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the defeat in the Lords over elected police commissioners suggests relations in the coalition really have changed. It wasn't an official rebellion - technically, only 13 Lib Dem peers rebelled - but if you look at the Lords analysis of the division list you will see that only 36 of the 92 Lib Dems in the Lords voted with the government, suggesting that Clegg didn't try very hard to get his troops out. Clegg is sharing a platform with David Cameron later today, and with luck they will have something to say about this.When Nick Clegg promised "muscular liberalism" yesterday, we didn't think that was going to involve voting down flagship proposals in the coalition agreement. But
Otherwise, it's a reasonably busy day. Here's a full list of what's coming up.
9am: David Cameron meets Mustafa Abdul Jalil, the chair of the Libyan National Transitional Council, at Number 10. It's the first time the two men have met.
9.30am: The Department for Work and Pensions releases its annual poverty statistics.
10am: Nick Clegg gives evidence to the Commons political and constitutional reform committee. He's expected to be asked about Lords reform, the alternative vote referendum and the fixed-term parliaments bill.
11am: The Commons standards and privileges committee publishes its report about David Laws. It is expected to recommend that Laws should be suspended from the Commons for seven days.
12.15pm: Michael Gove, the education secretary, announces the government's response to the Wolf review on vocational qualifications in a statement to the Commons.
12.30pm: Cameron and Clegg share a platform at an event to promote a government initiative on youth employment.
Around 3pm: MPs will debate on a backbench motion tabled by the Tory MP Adam Afriyie calling for a shake-up of the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority.
As usual, I'll be covering all the breaking political news, as well as looking at the papers and bringing you the best politics from the web. I'll post a lunchtime summary at around 1pm and an afternoon one at about 4pm.
William Hague, the foreign secretary, has put out a statement about the meeting he and David Cameron are having today with Mustafa Abdul Jalil, who, as chair of the Libyan National Transitional Council is leader of the Libyan rebels.
I am very pleased to welcome Mr Abdul Jalil to the UK. The NTC is a legitimate representative of the Libyan people. The situation in Libya remains of very serious concern, and this visit provides a welcome opportunity to discuss with Mr Abdul Jalil the latest situation on the ground and to look at how the UK and international community can continue to support the Libyan people.
We will discuss a range of issues, including the establishment of a permanent NTC office in London and the provision of further non-lethal equipment and support to the NTC.
We will explore in more detail the measures agreed at last week's Contact Group meeting in Rome, including the operation of a Transitional Financial Mechanism, which was driven by the UK. The Transitional Financial Mechanism comes into operation today and will allow the NTC to provide essential services to the people of Libya.
We will also share views on the situation in Western Libya, which remains deeply troubling. Colonel Gaddafi continues to brutalise his own people. The British government urges him to stand down immediately and initiate a real ceasefire, so that the legitimate needs of Libya's people can be met.
Abdul Jalil is holding a press conference at 3pm.
PoliticsHome was monitoring. Duncan Smith did not have much to say about the youth employment initiative coming later today, but he did have some interesting things to say about welfare in general. Here are the main points.Iain Duncan Smith, the work and pensions secretary, was on the Today programme this morning just before 8am. As usual,
• Duncan Smith strongly attacked Labour's record on jobs and wage equality. "Labour, for all the money that they threw at these things, left us with a record level of youth unemployment and wage inequality that is at record levels, the worst in my lifetime," he said.
• He claimed Labour's Future Jobs Fund was ineffective. "The Future Jobs Fund was six times more expensive than anything else that they were doing and actually created jobs only in the public sector, which, once the money ended, those poor people, young people, crashed out of work straight away and then start carrying a wage scar," he said. I didn't know the phrase "wage scar", but I've just been consulting Professor Google. It means the long-term impact of unemployment, caused by the fact that young people who are unemployed tend to lose out later in life when they do get into work because their average earnings are lower than they otherwise would have been.
• He said nearly 50,000 firms had offered to create work experience places for young people. "What we're trying to do is give young people a chance to get some experience of the working world in the private sector, for the most part, and then see with the private sector how we develop that," he said. "That's the key area of developing private sector jobs."
• He defended the decision to scrap the education maintenance allowance. I spent many, many months talking to young kids who are at school and large numbers of those I talked to would readily admit that the maintenance allowance wasn't a vital and critical area for them, but for poorer children it was," he said.
he latest YouGov GB polling figures.For the record, here are t
Labour: 42% (up 12 points since the general election)
Conservatives: 36% (down 1)
Lib Dems: 8% (down 16)
Labour lead: 6 points
Government approval: -23
Lady Hamwee, one of the Lib Dem peers who abstained last night instead of voting with the government over elected police commissioners, told the Today programme that the vote was not a deliberate display of "muscular liberalism". It just reflected the strength of feeling on the matter, she said.
She also insisted that the vote against the government was consistent with what is set out in the coalition agreement.
It was not planned to be muscular or assertive but it was pretty kind of truthful. We are not so far from the Conservatives. Both parties want more democracy in the governance of policing.
But what the coalition agreement said was that the new model should be subject to "strict" checks and balances. There was certainly no confidence that what is in the bill at present amounts to that. I hope what has happened is going to allow a rethink which will reflect better the coalition agreement.
here on the parliamentary website. I'll be covering it in detail until about 11am, when I will focus instead on the David Laws report.Nick Clegg will be giving evidence to the Commons political and constitutional reform committee shortly. You can watch it
Nick Clegg has just started giving evidence now. He is talking about the AV referendum result. He says that, as far as the actual result is concerned, "the less said, the better". But it won't affect other aspects of the government's reform programme.
Graham Allen, the chairman, asks if the result of the referendum has dealt a blow to the case for reform.
Clegg says the need for constitutional reform remains. He says he is not "undimmed or discouraged" about the need to get on with reform.
Q: It has been said that the arguments weren't presented well during the campaign. Are there lessons to be learnt about how the case for constitutional reform can be made? Is there a case for parliament having a more serious role?
Clegg says he agrees with Allen's characterisation of the campaign as one that was "disfigured" by party politics. It reinforced his view that, where politicians can develop ideas together, that should be encourged. As chair of the group looking at Lords reform, he tried to get people to move forward on a consensual basis.
Andrew Turner, a Conservative, is asking questions now.
Q: How many hours do you spend on constituency work? On ministerial work? And in cabinet?
Clegg says it varies enormously. He cannot give a precise answer. Some weeks he finds himself "immersed" in constitutional reform. Some weeks he focuses on his duties as deputy prime minister. "It comes and goes really," he says.
Q: How much time do you spend on party work?
