Which Cabinet minister fathered Flora Keays by his secretary?

Cecil Parkinson cuts lovechild with Asperger's out of his will Cecil Parkinson cuts lovechild with Asperger's out of his will Cecil Parkinson had once been tipped as a Conservative Party leader Credit: Rex Featrues Camilla Turner 27 April 2016 • 9:40am Cecil Parkinson, the former cabinet minister, left nothing in his will to the lovechild he fathered with his secretary, it has emerged. The late Tory grandee, who was a close ally of Margaret Thatcher, had a daughter with his mistress Sara Keays  in 1983 then fought a bitter court battle to keep her existence a secret. Sara Keays pictured with her daughter Flora  Credit: Rex Features Parkinson, who died in January aged 84, had once been tipped as a Conservative Party leader but was forced to resign from the front bench after the affair and Flora's birth became public knowledge. He secured a gagging order which stopped the Press from reporting on his illegitimate child, who has Asperger’s syndrome,  until she turned 18. Now it has emerged that he left his fortune to his wife Ann and their three daughters Mary, Emma and Joanna, cutting out lovechild Flora entirely. The politician and former Conservative Party chairman wrote in his will: “Having made separate provision for my daughter Flora Keays I make no provision for her under this my will,” according to The Sun. It is unclear what the “separate provision” entails, but it is thought to be a reference to the money Parkinson paid his former secretary for their daughter's upbringing. He lived in a listed mansion in Hertfordshire which is now on the market £2million, with the proceeds set to go to his wife. The Tory politician, who was created Baron Parkinson after resigning from politics, and served in the House of Lords, had extensive business interests and amassed millions of pounds over his lifetime. He served as a director of more than a dozen companies and chaired the web start-up Planet Online which was sold for £85million in 1998. “Having made separate provision for my daughter Flora Keays I make no provision for her under this my will” Cecil Parkinson's will However, none of his fortune will go to Flora, 32, who was left with severe health problems after undergoing surgery to remove a brain tumour at the age of four, and was later diagnosed with Asperger's. When the court order was lifted in 2002, she revealed that Parkinson had never inquired after her wellbeing or even sent her a birthday card, although he claimed to have spent £500,000 supporting her. Parkinson had been widely seen as the architect of Thatcher's 1983 election victory, and was rewarded with an appointment as Secretary of State for Trade and Industry. However, he was forced to resign a few months later when news of his affair with Ms Keays became public. The MP was able to return to the front benches in 1987 as Energy Secretary and then transport Secretary, later moving to the House of Lords and becoming a chairman of the Tory party. From 1993 to 2001, it was illegal for the media to make any reference to Flora's existence because of a court order sought by Parkinson. Follow Telegraph News News latest 18 Jan 2017, 10:10pm


In which county would you find Kielder Forest?

Home > Where to go > Kielder and Border Forest > Kielder Water & Forest Park tourist information Winner of England's best tourism experience - Visit England Awards 2013 Home to northern Europe’s largest man-made lake and England's largest forest, Kielder Water & Forest Park is one of Northumberland's best attractions. It is perfect for individuals or families that love nature, water sports, exploring, walking, cycling and much more. Tower Knowe visitors centre at Kielder Kielder Water & Forest Park features mile upon mile of purpose-built trails including forest walks for all the family and dedicated mountain bike tracks. The Lakeside Way is a 26 mile multi-user trail, suitable for walkers, cyclists, horse riders and wheelchair users, that encircles the shoreline of Kielder Water. A haven for wildlife , Kielder Water & Forest Park is also home to around 50% of England’s native red squirrel population. In 2009 three chicks were born to a record breaking osprey couple - the first birds for at least 200 years to successfully raise chicks in Northumberland. So far they have returned to breed every year since. You can also spot see a range of rare wildlife including the Kielder Super Six: osprey, red squirrel, pipistrelle bat, roe deer, salmon and otter. Waterskiing and sailing enthusiasts take to the water all year round and the lake offers a huge challenge to keen trout anglers between March and October. You can discover all you need to know about Kielder Water & Forest Park including its history at Tower Knowe Visitor Centre or visit Kielder Castle , the former hunting lodge for the Duke of Northumberland, which now hosts a visitor centre, art gallery and exhibitions. Leaplish Waterside Park boasts luxury self catering forest lodges, an indoor heated swimming pool and sauna, restaurant and bar and the Kielder Water Birds of Prey Centre. Cycling around Kielder Water Visitors to Kielder lodges at Leaplish Waterside Park have access to professional training and tuition for a range of mainstream sporting activities to suit everyone as part of a ‘go active’ break. Activities include: archery and junior archery, fencing, crossbow, table tennis, snorkelling, FUNdamentals (gymnastics for young children), sea scooters (underwater propellers to power around the pool), disc golf (launch specially designed frisbees into targets across a large outdoor course), petanque (a form of boules), short mat bowls (indoor bowls for all the family), water walkerz (walk on water in the pool inside a floating inflatable ball) and skip-hop (skipping and hip-hop dance moves). Famed for having the darkest night skies in England thanks to minimal light pollution, Kielder Water & Forest Park is a star gazers’ heaven and is home to the Kielder Observatory alongside Northumberland National Park who is seeking Dark Sky Reserve Status, KW&FP is currently in the process of bidding for Dark Sky Park Status. If successful, together they will create the world’s third largest area of protected starry skies. For more information click here . Kielder Observatory There is also contemporary art and architecture including the futuristic shelter design of the Belvedere , the Minotaur maze and Silvas Capitalis, also known as the ‘giant forest head’. Visitors are spoilt for choice when it comes to spending a day trip, weekend break or holiday in what the Campaign to Protect Rural England calls the most tranquil spot in the country. Also of interest


From which major religion did the Hare Krishna movement spring?

Hare Krishna - ReligionFacts ReligionFacts Bowker, John (ed.) Hare Krishna Hare Krishna is the popular name for the International Society of Krishna Consciousness (or ISKCON), a new religious movement based in Hinduism. Established in America in 1965, the Hare Krishna worship the Hindu god Krishna as the one Supreme God. Their goal is "Krishna consciousness" and their central practice is chanting the Hare Krishna mantra for which they are named. History ISKCON has its historical roots in the Caitanya (or Gaudiya) movement of Hinduism, which began around 1510 with an ascetic who took the name Sri Krishna Caitanya. This devotee of Krishna became renowned for his ecstatic devotion, expressed in dance and song. His disciples believed Caitanya to be manifestation of Krishna himself, and established a movement based on his inspiration. The International Society for Krishna Conciousness (ISKCON) is a modern movement within this tradition. It was founded by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1896-1977), a devotee of Krishna, upon his arrival to America from India in 1965. Prabhupada was born in Calcutta and was 70 years old when he arrived in New York City. Prabhupada moved to the Haight Ashbury district of San Francisco in 1967, where he soon gained many followers. The movement spread quickly, and became one of the most visible of the new religious movements that came from the East in the 1960s and 70s. ISKCON gained further publicity (and financial support) through the interest of the Beatle George Harrison. The first Hare Krishna commune was established by Prabhupada as "New Vrindavan" in West Virginia in 1968. In 1970, Prabhupada established the Governing Board Commission (GBC) to help him administer the movement. After Prabhupada's death in 1977, 11 of his disciples became initiating gurus. Three of these are still active Hare Krishna teachers. The Hare Krishna came under criticism during the anti-cult movement in the 1970s and 1980s, and still remains under the watchful eye of anti-cult organizations today. The identification of ISKCON as a cult is usually based on the abuses committed by some of its leaders and allegations by some former members of brainwashing and isolation from family and friends. In 1998, the organization published an official report detailing abuse of children in ISKCON boarding schools in the US and India in the 70s and 80s. The movement was sued by a number of former students and actively sought to identify victims who had not sued in order to compensate them as well. To prevent future abuses, ISKCON has established a worldwide child protection office to screen out actual or potential abusers and educate children and adults on child abuse, and has made other organizational changes to increase the transparency and accountability of ISKCON leadership. Texts The most important sacred text for the Hare Krishna is the Hindu text Bhagavad Gita, the "Song of the Lord," written around 250 BC. Beloved also by Gandhi and nearly all Hindus, the Gita tells the story of the warrior Arjuna and his encounter with Krishna. This text is regarded as literal truth by Hare Krishnas. Specifically, Hare Krishnas use and distribute the translation by Prabhupada, The Bhagavad Gita As It Is, which includes an extensive commentary by the founder. Beliefs ISKCON identifies itself with Hindu Vedic philsophy and Vaishanvism (devotion to Vishnu). Its beliefs are especially rooted in the Bhagavad Gita (see Texts, above) and the teachings of the founder, Prabhupada. Most mainstream Hindus accept the Hare Krishna as an authentic sect within Hinduism. Hare Krishnas teach that we are living in an evil age, the age of Kali, but can attain salvation and a "return to Godhead" by means of permanent Krishna-consciousness. Krishna-consciousness can be accomplished through ethical living and the "Hare Krishna" chant (see Practices, below). This salvation is accomplished by Bhakti-yoga, the "way of devotion." The object of ISKCON devotion is Krishna, a manifestation of Vishnu and a beloved deity in mainstream Hinduism as w


Complete the saying ‘Whom the Gods love die ……..’?

