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One in a Minion (and made for a purpose)
We are excited to invite you to join us at Junior CE Camp 2020! This year we are thrilled to welcome Tammy Tolman (founder of the Spot the Difference company) as our camp speaker. She is full of energy and ready to draw us into the amazing story of how we are all part of God's Family and are created uniquely for a purpose.
Camp is a week filled with games, small groups, music, food, friends, and so much more and we can guarantee you will have fun and learn so much!
Camp is currently at capacity. We are working hard behind the scenes to recruit some more leaders so that more campers can come. We would encourage you to sign up for the waiting list so that we have your details in the event a spot opens up.
Camps starts 5th January (11am) and finishes 9th January (2pm) at Cornerstone College, Mount Barker.
When you come along you'll join around 120 other young people in games, craft, sport, worship, teaching, small group discussion and a camp concert.
Please email with registration enquiries.
Camp Costs
Standard $220
Second child $200
Country or third subsequent child $180
Please note: Country discount is applicable for those who live over 150km from Mt Barker
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We don't want anyone to miss out on camp because of money. Contact us for further discounts if costs are genuinely prohibitive.
What to expect
Don't know anyone on camp? Don't worry, you won't be the only one! Campers come from churches or youth groups all over South Australia and usually only know a couple of people on camp.
Dorms and small group time are a great chance to get to know people your own age.
Small groups share breakfast, lunch and tea together because no one likes to eat on their own.
There are also lots of activities – crafts, sport, Mission Day, Vine til 9 – to get involved in and meet friends outside of your small group.
Still worried about heading on camp alone? Your leader will keep an eye out for you. Let them know if you're finding it tricky.
Follow Jesus
A shepherd's job is to make sure their flock has enough food and water, somewhere safe to sleep at night, and protect them from animals that might hurt them.
Find out about Cecil the sheep and how he is lucky that his shepherd is good at his job.
I'm interested in Jesus, but not sure I believe in Him. Can I come on camp?
Definitely! You're welcome no matter what you believe, plus camp is a great place to find out more about Jesus.
Where will I be sleeping?
You'll be sleeping on the floor in classrooms so make sure you bring a comfy, single mattress! You'll be sharing the space with the people in your small group of the same gender.
Who will I be in a small group with?
Small groups are made up of young people of your gender and age.
Familiar faces help you feel comfortable. On your camp form you can let us know who you'd like to be in group with, and we'll do our best to make this happen.
Can I make phone calls?
If you need to make a phone call, please report to Admin. Family can contact the Camp Admin on the number provided on the registration form.
What can I expect to learn?
We hope you'll learn more about a God who loves you.
We hope you'll learn that God loves everyone.
We hope you'll learn what it means to put that love into action.
What else does CE do?
When you're too old for Junior Camp you can head to Senior Camp.
When you're too old for Senior Camp you can apply to be a volunteer at a CE camp.
I've got more questions!
If we haven't answered your question get in touch with us.
Read about missions campers have initiated.
CE has a long history of giving. Why?
- Everything we own comes from God (Psalm 24:1)
- We're taught to give regularly (Leviticus 27:30, 32)
- Giving with love and humility is key (1 Corinthians 13:3, Matthew 6:1-4)
- We want to see God's Kingdom come


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The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution
Von David O. Stewart
George Washington presided, James Madison kept the notes, Benjamin Franklin offered wisdom and humor at crucial times. The Summer of 1787 traces the struggles within the Philadelphia Convention as the delegates hammered out the charter for the world's first constitutional democracy. Relying on the words of the delegates themselves to explore the Convention's sharp conflicts and hard bargaining, David O. Stewart lays out the passions and contradictions of the, often, painful process of writing the Constitution.
It was a desperate balancing act. Revolutionary principles required that the people have power, but could the people be trusted? Would a stronger central government leave room for the states? Would the small states accept a Congress in which seats were allotted according to population rather than to each sovereign state? And what of slavery? The supercharged debates over America's original sin led to the most creative and most disappointing political deals of the Convention.
The room was crowded with colorful and passionate characters, some known—Alexander Hamilton, Gouverneur Morris, Edmund Randolph—and others largely forgotten. At different points during that sultry summer, more than half of the delegates threatened to walk out, and some actually did, but Washington's quiet leadership and the delegates' inspired compromises held the Convention together.
In a country continually arguing over the document's original intent, it is fascinating to watch these powerful characters struggle toward consensus—often reluctantly—to write a flawed but living and breathing document that could evolve with the nation.
The Summer of 1787 - David O. Stewart
"At a time that feels to many like the twilight of the Republic, it is heartening to go back to the dawn and watch the authors of the Constitution struggle to create a democracy that would endure. In The Summer of 1787, David O. Stewart recreates this moment with fidelity, great feeling, and insight. His book renews our appreciation of one of the masterpieces of Western civilization and reminds us, as Benjamin Franklin reminded his colleagues at the Constitutional Convention, that it was one thing to found a republic—and quite another to keep it."
—Patricia O'Toole, author of When Trumpets Call: Theodore Roosevelt After the White House
"At a time when many Americans feel beleaguered by internal antagonisms and uncertainty about the world, David Stewart's The Summer of 1787 is a welcome blast of fresh air. This succinct and fascinating book inspires us anew with the brilliance and fortitude of the leaders who went to Philadelphia—and shows, step by step, how they created our system of government."
—Michael Beschloss, author of Presidential Courage
"Since Catherine Drinker Bowen's Miracle at Philadelphia appeared in 1966, no work has challenged its classic status. Now, Stewart's work does. Briskly written, full of deft characterizations and drama, grounded firmly in the records of the Constitutional Convention and its members' letters, this is a splendid rendering of the document's creation. . . . [An] excellent book."
—Publishers Weekly [Starred Review]
"Mr. Stewart . . . has done a fine job of pulling together the details of the deliberations that resulted in the U.S. Constitution. . . . He infuses the story with drama and provides glimpses of life during the hot summer . . . also offers fascinating biographical portraits. . . . Like any good historian, David Stewart looks beneath the surface to find that real story, and this makes The Summer of 1787 a valuable addition to the literature about the creation of the American Constitution."
—Philip Seib, The Dallas Morning News
"David O. Stewart's spirited The Summer of 1787 explores a time when brilliant men—along with colleagues less acute but often louder—hammered out the template for the United States of America. With indelible vignettes and anecdotes, Stewart reminds us why those four months in Philadelphia can still shake the world."
—A. J. Langguth, author of Union 1812: The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence
David O. Stewart made clearer to me than ever the tensions and bargains that produced our Constitution at the Convention of 1787. Especially the bargain over slavery, with all its terrible, lasting consequences. It is an irresistible drama.
