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- n. a table exhibiting the average relative number of persons who survive, or who have died, at the end of each year of life, out of a given number supposed to have been born at the same time.
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Aberdeen successfully raised £119m yesterday to fund the acquisition in a placing that was three times oversubscribed.
It had originally planned to place 84m shares in the accelerated bookbuild but increased that to 90m on the back of strong institutional demand. It will use the extra £34m raised to reduce debts to around £40m.
The sale is expected to complete within the next two months and set RBS's strategy of selling off billions of pounds of non-core assets in motion.
The bank is close to agreeing a buyer for RBS Sempra, its commodities trading joint venture, having received offers of around $4bn (£2.5bn) for the business from Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan Chase and Macquarie.
Speaking about the Aberdeen deal, Bruce Van Saun, RBS finance director, said: "This transaction represents another step in our plan to restructure RBS around its core customer franchises."
For Aberdeen, the deal represents another leap forward in its strategy following the £285m acquisition of £50bn of assets under management from Credit Suisse last year. The RBS Wealth Management business being acquired adds £13.5bn of assets under management and bring Aberdeen into the fund of hedge funds market.
Under the terms of the deal, Aberdeen will be the exclusive provider of investment products to Coutts, RBS's private bank, and as well as certain of its management businesses for five years. Some 65 staff will move across to Aberdeen once the deal completes. Aberdeen will also be able to sell its own products to the RBS client base.
Martin Gilbert, chief executive, said the challenge would be to sell the fund of hedge fund products beyond its captive RBS base, "which it hasn't done before".
"This adds a further leg to our business," he said. "It is not about cutting people, it's a bolt-on acquisition." Aberdeen is already strong in equities, fixed income and property.
The acquisition was announced alongside a trading update for the last three months of 2009. Assets under management fell 1.4pc to £144bn due to "outflows from fixed income and a money market account that a client took in house", Mr Gilbert said.
"The positive, though, was that it was the best ever quarter for equity inflows." Net income was £12m higher due to the higher margin nature of the equity business. "People now want to invest in equities and property," Mr GIlbert said.
Aberdeen placed the 90m shares at 132p, 8.9pc of its share capital and a 4.2pc discount to Thursday's closing price. Aberdeen shares finished fell 3pc. It advisers, JP Morgan Cazenove, BNP Paribas and Canaccord, received about £1.6m in fees.
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What is it about the new year that makes us sit down and really think about our lives? Where we are today? Where we were yesterday? Where we would like to be tomorrow? I don't know about the rest of the world, but for me the month of January is a time when I think about these things and what I have to do to try to make something wonderful happen in the new year.
It's sort of a time to create that wish list - things I want to do or want to achieve or would even like to try - but may not ever get around to accomplishing them.
Take for instance - I would LOVE to learn how to decorate cakes. I am that person that you see in Michaels or Hobby Lobby who is stalking the items on the Wilton aisle. Daydreaming about the creations made out of fondant and icing. And to confess, at one time in my life I bought an absurd about of baking pans, all with the intention of baking and decorating cakes. I use them every so often (read: not much) and still dream about decorating cakes. I have decorator tips in my kitchen - along with a lot of cookie cutters - that never get used any more.
I have probably spent a fortune on scrapboooking supplies. Die-cuts. Punches. Albums. Stickers. Pins. All sorts of things. The last time I actually scrapbooked? Okay, so I made albums for my daughter and her three best friends last year and they were adorable and I had a great time doing them - but I was also glad when I finished and I stuck all of my supplies back into the closet. I have boxes of pictures. That I have not scrapbooked. I would hate to think of the fortune that is sitting in the closet - waiting.
I used to sew. Not clothing - just mostly pajama bottoms and things for the holidays. The last thing that was a major undertaking was my daughter's halloween costume in the fifth grade. Her costume was incredible. I made a poodle skirt when she was in the sixth grade, but I did the basic one cut design that was easy and didn't require any sewing on my part. I have a stack of fabric upstairs that I need to make myself make use of because no matter how hard I try, I cannot allow myself to get rid of it and it would make cute pajama bottoms and who doesn't wear those at some point?
Now that I have some spare time on my hands, I literally have been trying to think of something fun to do WITH MY HANDS. It is still a little bit too cold here to work outside in the yard and the flowers are all dead or dormant. I could clean up the islands. Trim back the trees. Clean up the deck and our screened in back porch. Clean out the garage, too.
