As I've bought older I've positively turn into much less obsessive about presents and the "stuff" that comes with Christmas. It's far more about high quality time with household, catching up with mates, lengthy wintery walks, cosy Christmas movies and spending a whole lot of time within the kitchen. I nonetheless love the present giving a part of it and actually prefer to take my time and take into consideration what that individual would actually love.
Personally I find it irresistible after I get a present from somebody that I can inform exhibits how a lot they know me. You don't have to spend some huge cash of items anymore. It's the thought that counts and as I turn into a extra acutely aware shopper in all areas of my life I wish to carry this via to my present giving this yr. Very UK's #LoveGiving marketing campaign is all about giving considerate and significant items which have an enduring impact somewhat than simply mindlessly spending cash.
Something meals associated for me is the very best pressy ever. I've just a few purchasers who generally make me a batch of granola or bliss balls once they come to Pilates classes and it's the dream. Who doesn't love being baked one thing do-it-yourself and scrumptious. With this in thoughts I believed I'd make some do-it-yourself bakes this yr for my mates for after I meet them for pre Christmas get togethers.
Christmas generally is a nostalgic time for me, a few of my finest reminiscences and happiest occasions had been at my nanny and grandads home this time of yr. I can actually odor their Christmas tree and style my grandads English breakfast tea with three sugars that I used to take a sip of.
I bear in mind they saved a biscuit tin of their lounge stocked with darkish chocolate digestive biscuits and so they'd all the time let me have one earlier than breakfast after I stayed over. It was THE BEST! I bought this beautiful cookie tin from Very UK to maintain all my do-it-yourself bakes in for and it purchased again these blissful reminiscences.
It could additionally make such a beautiful present when giving someplace they do-it-yourself cookies they'll hold and use it at house and perhaps encourage them to get within the kitchen too or simply inventory with digestive biscuits however both manner you by no means know when a practice is beginning or that normally the best issues like my grandad's biscuit tin would have an enduring impact.
So right here's three recipes that you could possibly put in a bit of tin and present to someplace this yr.
As you might know I'm obsessive about making cookies and have just about nailed my tahini ones. This pecan model is an easy twist on my original recipe.
Pecans really feel like a christmassy nut to me so that they needed to go in, my dad (who by no means normally likes my do-it-yourself vegan gluten free bakes FYI) cherished this however did request that subsequent time I add extra pecans so they need to make an ideal addition.
I additionally used a cinnamon flavoured honey as apposed to regular and the chocolate I used was plain 85% somewhat than sea salted.
Preheat oven to 170C fan. Line two baking trays with baking parchment paper.
In a big mixing bowl, combine collectively the gluten oats, desiccated coconut, baking powder and sea salt till effectively mixed.
Break up the pecans and add to the dry elements.
In a small saucepan warmth the tahini and honey till they're effectively mixed and beginning to thicken. Reduce the vanilla bean pod in half size methods after which gently scrap out the black vanilla beans with a spoon and stir into the tahini and honey combination.
Add the tahini combination to the oat combination and mix. Create one huge doughy ball in your fingers and let it sit for 10 minutes.
Permit the dough to chill barely then break up the chocolate into small squares and gently combine in. Attempt to hold it in chunks.
Then create little balls with the combination and place them on the baking trays. It would make between 10-16 relying on how huge you make them.
Press every ball down with the again on a fork to flatten into cookie shapes, you might have to press the perimeters collectively once more if they're fairly crumbly however that's how they need to be.
Bake for eight minutes, control them, you simply need them to be barely browned and the chocolate will likely be gooey and melting.
Take away from the oven and allow them to cool utterly on a wire rack on the baking paper. Don't transfer or contact them along with your fingers as they are going to be very tender.
Purchase the attractive yellow mixing bowl here.
My aunty Sam makes the very best tiffin ever, we had it at my brother's marriage ceremony and it could all the time come out at events like Christmas and New 12 months. During the last 6 months I've caught to a gluten free and dairy free weight loss plan so I wished to aim a model of tiffin that I may take pleasure in; oh and naturally present this Christmas! This actually is so scrumptious I shocked myself. Tremendous easy, oh so indulgent and dangerously morish.
Calmly oil a sq. tin with a bit of coconut oil and line the bottom with baking parchment.
Soften the chocolate with the coconut oil and maple syrup syrup in a heatproof bowl over a saucepan of simmering water till melted and easy.
Break the ginger biscuits into small items in a bowl and add the dates and pistachios.
Pour within the melted chocolate and blend to mix then spoon in into the tin. Unfold it out evenly.
Chill within the fridge for at the very least 2 hours till set and exhausting. Reduce into mini squares and revel in!
I hope that you just take pleasure in creating these recipes this Christmas. Please do share piccies of them with me on Instagram, Twitter or Facebook.
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I'm Lottie, a 20 one thing wholesome way of life blogger and Pilates Teacher dwelling in London. This weblog is a mix of what I like and do each day; whether or not or not it's a recipe I've created, a evaluation of a restaurant I've been to just lately, my favorite activewear manufacturers or some motivational constructive recommendation. I hope to encourage you to be the very best model of you!