Clegg says it is an intriguing question, but not one he can answer. "I don't keep a timesheet in that sense."
Mark Harper, the Conservative constitutional reform minister, is giving evidence alongside Clegg. He says his workload varies too.
Andrew Turner asks when the government will set up a commission to investigate the West Lothian question, as it has promised to do.
Clegg said the government decided to set out its plans for Lords reform first, because these will have a bearing on the West Lothian question.
Q: Are you saying that one version of Lords reform would mean that you would not have to address the West Lothian question?
No, says Clegg. It's just that the two issues overlap. "This is a pragmatic issue of chronology and interaction between those two questions," he says.
Mark Harper says that if the Lords is wholly or largely elected, that will raise the same questions about Scotland's representation as those thrown up by the West Lothian question.
Andrew Turner says Lord Steel suggested this week that the Lib Dems should not pursue constitutional issues of little interest to the voters.
Mark Harper says he won't comment on AV. But the issue of whether the Lords should be elected is clearly an important one, he says.
Nick Clegg says that things that are important are not necessarily the same as those that resonate with the electorate. The rules of the World Trading Organisation are important. But no one has ever raised them with him on the doorstep, he says.
Lords reform is not a preoccupation for one party, he says. It is something Britain as a community has been grappling with for decades. "I don't think as a government we should apologise [for] ... proceeding with things that are important," Clegg says.
Q: Do you think Steel is wrong?
Clegg says all politicians want to address the concerns that matter to people.
Q: This worries the chattering classes. But it doesn't affect ordinary people, does it?
Clegg says all three parties committed themselves to Lords reform at the election. It might not be the most important issue facing voters. But that doesn't mean the government should "duck" it.
Christopher Chope says the commission on the West Lothian question was supposed to be set up before the end of last year. Will it now come next month, immediately after the government's Lords reform plans have been published?
Clegg says it will be set up before the end of this year.
Q: Are you stalling because you don't want the commission to come up with conclusions that can be made law before the election?
Clegg says he is trying to proceed in a "deliberate fashion". It is not a straightforward issue.
Eleanor Laing, a Conservative, is asking the questions now. She asks if the joint committee that will be set up to consider the draft bill on Lords reform will be elected.
Nick Clegg says it is up for the Commons and the Lords to decide how they set up this committee.
Mark Harper says he wants the joint committee to have plenty of time to consider the draft legislation.
Q: Alex Salmond wants to hold a referendum on Scottish independence. But would you agree that that affects everyone else in the UK?
Clegg says the consequences of a referendum would, of course, affect everyone else.
Q: Constitutional reform is not a devolved matter. Shouldn't Westminster take the initiative, and organise a referendum in Scotland?
Clegg says if any nation in the UK wants to to express an opinion about their future, that's there prerogative. Any referendum would affect England. But he does not think it would therefore be right for Westminster to organise one first. It should not be like "the gunfight at the OK Corral", with each side threatening the other with a referendum.
Q: But wouldn't it help for Westminster to organise a referendum?
Clegg says the government has not taken a view on this. But the government is keen to work with Alex Salmond. Personally, he thinks trying to bounce Scotland into a referendum could give the impression that Westminster is trying to push the Scots "into a corner".
Q: Do people outside Scotland have a right to be consulted?
Clegg says this will be a subject of debate for the UK as a whole. He feels passionately that the nations in the UK are stronger together.
Q: Do you accept that this is not just a matter for Scotland, and that it is a matter that should be considered by the UK parliament?
Clegg says it is not the government's role to constrain what parliament can consider. This is a matter for national debate. But that does not therefore mean that Westminster should trigger a nationwide referendum.
Laing says she was not suggesting that. "We've had more than enough of nationwide referendums for the moment," she says. Clegg says he agrees.
Stephen Williams, a Lib Dem, asks Clegg if he thinks there is an answer to the West Lothian question.
Clegg says he has not come across a "simple or straightforward answer".
Q: What are you going to do about party funding?
Clegg says he will wait until the committee on standards in public life produces its report on this. It's due in the summer.
I'm bowing out now. We haven't learnt much, I'm afraid, although if you're interested in the commission on the West Lothian question, you now know that you might have to wait until the end of the year before it gets launched.
I'll be focusing on David Laws shortly.
it is expected to say that he should be suspended for seven days and that he should apologise for breaking the rules relating to his expenses. His statement will come at around 1pm, the first opportunity available.David Laws, the Lib Dem former chief secretary to the Treasury, will be making a personal statement in the Commons this afternoon, we've been told. The Commons standard and privileges committee report into his case is being published at 11am and
Standards and privileges committee reports normally don't leak in advance, but there are have been some specific reports about what will appear in this one. Iain Dale has written a furious blog suggesting that someone on the committee has been trying to damage Laws.
The leaks are correct. The report does say that David Laws should be suspended for a week.
on the standards and privileges committee's website, but the link isn't working at the moment.The report is supposed to be
Here are the main points from conclusions in the the standards and privileges committee's report.
• David Laws "was guilty of a series of serious breaches of the rules over a considerable time".
• He should be suspended from the Commons for seven days, beginning on 7 June, and he should apologise to the Commons by way of personal statement.
• The claims submitted to Laws for renting a room in his partner's flat were "excessive in comparision to market rent". The excessive claims have been estimated at being worth £4,470. Laws also wrongly claimed £2,248 for phone calls, by claiming them against the second home allowance rather that against office expenses. But the report does not recommend any repayments, because Laws has already repaid £6,700 which he claimed for food.
• The report notes that Laws resigned from cabinet and that since then his behaviour has been "exemplary". He has cooperated in full with the investigation.
The key complaint against David Laws was that he was renting a room from his partner when Commons rules banned MPs from using their allowances to rent property from a relative or a partner. This is how Laws explained the matter in a letter to the parliamentary commissioner for standards.
The issue is that because I wanted to keep my sexuality secret, I was having a close relationship with someone who I was denying publicly to be a "partner" with. We made no claims as partners (eg, for travel etc), and our financial arrangements and assets were separate. Essentially we presented ourselves as being friends, not partners.
Here's the statement that David Laws has issued in response to today's report.
I accept the conclusions of the Inquiry and take full responsibility for the mistakes which I have made. I apologise to my constituents and to parliament. Each of us should be our own sternest critic, and I recognise that my attempts to keep my personal life private were in conflict with my duty as an MP to ensure that my claims were in every sense above reproach. I should have resolved this dilemma in the public interest and not in the interests of my privacy.
However, from the moment these matters became public, I have made clear that my motivation was to protect my privacy, rather than to benefit from the system of parliamentary expenses, and I am pleased that the Commissioner has upheld that view.
