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This Statement of Rights and Responsibilities ("Statement") derives from the Global Farmers Register Principles, and governs our relationship with users and others who interact with Global Farmers Register. By using or accessing Global Farmers Register, you agree to this Statement.
1) Privacy
Your privacy is very important to us. We designed our Privacy Policy to make important disclosures about how you can use Global Farmers Register to share with others and how we collect and can use your content and information. We advise you to upload information strictly on a "need to know basis" bearing in mind this is a business networking site and your information is available to as many agri-business interests as possible. We try to give your business as much visibility as possible; this we believe is in the interest of your company growth. Understanding this will help you to make informed decisions. However, we understand that some information can be detrimental to safety; such information can be made confidential by making use of the privacy settings on your profile.
2) Sharing Your Content and Information
You own all of the content and information you post on Global Farmers Register, and you can control how it is shared. In addition:
a) For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like photos and videos or any other such contents ("IP content"), you specifically grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Global Farmers Register. This IP License ends when you delete your IP content or your account unless your content has been shared with others, and they have not deleted it.
b) When you delete IP content, it is deleted in a manner similar to emptying the recycle bin on a computer. However, you understand that removed content may persist in backup copies for a reasonable period of time.
c) When you use an application, your content and information is shared with the application. We ensure applications respect your privacy, however, your agreement with that application will control how the application can use, store, and transfer that content and information.
d) When you publish content or information, it means that you are allowing everyone, including people off of Global Farmers Register, to access and use that information, and to associate it with you (i.e., your name and profile picture).
e) We always appreciate your feedback or other suggestions about Global Farmers Register, but you understand that we may use them without any obligation to compensate you for them (just as you have no obligation to offer them).
3) Safety
We do our best to keep Global Farmers Register safe, but we cannot guarantee it. We need your help to do that, which includes the following commitments:
a) You will not send or otherwise post unauthorized commercial communications (such as spam) on Global Farmers Register.
b) You will not collect users' content or information, or otherwise access Global Farmers Register, using automated means (such as harvesting bots, robots, spiders, or scrapers) without our permission.
c) You will not engage in unlawful multi-level marketing, such as a pyramid scheme, on Global Farmers Register.
d) You will not upload viruses or other malicious code.
e) You will not solicit login information or access an account belonging to someone else.
f) You will not bully, intimidate, or harass any user.
g) You will not post content that: is hateful, threatening, or pornographic; incites violence; or contains nudity or graphic or gratuitous violence.
h) You will not develop or operate a third-party application containing alcohol-related or other mature content (including advertisements) without appropriate age-based restrictions.
i) You will not offer any contest, giveaway, or sweepstakes ("promotion") on Global Farmers Register without our prior written consent. If we consent, you take full responsibility for the promotion, and will follow our Promotions Guidelines and all applicable laws.
j) You will not use Global Farmers Register to do anything unlawful, misleading, malicious, or discriminatory.
k) You will not do anything that could disable, overburden, or impair the proper working of Global Farmers Register, such as a denial of service attack.
l) You will not facilitate or encourage any violations of this Statement.
m) We will not accept liability or payment claims for any Business Transaction(s) done outside the Global Farmers Register without our knowledge.
4) Registration and Account Security
Global Farmers Register users provide their real names and information, and we need your help to keep it that way. Here are some commitments you make to us relating to registering and maintaining the security of your account:
a) You will not provide any false personal information on Global Farmers Register, or create an account for anyone other than yourself without permission.
b) You will not create more than one personal profile.
c) If we disable your account, you will not create another one without our permission.
d) You will not use Global Farmers Register if you are under 13.
e) You will not use Global Farmers Register if you are a convicted criminal or fraudulent person.
f) You will keep your contact information accurate and up-to-date.
g) You will not share your password, (or in the case of developers, your secret key), let anyone else access your account, or do anything else that might jeopardize the security of your account.
h) You will not transfer your account (including any page or application you administer) to anyone without first getting our written permission.
i) If you select a username for your account we reserve the right to remove or reclaim it if we believe appropriate (such as when a trademark owner complains about a username that does not closely relate to a user's actual name).
5) Protecting Other People's Rights
We respect other people's rights, and expect you to do the same.
a) You will not post content or take any action on Global Farmers Register that infringes or violates someone else's rights or otherwise violates the law.
b) We can remove any content or information you post on Global Farmers Register if we believe that it violates this Statement.
c) Please report any violation of your intellectual property rights.
d) If we remove your content for infringing someone else's copyright, and you believe we removed it by mistake, we will provide you with an opportunity to appeal. Just visit the contact us page and send us a written appeal.
e) If you repeatedly infringe other people's intellectual property rights, we will disable your account when appropriate.
f) You will not use our copyrights or trademarks (including Global Farmers Register, the Global Farmers Register Logos, or any confusingly similar marks, without our written permission.
g) If you collect information from users, you will: obtain their consent, make it clear you (and not Global Farmers Register) are the one collecting their information, and post a privacy policy explaining what information you collect and how you will use it.
h) You will not post anyone's identification documents or sensitive financial information on Global Farmers Register.
i) You will not send email invitations to non-users without their consent.
j) You will not de-fraud or attempt to defraud any users on Global Farmers Register.
k) You will not engage in any business transactions with other Global Farmers Register users outside the Global Farmers Register site. This is against our safety policy and we will not be responsible for any negative outcomes. Our business strategy is designed to keep you safe from fraudsters.
6) Payments
All payments to Global Farmers Register are made through our payment platform vendors www.2checkout.com . We guarantee safety of your payments to via this medium. We do not concern ourselves about payments between users/members and we will not guarantee any member or user. Please ensure you know any user/member very well and have physical contact before exchanging cash/payment. We advice you use our interbank transactions in the case you are transacting business across borders.
7) Special Provisions Applicable to Share Links
If you share our site link on your website, the following additional terms apply to you:
a) We give you permission to use Global Farmers Register's Share Link button so that users can post links or content from your website on Global Farmers Register.
b) You give us permission to use and allow others to use such links and content on Global Farmers Register.
c) You will not place a Share Link button on any page containing content that would violate this Statement if posted on Global Farmers Register.
8) Special Provisions Applicable to Developers/Operators of Applications and Websites
If you are a developer or operator of a Platform application or website, the following additional terms apply to you:
a) You are responsible for your application and its content and all uses you make of your Platform. This includes ensuring your application or use of Platform is not in violation of our Global Farmers Register statement and our Advertising Guidelines.
b) Your access to and use of data you receive from Global Farmers Register, will be limited as follows:
i) You will only request data you need to operate your application.
ii) You will have a privacy policy that tells users what user data you are going to use and how you will use, display, share, or transfer that data and you will include your privacy policy URL on the Global Farmers Register page provided for you after you have received our consent.
iii) You will not use, display, share, or transfer a user's data in a manner inconsistent with your privacy policy.
iv) You will delete all data you receive from us concerning a user if the user asks you to do so, and will provide a mechanism for users to make such a request.
v) You will not include data you receive from us concerning a user in any advertising creative.
vi) You will not directly or indirectly transfer any data you receive from us to (or use such data in connection with) any ad network, ad exchange, data broker, or other advertising related toolset, even if a user consents to that transfer or use.
