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Lord Fraser of Carmyllie: My Lords, instead of immediately thanking all those who have contributed to the debate, perhaps I may record with some regret that, unfortunately, a Member of your Lordships' House, Lord Selkirk, who over many years regularly contributed to debates on criminal justice in Scotland died last week. His contributions will be greatly missed. Those of us who are members of the Faculty of Advocates were proud that, with his distinguished political record, he was also a member of the faculty.
I thank all those who have contributed to the Second Reading debate. The Bill was characterised by a number of your Lordships as being a tinkering with the system. The Bill is the result of extensive consultation. I
I would be the last person in your Lordships' House to suggest to the noble and learned Lord, Lord McCluskey, that in any respect his intellectual capacity is failing. However, it seems to me, with respect, that he is coming to an age when his memory is becoming somewhat golden. If he genuinely believes that the 1979 Bill, and in its later form the 1980 Bill, commanded the universal respect of all Scotland, that does not square with my memory of it, although as time has gone by some of the features which were opposed at that time are now accepted as being important parts of our system.
This is not a tinkering with the system. We looked long and hard at all of the issues and where we might improve them. Certainly we did not try to address such fundamental issues, even if we wanted to, of whether we should move from our current adversarial system to an inquisitorial one. I would vigorously resist that, particularly at a time when so many countries in Europe are looking this way across the Channel to see whether they might move more towards our adversarial systems rather than remain with their own inquisitorial systems.
I accept that, if there is one big idea which is not contained within the Bill, it is in relation to the proposal that there should be a fresh view, possibly including the establishment of a tribunal, in relation to miscarriages of justice. As the Bill progresses through its later stages there may be those who will wish to return to that matter. We recognise the interest in it. We also recognise the great complexity of the issue. It is for that reason that the committee under the distinguished chairmanship of Professor Sutherland has been established. Perhaps I may say this to the noble Lord, Lord Macaulay. It would seem to me that its membership is not without distinction, including within it the Lord Justice-Clerk, and Sheriff Gerald Gordon, who will be well known to anyone with an interest in the criminal system, along with many other distinguished lawyers and others who have a knowledge of our system.
I make no apologies for returning to a number of matters in procedure which existed previously. Our experience has been that by focusing carefully on intermediate diets in the sheriff courts remarkable progress has been made in reducing the number of witnesses unnecessarily called to our courts and the number of trials unnecessarily adjourned or sometimes cancelled. Already we have achieved significant success. I believe that the provisions in the Bill will make those experiments even more successful.
It is not a matter simply of saving the fiscal's time or the court's time. Among the correspondence that I receive are letters from members of the public who have been cited as witnesses. They find that they have repeatedly to come to court and are then sent away without explanation. They have to return weeks later
I am grateful to my noble friend and to others in the House who have given a welcome to the provisions in the Bill. It contains a wide variety of different issues. Sometimes the support came, if I may say so, from unexpected quarters with unexpected vigour. I am grateful to the noble and learned Lord, Lord McCluskey, for his trenchant and brief explanation of the desirability of Clause 26. I hope that it will be understood far more clearly in Scotland what a modest proposal it is and where it fits into the existing common law.
At another point the noble and learned Lord complained that the balance of the Bill was entirely wrong; that it had all been inspired by Crown Agents, the Crown Office or the Law Officers. I cannot accept that. I believe that there were matters on which we wished to achieve a rather better balance. If I recollect the matter accurately, he singled out the change which we proposed on the peremptory challenge of jurors. His narrative of what took place in the 1980 legislation was entirely correct. Since then a similar abolition was proposed and indeed enacted in England. A number of anxieties were expressed at the time. However, my understanding of the situation south of the Border is that, notwithstanding that abolition, the threatened problems have not arisen.
There was general complaint that there was risk of some under-resourcing of both the fiscal service and the criminal justice system more generally. I come back to this point. I am concerned that our criminal justice system should work efficiently and effectively, and that no one--be they court staff, sheriffs, procurators fiscal or whatever--should have time wasted and public money wasted if it can be properly avoided, and that might best be done in relation to our provisions on routine evidence, certificated evidence, agreed evidence and intermediate diets.
There will be expenditure, and provision is allowed for it in the Bill. We should like to extend some of the arrangements and go further with 100 per cent. funding if the arrangements prove successful in relation to supervised attendance orders and the like. I have no doubt that noble Lords, including the noble Earl, Lord Mar and Kellie, will warmly approve of the arrangements that we have already made and of the way in which we wish to extend them.
I hope that our proposal that those who have had a fine imposed and do not pay it should have the matter resolved by the requirement that they are subjected to a supervised attendance order rather than be sent to prison will be more specifically welcomed. Anyone who has contact with the prison service in Scotland will realise the enormous waste of resources involved with the huge number of receptions required. Such a situation achieves
A number of detailed questions were asked. It would be difficult for me to attempt to answer them all. I shall take up the offer extended to me by my noble friend Lord Lyell to write to him on the issue of the qualifications of forensic scientists. As he will appreciate, forensic scientists carry out a wide range of functions. He also asked me about the video-taping of police interviews. A pilot scheme in Lothian and the Borders has just been completed and we are looking to see what experience might be gained from that scheme to take the matter forward.
I am grateful for the welcome for many of the detailed provisions which have been introduced in the Bill. From the speeches that have been made, I am encouraged that the House will enjoy positive and constructive Committee and Report stages. I hope that sufficient has been said in the Second Reading debate to set out for all those not only in your Lordships' House but in Scotland who wish to know what the Bill contains. I hope that they derive that information from our deliberations this evening. I look forward to the later stages of the Bill. I commend it to the House.
On Question, Bill read a second time, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House.
Lord Teviot rose to ask Her Majesty's Government what has been the impact of European Union legislation on the United Kingdom motor coach industry.
The noble Lord said: My Lords, I have pleasure in declaring an interest of which many of your Lordships are aware. For many years I have been in touch with the bus and coach industry, and I am delighted to ask this Question today. I thank those noble Lords who are taking part in the debate.
The noble Earl, Lord Attlee, will develop the subject of road safety. I shall touch on it but will allow him to develop it. I am also pleased to see the noble Lord, Lord Clinton-Davis, who this afternoon is wearing his hat as the official Opposition spokesman. It would be helpful if he could give the benefit of his wisdom on the background of some of the legislation with regard to Europe. It is an important subject for the industry as a whole.
The major part of the motor coach industry in the United Kingdom--the number of vehicles is estimated at 15,000--is operated by small to medium sized enterprises. That ranges from operators of one coach to those with up to 50 vehicles. We do, of course, have a few significant large international operators with fleets numbering hundreds. However, many of the fleets are family owned and rely upon the dedication and flair of their owners for their continued success. In rural areas coaches are frequently the only means of transport for work and leisure pursuits and also provide evergreen
The safety of passengers is one of the principal concerns of United Kingdom coach operators and governments alike. Proven solutions to increasing safety have always been welcomed by the industry. I must confess that 1994 was not the best year where accidents are concerned, but coach travel continues to be one of the safest forms of transport.
Legislation from Europe which has opened up the market for transport by motor coach has been welcomed. That has been particularly true of the simplification procedures and authorisation of certain services. Common rules for access to the profession are all welcome. Perhaps the noble Lord, Lord Clinton-Davis, was responsible for that in his 10 years as a Commissioner.