I have also, from the very beginning, made clear that I believed that my secrecy about my private life led me to make lower overall claims than would otherwise be the case, and this has been confirmed by the parliamentary commissioner and by the committee. The taxpayer gained, rather than lost out, from my desire for secrecy, though I fully accept that this is not an adequate reason for breaking the rules.
This last year has been a difficult one, and I am grateful to family, friends, constituents and colleagues for their support and understanding.
here. There's also a second volume, which contains the report to the committee from the parliamentary commissioner for standards and all the evidence. That does not seem to be up yet, but I trust someone will sort it out soon.The committee on standards in public life website is now working. The full report is
David Laws has repaid £56,592 in expenses, the report said. He repaid this sum - representing the amount he claimed from July 2006 to July 2009 - voluntarily, and not because he was asked to.
As I said earlier, the key complaint against David Laws was that he was renting a room from his partner when Commons rules banned MPs from using their allowances to rent property from a relative or a partner. But it's a bit more complicated than that, and the report identifies several problems with his expenses claims. Here's a summary.
• Laws broke the rule saying that MPs should not use allowances to rent property from a partner. This rule was introduced in July 2006. Laws repaid £56,592, the full amount he claimed in second home allowance from July 2006 to July 2009.
Laws did not want to admit that his landlord was his partner because his homosexuality was a secret. John Lyon, the parliamentary commissioner for standards, and the committee have some sympathy with this. But they still think what he did was wrong.
This is what Lyon said about the matter.
I believe there was a conflict between [Mr Laws'] private interest in secrecy and the public interest in him being open and honest in relation to his expenses claims. I recognise and have very great sympathy with Mr Laws for the difficulty of the decision he had to make in resolving that conflict, because it affected all aspects of his life as he had presented it over many years. But it was, in my view, a decision which he had to make under the Code of Conduct and one which he should have straightaway resolved in the public interest, either by being open with the House authorities about the relationship with his landlord, or by making no claims at all against his accommodation allowance and accepting the ever-present risk that the relationship would anyway come to public attention, as, eventually, it did.
And this is what the committee said:
It is clear that Mr Laws recognized that there was potential conflict between the public interest and his private interest. By omitting to seek advice he made himself the sole judge of whether that conflict was properly resolved. It was inappropriate for him to be judge and jury in his own cause. As the Commissioner comments, it can never be acceptable to submit misleading documents to those charged with overseeing public finances. As this case shows, Mr Laws' desire for secrecy led him to act in a way which was not compatible with the standards expected of an MP.
• There was also a problem with Laws's claims before July 2006. Even though there was no ban on MPs renting from a partner at that stage, Laws submitted documents to the Commons fees office that "gave a false impression of his relationship with his landlord and of their shared use of the landlord's successive London properties."
• Laws claimed a higher rent for the rooms he rented in London from his partner than was justified under the terms of his lodging agreement or as a reflection of his true relationship with his landlord.
• He claimed £2,000 for building work on one of the properties that should have been covered by the rent.
• He claimed £2,249 for phone calls from his second home allowance when this was not allowed. He could have used his office expenses to pay for this, but there was not enough money in his office allowance account to pay for all these calls.
• He should not have used his second home allowance to pay for property in London anyway from April 2005 because by then London was his main home. But he could at this stage have used his second home allowance to fund accommodation in his Yeovil constituency.
David Cameron and Nick Clegg unveiled the coalition and its draft programme at a remarkable press conference in what's known as the Downing Street rose garden. (It's only called that by the press because the White House garden is called the rose garden, which is a bit pathetic really, but that's another story.) They stood alongside each other and seemed to get on so well that the sketchwriters wrote it up as a civil partnership. One colleague proclaimed on Twitter that Britain was now being run by two characters from a Richard Curtis film. If so, a year ago, it was Love, Actually.A year ago today
A year later, it's Four Elections and a Funeral. Sadly Cameron and Clegg are not holding a re-run in Downing Street. But they are appearing together at an event intended to promote a youth employment initiative. Obviously there's going to be intense interest in the difference between then and now.
It's going to start at around about 1pm. I'll be watching on BBC News or Sky from the office, but my colleague Simon Hoggart is there to witness it all in person. I'll be covering it in detail, reporting on what the prime minister and his deputy have to say and looking at how relations have changed since last year's open-air love-in.
the transcript of the opening remarks that Cameron and Clegg made at their press conference a year ago.Here's
I've just read the transcript of the comments David Cameron and Nick Clegg made at the start of their rose garden press conference last year. The prize for foresight goes to Nick Clegg:
There will be bumps and scrapes along the way.
But the most interesting claims was Cameron's.
We are not just announcing a new government and new ministers; we are announcing a new politics. A new politics where the national interest is more important than the party interest, where cooperation wins out over confrontation, where compromise, where give and take, where reasonable, civilised, grown-up behaviour is not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.
It didn't quite feel like this last Friday, but the coalition goes on and it's undoubtedly true that coalition government is not the same as one-party government. Cameron's vision hasn't entirely collapsed.
a video for Comment is free with his own verdict on the coalition after its first year.My colleague Julian Glover has recorded
At the rose garden press conference the issue of what would happen when the two coalition parties had to campaign in an election came up. At the time there was a delayed election looming in Thirsk. Cameron joked about sharing a car to Thirsk with his new Lib Dem deputy. "We could get out on opposite sides," Clegg added. A year one, after a pounding at the hands of the Tory election machine (masquerading as No to AV), I expect Clegg's tone will be rather different.
We're still waiting to see Cameron and Clegg take to the stage together.
In the meantime, Downing Street has published a list of the government's achievements so far. It says there's "a lot more work to be done".
In the four years ahead, the Coalition is more determined than ever to be a different kind of government: more transparent, more open and more willing to listen as it seeks to rebalance Britain's economy, repair Britain's society and rebuild trust and accountability in Britain's politics.
on the Lords defeat on elected police commissioners. Towards the end of his evidence to the political and constitutional reform committee, he said he was committed to overturning it.Nick Clegg has commented
It is a coalition agreement commitment and I take very seriously, even in cases which don't, as I say, flow from one side of the coalition, our collective duty to honour what we've said we were going to do in the coalition agreement. And that's why the government will seek to reverse that vote last night.
ITV's Lucy Manning says they're at the Olympics handball centre. Cameron has just admitted he knows nothing about handball.The Cameron/Clegg eventually now seems to be starting. BBC News and Sky aren't on the case yet, but Twitter reaches everywhere.