I could paint a room in the house. I could think about design and how I'd like new curtains in the living room. I could pick out paint colors. Artwork. Change the bedrooms. Paint the laundry room.
The new year holds so many possibilities. I think the problem for me is that I have not had this type of free time on my hands in so long that it is a little unnerving. What should I do first? Where do I begin? How do I decide? Hopefully I will find my way soon.


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I transcribed this story from Karma, an Hindu-American Spiritual Magazine. This is a good English version of the story I once listened to as a kid. I hope you learn from it and enjoy it as much as I did.
Limits of the Mind
Ekalavya was a little boy, born in a poor family, many many years ago. His people lived a little away from Hastinapura, the capital of the Kuru kings. They used to clean other people's dirt for a profession.
And for this reason they were shunned by society. Ekalavya and other kids of his group knew they too had to follow their parents' professions.
Their parents often told them, "You are not meant to go to school. What use is school for carrying garbage which is your only job?"
"Don't go near those people; they are high born, we are low born."
Ekalavya didn't understand.
"Why, but why?" he asked his mother. She replied "God set these limits."
"God! Why would God want nice things for them and dirty things for us? Hasn't God made all of us?" Ekalavya asked.
She signed, "Darling I don't know, but there are bounds we cannot cross, this is God's rule."
Ekalavya became quiet. From that day the only important thing for him was to understand the meaning of "limit". You know, kids (and grown ups) are sometimes cruel. One day Ekalavya and his friends trapped a little ant and were watching it trying to escape. The ant tried and tried till it found a little opening at the edge of the trap and escaped.
Other children moved to trap it again but Ekalavya stopped them shouting, "The brave ant has broken the bounds. Limits are not meant to be broken. I am free, free". One day, Ekalvya saw beautiful chariots come into the forest near his village. He saw boys of his age get out of the chariot one by one. What lovely clothes they wore! Last, an old man with snowy white hair and spotless white clothes came out looking stern and calm. The boys seemed a little scared of the old man but with one dusky handsome boy, the old man's behavior was different, he smiled and patted the boy on the head. Ekalavya heard his father's voice, "Come away boy, there is work to do. Those are the Kuru princes, with their teacher Drona. The boy he just patted is his favorite, Arjuna. They have come to practice 'archery'. Don't go near them."
"Father, all I want is a pat from the grand old man." so saying, Ekalavya ran towards the old man Drona.
By then the boys had started shooting with bows and arrows. What amazing things Arjuna did! He could shoot at a target with his eyes shut. He cod shoot at a target with his left hand as well as his right. And the teacher Drona? His arrows made fire, chased things in circles, brought rain and lightning. It was magical. Arjuna's eyes never left his teacher. It was like he wanted to absorb every bit of Drona. And you could see that Drona too was very proud of Arjuna.
The practice ended. Ekalavya went up to Drona and with folded hands said, "Great sir, please teach me".
"I don't teach the low-born," was the cold reply as Drona turned away.
"Master, your arrows don't seem to mind any limits, they bring rain and fire, they brig night and day. How then can you be bound by stupid thoughts of high and low birth?" With this, Ekalavya walked away from the glaring Drona.
The next day, Ekalavya carved a statue of Drona on a tree trunk with a knife. He made himself a bow and arrows. Each day, he would bow before the statue, practice shooting and imagine a pat on his back on his back from Drona.
Some months passed. The grand princes and their master came to the forest again. As Arjuna reached to take aim of a particularly difficult target, an arrow reached Arjuna's target before he could even aim. Shocked, the boys and their teacher looked around. They saw Ekalavya, who went up to touch Drona's feet. "Who is your teacher?" Drona asked. Ekalavya quietly led him to the statue. Drona looked at it for some time and said, "If I am your Guru, give me my fee, my guru dakshina".
"Ask, sir", bowed Ekalavya. "I want your right thumb," replied the stone hearted Drona. Without the right thumb to support it, how can any archer ever hold a bow? As Arjuna and the other princes watched in shock, Ekalavya wordlessly cut off his right thumb and laid it at Drona's feet.
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With all the talk of more affordable flash storage, it is easy to forget that traditional hard disk drives still store a lot of our data. Earlier this year, we talked about why hard disk drives won't be going away any time soon. We also recently reported that Seagate wants to make a 20TB hard disk drive by 2020.