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Q&A with Aventura ParkSquare's Victor Ballestas
Miami Beach resident and developer is looking to bring Sunset Harbour feel to Aventura
May.May 06, 2015 03:50 PM
Vacant land is scarce in Aventura, where Integra Investments will develop an 8.5-acre mixed-use community, complete with condos, senior living, a select-service hotel, offices and retail, slated to open in early 2017.
Integra Principal Victor Ballestas, who lives in Miami Beach and is a big fan of Sunset Harbour, wants to bring that vibe to Aventura with a health and wellness spin. In April, Integra announced that it had signed on Icebox Cafe to its Aventura ParkSquare, which will lease 4,000 square feet out of planned 55,000 square feet of retail.
The Real Deal sat down with Ballestas to discuss the project, who it's targeting and what's next.
You launched Aventura ParkSquare in March. What will the project bring to the city?
First of all, it's in the last remaining 8.5 acres in South Florida, which in itself I think is pretty special. We, as a company, tend to focus on limited supply areas and this is perfect for that. It's in a very dense area, a neighborhood that doesn't have a real mixed-use project. Some of the credit for that goes to the city because they pushed us in that direction. And when that happened, we started discovering what Aventura was really lacking — a destination mixed-use project.
The residents of Aventura, when they want to go somewhere, their only option is Aventura Mall, and I think they're getting pretty tired of having to go to restaurants in the mall.
The development has office, residential and a hotel. Who are you targeting?
Originally we went in for a heavy residential component because that's what we thought the demand was. The city came to us and said, 'look that's our last parcel. We want to see a mixed-use project on that site.' They tried to do that before and it didn't work out.
The heart of the project is really all of the retail. We're carefully selecting different types of restaurants that work together instead of compete against each other. I live in Miami Beach and am a fan of Sunset Harbour. I can get in the car, park in the garage and decide what I want to eat. That's kind of what I wanted here.
We also hired Michael Comras as our leasing agent, so I think you're going to see a similar type of ambiance.
Who's buying?
We're starting to see [exisiting] Aventura residents come and buy units for their kids. Everyone in Aventura is building large units and they're pricing those units at $1 million, $3 million. There's really no new supply in the price range we're in, which is $400,000 to $800,000. We have 35 percent in reservations.
What is the health component?
We were looking for an angle on the project that was simple and timeless. The retail is shaping up to be health and wellness. Between the office building and the residential building, we have a rooftop terrace. We're planning to do an outdoor garden where the residents can go have lunch outside. Our fitness tenants can use the outdoor spaces for workouts.
The tenants in the medical office building will be geared toward health and wellness, like beauticians. In front of the hotel building, we have a 0.25-acre park, which spills out from all of the retail.
I saw in one article that they're comparing us to Canyon Ranch, and it's not a real comparison. Canyon Ranch is where they built three buildings and then threw $30 million into a gym and thought that was going to work for everybody. Ultimately, what we're doing is not an expense to everybody.
There's a concept called FitCity, which Bernard Zyscovich has kind of hooked up to figure out how to design this project. How do you get people to use a staircase instead of an elevator? The easy way to do it is you provide an outdoor staircase where people are enjoying the view of the project on this extra large staircase, instead of an enclosed staircase where it's dirty.
We did sidewalks without curbs. All of the little things kind of want you to be outside.
Why a senior living component?
There's a pretty high demand in the city of Aventura. Maybe you want to live across from your parents. Most people think you want to have a senior living [development] next to a hospital, and that's not true. They want to be next to retail.
What else is Integra working on?
We have a large project in Key West — 24 acres in Old Town. We broke ground on Sereno, 38 units in Bay Harbor. We just got approval for ArtSquare in Hallandale. ArtSquare will be 358 rental units, which is in high demand in that area.
We have this building [the Chase Bank building in downtown Miami], and the Ocean Bank building which we're also selling. We bought it, are rehabbing it and converting them to office condos.
When we bought Chase, rents were $20 a square foot, now they're north of $30 a square foot.
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Crafar farms receiver says new Chinese bidder Pengxin International Group has lodged OIO application
14th Apr 11, 1:48pm
by Gareth Vaughan
Forbes China Rich Lister Jiang Zhaobai, who will be the sole director of Milk New Zealand Holdings Ltd.
Crafar farms receiver KordaMentha says China's Pengxin International Group has lodged its application for approval to buy the central North Island dairy farms with the Overseas Investment Office (OIO).
The application has been lodged through Pengxin's subsidiary, Milk New Zealand Holdings Ltd.
"We ran a comprehensive sales campaign and the Pengxin offer was by far the best," said KordaMentha's Brendon Gibson.
"We hope the OIO application receives a successful and timely response so we can proceed with the next steps in the sale process."
KordaMentha accepted Pengxin's offer - pending OIO approval - for 16 central North Island farms in January after fellow Chinese group UBNZ Funds Management withdrew its conditional offer having failed to secure OIO support. KordaMentha's Michael Stiassny told interest.co.nz at the time that Pengxin's offer was less than UBNZ's, which was believed to be worth about NZ$213 million, but "significantly higher" than other offers.
Pengxin's chairman, Jiang Zhaobai, is listed at number 293 on last year's Forbes' 400 Richest Chinese list with assets of US$550 million. He is reported to be 47 and a Shanghai property developer.
UBNZ and sister company Natural Dairy Holding's bid for the Crafar farms was rejected by the Government on 'good character' grounds in December after its front woman May Wang was bankrupted. The Serious Fraud Office is investigating transactions between Natural Dairy Holdings and UBNZ based on information received from the OIO.
The Crafar farms group was put into receivership in October 2009 owing about NZ$216 million to its lenders Westpac, Rabobank and PGG Wrightson Finance after interest.co.nz revealed animal welfare issues at the farms.
Later,Shanghai Pengxin issued a statement saying it planned to increase milk production from the Crafar Farms by 10% and wanted to capture a bigger share of the Chinese market with branded, dairy-based consumer products. It said it planned to spend more than NZ$200 million to buy and upgrade the farms. It then planned to invest a further NZ$100 million on marketing cheeses, ice creams and baby formula for the Chinese market.
Here is the rest of their statement here:
In doing so it will invest in upgrading the farms, employ more New Zealanders and work co-operatively with New Zealand dairy plants to create and manufacture products such as baby food, cheeses and ice creams that will appeal to the fast-growing Chinese and other Asian markets.