(Neither do I. Is it the same as beach volleyball?)
handball and this is beach volleyball.No, they're not the same thing. (See 1.32pm). This is
Back to the serious stuff. BBC News are now showing a live feed of the Cameron/Clegg event. They're holding a Q&A with business figures.
Someone is telling Cameron that the work experience programme will help businesses work together. "Business has to take the leading role here," he says.
Cameron and Clegg are standing together, with business figures and apprentices sitting around them. Clegg has his hands in his pockets. They are looking serious. And he's talking again about business.
Just in case you didn't get the message, they're being businesslike.
David Cameron says there has to be a proper careers service in schools. Everyone in schools will be told what's available, he says.
Some apprenticeship schemes are 10 or 20 times over-subscribed. It should not be seen as a poor relation to university, he says. When he held a cabinet meeting at Rolls Royce, half the members of the board were ex-apprentices.
Cameron suggests that when people receive a rejection letter after applying for a job, it should say what other apprenticeship opportunities might be available.
Clegg interrupts at this point to say something about qualifications changing too often.
There's no hostility between the two leaders, but there's no affection on display between them either.
As I said, it's businesslike. A bit boring too, to be honest. But sensible, functional, and practical. Downing Street says there's "a lot more work to be done". (See 1.10pm.) Cameron and Clegg are showing what this looks like in action.
Cameron is taking questions now from journalists.
Q: Why should some MPs who fiddle their expenses go to jail, while others can get the chance to rejoin government?
Cameron says David Laws has made a "very full apology". Having worked with Laws, he knows he's "a very talented individual who has a lot to offer public life."
Clegg says Laws was only concerned to protect his privacy. The taxpayers were not cheated of money. In the past some people fleeced the system. That was not Laws's motivation.
Q: Could Laws return to government?
Cameron says he will have to study the report. But the thinks Laws is a decent man. He has a lot to offer public life.
Clegg says David is "a close friend and a good colleague". Cameron makes it clear that the David that Clegg is referring to is Laws, not Cameron.
Q: A year ago you were in the warm, fuzzy atmosphere of Downing Street. (Clegg queries "fuzzy".) At the time there was a humorous reference to Cameron saying previously that his favourite joke was "Nick Clegg". But have the Lib Dems now become a joke?
Cameron says the reasons for forming the coalition still apply. There are big issues to tackle. They have a five-year programme.
People want to see that it's a coalition government. The two parties have different views. They have "robust" arguments in private.
Cameron says "we've obviously had to get used to each other's jokes".
Clegg says this period was always going to be tough. The coalition is still borrowing £400m a day. Whoever was in government would have to do difficult things.
Clegg says he went into government with his eye open. He did not think it would be easy.
As for polls, they go "up and down". People's popularity "goes up and down". But people will be judged by what they achieve.
Q: [For Clegg.] Cameron said he would not let the Lib Dems be a moderating influence. Where does that leave muscular liberalism?
Clegg says the two parties are different.
Cameron says he and Clegg agreed that they would not be a "lowest common denominator" government. At the end of this parliament, they will be judged on whether they produced "good results on the things that people care about".
The Cameron/Clegg event is over. I've just been speaking to my colleague Simon Hoggart, who was there and witnessed the whole thing (not just what made it onto BBC News). Simon says there was a choice moment before the Q&A started, when Clegg was explaining exactly what the government would be doing to help the young unemployed. The government wanted to help "people who have fallen through the cracks and been forgotten", Clegg said. For obvious reasons, this line appealed to the sketchwriters like Simon. I told Simon I thought Clegg looked particularly miserable, but Simon says he thinks we shouldn't read too much into this. Clegg always looks miserable, he tells me.
I'll post more in a moment.
1.48pm.) Whatever Simon Hoggart says (see 1.58pm), it's hard not to think his demeanour has something to do with his party being at only 8 points in the polls. Yesterday I discovered the Nick Clegg Looking Sad website. There may well be another picture going up on it soon.The Cameron/Clegg press conference in the rose garden was a great moment of political theatre that provided one of the defining images of the coalition government. Today's event was rather different: drab, humdrum and rather underwhelming. In any relationship, I suppose, the sparkle starts to fade after the first 12 months. What came across, I suppose, was the determination that Cameron and Clegg both expressed to plough on. I'll post the quotes in full shortly, but the key point that they both made was, regardless of any problems, the government should be judged at the end of its term by what it has achieved. I was also struck by quite how downbeat Clegg looked, and particularly how pained he seemed when ITV's Lucy Manning asked the question about the Lib Dems now being seen as a joke. (See
Here are the main news lines from the Cameron/Clegg event.
• Cameron has signalled that he would like David Laws to return to government. He said that Laws was "a very talented individual who has a lot to offer public life" and that he (Cameron) would want to study the standards and privileges committee report "and take it from there." He added: "I do think he has a lot to offer public life and I hope he stays in public life." Clegg said that Laws was motivated by the desire "to protect his own privacy, not to gain a penny or a pound from the expenses system".
• Cameron and Clegg both insisted that the coalition would endure. This is what Cameron said:
We have different traditions and views and beliefs and we have robust discussions, even arguments in private, and then we come out with agreed policies that we think are good for the country ... If [people] could see what actually happens in private where both parties stand up for their views but we come to a good, collective decision, I think they'd see it is a strong coalition government and that's what I'm absolutely committed to delivering.
And this is how Clegg put it.
We never went into this because it was easy - you shouldn't go into government because it's easy - but because we genuinely believe that what we're doing together – two parties coming together, yes retaining our differences, to clear up a lot of the problems we've inherited in the past that that is in the long-term interests of the country.
• Nick Clegg said that he would be judged on what the government achieved. "Polls go up and down, people's popularity goes up and down, parties' popularity goes up and down," he said. "At the end of the day, how will we be judged? We will be judged about whether we sorted out the mess we'd inherited and restored a sense of optimism, of prosperity, jobs, to this country and that's what I firmly believe we are on track to do." Cameron made a similar point about the government being judged by what it achieved, but he did not have to mention the adverse polls. Last week's elections showed his party doing pretty well.
Nick Clegg Looking Sad website. There's also one devoted to Awkward Ed Miliband Moments.Earlier I mentioned the
Does anyone know if there's one full of pictures of David Cameron looking a prat too?
David Cameron Pretending to be Common (although it's slightly different from the Miliband and Clegg sites - see 3.09pm - because, while the captions are satirical, the pictures are mostly fine).That didn't take long. Someone has sent me a link to
I usually post a summary at lunchtime and another in the afternoon, but today my plans went to pot because I was focusing on the Cameron/Clegg event. But now, later than usual, here's a summary of all the political news.
