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My Family of 4 stayed here during the second week of the Easter Holidays where we were fortunate enough to enjoy a full week of Sunshine following a lot rain that this part of Spain has experienced recently.
The resort is spotlessly clean, well maintained and you wont find better quality accomodation, grounds and facilities anywhere, they really are first class. The service we experienced from the Reception team was also exemplory
The Apartments
There are various sizes and we stayed in a 2 bedroom one. All of them overlook either the sea, pool or lush grounds so there is no views of roads or the back of buildings. The apartments are huge by European standards with two full bathrooms, a well stocked kitchen that had eveything you could want from which to cook eat or drink with. The furnished balconies are quite large as well and there is even a (albeit small) utility room with washing machine and dryer / ironing facilities. A Family of four could quite easily live here.
There are three outside pools set in stunning locations and even though the resort was 95% full there seemed to be at least 5 sunloungers per person. Its a mystery of staying at a Marriott Vacation resort, that although they are full, there never seems to be anyone around. There is also a indoor pool with various jacuzzis, sauna and steam rooms and a well stocked Gym.
Set within the beautiful grounds you can also find mini golf, large childrens playground, sports court for football / basketball, a boules area, Paddle tennis court, volleyball court and babmington as well as shufflle board, giant chess and draughts. There is also seperate clubs for smaller children and teenagers as well as various table tennis and pool tables which can be found around the resort. There is also a small and overpriced supermarket on site. That said the freshly baked bread and pastries are well worth it
Although i have given this an excellent rating (anything else would have been an injustice to the apartments / grounds etc) there are a few negatives which many reviews have already cited.
The Location is quite remote and there are no shops within walking distance so you really do need a car here. There is also only one other Restaurant within easy walking distance which is the Vela Azul directly on the beach to the left of the resort. We ate here twice and on both occasions the food was fantastic, reasonably priced with fab views out to sea and across to Africa.
To one side of the resort are a number of very unslighlty 1970's style hotel blocks one of which had been turned into an old peoples home and the others looked very shabby. I should also point out that if you are looking for a resort with a beuatiful beach, this is not the place for you. The sand is very dark, stony and there are a lot of rocks leading into the sea and being honest you will find much much better beaches elseware including the UK. That said there is a small beach that is set back right outside the property and this is well groomed and the very comfy sun beds are available free to Marriott guests.
As other reviews have mentioned the outdoor pools are freezing and as such, were for the most part empty although our two boys and myself did venture in most days. This is obviously a constant source of bimusement to guests and reviewers, why at least one of the pools cannot be heated so that they can be enjoyed, particularly as they are so lovely and inviting. Given that the resort is full from March round to November it surely wouldnt cost much to heat one of the pools for the full enjoyment of the guests even if it meant paying a small premium.
The only other negative is that for such a large resort there is very little choice of where to eat or drink and in fact this is now limited to one place called the Solera since the beach bar was closed down. We ate here at Lunch and the food was overpriced and mediocre in quality and as such we chose not to eat here in the evenings and felt we had much better quality and well priced food in a far nicer location at the Vela Azul bar on the beach.
All in all we had a lovely time here and you do get a sense of escapism in luzury surroundings, which would be very hard to beat, however i would appeal to Marriott directly to upgrade the bar and dining facilities and heat one of the lovely pools that laid empty most of the time.
I would definately recommend this resort and having stayed at the Marriott Marbella just down the coast on two previous occasions the high quality of the resorts is consistant. For me the Marbella resort edges this place ever so slightly as the location, beach and dining options are better but i would say the facilities for children are more extensive here.
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North Korea's Kim Shakes Up Top Posts
Leader Names New Deputies in Apparent Move to Consolidate Power Before Passing It to Son; Economic Unrest Spurs 'Recalls'
SEOUL—North Korean leader Kim Jong Il shook up his country's leadership ranks Monday, a move that appeared part of a broad strategy to consolidate his power before he passes control to his son.
North Korea's official media said Monday that Mr. Kim installed his brother-in-law to a role considered the country's second-most-powerful. He also named a longtime family confidant to what is in effect the No. 3 position, the premiership.
That represents North Korea's highest-level leadership shuffle since the beginning of this year, a period in which 11 prominent members of the regime have died, been replaced or been shuffled out of view, according to a count by the website NK Leadership Watch.
The meaning of the moves is subject to speculation, as is much of the trickle of official news out of the secretive and authoritarian North. The appointments didn't appear to be a direct response to the sinking of a South Korean warship in March, analysts said. The North's announcement didn't mention the ship, the Cheonan, or the subsequent standoff with Seoul, which has accused the north of sinking it.
"There was no discussion about the Cheonan stuff," said Kim Young-soo, a professor at Sogang University in Seoul. "It was more focused on internal politics and administration."
Yet in a broader sense, analysts have seen Pyongyang's leadership shuffle and the Cheonan sinking as components of Mr. Kim's strategy to rein in disorder and rally North Koreans around the country's military ahead of what they believe is his plan to hand power to his third son, Kim Jong Eun.
Since the North Korean leader suffered a stroke-like episode in August 2008, the country has tested missiles and a nuclear device, a series of provocations analysts believe are meant to rally the country around the military. They speculate that the North's alleged sinking of the Cheonan was a continuation of this effort.
North Korea's frayed relations with South Korea have cut off an important source of income, forcing it to rely more heavily on China, which is under international pressure to rein in the North.
Pyongyang has also been coping with protests, hunger and deaths since the government's apparently unsuccessful attempt late last year to manage economic reform. Pyongyang's issuance of new currency and closure of markets in December backfired, causing the regime to look for people who could take blame away from Mr. Kim.
Those efforts resulted in shake-ups in several lower positions Monday, said Kim Young-soo, a professor at Sogang University in Seoul, noting the use of the term "recall" in the North's official announcement.
"In North Korea, when the regime 'recalls' an official, it means the person wrongly implemented policies and should take responsibility for it," said Mr. Kim. "So the recalled officials, not Kim Jong Il, are publicly blamed for their failed handling of the administration."
Monday's announcement by North Korean official media said Mr. Kim named Jang Song Taek, who is married to Kim Jong Il's younger sister, as vice chairman of the National Defense Commission, North Korea's highest state body. Analysts have considered Mr. Jang the second-most-powerful person in the country in recent years, a role certified with Monday's posting.
Kim Jong Il is chairman of the Defense Commission, his only official title.
