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Its a nice place and we had a comfortable weeklong stay. The staff was very helpful. Though the complimentary breakfast was awesome we didn't like the food @ Tiger Trail restaurant. It was bland and the service was pathetic. Except the Tiger Trail experience it was a good stay. Its a value for money @5k/night.
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- Strategically located just 2.5 kms from Jaipur airport and 10 kms from the city railway station, Hotel Royal Orchid with its elegant furnishing, decor and blend of sophistication, flamboyance with a relaxed attitude make this an ideal stay for all discerning travellers. The guests can calm their senses at the roof-top swimming pool or indulge in gastronomic delights at 'Tiger Trail' and at the 24 hour coffee shop 'Limelight and can even lighten their spirit at 'Salsa'- the signature lounge bar after a day of hectic bustle.This upscale 5 star property houses 126 rooms along with 9 plunge pool rooms which includes a plunge pool suite with the finest amenities and elegant furnishings. Its banqueting facility, with ample parking space , luscious lawns and a large pre- function area makes it an ideal venue not only for video conferences, product launches but also a perfect destination for weddings .Hotel Royal Orchid Jaipur is one such dream wedding destination ' which makes your wedding a charming and unforgettable experience.Traveling to Jaipur and staying at the hotel will surely leave you mesmerized with a memory which will want you coming back for more ... more less
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Vallarta Penthouse in Puerto Vallarta
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- sleeps 10
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Welcome to our breathtaking, beachfront penthouse in Peninsula Vallarta!
Our two-story, four-bedroom, 4800-square-foot penthouse features jaw-dropping views from every room. The master bedroom has a king bed, huge deck, walk-in closet, five-piece bath, and 52-inch high-definition home theater. The ocean and marina bedrooms have king beds, and the mountain bedroom has two full beds. Each bedroom has a private bath, 32-inch high-def TV, and independent music system.
The 270° wrap-around balcony overlooks the ocean, marina, and mountains. We offer the opulence of a villa and the convenience of a downtown condo; our home is located between downtown and the marina, an easy three-minute drive in either direction. Our penthouse enjoys the latest technology, including wireless Internet, two ultra-premium home theaters, and a multi-room music system. The Peninsula is Puerto Vallarta's most prestigious development. Our guests enjoy full use of the pools, beach, spa, gym, library, lounges, business center, and other amenities.
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Our 4800 square foot, beachfront penthouse features:
- Jaw-dropping, unobstructed views from every room
- A stunning two-story atrium with tons of natural light
- A 270° wrap-around terrace
- 4 beds, 5.5 baths
- Daily maid service
- Two ultra-premium home theaters (with Blu-Ray players, iPod docking stations, and independent music in every room)
- Wireless internet
- Free international calls to the US, Canada, and elsewhere
We encourage our guests to make full use of all Peninsula amenities, including:
- An infinity pool, a lap pool, two kiddie pools, and two jacuzzis
- A long, quiet stretch of beach
- Three fitness centers
- A day spa
- A yoga studio
- Multiple lounges
- Several small lending libraries
- A private, 12-seat, full-size movie theater
- A business center and conference room
- Peninsula Plaza, the shopping arcade with some of Vallarta's top restaurants, boutiques, and galleries
activities and attractions in Puerto Vallarta Pacific Coast
Puerto Vallarta offers a near-endless supply of recreation activities, such as:
- golf
- tennis
- deep sea and surf fishing
- sailing, jet skiing, windsurfing, and parasailing
- surfing
- diving and snorkling
- hiking
- mountain biking
- horseback riding
- canopy tours (i.e., jungle ziplines)
- beachcombing
- bird watching
- whale watching
- yoga
- scenic ocean and mountain drives
Arts & Culture
- live music
- theater
- dance
- exhibitions
- street art
- handicrafts
- galleries
- film
- museums and cultural centers
- Spanish language courses
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- hundreds of restaurants for every taste and budget
- countless boutiques and galleries
- local handicraft markets
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- Low season (May 1 to October 31): $700 per night
- High season (November 1 to April 30): $1000 per night
- Holiday weeks (Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year, Easter): $1300 per night
- Three-night minimum stay
Mexican VAT is not included (15%). Refundable security deposit is $1000. We accept payment by personal check or credit card (Visa, MasterCard, Discover). Renter pays for energy usage. 50% reservation deposit at time of booking; balance of rent due two months before arrival.
Bryan (206) 245-6125
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Learn more in our Security CenterTop things to do in Puerto Vallarta
- Relax on the beach
- Have a margarita atop the Lighthouse and admire the city views
- Dine at Le Kliff, a five-star restaurant perched on a cliff
- Stroll along the malecon
- Go mountain biking through the jungle
Top things to do on a budget
- Relax on the beach
- Stroll along the malecon
- Watch the nightly fireworks display
- Browse for indigenous handicrafts at the local market
- Wander Old Town - enjoy the quaint architecture and cobblestone
Top things to do with a family
- Do a canopy tour and zipline through the jungle
- Go snorkling
- Watch the street artists
- Ride mountain bikes through the jungle
- Check out the Naval History museum - it's about pirates!
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A link to the elegance of the past – our 2010 choice and review for one of the best boutique hotels in Paris – the Renaissance Vendome Hotel.