• David Cameron has signalled that David Laws's suspension from the Commons should not stop him returning to government at some point in the future. Cameron spoke following the publication of a report saying that Laws "seriously and extensively broke the rules to claim rent which was paid to his partner". Laws apologised in a statement to the Commons, saying: "Each of us should be our own sternest critic and all of us in this place want to see the reputation of this House restored after the last few disastrous years. If by my actions, I've contributed in any way to further undermining the reputation of this House then I can only apologise without reservation." Cameron said later that Laws was "a very talented individual who has a lot to offer public life". (See 11.33am and 2.52pm.)
• A senior intelligence official has said that Labour's dossier about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction was written "to make the case for war", contrary to claims made by Alastair Campbell. Major General Michael Laurie, who was director general in the Defence Intelligence Staff, made the case in evidence to the Iraq inquiry which has just been made public. Laurie told the inquiry: "Alastair Campbell said to the inquiry thatthe purpose of the dossier was not 'to make a case for war'. I had no doubt at that time this was exactly its purpose and these very words were used." The Iraq inquiry has said it will not now publish its report until the autumn at the earliest.
• Cameron has invited the Libyan rebels to set up a formal office in London. As the BBC reports, he made the announcement after meeting Mustafa Abdul Jalil, chair of Libya's National Transitional Council.
• Nick Clegg has signalled that the Lib Dems will work with the Tories to overturn the Lords defeat over elected police commissioners. "It is a coalition agreement commitment and I take very seriously, even in cases which don't, as I say, flow from one side of the coalition, our collective duty to honour what we've said we were going to do in the coalition agreement," Clegg said. "And that's why the government will seek to reverse that vote last night." (See 1.27pm.)
• Cameron and Clegg have marked the first anniversary of their Downing Street rose garden press conference by insisting that the coalition is delivering strong government. (See 2.52pm.)
• MPs have backed a call for a review of the legislation dealing with parliamentary expenses. They supported a backbench motion tabled by the Tory MP Adam Afriyie, who said: "This issue of expenses is incendiary but it is our duty to act without fear or favour in the interests of democracy, our constituents and the taxpayer. I think a calm, methodical review of the 2009 Act is a really important step."
• Michael Gove, the education secretary, has announced plans to ensure that pupils who fail to get a C or better in maths or English at GCSE will have to keep studying the subjects until they improve. He unveiled the move in a statement responding to the Wolf review of vocational education.
• Philip Hammond, the transport secretary, has called for a crackdown on out-of-date working practices and excessive wage demands in the rail industry. As Dan Milmo reports, Hammond said: "Ensuring that Britain's railways become affordable for passengers and taxpayers will need everyone in the industry to work together. With fares and levels of taxpayer support already so high, it would be simply irresponsible for us to ignore this issue any longer. Addressing inefficient working practices and excessive wage demands will form a key part of the strategy for building a sustainable and affordable railway."
• Nick Clegg has said that the Lords will not become more powerful under the government's plans to make it elected. "I am very clear we should not seek to change the functions and role of the House of Lords," he told a committee this morning. "It should remain a body of scrutiny and review."
• Official figures have shown that child poverty fell to its lowest level since the mid-1980s during Labour's last year in power.
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Senate Unanimously Approves Sweeping Revision of Georgia Sunshine Laws
The Georgia Senate has unanimously approved HB 397, the proposed re-write to improve Georgia's Open Records and Open Meetings Laws. The legislation, sponsored by Representative Jay Powell, will return to the House of Representatives for final approval before it heads to the Governor's desk.
Attorney General Sam Olens began working with the bill sponsor and stakeholders on the first significant revision of Georgia's Open Meetings and Open Records Laws in over a decade shortly after taking office in January 2011. He applauded the Senate's passage of the bill today.
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They may have lost the governorships of New Jersey and Virginia, but Democrats expanded their majority in the House of Representatives by one seat Tuesday. Bill Owens won a surprise victory after a bizarre race that saw a third-party conservative candidate drive the Republican in this staunchly GOP district out of the running and into the arms of the Democrats.
A lot of people made a lot of inferences about this race. It was supposed to take the temperature of President Obama's success (by tying his fortunes to a Democrat in a district that's been red for 100 or so years, no less) and simultaneously represent the great (and tiresome) schism of the Republican Party. In the end, it probably had much more to do with a lousy economy and robocalls. —PZS
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Republicans hadn't lost in the region in more than a century. Owens defeated Hoffman despite a 45,000-voter registration edge for Republicans and big-name endorsements for Hoffman from former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, former Republican Sen. Fred Thompson and others. Hoffman had rallied an unexpected level of support in the final days of the campaign, ultimately forcing Scozzafava to quit when he surged past her in the polls.
"This is only one fight in the battle, people," Hoffman said before a gathering of supporters in Saranac Lake, N.Y., after conceding the race. "Let's keep the fight going. Let's make sure our voices are heard."


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What is it with state troopers? They seem to be that way from state to state, giving out tickets instead of verbals.
This is a discussion on Good Leo incident - sort of.... within the Concealed Carry Issues & Discussions forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; I was speeding earlier this week and pulled over by Ohio state patrol. Unfortunately I had misplaced my drivers license and had only my ccw ...
I was speeding earlier this week and pulled over by Ohio state patrol.
Unfortunately I had misplaced my drivers license and had only my ccw permit for ID.
He asked if I had a valid D without a comment or question on the ccw or any weapons.
7 minutes later I was on my way with a deserved $110 speeding ticket.
What is it with state troopers? They seem to be that way from state to state, giving out tickets instead of verbals.
Sounds like a sensible cop.
Only $110? You must have been going 3 mph over...
Proverbs 27:12 says: The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it.
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With Virginia State Troopers I have heard they have an open door policy...If they have to open their door your getting a ticket that is the policy. I simply don't give them a reason to open their door and it seems to be working. My wallet appreciates it as well.
Funny thing is I don't really care about the cost of the fine as it is a drop in the bucket compared to the 'fine' you'll be served with by your insurance provider. The insurance company is the one I fear.
How do you misplace your DL, but not your CCW permit? Mine are both in the wallet, the wallet is in my pants. Nothing is misplaced. The OP was stopped for speeding and couldn't produce a valid DL. He's lucky he only got what he got.
The primary function of State Highway Patrols, and in many jurisdictions State Police (they are not exactly the same), is to enforce traffic laws. The reason they write more tickets than municipal and county cops is because that is their primary duty. I'm not saying that troopers never give warnings, they do, but seeing as their primary job is to write tickets, they give less.