The leader also named longtime family confidant Choe Yong Rim to the premiership, a position that is nominally the second in command but that analysts believe ranks below the job he gave to his brother-in-law. Mr. Choe succeeds Kim Yong Il, whose travels overseas gave him more contact with foreign leaders than even Kim Jong Il. The two Kims aren't related.
Mr. Kim personally presided over a parliamentary session where the changes were approved. The meeting was special because it was the second time parliament met this year; it usually meets once. Mr. Kim didn't attend its regularly scheduled meeting in early April.
This year has seen several other changes in Pyongyang's inner circle. Last week, a close associate of Mr. Kim's, Ri Je Gang, died in a car accident one day after attending an art performance with Mr. Kim. Mr. Ri, who was 80, held a high-ranking job in the ruling Korean Workers' Party. His influence was believed to trail only that of Mr. Kim and his brother-in-law.
Mr. Ri was active in promoting heir apparent Kim Jong Eun and had been close to his late mother. It isn't known whether Mr. Ri was a candidate for the premiership. His death has fueled speculation that he may have been deliberately killed in a power struggle, but analysts note that if that were the case, it is unlikely his passing would have been announced in North Korea's state media.
The high-level death followed the disappearance earlier this year of another official, Pak Nam Gi, who some South Korean media reports said was executed for the country's economic-reform mess.
Mr. Jang has been seen since 2007 as Mr. Kim's closest aide, and is believed to play a key role in rallying support among the country's elite for Kim Jong Eun to succeed the dictator.
Mr. Jang, who is 64 years old and whose background is in political operations of the regime, was appointed just last year to the defense commission.
"Kim wants to keep more tight grip on party elites and people by giving more power to Jang," says Cheong Seong-chang, director of inter-Korean studies at the Sejong Institute, a private think tank in Seoul.
Mr. Jang becomes one of four vice chairmen of the 11-person commission, though he is the one closest to Kim Jong Il.
The new premier, Mr. Choe, 81, has been associated with the ruling Kim family for decades. He served as a confidential secretary to Mr. Kim's father, Kim Il Sung, who started North Korea in 1948 and led it until his death in 1994. He most recently served as chief secretary of the Pyongyang City Committee of the Korean Workers' Party and, in recent months, attended numerous public functions with Kim Jong Il, including a trip to the remote city of Hamhung and the opening of an indoor swimming pool in Pyongyang.
Mr. Choe was economic planning minister in the 1980s, mining minister in the 1990s and chief prosecutor in Pyongyang earlier this decade.
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Little Walter; Lafayette Leake; Otis Spann; Robert Jr Lockwood; Louis Myers; Luther Tucker; Muddy Waters; Dave Myers; Willie Dixon; Fred Below
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Reissue of: Chess CHV 416 (p1974); with bonus tracks.
|Little Walter, vocals, harmonica ; Lafayette Leake, Otis Spann, piano ; Robert Lockwood, Jr., Louis Myers, Luther Tucker, Muddy Waters, Dave Myers, guitars ; Willie Dixon, bass ; Fred Below, drums ; with additional musicians.
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Mosaic Co., the largest U.S. producer of phosphate fertilizer, is considering acquisitions in China, India and Brazil after declines in the price of crop nutrients.
"In any commodity, you don't want to buy at the peak of the market," Chief Executive Officer Jim Prokopanko said today in a telephone interview. "We're coming out of a cyclical trough in both potash and phosphate and that is the time to do your acquisitions."
The Plymouth, Minnesota-based company is looking to widen its fertilizer-distribution business in markets with the greatest potential for growth, he said. It agreed to buy distribution assets in Brazil and Paraguay from Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. for $350 million last month. In March, Mosaic completed its $1.4 billion purchase of CF Industries Holdings Inc.'s phosphate-fertilizer business.
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Mosaic today reported first-quarter net income of 54 cents a share, compared with 89 cents a year earlier, with sales dropping 14 percent to $1.99 billion. Profit was less than the 59-cent average of 11 analysts' estimates compiled by Bloomberg.
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I would like to tell the people on Crosstown Road in Berlin that I notice all the time that while they are walking they also are picking up pounds and pounds of trash. It is too bad that some people are such pigs and throw garbage out their windows. I have recently witnessed a person wait until I passed him and then threw trash out his drivers window over the bank coming down the Riverton side. I did not get a plate number.
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"get that out of your mouth!!"
How can you stop your toddler from putting everything in their mouth?
Oh my goodness.... many many times a day I tell Annie to "get that out of your mouth"!
Sunday Anthony, Annie and I were out running errands. It rained all weekend so it was wet and yucky outside. As we were walking through the parking lot, I watched Annie run her hand along the metal thing that holds all of the shopping carts. It was wet from the rain. She looked at her hand and said "water" and put her hand in her mouth to suck the water off of her fingers. Gross! Gross! Disgusting! All I could think about was what diseases she was going to catch! Not to mention at this same store I looked away for one second and when I looked back she was picking some chewed gum off the floor! No doubt she was going to sneak it in her mouth if I hadn't caught her.
I'm not a germaphobe mom by any means. But even this was a little too much for me to handle.
She puts everything in her mouth. I catch her chewing on stickers, water bottle caps, pony tail holders, small toys... the list goes on. Aside from the germs, I'm scared to death of her choking! I plead and beg her not to put things in her mouth.
Anyone watch my strange addictions? People addicted to eating tape, dirt, toilet paper? I had a dream last night that Annie was addicted to eating paper. I know I'm just being a crazy parent and she will grow out of this. I'm just hoping it is really soon!
Any advice on how to keep things out of her mouth?
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As described, it looks fine if you background the app and click the app icon again.
BUT if you double click home button and click the app icon from background application icons, your app restarted completely.
I have a menu view, and a game view. Where the menu view has a slider effect for 10sec, and then a start button for the game. and when I click start game, obi it does storyboard segue (model style) to the game view and start the game.
I have code for applicationWillResignActive, and it works fine, as soon as you reactive the game through normal app icon, but from the background app list queue.
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Humans don't like rules. We are born rule breakers. We don't like boundaries. Parents get worn out saying "NO" to toddlers because toddlers want to explore ....they want freedom. We constantly are bound by , "NO!". We get our driver's license and we get that euphoric sense of freedom. That freedom lasts until the blue and red lights appear in the rear view mirror. Rules!, restricting our freedom.
We get our first job and we soon learn to abide by new rules in order to get reward...our paycheck. We have to arrive at work at certain times and work, work, work, until a certain time. We have to produce a certain amount of " work", in the proper manner bound again by more rules.
