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With its acclaimed shiraz and other experimental varietals, the Casale del Giglio estate near Rome is at the cutting edge of Italian winemaking.

An innovative, high-tech operation, the family-run property has more in common with the groundbreaking boutique wineries of the New World than traditional Italian estates.

But it has also become known as a window on to Old World viticulture following the discovery, beneath its fields, of important remains of an ancient town that had its own thriving wine trade.

Every summer, a section of the Casale del Giglio vineyard is given over to excavations by a team of Dutch archaeologists.

"In ten years of digging we have uncovered a street that was part of the pre-Roman town of Satricum," said University of Amsterdam researcher Marijke Gnade.

"Under the vines we have also found urns and ceramic wine goblets which show that this place had a wine culture in ancient times."

The researchers have dated the street to the sixth century B.C. They believe it was a "Via Sacra" or "holy way" leading to a famous local temple dedicated to Mater Matuta, the goddess of dawn for both Romans and pre-Romans.

Gnade was still a student when the project to uncover Satricum was first launched, 36 years ago. She has returned every summer since and is now in charge of the excavations with a laboratory located on the Casale del Giglio estate.

As well as authorising digging on land they could be using to produce grapes, the Santarelli family have helped to finance a project jointly organised by local authorities and the University of Amsterdam.

 

 

 

 

AFP photographer Mohammed Al-Shaikh and the BBC's Lyse Doucet were among the winners at the annual Bayeux-Calvados awards for war correspondents announced on Saturday in Bayeux, northwestern France.

Three of the seven prizes went to coverage of the conflict in Syria, where a devastating civil war has raged for the past three and a half years.

The international jury, chaired by US veteran foreign correspondent Jon Randal, awarded the first prize in the photo category to AFP's Al-Shaikh for a series of striking images covering violent demonstrations in Bahrain, which began in 2011.

In the written press category, The Times' Anthony Loyd -- who was beaten and shot at by rebels in Syria -- won top honours for his work highlighting the dangers of reporting from the country.

Doucet, a veteran BBC News correspondent, took the television category for her reports from Yarmouk, a Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus, which became a symbol of suffering in Syria.

The long-format television award went to Marcel Mettelsiefen for a report out of Syria for Arte.

 

 

 

The Soviets rode in on horseback, rifles dangling on rope. Boguslaw Kamola watched in horror from the woods as they occupied his city in eastern Poland. Then the shots rang out.

"This dog was dashing across the field, and one of the soldiers reached for his rifle and fired at him," he recalls.

"They didn't kill him, just wounded him in the rear. And the poor thing dragged his hind legs across the field, howling with fear as he tried to evade the bullets," he told AFP.

Kamola was nine years old when the Soviets invaded in 1939, just weeks after Nazi Germany attacked the country from the west.

It was the onset of World War II, history's bloodiest conflict, and Poland was being crushed by two powerful forces.

"We were horrified by the barbarity of these people. They shot at everything that moved," the now 84-year-old says in Warsaw ahead of the 75th anniversary of the invasion.

 

It had taken the Soviet forces several days to make it over to Kamola's city of Brzesc -- now Brest in Belarus -- after invading Poland on September 17, 1939.

 

 

The surprise assault had been agreed in a secret accord between Germany and the Soviet Union, under which they would divvy up Poland between them.

"It was an agreement between two gangsters," Kamola said of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, dubbing it "the famous knife in the back".

His family fled in panic, grabbing random items: a pillow here, some valuables there, a framed picture of the Virgin Mary that has survived until this day -- and an alarm clock.

"It was within reach, so Mom stuffed it in my pocket," he said in an interview alongside his 85-year-old brother Zbigniew.

"And the damn alarm clock started ringing right out there in the open in the middle of the night."

The brothers chuckle as Boguslaw mimes how he frantically tried to silence the alarm.

"This is something you can recount now as an adventure and laugh about 75 years later. But I remember it was a night when every juniper bush looked like a Russian," Zbigniew says.

"The horror, the fear was huge. The stress," the retired geologist told AFP.

The family eventually made their way to Warsaw after a gruelling journey marked by bone-chilling cold and a couple of close calls with the enemy.

 

 

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Sainsbury’s Nine Elms Temp Store is calling for schools in the South West London (SW8) area to cook up a treat as part of the Active Kids Superstar Cooks competition for the chance to win £10,000 of new kitchen equipment and an exclusive dance lesson with competition judge Ashley Banjo of Diversity.

