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Mechanics, miners and working men founded institutes during the 19th Century predominantly in industrialised towns and cities.
Swindon had several working men's clubs and institutes.
In the coal mining areas sometimes nothing existed on a green field until the coal mine opened, and then the coal owner built tied accommodation around the pit.
These pit settlements grew into villages and towns. The miners' institute was often referred to as the Miners' Welfare. This was because the miners and their families bonded together to fend and look after themselves, often miles from the nearest major town.
The institutes and clubs, had one aim, to have facilities that allowed for education, cultural arts, entertainment and for meetings usually along with a reading room.
They also provided a venue for club meetings, pigeons, bird keepers as well as political meetings for discussion and organising.
There was a strong charitable function underlying many of these clubs and money would be raised by many to assist their members, local community or nationally.
They are non-profit making and are run by an elected committee. There are rules for members who pay a subscription to be a member and they are enforced. Though called working men's clubs women are allowed entry and membership.
Though the coalfields and industrial areas are passing into the mists of time working men's clubs are still in evidence. In Swindon there are some working men's clubs and I have enjoyed many a good game of skittles there.
Many of the clubs in the country are affiliated to the Working Men's Clubs and Institute Union (CIU or C&IU). This body has just over 2,000 affiliated clubs and allows members to use other clubs and their facilities.
Since the late 1970s such clubs have been in decline, as clubs rely on their licensed bar to pay for the staff. Committee members cannot carry out paid functions such as steward, cleaners, janitorial, maintenance staff.
The clubs are part of our social history and historians promote their historical aspect on www.clubhistorians.co.uk Recently one sun-drenched Sunday afternoon I was out near Fairford researching an article on a WWII plane crash.
I turned down a narrow rural lane by the church and came upon Whelford Working Men's Club, which I have to admit I was surprised to find in a quaint Gloucestershire village.
Having taken a photograph of the building I saw it was open and ventured in. Not being a local I entered hoping for some information to assist my research. The people inside gave me a warm friendly welcome it wasn't long before I felt local.
They are a great bunch in there and we had a chat about everything from the plane crash to the use of public footpaths and rights of way.
The club welcomes visitors, and is the old school house established some 57 years ago. There is free parking and a large grassed area – it must be a great vantage point when the Fairford International Airshow is on.
If you are out in the area and want to pop in and meet a good crowd, it is open Sunday afternoons, 1pm to 6pm, and for bingo on Wednesday evenings. Also there is entertainment on the last Saturday of every month.
To find out more about this historic working men's club club call 01285 713335.


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Subject: Re: [htdig] indexing multiple web sites
From: Geoff Hutchison (email@example.com)
Date: Wed May 03 2000 - 06:28:37 PDT
At 6:09 AM -0500 5/3/00, atta dubson wrote:
>i want to index several web sites and have them stored in one db.* set of
>files, yet i would like to at times reindex only certain sites and update
>only that part of the database (or add an additional site to an existing
>database) without having to reindex all the sites. what is the best way
>to go about that (htdig 3.1.5)?
As they would say in New England "yah can't get there from here."
In 3.1.5 if you want one database, you'll have to accept that updates
will occur on all URLs.
However, you could have separate databases for each group you want to
update and then use htmerge -m to merge them two-at-a-time until you
have the one database for searching.
In 3.2 there are a few ways of doing this, by specifying the list of
URLs through standard input, or by using -m and a file of URLs
specifying the exact list of URLs to update/index. (The latter was
broken until this last snapshot.)
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Are you aware that the Library of Congress is now archiving your tweets? The process is not totally set up yet and it is not availble to everyone at this point, but eventually it will be available for research.
The U.S. Library of Congress said today that it has completed a process of collecting a full, ongoing stream of tweets, and that it has begun work to archive and organize more than 170 billion tweets.
Under an agreement struck between the government institution and Twitter in 2010, the microblogging company is providing the Library of Congress with a full stream of all public tweets, starting with 21 billion generated from between 2006 and April 2010, and now supplemented with about 150 billion more posted since then.
If you are interested in reading the white paper on this update, here is a link to the pdf file...


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Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) - With ballistic missiles a growing threat in the region, Israel on Thursday successfully tested its Arrow anti-missile system against a live Scud missile for the first time off the coast of California.
Israel began developing the anti-missile system 12 years ago after U.S.-made Patriot missiles - designed to intercept aircraft rather than missiles - were largely ineffective in stopping Iraqi Scud missiles during the 1991 Gulf War. At least 39 Iraqi Scud missiles slammed into Israel in the first Gulf War.