I submit that the market is such an outlet. Here the individual finds an environment of "Freedom". It is estimated that there are billions of possible trade combinations in just the bond market alone. The trader sees an infinite playground and he feels empowered because he is finally free. No rules....finally.
Here we can take tips, buy, sell, straddle, strangle, you name it, there is a playground where we are in charge. No parents, teachers, policemen, or bosses to control our behavior.
The problem is that there are an infinite number of things we can do and it is stimulus overload. We cannot handle(process) the infinite number of possible trades or results. We buy high, sell low, get scared and sell early or get in late, it is too much, harried, random, overwhelming, and we are inconsistent and see our accounts dwindling or BK.
I submit we need rules to be consistent. We need to get our mind around making consistent money instead of the big score. We need entry rules, sustaining rules, during the trade, and exit rules. We need to get our mind into a place of trading without fear. Trading with rules provides boundaries, which provides true freedom. No fear, no loss of sleep. Knowing if a loss occurs you calmly remove your trade and enter the next one. Consistent money making.-;)
Certainly have to agree with Doc on this one. Equally important to rules is tools --- you have to have the right tools to do the job properly ... within the rules. And then there's training/learning. Like life, investing is a learning experience. Sometimes you can "go to school" on the learning experiences of others (like Doc), but thee are times when you have to make your own mistakes to learn. It's a complex world out there that we struggle to understand; rule & tools & training/learning bring order to an otherwise unruly world.
i suggest an additional "rule". set aside some portion of your funds for mad money. not the Cramer kind, but money with which you can get the freedom bug out of your system.
Yep- discipline- taking a loss- admitting you were wrong- resetting yourself for the next round. gong on vacation next week (April 1)- will bring the book you suggested (trading in the zone).
I see in looking over that book you guys mention that the author is close to releasing his 3rd book which is due soon.
Hey Robert,
Enjoy....both the book and vacation!
Well said, Doc.
Unless you are using something esoteric like horoscopes or chicken guts, there does not seem to be existing rules other that "buy low, sell high" that apply to short term traders.. My feeling is using historical data to develop a system for buy and sell points, and limit losses, such as your GLAD system, is an approach that can produce consistent profits, provided they are followed consistently. I appreciate your generosity in sharing it.
I like working with the monthly dividend group, because the cycle time interval is shorter, thus reducing loss exposure. I have worked a little using a foundation of daily trades to develop a buy/sell formula that reduces losses, but have not yet found anything that works consistently. A moving average approach for entry might be worth study.
I was harried by some here for offering a very simple MA play for a poster who wanted a simple trading paradigm. I suggested the poster who scoffed at my suggestion try it on AAPL or GOOG for three months and we would "see".
Check it out: 28 SMA on the three month chart for AAPL or GOOG, take your pick or both. Buy when the daily PPS crosses up over the 28, sell in the other direction. What can I say? Is trading really "that" easy....;-)


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Q&A: Phoenix's Christian Mazzalai
Photo by Phil Knott
French pop-rock group Phoenix are bringing their incredible live show to Minneapolis tonight on the heels of the band's fourth release, last month's Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix. The band spent much of the past two years working on the album, which, despite being their first without major label backing, still managed to shoot them into the mainstream.
Over the past two months, Phoenix has found time amidst a busy touring schedule to appear on both Letterman and Saturday Night Live, which is as good an indicator as any that they've made it. The sold-out concert at the Varsity Theater tonight will likely be one of the last times you'll be able to catch Phoenix in such an intimate setting. Also playing will be Brooklyn's on-the-rise art rockers Amazing Baby.
City Pages spoke to guitarist Christian Mazzalai by phone before the show about the meticulous recording process that was Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix and their big breakout year.
Christian Mazzalai: We spent two years at a studio in Paris constructing Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix. What you hear on the record, the final product, was essentially written and produced at the same time. The lyrics were even written in the studio. It was a big mess. Some of the songs we worked on just about every day for two years, so by the time we are playing them on tour we've literally heard them a thousand times.
In the last few months Phoenix has received some serious mainstream exposure with gigs like Saturday Night Live and the David Letterman show. After 13 years as an underground pop band, did you imagine this release would bring this kind of success?
Mazzalai: It's been a very fantastic surprise for us and one we hope continues. We've never felt such a good vibe before. We're going to be back (in the states) in September for another tour in bigger venues. We love to discover new cities and to play our music. The online music community has helped us and many other bands release music freely, without comprises, and experience success. Look at a band like Grizzly Bear, they are very big right now, and their music is fairly strange and free. I don't know if they would be popular without blogs, and it maybe is the same with us.
For one reason or another, many bands that have been around as long you have lose some of their excitement and inevitably put out records that pale in comparison to their earlier work. You've provided an exception by releasing what most fans and critics believe is your finest record, a decade removed from your early singles.
Mazzalai: Yeah, it feels great to hear that. It's a very good CD, yes? (laughs) We didn't have a label telling us what to do so we got to make an album totally free of compromises. This isn't to say that we compromised our previous albums, but we had to fight with the label to get things how we wanted. I think it's definitely our best record, but I think the next one will be better. It will be a lot better, otherwise we wouldn't release it, you know? That's the way we look at it.
Does it scare you to imagine releasing a bad record? Does fear of failure motivate you?
Mazzalai: Definitely. Staying creative is something we don't have control over. It's just as scary as to imagine having regrets about something that could end up being our best moment. It's very hard because we have so much pressure to go in the right direction and make something that is better than the last record. Because of that, making records isn't pure pleasure. That's not to say it isn't a fantastic gig, but sometimes you suffer through frustration in the studio. With [Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix], we went in thinking we could make this album in two months, but in order to make it how we wanted it took two years.
You gave away the album's first single, "1901," for free on your website months before it was officially released. Was this your idea or the label's?
Mazzalai: I wouldn't call it a single as much as it was the stupid idea of four French guys. We were still without a label when we gave away "1901." Our contract with EMI was finished and this was something we could do with on our own. Usually you have to wait like 3 months after the record is finished to release anything because it takes awhile to press the CDs, but we wanted to give something away to our fans. After a day, there were downloads all over the world and it was a fantastic surprise.