vii) You will not sell user data. If you are acquired by or merge with a third party, you can continue to use user data within your application, but you cannot transfer user data outside of your application.
viii) We can require you to delete user data if you use it in a way that we determine is inconsistent with users' expectations.
ix) We can limit your access to data.
x) You will comply with all other restrictions we subject you to.
c) You will not give us information that you independently collect from a user or a user's content without that user's consent.
d) You will make it easy for users to remove or disconnect from your application.
e) You will make it easy for users to contact you. We can also share your email address with users and others claiming that you have infringed or otherwise violated their rights.
f) You will provide customer support for your application.
g) You will not show third party ads or web search boxes on Global Farmers Register.
h) We give you all rights necessary to use the code, APIs, data, and tools you receive from us (except we otherwise restrict certain ones).
i) You will not sell, transfer, or sublicense our code, APIs, or tools to anyone.
j) You will not misrepresent your relationship with Global Farmers Register to others.
k) You may use the logos we make available to developers or issue a press release or other public statement so long as you obtain prior permission from us to do so.
l) We can issue a press release describing our relationship with you.
m) You will comply with all applicable laws. In particular you will (if applicable):
i) have a policy for removing infringing content and terminating repeat infringers that complies with the Copyright Laws of your geographic location which will be verified by us.
ii) obtain any opt-in consent necessary from users so that user data subject to their privacy protection may be shared on Global Farmers Register. You represent that any disclosure to us will not be incidental to the ordinary course of your business.
n) We do not guarantee that Platform will be free, and prices may change from time to time.
o) You give us all rights necessary to enable your application to work with Global Farmers Register, including the right to incorporate content and information you provide to us into streams, profiles, and user stories.
p) You give us the right to link to or frame your application, and place content, including ads, around your application.
q) We can analyze your application, content, and data for any purpose, including commercial (such as for targeting the delivery of advertisements and indexing content for search).
r) To ensure your application is safe for users, we can audit it.
s) We can create applications that offer similar features and services to, or otherwise compete with, your application.
9) About Advertisements and Other Commercial Content Served or Enhanced by Global Farmers Register
Our goal is to deliver ads that are not only valuable to advertisers, but also valuable to you. In order to do that, you agree to the following:
a) You accept to associate your name and profile picture with commercial, sponsored, or related content (such as a brand you like) served or enhanced by us. You give us permission to use your name and profile picture in connection with that content, if there is need to.
b) We do not give your content or information to advertisers without your consent (except that which you have already uploaded for general viewing).
c) You understand that we may not always identify paid services and communications as such.
10) Special Provisions Applicable to Advertisers
You can target your specific audience by buying ads on Global Farmers Register or our publisher network. The following additional terms apply to you if you want to place an advert on our site:
a) When you place an Order, you will tell us the type of advertising you want to buy. If we accept your Order, we will deliver your ads as inventory becomes available. When serving your ad, we do our best to deliver the ads to all the audience on the Global Farmers Register, although we cannot guarantee in every instance that your ad will reach its intended target.
b) In instances where we believe doing so will enhance the effectiveness of your advertising campaign, we may broaden the targeting criteria as an extra incentive.
c) You will pay for your Orders before they are uploaded. The amount you will pay will be sent to you by email as you will view our Advertising Cadre document.
d) Your ads will comply with our Advertising Guidelines.
e) We will determine the size, placement, and positioning of your ads, according to what you have paid for.
f) We do not guarantee the activity that your ads will receive, such as the number of clicks you will get.
g) We cannot control how people interact with your ads, and are not responsible for click fraud or other improper actions that affect the cost of running ads. We do, however, have systems to detect and filter certain suspicious activity.
h) You cannot cancel your Order once the advert is running, but you can cancel 24 hours before it is scheduled to be uploaded. You are responsible for paying for those ads.
i) Our license to run your ad will end when we have completed your Order. You understand, however, that if users have interacted with your ad, your ad may remain until the users delete it.
j) We can use your ads and related content and information for marketing or promotional purposes.
k) You will not issue any press release or make public statements about your relationship with Global Farmers Register without written permission.
l) We may reject or remove any ad for any reason.
m) If you are placing ads on someone else's behalf, we need to make sure you have permission to place those ads, including the following:
i) Your legal authority to bind the advertiser to this Statement.
ii) You agree that if the advertiser you represent violates this Statement, we may hold you responsible for that violation.
11) Amendments
a) We can change this Statement without prior notice. However, we may email you the change, to give you and an opportunity to comment. To get notice of any future changes to this Statement, please read all emails received from us.
b) For changes to sections relating to payments, application developers, website operators, and advertisers, if we give notice, we will give you a minimum of three days notice. For all other changes, if we give notice, we will give you a minimum of seven days notice. All your comments must be made to us by email.
c) If more than 1,000 users comment on the proposed change, we will also give you the opportunity to participate in a vote in which you will be provided alternatives. The vote shall be binding on us in favour of more than 30% of all active registered users, as of the date of the notice vote.
d) We can make changes for legal or administrative reasons, or to correct an inaccurate statement, without notice and without opportunity to comment.
12) Termination
If you violate the letter or spirit of this Statement, or otherwise create risk or possible legal exposure for us, especially committing fraudulent crimes; we can stop providing all or part of Global Farmers Register to you. We will notify you by email or at the next time you attempt to access your account. You may also delete your account or disable your application at any time by sending us an email. We may ask you to partake in our member disengagement survey (not compulsory) to help us serve other members better, or even you at a later date if you choose to use The Global Farmers Register again. In all such cases, this Statement shall terminate, but all specific provisions that protect the Global Farmers Register from accepting liability for any of your actions (legal or illegal) either online or offline still apply.
13) Disputes
a) You will resolve any claim, cause of action or dispute ("claim") you have with us arising out of or relating to this Statement or Global Farmers Register exclusively in a state or federal court located in the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria will govern this Statement, as well as any claim that might arise between you and us, without regard to conflict of law provisions. You agree to submit to the personal jurisdiction of the courts located in the Federal Republic of Nigeria for the purpose of litigating all such claims.
b) If anyone brings a claim against us related to your actions, content or information on Global Farmers Register, you will indemnify and hold us harmless from and against all damages, losses, and expenses of any kind (including reasonable legal fees and costs) related to such claim.
c) WE TRY TO KEEP GLOBAL FARMERS REGISTER UP, BUG-FREE, AND SAFE, BUT YOU USE IT AT YOUR OWN RISK. WE ARE PROVIDING GLOBAL FARMERS REGISTER "AS IS" WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT GUARANTEE THAT GLOBAL FARMERS REGISTER WILL BE SAFE OR SECURE. GLOBAL FARMERS REGISTER IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ACTIONS, CONTENT, INFORMATION, OR DATA OF THIRD PARTIES, AND YOU RELEASE US, OUR DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AND AGENTS FROM ANY CLAIMS AND DAMAGES, KNOWN AND UNKNOWN, ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH ANY CLAIM YOU HAVE AGAINST ANY SUCH THIRD PARTIES. WE WILL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY LOST PROFITS OR OTHER CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, INDIRECT, OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS STATEMENT OR GLOBAL FARMERS REGISTER, EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. OUR AGGREGATE LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF THIS STATEMENT OR GLOBAL FARMERS REGISTER WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF TWENTY THOUSAND NAIRA (N 20,000) OR THE AMOUNT YOU HAVE PAID US IN THE PAST TWELVE MONTHS. APPLICABLE LAW MAY NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY OR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. IN SUCH CASES, GLOBAL FARMERS REGISTER'S LIABILITY WILL BE LIMITED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW.