Euripides - Wikiquote Euripides Quotes[ edit ] Humility, a sense of reverence before the sons of heaven — of all the prizes that a mortal man might win, these, I say, are wisest; these are best. The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate. Ægeus, Frag. 7. A bad beginning makes a bad ending. Æolus, Frag. 32. Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks. Æolus, Frag. 38. The nobly born must nobly meet his fate. Alcmene, Frag. 100. Waste not fresh tears over old griefs. Alexander Frag. 44. Sweet is the remembrance of troubles when you are in safety. Andromeda. Woman is woman's natural ally. Alope, Frag. 109. Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife. Antigone, Frag 164. Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain. Antiope, Frag. 204. Cleverness is not wisdom. And not to think mortal thoughts is to see few days. Bacchæ l. 395. Dionysus: He who believes needs no explanation. Pentheus: What's the worth in believing worthless things? Dionysus: Much worth, but not worth telling you, it seems. Bacchae l. 472, as translated by Colin Teevan (2002) Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. Bacchæ l. 480 Variant translation: To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish. Slow but sure moves the might of the gods. Bacchæ l. 882 Variant translation: Slowly but surely withal moveth the might of the gods. χρηστοῖσι δούλοις συμφορὰ τὰ δεσποτῶν. Good slaves [are affected by] the adversities of their masters Bacchæ l. 1028 Note: the original sentence does not contain any verb Humility, a sense of reverence before the sons of heaven — of all the prizes that a mortal man might win, these, I say, are wisest; these are best. Bacchæ l. 1150. Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account. Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account. Bellerophon, Fragment 298; quoted in Plutarch's Morals : Ethical Essays (1888) edited and translated by Arthur Richard Shilleto, p. 293. Doth some one say that there be gods above? There are not; no, there are not. Let no fool, Led by the old false fable, thus deceive you. Look at the facts themselves, yielding my words No undue credence: for I say that kings Kill, rob, break oaths, lay cities waste by fraud, And doing thus are happier than those Who live calm pious lives day after day. All divinity Is built-up from our good and evil luck. Bellerophon. I sacrifice to no god save myself — And to my belly, greatest of deities. The Cyclops (c.424-23 BC). I care for riches, to make gifts To friends, or lead a sick man back to health With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth For daily gladness; once a man be done With hunger, rich and poor are all as one. Electra (413 BC). Nothing has more strength than dire necessity. Helen (412 BC), as translated by Richmond Lattimore In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side. Heraclidæ (c 428 BC); quoted by Aristophanes in The Wasps. Leave no stone unturned. Ares (The God of War) hates those who hesitate. Heraclidæ (c 428 BC) line 722. Alternate translation : Ares hates the sluggard most of all. (translated by David Kovacs) I hold that mortal foolish who strives against the stress of necessity. Hercules Furens l. 281. O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature! Ion (c. 421-408 BC) l. 238. Authority is never without hate. Ion (c. 421-408 BC) as translated by Ronald F. Willetts. Thou didst bring me forth for all the Greeks in common, not for thyself alone. Iphigenia in Aulis, 1386. A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger. Iphigenia in Tauris (c. 412 BC) l. 114. There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change. Iphigenia in Tauris (c. 412 BC) l. 721. Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of fame. Licymnius, Frag. 477. A bad beginning makes a bad ending. Variant: A bad ending follows a bad beginning. Melanippe the Wise (fragment). When good m


A gathering of which birds can be described as an ‘unkindness’?

JF Ptak Science Books: An Unkindness of Ravens; a Murder of Crows. Naming Things. An Unkindness of Ravens; a Murder of Crows. Naming Things. JF Ptak Science Books LLC  Post 690  Blog Bookstore Names given the collectives or gatherings or units of animals are useful and informative, and occasionally fabulous and bizarre.  It seems to me that such characterizations could be made with people as well,  Why should humans have such a uniform label for collective employment members (a “group” of lawyers, a “gathering” of architects, and so on) when animals have such a rich vocabulary to draw from?  Admitedly, animals don’t go out and get lawyers when they feel maligned by a broadly advanced descriptor, so there’s little chance that more appropriate upfittings could be applied to different job classifications.  Unless of course you consider the “managed corporate associate monetary inventorialist” (cashier) as an example—but that is not what I’m talking about.  In the animal world, for example, a group of gorillas is a simple “band”, chicks a “clutch”, and quail a “covey”, which is simple enough.  The names get more adventurous as things progress in the food chain:  hippos are a “bloat”, a word which seems to identify a characteristic of the animal, especially when they’re half-submerged, watching the sun move across the sky with their eyes just above the waterline..  Ferrets are a “business”, semi-inscrutable in their nervous activity. Hyenas are a “cackle”, hawks are a “boil” and finches are a “charm”. A group of rhinos are beautifully referred to as a “crash”, and squirrels are poetically announced as a “scurry” Perhaps the second greatest of all of these names is that for a gathering of crows, called a “murder”.  It is probably the crow which, among all animals, may be the only one “smart” enough to commit the crime—it is an undoubtedly intelligent animal, with a brain-to-body mass ratio third to that of humans (behind apes) and have been shown to work in concert with one another toward a common end, and have also used tools in the pursuit of food.  They have also been depicted for thousands of years in mythology and story as intelligent, crafty creatures.  My choice for the most fabulously-named:  an “unkindness” of ravens.   These birds enjoy a similar heritage to the crow, but have a greater literary heritage.  Unkindness and Poe seem to go together quite nicely.  A leap of leopards, a gulp of cormorants, a romp of otters, a parliament of owls.  An ostentation of peacocks, a prickle of porcupines, a stand of flamingoes, a pride of lions, a wake of buzzards, a tower of giraffes: all seem to fit quite nicely.  What would the human equivalent be?   A "grotesque" or a "provident" of attorneys,  a "shushing" or "shepherding" of librarians, a "scribble" or "release" of writers, an "envy" or "relief" of actors?  I think it needs to be Latin and deep for the politicians.  Very deep.  (A directory of names follows in the continued reading section) A band


Built by Rama 1st. Which capital city is home to the Temple of the Emerald Buddha?

World Wondering: 11. Wonder: The Temple of the Emerald Buddha 11. Wonder: The Temple of the Emerald Buddha (For the Temple of the Emerald Buddha preview, please click here .) When the Siamese capital city of Ayutthaya fell in 1767, it seemed like that might be it for Thai civilisation. The Burmese came in, utterly destroyed the city, burned the libraries and literature, stole all the gold, took loads of slaves, and left the Thai world in a smouldering ruin. Ayutthaya was finished, the king was dead (starved in hiding or shot by the Burmese, depending on accounts), and a golden age was over. But it wasn't game over. The Burmese had other problems, namely the Chinese, and couldn't waste their energy trying to control the mess of the fallen Thai nation; indeed, it's been suggested that if Ayutthaya could have just held on for a little longer, it would never have fallen. A couple of years after Ayutthaya's collapse, an military leader called Phraya Taksin declared himself king in the absence of any other ruling power. He set up shop in his new capital, just across the river from Bangkok, and who knows what could have been if soon after he hadn't started to go a bit mental, and start believing he was the new Buddha. His ministers were not so sure, and had him executed after just a year in charge. One of Taksin's old generals then took charge, wisely not declaring himself the new Buddha. He shifted the capital across the river, to what we now know as Bangkok. What does every king need? A palace, of course. And a Grand Palace is even better. From 1782 to 1785, the first edition of the Grand Palace sitting at the heart of Bangkok was built. The general was posthumously named King Rama I, and was the first of the still-running Chakri dynasty still idolised today in Thailand (slag off the king and you can expect years in prison here). Rama I's Grand Palace was built in the same style as the old royal palace of Ayutthaya, and like it was positioned on the riverbank, facing north. He wanted to recreate the glory of Ayutthaya, to the point of plundering bricks and materials from the ruined city to the north to build his new vision. Forts, gates, royal residences, palace walls all quickly went up. Just one more little thing needed - a temple. Ever since the Sukhothai Kingdom in the 13th Century, there had been a tradition of having a Buddhist temple as part of the royal palace; indeed, it was necessary to legitimise his reign. For this, a relic or sacred item would be required as the focal point, and Rama I had the perfect thing: the mysterious, the precious, the sacred Emerald Buddha. A few years earlier, when still just a general serving under Taksin, Rama I had enjoyed a short excursion up north, in Laos. After a little bit of warring, he recovered or stole, depending on interpretation, the Emerald Buddha from the Lao capital, Vientiane. He gave it to Taksin, though Taksin didn't do much with it, but upon Rama I taking power and shifting his base to Bangkok and the Grand Palace, it became his symbol of a new Thailand. As the Grand Palace went up, the various buildings of the temple also went up, including the chapel that houses the Emerald Buddha. Since their construction in 1785, they have never been allowed to fall into disrepair, and ongoing maintenance goes on till this day. The Grand Palace itself takes up a pretty large and squarish area. It's a couple of kilometres in circumference, and 218,400 square metres in area - to put that in more manageable terms, it would take about half an hour to walk round the outside, and is a little bit bigger than Buckingham Palace and its gardens. The buildings that comprise the Temple of the Emerald Buddha rest in a walled-off section at the north-east corner of the palace grounds, taking up about 10% of the total area. In the temple area there are a number of buildings, statues, and stupas, but I would regard there as being four main buildings. Of these, the ubosoth is the largest and most significant. The ubosoth may also be called the chapel, or the royal monastery. This is where the Emer


What is the clarified butter commonly used in Indian cuisine?

