invading places around the globe is part of that strategy.
What is your solution?
Solution? What is the problem?
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I again butt in on what is superficially not my business, to agree with this approach. "Being prepared to act" is half the battle, at times it's the battle avoided. "Walk softly and carry a big stick", isn't a compromise or contradiction. It rather indicates thinking contextually, of when and where to act - and to what degree of force - guided by principle and rational self interest. But, all-in, or no response at all, is a mistake (I think interventionism vs. isolationism is a false alternative).
I am very glad to see today that countries, France, Germany, UK, and even little Estonia, are planning to combine to send in a force into the Ukraine. For once, it is not the usual "US-led coalition" (as it has seemingly always been, everywhere). For once, let others think and act for their own self-interest, without depending on America always leading the way (or going it alone) and always collecting the Bad Guy fall-out. All international military actions in future, should be of equal partners with equal resolve, risking equal numbers of soldiers and as much as possible, equally financing the operation.
It occurs to me often, how being the most moral and free nation (as with individuals) carries with it a growing, presumed upon, and tacit responsibility for others, who turn automatically to that nation's guidance -- in the process weakening their own moral self interest and liberty.
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Walker is a superb politician, so when he says, "We need to have an aggressive strategy anywhere around the world," only someone determined to misunderstand him would take the word "aggressive" to mean, well, aggressive, or "anywhere in the world" to mean just anywhere in the world.
Can't a reasonable observer see how much more freedom and less terrorism the world has since our spectacular military successes in Afghanistan and Iraq? And, therefore, what young lad or lass could resist joining the globalist in sowing new Afghanistans, Iraqs, and Libyas over the rest of God's green earth?
My solution? Why, the solution to having to pull our troops out of one hellhole is to find a brand new hellhole for them to crawl into. And anyone who says it ain't defense is just being cynical or not well invested in military industry stocks.
I will waive consecutive translation of your post.
Since I am not too bright, let's just have you answer the same question that the "expert" interviewer asked Governor Walker, who never graduated college like the super smart interviewer did?
Yes we shall!
"President elect Mr. Ferrer:
What is your big, bold, fresh idea in Syria?
I don't have a fresh idea, but quite an old one: "Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her heart, her benedictions and her prayers be. But she goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. She will recommend the general cause, by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example."
Great avoidance.
The John Quincy Adams gambit?
John Quincy Adams on U.S. Foreign Policy (1821)
And now, friends and countrymen, if the wise and learned philosophers of the elder world, the first observers of nutation and aberration, the discoverers of maddening ether and invisible planets, the inventors of Congreve rockets and Shrapnel shells, should find their hearts disposed to inquire what has America done for the benefit of mankind?
Let our answer be this: America, with the same voice which spoke herself into existence as a nation, proclaimed to mankind the inextinguishable rights of human nature, and the only lawful foundations of government. America, in the assembly of nations, since her admission among them, has invariably, though often fruitlessly, held forth to them the hand of honest friendship, of equal freedom, of generous reciprocity.
She has uniformly spoken among them, though often to heedless and often to disdainful ears, the language of equal liberty, of equal justice, and of equal rights.
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She has abstained from interference in the concerns of others, even when conflict has been for principles to which she clings, as to the last vital drop that visits the heart.
She has seen that probably for centuries to come, all the contests of that Aceldama the European world, will be contests of inveterate power, and emerging right.
Wherever the standard of freedom and Independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her heart, her benedictions and her prayers be.
But she goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy.
She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.
She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.
She will commend the general cause by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example.
She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom.
The fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to force….
She might become the dictatress of the world. She would be no longer the ruler of her own spirit….
[America's] glory is not dominion, but liberty. Her march is the march of the mind. She has a spear and a shield: but the motto upon her shield is, Freedom, Independence, Peace. This has been her Declaration: this has been, as far as her necessary intercourse with the rest of mankind would permit, her practice.
When John Quincy Adams served as U. S. Secretary of State, he delivered this speech to the U.S. House of Representatives on July 4, 1821, in celebration of American Independence Day.
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Mixed bag: Erratic Pandemic Olympics wind to a nuanced end
These Games presented logistical and medical obstacles like no other.
Published: 9:36 AM EDT August 8, 2021
Updated: 11:01 AM EDT August 8, 2021
It began with a virus and a yearlong pause. It ended with a typhoon blowing through and, still, a virus. In between: just about everything.
The Tokyo Olympics, christened with "2020" but held in mid-2021 after being interrupted for a year by the coronavirus, glided to their conclusion in a COVID-emptied stadium Sunday night as an often surreal mixed bag for Japan and for the world.
A rollicking closing ceremony with the theme "Worlds We Share" — an optimistic but ironic notion at this human moment — featured everything from stunt bikes to intricate light shows as it tried to convey a "celebratory and liberating atmosphere" for athletes after a tense two weeks. It was set to pivot to a live feed from Paris, host of the 2024 Summer Games. And with that, the strangest Olympic Games on record began closing their books for good.
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From the outset, expectations were middling at best, apocalyptic at worst. Even Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee, said he'd worried that these could "become the Olympic Games without a soul." But, he said Friday, "what we have seen here is totally different."
"You could experience and feel and see and hear how much they enjoyed to be together here again," Bach said.
Athletes of Japan pose during the closing ceremony in the Olympic Stadium at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Sunday, Aug. 8, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (Dan Mullen/Pool Photo via AP))
