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This article was published 14/7/2013 (1496 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
There is a secret place not many Winnipeggers may be aware of, tucked away off Highway 1 less than half a kilometre west of the Perimeter.
It's 28 sprawling acres of natural beauty nestle around a cosy bend of the Assiniboine River. The most striking feature is a chorus of children's laughter that permeates every acre of forest land, seemingly dancing between the trees. It is called Camp Manitou.
"I grew up in the Crestview area," recounts Debbie Hirsch, a volunteer at Camp Manitou, "and I remember the first time I drove up to Camp Manitou, I just had goose bumps. I turned to my husband and said, 'This is the best-kept secret in town.' "
What is even more awe-inspiring than the bountiful greenery is the passion of Camp Manitou's staff and volunteers. During the summer, the camp works exclusively with youth-focused non-profit organizations such as West Broadway Youth Outreach and the Boys and Girls Club, to name two, to encourage children and youth from community programs and inner-city schools to come to the camp.
Camp Manitou staff and volunteers are dedicated to providing a meaningful camp experience for at-risk children and youth who may not have had the opportunity or financial resources to attend a summer camp. There is canoeing, swimming, mountain-bike riding, archery, field games, orienteering, ziplining, team-building and crafts.
For Hirsch, volunteering at Camp Manitou during the past five years is a family affair. Her husband is the president of the camp's board of directors, and her twin 11-year-old boys decided on their last birthday that instead of presents, they wanted party guests to donate money to Camp Manitou. They raised almost $900.
She becomes teary-eyed when she thinks what volunteering at the camp means to her.
"I get so emotional," she says. "I look at these little kids, and being out here, it just changes their lives.
"You sometimes see a child who, at the start of the week, may be a little shy or withdrawn, and at the end of the week, they've bonded with others and are exclaiming that they want to be a leader," Hirsch says with a smile.
"The thing is, every child deserves to go to summer camp."
Throughout the year, Hirsch feverishly works on fundraising endeavours for the camp, including co-chairing the organizing committee for the gala on Oct. 26.
The camp, which is wheelchair-accessible, provides the full experience -- including special programming, activities and nutritious meals to children and youth during the weekdays.
"Volunteers like Debbie are the lifeblood of our organization," says Michelle Harrison, executive director at Camp Manitou. "They are always willing to step up anywhere they're needed and very much are what keeps the organization running."
Hirsch is excited about the upcoming Colour Me Rad event, a 5-K race where runners are bombarded with coloured dye. It runs July 20 and 21, and part of the registration fees will go to Camp Manitou. She says the camp is still looking for volunteers to help out during those two days. For those interested in getting involved, contact Kate Armstrong at firstname.lastname@example.com. To become involved or donate to Camp Manitou, visit http://campmanitouadmin.wix.com/camp-manitou.
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Drew Barrymore tries out a new program
Hollywood.tv has video of Drew Barrymore out on the town with actor Justin Long, whom you may best remember as the Apple Guy on those Apple vs. PC commercials. Video shows the pair escaping from the paparazzi (mind the language, please), before settling down at The Izaka-ya for eats with friends. We're sure if this latest fling doesn't work, Drew could always try to upgrade to the PC Guy.

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This is nothing you didn't already know. But while Knicks fans will absolutely rally to Carmelo Anthony's side if he manages to elevate his game and lead the Knicks deep into the playoffs, just know this: we'll be the only ones doing so.
Take a look at this profile of Jeremy Lin in GQ. Then read this profile of Carmelo Anthony in ESPN: The Magazine. I'll wait.
Okay, finished? Let's go over it, briefly.
Lin wanted nothing more than to play a team-oriented game, remain with the Knicks forever, and incorporate Anthony into the offense.
Anthony hated the attention Lin got, refused to be part of Lin's offense, and ultimately got himself the team he wanted, all to himself.
If this isn't true- and it is very difficult to ascertain this fully, of course- it is the perception, only reinforced by this week's big stories.
Now, it so happens that Lin is still struggling to get back to full strength following his knee injury. If Lin doesn't return to full strength, and struggles in Houston, then the parallel tracks all Knicks fans will operate on will quickly disappear.
But a healthy Lin will be everybody else's favorite; Knicks fans, I predict, will have trouble rooting against him, too.
Now, can an Anthony-dominated offense produce for the Knicks? Sure; they were 12-5 after Lin was lost for the season and Anthony played some of the best basketball of his career. It won't be as pretty as Linsanity, but if the Knicks win 12 of every 17 games, the fans will be quite happy, and should be.
There's a real good chance these Anthony-led Knicks fall short of 12-5 in every 17. If they do, the league's fans will revel in their failures. If they don't, the league's fans will still root against the perceived bully who forced Lin out. And as long as Lin is producing in Houston, there will be a nagging reality for everyone, Knicks fans included- however well Anthony is playing, he'd probably play better in an up-tempo offense run by Lin.
Don't believe me? Check his production with the olympic team this summer, in an offense designed by… Mike D'Antoni.
Rarely are fans treated to this kind of Sliding Doors-type alternate realities in real time. It means that barring some injuries keeping Lin or Anthony from playing, this season will be utterly fascinating, regardless of how the Knicks do.
Just don't expect anyone, outside of the Knicks' faithful, to be pulling for the home team at Madison Square Garden. Those days ended the day the Knicks didn't match Jeremy Lin's offer sheet.