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Edible: An Illustrated Guide to the World's Food Plants (Hardcover)
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A natural choice for the millions of people turning to a healthier lifestyle, this book invites readers on a sumptuously illustrated walk through the world garden to discover the story of some 250 food plants from field to table. Illustrated with more than 500 images and written by top international horticultural and culinary experts, the sumptuous "Edible" explores the origins, history, and contemporary cultural and culinary uses of fruits, vegetables, nuts, grains, beverage plants, herbs, and spices. A rich introduction begins the book, revealing early agriculture and our "green" future. Then an eight-chapter "Food Directory" cameos individual plants, with reader friendly layouts framing each entry's biography, botanical description, culinary role, and healing powers. In addition to the lively and authoritative narrative, "Edible" intrigues readers with layers of information: literary quotes, boxes on ancient origins of exotic foods, political underpinnings, nutritional values, longstanding remedies, and more. Tantalizing anecdotes dip into such diverse topics as the Japanese Cherry Festival; cacao, Mayan "food of the gods;" and the 17th-century Nutmeg Wars, which determined New York's future. A glossary and index complete the book.
"The National Geographic Desk Reference to Nature's Medicine" has proven itself a steady sales record. With huge appeal for both the health-conscious and the legions of devotees who follow today's chefs in the media, "Edible" is a recipe for success.
About the Author
Helen Bateman studied English Language and Literature at Lancaster University and has taught both subjects at Secondary School level. She was born in Ashington, Northumberland, UK but now lives in Yorkshire with her husband and looks after their three children full time. Writing is something Helen has always enjoyed and she feels blessed to now have more time to indulge in this privilege. Helen wrote her debut novel 'Soul to Take' during her youngest child's naps throughout 2014.


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The next prize is for the best dissertation awarded the degree of PhD in 2015. We are delighted to list the winners below.
The deadline for submission of entries for next year's prize is 31st January 2016.
The current value of the prize is £600 for the winner and £150 for the runner up. We believe this to be a very worthwhile award and would encourage all supervisors to bring it to the attention of their students. Anyone wishing to submit his/her dissertation for consideration should send a copy by email, together with an accompanying letter of recommendation from their supervisor, before 31st January 2016 to:
Casablanca belongs to Us: globalisation, everyday life and postcolonial subjectivity in Moroccan cinema since the 1990s
(University of Stirling, 2014)
This is an outstanding and original work that makes a substantial contribution to diverse fields of knowledge. Using the medium of film, and an authoritative understanding of the principles of film studies, Dr Bahmad engages effectively with the social and political processes that have been so much a feature of contemporary Morocco and that are the outcome of the transformations set in motion throughout the country. By choosing as a focus the city of Casablanca he provides us with a detailed and sensitive understanding of the ways in which power, space and social fabric have interacted in the city – and the ways in which contemporary Moroccan film makers have sought to capture these emblematic changes, using them to represent and to understand these processes throughout the country, and the tensions to which they have given rise. This analysis is underpinned by a lively engagement with social theory that provides the basis for a fine-grained and richly sourced body of cinematographic evidence. This results in one of the richest and most deep-rooted interpretations of the currents of power, resistance and self-understanding in Morocco that are presently available. A real tour de force.
Palestinian Political Factions: an everyday perspective
(Exeter University, 2014)
A seriously interesting dissertation of considerable originality in conception and execution. It has a strong argument that is theoretically informed with an approach well suited to the support of the thesis. The ethnographic method is well thought out and justified and, most importantly, provides outstanding insights in ways that allow the writer to advance and develop the larger themes that emerge from this....It is one of the most impressive pieces of work that I have read concerning the ways in which imagined structures come to take on a reality, despite their mythic origins, through the practices of those who help to create them, even while opposing what it is that 'they' are supposed to be doing. This does two things of considerable significance for wider political arguments: it places thought in context, demonstrating how ideas of practices, and practices as the embodiment of ideas can bring new institutions and networks into being as mediators of power; it can be used as a way of developing critical reappraisals of other structures that appear to frame and bound political life, such as the state itself.....The rich and original research provides a clear setting and a substantial backing for a complex and multi-faceted argument.
Policing Disputes: power and social order in Jordan
(KCL, University of London, 2014)
This work is to be commended for its originality and for taking a question and an approach that has rarely been used before to such good effect. It opens new ground by examining aspects of power and administration in Jordan that have never been subjected before to such searching and thoughtful scrutiny. By making a close and sensitive study of policing in Jordan the writer throws light on processes of policing, authority, social interaction, state power and coercion that go far beyond the stereotypes and treats policing as a social activity with complex repercussions in Jordanian society, sometimes producing unexpected observations..... The writer is to be congratulated on the outstanding nature of the research and the excellent use made of it in the framing of the argument. The clarity of expression is also to be commended, avoiding jargon and communicating both the empirical evidence, but also some complex arguments with skill and authority.
Negotiating Abbasid Modernity: the case of Al-Asma'i and the Rearguard Poets
(Manchester University, 2014)
This is a sound and meticulous piece of scholarship, demonstrating extensive knowledge of the genre. Through close reading of both the texts and the contexts of poetry and criticism in this key period of dynastic transition the dissertation throws a searching light onto an important aspect of literary production at this time. In particular, the dissertation brings out well the philological, as well as the genre-specific aspects of the work of these poets whose work has been grouped together.... there is no denying the depth and seriousness of the research that has gone into this and the extent to which it has brought together work that has rarely been subjected to such careful examination. In particular, the skill of the author in situating the works of these poets, and of the critics, within the changing cultural landscape of the early Abbasid empire is marked and goes a long way toward explaining the distinguishing characteristics of this curiously – and ambiguously – named grouping of poets. The author succeeds in linking word usage and the development of imagery to the commonalities of an oeuvre that suggested to critics a unity of style, and possibly of purpose that helps to define the grouping. The dissertation, as well as being a close and authoritative study of the poets' output, their use of language, the models they followed and the nature of their craft, also provides some key insights into a moment of transition that was to reverberate through Islamic and Arab history.
British intelligence, counter-subversion and 'Informal Empire' in the Middle East
(Aberystwyth University, 2013)
An original and thoughtful exploration of a little studied subject...Demonstrates an excellent feel for the period and the forces at work, as well as a commendable sensitivity of interpretation. It is grounded in a good understanding not only of some of the larger issues at stake, but also of the theories of historiography and of IR
within which the argument is set...In particular, the approach to and handling of the sometimes fragmentary sources in this deliberately inaccessible field is
highly commended, showing an exemplary determination, but also developing a balanced argument that takes into account some of the inevitable silences or
absences in the archival record. Overcoming this, the dissertation nevertheless makes a very plausible case for the direction of British intelligence
operations in the Middle East during the Cold War – and lays out also some of the unforeseen consequences that followed from some of the measures taken to
deal with what were then perceived to be immediate and all-consuming dangers. A salutary warning against some of the costs of more recent responses to security
panics in the region.
