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Phone: 204-996-1514
1225 St. Mary's Road
Winnipeg, MB
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- - Visa
- - Debit
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- - Cash
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1. General Requirements
- The landlord reserves the right to add or to amend information in this manual and the tenant must abide by these changes upon notification.
- Tenant must engage professionals in the fields of design, engineering and contracting. The selected firms are subject to approval by the landlord.
- Provide a high quality, well-detailed environment. Fixtures and fittings must be new and of high quality.
- Ensure that all aspects of the design and construction of tenant spaces meet the requirements of all applicable building codes, bylaws and regulations.
- Exterior signs are not permitted unless approved by Landlord.
2. Design Criteria General
The presentation of design elements, equipment and other products within the kiosk should be carefully considered.
All aspects of Tenant presentation are subject to the Landlord's approval.
- The maximum permitted size of the kiosk is 8'-0" wide x 15'-0" long (maximum area 150 square feet);
- No projections beyond this footprint (shelves, countertops, legs, equipment, fittings etc.);
- The kiosk must be low profile;
- Must not block view across mall to surrounding tenant storefronts and signs;
- An elevated pilon is permitted for tenant signage;
- Canopies are not acceptable.
- No exposed backside of equipment is allowed at the serving counter.
- Cash stations must be recessed and fully integrated into the counter design;
Acceptable finishes: high quality, durable monolithic material such as stone, Corian, stainless steel or laminated glass;
Not permitted: plastic laminate, veneers.
Kiosk Unit(s) / Showcases:
- Showcases to be lit internally;
- Corners and bottom edges to be protected (metal trims are suggested);
- Acceptable finishes: luminous or translucent materials, laminated glass, other high quality and durable material;
- Not permitted: Paint, wallcovering, plastic laminate, melamine, wood veneer, other veneers
Base Material: (at kickspace)
- Must require minimum maintenance;
- Adhesive fastening not acceptable;
- Must be durable enough to withstand use of by commercial floor cleaning equipment;
- Kiosks must not be supported on legs;
Acceptable materials: hard, durable materials securely fastened to kiosk structure such as porcelain floor tile, heavy gauge stainless steel mechanically fastened;
Not permitted: plastic laminate, melamine, veneer products, thin gauge metal, rubber base, paint.
Gate Access:
- Gate must be swing type and must meet all requirements of the Building Code;
- Gate must not swing into the mall;
- Must be well integrated in the overall counter design;
- Also refer to "Servicing";
Acceptable finishes: existing mall tile, other commercial high grade materials subject to review on submission of samples;
Not permitted: vinyl tile, resilient sheet flooring.
Product Merchandising and Equipment:
- Manufacturer/ contractor labels must not be exposed to public view;
- Products must be presented in a well-organized fashion with;
- Merchandise must be displayed on fixtures that complement the kiosk design;
- Details of merchandise display are subject to Landlord approval and therefore must be submitted for review;
- Cash registers and other miscellaneous equipment which back onto public view must be recessed into counters;
- Chairs/stools placed outside of the allowable kiosk footprint area are not acceptable; if within the footprint area, submit complete details for review.
Closure Systems:
- Security is the responsibility of the tenant;
- Merchandise should be stored within the kiosk by:
- Lockable counter units;
- Roll top counters;
- Photo-electrical beam security systems; built-in lockable storage areas;
- Cash drawers should be fully secured or removable for safekeeping;
- Other closure systems may be considered providing they are fully stored away from view during operating hours; materials and finish would also be subject to Landlord approval;
- Fabric curtain/drapery type closure systems are not permitted
Tenant Sign:
- Temporary signage, whether it is the Tenant's brand or third party advertising is strictly forbidden;
- Tenants are permitted one sign/logo; sign may be two-sided; a City of Winnipeg sign permit is required;
- In some cases, if low profile and smaller in size, two signs will be considered;
- Sign must be proportionate in size to the kiosk;
- Sign may be illuminated (with concealed light source) or non-illuminated;
- Signs must be three-dimensional, individual letters only;
- Poster boards are subject to approval; they must be well integrated in the overall kiosk design;
- Electrical must be entirely concealed;
Acceptable materials: plastic face or metal channel with back halo lighting, metal individual letters;
Not permitted: sign boxes, illuminated canopy signs, exposed neon, painted signs.
- On kiosk face or pylon mounting.
- The Landlord has provided general illumination in the mall around each kiosk;
- Tenant lighting of kiosk must comply with the following:
- Fixtures to be of commercial grade only;
- Lighting to be glare-free;
- Use only incandescent or halogen;
- Fluorescent fixtures and exposed neon are not permitted;
Mounting: keep in mind kiosk must be low profile;
Acceptable mounting:
- Concealed within showcases;
- Single pylon;
- Concealed lighting within sign;
Not permitted:
- Lighting must not be attached to or powered from mall ceiling;
- Numerous pylons;
- Track supported lighting;
- Numerous exposed fixtures;
- Flood type lighting of sign.
- Refer to "Structural Systems", Item "Floor Slabs: (cutting and coring)" for required procedures and reinstate mall floor tile;
- It is acceptable to build a raised platform over the mall tile within the footprint of the kiosk providing design and construction of platform and ramp access meet the requirements of all applicable building codes; be responsible for damage to mall tile floor finish;
- Platform must be finished in acceptable floor finish materials.
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Harvard accepts 5.8 percent of applicants for class of 2017, a record low
Harvard College has accepted 5.8 percent of its applicant pool for next fall's freshman class, marking the lowest acceptance rate in its history, college officials announced.
Harvard sent out letters and e-mail notifications of admission Thursday to 2,029 students, out of the 35,023 applicants.
A total of 3,400 applicants were ranked first in their high school classes, according to a statement released by the college.
William R. Fitzsimmons, dean of admissions and financial aid, said in the statement that, "beyond statistical measures, the Class of 2017 embodies all the intangibles, attributes of strong character and personal qualities that foster unusual academic and extracurricular excellence. Their remarkable creativity, intellectual curiosity, and love of learning will add immeasurably to the education of their fellow classmates and to the entire Harvard community."
Columbia, Cornell, Penn, Princeton and Yale — also had record-low acceptance rates this year, with Dartmouth being the only Ivy League school to have a higher acceptance rate than last year, according to The Brown Daily Herald.
This year, the college is allocating a record $182 million in need-based financial aid, the statement said.
"We expect that nearly 60 percent of the students admitted to the Class of 2017 will need financial assistance in order to attend," said Sarah C. Donahue, director of financial aid. "Their families will pay an average of only $12,000 per year. About 20 percent of Harvard families, those with normal assets making $65,000 or less annually, will pay nothing."
The admitted class is 11.5 percent African-American, 19.9 percent Asian-American, 11.5 percent Latino, 2.2 percent Native American, and .5 percent Native Hawaiian, the statement said.
MIT recently said it had admitted 8.2 percent of students who applied this year, marking the lowest ever acceptance rate in the history of that university.
Tufts University also had a new record low acceptance rate of 18.7 percent, said Kim Thurler, a spokeswoman for the university.
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On December 1, Growth Energy released a new advertisement highlighting comments made by USDA Secretary Ed Schafer about the Grocery Manufacturer Association's (GMA) blaming ethanol for higher food prices. The advertisement can be viewed at www.growthenergy.org/Growth_Energy_ad3.pdf
In a recent interview, Secretary Shafer responded to a reporter's question about GMA's claims about ethanol in light of falling commodity prices and said that GMA had "no credibility." He indicated that the GMA is trying to justify the increased costs and the increased profits they are making at the expense of the ethanol industry.
What is GMA's response to the Secretary's comments that the GMA has been using false attacks against ethanol as a primary factor behind higher food prices? Scott Openshaw, director of communications, GMA, www.gmaonline.org, responded:
USDA has said that ethanol production is responsible for about 30% of the increase in corn prices and has pointed to the fact that since 2006, 50% of the increase in global demand for all grains came from U.S. corn ethanol production.
As GMA has said from day one, there are many factors contributing to the sharp increase in U.S. and global food prices--including increasing global food demand, export and other restrictions, adverse weather in some countries, commodity speculation and higher energy prices--but a significant new factor and the only factor affecting food and feed prices that is under the control of Congress is the food-to fuel mandates and subsidies diverting food into fuel production.