14) Special Provisions Applicable to Users Outside Nigeria
We strive to create a global community with consistent standards for everyone, but we also strive to respect local laws. The following provisions apply to users outside Nigeria:
a) You consent to having your personal data transferred to and processed in Nigeria.
b) If you are located in a country embargoed by the Nigeria, or are on any "wanted criminal" list in your region or location or even globally, you will not engage in commercial activities on Global Farmers Register (such as advertising, payments, time-line matrix, or global market place transactions) or operate a Platform application or website.
15) Definitions
a) By "Global Farmers Register" we mean the features and services we make available, including through (a) our website at www.Globalfarmersregister.com and any other Global Farmers Register branded or co-branded websites (including sub-domains, international versions, widgets, and mobile versions when we eventually develop them); (b) our Platform; (c) social plugins and other similar offerings and (d) other media, software (such as a toolbar), devices, or networks now existing or later developed.
b) By "Platform" we mean a set of APIs and services that enable others, including application developers and website operators, to retrieve data from Global Farmers Register or provide data to us.
c) By "information" we mean facts and other information about you, including actions you take.
d) By "content" we mean anything you post on Global Farmers Register that "has" and "has not" been included in the definition of "information."
e) By "data" we mean content and information that third parties can retrieve from Global Farmers Register or provide to Global Farmers Register through Platform.
f) By "post" we mean anything posted or updated on Global Farmers Register or otherwise made available to us (such as by using an application).
g) By "use" we mean use, copy, publicly perform or display, distribute, modify, translate, and create derivative works of.
h) By "active registered user" we mean a user who has logged into Global Farmers Register at least once in the previous 30 days.
i) By "application" we mean any application or website that uses or accesses Platform, as well as anything else that receives or has received data from us. If you no longer access Platform but have not deleted all data from us, the term application will apply until you delete the data.
16) Other
a) If you are a resident of or have your principal place of business in Nigeria, this Statement is an agreement between you and Frebay International Company Limited. For those outside Nigeria, this Statement is also an agreement between you and Frebay International Company Limited. References to "us," "we," and "our" mean Frebay International Company Limited, and will be used as appropriate.
b) This Statement makes up the entire agreement between the parties regarding Global Farmers Register, and supersedes any prior agreements.
c) If any portion of this Statement is found to be unenforceable, the remaining portion will remain in full force and effect.
d) If we fail to enforce any of this Statement, it will not be considered a waiver.
e) Any amendment to or waiver of this Statement must be made in writing and signed by us.
f) You will not transfer any of your rights or obligations under this Statement to anyone else without our consent.
g) All of our rights and obligations under this Statement are freely assignable by us in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, or by operation of law or otherwise.
h) Nothing in this Statement shall prevent us from complying with the law.
i) This Statement does not confer any third party beneficiary rights.
j) You will comply with all applicable laws when using or accessing Global Farmers Register.


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Doubling down on a losing hand is rarely a good move, yet that is precisely what Case Western Reserve Law School dean Lawrence E. Mitchell is doing.
Mitchell generated a flurry of criticismincluding in my own earlier post, The Lawyer Bubblewith his November 28, 2012 op-ed in The New York Times. On January 4 he took to the airwaves for a Bloomberg Law interview that makes me wonder whether he hears his own words as he speaks them.
With his latest media blitz, Mitchell has made himself the poster child for deans in denialthe law school story of 2012. This story emerged in a big way last June when, for the first time, the ABA released meaningful jobs data. It showed that nine months after graduation, only about 50 percent of the law school class of 2011 had full-time, long-term jobs requiring a legal degree. Deans everywhere began dissembling immediately, as The Wall Street Journal reported.
Sometimes Offense Isnt the Best Defense
Meanwhile, as the growing lawyer bubble made headlines, a handful of wise deans followed the lead of University of California Hastings School of Law dean Frank Wu, who had previously acknowledged, The critics of legal education are right. There are too many law schools and too many law students and we need to do something about that.
Mitchell, on the other hand, went on offense, most recently in his 15-minute interview with Bloomberg's Lee Pacchia. To his tenuous op-ed points, Mitchell added a few more.
What Oversupply?
For example, Mitchell said, Its not clear to me that theres an oversupply problem at all. As support, he cited low-income people who go without legal services. Pacchia asked him how debt-ridden graduates paying Case more than $40,000 in annual tuition could take on such work full-time.
His response was less than persuasive. Its a mistake, Mitchell said, to measure the worth of higher education by the dollar return on the investment. Perhaps he has a point, but its not really an answer to Pacchia's question. Earlier in the interview, Mitchell said this about high tuition cost: Ninety percent of my class receives financial aid. The mean offer is $25,000 a year. Critics focus on the sticker price, he said, but law schools discount fairly heavily.
What proportion of those financial aid packages is made up of grants, rather than loans that cant be discharged in bankruptcy? Mitchell didnt say, but here are two clues.
In his op-ed, Mitchell reported accurately that overall average private law school student debt is $125,000. Separately, in an April 3, 2012, blog post, he boasted that Case graduates have almost 22 percent less debt than graduates of other private law schools. The resulting arithmetic implies that Cases financial aid packages result in average student loan debt of about $100,000 per graduate.
Cost Spiral
In another defense of soaring tuition, Mitchell argued that in 1985, medical school was four times more expensive than law school. So what? In the intervening 25 years, law school tuition has caught up and, in some cases, law school tuition has surpassed that of medical school. Does that make sense to anyone other than Mitchell?
He also said that schools must pay top dollar for law professors because their opportunity costs are high: They could be making big bucks at big firms. The only relevant question is, do they want to?
Mitchells own experience may provide a partial answer. His CV [PDF] lists six years as an associate at three different New York law firms from 1981 to 1987. Sometime during that period, he said during the interview, it became hard to get out of bed in the morning, and I didnt like going to work. So he took a two-thirds pay cut and went into teaching.
How About Decent Jobs?
Throughout the year, Mitchell told Pacchia, he travels the country, like Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman, meeting with hiring partners of big law firms. He interviews his students and writes personal letters of recommendation to help them get jobs. Doesnt the need for such efforts tell him something?
Yet for all of Mitchells laudable sales pitches, Pacchia noted, Law School Transparency reports that 38 percent of 2011 Case Western graduates were still unemployed or underemployed nine months later.
I havent myself taken a snapshot a year out, Mitchell said, but Ive talked to my admissions staff about this a lot, and I suspect if you looked a year out, things would change dramatically. Im really confident if you looked a year and a half out, they would. He offered no supporting data, but he suspects and is really confident that, eventually, things will turn out just fine.
Optimism Untethered to Reality
Why is Mitchell convinced that things are better than the available facts suggest? Because, for example, most of his 1981 Columbia Law School class took jobs in big law firms. Ten years later, his class reunion book revealed that almost nobody was at a law firm.