Iran's troubled tunes: music as politics in the Islamic Republic
(University of Oxford, 2013)
A real tour de force that breaks new ground in the study not simply of music in Iran, but also in the constitution and development of the public sphere in the Islamic Republic. Engaging fully in the theoretical debates that have characterised studies of cultural production and their link with various systems of power production,
the dissertation succeeds in using wholly original material effectively and well. The treatment of this material on a number of levels is thoughtful, sensitive and displays a finely attuned ear that can bring out the nuance of language, as well as musical genres.... The rich empirical material is wonderfully used, not merely to illustrate, but also to develop a set of arguments about culture and power, and about the political dynamics of contemporary Iranian society. The interpretative power of the dissertation lies in its ability to draw on a number of disciplines in order to set before the reader an enlightening thesis that restores to the study of Iranian society and
politics the full complexity that it truly merits.
Revolutionary allies: Sino-Egyptian and Sino-Algerian relations in the Bandung decade
(University of Oxford, 2013)
This thesis revisits the era of non-aligned Third World cooperation in a way that brings the subject to life and thereby provides a balanced and productive understanding of some of the major motives and factors at work in shaping relations between China, Egypt, the FLN and then the Algerian Republic. The argument is carefully developed and sustained by a close reading of the Chinese archive...[that] allows a plausible thesis to emerge. In taking seriously both sides of these relationships, the dissertation provides original interpretations and manages to throw new light on a field that has rarely been studied in this detail.
Changing approaches and new structures: German cultural diplomacy in Syria and Lebanon during the late Kaiserreich up to 1918
This is a meticulous study of this era in the Near Eastern diplomacy of the German Kaiserreich, examining both the drivers of these policies in Berlin and the ways in which they played out in the Levant. Following a number of case studies with care and excellent attention to detail, the dissertation builds up a convincing picture of the motivations and the outcomes of these policies of language and technical instruction.... In doing so, it brings to light a series of developments that have been somewhat ignored in the literature, but that helped to constitute the emerging elites and intelligentsia of the Arab provinces in the late Ottoman Empire. It therefore meets an important need in the historical understanding of the Levant in the early 20th century.
Burke, Francesca
Joint Prize Winner [£300 prize]
Students of Resistance: Palestinian student
mobilization at home and in exile
University of Oxford (2011)
A powerful and original
thesis that examines a subject much generalised about, but rarely studied in
such a serious way. The dissertation
makes a good case for the study of these cohorts of young Palestinians both in
theoretical terms – attaching it to larger understandings of contentious
politics – and in terms of the political history of Palestinians under
occupation and in exile. The thesis is
supported by sound empirical research that links the predicament of the
students to the larger forces shaping Palestinian consciousness and action over
the past few decades.
Detterman, Jorg Matthias
Joint Prize Winner [£ 300 prize]
Globalization, the State and Narrative
Plurality: historiography in Saudi Arabia
SOAS, University of London
This is a work of
extraordinary value and scholarly integrity. It engages effectively with larger
questions of historiography in order to bring to light aspects of Saudi history
that are often overlooked by those who do not have access to these remarkable resources. The author has made extraordinarily good use
of primary materials, assembling an impressive array of local and personal
histories that form a more plural and complex picture of the peoples of Saudi
Arabia than has often been appreciated. This is a truly impressive work that
could serve as a model of its kind and stands as a testimony to the meticulous
scholarship of the author.
Steinfeld, Rebecca Honourable Mention [£75book token]
War of the Wombs: the history and politics of
fertility policies in Israel, 1948-2010
University of Oxford (2011)
This is an original
dissertation that is ambitious in its scope...but it also deals with an important
topic that has been remarkably little studied in this particular context...It
explores a number of facets of this question that help to illuminate some of
the key processes at work in Israeli politics and society, demonstrating both a
detailed knowledge of these processes, as well as a sound understanding of the
larger questions they raise in terms of theorising about gender politics and
Zia-Ebrahimi, Reza
Honourable Mention [£75 book token]
The Emergence of Iranian Nationalism –
modernity and the politics of dislocation 1860-1940
University of Oxford (2011)
A mercifully jargon-free
exploration of some of the features of an emerging Iranian nationalism....[It]
takes its key texts seriously and subjects them to a sound contextual analysis,
demonstrating persuasively the ways in which many of their central ideas were
taken up and used in the service of the Pahlavi monarchy
Joint Prize Winner [£ 300 prize]
Al-Nakib, Farah
Kuwait City: urbanisation, the built environment, and the urban experience before and after oil (1716-1986)
SOAS, London University (2011)
An extraordinarily impressive contribution to the fields with which it engages – the historiography of Kuwait and the Gulf, urban history, political economy, spatial politics and the social foundations of power...these are confidently handled, developed and integrated in ways that highlight the originality of the argument...The ambitious historical span of the dissertation allows arguments in all these areas to be fully developed, reinforced by exceptionally thorough and painstaking research, informed throughout by a determination to bring the evidence to bear on a distinct set of theses, taking it far beyond the merely descriptive...As befits such a study, a variety of disciplinary approaches were deployed but to the mutual benefit of each of them, and certainly to the great advantage of the dissertation as a whole. This is an exemplary study of the social and political effects of the dramatic transformations made possible by the exploitation of oil that never loses sight of the human element or of the environment built by successive generations of workers and planners in Kuwait.
Joint Prize Winner [£300 prize]
Leshem, Noam
Taking Place: spatial history in Israel and the case of Salama/Kefar Shalem
Birkbeck College, London University (2009)
This study of a very specific place is wonderfully deceptive in its focus: it encompasses a topic, or series of topics much greater in scope than its title would suggest. In doing so, it reveals through careful research and argument the processes that have gone into not only the shaping of this place during these years, but also the socio-political setting in which it exists, as well as the kinds of forces that have gone into the making of this reality. Thus, it provides the basis for a wide-ranging and original examination of the history and politics of space, not only in Israel, but also, through its comparative and theoretical sophistication, in very different locations....it has used the insights gained in this meticulous study of the evidence presented here to back up significant arguments about space and power. In doing so, it uses multidisciplinary approaches to excellent effect, bringing out through how space, memory and power are intertwined in ways that can be surprising and revealing of the structures, material and imaginative that shape the social world.