We are calling on Congress to revisit and reconsider that policy. Perhaps most importantly, until Congress enacts bold policy to facilitate the rapid development and delivery of second generation biofuels that don't pit our energy needs against our food and feed needs, the unprecedented volatility we've experienced in commodity prices will only continue.
GMA is not alone in these concerns, and in fact has joined a chorus of voices that includes three Nobel Prize winning economists, the World Bank, the IMF, the United Nations, academia, nearly every major editorial board in the United States, and dozens of organizations representing the livestock sector, the environment, food companies, restaurants, and taxpayers.
Now that corn has dropped to less than $3.50 per bushel, why haven't food prices dropped?
Just as food companies absorbed the increasing prices since 2006 and were slow to raise prices, the full extent of increased costs sustained at the beginning of 2008 have not yet worked their way through the system. Furthermore, we expect prices to rise again in the next few months as supply and demand takes over and the ethanol mandates increase again.
Yes current gas prices are down, but commodity prices continue to be high and volatile. USDA and most economists are forecasting food inflation to continue up next year anywhere from 4 to 9 percent. Even after recent declines, farm-level corn and soybean prices have more than doubled since 2005/06. Retail food costs continue to reflect record commodity prices and volatility. Again, until Congress enacts bold policy to facilitate the rapid development and delivery of second generation biofuels that don't pit our energy needs against our food and feed needs, the unprecedented volatility we've experienced in commodity prices will only continue.
Does GMA still support eliminating subsidies for ethanol?
GMA continues to support shifting subsidies away from corn ethanol and increasing investment in other types of biofuels from non-food sources. In fact, our proposals to reduce or eliminate the corn ethanol subsidy (which is actually paid to gasoline refiners) would actually increase the investment in cellulosic ethanol under existing law. Taxpayer money could be better spent accelerating development of alternative fuels or combating hunger.
If such subsidies are eliminated, the research development of cellulosic ethanol, a logical progression from corn ethanol, could be adversely impacted or even halted. What is GMA's stance on this?
Corn ethanol has been receiving taxpayer subsidies for more than 30 years--presently to the tune of $5 billion per year. It's time that money was shifted from a mature corn ethanol industry to be invested in second generation fuels that don't pit our nation's energy needs against America's food and feed needs. Again, our proposals to reduce or eliminate the corn ethanol subsidy (which is actually paid to gasoline refiners) would actually increase the investment in cellulosic ethanol under existing law.


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In the Sunshine State in the southern USA, the sun reportedly shines on around 300 days of the year. Long sandy beaches, breath-taking sunsets, and national parks also attract visitors. Are you planning a trip to Florida and still looking for a few travel tips?
A string of around 200 islands extends off the southern tip of the state, along a stretch of some 200 kilometres. They are connected with bridges and practically invite you to explore them on a multi-day tour. The Seven Miles Bridge is particularly remarkable with its 11 kilometres in length. The US Highway 1 goes all the way to the southern tip of the Florida keys. Key West is best explored on foot or by bicycle – there you can visit Hemingway House, in which the artist wrote most of his works.
Anyone who wants to explore nature should not miss out on the Everglades. The Everglades National Park, which occupies approximately 20% of the whole area, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Contrary to popular belief, the Everglades is not a swamp, but rather a flooded prairie. Lush and diverse plants, mangrove forests, and numerous alligators can all be observed from up close there. A tour on an airboat through the knee-deep water is recommended – get face to face with an alligator!
Welcome to Miami! The vibrant metropolis with fascinating architecture in the art deco style attracts visitors with many glitzy bars and trendy restaurants. In the South Beach District with the famous Ocean Drive, it's easy to dance until dawn. Of course, shopping in Miami should not be missed: Visit the Sawgrass Mills, one of the largest outlet malls in Florida or shop in style at the luxurious Aventura Mall, which offers over 300 designer shops for a long stroll. Warning! Chance of celebrity sightings: in the third largest shopping mall in the United States, it is not uncommon to encounter celebrities and stars.
A trip to the famous Disneyworld is essential, especially for families. Countless attractions await both little and grown-up visitors there. The highlight is, of course, the legendary Magic Kingdom with its live shows. Orlando has even more attractions yet to offer: a visit to Sea World makes close-up encounters with marine life possible and spectacular live shows await visitors to the park. Spaceship fans shouldn't miss a trip to the Kennedy Space Centre at Cape Canaveral.
Anyone who travels to Florida will admire the countless beaches stretching along the coast there. Highly recommended is the stunningly beautiful Clearwater Beach or Anna Maria Island, which boasts unspoilt nature and tranquillity.
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TinaMartin wrote:I think the 15 year old should go through some serious counseling. No one knows what morals and ethics that child learned.
As for criminal charges or something for the teenager...I don't think she was in a position to do anything about it...I mean, teenagers are bad at making decisions anyway...and adding in the fact that the adults were pushing her into the situation. It didn't sound like she had much of an "out"...and I'm sure it seemed fairly normal with it constantly going on around her. I agree that some counseling and help are needed...but charges against her...not so sure I'm on board with that idea.
The adults, they should suffer for what they did.


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How fun is this! A Robot pillow case to make for your robot lover. Choose your favorite color pillowcase, then print and iron on these cute Robots.
Items needed:
- Printable t-shirt Transfer paper
- Scissors
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- Pillow Case
- Print design on transfer paper (Choose REVERSE for light color transfer)
- Cut out around each image to remove excess blank space.
- Iron transfer onto pillowcase, following manufacturer's directions.
*Parental assistance required
General Transfer Info
- Wash item before applying transfer
- Always wash item inside-out after transfer has been applied
- We recommend "Dark" color transfers for vivid colors


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Go ahead, be a control freak. You can learn about getting organized -- controlling the pileup of receipts, bank records, warranties, and whatnots -- from the de-cluttering books crowding the "Organization" aisle at the bookstore.
Consider the five steps author Julie Morgenstern outlines in her popular organization book, Organizing From the Inside Out. Her advice can be easily tailored to help people corral financial clutter, too:
Step 1: Sort
Take stock of your financial filing cabinet. What valuables do you have? Take an inventory -- using an oldfangled pencil and paper or a more newfangled tracking system like Intuit's
Step 2: Purge
Get rid of extraneous stuff. This means everything from needless expenses (do you really enjoy call waiting?) to extra accounts (consider consolidating your old 401(k)s into a single self-directed IRA). If you're married, assess the costs and convenience of any separate accounts you have. Insure your cars on one policy, and see if you get a price break on homeowners or renters insurance with the same firm.
Does your discount broker offer banking services? Nothing cuts down clutter more than getting fewer account statements each month. (Here's some more on what financial statements to trash and which ones to treasure.)
Step 3: Assign a home
In household organization, things you use frequently are stored at the front of the closet. Stuff you use less often goes in the attic (or mysteriously disappears when your spouse darts over to the neighbor's garage sale). The same goes for your savings (except the garage sale part).
Short-term savings -- your mortgage, bills, and entertainment money -- should sit in the forefront of your mind and filing cabinet. Your monthly cash flow is accessed most frequently. To stay on top of inflows and outflows, have all family members put bills and receipts in one place. Now vow to reconcile your checking account at least once every two weeks.
Step 4: Containerize
Once you get rid of extraneous accounts, it's time to find the best place to "store" your money. The goal for your long-term savings is to make it grow. Your work retirement plan, and a discount brokerage account (where you can set up an IRA) are the perfect vessels for these important investments. Your short-term savings -- what you plan to spend within about five years on a new roof, new car, or even a major vacation -- should be placed in CDs or short-term bonds. Your peace-of-mind money -- for medical emergencies, car-repair emergencies, pink-slip emergencies -- should be easily accessible. But not too easily accessible. Consider a money market account with check-writing privileges.
Step 5: Equalize
Once you have the paper beast tamed and have achieved a state of chipper financial being, work a little every day to maintain your new centered status. In other words, when the bills, bank statements, receipts, and garage sale proceeds come in, see Steps 1 to 4 and lather, rinse, repeat.
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I would like some information on this item which was discovered when cleaning up a deceased relatives home. The box which is badly faded and worn has the title "Ancient Game of the Mandarins" Inside there are tw0 trays containing 144 wooden tiles, 4 wooden racks to hold the tiles, a small container holding 4 disks E, S, N & W one dice & a number of yellow, green, black & red plastic? sticks. . There is also an instruction book "The Ancient Game of the Mandarins" by Hugo Manovill. The only date I can find is on the cover of the book "Copywrite 1923 by Piroxloid Products Corp"
Any information on the possible age of this item and if it would be of interest to a collector would be much appreciated.


