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A number of Cadets from Robert Land Academy returned to school one week early this year to take part in the Academy's Student NCO (Non-Commissioned Officer) Leadership Training Course.
Robert Land Academy is Canada's only private military-style school for boys. Entering its 34th year in operation, the Academy enrols students from across Canada and around the world. Offering a structured boarding school program that understands the needs of boys, the Academy provides extensive academic remediation and support, a physically active program which promotes a healthy lifestyle and personal growth, and a distraction-free environment located in a rural setting – all of which create an environment in which boys can be successful and take pride in their many achievements.
In the spring these Cadets submitted an application requesting to participate in the course which is designed to develop skills, shape their confidence, and position them for potential student leadership opportunities at the Academy in the coming school year.
Throughout the week, Cadets attended clinics and participated in hands-on learning exercises on principles and elements of leadership, time management and organization, mentoring, and calling parade drill. They also received instruction and training on basic canoe safety in preparation for team building exercises during a canoe trip to the Grand River in Haldimand County.
The week culminated with a Graduation Parade and the selection of the Top Candidate of the course. Many of the Cadets departed for the Labour Day weekend, and return following their break to welcome both new and returning students throughout the first week of September.
For further information about Robert Land Academy visit: www.robertlandacademy.com or contact:
Robert Land Academy
6727 South Chippawa Rd.
Wellandport, Ontario L0R 2J0 Canada
Tel: 905-386-6203
A FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTION: Are tuition payments to Robert Land Academy tax deductible?
If your son is under the age of 16 and/or is diagnosed with a disability (ADD, ADHD, ODD, Learning Disabled, or some other disability), you may qualify for tax relief for tuition payments paid to Robert Land Academy under Canada's:
- Medical Expense Tax Credit
- Disability Tax Credit
- Child Care Expense Deduction, or
- Through the creation of a Health & Welfare Trust (for business owners)
For further information on this topic, watch our four-part pre-recorded information webinar hosted by financial planner Peter Merrick, President of Merick Wealth.
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By Sandy Naiman
(NC)—For most kids, the prospect of "going back to school" triggers excitement, nervousness and angst, but for a small subset of adolescent boys, traditional schools don't work. Some have ADHD, ADD or ODD. Others struggle with diabetes or morbid obesity. Still, others flirt with substance abuse or the law.
Each boy's issues are unique, but solutions are never easy, according to Tina Ward who sent her son Maxwell to the Robert Land Academy (RLA) two years ago. "He has Type 1 Diabetes and wasn't controlling himself properly."
"No parent ever feels happy about sending their child away, especially when he doesn't really feel he deserves it," she adds.
Along with Max's consistently high blood sugar, "my marks were poor and I couldn't talk to my family," he says. Everything began changing when he arrived at RLA, Canada's only military-style school near Welland, Ontario.
"In a matter of days, I started feeling healthier and better about myself. By showing me what's important, by giving me balanced meals every day, by the exercise we had to do, the Academy helped me a lot," Max says.
RLA students "typify a particular temperament," says founder and headmaster G. Scott Bowman (Maj. ret.), describing them as dominant, stubborn, intuitively bright, often lazy, with powerful and extreme personalities.
"They're gregarious, effusive and adventurous in spirit," he says. Often at odds with conventional authority, they don't like change unless they author it. Yet, "as adolescents, they're typically manipulative and can be overtly oppositional or passive aggressive."
Genuinely empathetic with his recruits, Bowman started his school in 1978 because he has the same temperament, but no such school existed for him, he explains. RLA was established for future generations of struggling, misunderstood boys, like himself, Max Ward and hundreds of others.
"Intellectual curiosity is a constant in these boys," Bowman adds. "It causes teachers and parents grief."
Ward's mother credits RLA's regimentation for the "marked change in her son's health." He eats meals at exact times, counts carbs and engages in physical activities, "all great for diabetics," she says. "He's more athletic, more sports-minded. His marks have improved, too."
Now his odds of managing his health and diabetes are better than ever because he is physically fit and eats well.
"Max is accountable for himself. What else can you do as a parent? You can't be there 24 hours a day."
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(NC)—Today morbid childhood obesity is an increasingly critical societal, cultural, medical and emotional health issue jeopardizing every sphere of a young person's life from his interpersonal relationships to his academic abilities.
Robert Land Academy (RLA) cadet Peter Smith (who requested a pseudonym) used to be a poster boy for morbid obesity.
Not any more.
After one year of rugged physical fitness, regimented eating, structured military-style living, and his schoolmates' and teachers' support, Smith has dropped 105 lbs. Last summer he weighed 360 lbs. Now, at 15 and a much healthier 252 lbs., he's added years to his life, and he's on roll.
"This summer I hope to lose more weight to get down to my 210 pound goal," he says.
Smith didn't lose his weight at RLA by dieting.
