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SEE4WomenS emerges as a program of cooperation to provide knowledge on finance and entrepreneurship. This knowledge is aimed at building the confidence of the Bale Istri community, especially those who are survivors of Domestic Violence (KDRT), to be able to live more independently and have the confidence to start, run and develop an effort to empower the family economy. They believe that being able to manage the economy in their families, they are less likely to be exposed to domestic violence cases.
The Social and Economic Empowerment of Women Domestic Violence Survivors (SEE4WomenS) is one of the community service programs of Parahyangan Catholic University (Unpar) which is engaged in training courses for the community. This training program is the result of cooperation between the Coed SMED Unpar-Sapa Institute, with funding through the Alumni Grant Scheme (AGS) Australia Global Alumni, and lecturers from BMU Nusantara.
The initiator of the program is Sylvia Yazid, Ph.D., Head of the International Relations Study Program. She is one of the AGS recipients of the Australian government, managed through the Australia Awards in Indonesia. Out of the more than 200 proposals submitted, Sylvia's proposal was one of 25 proposals that received funding from the Australian government.
The series of activities with the Sapa Institut includes the needs assessment, the creation of materials, the implementation of training for counselors (senior members of the community) and the survivors (group members who have experienced violence), Forum Group Discussion (FGD), and closed by joint evaluation. After the training is over, they try to find the best model for economic activity, followed by the creation of a social entrepreneurship.
The initial goal of this training is to create social entrepreneurship, married women of community members together to build an economic enterprise. Initially considered optimistic because they are equal members of the community that should be easier. But it is not that easy because, in reality, they build more business with their individual ability. Therefore, modification of goals by focusing on the division of the role at a later stage may achieve social entrepreneurship.
After the training was conducted for counselors and survivors, the response of all the participants was very positive. All participants claimed to have gained new knowledge that will greatly assist them in starting or developing their business. The most significant achievement of this activity is the resurgence of confidence from a number of survivors, especially in economic activities.
The reflection of this activity has been written in a scientific paper published in "Indonesian Journal for International Relations" which is a journal of the Indonesian Association of International Relations. The publication of this journal is intended to share the lessons learned from this activity to the International Relations in Indonesia.


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Three Portage County residents were charged with drug crimes and more than $80,000 and eight pounds of illegal drugs were seized Friday following an investigation into illegal methamphetamine production in Ravenna and Windham.
Portage County Sheriff David Doak said Portage County Drug Task Force agents conducted a four monthlong investigation into the alleged illegal purchase of pseudoephedrine -- an ingredient in over-the-counter cold medicine that also is used to make methamphetamine -- at several Portage and Summit County pharmacies by Christina Guy, 36, of 6268 Greenleaf Road, Charlestown. Guy allegedly was purchasing more than the legal amount of the medication at numerous different pharmacies in order to cook meth, a process known as "smurfing."
After obtaining a warrant for Guy's arrest on a charge of illegal purchasing of pseudoephedrine, a first-degree misdemeanor, agents and Ravenna police officers on Friday went to several addresses in Ravenna where Guy was thought to be staying. She was eventually located at 115 N. Scranton St., less than 1,000 feet from Brown Middle School. Also at the residence was Dennis W. Haworth, 43, with a last known address of 525 Park Ave., Kent. He was charged with illegal manufacturing of drugs, a first-degree felony, for allegedly making meth within 1,000 feet of the school after the components of a meth lab were found in the residence.
Haworth was arraigned Monday in Portage County Municipal Court and is being held in the Portage County jail on 10 percent of $100,000 bond, according to court records, while Guy is free on bond on the condition she not use or possess drugs or alcohol.
The same day, Doak said agents followed up on a tip about a "large amount" of drain cleaner, camping fuel and lithium batteries that were purchased at a Portage County business. All those items are used in the illegal manufacture of methamphetamine, and an investigation led agents to believe that meth was being made at 9858 Green Drive in Windham, he said.
Agents went to the house and attempted to contact the homeowner, Kalli L. Consolo, 34. Doak said they were met at the door by her 10-year-old son, and also "overwhelmed by the odor of raw marijuana." After getting a search warrant for the house, agents entered and seized approximately five pounds of marijuana, three pounds of hallucinogenic psilocybin mushrooms and more than $80,000 in cash.
Consolo was arrested and charged with one count each of aggravated trafficking in drugs, a first-degree felony, trafficking in marijuana, a second-degree felony, and child endangering, a first-degree misdemeanor. She is being held in the Portage County jail on 10 percent of $100,000 bond.
Additional charges could be filed in both cases after a Portage County grand jury hears evidence against the trio.
The Portage County Task Force is comprised of officers from the Aurora, Garrettsville, Kent, Streetsboro, and Windham police departments, the Portage County Sheriff's Office, the Portage County Prosecutor's Office, the DEA and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Suspected drug activity can be reported by calling 330-296-8626 or by sending an email to firstname.lastname@example.com.
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"IT WILL take a death before anything is done about the problem with the buses."
They are words that rattled around the village of Ystradowen but came back to haunt Joanna and David Cunningham Jones on December 3 last year.
On the day of the accident, when the bus left the road just yards from the village in the Vale of Glamorgan, residents and school pupils said there had been concerns for years.
Stuart's Campaign now calls for the children on that particular route home to have a single-decker bus fitted with factory-installed seat- belts of a recognised safety standard, for each child to have a designated seat, for adult supervision on the bus other than the driver, and the creation of a "safe route" for pedestrians and cyclists to go to school.
The campaign has united an already close village and has provided a channel for the pain, anger and frustration that erupted on that night.
"We've not achieved anything yet, so there's still an awful lot to do but we have come a long way in lots of respects," says David.
"We've got support from the Children's Commissioner, lobbied the Assembly who have set up a sub-committee to look into the whole issue, which is excellent news and we've got the National Association of Head Teachers and Busk (Belt Up School Kids) to make it a national issue.
"We've also got the support of Stuart Cable and there are lots of things that have moved it on, but ultimately buses haven't changed."
One thing that will hold up any progress is the fact that the campaign, local authority, police and Assembly Government, will inevitably have to await the decision of the coroner.
"But this is still something we want to see changed, regardless of the inquest," says Joanna.
"We feel it's not up to the Vale (council), it's up to the government to say it must be done to a certain standard," says David.
"We would say the bare minimums are in place and we would like to see those raised, they have a duty of care to children on the bus and that's where we feel they are falling down and they can do something there without waiting for the inquest. It's frustrating in some ways."
"Every time we hear of another story - the boy who died in Cardiff and people injured because of overcrowding on a bus - we know it could be stopped if there was supervision. It's not rocket science."