Shanghai Pengxin Group is a successful conglomerate, founded about 15 years ago, with significant investments in commercial and residential real estate, infrastructure, mining, finance and agriculture, and increasing involvement outside China. It is building up sheep breeding operations in China and plans to have flocks totalling three million within five years. Since 2005 it has had a controlling interest in a large-scale farming operation in Bolivia producing sorghum, soybeans and corn and is negotiating further farming investments in Argentina and Cambodia.
For its planned New Zealand dairy industry involvement, Shanghai Pengxin Group has established a fully-owned, Hong Kong based subsidiary, Milk New Zealand Holding Ltd, whose only director will be Jiang Zhaobai, chairman of the Shanghai Pengxin Group.
Milk New Zealand has this week lodged an application with the Overseas Investment Office for approval to purchase the farms. Capital to fund the purchase of the farms and other related assets will be provided by a shareholder advance from Shanghai Pengxin Group.
The initial commitment, once approval has been received, is an investment of more than NZ$200 million in buying the properties and related assets and upgrading the farms in the first two years.
DETAILS OF NEW ZEALAND PLANS
Company spokesman Cedric Allan says the company intends to make a positive contribution to dairying in New Zealand, tapping into New Zealand expertise, and increasing employment, milk production and export earnings, as well as spending in local communities.
Milk New Zealand Holding Ltd will establish a fully-owned subsidiary, Milk New Zealand Farming Ltd, to run the farms in New Zealand, totalling about 8,000 hectares.
Milk New Zealand Farming Ltd will be responsible for day-to-day management of the farming operations. Two of the three directors will be New Zealanders with appropriate experience in the dairy industry.
The company will also work with New Zealand processors to develop, manufacture and export a range of added- value, dairy based products to be marketed in China and elsewhere in Asia.
Mr Allan says the company would prefer to work in partnership with New Zealand processors rather than establish a new facility.
FARMING PLANS:-
During it due diligence period Pengxin has taken advice from leading New Zealand farm consultants and environmental consultants on a farm-by-farm basis to ensure the credibility of its plans for the farms it has conditionally purchased.
Sharemilkers and staff currently running the Crafar farms will be retained and will be advised by a team of professional New Zealand farm consultants, in turn working under the direction of a New Zealand general manager of Milk New Zealand Farming Ltd.
Existing herds will be purchased from the Receiver at independent valuation and progressively upgraded.
An upgrade programme will be implemented for each property including herd improvements, increased soil fertility, re-grassing as appropriate, new management techniques and other initiatives.
The farms will also be upgraded from an environmental perspective, with better control of run-off, and fencing off native bush, wetlands and sensitive areas in accordance with detailed assessments and plans completed by New Zealand environmental consultants. The quality of water in rivers and streams flowing through the properties will be enhanced, and the properties will be farmed on a sustainable basis.
Areas of importance to local iwi will be preserved and respected and arrangements for access made.
The aim is to increase milk production by more than 10% by the end of the third year.
Milk New Zealand Farming will work cooperatively as part of the New Zealand dairy industry, and intends to offer scholarships for young New Zealand farmers and the opportunity of exchange visits to China.
PROCESSING PLANS:-
Initially the company will continue to supply raw milk from its farms to Fonterra.
However, the aim is to add value to the raw milk produced on the farms by developing new products for export to the booming Asian market, recognising the strong demand for dairy products in China, which is already New Zealand's biggest market for dairy products.
Products such as baby formula, ice cream, cheeses and others, would be created and branded to appeal to Chinese and Asian consumers
The company plans to work in partnership with North Island dairy processing plants to develop and manufacture this range of products, rather than establishing its own manufacturing operation.
Manufacturing and exporting will create more employment in New Zealand and further increase New Zealand's export earnings.
The intention is to invest more than NZ$100 million in marketing this range of products over the first five years, and to make best use of Pengxin's business contacts and local knowledge in China.
"There are a number of winners under this overall scenario," said Mr Allan. "The country gains significant overseas investment, spending on upgrading the properties from a production and environmental perspective will benefit local communities and suppliers, more milk will be available for export and --as soon as processing arrangements are in place -- New Zealand can benefit from supplying the Asian market with new added- value products.
"Having a strong friend in China, now the world's second largest economy, could have many advantages for New Zealand," said Mr Allan."In time, the Shanghai Pengxin Group may be interested in other investments in New Zealand, as well as seeing opportunities to use its connections and local knowledge to help New Zealand organisations export various products to China and other Asian countries."
Shanghai Pengxin Group has established the MOY Global Innovate Enterprise Centre to assist companies wishing to break into the Chinese market, providing contacts, local knowledge, access to capital, a Shanghai base from which to work and other assistance. American companies are already using this resource , which can also be accessed by New Zealand businesses wanting to do business in China.
(Updated with background, detail from Pengxin)
WestpacOverseas Investment OfficeCrafar farmsKordaMenthaPengxin International GroupMilk New Zealand Holdings LtdRabobank and PGG Wrightson FinanceReceivershipMay WangMichael StiassnyBrendon GibsonAllan CrafarJiang Zhaobai
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by meh | 15th Apr 11, 11:46am 1302824760
Looks a lot like a Tui billboard.
"In doing so it will invest in upgrading the farms, employ more New Zealanders and work co-operatively with New Zealand dairy plants to create and manufacture products"
"The aim is to increase milk production by more than 10% by the end of the third year"
"Products such as baby formula, ice cream, cheeses and others, would be created"
"Manufacturing and exporting will create more employment in New Zealand"
"The intention is to invest more than NZ$100 million in marketing this range of products over the first five years"
Yeah Right.
How many new jobs will really be created? Will manufacturing/value adding really be done in NZ - it doesn't happen with our timber. How many new baby formula, ice cream, and cheese products can be created in addition to existing products? The marketing money won't be spent in NZ will it? What happens if/when the commodity bubble pops?
The main question though - what benefit to NZ in selling our land to foreigners? We are constantly being told we need foreign investment - to me that means new business, not the selling of existing businesses and land.
by David B | 15th Apr 11, 3:03pm 1302836580
And one thing that I am concerned about too, if you're talking about increaseing milk production by 10%, and that is the welfare of the animals. Cows aren't factories, they are living creatures and when it comes to animal welfare, could the Chinese (based on their culture/history) actually set the bar any lower? I don't want to see their profits coming from the suffering of a lot of livestock.