At home, he'd raid the fridge whenever he wanted. "I used to think I ate pretty healthy. When I got sad, though, I'd eat a lot. Emotions controlled my eating," he says. "Now, I eat three times a day. I like the food here. It tastes good. They don't give you too much or too little. You control your portioning. Make choices."
RLA Chef Bruce Ness, an alumnus and classically trained professional chef is "a believer in home-style cooking, food that sticks to your ribs, feeds the mind, body and soul, that carries you for the day."
Before attending RLA, Smith admits he couldn't handle school. "I had poor study habits. I couldn't do my homework, couldn't even read. Now, I sit down, read, study for exams and do all my courses properly.
"RLA taught me how to set goals, value my nutrition, work out properly."
Last year, he couldn't run one lap "without getting out of breath. I couldn't do anything. Nobody liked me. Now, I can run five kilometres in 32.3 minutes and do 40 push-ups."
Smith had set backs. After foot surgery, he was immobilized for two weeks until RLA Deputy Headmaster Colin Doig helped him back onto his feet. They started running together.
"It was hard, but he stayed at my pace, pushing and teaching me how to run properly. I thank Major Doig for everything I've accomplished this year. Without him I wouldn't have gotten anywhere."


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The expansion project, named 'Batsweledi', has two components: the recommissioning and upgrading of the existing cement-milling plant at the Jupiter facility in Johannesburg, (R130-million), followed by the installation of a new kiln line and associated infrastructure at PPC's Dwaalboom factory, in Limpopo, (R1,23-billion). The 550 000 t/y Jupiter cement factory is also currently being recommissioned, and is scheduled for completion in March or April next year. This is being done to provide additional supply during the construction of the Batswaledi project and PPC CEO John Gomersall said yesterday that the Jupiter operations would be mothballed once the new Dwaalboom capacity came onstream, although this decision could be revised if market demand continued to escalate beyond the capacity of local cement producers. All other PPC mothballed kilns have also been recommissioned. The new capacity is expected to come online in the second calendar quarter of 2008, with construction set to begin at Dwaalboom early next year. PPC COO Orrie Fenn said that the capital expansion project is expected to add about a million tons a year to South Africa's inland cement-production capacity. He explained that the decision to build a new kiln line, rather than opting to upgrade the existing facilities, was taken for two reasons. Firstly, an upgrade, although less costly, would be quite complex and involve between two and three months of downtime at Dwaalboom. Also, the construction of a new line provides the opportunity to install state-of-the art equipment, particularly in light of the fact that this is the first new kiln to be built in the country in 15 years. An environmental-impact assessment has been completed for the new facilities at Dwaalboom and the necessary approvals to proceed with the project have been obtained from the authorities, Fenn said. The new kiln line will include lower-energy vertical roller raw and coal mills and will have the ability to burn low-grade coal and secondary fuels, as well as the high-grade coal currently being processed. It will also meet best-practice environmental standards with low dust emissions and water consumption. The cement-milling facility at Jupiter, once the upgrade and recommissioning is complete, will have a capacity of 800 000 t/y. Cement produced through the expansion at Dwaalboom will be transported to Jupiter for milling, as well as to the Hercules plant, which also has spare capacity. Fenn said that this would prove more cost-efficient than the construction of a new milling facility at Dwaalboom. Strong demand outlook forecast Gomersall said that the company expected a strong period of economic growth in South Africa to persist for the next five years, fuelled by low interest rates and an attractive inflation environment. "The country fundamentals are positive," he said, citing high business-confidence levels, increased spending on fixed-investment and infrastructural projects, anticipated benefits from the 2010 soccer World Cup and the residential market upsurge as some key indicators. Further, presenting an overview yesterday of the local cement industry, Fenn said that PPC expected yearly demand - excluding exports - to continue to rise for at least the next five years, and to exceed 16-million tons a year by 2010. The only other extra capacity announced as yet is NPC's Simuma kiln, which will add 600 000 t/y. In response to a question from an investment analyst, Gomersall said that, should no other producer announce plans to raise capacity before 2010, PPC would probably look at further expansion projects. Edited by: Liezel Hill
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1996 Geo TrackerVisitor, Sedona, AZ, August 19, 2014 18:08I just purchased a USED run-around-town car last Saturday. It's a 1996 Geo Tracker, Auto Trans, hard top with 175K on the engine. I'm aware that parts are hard to get since they don't make the car any more, but she's good to go for as long as I'm going to be on the road. (age 84)! My son has one and swears by them ,,, gas mileage is 30 miles a gal. easy to get it into and one of the greatest features is the BIG windows all around it. A SAFE DRIVE! So I'm hooked up with VILLAGE AUTOCARE, now to keep it in good maintenance. A great little shop for these who live in the Village. So, if your looking for a cheap good miles car, I recommend this little one. You can't go wrong with Village autocare either. Good car hunting, Ladysedona 08/15/14Flag ThisLike0