Its hard to know where to begin dissecting Mitchells anecdote, but start with the fact that his students arent graduating from Columbia Law School.
Just Another Business
Finally, Mitchell observed to Pacchia, Of course, were running a business at the end of the day. Without acknowledging the destructive impact of short-term business-type metrics, such as the annual U.S. News & World Report rankings, he argued that using business sense in managing law schools is going to help us get some of these problems under control.
Until Mitchell and many other deans with similar attitudes get past denial over what is happening to the profession, theyll never reach, much less overcome, the subsequent stages of griefanger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Perhaps another reading of Death of a Salesman will help.
Steven J. Harper is an adjunct professor at Northwestern University and author of the forthcoming book, The Lawyer Bubble: A Profession in Crisis (Basic Books, April 2, 2013). He recently retired as a partner at Kirkland & Ellis, after 30 years in private practice. His blog about the legal profession, The Belly of the Beast, can be found at http://thebellyofthebeast.wordpress.com/. A version of the column above was first published on The Belly of the Beast.
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I felt compelled to write to The Guardian newspaper recently following an article by Julian Baggini, which questioned whether organic standards mean higher welfare. I wanted to make it clear that, in my view, there are good reasons to believe they are. I'm pleased to see that my comments were published in today's paper, and thought it worth posting here too.
So, in the UK and Europe at least, what are those reasons to suggest that organic means higher welfare?
Firstly, the welfare requirements are higher. For example, the rules of the Soil Association, a leading organic standards setter in the UK, require pasture access for cows and buying organic milk is one way of ensuring that dairy products are free-range. Laying hens are kept free-range throughout their lives. Soil Association eggs come from hens which haven't been beak trimmed. Britain's organic pigs are not subject to mutilations such as tail docking or teeth clipping. EU organic rules require piglets to stay with their mothers longer, reducing health problems and the need for antibiotics. These are just a few examples.
A healthy animal should need few if any antibiotics. In the UK, antibiotics are used by organic farmers to treat sick animals. The important difference in organic farming is that antibiotics are not used routinely, unlike intensive farming where they are often used to prop up a fundamentally unhealthy system. The basis of good farming, including organic farming, is to keep antibiotics as a back-up, not a routine part of an armoury aimed at controlling disease in animals whose immune systems are weakened by the stress of intensive farming.
In addition to good welfare rules, the Soil Association, the RSPCA and leading researchers are pioneering practical ways to measure welfare outcomes such as lameness in cows and feather pecking in chickens. This will help give further assurance that higher welfare systems are actually delivering better lives for the animals in practice too.
For all of these reasons, Soil Association organic standards recently came out top in Compassion in World Farming's analysis of welfare standards. Of course there are non-organic schemes and systems with good welfare – conventional free range or Freedom Food for example. Shoppers looking for higher welfare food choices should certainly consider organic to be amongst them.


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- Save $$! With these passes you can be sure to save at least 10% off each activities' normal price!
- All of the activities are within 10 minutes of Surfers Paradise and transfers can be organised to and from your accommodation*.
- Receive instant e-Tickets. Purchase, print, book then and GO!
- Take your time - or don't. Enjoy the included experiences at your own pace and when it's convenient for you (tickets are valid for 6 months from date of purchase).
- SkyPoint Climb.
- SkyPoint Observation Deck (must be taken on the same day of the SkyPoint Climb).
- A 30min Hot Air Balloon Ride and Champagne breakfast! ($30 per person Aviation Insurance Levy is payable on the day of the balloon flight).
SkyPoint Climb
Step into the open air & conquer SkyPoint's summit by day, witnessing breathtaking 360 degree views from the golden beaches to the lush hinterland. Entry to SkyPoint Observation Deck is included (must be taken on the same day of the SkyPoint Climb).
Location: SkyPoint is situated on level 77 of Q1, Surfers Paradise Boulevard, Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast. It is just a short walk from central Surfers Paradise.
Tour Times:Operates 7 days a week 9am – 5pm.
Additional Information: This ticket includes the SkyPoint Climb Daytime experience only. A child pass is required for children between the ages of 12-15 years old included.
Hot Air Balloon Ride
Experience the romance & wonder here, floating over the scenic rim of the Gold Coast hinterland. The spectacle of balloons being inflated at dawn is always surprising & definitely impressive. Cap the flight off with a delicious hot breakfast and glass of champagne at the O'Reilly's Grand Homestead.
Location:You'll be picked up by an air-conditioned coach to be transferred to the balloon launch site for a spectacular 30 minute hot air balloon ride, then enjoy a full, champagne breakfast at the O'Reilly's Grand Homestead.
Tour Times: Balloon Flight takes off at approximately 5.45am and returns at approximately 10.30am. Transfer times will be confirmed at the time of your booking.
Additional Information: Please note that a $30 per person Aviation Insurance Levy is payable on the day of the balloon flight. It is recommended that you call 24 hours before your departure date to confirm your booking and to get your accommodation pick-up time. The phone number to call will be listed on your tour voucher.
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We are happy to announce the release of Zivios 0.6.6. A couple of updates did not make the 0.6.5 release that were planned for inclusion (namely, the configuration of the memberof overlay during installation, alongside minor fixes for the package module).
CentOS Release Notes:
The CentOS packages on our download page have been broken down into 3 separate downloads, namely:
- Zivios Base Infrastructure RPMs
- Zivios Panel RPM
- Zivios Agent RPM
If you have already downloaded Zivios 0.6.5, simply grab the 0.6.6 panel and agent RPMs.
The coming releases of Zivios will feature updates primarily to the Zivios Panel and Agent, with the base infrastructure packages being updated only for major version updates (for example, going from Zivios 0.6.x to 0.7.x).
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Happy Thanksgiving to all my readers and followers! Enjoy your turkey day. Even if your not in the US, still take some time today to be thankful for all the good things you may have in your life at the moment. Looking forward to the rest of the holiday season and hopefully a great year in 2012 that will include me getting back up in the air shortly!
To anyone flying/working today, stay safe and have a great day!


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The formalitiesWhat formalities must you accomplish upon starting an assignment? Registering with Social Security:
Please note: people who work in Luxembourg and live across the border can benefit from health care both in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and in their country of residence. In order to claim these rights in your country of residence, you need to apply for an E106 form (BL1 form for Belgian citizens) by writing to CNS in Luxembourg. You will receive this E106 certificate a few weeks later. You must then send it to your insurance company in your country of residence. You must repeat this procedure systematically whenever your assignment is extended, whenever taking up a new assignment or whenever your status changes! N.B.: your letters or faxes to CNS must set out:
USEFUL ADDRESS: Caisse Nationale de Santé (CNS) 125 route d'Esch L-2972 Luxembourg Tél. : 40 113-1 Fax : 48 76 17 For the purposes of registration with the Tax Authorities (Administration des Contributions), you need to provide us with the following:Once you have accomplished all the formalities shown below, you will receive, within a month of your registration, a tax retention form which you must immediately forward to us. Please bring us your filled in and signed tax retention form together with the following:
PLEASE NOTE: Under Luxembourg's tax laws, we have to withhold 33% tax from your wages until we receive your Tax Retention Form. It is therefore in your interest to let us have this as soon as possible. You must re-register with Administration des Contributions yearly. Medical examination:In accordance with article L. 224-3.1. of Luxembourg's Code du travail [labour laws] and in accordance with article 14.1 of the collective contract for temporary workers, should you fail to turn up for a medical examination scheduled by the occupational health body without giving Adecco at least 24 hours' notice of a valid excuse, your employer is entitled to deduct a fixed fine of 80.00 euros from your wages. Any failure to show up to a medical examination twice in a row without a valid excuse is considered gross misconduct warranting the immediate dismissal of the temp involved. Your assignment contract and your presence:We will send you two copies of your assignment contract upon each start or renewal of an assignment. You should sign and return 1 copy to us within 2 days. By selecting you to work on an assignment with one of our clients, ADECCO assumes a number of responsibilities towards that client. We guarantee our client a solution to a staff shortage at their company. We depend on and are counting on you to deliver this solution. You must therefore comply stringently with the contract that you signed with ADECCO. Your punctual attendance at work is an absolute must. |
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Calls to the medical advice service NHS 24 in Scotland will be free from summer next year, Health Secretary Alex Neil has announced.