Video of Paris – during the 1920s.
One can never capture the feeling of cruising the past in most hotels today. That chic traveling public is gone. Clients arriving from a trans-Atlantic crossing on the France or United States are history. No one travels with maids and trunks today. One barely hopes your baggage (and the plane) makes it to your destination – except of course when flying in your own jet.
So in all great cities the experienced traveler is always looking for that special small hotel.
The Renaissance Paris Vendome combines many of those values – with a very up to date modern atmosphere.
It is one of the top small hotels in Paris and beautifully run by Marriott's Renaissance Group. What I like about Marriott is that they are one of the best hotel chains operating. They don't forget details no matter where you are visiting – and their benefits club is operating at the highest level.
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Today's estate has us once again checking out the real estate boom in Mexico. This home is part of the El Encanto En Punta Mita resort development in Mexico, an 18-acre gated enclave located in an area along the Pacific Ocean and the Bay of Banderas just west of Puerto Vallerta. The El Encanto En Punta Mita resort is home to a Jack Nicklaus Signature golf course, a beach club, and luxury services and amenities. This two-story, four-bedroom home has a plunge pool, marble flooring, and sliding glass doors and high ceilings for an open feel. The price of the home also includes a furnishings package as well as membership in the Punta Mita beach club. The home is listed at $3.255 million. After the jump, the beauty near the beach.


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DePauw and Rose-Hulman split SCAC doubleheader
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April 8, 2006, Greencastle, Ind. - DePauw split its Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference doubleheader with visiting Rose-Hulman as the Tigers won the opener 9-3 and the Engineers took the nightcap, 4-3. The Tigers are 12-15 overall and 4-6 in the SCAC, while the Engineers are 13-10 overall and 4-2 in the conference.
In game one, the Tigers jumped out to a 7-0 lead with two in the first, one in the second and four in the third. DePauw banged out 12 hits with Greg DeBeer and Kyle Dobbs each going 3-for-3 and Zach Harris adding two hits. Dobbbs finished with two triples to push his DePauw career-record total to 14. Kellen Hurst had two of the Engineers' nine hits.
P.J. Mitchell improved to 5-4 with the complete game win and struck out four without allowing a walk. Michael Matsui dropped to 3-2 and allowed just three earned runs in six innings.
In the second game, DePauw again took an early lead with single runs in the second and fourth innings before Rose-Hulman's Matt Pepelea hit a sixth-inning, two-out grand slam down the right field line to give the Engineers a 4-2 lead. The Tigers added one in the ninth on Matt Deahl's RBI single, but Rose-Hulman reliever Sam Deters struck out the final two Tigers with the potential tying run at third.
Deahl had two of the Tigers' seven hits, while Adam Knaack led the Engineers with three of their nine hits. Todd Clementoni improved to 2-4 with 7 2/3 innings of work and Deters picked up his fourth save and struck out three in the final 1 1/3 innings. John Kihlken dropped to 4-3 after going six innings. DePauw left 13 runners stranded with at least one in every innings.
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Mostly sunny and warmer
The weather couldn't be better for your Thanksgiving Eve and Day as high pressure is our weathermaker and will promote plenty of sunshine. With light breezes from the southwest highs get into the upper 50's this afternoon. We'll become partly cloudy overnight with lows near 40 and be even warmer with more sunshine Thanksgiving Day with highs getting into the upper 50's and lower 60's.
A cold front heads our way late Thanksgiving Day and will cloud things up and deliver some wind towards evening. As we head through the overnight and into Friday morning scattered showers develop and as colder air arrives behind the cold front the winds will continue to howl and we'll see temps fall and some of those rain drops turn to snow flurries. We'll see early highs in the mid-40's on Friday with mostly cloudy skies, some snow flurries and wind.
The weekend begins with some travel for many on the way to the Big Game in C'bus on Saturday. If you find yourself heading to the game - layer it up/dress warmly as highs will not be getting much above the mid-30's. In addition to the chilly temps - we will be seeing wind and not much in the way of sunshine... so it will be a raw day to be outside. Take the same advice if you are headed out to the malls.
It looks like we'll see some sunshine Sunday - but it will remain on the chilly side. Expect more of the same next week.
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Rights investment thanks so much.
So there aren't you really typically get people flood the post office tax day and the holidays the male heavy holiday season is well on its way -- everyone is gearing up -- the post office that as.
The US Postal Service is set to completely run out of cash in October don't forget that is right before the influx of holiday cards and packages.
David rocky is president -- printing industry midwest and he's urging lawmakers to take action in order to prevent quote.
Disastrous consequences for not only in the USPS but also the printing industry as well.
And David I understand.
That you are the president of the printing industry association on the midwest do you know what these folks are thinking are they worried.
Melissa thanks for inviting me here today to -- forcefully issues and yes the answer would be.
Our customers and our clients are wondering.
What is going to happen.
In what do you think is gonna happen I mean we we've had the postmaster general -- and he has said that the only way to save the post offices to close.
You know a lot of different offices around the country and really streamlined costs.
You know congress has not agreed with him what do you think the right resolution is.
Well actually congress -- to -- to a House of Representatives has a bill they've got to move it forward because if they don't in a way inducted just.