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A message for Linux.com registered users: We are in the process of making changes to the Linux forums. Starting Monday, 8/13/18 at 6:00 PM PT, you will be unable to access the forums. They will re-launch as soon as possible on Wednesday, 8/15/18 with new features and improved functionality. Thank you for your patience and stay tuned for the new improved forums.
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Hello, I just wanted to take just a moment to introduce myself, say "Hello" and to request some advice, or at least get an opinion weather or not I am going about this the right way. I will do my best to keep this as short as possible. I guess to sum it up I am sick and tired of Microsoft's bullshit. I built my first computer (sometime in 1975) when I was 12 years old from a kit called the Altair. PC's Hardware/Software have been both my life long Hobby and my Career. From 8800, 8080, 8088, Texas Sinclair, TRS-80 (Trash-80 hehehe) ect. I went on to put my first BBS on-line at 16. Amazingly enough for what it's worth, I was turned off by the whole "Internet thing" ("Hi" I'm a 12 year old girl want to chat?) and was to busy with my career to ever make a dime off the Internet. I'm sorry I am "rabbling" At any rate, I went with the flow always staying on the cutting edge both with system components and OS's. The only exception was going from DOS to OS/2 because it ran games better then DOS could, due to the 64K – 640K thing, and not going to Windows till I got feed-up with the "Latest and Greatest" hardware taking so long to get OS/2 drivers. Any way my whole career was in Windows based Implementation, Integration and Coding, as of four years ago I retired from a fortune 100 as Vice President / Sr. Software Engineer. With all the Virus's, Spyware, lack of challenge left, worst of all Microsoft Activation, that now plaques Windows, I have made the decision to put all my time, efforts, and willingness to help others into Linux. I had "Played" with Linux a few times over the decades, however due to it's lack of cutting edge hardware support and my lack of knowledge on the Linux paradigm I never played long or much with it. After downloading Linux Mint 7 like five or six day's ago and having the Live CD come right up and run on my;
Intel DX58SO (Extreme Series)
Intel Core i7-920
6 Gig Ram
Nvidea GeForce GTX-280
3 - Seagate 1TB-32meg Cache SATA HD ST310005N1A1AS
1 - Western Digital 1TB-8meg Cache SATA HD WD10EAVS
Not only come right up but simply "SCREAM" I was thoroughly impressed!!! And after playing with it for a few hours, it was more than obvious to me that Linux has matured. Moving on probably needless to say I Multi-Boot and have since the DOS days with each game desiring and needing it's own unique configuration. I boot;
1X – XP-64
2X – Vista Ultimate-64
Ever since like somewhere around Windows 1.1 (Windows for Workgroups) I have had multiple installations of windows. I simply put them into their own Pri-Partition on Disk-0 than hide the other Part from it. I have spent the last like 25 – 30 hours trying to get Linux into my current schema, with little to no success. Any way, after much thought and the decision to put my priority and time into Linux, I have decided to format, reconfigure, and reinstall all drives. While playing with the install and trying to get a little bit of understanding on how Linux works and reacts to stuff I have found that separate instance's of installations do not seem to mind sharing a single Swap part. Or a single "Home" mounting point. Is this correct? If this is across the board for different Distro's than if you would be kind enough to give me you opinion on this schema I would appreciate it.
HD-0 4 equal part. 3 Pri 1 Ext.
Part-0 Pri-250gig Vista-64
Part-1 Pri-250gig Vista-Ult
Part-2 Pri-250gig Win-7
Part-3 Ext-250gig
Logical Drives (For Linux)
LD-0 (ext3) 5gig GRUB (Unless you can recommend a better boot loader?)
LD-1 (ext3) 245gig "Home" Mount Point All (Linux Installs)
HD-1 1 Pri. 1 Ext.
Part-0 Pri-500gig (NTFS) Win Stuff
Part-1 Ext 500gig
Logical Drives (Linux "Root" Mount Points)
LD-0 (ResierFS) 125gig Linux "\" Inst-1
LD-1 (ResierFS) 125gig Linux "\" Inst-2
LD-2 (ResierFS) 125gig Linux "\" Inst-3
LD-3 (ResierFS) 125gig Linux "\" Inst-4
HD-2 1 Pri. 1 Linux Swap
Part-0 Pri. 985-gig (NTFS) Win Stuff
Part-1 SWAP 15gig (All Linux Inst)
HD-3 (I'll Figure it out as needed)
1)Do you see any "Issues"?
2)Am I on the right track here?
3)Previously asked, will separate independent Installs\Distro's have an issue sharing "Home"
4)Providing I give each install the same first user account can they share the same folder?
5)4 is there a way to use a folder as a mount point?
6)Any recommendation?
7)Lastly; is there any imminent danger that I should be aware of, or any "MUST" read that I should know about?
In conclusion, I would like to thank you in advance for both your time and assistance. "Thank You!!" I look forward to being able to help others in the near future, and to be able to contribute to the Linux community as soon as I get up to speed...
Best Regards,
PS (Sorry) I apologise for being so winded and for draging this out. (Some of us have communication issues)
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DeKALB – DeKalb police are searching for suspects after they say a man had been stabbed and victims in two other incidents said they had been robbed.
DeKalb police Lt. Jason Leverton said police were alerted to a stabbing at 4:20 a.m. Friday. A victim, who said he was attacked while walking to 7-Eleven from his Ridge Drive residence, told police that two men jumped him while he was cutting through the parking lot of Campus Cinemas, in the 1000 block of Blackhawk Road in DeKalb.
Leverton said the victim tried to defend himself against the two men and apparently succeeded in fighting them off. A motorist driving by saw the incident and stopped to yell something out the window, which Leverton said seemed to scare the suspects, who ran off.
The victim noticed a stab wound in his side and was transported to Kishwaukee Community Hospital, where Leverton said he remained hospitalized Friday morning with a punctured lung.
The suspects did not demand any money or take anything from the victim, and the victim said he did not know them. The suspects were described as about black men about 6 feet tall. One was wearing a navy blue hooded sweater and the other was wearing a blue jean jacket.
About an hour later, police responded to a report of a robbery at the corner of Greenbrier and Russell roads in DeKalb. Leverton said a male and a female couple were walking in the area with two other men they had just met around 5 a.m.
The female walked farther ahead of the group and the two people the couple had just met robbed the male victim of his wallet. The victim said the suspects hit him in the head and kicked him, and he suffered minor injuries.
One suspect was described as a black man, 6-feet tall wearing a red and white jacket, black pants and a baseball cap. The second suspect was described as a black man 5-feet, 10-inches tall wearing all black, including a black coat and black hat.
Paul Palian, a spokesman for Northern Illinois University, said victims in both of those robberies were not NIU students. NIU police issued a safety bulletin Friday morning advising people to temporarily avoid the areas where the incidents occurred, which were both in the Greek Row area.
Leverton said DeKalb police responded to another robbery in the same area around 11 p.m. Thursday when they said a man took food being delivered by a Lukulos Restaurant delivery driver.
The driver was on foot cutting through the lot between 1110 and 1120 Varsity Boulevard in DeKalb when a suspect hit the delivery driver on the side of the head and took a bag of food. Leverton said the driver was not seriously injured and continued to work his delivery shift.
The suspect in that robbery was described as a black man about 6 feet tall wearing black pants and a white jacket.
"At the moment, we're investigating these as separate incidents," Leverton said. "There's some similarities of descriptions, but they're also ... a little bit vague."
Leverton said police are following leads and looking into camera footage that may have captured the crimes. He said no arrests have been made yet.
Anyone with information about the incident can call DeKalb police at 815-748-8400 or DeKalb County Crime Stoppers at 815-895-3272.


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The National Clean Plant Network (NCPN) provides high quality asexually propagated plant material free of targeted plant pathogens and pests to protect the environment and ensure the global competitiveness of specialty crop producers.
The National Clean Plant Network (NCPN) provides high quality asexually propagated plant material tested for targeted plant pathogens and pests to protect the environment and ensure the global competitiveness of specialty crop producers. In FY2019, APHIS has a base of not less than $5,000,000 to support NCPN clean plant projects nationally.