1992 Geo TrackerVisitor, Pleasant City, OH, February 18, 2014 07:34overheatingFlag ThisLike0
1994 Geo TrackerVisitor, Virginia City, NV, September 03, 2013 15:00I bought the car for towing behind my motorhome. For the most part it tows well except for tight turns as like pulling into a driveway, or when backing it up. Due to short wheel base I believe. It otherwise followed behind as if it wasn't there! It was able to follow those little "Quads" everywhere they went! It could use a bit more power at times as when loaded with camping and prospecting gear it has had trouble climbing long very steep dirt roads. Having to turn back results in gut wrenching fear because you get the feeling that if you lock up the brakes, it would just result in an uncontrolled sled like skid to the bottom!Flag ThisLike | 1 person likes this1
1992 Geo TrackerVisitor, Raymond, MT, April 28, 2013 21:35I need a complete passenger window opening and closing cable system where can I get one and how muchFlag ThisLike0
1995 Geo TrackerVisitor, Staten Island, NY, February 24, 2012 17:19I LIKE THIS LITTLE GUY SO MUCH THAT I HAD NEW ROCKERS WELDED IN AND HAD IT PAINTED.RUNS GREAT,RIDES FINE,HANDLES OK, LOOKS BRAND NEW WITH 66,585 ORG MILAGE WILL BE DRIVING IT TILL I DIE.Flag ThisLike0
1995 Geo TrackerVisitor, Bennington, VT, October 01, 2011 23:30love my geo tracker,bought it in 2004 been driving it daily ever since,never fail to run.the frame however is only made out of "tin".i have replace the cross member tubes with 1"1/4 steel pipe-slides right in the current tubes that have rotted over the years.the gas tank one was the first gone when i bought it.i made covers that i put in the rear wheelwells to keep all the mud/dirt/snow/water from the rear wheels from splashing in on top of the tank and prevented it from rotting out.also changed the mounting of the skid plate , below the tank,instead of on the tank.so it would hold the tank up if the tank mounts failed. even tho,through the years i've kept the frame clean and lubed,it rotted from the inside out at the rear in front of the back tires.it is very fixable,i have welded some plate steelin it,connecting support from the new steel cross members.how ever it needs a bit more yet,i dont have a place to do it,or i would and keep it longer. it just runs and shifts so awesome.the gas miles= 20mpg around town,and i have gotten upper 30's on the highway,keeping the speed around 55,rpms at 2500. has all the get up and go and more than i ever expected.a 3 mile steep mountian here is our try out road.my tracker has been up to 85mph and pedal to go still if i wanted to push it. i have to get rid of it,sadly because no where to keep it to finish frame structure.still driving every day,till it sells.many extra parts with for it. it has american racing chrome wheels with bf goodrich all terrains 30x10.50 on it.set of stock wheels and tires,removeable hard top,new muffler (factory replacement),extra head/tail light assemblies,brand new oil pan still in the box.the one on the car is rusty in spots/not yet leaking.doesnt use any oil between changes,new brakes/calipers/rotors/shoes/drums in 2009,wheel bearing inspected/cleaned/repacked-2009,trans=automatic,works/shifts as good as new,seviced in 2007-new fluid/filter as preventive.new coolant/reg oil changes with castro gtx. trying to sell it all for $700.i hate to see it go to the crusher,it would make an exellant body off restore project.and my plan was to do it and put a diff body on it,like a bug/corolla/suby body it would be a kicking ride...any one interested? i would like to try to get $700 for all of it before winter...i just bought a geo prizm and need to find a good home for the trackerFlag ThisLike0
1996 Geo TrackerVisitor, Kemp, TX, August 30, 2011 13:56I LOVE my Tracker, she is the absolute best and I will never get rid of her. I live in Tool Texas and between I45 where I turn onto Hwy 85 and my home there is nothing but homes and open fields its a good 40 miles of nothingness. I was coming home late one night, completely broke hardly any gas and was sure I would not make it to the house. When I stopped to make the turn onto 85 I looked at the gas gauge and it was buried in the red. I put my head on the steering wheel and just asked her to get me to the house (with an empty tank) well needless to say with what I can only imagine was fumes alone my tracker got me all the way to the house then to a gas station in the morning. I will NEVER replace this vehicle.Flag ThisLike | 3 people like this3
1993 Geo TrackerVisitor, Saint Louis, MO, April 24, 2011 11:01all in all a good ride heat sucks very fun truck to ownFlag ThisLike0
1995 Geo TrackerVisitor, Clarendon, PA, July 16, 2010 23:46all in all the car is amazing the air isnt the coldest thing but the heat ammazzing 'the only other problums i have has with this car is the rear dosnt like to latch and the doors and seats had to be welded on once lost a door going down the road and well the seat locks finally went in the poor little buggerFlag ThisLike0
1994 Geo Trackerrayray0850, Beverly Hills, CA, April 03, 2010 18:39not the greatest for heat but relibleEnthusiastFlag ThisLike0
1995 Geo Trackerjavy627, Maspeth, NY, August 28, 2009 08:35It have this little guy and even thou the ride is rough its great on gas & super in parking esspecially that I live in NYC. I rate my ride a "7".EnthusiastFlag ThisLike0
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DAR ES SALAAM and TUKUYU, Tanzania — In the United States, students may complain about the cost of textbooks, but at least they can buy them. In many poor parts of the world, books are simply unavailable — at any price.