Senate will pass a bill and connected on anything that's moving in the house I can imagine.
Doesn't want to have a say in this whole process we're looking at six or 7% of the gross national product that is tied to mailing.
We're looking at eight million jobs.
In this is is a critical issue that we -- kind of moving forward.
Think realistically its gonna happen to the people better in year association does not even if they run out of money.
They're not to shut down they're just going to borrow it from somewhere they're -- they're not an -- in what direct impact do you see it happen in your customers.
-- the post office is funded by postage.
By postage.
So 90% of the mail stream is.
Produced by commercial printers.
So there's less going in the into the mail stream there's going to be less employment in the print industry.
And that's a critical factor in how this whole economy shapes up.
But and through the holidays they will okay your question.
No yeah I I did because I don't understand I mean it's like they're gonna stop delivering mail they run out of money -- they're not funded just right postage and we may have a giant debt to the treasury huge line of credit.
And they're defaulting on you know the debt that they do you have right now.
But they continue to get loans and they run out of cash it if it's not like you're gonna shut the door in your customers and your customers are gonna have to lay out all their workers' right.
Well part of the part of the problem is -- have to make this five point five billion dollar.
For the pre funding of health care they've got to make -- another payment here shortly in September wore the retirement funds.
Another five billion dollars they're just not gonna make those payments are not gonna have enough cash going through the system to make this payment.
At this time what they're gonna do is -- gonna.
Move things around close facilities faster than we wouldn't than they had.
Allegedly -- us they're gonna do it so it disrupts the whole.
-- -- to -- system of the mailing process.
Okay -- Rajiv thanks so much for coming on -- time.
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Moolla, Fiona F. (Sage Publications, 2012)[more][less]
Abstract: The scarification in Aké is invested with major significance apropos Soyinka's ideas on African subjectivity. Scarification among the Yoruba is one of the rites of passage associated with personal development. Scarification literally and metaphorically "opens" the person up socially and cosmically. Personal formation and self-realization are enabled by the Yoruba social code brought into being by its mythology. The meaning of the scarification incident in Aké is profoundly different. Determined by the form of autobiography which creates a self-constituting subject, the enabling Yoruba sociocultural context is elided. The story of Soyinka's personal development is allegorical of the story of the development of the modern African subject. For Soyinka, the African subject is a rational subject whose constitution precludes the splitting of the scientific and spiritual which is a consequence of the Cartesian rupture. The African subject should be open to other subjects and the object world. Subjectivity constituted by the autobiographical mode closes off the opening up symbolically signalled by scarification. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10566/604 Files in this item: 2
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Moolla, Fiona F. (Taylor & Francis, 2012)[more][less]
Abstract: This article compares the representation of African borders in the 14th-century travelogue of Ibn Battuta, the 19th-century travel narrative of Richard Burton and the 21st-century travel writing of Paul Theroux. It examines the mutually constitutive relationship between conceptions of literal territorial boundaries and the figurative boundaries of the subject that ventures across borders in Africa. The border is seen as a liminal zone which paradoxically separates and joins spaces. Accounts of border crossings in travel writing from different periods suggest the historicity and cultural specificity of conceptions of geographical borders, and the way they index the "boundaries" of the subjects who cross them. Tracing the transformations in these conceptions of literal and metaphorical borders allows one to chart the emergence of the dominant contemporary idea of "Africa" as the inscrutable, savage continent. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10566/605 Files in this item: 2
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Hart, Genevieve; Davids, Marion (University of Kwazulu Natal, 2010)[more][less]
Abstract: The article reports on an action research project to investigate the effectiveness of an information literacy intervention for first year engineering students at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT). The intervention consisted of two workshops which aimed to teach the students to find information relevant to their essays via the university's OPAC and engineering databases and to reference and cite their sources. The project assessed students' information skills before and after the two workshops with the use of a questionnaire consisting of a set of questions based on some of the American College and Research Library (ACRL) standards. The research provides insight into how information literacy education at CPUT library can be improved. Its major recommendations are that more time in the timetable must be allocated to information literacy education and that lecturers should recognise the educational role of librarians. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10566/440 Files in this item: 1
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Bock, Zannie (John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2011)[more][less]
Abstract: This article analyses the function that code-switching plays in selected testimonies given at South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission which followed the country's transition to democracy in 1994. In a number of testimonies, victims of human rights abuse under Apartheid code-switched into Afrikaans when recalling particularly offensive uses of language by the police. Within the code-switching literature, it is well recognised that a speaker's choice of code, particularly for quoted speech, is a strategy for performing different kinds of local identities which index a range of social meanings and relationships (Alvarez-Caccamo 1996, Koven 2001). Thus code-switching may serve a complex evaluative function although the meanings it generates are very context- dependent. In order to explore this role in the testimonies in this paper, I use the appraisal theory of Systemic Functional Linguistics (Martin & White 2005). I argue that on a number of occasions, code-switching into a particular variety of Afrikaans is used by testifiers as a strategy to invoke negative judgement: it has the effect of associating the police with a particular racist ideology and positioning them for our sanction. Further, it works together with other engagement resources to insert a recognisable historical voice into the text, thereby expanding the heteroglossic nature of the discourse while simultaneously allowing the speakers to signal their rejection of that voice and the ideologies it represents. In the current SFL literature, however, code-switching has not been noted as an appraisal resource. In the light of the examples from the TRC testimonies, I argue that, in multilingual contexts, code-switching has the potential to invoke complex evaluative meanings and should be included in the appraisal framework as an evaluative resource. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10566/290 Files in this item: 1