I'm a municipal cop. My primary job is to place criminal charges, getting a warning from me on a criminal charge is much like getting a warning on a traffic charge from a trooper. It happens, but not really that often.
If I wanted to spend all day working wrecks and writing tickets I would have gone to work for the Highway Patrol, if guys that went to work for the SHP wanted to take reports on criminal offenses and make criminal arrests all day, they would have gone to work for municipal police departments.
They can make criminal arrests, and I can write traffic citations, but our primary functions are different.
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Tx troopers main function is traffic enforcement.... 99/100 are getting tickets....
"Texas can make it without the United States, but the United States can't make it without Texas!".... Sam Houston
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The HP/SP have a job to do. If your not paying attention, or think they aren't going to catch you intentionally breaking the law, why should that have any reason to "cut you slack"? I've gotten tickets before. I didn't like getting them, but I deserved them. If they decide to give you a break that's fine. If they decide not to, then that is their decision.
Based on your description, it does sound like the LEO cut you some slack. In some parts, you can be big trouble without the proper I.D.
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I have been a FreeBSD source comitter since July 2004, member of the Security Team since February 2008 and I was punished with a Release Engineering Team hat in September 2009.
What am I doing? What have I done? What am I interested in? ...
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- Network stack modularization (TODO)
- Secure Neighbor Discovery (SeND) (mentored a GSoC 2009 project)
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Wyoming is home to one four-year online school recognized as a Title IV institution, which makes it easy for us to do our rankings. The University of Wyoming is the top online college in the state that offers students four-year degrees. It is also the most affordable online college in Wyoming.
This page begins with a general overview of higher education in the state and then document Wyoming's state-specific initiatives and any progress they've made in supporting online education. We provide a look at what the University of Wyoming has to offer for distance learners in the school's profile, including links to the online course delivery system and tools for online students. Located at the bottom of the page is a list to scholarships and higher education resources for Wyoming students. Remember that the best option for your desired online degree may lie outside your home state, so feel free to browse our nationwide database of online colleges as well.
A Brief Overview of Higher Education in Wyoming
In 2013, the National Center for Education Statistics reported that Wyoming had 11 degree-granting institutions, broken down as follows: 8 public schools and 3 for-profits. The total number of bachelor's degrees awarded in the '12-'13 school year at these schools was: 2,053 at public schools and 4 at private nonprofits.
in 2013, Wyoming had 11 degree-granting institutions
- 8 public
- 3 non-profit
Tuition-wise, the College Board found that, in the '15-'16 school year, the average in-state tuition and fees for four-year public schools was $4,890, the lowest average amongst all states, while the out-of-state average was $15,630, the second lowest average amongst the states.
As for the state's financial aid efforts, the National Association of State Student Grant & Aid Programs (NASSGAP) reported that Wyoming awarded $15.15 million in need-based grants for the '13-'14 school year. Grants make up 4.3% of the state's total fiscal support for higher education.
Unsurprisingly, given its size and rural makeup, Wyoming has strikingly low in-state and out-of-state tuition; nonetheless, the state succeeds at offering reasonable levels of financial support to its student population.
The State of Online Higher Education in Wyoming
The NCES estimates that at least 11.2% of students enrolled in Wyoming's Title IV institutions are in fully online programs. Of those, 87.6% were reported to be undergraduates and 83.1% were found to be living in Wyoming.
As for organizations promotion online education in Wyoming, two lead the way: WyCLASS and the Wyoming Community College Commission. WyClass joins the University of Wyoming and seven of the state's community colleges to offer students a directory of the various courses and programs conducted fully online. WyClass lets students search and register for courses, which means, if allowed, they can easily secure a spot in distance courses otherwise unavailable at their primary institution. WyClass is also affiliated with the Wyoming Distance Education Consortium (WYDEC), a committee of representatives from each of the seven WyClass institutional members designed to bolster the quality of each school's online courses and student services through better sharing of resources between the institutions.
Similar to WyClass, the community college commission brings together seven of the state's community colleges, helping enrolled students get the most out of their education. In terms of distance learning, offers a simple resource that directs students to the online programs offered at each institution, while also directing students to WyClass. The commission also assists students interested in enrolling in a dual or concurrent program, where courses are more evenly split across two or more of the member colleges ― this sort of service showcases the potential of distance learning, where students can effectively earn the best degree possible, taking the best online courses from the top online colleges in WY.
Best Online Colleges in Wyoming
Below, you will find our rankings of the best online four-year programs in Wyoming. Our profiles look at how schools approach online education and then list out their services for distance students and their popular, fully online degrees. After reviewing the best online schools in Wyoming, explore our state resources, like a database of every college and university in Wyoming or our index of popular in-state scholarships.
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The University of Wyoming is the only four-year online school in Wyoming. Online students at UW access their WyoCourses through the learning management system Canvas. Instructors and students share materials and make discoveries together through each step of the online course using tools such as email, document sharing, live chat sessions, threaded discussions, web conferencing, real time video conferencing, and social media. Although courses are primarily asynchronous, students do need to log into the system several times per week. This ensures active participation in class, collaboration between classmates and a quality learning experience overall.
Online Undergraduate Degrees
A Certificate & Endorsement Program in Early Childhood Program Director is also offered fully online.
Online Graduate Degrees
Correspondence study is another option providing students with the opportunity to earn college credits without having to attend regularly scheduled on-campus classes. With a nine-month long enrollment period and the chance to register at any time, busy distance students can set their own pace for these courses. 24/7 support service for Canvas is accessible from the Help Center.
Scholarships and Financial Aid in Wyoming
Cody Youth Council Scholarship
The Wyoming Community Foundation provides this scholarship to graduating seniors from Cody High School. To be eligible students must have a minimum GPA of 2.7, and be enrolled in a postsecondary institution. The amount of the award is determined by financial need; the minimum award is $1,500 per year.
Edelle Pirtle Job's Daughters Bethel 48 Scholarship
This scholarship is administered by the Wyoming Community Foundation. It is available to female residents of Green River who are past or current members of Bethel 48. Selection is based on financial need, academic record, and community or extracurricular involvement. The award may be used for tuition or fees at a postsecondary institution.
Ellis & Nellie Patch Scholarship
This scholarship is available to sophomore, junior, and senior students who are attending a not-for-profit university, community college, or trade school. To be eligible, students must have graduated from high school in Johnson County. Selection is based on financial need and academic performance. Award amounts vary.
Fred Albert Memorial Scholarship
The Wyoming Community Foundation provides this scholarship to graduating seniors of Niobrara County High School. To be eligible students must have a minimum GPA of 2.5, and be enrolled in a postsecondary institution. The amount of the award is determined by financial need and academic merit. The minimum award is $1,000 per year.