A memorial fund has also been set up for Stuart which will help pay for equipment in a children's play area that has been planned for the village, as well as a memorial garden.
"It's a way of helping the children who were on the bus with Stuart," says David.


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Mousterlin Fouesnant, The Brittany Holiday Villa
Nestled behind tall trees and only 60 meters from a long sandy beach, this wooden house is the perfect retreat for your holidays.
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The wooden house Mousterlin with its porch, its Adirondack chairs, its large ground with an access to the white sandy beach will remind you of the luxury properties in the Hamptons or New England.
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Smoking: Not allowed
Pets: Well-behaved pets are welcome
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October 19 – November 1: 868€/week
November 2 – December 20: 651€/week
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- Entrance / Toilet
- Dining room with table for 10 persons, bar
- Kitchen equipped with all modern appliances such as ceramic hob, oven, refrigerator, freezer, dishwasher, washing machine, toaster, water cooker, coffee machine, Nespresso machine and the necessary crockery for the preparation of meals
- Separate living room with Chesterfield sofa and chair, library, many books, flat screen TV, satellite channels (French, English, German), DVD, Bluetooth speakers, Wi-Fi, wood stove (wood provided)
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- Bedroom #1: King size bed 180cm x 200cm
- Bedroom #2: Twin size bed 140cm x 190cm
- Bedroom #3: Twin size bed 140cm x 190cm
- Porch: Dining table, garden furniture, barbecue, umbrella
- Garden with lawn and flowerbed
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- Parking for 2/3 cars
- Direct access to the beach
- 2 Canoes
- 2 Bicycles
- Beach for naturists: 400m
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- 1 full HD flat screen TV's
- Satellite TV (English, German, French channels)
- Library
- Internet access
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- Fridge
- Freezer
- Oven
- Electric Kettle
- Toaster
- Coffee machine
- Nespresso machine
- Plates, cutlery, cooking ustensils
- Dishwasher
- Washing machine
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- Linen, beds are made before arrival
- Towels: 1 large and 1 small per person
- Kitchen towels
- Beach towels provided from June to September
- Marine scent soaps
- Welcome hamper with local product
- First necessity products such as olive oil, vinegar,
salt and pepper, toilet paper
- Utilities: water, electric heating
- Wi-Fi
- Bluetooth speaker
- Gardening
- 2 Canoes
- 2 Bicycles
- Baby cot and high chair (upon request)
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- Final cleaning, optional: 85 €
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- Pont Aven, the painters' town
- Quimper and its cathedral
- La Pointe du Raz
- Excursion by boat to the river Odet or Glénans Islands
- Locronan: one of the nicest village in France A bit further away: Oceanopolis in Brest (center of scientific culture dedicated to the oceans)
- Beaches, hiking, water sports (swimming, canoe, surf, paddleboard, etc.), bike
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- Deposit requested at time of reservation: 30%
- Balance due 15 days before arrival
- Possible settlement methods: wire transfer, PayPal
- The total amount of the reservation does not include optional products or services ordered on site such as final cleaning
- No smoking allowed in the house
- Well behaved pets are welcome
- Check in: 3 pm – Check out: 9:30 am
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- Any request for modification and/or cancellation must be sent by e-mail
- Cancellation policies are applied after the local time of the house
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The Elo Touch Solutions IntelliTouch Plus touch technology meets all the Additional Qualification (AQ) testing requirements established by Microsoft Corp. for Windows 7 multi-touch interactivity. The IntelliTouch Plus touch technology is based upon proven surface acoustic wave technology with over 20 years of reliable performance and millions of installations around the world. It accurately records two simultaneous touch locations anywhere on the screen with three axes of touch information.
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Academically contingent self-worth and vulnerability: When approach self-validation goals are more threatening than avoidance self-validation goals
Jason S Lawrence, Jessi L Smith
Self and Identity
When are people who base their self-worth on academic competence vulnerable to negative outcomes such as anxiety and underperformance? One answer, according to decades of achievement goal research, seems obvious: when they aim to avoid demonstrating inability (called avoidance self-validation goals). Less clear is whether such vulnerability also exists when aiming to demonstrate ability (approach self-validation goals). Surprisingly, two studies found no evidence of vulnerability among participants who base self-worth on academics when avoidance self-validation goals were salient. Instead, it was when approach self-validation goals were salient that participants' academically contingent self-worth most reliably predicted vulnerability. These results suggest that, within domains of contingency, people worry more about self-enhancement afforded by approach self-validation goals than about self-protection afforded by avoidance self-validation goals.
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This collection of Montana State authored publications is collected by the Library to highlight the achievements of Montana State researchers and more fully understand the research output of the University. They use a number of resources to pull together as complete a list as possible and understand that there may be publications that are missed. If you note the omission of a current publication or want to know more about the collection and display of this information email Leila Sterman.


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I've been in full school mode, and trying to focus on my portfolio. These past few weeks have been some of the most frustrating and rewarding in my life. Working towards a goal feels really good, but approaching that light at the end of the tunnel sure is a scary thing.
Some days I've been keeping my outfits simple, especially since we are going back and forth from sunny and foggy days. I felt the most comfortable reverting back to my my favorite tomboy look again.
Top: Vintage denim from Rose Bowl Flea. Pants: Zara. Boots: Sam Edelman.
I got the chance to flip through some old family photos, and realized that I'd have very few pictures to share in the same way. I'm the kind of person who loves seeing old family Polaroid pictures, I want to be able to share my pictures with my future children and their children. So I jumped the gun on getting those Prinstagram photos I've been wanting for a while. It's not necessarily cheap, my 2×2 pictures were $12 for 48 pictures. But I bought two sets, waited patiently for them to come, took a pen to their backs and wrote the year and context of the photos. I leave them on my desk every day and they make me so much happier than browsing them on my Instagram feed. I can't wait to print more in the future- their website has larger prints that look awesome, but also some other interesting products that would be very cool at home like the poster, book, and stickers!
Playing with a double exposure
The famous Piedmont legs on Haight street
A serene pond view at the Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park
My prints laying together, waiting for someone to hear their stories.
Tempted to go dig out my film camera and play with it again.


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A LEA's jurisdiction usually also includes the governing bodies they support, and the LEA itself.Jurisdictionally, there can be an important difference between international LEAs and multinational LEAs, even though both are often referred to as "international", even in official documents.In the United States for example, typically each state and county or city has its own LEAs.As a result, because both Australia and the United States are federations and have federal LEAs, Australia has two levels of law enforcement and the United States has multiple levels of law enforcement, Federal, Tribal, State, County, City, Town, Village, special Jurisdiction and others.LEA jurisdiction for a division within a country can typically be at more than one level, for example at the division level, that is state, province, or territory level, and for example at the sub division level, that is county, shire, or municipality or metropolitan area level.