Clarified Butter vs Ghee - Difference and Comparison | Diffen Clarified Butter vs. Ghee Diffen › Food › Diet & Nutrition Clarified butter is anhydrous milk fat rendered from butter to separate the milk solids and water from the butterfat. Ghee is a class of clarified butter that originated in South Asia and is commonly used in South Asian (Indian, Bangladeshi and Pakistani), North African (Egyptian and Berber) and Horn African cuisine. Comparison chart Clarified Butter versus Ghee comparison chart Clarified Butter Ghee Nutritional Information per tablespoon Calories: 130 kcal; Saturated fat: 9gm; Trans fat: 0; Total fat: 14 gm; Sodium: 0; Total carbohydrate: 0; Sugar: 0; Dietary fiber: 0; Protein: 0; Calcium: 0; Iron: 0; Cholesterol: 40 mg Total fat: 14 gm; Sodium: 0; Total carbohydrate: 0; Sugar: 0; Dietary fiber: 0; Protein: 0.04g; Calcium: 0; Iron: 0; Cholesterol: 33 mg Variations around the World In France, it is known as beurre noisette, translated as "hazelnut butter," and it is known as Brown Butter in English. In Arab countries, it is known as samnah and in Tigrinya, it is known as Tesmi. In Ethiopia, ghee is known as niter kibbeh. Moroccans let the ghee age for a while which results in the final product, which is known as Smen. In Brazil, it is called manteiga-de-garrafa (Butter-in-a-bottle) or manteiga-da-terra (Butter of the land). Definition Clarified butter is anhydrous milk fat rendered from butter to separate the milk solids and water from the butterfat. Ghee is a class of clarified butter that originated in South Asia and is commonly used in South Asian (Indian, Bangladeshi and Pakistani), North African (Egyptian and Berber) and Horn African cuisine. Method of Preparation Clarified butter is usually prepared by melting butter and allowing all the ingredients to separate by density. Commercially prepared by direct evaporation, decantation and centrifugation. Ghee is prepared by simmering unsalted butter in a cooking vessel until all water has evaporated and the milk solids, or protein, have settled to the bottom. Contents: Clarified Butter vs Ghee 4 References Method of Preparation Clarified butter is prepared by melting butter and allowing all the ingredients to separate by density. The water in the butter evaporates, milk solids sink to the bottom. Other solids that float on top are removed to acquire clarified butter. Commercially, clarified butter can be prepared by direct evaporation. However, companies employ methods like decantation and centrifugation to obtain clarified butter. Ghee is made by simmering unsalted butter in a cooking vessel until all water has evaporated and the milk solids, or protein , have settled to the bottom. The froth on top is spooned off intermittently. The ghee obtained is then strained into a container and cooled at room temperature till it solidifies. Variations around the World Clarified butter is prepared differently in various parts of the world. In the Middle East and South Asia, the process of obtaining clarified butter remains the same as anywhere else in the world, except that the milk solids which sink to the bottom are allowed to caramelize. This lends a nutty flavor to the end product. In France, this is known as beurre noisette, loosely translated as "hazelnut butter," and it is known as brown butter in English. In Arab countries, it is known as samnah and in Tigrinya, it is known as Tesmi. In Ethiopia, ghee – or niter kibbeh as it is regionally called - is prepared with the same procedure as ghee above. However, locals add spices such as cumin, coriander , turmeric, cardamom, cinnamon, or nutmeg which gives it a distinct aroma. Moroccans let the spiced ghee age for months and sometimes, years. This results in the final product, which is known as Smen, which has a strong cheesy taste and smell. In Brazil, a very similar form of ghee is used which is known as manteiga-de-garrafa (Butter-in-a-bottle) or manteiga-da-terra (Butter of the land). Nutritional Information Per Tablespoon


Which famous writer lived at Gads Hill in Kent?

Not a Bleak House: Last home of Charles Dickens opens to the public for the first time | Daily Mail Online Not a Bleak House: Last home of Charles Dickens opens to the public for the first time Last home to become temporary exhibition site while Charles Dickens Museum in London closes for £3.4m revamp Dickens' writing desk to be returned to the study where he crafted some of his classic tales comments For decades Charles Dickens' fans had to be satisfied with a fleeting glimpse through a window at the home where the author penned some of his best-loved works. But now Gad's Hill Place in Higham, Kent - home of Dickens' family from 1858 until his death in one of the rooms in 1870 - is about to open its doors to the public for the first time. His writing desk will be returned to the very study where Dickens wrote Great Expectations, Our Mutual Friend, A Tale of Two Cities and the unfinished novel Edwin Drood. Opening: Visitors will be able to wander the rooms of historic Gad's Hill Place, in Higham, Kent, were Dickens penned some of his best-loved works from 1857 until his death in 1870 Workplace: This is the only photograph of the study at Gad's Hill Place, seen as it was left by the author During the summer, to celebrate the bicentenary of his birth, the Charles Dickens Museum will open the ground floor of the house. The museum intends to return many of the writer’s personal possessions temporarily to their former home; the first time that they have been there since the house and its contents were sold in 1870.   Charles Dickens Museum director Dr Florian Schweizer said: 'The opening of Gad’s Hill Place is one of the highlight events of the Dickens bicentenary year and will make our Dickens 2012 campaign even more memorable. RELATED ARTICLES Share this article Share 'Together with the authorities in Kent we have been working for many years on improving access to the rich and diverse Dickens heritage in Kent; his former home in Higham is a heritage treasure waiting to be discovered, and we hope that visitors will enjoy this special treat for the anniversary year. 'The Charles Dickens Museum is delighted to have the opportunity to show some of its collections at Gad’s Hill Place and bring alive a place so full of literary associations.' The historic fabric of the building, which he bought for £1,700 in 1856, is very much intact and the author’s study is still lined with the faux books, which having commissioned for another home, he installed in his new one.  Reunited: The actual desk where Dickens wrote some of his most famous works will return to his study in Gad's Hill Place in time for the opening Glimpse: Visitors will now be able to stand where Charles Dickens spent hours writing at his desk in Gad's Hill Place, penning many of his classic novels, including Great Expectations With objects from the collection at Doughty Street, the museum will be bringing these interiors back to life and the exhibition will give a flavour of the life that Dickens led there. The opening is due to coincide with this year's  £3.2million refurbishment of the Charles Dickens Museum, which is spread over  two houses in which the author lived - 48 and 49 Doughty Street, London. The Heritage Lottery Fund, which has provided £2.4million towards the project. The museum will remain open until Easter, after which there will be a continuous series of exhibitions and events in London and beyond, including Gad’s Hill Place. Gad’s Hill Place will be open from July 25 to August 19 during the afternoons from Wednesday to Sunday for pre-booked guided tours of the key reception rooms and the study. Stepping back: Visitors will be able to see the Library at Gad's Hill Place, which still has many original features including dummy books. Dickens is pictured, right, enjoying the gardens with daughters Katey and Mary Restored: Many of Dickens' belongings will be returned to his last home when it opens to the public this summer Sandra Matthews Marsh, CEO Visit Kent said: 'We are delighted that Charles Dickens Museum is coming to Kent for the summe


Not often mentioned – what is Jeeves first name?

Jeeves and Wooster (Literature) - TV Tropes Jeeves and Wooster You need to login to do this. Get Known if you don't have an account Share "You will find Mr. Wooster an exceedingly pleasant and amiable young gentleman, but not intelligent. By no means intelligent. Mentally he is negligible - quite negligible." — Jeeves (from "Scoring off Jeeves") Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves are fictional characters, created by British author P. G. Wodehouse . They have appeared in many comedic short stories and novels published between 1915 and 1974. Wodehouse's most famous Upper-Class Twit , Bertram Wilberforce "Bertie" Wooster, is also the character who probably best embodies Wodehouse's gift for language. Bertie may be "mentally negligible", but as narrator of his own adventures he expresses himself with a loopy eloquence virtually unmatched in literature, giving this series its much-beloved Cloudcuckoolander sense of humor. The plots tend to follow a set formula: life would be just about perfect for our single and very wealthy young man-about-London-town were it not for his inability to say no when his even goofier friends and/or imposing aunts come asking favours. Most often these are tied into typically Wodehousean love affairs, rife with comic misunderstanding and convoluted scheming, meaning that Bertie generally finds himself 'accidentally engaged' at least once or twice a book (in a couple cases, on and off over the course of several books). Of course, always the perfect gentleman (as the stern Code of the Woosters dictates), he would never correct a lady... ...Thankfully, Bertie's Servile Snarker uber-valet (not butler, though if the call comes, he can buttle with the best of them), Reginald Jeeves , is fully as capable as Bertie is ineffectual. With, apparently, the same effort most people put into buttoning their cuffs — and without so much as a flicker in his coolly correct facade — Jeeves steps in when all seems hopeless, rescues Bertie and/or his friends from their entanglements and restores the status quo . Often several times per book... because the fact that Bertie and co. are involved means there's always a chance the best-laid plans will go awry. Arthur Treacher was well-known as the embodiment of Jeeves in a series of films in the 1930s, with David Niven taking the part of Bertie Wooster. In the Sixties, Ian Carmichael (better known for playing Lord Peter Wimsey ) as Bertie and Dennis Price as Jeeves appeared in the TV series The World of Wooster. (It is on record that Wodehouse did not care much for any of these adaptations.) There is also a BBC radio version starring Richard Briers as Bertie and Michael Hordern as Jeeves, possibly the most faithful adaptation of the books, as it preserves Bertie's first-person narration. This series included dramatizations of The Inimitable Jeeves; The Code of the Woosters; Right Ho, Jeeves; Joy in the Morning; Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves; Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit; and The Mating Season. All but the last have been released on compact disc and MP3 . The Jeeves stories were also the basis and inspiration for an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, Jeeves, which was released in 1975 and failed so spectacularly both critically and commercially that it's still thought of as Webber's first real flop. However, in 1996 the musical was reworked, rewritten and re-released as By Jeeves, which was far more successful and got generally positive reviews. Perhaps most famously, the Jeeves stories formed the basis of the popular early '90s series Jeeves and Wooster , starring Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie , respectively. Bibliography The Man with Two Left Feet (1917), short story collection featuring one Jeeves story out of thirteen "Extricating Young Gussie" My Man Jeeves (1919), short story collection with four Jeeves stories out of eight "Leave it to Jeeves", "Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest", "Jeeves and the Hard-boiled Egg", "The Aunt and the Sluggard" The Inimitable Jeeves (1923), short story collection "Jeeves in the Springtime", "Aunt Agatha Takes the Count", "Scoring Off Jeeves", "Sir Roderic


What is the nickname of Bertie Wooster’s friend Richard Little?