—Anthony Lewis, author of Gideon's Trumpet
A book for those who like their history written with easy elegance and a sharp sense of humor. . . . Stewart . . . has a firm grasp of the many confusing and contradictory strands of the seven-article document that came into being. He also has a keen eye for the personalities involved as they clashed, compromised, and ultimately created our remarkable Constitution. . . . [An] engrossing tale.
—James Srodes, Washington Lawyer
"The Summer of 1787 may be more than two centuries in our past, but David O. Stewart makes it wonderfully vivid in this fresh and gripping account of America's constitutional birth pangs. Instead of periwigged demigods, Stewart introduces us to fifty-five white males, whose talent for compromise planted the seeds of representative democracy in their garden of privilege. This tale offers the perfect antidote to our own sound bite and focus group politics."
—Richard Norton Smith, author of Patriarch: George Washington and the New American Nation
A fine writer whose narrative unfolds like a well-structured novel. . . . Stewart artfully shows the roles played by the key players as they grappled with issues as varied as the rights of states and the future of slavery. In Stewart's view, the true genius of these founders was their understanding that free, popular government must be based upon compromise. General readers will find this work stimulating.
—Jay Freeman, Booklist
If Stewart deliberately had set out to write a timely account of the fifty-five men from twelve states who produced our national framework document, he's scored a 10-strike. . . . Stewart does a first-class job, advancing the drama in a lively, narrative style.
—Dick Herman, Lincoln Journal Star
As adept as Stewart proves at navigating historical context and legal details, his story is character-driven. . . . Stewart's descriptions reveal the delegates to have been unequivocally human. His direct, almost conversational prose and fine-grain portraits of the framers . . . give debates over interstate commerce and presidential election schemes an operatic emotional depth.
—Christine Gibson, American Heritage
[A] profound, and yet utterly readable account of the infighting that brought about this most praiseworthy of law collections. . . . Stewart places us there, in that long ago hot summer. He is a master storyteller as well as evidence-building historian.
—John Davis, The Decatur Daily (Decatur, AL)
"Not only can you follow the debates over key issues and understand how our Constitution was written, you can gain valuable lessons on leadership from the gentlemen in the room. You will also get a good sense of the rhythm of representative government deliberating weighty issues. If you read only one book about the Constitution, let it be The Summer of 1787."
—Michael L. Ramsey, The Roanoke Times
A fascinating new study of the creation of the United States Constitution. . . . A thorough, witty, and very intelligent account of a most important event in our history.
—Kendall Wild, Rutland Herald (Rutland, VT)
In telling the story of the constitutional convention, Stewart mined the contemporaneous notes made on the convention as well as the diaries and memoirs of the delegates. The result is a pleasing and eclectic portrait of the life of our founding politicians.
—Christine Pappas, Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma City)
"Writing about the Constitutional Convention of 1787 is a challenge, a literary high-wire act. . . . In The Summer of 1787, David O. Stewart overcomes the challenge. With his strong organization, clear writing, and dry humor, Stewart comes off the literary high wire with a 'Ta Da' and a spring in his step. . . . A must read."
—John Rowen, Schenectady Gazette
The Delegates
The United States in 1787
CHAPTER ONE It Started at Mount Vernon: March 1785
CHAPTER TWO Blood on the Snow: Winter 1787
A House on Fire: Spring 1787
CHAPTER FOUR Demigods and Coxcombs Assemble: May 1787
CHAPTER FIVE Virginia Leads: May 25–June 1
CHAPTER SIX Wilson's Bargain: May 31–June 10
CHAPTER SEVEN Three-Fifths of a Human Being: June 11
CHAPTER EIGHT Festina Lente: June 12–19
CHAPTER NINE To the Brink: June 21–July 10
CHAPTER TEN The Small States Win: July 11–17
CHAPTER ELEVEN The Touch of a Feather: July 9–14
CHAPTER TWELVE The Ipswich Miracle: July 13
CHAPTER THIRTEEN The Presidential Muddle: July 17–26
CHAPTER FOURTEEN Rutledge Hijacks the Constitution: July 27–August 6
CHAPTER FIFTEEN Back to Work: August 6
CHAPTER SIXTEEN The Curse of Heaven: August 8–29
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN David Brearley's Presidency: August 24–September 7
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN The Loyal Opposition: August 31
CHAPTER NINETEEN With All Its Faults: September 8–17
CHAPTER TWENTY Happiness, Perpetual and Otherwise:July 4, 1788
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE Making Amends
Appendix 1: The Elector System
Appendix 2: The Constitution of 1787
Further Reading
About the Author
Illustration Credits
Nicholas Gilman, 32, merchant
John Langdon, 44, merchant
Elbridge Gerry, 43, merchant
Nathaniel Gorham, 49, businessman
Rufus King, 32, lawyer
Caleb Strong, 44, lawyer
Oliver Ellsworth, 42, lawyer
William Samuel Johnson, 60, lawyer
Roger Sherman, 67, lawyer
Alexander Hamilton, 32, lawyer
John Lansing, 33, lawyer
Robert Yates, 49, lawyer
David Brearley, 42, lawyer
Jonathan Dayton, 26, lawyer
William Churchill Houston, 41, lawyer
William Livingston, 64, lawyer
William Paterson, 44, lawyer
George Clymer, 48, businessman
Thomas Fitzsimons, 46, merchant
Benjamin Franklin, 81, inventor
Jared Ingersoll, 38, lawyer
Thomas Mifflin, 43, merchant
Gouverneur Morris, 35, lawyer
Robert Morris, 53, businessman
James Wilson, 46, lawyer
Richard Bassett, 42, lawyer and planter
Gunning Bedford, 42, lawyer
Jacob Broom, 35, merchant
John Dickinson, 55, lawyer
George Read, 54, lawyer
Daniel Carroll, 57, planter
Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, 64, planter
Luther Martin, 39, lawyer
James McHenry, 34, physician
John Francis Mercer, 28, planter
John Blair, 55, lawyer
James Madison, 37, planter
George Mason, 62, planter
James McClurg, 41, physician
Edmund Randolph, 34, lawyer
George Washington, 55, planter
George Wythe, 61, lawyer
William Blount, 38, planter
William R. Davie, 31, lawyer
Alexander Martin, 47, merchant
Richard Dobbs Spaight, 39, politician
Hugh Williamson, 52, physician
Pierce Butler, 43, planter
Charles Pinckney, 29, lawyer and planter
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, 43, lawyer and planter
John Rutledge, 48, lawyer and planter
Abraham Baldwin, 33, lawyer
William Few, 39, lawyer
William Houstoun, 32, lawyer
William Pierce, 48, merchant
New Hampshire
Rhode Island
New York
New Jersey
North Carolina
South Carolina
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large states by the Convention delegates.