The Commission White Paper on the Common Transport Policy, especially the development of the Citizens Network, is most encouraging for the role of communal transport, in which coaches play a key part. However, there are a number of developments in Europe which add significant additional costs to the operator and may put many of the small enterprises out of business. Among the most worrying is the proposal to apply value added tax on intra-Community bus and coach travel but to allow air and rail travel to be zero rated. That move is discriminatory and places the bus and coach sector at a competitive disadvantage. In addition to that outright discrimination, the nature of the VAT will create such a burden that many will be forced to withdraw from established operations.
The international coach passenger, when compared with international passengers travelling by other modes, is least able to bear the increased cost of travel which will arise from the imposition of VAT. While VAT will be paid in the country of the point of departure and not on "territoriality", it will be zero rated in the United Kingdom. The industry is concerned to know whether, if a positive rate of VAT is introduced in the UK, other forms of travel will have a positive rating for value added tax. Coaches are further discriminated against, since they pay the full rate of excise duty on fuel, whereas rail and to a lesser extent air travel are exempt.
I now move to speed capability. By 1996 the EC Directive 1992/6 will have reduced the maximum speed capability of most motor coaches to 65 miles per hour. At the time when that directive was agreed, the United Kingdom Government reassured the industry that the reduction would not result in a ban from the outside lane of motorways. Yet the Government have now consulted on such a proposal and are due to make a decision shortly. They have in their possession an independent report which shows that:
o why is it being considered? There are serious safety and commercial implications for the coach industry if the ban goes ahead, because coaches will have to operate at the level of the heavy goods vehicle at 56 miles per hour and will thus be placed at a competitive
I turn to weights. The European Community allows two-axle vehicles of up to 18 tonnes to operate throughout the Community, but the UK Government have a derogation until 1998 to allow for bridge strengthening. It would be helpful if the Government could find some means of relaxing those rules to permit vehicles of 18 tonnes on some parts of the network so as to allow UK operators to compete more effectively with Continental operators. Reports indicate that the bridge strengthening programme is almost complete.
Another point which has been brought to my attention in the past hour is a problem which has been dealt with responsibly by operators. It is that some of their passengers have wished to purchase ample quantities of duty-free goods, thus overloading the coaches. The operators have had to achieve a compromise with their passengers to avoid grossly overloading their vehicles. I can only add that if vehicles of 18 tonnes were allowed on the roads, that problem would be unlikely to exist.
As regards vehicle lengths, I should be grateful if the Minister would state the Government's views on the use of 15-metre vehicles, which are in common use throughout the continent. Many United Kingdom operators would like to use 15-metre vehicles in this country.
To wind up my remarks, when one talks about any form of legislation one comes to the matter of enforcement. The enforcement of regulations is a key part of transport and coaching in particular. Adherence to regulations on drivers' hours is a key part of road safety. There is a growing anxiety about the level of enforcement in Europe and the lack of consistency. The Commission's response to the issue is not to suggest that member states provide the right level and quality of staff but to computerise enforcement by means of a tachograph black box. Again, that brings additional costs, makes the system complicated and discourages further small to medium sized enterprises.
I have been brief, but I hope that I have dealt with the subject adequately. The issues are of great concern to the industry and I look forward to hearing the views of your Lordships and in particular of the Minister on these important matters.
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Jonathan van Tulleken is no newcomer to film-making. Having discovered his passion while studying philosophy and psychology at Oxford University, he went on to complete an MA in directing and writing at Columbia University in New York where he subsequently lectured.
Since then, he has racked up an impressive list of achievements: his Bafta-nominated short film Off Season is being adapted into a feature film, he was named a "star of tomorrow" by Screen International, and he is signed to United Agents as a writer and director.
However, van Tulleken maintains that the success of The Boot Sale was down to the combined efforts of a large creative network. "Everybody involved in the film is connected in some way," he explains.
"[TV presenter] Rick Edwards wrote the script and asked his university friend Tom to act in it; Tom went to school with me, so I ended up directing. Rick was also in a comedy duo with Joe, who plays the dumped guy, and Joe performs sketches with Diane, who plays his ex. We'd never worked together as a group but all really liked the concept so we gave it a go."
Van Tulleken flew in from New York to film the short in one day and admits that much of the work was done off-the-cuff. "The camera was one I'd never used before so I had to figure that out pretty quickly," he recalls.
"And we'd never filmed at a car boot sale so we had to learn how to control the customers!
"Luckily, we worked brilliantly together and it turned out well. It is a nice little story, is visually strong and, to me, feels like a short movie."
Irrespective of the competition's results, van Tulleken will continue to work with his new-found collaborators and would be keen to re-enter next year.
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- From all correct entries received, one winner will be selected at random from all valid entrants across Facebook and Twitter to win return flights to the winning destination with British Airways from London Gatwick. No correspondence will be entered into regarding the selection of the winner.
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Why Dems Should Be Glad Daschle Won't Run
He's got a big problem. Her name is Linda.
Chatterbox doesn't know why Tom Daschle suddenly decided not to run for president. But the decision is unquestionably a good one for the Democrats. Had Daschle run, sooner or later his wife Linda, who is a corporate lobbyist in Washington, would have become an issue. It's unsettling enough that the Democrats' Senate leader is married to an influence peddler. It may even unsettle Linda Daschle, who was quoted two years ago saying she took a "not at all favorable" view of Daschle's running for president. "You can be a very nice person and you can find that some will still distort your record, try to convince in every possible way that they can that you are not who you are," she told Gannett News Service. A plausible translation of that would be: "If Tom runs for president, he'll get pilloried for being married to me."
Linda Daschle, who served briefly as deputy administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration during the Clinton administration, lobbies mainly for the airline industry. Her most conspicuous achievement was to shoehorn into the Transportation Department budget a requirement that the FAA purchase at least half its baggage scanners from L-3 International, which is one of her clients. The L-3 scanner turned out to be a lemon. A month after the Sept. 11 attacks, the Transportation Department's inspector general explained to Congress why nine L-3s that were supposed to be installed at specific airline terminals around the country weren't there:
The nine L-3 machines remain in the warehouse because there have been operational problems with these machines. For example, the L-3 machine at the Dallas Ft. Worth airport (DFW) had operational problems from the day it was installed in the spring 2000. Between July 2000 and July 2001, the L-3 machine at DFW experienced a mean time between failures requiring a service call of 84 hours, and a mean time to repair of almost 6 hours. This means that if the machine broke at the start of the day, it would be out of service for most of that day's screening operation. FAA is in the process of conducting its own demonstration of two L-3 machines at its TechnicalCenter in New Jersey. FAA operated the machines for a total of 900 hours during the first run of its demonstration to derive valid, independent operational data on reliability and availability. This first run resulted in high failure rates, mostly requiring software resets.
Linda counters most criticism by saying that she's been involved in aviation issues since before she married Tom and by pointing out that she never lobbies the Senate. But as Stephanie Mencimer pointed out last year in the Washington Monthly,
[W]hen it comes to lobbying Congress, does it really matter whether a congressional spouse lobbies her husband? The House Democrats on whom Daschle focuses her attention aren't likely to ignore calls from the majority leader's wife. And given the soft currency of Washington's access business, it's awfully hard to separate influence in such concrete ways, especially when many of Daschle's clients are lobbying both her husband and the Senate as well.