by Alex Tarrant | 15th Apr 11, 12:21pm 1302826860
FYI, the Greens are not too happy about this...
NZ under threat from massive land grab
Selling the Crafar farms to an overseas consortium cannot possibly be in New Zealand's economic interests, Green Party Co-leader Dr Russel Norman said today.
The Shanghai Pengxin International Group will have to prove to the Overseas Investment Office that its bid for the Crafar farms is in New Zealand's economic interests.
"With food prices rising globally, selling off large chunks of New Zealand's productive farmland to overseas bidders is economic folly," said Dr Norman.
"Chinese agricultural company Agria are also looking to take control of New Zealand rural services company PGG Wrightson, dependent again on the Overseas Investment Office's approval.
"Companies in China – often with government backing – are looking to buy up land and farming goods worldwide," said Dr Norman.
"While this plan makes excellent sense for China, it is certainly not in New Zealand's long term interests that our farms and farming companies fall into overseas ownership.
"The Key Government's tweaking of our overseas investment rules last year did not stop New Zealand's productive land from being flogged off overseas," said Dr Norman.
"The solution to losing control of NZ Inc would have been to keep the privilege of ownership of New Zealand land for New Zealand citizens, permanent residents and companies."
by Vanderlei Luxemburgo | 15th Apr 11, 12:50pm 1302828600
the main beneficiaries of this sale are the banks who foolishly lent money to the crafars, and the receivers who are employed to get top dollar for the assets.
none of these parties have a long-term view of this in terms of what benefits nz
by steven | 15th Apr 11, 12:59pm 1302829140
Hence the oio and why the Govn has to take a lead on this...
by meh | 15th Apr 11, 1:13pm 1302829980
But how effective is the Overseas Investment Act in the first place? Tegel and large chunks of forestry land being sold to foreigners recently. What real benefit to NZ? They will just be traded to another foreigner in a few years after the owners have taken all they can from it.
Why not put our whole country/govt on the block and market it as a commodity?
by iconoclast | 15th Apr 11, 1:01pm 1302829260
A simple solution would to permit overseas interests to "lease" the land on 50 year leases and not acquire outright title. You would soon determine whether their interest is in the "business" or the "land"
by Vanderlei Luxemburgo | 15th Apr 11, 1:10pm 1302829800
yeah i'd probably go for that one ico
by Kunst | 15th Apr 11, 1:18pm 1302830280
Economies, which aren't structured, but unbalanced without strategy fail and are the victims of predators. The complete sale out of Aotearoa is only a matter of time. Kiwis cannot compete.
Think it through strategically. The chinese buy the farms, produce the milk, run it at cost, ship the milk to the May Wang owned milk processor in Tauranga, run at cost, produce UHT milk and milk powder, load it into chinese owned containers, then load it onto chinese owned container vessels and ship it to china. Using international transfer pricing all the profits will be made in china. Where is the benefit to New Zealand? You will have sold some locally generated electricity running the show, using imported petrol transporting the milk to the processor, and some locals will have earned some wages (assuming locals are employed) and paid some paye, and the local councils will have earned some rates. There wont be any taxes to pay because there will be no NZ domiciled profits. Show me where the benefits will be.
by Andrewj | 15th Apr 11, 4:36pm 1302842160
This is nothing more than a bank bailout. Locals would buy these farms but not at the price the banks need to recover debts.
Lets get honest, this is just another case of the banks coming before the people.
If the Chinese take profits offshore then thats just good business for them, the idiots are our so called 'leaders' selling off the family silver.
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Quantum technological leap: MT Aerospace officially opening state-of-the-art facilities for Ariane 6 production in Augsburg
Aviation and space technology company MT Aerospace AG, a subsidiary of the technology group OHB SE, has today officially opened the new production facilities for the Ariane 6 at its Augsburg site in a ceremony attended by numerous honorary guests. MT Aerospace has built a new hall in Augsburg with a floor area of around 2500 square meters, retooled a further production hall and digitized its entire development and production operations with the financial support of the European Space Agency ESA. State-of-the-art welding systems, machine-to-machine communications as well as modernized drilling and riveting robots ensure more efficient and cheaper production processes.
"With our leap into the Industry 4.0 era, we are tripling our productivity and playing a material role in driving forward technological innovations and the competitiveness of the future Ariane 6 launch vehicle," MT Aerospace CEO Hans J. Steininger said in his welcome speech. The ceremony was also attended by the Bavarian State Minister of Economics, Energy and Technology, Franz Josef Pschierer, who in his speech said: "Bavaria is a premium location for the space industry. MT Aerospace is impressively demonstrating that with its adoption of Industry 4.0 practices and its focus on digitization it will remain competitive in the future, generating growth and preserving jobs. In this way, it is making a key contribution to strengthening Bavaria's role as one of the leading European high-tech research and production centers. Our "Bavaria One" space program will be setting new accents as space is a key technology for the state. As it is, the space industry employs 27,000 people in Bavaria."
Said Marco R. Fuchs, CEO of OHB SE: "The global launcher market is highly competitive. This makes it all the more important for us to join forces with the space agencies and industrial partners to make sure that the Ariane 6 program is a success."
With an industrial contribution of a good 10 percent, MT Aerospace is playing a crucial role in the development and industrialization of the Ariane 6 launcher system. At the heart of the productivity gains and this quantum technological leap is the large FSW system. FSW is short for "friction stir welding". Installed at the beginning of 2018, the system for welding light metals is one of a kind anywhere in the world. The new process permits efficient light-weight engineering, permitting considerable weight savings, something which is a crucial factor in aviation and aerospace engineering.
Moreover, the FSW system documents the processes and also performs ultrasonic testing of the components. By the time the parts leave the system, they are finished and tested. "We are indeed seeing a technological advance on a scale of 20 or more years. We have not only invested in the Ariane program but also to a material degree in an innovative future for MT Aerospace, which will safeguard jobs and the Company's future," Steininger said in conclusion.
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Q: Multiple Tabs in the same browser and IIS Concurrent Connection I understand multiple tabs in a single browser shares the same session. But does it uses the same concurrent connection?
More specifically does each tab in the browser to the same website will create multiple concurrent connections or share a common connection.
I will be using IIS as my webserver.
Thanks.