Active Kids Superstar Cooks challenges pupils to create the ultimate, great tasting, healthy meal in the classroom, which will be judged by a panel of experts and Ashley Banjo, who will be comparing how the entries fair against the healthy eating guidelines set out in the Superstar Cooks competition toolkit (available at sainsburys.co.uk/activekids).

The competition has been created for children of all ages and abilities, with entries in two age categories 5 to 11 and 11 to 16 year olds. One winning school will be selected in each of the two age groups.

Andy Robins, Store Manager said: “Basic food knowledge and cooking skills are things we all need to lead healthy, balanced lives but as a nation we are learning these skills too late in life.

“The popularity of TV shows such as Junior MasterChef and the Great British Bake Off mean that children have become more interested in cooking.  The Active Kids Superstars Cooks competition will help build on this at school level, which is why we have joined forces with Diversity star Ashley Banjo, who embodies the benefits of eating well and being active. Ashley will help teachers to inspire kids to plan, prepare and cook great tasting balanced meals at school, giving them the skills they need to enjoy good food at home throughout their lives.”

Ashley Banjo, Diversity star and Active Kids Superstar Cooks judge, concluded: “Eating well and being active has always been a really important part of my life.   I developed a love of good food when I was young as I quickly discovered that it made me a better dancer.  I’ve teamed up with Active Kids Superstar Cooks because I’m passionate about inspiring kids to learn how to cook basic recipes that will help them as adults.  They might not grow up to be professional dancers or athletes, but all young people need to understand that eating well will help them feel good and give them the energy to lead full and active lives, now and in the future.”

For the first time, practical cookery becomes compulsory for children up to Year 9 in England and Sainsbury’s are inspiring a new generation of children to eat well through its Active Kids scheme. This follows new research released by Sainsbury’s that tells us as a nation, our Cooking Age is falling short of our real age, and we are reaching it much later than we should.

Based on extensive research amongst 3,000 people aged 14 to 50, the national Cooking Age is a first of its kind classification.  Developed in collaboration with the British Nutrition Foundation, much like a person’s Reading Age, it benchmarks food knowledge and cooking skills against suggested Core Competences and the National Curriculum.[1]

 

 

Canada has located the remains of one of two British explorer ships lost in the Arctic in 1846, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Tuesday, hailing the find as historic.

The search for the ill-fated HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, headed by British explorer Sir John Franklin, involved six major expeditions since 2008 that scoured the seabed in the far-flung and frigid region.

Finally, on Sunday, a remotely operated underwater vehicle confirmed the discovery, Harper said in a statement.

"This is truly a historic moment for Canada," Harper said. "Franklin's ships are an important part of Canadian history given that his expeditions, which took place nearly 200 years ago, laid the foundations of Canada's Arctic sovereignty."

While enough information exists to confirm the authenticity of the find, it remains unclear which of the two doomed ships was actually detected.

Harper -- saying one of Canada's "greatest mysteries" has been solved -- was optimistic that the second ship will now also be uncovered.

"Finding the first vessel will no doubt provide the momentum -- or wind in our sails -- necessary to locate its sister ship and find out even more about what happened to the Franklin Expedition's crew."

 

 

 

 

There is the riddle of the Bermuda Triangle. The unresolved identity of Jack the Ripper. The enigma of how the Universe developed beyond a quark-gluon soup following the Big Bang.

And then there is the Sheepdog Mystery.

A puzzle that has niggled mathematical minds for years, the Mystery is this: how does a single dog get so many selfish sheep to move so efficiently in the same direction?

The answer, revealed on Tuesday in a journal published by Britain's prestigious Royal Society, is that sheepdogs cleverly follow a simple rulebook.

Researchers fitted highly accurate GPS tracking devices into backpacks that were then placed on a trained Australian Kelpie sheepdog and on a flock of 46 female merino sheep in a five-hectare (12-acre) field.

They then used the GPS data to build a computer model of what prompted the dog to move, and how it responded.

Sheep cohesiveness is the big clue.

The dog's first rule is to bind the sheep together by weaving around side-to-side at their backs, and once this has been achieved, it drives the group forward.

"It basically sees white, fluffy things in front of it," said Andrew King of Swansea University in Wales.

"If the dog sees gaps between the sheep, or the gaps are getting bigger, the dog needs to bring them together."

