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The German Ferries Route is a 250 km waterside museum starting at Bremervörde that connects fords and pram ferries, impressively elaborate 19th-century transporter bridges, modern bridges and tunnels all the way along the Oste river, Elbe estuary and Kiel canal as far as the Kiel Fjord.
Seventeen ferries to travel on, and thirteen bridges to cross, as the route's slogan proudly proclaims. Taking the ferry is an experience to be savoured as you cross between moorland, sandy heathland and marshes, flanked by dykes and lighthouses, with gulls circling overhead and cruise ships gliding gently past. The calm, maritime surroundings of northern Germany showcase nigh on every conceivable method of crossing a stretch of water, from ancient animal fords to the world's most state-of-the-art cruise liners.
A water route with countless detours
Exploring this region is a dream come true, with maritime plants blooming in secluded spots and old harbours, ships, cranes and warehouses, each with a story to tell. Every so often you encounter a historical town, a quaint little village, a church with a pencil-thin spire, fascinating scenery or a perfect habitat for birds. Here in the north of Germany there are countless leisure activities to help while away the time, with something to suit casual and sports cyclists, watersports enthusiasts and hikers, gourmets, art lovers and of course children.
Detour: cycling along the canal
Rivers and the sea cut across your route but fords and ferries allow you to continue. The German Ferries Route boasts more historical and modern ways of crossing a stretch of water than any other location. The Oste region around the Osten-Hemmoor transporter bridge is also perfect for sea kayaks and cabin cruisers. No licence is needed for five-horsepower houseboats in the Oste river as far as the flood barrier at Neuhaus.
From the Oste to Kiel
The marshes and fens between the Oste river and Baltic Sea feature more than 50 ferries, bridges, tunnels, locks, barrages, as well as natural wonders, culture and a rich array of maritime treasures. Savour all the surprises of all shapes and sizes along this waterway through the north of Germany.
Length: approximately 250 km
Theme: bridges, ferries, waterways, nature, culture
Balje: lighthouse, the Natureum Niederelbe open-air museum
Bremervörde: marina, play ferry
Brunsbüttel: North Baltic Canal, lock, canal museum
Glücksstadt: Elbe port (Elbhafen) Gräpel: pram ferry
Hechthausen: Geesthof holiday park
Hemmoor: cement barge, transporter bridge
Kiel: bascule bridge, coastal inlet, Maritime Museum
Oberndorf: bascule bridge
Osten: ferry house in the local history museum, bottle museum (Buddelmuseum)
Rendsburg: high bridge and ferry house
Wischhafen: Kehding Coastal Shipping Museum (Kehdinger Küstenschifffahrtsmuseum)
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Nebraska Driver Loses Job After Video Shows Attack
LINCOLN, Neb. - Surveillance video shows a Nebraska bus driver who is accused of assaulting a passenger repeatedly punching the man before dragging him off the vehicle and leaving him on the side of a road.
Officials in Lincoln released the video Friday and announced 43-year-old Troy Fischer had been fired from StarTran Bus Service on Thursday, the Lincoln Journal Star reported. He has been cited on suspicion of misdemeanor assault in the March 23 incident.
The video shows Fischer communicating with the lone passenger. At some point, Fischer becomes agitated with the man, stops the bus and begins attacking him. The video shows Fischer punching the passenger 18 times. He then drags him off the bus and leaves him on the side of a road.
Miki Esposito, director for the city's Public Works and Utilities Department, said Fischer was initially suspended without pay after the incident. But he was fired after a disciplinary hearing that allowed him to rebut the allegations.
Esposito called Fischer's actions reprehensible.
"This type of behavior is not, cannot and will not be tolerated by the city of Lincoln," she said.
The Associated Press could not reach Fischer for comment Friday.
Esposito said the March incident began after Fischer notified his supervisor that he was having trouble with a passenger. The supervisor instructed Fischer to let the passenger leave voluntarily or call police.
"His directions were blatantly ignored," Esposito said. "He took matters into his own hands."
In the video, Fischer is heard telling his supervisor after the attack that he put the passenger off the bus and "it wasn't pretty."
Esposito said there were no red flags with Fischer, who had been a driver for StarTran for four years. He was warned once for a traffic violation, and he had a DUI case in 2004 that was dismissed.
Fischer was remorseful during the disciplinary hearing, Esposito said.
The newspaper reported that investigators have been unable to reach the man in the video, who provided an address and phone number to police on the day of the attack.


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Many people who are near or at retirement age are desperate right now. They've seen a dramatic decline in the value of their retirement accounts and they are looking for a way out. Unethical salespeople are eager to take advantage of this.
Surveys show most Americans in their 60s have received at least one invitation to a free lunch financial planning "seminar" or estate preservation "workshop."
The invitations promise tips on how to earn excellent returns with no market risk, plus ways to eliminate taxes and avoid probate. They claim to be informational with nothing sold. Some even say "Bring your spouse, but leave your checkbook at home." Don't believe it.
"There is no such thing as a free lunch," warns Martin Cordell with Washington State's Department of Financial Institutions. He estimates 99.9 percent of these seminars are just "a sales pitch in disguise."
"Their ultimate goal is to recruit a new client, open a new account or sell a product," says Gerri Walsh, vice president of investor education at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. "Some of the pitches you hear at a free meal seminar might sound attractive and they might be easy to swallow, but they might give you heartburn afterwards."
The free lunch is designed to get you in the door, where a salesperson can scare you about your financial future and promise you financial security. The hope is you will agree to a one-on-one visit in your home.
"In your home, they can say anything they want, truthful or not, threatening or more threatening," says Katharine Bauer, an estate planning attorney in Olympia, Wash. "That's where they convince people to invest in things that are not appropriate for them so the salesperson can make a huge commission."
Bauer says it is not uncommon for an 80-year-old to have his or her entire nest egg put into an annuity that locks up that money for 10 years or more. "It's totally inappropriate for them," she says. That's because annuities pay a fixed amount each month, making it difficult or impossible to withdraw more money if you need it.