Jeeves and Wooster (Series) - TV Tropes Jeeves and Wooster You need to login to do this. Get Known if you don't have an account Share Wooster: Why is it, do you think, Jeeves, that the thought of the "little thing" my Aunt Dahlia wants me to do for her fills me with a nameless foreboding? Jeeves: Experience, sir? A TV Series starring Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie and based on the short stories and novels of P. G. Wodehouse , Jeeves and Wooster is set sometime between the wars and focuses on Bertie Wooster, an affable but not overly bright young chap with an unfortunate tendency to get accidentally engaged to every woman he so much as looks at, while his valet (not butler), Jeeves, is the brains of the operation , suggesting the various schemes that help Bertie and his friends get out of trouble. Well sometimes. Sometimes, he gives them what they need, not what they want . The plots tend to be quite similar - a friend of Bertie's is in love but they lack the courage to propose/their family doesn't approve of the match/they've forgotten the girl's name and address, and they require Bertie to propose in their stead/pretend to be engaged to their fiancée/pose as a burglar to make them look heroic when they foil him; this will go wrong and Bertie will get unwillingly engaged to someone, or be caught stealing something, or both. At the last minute everything will turn out all right and Jeeves will explain how he solved everything. Grateful at being saved from the altar or prison (or both) once again, Bertie will give permission for Jeeves to book the cruise he's been angling for, or destroy the hat of Bertie's he dislikes; inevitably, Jeeves has already done so . Additional Pages: Episode Guide Tropes include: Abhorrent Admirer : Honoria Glossop, Florence Craye, and Madeleine Bassett. Rare examples where the primary problems are with their personalities, and not their appearances. With Honoria Glossop it is more the case of No Guy Wants an Amazon , which is a special case of Bertie who is mortally afraid of strong-willed women mainly due to bad experiences with his aunts. Accidental Dance Craze : On one occasion, when Gussie and Bertie are in the Drones Club discussing Gussie's difficulty confessing his love to Madeline Bassett, Gussie complains to Bertie that male newts have it much easier, as they profess attraction by performing a simple body-shaking movement — which he demonstrates, inspiring two nearby Drones to invent a new dance which nearly everyone in the room is doing by the time Gussie and Bertie leave. Accidental Engagement : Throughout the series, often to the same women (Honoria, Madeline, and Florence) two or three times, though in the final episode Bertie outdoes himself when he ends up accidentally engaged to two women simultaneously. Adaptation Dye-Job : During the first season, the blonde Madeline Bassett was portrayed by a brunette. Both actresses who were cast as the platinum blonde Florence Craye were also brunettes. Finally, the hair of the actress who portrayed Bobbie Wickham during the first season could hardly be described as a vivid shade of red (or any shade of red unless you squinted really hard). Aesop Amnesia : In several of the stories Bertie tries to fix things on his own, invariably making them ten times worse, and realising that the only one who can get him out of this mess is Jeeves. He often seems to have forgotten this lesson by the beginning of the next story. However, there was also at least one time when Bertie remembered the aesop, but decided to ignore it in order to prove he didn't need Jeeves. He did Affectionate Gesture to the Head : In the very first episode, Bingo does this to Oliver Glossop (the boy he's tutoring) during dinner, dismissing something the boy just said. Ambiguously Jewish : New York theater owner Blumenfeld and his son. Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking : The principles of Roderick Spode's miniature fascist movement. Introducing his manifesto to 'rebuild Britain': "Our policies are clear, our policies are just, our policies are fully laid out in my book, Whither England


What is the name of the aunt that Bertie lives in mortal fear of?

Jeeves and Wooster - Wikiquote Jeeves and Wooster Jeeves and Wooster (1990-1993) was a British TV series adapted by Clive Exton from P. G. Wodehouse 's Jeeves stories. It starred Hugh Laurie as the artless Bertie Wooster and Stephen Fry as his miraculously capable valet Jeeves . Contents Jeeves Takes Over [1.1][ edit ] [his first line] Jeeves : I was sent by the agency, sir. I was given to understand that you required a valet . Eustace Wooster: Now, touching at lunch, you very decently were going to volunteer to stand us... Bertie Wooster : Can’t be done, I’m afraid. I’ve got to have lunch with our Aunt Agatha. Eustace Wooster: Oh... not the nephew-crusher. Aunt Agatha : Bertie. Bertie Wooster: Aunt Agatha. Aunt Agatha: It is young men like you who make a person with the future of the race at heart despair. Bertie Wooster: Oh. Right. Bertie Wooster: Jeeves, I have to make one thing crystal clear. Jeeves: Yes, sir? Bertie Wooster: I am not one of those fellows who become absolute slaves to their valets. Jeeves: [as if shocked] No, sir. Bertie Wooster: Just as long as we understand each other. Jeeves: Perfectly, sir. Lady Glossop : Do you work, Mr. Wooster? Bertie Wooster: What, work? As in honest toil, you mean? Hewing the wood and drawing the old wet stuff and so forth? Lady Glossop: Quite. Bertie Wooster: Well... I've known a few people who worked. Absolutely swear by it, some of them. Bertie Wooster: You bally well are informed, Jeeves! Do you know everything? Jeeves: [hesitates] I really don't know, sir. Tuppy and the Terrier [1.2][ edit ] Jeeves : Pardon me for asking, sir, but are you proposing to appear in public in those garments? Bertie Wooster : Well, certainly, Jeeves. What — a bit vivid, do you think? Jeeves: Not necessarily, sir. I am told that Mr. Freddie "He's a Riot" Flowerdew often appears on the music-hall stage in comparable attire. Bertie Wooster: [having just finished playing "Forty-Seven Ginger-Headed Sailors"] Really speaks to me, that song, you know, Jeeves. Jeeves: I'm sorry to hear that, sir. Bertie Wooster: I can be chilled steel, you know! Bobbie Wickham : Mr. Blumenfield's a fearfully important Broadway producer. I've got to read Mummy's play to him after lunch. I can't read to him in a restaurant. Bertie Wooster: Yes, but why does he want jam roly-poly and oysters? Bobbie Wickham: Oh, he doesn't. That's for his son. Apparently Mr. Blumenfield always banks on his verdict. He says an eight-year-old child's intelligence is exactly equal to a Broadway audience's. Tuppy: Guess what? I'm going to the opera tonight. Bertie Wooster: Opera, Tuppy? Tuppy: Cora's singing in the, um, Barber of Figaro. Bertie Wooster: Is that the one about the pyramids? Barmy: Sounds like it, by the name. Tuppy: I've never been to the opera before. Would you like to come with me, Bertie? Bertie Wooster: Ahh, well…. [They eventually see Le nozze di Figaro, a k a The Marriage of Figaro.] Bertie Wooster: Tell me, Jeeves, were you always like this, or did it come on suddenly? Jeeves: Sir? Bertie Wooster: The brain, the gray matter. Were you an outstandingly brilliant child? Jeeves: My mother thought me intelligent, sir. Bertie: Well, can't go by that. My mother thought me intelligent. The Purity of the Turf [1.3][ edit ] Bertie Wooster : [about the song "Good Night, Vienna"] I mean, fancy writing a song about saying good night to a whole city. I mean, you may as well say, "Good Afternoon, Manchester" or "Fancy Bumping Into You, Basingstoke." Bertie Wooster: Or "I Didn't See You at the Club Last Night, Cleethorpes." Rupert Steggles : I'm going inside. This fresh air is getting into my lungs. Bertie Wooster: You look positively animated, Jeeves! Jeeves: [straightening his jacket] I'm sorry, sir. Jeeves: The boy is a flyer, sir. Bertie Wooster: How do you know? Jeeves: I happened to be pursuing him this morning with a view to fetching him a clip on the side of the head. Bertie Wooster: Great Scott, Jeeves! You? Jeeves: The lad is of an outspoken disposition, sir, and had made an opprobrious remark respecting my appearance. Berti


Who was commanded by God through a donkey?

Numbers 22:28 Then the LORD opened the donkey's mouth, and it said to Balaam, "What have I done to you to make you beat me these three times?" Matthew Henry Commentary 22:22-35 We must not think, that because God does not always by his providence restrain men from sin, therefore he approves of it, or that it is not hateful to him. The holy angels oppose sin, and perhaps are employed in preventing it more than we are aware. This angel was an adversary to Balaam, because Balaam counted him his adversary; those are really our best friends, and we ought so to reckon them, who stop our progress in sinful ways. Balaam has notice of God's displeasure by the ass. It is common for those whose hearts are fully set in them to do evil, to push on violently, through the difficulties Providence lays in their way. The Lord opened the mouth of the ass. This was a great miracle wrought by the power of God. He who made man speak, could, when he pleased, make the ass to speak with man's voice. The ass complained of Balaam's cruelty. The righteous God does not allow the meanest or weakest to be abused; but they shall be able to speak in their own defence, or he will some way or other speak for them. Balaam at length has his eyes opened. God has many ways to bring down the hard and unhumbled heart. When our eyes are opened, we shall see the danger of sinful ways, and how much it was for our advantage to be crossed. Balaam seemed to relent; I have sinned; but it does not appear that he was sensible of this wickedness of his heart, or willing to own it. If he finds he cannot go forward, he will be content, since there is no remedy, to go back. Thus many leave their sins, only because their sins have left them. The angel declared that he should not only be unable to curse Israel, but should be forced to bless them: this would be more for the glory of God, and to his own confusion, than if he had turned back.


In trigonometry what is calculated by the adjacent over the hypotenuse?

The Cosine Function: Adjacent over Hypotenuse - dummies The Cosine Function: Adjacent over Hypotenuse The Cosine Function: Adjacent over Hypotenuse The Cosine Function: Adjacent over Hypotenuse By Mary Jane Sterling The trig function cosine, abbreviated cos, works by forming this ratio: adjacent/hypotenuse. In the figure, you see that the cosines of the two angles are as follows: The situation with the ratios is the same as with the sine function — the values are going to be less than or equal to 1 (the latter only when your triangle is a single segment or when dealing with circles), never greater than 1, because the hypotenuse is the denominator. The two ratios for the cosine are the same as those for the sine — except the angles are reversed. This property is true of the sines and cosines of complementary angles in a right triangle (meaning those angles that add up to 90 degrees). If theta and lambda are the two acute angles of a right triangle, then sin theta = cos lambda and cos theta = sin lambda. Now for an example. To find the cosine of angle beta in a right triangle if the two legs are each feet in length: Find the length of the hypotenuse. Using the Pythagorean theorem, a2 + b2 = c2, and replacing both a and b with the given measure, solve for c. The hypotenuse is


Which Marks and Gran sitcom returned in the new year after 15 years off screen?