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Clowes, Lindsay; Shefer, Tamara; Fouten, Elron; Vergnani, Tania; Jacobs, Joachim (Taylor & Francis, co-published with Unisa Press, 2009)[more][less]
Abstract: When a 22-year-old University of the Western Cape (UWC) female student was stabbed to death by her boyfriend (another student) in her room in the university residence on 25 August 2008, the entire campus was left reeling. Bringing the stark reality of gender-based violence (GBV) so close to home, the tragedy was a powerful reminder of the limits of more than a decade of legislative change, concerted activism, education, consciousness-raising and knowledge production aimed at challenging gender-based power inequalities. This article reflects on the relationships between violence, coercion and heterosexuality on a specific campus by drawing on data generated by a qualitative study at UWC that explored student constructions of heterosexual relationships in the light of national imperatives around HIV/AIDS and GBV. Involving 20 focus groups with male and female students over the course of 2008 and 2009, the study revealed that unequal and coercive practices are common in heterosexual relationships on this campus. The study underlined the necessity of understanding these relationships as produced through power inequalities inherent in normative gender roles, and also drew attention to ways in which gender power inequalities intersect in complex and sometimes contradictory ways with other forms of inequality on campus – in particular, class, age and geographical origin. While both men and women students appeared to experience pressure (linked to peer acceptance and material gain) to engage in (hetero)sexual relationships, it seems that first-year female students from poor, rural backgrounds are particularly vulnerable to the transactional and unequal relationships associated with coercive and sometimes even violent sexual practices. Alcohol and substance abuse also appear to be linked to unsafe and abusive sexual practices, and again it is young female students new to campus life who are most vulnerable. This article draws on the data from this larger study to explore experiences and understandings of the most vulnerable – young female students – in unpacking connections between (hetero)sexuality and violent and coercive sex in an educational institution. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10566/724 Files in this item: 1
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Field, Roger (Taylor & Francis Group, 2011)[more][less]
Abstract: Despite his international status, the impact of Constantin Cavafy's poetry on South African letters has gone largely unnoticed. This article draws attention to the range of Cavafy's, influence on the local poets, writers, critics and cultural activists, particularly during the 1970s and 1980s, but directs most of its attention to two early short stories by Achmat Dangor, 'The Homecoming' and 'Waiting for Leila', and his most recent novel Bitter Fruit. In all of these works Dangor refers directly and indirectly to Cavafy's poetry, his sexuality, his evocations of place and his use of Greek mythology, particularly in one of his most famous poems 'Ithaka'. The article also addresses Dangor's ambivalence towards Cavafy, particularly the disjuncture between Cavafy's ironic, apolitical modernism, modernism's appeal to Dangor, his desire to produce accessible protest literature and his need to justify recourse to the classics in Africa. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10566/521 Files in this item: 1
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Conradie, Ernst (Stellenbosch University, 2010)[more][less]
Abstract: This contribution explores the significance but also the immense complexities of Christian discourse on confessing guilt within the context of climate change. It draws especially on South African discourse on confessing guilt in the context of apartheid. The argument of the essay is twofold: Christians with an enduring large carbon footprint may wish to confess their guilt in this regard, but typically find it difficult to live from God's liberating forgiveness and are therefore prone to rather desperate efforts to save the world themselves. By contrast, Christians with a small carbon footprint may opt for alternative understanding of salvation, namely in terms of redemption from the looming threat of climate change. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10566/456 Files in this item: 1
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Rhoda, Anthea; Maurtin-Cairncross, Anita; Phillips, Julia; Witbooi, Sally (University of the Western Cape, 2006)[more][less]
Abstract: Although women fulfil and play meaningful roles in the academic life of universities, their contributions have seldom been acknowledged. The voices of women outside of the dominant western context of knowledge production such as women in South African historically black universities(HBUs), remains largely maginalized. Women at these HUBs have indicated a need for mentoring and support to assist with their scholarly endeavours URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10566/682 Files in this item: 1
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Bock, Zannie (Academia Press, 2009)[more][less]
Abstract: In this paper, I analyse the testimony of Colin de Souza given before South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in the mid-1990s.1 My aim is to explore how De Souza projects an identity of himself as 'agentive', as an innovative and flexible individual who is capable of outwitting and outmaneuvering his opponents despite the fact that within the TRC context, he is positioned as a 'victim' of human rights abuse. To substantiate this argument, I use a number of Systemic Functional Linguistic (SFL) tools to analyse the way in which this agency is encoded in the language of the testimony. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10566/281 Files in this item: 1
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Sithole, Jabulani (Univ. of KwaZulu-Natal) (Published by History Dept, University of the Western Cape, 2009)[more][less]
Abstract: The key characteristic of the vast amount of literature on the South African workers ' movement in the post-1973 period is the denial that the class and national struggles were closely intertwined. This denial is underpinned by a strong ʻantinationalist current' which dismisses the national liberation struggle as ʻpopulist and nationalist' and therefore antithetical to socialism. This article cautions against uncritical endorsement of these views. It argues that they are the work of partisan and intolerant commentators who have dominated the South African academy since the 1970s and who have a tendency to suppress all versions of labour history which highlight these linkages in favour of those which portray national liberation and socialism as antinomies. The article also points out that these commentators use history to mobilise support for their rigidly held ideological positions and to wage current political struggles under the pretext of advancing objective academic arguments. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10566/104 Files in this item: 1