Huston Centennial Scholarship
The Huston Centennial Scholarship is provided by the Wyoming Community Foundation for seniors graduating from Pinedale High School. To be eligible students must have a minimum GPA of 2.5, and be enrolled at a postsecondary institution.
Mabel C. Sargent Scholarship
Administered by the Wyoming Community Foundation, this scholarship is available to junior and senior students enrolled in the Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree program at the University of Wyoming. Selection is based on academic merit, leadership, and community involvement. A GPA of 3.0+ is required.
Melinda Jean Tillett Memorial Scholarship
Provided by the Wyoming Community Foundation, this scholarship is available to graduates of Lovell High School who are pursuing a degree in Business or Finance. Selection is based on academic merit and involvement in community or extracurriculars.
Myron D. Kiesling Scholarship
The Wyoming Community Foundation administers this scholarship for seniors at Upton and Newcastle High Schools. One winner from each school will be selected annually. To be eligible students must have a GPA of 3.0, and be entering an engineering or nursing degree program at an accredited college or university. Preference is given to students attending the University of Wyoming.
Vera Asay Sargent Scholarship
This scholarship is provided by the Wyoming Community Foundation to assist graduates of Lovell High School who will be attending Northwest Community College. Selection is based on academic merit, financial need, and involvement in community or extracurriculars.
Western Undergraduate Exchange (WUE) Scholarship
Freshmen entering the University of Wyoming are eligible for the Western Undergraduate Exchange (WUE) program. To qualify, students must be residents of a WUE partner state. (For a list of partner states, see the UW website.) Instead of paying out-of-state tuition, recipients will pay tuition at 150% of in-state tuition rates. Selection is based on academic merit.
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Tweet Tweet: Meet the new breed of tech-savvy Birders
The Delaware Bayshores
Take a virtual tour of the Delaware Bayshores.
By Khara McKeen
Adrianna Zito, an intern for The Nature Conservancy, was unsure of what to expect when she accepted a seasonal position at New Jersey's Cape May Migratory Bird Refuge.
"I didn't have much experience with birds or birders. My mental image of birders consisted of people with British accents sporting tweed hats, matching khaki outfits, tattered field guides and binoculars!"
Owned and managed by The Nature Conservancy, the South Cape May Meadows is a globally renowned birders paradise. The refuge is an important stopover for thousands of autumn migrants, while endangered beachnesting birds nest and fledge here each spring and summer.
"So imagine my surprise" continues Zito "when a group of birders rushed the gates waving around Apple iPhones instead of the tattered, dog-eared field guides and notebooks I was expecting!"
One of the birders hurriedly explained to Adrianna that he had just received a tweet that an elusive black rail was spotted about 50 feet into the main trail. With that, the birders disappeared down the trail. Sure, some wore khaki, all had binoculars, and one even wore the obligatory tweed cap. But these are not your parent's birders.
Social Networking: Not Just for the Birds
We live in an era of text messaging, emails, Facebook, Twitter and iPhones. Social networking has influenced everything from how we stay in touch with friends and family to how we do business.
So why not birding?
Birders have been networking and sharing information for decades. In New Jersey, birders used to phone in sightings to a hotline that would report data to regional bird journals such as New Jersey Birds or North American Birds.
Today's birders utilize features for the iPhone like iBird, an application offering one stop shopping for birdcalls, illustrations and photos. In fact, iBird even offers maps, satellite images of habitat and, of course, a built-in camera. Text messaging and social networking sites like Twitter allow for real-time messaging between birders.
Then there's eBird, a real-time, online checklist program. eBird has changed the way that the birding community reports and accesses information about birds. Launched in 2002 by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and National Audubon Society, eBird provides data sources for basic information on bird abundance and distribution by soliciting sighting reports from birders all over the world.
Zito says many of the daily visitors to the refuge come because they received a text or tweet alerting them to a rare bird present there — sometimes arriving as quickly as 10 minutes after receiving the message.
"Many times visitors arrive with more up-to-date information than me on daily bird sightings," she says. "They are literally receiving texts or tweets from other birders down the trail telling them to point their spotting scopes to the right, that in about 30 seconds they're going to see a Mississippi Kite fly by. It's unreal!"
And what do these "tweets" among birders look like? Here's a few from twitter.com/CMBObirds.
- northern goshawk perched at end of yellow trail seen from west dune crossing of meadows during walk. 5:44 AM Nov 9th
- Swainson's hawk still at beanery 2nd or winery field.4:19 AM Nov 10th
- ash-throated flycatcher nummy island n wildwood side of pay bridge small parking lot across from dad's place marina. 7:43 AM Nov 4th
Interested in High-Tech Birding? Heed This Advice
Don Freiday, the director of Birding Programs for New Jersey Audubon Society's Cape May Bird Observatory (CMBO), manages the observatory's Twitter account. They have only been on Twitter since May 2009, and have about 150 followers, a number that is growing daily.
Freiday says CMBO has been blogging for about two years and has about 20,000 unique visitors and close to 4,000 regular followers.
"With the introduction of blogging, texting and tweeting in the last 3 to 5 years, birders are getting more information, and getting it faster," says Freiday. "However, a challenge with the increase in information is the need to make sense out of it, and also to vet reports for accuracy. Regional bird journals such as New Jersey Birds or North American Birds play an important role here."
Freiday leaves these words of advice for the new tech-savvy breed of birders:
"I'd like to think that increased access to bird reports will inspire more people to go out birding more often, and get away from technology for a while! However, there is a tendency for people in any activity to behave like sheep and follow the herd — meaning, follow someone else's discoveries rather than make their own.
"So yes, go see a bird you've heard about, but enjoy the whole experience of birding, too — it's about the bird in front of you, what it's doing, where it's going and how to identify it the next time you see the same species."
Khara McKeen is communications coordinator for The Nature Conservancy in New Jersey.
Learn more about birding at Cape May at: www.birdcapemay.org and www.njaudobon.org.


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We're featuring Citrus Fruits this week, and they are all very sweet and tasty! I just wanted to give you a brief description on each of our citrus variety, so that you know what you are buying:
Clementine – This is like a tangerine, but almost always seedless and very easy to peel. Clementines are also very sweet. The exterior is a deep orange color, with a smooth glossy appearance.