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Is the mountain range in Ireland in which the river Liffey rises?

Rivers of Ireland | Look Around Ireland Rivers of Ireland Rivers of Ireland The rivers of Ireland are one of the most intriguing elements of the landscape. In proportion to the size of the island of Ireland, there exists a huge amount of rivers and river kilometres. The River Shannon is the longest in the British Isles. Apart from the 10 longest rivers listed below, there are shorter but significant rivers of great importance to the towns and cities they pass through or where they enter the sea. Some of these would include the River Lagan, which exits through Belfast, the River Foyle, which forms a very wide expanse of water as it exits through Derry City. The Avonmore and Avonbeg Rivers form the famous Meeting of the Waters joining as the River Avoca and then enter the Irish Sea at the busy port of Arklow in County Wicklow .   10 Longest Rivers of Ireland River Shannon                     386km   The Avoca The River Avoca is somewhat unusual as it begins as two separate rivers, the Avonmore (in Irish, Abhainn Mhór, meaning “large river”) and the Avonbeg (Abhainn Bheag, meaning “small river”). These two rivers converge to form the Avoca. This happens at the “ Meeting of the Waters ”, a place of incredible scenic beauty.The river itself is located in the county of Wicklow and enters the sea at Arklow. It flows through the Irish village also named Avoca which is the setting for the BBC series “Ballykissangel”. Despite its amazing natural beauty, major concerns have arisen in recent years concerning pollution of the river.   The Bandon The Bandon is a river located in Co. Cork . It rises in the Shehy Mountains in the west of the county and flows eastward through Dunmanway, Balineen, Enniskeane, Bandon and Inishannon to Kinsale Harbour. The river is a good fishing area and has an estimated catch of 1300 salmon and a similar catch of sea-trout per year.   The Bann The Bann is the longest river in Northern Ireland , stretching a total of 129 kilometres from the Mourne Mountains in County Down to the northern coast of Ireland, entering the Atlantic Ocean at Portstewart. The Bann is unusual as it flows into the very large Lough Neagh at Bannfoot, Co. Armagh before continuing its journey northward. The has led to the River Bann being divided into two rivers; the Upper Bann which lies to the south of Lough Neagh and the Lower Bann which lies to the north. Numerous activities take place along the Bann, including cruises, canoeing, rowing, waterskiing, angling and several others.   The Barrow The Barrow is one of the “Three Sisters” rivers which are comprised of the Nore, the Suir and the Barrow. All three rise in the same mountainous area of Tipperary and flow in a southerly direction. It is 192 kilometres in length (the second longest in Ireland) and enters the Atlantic Ocean at Waterford. It also links with the Grand Canal at Athy, which connects Dublin with the Shannon in the west. The Barrow also passes through the town of New Ross in Co. Wexford where the replica famine ship “ The Dunbrody ” can be seen.   The Boyne The River Boyne, one of the more well-known Irish rivers, has its source near Edenderry, Co. Offaly . It is approximately 112 kilometres in length and enters the Irish Sea at Drogheda. The River Boyne is a highly popular fishing area, particularly for trout and salmon fishing, and also boasts many beautiful scenic views along its course. However, the Boyne is most renowned for its prominence in Irish history and folklore. The Battle of the Boyne took place in 1690 near Drogheda along the banks of the river and would be considered one of the most famous battles in Irish history. Steeped in Celtic mythology, the River Boyne is also believed to be the location of “ The Salmon of Knowledge ”, an ancient Irish legend.   The Corrib The River Corrib is located in Co. Galway and is one of Ireland’s shortest rivers, a mere 6 kilometres in length. Despite this, it is quite well-known as it flows through the heart of Galway City after travelling the short distance from Lough Corrib where it rises. The Corrib is also one of


In a greyhound race where does a dog finish if it makes ‘a show’?

Greyhound Dog Racing Rules, How To Bet Greyhound Dog Racing rules The noble greyhound - a brief history. Greyhounds were first introduced to America in the 18th        century to help farmers control the jackrabbit population. As time        went by, the farmers started to conduct some form of competitive        greyhound racing which evolved into the greyhound track racing as we know it today. The origin of the greyhound is quite old, possibly dating        back thousands of years. The Pharaohs rated them first among all        animals as both pets and hunters. Images of the early greyhound        can be seen etched on walls of ancient Egyptian tombs. In Arabian        culture at that time, the birth of a greyhound ranked nearly        as high as the birth of a son. In Persia, Rome and Greece, the greyhound        enjoyed similar standing. Greyhound racing in England was first established for the English nobility and could not be enjoyed by other citizens. In        1014 King Canute of England enacted the Forest Laws, which stated        that only noblemen could own and hunt with greyhounds. The elegance and beauty of this most noble animal is a sight to        behold. Additionally, at the end of their racing career the greyhounds        easily adapt to the life of a loving pet and have become the pet        of choice among an increasing number of pet lovers. Greyhound track racing dates back to 1919 when Owen Patrick Smith promoted the first major race meeting in California. O.P. Smith's idea of the mechanical lure started way before 1919, and it was up until then that he tried different lures to perfect it. O. P. Smith, invented the revolutionary mechanical lure        that could travel around a circular track that made dog racing possible.        His research into forcing the dogs round a track hit on the idea        of getting them to chase a rabbit. His experiments included dragging        a stuffed one around a track behind a motorcycle. He is considered        the "Father" of American greyhound racing. O.P. Smith is not only the "Father" of American Greyhound Racing but the "Founder and Inventor of Modern Greyhound Racing". It was O.P. that hired C. Munn to go to England and Ireland with his patents to start up Modern Racing there too. Also, O.P. was working on the mechanical lure as early as 1906, but everyone refers to the 1919 date of Emeryville. But before that he had tracks in Arizona, Texas and New Orleans, then to California, where it took off and gained its early fame. (This information has been kindly provided by Tim O'Brien, the Great Grandson of Owen Patrick Smith.) The sport did not reach British shores until 1926 when Manchester's        purpose-built track first held a meeting on 24th July. It was such        a success that more race tracks were built around the country and        today Greyhound racing is a major sport event in the UK. Betting rules: (How to bet, types of bets.) The main object of betting on greyhounds is to beat the 'Oddsmakers'        or the 'Odds Compilers' and win some money. Additionally,        placing a bet on your favorite event makes the race exciting        and more enjoyable. Betting is done through Sports books or Sportsbooks (US)        or Bookmakers (UK) entities that accept bets. You can bet        on the outcome of greyhound races and several sporting events. To place a bet, you go to a sportsbook, physical or online.        You could also bet over the phone with many sportsbooks. Note that        a sportsbook is not the same as an oddsmaker. The sports        book simply accepts sports bets. An oddsmaker is a person who sets        the betting odds. You need to state what you are betting on by making a selection, the type of bet and the amount you are wagering. Your selection will obviously depend on the odds offered, so


Apart from a straight flush which other hand beats a full house in poker?

Rules of Card Games: Poker Hand Ranking Hand probabilities and multiple decks - probability tables Standard Poker Hand Ranking There are 52 cards in the pack, and the ranking of the individual cards, from high to low, is ace, king, queen, jack, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2. In standard poker - that is to say in the formal casino and tournament game played internationally and the home game as normally played in North America - there is no ranking between the suits for the purpose of comparing hands - so for example the king of hearts and the king of spades are equal. (Note however that suit ranking is sometimes used for other purposes such as allocating seats, deciding who bets first, and allocating the odd chip when splitting a pot that can't be equally divided. See ranking of suits for details.) A poker hand consists of five cards. The categories of hand, from highest to lowest, are listed below. Any hand in a higher category beats any hand in a lower category (so for example any three of a kind beats any two pairs). Between hands in the same category the rank of the individual cards decides which is better, as described in more detail below. In games where a player has more than five cards and selects five to form a poker hand, the remaining cards do not play any part in the ranking. Poker ranks are always based on five cards only, and if these cards are equal the hands are equal, irrespective of the ranks of any unused cards. Some readers may wonder why one would ever need to compare (say) two threes of a kind of equal rank. This obviously cannot arise in basic draw poker, but such comparisons are needed in poker games using shared (community) cards, such as Texas Hold'em, in poker games with wild cards, and in other card games using poker combinations. 1. Straight Flush If there are no wild cards, this is the highest type of poker hand: five cards of the same suit in sequence - such as J- 9- 8- 7. Between two straight flushes, the one containing the higher top card is higher. An ace can be counted as low, so 5- 3- 2- A is a straight flush, but its top card is the five, not the ace, so it is the lowest type of straight flush. The highest type of straight flush, A-K-Q-J-10 of a suit, is known as a Royal Flush. The cards in a straight flush cannot "turn the corner": 4- K is not valid. 2. Four of a kind Four cards of the same rank - such as four queens. The fifth card, known as the kicker, can be anything. This combination is sometimes known as "quads", and in some parts of Europe it is called a "poker", though this term for it is unknown in English. Between two fours of a kind, the one with the higher set of four cards is higher - so 3-3-3-3-A is beaten by 4-4-4-4-2. If two or more players have four of a kind of the same rank, the rank of the kicker decides. For example in Texas Hold'em with J- J- J- 9 on the table (available to all players), a player holding K-7 beats a player holding Q-10 since the king beats the queen. If one player holds 8-2 and another holds 6-5 they split the pot, since the 9 kicker makes the best hand for both of them. If one player holds A- K they also split the pot because both have an ace kicker. 3. Full House This combination, sometimes known as a boat, consists of three cards of one rank and two cards of another rank - for example three sevens and two tens (colloquially known as "sevens full of tens" or "sevens on tens"). When comparing full houses, the rank of the three cards determines which is higher. For example 9-9-9-4-4 beats 8-8-8-A-A. If the threes of a kind are equal, the rank of the pairs decides. 4. Flush Five cards of the same suit. When comparing two flushes, the highest card determines which is higher. If the highest cards are equal then the second highest card is compared; if those are equal too, then the third highest card, and so on. For example K- 7- 6- 5 because the nine beats the seven. If all five cards are equal, the flushes are equal. 5. Straight Five cards of mixed suits in sequence - for example Q- 10- 9- 8. When comparing two sequences, the one with the higher ranki


Which letter denotes the civil aircraft marking for a plane registered in the UK?