The estimated $2 billion, one-of-a-kind Arrow anti-missile system is being developed jointly by the Israel and the United States. It is estimated that the U.S. will have contributed about half the development costs when the project is complete.
"The success of this test is an important step in proving the system's operational ability and its response to the existing and growing threat of ballistic missiles in our region," Israel's Ministry of Defense said in a statement.
Thursday's test also highlights U.S.-Israeli cooperation in ballistic missile defense, it said.
A Scud missile, reportedly brought to the U.S. from Iraq, was fired from a maritime platform in the Pacific. The Arrow missile successfully intercepted and destroyed the Scud missile in the first such test at Point Magu Sea Range in California, the
Ministry of Defense said.
"We are in an age of uncertainty," Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz said after the test.
"Countries in the third sphere [around Israel] are continuing in their efforts to get non-conventional weapons and the capability to launch them from long ranges," Mofaz said in a statement. "The Arrow missile strengthens the deterrence of Israel."
Syria has the Scud D missile and Iran has the Shihab-3 - both capable of striking Israel. Just this week, Iran's Revolutionary Guard repeated an oft-stated regime threat to wipe Israel off the map.
Diplomats also revealed this week that Iran has broken into sealed equipment and started assembling centrifuges that could be used to enrich uranium to make atomic bombs. Iran's Shihab-3 is designed to carry non-conventional warheads.
Some Israeli analysts have questioned whether the Arrow would be fast enough to intercept incoming Iranian missiles, which travel at a much greater speed than Scuds.
But Arieh Herzog, director of Homa, the Israeli Missile Defense Organization, said that Israel is continuing to advance the system to combat developing threats.
"We need all the time to continue to develop the system so we will have the ability in time that new threats [become operational] we will be ready with the solution. This is at the heart of our continuing development," Herzog said in a radio interview.
When asked if the Arrow is effective against the atomic threat, Herzog replied, "The Arrow is good against every kind of threat."
The Arrow system, which includes three components, became operational in 2000.
A radar system detects the incoming missile and directs the Arrow to it. Interception happens above the atmosphere.
According to the Ministry of Defense, Thursday's test, which represented a realistic scenario of a regional threat, could not be carried out in Israel "due to test-field safety restrictions."
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The rise of wood building helps sustainable forestry
One of the best things about all the recognition that wood building has received in recent months is that decision-makers are beginning to realize the value of sustainable forestry.
Yale University and University of Washington just released a study showing that "using more wood and less steel and concrete in building and bridge construction would substantially reduce global carbon dioxide emissions and fossil fuel consumption."
To highlight the benefit of wood constuction is to also recognize the ability of sustainable forestry to improve the environment and make forests healthier. Here's Chad Oliver, the Yale researcher who helped write the new study on wood building:
(Chad Oliver, director of the Global Institute of Sustainable Forestry at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies) said that forest regrowth far outpaces the needs of the timber industry. Harvesting wood for products offsets about 20 percent of annual forest growth, he said. Far more forest is lost to agricultural development -- so much so that deforestation accounts for about a quarter of the world's net carbon surplus.
"Harvesting more wood could actually strengthen the argument for biodiversity," he said. "We need to appreciate the resource and protect it." Sustainable forest management practices that targeted younger, smaller trees could even contribute to forest health, he said, as many U.S. forests are currently overgrown.
The analysis found that between 14 and 31 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions could be avoided by increasing the use of wood in buildings and infrastructure, both by sequestering carbon and offsetting the production of other materials.
Julia Altemus, the executive vice president of the Montana Wood Products Association, wrote this week about her experience at a recent U.S. Department of Agriculture workshop in Washington, D.C., about wood building. She says the U.S. government's support for wood building could also be a boost to rural communities.
Increasing the demand for domestic sustainably harvested timber products will directly impact rural America. Presently, the market for wood and other related forest products supports over one million jobs, mostly in rural areas. In addition, the 22 million family forest owners (who actually own more timberland than the federal government) also rely on new economic opportunities as markets expand.
Even though the momentum around building tall with wood is exciting, what is even more encouraging is the recognition by our state and national leaders that forest health is directly tied to a sustainable forest products industry. To decouple is to lose both.
Michael Green, a Vancouver. B.C. architect who's been a key advocate for large wood buildings in North America, says a seachange could be afoot.
"The adoption of concrete and steel revolutionized every city on Earth, but for a hundred years there's been no real alternative," said Michael Green, an architect and author who designs and advocates for tall wood infrastructure. "Now we've got one that's grown by the sun, sequesters carbon and holds up just as well. That generated an overwhelming amount of curiosity about what we can do with wood."