The helpline, which dealt with almost 1.5 million calls last year, is to get a new number - 111 - in 2014.
That will mean from then people will not be charged for any calls they make to the service, which offers advice and support when GP practices are closed.
While calls to NHS 24 from BT landlines are currently charged at the same price as a local phone call, those made from mobile phones can be more expensive.
Mr Neil is due to meet campaigners who had demanded a new free number be introduced. Caroline Mockford, a community activist with the Poverty Alliance, submitted a petition to the Scottish Parliament on the issue after she was charged almost £8 for a call she made to NHS 24 from her mobile phone.
Mr Neil said: "I strongly believe that our NHS should be free at the point of contact and this new number is about ensuring that this applies to those who seek support and advice from NHS 24. By introducing this memorable and free number we are removing any barrier for the public to access the health advice when their GP surgery is closed."
He added: "By ensuring people have access to health information it will also help to keep emergency lifesaving services available for those who really need them."
Ms Mockford said that many people on low incomes do not have landline telephones and instead rely on "pay as you go" mobile phones. She carried out research which showed a third of these people said the cost of phoning NHS 24 could be a barrier to them and that they would have to phone 999 if they needed help and had no credit on their mobile.
Ms Mockford said: "I felt that action needed to be taken on this, especially for those with disabilities like myself, parents with children and pensioners who are most often the people who need this service.
"The introduction of a 111 number in 2014 will save people having to dial 999 and I also believe it will have a knock-on impact on the number of people attending accident and emergency inappropriately. So, I would like to thank the Scottish Government for acting upon the views of the people."


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Dream Job(s) in our Nation's Capital
Many Washingtonians (like this one) love their jobs, but many probably daydream about a job outside the Beltway that offers a bit less stress and more pay. Recently, a friend of mine miraculously survived a ruptured and abscessed appendix, despite the fact that he waited nine days to go to the hospital, all because it was in the middle of the stimulus negotiations. What other city inspires such wonky dedication that crosses into bodily recklessness?
Our friends in far-away cities may talk of being frustrated and hamstrung by bureaucratic obstacles at work, but do they really have to work in the terrestrial genesis of separation-of-powers? Despite all the potential obstacles to finding a true dream job in Washington, Dan Rosenbaum, an economist at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), has seemingly managed to pull off the impossible. Rosenbaum is an adviser on economic policy at OMB and an analytical adviser to the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers.
And all this time you thought public service and trying to win an NBA championship ring were incompatible. If only Peter Orszag could have LeBron James's services to cut the budget deficit, then Rosenbaum would truly be doing the country a great service.
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"Dear friends," 15 Grammy Award-winner David Foster calls them, "some of my favorite people in the world." To you and me, however, they're better known as Andrea Bocelli, Josh Groban and Michael Bublé. The gilded trio leads a parade of entertainers nurtured by the Canadian-born producer, honoring him in a gala concert this December on PBS (check local listings).
Recorded live in performance at Las Vegas' Mandalay Bay Events Center, Hitman: David Foster & Friends features Foster himself presiding center stage at the keyboard. The evening is a virtual jukebox worth of songs written by and/or produced by him. Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds and brother Kevon offer "I Swear;" Brian McKnight revisits Earth, Wind and Fire's "After the Love Has Gone;" former Chicago front man Peter Cetera gets down with "Hard to Say I'm Sorry," "You're the Inspiration" and "Glory of Love;" while Boz Scaggs reprises "Look What You've Done to Me" from Urban Cowboy.
Neatly arcing Foster's remarkable 35-year career, other highlights range from early hits like St. Elmo's Fire Love Theme, recalled here by Kenny G; and "Man in Motion," performed by American Idol hottie Michael Johns, through foot stompin' disco with Cheryl Lynn's "Got to Be Real," to the neo-jazz swing of Michael Bublé's "Feeling Good."
Also look for American Idol's Katharine McPhee soloing on "Somewhere" then joining Italian tenor Bocelli for "The Prayer"; Bocelli's silky "Amapola"; Bublé and Country's Blake Shelton duetting to Bublé's "Home," and new Foster discovery William Joseph at the keyboard for "Asturias." And if Josh Groban brings the house down with signatures "Bridge Over Troubled Water" (in duet with Brian McKnight) and "You Raise Me Up," Scene Stealer Award would have to go to 16-year-old power-house Charice, from the Philippines. Best known in America for her appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show, she stuns both audience and Foster with the Whitney Houston-by-way-of-Dolly Parton hit "I Will Always Love You."
"A star is born tonight," a genuinely startled Foster exclaims – a man who knows whereof he speaks. Over the past 35 years, he has amassed among his 15 Grammys three for producer of the year. He has also been nominated a whopping 44 times. He has produced hits with everyone from Natalie Cole to Celine Dion, from Barbra Streisand to the Corrs, Madonna to Chicago. He has also overseen such blockbuster soundtracks as The Bodyguard, Footloose and Ghostbusters.
More recently, he has created his own label, 143 (I Love You) Records, in partnership with Warner Brothers, where he's developing the careers of Groban, Bublé and McPhee, to name just a few lustrous protégés.
Featuring pre-recorded segments with Dion and Foster offering "Because You Loved Me" and a special appreciation from Streisand ("David, thanks for spending part of your musical life with me"), Hitman: David Foster & Friends is a co-production of Chartmaker Records, Inc., Thirteen/WNET New York and Align Entertainment Group LLC. Also available on DVD from Warner Brothers Home Video, it is directed by David Horn and co-produced by Horn and Mitch Owgang. David Foster is Executive Producer.
"I'm grateful for my musical past," says the still-youthful Foster, 58, who began playing the piano at age 5 and enrolled in the University of Washington's summer music program at 13. "And I have great anticipation about the musical adventures waiting to reveal themselves in the future. I'm one happy, fortunate and lucky guy."
GREAT PERFORMANCES is funded by the Irene Diamond Fund, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, public television viewers, and PBS.
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wat A GreaT show. ,
especially when Michael Boble sanged feeling good. .
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Dave, thank you for your work. I am filled with joy every time I see one of your shows.
Charice just blows me away. With her big range voice a emotion coming from within her, she is surely to become one of the greatest.. Good find!!!
