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Like Benfica, Sporting are canny operators -- ensuring that their players are on long contracts so the club are able to cash in when the time inevitably arrives for their biggest stars to head to loaded giants in Spain, Italy and England.

Excluding items, the company earned 13.18 yuan per American depositary share, beating estimates of 11.83 yuan per ADS.

"Everyone now lives for their mobile phone and it is taking over their lives. I go out to a restaurant and everyone at the table is on their mobile phones. They will cross the street when the red light is on. They walk on the street glued to the screen and bump into people. Everyone on the bus and everyone on the train is on their mobile, ignoring everyone else. They are not using their brain. We now don't care about other people as other people do not exist; the only thing that exists in our lives is the pressing of buttons. We are losing the care, thought, consideration, kindness and good manners to mobile phones."

Hey guys. Thanks for taking my questions this morning. Two things; first of all, on slide 16 you show both the ending debt to equity and average debt to equity. And I understand in the quarter like the fourth quarter where you had net repayments, why the average would be above the ending? But it's consistently above the ending and I'm curious what drives that?

The second consideration relates to approximately $20 million in spend for planned plant turnarounds. Now this increase has been driven by the scope of the 2019 turnaround as well as the timing of the 2020 turnaround scheduled before the spring, requiring CAPEX spend in 2019, which I'll explain in a moment. Spend in 2018 and '19 includes the two high-return projects we've initiated focused on debottlenecking specific areas of our operations, optimizing quality and improving our mix and cost position overall that will drive future earnings and cash flow. As a reminder, we'll begin to see the benefits from these projects in the back half of 2019 with the full-year benefits starting in 2020.

It's only been about 24, 48 hours and certainly everyone is just understanding the process, the next steps, and -- from that perspective but I appreciate the question.

Moreover, an assessment conducted by the World Bank in 8 South Asian countries found very low female enrollment rates in engineering programs (ranging from 0.5% to 31%), low female staff representation in utilities (2% to 17%), and an even lower percentage of women in technical roles in utilities (0.5% to 6%). The studies identified the need for role models and family support, absence of basic facilities and transport, and presence of various forms of discrimination and harassment.

While some still view the visit as a sign that China once wanted to seek an alliance with the US against the Soviet Union, Xinhua points out that the visit was to pave the way for the country’s Reform and Opening-up Policy and its modernization.

They drew blood from the 38-year-old Muslim, scanned his face, recorded his voice and took his fingerprints. They didn’t bother to check his heart or kidneys, and they rebuffed his request to see the results.

In the last 29 years starting from January 1990, the Indian security forces have lost over 6,500 personnel (6,454 as of 3 February 2019) in Pakistan’s proxy war. This is more than the number of Army soldiers killed in any of the three wars fought with Pakistan and one with China. The number of security force personnel wounded is even higher. The total killed during this period is over 45,000, which includes about 24,000 terrorists and over 15,000 civilians. In addition to the high human cost, it has led to considerable financial, political and diplomatic fatigue for India.

Travelling with mature-aged people may seem like a daunting holiday, but there are things you can do to be prepared and have a lot of fun.

The financial, retail and wholesale trade sectors have shed the most, according to Australian Bureau of Statistics data.