Green was integral in the recent completion of one of the world's tallest modern wood buildings, according to the Economist.
March 22nd saw the topping-out ceremony of the tallest contemporary wood building in the world, and the first that might be considered a true skyscraper, the 30m Wood Innovation and Design Centre (pictured) in Prince George, British Columbia. Its designer, Michael Green, says, "Frankly, we aren't breaking a sweat. It's only public perception and emotion trumping science that stalls us moving higher." He hopes to start work on a 20-storey vertical food-farm in Vancouver later this year.
The first step in the U.S. will likely be large buildings with materials both old (steel and concrete) and new (wood), industry leaders say.
But even given new technologies, can wood really replace steel to hold up structures weighing thousands or even hundreds of thousands of tons? Rather than build solely out of wood, the idea right now is to expand the role of wood in mixed-material buildings, said Jim Bowyer, director of the Responsible Materials Program at Dovetail Partners Inc.
"You can imagine a building whose foundations are concrete and steel, with six, seven or 10 stories of wood above that," he said. The foundations for such a building wouldn't need to be so massive, either, because wood weighs less than other materials, he added.


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Be home by midnight! Many teenagers may consider this mandate from their parents as a flexible request, but the curfew laws of St. Louis city and county take it a little more seriously. If a minor is caught breaking curfew, it can mean significant consequences for both the child and his or her parents. "It's a safety measure to try to keep minors safe from what may be going on late at night, as well as preventing them from participating in any of those activities," says Growe Eisen Karlen attorney Teneil Kellerman.
The county curfew ordinance states that it is illegal for anyone younger than 17 to be in a public place without parental supervision between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m. on weekdays, and between midnight and 6 a.m. on weekends. The city ordinance is similar, but its curfew ends at 5 a.m. Not only is it illegal for minors to be out during those hours, but "it's also unlawful for a parent or guardian to allow them to be out," Kellerman notes.
If a child is caught violating curfew, it is up to the responding police officer's discretion what steps to take. Often, the officers will simply notify the parents to come pick their child up. "I think the police feel out the support they have from the parents to deal with and correct the situation," says Sindel, Sindel & Noble attorney Travis Noble.
However, if the support isn't there, or the violation is in conjunction with another infringement, the police can issue a referral to juvenile court, where the case could result in required services or probation. With a first violation, the parents would be issued a written notice; for subsequent infractions, the penalty is more significant. "In the county, parents could be charged and fined from $5 to $100, while in the city, it is $100 to $500 and/or imprisonment of up to 90 days," Kellerman explains. "They want to make sure the parents are supervising their children."
There are exceptions to the rule, with the county allowing for emergencies or evening employment, while the city is more specific. According to Ord. 63784, city exemptions include returning from school- or citysponsored activities, as well as, "when juvenile is on the sidewalk of a place where such juvenile resides, or on the sidewalk of a next-door neighbor, not communicating an objection to the police."
Although the curfew ordinances may seem simple and straight-to-the-point, confusion can surface among the 91 St. Louis county municipalities, which may each set their own version. Therefore, the rules may change from municipality to municipality, not just from county to city. "Each jurisdiction has some sort of wrinkle in their ordinances, and no one looks up those codes before driving through each area," Noble says. "The type of penalty and court you'll be dealing with depends on the jurisdiction and the officer's discretion."
Although breaking the curfew law is a minor ordinance violation, enforcing it helps to keep minors and the rest of the public safe at night. "There could be a situation where a business' parking lot turns into the place-to-be, and 100 kids are hanging out there, and eventually nothing good is going to come of that," Noble says. "If they're not committing any other violation, the curfew law still allows the police to tell them to go home."


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There are two ways to claim a UK tax refund: Through a tax refund agency or on your own. The DIY route might seem easy enough, but it often winds up causing frustration and netting you fewer Pounds. Going through an agency will save you time and earn you a larger refund.
Below is the story of Sophie and Ella, two young women who tried to get tax refunds after working in the UK.
A tax refund is a repayment of income tax that you have overpaid on your salary during the tax year, as decided by HMRC. Anyone living and working in the UK could be eligible for a tax refund.
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text: This report presents the results of the workshop entitled "Dialogue on Political Parties and Governance in the SADC Region." It contains information on the functioning and structure of political parties in five countries from the South African Development Community (SADC): Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Swaziland and Zimbabwe. The purpose of this research is to try to understand the functioning of these parties in an effort to identify their strengths and weaknesses.