With this in mind, Seagate has just announced that it has acquired Xyratex for US$374 million. Xyratex is a company that makes hard disk drive testing equipment. According to Seagate, they said that the deal will strengthen its "vertically integrated supply and manufacturing chain for disk drives and provide uninterrupted access to important capital equipment."
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James, Ann-Marie (2008) Dotting the DOIs and crossing the ESSNs: Librarians' support for the RAE 2008. Serials: the journal for the international serials community, 21 (3). pp. 174-177. ISSN 0953-0460
URL of Published Version: http://serials.uksg.org/article/view/21174
Identification Number/DOI: 10.1629/21174
At the University of Birmingham, 2008 was the first time that library staff were involved in a Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), and by ensuring the completion of all record elements and the sourcing of over 4,000 items, they became an integral part of the process. This article highlights the information retrieval and metadata skills that they brought to the task, and the lasting benefits of involvement in the project, from better quality output data to enhanced processes for the ongoing collection and validation of publication information. In addition, there is a greater awareness of the skills and expertise of librarians in this area, which will remain even more pertinent for support in the successor to the RAE, the Research Excellence Framework (REF).
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Barcelona head coach Luis Enrique has confirmed Luis Suarez will play in the club's pre-season clash with Club Leon on Monday.
The Uruguayan returned to training this weekend after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) reduced his ban from 'all football-related activity' that allows him to take part in training and club friendly matches.
And Luis Enrique has been sufficiently impressed by Suarez to allow him some playing time in Monday's Gamper Trophy encounter.
"Luis Suarez will play some minutes in the Gamper tomorrow," the Barca boss told reporters on Sunday.
"During two training sessions he's already shown he is really talented. He looks like the player we were looking for."
Full-back Dani Alves has been linked with a move away from Barca this summer, with Sao Paulo claiming they would sell the Brazilian and sign Douglas as a direct replacement.
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"I've said this several times. He arrived late to the squad [after the World Cup] but he has an [great] level of fitness. Alves is at Barca, he is in the squad and there he will remain. In the future, we'll see. I will have opportunities to meet with anyone," he said.
"I don't comment on players who are not here."
The former midfielder also explained that he allowed Gerard Deulofeu to join Sevilla on loan to continue his development and has challenged him to prove his deserves a place at Camp Nou in future.
"The club must always look to get stronger. Deulofeu was my decision: I don't believe he would have got enough minutes to continue his devlopment. It's a coach's decision.
"He needs to improve a few things and show he can be at a club like Barca."
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Rough Collies are dogs of dignity and beauty with sweet, expressive and intelligent looks. They are perfectly balanced and with their abundant coats and elongated, narrow, chiseled heads, they are easily recognisable. Their action is smooth and appears effortless, with great drive coming from their hindlegs.
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Junior forward Kisandra Ayanbeku (Brockton, MA / Randolph) added nine points and five rebounds as the Red Hawks had their two-game winning streak snapped and fell to 7-5 on the year. Ayanbeku and Cristino were both named to the All-Tournament Team.
Host Marymount jumped out to a 7-0 lead in the first five
minutes before the Red Hawks scored 10 of the next 12 points to take a
one-point lead. Cristino got MSU on the board with a layup and
back-to-back three-pointers by Cristino and Jamilee Pflug (Clark, NJ / Arthur L. Johnson) put MSU ahead 10-9 with 12:34 to go.
The teams would trade the lead four times with MSU taking its last advantage with 7:39 to go as sophomore Jaime Ericson (Flemington, NJ / Hunterdon Central) hit from behind the arc to make the score 20-19. But Marymount would close out the half with a 14-8 run to take a 33-28 lead in to the break
In the second half, Ayanbeku scored on a layup as MSU drew to 35-30 with just under 18 minutes to play. But a three-point play by Kathleen Brown and layup from Maame Amponsah boosted the lead to 41-30 for Marymount.
by as many as 14 points, Montclair would make one last run, trimming
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Pflug finished with nine points, three assists and three steals for the Red hawks while Ericson, Jackie Berry (Tuckerton, NJ / Pinelands Regional) and Devin Feeney (Whippany, NJ / Whippany Park) each netted six points. Berry collected six assists and four steals.


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NBA results, April 28
Updated 10:49 pm, Monday, April 28, 2014
LeBron James scored 19 of his game-high 31 points after sustaining a thigh bruise early in the third quarter, helping the Miami Heat earn a first-round sweep of the Charlotte Bobcats with a 109-98 victory Monday night. He finished Game 4 10-of-19 from the field and had nine assists.