Runner-up [£150 prize]
Richter-Devroe, Sophie
Gender and Conflict Transformation in Palestine: women's political activism between local and international agendas
Exeter University (2011)
Ground-breaking research that brings out the many facets of women's activism in the occupied territories of Palestine....Taking a refreshingly independent approach that is nevertheless grounded in a full understanding of larger questions raised by the subject and by the methodologies so skilfully deployed, the author succeeds in bringing a fresh and original view of the forces at work in Palestine and the particular challenges facing women under occupation....This is a major contribution both to gender studies and to the understanding of the particular dynamics of the politics of Israeli occupation and Palestinian activism and the conflicts that have characterised this relationship. The author engages critically and effectively with some of the principal arguments in the study of conflict, as well as in gender studies, fruitfully interrogating both through the invaluable primary research carried out for the dissertation.
Honourable mention [£75 book token]
Thornton, Amara
British Archaeologists, Social Networks and the Emergence of a Profession: the social history of British archaeology in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East 1870-1939
University College, London University (2011)
This is a highly original achievement that maps with extraordinary skill and an eye for detail the emergence of the social and political, as well as disciplinary, field of British archaeology in the Middle East...The author is to be congratulated for using so much original material so effectively to create a fine-grained and persuasive account of the ways in which this sector of the profession came into being. It is a valuable contribution not merely to the history of this intimate and elaborate network of individuals, but also to the social history of the British Empire. The links between power and knowledge are well known, but here we have an opportunity to see in startling detail the constitution of the field, the power that went into the making of it and the norms that governed its internal regulation. This is a powerful contribution to the fields of social, intellectual and colonial history that can serve as a model for the examination of other areas and other professional networks at different epochs.
Honourable mention [£75 book token]
Abou-El-Fadl, Reem
Divergent Pasts, Diverging Choices: foreign policy and nation building in Turkey and Egypt during the 1950s
Oxford University (2010)
A well-developed thesis that successfully integrates the fields of comparative politics and international relations to produce a convincing argument about the nature of foreign policy making under particular historical conditions...It throws light on trends that were equally visible across the world in the period of decolonisation and independence and... [thereby] makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of global political processes beyond the particular case studies....These [Egypt and Turkey] are handled exceptionally well, with a good feel not only for the context of political decision-making in the two countries, but also for the aspirations of their political societies.
Elvire Corboz (University of Oxford)
Negotiating Loyalty Across the Shi'i World: the transnational authority of the al-Hakim and al-Khu'i families
Abdel Razzaq Takriti (University of Oxford)
Revolution and Absolutism: Oman 1965-1976
Honourable Mention [£ 50 book token]
Laetitia Nanquette (SOAS, University of London)
The Eye Sees Not Itself? Mutual Images of France and Iran Through Their Literatures (1979-2009)
Dr Daniel Neep, SOAS, University of London
Colonising Violence: Space, insurgency and subjectivity in French Mandate Syria
The dissertation pursues the idea that practices of violence produce modernity….No-one has taken this approach very far with regard to Syria, or with regard to French colonialism in the Middle East, or with such a particular and developed focus on violence itself. The way in which Neep formulates his question and pursues his theme is therefore seriously distinctive….this is a thesis of striking, first class originality. The research is meticulous, the evidence rich, well-tied to the arguments, and well-organized;…The thesis is remarkably lucid;[and] clearly outstanding.
Honourable Mention
Dr Avi Raz, Wolfson College, Oxford University
The Palestinian Option:; Israel and the West Bank Leadership, 1967-1969
This affords the reader a detailed and scrupulously researched account of negotiations between Israel and various Palestinian interlocutors, as well as the King of Jordan in the eighteen months or so following the war of 1967….It provides an unparalleled insight into the ways in which the Israeli government effectively resisted external pressure to relinquish the territories occupied during the war…based on exhaustive and well organised use of a variety of archives, as well as on a wide-ranging set of interviews...It is an exceptional piece of research
Mark Dickens (University of Cambridge)
Turkâyé: Turkic Peoples in Syriac Literature Prior to the Seljüks
This is an outstanding piece of work in a field which is grossly under-researched, the perception of the Turks as seen by the Syriac-speaking Christians of the areas they entered. It displays an extraordinary grasp of sources not only in Syriac but in several other relevant languages, combined with a historical analysis of a high order and an intimate knowledge of the Eastern Turkic/Central Asian regions involved. This is really serious scholarship of a kind which will stand for many decades, if not longer.
Abeer Abdullah A. al-Abbasi (University of Leeds)
Astrology in Literature: How the Prohibited became Permissible in the Arabic Poetry of the Mediaeval Period
This is an original and substantial work of scholarship that uses literary evidence effectively to illuminate social and philosophical attitudes during the Umayyad and Abbasid periods.Taking the theme of astrology, and changing views of the acceptability of its various forms, the dissertation convincingly demonstrates the enduring power of astrology in shaping beliefs about destiny, despite condemnation by orthodox religious scholars...An impressive range of primary sources adds to the authority of the dissertation.
W. Judson Dorman (SOAS, London University)
The Politics of Neglect: the Egyptian State in Cairo, 1974-98 This is an original and theoretically engaged work which looks at the modes of governance in Egypt from a fresh perspective...The thesis develops a plausible and interesting argument about the nature of the power exercised by the Egyptian state, setting this within important current debates in the discipline....It supports this with detailed and meticulous empirical research which adds considerable credence to the thesis, investigating aspects of urban power in Cairo that have rarely been examined in this way and thereby making an original contribution to our understanding of the workings of politics in Egypt, with significant implications for understandings of the state elsewhere...It is a highly accomplished work.
Maria Petsani (University of Durham)
The Dhabih Allah as Metaphor for Self-Submission: a critical reassessment of the sacrifice narrative in Q. 37:99-113 A remarkable thesis which approaches the topic both with specialist textual knowledge and with an interpretative imagination informed by a range of different disciplines...this multidisciplinary approach results in a rich and stimulating interpretation, showing considerable innovation and originality...It sets the sacrifice narrative in a comparative setting, bringing out historical parallels, but also the symbolic and metaphorical aspects which provide a semiotic key of some power.