The United States Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has scheduled the fiscal year (FY) 2019 open period for submitting proposals to implement the National Clean Plant Network (NCPN) program of the 2014 Farm Bill. The FY 2019 open period for submitting NCPN proposals will last for 12 weeks from July 23, 2018 through October 12, 2018.
Open Period Related Materials
Resources for Applicants
Information about the National Clean Plant Network (NCPN)
The purpose of the NCPN is to protect plants of economic value by diagnosing for plant pathogens, curing those plants, and to protect starter plants and make them available to industry.
Cumulative highlights since 2014 include:
The Farm Bill—H.R. 6124 Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008—became law in June 2008. Section 10202 directed the USDA Secretary of Agriculture to establish the "National Clean Plant Network" (NCPN), a program that organized a partnership of clean plant centers for diagnostic and pathogen elimination services to produce clean propagative plant material and maintain blocks of pathogen-tested plant materials in sites located throughout the United States. Clean plant material is made available to States for certified clean plant programs and to private nurseries and producers. In carrying out the NCPN, USDA consults with State departments of agriculture, land grant universities, and non-land-grant colleges of agriculture. To the extent practicable, and with appropriate State and industry input, NCPN uses existing Federal or State facilities as clean plant centers. The program was reauthorized under the Agriculture Act of 2014 (commonly called the 2014 Farm Bill). Section 10007 of the Farm Bill of 2014 combined the National Clean Plant Network (NCPN), formally Section 10202, with the Plant Pest and Disease Management and Disaster Prevention program, formally Section 10201, and provided additional funding for these two programs. The Farm Bill made the NCPN a permanent program with dedicated funding.
In FY 2009, NCPN supported 5 clean plant centers covering fruit trees and grapes. The program expanded in FY 2010 to include more covering citrus, berries, and hops. The program repeated again in FY 2011 and 2012. Due to the lack of a Farm Bill in FY 2013, the program was unable to offer funding support that fiscal year. The program was reauthorized under the Agriculture Act of 2014 (also known as the 2014 Farm Bill) and re-issued its NCPN Cooperative Agreement Request for Applications (RFA) in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018, expanding the program further to include support for sweet potatoes and roses as well as select special initiatives including planning, education/outreach, economics, data management, and quality control.
The concept for the Network began in November 2006 when representatives from the nursery industry, the grower community, the National Plant Board (NPB), other state regulatory agencies, the land-grant university system, and USDA formed a steering committee to review existing "clean plant programs," prioritize a list of specialty crops for funding, and propose an NCPN implementation process.
USDA APHIS later sponsored a national workshop in Riverdale, Maryland, in May 2007 to implement the Network and introduce the concept to a broader stakeholder base. The workshop attendees developed the NCPN mission and vision statements as well as the draft strategic plan.
Presently, NCPN is a collaborative effort among three USDA agencies; the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) for quarantine and regulatory programs, the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) for technology and germplasm issues, and the National Institute for Food and Agriculture (NIFA) for outreach and partnership initiatives. The Network is administered nationally by an 8 member NCPN Governing Board (NCPN-GB).
At the core of the NCPN concept are stakeholder-driven, specialty crop-focused, clean plant-governing bodies composed of interested State, university, association, and industry partners. In 2007-2010 stakeholders representing fruit trees (pome and stone fruits), grapes, berries (strawberries, blueberries/cranberries, and cane fruit), citrus, and hops formed governing bodies entrusted with prioritizing, harmonizing, and networking clean plant activities for their specialty crop groups. During 2014-2015 stakeholders representing sweet potatoes and roses also formed governing bodies and joined the Network. In 2017, NCPN initiated a process to renew the programs Strategic Plan.
The NCPN held general meetings in Washington, DC, in March 2009, Davis, CA, in May 2010, and Riverdale, MD, in November 2011. During these meetings, participants established general NCPN clean plant program priorities, communicated clean plant program progress reports, installed the NCPN Governing Board, discussed NCPN Farm Bill program funding strategies, talked about long-term sustainability of clean plant centers, reviewed and assessed the program's direction and accomplishments compared to its Strategic Plan, and established a comprehensive NCPN education, extension, and outreach program. At the 2009 meeting, the NCPN Federal partners signed a Memorandum of Understanding which set the program's cornerstone.
The NCPN produces and distributes asexually propagated plant material free of targeted plant pathogens and pests to ensure the global competitiveness of specialty crop producers and protect the environment.
The NCPN's regional centers of excellence are recognized leaders in the introduction of the highest quality, regionally adapted, true-to-type propagative plant materials that are free of targeted plant pathogens and pests, thus promoting a vigorous commercial environment and the opportunity for international trade while protecting the environment of North America. Translational research, education and extension initiatives are fully funded to maintain the network's high quality collections and strengthen its services. Industry, research and regulatory communities collaborate to ensure an abundant supply of healthy specialty crops. The economic, environmental and social sustainability of specialty crop industries and the improved economies of the communities that depend on these industries are the ultimate impacts of the NCPN's robust service delivery.
The draft NCPN business plan outlines five strategies and associated goals that are central to program implementation and project funding:
Other Resources
The stakeholder-driven National Clean Plant Network (NCPN) was created to protect U.S. specialty crops such as grapes, nuts, fruit trees, citrus and berries from the spread of economically harmful plant pests and diseases. For more information, visit the Stakeholder Driven NCPN website hosted by the University of California – Davis.
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The unisex and lightweight Garmin Forerunner 110 Sport Watch simplifies your workout and makes it easy to track the speed and distance of your run or walk. Being waterproof is another helpful feature, protecting the watch from rain, sweat and other moisture. It also features a heart and pace monitor that records how strenuous your workouts are. Your elapsed time, distance and pace are accurately recorded using GPS technology.
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The Forerunner?s stylish, unisex design looks great on both men and women. Wear it to work, and keep it on for your evening run. Gym rats will appreciate that this product is lightweight and not large or bulky like many sports watches. It does the job and you barely even notice it?s there.
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Waterproof up to 1m
If you want to swim laps in the pool and keep track of your distance, a durable waterproof watch keeps the moisture out. Water resistance is a key function for a sports watch, and the Garmin Forerunner 110 is perfect for logging swimming workouts.
Heart and pace monitor
A heart and pace monitor displays the beats per minute of your heart rate. It also provides calorie computations for you to accurately calculatecalories burned. Your average heart rate from every workout is stored under "History" along with other run data.
The Garmin Forerunner 110 Unisex Sport Watch has numerous advantages over other heavier and bulkier models. You can also wear this as a regular watch because of its smaller size and weight compared to many normal sport watches.
Forerunner 110 is the easiest way to track your training. It's GPS-enabled so it knows how far and how fast - with no extra bells and whistles. There's virtually no setup required, so you can just press start and run or walk with it.
Train Smarter, Not Harder
Whether you're training to complete your first 5k or other race distance or you want to get faster and fitter, having accurate workout data is the key. Forerunner 110 uses GPS to accurately record your distance, time and pace. Data from each run is stored in the unit, so you can go back and review how you did last week or last month. Or, upload to our Garmin Connect website for more detailed analysis.
Easy to Use
Now there's nothing standing in the way of you and your run. Forerunner 110 is our simplest training device yet. Out of the box, you'll charge it, take it outside to find GPS satellites and answer a few setup questions. Then just press start and take off. Once you're done, press stop. It really is that easy.
Follow Your Heart
Some versions of the Forerunner 110 (men's black/red and women's gray/pink) come with a heart rate monitor to display your heart rate in beats per minute. It also provides heart rate-based calorie computations so you can accurately track your calories burned. If you purchase the black/gray Forerunner 110 without heart rate monitor, you can always purchase one of our heart rate monitors separately, or use it with an ANT+ heart rate monitor you already own.
Store, Analyze and Share
Beginning and advanced runners know that reviewing data from your run can be motivating and provide meaningful feedback for improvement. Tracking your data is simple with Garmin Connect, our website for free data analysis and sharing. Just upload to Garmin Connect from your PC or Mac, then see the route you traveled on a map, view a summary of your workout data, create goals and more.
Fast and Accurate
Forerunner 110 features HotFix satellite prediction, which means it locks onto satellites quickly so you can be out the door and on with your run in no time. It also has a high-sensitivity GPS receiver to stay locked onto satellites, even near tall buildings or under tree cover.