Chapter One
It Started at Mount Vernon
SNOW WAS FALLING outside as George Washington mulled over the problem with his neighbor, George Mason. A fire in the west parlor, where the Washingtons entertained guests, pushed back the night chill. Both men favored sweet Madeira wine in the evening, and Mount Vernon's house slaves made sure they had everything they wanted. Dedicated farmers, the men talked easily of the cold weather that would delay spring planting, and of the grafts Mason recently sent for Mount Vernon's cherry trees.
On the other side of the mansion, the wide lawn sloped down to the Potomac, which curved gracefully between Maryland and Virginia on its journey from the western mountains. The river was the problem. The two states were fighting over it, and their argument was a symptom of the deepening crisis of the new United States.
Washington, seven years younger than his guest, had earned an honest fatigue during a day on horseback, supervising work around his plantation. Mason, though, knew only the jangling irritation that follows a day of impatient waiting. They had been friends for almost forty years, spending days and nights in each other's homes. Together they had hunted for deer, talked politics, hosted dancing schools, shared farming strategies, and schemed to develop the Potomac as a center of trade. Both were local leaders, serving as vestrymen for Truro Parish and trustees of the City of Alexandria.
Each in his own way had led the rebellion against Great Britain. In 1774, Washington had presided over the county convention that adopted the Fairfax Resolves, which Mason had drafted in that same parlor at Mount Vernon. Mason's aggressive resolves proclaimed that imposing British laws on Americans without their consent violated
the privileges of a free people, and the natural rights of mankind. Washington went on to personify the American Revolution with his moral and military leadership, while Mason played a more local role through Virginia's General Assembly.
By different paths, they each had reached a stage in life where he had many admirers, not so many friends. Each now described himself as retired.
The firelight exaggerated the contrasts between them. Known to crack walnuts with a single large hand, the strongly built Washington had thrived on outdoor living and battlefield dangers. At fifty-three, he retained the grace and power of a superb horseman and dancer, but it was something from the inside that made him the master of every room he entered. Certainly, he was a Virginia gentleman of courtesy and integrity, but so were others. Equally, he had his flaws, including being
addicted to gambling . . . avid in the pursuit of wealth, . . . a most horrid swearer and blasphemer, and unrelentingly ambitious.
Washington's force came from the antagonistic qualities he blended. His
gift of taciturnity radiated dignity and calm, yet he simultaneously implied, in the words of one admirer,
passions almost too mighty for man. No one who saw Washington's rage ever forgot it. The combination of steely discipline and powerful drive generated a charisma so compelling that, by one account, every king in Europe
would look like a valet de chambre by his side. The leader of a successful rebellion against the world's greatest empire, he was the first citizen of the American continent, an international figure.
George Washington (Virginia). Courtesy of The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia. Bequest of Mrs. Sarah Harrison (The Joseph Harrison, Jr., Collection)
Mason, just sixty, was small and erect, with
clear gray eyes and
few white hairs. A man of thought, he wrote Virginia's Declaration of Rights in early June of 1776. When Thomas Jefferson assembled the Declaration of Independence later that month, he borrowed large portions from Mason's document, though the older man's effort was largely forgotten.
Subject to painful gout and often reluctant to leave his Gunston Hall estate, Mason was blunt and sarcastic where Washington was guarded and tactful. Once, Mason had been viewed as a mentor to Washington, who was a teenager when they first met, but that time was long past. During the war, Washington had been exasperated when the older man stayed in Virginia rather than pitch in to the national effort.
Where are our men of abilities? he wrote to Mason.
How do they not come forth to save their country[?] Let this voice my dear sir call upon you. But because of Mason's illnesses, because he was a widower with nine children on whom he doted, because he simply preferred staying close to home, he did not heed that call.
Still, Washington relied on Mason for help with intimate matters. When snarls developed with his stepdaughter's estate or with his stepson's assets, Washington had turned to Mason for help. Only four months before, he had asked Mason to loan his brother, John Washington,
four, five, or six hundred pounds, a substantial sum. If any man could speak with the General as his peer and his friend, it was Mason.
Several days before they sat in front of the fireplace at Mount Vernon, Mason had received a letter from two Marylanders saying they looked forward to meeting him in Alexandria. The letter stated that Mason was one of four Virginia commissioners with whom they were to negotiate the dispute between the two states over trade, as well as fishing and navigation rights on the Potomac. Mason was nonplussed. The letter said the meeting had been scheduled for weeks, but the Virginian knew nothing about it or about his appointment as a commissioner.
Communication was slow in 1785. Capricious delivery arrangements made correspondence difficult. Distances were daunting as travelers floundered along bad roads and waited for unreliable ferries. Still, news of this significance should have reached Mason from Richmond, the state capital. Mason surmised that Virginia (actually, Governor Patrick Henry) had neglected to notify its commissioners of their appointments, and of the Alexandria meeting.
Hoping for the best, Mason managed to scrounge up another Virginia commissioner (Alexander Henderson of nearby Dumfries) and joined the Marylanders at Gadsby's Tavern in Alexandria. After three purgatorial days waiting for the last two Virginians to arrive, Mason was certain they would not.
The situation was maddening. Mason did not even have the resolution that established his authority. He knew that the river dispute grew from the charter for Maryland that King Charles I issued in 1632. That document defined Maryland as extending to the far bank of the river, fostering chronic conflict with Virginia over tolls and taxes and fishing. In 1785, similar squabbles were flaring among America's thirteen independent, yet not quite united, states. Connecticut and Pennsylvania fought over land; New York and New Hampshire wrestled for Vermont; New Jersey assailed New York's taxes on shipping. The conflicts limited trade and all forms of economic activity. If the states were to prosper, much less become a nation, they had to stop fighting each other.
Appreciating the importance of the project, Mason turned to Washington, who corresponded widely and was well informed. But the General had only a resolution of the Virginia Assembly that expanded Mason's responsibilities to include negotiating with Pennsylvania over access to the Ohio River. The document shed no light on dealings with Maryland over the Potomac.
In running their plantations, Mason and Washington depended on the river for access to markets in Europe and in the other states, but Washington saw it as much more. He envisioned the Potomac as a highway to the lands on the far side of the Appalachians, knitting them together with the existing communities on the East Coast. Pursuing this vision eight months before, he had spent weeks in the wilderness searching for the best overland route between the Potomac and the Ohio River. By January 1785, he had persuaded Maryland and Virginia to charter a company, with him as its head, to develop the river; soon crews would begin hauling rocks out of the upper river to try to create a shipping channel.
After Mason joined the Maryland commissioners at the Alexandria tavern, Washington kept an eye on the perplexing situation, even dining once with the idling commissioners. Now, on March 24, Washington had sent his carriage to bring Mason to Mount Vernon. Sitting together on that snowy night, they knew the time for waiting was over. Either Mason would negotiate with half a delegation, and in ignorance of his instructions, or the Marylanders would go home. They had to decide what to do.