Seniors go undercover
Frustrated with investment scams that target seniors, AARP is fighting back. The organization is putting together an army of volunteers to go undercover to monitor free lunch seminars.
Jean Setzfand, director of Financial Security at AARP says they're not trying to shut down these seminars. "We just want to learn more about them in order to report back to the public." But she admits AARP wouldn't mind if the information it gathers stops this deceptive marketing tactic.
On its website, AARP provides members with a checklist to use when they attend a seminar. Some of the information is basic, such as where and when the session took place. But these secret shoppers are also asked to note if they felt pressured to make an immediate decision to buy something at the seminar and if they were asked to commit to a follow-up home visit.
Two senior sleuths break their cover
For several years now, Mary and Len Bach have attended free lunch seminars near their home in Murrysville, Pa. The Bachs, both AARP members in their mid-60s, went undercover as part of Pennsylvania's "Senior Sleuth Program." Mary played the coy housewife while Len asked lots of questions.
They found the same potential trap at every seminar – suitability. Not every investment is right for every investor. But that doesn't seem to matter.
"Many of these products are pitched in a one-size-fits-all mode that is simply not appropriate," Mary said.
As Len puts it, "The people selling the investments are really interested in the commission and not too interested in whether it fits your needs or is really the right product for you."
The Bachs say it's OK to take the free meal – it's always good food – just don't sign up for that follow-up appointment unless you are truly interested in what you heard and take the time to check out the firm, the salesperson and the investments being sold.
"If you do the wrong thing," Len says, "that free lunch could be the most expensive meal you've ever had."
The Bachs recently broke their cover to appear in a video for AARP about free lunch seminars.
The bottom line
The smart way to manage your money is to talk to a qualified estate planner, financial planner or accountant. "Take a family member or a friend," advises Bill Reilly with Florida's Office of Financial Regulations. "Shop around for the person who actually meets your needs."
Before you deal with anyone selling investments, check them out. Be sure they are a legitimate salesperson with a good track record who is selling a registered investment product.
Take the time to check out a broker.
If they're selling an insurance product, check with your state insurance commissioner's office. Find contact information at the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.
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What I'm doing here is killing time because I knew this was gonna happen. The staff has walked in -- wait. The theme is still playing. They can't hear you singing so you've gotta start all over again. It's not my birthday today. Tomorrow is. In utter defiance of my wish that nothing be done about it, the staff every year comes in and sings happy birthday. (staff sings happy birthday) Thank you. What is that? What is that supposed to be?
DAWN: It is a white trash cake, but it has glass balloons.
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I like the colors on there. Thank you very much. I have given up, I've given up asking the staff to ignore this, they simply won't. I thought maybe I'd skate because the birthday is not 'til tomorrow.
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Luke Brubaker of Brubaker Farms in Mt. Joy, Pa., was named the 2013 Top Producer of the Year last night at Top Producer Seminar's annual award banquet in Chicago, Ill.
Luke operates a 950 cow dairy with his wife Barb and sons Tony and Mike. The family also produces 250,000 broilers each year and farms more than 1,000 acres.
Grown from modest beginnings, Luke purchased the farm from his father in the 1970s with only 18 cows. When his sons returned from college in the 1990s, expansion ensued and today the farm supports three families and 10 employees and a gross income of more than $5 million per year.
Luke lives in the house his father bought in 1929 and his grandchildren play in the creeks he played in as a child. He farms the same land his father did, but farming in Lancaster County has changed since his father's days. Pressure from urban development and strict environmental regulations means selling a gallon of milk isn't easy. The Brubakers manage with extensive environmental permits, an odor management plan and soil conservation planning.
"Unlike when dad farmed, when all you had to do was work hard and produce a good product and you were successful, the risks are higher today," says Brubaker. Every business endures setbacks and in 1999 the Brubakers suffered a fire that completely destroyed their 1,000 head hog unit. The setback was a turning point for Luke and caused him to focus efforts on the dairy and to make it a profit center, with the expansion of cows, heifer facilities and bunker silos.
When milk prices turned downward a few years ago, Luke once again was faced the dilemma of how to grow the operation without adding more cows. So the Brubakers got innovative.
They constructed a manure digester to convert cow manure into energy and negotiated favorable electrical rates with their local utility, which means the digester generates serious revenue from the farm. The digester also takes in cafeteria food waste from a local college, and now produces enough energy to provide fulltime power for nearly 200 homes. To further reduce energy costs, the Brubakers have installed nearly 1,000 solar panels on the barns.
The Brubakers are constantly facing tough decisions on farmland purchases because of Lancaster County's high land prices. They manage costs and position the business finances in a way to prepare for capital investments. The farm produces high yielding crops and its dairy and poultry operations have well-maintained facilities and state of the art equipment
Luke is not only an environmental and business leader, he is a leader in the community and serves on state agricultural boards. Brubaker Farms is known for its field days and recently renovated one of its barns into an education room.
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OCEAN CITY – The suspect arrested in the kidnapping and murder of an 11-year-old girl in Salisbury last week is loosely connected with Ocean City and was arrested in the resort in September for allegedly breaking into a female victim's downtown residence and making sexual advances toward her.
Thomas James Leggs, Jr., 30, of Salisbury, was arrested last week in connection with the abduction and murder of 11-year-old Sarah Haley Foxwell, whose body was found near Delmar after a massive search conducted by thousands of volunteers after she was reported missing on Dec. 23. Thus far, Leggs has been charged with kidnapping and burglary. Foxwell's death was ruled a homicide this week and murder charges are pending against the suspect, who is being held without bond in Wicomico County.
Leggs has a history of sexual offenses and is listed on the sex offender registries in both Maryland and Delaware. His first reported offense occurred in 1998 when he was 18 years old and was convicted of a sex offense involving a 12-year-old girl, a conviction that landed him on the Maryland Sex Offender Registry. In 2000, Leggs was convicted on a fourth-degree sex assault charge for an incident involving a 16-year-old girl in Rehoboth that resulted in a listing on Delaware's sex offender registry. He has been listed as a high-risk offender in Delaware since 2001.
