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In our family, it was at wee Granny Meg’s house in Chryston on the first, with Uncle Tom singing “I Left My Heart in San Francisco”, Aunt Joanne singing “Mississippi” and Aunt Winnie singing “Amazing Grace”.
St Andrew is also the patron saint of Russia, Greece, Cyprus, Poland, Ukraine, Bulgaria, the ecumenical patriarchate of Constantinople, San Andrés island, Colombia and Barbados.
Illinois also has one of the most active diaspora societies in North America, which is a factor, I think.There is an SDI office in San Jose in California, and there are consuls in San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Therefore, Nestlé might sell Nestlé mineral water instead of San Pellegrino water. We could then have reusable drink containers in a regional context, whereas in a global context one needs to use cans or plastic bottles.
After getting some coverage about that experience, I received emails from as far afield as San Diego in California that said the same thing: it is people in Scotland who are not being taught how to dance our own Scottish country dances, which are practised worldwide.
He suggested that just as the idea that medical treatment would continue in times of war became the norm in the previous century and led to the establishment of the Red Cross and Red Crescent and organisations such as Médecins Sans Frontières, the idea that young people in Syria and those who are caught up in other crises should still be able to have an edu...
Ogilvy Spirits, which I mentioned earlier, has had its product on the market for only three months, but it recently received a double gold medal for its packaging and a silver medal for its spirit at the 2015 San Francisco world spirits competition.
We have been putting extra support into internationalisation and taking games companies to international events, such as the game developer conference in San Francisco. Thirty of our companies participated last year, and they fed back to us that they saw about £45 million-worth of opportunities from that event.