They resolved that Mason should push on. To men who had helped start a revolution, Mason's lack of instructions was no reason to pass up the opportunity to achieve something important. As Mason told it later, the Marylanders had
brought with them the most amicable dispositions, and expressed the greatest desire of forming such a fair and liberal compact.
The General's influence was pivotal: but for his
activity and urgency, the conference might have been abandoned. Almost as important as Washington's encouragement was the political protection he provided. Who would challenge Mason's actions if they had been blessed by Washington?
The General invited the entire conference to Mount Vernon, where the commissioners could proceed in the comfort of his hospitality (as host, Washington was reported to
sen[d] the bottle about pretty freely after dinner). Though five unscheduled guests would tax any household, the Washingtons were better prepared than most. Mount Vernon had nine extra bedrooms, and in 1785 accommodated overnight guests on 235 days.
Neither Mason nor Washington worried that they might be violating the Articles of Confederation, the document by which the thirteen states had made themselves a nation in 1781, only four years before. The Articles barred any two states from entering into an agreement without the consent of Congress, but disregard for that toothless charter was rampant. Under the Articles, the government consisted only of Congress, with neither an executive branch nor courts. Worse, Congress at this time (often referred to as the Confederation Congress) frequently lacked a quorum to take official action and rarely had money to pay for any action it might take.
View of Potomac River from back porch of Mount Vernon
After years of battling Congress for his soldiers' pay and supplies, Washington considered it
a half-starved, limping Government that appears to be always moving upon crutches, and tottering at every step. The feeble Confederation Congress was no reason not to negotiate with Maryland.
The next three days brought more harsh weather, including snow, but the General rode out every day to supervise the planting of pine trees. Inside the mansion, the feelings among the commissioners were warm. Washington's encouraging spirit infused their meetings, while the mansion offered panoramic views of the river over which they bargained.
Their agreement, reached on the fourth day, declared the Potomac a
common highway for citizens of both states. The states would share taxes on foreign cargoes, fishing rights, and the cost of lighthouses. Virginia promised not to impose tolls on Chesapeake Bay, though Mason discovered later that he had no authority to negotiate over the Chesapeake. Indeed, he and his fellow commissioner had no authority to proceed at all, since the Virginia Assembly had required the presence of at least three commissioners. In
this blundering business, Mason later wrote to Virginia's Assembly, he hoped that
forms will be dispensed with, as the compact was a good one.
Mason's report to the Assembly included a key provision. He recommended that the conference with Maryland become an annual event to review other issues, such as the many forms of money then in circulation, import and export taxes levied by states, and the regulation of bills of exchange. Maryland expanded on Mason's proposal when it ratified the compact, inviting Delaware and Pennsylvania to join annual negotiations.
In the Virginia Assembly, the compact was referred to a committee chaired by James Madison, one of the two Virginia commissioners who never made it to Alexandria. Madison would see in it a unique opportunity for the nation.
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A generation younger than the neighboring Georges, Madison at thirty-four was already a seasoned politician, having served at Virginia's Constitutional Convention in 1776 and also in the Confederation Congress after adoption of the Articles in 1781. Short and barely one hundred pounds, the reserved Madison cut a modest figure in the drawing room. He would not marry until his forty-third year. But on matters of public concern, Madison's intelligence and industry won respect and influence beyond his years.
Madison first worked with General Washington in 1784, sponsoring the legislation to develop the upper Potomac. Ironically, Madison also sponsored the resolution that convened the Mount Vernon Conference, though he, like Mason, was never told when it would convene. Madison had intended the conference to address only riverine disputes. Now, more than a year later, the picture was changing, and Madison's perspective was lengthening. He was convinced now that the government established by the Articles had to be replaced.
The Madisons were planters on a scale with Washington and Mason, though not quite so prosperous. More than a hundred slaves worked Montpelier, the estate managed by Madison's father in the western hills. But where the Potomac neighbors were passionate farmers, Madison's passions ran to libraries and legislatures, where he could imagine and test political philosophies. He completed his studies at the College of New Jersey (later renamed Princeton) in record time, driving himself to a form of breakdown. For the rest of his life, his health anxieties would border on hypochondria, though he ultimately reached his eighty-fifth year.
By late 1785, Madison recognized that individual states would never regulate commerce fairly. States with active ports could not resist taxing goods from nearby states, while their neighbors retaliated in any manner they could. When three New England states tried to win concessions from the British by restricting their trade, Connecticut undermined them by aggressively promoting its own trade with Britain.
Only a national government could regulate commerce fairly, but the Confederation Congress lacked the power to do so under the Articles. Amending the Articles required unanimous agreement of the thirteen state legislatures, but unanimity never seemed possible. In the spring of 1786, twelve states voted to give Congress the power to tax imports, only to see New York torpedo the measure.
Every liberal good man, one patriot wrote,
is wishing New York in Hell.
One idea in circulation was to call a convention of the states to write a new charter of government. The legislatures in New York and Massachusetts had adopted resolutions proposing such a convention, though the proposals had gone nowhere.
Visiting Mount Vernon in October of 1785, Madison wondered whether Mason's report on the Mount Vernon Conference might pave the way to such a convention. Washington encouraged the notion. As he impatiently wrote to Madison,
We are either a united people, or we are not. If the former, let us, in all matters of general concern act as a nation . . . . If we are not, let us no longer act a farce by pretending to it.
Madison soon reported to Washington that Virginia might call for the states to meet to consider
the requisite augmentation of the power of Congress over trade. Such a step, he added,
seems naturally to grow out of the Mount Vernon Conference. By January 21, 1786, it was done. The Virginia Assembly called on the other states to send delegates to Annapolis on the first Monday in September to consider
a uniform system in their commercial regulations and appointed Madison as one of Virginia's five delegates.
Arriving eight months later at George Mann's Tavern in Maryland's capital, Madison found but two other delegates. He confided his fears to a younger brother: Nothing
can bear a worse aspect than our federal affairs . . . . No money comes into the public treasury, trade is on a wretched footing, and the states are running mad after paper money. A few days later, Alexander Hamilton of New York, long an advocate of replacing the Articles, joined him. But only twelve delegates from five states reached Annapolis. None came from New England (called the
Eastern states at that time) or from the Deep South (the Carolinas and Georgia), or even from Maryland, the host.
Talking at Mann's Tavern, where rooms were a shilling a night, the twelve Annapolis delegates considered going home without even convening. Then they thought better of it. They were stout patriots, half of whom would sign the Constitution a year later. They were certainly too few to go forward, but they would not give up the game. With the same boldness that Mason and Washington had displayed the year before, they decided to play the convention card once more, this time double-or-nothing.