For 48 schools in rural southwest Tanzania, that will no longer be a problem. On Aug. 21, teachers and school children here celebrated the arrival of more than 4,000 boxes of books and supplies, donated by American schools, teachers and libraries. As a result these Tanzanian schools will have small libraries for the first time.
The Tanzanian schools are benefitting from a simple plan. Used books that were going to be thrown away in the U.S. are instead sent to Africa. It was organized by the U.S. Africa Children's Fellowship (USACF), which has completed nine similar donations to Zimbabwe since 2003.
In a country where — as in many African nations — international aid, debt and politics have often made for a troubled mix, supporters describe the transfer of books as a straightforward, community-based project with tangible benefits.
A delegation of 19 American teachers accompanied the books to Tanzania, spending three days meeting local educators and visiting recipient schools. Exuberant local students greeted them with speeches, song and dance.
The donations thrive on the notion of partnership. The husband and wife leaders of USACF, Mark Grashow and Sheri Saltzberg, a retired teacher and public health administrator, respectively, chafe at phrases like "adopt a school" that suggest largesse. "We do not just want to bring things to Tanzania," Saltzberg said to a group of teachers. "We want our children to know and love each other."
American students' elbow grease helps propel the donation process. Shipping alone costs $10,000 a container — the Tanzanian donation filled up three containers — so American high school students' volunteer labor is welcome.
Grashow and Saltzberg initiated the program in 2003 after a trip to Zimbabwe, where they visited schools and made a simple observation: many schools had no books at all, while most American schools have a glut.
Back home, they established a sister school system in the New York City area. They collected used books that were headed for the garbage. Every year they collect books that were going to be thrown away. They go through stuff that is left in students' lockers. They also collect used soccer balls, sports uniforms and shoes. Private donations — and USACF board members' own savings — finance logistical costs.


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Only in America. I mean Japan. But, hey, if you can find one for your iPhone 6 Plus, then you might prevent that whole bending issue we're hearing so much about. What did you expect from KFC Japan? After all they did gift us with the fried chicken keyboard: All I gotta say is…
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A Syrian woman secretly filmed what life is like in Raqqa, which is currently controlled by ISIS. The content was shown on French television station France 2, and is one of the best looks the rest of the world has received of ISIS-controlled territories. Watch the full report below:
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Former Thunder sixth man extraordinaire James Harden's currently in Spain with Team USA as they steamroll international opposition at the FIBA World Cup. But it looks like he very narrowly avoided a potentially serious accident on a Segway scooter. The video below was uploaded to YouTube Tuesday and shows The Beard briefly lose control of […]
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We launched the NewsOK Now iPhone app and website just as summer was beginning. We pushed it a bit with some special events — an air show, OKC Fest and the Fourth of July. We continued to receive some newsy and artistic photos as people began to become aware of the product. We learned that […]
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The bright lights, petting zoos and fried food of the Oklahoma State Fair are upon us. Opening in just a couple of days (Sept. 11), the state fair has always been a place to see interesting — and sometimes — hilarious things. Some of the best photos to come out of the state fair are […]
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There's been a ton of talk this year about the fast food industry. No, not about the lackluster foodstuffs (except for Braum's and Whataburger, they are always delicious), but about the pay many fast food workers receive for the jobs they do. Whether they're taking orders, flipping burgers or cleaning up messes, fast food workers […]
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Informazioni aggiuntive sul formato: | Also issued in print: Weinberg, Steve. Wrongful convictions. Washington, DC : Congressional Quarterly, 2009 (OCoLC)320246240 |
Persona incaricata: | Ronald Cotton; Ronald Cotton |
Tipo materiale: | Document, Government publication, National government publication, Risorsa internet |
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Numero OCLC: | 466904225 |
Note: | Title from caption (CQ, viewed on Nov 18, 2009) Caption title. "Apr. 17, 2009." |
Descrizione: | 1 online resource (p. 346-371) : ill. |
Titolo della serie: | CQ researcher, vol. 19, no. 15. |
Responsabilità: | [by Steve Weinberg]. |
Until March 2009, few Americans had heard of Ronald Cotton, who was convicted in North Carolina of raping a college student and served 11 years in prison before being exonerated by DNA testing. Now Cotton is a household name because of a book about his case and appearances on "60 Minutes" and NBC's "Today" show. As recently as 10 years ago, the proposition that innocent men and women regularly end up in prison failed to find traction. Today, thanks to the power of DNA evidence, media coverage and the establishment of innocence projects, there is general acceptance that wrongful convictions indeed occur. Dozens of states have passed laws to prevent wrongful convictions and compensate those wrongly imprisoned. Defense attorneys and many academics say wrongful convictions are a recurrent problem requiring substantial changes in the criminal justice system, but prosecutors, police and other academics say mistaken convictions are such a small percentage of all cases that the system should mostly be left alone.