At these Games, even the word "together" was fraught. Spectators were kept at bay. A patchwork of rules kept athletes masked and apart for much of medal ceremonies, yet saw them swapping bodily fluids in some venues. That was less about being remiss than about being real: Risks that could be mitigated were, but at the same time events had to go on.
Athletes' perseverance became a central story. Mental health claimed bandwidth as never before, and athletes revealed their stories and struggles in vulnerable, sometimes excruciating fashion.
Photos: Closing Ceremony, 2020 Tokyo Games
Athletes and volunteers carry flags during the closing ceremony in the Olympic Stadium at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Sunday, Aug. 8, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
From left, silver medalist Abdi Nageeye, of the Netherlands, gold medalist Eliud Kipchoge, of Kenya, and bronze medalist Bashir Abdi, of Belgium, stand on the podium after receiving their medals for the men's marathon during the closing ceremony in the Olympic Stadium at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Sunday, Aug. 8, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
Gold medalist Jepchirchir of Kenya, middle, silver medalist Brigid Kosgei, left, of Kenya and bronze medalist Molly Seidel of the United States, pose for a photo during the closing ceremony in the Olympic Stadium at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Sunday, Aug. 8, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
Gold medal winner for women's marathon Peres Jepchirchir during the closing ceremony in the Olympic Stadium at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Sunday, Aug. 8, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
Gold medalist Eliud Kipchoge, of Kenya, center, stands with silver medalist Abdi Nageeye, of Netherlands, left, and bronze medalist Bashir Abdi, of Belgium, during the closing ceremony in the Olympic Stadium at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Sunday, Aug. 8, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
Ukraine athletes pose during the closing ceremony in the Olympic Stadium at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Sunday, Aug. 8, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
Athletes of Switzerland lie on the grass during the closing ceremony in the Olympic Stadium at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Sunday, Aug. 8, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (Dan Mullen/Pool Photo via AP))
Artists perform during the closing ceremony in the Olympic Stadium at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Sunday, Aug. 8, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Dancers perform during the closing ceremony in the Olympic Stadium at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Sunday, Aug. 8, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
An artist performs during the closing ceremony in the Olympic Stadium at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Sunday, Aug. 8, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
A performer plays a traditional Japanese Taiko drum during the closing ceremony in the Olympic Stadium at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Sunday, Aug. 8, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
Tomotaka Okamoto performs during the closing ceremony in the Olympic Stadium at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Sunday, Aug. 8, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
Paris 2024 is illuminated on a screen during the closing ceremony in the Olympic Stadium at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Sunday, Aug. 8, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
People watch the closing ceremony of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games on giant screens in the Olympics fan zone at Trocadero Gardens in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, Sunday, Aug. 8, 2021. A giant flag will be unfurled on the Eiffel Tower in Paris Sunday as part of the handover ceremony of Tokyo 2020 to Paris 2024, as Paris will be the next Summer Games host in 2024. The passing of the hosting baton will be split between the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo and a public party and concert in Paris. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
The French Aerial Patrol perform behind the Eiffel Tower in Paris, Sunday, Aug. 8, 2021. Celebrations were held in Paris Sunday as part of the handover ceremony of Tokyo 2020 to Paris 2024, as Paris will be the next Summer Games host in 2024. The passing of the hosting baton will be split between the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo and a public party and concert in Paris. (AP Photo/Adrienne Surprenant)
Flags fly during the closing ceremony in the Olympic Stadium at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Sunday, Aug. 8, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo, right, holds the Olympic flag next International Olympic Committee's President Thomas Bach, center, and Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike, left, during the closing ceremony in the Olympic Stadium at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Sunday, Aug. 8, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
International Olympic Committee's President Thomas Bach waves the Olympic flag as Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike, left, and Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo, right, watch during the closing ceremony in the Olympic Stadium at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Sunday, Aug. 8, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
The Olympic flag is lowered during the closing ceremony in the Olympic Stadium at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Sunday, Aug. 8, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
French Olympic heavyweight bronze medallist and mixed team gold medallist in Judoka, Teddy Riner, center, is wrapped in a French flag as he cheers on fans in the Olympics fan zone at Trocadero Gardens in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, Sunday, Aug. 8, 2021. A giant flag will be unfurled on the Eiffel Tower in Paris Sunday as part of the handover ceremony of Tokyo 2020 to Paris 2024, as Paris will be the next Summer Games host in 2024. The passing of the hosting baton will be split between the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo and a public party and concert in Paris. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
International Olympic Committee's President Thomas Bach, center, speaks during the closing ceremony in the Olympic Stadium at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Sunday, Aug. 8, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
International Olympic Committee's President Thomas Bach and Seiko Hashimoto, president of the Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games make the sign of a heart with their hands during the closing ceremony in the Olympic Stadium at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Sunday, Aug. 8, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (Dan Mullen/Pool Photo via AP))