In the wake of the tragic incident in Salisbury last week, detectives are now trying to determine if Leggs is connected to any similar unreported incidents in the area. However, one situation in Ocean City in September was reported and could have had a worse outcome if the victim, a 24-year-old seasonal resident in the resort, had not awoken and called police.
Leggs, who worked at times in different restaurants and bars in Ocean City last summer, was arrested and charged with burglary and malicious destruction of property after breaking into the residence of the victim with whom he had become acquainted about 10 days earlier. On Sept. 11, Ocean City police responded to a residence on Philadelphia Ave. around 9th Street for a reported breaking and entering that had already occurred.
The female victim told police she awoke shortly after 4 a.m. to find a man, who she knew only as Tommy, standing next to her bed with his shirt off and his pants down to his knees. The victim said she met "Tommy," later identified as Leggs, about 10 days earlier at a downtown bar and asked him back to her apartment, but when he made sexual advances toward her and tried to take her clothes off, she asked him to leave at that time and he complied.
About 10 days later, in the early morning hours on Sept. 11, the victim awoke to find Leggs in her apartment. According to police reports, Leggs told the victim his roommates would not let him stay at his place and he had nowhere else to go. When the victim asked Leggs how he got in, he told her he entered through an unlocked door, but the victim knew she had locked the door before she went to bed.
The victim asked Leggs to leave and got dressed and left her room, but when she got up to check, she found the suspect still in her living room. It was at that point the victim discovered a screen door had been forced open. The victim again told Leggs to leave and this time he complied, which is when she called 911. It was later discovered the screen on a kitchen window had also been forced open with damage to the window frame, according to police reports.
The victim had a cell phone number for Leggs, and when Ocean City police called him just before 5 a.m., he told the officer he had just left Ocean City and was about 10 minutes from Salisbury. Based on the victim's testimony, along with the damage to the apartment and the timeline established by talking to the suspect on his cell phone, Leggs was later arrested and charged with fourth-degree burglary and malicious destruction of property.
Leggs was released after posting a $10,000 bond. His trial date had been set for District Court in Ocean City on Jan. 13.
While Leggs has only been charged with kidnapping and burglary thus far, the medical examiner on Tuesday ruled Foxwell's death a homicide and murder charges are imminent, likely within the next 30-45 days.
Wicomico County State's Attorney Davis Ruark said this week the case will likely go before a grand jury and did not rule out the death penalty, although Ruark said that discussion was premature because Leggs has not yet been charged in the homicide.
Just yesterday, Leggs' attorney, public defender Arch McFadden, said publicly his client "has denied and continues to deny any involvement in this crime."
Meanwhile, hundreds of local residents attended a benefit on behalf of the Foxwell family on Tuesday night at Pickle's Pub in Ocean City with an estimated $15,000 raised during the event.
"We had a great turnout for this fundraiser and the people that donated were just about 100 percent from Ocean City," said manager John Schinault. "The people in this community were just so upset by this that we felt like we wanted to do something. The money raised is going to an education fund for the six other siblings."


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In Europe, you can get the 100 horsepower 1.0 with a five-speed manual, or the 125 hp version with a six-speed manual or a brand new six-speed automatic. The 1.5 four-cylinder is also upgraded using a new cylinder head design with improved cooling and integrated exhaust manifold.
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- Theater critic Kevin Williamson is sick of rude audiences who talk or text during plays
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I have the great privilege of writing the theater column for The New Criterion, the arts-and-culture journal founded by New York Times art critic Hilton Kramer and pianist Samuel Lipman in 1982. Some people have to be in an office at 8 a.m., but I get to be at the theater at 8 p.m. It is a pretty sweet gig.
The power of theater comes from its ability to surprise. Once or twice a season, I am treated to an unexpected discovery: While movies so often are cut, polished, CGI'd and market-researched to death, even the most commercial piece of tourist-bait theater -- lookin' at you, "Evita" -- contains within it an element of unpredictability.
The audiences, unfortunately, are drearily predictable. It's the old one-in-every-family phenomenon: They will be late. They will talk. Their cell phones will ring, and some of them, by God, will answer them. They will text, and they may even play a few rounds of Words with Friends during the third act. They are the enemy. They are depressing not because their bad manners surprise us but because they do not surprise us.
I found myself in the news this week after offering a surprise of my own at a New York theater: The woman seated next to me was on her phone throughout most of the show. (It was "Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812," in case you're wondering, a musical based on "War and Peace." You know what show you shouldn't see in New York if you have the attention span of a goldfish? One based on "War and Peace.") When she was not on her phone, she and her friends were engaged in a four-part imitation of a "Sex and the City" brunch conversation. I asked her nicely -- more than once -- but she did not respond to courtesy. She said: "Just don't look." So I took her phone from her and tossed it.
There was a moment of wonderful, shocked silence. She salvaged such self-respect as she could -- which is to say, she slapped me -- and then stalked off in search of her phone. A few minutes later, I was visited by an annoyed gentleman in a black suit and soon enough found myself out on the street.
Yes, it was worth it.
In part, I blame the theater managers. If you seat people who show up late, they will show up late. One or two high-profile ejections a month would go a long way toward beating some sense into the theater-going public.
But you can never design a perfect protocol. Audiences must behave. People are awful, of course -- somebody once observed that every civilization faces a barbarian invasion every generation in the form of its children -- and the Broadway and off-Broadway crowd is full of miscreants.
Theater is New York and New York is theater, and New York is not much like the rest of the country. (Shake Shack, a summertime favorite in Madison Square Park, has a menu for dogs.) New York is one of the world capitals of self-importance. And, with the possible exception of Washington, there is no city in the country where self-importance is more disconnected from actual importance. If I could buy New Yorkers for what they're worth and sell them for what they think they're worth, I'd own Fifth Avenue from Saks to Harlem.