Shahira S. Samy (University of Exeter)
The Politics of Reparations in the Case of Palestinian Refugees - a comparative approach A well-constructed synthetic and comparative analysis of the question of reparations, with particular focus on the case of the Palestinian refugees...Historical and comparative material has been used to good effect to bring out the various legal and political issues surrounding the question of reparations to civilian populations....The thesis brings together in a clearly structured way a diverse set of readings on these topics and adds interpretative value to the phenomenon and to the cases explored.
The prize was not awarded in 2007.
Fabio Caiani
"Innovation in the novels of Muhammad Barrada, Idwar al-Kharrat, Ilyas Khuri and Fu'ad al-Takarli - 1979-1999", PhD 2005, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of St Andrews
Jennifer Dueck
"Competing for Culture in a Levantine Mosaic: oeuvres de propagande in Syria and Lebanon, 1936-1946", PhD 2005, Faculty of History, University of Oxford
Konrad Hirschler (Department of History, SOAS)
Narrating the Past: Social Contexts and Literary Structures of Arabic Historical Writing in teh Seventh/Thirteenth Century
Simon O'Meara (Department of Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Leeds)
An Architectural Investigation of Marinid and Wattasid Fes Medina (674-961/1276-1554) in terms of Genda, Legend and Law.
No prize was awarded in 2004.
Newson, Paul G.
'Settlement, Land Use and Water Management Systems in Roman Arabia: an integrated archaeological approach' - PhD 2002, University of Leicester
Pratt, Nicola
'Globalization and the Post-Colonial State: human rights NGOs and the prospects for democratic governance in Egypt'
PhD 2002, University of Exeter
McDougall, James
'Colonial Words: Nationalism, Islam and Languages of History in Algeria'
PhD 2002, St Antony's College, University of Oxford
Whittingham, Martin
'Al-Ghazali and Qur'anic Hermeneutics', PhD 2002, University of Edinburgh
James Onley (University of Oxford)
The Infrastructure of Informal Empire: a study of Britain's Native Agency in Bahrain, c. 1816-1900
This is a detailed and original study of the British Political Residency in the Persian Gulf during the 19th century. In particular, it studies the role and activities of the 'native agents' employed by the British in Bahrain during this period to protect and further British interests. The Native Agency was headed during these years by a succession of affluent men from Arab, Persian and Indian merchant families who acted as agents for Great Britain in their dealings with local society, both political and commercial. Through the meticulous use of family archives and local, as well as British sources, the dissertation succeeds in rescuing from obscurity these key actors in the British imperial system. As such it also engages with larger questions concerning the historiography of British India and of the British Empire. It presents a persuasive and well-grounded study which leads the way for a re-examination of the nature of British imperial power in the Persian Gulf during the 19th century. The clarity of exposition and the detailed use of sources were particularly commended.
Recep Cigdem (University of Manchester)
The Register of the Law Court of Istanbul 1612-1613: a legal analysis
This thesis analyses in impressive detail the records of the Law Court of Istanbul - the most important court in the Ottoman Empire - during the years 1612-1613. It sheds light on the application of Hanafi law through close examination of the sicils of the court, revealing a wealth of information not only on the application of the law, but also on aspects of Ottoman society in the capital at this time.
Ahmed Abdul-Kareem Saif (University of Exeter)
"A Legislature in Transition: the Parliament of the Republic of Yemen 1990-1999"
Anthony B. Toth (University of Oxford)
"The Transformation of a Pastoral Economy: Bedouin and States in Northern Arabia 1850-1950"
Francine Stone (University of Manchester)
"Tihamah Gazetteer - the Southern Red Sea Coast of Arabia to 923/1517"


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Joe Haggerty and Mike Giardi wrap up Game 3 in the postgame edition of the Great American Hockey Show.
Bergeron and Marchand convinced Backes to join Bruins
Bergeron and Marchand convinced Backes to join Bruins
JAMAICA PLAIN -- For those excited about the idea of an intense, hard-hitting David Backes in a Bruins uniform for the next five years, you have Patrice Bergeron and Brad Marchand to partially thank.
Backes, 32, didn't know either of them all that well prior to this summer, aside from his experiences on ice against them. But Bergeron and Marchand called Backes multiple times while recruiting him to Boston, and it was a major factor in the former Blues captain signing a five-year, $30 million deal with the B's.
"Being an outsider, we need to have a little bit of confession here that Marchand is the kind of guy that gets under everybody's skin. I was no different," said the 6-foot-3, 221-pound Backes, who has 206 goals and 460 points in 727 career NHL games, all with St. Louis. "But then talking to him a little bit in the interview process prior to July 1, I hung up the phone and had to take a deep breath and say to myself, 'That little disturber, he's actually a pretty good guy.' Those guys end up being the best teammates.
"A guy like Bergeron, when you play against him [he's] always in the right spot, and is never making mistakes. Those types of guys, again, are guys you want on your team, and guys you want to go to war with. They're All-World players, Bergeron is an All-World player. But he's also a down-to-earth guy that puts his work boots on, takes his lunch pail and plays his butt off. He's nice to the young kids, and he's nurturing in helping them come along. I think you've seen in the NHL that you need a few guys on entry-level deals, or a few guys to outperform their contracts, in order to have success in the salary-cap era. That nurturing and mentorship can really foster those kinds of performances."
While Backes went on to mention Zdeno Chara as another highly respected, formidable opponent with whom he'll now share a dressing room, it was interesting to note that players who currently have letters on their sweaters, like Chara and David Krejci, didn't play a part in the recruiting process. Instead it was the next captain of the team (Bergeron) and a player (Marchand) currently in the middle of negotiations entering the last year of his contract.
"I talked to both Bergeron and Marchand twice before July 1," said Backes. "Just the way that they spoke about their team mentality, and teaming up together and sharing the load of hard minutes that need to be played, and also sharing the load of the offensive necessities that a team has . . . those things just rang true to my beliefs of a team.
"You're all equals whether you're the top-paid guy, or the top-minute guy, or the low-minute guy, or the guy that's playing every other game because you're the healthy scratch in the other games.
"We all needed to be treated equal, and do whatever we can to support the next guy. When the next guy has success, we have to be just as happy as if we scored the goal. That's the type of thing where, when you get that from the full 20 guys on the ice, it's so tough to be beat. Those are the teams that win championships."
It will be interesting to see just how much involvement Backes has with the Bergeron and Marchand combination. He could very easily be a right-wing fit with those two dynamic forwards next season, or he could be a third-line center behind Bergeron and Krejci and give the Bruins elite depth down the middle of the ice.