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The White House hasn't said much about the many ideas floating around the debt negotiations but has registered opposition to one specific Republican proposal.
It's the balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution -- an item that some Tea Party Republicans say is essential to any kind of deal on the nation's debt ceiling.
White House spokesman Jay Carney said the talks to increase the government's $14.3 trillion debt ceiling, while also reducing future debt, "is not a constitutional issue."
"The balanced budget amendment would be basically an admission by Congress that they can't do anything, right?" Carney said. "And that's not true, as these discussions that we're engaged in right now."
Carney also said the proposed amendment is "not good for the economy, (and) it doesn't answer the problem."
Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., a prominent Tea Party supporter, said he will work against any debt deal that doesn't include a balanced budget amendment, saying Congress needs the discipline to avoid running up future debt.
Appearing on Fox News Sunday, DeMint also noted it would be years before a balanced budget amendment could take effect.
"It would take states two or three years to ratify," DeMint said. "After that, it would be five years before this was implemented. So there would be plenty of time to do the things we need to do to save Social Security and Medicare, to fix our tax code."
As we're reporting here at The Oval, President Obama meets with Republican and Democratic congressional leaders at 6 p.m. Sunday to discuss a debt ceiling deal.
DeMint added, "we are asking is to give the American people and the states a chance to decide if the federal government should, over the next few years, bring our budget into balance."
But there is some question as to whether enough Republicans would insist on a balanced budget amendment.
As Fox News Sunday noted, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said: "In order to avoid what would be disastrous consequences for our markets, our economy as a whole, and our standing in the world, I encourage my colleagues to lay aside, at least temporarily, their insistence that amending the Constitution be a condition of their support for a solution to this terrible problem."
David's journalism career spans three decades, including coverage of five presidential elections, the Oklahoma City bombing, the 2000 Florida presidential recount and the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He has covered the White House for USA TODAY since 2005. His interests include history, politics, books, movies and college football -- not necessarily in that order. More about David
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I don't normally whine or complain about what happens in the game. I get unlucky sometimes, it's no big deal. But this is really bugging me because it deals with you, the people who share this server with me. I get eaten by an Eotyrannus? No big deal. Munched by a Minotaur? I can cope. Slain by Seiryu? I'll just sit on a cushion for a few days.
But when I'm laying dead in Campaign, and you're a mage capable of casting it, could you please Raise me? Yes, I know, the responsibility is mine to make sure I have Reraise up. But I can't buy Reraise from every outpost, and I won't leave a Campaign I'm already fighting in at a foreign country to go refresh it if I've lost my Reraise during that Campaign.
And I can understand, you might not have seen me to raise me. That stuff happens. But as I type this, I am running back to Windurst[S] for the fifth time in five Campaigns from having to homepoint deaths. No XP loss, so that's groovy, but I'm getting tired of making this walk because I can't depend on the playerbase to even toss me an occasional Cure. x_x
I'm even subbing Dancer for my own survivability and wielding a Soboro. If I can't stay alive spamming cures in campaigns where I'm one of 20+ people killing one monster, it's kinda a problem.
So yeah, start raising me or I'll start mailing you laminated, full color, photo-quality horse ****.


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Morgan Stanley has issued a short-term tactical recommendation on
The broker is basing its call on the fact the stock has been sold off recently, taking the share price only slightly ahead of Sigma's net tangible asset value of 56 cents.
This is unjustified because the company's return on invested capital is set to improve to 17 per cent in 2012-13, compared with the broker's estimated weighted average cost of capital of 11.4 per cent.
Morgan Stanley also believes there is scope for Sigma to undertake some capital management as the company has a net cash position of $72.3 million after paying its final dividend, and is tipping the stock to pay a 9 per cent fully franked yield in 2012-13.
Morgan Stanley has a fundamental "overweight" recommendation on the stock.
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The family of a boy found dead in a ditch after three days missing blasted the police's handling of the case yesterday.
Police today officially confirmed that the body found in Edenthorpe, South Yorkshire was that of Lewis, who lived nearby.
Lewis Eddleston's brother Michael said he was "very angry" officers had failed to update relatives on the search.
He told ITV Calendar News: "My mum has sat at home having to phone the police every few hours.
"But we didn't even get phone calls from them, no updates.
"We've just been sat there having to do it ourselves. We've been on our own, apart from the community.
"We've all got ballot papers for police commissioners and you don't feel like you should give them the time.
Breaking down in tears when recalling Lewis as a young boy, he added: "I'm going to miss him."
