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EVERY household in Scotland will be £10,000 a year better off within a decade, Finance Secretary John Swinney claimed yesterday. The growth in average wealth will be delivered by boosting small and medium-sized businesses, investing in industries of the future and better training, resulting in better-paid jobs, said Swinney. .
JACKSON EYEING ENGLAND ROLE
Playmaker Glen Jackson insists he is ready to represent England after a match-winning decision in Saracens' 24-20 Guinness Premiership win over London Irish. With a one-point deficit in the 78th minute, Jackson spurned a straightforward penalty kick in front of goal to kick across to the right wing where an alert Richard Haughton collected before diving over. The New Zealander, who is poised to qualify for England through residency, took just 90 seconds to put Saracens ahead with a drop kick after replacing Gordon Ross at the interval after the Scotland international fly-half had notched nine points. Jackson said: "I've been here for three years now and not played for another country, with an Irish wife, so if that means I've qualified now I'm not 100% sure.
Every School Every Thursday -- Des Moines East
There is no school on Friday due to the Thanksgiving holiday. Classes will resume on Monday.
East/North Des Moines - Elementaries
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Fifth-graders are memorizing multiplication facts. They have also been working very hard on divisibility rules and long division.
In writing, the students will be preparing a personal narrative on being thankful. They will share their "thankful" thoughts with fellow classmates and can share an artifact if they wish.
Our building wide canned food drive will be from Nov. 27 through Dec. 10. All collected canned food items will be donated to the Food Pantry of Iowa.
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Kindergaten classes celebrated our 50th day of school on Nov.
Beating Death Case to Grand Jury
A grand jury will hear evidence in the case against two Rochester men charged in the weekend beating death of a 49-year-old city man. Police charged Merlin Sage and Damion Clarke with second-degree murder. Police say the men kicked and punched Hector Merced, and beat him with a blunt object. The suspects were arraigned Tuesday in City Court, with a number of the victim's family and friends present. "This is who we lost, to them beating him to death for no reason," said Nina Martinez, the victim's cousin. "Somebody could have helped him. They did not have to let him die." Sage and Clarke are both due back in City Court on Friday. They are being held at the Monroe County Jail without bail. ll Monroe County District Attorney
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From Lindsey Lane of Austin. After dropping our bags at our hotel near the Louvre, my daughter Gabriella and I ambled our way to the Eiffel Tower through Jardin des Tuileries with me sort of nudging our walk in the direction of the Orangerie. Thirty years ago, I had stumbled upon the Orangerie and found Monet's "Waterlilies." It was a surprise. I had had no idea they were there in the basement. It was quiet. Very beautiful. I felt like I'd fallen into another world far from the hot summer craziness of Paris. This time, because the Orangerie was in its fourth incarnation as a museum, the "Waterlilies" had risen from the basement to the main floor, in two white egg-shaped rooms. At first, I was angry that it was crowded. How could I possibly claim any kind of restfulness in this insanity? Still, I sat.
Military advance
This is army country, the Ministry of Defence minder remarks pointedly, as we turn down a narrow country lane towards the MoD's Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) at Porton Down. Red flags dotted across the fields warn that live rounds are being fired. That we are entering the 7,000-acre site of one of the UK's most sensitive military research facilities is palpable. Porton Down has a long and dark history, its name tainted by shady chemical and biological experiments carried out on people from 1916 up until the late 1980s. It has undergone a succession of changes in recent years, aimed at modernising it and making it fit for purpose. The former Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (Dera) was split in two in 2001: the majority of its activities were absorbed by QinetiQ, a billion-pound private company, while the DSTL was created to take responsibility for the sensitive research and operational analysis required by the MoD.
Pacific eyed for Japanese study abroad program
Editor's Note: The writer was a 2007 Sasakawa Pacific Island Journalism Fellow. This story was written while on the fellowship in Japan.TOKYO, Japan-"Why don't you learn English in paradise?" is the tag line used in Japan by Tokyo-based South Pacific Free Bird to promote its unique study abroad programs. The appeal mixing visions of white sand beaches and learning English is working. The company has sent over 2,000 Japanese to study English as a second language in Fiji.Founded three years ago, South Pacific Free Bird has grown from less than 50 students in the first year, to a projected enrollment of 3,000 this year, and about 7,000 next year. Students sign up for courses taking a week to a month, and learn the local culture by staying with families in a home stay program.South Pacific Free Bird will open a third campus on Fiji's Viti Levu island next month.
S.F. entrepreneur creates software for Arabic language students
Loren Siebert decided to learn Arabic as a personal challenge, one that would distract the ailing triathlete from a broken leg suffered while training. Now, two years later, the 36-year-old North Beach resident and software engineer has created software called LinguaStep that is helping college students study the famously difficult language at a time when interest in Arabic on college campuses is at an all-time high. Last week, a federally funded study showed that college enrollment in Arabic classes has more than doubled since 2002, a response, researchers say, to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks by younger Americans who view the language as a key to understanding a region they previously knew little about. "As a country, after 9/11 we got caught with our linguistic pants down," said Rosemary Feal, executive director of the Modern Language Association of America, which conducted the study.
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