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Zinn, Sandy; Hart, Genevieve (Library and Information Association of South Africa, 2007)[more][less]
Abstract: Introduction: The first democratic elections in 1994, leading to the end of apartheid education, new educational legislation and a new curriculum, brought fresh optimism to South African school library circles. This was prompted by two lines of thought. First, it was hoped that the merging of the 19 racially based departments and fairer provisioning might redress the unequal distribution of school libraries across previously advantaged and disadvantaged sectors. Second, South African educational reform echoed international trends in its emphasis on developing lifelong learners who are able to compete in the information society. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10566/698 Files in this item: 1
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Bock, Zannie; Dadlana, Phakamani (University of Stellenbosch, 2002)[more][less]
Abstract: This article aims to characterize typical linguistic and discourse features of academic writing in Xhosa and English among prospective Xhosa-speaking students at the University of the Western Cape so as to account for strengths and weaknesses in the writing and provide possible 'points' for pedagogic intervention. It presents an analysis of a sample of entrance essays written by these students in English and Xhosa. The analysis is in terms of a framework which considers aspects of argument, register and syntax. It aims to highlight strengths and weaknesses in student writing and to ascertain the extent to which these characteristics are language-specific or cross-linguistic. The results of the analysis suggest that the ability to argue coherently in an appropriate register is the defining mark of good writing in any language, and that control over the syntax of the language is particularly important for these students when writing in English. The ability to write well, like certain aspects of style, seems to be a generic ability and affects students' performance in both languages. URI: http://dx.doi.org /10.5785/18-1-8 Files in this item: 1
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Bock, Zannie (Taylor & FrancisUNISA Press, 2013)[more][less]
Abstract: The popularity of digital media networks for socialising among the youth is well documented. Much has been written on the emerging norms of textese, the global shorthand for chatting. However, becoming a proficient user involves more than simply mastering this code: it requires knowing the appropriate genres and registers for chatting. This article aims to explore these conventionalised genres and styles from a discourse analytical perspective. It analyses data collected by first-year students in the Linguistics Department at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) who use an application called MXit for chatting with their friends. The analysis shows how, despite the seemingly unrestrained and non-standard nature of MXit chatting, it is highly conventionalised and structured and requires a particular 'register of intimacy' which relies heavily on evaluative language and affective markers. However, it is simultaneously fluid and innovative thereby enabling users to 'style' for themselves identities which combine elements of global sophistication with local situatedness. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10566/680 Files in this item: 1
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van Ryneveld, Hannelore; Mentzner, Martina (Association of German Studies (SAGV), 2010)[more][less]
Abstract: The current challenges facing the teaching of German as a foreign language at the University of the Western Cape are outlined. The article includes a brief historical overview and proposes research perspectives for the future. Description: eDUSA is the electronic journal of Deutschunterricht in Südafrika. More information is available from the Assoc. of German Studies website at http://www.sagv.org.za URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10566/191 Files in this item: 1
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Lee, Christopher J. (History Department, University of the Western Cape, 2011)[more][less]
Abstract: Introduction: This special issue of Kronos: Southern African Histories speaks to this imbalance, contributing in small measure to a recent turn in Cold War studies that has sought to incorporate regional perspectives found in area studies to readdress the parameters and politics of this extended period. Departing from the influential early work of scholars like John Lewis Gaddis – who helped to define the field of Cold War history in books such as The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941-1947 (1972) and Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Postwar American National Security Policy (1982) – scholarship published over the past two decades has reached beyond an exclusive American-Soviet dynamic and a 'great men' approach to history – whether Stalin or Eisenhower, among other leaders – to consider the role of social movements and popular trends, the factor of identity politics such as racial solidarity and, perhaps most significant, a broader political geography created through the global wave of decolonization after the Second World War. This change in focus can be attributed to a generational shift, as well as the end of the Cold War itself, which has resulted in the opening of archives and research areas previously unavailable. In fact, the expansion of Cold War history and diplomatic history more generally – at least in the American academy – has generated calls for renaming the field as 'international history' in order to move Decolonization of a Special Type: Rethinking Cold War History in Southern Africa 7 attention away from nation-state interactions to examine instead patterns of social and cultural history that transcend the totalizing effect that the 'Cold War period' as such has had. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10566/626 Files in this item: 1
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Worden, Nigel (Univ. of Cape Town) (Published by History Department, University of the Western Cape, 2009)[more][less]
Abstract: This article analyses two separate cases of public violence which took place in Cape Town in the summer of 1772/3. At surface level they appear to be very different in character. One was a scrap among low-ranking soldiers who were playing cards at a shoreline outpost. The other was a formalised challenge between two captains of the VOC return fleet as they were lunching with the Governor, which resulted in a death and the flight of the murderer. Yet closer analysis suggests common ritualised codes of behaviour that intriguingly reveal how violence, masculinity and notions of honour operated at all social levels within the town. Both cases were complex and coded social conflicts, rooted in northern European early modern social beliefs and practices as transferred to a colonial context. However, none of these perpetrators of violence was viewed sympathetically by the VOC authorities at the Cape. By contrast, the assailant Captain who had escaped back to Europe was able to successfully appeal to the VOC directors in the Netherlands. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10566/100 Files in this item: 1