Tributes poured in for Lewis, 13, as a postmortem confirmed he had drowned soon after he was seen leaving nearby playing fields on Sunday evening.
His death is not being treated as suspicious.
Graham Wakeling, head teacher at Hungerhill School said: "The school community is devastated by the news of Lewis's sudden death which was a shock to us all.
"Our thoughts and condolences are with his family and close friends at this very difficult time.
"Lewis was an extremely popular young man with a good sense of humour.
"He was a lively character around the school and always had a smile on his face. Lewis will be sadly missed by pupils and staff at Hungerhill."
A number of teenagers and adults left flowers at the police cordon as news of the discovery spread yesterday.
Jack Neal, 14, said he was in the same school year as Lewis. "He liked to have fun," Jack said. "He always had a laugh. He was a good friend."
Jack's mother Clair Neal said: "There's a lot of youngsters this age tonight feeling pretty devastated.
"There's lots of upset people. I spoke to a few of the mums that've got children in the same year.
"He was such a well-liked boy."
A South Yorkshire Police spokesman said: "Family liaison officers continue to support Lewis's family at this difficult time.
"South Yorkshire Police wish to reiterate its thanks to the local community for the support provided in the search for Lewis, which was complicated by a number of false sightings reported on social media sites.
"An investigation continues into the circumstances surrounding the tragic event."


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Campus Confidential: The Roommate
I suspect that it is a universal (and perverse) hobby of college upperclassmen and graduates alike to terrify rising freshman with cautionary roommate stories of horror. This past summer, it seemed like all I had to do was mention the fact that I was about to start college and aforementioned upperclassmen/graduates would inquire about my roommate situation. Did I request a roommate? Did I know who she was? Until a couple of weeks before I left for school, the answers were always "no" and "I did not." Apparently, these honest answers were basically invitations to terrify me with stories of the ill-adjusted and insane human beings assigned to live with whomever I might have been talking to. So, believe me, I was prepared for the worst.
I am happy to report that I did not get stuck with a sociopath. I have never woken up to my roommate hovering above my bed, whispering, "I just like watching you sleep." My roommate does not horde insect-attracting stashes of food, she is not attempting to build a replica of Mount Everest out of randomly thrown-about possessions, and has never put me in the situation of having to request the dismissal of a gentleman caller. We're not exactly best friends, but we respect each other's space and requests, ask about each other's days and occasionally share amusing anecdotes (she's from Istanbul so I generally just ask her about Turkey and she seems pretty psyched to answer my culturally-ignorant questions). I consider myself pretty lucky. However, I know of a few people who have not fared as well.
Since my roommate experience is pretty positive, as are almost all of the experiences of my college friends, I will now share some of my favorite stories, borrowed from my more exciting friends from high school. One friend of mine, who attends school back in Ohio, was getting along with her roommate just fine for the first few days of school. They even agreed to share a fridge and a printer – totally amicable. Then came one fateful night, when roomie was playing her music loudly. My friend asked her if she could put on headphones. Roomie responded that she didn't have any, then promptly updated her Facebook status to: "Roommate just asked if I had headphones like BITCH WHAT THE F**K ARE YOU ON? I'M NOT TURNING S**T DOWN!!!" Which my friend could see … because they were friends on Facebook. When my friend pointed this obvious out, her roommate promptly blocked her. My friend decided to sleep on another girl's floor that night, only to later return to shards of plastic in her laundry detergent and candy wrappers in her bed. She moved out soon after.
Another friend of mine, who also ended up in New York City, but at a different school, had a relatively good relationship with his roommate. That is until his roommate started disappearing. Days would go by and, without any explanation whatsoever, the roommate in question would completely vanish. Then, without any notice, he would return for a day or two. They actually still haven't resolved this – every time roommate disappears, my friend wonders if he is lying in a ditch somewhere. Then he returns and all is well again … until the cycle continues.
Then there are the messy roommates, who view their dirty clothes as draperies that add a delightful sense of ambiance to even the most cell-like dorm room. There are the roommates who just can't seem to shut up, even when you put on your headphones and smother your head with a pillow. There are roommates of all varieties who beg the question: was this person crazy before they came to college, or did coming to college incite the crazy? I think the bottom line is this: whether you love or hate your roommate, having one at all is a valuable life experience. Learning to live with somebody who is basically a complete stranger inevitably teaches you so much about yourself. You learn your limits and the bounds of your patience, sure, but also self-awareness and the ability to compromise (ideally). At the very least, you get a few interesting stories out of it.
Now comes the fun part. There must be some even better roommate horror stories out there … please share them so that my friends can feel better about their lives.
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