That guy whispering into his cell phone? He isn't getting the news that little Timmy finally has a donor for his heart transplant; he's just another schmuck having a schmuck conversation with schmucks elsewhere. That guy tapping away on his smartphone isn't restructuring the derivatives markets; he's playing "Angry Birds." The lady to my right, I am willing to bet, was not receiving her orders from the Impossible Missions Force, and her phone did not self-destruct.
I destructed it. And I am not sorry.
I am advised that what I did was almost certainly a crime. And if the law, in its majesty, should decide that I need to spend a night in jail over this episode, then I will be happy to do so.
But I think of it as an act of criticism. Occasionally, a shocking gesture is called for, perhaps even a histrionic one. I may have met conventional-grade rudeness with thermonuclear counterforce, but I did it in the interests of civility, violating standards to preserve them.
Theater-goers on Twitter jokingly compared me to Batman: Not the hero Gotham deserves, the hero it needs. I don't know about that: Grumpiness is not much of a superpower. But we will live in exactly as rude and coarse a world as we will tolerate, and I do not intend to tolerate very much.
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God In America: Four: A New Light
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Isaac Mayer Wise embraces change and establishes Reform Judaism in America. Presbyterian biblical scholar Charles Briggs seeks to wed his evangelical faith with modern biblical scholarship, and is tried for heresy. In the 1925 Scopes trial, Christian fundamentalist William Jennings Bryan faces off against freethinker Clarence Darrow in a battle between scientific and religious truth.
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MarketBeat Podcast: One Heckuva Hedge-Fund Smackdown
One thing is overwhelmingly clear: Bill Ackman and Carl Icahn don't like each other.
In this week's edition of MarketBeat Week, our Friday podcast, the crew analyzes the made-for-reality-TV moment that took place between Ackman and Icahn.
Both billionaire investors took to CNBC to trade jabs and accusations against one another stemming from a deal gone awry ten years ago, and recently their spat over Herbalife Ltd.
Additionally, the opposite reactions to Apple Inc.'s and Netflix Inc.'s earnings reports this week illustrate the expectations game Wall Street continues to play.
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Professor Dan Avnon, an Israeli professor of civics, and the head of the "Center for Peace and Reconciliation" (From the Hebrew NRG article: המרכז לשלום ויישוב סכסוכים – h/t: Ido) has been boycotted by Sydney University's Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies because he is Israeli.
From the Coordinating Forum for Countering Antisemitism (CFCA):
The Sydney University's Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, which has thrown its support behind controversial Palestinian leaders, has cited its boycott of Israel for refusing to help an Israeli civics teacher who has designed programs for both Jewish and Arab children.
Hebrew University of Jerusalem academic Dan Avnon is credited with developing and implementing the only state program in civics written for joint Jewish-Arab high schools.
He approached the head of the Sydney University centre, Jake Lynch, for assistance with studying civics education in Australia under a fellowship agreement between the two institutions.
But Associate Professor Lynch rebuffed the request, citing the centre's support for the anti-Israeli Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.
The centre helped establish the Sydney Peace Foundation, which awards the Sydney Peace Prize. Past recipients include the controversial Palestinian activist Hanan Ashrawi.
The centre's website says it "promotes interdisciplinary research and teaching on the causes of conflict and the conditions that affect conflict resolution and peace".
Professor Avnon contacted Associate Professor Lynch, expressing interest in spending time at the centre and meeting him.
Associate Professor Lynch emailed in reply: "Your research sounds interesting and worthwhile. However, we are supporters of the campaign of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, and that includes the call for an academic boycott of Israeli universities."
Freely translating from the NRG article, we read:
"According to the policy of the Center I must refuse your request" wrote Lynch, who is one of the leaders of the Boycott Israel movement in Australian academia. He clarified: "I and the Center have nothing against you personally, and the research that you suggest carrying out sounds interesting and worthwhile. However we support the boycott campaign against Israel, and that includes an academic boycott of the universities from your country.
A stunned Professor Avnon wrote in response to Professor Lynch that "I find it ironic that you promote a policy of boycott which doesn't distinguish between people. In a conversation with Ma'ariv, Avnon said "This is a case of a person in charge of reconciliation who is stoking hatred against a person who is working towards bringing different populations together, simply because of his origin. This is not acceptable anywhere anywhere in the world to bully a person simply because of his group identity".
Professor Avnon may be a clever academic, but he's wrong about it not being acceptable anywhere in the world to boycott Israelis. He is not the first to be boycotted and I doubt he'll be the last. Professor Moti Cristal, an Israeli expert on conflict resolution was disinvited from an NHS-sponsored event in the UK in April due to pressure from the UNISON trade union. A British journal on translation, owned by a publishing house headed by Mona Baker, a boycotter of Israel, boycotted articles by Israeli academics.
News about anti-Israel boycotts and BDS, whether in the academic, trade unions or commercial worlds, can be found in several places, prominently among them Engage Online, Harry's Place and Richard Millett. And this is just the UK. I haven't even touched upon the BDS movement in Europe, the US or Australia.
What is interesting is that so many of the boycotted academics are from the left side of the Israeli political spectrum. They consider themselves "good Israelis" who should be approved of by the boycotter because they act for "peace" and side with the Palestinians, as opposed to those nasty right-wing "settler" or religious types. This aggravates their cognitive dissonance. For all their brains and academic learning, they cannot seem to internalize that the BDS brigade are basically antisemites.
As Harry's Place says in a more succinct manner:
So this Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies apparently supports efforts toward conflict resolution and peace by everyone except Israelis. Because, y'know, they're Israelis.


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Lack of Clean Water Threatens Pakistan's Stability
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Lynch: A few hours drive from Karachi, in southern Pakistan, the first sight of what used to be one of the world's great rivers is jarring� From a bridge above the Indus, Mohammed Tahir Quereshi points to a vista dominated not by water� but by sand.
Quereshi: �The sand dunes, they are extending right from the upper stream to the Arabian Sea.