For example, the area of jurisdiction of English and Welsh law is covered by a number of LEAs called constabularies, each of which has legal jurisdiction over the whole area covered by English and Welsh law, but they do not normally operate out of their areas without formal liaison between them.
The primary difference between separate agencies and operational areas within the one legal jurisdiction is the degree of flexibility to move resources between versus within agencies.
When multiple LEAs cover the one legal jurisdicition, each agency still typically organises itself into operations areas.
Differentiation of jurisdiction based on the seriousness and complexity of the non compliance either by law or by policy and consensus can coexist in countries.
A LEA which has a wide range of powers but whose ability is restricted geographically, typically to an area which is only part of a country, is typically referred to as local police or territorial police.


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Buck | March 26, 2013
"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy." -- Winston Churchill
"I think Congressmen should wear uniforms like NASCAR drivers so we could identify their corporate sponsors."
45 Congo game at HAWKs Game Day
44 Flying Carpet Racing at HAWKs Game Day
43 Look, Sarge, No Charts: WWII 1941 (HAWKs night)
42 Combat Patrol Star Wars game for video play through
41 Combat Patrol 1939 Winter War (HAWKs night)
40 Combat Patrol WWII (Fall In! play test day)
39 GASLIGHT Dr. Who game (Fall In! play test day)
38 Combat Patrol Star Wars (HAWKs night)
37 Scrappers rules test
36 This is Not a Test rules test
35 Combat Patrol Poland 1939 (HAWKs night)
34 Combat Patrol with Chris Abbey in Leeds
33 Chariot Racing (Historicon)
32 Navies for Kids Giveaway (Historicon)
32 Combat Patrol Pomme du Terre 1944 (Historicon)
30 Combat Patrol Pomme du Terre 1940 (Historicon)
29 Combat Patrol Bocage #2 (Historicon)
28 Combat Patrol Bocage #1 (Historicon)
27 Rogue Stars test game
26 Frostgrave Campaign, #7
25 Frostgrave Campaign, #6
24 Look, Sarge, No Charts: 1914 (HAWKs night)
23 Fate of Battle Historicon Play Test (HAWKs night)
22 Mad Max (NJ Con)
21 Combat Patrol Cowboys (NJ Con)
20 Combat Patrol Moros in the Philippines (NJ Con)
19 Combat Patrol War of 1812 (NJ Con)
18 Frostgrave Campaign, #5
17 Combat Patrol France 1940 (War Horse)
16 Combat Patrol Cowboys (War Horse)
15 Kurt's Super Awesome Fun Napoleonics (HAWKs night)
14 Zoro Skirmish (after painting day)
13 Frostgrave Post Apokalypse (HAWKs night)
12 Frostgrave Campaign, #4
11 Combat Patrol Hedgerow (Cold Wars)
10 Combat Patrol Hedgerow (Cold Wars)
09 Combat Patrol Winter War (Cold Wars)
08 Star Wars Combat Patrol play test
07 Congo (HAWKs night)
06 Kurt's Super Awesome Fun Napoleonics (another HAWKs night)
05 Frostgrave Campaign, #3
04 Kurt's Super Awesome Fun Napoleonics (HAWKs night)
03 Frostrgrave Campaign, #1
02 Combat Patrol(TM) Star Wars (HAWKs night)
01 X-Wing (New Year's Eve)
67 Combat Patrol glider assault (New Year's Eve)
66 12 Doctors of Christmas GASLIGHT game (New Year's Eve)
65 Mexican American Combat Patrol
64 Frostgrave (Chris' House)
63 Frostgrave (Chris' House)
62 Combat Action Command play test (HAWKs night)
61 Battle of Lvov (Look, Sarge, No Charts: WWII) (Fall In)
60 Battle of Heilsberg (Fate of Battle) Fall In
59 Look, Sarge, No Charts: American Civil War (Fall In)
58 Poland 1939 Combat Patrol(TM) Game (Fall In)
57 Frostgrave (Chris' House)
56 Moros in the Philippines with Combat Patrol (HAWKs night)
55 Hedgerow Skirmish with Combat Patrol (Barrage)
54 Skirmish Action commando raid (Barrage)
53 War May Be play test (Rules by Mark Morin) (Wood's Hole)
52 Star Wars Combat Patrol(TM): WWII (Casa Surdu)
51 War of 1812 play test of Combat Patrol(TM) Napoleonic Wars (Casa Surdu)
50 LSNC: Science Fiction play test (Casa Surdu)
49 2x Imperial Assault (Casa Surdu)
48 Combat Patrol 1939 (HAWKs night)
47 Dragon / Lion Rampant (Chris' House)
46 Frostgrave (Chris' House)
45 Frostgrave (Casa Palmer)
44 Combat Patrol Napoleonic play test (Casa Surdu)
43 Combat Patrol colonial play test (Casa Surdu)
42 Source of the Nile (Historicon)
41 Combat Patrol Star Wars (Historicon)
40 Warsaw Uprising (Combat Patrol) (Historicon)
39 War Rocket (Historicon)
38 Armies for Kids Giveaway (Historicon)
37 Kerfuffle at the Crossroads (Combat Patrol) (Historicon)
36 Americans vs. Japanese Combat Patrol (War Horse)
35 Modern Afghanistan with Ed's Rules (War Horse)
34 Rubbled city play test Stalingrad (Casa Surdu)
33 Rubbled city play test Warsaw uprising (Casa Surdu)
32 WWII France 1944 Combat Patrol game (HAWKs night)
31 Frostgrave (Casa Palmer)
30 DUST Tactics (HAWKs night)
29 Dr. Who and the Lost Soldier (Nashcon)
28 Elven Capital (Bear Yourselves Valiantly) (Nashcon)
27 Paris 1814 (Fate of Battle) (Nashcon)
26 Japanese counter attack on Marines and Paratroopers with Combat Patrol (Nashcon)
25 Gunboat Diplomacy naval game (Nashcon)
24 Combat Patrol demonstration game (Partizan)
23 Combat Patrol demonstration game (Partizan)
22 Forstgrave at Critical Hit
21 Combat Patrol play test for NASHCON (HAWKs night)
20 Combat Patrol Napoleonic play test (Casa Surdu)
19 WWII Combat Patrol game for video session (Casa Surdu)
18 Muskets and Tomahawks club game (HAWKs night)
17 Combat Patrol Falklands play test (Casa Surdu)
16 Combat Patrol Napoleonic play test (Casa Surdu)
15 Frostgrave (Chris' house)
14 Roman Circus chariot race (Cold Wars)
13 Combat Patrol France 1940 (Cold Wars)
12 Combat Patrol Poland 1939 (Cold Wars)
11 Combat Patrol Finland 1939 (Cold Wars)
10 Tekumel GASLIGHT game (Games and Stuff)
09 25mm Napoleonic skirmish Combat Patrol (War Horse)
08 20mm France 1940 Combat Patrol (War Horse)
07 15mm Regimental Fire and Fury (HAWKs night)
06 Combat Patrol demo game in Orlando
05 Frostgrave at Chris' house
04 Science Fiction Combat Patrol (HAWKs night)
03 Winter War Combat Patrol (HAWKs night)
02 Boot Hill (HAWKs night)
01 X-Wing (Paladin, Orlando)
50) Santa GASLIGHT (New Year's Eve)
49) Pulp Middle Eastern Extravaganza (New Year's Eve)
48) Combat Patrol WWI (Duncan's Christmas Game)
47) Combat Patrol Winter War (HAWKs night)