A: There are many dynamics to this, and it depends on how you configure your WEBSITE, and the App Pool. For a standard website created with IIS and very little to no changes in the configuration, a single user (Browser) will issue a single connection from which multiple requests will take place. Of course, a single request will block until "completion".
However that being said, Browsers more or less have a "concurrent limit". Used to be set @ 2, but has now changed based on which one you use. Think Chrome is currently at 4.
Thirdly, browsers are a little smarter these days, and upon grabbing a page, they will open multiple requests (through a single connection - if HTTP Keep Alive set on IIS [default]) which will get images (resources) and the HTML concurrently.
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Hidra ili Idra (grčki: Ύδρα) je jedan od Saronskih otoka u Egejskom moru u središnjoj Grčkoj. Otok upravno pripada prefekturi Pirej i periferiji Atici, kao jedna od općina. Sjedište općine i najveće naselje na otoku je istoimeni gradić Hidra na sjevernoj strani otoka.

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Hidra je smještena južno od Atene (oko 70 km zračne udaljenosti). Iako je jedan od Saronskih otoka, Hidra nije u Saronskom zaljevu, već nešto južnije. Peloponez je najbliže kopno na oko 10 kilometara. Otoko je slabo razvedene obale s nekoliko malih zaljeva sa skrivenim plažama. Hidra je brdovit otok.