Lynch: �So the mighty Indus river is mighty no more?�
Quereshi: �Absolutely, it's not a river, it's a small canal��
Lynch: Quereshi is a coastal ecosytems director with the International Union for the Conservation of Nature� He says the river used to span five kilometres here - now it's barely 200 meters wide. And as the Indus has dried up, it has taken people's livelihoods with it.
On the sandy banks of the Indus near the village of Darwish, a man stacks firewood cut from nearby trees onto a donkey cart. Firewood has replaced fish and produce as the main harvest here now. On the sand, discarded fishing nets lie in piles. They are relics of a time Gul Mohammed wishes would return.
Mohammed: �About one in four people here are left, the rest have gone to find work in the city. There was a time when we had so much help we could fill up our Datsun truck full of fish. Today, the fishermen cut wood - they can't find fish.�
Lynch: Mohammed also used to grow bananas nearby.
But the river has dropped so far, he can't use his irrigation pump. It's a familiar problem that's affected the lower reaches of once-great rivers around the world.
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As Pakistan's population has grown, so has the demand for water. Huge volumes of water are drawn off upstream-mostly for agriculture, but also for Pakistan's booming cities. And people downstream are left with nothing.
In the tiny town of Kati Bundar, water drips from a tanker truck onto the street. Mohammed Ismail Mehman has lived here all his life.
Mehman: �All our lands are lying useless because of brackish water. Hundreds of thousands of acres of land is useless.�
Lynch: Mehman says people here used to use Indus river water to grow coconuts and grapes. Now they have to pay for their water, from the truck.
Managing a finite water supply in a country with a rapidly growing population has long been a challenge here. Agriculture accounts for a quarter of Pakistan's GDP. 70%
of the population are involved in farming. And Pakistan remains a poor country. But Fazalullah Quereshi believes that the government could do more to protect the Indus.
Quereshi spent 36 years as a top bureaucrat, urging politicians to tackle the growing problem. He's heard all sorts of excuses.
Quereshi: �And when they say there's no funds, I don't believe because I've handled budgets for twenty years. If there's a will, there's a way.�
Lynch: Pakistan has a vast irrigation system - one of the biggest in the world. But it loses huge amounts of water to evaporation and seepage. Quereshi and others say the government should get rid of such things as irrigation canals and replace them with much more efficient drip or sprinkler systems similar to what Israel uses. At the very least, Quereshi says the canals should be lined with concrete to prevent waterlogging. He believes such changes could bring big benefits to a land choked by poverty.
Quereshi: �Because if you manage water and land properly you can engage more people in that sector and you can grow more you can export more and that can generate more funds for the country for the people and more investments. So there's a whole cycle will run.�
Lynch: Pakistan's water minister declined requests to be interviewed. The government has plans to improve irrigation practices, build more dams and to do a better job of conserving water. But a recent World Bank report says the Pakistani government itself is concerned about its ability to carry out large-scale projects.
And others also despair of change coming anytime soon. Dr. Abdul Majeed of the Pakistan Council for Research in Water Resources says many of the country's powerful politicians have no incentive to push for a real overhaul of farming practices.
Majeed: �All these politicians are generally big landlords who own acres and hundreds of thousands of acres of land, and water is the major input in getting the agriculture from these lands. So they have their own interest and that creates problems.�
Lynch: And Dr. Majeed believes that in an already volatile country, the situation is potentially explosive.
Majeed: �You know, if you deprive one farmer of his livelihood it's a dangerous sign. How he's going to meet the requirements of his family� so this situation one can imagine it will not only become alarming. It will become dangerous as well, people fighting with each other, people fighting with the government.�
Lynch: There is another concern, though not one people talk about readily. The Indus has its headwaters far away in the Tibetan plateau - it then runs through Indian controlled Kashmir, before flowing through Pakistan on its way to the Arabian Sea.
India and Pakistan have signed a treaty that allocates shares of the Indus and other rivers. But Pakistan has sometimes complained that India is cheating - something India denies. Climate change could also seriously affect the flow of water into the Indus. Fazalullah Quereshi, the former water bureaucrat, worries that if the water shortage grows worse, it could lead to a wider conflict with India.
Quereshi: �It is one of the reason Pakistan wants Kashmir issue to be settled in a way so at least we can protect our lifeline.�
Lynch: In the Indus delta town of Kati Bundar, a fisherman gets ready to head out. Locals have lost the fish and shrimp they used to catch when the river disappeared. But the sea still holds crab - so that's the main catch now. There are more problems besetting the town. As the Indus has disappeared, so has the silt it used to carry to the delta� without it, the sea is licking away at the land and flooding is increasing. Mohammed Ismail Mehman has watched his town shrink from 15 thousand residents to only three thousand. Mehman talks of the hardship.
Mehman: �Fishing and farming is all people here have really ever known, now they can barely make a living.�
Lynch: For thousands of years, water has been a lifeline for people here and across Pakistan. But increasingly, the source of their livelihood is becoming the source of conflict. There are growing protests by fishermen and farmers. And last year's World Bank report warned that increased social discontent over water shortages could threaten the very viability of Pakistan as an independent nation.
For the World, I'm Laura Lynch on the Indus River delta in Pakistan.


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My good friend, Joy, and I drove to Green Hills this afternoon to attend the Grand Opening of the The Container Store in Nashville. We were so excited; it was like early Christmas for us organization freaks. I can't express how much I love that she and I are kindred spirits in our sense of style and appreciation of all things organizational. We wandered the store for hours, dodging the masses of people and drooling over all the shelving, kitchen stuff, office supplies, and yes, containers.
Here's a shot of a dreamy closet I wish was mine:
Of course, we didn't come home empty-handed. In fact, after a brief tour and demonstration of their Elfa system closet organizers, she won a $25 Elfa System gift card … and then GAVE IT TO ME. Just because she knew I could use it. Have I mentioned that I love this lady? I bought this sliding drawer system for one of our kitchen cupboards to hold cutting boards and tall kitchen-y things. Thank you, Joy. You rock.