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Pirie, Gordon (Elsevier, 2009)[more][less]
Abstract: The English language has long acknowledged and required some preconception of distance, but it has only been considered explicitly as a key element of human geography for half a century. The distances of greatest consequence in human geography are those between public places on the earth's surface. Measures of physical distance have become increasingly standardized, but anomalous practices persist. Straight-line distance in nature has less applicability to human geography than route distance on a transport network. Even circuitous distance measures may be less useful measures of the separation of places than the time, expense and effort of traversing distances. Cognitive and compound distance also measure relative distance. In human geography distance is treated mainly as an organizing principle in location decision making and travel behavior, as a deterrent to spatial interaction and diffusion, and as a differentiator. Advances in rapid, long-range transport and communication have mediated sheer physical distance and rendered it less significant. Yet even while the world shrinks metaphorically, distances measured in relative terms are being reconfigured unevenly and imaginatively. Even where distance has ceased to be a material concern, the idea and discourse of distance survives. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10566/44 Files in this item: 1
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Hart, Genevieve (International Association of School Librarianship, 2006)[more][less]
Abstract: The paper comes out of a month-long case study of information literacy education in two public libraries in a small South African town in the rural province of Mpumalanga, undertaken in October 2004. The participant observation study is the second phase of a two-phase mixed methods study, which explores the capacity of public libraries in South Africa for information literacy education – in the context of the dire shortage of school libraries. The focus in the second phase is on the connections between public libraries and schools. However, the relations between the two libraries and their staff members are found to impact on these relations with the study finding that historical context and the conflicts arising from unequal positions of power impact significantly on information literacy education in the town. The paper concentrates, however, on just two threads of enquiry: the views of teachers and principals in the seven schools of the town on the educational role of libraries as revealed in interviews; and pupils' use of the two public libraries in seeking information for their school assignments. The study reveals a lack of cognizance of the high level demands of information-seeking in libraries among the teachers. They tend to see the library as a warehouse from which things are "fetched". The study finds a paradox – a gulf certainly exists between the public libraries and schools but the gulf comes from shared limited conceptions of the educational role of public libraries and of information literacy. The intense gaze of the participant observation contributes a nuanced understanding of the challenges for information literacy education in South Africa. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10566/471 Files in this item: 1
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Groenewald, Gerald (Univ. of Johannesburg) (Published by History Department, University of the Western Cape, 2009)[more][less]
Abstract: This article uses the career of Hendrik Oostwald Eksteen at the Cape between 1702 and 1741 to illustrate the mechanisms free burghers could use to create wealth in an economically restrictive environment. By making use of the concept of entrepreneurship and its attendant issues, the article describes Eksteen's rise to fortune and prestige through his exploitation of a combination of economic opportunities afforded by Cape Town's position as a port servicing passing ships. Crucial to Eksteen's later success was his successful use of the opportunities provided by the monopolistic alcohol retail market at the Cape. Eksteen's initial success in this arena provided him with a capital base to pursue other opportunities in agriculture, fishing and meat provision, making him the wealthiest man at the Cape by the 1730s. The article also illustrates how Eksteen's upward mobility was linked to his use of social capital and the cultivation of large social networks through kinship. It demonstrates, furthermore, that economic success was wound up with social power and prestige. In using the biography of Eksteen, the article argues for the importance of economic history in the study of the early modern Cape, but calls also for a study which links economic developments with social and cultural ones through a focus on individual entrepreneurs. Shown, too, is the fact that the existing conception of the rise of a Cape gentry in the eighteenth century needs to be revised to take into account the role of entrepreneurship, the urban foundations of wealth creation, as well as the role of the free black community in this process. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10566/99 Files in this item: 1
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Conradie, Ernst (Stellenbosch University, 2008)[more][less]
Abstract: This essay is an abbreviated version of an inaugural lecture, read on 24 October 2007 at the University of the Western Cape. It investigates the role of cosmological narratives that help people to understand where they come from, who they are, how they can cope with the demands of life and with evil, and where they are going to. It focuses on one such a narrative, namely the Christian story of God's work of creation, evolution, the emergence of human beings and human culture, the distortions resulting from human sin, God's providence, redemption, the formation of the church, its ministries and missions and the consummation of all things. These themes have traditionally been captured under the notion of 'God's economy'. This term is derived from the Greek word oikos which is understood in the Christian tradition as 'the whole household of God'. In contemporary ecumenical theology this term provides a clue as to how the moral of this story may be understood to address ecological degradation, economic injustices and ecumenical fellowship. The argument of the essay is that a retrieval of the underlying narrative structure of the story of God's work can help to avoid the ways in which one 'chapter' of the story tends to be subsumed under another. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10566/362 Files in this item: 1
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The ex-military strongman still has to face two other cases dating from his time in power.