Jim -
The great artistry of the August 16th broadcast of the Great Performances from the New York Central Park was greatly diminished after not so great but rather "gross" words David used to compliment Andreo's singing when stating "….you are singing you ASS OFF…" English language has many words that would be appropriate to use. Shame on you David.
Mr. Foster: I have someone for you to share a concert with. Alfie Boe. If you do not know of him or have heard him he is British and has the best tenor voice ever. His voice is superior to Andre Bocelli and a tour with him will be a hugh sucess…
Thank you
I was brought in a musical family and my father is the main talent. He won 1st place several times on the Morris B. Sachs show and was offered a trip to California in the late 40's. He declined their offer to be with his girlfriend who became his wife in 1952 and my mother in 1958. He is now 85 years old and still has a beautiful voice that amazes all who hear him. He watches your shows and your guest who perform and tells us how he would love to be able to be on stage one more time with a live band and have that great feeling of performing again. Let me know what you think of his voice. You can hear him sing "Love Me With All of Your Heart" on You Tube by searching Joe Bellavia. What can I do to make him realize his dream to perform even one more time with a talent like you. -
Great special. It was nice to see the original artists who had performed their hit songs again. Seeing Donna Summer in her final perfomance was a gem. I do want to point out that "Earth Song" by Michael Jackson was written by Jackson himself. David Foster had produced the song.
Peter Cetera was awesome–my favorite for years! Overall, this is a terrific show!
I love the whole concert DVD that David Forster Host, each of the singer sing the song lovely. Particular I love
the one of "I Swear" and " You Raise me up". David after finally can find the DVD concert original in Vancouver, Canada. i was crying and crying because I did go throw a lot but by your music. it could bring me back to live. Although I am still had chronic pain on my neck and left leg after two car crash in Vancouver. I cannot walk norm still since 2010, I had to eat painkiller everyday. I cannot work back to the HSBC Bank. but your music let me know i am not alone. Thank you David!! I also had cancer attack too. i am not old like 30 and more….. I hope one day you can come to Vancouver,B.C. Canada so I can watch live!!. The canadian tenors came for Richmond Hospital foundation for the gala to raising money for this small hospital on last year october 13. I suppose to go but I got sick after i did the telethon/radiothon for Richmond Hospital foundation to take phone call from 8am to midnight. the next week I got very very sick, I am the volunteer for the committee member of this hospital but I am disable. hopefully when I am still alive, you can see what we did for this hospital. we raising over $70,0000 for them but I am get more chronic pain more and more. Thanks David. -
I'll appreciate if you continue this in future. I love it.


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We now live surrounded by jungle with a tremendous view of the Pacific Ocean in the distance (seven miles, or so). I am totally amazed at the different life forms around here. Most mornings I awaken just before dawn...5:00 AM...and the noises are amazing. The calls of the Howler Monkeys reverberate for miles. All kinds of birds do their part in letting the world know they are awake. Our patio is littered with the body parts of insects that spent the night trying to get into our home and failed, but died trying!
One of the most fascinating are the leaf eater ants. Really an amazing little critter. They are the ones that make paths to their chosen target and then methodically dismantle the plant and carry it back to their nest. They are numerous and their marching actually creates a three-inch wide path that leads to and from their nest. The trails can extend hundreds of yards. Easily.
Mostly I admire their work. Admiration turns quickly to indignation when it is one of my plants they target, which happened last week. Standing on the patio I spied the little critters carrying plant parts easily 4-5 times the size of the little ants, or more. Tracing their activity I discovered they were actually helping themselves to several plants on my property. Anger. But not the kind the sun needs to set upon! An application of poisonous little pellets near their nest puts a stop to them within 24 hours. The next day the paths are empty. The day after that the paths are indistinquishable.
Writing this at about 7:30 AM in my office. Both (screened) windows are open. A pair of toucans are calling (screaming) to each other. A pair of Passerini Tanagers are working the seeds in a tall patch of weeds/grass nearby. And, a Long-billed Hermit hummingbird is investigating both the window screens and the flowers in my flower beds. A pair of Blue Gray Tanagers were on our patio yesterday. I think they were seeing their reflection in the window and trying to pick a fight. Something/s is/are scratching at the metal roof right now. Birds looking for seeds, bugs, no doubt.
Taking our Schnoodle, Lillie, for a walk in a few minutes. Walking here is very demanding. We either walk uphill or downhill and then the opposite on our way home. Sweating and panting is a walker's way of life here. No exceptions! One of the side benefits of walking are the views...miles and miles of virgin jungle and farms and palm plantations and Ciudad Cortes and rivers and sky and clouds and critters!
Loving retirement. Weight is down 23 lbs. Blood pressure is back to normal and below.
Loving life in the jungle!


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Man Gets Stuck Turfing Hospital's Lawn, Leaves Truck
The following information was supplied by the Stow Police Department.
A Stow-Kent Animal Hospital employee called Stow Police Nov. 4 because he said there was a car sitting on the grass of his business at 4559 Kent Rd.
Police said a man drove a Ford F-350 onto the lawn, turfed the grass and then when the truck got stuck, the driver just left it there.
Police called Joe's Auto to tow the vehicle.
The owner of the car, a 45-year-old Munroe Falls man, came to the Stow Police Department to find his truck later.
The man was cited for criminal damaging, a second-degree misdemeanor, criminal trespassing, a minor-misdemeanor and reckless opperaton on private property, a misdemeanor offense in this situation. He was issued a summons to appear at the Stow Municipal Court.
6:57 am on Friday, November 30, 2012
Sounds like a plot to my new movie ...."Where's my Truck?"


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Gunmen loyal to opposite sides in Syria's civil war battled Wednesday in the streets of the Lebanese city of Tripoli. The fighting has killed six people and wounded nearly 60 since Monday, security officials said.
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A commonly held view in the developed part of the world is that conservation organisations are doing "good" when offering small-scale development activities to improve local livelihoods of people in remote forested areas, such as those in southeast Cameroon.
Three Bushman children have been arrested by paramilitary police in Botswana.
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A total of 152 households in Samtse will now take care of 582.11 acres of forest land with the dzongkhag administration handing over four community forest ownership certificates and 15 private forest certificates to the beneficiaries on November 15.
A US initiative to document forestry land rights is expected to promote sustainable agroforestry, environmental protection and the rural livelihoods of the upper Guinean tropical forest.
Re: "Manage forests for the future," Oct. 17.
The editorial correctly observes that B.C.'s public forests must be managed for the future. The Menominee native Americans in Wisconsin are an excellent example of people doing this.
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Food Safety FAQ
Are establishments allowed to serve an undercooked meat product, such as eggs and hamburgers?
Facilities are required to notify you in an effective manner that consuming an undercooked animal product can be hazardous to your health. The consumer advisory consists of two parameters. First, a disclosure of what items can be served in an undercooked or raw form, followed by a reminder that consuming food that is undercooked can result in foodborne illness. Serving undercooked items to a highly susceptible population (assisted living homes, daycares) is prohibited.
How long can leftover food be left out of the refrigerator?
Hot foods should be refrigerated as soon as possible within two hours after cooking. Do not keep the food if it has been setting out for more than two hours. Do not taste test it, either. Even a small amount of contaminated food can cause illness.