True to his team-oriented nature, Backes said he'll be happy to play at either position and do whatever Claude Julien feels is best.
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David Backes on the discussions he had with Patrice Bergeron and Brad Marchand before signing with the Bruins.
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Backes introduces Bruins fans to his 'Athletes for Animals' charity
JAMAICA PLAIN -- David Backes probably could have opted to have his introductory press conference inside the Bruins dressing room at TD Garden, or maybe even in some finished part of the team's new practice facility in Brighton, which is set to open a couple of months from now.
Instead, the new Bruins forward met face-to-face with the media for the first time while taking a tour of the MSPCA and, in the process, introducing Bruins fans to his "Athletes for Animals" charity, a foundation that promotes rescuing -- and protecting the welfare of -- homeless pets nationwide.
Backes took pictures with a pit bull named Greta that's been at the MSPCA Adoption Center for the last seven months looking for a "forever home".
And as he spoke, it became abundantly clear that this is what the 32-year-old former St. Louis Blues captain is all about.
"[Taking a tour of the facility] gives you a warm feeling inside, and makes you feel like you're already a part of the city while helping give some attention to the great work that they're doing," said Backes, the owner of four dogs (Maverick, Rosey, Marty, Bebe) and two cats (Sunny, Poly), who is house-hunting in Boston this week with his wife and 13-month-old daughter.
"Hopefully this will be just the beginning of our connecting with the community, and helping serve the people that are great fans of the Bruins and that will be watching us every night. [Hopefully] they're watching us go on deep playoff runs year after year."
Backes' efforts with rescue animals gained national notoriety when he took time to help with the stray dog situation in Sochi, Russia during the last Winter Olympics. But the roots of his "Athletes for Animals" charity goes back to his college days at Minnesota State University, Mankato.
"The full story is that in college we wanted an animal or two, but it just wasn't responsible because we were renting and the landlords didn't approve," he said "We just didn't really have the time or resources to support them, so we volunteered at the local shelter for the three years I was in school.
"When my wife [Kelly] and I moved to St. Louis, we wanted to connect with the community, be a part and use our voice to influence social change to do our part making the world a little bit of a better place. So we said 'Why not connect with the animal welfare rescue community?'
"We absolutely love doing it: Walking dogs, scooping litter boxes and cleaning kennels. Let's use our voice to kick this off and see what we can do, and it really just snowballed from that to then trying to tie other guys into it. It's not limited to the animal stuff, but the animals that don't have a voice, and the kids that don't have a voice, really tug at our heart strings. We want to help them with this blessing of a great voice we've been given as professional athletes, and to really use that to give them some help."
For these reasons alone, Backes is a great fit in Boston. The Bruins donate heavily to the MSPCA and were one of the first NHL organizations to come up with the Pucks 'N Pups calendar, which each year features Bruins players and their dogs, or strays from the MSPCA, to raise money for the animal welfare organization.
To learn more about Backes' organization, "Athletes for Animals," visit http://athletesforanimals.org .


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Production Efficiency in Indian Agriculture: An Assessment of the Post Green Evolution Years
In this paper we use the nonparametric approach of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to obtain Pareto-Koopmans measures of technical efficiency of individual states in India over the years 1970-71 through 2000-01 in a multi-output, multi-input model of agricultural production. The Pareto-Koopmans measure is a complete measure of efficiency that reflects all unrealized potential for increasing \textit{any} output and decreasing \textit{any} input that the firm has failed to exploit. In our empirical analysis, we disaggregate overall efficiency into two distinct components representing output and input efficiencies and identify the contributions of individual outputs and inputs to the measured level of overall efficiency. Because introduction of modern inputs has been a major component of the process of modernization of Indian agriculture, we examine to what extent different states succeeded in utilizing the modern inputs compared to the traditional inputs. Finally, we use regression analysis to explain variations in efficiency across states in terms of differences in various infra-structural, institutional, and demographic factors.
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Darts & Laurels: Companies earn praise for 'giving back'
Published: Saturday, May 22, 2010 at 4:30 a.m.
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Laurel -- To Ken Gaylord Architects, AIA and Blackhawk Construction Co. for renovating Mountain Community School with donated labor and materials. The slow spell in construction might actually mean more work for these companies, which decided to participate in a "giving back" project. "My company wanted to do a project for a nonprofit at no charge. It's a hard time for nonprofits," Ken Gaylord said. There will be two renovation phases at Mountain Community: renovating the school's multipurpose room to make it a new computer lab and library, and then renovating the Barker Heights community building on Glover Street. The building was donated to the school and will be used as a multipurpose recreation building. The companies will donate $20,000 for labor and materials. More work will be needed, but will be provided at cost, with no profit for the companies. Some subcontractors working with the companies -- TP Howard Plumbing, Stickles Services, Landmark Painting, Brogden Drywall and Alliance Electric -- have committed to contributing some time. These companies are doing something positive in light of the dismal economy, something that will benefit Mountain Community students for many years to come.
Dart -- To smokers who disregard the law and their fellow citizens by flicking cigarette butts on city sidewalks, streets and flower beds. In less than two hours on May 8, about 20 area high school students picked up more than 12,000 butts on Main Street. "It's just shocking that so many people don't throw them away, especially when they're right next to a trash can," said Brooke Ducharme, 16, from Hendersonville High. Tom Wooten, director of public works for Hendersonville, was also caught off guard. "We've got trash cans up and down Main Street, probably six per block." There's no reason to litter when tossing a butt in the trash is so easy. One solution is for the city or the businesses to put ashtrays near their businesses, although it's ultimately up to smokers to do the right thing. A recent statewide ban on smoking indoors at restaurants and bars has sent smokers outdoors to smoke, but that's no excuse. People need to take pride in their town - and themselves.
Laurel -- To the 60 top scholars and 98 Career and Technical Education scholars recently recognized by Henderson County Schools. At the CTE banquet, students from Hendersonville, East Henderson, North Henderson and West Henderson high schools were honored for earning four CTE credits, including at least one advanced or upper-level course, maintaining a 3.25 GPA in all CTE courses, earning three teacher recommendations and being active in student organizations. At the top scholars banquet, the top 15 students at the top of their class at each high school were honored for their achievements. These 60 students had an average GPA of 4.59 and an average SAT score of 1854, 345 points higher than the national average. There are many paths students can take in high school, and all are equally important. Congratulations to the scholars. You've made your families, teachers, classmates and community proud.
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