46) Jackson's Bridge (HAWKs Night)
45) Antietam Sunken Road (114th Signal SLDP)
44) Poland 1939 Look, Sarge, No Charts WWII (Fall In)
43) Reichenbach 1813 Fate of Battle (Fall In)
42) Combat Patrol French Village part 1 (Fall In)
41) Combat Patrol French Village part 2 (Fall In)
40) 10mm Chariot Race (Fall In)
39) Combat Patrol (Barrage)
38) Frostgrave (Casa Palmer)
37) 20mm WWII (Rifles to the Front) (HAWKs Night)
36) 10mm Chariot Race (HAWKs Night)
35) GAMER WWII play test (Fuson's birthday bash)
34) Muskets and Tomahawks (Fuson's birthday bash)
33) Star Crush (Pulp Figures) play test (Historicon)
32) Eric's WWII GAMER event (Historicon)
31) Zombie shopping mall (Historicon)
30) Defense of Schloss Iter (Historicon)
29) Kid's Defense of Schloss Iter (Historicon)
28) Zombie shopping mall play test (HAWKs Night)
27) Star Wars Miniatures (Casa Surdu)
26) Skirmish Sangin (HAWKs Night)
25) Songs of Blades and Heroes (Palmer's Pillbox)
23-24) Imperial Assault (Casa Surdu)
22) GAMER 10-player WWII (HAWKs Night)
21) Star Wars Miniatures (Hoth) (Casa Surdu)
20) GAMER War of 1812 Skirmish (HAWKs Night)
19) 54mm Chariot Race (Cold Wars)
18) Attack on the Elven Capital (Cold Wars)
17) Siege of Paris, 1814 (Cold Wars)
16) Northwest Frontier by GASLIGHT (Cold Wars)
15) Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe (Cold Wars)
14) Star Wars Miniatures (two games) (Casa Surdu)
13) Kasserine (LSNC: WWII) (HAWKs Night)
12) Wellington Rules War of 1812 (HAWKs Night)
11) Northwest Frontier by GASLIGHT (Casa Surdu)
10) X-Wing attack on Laser Turrets (JJ CON)
9) Roman Circus (JJ CON)
8) Orc's Drift (Eric, GASLIGHT) (JJ CON)
7) GAMER War of 1812 (JJ CON)
5) Roman Circus (JJ CON)
4) Beer and Pretzels Iron Clads (JJ CON)
3) Pterodactyl play test (Casa Surdu)
2) Noah's Sangin Afghanistan game (HAWKs Night)
1) 3x games of DC Hero Clicks (with Chris in JAN)
44) Large New Year's Eve X-Wing game
43) Santa New Year's Eve GASLIGHT game
42) Duncan's War of 1812 G.A.M.E.R. game
41) Kevin Fischer's anime game (HAWKS night)
40) HAWKs 1000 Desert Race game (HAWKs night)
39) 114th Signal (six LSNC games)
38) G.A.M.E.R. WWII scenario (HarCon)
37) Battle of Five Armies (HarCon)
36) G.A.M.E.R. WWII scenario at October HAWKs night
35) LSNC WWI Duncan's Battle of the Marne scenario (War Horse Farm)
34) LSNC WWII Battle of Lvov (War Horse Farm)
33) G.A.M.E.R. play test of Fall In event (HAWKs night)
32) G.A.M.E.R. play test (limited group at Buck's war room)
31) 100 Years War (BYV) (HAWKs night)
30) Commandos Strike at Dawn (GAMER) (HISTORICON)
29) HAWKs 1000 race game (HISTORICON)
28) Battle of Hanau with Fate of Battle (HISTORICON)
27) Battle of Mincio River with Fate of Battle (HISTORICON)
26) Them! (giant ants using GASLIGHT) (HISTORICON)
25) Undersea by GASLIGHT (NASHCON)
24) Dave's Rescue the Prince (NASHCON)
23) Duncan's War of 1812 New Orleans Prelude (NASHCON)
22) G.A.M.E.R. commando game (NASHCON)
21) Dave's Rescue the Prince play test (HAWKs night)
20) G.A.M.E.R. tank battle (HAWKs night)
19) Laon (114th Signal SLPD)
18) 1664 at Schlegel's Ferry (Cold Wars)
17) Montmirail 1814 (Cold Wars)
16) LaRothiere 1814 (Cold Wars)
15) G.A.M.E.R. play test (Cold Wars)
14) Battle of La Rothiere (War Horse Con, March)
13) LSNC: WWI game (War Horse Con, March)
12) 1x Blood and Swash Valentine's Day (February)
10) and 11) 2x Battle Troll (January)
9) 1x Saga (January)
8) G.A.M.E.R. WWII play test (January)
7) Beer and Pretzels Ironclads (JJ Con)
5) and 6) 2x Chariot Race (JJ Con)
4) Bear Yourself Valiantly (fantasy) (JJ Con)
3) Fate of Battle (JJ Con)
2) G.A.M.E.R. WWII (JJ Con)
1) X-Wing Fighter (JJ Con)
Buck | March 24, 2013
I saw these on line some time back and commented that I'd like to get my hands on a set. To my surprise the person who commissioned these figures found me at Cold Wars and handed me a set. I couldn't wait to get them painted. To my embarrassment, I can't remember my benefactor's name, […]
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Buck | March 24, 2013
I have been looking for the Plasticville gas station for my Pulp town of Granville. It turns out that in O scale, Bachman doesn't make it any more. On Ebay, the price was crazy, because people are selling it for collectors in boxes, etc. It turns out that two things make the gas station collectable: […]
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Buck | March 24, 2013
If you've seen the recent Marvel movies, such as Iron Man, Captain America, and the Avengers, you're familiar with the adaptation of these comics for the "big screen." I found the three figures above at Cold Wars and thought about putting together a group of "Avengers" for Victorian science fiction games. These figures are imported […]
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Buck | March 24, 2013
This weekend, Chris, Duncan, and I got together to inventory the various donations we've received. This project, begun with figures from the estate of Wally Simon, is designed to get unused figures into the hands of younger gamers to help grow the hobby. Since the first iteration, we've had many folks donate figures to us. […]
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Buck | March 17, 2013
My buddy Sam Fuson found these figures on the Victory Force Miniatures Web page. He is painting them up for a GASLIGHT game. I couldn't resist getting a set myself. These are The Scarecrow as a sniper, Dorothy and Toto (Toto has a grenade in his mouth), The Lion, and the Tin Man. These will […]
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Friday night at the HAWKs meeting, Greg ran a first game with Muskets and Tomahawks, which he bought at Cold Wars. It was a good excuse to get my Old Glory 28mm FIW figure son the table again. We were all fumbling through the rules, because it was the first time we had played them. […]
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It's the first day of summer, and it feels like it! Like many of you, there are good and bad things happening in the garden due to the excessive rain and milder temperatures. Honestly…we kind of need this heat to push along some of our warm season plants.