Klima na Hidri je sredozemna.

Povijest

Hidra je jako rano naseljena, već u doba rane prapovijesti. U doba Mikenske civilizacije Hidra je bio "živi" otok u ovom dijelu Grčke. U doba stare Grčke zahvaljujući dobrom položaju Hidra je bila "sudionik" svih važnih događaja. U vrijeme Bizanta napadi gusarasu doveli do nazadovanja otoka. Poslije križarskog osvajanja Carigrada   1204. godine Hidra je bila pod vlašću Zapada sve do 16. stoljeća. Tada Hidru osvajaju Turci i pod njima ostaje stoljećima uz kratku vlast Mlečana krajem 17. stoljeća. Hidra je tijekom turske valadavine imala autonomiju, što je očuvalo ekonomsku moć mjesnog stanovništva.

Procvat Hidre događa se nastankom suvremene Grčke 1830. godine. Proglašavanjem obližnje Atene za novu prijestonicu Hidra se počinje razvijati, ali to ipak nije spriječilo iseljavanje mnogobrojnog stanovništva s otoka. Poslije Drugog svjetskog rata razvojem i prenaseljavanjem Atene otok postaje mjesto vikendt turizma Atenjana, što je dalo novi poticaj za razvoj.

Stanovništvo

Po posljednjem popisu iz 2001. g. na otoku živi oko 3.000 stanovnika. Gotovo cjelokupno stanovništvo su Grci. Posljednjih popisa kretanje stanovništva u općini i gradu Hidra (koja obuhvaća i otok Dokos) bilo je:

1981. godina --> grad - 2.732 st., općina - ?
1991. godina --> grad - 2.279 st., općina - 2.387 st.
2001. godina --> grad - 2.526 st., općina - 2.719 st.

Gotovo svi stanovnici općine (preko 90%) žive u gradu Hidri.

Gospodarstvo

Poljoprivreda i pomorstvo su tradicionalna zanimanja otočkog stanovništva, pogotovo uzgajanje vinove loze i maslina. Danas je poljoprivreda u sjeni turizma. U prilog turizmu ide i dobra prometna povezanost otoka s obližnjom Atenom. Prednost otoka je i potpuna zabrana motornih vozila, što je u skladu s uskim ulicama naselja.