"We got tested by a young, scrappy Bobcats team," said James, who averaged 36.2 points in eight games against Charlotte this season. "We responded with a championship-type attitude."
Chris Bosh added 17 points and Dwyane Wade battled through foul trouble and finished with 15 as Miami extended its winning streak over Charlotte to 20 games.
Miami began to take control midway through the third quarter shortly after James gave his teammates a scare when he drove to the basket from the left wing and his right thigh collided with Bismack Biyombo's knee, sending James to the floor.
James hobbled to the bench where he sat down during a timeout, but he stayed in the game.
After the timeout, he buried a three-pointer and a long jumper before a one-handed dunk to help give Miami a 73-66 lead with 4:51 left in the third quarter.
In the end, turnovers spelled doom for the Bobcats.
They turned it over 16 times, leading to 22 Heat points, including two dunks by James.
The loss signaled the end of an era for the Bobcats. They will become the Hornets next season.
The two-time defending NBA champions will await the winner of the Brooklyn-Toronto series, which is tied 2-2.
Hawks 107, Pacers 97:
Mike Scott made five three-pointers during a 30-6 second-quarter run Monday night, and Atlanta fended off a furious fourth-quarter rally to beat top-seeded Indiana and take a 3-2 series lead. ... Scott scored all 17 of his points during a12-minute stretch when Atlanta went 13-for-16 from the field and outscored Indiana 41-19 to take a 61-40 halftime lead. ... Indiana cut the deficit to 85-67 late in the third and closed to 96-87 with 4:04 to go. But Kyle Korver knocked down a three and the Hawks closed it out at the free throw line. ... Atlanta was 9-for-11 from beyond the arc and shot 81.3 percent from the field during a second quarter in which the Pacers allowed their most points ever in a playoff game.
Spurs 93, Mavericks 89:
Manu Ginobili scored 23 points, Boris Diaw hit a go-ahead three-pointer in the final minute and San Antonio held off a second-half surge by Dallas to pull even in the first-round series at 2-2. ...The Spurs led by 20 points in the third quarter before the Mavericks came back midway through the fourth quarter. ... Dirk Nowitzki, who had 19 points and was held under 20 in a fourth straight playoff game for the first time since his first postseason in 2001, had a putback on a missed three by Monta Ellis to get Dallas within one point at 90-89. ...Ellis led Dallas with 20 points but missed two potential tying shots after Diaw's basket. ...Game 5 is Wednesday night in San Antonio.


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- BaileyWife said...
Too funny...I also have a "new" cat that has adopted us...been trying to get a good pic of him..but he would rather climb all over me!
- November 6, 2012 at 7:38 AM
- jaz@octoberfarm said...
that is one lucky kitty to have found her way to you!
- November 6, 2012 at 7:40 AM
- Jeri Landers said...
Moll Flanders is the perfect name for such a girl! Just what you needed, another cat. I am happy for her. Our barn ladies are donning their winter garb as well, I just love shaggy donkeys. Even the little goats are sporting thick coats now.
- November 6, 2012 at 9:22 AM
- Kris said...
Well, at least the wanderer got locked in where there was food!!!
We have a stray that steals food in our garage, and also sprays. EWWWW! I really don't mind feeding him, but the marking he does is not very fun!! I am always cautious to keep him out at night.
xo Kris
- November 6, 2012 at 11:06 AM
- Country Gal said...
I love the look of horses and donkeys with their winter coats they look soo cuddly ! Poor kitty must of got a bit to nosey , glad you were able to rescue her , I am sure she feels right at home there ! Have a good day !
- November 6, 2012 at 11:15 AM
- Laura Sudderth said...
It is almost time to put my heat lamp out in the chicken coop...almost. It was 85 in Marysville and I roasted in a light weight sweater. It is all changing this Thursday, I hope. I have an itching to bake a batch of almond cookies. We harvested some almonds this year from our three trees. (very tasty) Happy Election Day, I think the donkeys need little election hats. :)
- November 6, 2012 at 11:18 AM
- Phyllis said...
My #1 cat, Smudge, will quickly jump into anything that is open. You have to be extra careful with those extra curious kitties!
- November 6, 2012 at 3:14 PM
- Missy George said...
Moll Flanders is one lucky kitty..I wish my hair was getting thick and lush!!