It has been awhile since an update, but that doesn't mean we have been MIA in that garden. As you can see, despite the weather challenges, the garden is planted, we have been harvesting, and things are going well. One benefit of the raised beds (and the drainage tiles underneath our garden!) is that no matter how much rain we have gotten, it drains away fairly quickly. So we are not seeing too much root damage from saturated soils.
The herbs & pollinators garden has been growing gangbusters, with absolutely huge bronze fennel, lush parsley, and several beautiful agastaches.
We once again have a SNAP-Ed garden, where we are highlighting the ability to use SNAP dollars to purchase garden plants. We track our expenses and the value of harvested crops. We also have to budget for every purchase, so there is often not money to purchase tomato cages or similar items. The gardeners built this homemade tomato cage for the two tomato plants. We will see if it fares better than last year's homemade cage!
Corn is something new for us in the Demo Garden, simple because of the space requirements. We tried a Peruvian corn variety a couple years ago, but it didn't grow. This corn is 'Glass Gem' popcorn. We are interested to see how it performs in the small area we have given it.
Lest you think all is well in the garden, we are starting to see a fair amount of early blight on the lower tomato leaves. We hadn't mulched the garden until last week, which probably didn't help prevent disease. Mostly this is a rain and humidity problem. Cultural controls would include mulching, caging or staking, and keeping the leaves dry. Fungicide options would include chlorothalonil and copper-based products. It is important to note that fungicides only prevent new leaves from becoming infected, NOT cure infected leaves.
The other thing that we are seeing right now are aphids all over the tomatoes. This is quite abnormal, but probably due to the cooler weather. The benefit of hotter weather is that it should help the tomatoes grow faster and slow down the aphids (which normally like cooler weather). The white specks are the molted husks of the aphids. The black and orange guy is a ladybug larvae that is happily feeding on the aphids. We are hoping that between the hotter weather and the ladybugs, we won't need to treat for the aphids.
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It is once again the time of year where we plan what will be featured in our Demonstration Garden for the season. As always, we have a great mix of tried-and-true vegetables and some new and interesting things. When it is cold and snowy, it is a lot of fun to think about what will be growing in the garden in just a few short weeks. We will be starting the first of our seeds next week and it is all downhill from there!
Below you will find maps for each of our raised garden beds. The maps show the overall theme or focus for each bed as well as the specific varieties of vegetables, herbs, and flowers we will have growing.
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Bed 2 will feature a mix of cool season vegetables that are planted both in spring and fall. The spring plantings feature leafy greens, peas, carrots, radishes, and kohlrabi. The fall plantings feature two new cauliflower varieties, beets, daikon radishes, lettuce, spinach, and carrots. Our plan is to put row covers over at least part of the fall plantings to extend the growing season and overwinter them.
The theme for Bed 3 is the "Kansas Backyard Garden." The idea is to feature common vegetables grown in Kansas. Most of the varieties are not too far out there either. A couple things that I'm excited about though are the bush-type vine crops. We are trying both a new bush watermelon variety, 'Cal Sweet Bush' that has only 18″ long vines, and 'Cherokee Bush' pumpkin that has about a 4′ spread.
On the other hand, Bed 5 is a long way from Kansas! We are featuring vegetables that are indigenous to Africa, especially sub-Saharan Africa. Researching this garden was an education, because we discovered that some of our common ornamentals were originally edible vegetables in Africa! Vegetables that you may be familiar with are eggplant, okra, kale, and peanuts. You may be less familiar with cowpeas, long beans (a type of cowpea), amaranth, cleome, celosia, and bambara beans.
You probably do know amaranth – but as pigweed. There are colored leaf varieties and varieties that have been cultivated for edible greens. Other varieties are grown for flowers and seeds. Cleome is a ornamental flower we know, but most of us haven't eaten the foliage as a vegetable! Celosia is another common flower that you may have grown for color. But the leaves and young flowers can also be eaten as a vegetable.
Cowpeas, long beans, and bambara beans are all from the genus Vigna. Cowpeas you may recognize. The long beans are vining beans that produce 18″ long edible pods. Bambara beans are kind of like cowpeas…the peas look a lot like the cowpeas. But they are kind of like peanuts…the pods grow underground.
One of the best things about this garden theme is that these are all vegetables that thrive in hot climates, so we are excited to see how they do in Kansas!
For a second year, we have a bed that we are calling our "SNAP-Ed" bed. This bed is a demonstration of how to garden on a very small budget, using only seeds and plants that can be purchased from a store where it is possible to use the SNAP EBT (food stamp) benefits.
Also a reprise from last year is Bed 6. Agastache is the Herb of the Year featured at our Herb Day event on May 4th, so we kept this bed in the same location with several overwintering agastache varieties. The flowers and herbs are chosen for the attractiveness to butterflies and other pollinators.
Beds 8, 9, and 10 are all 4′ x 4′ beds. Bed 8 will feature ornamental gourds on a trellis. Bed 9 will feature sunflowers. Bed 10 will feature a popcorn variety called 'Glass Gem.'
In the accessible garden area, we are featuring a "Salsa Garden" theme. In the tiered raised bed will be a roma tomato, herbs, and peppers. In the barrel planters will be a trailing tomato variety, more herbs, and some green onions.
Our containers around the garden will feature flowers this year, especially some new varieties of Pentas. We are excited for spring! What are you planning to plant this year?
Fall Changes for the SNAP-Ed Garden
Although the summer is over, the SNAP-Ed garden still has a few more things left growing! We have collard greens, turnips, lettuce, spinach, radishes, of course our parsley and oregano, and just one beet made it through for us.