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Outer Hebrides
The Outer Hebrides (also know as the Western Isles) are the westernmost chain of islands in the Hebrides, west of the Scottish Highlands.
These are all separate islands, except Lewis and Harris which together form one island.
Towns and villages
Guide Book
The Western Isles Guide Book by Charles Tait - a complete source of information about where to go and what to do in the Western Isles
The Outer Hebrides[1] are a fascinating destination. The scenery is beautiful. The landscape is rocky and mountainous, but also lush and verdant - due in no small part to the large amounts of rain which tend to fall. It is easy to find a quiet peaceful spot.
The Gaelic language and culture is appealing. At a practical level this means that place names on road signs are in Gaelic, but the bus timetables use the English names!
Religion still plays an important part in many people's lives. In Lewis and Harris this is often in the form of Protestant Free Presbyterian Churches. As a result the Sabbath (Sunday) is respected, so you are unlikely to find shops etc open on a Sunday. Activities happening on a Sunday often are opposed locally. In contrast Barra and South Uist are mainly Catholic, and Sunday opening is much more likely.
Get in
By boat
Caledonian MacBrayne [2] is the national ferry service. Citylink coaches generally connect with the ferries on the mainland. Details for Summer 2006:
By air
In the Outer Hebrides, there are airports in Stornoway in Lewis, Benbecula and Barra. These airports provide direct flights to Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Inverness. The airport in Barra is one of the most spectacular in the world, with planes landing on a three-mile beach at low tide, but this does mean that the flight times vary with the tide.
Get around
By boat
Berneray to Leverburgh on Harris Daily 3-4 per day, taking 1 hour.
Eriskay to Barra Daily, up to 5 per day, taking 40 minutes.
By Bus
There are good bus services during the day Mon - Sat, but little in the evening and no buses on a Sunday.
Many of the islands are linked by road causeways and bridges, which have progressively been built over the last 50 years or so. Most recently causeways have been built to Eriskay from South Uist, and to Berneray from North Uist.
By bicycle
The Outer Hebrides are popular for cycle tourists, generally taking around a week to cycle from Barra to Stornoway.
Car Hire
There are many fine sandy beaches, mainly on the Western shores of the islands.
Historic Scotland Properties[7]:
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Shanghai Pocket Walkthrough and Guide
Welcome to the Shanghai Pocket Walkthrough where our team of contributors will help you work through the game via a step-by-step tutorial. A Gamewise walkthrough aims to take you all the way through the game to 100% completion including unlockable quests and items.
If you are stuck on something specific and are unable to find any answers in our Shanghai Pocket Walkthrough then be sure to ask the Shanghai Pocket Forum / Community for help and advice in the discussion box below and they will get back to you as soon as possible with an answer!
Finally, if you have been playing Shanghai Pocket and wish to help other users, feel free to sign up and start contributing!
Shanghai Pocket Overview
Shanghai Pocket is a puzzle game developed by Sunsoft and released on Game Boy, WonderSwan.


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At a developer event in San Francisco yesterday, Microsoft previewed its upcoming Windows Phone 8 platform, which the company hopes to unveil in lock step with Windows 8 for ARM and Intel-based devices. Windows Phone 8 will mark a major step forward for the platform, shifting Windows Phone to the same underlying kernel and application development technologies used in the "real" versions of Windows, so developers will be able to leverage their Windows programming skills and tools to make mobile apps. Windows Phone 8 will also support a number of new technologies and form factors, so phone makers can put the mobile operating system on a broader array of devices — not just handsets, but probably some consumer-focused media tablets as well.
But Windows Phone 8 will come with some huge costs. For Microsoft, Windows Phone 8 essentially represents a "do-over." That Windows Phone platform it was touting a year ago as able to challenge iOS, Android, and RIM with innovative devices? With Windows Phone 8, Microsoft is essentially kicking all that — and Windows Phone early adopters — to the curb. Folks who want to experience Windows Phone 8 will need to buy a new device to do it, and folks who embraced the existing Windows Phone platform have no options or upgrade path.
Is this any way for Microsoft to treat its customers and partners? Microsoft is gambling the benefits of Windows Phone 8 will smooth over any ruffled feathers. But will they be enough to make Windows Phone an actual player in the smartphone market?
Windows Phone 8 for consumers: Go buy a new phone
Folks who want to run use Windows Phone 8 will need to wait until new Windows Phone 8 devices are available. Microsoft hasn't given a release date, but expect them to arrive in the last quarter of 2012.
Why a new device? No existing Windows Phone 7 devices will be upgradable to Windows Phone 8. None. Early adopters who have embraced Windows Phone devices like the new Nokia Lumia phones will have no choice but to abandon them in favor of new devices if they want to move to Windows Phone 8.
Windows Phone 8 devices will be able to run most apps for Windows Phone 7.5. However, existing Windows Phone 7 devices will not be able to run apps for Windows Phone 8.
It's no secret that Windows Phone has been struggling to make inroads in the smartphone markets, with even Nokia's much-touted Lumia smartphones barely generating consumer interest. IDC found that Windows Phone and Windows Mobile combined accounted for a mere 2.2 percent of the worldwide smartphone market in the first quarter of 2012. But even that small pool of Windows Phone users must be feeling like they've been given the old bait-and-switch. Anyone who was considering a Windows Phone yesterday is probably re-evaluating those plans today. Why buy a phone that Microsoft already says won't be upgradable to the next version of Windows Phone, due in just a few months?
Windows Phone 8 benefits
So why would Microsoft toss the existing Windows Phone ecosystem to the curb with Windows Phone 8? So far, the company hasn't outlined many consumer-facing new technologies for Windows Phone 8 — the information so far is mostly targeted at developers who will be building apps, devices, and services for the platform. But here are the big benefits:
Windows kernel — Windows Phone 8 will share the same Windows NT kernel as Windows 8 for Intel and Windows 8 RT. On one hand, this is a boon for developers since many of the same APIs and expectations they have for Windows will translate to Windows Phone. In many senses, they will become true Windows devices that are part of the broader Windows ecosystem. The flip side, of course, is that not everything in the Windows ecosystem is squeaky clean: The Windows kernel does have many years of real-world testing under its belt, but it means any kernel flaw impacting security on desktop versions of Windows could have ramifications for Windows Phone, too.
Expanded hardware support — With Windows Phone 7, Microsoft laid down some fairly restrictive hardware requirements for phone makers. Most industry watchers took that as a sign that Microsoft wanted to exert more control over the new ecosystem to help it better compete with the iPhone. Windows Phone 8, conversely, will support a broader selection of hardware and screens. Device makers will be able to support screen sizes like 480 x 800, 768 x 1,280, and 720 x 1,280 — Windows Phone 8 will also support multicore processors. That means Windows Phone 7 won't be suitable just for phones: It'll also likely find a home on media tablets and other devices that don't need a full-blown Windows RT installation. Windows Phone 8 will also support storage on microSD cards.
Nokia Maps — In a significant boost for Nokia, Windows Phone 8 will also be ditching Microsoft's own Bing Maps in favor of Nokia Maps. The move had been hinted for some time, but Microsoft only confirmed it with the Windows Phone 8 developer event. Windows Phone 8 will support all Nokia Maps features, including the offline mode and voice-based navigation.
NFC and Mobile Wallet — Windows Phone 8 devices will enable users to store credit-card and debit-card information securely in their devices, and support tap-and-go mobile payments and mobile banking using near-field communications (NFC). Microsoft will be enabling mobile payments via Isis, a joint venture of Verizon Wireless, AT&T, and T-Mobile. Isis has partnerships with Mastercard, Visa, Discover, American Express, and Barclay's. The mobile wallet will also support daily deal offerings, and, like Apple's forthcoming Passbook, support store membership and loyalty programs. Microsoft says it expects to begin offering mobile payment support via Isis at an unspecified time "next year."
Internet Explorer 10 — Windows Phone 8 will also feature the desktop version of Internet Explorer 10. Mobile users will be protected by the same anti-phishing and other security technology built into Microsoft's flagship desktop browser; it also means sites will look the same on Windows Phone 8 mobile devices as they do on desktop versions of Windows.
Enterprise support — Corporations and large organizations will appreciate being able to manage large fleets of Windows Phone 8 devices, including a built-in Company Hub app, Bitlocker encryption and Secure Boot technologies. Lack of enterprise management tools has been cited as an impediment to large corporations embracing Android. While enterprise management solutions exist, Android's fragmentation means they don't work across the board.