International Aircraft Registration Prefix Codes International Aircraft Registration Prefixes Tail Numbers An aircraft registration is a unique alphanumeric string that identifies a civilian aircraft. Because airplanes typically display their registration numbers on the aft fuselage just forward of the tail, in earlier times more often on the tail itself, the registration is often referred to as the “tail number”. In the United States, the registration number is also referred to as an “N-number”, as it starts with the letter N. de Haviland DH-88 “Comet” (G-ACSS) The de Havilland DH-88 “Comet” shown above displays the registration “G-ACSS”. The “G-” prefix denotes that it is registered in the United Kingdom. International Standards The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) maintains the standards for aircraft registration. Article 20 of the Chicago Convention on International Civil Aviation requires that all signatory countries register aircraft over a certain weight with a national aviation authority. Upon registration, the aircraft receives its unique “registration” which must be displayed prominently on the aircraft. Annex 7 to the Convention on International Civil Aviation describes the definitions, location, and measurement of nationality and registration marks. The aircraft registration is made up of a prefix selected from the country's call-sign prefix allocated by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), making the registration a quick way of determining the country of origin, and the registration suffix. Depending on the country of registration, this suffix is a numeric or alphanumeric code and consists of one to five digits or characters respectively. The ICAO provides a supplement to Annex 7 which provides an updated list of approved Nationality and Common Marks used by various countries. Boeing 777-200 (4X-ECC) When painted on the fuselage, the prefix and suffix are separated by a dash … for example 4X-ECC, however when entered in a flight plan, the dash is omitted (for example 4XECC). In the United States, the prefix and suffix are painted without a dash. Private aircraft usually use their registration as their radio call-sign, but most commercial aircraft use the ICAO airline designator or a company call-sign. In some instances, it may be sufficient to simply display the suffix letters, with the country prefix omitted. For example, gliders registered in Australia would omit the VH prefix and simply display the suffix. Obviously this is only suitable where the aircraft does not fly in the airspace of another country. Even if the suffix consists solely of alphabetical characters in a certain country, gliders and ultralights may sometimes use digits instead. For example, in Germany, D-ABCD can be an aircraft while D-1234 is a glider. In Australia, early glider registration suffixes began with the letter &ldwquo;G”, and it is not uncommon to find such gliders only displaying the last two letters of the suffix, as they lacked the range to travel internationally. For example, VH-GIQ would simply be displayed as IQ. Different countries have different registration schemes: Canadian registrations start with C, British with G, German with D, and so forth. A comprehensive list is tabulated below. United States of America An “N-number” is an aircraft registration number used in the United States. All aircraft registered there have a number starting with N. Due to the large numbers of aircraft registered in the United States an alpha-numeric system is used. N-numbers may only consist of 1 to 5 characters and must start with a number other than zero and can not end in more than two letters. In addition, N-numbers may not contain the letters I or O, due to their close similarity with the numbers 1 and 0. Each alphabetic character in the suffix can have one of 24 discrete values, while each numeric digit can be one of 10, except the first, which can take on only nine values. This yields a total of 915,399 possible registration numbers in the name-space, though certain combinations are reserved either for


Which European city is nicknamed the Athens of the North?

100 Cities and Their Nicknames | Travel Away 100 Cities and Their Nicknames Last updated on 9 Feb 2016 | By Miruna Corneanu I like nicknames. They define us better than our names, they are clever and funny, and they tell so much about our personality and sometimes, about our aspect, although this might be the worst case. I’ve had plenty of nicknames from “Bal” and “Maimu” to “Blondy”, but now everyone calls me by using diminutives of my name. That’s why when someone calls me “Miruna”, I know there’s something wrong going on. I know the Internet is full of lists with cities’ nicknames, but I decided to make my own, composed of the world’s most important cities, and I hope this will be useful for my readers. 1. Paris – The City of Love, The City of Light, La Ville-Lumiere 2. Prague – The City of Hundred Spires, The Golden City, The Mother of Cities 3. New York – The Big Apple 4. Las Vegas – Sin City 5. Chicago – The Windy City 6. Vancouver – The Big Smoke 7. Montreal – La Belle Ville, Frenchtown, The City-Mountain 8. Los Angeles – The City of Angels 9. New Orleans – The Big Easy 10. Philadelphia – City of Brotherly Love, Philly 11. Amsterdam – Venice of the North 12. Venice – La Serenissima, Bride of the Sea 13. Vienna – The Imperial City 14. London – The Square Mile, The Old Smoke, The Smoke 15. Detroit – Motor City 16. Miami – The Magic City, Little Cuba 17. Memphis – Bluff City 18. Petra – The Rose Red City 19. Pittsburgh – Iron City 20. Rome – The Eternal City, City of the Seven Hills 21. Seattle – The Emerald City 22. Bucharest – Little Paris 23. Florence – The City of Lilies 24. Barcelona – The City of Counts, The City of Gaudi 25. Budapest – Pearl of the Danube 26. Toronto – Queen City, Muddy York, The Big Toe 27. Dublin – The Fair City 28. Jerusalem – The Holy City 29. Boston – The Hub 31. Moscow – The Whitestone, The Forty Forties, Third Rome 32. Edinburgh – Auld Reekie 33. Geneva – The Peace Capital 34. Rio de Janeiro – Marvelous City 35. Salzburg – White City 36. Mumbai – The City of Dreams 37. Singapore – The Lion City 38. Naples – City of the Sun 39. Bologna – Red City; La Dotta, La Rossa, La Grassa (the educated, the red, the fat) 40. Torino – City of Four Rivers 41. Genova – The Superb 43. Milano – Fashion Capital of the World, The Drinkable City 44. Cairo – Paris of the Nile 45. Buenos Aires – Paris of the Americas, Queen of the Plata 46. Ushuaia – The End of the World 47. Melbourne – City by the Bay, Bleak City, Europe of Australia 48. Sydney – The Harbour City 50. Sao Paulo – Brazil’s Locomotive, Land of Drizzle, Sampa 51. Dubrovnik – The Pearl of the Adriatic 52. Helsinki – The White City of the North 53. Bordeaux – City of Wine 54. Nice – Angels City 55. Berlin – The Grey City 56. Jaipur – The Pink City 57. Oslo – Tiger Town 58. Warsaw – Default City, Big Village in the Middle of Nowhere 59. St Petersburg – The Mind of Russia 60. Madrid – El Foro, The Forum 61. Athens – The City of Violet Crown 62. Dallas – Big D 63. Hong Kong – Pearl of the Orient 64. Munich – World City with Heart 65. Birmingham – The City of a Thousand Trades, Brum 66. Lisbon – City With a Future 67. The Hague – City of Peace and Justice 68. Calcutta – City of Palaces, City of Love, City of Joy 69. Beijing – The Forbidden City 70. Adelaide – City of Churches 71. Zagreb – Little Vienna 72. Bruges – Venice of the North 73. Marseille – Phocean City 74. Tel Aviv – The City that Never Stops 75. Bolzano – The Door to the Dolomites, The German One 76. Sanremo – The City of Dreams 77. Tivoli – City of Delights 78. Vicenza – City of Gold 79. Kuala Lumpur – Golden Triangle 80. Cuernavaca – The City of Eternal Spring 81. Tijuana – Television Capital of the World 82. Rotterdam – Manhattan upon Meuse 83. Lima – City of the Kings 84. Manila – City by the Bay 85. Porto – The Invincible City 86. Cadiz – The Little Silver Cup 87. Bilbao – El Bocho 88. Zurich – Little Big City 89. Kiev – The Mother of Rus’ Cities 90. Honolulu – Sheltered Bay 92. Wroclaw – City of Hundred Bridges 93. Beirut – Paris of the Middle East 94. Udine – Capital of the Great Wa