International Olympic Committee's President Thomas Bach makes a sign of a heart with his hands during the closing ceremony in the Olympic Stadium at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Sunday, Aug. 8, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
Fireworks explode during the closing ceremony in the Olympic Stadium at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Sunday, Aug. 8, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
Fireworks illuminate over the Olympic Stadium during the closing ceremony of the 2020 Summer Olympics, seen from the Shibuya Sky observation deck, Sunday, Aug. 8, 2021, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)
The Olympic flame burns as athletes gather during the closing ceremony in the Olympic Stadium at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Sunday, Aug. 8, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
Seiko Hashimoto, president of the Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games speaks during the closing ceremony in the Olympic Stadium at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Sunday, Aug. 8, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (Dan Mullen/Pool Photo via AP))
Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo, right, Committee's President Thomas Bach, center, and Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike, left, walk off the stage during the closing ceremony in the Olympic Stadium at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Sunday, Aug. 8, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
The Olympic flame is extinguished during the closing ceremony in the Olympic Stadium at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Sunday, Aug. 8, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
The Olympic flame is extinguished during the closing ceremony in the Olympic Stadium at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Sunday, Aug. 8, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
Japan's fourth Olympics, held 57 years after the 1964 Games reintroduced the country to the world after its World War II defeat, represented a planet trying to come together at a historical moment when disease and circumstance and politics had splintered it apart.
The closing ceremony Sunday reflected that — and, at times, nudged the proceedings toward a sci-fi flavor. As athletes stood in the arena for the final pomp, digital scoreboards at either end of the stadium featured what organizers called a "fan video matrix," a Zoom call-like screen of videos uploaded by spectators showing themselves cheering at home.
Even the parade of athletes carrying national flags — thousands of Olympians, masked and unmasked, clustering together before fanning out into the world again — was affected. Volunteers carried some flags into the stadium, presumably because of rules requiring athletes to leave the country shortly after their events concluded.
In front of such formidable backdrops, athletic excellence burst through, from the Games' first gold medal (China's Yang Qian in the 10-meter air rifle on July 24) to their last (Serbia defeating Greece in men's water polo on Sunday afternoon).
Among the highlights: Allyson Felix taking a U.S.-record 11th medal in track, then stepping away from the Olympic stage. American quintuple gold medalist Caeleb Dressel's astounding performance in the pool. The emergence of surfing,skateboarding and sport climbing as popular, and viable, Olympic sports. Host country Japan's medal haul — 58, its most ever.
Any Olympics is a microcosm of the world it reflects. These Games' runup, and the two weeks of the Games themselves, featured tens of thousands of spit-in-a-vial COVID tests for athletes, staff, journalists and visitors. That produced barely more than 400 positives, a far cry from the rest of non-Olympic bubble Japan, where surges in positive cases provoked the government to declare increasingly widespread states of emergency.
And, of course, there was that other microcosm of human life that the Games revealed — the reckoning with mental and emotional health, and the pressure put on Earth's top-tier athletes to compete hard and succeed at almost any cost. The interruption of that pressurized narrative, led by the struggles of gymnast Simone Biles and tennis player Naomi Osaka in particular, permeated these Games and ignited the spark of an athlete-driven conversation about stress, tolerance and inclusivity that everyone expects to continue.
While Tokyo is handing off the Summer Games baton to Paris for 2024, the delay has effectively crammed two Olympics together. The next Winter Games convenes in just six months in another major Asian metropolis — Beijing, Japan's rival in East Asia and home to a much more authoritarian government that is expected to administer its Games in a more draconian and restrictive way, virus or no virus.
In Paris on Sunday, people gathered in a fan zone near the Eiffel Tower, waving small French flags. The scene was a contrast to Tokyo, where fans have occasionally been able to sneak peeks at events, but for the most part haven't been able to attend or gather in big crowds to cheer athletes.
In recent weeks, lots of people — officials, athletes, journalists — have been chewing over how these Tokyo Games will be remembered. That's up to history, of course, but there are hints.
The runup was messy and disputed. The days of competition were fraught but, in general, without incident other than sporting milestones. Even a moderate earthquake rumbled through and was quickly forgotten. The expenses — upwards of $15 billion — were colossal and will echo in Tokyo long after athletes are gone.
What are the Olympic Games supposed to be? A politics-free sporting event, as the IOC insists? A bonanza for sponsors and broadcasters? One small step toward world peace? Despite all the yarn-spinning, their identity remains up in the air and that fundamental question remains.
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But as the cauldron is snuffed out Sunday night after the Pandemic Olympics conclude, it's easy to argue that Tokyo can take its place as a Games that didn't fail — as one that overcame a lot to even happen at all. And as vaccines roll out, variants emerge and lockdowns re-emerge, another city and government — Beijing, the Chinese capital — must grapple with the very same question.
In the meantime, the program for Tokyo's closing ceremony, outlining its "Worlds We Share" theme, captured the effect of the pandemic and the virtual worlds and separation anxiety to which it has given birth.
"We are in a new normal, and this edition of the Games were a different affair," it said. "Even if we cannot be together, we can share the same moment. And that is something that we will never forget."
Ted Anthony, director of new storytelling and newsroom innovation for The Associated Press, was AP's director of Asia-Pacific news from 2014 to 2018. This is his sixth Olympics. Follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/anthonyted
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Vilamulaca (, o , en francès Villemolaque) és un poble, cap de la comuna, de 1.177 habitants el 2013, de la comarca del Rosselló, a la subcomarca dels Aspres, a la Catalunya del Nord.