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That vision, he explained, is that of a fully integrated Europe, where the Baltic nations can become members of all European and trans-Atlantic institutions, including the European Union, NATO and the World Trade Organization.
The Americans have told the Baltic Governments explicitly not to expect to be part of any second round of NATO expansion. Washington would like to see such a round in 1999, assuming that the Senate and the legislatures of other NATO members first approve membership for the Poles, Hungarians and Czechs.
Washington has told Baltic leaders that their own eventual membership is a political and moral ''litmus test'' of the American strategy for a peaceful and democratic Europe, ''whole and free.'' But at the same time, there is concern over antagonizing Russia.
Paul A. Goble, a Baltic expert and former State Department official who works at Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty, said, ''In some sense, while I want the Balts in NATO now, I believe that they will not enter NATO until Russia stops fearing NATO'' -- in other words, until NATO is so transformed that it is more of an organization of cooperative security than of collective defense.
''I think that's sooner than many think,'' he said. ''NATO is already being transformed, and I tell the Balts that the NATO they get into will not be the NATO they expect to join.''
In a speech at Stanford University in September, Mr. Talbott described the American task as balancing the anxieties of the Baltic countries about Russia, combined with their aspirations to join NATO, against ''Russia's fear and loathing at the prospect.''
''Quite bluntly, Russians need to get over their neuralgia on this subject,'' Mr. Talbott said. ''They need to stop looking at the Baltic region as a pathway for foreign armies or as a buffer zone.''
The three Baltic Presidents will take part in a series of public meetings and events in Washington and New York, including meetings with nearly every senior American Cabinet secretary and with think tanks, banks and businessmen.
President Brazauskas of Lithuania is now a lame duck with the recent election of Valdas Adamkus, who was born in Lithuania but fled as a teen-ager as the country was forcibly absorbed into the Soviet Union. He went to the United States, retiring in 1996 as a top administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency's Chicago region. His American ties are a sensitive subject for Moscow.
American and NATO officials have carefully monitored Russian reaction. In the last year, American officials and officials of NATO countries say, Moscow has sharply toned down its pressure on and statements about Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and is concentrating more on regional economic cooperation with all countries on the Baltic Sea.
Moscow originally insisted on an American commitment that the Baltic states would never join NATO. But in his summit meeting in Helsinki in March 1997 with Mr. Yeltsin, Mr. Clinton refused to rule out Baltic membership. Mr. Yeltsin proved willing to sign a formal agreement of understanding with NATO anyway, breaking the logjam of Russian opposition to the first round of NATO expansion, which was announced in Madrid in July.
The Russians, through Prime Minister Viktor S. Chernomyrdin in July and Mr. Yeltsin in late October and again last month in Stockholm, have moved to offer the Baltic nations ''joint security guarantees,'' alongside Western and NATO guarantees, so long as the states agree not to join NATO, remaining neutral on the model of Finland.
Russia is also offering normalization of relations and an end to border disputes, including tacit permission, if any were needed, for Baltic countries to join the European Union or any non-NATO organization.
Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright has told Foreign Minister Yevgeny M. Primakov of Russia that Washington and Moscow should simply agree to disagree on the possibility of future Baltic membership in NATO and work together instead on regional economic and environmental cooperation.


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Turtle Beach Corp., a San Diego designer and marketer of audio products such as headsets used with video games, said it entered into an amendment of its loan agreement with the Bank of America that will result in the company saving about $400,000 annually.
AltheaDx Planning Potential $69 Million IPO
San Diego-based AltheaDx Inc., which uses diagnostic tests and bioinformatics to help doctors identify the personalized drugs based on a patient's genetic make-up, plans to raise as much as $69 million in an initial public offering.
San Diego Private Bank Announces Completion of Acquisition
San Diego Private Bank announced Dec. 26 that it completed the acquisition of approximately $50 million in loans and the assumption of $8 million in deposits from First Security Business Bank. The deal was announced in October.
BofI Federal Bank Enters Into Purchase Agreement
BofI Federal Bank, San Diego's second-largest commercial bank, said it entered into a purchase agreement with Union Federal Savings Bank, based in Rhode Island, and its parent company, First Marblehead Corp., for about $125 million of deposits.
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Shares of Isis Pharmaceuticals Inc. soared to a record high the morning of December 19 following an endorsement by financial personality and former hedge fund manager Jim Cramer.
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Pacific Northwest grocery chain Haggen Inc. is acquiring 146 stores in five states, including 25 in San Diego County, as part of a government-required divestment brought about by the pending merger of Safeway and Albertsons, announced earlier this year.