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When bashing Russia over gays, don't forget Nigeria, Uganda ...
Nigerian Archbishop Ignatius Kaigama praised a new law that sends people in homosexual relationships to jail for up to 14 years. In contrast, Russia's hotly-condemned laws regarding homosexuals are mild. For instance, Vancouver councillor Tim Stevenson found a gay bar in Sochi that operates without hassle.
The Western media is having a field day during the Sochi Olympics — attacking Russian president Vladimir Putin for his stand against so-called gay "propaganda." But the media have a way of overlooking countries that are far more aggressive in outlawing homosexuals.
Take Nigeria, for example. It recently brought in laws that are much worse than those in Russia.
Nigeria, which has a population of 168 million, adopted a law that imposes a 14-year prison term for anyone entering into a same-sex relationship, as well as a 10-year sentence for anyone found to support gay clubs or meetings. Even public displays of affection by gays and lesbians is considered a crime.
Indeed, homosexuality is illegal in 38 African countries.
In contrast, Vancouver councillor Tim Stevenson, who is openly homosexual, spent time in Sochi earlier this month at a gay bar, which operates without official sanction.
The West has always got a kick out of attacking Russia, partly for its old Soviet ties and ongoing authoritarianism. And there is little concern in the West about being called "racist" for mocking Russians, since most of the world's 148 million Russians are white. Many are also Russian Orthodox, a denomination that is not strong in the West.
In Uganda, homosexuals are persecuted by Christians and Muslims. Photo shows David Cecil, the British producer of the play "The River and the Mountain" concerning the condition of Uganda's gays, in a court cell in Uganda in 2012.
But what really explains the relative silence about the much more extreme laws against homosexuals in places such as Nigeria, which is almost entirely made up of blacks, Christians and Muslims?
Cameroon, Tanzania and Uganda have similarly brutish laws.
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An excellent story by Religion News Service writer David Gibson points to the division among Catholic church leaders in Africa over the anti-homosexual law in Nigeria, where one of the country's top Catholics enthusiastically supporting it. This is in a whole different category about what you hear regarding Russia and homosexuals. Here's an excerpt from the RNS piece:
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","type":"image","channels":["desktop","tablet","phone"]}In a January letter on behalf of the Catholic hierarchy of Nigeria, Archbishop Ignatius Kaigama of Jos praised Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan for his "courageous and wise decision" in signing the legislation. Kaigama said it would protect Nigeria "against the conspiracy of the developed world to make our country and continent, the dumping ground for the promotion of all immoral practices." A few days later, however, a strongly worded editorial in the The Southern Cross, a newspaper run jointly by the bishops of South Africa, Botswana and Swaziland, took aim at the new law, calling on the Catholic Church in Africa "to stand with the powerless" and "sound the alarm at the advance throughout Africa of draconian legislation aimed at criminalizing homosexuals."
On a related note, Der Spiegel has just published a brilliant editorial headlined: "Sochi Schadenfreude: 'Ha Ha, The Russians Screwed It Up Again!'
The editorial in the excellent German news magazine questions why journalists in the West are working so hard to bash Russia's Winter Games, especially given that the citizens of the host city and country are trying very hard to be hospitable.
Someone on Facebook also directed me to an article on the way American journalists in particular are hammering Russia, Sochi and Putin (not that the latter, in particular, doesn't deserve criticism). It's called "Distorting Russia."
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I wrote, in an earlier article, about the need to give readers plenty of white space on the page, and suggested that you aim for a clotted cream effect: solid lumps of differing sizes and consistency, floating in a soft smooth cream. The cream is the narrative of your novel. And at least some of the solid lumps, and much of the empty white space on the page, can be achieved through writing good dialogue – as in the following example taken from my novel, A Painful Post Mortem. Here Rosie and Steve are discussing Rosie's sister's adolescence, whilst picnicking with their children.
Rosie stood up. It would soon be time for Erin's two-o'clock feed, and Steve would want to get back to work. She began to fill the back-pack that passed as a picnic hamper.
'I'm pretty sure Kat was smoking pot,' she said, stowing away the cutlery and plastic beakers.
Steve whistled and stood up with the baby in his arms.
He put Erin into her buggy, crouched beside her and strapped her in.
Gender & Age: Even if the characters were not named, words and phrases like 'swung it' and 'Wow' and 'dope' suggest a male speaker and the informality of a youngish man rather than the formal speech of an older person.
Simplicity: In the whole of this passage there are only three occasions when dialogue tags are used: 'said Steve' 'she said' and 'said Rosie'. 'Said' is a word the reader skims over without noticing it, so the emphasis is on what is being said rather than the tag. Descriptive tags like: she lisped; he barked; they chorused, have their place, but beware of over-using them. Frequently, dialogue needs no tag – as above.
Backstory: Dialogue, alone, has informed the reader in this passage. We now know that Kat (Rosie's sister) was expelled from a Convent boarding school at the age of 14, ostensibly for smoking cigarettes which may, actually, have been cannabis. We also know that Kat had started on a downward slope from which there was no return, and so had her parents.
Advancing the plot: Dialogue should always help to progress the plot. In the excerpt above, Rosie's realisation that her sister may well have started on drugs whilst still a schoolgirl is an integral part of the plot.
Action: Interweave action and information with the dialogue. Notice, also, how it can be used to convey a sense of pausing to reflect, between Steve's question and Rosie's reply: 'But you're not sure that's all there was to it?' Rosie stood up. It would soon be time for Erin's two-o'clock feed, and Steve would want to get back to work. She began to fill the back-pack that passed as a picnic hamper. 'I'm pretty sure Kat was smoking pot . . .
How to write a dialogue is as much about listening to conversations that are going on around you, and noting the different cadences to speech, as it is to creative writing techniques. It's about allowing your characters to develop their own banter or conflict without authorial interference. It's about hearing their discussions in your head – and not giving vent to your own opinions. It's about giving them free rein.
Let me know what you're working on these days. If you want to send a piece of your own work showing dialogue, it would be good to see it. But no more than half a page each please.