My refrigerator door was accidentally left open overnight. Can I still eat the food inside?
The answer to this question depends on the temperature of the food and how long it was held without refrigeration. Use a food thermometer to measure the temperature on the inside of the food. If the foods are not above 41ºF (5ºC), then it should be safe to eat. If the food has been above 41ºF (5ºC), then it is critical to determine how long it has been above 41ºF (5ºC). If the food has been above 41ºF (5ºC) for more than 4 hours, then it is safest to discard these items.
How often are food establishments inspected?
Food establishments are divided into risk levels, which determine how frequently they are inspected. Gas Stations that sell food are inspected two times a year, while full service restaurants may be inspected up to four times a year.
What is the proper temperature for your refrigerator?
Refrigerators should stay at 41ºF (5ºC) or less. A temperature of 41ºF (5ºC) or less is important because it slows the growth of most bacteria. The temperature will not kill the bacteria, but it will keep them from multiplying. The fewer there are, the less likely you are to get sick from them. Freezing at 0ºF (minus 18ºC) or less stops bacterial growth (although it will not kill all bacteria already present.)
Does "freezer burn" make food unsafe?
Freezer burn is a food quality issue, not a food safety issue. It appears as grayish-brown leathery spots on frozen food. It occurs when air reaches the foods surface and dries out the product. This can happen when food is not securely wrapped in air-tight packaging. Color changes result from chemical changes in the food's pigment. Although undesirable, freezer burn does not make the food unsafe. Cut away these areas either before or after cooking the food. When freezing food in plastic bags, push all the air out before sealing.
How long can shelf-stable foods be safely stored on the shelf?
According to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), food can be safe forever from a foodborne-illness standpoint - but if shelf-stable food has been on the shelf for an extended period of time, you might not want to eat it because the quality may not be good. In this case, the "best if used by" date on the label of the product is an indication whether or not the quality of the food is good. Food quality deals with taste, texture, and nutritional value of food. For example, freezer burn, rancidity, and food spoilage are all quality-related issues. The FDA does not require an expiration date for shelf-stable foods, since the storage time for these foods is a quality issue, not a food safety concern.
Why do stores sell food with old dates?
Manufacturers of baby formula are required to date their products. After this date, these products must be removed from sale. However, with all other packaged food products, code dates are voluntary. Manufacturers who choose to include these voluntary dates often do so to indicate a peak taste or nutritional value.
Why is it important to use a cooking thermometer?
One of the critical factors in fighting food-borne illness is temperature. Bacteria grows slowly at low temperatures and multiplies rapidly at mid-range temperatures. To be safe, a product must be cooked to an internal temperature high enough to destroy harmful bacteria. Using a thermometer is a reliable way to ensure that food has reached the proper temperature. However, to be effective, the thermometers must be used properly and calibrated correctly. If the thermometer is inserted incorrectly, or placed in the wrong area, the reading may not accurately reflect the internal temperature of the product. In general, the thermometer should be place in the thickest part of the food, away from bone, fat or gristle. Read the manufacturer's instructions on how to calibrate (check the accuracy of) the thermometer. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, temperature is the only way to gauge whether food is sufficiently cooked. USDA research reveals that the color test can give consumers misleading information about the safety of the foods they are preparing, since cooked color varies considerably. For example, freezing and thawing may influence a meats tendency to brown prematurely.
Does the City of Coppell require food workers to have food handler cards?
No. The City of Coppell only requires a Certified Food Protection Manager for all establishments that have employees whose work brings them in contact with the handling of food, utensils, or food service equipment. There has to be a certified food service manager on duty during all hours of operation.
Are food handlers required to wear gloves when handling food with their bare hands?
The current Texas Department of State Health Services requirements for food establishments do not require that food handlers wear gloves. However, the standards do require that two control measures be used prior to handling ready to eat foods with bare hands. Control measures may include double washing, nail brushes, and/or using a hand sanitizer after handwashing. The standards also require documentation that is to be maintained at the establishment that food employees have received training in proper handwashing and documentation that employees that do not wear gloves utilize two or more control measures. The Environmental Health Department strongly encourages the use of utensils whenever possible to minimize bare hand contact with ready to eat foods. Food employees may not contact ready-to-eat foods with their bare hands if they are serving a highly susceptible population.
Who is required to obtain a food permit?
A food permit is required for all businesses or organizations that provide perishable food, whether pre-packaged or non-prepackaged to the public. Permanent and seasonal establishments, as well as temporary events, are required to apply for a food permit, regardless of whether there is a charge for the food. Restaurants, grocery stores, carnivals, barbecues, concession stands, mobile vendors, and temporary vendors are a few cases in which food permits are required. The City of Coppell does not regulate private groups serving food only to their own members and guests. If an event is advertised as public and targets members of the public outside the group membership for purposes of fund-raising, then the event is "public" and is regulated.
What about Bake Sales?
A bake sale does not require a permit. However, no potentially hazardous baked goods can be served. Examples of potentially hazardous baked goods are meringue pies, pumpkin pies, and other dairy-based items.
Can I prepare food items in my home and sell them to the public?
Senate Bill 81 allows individuals to produce and sell baked goods, canned jams and jelly, or a dried herb or herb mixes from their homes. These producers are referred to as Cottage Food Production Operations. Foods that are produced at the person's home may only be sold directly to consumers from the producer's place of residence. There are specific types of foods that may be prepared at home, and labeling is required. All other foods offered to the general public must be prepared in a commercial establishment that is inspected by a federal, state or local authority.
What do I do if I suspect I have contracted a foodborne illness?
Go to the doctor, then call the Coppell Environmental Health Department at 972-462-5164. Tell the doctor what you had to eat, and when you ate it. The doctor may take a stool sample to determine if a foodborne illness is present. If there is a positive test result for a foodborne illness, contact the Environmental Health Department immediately.
Can I review the inspection report from a local restaurant?
Yes. Click here.


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SOURCE: Colle Farmers Market
Colle, a directory of online farmers markets and organic foods advocate, responds to an article released on the Good Food World website describing the success of a winter farmers market in Montana.
Bohemia, N.Y. (PRWEB) February 19, 2013
On February 19, Colle Farmers Market issues a comment on the recent success of a winter farmers market in Montana.
Gail Nickel-Kailing's article in Good Food World illustrates the moody seasons of Montana as unpredictable and challenging. Nickel-Kailing explains that she takes solace in patronizing two markets during the winter. She explains that even in the winter, the markets are convenient, mentioning the food's freshness and proximity as perks.
The article credits one of the markets being developed by an adamant supporter of food sustainability and member of the local Community Food and Agriculture Coalition. The Heirloom Market is reported to be a well-rounded market, but special attention is given to the produce and locally grown food. Nickel-Kailing expressed her enthusiasm for the quality of the market's merchandise, remembering"one guy selling eggs (who sold out even before I got there) and another selling locally-foraged mushrooms. My sweet tooth wasn't disappointed either."
Customers voice frequent claims that the markets' vendors ran out of produce before they expected and expressed regret for not having more available to meet to the demand. Nickel-Kailing states that the Heirloom Market has been operating for a number of winters but the past year was the first year it was given official recognition as a certified famers market.