As an example, Mencimer cited Linda's work for Schering-Plough, a rare client outside her usual aviation portfolio, which was trying to extend its patent on the allergy drug Claritin:
Daschle was one of many lobbyists the company hired to press its case, but the contract raised questions about Schering-Plough's motives for hiring her, given that Daschle has no expertise in pharmaceutical issues or at the FDA. … Daschle may not have been lobbying the Senate, but Schering-Plough was, contributing $100,000 in soft money to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee over the past three years.
Tom opposed the patent extension, which never happened. But how could Schering-Plough not be beguiled at the thought that their lobbyist shared a bed with the Senate leader? It's an issue that people seem willing mostly to overlook now, but they wouldn't overlook it if Tom Daschle were running for president.
[Correction and an update, Jan. 9: The company Linda Daschle represented is called L-3 Communications, not L-3 International.
Meanwhile, Judy Sarasohn reports in the Jan. 9 Washington Post that Linda Daschle had told the law firm where she works as a lobbyist that she would leave if her husband decided to run for president so that she could work full-time on his campaign. ("I had told them I did not want to miss the opportunity to support Tom," she told the Post.) Even as an ex-lobbyist, though, Linda would still have been a liability.]


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There's always a good reason to get outdoors, but this trifecta of events will make it impossible to stay inside. Join Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation in western Iowa over the first weekend of June. We're celebrating our great state's natural areas with a combined volunteer event, the dedication of a new Bird Conservation Area and the Loess Hills Prairie Seminar. Continue reading
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Apply for INHF's summer land stewardship internship
Looking for a summer internship? Want to help restore Iowa's natural beauty while learning about ecology, land management, and wildlife? Then apply to be an INHF Land Stewardship intern!
Check out Matt's story here and read the description below to get a taste of what exactly the internship entails. Applications for the 2016 summer crew are due Sunday, January 24, 2016.
Loess Hills Prairie Seminar
"Honoring Prairie and the Hills"
Whether avid prairie enthusiast or curious nature lover, you're invited to join INHF at the 39th Loess Hills Prairie Seminar from Friday, May 29, to Sunday, May 31. Events will be held at the Loess Hills Wildlife Management Area northeast of Onawa and in Onawa at West Monona High School.
The Northwest Area Education Agency sponsors the seminar annually and invites educators, students, park and conservation persons, community leaders, and citizens. A living memorial to found Carolyn Frerichs Benne, a Western Hills Area Education Agency environmental educator, the prairie seminar brings together 300 people of all ages every year to promote conservation, environmental and science education.
Events for families and Iowa citizens of all ages are scheduled throughout the weekend, including campfires on Friday and Saturday nights, a silent auction and breakout sessions about birds, plants, insects, photography, history, soil, geology, ecology, prairie management, journaling, Native American heritage, landscaping and more
INHF members will lead two of the breakout sessions on Saturday, May 30, at the Outdoor Seminar Site:
Volunteer at G.R.A.S.S. (the Great Race Against Shrubs and Shade)
Join INHF, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, The Nature Conservancy and other partners during the Loess Hills Prairie Seminar to explore and volunteer at Turin Prairie on Friday, May 29, at 9:00 a.m.
With thoughts of energy and impact, watch the land transform before your eyes at this annual event. Participants will work in teams to remove brush from the large hillside prairie, which may involve use of chainsaws, loppers and handsaws.
Questions about the prairie seminar should be directed to Dianne Blankenship at firstname.lastname@example.com. Questions about G.R.A.S.S. volunteer event should be directed to Mary Runkel at email@example.com.
Wordless Wednesday: Turin Prairie
This photo of Turin Prairie was taken at this past weekend's Loess Hills Prairie Seminar. The seminar consisted of nearly 100 people who got a taste of what this 425-acre project is about. About 65 volunteers donated their time to clear out Cedar trees from a steep, prominent hill for the Great Race Against Shade (G.R.A.S.S.) to foster the health for native prairie. The volunteers included our land stewardship interns and staff, Nature Conservancy interns, the DNR trails crew, plus DNR staff and assorted volunteers including our own board member Greg Grupp.
Photo by INHF Land Stewardship Assistant Ryan Schmidt
2014 Loess Hills Prairie Seminar registration open
Spring is an exciting time at INHF. The land stewardship staff gets back out on the land, we get to tour our favorite properties on field trips and Iowa comes alive with blooms and green spaces. Spring also means it's time for one of our favorite events—The Loess Hills Prairie Seminar.
Information about this year's seminar was just released. It's a time for prairie and Loess Hills enthusiasts alike to gather and work toward making the land we hold dear better through trainings, discussions and a field day. Continue reading
Save the date: INHF Spring volunteer dates
Around the INHF office, we're gearing up for spring by planning as much time outside as possible. After a hearty winter, we can't wait to shake the big coats and trade them for big, open spaces. Want to join us? Check out these opportunities to volunteer with us this coming spring:
Loess Hills Prairie Seminar
Love prairies? Whether you're a prairie aficiondo or just want to learn more about these native Iowa places, the Loess Hills Prairie Seminar (LHPS) is the place to be. The Seminar, in its 37th year, brings together dozens of facilitators and hundreds of participants of all ages, with diverse interests that relate to natural and cultural history, the Loess Hills, and prairie. It will be held from May 31 – June 2 this year.


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OK – this is a big deal to anyone who is spoiling their parents. You're old enough to realise how much they did for you, let's be honest, for a long long time and now it's your weekend or week to show them how much you appreciated it.
So you'd better get it right…!
There's lots to think about.
Adding to that for golden oldies;
ask your host about
– any adaptations they've made for people with mobility challenges. In my opinion, it should be on their website already…
– don't travel far. Two hours for most oldies is plenty.
– make sure you can take the dog
– check how close you can park to the house
2. Many of my guests organising big celebrations, DON'T ask everyone for the whole week. It's just too much work for the host. People come and go, giving you a bit of downtime now and then. So ensure that you have any overflow accommodation booked up. Ask you host to do an extra clean/sheet change for you if required. If it costs £60 to have a cleaner/help in for a day midweek, do it, it'll make a big difference.
3. Have an agreed plan for the 'big do'. If you're staying in do you need a chef, are you going to a local pub, if you're cooking at home check with the host what's in the kitchen; do you need to bring your own Magimix or favourite blender. Are there enough smart, big, serving dishes.
7. The party. Does your house supply some decorations? Is is already partly decorated? Whats going to be the difference that makes the difference? Flowers? Balloons? A story-teller (dressed up as a lost rambler) who blunders in and invites himself to tea and starts his stories… Think out of the box. Ask your host to help. Our house The Ploughmans Cottage has kit for Alice in Wonderland parties.
8. Visit our Pinterest board for more info on presents and set dressing. Celebration ideas for adults and grand-parents.
9. Finally (and I'm getting RSI from typing) make sure you look after yourself. Build in some 'me time' for your break. You'll need it. Go and hide in the forest with a book. Go to a different beach alone.
4. The bill. Every family is different and I can't advise you. Splitting it helps – obviously. Some families split it per day, some per person per day, some half or quarter it. Try to agree a budget and stick to it if possible. Remember there's a breakages deposit to be paid too.