Daniel Stroembom of Uppsala University in Sweden explained: "At every step in the model, the dog decides if the herd is cohesive enough or not.

"If not cohesive, it will make it cohesive, but if it's already cohesive, the dog will push the herd towards the target."

Single sheep dogs can successfully herd flocks of 80 or more sheep in their everyday work and in competitive herding trials.

But the model suggests that, in theory, a dog could herd more than 100 by following the two simple rules.

 

 

 

 

Global mining giant BHP Billiton on Tuesday said it will create a new independent company by spinning off some of its aluminium, coal, manganese, nickel and silver assets.

The world's biggest miner said this would allow it to focus exclusively on its core long-life operations -- iron ore, copper, petroleum, coal and potash -- while reducing costs and improving productivity.

The new entity will be listed in Australia with a secondary listing on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange with the demerger expected to be completed in the first half of the 2015 calendar year.

"For over a century, BHP Billiton has progressively reshaped its business to maintain its industry leadership," said BHP chairman Jac Nasser.

"We believe the proposed demerger, if implemented, will accelerate the simplification of the Group's portfolio, provide investors with choice and unlock value in both companies.

"Our shareholders will have the opportunity to vote on this proposal once the necessary approvals are in place."

The company said the new entity, to be named NewCo, would have assets in five countries.

 

 

 

 

 

The death toll from landslides and flooding triggered by torrential monsoon rains in Nepal and northern India climbed to at least 109 Saturday as tides of water, mud and rocks swept away houses, officials said.

The downpours also displaced thousands of people in the scenic Himalayan region and revived memories of a deadly deluge last year that killed more than 5,000 people in the Indian state of Uttarakhand.

The rains in Nepal over the past three days have killed 85 people and left more than 100 others unaccounted for, said national disaster management chief Yadav Prasad Koirala.

"We have recovered 85 bodies so far, 54 people have suffered injuries due to landslides and flooding over the last three days and 113 are still missing," Koirala told AFP.

The rains have damaged roads across the country's western plains bordering India, with poor visibility hindering helicopter rescue efforts to evacuate some 1,500 people stranded in waterlogged homes, said home ministry spokesman Laxmi Prasad Dhakal.

"Because of the damage to roads in the area, we can only deliver relief supplies like tents and medicines by helicopter," Dhakal told AFP.

Army officials rescued some 300 people Saturday, while hundreds more awaited help in the worst-hit districts of Surkhet and Bardiya, where electricity lines snapped, leaving thousands without power.

"We have had no power all day and we are struggling to reach affected people," said Bardiya district official Tej Prasad Paudel.

In neighbouring Banke district, flooding caused by heavy rain washed away homes, district official Jeevan Oli said.

"We've recovered four bodies, including two children. We've looking for four more people whose hut was swept away last night," Oli told AFP.

The deaths come two weeks after the worst landslide in over a decade smashed into hamlets in northeastern Nepal, killing 156 people.

Monsoon rains have also forced officials to close a major bridge along the country's longest highway after it developed cracks and caved in.

 

 

 

Sainsbury’s Nine Elms Temp Store has today announced that Trinity Hospice will receive a year’s worth of fundraising and awareness support. The Trinity Hospice who support Trinity’s skilled, compassionate end of life care helps our patients, and their families and careers, to regain the confidence they need to live every moment will be the new Local Charity for the Sainsbury’s Nine Elms Temp Store store.

The retailer’s Local Charity scheme is now in its sixth year and gives customers the chance to vote for their favourite local charity to be considered to receive a year’s worth of support from their Sainsbury’s store. The scheme has raised over £6 million to support local charities since 2009.

Customers had a huge say in this year’s announcement and voted in-store and online between 28th May and 8th June. The store colleagues then decided that Trinity Hospice were the best charity for them to work with to make a real difference.

 

Get your walking boots out and picnic supplies in.  Marie Curie’s 10k evening fundraising walk, Walk Ten, at Hampton Court Palace on Saturday 30th August is less than 2 weeks away.

There’s still time to register. It’s £10 per person and everyone is asked to raise as much as possible in support of Marie Curie Cancer Care. All the funds raised will help Marie Curie provide care, free of charge, to terminally ill people in their own homes across Surrey and London

People who have taken part in past Walk Ten events have pinpointed what made the event special to them:

“Lovely location and a great atmosphere.”

 

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