They needed a pretext for this move, and found it in New Jersey's direction to its delegates to address commercial issues
and other important matters. The nation's problems were far from merely commercial. Other countries took advantage of America's weakness. The British occupied forts in the West and refused to trade with Americans. Spain had closed the Mississippi River to Americans. In the Mediterranean, the Barbary States seized American ships and enslaved their crews. This was no time for half-measures. Why not a convention to address all of the national government's defects?
Hamilton drafted a fiery call for a new convention, which Madison and others toned down. The final version soberly noted
the embarrassments which characterize the present state of our national affairs, then urged the states to send delegates to a convention in Philadelphia
May next, to
devise such further provisions that appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the Federal Government adequate to the exigencies of the Union. Having convened a week late, the delegates adjourned on their second day.
Traveling home, the Annapolis delegates knew much had to be done for the Philadelphia Convention to succeed. Powerful supporters had to be enlisted, none more important than the retired general on the Potomac. Washington's strong-armed intervention had started the process by saving the
bumbling business at Mount Vernon, and his support again would be crucial. The larger question was whether conditions were bad enough for the states to put aside their parochial interests and create a strong national government. Terrible events brewing in central Massachusetts would persuade many Americans that conditions were at least that bad.
The effort to create a new government, which started in earnest when two old friends sat before a Mount Vernon fire and chose to act with no authority, would prove arduous. Change, especially fundamental change, always is painful, and always inflicts casualties. In this case, one casualty would be their friendship.
Chapter Two
Blood on the Snow
THE COLD was bitter. Horse-drawn carts crossed the wide Connecticut River over a thick layer of ice. Two thousand American rebels were marching through almost four feet of snow toward Springfield, Massachusetts. The farms they passed were small and struggling, but the residents freely offered food and drink. The rebels themselves were mostly farmers, not part of any formal military structure, though many had been soldiers before. Some carried old muskets. Some had only swords and clubs.
The newspapers were calling it
Shays' Rebellion, for Daniel Shays, one of the leaders. Thrust to the fore because of his military experience, Shays was a reluctant commander, proud that so far his troops had avoided combat in this ragtag rebellion. Prominent Americans like George Washington and George Mason knew nothing of Daniel Shays, but they were learning.
The men's spirits were high. They were fighting for their rights. Bundled against the winter, some wore sprigs of evergreen in their caps, symbols of their rebellion. Their grievances were many. They groaned under
ancient debts, made still more burdensome from an increase of interest; they were taxed too heavily and there was little hard currency for paying taxes; the expensive court system seemed always to favor creditors, foreclosing on the property of farmers and tradesmen. They were not all poor, but the times were hard. As many as two-thirds of them had been hauled into debtors' courts, facing humiliation and even jail. For years, the government in distant Boston had turned a deaf ear to their complaints.
The rebels moved in three columns, miles apart from each other. As they trudged through the
severest winter . . . in many years, their goal was the arsenal in Springfield. It held cannon, thousands of new muskets with bayonets, and 1,300 barrels of powder. The rebels had cut off the roads to the arsenal on three sides while they seized grain and meat from local merchants. Once they had the arsenal's weapons, they would be a force to be reckoned with. In a chilling ultimatum, they promised that unless the building's defenders surrendered, the rebels would
give nor take no quarter, pledging to slaughter any prisoners captured in battle. Most of the 1,200 troops opposing them were their neighbors.
The rebellion had begun six months before, during the summer of 1786, when crowds of angry farmers prevented court from convening in Northampton. Their reasoning was linear: no court hearings meant no judgments for creditors, and no foreclosures.
In September—while the Annapolis delegates gathered—other crowds blocked courts in Worcester, in Taunton, in Great Barrington, even in Concord, already storied as the birthplace of the Revolution. Angry debtors had closed courts in New Hampshire and Connecticut, too, but only in Massachusetts had the militia refused to oppose the unrest, sometimes even joining it.
In October, Congress met in New York City, 140 miles away, to authorize the recruitment of federal troops to restore order in Massachusetts. To avoid spreading alarm about the rebellion, the congressional resolution stated that the troops would put down threats from the Shawnee, the Potawatami, and the Chippewa. No one was fooled. Unlike the farmers of Massachusetts, those tribes were not on the warpath.
It mattered little whether anyone was fooled by Congress's ruse. The thirteen states refused to pay for federal troops, so only a few were recruited, then sent home. Once Congress's failure was clear, the rich men of Boston passed the hat to underwrite a state force of 4,000. With other state troops, William Shepard, a Revolutionary War veteran, defended the Springfield arsenal. Shepard, who himself had been hauled into court for his debts, had little sympathy for the rebels.
I have lost eight years hard service, he wrote,
to suffer frost and defend the lives and property of a set of d——d rascals who are daily threatening to cut my throat.
Daniel Shays led one of the three rebel columns on that snowy day in late January 1787. Surprisingly little is known about the man, including what he looked like. He enlisted as a private when the Revolutionary War began, fighting at Bunker Hill and Saratoga as he rose to sergeant and then captain. A commander of state troops remembered him as
a brave and good soldier. The Marquis de Lafayette gave him a gold sword, but Shays sold it, probably to pay expenses of his farm in Pelham in the central part of the state, where he moved after the war.
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Refrigerators often come with freezers where you can store perishable foods. But the size of the freezer inside fridges can be a tad small in case you need to store frozen foods that will last for plenty of days. The answer for this is a chest freezer. Read our guide and product reviews for the essentials.
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אַתָּה בְחַרְתָּנוּ מִכָּל הָעַמִּים, אָהַבְתָּ אוֹתָנוּ, וְרָצִיתָ בָּנוּ, וְרוֹמַמְתָּנוּ מִכָּל הַלְשׁוֹנוֹת, וְקִדַּשְׁתָּנוּ בְּמִצְוֹתֶיךָ. וְקֵרַבְתָּנוּ מַלְכֵּנוּ לַעֲבוֹדָתֶךָ, וְשִׁמְךָ הַגָּדוֹל וְהַקָּדוֹשׁ עָלֵינוּ קָרָאתָ
"You have chosen us from all the nations; You loved us and found favor in us; And exalted us above all the languages, and You sanctified us with Your commandments. You brought us close, our King, to Your service and proclaimed Your great and holy Name upon us." (Shmoneh Esreh for Yom Tov)
"You have chosen us from all the nations..." A famous Medrash speaks of how Hashem offered the Torah to all the other nations before offering it to Klal Yisrael. As the Medrash goes, when Hashem offered it to each nation, they each replied "What's in it?" and Hashem responded with the one Mitzvah that that nation has trouble with. When Hashem offered it to Esav, for example, Hashem said that you can't murder, and that's what Esav is all about! When Hashem offered the Torah to Yishmael, Hashem said you can't steal, and that's what they do for fun! etc. etc. But When the Torah was offered to us, Hashem didn't say "You can't speak lashon hara" or any of the other major problems plaguing our nation today, he offered it and we accepted it. So why is that fair? Why does it seem that Hashem tried to avoid giving the Torah to all the other nations, but willingly gave it to us? There are many answers to this Q but the one that really hit home for me was this one: When Hashem offers you something, its gold! There's no need to ask questions! Maybe its not right for you?...impossible! Hashem would only give us the best of the best, He's Kulo Tov(completely good)! So when the other nations responded "What's in it" they were demonstrating their lack of trust in G-d. They were expressing their misunderstanding of the reality that G-d is The Man. Once they asked that question Hashem knew that the Torah wasn't for them. So He told them "Yeah you prob wouldn't want it anyway, you'll have to change yourself and work hard according to the restrictions that come with it..." But Klal Yisrael knew the deal. Hashem offered us the Torah and we responded "Naaseh V'nishma." "We will do and we will listen" We didn't even need to know whats in it, because we knew its for sure whats best for us. And that's why we were zoche (merited) to get it, because we knew the emes. We knew and still know today that G-d gives us only the best, never anything less.