5. Create more value for money. If it feels like the break is expensive and too short, then add to the anticipation and follow up. Do lovely invitations on Paperless Post or get the kids to do a short invitation video on Facebook for a private event. Put up some Pinterest boards on what you're going to do. Sit down with your VIP guest and go through what's going to happen. Give them lots to talk about with their friends before and after. Building anticipation is the key. For the kids – we have lots of info on pre-planning for holidays. Read more here. Delegate some of these jobs to teenagers or kids who will like the kudos of being given responsibility.
6. Food. Most of my guests get in a chef or some help. If you do some of the dessert/coffee then it needed be prohibitively expensive. Otherwise delegate to other family members and ensure the house fridge space is big enough.


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#ftmedia12: Jimmy Wales's advice for journalists on using Wikipedia
He said while "generally speaking we always recommend journalists shouldn't necessarily cite Wikipedia", he advised reporters to use it as a "starting point" and then search out community discussions and what they "want to know".
He added that he is pleased with the "stamp of approval" when news outlets link to Wikipedia.
Listen to the audio below in which he also explains the licences used by Wikipedia, such as for the use of images.Tags: #ftmedia12, digital media conference, Jimmy Wales, The Financial Times, Wikipedia
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This little boy may look like a baby, but he's really 7 years old.
His growth is stunted by a rare disease while his mother is fighting to raise awareness and money, to help fund research and hopefully, new treatments.
The 7-year old suffers from a brittle bone disease called osteogenesis imperfecta which his mother says has left his body deformed and diminishes the chance at a normal life.
As most people prepare for the holidays, Grenisha King says she's just happy to have another day with her son.
"At the age of 2 years old, doctors told me Amere wouldn't make it past 4," said Grenisha King. "He can't walk, bath himself, feed himself."
It's not an easy life, Amere is often in pain.
King says Amere does not have a wheelchair and every day is a challenge for her and her son to do things that most take for granted.
It's just so hard, I've been lifting him for seven years," she said.
But King works hard to keep her son happy.
She says Amere loves to play video games and like most 7-year-old children, he wants to see Santa Claus.
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"Games," said Amere.
By sharing her story, King hopes that people will find the generosity to help not only her son but anyone else suffering from this disease.
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India, other developing economies at risk of not getting access to web content outside country
India and other developing economies run the risk of not getting access to content originating outside the country if the International Telecommunications Union adopts a treaty that gives governments more control on the internet and could allow them to charge for internet traffic landing in their countries.
"There could be a lot of negative impact on the development of the Internet as we know it today, especially in developing countries," Micheal Kende, partner at Analysys mason, a London-based research firm told ET.
Kende explained that if the International Telecommunications Regulations ( ITR) laid down rules on how the internet should be governed then it could impose an accounting rate regime on the internet on the same lines as telephony. This would increase the cost for users, in complete contrast to the Indian communication ministry's agenda of bringing broadband to the masses.
He added that imposing charges on internet traffic coming to India would not work as there were ways to misuse the system, for instance, internet service providers programmed to only download videos from abroad to bring in one-way revenue.
"There could be unintended fraudulent actions to inflate termination revenues, avoidance of serving markets with high fees and discouragement of investment in facilities," Kende said in his report Internet global growth: lessons of the future. "With a liberal country like India, content packets can go through many different routes to get here, how do you keep track of them and figure out who to bill. For doing that you have to reduce the number of gateways and that becomes a security issue," he added.
Kende added that the rate regime used for charging voice calls across the world could not be imposed on internet because there were significant differences between telecom traffic that gets routed through switches and internet traffic, which is essentially packets of information that can take varied routes to travel from one part of the world to another, making it difficult to track and bill.
"Approximately 98% of intenet traffic (videos, file transfers) can be stored in multiple locations, and thus can move and originate from servers in multiple countries. It's hard to determine who initiated a transmission and even where it is possible, it is not always clear whether the sender or the receiver should pay for the transmission," the report highlights.
Further, a lot of internet traffic has shifted to mobile devices which has lead massive development of the internet traffic architecture. "Different routing of internet traffic makes traditional accounting regime an inappropriate compensation mechanism," he said.
India will be part of 193 countries that will meet at the World Conference on International Telecommunications in December in Dubai to discuss and decide on several proposals that could give government's more control on content and access to internet networks. Issues like cyber security, data privacy, fraud and misuse of information would be debated on apart from the ITR's, which were last revised in 1988.
Ever since, mobile telephony has grown exponentially and majority of the large networks are owned by private entities. Further, internet usage has seen uncontrollable growth with more than 2 billion users till date.
India that has more than 900 million mobile phone users and more than 100 million internet users, has not taken a final position on the matter. Officials in the telecom ministry said that discussions with varied stakeholders were still on.


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(b Imola, 5 May 1756; d Munich, 1828). Italian castrato. He studied with Lorenzo Gibelli and made his début at the opera house in Fano in 1772. After touring extensively in Germany and the Netherlands, he sang at Stuttgart in 1779 for the future Russian Tsar Paul I. In 1780 Dal Prato was appointed to the court of Carl Theodor in Munich, where he spent the rest of his career. His voice was a high mezzo. His most famous role was Idamantes in W. A. Mozart's Idomeneo (1781), and he also sang in Antonio Salieri's Semiramide (1782), Ignaz Holzbauer's Tancredi (1783) and Georg Vogler's Castore e Polluce (1787). Mozart complained about the inexperienced singer's poor stage presence and had to teach Dal Prato his music. But Dal Prato was apparently eager to learn, and Mozart referred to him as his 'molto amato castrato Dal Prato'. His singing was admired more for its grace and polished execution than its power or dramatic qualities.
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Sense and Nonsense: One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish; for me, it's no fish
By Lynda Hollenbeck
When Ed and I married, I had never been fishing. Not once.
That sounds weird to a lot of people, but it never bothered me.
Plainly speaking, I wasn't interested.
My brother-in-law, George, who's obsessed with the sport, would consider this grounds for commitment to a rubber room. But George, the psychologist/author, long ago elevated fishing to a religious experience. He has fished in many other lands, including a recent trip to Argentina, after which I teased him about trying to catch fish that speak with a Spanish accent.
His brother frequently told him that there's no better fishing anywhere than in Arkansas and he could see no sense in his continent-jumping itinerary. Many times I pointed out to Ed that saying you've fished in the Saline River pales somewhat to telling about a deep-sea fishing experience in South America when you're in a bragging contest in Texas (George's home for a number of years).
In any event, I never fished. I could have done it a zillion times if I had desired. I grew up in Eastern Arkansas, in Cotton Plant, close to the Cache River, which had the best catfish around, and there was also Turkey Creek, where many an angler enjoyed the activity.
My Aunt Bessie — Auntie to me — loved to fish at Turkey Creek. I adored her and loved hearing her share delightfully exaggerated accounts about life — hers and everybody else's. She was witty and looked a lot like the little actress who played Miss Emma on the "Andy Griffith Show."
Even the fun of spending time with Auntie wasn't enough to lure me to the fishing hole.
There are several reasons why fishing has no appeal for me. First, you have to do it either sitting on the river bank or in a boat, and neither possibility stirs my soul.