How Much Tonic Water Must You Drink to Ease Leg Cramps? - The People's Pharmacy Loading... How Much Tonic Water Must You Drink to Ease Leg Cramps? People with leg cramps sometimes suffer excruciating pain, but what can be done to alleviate it? For some, home remedies like tonic water may be the answer Joe Graedon The People's Pharmacy January 23, 2014 Cramps (hands, legs) 115 Comments Q. For years I have suffered with leg cramps, debilitating, put-you-on-the-floor leg cramps. I used to be able to buy a leg cramp medicine in pill form from the pharmacy. The medicine was a complete success. On a trip to Walgreens I purchased another bottle of the leg cramp medicine. After taking it for a few days, I noticed I was getting those leg cramps again. I went back to the pharmacy and told the pharmacist the pills were worthless. His answer was, ‘that’s because the FDA made them take the quinine out of it.’ They still sell leg cramp medicine, but it does not work at all. I just love it when some government agency decides what’s best for me. If you watch virtually any commercials on TV about virtually any drug, you will hear the magic words that XYZ med is not meant for everybody. You can bet your life that one of the side effects is death, in rare instances of course. The thing is that the FDA has approved all these dangerous drugs that are advertised, but we can no longer get quinine. I have read that mustard will take care of the problem of leg cramps. It’s probably the salt in the mustard that does the job. It takes about 4 pain-filled minutes to work. Pour a little salt in the palm of your hand, lick it off and chase it with a little water. It works. With so many new drugs coming on the market, how much money did that drug manufacturer have to pay to get it approved? I guess there wasn’t enough money in quinine. By the way, if you’re thinking of getting your quinine by drinking tonic water, you would have to drink two litres a day. This will probably not be posted, we don’t want to upset the FDA. It might give them cramps. A. The FDA banned quinine because it does occasionally cause serious adverse reactions in susceptible people. Such individuals can develop a deadly blood disorder. As little as one 5-ounce glass of tonic water can be disastrous for these vulnerable people, though we hope that the FDA never bans tonic water. Other quinine side effects may include nausea, stomach cramps, ringing in the ears, headache, anxiety, blurry or double vision, irregular heart rhythms, skin rash and fever. We do understand your point. The FDA allows many dangerous drugs on the market. Watching drug commercials on television is a scary proposition, especially when the announcer says things like: “Call your doctor if you have high fever, stiff muscles and confusion to address a possible life-threatening condition or if you have uncontrollable muscle movements, as these can become permanent. High blood sugar has been reported with Abilify and medicines like it and in extreme cases can lead to coma or death.” So how much tonic water would you have to drink to get a pharmacological dose of quinine? The doctor-prescribed dose to prevent leg cramps has been between 200 and 300 mg. A liter of tonic contains around 83 mg of quinine. That means one eight-ounce glass has about 20 mg. You would have to drink about 10 glasses to get the dose of quinine that doctors used to prescribe to prevent leg cramps. That’s not practical. What else can you do to prevent those excruciating leg cramps? Visitors to this website and readers of our newspaper column sing the praises of soap as a preventive. They also like magnesium or potassium, pickle juice, V-8 Juice, turmeric, yellow mustard and apple cider vinegar. Salt may work, but many people are on low-salt diets, which is why pickle juice is probably out for such folks. To learn more about how to use any of these these alternate approaches you may find our book, The People’s Pharmacy Quick & Handy Home Remedies, of great value. You will also find a list of our favorite foods for good health. Remember, Mother


In a book recto is the right-hand page – what is the left?

Elements of page design - Publishing and Book Design Basics - LibGuides at Michigan State University Libraries Publishing and Book Design Basics Search Publishing and Book Design Basics: Elements of page design This guide is designed to help self-publishers with common questions about the logistics of book publishing and basic book design. The Chicago Manual of Style (e-book accessible to MSU-affiliated users) Recto and verso When you open a book anywhere, you’ll see two pages: a left-hand page and a right-hand page, which face each other. These two pages together are called a spread. Each section of your book should start on a right-hand page. The title page is always a right-hand page, the table of contents begins on a right-hand page, chapter 1 begins on a right-hand page, and so on. Book designers call these two pages by the Latin terms “recto” for the right-hand page and “verso” for the reverse or left-hand page. This usage may help you remember that each new section always starts on the recto or right-hand page, not on the ‘reverse’. The guidelines just described are for books in languages that, like English, read from left to right. Book design for languages that read right to left, such as Hebrew and Arabic, is beyond the scope of this guide. Page numbering Because new sections of a book always start on a right-hand page, that’s where the page numbering starts too. Page 1 and all odd-numbered pages are always right-hand pages. Page 2 and all even-numbered pages are always left-hand pages. Page 1 is normally the first page of the first chapter. The preceding pages (the frontmatter) should use Roman numerals (i, ii, iii, etc.) although they can be left unpaged if the frontmatter is very brief.  The odd-even rule applies within the frontmatter too. Page vii is an odd number (7) so it should be a right-hand page. Page xxiv is an even number (24) so it should be a left-hand page. Running heads Running heads are the short titles at the top of most pages of your book. Occasionally, a designer will set them at the bottom of the page, in which case they are running feet. Running heads are not used on display pages: any one-page element, such as the title page, reverse title page, dedication page the first page of any multiple-page element, such as a chapter or introduction Running heads are used on the second and following page of any section of your book that runs two or more pages. The running head can incorporate the page number. Or, the page number can be set at the bottom of the page by itself. The content of the running heads depends on the structure of your book. See examples below.


Whose autobiography was the UK’s best selling book of 2013?

Alex Ferguson tops table for bestselling book in print for 2013 | Books | The Guardian Alex Ferguson tops table for bestselling book in print for 2013 Ex-Manchester United manager's memoir My Autobiography has sold more than 647,000 copies since publication in October Alex Ferguson's My Autobiography is the fastest-selling non-fiction book on record. Photograph: Carl Court/AFP/Getty Images Sunday 22 December 2013 12.24 EST First published on Sunday 22 December 2013 12.24 EST Close This article is 3 years old His team may be languishing mid-table over the festive season, but the former Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson will sit down to Christmas dinner in pole position once more, as his latest autobiography is declared 2013's bestselling print book. Ferguson's memoir has dominated the charts since publication in October, when it became the fastest-selling work of non-fiction on record , going on to amass sales of more than 647,000 copies. According to Waterstones' Jon Howells, the scale of My Autobiography's success has been something of a surprise. "It looks like it's going to be one of the biggest-selling autobiographies since records began," Howells said, "and I don't think anybody would have predicted three months ago that would happen." For Howells, Ferguson's literary success shows the winner of 13 Premier League titles, two Champions Leagues and five FA Cups has managed to transcend sport. "It's reaching a readership which is interested in management and leadership as a broader issue." With just one week of sales data to add to the UK top 100 before Christmas, Dan Brown's latest Robert Langdon thriller, Inferno, is in second place on the Nielsen BookScan chart. With sales of 228,000 in its first week , this Dantean vision of Armageddon has gone on to shift more than 626,000 copies during 2013 – compared with the 1.2m copies notched up for the previous outing for his academic adventurer, The Lost Symbol. But according to Howells, this dip doesn't mark a loss of form from one of popular fiction's biggest stars, but rather is an indication of wider shifts in the books industry. "I'm not into Dan Brown snobbery," Howells said. "I've read Inferno and the others and they're great fun." Nobody was reading digitally when The Lost Symbol was published back in 2009, he said. "Now there's a massive ebook market for popular fiction. If you add in ebook sales, then the figure for Inferno would be much closer to 1m. But most of those sales will be on Kindle, and Amazon don't release those figures." For Nielsen's Russell Bremner, Amazon's refusal to release figures for Kindle downloads is "the big issue for accurate figures in ebook sales". With electronic books accounting for 17% of UK sales by volume according to consumer research conducted by Kantar World Panel and the internet retailer accounting for 79% of those sales , ebook figures for popular fiction remain something of a mystery, Bremner said. "We have no idea how many ebooks Amazon is selling in comparison to paper copies. I wish we did." Third on the list of print sales is Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl – proof that four years after the Richard and Judy show was axed from UKTV their book club still wields considerable commercial clout. After partnering with WHSmith and shifting online, the book club sees five of its 2013 selections in the top 100, alongside a debut novel from one of the presenters – Judy Finnigan's Cornish ghost story, Eloise, is in 55th place. David Jason has won the battle of the showbiz memoir with almost 300,000 books sold, comfortably ahead of Morrissey, who sold more than 140,00 copies of his Penguin classic, and Miranda Hart whose 2012 memoir Is It Just Me? sold more than 137,000 copies during 2013 in paperback. Just behind Jason in 11th place is JK Rowling, whose first novel for adults, The Casual Vacancy, sold almost 275,000 this year in paperback. Rowling makes a second appearance a little further down the charts in her guise as Robert Galbraith. Her novel featuring the private investigator Cormoran Strike offers a chance to measure the powe


Which tennis star was sued for palimony by Judy Nelson?

Martina Navratilova in Palimony Suit Martina Navratilova in Palimony Suit by Kilian Melloy SMALL The ex-wife of champion tennis player Martina Navratilova, 52, has dragged the sporting star to court in a palimony suit for a share of assets acquired while the two were still together. Claiming that she was "kicked out on the streets with only the clothes on my back," Toni Layton, 56, who celebrated a wedding ceremony with Navratilova in 2000, seeks to enforce an alleged promise between the two that they would share their property. A June 24 article in the UK newspaper The Daily Mail reports that the property in question includes several homes that the couple purchased, to the tune of millions. Though the marriage was not a legally binding civil ceremony, Layton's suit claims that Layton is owed a portion of those assets. The article said that relationship ended in 2008. The suit seeks damages for the 'emotional, mental and physical trauma' that Layton says she was subjected to. The article quoted Layton as saying, "Martina has got a fight on her hands. "Without any warning, my life came crashing down around me," the quote continued. "I was kicked out on the streets with only the clothes on my back." The suit regards the promise to "evenly share" property that the couple acquired during their years together as a verbal contract, including several homes, a number of vehicles, and a number of gifts Layton claims to have made to Navratilova. The article specified a monetary sum of $500,000 being sought in the suit. The article included Layton's recollections about the early days of her romance with the tennis star. The two met in New Hampshire, the article reported. Said Layton, "Our first kiss was outside a 7/11 store. "She offered me an orange, then began crying as she reminisced about the first time she had ever done that to anyone, for her beloved grandmother. "I leaned over to kiss her on the cheek in comfort and it just happened," Layton continued. "Everything fell into place for both of us." The following month the two celebrated their wedding at New Hampshire's Mount Washington State Park, the article said. Eight years later, the relationship that had begun so romantically came to an end. Said Layton, "I was left an emotional wreck, with nothing to show for eight years of my life. "I still suffer nightmares today. It's something I don't think I will ever properly recover from." Added Layton, "But what I want now is justice. Justice for all those lost, wasted years." Layton also wants a portion of four properties the couple purchased in Florida, although that state's voters recently approved a constitutional amendment to bar marriage rights for gay and lesbian families. The enshrinement of anti-gay language in the state's bedrock law casts the success of Layton's suit into doubt. Layton gave voice to criticism of Navratilova and her GLBT equality activism in light of these factors. Said Layton, "Marti makes out she's a champion of gay rights and sees herself as an icon for the gay and lesbian community. "She has publicly urged people who are gay to 'come out' and stand up for their homosexuality. "Yet here she is, hiding behind Florida's antiquated anti same-sex laws, trying not to give me a fair deal for those eight years I was there for her at every minute of the day and night," added Layton. "If I was a man, married or not, I'd be entitled to half of everything that she earned during those years together," Layton continued. "But because I'm a woman, it seems, rather conveniently, she believes I'm entitled to next to nothing." Said Layton, "Marti knew that when she decided it was time to get rid of me and move on with her life. And that is why I am having to sue for a breach of our partnership." Also at issue is an animal sanctuary established by the two. The 20-acre preserve is located near Nokomis, Florida; Layton says that Navratilova has put the preserve up for sale even though it gives a home to a hundred animals. The Daily Mail reported on the parallels between Layton's suit and that brought against Navratilova