We had some healthy harvests of tomatoes and peppers make it all the way up until last week, check out how different the garden looks once we took those plants out:
Our Juliet tomato was our biggest producer, totaling about 1, 171 to the very end! Thai basil did very well, too. Almost too well, we had so much we didn't know what to do with it! 🙂 The Garden Salsa peppers were another great producer with about 150 peppers by the end.
Here are our totals of what we would have spent at the grocery store so far:
Radishes: $41.11
Spinach: $3.13
Red Salad Bowl Lettuce: $45.18
Garden Salsa Pepper: $10.59
Big Bertha Pepper: $62.46
Carmen Pepper: $10.74
Marconi Pepper: $4.95
Juliet Tomatoes: $30.20
Phoenix Tomatoes: $14.12
Bush Goliath Tomatoes: $12.34
Solar Fire Tomatoes: $13.77
Cucumbers: $26.22
Zucchini: $23.29
Green Beans: $6.64
Cantaloupe: $3.98
Oregano: $25.62
Parsley: $3.56
Sweet Basil: $48.10
Thai Basil: $100.00
Total: $507.78
The Milkweed Ecosystem
These are some pictures taken by one of our Master Gardeners, Lisa LaRue, back in mid-August. We always love our butterfly and pollinator bed because it is beautiful and beneficial to the environment of our garden. These pictures take a closer look at everything that is going on in that garden.
Of course, this is one of the things we are hoping to see when we plant milkweed in our garden. Lots of happy, monarch caterpillars munching their way through life.
What many people planting milkweed don't realize is that you can get a whole bunch of other insects as part of the bargain. It is very common – and completely normal – for milkweed to be just coated with bright orange aphids during the summer. They also will often get milkweed bugs (the black and orange bugs pictured). So…what to do? The thing is that you can't spray anything without causing harm to the caterpillars you are trying to encourage. The good news is that the aphids and milkweed bugs are really not causing any harm to the milkweed, or anything else in the garden. By this point (a month later), the aphids are completely gone and no harm was done.
The other benefit of leaving those aphids where they are is that they provide a food source for hungry ladybugs. The hoards of aphids are a feast for ladybugs, and by letting the aphids stay on a plant that isn't being hurt and that really doesn't matter for anything other than looking nice and feeding caterpillars/butterflies, you are actually "farming" more ladybugs for the rest of your garden. This picture shows two ladybug pupa (the stage between the larvae and the adults) on the milkweed.
This is how ecological gardening is supposed to work, and a great example of how lots of diversity in your garden is beneficial. We certainly aren't eating the milkweed, and if you were strictly focused on what you could harvest from the garden to eat, it would seem like a waste of space. But by growing something that benefits our beneficial insects, we now have a higher population of ladybugs in the garden for when there are aphids on something we DO want to eat.
This has nothing to do with the rest of the post, but I wanted to show the swallowtail chrysalis just for fun. We have had a great time this fall finding all the places that both the swallowtail and monarch caterpillars go to make their chrysalis!
June & July in the SNAP-Ed Garden
We have had some very successful harvests from our SNAP-Ed garden in the past two months! Our tomato cages made from tree branches and twine seemed to hold up for our giant Juliet tomato plant, which was a big producer!
We also had a good turn out from our zucchini, regardless of a squash bug appearance. Our SNAP-Ed educator was able to use the zucchini for multiple of her nutrition classes making zucchini bread, and cooking with the high schoolers making a pasta with zucchini in it!
Our other varieties of tomatoes are coming in quite nicely as well! Green beans and cucumbers were successful this growing season. Our peppers were wonderful, garden salsa peppers, big bertha peppers and carmen peppers were among the few that we have harvested so far!
We found this guy and had him make it out alive! 🙂
As mentioned in our previous post about the SNAP-Ed garden, we have been weighing all the produce after each harvest and comparing it to grocery store prices. Below is how much you would be paying at the grocery store for how much produce we've grown so far:
Green Beans – 3 lb 11.8 oz – worth $6.63
Zucchini – 11 total – 10 lb 6.3 oz – worth $15.48
Juliet Tomato – 135 total – 8 lb 15.4 oz – worth $31.70
Big Bertha Pepper – 11 total – 2 lb 3.8 oz – worth $10.89
Garden Salsa Pepper – 20 total – 15.2 oz – worth $1.90
Phoenix Tomato – 11 total – 4 lb 4.6 oz – worth $6.44
Marconi Pepper – 1 total – 3.2 oz – worth $0.99
Carmen Pepper – 1 total – 2.2 oz – worth $1.79
Solar Fire Tomato – 8 total – 3lb 4.9 oz – worth $4.96
Bush Goliath Tomato – 5 total – 1 lb 9.0 oz – worth $2.35
Cucumbers – 15 total – 10 lb 5.8 oz – worth $10.35
Oregano – 4.7 oz – worth $17.80
Thai Basil – 10.9 oz – worth $41.28
Sweet Basil – 4.2 oz – worth $15.91
Parsley – 4.7 oz – worth $2.79
Year To Date: $249.44


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Interviews with musician Tommy Sims and director Steve Taylor (in Dorothy's ruby shoes from Oz) add more off-beat humor as Newsboys hits such as Take Me To Your Leader flow nicely be tween scenes.
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Questar attempts to capsulize the life of Christ while focusing on the places he traveled. Bible students may enjoy the maps of Israel and shots of the modern-day edifices built at the sites of famous New Testament events. However, visually retelling the story of Christ is no easy feat. And this release stumbles at a common trouble spot: It's too long. And, some of the filming and additional footage bears a dull quality. But a strong point in the video is that it isn't actor-driven. The focus is more on the statements recorded in the Gospels. Accompanied by an original score, this understated approach lends more of a spiritual, and less of a Hollywood, effect. The narration backs this up.


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Written in Accra, Ghana, in summer 2007 for New York University's specialized reporting program
Sylvia Ashie sat among a dozen empty tables at her open-air restaurant in Tema, an industrial town outside of Ghana's capital Accra, writing check after check, signing invoice after invoice. After a few moments of silence, still looking down at her checkbook, she asked, "Do you think people in the U.S. want to do business in places like this?"
In the early '90s, Ashie, 57, owner of Sylvia's Catering Services and restaurant, opened up a second business selling food ingredients to feed the factory workers at US-based Unilever's 24-hour factory in Tema. But when the multi-national manufacturer pulled the plug on the partnership in 2004 to import cheaper goods from abroad, Ashie had to find new ways to make money.
"I thought, well, they're not buying ingredients from me anymore, and I have this factory sitting here," she said. "I might as well start doing something on my own."