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- I am embarrassed. I have become embarrassed. I am embarrassing. Switch pronouns. We are embarrassed. We have become embarrassed. We are embarrassing. We are being embarrassed. We are an embarrassment. "We" here stands for the Disunited States of America. The good ol' DSA. What is it to be embarrassed? Embarrass: "to perplex, throw into doubt." The estimable Online Etymology Dictionary tells us "embarrass" comes to us from the French, meaning "to block," which came to us from the Italian "to bar," which came from Latin. Embarrass came to mean "to hamper, hinder," and then later "make (someone) feel awkward." Other meanings over the centuries have even included "mental state of unease." With this FACTUAL word history in mind, no matter where you perch on today's razored fence of political discourse, you cannot deny the reality of embarrassment. Whether you lament it or celebrate, it is here. The Age of Embarrassment. Whether you are on the barricades or hiding from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement [Embarrassment] (ICE), welcome to Embarrassmentville. "Welcome" is hereby spelled e-m-b-a-r-r-a-s-s by edict of Embarrassing Executive Order No. 001. So, get used to it, boys and girls -- and anyone in-between or off the charts. Get used to a state of being perplexed, doubtful, blocked, barred, hampered, or hindered. Get used to feeling awkward and ill at ease. Get used to being embarrassed or making others feel embarrassed. Please show your Embarrassment Visa on the way out the door.
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|Imagine you're six, and this is a poster is almost the same size as you.
"Mommy, that poster is scary. Why do they have it here, where kids have to look at it?" I asked him to explain what he thought to me in more detail. He cocked his little head to one side thoughtfully, his big blue eyes full of questions.
"Well, it would be okay over with the scary movies, because that's where the adults go anyway. It's a grown up movie. But here where we pay, all kinds of little kids are with their parents and have to look at it. It's not fair to them. It's not fair to ME. I don't want to see that. What if it gives kids nightmares? Can't they put something that's not so scary here?"
His logic was completely undeniable.
"Honey, you are right. Absolutely. And you know what? I think you should tell the manager of the store this. There is nothing wrong with having an opinion, or saying how you feel, if you do it respectfully. You do have a voice. I think you need to use it."
Kevin then very politely asked to speak to the manager and when he came, told him exactly what he had told me. The manager looked at me, expecting that this speech was coming from me, channeled through my child.
"It's all him," I replied. "I didn't even notice the poster."
A few days later when we returned the movie back to Blockbuster, the poster had been moved. I pointed this out to Kevin and told him that because he stated how he felt respectfully and made a very good point, someone listened to him and he helped them to think a little more about other kids going through the cash register.
Kids see things we adults don't even think about sometimes. We're so accustomed to how things are, or have been for years, that we don't even notice anymore. Kids notice, and they listen. They have opinions, and it's important that we grown ups listen to them. This is why I was so thrilled to hear about my friend Kia's daughter Hannah taking the CEO of McDonald's to task. What disappoints me though is how it's being reported, because news outlets are completely missing the mark-as are the comments of people reading them.
What Hannah asked the CEO of McDonalds was NOT to stop serving fries or make their food healthier. We all know that fast food companies do that, it's how they make their money, and they can serve whatever they want. What she said was that she didn't like was McDonalds marketing that was directed at kids.
Huh. Totally different. Sure, serve all the fries and burgers you want, but when you dress it up in cartoon characters and put toys with it and then put it in front of a child who can't even cross the street by themselves, that's not fair.
Hannah is in their target market. Her Mom doesn't even have to take her McDonalds for her to be affected by their advertising, because McDonalds also sponsors reading programs in some schools (Happy Meals for all if you read x amount of books!), and children's programming is rife with commercials. At nine years old, she's already seen 25,000 commercials PER YEAR. That is insane.
Turn the TV off, some argue. Don't eat there. It's a free country. Take some personal responsibility.
Which I agree with to a point, but in all honesty, you can't get away from it. Advertising is everywhere-creeping into every aspect of our lives, and why should people have to pretty much live under a rock to escape it, especially children who don't even understand the ramifications of what they are watching?
Hannah used her voice, respectfully, to voice her opinion about something that she felt was damaging to all kids, especially those younger than her who can't speak for themselves. The response has been, according to her Mom Kia, 60% positive and 40% negative. The comments that I have read have been, at times, downright vicious. I find it interesting that Hannah Alper, a 9 year old eco blogger has also taken on issues, but nobody accuses her parents of feeding her what to say or calling them bad parents because she questions things. Instead they praise her for her intelligence and say how inspiring she is. How is there really any difference? Is fast food really so sacred and engrained in our culture that it's okay to attack a child who politely asks a company to stop advertising directly at kids?
Huh. Maybe McDonalds has done a better job of marketing than we thought.


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In the United States, about 5 percent of all public-school children are retained each year. But a recent study of children in Michigan revealed that 72 percent of learning-disabled children had been retained before they were referred for evaluation. Thirty percent of them had been retained more than once.
Researchers Katherine P. Barnett, Harvey F. Clarizio, and Karen A.. Payette, Michigan State University, studied 344 children from kindergarten to 12th grade who were referred for learning problems. Each referred child was evaluated with the Wechsler Intelligence Test and a comprehensive academic battery.
On the basis of their performance on these tests, 201 of the 344 students in the sample were classified as learning disabled.
When these researchers examined school records to determine how many of these students had been retained before referral, they found that more than two-thirds of the 201 students diagnosed as L.D. had been retained in earlier grades.
The retentions did not include delayed entrance to kindergarten or transitional years between kindergarten and first grade.
The researchers noted that urban, minority students, especially African-Americans, were significantly more likely to be retained than Caucasian children or children attending suburban schools.
Males were no more likely than females to be retained. Retained students scored significantly lower on the intelligence test and had poorer academic skills than students who were not retained prior to referral.
This study did not investigate the relationship of L.D. retention to other risk factors. However, the retention rate of these learning-disabled students is three times higher than the 20 percent retention rate among a group of at-risk, low-income, minority children studied previously.
Barnett et al. expressed concern about the use of retention as a remedy for students have learning problems.
Retention has been shown to be ineffective in improving students' performance. Although the financial burden of retention is not as readily apparent as special-program costs in school budgets, it is an expensive practice to give children an extra year of schooling, especially when more than two-thirds of those retained are later identified as needing special education services.
These results indicate a need to explore prereferral strategies and policies about retention of children. These researchers speculate that urban schools may not have the resources to meet the evaluation needs of their student populations and therefore use retention in an effort to give children an extra year to catch up. They suggest that ungraded or multi-age primary classrooms, peer tutoring, parent involvement, team teaching and cooperative learning need to be studied as financially feasible alternatives to retention.
"Grade Retention Among Students With Learning Disabilities", Psychology in the Schools, Volume 33, Number 4, October 1996, pp.285-293
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We are a clay target shooting ground / gun shop situated in the heart of the Northumberland countryside, a short drive from Newcastle city centre, with a wide range of facilities to suit shooters of all levels. We cater for most shooting disciplines including air rifle & air pistol shooters and also offer tuition services for complete beginners and groups wishing to have a go. Please visit the appropriate sections under the 'About the Ground' heading for more information on the services that we offer. We also have an on-site gun shop stocking all the essentials and have recently become the regions dealer for Zoli shotguns.
Clay Target Shooting is rapidly increasing in popularity and is enjoyed by shooting enthusiasts of all ages, whether you participate at competition level or simply for your own enjoyment.
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The prudential regulator says financial institutions have nothing to fear from possible regulatory changes and much of the new framework will not apply to credit unions and building societies.
Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) chairman John Laker said that important parts of the regulator's ideas for stricter capital and liquidity requirements would not apply to mutuals.
He said the minimum liquidity holdings regime, under which they had operated through the global financial crisis, delivered an appropriate degree of resilience for authorised deposit-taking institutions (ADIs).
Mr Laker was speaking at a conference for credit unions and building societies.
He was responding to criticism from banks, consultants and commentators over a proposed new regulatory framework currently under discussion.
The prudential framework, which currently contains no firm proposals but will be finalised in the first half of calendar 2010, sets out to strengthen the level and quality of capital held by ADIs in line with moves by global regulators.
Potentially stricter liquidity requirements have drawn recent criticism from banks.
ANZ Banking Group chief executive Mike Smith has said the current framework was adequate.
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|Wade, Holly and John...the 3 Wise (and green) monkeys!
The Three Wise Monkeys embody the proverbial principle to "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil". The three monkeys are Mizaru, covering his eyes, who sees no evil; Kikazaru, covering his ears, who hears no evil; and Iwazaru, covering his mouth, who speaks no evil.
The Three Wise Monkeys remind us all to be of
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I have mentioned it several times on my blog – I don't like to clean. Cleaning is my least favorite task. I think I would rather go to the dentist than clean. Especially when it comes to cleaning the bathroom and the kitchen. Those are my two LEAST favorite rooms in our condo that I like to clean. I rather dust and vacuum the rest of our home.
I try and stick with all natural cleaners whenever possible, however there comes a time when you need something a bit stronger especially when you are dealing with hard to clean things like soap scum and grease.
I don't like cleaning with bleach – EVER! My husband has been known to use bleach to clean the bathroom (especially the tub/shower area). I won't do that. I cannot stand the smell of bleach. It's very toxic smelling and its something that I don't want in my home, especially with my children and pets.
Did you know that you can get the same cleaning power of bleach but without the harsh smell of bleach?
Lysol Power & Free provides you with the same powerful cleaning of bleach, but without the toxic smell. Instead Lysol Power & Free uses hydrogen peroxide. Who knew that you could clean with hydrogen peroxide. I've only used it to disinfect cuts and my earrings. I never thought about it as far as cleaning tough grease and soap scum.
The hydrogen peroxide in Lysol Power & Free releases thousands of micro-bubbles which can penetrate deep to remove tough stains, grease and grime. It also kills up to 99.9% of viruses and bacteria.
I received a free bottle of Lysol Power & Free to try out in my home. So far I am very impressed by it's cleaning power. Even on surfaces that I normally try to avoid cleaning (I try and bribe my hubby into cleaning them for me :-)).
Lysol Power & Free provides you with a strong cleaner, but it doesn't leave behind any chemical residue or that horrible bleach smell. In fact the cleaner even comes in pleasant scents such as Oxygen Splash and Citrus Sparkle Zest.
Unlike cleaning with bleach based products you don't need to wear gloves, masks or protective eye gear. In addition you don't have to open up all the windows in your home to let the noxious scent out of your home.
We have a cat with severe asthma and my husband get migraines that are often triggered by scents. The last thing I want in my home is a harsh chemical smell, like the kind you get when cleaning with bleach. That is why I like using the Lysol Power & Free. It's much more "family friendly".
Currently Lysol Power & Free is available in a multi-purpose cleaner, bathroom cleaner, toilet bowl cleaner and bathroom wipes. I'm especially interested in the bathroom wipes for quick touch ups. You can use Lysol Power & Free to clean a variety of house hold surfaces including the kitchen and bathroom. I'm thinking of picking up some of the wipes to use in my car too to clean off the dashboard and the area in between the front seats where the cup holders are. I like that I can clean and disinfect at the same time.
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Transdyn Controls, a subsidiary of Houston-based Powell Industries, will install the system over the next four years. Called Advanced Traffic Management Incident Detect/Evaluate/Act System (ATM IDEAS), the project incorporates new computer, communication, and software systems at each bridge and tunnel control center and the development of a new central Operations Control and Communication Center (OCCC).
The system is designed to allow the Tunnel Authority to monitor traffic, weather and roadway conditions, detect and respond rapidly to incidents and events and provide real-time motorist advisories through electronic message signs and radio. It also provides the Authority with beefed up security measures via better video surveillance capabilities at the Henry Hudson, Triborough, Bronx-Whitestone, Throgs Neck, Verrazano-Narrows, Gil Hodges-Marine Parkway, and Cross Bay bridges and the Queens-Midtown and Brooklyn-Battery tunnels.