Etimologia
Segons Joan Coromines, el nom del poble de Vilamulaca és un dels relativament escassos mossarabismes conservats al Rosselló. Provindria de vin- (de l'àrab ibn al), mac i klum, que fa coincidir Vilamulaca amb els empordanesos Vilacolum i Vilamacolum. El significat de les arrels aràbiques equivaldria, aproximadament, a lloc amb una torre escapçada o amb un turó punxegut, en algunes interpretacions, o bé a lloc de terres adobades, en d'altres.

Geografia

Localització i característiques generals del terme

La comuna de Vilamulaca, d'una extensió de 60.000 hectàrees, és a la Plana del Rosselló, a tocar dels Baixos Aspres, a la dreta del Reart. Travessa el terme la Ribera de Paçà, que aflueix en el Reart dins d'aquest terme.

L'estructura general del territori de Vilamulaca és plana, però la zona nord inclou la clotada dels Estanyols, i la més meridional, el Serrat d'en Guixet i el Serrat de les Teuleries, ja pertanyents als Baixos Aspres. A la zona nord del terme hi ha l'antiga caseria i hostal de Mas Sabola, l'antic priorat de Candell, la petita caseria de les Teuleries.

Termes municipals limítrofs:

El poble de Vilamulaca
El poble està situat gairebé a l'extrem sud-oest del seu allargassat terme, a la dreta i al sud del Reart. Es troba a prop i a ponent de tres grans vies de comunicació: la via del Tren d'Alta Velocitat, l'autoruta la Catalana i la carretera departamental D-612, l'antiga Nacional-9.