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First, you have this new baby. A baby that is in all sense of the word: Helpless. They cannot get fed, go potty, change clothes, change positions...can't do ANYTHING without your help. They have a teeny, tiny stomach that needs tiny amounts of food VERY often. They have no clue about time, about wake and sleep cycles, about feelings or anything else. The most they know is that nursing is awesome, mom cuddles are great and that if something isn't right, crying is their only option to get someone to fix what they cannot.
Knowing all of this, parents still think it is A-Ok, to feed a humongous bottle of formula and expect baby to be satisfied for 4+ hours and not cry or be hungry, they expect baby to sleep ALL night long (meaning 12+ hours) and not cry, If they don't comply..then baby is expected to "learn" how to be happy laying in the dark all alone for those 12 hours and not to make a peep or expect mom to fix a thing because she needs her sleep and this tiny baby that doesn't really understand a thing is expected to just do this without a fuss. Baby is taught from birth to use the bathroom in their diaper and then magically at 18 month or 24 months, they should just automatically use the toilet with no accidents and within a day. They have been given a bottle or breast or pacifier since birth and again, are expected to simply give it up because the parent or society decided that 12 months or sooner it should be gone. The kid again is expected to just drop it immediately. Room-sharing or bed sharing is done for hot minute and expected to be dropped on demand at some other arbitrary age. The kid is expected to play alone and not whine, to not touch anything that is within their reach. And so on and so forth....
These kids are expected to grow up and mature and do SO much before they are even emotionally or physically ready. As tiny babies it is thrust upon them. Then, around school age, maybe sooner...the switch happens.
Suddenly, these same kids that were forced and thrust into independence and maturity are treated like invalids. No, you cannot play with that or watch that or go on that playground equipment. No, you cannot be in the yard alone for five seconds. No, you cannot go over to a friends house to play unless I am hovering over you. No, you cannot touch this or do that or think that.
I seriously read a story recently about a 12 year old that was home alone when the house was robbed and he called 911 and all was ok. There were SO many comments bad mouthing the mom for leaving him alone and comments asking about calls to CPS. For a TWELVE YEAR OLD! These are the same people that claim my 17 year old shouldn't be left home alone or allowed to go to a friends house, or to be outside alone. SEVENTEEN...
No I have to ask...when did we get so twisted around? How is it that people believe a TINY BABY can "self-soothe" and should be fine alone all night for 12 hours without a peep and no food or changing, and yet also believe that a person cannot be trusted with themselves until after 18?
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Re: Telecom Mergers Make Sense
Posted by: Sonia Arrison 2005-03-07 01:40:27
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This week, a Congressional committee held hearings on the mergers of SBC with AT&T and Verizon with MCI. While some might worry about consolidation, the mergers are a sign that the telcos are preparing for a new wave of competition from businesses previously confined to other parts of the economy. The telecom industry is going through numerous changes, partly due to technological innovations and partly due to a lightening of regulatory restrictions.
Re: Telecom Mergers Make Sense
Posted by: SubTexel 2005-03-07 01:46:58 In reply to: Sonia Arrison
Posted by: SubTexel 2005-03-07 01:46:58 In reply to: Sonia Arrison
How is it better for the consumer? Less TELCOs (due to mergers) will mean less competition in that arena, and thus price increases will follow. Microsoft followed a similar strategy but everyone went up in arms over it, and they were subsequently prosecuted. The Bells were broken up for a reason, there is no need to allow them to come back together. The argument about better prices in the Video sectors is mute, when you take everything else into consideration. This sounds almost like a paid ad for the Bells.


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My husband, Andy, is a big fan of cacao. He puts cacao into everything- smoothies, ice cream, muffins, hot chocolate, biscuits... Everything contains cacao even to the extent that clients know if a recipe I'm giving to them comes from Andy (if it contains cacao there is a big probability that it its Andy's).
I'm certainly not complaining! Especially when he makes these brownies for us- they are to die for!!
I shared some at my August Calm and Energise Workshop and most of the feedback forms contained comments on how good the brownies were!!
They are a great snack to prepare ahead and take out as you need it from the fridge. They are nut free, dairy free, gluten free, wheat free and don't require any baking.
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This is has been a fairly hard week, dealing with the shooting in Newtown, grieving for those lives lost, preparing for the holidays here locally, planning weddings and keeping up with emails. I've received a few emails in the past few days that have lifted my spirits:
From Jennifer, married on 12/3:
I wanted to take a minute to thank you for everything you did to help our wedding come together. It was absolutely beautiful and we could not have been happier. I actually could not imagine having a wedding any other way now that we have eloped! And Stuart was absolutely wonderful. He made our ceremony so very personal and it meant the world to us both.
Thank you again for everything. We look forward to the next time we can come and visit St. Thomas! Our memories are ones we will cherish forever, and we are forever grateful that you both helped our dream come true.
From Sherri, married on 12/11:
On December 11, 2012 I married the love of my life on Brewer's Bay beach. My husband and I are spontaneous folks who planned to tie the knot on St. Thomas in only a week or so. I contacted Janelle and she was able to pull off the ceremony, which included a photography package, at the last minute. It was by far the most beautiful wedding I have ever been to. The officiant, Stuart, did a fantastic job. We told him what we wanted as far as the "sermon" was concerned and it was perfect. I was so happy with the way everything was handled. It was a simple, low cost ceremony with just the two of us but you would have never known it by the way we were treated. Island Bliss Weddings is by far a fantastic operation that I would recommend to anyone wanting to get married on St. Thomas. They are professional and truly care about their customers. Thank you Janelle and Stuart for making our special day very, very special!