Secondly, whether by bank or boat, at water's edge or in it, the setting draws insects — mainly mosquitoes — and as a fair-skinned redhead I'm already a magnet for the testy varmints. When they bite me, I don't get the usual little red spots. I get huge, itchy splotches that, if appearance were the only criterion, would make me eligible for residency in a leper colony.
Thirdly, people who really want to catch fish have to be still and quiet or the fish won't bite (so they say), and that certainly doesn't fit in with my lifestyle. Talking in my family is aligned equally with breathing. Rarely did/does anyone stop for long, and I've always been true to my heritage.
Try explaining all of this to someone who's determined to broaden your horizons. Early in the union, I told Ed I didn't think a personal experience in fishing was necessary, but he insisted that I couldn't go through life and never have had the joy of participating in the sport.
I finally gave in. The weather on this particular day wasn't horribly warm, which helped somewhat. But the bugs were true to their calling and I left with a dramatic share of bites.
And I did catch two or three fish — AFTER Ed baited my hook. Sorry, but I just couldn't do that to any worm.
I didn't get any great thrill from the experience, but I persevered.
We got home with a respectable number of fish and I started in the process of cleaning them.
No one had warned me that water can revive what appears to be a dead fish. I learned all too quickly that opossums aren't the only critters that can play dead.
Right before my eyes the catfish that I thought were permanently out of the swimming game began wriggling.
"Ed! " I screamed. "These fish are alive!"
The water had refreshed the stunned fish, Ed explained. "It's OK. That happens sometimes."
"And you expect me to COOK and (gasp!) then EAT something that I have come face to face with?!!" I shrieked. "No, thank you!"
My angling career ended at that precise moment.
There's no way I'm ever going to become acquainted with something that is predestined to become my food.
I agonize when I see the pictures of the 4-H kids in the fat calf contest at the county fair. Yes, they know and understand the calf's future at the start of the project. That's one thing. That's a head thing.
That's BEFORE they've cared for and grown to love that little brown-eyed critter that can be as sweet as a puppy. Giving it up for the table has to hurt. That's a heart thing.
Anyway, when I "met" my fish, I was done.
It was over and out, farewell, adios, so long, arrivederci, sayonara.
To capsule how I feel about fishing, I'll share a quote from Harold F. Blaisdell, who said it first in "The Philosophical Fisherman":
"All the romance of ... fishing exists in the mind of the angler and is in no way shared by the fish."
Lynda Hollenbeck is senior editor of The Saline Courier.


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Abbott to test carbon numbers in Senate
The Abbott government will test support for repealing the carbon tax now that new senators have been sworn in.
But Labor and the Greens have appealed to the new crossbenchers to wait for a report into the legislation due to be tabled on July 14 before thinking about siding with the government.
The coalition now has 33 senators in the upper house, after new senators were sworn in on Monday morning, requiring six extra votes to get its laws passed.
If the government can't get Labor's 25 senators on side, it can try the 10 Greens or eight crossbenchers.
The other eight include Glenn Lazarus, Jacqui Lambie and Dio Wang from the Palmer United Party, Ricky Muir from the Australian Motoring Enthusiasts Party, Bob Day from Family First, David Leyonhjelm from the Liberal Democrats, independent Nick Xenophon and the Democratic Labour Party's John Madigan.
The government is set to move a motion in the Senate on Monday, after the swearing in and morning tea with Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove, to bring on the carbon tax repeal bills.
But Labor Senate leader Penny Wong says the government is bullying the new senators.
"What the government is doing is asking the Senate and the new senators on the crossbench to suspend standing orders and bring on a vote on legislation which is due to be debated on July 14th," she said.
Manager of government business in the Senate Mitch Fifield said Australians had voted to scrap the carbon tax at last year's federal election.
"This week we would like to see the Australian Senate give effect to what the Australian people have already indicated they want," he said.
PUP leader Clive Palmer supported a vote to scrap the carbon tax this week.
"I think it's a good idea because Australians have debated the carbon tax now for five years," he said.
The renewed push to scrap the tax came as 59 economists wrote an open letter calling for a price on carbon.
Putting a price and limit on carbon pollution is the most economically efficient way to reduce emissions, they said.
Senator Leyonhjelm, one of the senators the government expects to back the repeal, expressed some trepidation about his new role before taking his oath.
"It scares the crap out of me," he told reporters.
Senator Day said his fellow debutants were eager to prove their critics wrong.
The Family First senator noted the crossbench had been called "a mish-mash, flotsam and jetsam, bunch of barnyard (animals), licorice all-sorts, Star Wars aliens".
"All those things we think are hilarious," he deadpanned. "We're all committed to doing a good job."
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When I awoke earlier, I felt nauseous from a vivid dream and was relieved to see the calm, peaceful surroundings of my bedroom…
Yet the image of the 'giant wheel' wasn't going away easily, so I laid there for a while thinking about my dream.
I have always been an active dreamer but it's only occasionally that I experience really vivid ones. I usually don't struggle to understand my dreams; when I contemplate them the meaning becomes quite clear, even if vivid and challenging. Yet today is the first vivid dream I am blogging about.
In this dream, I was who I am today. There were even people from my life there with me. I was studying ministry and was trying to live my life walking alongside others.
But in my dream I was lonely.
There seemed to be many people around me, even Christians, who were living for their own desires first and foremost.
Subtle things like work, money, friendship, and then more obvious things like lust or alcohol seemed to be their main priorities rather than reaching others with the gospel.
I was very sad and ended up walking away.
I walked away from these people and entered into a very large city square. I saw many people of different genders, races and ages jamming themselves into an open cage. Young or old they were all part of a huge contest that the world was offering.
Then my view took in all of a giant wheel. This wheel was GIANT. It was giant, like the Melbourne Star observation wheel, see here. But the wheel was also like a giant mouse toy, as the people were to propel the wheel into motion by their movement.
Mesh wire separated the cage's sections yet there was no outer barrier; the wheel was open, people could easily fall out to their death…but this was the competition you see…the last person to survive won the fame and fortune on offer. I remember being very alarmed when I saw one contestant, a young mother in the wheel, taking her place with her infant bound to her body...even the children were not safe and their lives were at risk too.
This was not just a once offer though, there were numerous chances to enter the wheel competition. There were onlookers holding decapitated hands of their loved ones who had tried in an earlier round…yet bizarrely they still looked on in HOPE for their other loved ones who had scored a chance to enter. You see, the wheel was well organised, it was very professionally ran and not everybody had a chance at the same time. One could only enter if there name came out on a list.
The propaganda being spoken over the loud speaker was alarming…
I remember seeing the list full of names and being relieved that my name was not on it, then being asked a question from God; "What would you do if your name was on it?"
I replied that I would make a stand by being different and NOT taking the 'opportunity' the world was offering…
What a mad, mad world it was in my dream.
Yet is this very different to reality?
When thinking about the dream the scripture which came so loudly to me was this:
'For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?' Mark 8:36 King James Version.
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Adenanthos macropodianus, commonly known as Gland Flower,[2] or Kangaroo Island Gland Flower,[3] is a species of shrub in the family Proteaceae. It is endemic to Kangaroo Island in South Australia. First published as a variety of A. sericeus in 1870, it was promoted to species rank in 1978.