Experienced Bagpiper in Northeast Ohio (Akron, Canton, Cleveland) -- History of the bagpipes. Bagpiper for hire in Northeast Ohio, Akron, Canton, Cleveland areas. Bagpipes (pipers) for hire! Bagpipe player - piper (bagpipers) available for wedding, party, funeral, lessons. A silence falls over the crowd ... there is a distant wail, getting closer and closer. It soon becomes a skirl and the audience rises in anticipation. All eyes are fixed on the double doors at the end of the ballroom. Then, suddenly, the doors swing open and the sound of the bagpipes fills the room. The crowd bursts out in cheers and applause....... Bagpipes have been played through thousands of years of history. The instrument occasionally shows up in Medieval art, such as this carving of an angel. Early models only had one or two drones over the shoulder. Brave pipers were the first to storm the battlefields. Bagpipes ~ A Brief History The pipes have captured audiences the world over since ancient times They are among the oldest musical instruments, so old that their true  age and origin are debated among historians. Contrary to popular belief, the bagpipes were not invented in Scotland or Ireland. It is widely believed that the pipes were originally created in the middle east, with supporting evidence in Egypt and eventually Greece and  Rome. The use of the instrument soon spread throughout Europe,  carried by the Celts and Roman invaders. It's music and unique sound were popular among the common people and enjoyed in fairs, weddings and open-air dances. During the late Middle-Ages, the fate of the instrument began to show as more and more indoor activities became popular. The loud pipes were not invited among the more elaborate instruments of the day and soon the  popularity of the bagpipes began to wane...  except in Scotland. Its martial music appealed to the warlike spirit of the Scottish and at an early date it superseded the harp in their favor. The original form with bag, chanter, blowpipe and one drone remained unaltered till around 1500 when a second drone was added. A third � the big drone � being added about 200 years later. Dynasties of pipers emerged, such as MacCrimmons, MacKays, MacGregors, and Cummings, who performed the duties of official piper for their clan chiefs through successive generations and who sustained and generated the music. Pipers in those times were privileged individuals, worthy of a seat at the chieftain's table. Their music inspired armies to surge forth in the heat of battle and yet soothed their mourning hearts at the burial of a fellow clansman. Bagpipes could be heard up to 10 miles away in the Highlands and they were perfect for sending tonal messages from one end of a battlefield to the other. Because of the importance of the bagpipes to any Highland army, they were aimed upon by the British forces during the Highland uprising in the 1700s. After England defeated Scotland's Bonnie Prince Charlie in 1745, kilts and bagpipes were outlawed, the pipes being classified as "instruments of war". To play them would warrant an execution. By the time the ban was lifted, it had done its job well. The Scots were well integrated into the British Empire. Never has an instrument been so loved by a people and yet so feared by their enemies as the Highland bagpipes. The pipes are a symbol of strength, the salve of the soul, and the prize of Clans. The Scottish regiments earned strong reputations as some of the bravest and fiercest in battles from Waterloo where Napoleon was defeated to the Boer Wars in South Africa to the defeats of the independent rajahs of India. But where ever they went, the Scottish regiments brought bagpipes with them. By then using modern weapons of the British army, the soldiers continued to be inspired by their highland bagpipe on the battlefield. And the pipers continued to lead. In the early days of World War I they leaped from the trenches in charges against the German machine guns, leading the troops through the hail of bullets. After some time an order was issued - piper


What was the Oxford Dictionaries ‘New Word of the Year’?

An emoji is Oxford Dictionaries' word of the year - Nov. 16, 2015 Emoji named word of the year by Heather Kelly   @heatherkelly November 16, 2015: 5:39 PM ET Oxford Dictionaries' 2015 word of the year is difficult to pronounce. Because it has no letters. It is a cartoon yellow face, shedding two giant tears. They are not tears of sadness for the English language. It is a happy crying face, most commonly used as an LOL alternative. Every year, Oxford Dictionaries' lexicographers chose a word that captures the year's biggest trends or changes in the English language. The organization knew it wanted to pick an emoji for 2015 . The tiny illustrations that pepper social media and text conversations have seen a surge in popularity in recent years. "You can see how traditional alphabet scripts have been struggling to meet the rapid-fire, visually focused demands of 21st century communication," said Oxford Dictionaries' president Casper Grathwohl in a statement. "It's not surprising that a pictographic script like emoji has stepped in to fill those gaps." The official name for the chosen emoji is "face with tears of joy," according to the Unicode Consortium, the organization in charge of emoji standards. It was first introduced in 2010 and variations can be found on Android and iOS devices, on the web, and across social media. There are more than 1,000 emoji characters, but Oxford could only chose one. A taco or unicorn emoji would have represented the most buzzed-about newcomers. The red heart is one of the oldest emojis. Oxford Dictionaries teamed up with SwiftKey, a maker of emoji keyboards, to identify the most commonly used emoji. It found the tears of joy face was the most frequently used emoji in 2015, making up 17% of all emojis in the U.S. and 20% in the UK. The emoji is the latest in a string of light-hearted picks from Oxford Dictionaries. Last year it went with "vape," in 2013 it was "selfie," and in 2012 it was "GIF." CNNMoney (San Francisco) First published November 16, 2015: 5:09 PM ET


Which cooking term is used for sprinkling something with icing sugar or flour?

Glossary of Cooking Terms To cook by dry heat, usually in the oven. BARBECUE: Usually used generally to refer to grilling done outdoors or over an      open charcoal or wood fire. More specifically, barbecue refers to long,      slow direct- heat cooking, including liberal basting with a barbecue      sauce. BASTE: To moisten foods during cooking with pan drippings or special sauce      to add flavor and prevent drying. BATTER: A mixture containing flour and liquid, thin enough to pour. BEAT: To mix rapidly in order to make a mixture smooth and light by incorporating      as much air as possible. BLANCH: To immerse in rapidly boiling water and allow to cook slightly. BLEND: To incorporate two or more ingredients thoroughly. BOIL: To heat a liquid until bubbles break continually on the surface. BROIL: To cook on a grill under strong, direct heat. CARAMELIZE: To heat sugar in order to turn it brown and give it a special taste. CHOP: To cut solids into pieces with a sharp knife or other chopping device. CLARIFY: To separate and remove solids from a liquid, thus making it clear. CREAM: To soften a fat, especially butter, by beating it at room temperature.      Butter and sugar are often creamed together, making a smooth, soft paste. CURE: To preserve meats by drying and salting and/or smoking. DEGLAZE: To dissolve the thin glaze of juices and brown bits on the surface of      a pan in which food has been fried, sauteed or roasted. To do this,      add liquid and stir and scrape over high heat, thereby adding flavor      to the liquid for use as a sauce. DEGREASE: To remove fat from the surface of stews, soups, or stock. Usually cooled      in the refrigerator so that fat hardens and is easily removed. DICE: To cut food in small cubes of uniform size and shape. DISSOLVE: To cause a dry substance to pass into solution in a liquid. DREDGE: To sprinkle or coat with flour or other fine substance. DRIZZLE: To sprinkle drops of liquid lightly over food in a casual manner. DUST: To sprinkle food with dry ingredients. Use a strainer or a jar with      a perforated cover, or try the good, old-fashioned way of shaking things      together in a paper bag. FILLET: As a verb, to remove the bones from meat or fish. A fillet (or filet)      is the piece of flesh after it has been boned. FLAKE: To break lightly into small pieces. FLAMBE': To flame foods by dousing in some form of potable alcohol and setting      alight. FOLD: To incorporate a delicate substance, such as whipped cream or beaten      egg whites, into another substance without releasing air bubbles. Cut      down through mixture with spoon, whisk, or fork; go across bottom of      bowl, up and over, close to surface. The process is repeated, while      slowing rotating the bowl, until the ingredients are thoroughly blended. FRICASSEE: To cook by braising; usually applied to fowl or rabbit. FRY: To cook in hot fat. To cook in a fat is called pan-frying or sauteing;      to cook in a one-to-two inch layer of hot fat is called shallow-fat      frying; to cook in a deep layer of hot fat is called deep-fat frying. GARNISH: To decorate a dish both to enhance its appearance and to provide a flavorful      foil. Parsley, lemon slices, raw vegetables, chopped chives, and other      herbs are all forms of garnishes. GLAZE: To cook with a thin sugar syrup cooked to crack stage; mixture may be      thickened slightly. Also, to cover with a thin, glossy icing. GRATE: To rub on a grater that separates the food in various sizes of bits      or shreds. GRATIN: From the French word for "crust." Term used to describe any      oven-baked dish--usually cooked in a shallow oval gratin dish--on which      a golden brown crust of bread crumbs, cheese or creamy sauce is form. GRILL: To cook on a grill over intense heat. GRIND: To process solids by hand or mechanically to reduce them to tiny particles. JULIENNE: To cut vegetables, fruits, or cheeses