- November 6, 2012 at 6:45 PM
- Katmom said...
hey Bev,,, are you and Meri in a race to see who collects the most kats & becomes the "crazy ol' cat lady"...??? lol!
Hugz to you and your big heart of gold!
- November 6, 2012 at 10:16 PM
- Karen Bates said...
That is just too funny...how on earth?
- November 7, 2012 at 12:05 PM
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Molly sure came to the right farm. She will think she is on vacation staying at your place. I love when the animals have their winter coats. They all look so toasty.
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40. Yes, that is what I want you to do?
(Mr Ireton) As an organisation, we have increased
the number of people in the field; we have to manage staff, we
have staff at certain times in their careers who do not wish to
work overseas, they wish to be in London, they have spouses, who
have careers.
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the many things that you and I have to cope with, and have coped
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management issue, not only in terms of expertise but how do you
then manage these expectations of staff, do you lose staff, do
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and so on. This is a real issue for DFID. So I am not making value
judgements about people in comfortable locations.
42. It was not a flippant comment, I hasten
to add, but it is a very real issue. Indeed, I note, in part of
the evidence we received from BOND, that, with the three, DG Development,
DG RELEX, the old SCR coming together into EuropeAid, it said,
with over 1,000 staff, it is clear that EuropeAid is more than
adequately staffed. Would that be the opinion of DFID as well?
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has been understaffed. I think the Secretary of State's particular
point of view, which was widely shared, was that the Commission
could not use understaffing as the exclusive reason, the excuse,
for underperformance, it was not, there are major structural issues
and policy issues that had to be addressed as well. Now that we
are in a reform process, we, the Secretary of State, the UK Government,
have supported the provision of extra staff, we supported it during
the budget process last year, and we have supported it during
the budget process this year, in the context of the reform process.
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element of all of our operations; you need mid career development
professionals who are able to go to a country for three, four,
five years and play a major role in that operation, and the Commission
have taken that on board and are doing it. So I think staffing
is being addressed, and the numbers in Brussels in EuropeAid are
set to go down, they have increased during this year, as it has
been established, but with deconcentration they will then be reduced
and pushed out to the field.
43. I am going to ask some brief questions about
Country Strategy Papers. I am rather keen on Country Strategy
Papers, there is a process that I can understand. How do the DFID
Country Strategy Papers relate to the EU Country Strategy Papers?
(Mr Ireton) Probably, we are going to see some generational
change here. Our own first flush of Country Strategy Papers were
fairly self-standing documents; although we consulted extremely
widely, both in this country and obviously with the government
of the country concerned, we set out a sort of broad analysis
of what we saw as the development challenge issues, what other
people were doing and then what we thought we could contribute
to that process. And, I guess, pretty much, Brussels is now doing
a very similar thing. The interesting thing for all of us is,
if countries, particularly poorer countries, go down the route
of Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers, a clear commitment to a
strategy, increasingly, whether it is Brussels or London, we shall
be buying into that, and then, if you like, saying perhaps somewhat
more succinctly, given the strategy, this is what we think we
can do best to help; and that is how I would like to see Brussels
going but also ourselves and others. It may be some time before
we get to this millennium, as it were, and, in order for those
papers to make any sense when they are published, they have to
be put in a context of a PRSP, and some judgement by ourselves
as to whether we think we have really got a solid basis for helping.
Within the European Union, there is consultation on the Country
Strategy process, we get involved at an early stage informally,
where we can, and we are formally involved towards the end when
they are agreed, and our own geographical staff, that is an important
point to make. The Commission's Country Strategy Papers are not
something which simply Anthony and his department worry about
and the rest of the department get on with their own Country Strategy
Papers and never the two shall come together, we very much encourage
our country-based staff, whether it is in Tanzania, or wherever,
to be involved informally with this process within the Commission,
and, indeed, to come and discuss these in Brussels at the relevant
meetings. So there is quite a number of ways in which these things
pull together. So we hope there is a considerable coherence.
44. At some stage, what would be quite helpful
would be just to have a note of which Country Strategy Papers
have been published so far, and the timetable for future Country
Strategy Papers?
(Mr Ireton) Yes.[10]
45. I am right in thinking, am I not, that DFID
Country Strategy Papers are actually published?
(Mr Ireton) Yes.
46. Are EU Country Strategy Papers published,
do I find them on the Net somewhere? I see nodding heads at the
back. Why are DFID Country Strategy Papers published and EU Country
Strategy Papers not published?