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- Fictility
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Molded, or capable of being molded, into form by art;
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Fictile earth is more fragile than crude earth. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
The earliest specimens of Italian fictile art. --C. Wordsworth. [1913 Webster]
{Fictile ware}, ware made of any material which is molded or shaped while soft; hence, pottery of any sort. -- {Fic"tile*ness}, n. -- {Fic*til"i*ty}, n. [1913 Webster]
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By Terry Cowan, from email to WMWillis 24 August 2010
Re: evidence of "David" as father of 3 brothers
The early Pequea tax records IMPLY that David was the father—2 Davids being listed, seemingly father/son.
The Dr. Cowan letter (1884) states categorically that David was the father of the brothers. Who was Dr. Cowan and what about this letter?
My John Cowan (immigrant) had a son Thomas Cowan, who died in 1770. He married Susannah Cowan, daughter of his uncle William Cowan in 1760. Thomas and Susannah stayed on the Cowan farm. After his death, Susannah married Philip Connell. Thomas and Susannah had 4 children: John who died young, George who died unmarried, Ann who married Nathaniel Rutter but had no children, and William who married Mary Rutter and fathered a lot of children. </blockquote> Dr. Cowan (born 1811) was a son of William and Mary Rutter Cowan. William Cowan died when Wm. L. Cowan was a small boy, but he grew up in the household of his mother, his Aunt Ann Cowan Rutter and his grandmother Susannah Cowan Cowan Connell. Their farm was on Peters Road, directly across from the old Cowan farms. In fact, in 1884, he said this birthplace was only ¼ mile from John Cowan's old stone house, still standing at that time. When he became a doctor, he moved into Reading, in the next county, and lived the rest of his life there. So, Dr. William L. Cowan was the grandson of TWO of the grandchildren of the immigrant David Cowan, Sr. He lived in the area where the Cowans first settled his entire life. He was intimately acquainted with Susannah, a granddaughter of the immigrant. In short, there was no one better positioned to know this information. He wrote this letter to his niece, Miss Sarah Rebecca Carson (1826-1926) of Port Deposit, MD. She never married but helped raise her own orphaned nieces and nephews. While Miss Sarah Rebecca was a custodian of the family saga, the real genealogist was her niece, Miss Virginia Carson Vanneman (1859-1929.) Miss Vanneman's adult life well overlapped with that of her aunt Carson and great-uncle Cowan. Miss Vanneman passed her information on to her niece, Eleanor Vanneman Benson (b. 1906.) This letter was passed down in that line. And the descent from David Cowan was common knowledge among them—as is more specific information about where they originated in Scotland. (FYI, I have done some preliminary research in this particular area of Scotland, which also conforms to the known source of origins for the non-Pequea YDNA matches, Valorie Zimmerman's and Brian Cowlings' ancestors, and have found a John Cowan, born 1686 and a David Cowan, born 1695, both sons of a David Cowan. This still to early to call, but it looks promising.) Anyway, this branch of the family always knew descent from David and had the letter to back it up. They were long disconnected from NC and KY kin, and so this knowledge faded in other lines.


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TEACHERS planning to strike next week are being reminded of the implications of industrial action.
Hampshire County Council has provided advice to the county's schools ahead of the NUT (National Union of Teachers) strike on March 26.
The union's on-going dispute with the Government is about reforms to the education sector regarding issues with excessive workloads, performance related pay and unfair pension changes.
The county council has written to all headteachers to provide them with information for staff on the implications of taking part in the strike.
Staff do not have to inform their headteacher of their intention to strike ahead of the industrial action, making it difficult for schools to predict the level of impact.
However, the council has warned that there is likely to be some disruption if union members decide to take part, and headteachers are being asked to try and find out ahead of the day whether the school will need to close or partially close, so parents and carers can make alternative arrangements.
Councillor Peter Edgar, Hampshire County Council's executive member for education, said: "I hope the decision of the union to ask their members to take part in a day of industrial action next week does not lead to widespread disruption to pupil's education. This dispute is not with the county council but with the Government over changes to teachers' pay, pensions and conditions.
"Any decisions to close schools will be for individual headteachers and their governing bodies to make. They will have to decide whether they have sufficient staff to enable them to open the school safely, and maintain a full or revised curriculum, and it may not be possible for schools to gauge the impact of the strike until the actual day.
"Staff who do strike however, will not be paid for that day in accordance with nationally set legislation. As always, the county council's primary concern is for the education and welfare of children."
For a list of school closures visit hants.gov.uk/schoolclosures. We will run a list on The Gazette website as soon as any Basingstoke and Deane schools are added.