C and C++ — Developers will be able to code for Windows Phone 8 using C and C++. The languages themselves aren't such a big deal, but support for them means developers will be able to tie into things like the Havoc Vision engine and other popular libraries, as well as do native DirectX-based game development.
Throwing Windows Phone 7 a bone
Microsoft isn't completely throwing Windows Phone 7 under a bus just yet. The company has promised an update to Windows Phone 7.8 for all current Windows Phone 7.5 users. (If the process of updating to Windows Phone 7.5 is any indication, those customers may have to wait several months after Windows Phone 7.8 is released to see any update.)
The sole improvement Microsoft is bringing to Windows Phone 7.8 is a version of the start screen from Windows Phone 8. What's new about it? Three sizes of live tiles instead of just two, and a new selection of theme colors. Users will also apparently be able to cram more live tiles into the home screen, with the apparent elimination of the right-side vertical strip. The idea is to enable Windows Phone users to customize their home screens to an even greater degree. The addition will no doubt be welcome to Windows Phone users — since the live tiles home screen is one of the truly distinctive features about Windows Phone — but is unlikely to be a game-changer.
Few of the announced technical changes in Windows Phone 8 come as huge surprises: Microsoft has been quietly signaling for months that Windows Phone 8 will be a "generational" change for the platform, and that developers will need to rethink their strategies. What is surprising, however, is that no existing Windows Phone devices will be upgradable to Windows Phone 8.
And that raises a crucial question:
Why would anyone buy a Windows Phone device today if there's no upgrade path to Windows Phone 8?
Nokia in a lurch
The answer leaves Microsoft's hardware partners, particularly Nokia, between a rock and a hard place. Under the leadership of former Microsoft exec Stephen Elop, Nokia has essentially made an all-or-nothing bet on the success of Windows Phone, consigning its Symbian operating system to the dustbin of history. The company has seen its handset sales plummet — Samsung recently took over as the world's largest handset manufacturer — and the company has been burning through cash reserves at an unsustainable pace, hoping its new Lumia line of Windows Phone products catch consumer interest and start turning the company around before it's too late.
However, it may already be too late. All three major credit rating companies have now downgraded Nokia's credit to junk status. The company is struggling to cut costs, recently announcing it will lay off another 10,000 employees by 2013. And Nokia's revenue from its smartphone business was down 52 percent year-on-year during the first quarter of 2012. It even warned that its losses for the current quarter will be even higher than it estimated two months ago.
Who else makes Windows Phones? Mainly Samsung and HTC. However, those companies' fortunes are more tightly tied to Android than Windows Phone . Only Nokia made the all-or-nothing bet. Nokia's strategic partnership with Microsoft means the company has to have known that these changes were coming with Windows 8, and that its existing Lumia offerings were about to be cut off at the knees. Nokia says it has updates planned for its current Lumia products — possibly based on imaging technology just acquired from Scalado — but there's no denying Windows Phone 7 is now an orphaned platform. And it's all Nokia has to offer.
Nokia had hoped to begin its turnaround with its first Windows Phone devices released in time for the 2011 holiday season. The Lumia has failed to take off, and now, it looks like Nokia has to place its bets on Windows Phone 8 devices that should hit the market in time for the 2012 holiday season.
Microsoft reportedly considered acquiring Nokia in late 2011, just as its first Windows Phone devices were set to hit the market. Microsoft backed away from the idea once it got a look at Nokia's books. However, since then, three things have happened:
- Nokia's stock price is at a 17-year year low, and currently off more than two-thirds since late October, 2011;
- Microsoft introduced its own Surface tablets, going public with its intention to compete directly with its Windows OEM partners for the first time;
- By announcing Windows Phone 8, Microsoft cut Windows Phone 7 — and Nokia — off at the knees.
One conclusion? Microsoft is almost certainly still interested in acquiring Nokia — and seems to be doing almost everything it can to make that acquisition as affordable as possible.
Editors' Recommendations
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- Microsoft's Chromium Edge browser may be adding your Chrome extensions
- Microsoft's Always-Connected PCs gets more powerful with 64-bit app support
- Microsoft will end support for Windows 7 one year from now
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Senior Men's Championships
McCormick Cup
The McCormick Cup is a long-standing tradition in Ontario rugby; a term synonymous with Rugby Ontario. The Cup is the title championship for Rugby Ontario's Marshall Premiership & Championship Senior Men's First Teams, along with the annual EORU Champion.
The Cup is named for former Rugby Ontario President Vic McCormick, one of the great builders of the sport in our province and a member of the Rugby Ontario Hall of Fame (Class of '01).
Gee Gage Cup
The Gee Gage Cup is an annual optional post-league tournament for Rugby Ontario Marshall Premiership and Championship Senior Men's 2nd teams.
Intermediate Cup
The Intermediate Cup is the annual championship that is used for promotion into the Marshall Championship division.
This Cup will be played between the 8th-place team in the Marshall Championship division, and the winners of each of the Branch Premier leagues. Each Branch has the option not to send a team.


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Mr. Roy Kamphausen
Roy Kamphausen is a Senior Associate for Political and Security Affairs (PSA) at The National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR) and an adjunct faculty member at George Washington University and Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. He advises and contributes to NBR research programs on political and security issues in Asia. Mr. Kamphausen previously served as Senior Vice President for Political and Security Affairs and Director of NBR's Washington, DC, office. Prior to joining NBR, Mr. Kamphausen served as a U.S. Army officer, a career that culminated in an assignment in the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) as Country Director for China-Taiwan-Mongolia Affairs. Previous assignments include the Joint Staff as an intelligence analyst and later as China Branch Chief in the Directorate for Strategic Plans and Policy (J5). A fluent Chinese (Mandarin) linguist and an Army China Foreign Area Officer (FAO), Mr. Kamphausen served two tours at the Defense Attaché Office of the U.S. Embassy in the People's Republic of China. He is a member of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), the Asia Society, and the Council for Security and Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific (CSCAP). His areas of professional expertise include China's People's Liberation Army (PLA), U.S.-China defense relations, U.S. defense and security policy toward Asia, and East Asian security issues. Mr. Kamphausen co-authored the chapter "Military Modernization in Taiwan" in Strategic Asia 2005–06: Military Modernization in an Era of Uncertainty with Michael Swaine; he was the co-author of the chapter "PLA Power Projection: Current Realities and Emerging Trends" in Assessing the Threat: The Chinese Military and Taiwan's Security (2007), with Justin Liang; he co-edited the volume Right-Sizing the People's Liberation Army: Exploring the Contours of China's Military (2007) with Andrew Scobell; he co-edited the volume The People in the PLA: Recruitment, Training, and Education in China's Military (2008) with Andrew Scobell and Travis Tanner; and he co-edited the volumes Beyond the Strait: PLA Missions Other Than Taiwan (April 2009), and The PLA At Home and Abroad: Assessing the Operational Capabilities of China's Military (July 2010) with David Lai and Andrew Scobell. Mr. Kamphausen holds a B.A. in political science from Wheaton College and an M.A. in international affairs from Columbia University. He studied Chinese at both the Defense Language Institute and Beijing's Capital Normal University.
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SSI books and monographs by Mr. Roy Kamphausen
The Chinese People's Liberation Army in 2025
July 28, 2015
Edited by Mr. Roy Kamphausen, Dr. David Lai.
View the Executive Summary
The Chinese People's Liberation Army of 2025 is the 2014 edition of an ongoing series on the People's Liberation Army co-published by the Strategic Studies Institute, the National Bureau of Asian Research, and the United States Pacific Command. This volume builds on previous volumes and identifies potential trajectories for PLA force modernization and mission focus, and how these potential changes could impact external actors.
Assessing the People's Liberation Army in the Hu Jintao Era
April 22, 2014
Edited by Mr. Roy Kamphausen, Dr. David Lai, Mr. Travis Tanner.
View the Executive Summary
How has President Hu Jintao contributed to China's military modernization?
Learning by Doing: The PLA Trains at Home and Abroad
November 30, 2012
Edited by Mr. Roy Kamphausen, Dr. David Lai, Mr. Travis Tanner.
The papers presented in this latest volume in a series on the PLA are a timely and critical look at an evolving and expanding Chinese military and provide context for the changes we may see as the PLA continues to modernize.