(Mr Smith) They have not been yet. We had the framework
established last year and we have started producing them this
year; this year, all of the ones for African, Caribbean and Pacific
countries will be produced, most of them, when I say this year,
it will probably go into January.
47. We have got 27 days left?
(Mr Smith) They have done a lot, and somebody in my
department spends all his time in Brussels, these days, going
through them. I believe that they will be published once they
are completed and approved etc. When I read the other submissions
which raised this point, it made me think I had better check this,
but certainly it was the intention at the time the new framework
was established, and I think there would be a lot of difficulty
around the Council if there were some delay with publications;
but I will check on them.
(Mr Ireton) It certainly would be our intention that
they should be published.
48. It is certainly very helpful, if you are
going to a country like Côte d'Ivoire, or somewhere, where
we do not have a large bilateral aid programme, and then we can
actually see what the Community as a whole is saying. In a couple
of sentences, can you just explain to me what the Inter-Service
Quality Support Group is, who is it, what is it, and what relationship
does it have to the Country Strategy Papers?
(Mr Smith) As part of the reform process, when the
Country Strategy Paper framework was established and EuropeAid
established, it was agreed that there was a need for a major effort
to bring the different departments together, RELEX, Development,
EuropeAid, and ensure that there was a common framework for working.
There is a history of Quality Support Groups around; there used
to be one that looked at projects, you would get a really poor
project designed, and then it would go to the Quality Support
Group who would have to redesign it and send it back. This Quality
Support Group is meant to vet Country Strategy Papers. It is chaired
by Bernard Petit, who is the Director for Development, in DG Development,
it has members of all of the other relevant Directorates General
on it, so there is somebody from EuropeAid, somebody from DG RELEX,
somebody from DG Enlargement, and Trade, as well, I think, and
it simply looks at them. It has established guidelines for Country
Strategy Papers, makes sure that they talk about complementarity
with other donors, have you restricted the number of sectors,
if a Paper comes in with four different sectors and activity,
it will send it back. So it vets them before they are finally
approved. That process has proved quite valuable, the Commission
has found, and they are using the Quality Support Group to promulgate
best practice, effectively.
Chairman: That makes a lot of sense.
49. What steps are the Commission taking to
evaluate their reforms and to learn from the evaluation, and do
you believe that the evaluation should be carried out within EuropeAid
or from outside?
(Mr Smith) They have not evaluated the reform itself
yet, though there is a schedule by which they will start doing
that towards the end of next year, once it has been in place for
about 18 months, or so. EuropeAid was established on 1 January
2001, so they want to give it a little bit of time before they
start looking at it. In terms of evaluating programmes, they have
an Evaluation Service, which carries out, I do not know, a couple
of dozen evaluations a year, or so, in different areas, and those
evaluations are, I think, fairly well-respected by their peers
around the EU. There is a group of evaluation experts that meets
periodically to talk about the evaluation programmes. Many of
the evaluations are carried out jointly, so, for example, there
is one at the moment on complementarity and co-ordination, which
is being led by the Dutch, DFID is involved, but it is a Commission
evaluation of their own programmes, so they are quite open about
it. As to whether it should be carried out from within or without,
I guess there are different models. The reform established that
the Evaluation Service, although it sits in EuropeAid, reports
directly to the Commissioners, so there is no intermediate management
intervention, and, while not independent of the Commission, it
has an independence within the Commission, within the normal structure.
I do not know whether that is considered to be a good model or
a bad one, it is, I suppose, similar to ours.
(Mr Ireton) Yes, it is not dissimilar to our own evaluation
system, which we generate internally but we use external consultants
and experts actually to do individual studies, or synthesise studies,
and, of course, we also publish those reports and they are put
in the Library of the House, however critical they may be.
50. Moving away from the evaluation of the reforms
to the evaluation of the EU programmes, am I right in thinking
that, within the UK, when we are looking at our programmes, the
DAC reporting mechanisms allow us to identify how much of our
aid spend is going on literacy and achieving the primary education
targets, how much is going on poverty relief, how much is going
in particular countries? Is it possible to say how much of the
9 billion spend goes on literacy and achieving the
primary education targets, for instance?
(Mr Smith) It is not easily possible at the moment.