Vilamulaca nasqué a partir de la cellera formada a l'entorn de la seva església parroquial de Sant Julià i Santa Basilissa, amb un eixamplament d'època moderna just a llevant. Més tard, ja als segles XX i XXI, s'eixamplà pràcticament cap a totes les direccions a través de modernes urbanitzacions, com les de Marcella i la Solana. La Cava Alavall i la Cava Font marquen els límits del poble d'èpoques medieval i moderna amb el creixement contemporani.

Mas Sabola
Antic llogaret situat en el sector més septentrional del terme, en una important cruïlla de carreteres.

Les Teuleries
Veïnat situat al nord-est del poble de Vilamulaca, a mig camí entre aquest poble i Mas Sabola.

Candell
Antic llogaret de Candell es constituí al voltant del priorat de Sant Miquel de Candell. Actualment són desapareguts tant el priorat com el monestir.

Els masos del terme
Els llocs habitats dispersos del terme de Vilamulaca són l'antic hostal de la Creu Blanca, al Mas d'en Torrepeires, el Mas d'en Trilles, el Mas d'en Sabola, el Mas Llobes, ara en ruïnes, el Mas Safont, el Mas Teis i les Teuleries. També hi havia hagut l'Hostal del Reart, al Mas d'en Trilles, el Pontet de les Escales i la Torrella.

Cursos d'aigua
El terme de Vilamulaca està situat ja plenament en els Aspres, per la qual cosa ja no hi trobem canals de drenatge o d'irrigació (agulles), sinó rius, rieres i torrents. Els principals cursos d'aigua són el riu Reart, que fa de límit municipal des de l'extrem sud-oest fins al nord, separant Vilamulaca de Trullars i de Pontellà i Nyils, i la Ribera de Paçà, que s'aboca en el Reart a prop al nord-est del poble. El que hi ha en aquest terme són diversos torrents, aquí anomenats còrrecs. Així, trobem el Còrrec de Coma d'Egues, el de Font Blanca, el de la Carrerada, el de la Font dels Lladres, o, simplement, Còrrec dels Lladres, el del Camp Llarg, el del Camp Tancat, el de l'Olivet (abans, de l'Olivet de les Amoreres), el del Puget, el del Camí de Trasserra, o Còrrec d'en Cessó, el del Puig, o Còrrec de Perilla, el del Romegar, el dels Siurers, el d'en Perilla, o Còrrec de la Vinya, i el d'en Ricard.

El relleu
El sector meridional i el més oriental del terme de Vilamulaca són els més elevats: s'hi arriba als 103 metres d'altitud. Conforme avança cap al nord i el nord-oest va assolint alçàries més moderades, fins als 80 al lloc on és situat el poble i als 60 m alt al nord del terme. Entre les alçàries destacades hi ha el Puget, a ponent del poble de Vilamulaca, el Serrat de la Teuleria, a llevant de les Teuleries, ran del terme de Sant Joan la Cella, i el Serrat d'en Guixet, a llevant de Mas Sabola, al límit amb Bages de Rosselló.

El terme comunal
Alguns dels noms del terme de Vilamulaca indiquen partides o indrets amplis, com ara les Cabetudes, Candell, Cessó, Coma d'Egues, els Correguils, els Estanyols, el Falguerar, les Fontetes, la Joncassa, Mas d'en Trilles, Mas d'en Sabola, la Massota, la Pedra Blanca, les Peroleres, el Puget, el Reart, abans Salt d'en David, Ribesaltes, el Romegar, les Teuleries i el Vilar. D'altres topònims designen camps, olivedes, vinyes, etcètera: el Camp del Prior, el Camp del Roure, el Camp d'Arpajó, el Camp d'en Barta, el Camp d'en Bellsolà, el Camp d'en Conte, el Camp d'en Tardiu, el Camp Llarg, les Hortes, el Mallol Gros, la Vinya d'en Vilar i la Vinya Nova. Alguns noms són ja desapareguts de l'ús comú, com el Camp d'en Bonet, el Camp d'en Ciscar, el Camp d'en Jaubert de Paçà (dos de diferents), el Camp d'en Palmada, el Camp d'en Sales, el Camp d'en Torrent, l'Oliveda d'en Bonet, l'Oliveda d'en Jaubert i la Vinya d'en Capdet.