I also bought an under-shelf hanging organizer to help with our dishes and a pot lid holder. I'm going back with Daniel soon (his birthday request. Why yes, we are pretty geeky like that), so I'm sure we'll get more loot.
In closing, here's a parting shot of an item I find especially appealing. My hatred of cable mess is well known to my husband. (He regularly hears me say, "I see cables! Please hide them!) So he was amused to receive this picture in text message while we shopped. Hint hint.


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The state Senate is willing to dedicate more to roads and bridges than the $500 million in new taxes approved by the House late Monday night, but still will not come close to the level of investment Governor Deval Patrick has requested, Senate President Therese Murray signaled on Tuesday.
The transportation funding bill headed for the Senate floor endorses the same tax increases approved by the House Monday, but would boost transportation spending by redirecting money from other parts of the state budget and imposing a new fee on utility companies. By fiscal 2018, the Senate draft would spend about $126 million more on transportation than the House version, Senate officials said.
This step toward compromise could place Patrick, who has requested an additional $1.9 billion in tax revenue to pay for transportation and education, in the position of either softening his insistence on a tax hike of more than $1 billion (his veto threat was specifically aimed at the House bill, which would be rendered obsolete by the Senate bill), or risk losing what could be his last chance to increase spending on what he calls critical investments.
How the Legislature and the governor resolve the tense debate will determine whether MBTA fares and highway tolls increase dramatically, which roads and bridges can get fixed, as well as how much more money Massachusetts taxpayers will have to shell out in taxes each year.
The Senate draft would levy $40 million in new charges on utility companies by requiring them to pay for infrastructure, such as light poles, on state highway right-of-ways. The bill would also divert roughly $80 million in excess funds from an underground storage tank cleanup program, which now flow into the state's general fund, into the transportation accounts. Like the House, the measure would boost taxes on gas, tobacco, and businesses.
The Senate could vote on the bill as early as Thursday, but liberal senators who agree with Patrick are likely to force a delay until early next week.
The Legislature and governor have been engaged in something of a cold war since House and Senate leaders announced that their tax plan would come nowhere close to the $1.9 billion Patrick requested earlier this year. By offering Patrick a higher transportation spending figure than the House version, which he has promised to veto, the Senate could allow both Patrick and the House to save face.
"If that bill doesn't go forward, then the T rates will go up, tolls will go up, and I don't think anybody wants that to happen," Murray said Tuesday before the Senate draft was released.
The two sides still seem far apart. Asked Tuesday what he would consider acceptable, Patrick replied that "there's a number between where they are and where I am — and I mean really, exactly, between where they are and where I started — where we can make some meaningful improvements in our transportation system and take some first meaningful steps on the education side."
House Ways and Means chairman Brian Dempsey, a Haverhill Democrat, told reporters last week that it was "highly unlikely" the House would revisit transportation financing this year if its $500 million preference did not become law. But House officials said Tuesday that a Senate increase of a modest size would probably win favor in the lower chamber.
First, though, Murray must muscle the legislation through the Senate, whose membership has changed significantly in the last several years, growing noticeably more liberal. Several of those senators side with Patrick on tax and transportation policy and are strongly critical of the House transportation bill, which eschews Patrick's income tax hike and sales tax reduction for a range of taxes on gas, tobacco and businesses.
Senator James Eldridge, an Acton Democrat, called the House bill regressive. "I think we need a much stronger revenue package," he said.
A fellow liberal, Senator Sonia Chang-Diaz, Democrat of Boston, blocked a procedural vote Tuesday that would have teed up a Thursday vote.
The Senate planned to take up the House bill Thursday, but the administration has been lobbying for a delay as it seeks to muster the votes needed to sustain the veto.
Murray said Tuesday that the Senate would work through any efforts mounted by Patrick supporters to put off the vote.
"I understand the governor's asked them to delay the bill as long as they can, but we'll keep at it until we get to actually taking it up and hopefully pass it," she said.
Despite leadership efforts, the House vote was eight votes shy of the number needed to override the governor's threatened veto. The opposition to the bill came from Republicans, whose opposition is rooted in its tax component, as well as liberal Democrats who believe the state should spend more on transportation.
Murray declined to say whether the bill would get the votes needed to override a veto.
While a higher price tag would probably fetch votes from liberal lawmakers, Murray questioned the feasibility of a package in the neighborhood of $1.2 billion, which Patrick had suggested as a halfway figure. "Where does it come from?" she asked of the funding needed to reach that level.
Murray said that the bill Senate leaders will send to the floor will have enough support to pass.
Deep divisions on transportation financing are nothing new on Beacon Hill, which has for decades grappled with how to pay for the Big Dig and the hole it blew in the state's wallet. Nor is it unusual for feelings among high-level figures to grow personal and hostile.
Lawmakers mocked Governor Mitt Romney in 2006 for proposing to tear down the tollbooths on the Massachusetts Turnpike, deriding it as a political ploy intended to aid Lieutenant Governor Kerry Healey's gubernatorial campaign. In 2009, Patrick's transportation chief, James Aloisi, incurred Murray's ire by mocking her "reform before revenue" mantra as a "meaningless slogan."
This time through the debate, though, dynamics have shifted. Patrick has ruled out a run for a third term, meaning he will not ask the state's voters again for control of the Beacon Hill purse.
Lawmakers, however, will be on the ballot again in 2014 and have watched colleagues lose their seats after voting for higher taxes.
Several lawmakers said Patrick's request that they show "political courage" rings hollow in light of his own campaign trail language in 2010. That year, Patrick said he did not intend to pursue a broad-based tax increase.
If the Legislature sends Patrick a bill with a bottom line similar to the Senate's, said one longtime budget observer, Patrick will have achieved "a major victory," persuading lawmakers to go along with a massive tax increase and taking a stride toward closing the transportation funding gap.
"This would be, in my view, a great success for the governor," said Michael Widmer, president of the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation. "Now, he has put on the table a larger package, but this is still an important piece. It's not as if he doesn't care about it. So I would hope he would sign it."