Dodd-Frank Change Not the Death Knell of Banking Reform
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San Diego's unemployment rate stayed flat in November from the prior month, at 5.8 percent, but well below the year-ago jobless rate of 7 percent, the state Employment Department said.
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Holocaust Memorial Event
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Out with the old; in with the new at Brocks Hill Country Park and Centre
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Health and Safety Matters - for community and voluntary groups
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Aware and Prepared this Winter
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Their first album was released in July 2012, and this Canadian twosome has already seen impressive exposure, having just toured with the Dirty Projectors. They have built a bridge between the esoteric and the mundane, capturing the delicacy of energies in their languid but potent tracks; their dainty melodies and futuristic harmonies are a throwback to 90s electronica and play like a black-lit dream.
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Syrian Envoy Compares Protests in His Country With Riots in England
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Syrian ambassador to the U.N. rejected European criticism of his government's crackdown on Wednesday and compared the protests in his country to this week's riots in Britain. The British envoy immediately branded the comparison as "absurd."
"It's very informative to hear the prime minister of England describing the riots and the rioters in England by using the term gangs," Ambassador Bashar Ja'afari told reporters. "They don't allow us to use the same term for the armed groups and the terrorist groups in my country. This is hypocrisy. This is arrogance.
"London, Birmingham, Bristol is only 1 percent of what happened in some restive areas of my country," Ja'afari said.
British Ambassador Philip Parham, who addressed reporters alongside other European envoys earlier in the evening, returned to the microphone outside Security Council chambers to reject Ja'afari's statements as an "absurd comparison."
Parham said the British government is handling the riots with "measured, proportionate, legal, transparent steps to restore the rule of law." In Syria, "you have a situation where thousands of unarmed civilians are being attacked and killed," said Parham, Britain's deputy permanent representative to the U.N.
Syria's envoy testily addressed reporters after Parham and representatives of the other three European nations on the 15-member Security Council — France, Portugal and Germany — first addressed journalists, telling them that Syria's continued use of force against protesters must stop. "Some 2,000 civilians have now been killed, the vast majority of them unarmed," Parham said.
Ja'afari said the European ambassadors "try to manipulate the truth" about Syria, and "avoided making reference to very important and positive progress that has been achieved in my country."
The Europeans spoke after U.N. Assistant Secretary-General Oscar Fernandez-Taranco briefed the entire council one week after the body overseeing international peace and security issued a largely toothless presidential statement condemning Syria's use of violence against citizens.
The Europeans and the U.S. had been among council members pressing last week for a legally binding resolution against Syria. But Russia, China, India, Brazil and South Africa had argued that condemnation wouldn't promote negotiations.
Fernandez-Taranco told council members in Wednesday's closed session that Syrian authorities "have not changed course" in the past week, according to a text of his remarks obtained by The Associated Press. Rather, Syria's political and human rights crisis has deepened, he said, "with increased violence and the same pattern of anti-government protests, military operations by security forces and supported militias, killings and mass arrests."
U.S. Ambassador Susan E. Rice told the closed session that her country "would like to see the U.N. take further steps to help resolve this crisis, including perhaps sending a senior U.N. official to Damascus."
She said the U.S. also supported a suggestion for a briefing on the rights situation inside Syria by U.N. rights chief Navi Pillay. The European envoys said such a briefing was being arranged for next week.
Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin told reporters that "we are urging restraint, reforms and dialogue." He said he didn't believe sanctions against Syria would be helpful, a position not shared by human rights advocates.
"As the Security Council heard today, Syria has rebuffed the council's call for an end to its attacks on peaceful protesters continues," said Peggy Hicks, global advocacy director for Human Rights Watch. "But what is the council going to do about it? It's time to talk sanctions, arms embargo and a mission of inquiry."
Hicks expressed disappointment in the statement issued by the delegation of government representatives from Brazil, India and South Africa who traveled to Syria on Wednesday. President Bashar Assad and other government officials assured the delegation that reforms were coming, according to a statement from the envoys.


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Football in Swaziland
Football is clearly the number one sport in Swaziland - it is played all around the country and is the main topic of discussion in coffee houses and on the street. The fifth African U-17 Championship was held in Swaziland in 2003, and was a resounding success. From a sporting point of view, the greatest success came in 2002, when the U-16 national team won the Dana Cup in Denmark. The senior national team also reached the semi-finals of the COSAFA (confederation of South African football associations) Cup in 2002 and gained eight points during qualifying for the 24th African Cup of Nations 2004 (Group 9 with the Democratic Republic of Congo, Libya and Botswana). Nine footballers from Swaziland currently play for clubs in South Africa. The most famous players are Sibusiso Dlamini (Kaizer Chiefs) and Dennis Masina (Supersport United).
Second Goal project
The construction of association headquarters in Mbabane as part of the first Goal project has made the administration's day-to-day work easier. Now the new training centre in Lobamba will complete the vision of a House of Football and significantly boost the association's development activities, especially in the domain of youth and women's football. The Goal Bureau approved this project on 21 March 2007 and the Swaziland government donated the necessary plot of land.