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Partner of the Journées Nationales Des Jeunes (National Youth Day), Societe Generale is opening its doors to young people and students in France and around the world to enable them to better understand banking and discuss what tomorrow's company will look like. Workshops, meetings, visits relating to key topics such as cybersecurity, financial education, learning how to code, sustainable mobility, … The aim of this 8th day of national mobilization was to promote the professional integration of young people and encourage interaction between the academic and corporate worlds. The key theme: self-confidence. #OpenSG
Feedback from schoolchildren
Between exchanges with the speakers and creation of their first website or coding workshop, relive the experience of the high school students of the Suger high school during their visit to the Technopole des Dunes. The high school students discovered, during a whole morning, the premises of the Dunes, as well as the world of coding through various activities such as programming and the creation of an Internet page.
Why open the doors to youth?
ALD Automotive, the leading vehicle leasing operation in Europe opened up its Mobility Room near Paris in France to students to increase their awareness of sustainable mobility issues. It provided them with an opportunity to share their opinion of the challenges that towns and cities will face in the future and to participate in a number of experiments currently taking place. Head of New Mobility at ALD Automotive, Didier Blocus explains the importance of communicating and exchanging with high school students. Sharing fascinating information regarding new technologies and innovation!
Discover high school teachers' testimonials on their students' participation.
The aim of the 8th edition of this National Youth Day in France was to promote the professional integration of young people and encourage interaction between the academic and corporate worlds. Discover what teachers and educators thought about their classes' participation in National Youth Day at Societe Generale and its mobility subsidiary, ALD Automotive.
What did the teachers think?
What did the teachers think? - series
Coding leads to professions with a future
During the National Youth Day in France, the HR Innovation officer, staff members and work-study students explain the importance of coding in today's world – and, more importantly, tomorrow's world.
We look back at the partnership with ITSchool, and hear from members of staff who have taken digital technology onboard by evolving and taking developer training. They explain the need to know and understand this new language that is fundamental for the future.
Coding, a skill for the future
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SG Open its doors 2018
Historical partner since 3 years, Societe Generale has supported the National Youth Day held on 29 March 2018 in France. Societe Generale has opened its doors to young people and students in order to better understand the bank sector and build together the future. The aim of this 7th edition was the promotion of the professional integration of youth. The thema was "trust in yourself" Differents initiatives in many countries will host students in Africa, East Europe... Follow these operations with #OpenSG
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Societe Generale, founding member of the Grande Ecole du Numérique digital school, has reaffirmed its commitment to digital inclusion by launching, in October 2018, the ITSchool by Societe Generale & Simplon. Digital technology is a lever of professional integration and personal development for jobseekers and Societe Generale staff who want to retrain.
The Grande Ecole du Numérique is a public body for short certified training courses in the digital field. Set up in September 2015, its training programmes are already teaching a large number of people (particularly young people without work experience and those in work but seeking to retrain, among others) to be rapidly operational in jobs using digital technologies.


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Growing Flax
Kent Cloth will be printing onto European linen and we are visiting our Europe to discover more about the production of linen. Kent is situated so close to the continent we are keen to find out how flax grows on Kentish soil.
We grew flax at the Pines Calyx,Rochester Art Gallery, Faversham, Stalisfield, Sevenoaks, Whitstable, Maidstone, and Canterbury. We visited Belgium to find out more about the production of linen. This video from Masters of Linen, CELC, (THE EUROPEAN CONFEDERATION OF FLAX AND HEMP) shows you the journey from seed to cloth. www.mastersoflinen.com


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How to Change Facebook password on iPhone
How Do i Change my Facebook Password on iPhone
With the increasing number of Facebook users now a days, its privacy concerns are worrying its users. Sometimes the users accounts are hacked leaving them in very pathetic situation. If you are suffering from this problem, changing password is a good option. Or you might want to change the password to one which is more secure than your current password. Here is how to change Facebook password in easy steps for Desktop website, mobile website, iOS App or android App.
Being a Facebook user, which is one of the most popular social media , you might have felt insecure regarding privacy issues, atleast once . People share their photos, life events and memories on it which makes this site most vulnerable. So you want to mark yourself safe by changing the current password. Or may be you have forgotten the old one.
Though people are using Facebook on their personal computers. Smartphones and tablets, we will here focus on iPhone. If you are using Facebook on an iPhone and want to know how change Facebook password on iphone, then here you'll get simple steps.
Steps for How to Change Facebook Password on iPhone
- Open Facebook app on your iPhone.
- Make sure you have a latest version of the app.
- Login to your account.
- At the right-bottom on your iPhone screen, there is a 'More' option.
- Click on 'Settings'.
- A screen will appear displaying 'Security and login'.
- Click 'Change password' option.
- You will be asked to enter your current password.
- Now create a new password and retype it as asked .
- Click 'Change Password'.
- Again a screen will appear asking 'Logout of other devices' ?
- Select whether you want to be logged in to other devices or not.
- If you don't want to logout from other devices select 'Stay logged in' and tap to continue.
Your password has been changed now. Tap on getting 'started'.
If you don't remember your old password then you can follow the process of "Forgotten password".
Change Facebook password in iOS App
Go to your Facebook follow these steps:
- From the lower right part of the screen, tap the "More" button.
- Go to "Settings".
- Click on "General".
- Select "Password".
- Enter your current password.
- Type your new password.
- "Re-type" the new password.
- Click on "Change Password" button.
Now your Facebook password is updated.
If you are using Facebook on Android app, follow these steps to update your Facebook password:
- Go to your Facebook app. Open it.
- From the upper right corner, select the "Menu".
- Go to "Account Settings".
- Click on "General".
- Go to "Password".
- Enter your current password.
- Create a new password.
- "Re-type" the new password.
- Click on "Change Password" once you are ready.
- Your password has been changed successfully.
- While creating a new password, make sure you create a strong password.
How to Change Facebook password from Desktop website
Open the Desktop version of Facebook and follow the below steps:
- Login to your Facebook account with your email or phone number and password.
- A lock is located at the upper-right corner, from here select the "arrow".
- Select "Settings".
- Go to "Edit" link near to the "Password" section.
- Enter your current password first.
- Now enter the new password.
- Re-type New password.
- Click on "Save Changes".
- Now you have successfully changed your password.
Change your Facebook password from the Mobile Website
- Sign in to your Facebook account.
- From the upper right corner, select the "Menu" button.
- Go to "Account Settings".
- Select "General".
- Go to "Password".
- Enter your current password first.
- Now type the new password. And "Re-type New" password.
- Go to "Change Password", click it.
Your Facebook password is changed successfully.
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Tice's January birthday party was postponed because of weather, so we celebrated on Super Bowl Sunday. The weather was perfect for the hayride–and grilling and football and corn hole and everything else that was going on that day. It was such a fun day and a blessing to see all those kids running around making memories together.