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The African Revolution
By theretroculturati on August 13, 2016 • ( Leave a comment )
Review of The African Revolution by James Cameron….
Regular visitors will know that I am a fully paid up member of the unofficial James Cameron Journalist fan club. I am sure one existed a few decades ago and rightly so for a man who was at the forefront of foreign correspondence for so many years. These days, some thirty years after his death, I find myself attempting the almost impossible task of showing the World Wide Web that he wasn't the director of an animated movie about blue coloured aliens. I am, I fear, fighting a losing battle.
But in true, persistent Cameron spirit I fight on, unperturbed by aliens and as the proud owner of all of his works I shall finish his bibliography. Anyone who is familiar with his body of work would surely agree that it is indeed a worthwhile project.
The African Revolution was printed by Thames and Hudson in 1961 as part of The Great Revolutions series, the second to be published which also included volumes on China, France, Russia and Spain as well as the first book The Arab Revival by Francesco Gabrieli. The book, like the series was an impressive undertaking and Cameron covered every major African country from north to south, east to west including Algeria, Uganda, Liberia, Tunisia, Morocco, The Congo, Ghana, Tanganyika, Nigeria, Egypt and The Sudan.
The geopolitical map of Africa was and is as vast as its geographical size. A continent in parts barely touched yet in others forever scarred by colonial rule, religion, famine and segregation. Its vastness Cameron underlines in his opening paragraph on West Africa: "In Africa the words 'East' and 'West' are less geographical expressions than completely overruling philosophical symbols; peremptory indications of Africa's huge divisions, for between the Atlantic and the Indian Ocean exists every kind of difference-intellectual, physical, administrative, historical, anthropological, and above all political. Between the Negro Africa of the western rain-forest and the Bantu Africa of the eastern savannahs stretches a gulf of both time and personality; they lie within one continent in their own two worlds-with the third world of South Africa cut away by an abyss of emotion that by now seems almost unbridgeable"
Given its size it is difficult to comprehend how France and Britain could have colonised such huge parts of the continent but colonise they did and with quite clearly opposing mandates. Whilst Britain sluggishly worked towards a system of self-government the French were intent on creating a colony not of self-sufficient Africans but of French-Africans, technically but profoundly importantly, French citizens with attributable rights. By the late 1950s the term 'Colony' was replaced by 'Overseas France' and remarkably, as Cameron points out, there was no word in the French language for 'self-government'. What France imposed on 'Overseas France' was a token form of French citizenship, a half-way house with the arrogant assumption that for a negro African to be able to call himself a Frenchman of sorts was better than that of the Colonial African.
What ensued of course was years of attempts by African leaders to secure terms akin to those living within the British Commonwealth until De Gaulle, faced with the increasing desire by his colonial subjects for greater, far-reaching rights, offered them all a simple choice; absolute independence or domestic autonomy within the boundaries of French rule. All but Guinea voted for the later and such was De Gaulle's astonishment of their 'affront' that he made a swift and sweeping financial example of Guinea and cut all aid within a year of the vote. Such arrogance, such self-importance could only be trumped in their attitude to Algeria and as with Vietnam they would be given a brutal wake-up call: "For the next four years the situation festered away in frustration and impotence; both in France and Algeria it expressed itself in a long demoralizing series of intrigues and conspiracies, repressions and vengeances, arrests, assassinations and tortures; in the dismally familiar pattern atrocity begat attrocity, violence bred violence, on both sides men of good will watched the creeping degeneration with despair"
Whilst not the absolute catalyst, it would prove symptomatic for many of the sociological problems France would and continues to face both in the motherland and overseas. Its often callous attitude by successive governments left its 'citizens' with a deep distrust of their colonial masters. They were promised much but given little and by the time of Cameron's visits in the 1950s this sense of back-tracking and segregation by France was deeply ingrained with repercussions as evident in 2016 as they were in the 1930s.
In every chapter Cameron demonstrates how unique each country within the African continent was at the time of writing. In typical Cameron fashion he pulls no punches, a Socialist by heart he shows the actions of governments and rulers for what they were. He demonstrates the effect of British and French colonial rule, the result of independence whilst looking forward to the future and the revolutions of sorts to come in the 1960s and beyond. If you wish to know how we got to where we are you must know from where we came. Cameron is as good a starting block as you can hope to find.
James Cameron The African Revolution
Thames and Hudson 1961
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