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Roberto Cavalli has joined the small handful of designers who took his cues from the sea this season: his Spring 2013 collection for Just Cavalli was inspired by a large tank of tropical fish he keeps at home. Vibrant colors like bright yellow, green, and purple combined with deep-sea blue to form interesting prints, and sequins that looked like glittering scales were applied all over one sweater and as accents on shirts. A blue-and-white print that featured conch shells was a cool addition to the mix, and it shone when paired with leopard print on the runway. Leopards may not be creatures of the sea, but this is a Cavalli collection, after all.
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A baker's basic. Genoise is a dry cake that is used with ingredients that are very moist, so they can soak up the extra moisture and take on that flavor, like trifles, or mousse filled cakes. This is my fool-proof formula.
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- 4 large eggs, room temp
- 3 tablespoons hot unsalted butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 cup sifted cake flour or 1 cup pastry flour (sift before measuring)
- 2/3 cup granulated sugar
- 1Oven to 350 degrees F.
- 2Line the bottom of One 8 or 9 inch round cake pan OR 8-inch square pan, OR 11x17 sheet pan with parchment, and spray lightly with some sort of spray release (like Pam).
- 3Combine the butter and vanilla in a small bowl.
- 4Set aside somewhere warm (you want the butter to stay melted).
- 5Combine the flour with 3 tbl.
- 6of the sugar and sift again.
- 7Set aside.
- 8In the bowl of your mixer, combine the eggs and rest of the sugar.
- 9Place the mixing bowl in a large pan of hot (not boiling, very hot tap water is good) water, and mix with your VERY CLEAN hand (kids love this part) until the eggs feel warm to the touch (body temp)*.
- 10Return the bowl to the mixer and whip on high speed until cool, light and at the ribbon stage (when you lift the beaters, ribbons of batter fall back into the bowl and don't disappear very quickly).
- 11Now, everyone says to use a rubber spatula, but I find it much easier to use my hand to do this next part**.
- 12Sprinkle about 1/3 of the flour onto the eggs and quickly and gently fold into the batter.
- 13Fold in half the remaining, then the rest.
- 14Take about a handful of the batter and mix into the small bowl of butter and vanilla until well combined.
- 15Gently fold that back into the batter.
- 16Divide between the pans and bake as follows: for an 8" square, 20-25 min.
- 17;an 8" round, 25-30 minutes; a 9" round, 20-25 minutes; and an 11x17 sheet pan, 15-20 minutes.
- 18The cakes should JUST BEGIN to shrink away from the side of the pans, and should spring back when you lightly touch them in the center.
- 19Remove from oven, let cool about 10 minutes in the pan then turn out onto a flat surface and let cool completely before peeling off the parchment.
- 20Set aside until ready to use.
- 22This cake is best if allowed to sit a day before using in trifles.
- 23NOTE 1: Genoise is supposed to be a dry cake.
- 24It was made specifically to take moist toppings so it could soak them up.
- 25*NOTE2: I learned to use my hand when warming yolks in culinary school.
- 26The idea is that as soon as it feels warm on your hand, it is at the perfect temperature to whip to ribbon stage.
- 27**NOTE3: I learned to fold flour into delicate batters like this with my VERY CLEAN hand in culinary school also.
- 28At first I thought it was stupid, but I quickly saw it was the best way to be able to tell if all of your flour is mixed in and avoid any un-incorporated flour bits.
- 29I mix angelfood cakes this way, too.
- 30Children love to do this!
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Serving Size: 1 (518 g)
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- Calories 1618.0
- Calories from Fat 492
- 30%
- Total Fat 54.7 g
- 84%
- Saturated Fat 28.3 g
- 141%
- Cholesterol 835.5 mg
- 278%
- Sodium 293.1 mg
- 12%
- Total Carbohydrate 242.8 g
- 80%
- Dietary Fiber 2.3 g
- 9%
- Sugars 135.4 g
- 541%
- Protein 36.7 g
- 73%
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An Alice Springs magistrate has found a New Zealand man who spilled flammable liquid on a woman is not criminally responsible for the burns that killed her.
Edward Lee was charged with causing the death of Canadian national Cynthia Ching in 2004.
It was alleged that Mr Lee was filling a makeshift lantern with aviation fuel during a party on a remote station in Central Australia when the fuel splashed on Ms Ching, setting her on fire.
She died of complications from the severe burns about six weeks later.
Originally, Mr Lee returned to New Zealand and could not be extradited to face the charge.
He was arrested at Sydney airport last year and has flown to Alice Springs to face committal proceedings this week.
But magistrate Greg Borchers told the court there was not sufficient evidence for him to face trial over the death.
Speaking from Canada, Ms Ching's father Ralph Ching says he is surprised the magistrate has found Mr Lee does not have a case to answer.