Adenanthos macropodianus has an erect habit, usually growing to 1 metre (3 ft) in height although plants as high as 3 metres (10 ft) have been recorded. The leaves, which are up to 15 mm (0.6 in) long, are silvery, and deeply lobed into nine or more soft, hairy laciniae about half a millimetre in diameter. The flowers, which appear throughout the year, have a pink to red (or rarely yellow) perianth and a style up to 30 mm long.[4]
Early botanical collectors of this taxon include Ferdinand von Mueller and Frederick George Waterhouse. Mueller regarded it as a distinct species, provisionally labelling it A. barbata in his herbarium, but publication fell to George Bentham, who regarded it as merely a variety of A. sericea (now A. sericeus). In 1870. Bentham published it as A. sericea var. brevifolia, in Volume 5 of his landmark Flora Australiensis. He divided the genus into two sections, placing this taxon in A. sect. Stenolaema because its perianth tube is straight and not swollen above the middle.[5] This division of the genus is still accepted today, though A. sect. Stenolaema is now renamed to the autonym A. sect. Adenanthos.
Early in the 1970s, Ernest Charles Nelson began investigating the question of why there are so many plant species with disjunct distribution patterns in southern Australia. One such species was A. sericea, the Kangaroo Island variety of which occurred about 2500 km (1600 mi) east of the nearest population of the Western Australian variety. This led Nelson to undertake a full taxonomic revision of Adenanthos, in the course of which he concluded that A. sericea var. brevifolia warranted species rank, primarily because leaves are much smaller and have fewer laciniae than the Western Australian A. sericea. In 1978 he published a new description of the taxon, giving it species rank with the name Adenanthos macropodiana, and synonymizing A. sericea var. brevifolia with it. The specific epithet macropodiana is a reference to Macropus, the genus to which all terrestrial kangaroos belong,[6] referring to the fact that it is only found on Kangaroo Island.[2]
Nelson refined Bentham's arrangement by dividing A. sect. Adenanthos into two subsections, with A. macropodiana placed into A. subsect. Adenanthos for reasons including the length of its perianth.[6] However he discarded his own subsections in his 1995 treatment of Adenanthos for the Flora of Australia series of monographs. By this time, the ICBN had issued a ruling that all genera ending in -anthos must be treated as having masculine gender; thus the specific epithet became macropodianus.[4]
The placement of A. macropodianus in Nelson's arrangement of Adenanthos may be summarised as follows:[4]
- Adenanthos
- A. sect. Eurylaema (4 species)
- A. sect. Adenanthos
- A. drummondii
- A. dobagii
- A. apiculatus
- A. linearis
- A. pungens (2 subspecies)
- A. gracilipes
- A. venosus
- A. dobsonii
- A. glabrescens (2 subspecies)
- A. ellipticus
- A. cuneatus
- A. stictus
- A. ileticos
- A. forrestii
- A. eyrei
- A. cacomorphus
- A. flavidiflorus
- A. argyreus
- A. macropodianus
- A. terminalis
- A. sericeus (2 subspecies)
- A. × cunninghamii
- A. oreophilus
- A. cygnorum (2 subspecies)
- A. meisneri
- A. velutinus
- A. filifolius
- A. labillardierei
- A. acanthophyllus
Hybrids with A. terminalis, the only other Adenanthos species that occurs on Kangaroo Island, have been reported.[2]
Distribution and habitat[edit]
This species is endemic to Kangaroo Island, South Australia, making it one of only two Adenanthos species to occur outside Western Australia. It grows on sandy siliceous soils, often amongst tall scrub. Plants often found growing in association with it include Eucalyptus species, Banksia ornata and Banksia marginata.[2][6] It is said to be especially common in Flinders Chase.[4]
In 1988 the species was not known in cultivation, though there was speculation that its tolerance of salt spray may render it useful for coastal gardens.[2] Currently, the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne, Australia has a number of plants in cultivation.[7]
- ^ "Adenanthos macropodianus E.C.Nelson". Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government.
- ^ a b c d e Wrigley, John; Fagg, Murray (1991). Banksias, Waratahs and Grevilleas. Sydney: Angus & Robertson. pp. 61–62. ISBN 0-207-17277-3.
- ^ Nelson, E. Charles (2005). "The koala plant and related monickers" (PDF). Australian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter (125): 2–3. Retrieved 2010-04-17.
- ^ a b c d Nelson, Ernest Charles (1995). "Adenanthos". In McCarthy, Patrick. Flora of Australia. 16. Collingwood, Victoria: CSIRO Publishing / Australian Biological Resources Study. pp. 314–342. ISBN 0-643-05692-0.
- ^ Bentham, George (1870). "Adenanthos". Flora Australiensis. 5. London: L. Reeve & Co. pp. 350–356.
- ^ a b c Nelson, Ernest Charles (1978). "A taxonomic revision of the genus Adenanthos Proteaceae". Brunonia. 1: 303–406. doi:10.1071/BRU9780303.
- ^ "Adenanthos macropodianus at the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne". Royal Botanic Gardens. Archived from the original on 7 April 2014. Retrieved 2 April 2014.
External links[edit]
- "Adenanthos macropodianus". Flora of Australia Online. Department of the Environment and Heritage, Australian Government.
- "Adenanthos macropodianus E.C.Nelson". Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government.


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The Atlatl partnership with abas-USA underscores a growing trend to enable more cost-effective 'mass customization' by streamlining the entire customer order value stream.
Charleston, SC and Sterling, VA (PRWEB) February 01, 2014
Atlatl Software, a Six Axis LLC Company and pioneer of the software category "sales resource planning" (SRP), and abas-USA, a leader in mid-market enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions, announced their partnership to provide abas-USA customers with Atlatl SRP software. The joint announcement was made by Matt Carter, COO of Atlatl SRP software and Alan Salton, president of abas-USA. Under the terms of the agreement, which took effect January 1, 2014, the abas-USA sales team will market Atlatl SRP software to its customers and prospects.
"We're enthusiastic about the opportunity to drive a significant shift in the ERP market whereby our combined ERP and SRP expertise will deliver a much improved customer experience when purchasing complex engineered-to-order products," said Salton.
Both companies expressed a growing demand from small and mid-size manufacturers to add value by enabling greater customization—a key focus of the partnership.
"Our partnership with abas-USA underscores a growing trend to enable more cost-effective 'mass customization' by streamlining the entire customer order value stream from initial sales visit to final delivery," said Carter.
He explained that the partnership supports increased market demand for greater front-end (sales) and back-end (manufacturing) integration. This integration will improve the efficiency and accuracy of the design and specification process while enabling planning and manufacturing to maintain the highest quality standards.
Simplifying the complexity of selling and manufacturing configurable products:
Atlatl SRP software integrates engineering rules, parts masters and pricing information into an innovative 3D, virtualized interface. Using a laptop or gestures on an iPad®, sale reps render a 360 degree simulation of the product configuration as it will appear in the customer's native system. A quote, complete with engineering drawings and bill of materials, can be issued.
Atlatl SRP solutions represent a paradigm shift in the way companies can interact with customers and prospects. Real time interactions— from CRM and configurations to quoting and creating bills of material—accelerate delivery performance. Deep integration into abas ERP gives the customer an end-to end solution that includes MRP, scheduling, procurement management, inventory, service and complete financials. It is a total solution for configure-to-order, build-to-order and engineer-to-order manufacturers.