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Learn How To Do The 'Oooh Kill Em' Dance Step-By-Step With Terrio [VIDEO]
If you aren't hip to Terrio yet, you definitely missing out on a hilarious 6-year-old who may have singlehandedly saved Vine. He first caught the world's attention when his cousin Maleek posted a funny video of him "at it again" on a basketball court. When Terrio broke it down with the funkiest dance moves he instantly became an overnight viral superstar.
These dance videos of Maleek's "lil cuzo" Terrio soared to the Top list on Vine at a time when the video sharing apps future was questionable in the wake of Instagram revealing a new video feature that did everything that Vine did, but better and longer. What Instagram didn't have though, was a shirtless dancing kid named Terrio going hard in the paint 24/7.
Soon, Terrio and Maleek's trademark "Oooh Kill 'Em" catch phrase went from being a hashtag to a bonafide way of life when it was time to "turn up." Pretty soon there were Terrio remixes, and by the time football started, the 6-year-old's signature moves were being displayed during end zone celebrations from high school to the NFL.
But still, no matter how popular Terrio and his "Oooh Kill 'Em" movement has become, there are still plenty of people who are simply "doing it wrong." Recently, the young Vine superstar sat with Mando Fresko and gave us a personal step-by-step tutorial to his famous dance.
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Themes of the Week: The US unveils fresh toxic asset clean-up plan, Mervyn King warns Gordon Brown against further deficit spending, a UK gilt auction fails for the first time in seven years, populist outrage against corporate bonuses spreads across Europe, the FT secures an exclusive interview with President Obama – and President Lula of Brazil blames white, blue-eyed people for the financial crisis.
A brief note on the G20 summit: thanks to our news coverage and ground-breaking Future of Capitalism series, the FT now occupies the high ground. The Obama scoop comes on top of other news-making exclusive interviews with Angela Merkel of Germany, Felipe Calderon of Mexico plus visits and interviews at the FT this week from many other world leaders. Now for the big test of covering the summit.
And if you had not been reading the FT or ft.com over the past seven days, you would have missed…
1) Swiss banking executives are operating a self-imposed ban on travel to the US, France and Germany out of fear that they might be arrested or subpoenaed in the ongoing investigation into tax evasion in these countries. Richard Milne, on assignment in Switzerland, nailed the story.
2) Barclays survived a fresh FSA "stress test" on its capital requirements. We broke the story ahead of our rivals and the news sent hard-hit Barclays' shares sky-high. George Parker, Jane Croft and Peter Thal Larsen reported the big story.
3) Henny Sender gave readers an unmatched glimpse inside Cerberus, one of the world's most important private equity firms, partly through a rare interview with Steve Feinberg, Cerberus's founder.
4) UN secretary general Ban Ki Moon called for a $1 trillion stimulus package for developing countries ahead of the G20 summit. Harvey Morris secured the interview and story.
5) Alan Greenspan predicted that the Obama administration will need to to return to Congress for more funds to clean up and recapitalise the US banking system.
6) Richard Waters delivered the ultimate guide to cloud computing in a magisterial analysis page. Joe Menn, newly recruited to our San Francisco bureau, produced a scoop of interpretation on the growing success of open-source software providers.
7) James Carville, former hitman to President Clinton, was among the most read on ft.com with his "Daddy, what is a derivative?" opinion piece on Obama's domestic troubles.
8) Chris Giles wrote a superb profile of Mervyn King for Person in the News in the Weekend FT. The piece was full of news nuggets which gave insight into Britain's newly rehabilitated central banker.
9) Saskia Scholtes delivered a sophisticated second-front scoop detailing yet another perversity of the credit business. By cutting back customers' credit card lines, she discovered, banks are unintentionally depressing the credit ratings of their borrowers, creating a vicious circle in the banking world.
10) Lucy Kellaway's column on why the subject of work hardly ever appears in pop songs triggered more than 100 emails from readers – several of whom sent Lucy their own ditties. This is one more reminder, if we needed it, that our readers want a bit of cheer in these hard times.
Quote of the week: The anonymous private banker in Switzerland who compared the mood in Geneva to the "stages of grief" outlined by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, a Swiss psychiatrist. Right now, he says, the private banks are somewhere in between the first two stages: denial and anger. "Bargaining comes next and then acceptance," he adds (helpfully omitting the intermediary stage of depression)
Special Reports watch: We had three outstanding magazines this week from Ravi Mattu's team – Doing business in Emerging Markets, a pacey FT Wealth and our launch edition of Financial Times Health, with strong contributions from Clive Cookson, Andrew Jack, Nicholas Timmins and a terrific colour map packed with health information from around the world. Meanwhile the Watches and Jewellery report continued to sparkle in the gloom. Siona Jenkins, Robert Orr and Paul Solman have all worked extremely hard to help make it happen. Also, we have launched our first blog as part of the Health series, which has been ably put together by Ursula Milton.
Weekend FT watch: James Lamont wrote a gripping magazine story on the murder of the CEO of a foreign company based in Delhi by his own workforce. Peter Aspden's Daria Zukhova, aka Ms Roman Abramovich, was elegant and interesting. The style piece on What to Wear to the G20 was an eye-catching idea, and James Ferguson provided a beautiful illustration for the Books Essay on politically aware teen fiction. Harry Eyres front on London's first Slow Down festival was a terrific piece of prose.
House & Home had a fascinating front on repossessions at the very top of the market (and the Secret Agent finally sold the super-house), Anthony Bolton's first exclusive book extract topped off another strong Money section. And John Lloyd wrote wonderfully on Rage Against the Bankers on the opinion page.
Leader watch: The leader on Bibi Netanyahu's coalition deal with Ehud Barak was blistering but fair; the leader on Abu Dhabi buying into Daimler was also first-class. We had a Saturday beauty on the need to teach rather than twitter in Britain's schools.