I only had my camera out for a little while, so as I went through the pictures I just kept noticing everyone I missed. I wish I had taken more. But I'm glad I got some of the hayride for Tice to look back on some day. And I know my parents and my sister were taking pictures, so they probably got some of the people I missed.
Tice couldn't get enough of the hayride. He didn't want it to end.
When Harper and I found out we were pregnant, most of our close friends here in Brenham thought they were finished adding to their families. We all thought Tice would be the baby of the group until Missy and Dusty adopted again. Funny how things change, though. There have been a few surprises, and Tice is definitely not the baby of the group. Next up: Nikki and Jake will welcome another son (their fourth child) next month.
It was also Blake's birthday, so we celebrated Blake, Tice, and the Super Bowl. Look at all the little Aggies! I guess I was wearing maroon at that age, too. They have plenty of time to change their minds.
Owen cracks me up. When he saw me taking pictures, he was so sweet to stop what he was doing to pose a few times. I didn't even have to ask him. Look at those dimples!
I might have mentioned this before, but I used to always try to avoid getting cars in my pictures. They're just busy and distracting. A few years ago, though, I was looking though old family pictures and I really liked seeing the cars in the background. They helped date the photos, and the cars were part of the memories that were captured. I decided then that I wouldn't always avoid the vehicles anymore.
Now that Tice is so obsessed with our cars, it will bring back even more memories to see them in a few photos. Whenever we say we're about to go somewhere, his first question is always "Mommy's car?" or "Daddy's truck?" And he always says goodbye to whichever vehicle is left behind.
I have a feeling this was just the first of many hayrides at Nonna and Grandpa's house.
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Team Fortress 2 Jungle Inferno Update Release Date Announced, Patch Notes Detailed
A lot of changes.
For the finale of the four-day announcement, Valve has provided a release date and patch notes for the Jungle Inferno update coming to Team Fortress 2.
The update is scheduled to drop sometime on Friday, Oct. 20. Valve did not provide a specific time, only to "stay tuned." Besides the date, the company released the hefty list of patch notes for the update which can be read in full here.
The biggest changes include increasing the number of backpack slots from 2,000 to 2,500, allowing parties to be formed anywhere alongside a new party interface, redesigned matchmaking menus, and the casual rank going beyond level 150 with a tier system. Specific weapons from every class have been balanced, such as the least-used Panic Attack and Scout's Pretty Boy Pocket Pistol. The update adds medals from various tournaments and community events as well.
Other previously announced features coming in the Team Fortress 2 update are six new jungle-themed maps, the Jungle Inferno Campaign Pass, and new weapons and improvements for the Pyro class.
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Democratic congressional candidate Pete Aguilar is taking on his Republican opponent directly in his latest TV ad for the 31st Congressional District seat.
Up until now, Aguilar, who is mayor of Redlands, has let the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee launch negative ads against Paul Chabot while his campaign aired spots highlighting his working-class roots.
But in "Good Education," Aguilar accuses Chabot of backing spending cuts to education and tax breaks for corporations that outsource American jobs.
"Millionaires don't need more tax breaks," one student says.
"But a good education is the only way for me to achieve my dreams," says another.
Chabot spokesman Ryan Hall said: "These accusations are ludicrous given Paul's background. Paul is a teacher and has dedicated his life to keeping families safe (and) our children out of gangs and in school."
"Pete is utilizing fear-mongering tactics that are not only unprofessional, but unbecoming of a congressional representative."
Aguilar and Chabot, a naval reserve officer and homeland security consultant from Rancho Cucamonga, are running for an open seat in the 31stst, which includes Redlands, Loma Linda, Grand Terrace, Colton and part of the city of San Bernardino. The race is being closely watched from a national perspective, as Democrats see it as a prime chance to take a seat from of the GOP House majority.
DCCC TV spots have portrayed Chabot as a do-little bureaucrat who stood against middle-class families and earned six figures while working one day a month on the state parole board.
Chabot has said serving on the parole board was a full-time job. He called on Aguilar to renounce the DCCC ads at a news conference this week at a Latino TV station in San Bernardino.
"Dirty campaigning is cheating and bullying at the same time. We do not let kids get away with it and we will not let grown adults get away with it either," Chabot said in a news release.
"As a father to three girls, I'm outraged at these false attacks. They not only have no place in politics, they have no place, period. We will fight for the truth. My opponent's multimillion dollar smear campaign won't be tolerated by the good citizens of this district."
Chabot also demanded that Time Warner Cable remove at least one of the DCCC ads.


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Tom DeLonge broke our hearts earlier this year when he left Blink-182, the legendary pop-punk band he founded more than two decades ago. We later learned Angels & Airwaves would continue on and DeLonge would release a solo album, lead by the atmospheric single "New World." He also announced a book, the futuristic fiction Poet Anderson...Of Nightmares, and today he's teased a song to accompany it. Got all that?
The song, which will appear on a full EP, was shared on Tom's personal Instagram account.
The tune is classic Angels & Airwaves: It's a bit more cinematic than the power pop-punk that made Blink-182 famous, DeLonge's voice stretching notes beyond his iconic nasal tone.
While you've got Tom on the mind, check out our list of his most tragically underrated songs, then read up on his space obsession. Oh and did you know Travis Barker is also releasing a book in October? It's the battle of the Blink boys!


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A statement from Ryan LeGrand, president and chief executive officer of the U.S. Grains Council (USGC):
"The U.S. Grains Council is pleased to hear the United States and Japan have made their trade agreement official, after the Japanese Diet ratified it earlier in the day and it is expected to go into effect on January 1, 2020.
"The agreement solidifies trade with our second largest corn market, immediately reduces U.S. corn and sorghum imports for all purposes to a zero-tariff level, reduces the U.S. barley mark up and includes a staged tariff reduction for U.S. ethanol and U.S. corn, barley and sorghum flour. In addition, U.S. feed and food corn, corn gluten feed, and DDGS will continue to receive duty-free market access.
"Japan purchased more than $2 billion of U.S. corn in the most recent marketing year, is an important market for food and feed barley as well as sorghum and promises to be an important future market for U.S. ethanol.
"In negotiating and approving this agreement, our countries have built on a long-standing relationship of mutual trust and embodied that sentiment for the foreseeable future. We look forward to continued work with our Japanese partners on a more comprehensive trade package that will address important non-tariff barriers and what we hope is continued improvement in the ethanol sector."


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Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Tourist Places around Hyderabad
nitya007's | Tuesday, April 23, 2013 | Must See India |
Hampi, the city of ruins and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is one of the
major historical places of South India. Once upon a time, it was the
royal capital of the dominant Vijayanagara Empire. It is presently a
ruined town with full of ancient palaces and forts.
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