The Commission do not have an electronic management information
system, they are developing one, which they say will be ready
in the middle of next year, but when Commissioner Nielson has
been asked this several times at Development Councils, and said
quite frankly that the position is unsatisfactory, he cannot say
what percentage of EC programmes go to, for example, education,
or health, or any sector you like. So it is quite unsatisfactory.
51. Will the Commission adopt the same DAC reporting
mechanisms as the Member States, so that comparisons can be made
about how far policy is being realised, in practice?
(Mr Smith) They have said that they will; this issue
has come up in discussion between the Commission and the Parliament,
particularly, over the budget, where some in the European Parliament
have pushed for an explanation now and a commitment to particular
levels of spending in different areas, linked to the DAC categories,
and the Commission have said they do not have that capacity at
the moment. But, in the course of that debate, they have realised
that they needed a proper management information system and have
told the Council that they are putting one in place.
(Mr Ireton) Though it is an input measure, we would
expect that, eventually, to be available in their annual report.
52. It seems to me that the single reform that
would do most to increase transparency and accountability of the
EU aid programme would be to have in place the same DAC reporting
regime as the Member States; would you agree with that?
(Mr Ireton) Yes, absolutely.
53. Why does the Commission not have output
targets in its annual reports at the moment, and what is your
Department doing to ensure that they do for the 2002 report?
(Mr Smith) If you take the position a few years ago,
when the DAC actually reviewed the EC programme, in 1997, a major
criticism of that review was that you could not tell what the
policy was, so there was no single statement of what its objectives
were; the Development Policy Statement was meant to achieve that.
In going along that road, we are pushing for objectives and targets,
and it all goes together. If you have a programme with completely
diffuse objectives, you do not have output targets, because it
is too complicated, it goes against what you are trying to do.
Now that we have a single policy, the Council as a whole has agreed
that the annual report should be the main vehicle for providing
objectives and measures of output and monitoring progress. They
completely failed in the first report to follow the Council's
request, it was made very clear to them, at the Development Council
meeting in November, that the second report had to follow that
model; the Commission said that they wanted to, and that they
will consult widely in preparing the second report. And a major
part of our department's work is going at the moment into getting
agreement on corporate level objectives, increasing literacy in
X number of poor countries, for example, as well as proper indicators
at programme and country level which will allow us to monitor
whether or not the programmes are being administered effectively
and achieving their objectives.
(Mr Ireton) And they will be incorporated in, say,
Country Strategy Papers, or the annual review of a Strategy Paper.
54. I think that is encouraging, but, like you,
I wait to see what appears in the report. Could you just say a
little bit more about how DFID works, through the Council of Ministers
and bilaterally, with European counterparts, to achieve the sorts
of reforms we have been talking about all morning; and how do
you think our Government and your Department and Members of Parliament
can work together better to drive this process forward?
(Mr Ireton) You might like to say something about
the actual mechanics, and then I will come back on the other thing.
(Mr Smith) We work through, as you can imagine, a
range of mechanisms, we work bilaterally, we go and visit Member
States or exchange visits and talk about objectives; we work with
the Commission, we have increased the number of DFID people in
our representation in Brussels, to ensure that we have more capacity
for influencing the Commission on its programme management. In
the past, we have had only one person who has just had to go to
working groups all the time, and basically not be more active.
55. Could you just let us have a note on the
numbers of people you have there now and the numbers that the
other main Development players have?
(Mr Smith) Sure.[11]
(Mr Ireton) Yes.
56. Thank you. I am sorry to interrupt.
(Mr Smith) What we are trying to achieve, I think,
is two main things. We have been trying to build political support
for a poverty-focused development policy, and that started many
years ago and we worked through the DAC review, as an important
staging-post, and a global evaluation of EC programmes, which
we promoted, and finally got a policy last year, which came about
during the French Presidency. France has often been our adversary
in reform of EC development programmes, and it was extremely encouraging
that they produced a very good draft and encouraged a very good
final product during their Presidency; so that was, I think, partly
a result of the changing atmosphere in the international community,
but also reflected some of the conversations and discussions that
we had. We are also trying to get proper systems in place, so
that even if there is a new crisis with pressure for increased
spending in the near-abroad, or something like that, you will
have proper management systems in place which say, `okay, what
is most effective, where, and how can we ensure a long-term perspective,
so that development policy maintains its focus on poverty and
is not distracted and blown off course by changing events.' And
we do that partly by providing expertise to the Commission, we
second about 20, or so, DFID staff to the Commission at any given
point, partly by working with other Member States who are active
in the international development work in the OECD and other places,
to try to have a dialogue with the Commission about management
issues, and with other Member States to get acceptance of changes,
when necessary. So there is a variety of bilateral and collective
ways in which we try to reach a common understanding of problems
and develop ideas to solve those, and to convince the Commission
and other Member States to adopt them. I could come back in a
moment about ways in which parliaments could work together.