Chinese Lessons from Other Peoples' Wars
November 17, 2011
Edited by Dr. Andrew Scobell, Dr. David Lai, Mr. Roy Kamphausen.
The 2010 People's Liberation Army (PLA) conference focused on the lessons learned by the PLA from the military actions and experiences of non-Chinese armed forces over the past 30 years, which the PLA can apply to its own strategic planning.
The PLA at Home and Abroad: Assessing the Operational Capabilities of China's Military
July 06, 2010
Edited by Mr. Roy Kamphausen, Dr. David Lai, Dr. Andrew Scobell.
In 2009, the People's Republic of China, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy, and the PLA Air Force celebrated their 60th anniversaries. Behind China's economic development, the PLA parades, and the spectacular celebration fireworks, the world clearly saw an ambitious China edging its way to the center stage of international economic, political, and military affairs. However, a few other major events in the last 2 years came just in time to remind the Chinese leaders, and the world as well, that China still faced a challenging future.
Beyond the Strait: PLA Missions other than Taiwan
April 30, 2009
Edited by Mr. Roy Kamphausen, Dr. David Lai, Dr. Andrew Scobell.
On September 26, 2008, over 70 leading experts from academia, government, the military and policy thinktanks assembled at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, to look beyond the Chinese People's Liberation Army's (PLA) primary focus on Taiwan and to the evolving new roles of the PLA. The conference could not have been timelier, given the PLA's active involvement in events during 2008, including earthquake relief, counterterrorism, humanitarian assistance, space activities, and blue water naval operations.
The "People" in the PLA: Recruitment, Training, and Education in China's Military
September 17, 2008
Edited by Mr. Roy Kamphausen, Dr. Andrew Scobell, Mr. Travis Tanner.
On September 28, 2007, under the joint leadership of the U.S. Army War College's Strategic Studies Institute and NBR's Pyle Center for Northeast Asian Studies, approximately 70 leading experts on the People's Liberation Army (PLA) convened at Carlisle Barracks, PA, for a 2-day discussion on the Chinese military's human infrastructure. Presentations and discussions focused on identifying trends in PLA recruitment, education, training, personnel management, and demographics.
Right Sizing the People's Liberation Army: Exploring the Contours of China's Military
September 04, 2007
Edited by Dr. Andrew Scobell, Mr. Roy Kamphausen.
This volume addresses how the leadership of China and the PLA view what size of PLA best meets China's requirements. Among other things, this analytical process makes important new contributions on the question of PLA transparency, long an issue among PLA watchers.


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Clifford The Big Red Dog "To Catch A Bird/The Best Party Ever" To Catch a Bird - When Jetta's trophy and locket are missing, all fingers and paws point to Emily - all of them except for Clifford's! The dogs, led by Clifford, finally prove Emily didn't steal anything, and Clifford learns the value of having faith in a friend. The Best Party Ever - Jetta ridicules Emily for not planning enough exciting activities for her birthday party, so Charley convinces Emily not to invite her. But Emily realizes that Jetta's feelings were hurt and invites her after all. D
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Arthur "Arthur Meets Mister Rogers/Draw!" Mister Rogers is staying at Arthur's house but Arthur's friends don't know about it, yet. Mister Rogers is a nice guy, but . his show is for babies! Can Arthur keep his friends in the dark? Fred Rogers provides his character's voice. D
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Martha Speaks "Martha Doesn't Speak Monkey!/Martha and Truman Get Lost" Martha Doesn't Speak Monkey! - Professor Monkey is coming to town to promote his craft books with co-author Beppo. Martha and Truman Get Lost - Truman needs Martha to help him find something he lost at Dog Head Lake.G
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Curious George "George Meets Allie-Whoops!/Hundley's Great Escape" George spends a full day showing Mrs. Renkins' granddaughter Allie what it's like to be a monkey.G
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Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That! "Minnie Meerkat/Leaves" Minnie Meerkat - Sally and Nick are planning to camp out in the backyard, but there are some scary noises out there! Not to worry, The Cat's friend Minnie Meerkat can teach them all about camping safe. Off to Peekaboo Plains where a group of meerkats show them how they make their camp safe every night. Now Sally and Nick know what to do to feel safe in the backyard. D
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Super Why! "The Story of the Tooth Fairy" Whyatt has lost his very first tooth! When his mom tells Whyatt that the Tooth Fairy will come and take his tooth, Whyatt wants to know what happens if he wants to KEEP it? Super Why and his friends decide the best person to ask is the Tooth Fairy herself, so they set off to meet her in person. With a little bit of magic (and a little bit of floss) the reading heroes are able to get all their questions answered.G
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Dinosaur Train "Have You Heard About The Herd?/Jess Hesperornis" Have You Heard About the Herd? - Tiny and Buddy are psyched to go to the Cretaceous Picnic Grounds where they meet Ernie Einiosaurus, who shows them how he lives in a large herd! Ernie introduces the Pteranodons to a herding game that makes even Mrs. Pteranodon put on her game face! Jess Hesperornis - The Pteranodons venture to the Big Pond to find out if dinosaurs can live in the water. Their quandaries are quenched when they meet Jess Hesperornis, who turns out to be not only a water dwelling dino, but a bird as well!. D
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Sesame Street "The Shape O' Bots" Telly, Elmo, and Rosita are playing Shape-O-Bots, robots that actually transform into shapes to help people. Andy, a guy in need of shapes, rushes in and explains that he needs an octagon to help stop people from crashing into him. Telly tries to transform into an octagon with eight sides and eight angles, but changes into a triangle with three sides and three angles instead. D
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Sid The Science Kid "Clean Air!" Sid the roving reporter is investigating something strange in his backyard--his Dad is wearing a mask while painting. Sid discovers that his Dad is protecting his face so he doesn't breathe in the dirty fumes. At school, Sid and his friends discover that people and animals on Earth need to breathe clean air, and when we pollute the air around us, it affects the air that everyone breathes. D
11:30 am
WordWorld "Pies, Pies, Pies!/Waterlogged" Pies, Pies, Pies!: When Pig promises to make a pie for everyone in Word World, he learns a hard lesson about keeping promises. Fortunately, he also learns about the letter S and how it can make words plural. Waterlogged: Frog must stay with Pig when his Log sinks, but Frog soon wears out his welcome by being a bad houseguest. D
12:00 pm
Caillou "All Kinds of Weather" Rain, sleet, sun, and snow: Caillou is amazed by all the ways that weather changes. He's nearly in a state during a thunderstorm until Dad explains what thunder is (and how to tell it's going away). Caillou also makes the best of a rainy day by splashing in puddles. D
12:30 pm
Barney & Friends "The Blame Game/Airplanes" The Blame Game - Marcos accidentally breaks an art show project that Melanie has made. Afraid that she will be angry, he doesn't say anything, but then feels guilty. Barney helps him see that honesty and taking responsibility for what we do is always best. D
1:00 pm
Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That! "Minnie Meerkat/Leaves" Minnie Meerkat - Sally and Nick are planning to camp out in the backyard, but there are some scary noises out there! Not to worry, The Cat's friend Minnie Meerkat can teach them all about camping safe. Off to Peekaboo Plains where a group of meerkats show them how they make their camp safe every night. Now Sally and Nick know what to do to feel safe in the backyard. D
1:30 pm
Zoboomafoo "Playtime" In this episode of Zoboomafoo, Animal Junction is filled with the sounds of playtime. Lion cubs, serval kittens, duckilngs and even children visit Martin, Chris and Zoboomafo for some much needed recreation, and of course, playtime!G
2:00 pm
Dialogue for Kids "Animal Migration" Animal migrations don't just happen in the spring and arent just something birds do. Lots of different animals migrate and for good reasons. Why? What is it that drives animals to move from one part of the country to another and then back again? Joan Cartan-Hansen and her guest scientists Jeff Knetter, wildlife biologist with the Idaho Dept. of Fish and Game and Vicky Runnoe, conservation educator with the Idaho Dept. of Fish and Game, will answer questions about animal migration.G
2:30 pm
Martha Speaks "Martha Doesn't Speak Monkey!/Martha and Truman Get Lost" Martha Doesn't Speak Monkey! - Professor Monkey is coming to town to promote his craft books with co-author Beppo. Martha and Truman Get Lost - Truman needs Martha to help him find something he lost at Dog Head Lake.G
3:00 pm
The Electric Company "Off Target" A neighborhood kid, Marcus Barnes, has just found out he has the wordball power.well, kind of. The Electric Company tries to help Marcus improve his wordball throwing skills so he can join them. D