"What kind of evidence does he need? A person died because of the reckless endangerment. A person's life was sacrificed for this," he said.
Mr Ching said his daughter was an innocent traveller.
The family say they do not want Mr Lee to go to jail, but they do hold him responsible for her death.
"I don't think he should go to jail for what he did," Mr Ching said.
"He still has to live with his conscience that his stupid action has caused the death of a very beautiful young woman."
The family say they are still concerned international workers are at risk in the outback.
Mr Ching says he wants tighter regulation of dangerous substances in remote areas.
"Accidents do happen, OK. But when an accident is not corrected then that's making it worse," he said.
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Antique and Vintage Tables
Tables are sometimes treated like the poor cousins to chairs, which have captured the imaginations of Arts and Crafts designers like the Stickley brothers, architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Danish Modern furniture guru Hans Wegner, and Mid-century Modernists Charles and Ray Eames. But tables deserve our respect, too. Whether they were built for decoration like the console tables of the 1600s or for purely functional use like the Shaker seed tables of the 1800s, tables are often the focal points of the rooms they occupy.
One of the first things furniture designers did after they seized upon the idea of raising a horizontal surface into the air via legs was to devise ways to reduce the size of their creations in order to save space. The surface of a tilt-top table, for example, folded vertically, so the table could be stored against a wall when not in use. Drop-leaf table surfaces were designed to be folded down against their legs, often creating a narrow rectangular table that appeared to be wearing a skirt.
Some drop-leaf tables had gate legs (also spelled as one word, "gatelegs"), which could been swung out to support the leaf when needed or collapsed against the stretchers connecting the bottoms of the legs when not. Others revealed a chair when the tabletop was tilted up and out of the way, although the resulting seat was not especially practical.
The efficiency of other tables was more obviously elegant. Side tables such as console tables were meant to be permanently situated against a wall, often between a pair of windows. Sometimes these occasional tables, as they were also called, had drawers to store household items. Side table surfaces could be rectangular, but half-circles were also popular, allowing the table to be placed flush against a wall.
Center tables, as their name suggests, were typically placed in or near the center of a room. Usually round and mounted on a single pedestal attached to a wide or footed base, center tables were favorites of the Georgian and Victorian Eras, when entertaining one's guests meant gathering around one of these ornately carved and ornamented pieces for a rousing game of cards.
Though not as associated with storage as desks and cabinets, tables were often asked to pull their weight in this department. Hutch tables, popular in rural 18th-century America, contained hidden compartments beneath the table surface and between the wide trestles that supported it. Library tables often had a wide, horizontal stretcher between the table's trestles or legs to keep books up off the floor and out of the way. Fancier library tables were elevated by small bookcases at either end.
Early examples of dining tables resembled the communal tables found in both monastery refectories and neighborhood pubs, perhaps the only thing those establishments had in common...
When it comes to interior design, though, no table has had a greater impact than the coffee table. Low-to-the-floor painted, carved, or inlaid tables were historically common in Asia. Coffee tables made of exotic woods, steel, glass, and even mirror were a signature of Art Deco. And after World War II, coffee tables were staples of Mid-century Modern.
Perhaps the most iconic coffee table of the 20th century was designed by artist Isamu Noguchi. His IN50 coffee table for Herman Miller, 1944, featured two interlocking curved legs that supported a thick, glass top. Early in the following decade, Charles and Ray Eames placed a narrow, black, surfboard-shaped ellipse on a pair of wire-rod bases, similar to those used in some of their chairs.
Another minimalist, albeit with a more organic orientation, was George Nakashima, whose slab tables reveled in their defects and irregularities, which the designer took pains not to correct. Other woodworkers, though, preferred their tables fully finished. Sam Maloof, for example, riffed on Shaker traditions by replacing straight lines with gentle curves and contours.
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The Barton Community College Board of Trustees will approve new personnel when it meets at 4 p.m. Thursday in room F-30 of the Fine Arts Building. The list of potential employees includes a part-time coordinator for the new Pharmacy Technician Program.
ELLINWOOD - Andrew L. Detmer, 88, died March 12 at Ellinwood District Hospital. Born Nov. 19, 1923, in Waterloo, he was the son of August Detmer and Anna Rohling Detmer. On Sept. 25, 1951, he married Marjorie M. Ziegler in Willowdale. She died on Sept. 14, 2011. A resident of Ellinwood for 39 years, formerly of Great Bend, Turon, Wichita and Willowdale, he was the owner of Electronic Center of Ellinwood for 35 years, and former owner of Andy's TV and Appliance in Great Bend.
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Kooking for any info on my aunt Bonnie Carroll. She was born in KY and probably came to Virginia from Indiana. The assupmtion is that she was working for the govt during the war years. One of her brothers (Thomas David Carroll) was my grandfather. Her parents were John Richard Carroll and Elizabeth May (Hall) Carroll. Any info would be greatly appreciated.
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