The first relates to claims he did not do enough to protect Bhutto's life weeks before an election in which she hoped to return to office.
Musharraf is also accused of ordering his troops to kill Nawab Akbar Bugti, a popular tribal leader, in the volatile province of Balochistan, in 2006.
Just recently, the high court in Peshawar recently banned Musharraf from politics for life, a move he can appeal.


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As a whole, the Cougars set five new school records and captured three gold medal finishes on Thursday.
In the diving events, junior Peter Gibbons smashed his previous school record and defended his CCSA title in the three-meter dive with a first-place score of 291.75. Sophomore Michael Topitzer placed third with a season-best score of 213.05, while Derek Foltz earned sixth place with 161.65.
In the 50-yard freestyle event, sophomore Greg Karel won a gold medal by touching the wall in 20.65 seconds, the fastest time for the Cougars this season. Right behind him was senior Brantley Reynolds who placed third with a time of 21.00. Sophomore David Sherrier also competed in the top heat with a sixth-place time of 21.25.
In the women's 50 free, freshman Sarah Graif bested her own school record set in November by placing fifth in 23.33. Classmate Jayme Groth touched the wall right after her, placing sixth with a time of 23.41.
In the men's 500-yard freestyle, senior Matt Sherrier bested his top season time by seven seconds and finished second with a time of 4:31.73. Sophomore Blake Buchanan placed fifth in 4:41.64. Sophomore Chris Verboncoeur placed fourth in the 200 IM (1:51.91) and sophomore Patrick Foos came in right behind him in sixth (1:53.63).
The Cougars set school records in the three of the four relay races on Thursday. In the men's 200-yard freestyle relay, the Cougar squad of Karel, Matt Sherrier, David Sherrier and Reynolds took home first place with a school-record time of 1:21.83.
The women's 200 free relay also set a school record as Graif, Meredith Smith, Mary Frances Babrowicz and Groth took third place with a time of 1:34.60.
The men's 400-yard medley relay earned points from a third-place finish as Jackson Marine, Reynolds, Verboncoeur and Matt Sherrier touched the wall in 3:23.48. The women's 400 medley squad set a new school record with Sarah Boyle, Liz Mooney, Groth and Graif combining for a sixth-place time of 3:51.87.
Heading into Friday's action, the men's squad has 275 points, 35 more than second-place Davidson. The women's squad trails the fifth-place Wildcats, 106-89. College of Charleston currently leads all 12 schools in combined scores with 364 points.
Time trials on Friday morning begin at 10 a.m., while event finals start at 6 p.m.


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The Lachine Canal National Historic Site of Canada wishes to enhance its activity programming and is inviting cultural event producers to offer their services.
The Lachine Canal National Historic Site of Canada has been administered by the Parks Canada Agency since 1978. Extending over 14.5 km and featuring five locks, the Lachine Canal runs through the southwest sector of Montréal, between the Old Port and Lake Saint-Louis. Opened in 1825, over the years the canal became the forerunner of the St. Lawrence Seaway and the cradle of Canadian industry before being closed to shipping in 1970.
The Lachine Canal is especially known for its path, receiving over one million visits annually. Since the canal's 2002 reopening to recreational boating, the Lachine Canal team has continued its efforts to promote heritage resources and offer a wide range of recreational and tourist activities at a site that is the cornerstone of the revitalization of Montréal's southwest sector.
If you are interested in organizing a cultural, educational, leisure or entertainment event at the Lachine Canal that falls under one of the following categories:
We invite you to send us written information including:
We will contact you within 72 hours (business days) to acknowledge receipt of your information and to let you know when we will be able to talk in person.
Email: email@example.com Fax: 514 496-1263
All event organizers submitting an activity proposal to the Lachine Canal must comply with the agreed-to standards during large-scale outdoor events. More specifically, the Lachine Canal's programming will be in keeping with the code of the City of Montréal, which states:
Noise is not permitted in public areas without authorization (a decision) from the City of Montréal. The sound pressure level permitted in public areas during one-time outdoor events, including sound tests, is 80 dBA within 35 metres of the sound source (e.g. the stage) between 9 a.m. and 11 p.m.
The authorization issued for events specifies the times at which amplified sound will be permitted. Organizers must pay close attention to the impact of noise on the neighbourhood. Parks Canada takes this issue into account when considering submissions.


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I learned a long time ago that any day God sees fit to let you crawl out of bed in the morning is a good time to resolve to make changes in your life. That's why I'v never put too much stock in New Year's resolutions. I've resolved in March to lose weight. I've resolved in July to exercise more. I've resolved in September to be a gentler spirit. But somehow Jan. 1 always signals the advent of a clean slate, a time to start (or finish) something.
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Yay! It's so much fun packing up and shipping out orders. For real. These little pigs have made their ways home, from coast to coast and far beyond. Froyo keeps a close eye as each print is hand-stamped, numbered, and rolled up with care.