3:30 pm
WordGirl "Whammer Anniversary/Rat Trap" WHAMMER ANNIVERSARY - Mr. and Mrs. Bots ford leave Becky to babysit TJ so they can celebrate their anniversary at a local ice cream parlor. When the Whammed can't get the sundae he orders he starts whamming. Becky has to find a way to save her parents, babysit TJ, and keep her secret identity intact. D
4:00 pm
Wild Kratts "Mimic" While exploring why some animals mimic the looks of others, Martin and Chris encounter a cheetah cub and its mom. But before they know it, evil fashion designer, Donita Donata, 'cat-naps' the startled mom right in front of their eyes. The Wild Kratts team springs into action on a rescue mission before Donita adds the momma cheetah to her new fall line. D
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Cyberchase "Blowin' in the Wind" Hacker pursues a career as a singing idol and goes on tour, leaving behind a book that contains the secret to curing Motherboard's virus, buried in the windiest place on the Northern Frontier. Slider and the CyberSquad are determined to find it.but to do so they must discover how to measure wind speeds in different places so they can compare them. D
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Fetch! With Ruff Ruffman "Ruff's Yard Sale Makes A Racket" Ruff realizes that he's a horrible shopper. (He just bought a sock at a yard sale for sixteen dollars, after talking the price UP from a quarter!) He also bought a broken tennis racquet at the same sale, which he plans on using in an upcoming match against his nemesis Spot Spotnick! Ruff sends Liza and Talia to the headquarters of Wilson Sporting Goods to design a new tennis racquet for him; and he gets some shopping tips from Bethany and Brian, as they head out to Brimfield Fair, the biggest flea market in the world!. D
5:30 pm
Nightly Business Report China, the world's biggest oil consumer, is increasing prices. A JP Morgan Funds strategist talks to NBR Co-Anchor Susie Gharib about how China's growth is affecting the markets. Apple has $64 billion in cash sitting overseas, but it won't be coming back to the U.S. D
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Lark Rise to Candleford When the Vicar falls ill, controversial and free-thinking curate Reverand Marley takes charge, causing consternation among some parishioners.G
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Into the Deep: America, Whaling & the World: American Experience "Into the Deep, Whaling & the World" Filmmaker Ric Burns tells an epic tale of three centuries of American whaling and the unique relationship between the hunter and the hunted, which begins in earnest in 1690 among the Quakers on Nantucket Island. The film explores two events that anchor whaling in the American consciousness. The Essex is rammed and sunk off the coast of Peru in 1820 by a sperm whale as long as the ship itself. Only eight sailors survive. In 1840, Herman Melville ships out on a whaling vessel that meets another vessel near where the Essex sank. The son of an Essex survivor gives Melville a copy of his father's memoir, which inspires Moby Dick.G
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Frontline "The Vaccine War" Public health scientists and clinicians tout vaccines as one of modern medicine's greatest achievements. But for many ordinary Americans, vaccines have become controversial. Young parents are concerned at the sheer number of shots - some 26 inoculations for 14 different diseases by age 6 - and follow alternative vaccination schedules advocated by gurus like Dr. Robert Sears.G
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - MIT tallied three goals in the game's first 11 minutes en route to a convincing, 8-0, victory over Lasell College in non-conference field hockey action Tuesday at Jack Barry Field. Leading scorer, Jessica Oleinik, paced the Engineers with three goals and an assist, as the team won its fourth straight to open the season. Lasell dropped to 0-2 on the year with the loss.
Just three days after her dramatic, game-winning goal helped lift the Cardinal and Grey to victory on Saturday, Anna Teruya opened today's scoring in a similar fashion. Teruya took the pass from Ekavali Mishra off a penalty corner and pushed home her fifth marker of the season. Tech would double its lead on a fortuitous bounce a few minutes later, as Kimberly Barker tipped in a high-arching shot from Katie Kauffman. Another corner set up the third MIT score, with Nirupama Yechoor assisting on the first of three straight goals by Oleinik.
Oleinik would get back to work early in the second half, with an unassisted tally just over two minutes into the stanza. Mishra then collected her team-high fourth assist of the season to help Oleinik finish the hat trick five and a half minutes later.
A pair of Engineers picked up their first career goals midway through the period, as Lia DiGiovanna and Molly McShane each found the back of the net within two minutes, to push the Tech lead to 7-0. Danielle Smith rounded out the scoring off another corner as time expired.
MIT controlled the possession for most of the game, outshooting the Lasers 47-7 while also holding a 15-1 advantage in penalty corners. Keri Dixon earned her fourth win on the season, stopping all four shots she faced for her fifth career shutout. A pair of goalkeepers split time for Lasell, as Christine Thornton started the game and took the loss, allowing seven goals while making 12 saves. Erin Norton came in late and stood tall on a number of challenges by Tech, stopping six of the seven shots she saw.
MIT returns to Barry Field on Thursday for the final of its five straight home contests to start the season. The Engineers welcome Simmons College at 6:00 p.m. Lasell will host Wheaton College on Saturday, September 12 at 1:00 p.m.


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'Massacre Pond' is a tense and clever mystery
"Massacre Pond" (Minotaur), by Paul Doiron
Elizabeth Morse, who made her fortune selling worthless herbal remedies to the gullible, is buying up huge parcels of timberland in Eastern Maine with the hope of persuading the federal government to turn it into a national park.
The locals, from the politicians and timber barons to the poachers and sawmill workers, don't like it one bit. She's put land they've fished and hunted for generations off-limits. Worse, she's killing forestry industry jobs.
So trouble is sure to come to the backwater of lakes and forests patrolled by Maine game warden Mike Bowditch, the hero of three earlier crime novels by Paul Doiron. It does so in the form of intruders who slip onto Morse's property, shoot some moose and leave the carcasses for scavengers.
The story was inspired by a failed attempt to create a North Woods National Park and by the unsolved 1999 "Soldiertown moose massacre," the worst wildlife crime in Maine history. However, Doiron has fictionalized all the details, moving the location far to the southeast.
Warden Bowditch itches to dive into the investigation, but his boss, self-serving Lt. Rivard, keeps him on the periphery with make-work assignments. Trying to live down a reputation for insubordination, Bowditch seethes but follows orders. Naturally, trouble finds him anyway. Before long, someone shoots up Morse's palatial home, victims with two legs start piling up, the press questions the baffled investigators' competence, and one of Bowditch's buddies, wildlife poacher Billy Cronk, emerges as a suspect.
Doiron fashions a tense and clever mystery peopled by characters you could well meet by wandering into the wrong Down East bar. As usual, he peppers his superbly well-written yarn with evocative descriptions of the state he and Bowditch call home, including this passage about nightfall in the forest:
"A stillness surrounds you that makes every stray sound — even an acorn dropping, every chipmunk peep — seem overly loud. The birds go quiet. Sometimes you'll hear a distant crashing that makes your heart stop; a buck has caught your scent and gone leaping off into the brush before you can spot the white flag of his tail."
Bowditch's personal life has never been smooth; his father turned out to be a killer in "The Poacher's Son" 2010). This time, his troubles include an unrequited love for a friend's daughter and the troubling behavior of his seldom-visited mother. Despite the distractions, he cracks the case, but only at considerable cost to himself and people close to him.
Bruce DeSilva, winner of the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Award, is the author of "Cliff Walk" and "Rogue Island."


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ZURICH (AP) Germany climbed to No. 1 in the FIFA rankings Thursday after winning the World Cup, and the United States fell two places to 15th despite reaching the round of 16.
Germany beat Argentina 1-0 on Sunday to win its fourth World Cup and first in 24 years. It replaced deposed champion Spain at the top of the monthly FIFA rankings.
Argentina jumped three places to the No. 2 ranking and the Netherlands soared 12 spots to No. 3 after beating host Brazil in the third-place game.
The Americans, who lost to Belgium in their first knockout game, were overtaken in the rankings by the Dutch, Chile and France.
Colombia reached the quarterfinals and is now ranked fourth, with Belgium fifth. Spain dropped to eighth after its title defense ended in the group stage. First-round exits also led to Portugal falling seven places to 11th, Italy dropping five to 14th and England plummeting 10 spots to 20th.