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Name: Dazbog Coffee Company
Location: Denver International Airport, Concourse C, Gate 47
Roaster: Dazbog Coffee Company
Rating: 3
Move over Starbucks; now there's something tastier. Not that Starbucks is known for taste, but they do have that oh so clever marketing savvy. Well, the coffee I just tasted is a serious contender for Starbucks 2.0. It's a local, rapidly growing chain in the Denver area called Dazbog. They have marketing panache and – here's the kicker – decent coffee.
I hadn't actually heard of Dazbog until a few weeks ago while doing my usual pre-trip coffee intelligence gathering. A fairly comprehensive blog (Mile High Buzz) tipped me off to their existence. I added them to the list although I wasn't optimistic about fitting them into my packed schedule.
That's when lady luck smiled. Dazbog recently opened a new location at the Denver airport…all the way at one end of concourse C. I usually fly United taking me into concourse B, but this time ended up on Southwest. Not only did I arrive at Concourse C, but my gate was just steps away from Dazbog!
The airport location makes good use of limited space. It has one long counter and no seats. They sell beans and Dazbog schwag in one corner. The walls are decorated with pictures and everything is according to the Dazbog theme. Yes, Dazbog is yet another in a long line of "two guys…" establishments. The two guys this time are two former citizens of the former Soviet Union living out the American dream, capitalizing on post-soviet kitch. They've christened their blends with names like "KGBlend," "Siberian blend" or "Russian Roulette." They also offer several single origin blends.
I ordered a cup of the brewed Sumatra Mandheling upon my arrival and a cappuccino (made with their White Nights espresso) on my departure. While the Sumatra wasn't completely fresh tasting (what can one expect from brewed coffee at 2 in the afternoon from the far corners of an airport establishment), it was dark, rich and clean. It was just this side of over-roasted and hit a good although somewhat uncertain, singular note. The cappuccino, made from an automated La Marzocco had a rounded pleasing quality with a deep burst of rich flavored espresso underneath it. The foam was not particularly impressive. I'm curious if a non-airport branch might be a better choice to test the true merits of Dazbog's coffee.
Don't get me wrong. Dazbog is not an earth-shattering cup of coffee, but it is slow-roasted in small batches with attention paid to bean selection and brewing quality (freshness at the airport location is not a strength). It's also reasonably priced at about $10-11 per 12 oz bag. While much of the country is probably ready for the next wave of premium coffee, my suspicion is that most people are not geeked out enough on coffee to spend $30-60/pound, or $4-6/cup for clover-brewed coffee.
Coffee also always has and always will be a functional beverage, which people will want in close proximity to where they live or work. They won't travel miles out of their way for a cup of coffee no matter how good it is (OK, I might). They also want something better but still close enough to what they know. Dazbog offers non-bitter coffees on the darker end of the spectrum at a rapidly growing number of locations.
There's also the fact that most specialty roasters that comprise coffee's third wave, even the big ones like Intelligentsia or Stumptown, have such strict standards on coffee quality that it's hard to imagine how they could reach a Starbuckian prominence without tremendous sacrifice. Dazbog seems to have already made the sacrifices necessary for world-wide (or at least state-wide) domination.
Finally, I secretly suspect that many fanatics out there (I speak for myself here) secretly don't want to loose our status as coffee geeks, which would inevitably happen if we woke to find Stumptown on every corner and a populace suddenly enlightened to all things coffee. A place like Dazbog is the perfect solution; they bring improved coffee to the masses but let us keep the really good stuff for ourselves.
Dazbog is not alone. Coffee People in Portland (owned by Diedrich, which ironically used to fill several Dazbog store locations), for example, may be similarly poised as a contender in the next great coffee race. So even if Dazbog is not the next Starbucks, something like it probably will be.


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Durban is not just the sandy beaches and tourist spots touted in brochures around the world – the city has textures of life and sounds, and this is what Durban-born social activist and academic Ashwin Desai brings to life in his new book.
Desai will be launching his book, titled The Archi-texture of Durban, on Saturday at Ike's Bookshop in Florida Road, coinciding with the 25th International Union of Architects World Congress (UIA) which starts on Sunday and ends on August 7.
"Rudyard Kipling wrote that 'East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet'. He was wrong. Right here before our eyes, they met on African soil and out of this an incredible city, Durban was born," said Desai.
In his book, Desai said many people might say they knew Durban. "This book throws a challenge to this by seeking to unearth new ways of looking at our history by following EH Carr's refrain of 'studying the historian before you begin to study the facts'."
The book is not only filled with words and photographs – Desai incorporated the landscape paintings of Jenny Parsons.
The images are by photographer Jo Rushby. "I wanted to capture Durban in way that went beyond the tourist brochures and syrupy supplements. I wanted people not only to see traditional tourist spots in new ways but also to venture out into alleyways of the old Casbah, the streets of Cato Manor and to choke on the fumes of the famous toxic tour of the South Basin. To worship at St Emmanuel's Cathedral, fire-walk at Second River Temple, to get baptised in the Indian Ocean with the Shembe, to listen to the muezzin hurry the faithful to prayer and then retire to taste the delicacies of the bovine head-cookers or get your hands dirty by digging into a bunny chow," Desai said.
* The public is invited to the launch at Ike's Bookshop in Florida Road at 4pm on Saturday. Bring your favourite Durban story or picture along.
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The Islamic Culture As A Bias Point Of View
13 junio, 2016
MADRID – Arabic translators, whose mother tongue is Spanish, are not plentiful at present. For this reason, I decided to make contact with one for granting me an interview about his work and the current problems related with the Middle East.
Rafael Mayor is a sworn translator, an interpreter and an expert in the Islamic culture. In addition, he translates texts and books about literary criticism and history. He decided to study sworn translation due to the fact that he previously had studied a degree in Law (which he has never finished), so he had knowledge about these affairs. He has been working as sworn translator since 2007 and he works with the Spanish Police at present.
Many years ago, when he started studying translation, he never thought he would become an Arabic translator, but his Arabic professor Milagros Nuin, who works in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs now, made him being interested in this language. He admitted that "learn Arabic is difficult and it takes a long time, but it is amazing". However, the main problem he has to face daily is the lack of specialized dictionaries, which would make his labour easier. When I asked him about his colleagues he points out that "anyone who knows Arabic and studies in Spain, is an Arabic translator, thus, it affects the quality of work done". However, there are few of them who have the appropriate studies in order to be a sworn translator.
Regarding to his facet as islamologist, Rafael emphasised the importance of being an expert of Islam when you are a translator because "there are a lot of aspects of Arabian world that you cannot understand if you do not have knowledge about Islam due to the fact that the Islamic and Arabian world is constantly doing references to the Coran". In his opinion, the Arabian world is misunderstood without the pertinent knowledge about the past and the present of this ancient culture.
This drove me to ask him about the causes of the radicalization of young men. "There are a lot of reasons", he answered. Referring us to France, he argued that: "In France, for example, the problem is that these young men feel uprooted because they are not considered by the State as French persons, but as Moroccan persons, even they do not know how to speak Arabic".
This identity problem added to a broken home is the equation whose result is to join Daesh and fight for a cause that they did not support before, but it makes them feel part of a community. For him, they are "radical young people who find a justification for doing something in a part of Islam".
Moreover, for him, the "Islamic radicalism is a phenomenon which belongs to the Western world". He supported his statement by saying that "Middle East is not exporting terrorists, otherwise it is importing them from Europe".
Nevertheless, he thinks that the last terrorist attacks in Paris and Brussels have not woken up the dormant racism in Europe. The responsibility of this belongs to "the French government, which adopted wrong solutions". He alluded to the protocol taken in the aftermath of Charlie Hebdo attack, whose purpose was to identify the Islamic radicalism at schools. "The protocol stated that if a child stops listening to music, it was a sign of radicalism and it is not true, it depends on other factors", he said as an example. "To stop listening to music is a normal behaviour on Muslims, so the protocol categorized all Muslims as terrorists".
If we talk about looking for a solution, he finds out that the main point is starting in the education field. He determined that "if these jihadist terrorists were taught about what is really Islam, they probably would have not committed those atrocities". In the Western countries, the problem is the lack of institutions where people can study Islamic religion so "people turn to their families (who often do not have enough information), to mosques (which frequently are managed by not seasoned professionals) and to Internet (which has only information about Wahhabism)".
Regarding to Spain, he told me that "in 1992, the government signed an agreement that allowed to teach Islam at school, but it has never been introduced." The agreement that he mentioned is the "Acuerdo de Cooperación del Estado con la Comisión Islámica de España" included in the Law 26/1992.
Finally, to conclude, I asked him about a short-term resolution to the conflicts in the Middle East and Rafael answered that "these political conflicts will resolve within time period of five years". I insisted on the end of the jihadist organization but "Daesh is not the problem, is only a sign", he stated. "Daesh will be eradicated but the phenomenon will be repeated as far as they deal with the underlying problem".
Rafael Mayor, interviewed by Macarena Dueñas.