... and it was pretty great!* I like food and I like knowing where it comes from. Where it REALLY comes from. Now when ever I have a thick chop, melty belly, or bbq ribs I can visualize exactly where it once lived on a hog. No. That's not disturbing. It's fascinating! There's an artistry in really good butchery. It's hands-on. It involves thin, sharp blades. It involves saws! It involves removing hairs and dirt with your fingers. There's a moment when you're removing the tenderloin with your bare hands that you're like, "I'm sorry..." which quickly turns into "you are going to be so delicious..." as you're squaring off the thick slab of bacon. You really appreciate the animal, and all the various cuts of meat it gives you. At least, that was my experience. But hey, if you're not into the whole hands-on thing (and even if you are) you can always learn a thing or two from a well-designed butcher chart!
*Underground Food Collective offers a whole hog breakdown class quite frequently. If you're in the Madison area, I highly encourage you to attend one!


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By Thomas Pope
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - In case your cave isn't wired for cable, you might not know Danica Patrick won the pole position for Sunday's Daytona 500 - the first woman to ever qualify No. 1 for a NASCAR Sprint Cup event.
Patrick, who competed in 10 Cup races last season and is running a full schedule this year, turned a fast lap of 196.434 mph in qualifying. Kudos. Her team built the fastest car, she got max speed out of it, and it's an accomplishment no one can ever take away.
Some of the euphoria that ensued was ridiculous. One journalist said to Patrick of her historic achievement, "Not only do you get to milk this all week long, but you now get to race in duels Thursday without any reservations."
Actually, nothing could be further from the truth.
There are very important issues - "reservations" - to keep in mind from now through the eve of the Daytona 500 that could be a huge setback to her hopes of becoming NASCAR's first female race winner.
There were two practice sessions Wednesday, and a 150-mile qualifying race today - two, actually, for each half of the field of entrants. There are two more practices Friday, and a final workout Saturday morning. They're all minefields in her bid, as well as that of outside pole sitter and four-time Cup champion Jeff Gordon, to actually start Sunday's race from the front row.
Whether it's in practice or a qualifying race, stuff happens here in the blink of an eye. Drivers running as a pack make mistakes. Parts break. Tires puncture. A gust of wind at a critical point during a lap can create havoc. Any driver who gets caught up in a crash with damage his/her crew can't repair starts at the back of the 43-car field with a back-up car.
The powerplant under the hood is a potential weak link, too. Teams are allowed to change engines after the 150s, and anybody who breaks one during the ensuing practices automatically goes to the rear for Sunday's green flag.
Reservations? Almost more than you can count.
The strategy for Thursday's races is a crucial conversation between drivers, crew chiefs and car owners. In Wednesday's two practices, the Stewart-Haas team played it safe, only giving Patrick the OK to run 17 total laps.
Andy Petree, now an ESPN analyst, won a pair of Cup championships as Dale Earnhardt's crew chief. If he were Tony Gibson, Patrick's crew chief, he said he'd turn her loose.
"I've never put a car on the race track that I didn't go to win, no matter what. That would be my mindset, is to go win that 150-mile race and everything else takes care of itself," he said Wednesday. "There is going to be some risk to do that, but I still want to go win."
His lifelong friend and fellow analyst, Dale Jarrett, won the Daytona 500 in 1993, '96 and 2000. He said that Patrick deserved her days on Cloud 9 since last Sunday, but now it's a whole new ballgame. He believes she and her Stewart-Haas Racing ought to take a cautious approach Thursday, partly because the NASCAR's new Gen-6 car is nothing like any stock car she's driven. So far, so good, for a couple of laps, but today's 60 - and Sunday's 200 - are a far greater challenge.
"She needs experience out there in race conditions as much as she possibly can to get herself ready for Sunday, to get the best finish and the opportunity to get in the best position," Jarrett said. "She has a lot of experience in stock cars here and was really showing a lot of potential, but these cars drive so differently, by what these drivers are telling me, that there's a lot more for her to kind of learn now."
Patrick strikes me as a person with the go-for-it mentality necessary to be an elite racer, though the fact of the matter is she doesn't have the track record, literally, in IndyCar or Nationwide to show for it.
But she demonstrated in her Cup starts last year that she can follow her team's race-day game plan. It'll be interesting to see what Thursday's strategy is - whether the team is willing to give her the whip now or save it 'til Sunday, since that's what truly matters.
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Sniper attack hikes Syria tension
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International tensions over chemical weapons use in Syria have worsened after UN weapons inspectors came under sniper fire as they sought to investigate a deadly attack blamed by Western nations on the regime of president Bashar Assad.
Prime Minister David Cameron is breaking off from his holiday to continue a round of calls with world leaders amid mounting speculation that the UK could join international military action.
He will chair a meeting of the National Security Council on Wednesday to discuss potential responses to the deadly attack, which killed hundreds of people, but Foreign Secretary William Hague declined to rule out air strikes within days.
Downing Street said a decision would be made on Tuesday over whether to recall Parliament amid increasingly vocal demands from MPs on all sides to be given the chance to pre-approve any UK involvement in military action.
Mr Hague said force may be the only remaining option after the failure of diplomatic efforts to end the bloody violence in Syria, insisting that it could be deployed legally even without Russian support at the UN Security Council.
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