Colle Farmers Market responds to the success of the winter market, saying that since winter is not a growing season for many places, the choice to purchase local produce and meat is a special treat, especially for the individuals who are keen on maintaining a healthy lifestyle year round. Colle encourages farmers markets to seek out ways to expand their niche.
Colle is an E-Commerce enabled farmers market community that is passionate about sustainable consumption and responsible conservation. The Colle movement is dedicated to connecting natural product vendors, organic farmers and all people who are living an organic and natural lifestyle.
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Swiss food news
Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch.com) – Switzerland's largest supermarket chain, Migros, will increase by one-third its purchases of Swiss Integrated Production grains for bread at the 2011 harvest, significantly increasing its use of near-organic grains. Integrated Production (IP, or PI in French) is a label that covers a set of very high standards followed by about 20,000 of Switzerland's 60,000 farmers for part or all of their production. It is not as strict in terms of chemical use as organic farming, but farmers commit themselves to working closely with nature and to encouraging biodiversity by helping flora and fauna thrive.
Migros will increase its IP grains by 90,000 tons, using these for bread and bakery products made by its bakery arm, Jowa, and for flour sold in its food outlets. The decision should give a boost to the label TerreSuisse, jointly created by IP-Suisse, Migros and the Swiss Ornithological Institute in Sembach.
TerreSuisse farmers, notes Migros, use no fungicides or insecticides, and they make a concerted effort to create spaces that encourage biodiversity: ponds for wild plants and wildlife, empty stretches in the middle of fields to encourage the threatened skylark to nest there, as well as hares, and fallow fields that encourage insects and cornflowers to flourish. They often heap stones into mounds that serve as shelters for lizards.


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Sustainable tourism in the Srepok Wilderness Area, Cambodia
Local people and endangered animals such as elephants, tigers and wild water buffalo should benefit from a unique wildlife ecotourism initiative in Southeast Asia led by IIED and WWF in Cambodia.
A serious decline in species populations in the last few decades due to unsustainable harvesting and habitat loss has prompted urgent action from the Government, WWF, and other local partners to address this trend. These groups, along with IIED, have identified high-value low-impact wildlife ecotourism as a means of securing the future of these species and their ecosystem through generating financing for conservation activities and supporting local livelihoods as well as ensuring the financial sustainability of the protected area.
The project was designed under the premise that the local communities that are dependent on the use of natural resources within the Srepok Wilderness Area (SWA) are some of Cambodia's poorest. Also, these communities represent the best chance for genuine conservation of key species within the SWA – they know the species, the area and their own poverty reduction needs.
Communities are unwittingly part of the problem; over-harvesting species and degrading the ecosystem within the SWA so that key species cannot persist. Therefore, the project aims to build awareness, and to create the environment necessary to make sure that costs of avoiding harvesting and other environmentally damaging activities are at least balanced with the benefits received from other sources.
The original Darwin Initiative-funded project successfully piloted community-based monitoring in the 3,500km2 SWA SWA. Its success led to calls from the Cambodian government and NGOs for replication in other Protected Areas. Work is now building on the project's initial success to scale up work in SWA and expanding activities into the Eastern Plains Landscape (EPL) of protected areas and biodiversity corridors. This is as part of an ecosystem approach that aims to safeguard 15,000km2 of globally important tropical dry forest habitat in Cambodia.
One unequivocal success was a Management-Oriented Monitoring System (MOMS) pilot led by community rangers in SWA which clearly shows potential replicability throughout the region. The next step is to train community-monitoring teams across EPL to conduct MOMS independently as a means of building stronger support for conservation activities.
Further, this project will expand capacity-building by the provincial Wildlife Ecotourism Management Board (WEMB). It will also develop a community tourism homestay initiative and environmental awareness and education activities. All of these activities begun under the first DI grant, but need extra momentum to expand to the landscape level.
This project aims to improve the capacity of Cambodian government and communities to benefit from sustainable management of globally significant biodiversity. Community-based natural resource monitoring and sustainable wildlife to
Ecotourism and PA Management in Nepal: Experiences and lessons learnt
WWF Greater Mekong Cambodia Country Programme Ecotourism Feasibility Study
WWF Greater Mekong Cambodia Country Programme MIST Specialist - Evaluation Report
Journal article related to project area - Modelling species distribution at multiple spatial scales:
gibbon habitat preferences in a fragmented landscape
Rapid training needs assessment for ecotourism planning
Community based forest management briefing paper
Book: Emerging trends, challenges, Innovations for CBNRM in Cambodia
Coverage of the project's latest news in the WWF newsletter Jan 2010
BBC news covering the issue of risk of tiger extinction within the area
Coverage of the project's latest news in the Darwin Initiative January 2010 newsletter
Coverage of tigers returning to the area in our funder's August 2009 newsletter
Coverage of the project's latest news in the WWF newsletter June 2009
Calves, cubs and conservation: pictures
African-style ecotourism boost for Cambodia
Project was also featured on the BBC website:
The BBC's Guy De Launey joined WWF and IIED for a mountain bike trek through the Srepok protected wilderness area of Mondulkiri province in northern Cambodia...
The Independent newspaper coverage
The dividends of peace are paid in different ways. For the people of Cambodia, scarred by years of fighting and the genocidal reign of the Khmer Rouge, the...
National Geographic coverage
Tigers, elephants returning to war-torn Cambodia forest....
Video can be watched in the playlist above or via the YouTube links below.
Mondulkiri wild honey
This film documents the production of wild honey by local people in the protected Mondulkiri region to sell to tourists as an additional form of income. Utilising non-timber forest products (NTFPs) to sustain livelihoods for continued honey production in the medium- to long-term also encourages protection of the forests and biodiversity within it.
Green fields of Mondulkiri (Khmer)
Khmer video documenting the approach and the work achieved in the Mondulkiri Protected Forest. Video is in Khmer.
Mondulkiri Protected Forests: The making of a protected area (English)
Mondulkiri Protected Forests: The making of a protected area (Khmer)
This documentary details what WWF Cambodia and its government conservation partner, The Forestry Administration, has achieved in the protected forest by laying foundations for effective protected forest management, and shows how this approach has been used to begin supporting local livelihoods and increase community ownership of this unique and globally irreplaceable dry forest landscape. Video is also available in Khmer


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NATIONAL STEINBECK CENTER Salinas, Monterey County
Unlike museums devoted to sports legends or war heroes, a museum that honors a man of arts and letters must reflect his quiet, solitary pursuit. Which is to say that such a repository may be unbearably dull. How delightful, then, is the National Steinbeck Center at the end of Salinas' Main Street, a place whose undercurrents deliver shock after tiny shock--here an arc of unknown history, there a jolt of social commentary. The museum is just a couple of blocks from where townspeople burned Steinbeck's books, enraged at his perceived betrayal of them and agriculture. The modern-looking center may seem incongruous with the unpretentious persona of the author, whose work won Pulitzer and Nobel prizes. But like his books, it shines a light on the issues, using film clips and displays that are muted set pieces, occasionally somber but never dull. To see this place and the fields that surround Salinas is to understand that Steinbeck's so-called Valley of the World is really the Heart of California. Info: National Steinbeck Center, 1 Main St., Salinas, CA 93901; (831) 796-3833, www.steinbeck.org. --Catharine Hamm |
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