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Parliament - Government entities racked up more than R2 billion in wasteful expenditure in the past financial year and incurred another R26.4bn in irregular spending, the Auditor General said on Wednesday.
In both instances, the transgression increased by more than a third since the previous financial year, AG Thembekile Makwetu told Parliament's watchdog public accounts committee, Scopa.
Makwetu reported that unauthorised expenditure came to R2.3bn, noting that little progress had been made in reducing the extent since 2011.
Most of the irregular expenditure was the result of departments failing to obtain three tenders for contracts and contracting with companies that did not have tax clearance from the SA Revenue Service.
Makwetu said overall audit outcomes of government entities had improved in the past year, with 58 percent avoiding qualified audits. However, he added that this was largely as a result of his office helping financial staff to correct errors made in their original submissions. - Sapa


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I may even relocate the last page inline TOC to the beginning of the ebook just after the cover page.
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calibre is adding those links but is also breaking up the chapters to best comply with the ADE 300k file size limit, so I think that's what you're noticing. Hopefully, a "tweak" will suffice.
Poetry is poorly formatted. There are missing characters showing up in ADE. However they are good starting points for Sigil I think.
Converting the work of others using calibre is sometimes daunting due to those aforementioned little issues that creep up in the finished product. For quick fixes, instead of using Sigil, I prefer to use external tools like ePubFixer and tweak_epub and/or winrar with a good text editor.
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Unfortunately it looks like they might need some proofreading but maybe a quick scan will search up some search and replace tricks.
Hopefully, the conversion using calibre will not be the source of these, but you know what they say about GIGO (Garbage in Garbage Out).
Were they converted from Mobi or LRF?
These epub conversions were made from the .mobi ebooks posted above by crich70 using batch files and the ebook-convert command line program from calibre. Using ebook-convert, I can automatically remove the duplicate cover image, don't make calibre add it's own cover page, allow calibre to add it's chapter detected links to the external epub TOC, override the METADATA to match the edited filenames, ...
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It's been a scary few years for investors, with the 2008 stock market correction, the U.S. housing free-fall and the European debt crisis taking a toll on portfolios – and psyches.
Even more recently, the threatening fiscal cliff and Greece's simmering economic woes have kept volatility worries percolating, while artificially low interest rates have made returns in so-called "safe" investments troublingly minuscule.
Given the prospect of continued fluctuations in the market and poor yields in fixed-income products, what's an RRSP investor with holdings languishing in cash to do? It's a place where many people with registered investments find themselves, advisers say, with bonds having come due and looking for reasonably lucrative places to next put their funds.
"Everything's low right now; it's hard to find anything on the savings side," says Scott Plaskett, a certified financial analyst who is CEO of Ironshield Financial Planning in Toronto. "People are impatient."
Mr. Plaskett advises those who are sitting on the sidelines to take a step back and return to basics, putting together a comprehensive financial plan that outlines what they want their money to accomplish and implementing it in a disciplined, rational approach.
"It's an educational process," Mr. Plaskett says, noting that emotions and fear play heavily on investors.
He worries that people focused solely on their rate of return may take on too much risk. "It's a vicious cycle," he says, while others may take it too safe, because they are more concerned about preserving money than earning it.
"If you let your emotions dictate your investment decisions, you'll be wrong every time. … Knowledge is the only thing that will eliminate fear."
Investors often leave RRSPs in cash in financial institutions through procrastination or laziness, he says. "They haven't got a plan in place."
An RRSP "by its sheer long-term nature" is not something to look at for quick gains, he points out, although sitting in low-interest bonds when rates are expected to rise could ultimately mean "a guaranteed loss."
A financial plan that sets out your required rate of return "can be a tool to help people keep their emotions in check," he says, suggesting that investors ask themselves: "What are my objectives for this pool of capital?"
For many, this is a good time to put their RRSPs into the stock market, although it's important to look for solid equities that have good growth potential.
"The formula for making money has always been to buy low and sell high," he says. "The problem is that it is such a difficult formula to implement."
Charles Wilton, a portfolio manager at Raymond James Ltd. in Toronto, says that given the uncertainty in the economy, it's important for investors to seek out experienced, competent financial advisers for guidance. He suggests that the best strategy, depending on investors' asset allocation, is to put RRSPs in short-term, fixed-income products as well as equities in high-dividend-paying, blue-chip corporations.
Investments in bond funds "have to stay very, very short-term," he says, suggesting that terms not go beyond three years, given that the economy is expected to improve and normal business cycles should return.
"We have the lowest interest rates in 50, 60, even 80 years," he says. "As interest rates move up, the value of your assets moves down. There's a negative yield."
He suggests that exchange-traded funds (ETFs), such as BlackRock's iShares DEX Short Term Bond Index Fund are a good option, paying about 3 per cent for a three-year term. These ETFs combine a number of different bonds and are traded like stocks, albeit with low volatility and coming at a low cost.
Those investors looking for higher yields who are planning to buy equities, meanwhile, should understand and evaluate the assets they are buying, he says, investigating the individual companies themselves.
"People have a tendency to take on more risk when they think they want more money," Mr. Wilton says, which means they invest in companies without knowing that they have underlying quality.
"It's human nature. …You make decisions consciously, but you act emotionally," he says. "You have to deal with the reality."
There are many good-quality stocks available in companies that are undervalued, especially in the United States, he says. But it's important to go through the process of determining whether they are worth investing in.
"I have to seek out opportunities that give me the best chance and the lowest risk," he says.
Mr. Plaskett notes, meanwhile, that continued news about the fiscal cliff and the European debt crisis is hard to ignore. "That can't not affect you emotionally, when there's information floating around," he says, cautioning that when people with RRSPs hear such news it "holds them back from being able to do the right thing at the right time."
Those who are farther from retirement, with additional time on their hands, can reduce their expectations when it comes to their rate of return, he notes. But earning minimal interest by keeping registered funds in cash is rarely an option, because investments need to grow at least beyond the rate of inflation.
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River-Wash project connects people to place...and to the Mississippi River
Photo: Jonee Kulman Brigham
Artist Jonee Kulman Brigham works at the intersection of art, healing, and environmental education. Her latest project, River-Wash at Little Mekong, engages business-owners and the public in place-based art activities that emphasize resilience and stewardship of both human and natural communities. This project is one of many supported by an Irrigate grant from Springboard for the Arts, which sought to address issues and interests of neighborhoods affected by the lengthy construction of the Green Line light-rail along St. Pauls central corridor.
River-Wash is a three-part project. First, Brigham asked participating business-owners about both their struggles and their hopes for the future. She began by asking What do you want to flow into this place? and had participants write their answer on a gold-painted watering can. Then she asked them to fill the watering can with tap water, pointing out as they did that our tap water comes from the Mississippi River. Moving out to the street, she asked, What do you want to wash away? Participants wrote their answer with water on the sidewalk. Then, in a healing ritual, they poured clean water over the words to flow into the streets and down the storm drains. These drains connect to new filtration trenches that water the trees on University Avenue before flowing back out to the Mississippi River.
Brigham then created posters with images from the activity and individual stories from the business owners. The posters are displayed in storefronts to let the public know about the people and their stories in this district. They also tell the story of the stormwater connection from Little Mekong to the Mississippi River, and express how human and river well-being are intertwined.
To further emphasize this connection, Brigham worked with Friends of the Mississippi River to stencil the storm drains on University Avenue in the Little Mekong district. The stencil message, which reads Keep em clean, drains to river, reminds passersby of the flow of water from urban neighborhoods to the river and of the role we all play in protecting local waterways. This was the first application of St. Pauls new storm drain stencil (see St. Pauls new storm drain stencil article in this issue).
The posters are on display in storefronts of participating businesses in Little Mekong through mid-November, and the River-Wash website further documents the project.
Jonee Kulman Brigham of Full Spring Studio is a local Twin Cities artist who is particularly interested in the storytelling potential of infrastructure to reveal how our daily lives are interconnected with nature. Previous projects include Downstream/Upstream: a Journey Through the Urban water Cycle. River-Wash was created in collaboration with Friends of the Mississippi River, Asian Economic Development Association, and the City of St. Paul.