"Atlatl adds value in the upstream sales and order entry process and abas-USA does the same for downstream manufacturing. Together we provide a substantial competitive advantage – top line growth and bottom line savings for manufacturers of complex, configurable products," said Rob Honeycutt, Atlatl CEO.
About Atlatl Software
Atlatl Software is a Six Axis LLC company based in Charleston, SC. Founded in 2012, the company's focus, like the eponymous ancient tool, is on creating incredible leverage. Built for sales and manufacturing by sales and manufacturing specialists, Atlatl SRP Software is the first 3D enterprise-class selling solution that uses the latest in human interface design and mobile technologies to deliver information and efficiency to sales and manufacturing professionals, helping them sell and produce more products in less time.
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I am the ward librarian. The video for the new printer/copier says members should be able to send print jobs to the printer from their mobile devices if the printer is connected to the internet. We have connected our printer to the internet through a Cisco product that connects the printer to the WiFi. We can print from a lap top, but how would members with mobile devices send their print jobs to the printer. We having trouble with this.
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Gwen Stefani
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List of female composers by name
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Originally posted by Xquizit
Being female, this thread does not insult me in anyway.
However, I do believe that YES there are more male artists creating their own music or lyrics or what have you. Truly there are amazing female artists past and present with such a gift but I think in today's society, sex sells.
I think talented musical writers look for the next pretty face with an amazing voice to sing his lyrics and crosses his fingers in hopes that this combination sells.
But that's just my opinion
Originally posted by mythos
there are countless talented female song-writers, which should be obvious. do some research... check out your local talent.
but seeing how the recording industry is controlled by men, of course we are inundated with a sausage fest.
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This article lists equestrian facilities in Spotsylvania County, Virginia. Listed here are venues for riding lessons, summer camps, clinics, and training.
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Colchester Equines offers horseback riding lessons, trail rides at the facility and Lake Anna State Park, pony parties at the facility or at your farm, horse training lessons at the facility or your farm. Colchester Equines offers several levels of horse training including a three-month program for unbroken horses.
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Week No. 1 – 2011 Season/
Welcome back to lifelong endeavor restoring health to land and people
A long way off down the avenue, I see Ellen and Rich coming. Umbrella and canvass bags in hand, faces smiling and encouraging as always, they're coming to support my family and our farm as they have nearly 10 years. I'm trying to sign up new vegetable subscribers and selling products for our organic farm. These dear ones always seem to show up right when someone new at my table needs reassurance about who we are, what we do. Days later and miles from that neighborhood, their faces come to me as I round a field, raking hay. It is as if they're with me on the John Deere tractor, enjoying it all. I pass double rows of sweet potatoes, cabbage, broccoli, tomatoes, okra – football-field-length beds we've transplanted. More prepared beds await so many more varieties to be transplanted in the next few days. I see the maxi-belle and dragon tongue beans rising, the blocks of winter wheat and rye fast maturing. I think about the rotations of different plant varieties, each taking or contributing something to the soil. I watch the grasses, alfalfa, clove and native plants fall to the haybine. I see the birds and insects, returned to more diverse plantings in this field rescued from intensive chemical applications and mono-cropping 7 years ago. Ellen and Rich did this, as much as Tony or Dela, our children or farm interns, as much as the committed owners of this land we rent. They, and so many other subscribers, new and longstanding, helped restore the Natural system, the balanced, healthful, nurturing system of life, that once thrived everywhere about the Earth. They restored a new standard, a new focus. It favors health and quality over volume. Think about this with each bite you take of this food we all raise together. Accept our heartfelt thanks for supporting Scotch Hill Farm and the good Earth.
This Week's Vegetables are:
- Bok Choy
- Oregano
- Cress – a relative of kale (this we've planted and harvested for you is a Curly, Crinkled, Crumpled variety)- peppery tang for salads, sandwiches or mixed vegetables
- Asparagus
- Spinach (planted in high tunnel last September)
- Onions (grown over winter in high tunnel)
- Turnips – Considered a starch, yet with one-third the calories of potatoes, this root crop lends more nutrients to health if you leave its skin in tack when cooking or slicing into salads; the greens supply many times the nutrients of roots (Vitamins A, E, C, plus folic acid, and excellent fiber)
- Radishes (try them in stir fry; greens can be washed and incorporated into dishes, too)
- Leaf lettuce – the darker the shade of lettuce, the higher its nutrient content; unlike iceberg lettuce, ours is a good source of Vitamins K, A, C, B1, B2, folic acid, magnesium and chromium micro nutrients
Cooking Tips for the Week
"From Aspargus to Zucchini" – We've purchased two boxes of our Madison Area CSA Coalition's "Asparagus to Zucchini" cookbook so our subscribers can enjoy a 25 percent discount off its retail price. Dela's serves on the coalition's board and has contributed recipes to the book. We can obtain additional copies for you, always at the $15 price. Simply email or call us to arrange delivery with your produce or to pick up from the farm. This quick-reference, easy-to-follow instructions on cooking tips, preservation and recipes, advises you on almost every vegetable we grow. It is arranged dictionary-style and helps you identify most items in your delivery list each week with a sketch of each vegetable or herb. You'll get the most out of your subscription if you obtain this CSA survival skill book. (cell 608 354-3243 / farm 608 897-4288 / firstname.lastname@example.com ) Below are two recipes from present and previous editions of the food book. You can also find them at our website www.scotchhillfarm.com under "Cooking on the Farm" in the site's menu of options. Our daughter Holly has helped us revamp the website, and Dela will try to include more recipes on the site through the growing season. Communicate with our community of support through the new forum provided.
Spicy Bok Choy Ginger Salad (adapted from MACSAC's From Aspargus to Zucchini p. 33)
- 4 cups thinly sliced bok choy leaves & stems
- 1 cup grated radishes
- 1/4 cup finely chopped onion (use green tops if you have them)
- 1 inch knob of grated ginger root
- 2 tablespoons chopped mint &/or cilantro
- 3 TBSP balsamic vinegar
- 2 tsp honey
- pepper to taste
Toss together and chill before serving. Makes 6 servings.
Rhubarb Bread (adapted from previous edition of "A to Z Foodbood")
- 1 cup milk
- 2 1/2 cup flour
- 3/4 cup brown sugar
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 2/3 cup oil
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 egg
- 1 1/2 cup chopped rhubarb
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1/2 cup sugar & 1 TBSP butter w/ cinnamon for topping
Heat oven to 325. Butter 2 loaf pans. Mix all ingredients except topping. Divide evenly into 2 bread pans.Mix topping ingredients and sprinkle on loaves. Bake 50 minutes. This bread freezes well and tastes great in December!


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Ascension St. John Hospital Emergency Medicine Residency
Dear Prospective Candidate,
Welcome to the Ascension St. John Hospital Emergency Medicine Residency website. You are embarking on an exciting journey as you search for the EM training program that suits you best. There are many excellent choices and we are one of them! As you peruse this website, you will get a sense of who we are and a flavor of what we have to offer you in our curriculum and clinical experiences. I am very proud of our program and its track record of training strong clinicians and leaders. I now have something new to be proud of – our beautiful physical surroundings. Our renovated Emergency Department with 73 private patient care rooms and massive resuscitation area is a state-of-the-art facility and a great place to practice.