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- Real Fair Trade
These days the term, "Fair Trade" is used to define all sorts of different things for different people. Below are a few things we consider, "Real Fair Trade."
- We work directly with organic cotton and organic wool farmers, guaranteeing them a stable price, and our customers a consistent high quality.Establishing long term relationships with our producers is what we call Real Fair Trade.
- We have witnessed and experienced first-hand the challenges our farmers face from climate change. And we are participating, offering a percentage of our sales and purchases back to a farmer fund (https://maggiesorganics.com/maggies-gives/). Making financial investments in small-scale organic farmers is what we call Real Fair Trade.
- We process and hold all organic cotton and all organic wool used in all of our socks. This allows our knitters to purchase it in small amounts against our POs, and helps their cash flow immensely. Assisting the financial needs of our knitters and keeping jobs in the USA is what we call Real Fair Trade.
- We place our orders according to the lot size of each producers' equipment. This minimizes waste, and helps production scheduling. Communication with and respect for our vendors is what we call Real Fair Trade.
- We include our sewers and our cutters, not just the "bosses," but the workers, in our design decisions and seam construction. This makes them partners in our vision, and helps make our construction more efficient. Frequent and honest interaction with many employees at our production facilities is what we call Real Fair Trade.
- We develop our supply chains from the ground up, and we stay with these chains as long as they are able to produce. We do not put suppliers into 'bidding wars' in order to save money. Providing long-term commitments to our partners is what we call Real Fair Trade.
- We know most workers and each production facility - not just the owners and bosses. We know when their kids are sick and we hear about their basketball games. We laugh with them, and we have cried with them. Reviewing all employment practices of companies we work with is what we call Real Fair Trade.
- We process our own Organic Wool tops from start to finish - investing 3 months and many steps just to make the yarn used in our Hiking socks. And it is all done at a 200-year old spinning mill in rural Massachusetts. Revitalizing the heritage of appropriate technology, and respecting the hands that create functional goods for our world is what we call Real Fair Trade.
- We contract directly with our farmers, and pay them a deposit ($400 per every 1000 lbs) the month before they plant. This deposit covers the cost of their seeds and planting costs, and allows them to share the risk with us if the crop fails. Sharing risks with cooperative farmers is what we call Real Fair Trade.
- We pay for an entire harvest as soon as it comes out of the ground. Taking the time and effort to understand the overall financial status of our farmers is what we call Real Fair Trade.
At Maggie's, our company began with a challenge: Was it possible to establish a successful, sustainable business while protecting the limited resources of the planet, and while respecting and dignifying each worker who makes the business run?
We never called it "fair trade," or "ethical business" or "quadruple bottom line" or certainly not "holier than thou." We just came to work each day, and asked questions about everything: How much the farmer who grew the cotton was paid? Why were sewers remunerated by the piece and not by the hour? What was in that effluent water running out of the dye plant? Why did we need to source a machine in Asia when there was a slower one that was more energy-efficient built in Haw River, North Carolina?
And each time the responses to those questions forced us to make tough decisions, we dug deep and answered based on what we thought was the truth.
Business, really, is about exploiting resources. You take a raw material, in our case, organic cotton or organic wool, and you change it. You strip off the leaves, you line all the fibers up in a row, you twist the fibers, you add dye, you knit, you cut, you sew. It all takes energy, and resources, and human hands. And our approach has been to do all of this as close together as possible, and to do it with a honest effort to minimize our exploitation of resources...both the earth's and the earth's inhabitants'.
And one day people started calling what we do "fair trade"...and asking us to jump on all sorts of bandwagons.
At first we were shy, and reserved, and didn't really want to toot our own horn. I mean, we are not perfect, so how can we really be sure that our workers, and our farmers, have a better life than the next guy? Is any worker ever completely satisfied with their job? This is just the way we choose to do business and it truly appeals to our sense of logic: Of course we want to treat the soil and the farmers well - we want them to keep providing us with the best quality cotton. Why wouldn't we want sewers who had a vested interest in more than just the seam they sew, but in the entire pair of Leggings they produce for us? Our Leggings will be better quality that way.
And then we started getting 'vetted', by all these third party certifiers and standards-bearers. Some of them, we thought, were silly and superficial. We'd pay lots of money to get some seal, but it really didn't change anything: It didn't cause us to improve our way of doing business; It didn't get our farmers or workers better wages or working conditions. In fact, our suppliers found these certifications to be cumbersome distractions: If we already paid them the fair trade price for their cotton, why were we spending all the money just to have someone say that we were? If we thought their product was worth more money, why not just raise their prices, instead of creating of a social premium and suggesting how they spend it? If every company that applies receives the certification, then what really makes it special? And if the "seal" takes a % of every sale of a product that bears its name, then where is the real incentive to improve the lives of the makers of these products?
And when we were vetted by the more thorough standards, the ones that truly examined our entire supply chain, we were consistently accoladed:
Maggie's receives an A+, the highest rating of 300 apparel brands, in an independent study funded by the Department of State which ranks labor conditions. http://widgets.free2work.org/frontend_ratings/public_view/432
"The members of the screening committee were so appreciative of your extremely thorough application! They particularly commended the way evaluation and reevaluation of fair trade practices is institutionalized within the structure of your business. www.fairtradefederation.org
So after all the examining and all of the various symbols, we have pretty much come back to square one: We still run our business and make our daily decisions in the same way, and we also try to be as transparent as possible, about each step of each supply chain. And we have come to call what we do Real Fair Trade.
- Dedication to the supply chains we develop over years is what we call real fair trade.
- Working with suppliers to constantly improve quality without raising prices is what we call real fair trade.
- Constantly listening and learning from our suppliers as well as our customers is what we call real fair trade.
- Seeking out producers as close to home as possible, and working with them to develop lower impact input processes is what we call real fair trade.
- Responding to what farmers say they need, instead of purchasing what will look good in PR photos, is what we call real fair trade.
- Working with our supply chains on continuous improvement in quality, environmental improvement, and living conditions is what we call real fair trade.