Transports i comunicacions
Travessa el terme de Vilamulaca pel seu sector més oriental, de nord a sud, l'autopista A-9/E-15, anomenada la Catalana, que no té cap enllaç dins del terme.

D'altra banda, la carretera D - 2 (Argelers - D-619, a Trevillac) travessa el terme d'est a oest. Per aquesta carretera, Vilamulaca es comunica directament amb Sant Joan la Cella (3,1 km), Brullà (7,2), Sant Genís de Fontanes (10,4), la Roca d'Albera (13,5), Sureda (17,1) i Argelers (20), cap a l'est, i Forques (4,1), el trencall de Paçà (4,6), Montoriol (5,2), Queixàs (16,9), Sant Miquel de Llotes (21,4), Illa (23,3), Montalbà del Castell (32,3) i Trevillac (34,9) (els dos darrers ja a la Fenolleda, comarca occitana), cap a l'oest.

Encara, la D - 37 (Trullars - Vilamulaca) marxa de Vilamulaca cap al nord-oest, i mena a Trullars en 4 quilòmetres. Una variant d'aquesta, la D - 37A (Vilamulaca - D-900, a Vilamulaca), suposa l'accés del poble a la carretera general més important en 2,3 km.

Per l'extrem nord del terme, al lloc de Mas Sabola, travessa el terme de llevant a ponent la carretera D - 612 (Elna - Millars), que, tanmateix, queda força lluny del poble de Vilamulaca, que enllaça amb aquesta carretera a través de la D-900.

Finalment, la D - 900 (Salses - el Portús) travessa el terme de Vilamulaca de nord a sud. Des de Vilamulaca mena en 7,5 quilòmetres a Pollestres, en 13,4 a Perpinyà, en 31,5 a Salses i en 35 al límit del departament, pel costat nord, i en 1,8 al trencall de Banyuls dels Aspres, en 10 al Voló, en 12 a les Cluses i en 13,5 al Portús, pel costat sud.

Pel terme de Trullars es troba la via fèrria del tren d'alta velocitat. Entra en el terme per l'extrem sud-est del terme, i en surt pel nord-oest, cap a la meitat del terme, marcant un arc de sud-est a nord-oest. No té estació pròpia a Vilamulaca, per la qual cosa aquest poble s'ha de servir de l'estació de Perpinyà.

La línia 300 del servei departamental de Le bus à 1 €, de Perpinyà a Arles de Tec, passa pel Mas Sabola, sense arribar al poble de Vilamulaca. Ofereix servei dos cops al dia, mentre que diumenge es fusiona amb les línies 340 i 341.

La línia 340 del mateix servei, que uneix Perpinyà amb Arles de Tec, passa també pel Mas Sabola. Uneix Perpinyà amb Costoja (Vallespir) passant per Pollestres, Banyuls dels Aspres, el Voló, Sant Joan de Pladecorts, Ceret, Reiners, els Banys d'Arles, Arles de Tec, Montferrer, Sant Llorenç de Cerdans i Costoja. Circula nou cops al dia de dilluns a dissabte, i és substituïda per les línies 341 i 342 el diumenge i dies festius.

La línia 341 del mateix servei també passa pel Mas Sabola, un sol cop al dia de dilluns a dissabte. Diumenge supleix el servei de la 340.

La línia 380 del mateix servei uneix Vilamulaca amb Perpinyà, cap al nord, i amb Paçà cap al sud, `passant per Tuïr, Trullars, Vilamulaca i Trasserra. Amb 7 serveis diaris en cada direcció de dilluns a dissabte, no circula els dies de festa. Vilamulaca és a 35 minuts de Perpinyà, a un quart d'hora de Tuïr, a 5 de Trullars, a 7 de Trasserra i a 10 minuts de Paçà.

Al terme de Vilamulaca es troben dues menes de camins: els que comuniques el poble amb els llocs veïns, i els interns del terme. Entre els primers es troben, a més de la Ruta de Perpinyà, els camins de Bages, de Banyuls dels Aspres, de Paçà, de Perpinyà, de Sant Joan la Cella, el de Sant Joan la Cella a Perpinyà, el de Trasserra i el de Trullars. Entre els interiors, el Camí, o Camí de Cessó, el de la Pedra Blanca, el de la Ribera de Paçà, el del Mas Déu, el de l'Olivet i el del Puget.