The most important asset to our program, however, are the top-notch people involved – the faculty, residents, nurses, ancillary and office staff as well as the interesting patients you will encounter and treat.
The variety and acuity of disease processes encountered by our resident staff are vast and as a result, the clinical acumen they develop is strong. The experience we offer to you as a resident will enable you to excel in your practice wherever you go.
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I logged into my old Bet365 account and saw that I had some bank there left (since I play on betsson most often).
So I decided to spend it on some games for this evening.
If it goes through I will write a post about it regarding the odds that are so broken.
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DiMitri, or "MEAT" as he was affectionately called by all who met him was the most kind loving and compliant child. He was a kid who was literally a clean slate, he had no language, no preconceptions of people, nothing, he took everything as it came to him, people, learning, anything. Everything was a new adventure, everything was a joy. He was a JOY, and he is horribly missed everyday, every minute, every second. WE MISS OUR MEAT!!!
DiMitri was an amazing kid, he was born deaf and had no language when we adopted him from a Bulgarian orphanage. Things our kids took for granted like eating a hamburger at Mcdonalds, was a huge deal to him, he didn't even know how to eat. it, he made a he hamburger into meat, a salad and bread, it was like a 7 course meal...he couldn't talk at all, but man did he try to sing, it would call the dogs home that is for sure, but he loved it, and we let him go at it.
DiMitri was so brave through this whole thing,he never complained, he didn't ask why me, he just took it all in stride, this horrible disease called Rhabdomyosarcoma this aggressive tumor in his tiny little brain~he didn't cry at chemo, radiation, or during blood draws, he just let the doctors do their thing, with the exception of a changing of the pick line, that he didnt like so much. But when he was at the end of his short life, he did it with dignity and like a true gentleman, he told us, "No more, DiMitri go home, Dimitri done now, me tired", and we knew what that meant, he wanted to go home and die, how could he understand the complications of that he is just 7 for God's sake, how could he know. We are selfish by nature, and we want our loved ones with us for all time, but at what price? The price of pain and suffering?? We just could not do that. we had to let Meat die with dignity, and grace, we had to let him do this HIS way. And HE was comforting my wife Lisa and I, instead of us comforting him. We have to find a cure for childhood cancers, no child should ever have to suffer like that~no child should be buried by a parent, no family should be devastated like this!! He passed away at home with his mom, dad, sister, and brother & grandma sarah,at his side, so dignified and so graceful. DiMitri passed away the day before his brother Cody's birthday, and he was buried on my wife's and my anniversary. He taught us a lot in his short time here on earth, he was an angel then and he's our angel still! Thanks DiMi we love and miss you.
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Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton speaks out about officer-involved shootingPosted: Updated:
PHOENIX -- Late Monday evening, Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton spoke out about the officer involved shooting earlier in the day.
One Phoenix police officer died and another was left in critical condition after a shootout Monday that also left the suspect dead. That suspect was reportedly wanted on a felony warrant.
Mayor Stanton called this a very sad day for the City of Phoenix, and a very sad day for the Phoenix Police Department.
"Hug your loved ones a little closer tonight," Stanton said. "Our department has lost one of their finest, and there's another officer fighting for his life inside St. Joseph's Hospital."
"In Phoenix we love and support our police officers," he continued. "Today is a tragic reminder that our officers risk their lives for us every single day."
"We are praying hard, praying hard for the family of our deceased hero," Stanton said. "And we are praying for the officer fighting for his life."
"If you see an officer tonight, tomorrow, or anytime soon, please tell that officer thank you for all you do," he said. "These officers risk their lives for us every single day and we must remember that every single day as well."


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New stretch target
Kenneth is also working on a programme to develop boardgames from existing materials and we have been particularly successful in turning a square of plywood into a 64 square chess board, which can be used for games like draughts and, if pieces are available, chess. Most particularly, though, we have been teaching Othello to children, as this game is very easily played using bottle tops, which are readily available and completely free. Last year we had an Othello championship. If we achieve the stretch goal, we can acquire more plywood board, that can be kept at our rural centre and with which we can build many boards for teaching village children how to play Othello and other board games, like draughts and chess.
Project aim
Kenneth (14) wants to spend his school holiday teaching village children in Northern Uganda how to play modern board games.
About the project
Children in Uganda can be no worse at problem-solving than their international counterparts are and the Village Board Game Project helps ensure that children develop a range of helpful skills, even in the most deprived areas, where creativity and inspiration is hard to find.
Kenneth is now 14 and has now taught many children how to play the various board games that we have at the Chrysalis Centre, which is based in one of Kampala's slums, known as the Acholi Quarter.
He particularly is a fan of Ticket to Ride and in the video explains what skills you need to succeed at the game. We like to offer a range of different games suitable for different abilities, from "My First Monopoly" to complex games like Agricola, Descent and Runebound, for the older children.
Kenneth is now on holiday and he wants to use his break to travel to the remote rural area of Koro, where Chrysalis has another centre to inspire children to be changemakers. He needs $100 (approx £60) to make the trip and spend several days at the Chrysalis Centre Koro, which is 300km from Kampala. We'll take photos and give out feedback on how the local children react to the games!
Kenneth is also a writer and editor of the Acholi Quarter Youth News and in the future could be a boardgame designer, bringing much-needed income and creating intellectual property for the people of Uganda to benefit from.
There is more information about the Butterfly Project at http://cyen.org.uk, which teaches young people to be changemakers.


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The Essential Islamic CreedBy Shaykh Ahmad Ibn Zayni Dahlan
Translation and Footnotes By Amjad Mahmood
Paperback 105 Pages
Size: 21.6 x 13.9 cm
Publisher: Heritage Press
Arabic - English
About The Book
The essence of Islam is its creed, which validates the performance of one's worship; thus making it eligible for acceptance.
The obligation to have sound doctrine has led Muslim theologians to develop an elaborate discipline of creed based primarily on the Qur'an and Sunnah, whilst also incorporating sound rational argumentation.
This work by Shaykh Ahmad ibn Zayni Dahlan is a summary of the core tenets of faith in the manner of the Late-Sunni Tradition, enumerating what a Muslim should believe regarding
Table of Contents :
Chapter [I]. Foundational Principles,
Chapter [II]. The Attributes of Allah,
Chapter [III]. The Attributes of The Prophets, alayhim as-Salam,
Chapter [IV]. The Unseen Realm and the Afterlife, & other Essential Beliefs and Practices,
Contains Extensive Notes and References.
About The Author
Shaykh Ahmad ibn Zayni Dahlan (1817-1886) was the leading Shafi'i mufti and scholar of Mecca during the second half of the 13th century, and an authority on Islamic history.
He was born in 1231 AH. He lived when the first printing press was established in Mecca, which resulted in a number of his works being printed.
He authored, and personally published, numerous works on the Islamic sciences and history.
His major contribution to the madhhab came in the form of his numerous students, including Sayyid `Alawi ibn Ahmad al-Saqqaf, Sayyid Abu Bakr Shatta, Shaykh `Umar Ba Junayd, and Sayyid Husayn ibn Muhammad al-Hibshi.
Some of the works published by him include,
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