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Bob Russo on mobile payment security and PCI compliance
As more customers want to make payments from their mobile devices, businesses and merchants may be worried about the security of mobile payment platforms, and wondering if any mobile payment applications are PCI compliant.
In this video interview, Bob Russo, general manager of the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC), describes the special task force that is working on mobile payment security guidance. He points to the mobile payments best practices document published by Visa that can serve businesses in the short term.
Russo explains that the PCI SSC is concerned with ensuring the security of merchant applications for accepting credit card payments on any devices, including mobile devices, and may eventually provide a list of mobile payment solutions that have been tested for PCI compliance.


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On the wake of tomorrow being Veteran's Day, I want to take a moment to salute and give props to the men and women who stand in harm's way, and those who support them both home and abroad. Even in a hostile country thousands of miles away back in 1991, baseball was my link to salvation on those desert afternoons and down times. Those games have left an indelible imprint on my heart and soul. I hope you enjoy my Kuwaiti tale .
I remember one night when my father and grandfather were sitting on the back porch and their voices began to rise a few hundred decibel while discussing the game of baseball. Both of them had a genuine respect and admiration for some of this Nation's best baseball player who put down their bats and picked up a rifle or wrench or fly combat missions when manpower was needed to defend this country's mindset and dreams.
Even if my time in the military was short compared to both of those men, I always made time to let some of the nuances of baseball intertwine into my daily routine. I was attached to a small unit that made it ashore during some of the first waves of amphibian approaches to Kuwait and within my gear taken abroad was my glove and a baseball.
Throwing back and forth even as the penetrating sun and swirling sands scraped at our skin like sandpaper. We still threw for hours just to bring some form of home into our minds and hearts, not only to break the slow ticking of time in the desert. Even though the majority of the soldiers of my unit had deep cravings for football, there was always time for a baseball, or someone boasting about their curveball being slick, or having a rocket launcher attached to their arms.
The game of baseball was an instant bonding agent no matter if we were from St. Petersburg, Florida, Rock City, North Carolina or Portland, Maine.
The game transcended the two countries ideologies and language. Poked past the cultural differences and the social unrest of the region. We even invited some of the local Kuwaiti kids to join us in our games. It felt great to spread this great sport to another region just as my father did in ports in the South Pacific, and my grandfather in England and Denmark.
During my time in the Middle East I found a new respect and admiration for the game, just as my father and grandfather had before me. I began to experience what they meant about how the passion and the pulling power of the game brings not only a group of soldiers together, but is a starting point for interact with the locals introducing them to baseball. This game that could start with two people and then suddenly blossom into 20 or more souls playing their hearts out sometimes blew my mind when the locals, both young and old eagerly began cheering and watching intently during the games.
I can still remember like it was yesterday when we were about to pulling out from our post near the Northern border of Kuwait that I needed to leave of piece of me here. Something had to stay here for this to seem real to me. So as we were motoring through the city of Abdari I saw a few kids throwing a baseball around the town's central square.
I called for one of them to come over to my Humvee. I had a friend in the unit with me who was a translator and he asked the boy for me if he knew how to play baseball. The young kid, maybe 10 told my friend he was being taught the game before the local Marines pulled out and he was left with only the baseball.
I took the Humvee out of gear then went to the back of the unit. I got out my duffel bag and searched for a few moments and brought out my old college baseball glove, two of my wooden Louisville Sluggers and about 12 more baseballs sent to me from home. Even though I knew soccer was the prominent sport in this country, I wanted to leave a "baseball" piece of me in Kuwait that day.
I gave the items to the boy and made him promise to use them for sport and not as weapons or as bargaining pieces with his friend. I wanted him and his friends to want the items to play the game, not to sell or even trade for something else. He nodded his head in agreement and he ran yelling and screaming with excitement from our Humvee with his new-found sporting equipment. His small group of friends all encircled him like he had found a golden statue in the sand.
As I got back into the Humvee to drive away, he and new baseball posse all waved to us and I was glad deep down inside to leave a small part of me in this small Kuwaiti town. But more, I was glad to leave a part of the game.


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The Larson endowment for Ecumenical Studies was established by Monsignor James Doyle in honor of Pat and Dale Larson of Brookings. The purpose of the endowment is to establish an ongoing inter-religious discussion and engagement on campus. The committee in charge of working out the details is composed of Murray Haar, chair, Richard Swanson, Ann Pederson, and Campus Pastor Paul Rohde.
Our first event was an all-campus convocation at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, in the Chapel of Reconciliation. To prepare for the event, three faculty members were asked to write short essays on the topic: Facing the Stranger: Engaging Other Religious Traditions.
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Recent letters that have been published, written by the late Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother have detailed how she pleaded for Prince Charles not to be sent to Gordonstoun School as Prince Philip had detailed and arranged.
Prince Philip himself had gone to Gordonstoun School in Scotland and decided that his son should also go there. However, Prince Charles's personality did not fit with the methods of Gordonstoun. The Prince found himself being bullied and frequently uncomfortable in the school.
She petitioned the Queen not to send Prince Charles to Gordonstoun in Moray as he would feel "terribly cut off and lonely in the far north" and suggested that he instead attend the "staunchly protestant" Eton.
But her concerns proved accurate after Prince Charles described the inter-denominational school as "Colditz in kilts".
On May 23, 1961, the Queen Mother wrote to her daughter, 'My Darling Lillibet', before stating that she has been "thinking such as lot about Charles" and his schooling.
"I suppose he will be taking his entrance exam for Eton soon. I do hope he passes because it might be the ideal school for one of his character and temperament," she wrote.
The Queen Mother, being particularly fond of Prince Charles, added: "All your friends' sons are at Eton and it is so important to be able to grow up with people you will be with later in life.
Writing home in 1963, he detailed, "the people in my dormitory are foul. Goodness, they are horrid. I don't know how anybody could be so foul."
One contemporary at the school recalled that Charles was bullied "maliciously, cruelly and without respite."