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'Queen Vanessa' is one of many levels in A Hat in Time's many chapters! Hope you all enjoy this little Halloween-themed teaser we put up 😀
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This brings back memories of being scared as hell of Nintendo games as a kid. The Eel in Jolly Roger Bay, the piano in Big Boo's Haunt…
I love it. 8 year old me wouldn't.
This brings back so many memories of being chased by "invincible" enemies in games as a kid. Waterwraith from Pikmin 2, the Knaaren from Rayman 3, even the darker Prince of Persia series had its own chaser in the form of the Dahaka.
Interestingly enough, most games with invincible chaser enemies end up giving you a method of finally defeating them at the end of the level/game. Sometimes thrown right in your path so you can't miss it, sometimes secret.
I wonder if you guys are going to do the same as a nod to those kinds of games, or if you're gonna do something different and have her stay invincible?
The Waterwraith was a pain in the butt.
I thought the Boo House on Mario 64 was scary!!!
Hat In Time……..now officially Rated T (TERRIBLY FRIGHTENING!!)
Ok, in all seriousness, the end actually was scary lol
This…is…awesome! For some reason it reminded me of the shark in Treasure Trove Cove from B-K. Also from one of the scenes depicted, it looks like she turns people to stone? Poor hat kid D'= she's gonna become a decoration for Queen Vanessa!
Also, since you guys seem to be into adding miscellaneous features…alternate (horror based) lose a life/game over scene if you die in her house?
I haven't seen much activity here lately, but this is quite amazing, even after a month!
Can't wait to hear more on it, hope to see more from the project soon.
dang that is the first non jump scare thing in a video game that has scared me since the eels in mario and zelda and no the piano was not scary.


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Www.specsonline.com has a huge collection of spirits, wines, beer, food, barware, cigars and giftbaskets. You can search the products by two ways – by hitting the items under "In the Store" option or by entering keywords in the "Search" box. You can shop the products online after creating an account on the website. Once you place an order, you will get a verification email and also get email for each and every step of your orders progress. You must be 21 years old to make purchase of alcoholic beverages.
Payments can be made through Visa, American Express or MasterCard. Shipping cost will be charged on the basis of distance and weight of the order. At the time of delivery, the alcoholic beverages should be accepted by an adult of legal drinking age. Users are able to see their order status and history. As you get registered with the site, you will get special events schedules, wine tasting opportunities, special purchase announcements, monthly newsletter and valuable coupons.
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Good data aid decision making and programming, both crucial to humanitarian action. But if the data are not specific about the impact of work on different groups of people – women, girls, boys, men, older people, or disabled people – it is difficult to know if the specific needs of these people have been met. This study shows that the humanitarian community has not invested enough in collecting and using sex- and age-disaggregated data to inform programming. We do not know the differing needs of people affected by emergencies, and so we don't know if we have met them. This can put the lives and livelihoods of different groups of people at risk.
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Wales coach Gareth Jenkins has opted to hand the armband to the 28-year-old Lions and Llanelli Scarlets fly-half.
"Alfie (Gareth Thomas) has been a superb captain, his enthusiasm is infectious," Jones said.
"He is well liked throughout the squad and it is good to know he will be there alongside me."
Jones has led his country once before, in a 2003 World Cup warm-up match that ended in a 43-9 defeat.
But the fly-half, who played all three Tests for the Lions in their last tour to New Zealand, believes that Wales started on a path that year that will pay dividends in the 2007 tournament.
"We started something at the 2003 Rugby World Cup with our performances against New Zealand and England that led to us winning the Grand Slam in 2005," Jones added.
"We have 14 international matches to play before we kick-off our 2007 Rugby World Cup campaign against Canada in Nantes."
First task for Wales will be four Invesco Perpetual Series matches in November against Australia, the Pacific Islands, Canada and New Zealand.
"Next month we will take our first steps down a long road and the aim is to get everything right in that time to ensure we can be as competitive as possible against the best teams in the world," Jones said.
"We kick-off with the game against Australia in the opening Test next week and we couldn't have asked for a tougher, or better, start to what promises to be an incredible 12 months.
"These are exciting times for Welsh rugby with a high level of competition for places."
Jones is grateful for the faith shown in him by new Wales coach Jenkins, who saw him come through the ranks at Llanelli and the Scarlets when Jenkins was in charge at Stradey Park.
"This is a great honour for myself, my club and my family and I am grateful to Gareth and the management team for giving me the opportunity to lead my country," said Jones.
"But the captaincy won't change me - I'll approach the job with a smile on my face as always and hopefully ensure we have a happy camp with a strong work ethic.
"If I can achieve that, as captains before me have done, then I will be happy with my lot."
Wales and Lions legend Phil Bennett believes Jones is an ideal choice to take the Wales reins.
"I feel it's time for a fresh start, a new face, a new voice to go with the new coach and that man for me is Stephen Jones," Bennett said.
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During the 19th Century an industry arose which published Directories. These usually contained a description of each township covered by the directory. Under these descriptions were listed the gentry, the clergy, and the tradesmen, farmers and other suppliers.
Most of the directories which covered Derbyshire covered the whole county, unlike some of the urban cities which had their own directories.
During the research carried out in connection with the archaeological and conservation work carried out at High Rake Mine, at Windmill, near Great Hucklow, between 2000 and 2008, the Post Office Directory of 1849 was consulted many times. As this research continued a decision was made to enter all the listed people into an Access database. This has been used to produce a series of pdf's listing in alphabetical order all those whose details appear in the Directory.
This research resulted in the chapters detailing the workforce and the suppliers of goods and services who were listed in the mine accounts between 1834 and 1852. This enabled many of the suppliers to be traced and gave an unprecedented picture of the mine's operation. This research was published in our Bulletin 'Mining History' Vol. 18 Nos. 1/2 in 2011.