After a two-year bout recovering from cancer, Ashie returned to her factory in October 2006 with the idea for Sylvia's Hot Pepper Mix, a special blend of shrimp, smoked fish, onion, peppers, garlic and salt. With funds left after chemotherapy, she opened up her third business, hiring on four workers to sell small-order batches of her signature spice to local businesses.
Her spice appeals to local taste buds and is sold in shops around greater Accra, but product analysts tell her that in order to appeal internationally, she needs to remodel the product appearance from her simple, labeled clear plastic bags to something more eye-catching. This year she's redesigning the bag with a Chinese manufacturer, hoping the aluminum-lined Polyphane packaging will attract bigger business.
"Right now I'm looking for a market outside—Africa, Europe, the U.S.," Ashie said. "I need to get my packaging right first."
Marketing schemes are one of many challenges that hundreds of small business owners in Africa face while going head to head with stronger, more experienced world leaders and emerging businesses in other rapidly growing, developing economies. Suppliers with better experience and capabilities stiffen the competition when mass-produced imports often are cheaper than the domestic brand, and small businesses can lose customers on their home turf.
Though many countries are gaining more stability with declining inflation and slow growth, trade gaps are multiplying. Between 2003 and 2006, the trade gap between sub-Saharan Africa and the United States widened from $18.8 billion to $47.1 billion. Developing African countries depend more and more heavily on imports from the United States and Europe for technology, foodstuffs and finished goods, and export mostly raw goods that bring in low
With the lowest purchasing power in the world, Africa has made its name as a world supplier for raw materials, oil and natural gas, selling off valuable resources to more developed countries that process them and make more expensive goods. Stronger producers rake in profit from the cheap costs of materials, then export goods worldwide, including to the African countries that sold them raw materials in the first place.
Leaders in trade have spoken up to move African countries away from being the world's bottom rung suppliers. Gradually, businesses are thinking past selling raw cocoa to Switzerland, timber to Germany, or oil to the highest bidder. While the biggest exports are still oil, platinum and diamonds, investments are being put into strengthening non-traditional industries and helping small- and medium-sized enterprises, the businesses that propel the majority of the domestic non-oil economy. Manufacturers are exploring ways to produce more expensive goods and make bigger profits. By producing more finished and semi-finished goods, businesses add value to their products, selling them at a higher price and maximizing profit.
But in a continent where the oldest free economy was born just 50 years ago in Ghana, infrastructure problems and lack of technology and business experience pull down entrepreneurs. Domestic problems are then buried by burning financial and trade questions, with small businesses scrambling for investors and market access. In sub-Saharan Africa, trade is pulled down by supply-side constraints from an underdeveloped infrastructure. Transportation and energy problems cost businesses time, money and partnerships. In West Africa, the region-wide energy crisis and dilapidated one-lane road systems slow down transport.
Along trade routes in Burkina Faso, Togo, Ghana and Mali in West Africa, truck drivers can be delayed 15 to 40 minutes per hour along the route because of customs delays. In these countries with anywhere from seven to 19 checkpoints each, customs officials accept bribes from $3 to $25 per 100 kilometers, and a truck driver could pay up to $105 to drive through Mali. The Malian police and Burkina Faso customs officials take the highest bribes at $11.50 and up to $6.80, respectively, according to a road-highway governance report published in July by USAID, a government foreign aid agency. Record-high fuel prices and low financial access shut down domestic airlines, buckling under the competition of international lines.
Businesses in landlocked countries can't afford air freight, and are forced to make costly ground commutes to port cities on coastlines. Delayed traffic leads to late deliveries, low expectations and lower demand. Palm oil exporters in Guinea are facing challenges with its shipments to the United States. Before making a business deal, exporters send samples of their goods to potential buyers, which are then approved and ordered in large quantities. However, once the palm oil reaches its overseas destinations, buyers claim that the shipment isn't the same product as the sample, then question whether the African exporters are familiar with quality specifications in order to ship products properly and efficiently.
Small businesses lack experience with product development, efficient packaging and timely development. Technical standards in developing countries are miles behind first-world economic leaders. Consistent energy supply isn't always guaranteed and broadband web access is a distant dream for many businesses. And because these infrastructural impediments challenge businesses and therefore damage credibility, high interest rates hinder making big investments.
African exports only make up two percent of the world's trade market, compared to six percent in 1980, though the population of Africa has nearly doubled to over 900 million people since then. According to U.S. trade representative Susan Schwab, one extra percentage boost would add $70 billion to trade revenue, which is almost three times the amount of all current foreign development aid combined.
The United States is taking steps to facilitate trade with the sub-Saharan by giving African countries more market access. In 2000, President Clinton signed the African Growth and Opportunity Act, which removed major trade barriers by allowing 6,400 nontraditional types of exports, from footwear and apparel to woodwork and foodstuffs, to enter the United States duty- and quota-free. Now 98 percent of African imports enter the country duty-free.
Since the Act was implemented in 2001, sub-Saharan Africa's revenue from non-oil imports to the United States went up from $7.6 billion to $44.2 billion. This July, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced the AGOA Diversification Fund to help African countries diversify their economies.
But even after five years, the Act still hasn't reached its full potential. Only 3,800 of the applicable products are actually imported into the United States through AGOA. Many small businesses find their own ways into the U.S. market without facilitating the benefits of AGOA, according to USAID. Business relations are made without using AGOA, partly because investors aren't even aware of AGOA and its benefits, one Rwandan representative said, who pushed for more ways to sensitize American investors and businesses about the benefits of AGOA at July's forum on the Act in Accra.
The U.S. Millennium Challenge Corporation, the government's outreach sector put into action in 2004 to assist developing countries, created the Millennium Challenge Account to invest in infrastructure projects in developing countries. There are 19 MCC compacts in Africa, chiefly to improve transport, irrigation and energy problems. This July, the MCC signed onto a 5-year compact of $362.6 million to improve water conditions the southern African country of Lesotho, improving health and providing more desirable incentives for private investment.
The Bush administration has already chipped in over $3.8 billion and counting through the Millennium Challenge Account alone. It also set up health, financial, and education initiatives to battle AIDS and malaria epidemics, the $200 million African Global Competitiveness Initiative to build capacity for trade and competitiveness in the sub-Saharan, and a faculty exchange program for Africa's top agricultural experts to study in America. President Bush has signed three beneficial AGOA incentives for the 38 eligible countries, most recently to extend market access to the trade and apparel industries until 2015.
The public sector has demonstrated heavy involvement in shaping the African economy, but now the ball lies in the court of private investors to work with individual African businesses through AGOA and other market initiatives. But, as African and American representatives pointed out at the AGOA forum, U.S. private investors aren't even aware of AGOA and its benefits, much less are they aware that there is even any potential working with small and medium businesses in Africa.