Esment a part mereixen la via del TGV, l'Autoruta la Catalana i la Carrerada.

Història

Edat mitjana
El primer esment de Vilamulaca és del 973: Villa Mulaca és esmentada en una donació a la seu d'Elna, i torna a aparèixer el 981 en una altra donació, ara a Sant Genís de Fontanes. Són freqüents els esments en altres documents (1044, 1050, etc.).

A partir del 1133 hi comencen a adquirir terres els templers del Mas Déu, activitat que s'allarga els segles  i , fins que el 1385 els hospitalers posseïen ja la quasi totalitat del terme de Vilamulaca. Més endavant va passar a dependre del Monestir del Camp, ja fins a la Revolució francesa, quan el monestir va passar a ser de propietat privada i el poble de Vilamulaca es va independitzar.

Des del punt vista senyorial, a Vilamulaca es conservaren alguns drets reials, que la reina Violant cedí a Ponç de Perellós juntament amb la baronia de Trasserra.

Edat moderna
El senyoriu passà, al llarg de l'edat moderna per diverses mans: Jaume Joan Reixac, la família Taquí (1541), els Tord (1587), els Foix de Bearn, fins que el 1770 consten com a cosenyors Josep d'Oms i el prior del Monestir del Camp.

Activitats econòmiques
El terme de Vilamulaca és essencialment agrícola, gairebé íntegrament dedicat a la vinya: unes 375 hectàrees d'un total de quasi 400 ho evidencien. Els vins que s'hi produeixen són principalment de qualitat, de denominació d'origen controlada (se n'hi poden trobar dues: Rosselló dels Aspres i Costes de l'Alt Rosselló. Fora de la vinya, hi ha un parell d'hectàrees dedicades a albercoquers, un parell més a presseguers i un parell més a hortalisses. Hi ha una mica de bestiar cabrum: no arriba a 40 caps de bestiar.

Demografia

Demografia antiga
La població està expressada en nombre de focs (f) o d'habitants (h)
Font: Pélissier 1986

Demografia contemporània
Fonts: Ldh/EHESS/Cassini fins al 1999, després INSEE a partir deL 2004

Evolució de la població

Administració i política

Batlles

Legislatura 2014 - 2020

Batlle
 Jean-Claude Péralba.

Adjunts al batlle
 1r: Serge Roca. Delegat d'urbanisme, obres i quadre de vida
 2n: Ghislaine Flachaire. Delegada d'Afers escolars i periescolars, de Petita infància i d'Acció social
 3r: Anne-Marie Marcon. Delegada d'Administració general, Vida social i associativa
 4t: Bruno Botet. Delegat de Finances, Culture i Comunicació.

Consellers municipals
 Sébastien Baylet
 Jean-Marc Bens
 Jean-Luc Berget
 Joseph Gamarro
 Florence Gaudin
 Georges Jourda
 Annie LeLaurain
 Ghislaine Molinier
 Sabine Richard
 Carine Trainaud.

Adscripció cantonal

A les eleccions cantonals del 2015 Vilamulaca ha estat inclòs en el cantó número 1, denominat Els Aspres, amb capitalitat a la vila de Tuïr i amb els pobles de Banyuls dels Aspres, Brullà, Calmella, Cameles, Castellnou dels Aspres, Forques, Llauró, Llupià, Montoriol, Oms, Paçà, Pollestres, Pontellà i Nyils, Queixàs, Santa Coloma de Tuïr, Sant Joan la Cella, Terrats, Torderes, Trasserra, Trullars i Vilamulaca. Hi han estat escollits com a consellers departamentals Édith Pugnet, del Partit Comunista - Front d'esquerra, Vicepresident del Consell departamental, adjunta al batlle de Cabestany, i René Olivé, del Partit Socialista, Vicepresident del Consell departamental, batlle de Tuïr.

Personatges
 Robert Olive (1950), alcalde de Sant Feliu d'Amunt i diputat a l'Assemblea Nacional Francesa

Llocs d'interès
 Església parroquial de Sant Julià i Santa Basilissa

Bibliografia

Referències

Enllaços externs

 Web de l'Ajuntament
 Informació sobre el municipi
 El terme comunal de Vilamulaca en els mapes topogràfics de l'IGN


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