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By Ryan Ekvall and M.D. Kittle/Wisconsin Reporter
WAUKESHA – It seemed as if every Republican in Wisconsin was crammed into the Waukesha County Exposition Center Sunday night to welcome presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney and his newly picked running mate, the Badger State's own 1st District Congressman Paul Ryan.
The audience surpassed that of Gov. Scott Walker's recall victory rally, also held at the Expo Center in June, as thousands of Romney-Ryan supporters stood shoulder to shoulder outside the facility for what was labeled a homecoming.
A Wisconsin who's who of GOP heavyweights – from U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson to the Fitzgerald brothers, Assembly Speaker Jeff Fitzgerald, a U.S. Senate candidate, and former Senate Majority leader Scott Fitzgerald – revved up the Republican faithful before favorite son Ryan held the floor.
As he has done so often over seven terms in the House, Ryan clearly laid out his limited-government vision, asserting what has become abundantly clear since Romney announced his vice presidential choice Saturday morning near the U.S.S. Wisconsin in Norfolk, Va.
"So we have a big choice to make," he said.
"And if we look at the path that we're on, if we look at all of the things that the president has been doing – more government, more regulations, the promise of a lot more taxes on successful small businesses … (I)f this president is going to do these kinds of things in a very difficult, tough election year, imagine what he would do if he never has to face the voters again."
"You know what? We're not going to find out," the would-be VP said to a roar of applause.
Ryan, the self-described policy wonk, demonstrated he could hold his own with a microphone, repeating points he's made at campaign stop over the past day and a half.
"(The United States) is the only country founded on an idea, it's very special …Our rights come from nature and God, not from our government."
Romney played the home town crowd. They loved it.
"I guess you think I made the right decision, the right choice?" Romney asked the crowd, which erupted in cheers.
Romney has received a lot of love from the GOP's biggest names, including some tea party stalwarts – just what the doctor ordered for a Republican presidential candidate with a moderate political record, whose conservative credentials have been repeatedly questioned by the right.
Pols and pundits agree: Ryan is the kind of "bold choice" that shores up the GOP conservative base.
"Every American and every American ally abroad should be heartened by Mitt Romney's selection of Paul Ryan as his running mate," former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton said in a release. "Congressman Ryan deeply understands that American leadership in foreign policy makes for a more peaceful world and a safer, more prosperous America."
Democrats, meanwhile, licked their chops, rolling out a campaign to color Ryan and what they see as the congressman's draconian budget plan as an assault on low-to-middle-income Americans.
President Barack Obama at a campaign stop in Chicago Sunday made his first public comment on his presumptive challenger's VP pick. Obama described Paul Ryan as a "decent man, a family man, an articulate spokesman for Governor Romney's vision. But it's a vision I fundamentally disagree with," the president said, as quoted in the Washington Post.
Obama ramped up the class warfare talk, seemingly following talking points from Democratic surrogates on the Sunday morning political TV talk show menagerie.
"They all believe that if you get rid of more regulations for big corporations and give more tax breaks to the wealthy, it will lead to jobs and prosperity for everyone else," the president said in the Washington Post piece. "That's what they're proposing, where they'll take us if they win. That's not speculation; it's on their Web site, in their budget that House Republicans voted for repeatedly."
Liberal group Wisconsin Jobs Now! planned a protest at the R&R homecoming to "get Paul Ryan reacquainted with REAL Wisconsinites."
"Tell '1% Romney' and his new running mate how their tax breaks for millionaires and plans to gut Medicare hurt the people who need help the most," a Wisconsin Jobs Now! email sent Sunday morning stated.
One protester planted in the Romney/Ryan rally crowd took the opportunity to scream words inaudible from the press rafters. They may as well have been heresies in a church service, as the crowd around the protester drowned him out with a flood of 'USA! USA!' chants.
Police escorted the man away as Romney pretended not to notice – reminiscent of Walker's state of the state address in January, in which the governor plodded on with his speech, even-toned as protester after protester tried to shout him down from the Assembly gallery.
"This is a critical time for the country," Romney said. "You're here tonight to celebrate the selection of an extraordinary guy to be our nominee for vice president, but you also know this is a time of great seriousness for the nation. We have 23 million people out of work."
Another protester heckled the presidential candidate. This time, Romney answered back.
"You see, young man, this group here is respectful of other people's rights to be heard," Romney said. "And you ought to find yourself a different place to be disruptive, because here we believe in listening to people with dignity and respect."
Romney, more fiery than in any of his previous Wisconsin speeches, trained his fire on Obama and a Democratic campaign Romney asserts has wallowed in the mud.
"Mr. President, take your campaign out of the gutter. Let's talk about the real issues that America faces," Romney said. "People in America are hurting right now. The middle class is struggling right now. Incomes have dropped by $4,000 per family under this president. Health care premiums have gone up by $2,500. Utility costs are up. Gasoline prices are up. People are having a hard time.
"They want to know if America is going to come back. It is, if it gets new leadership."
He then gave the Badger State GOP faithful their marching orders.
"You're going to help us win the White House in November. We're counting on Wisconsin, let's get it done."
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Twitter is an information network. A social media platform where one can use 140 characters to share information - a link, a thought, a picture or an opinion. It may seem overwhelming as to why anyone would use Twitter, but this platform, used correctly, can be beneficial in pushing information to you.
Please join us for this free, one-hour workshop where we will teach you how-to set-up your own Twitter account, go over the Twitter vocabulary and how-to follow people and organizations that you deem important. By understanding Twitter's purpose, then you can be a part of the conversation too.
Jeff King, MA '13 , co-owner of Lorica Digital, will facilitate this beginner-level workshop. Mr. King has facilitated small and large workshops to the greater-Charlotte area and has taught small businesses how to use social media strategically as part of their marketing plan.
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Pattern calls for 70 yards of dk-weight silk that knits up at 21 sts per 4", and 10 yards of worsted-weight fur yarn. The pattern is shown in the yarns listed above.
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Dylan & Levi
Easy-going but hard to tell apart – twins Dylan and Levi were born with a double dose of heart trouble. Just hours old, they came to Children's Hospital and Medical Center.
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Considering how he's pitched, it is hard to imagine there ever was a doubt about Pedro Martinez.
"I wasn't concerned," pitching coach Rick Peterson said, "because he always said his arm was OK."
Martinez has been good all spring, but exceptional tonight in beating the San Diego Padres, 8-1, to remain unbeaten with four victories.
Martinez said it is the best he's thrown, no, make that pitched this year, because there's a difference between the two.
Throwing denotes speed; pitching is all about location and guile.
"So far, this has been the best," Martinez said. "I had pretty good command of all my pitches. I didn't need (velocity). I was throwing 89, 90 mph. My command was good and I was getting ahead of the hitters."
Martinez made only one pitch he'd want back, the one Mike Piazza crushed deep into the left field seats.
Other than that, Martinez was vintage, giving up only one more hit in seven innings and striking out 11 for the 105th double-digit strikeout game of his career.


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NEW YORK (Jul. 5)
Anatoly Shcharansky has informed his family that his health is somewhat better and that he is looking forward to a visit from his brother which was cancelled in June but is now re-scheduled for this week, the National Conference on Soviet Jewry reported today. Letters to that effect were received by Shcharansky's mother, Ida Milgrom and his brother, Leonid Shcharansky, the NCSJ said.
The Jewish dissident, confined to Chistipol prison was reported in poor health last month from the effects of drugs administered by prison doctors after he complained of chest pains.


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Fort Hood Family Housing received a National Night Out Award for the third consecutive year. The winning categories include Military Participation and Neighborhood/Communities.
National Night Out kicked off Aug. 6 at Hood Stadium and concluded with block parties Oct. 1.
National Night Out is a national event that encourages residents to attend block parties and other social events as a stand against crime and an opportunity to meet and get to know those in their community. In previous years, the installation hosted two different events, one at Bronco Youth Center and another at Smith Middle School. This year, one consolidated event was held at the stadium with more than 1,750 in attendance. In October, nine families registered National Night Out block parties with a total of 280 participants.
"I am very pleased that Fort Hood Family Housing continues to win this award. It is a testament to the hard work that our staff and all of the Fort Hood participants put into this event," said Mack Quinney, project director for Fort Hood Family Housing. "National Night Out is a wonderful way for our residents to get know their neighbors, our staff, the programs we offer, and to meet people from various Fort Hood directorates."