(Mr Ireton) The only thing I would add to that perhaps,
Anthony, is, in addition to that, we mentioned earlier, it is
very important that our people in a county have a dialogue with
Commission staff, one reason that we encourage deconcentration,
because one can influence policy from bottom up as well as top
down, so we see that as quite key. Also, very broad discussions
go on of a policy nature, for example, between various advisory
cadres and their opposite numbers in Brussels, so we can influence
policy towards a particular issue, whether it is education or
health or water, through those sorts of professional contacts
as well as actually having people seconded into Brussels to boost
the technical capacity.
(Mr Smith) Can I just follow up on the issue of working
with parliaments and others. I think this is extremely important,
because there can be a depressing tendency to live up to national
stereotypes, as you go round the Community, and you go to Spain
and all they care about is fish and the Mediterranean, or when
you go to Sweden, and they are brilliant multilateral advocates.
And to get many changes it is simply not enough to have a good
argument and get a few allies in the Council, you need broader
political support that comes through in national parliaments and
the European Parliament and in civil society, campaigns by civil
society on some key issues are extremely valuable. And any dialogue
about these issues which can take place between informed Members
of Parliament I think would be very helpful, especially between
those that might not see each other so much; we have to make an
effort, as officials, to go to some of the countries which are
not our traditional allies, the tendency is to speak to people
who agree with us more than to ones who do not.
57. Can I just ask a couple of idiot questions.
Before we started, we had a really esoteric discussion amongst
us about the difference between EC and EU. I do not want you to
answer this now, but could you just drop us a note as to what
you understand the difference is?
(Mr Ireton) Yes.[12]
58. Secondly, I think, when we discuss all this,
we assume that we all know the mechanisms by which the UK pays
our subscription to the European Union; this is an Emperor's new
clothes question. I am not sure actually that we all do. And,
again, a note; because if we manage to extract more money out
of the Chancellor for development aid, do the Community proportionately
take more of it, or is it like an annual subscription, that once
you have paid your annual subscription to the European Union any
more that we can extract from the Chancellor for the Department
is actually more for our bilateral programme? And I think it would
be helpful to know that.
(Mr Ireton) The answer, broadly, to that, is the latter,
that we pay a share of the EC budget that goes to overseas aid,
and how much that is going to cost us depends on a whole range
of decisions that are then made about the external envelope, and
so forth; but once that has been made, and provided we can contain
that envelope, the other major charge to us is the European Development
Fund, which is not on the European budget, it is negotiated periodically
and we make a contribution, which is also negotiated, and we have
an expected share of that. And so both of those appear as a charge
against our own departmental budget, one of which is paid directly,
the European Development fund, we pay that directly from our voted
expenditure, which Parliament votes; the other is simply what
is called `attributed', our share of the budget is simply attributed
to our departmental expenditure limit, and that is paid by the
Treasury, it is sort of deducted from the top. But we can give
you a note to cover it more fully.[13]
(Mr Smith) If DFID's budget goes up,
that share does not go up, so it is more available for bilateral
59. A good incentive then to try to get more
money for DFID?
(Mr Ireton) Indeed.
60. We are seeing the Secretary of State, I
think, in February, and one comment that colleagues made, before
you came in, is how does one get more information about the agenda
for the Council of Ministers meetings, and actually what is decided
at Council of Ministers meetings, because, clearly, within the
context of the European Union, this is where political decisions
are taken, and needs to have, I think, some better understanding
of which players are doing what. And if the Council of Ministers
meetings are a complete secret garden, you know, secret meetings,
it is very, very difficult to actually have some understanding
of which parties are playing what, and I think it is something
that we will want to ask the Secretary of State; so just giving
you notice of that, how do we make Council of Ministers meetings
more transparent, because, clearly, there is some political pressure
(Mr Ireton) Yes.
Chairman: Thank you very much for an
extremely interesting session, quite a lot of which is very
technical, and having given us some extremely full
answers, and much appreciated. Thank you very much.
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