"Capital is a coward. It goes where it feels comfortable," said Ron Greenberg, a division chief for USAID, at the AGOA forum. Investors' natural hesitance to put their dollars in foreign territory puts African SMEs in a catch-22. With insufficient funds to make their businesses more desirable, small businesses are left in need of technical and financial assistance, while scrambling to find a door into the U.S. market.
But market gurus see the exotic African identity as a leg up in the U.S. market over other cheap imports. With the success of the Product (Red) cross-brand marketing campaign and Vanity Fair's July 2007 issue devoted to all things Africa, guest edited by U2 front man Bono, U.S. consumers have shown that they are open-armed to Africa. "Africa is hot," Bill Releford of the Global Integrated Development Group commented, touting Africa's marketability in the U.S. market at the AGOA forum. By "branding Africa," Releford's pet term for capitalizing on the African identity, the continent could bring in major revenue through nontraditional, non-oil industries, such as textile, apparel, furniture, home décor and food.
AGOA facilitates trade by providing market access for thousands of African small business owners, producing growth with the ultimate goal of reducing poverty in the sub-Saharan least developed countries. But the lingering issue of financial aid raises concerns for African officials, who don't think long-term investors want to jump into the game with only eight years left on the initiative's clock. Though AGOA, initially meant to expire in 2008, has been renewed until 2015, the African Civil Society is pushing to set the Act's benefits in stone by extending the Act for 20 to 30 more years.
U.S. non-trade investments also signal that the U.S. private sector isn't overlooking business in Africa. A few U.S. corporations have set up camp in Africa to reduce production costs, making their products affordable to African consumers. Coca-Cola, the largest employer in the continent with 60,000 African workers, carries the motto, "Local people process local resources to provide a local product," reducing production costs to make its products affordable to every consumer. This July, the Minnesota-based agricultural giant Cargill dropped a $70 million investment in Ghana to construct a cocoa manufacturing plant in Tema, across town from the major domestic cocoa processing company Golden Tree, a benchmark that U.S. investors are slowly moving in on Africa's increasingly fertile economic opportunities.
But while major efforts are underway to ease business with the United States, African leaders seem more apprehensive about bringing down the barriers with the European Union, who proposed an Economic Partnership Agreement to liberalize trade relations between Europe and Africa. While AGOA is an initiative to increase market access for African SMEs, the EPA would remove tariffs for all goods within its "Everything But Arms" regulation to ease importing on both ends.
However, because European industries have stronger production capabilities, African leaders worry that lesser developed African industries aren't ready to compete with the European Union, and increasing trade with Europe will worsen trade deficits in Africa, already at $750 million in South Africa and $2.38 billion in Ghana, two of the strongest economic and political bodies on the continent. "Europe's products will come into our zone without any tariffs, and our products will not be able to compete with their products," says Dr. Lanto Harding, chief of trade and development at the West African Monetary Institute. "They'll kill our industry."
Leaders say building up the economy will take more than strengthening SMEs, which is AGOA's most prevalent success story. With its vast array of resources, Africa has the capability to promote larger business ventures and create "star" companies, following the model of India's multinational Tata Group, the world leader in several industries from tea to information technology, which brought in $21.9 billion in 2005-2006 and now exports to over 140 countries.
"We need to get the macroeconomy right. The government also needs to determine if it has to help some sectors of industry to move the economy forward," Harding says, suggesting that the government should facilitate national banks to build specific industries by offering soft credit and venture capital. "That type of thinking is not yet very prominent in the government…it has not become the focus yet."
But right now, since development efforts and business assistance focus on aiding SMEs in an array of industries, small-business entrepreneurs like Sylvia Ashie are focusing on making bigger business partnerships and increasing their market desirability, in order to eventually attract private investors to pave the way into the American or European market.
Development experts and trade ministers in both the United States and Africa concede that facilitating trade is the single most effective way to build the economy and industries, ultimately reducing poverty. SMEs that are eager to enter the U.S. market must work against the clock to establish business partnerships by 2015, when AGOA expires and direct U.S. public assistance to trade reaches an end. And when foreign help expires, African industries must be ready to stand on their own in the world market.
Despite the United States' multibillion-dollar investments, U.S. Ambassador to Ghana Pamela Bridgewater stressed that the limited work of the public sector won't help maximize growth. "Private sector growth–trade and development–will have a direct impact on good governance," she said the AGOA forum. "Government can provide an enabling environment…It is our job to help you, but to not stand in your way."
Instead of increasing government assistance, she said encouraging the private sector's involvement in trade with African businesses is key for economic progress. "We need [a] holistic approach to positive structure–civil society, the private sector and government working hand-in-hand," Bridgewater said. "Most importantly, Africa has to take its place on the global stage. Demand it, you'll get it."


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"God Bless the Child" is a song written by Billie Holiday and Arthur Herzog, Jr. in 1939. It was first recorded on May 9, 1941 under the Okeh label.
Holiday's version of the song was honored with the Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 1976. It was also included in the list of Songs of the Century, by the Recording Industry Association of America and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Recording sessionEdit
Session #44: 799 Seventh Avenue, New York City, May 9, 1941, Eddie Heywood and his Orchestra with Roy Eldridge (trumpet) Jimmy Powell, Lester Boone (alto saxophone), Ernie Powell (trumpet), Eddie Heywood (piano), Johan Robins (guitar), Paul Chapman (guitar), Grachan Moncur II (bass), Herbert Cowans (drums), Billie Holiday (vocal)
Origin and interpretationEdit
In her autobiography Lady Sings the Blues Holiday indicated an argument with her mother over money led to the song. She indicated that during the argument she said the line "God bless the child that's got his own." The anger over the incident led her to turn that line into a starting point for a song, which she worked out in conjunction with Herzog. In his 1990 book Jazz Singing, Will Friedwald indicates it as "sacred and profane" as it references the Bible while indicating that religion seems to have no effect in making people treat each other better. The lyrics refer to an unspecified Biblical verse: "Them that's got shall get, them that don't shall lose, so the Bible says, and it still is news. . . . " This likely refers to Matthew 25:29 or Luke 8:18.


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The White Hart
As for having a pub in Bath Hare & Hounds beats the one above hands down....
The best pubs in Greater Manchester according to the AA's Pub Guide
4 out of 11 for me.The AA Pub Guide 2020 includes a range of traditional and modern venues, hailing from the heart of Manchester to quiet spots in small towns
Horse & Jockey, Chorlton
The Marble Arch, Manchester
The Kings Arms, Salford
Arden Arms, Stockport
5 for me. Not sure the AA knows much about pubs if they've put the White House in there though!
A pub is for life not just for Christmas