Minneola Tangelo – These sweet and succulent fruits are usually seedless. This citrus fruit is a hybrid of a tangerine and a grapefruit. Characterized by a bell-shaped protrusion with a slightly elongated knob or neck at the top of the fruit, it usually turns a deep red-orange color when ripe. It possesses a skin that is loose and thicker than the average citrus and very easy to peel. Minneola Tangelos look like big oranges, but taste like a tangerine with an abundance of sweet juice!
Cara Cara Orange – The Cara Cara Orange is sweet and low in acid. These brightly colored oranges with pink/raspberry colored flesh have a sweet taste with cherry-like undertones. The flavor is more complex than most navel varieties and has been described as evoking notes of cherry, rose petal, and black berry.
Page Mandarin – These taste like a cross between a tangerine and orange with a rich and sweet flavor. The Page's flesh is deep orange, tender and juicy, and the flavor is rich and sweet. This variety is considered the very best to make juice!
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Locally grown sweet summer lychee have just arrived at your neighborhood Foodland & Sack N Save locations. Our Big Island lychee farmers have supplied us with a beautiful bounty of summer lychee and we're excited to share these sweet summer gems!
Carefully peel open a few fresh juicy lychee & you'll be instantly transported back to hanabata days! My favorite way to enjoy these sweet treats is to pop them in the freezer for a little while and bring them with me on a nice ... more »
How to eat a Dragon Fruit? - Dragon Fruit Salad!
Ever wonder how to cut open this exotic unusual looking Dragon Fruit? Here are a couple quick tips on how to enjoy a delicious locally grown Kona Dragon Fruit:
•Slice the fruit in half, lengthwise, as shown in the picture to the left.
•Scoop out the white (sometimes red or fuchsia) flesh onto a separate dish or bowl.
•The seeds are completely edible (much like a kiwi), so go ahead and dice up fruit into bite-size morsels.
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Whether you love making baked Kale chips or are a hardcore juicing fanatic, we're excited to share that you can now find beautiful locally grown organic produce from MA'O Farms at the following select Foodland locations: Foodland Farms Aina Haina, Foodland Beretania, Foodland Kailua, more »
Beautiful Locally Grown Buddha's Hand
Buddha's Hand is a uniquely shaped and very fragrant citrus fruit grown locally here on Maui at Howard's Nursery. More well known in China and Japan for perfuming rooms and personal items such as clothing, this fruit is also given as a religious offering in Buddhist temples. According to tradition, Buddha prefers the "fingers" of the fruit to be in a position where they resemble a closed rather than open hand, as closed hands symbolize to Buddha the act of prayer.
Walla Walla Sweet Onions at Foodland!
It's that time of year for Walla Walla Sweet Onions! You need to get these sweet onions while we have them, as the season is short and we'll only have them through early September. Walla Walla Sweet Onions have a thin golden paper skin and creamy sweet insides.
They are best described as an onion so sweet, it can be peeled and eaten raw like an apple. They're also perfect to slice and put on top of a burger. Here are a couple yummy recipes featuring these delicious onions that ... more »
Locally Grown Summer Lychee
Sweet summer lychee...one juicy ice cold mouthful can bring back so many fond memories. Growing up here in Hawaii, we are fortunate to have some of the freshest local produce and delicious lychee is definitely one of our favorites for the summertime!
Our local lychee farmers have supplied our stores with a bounty of beautiful lychee and we're excited to share them with you at a great price. Now through June 18th, visit any of our Foodland stores to pick up a bag of sweet and juicy ... more »
Crispy delicious Apple Pears
You have to try one of the best tasting pear varieties we have here at Foodland, the California Apple Pear! Similar to the taste and texture of an Asian Pear, these California Apple pears are exceptionally sweet and delicious. Personally, I love the crunch and sweet fragrance of the Apple Pear! And, they are on sale this week at Foodland.
Sweet Summer Bing Cherries!
Beautiful Bing Cherries are on sale this week at your local Foodland and Sack N Save stores. These sweet summer treats make for a wonderful snack anytime, and are also great in pies, fruit salads, and of course to top your favorite ice cream!
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Good standard Unfortunately this was a dissapointing experience. The hotel is way too expencive and the prices can not be compared to what the hotel offers. Everything, and then I mean everything, is expencive! The food is no exception. And we had to send our first meal back because it was hear in it. Later I was food poisened after I ate dinner ordered to our room. And still I had to pay for the meal and the medecine! There is only one pool which was crowed with noisy kids all day long. So for those who want to relax in a quiet place, stay away. The spa is ridiculous expencive!! The only reason why we choose this hotel was the location nearby the airport. This was just a stop on our tour to Mulu rainforest. I will never ever stay at this hotel again...
Professional, very friendly, clean. Thank you Octavius, reception staff, dining staff, all staff in fact. I will stay again.
The location is tranquil and the atmosphere very relaxing the staff are very friendly and attentive
a good place to stay away from busy life in the city and a good relax place for vacation. too many insects and mosquito during night time.
The Hotel was nice as was its staff. On the whole, we had a wonderful time.
Check was easy, staff very friendly. Remembered my name the following day. Good food, apologetic when the power went off at breakfast, although it was city wide.
staff were excellent overpricing of bar drinks
they should provide more facilities like city tour, more games at the beaches like jet skying, banana boat or etc something that really exciting.. anyway..it really enjoyable stay.
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I had meals at the Coffee House quite a few times. The staff there are friendly, attentive and prompt. I had the "License to Grill" buffet dinner by the poolside on the Sat night that I was there. Naturally the two popular items were the raw oysters and the grilled lobsters. The oysters were few and slow. As for the grilled lobsters it seemed that certain guests were allowed to "pesan". At one point, there was a long queue and there were about 12 pieces of lobsters on the grill. The first person in the line was allowed to take 6 pieces... On another occassion, another stuff just took a lot of pieces on a plate and sent it to anothe customer seated by the pool. This is a buffet and such incidences should happen or the hotel should come up with a system to deliver the popular food to guests in a systematic manner.
Price is cheap enough and room is confortable. Enjjoy at the bar with wathcing dancing show. Hotel is not near Miri Town, must take taxi to go there and its hard to find return taxi in the night time.
the breakfast and the swimming pool. the beach is quite ok a bit off the citz centre. and the price became more expensive after tax
Good location, very cooperative staff & clean nothing
Value for Money... Good for families
The food was good.
Very nice place overall. Near to the airport. Restaurant.
The room design was excellent especially the deluxe room. Its cheap to stay there. I dont like the person who serve me at the counter near the swimming pool area. Their expression and way of conversation is unfriendly. Next time i wont go swimming because i cant even take a towel back to my room and the way they explain to me like getting mad.
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The familiar pre-match schedule on Arsenal TV is now on the Club's official website, giving Arsenal fans a very good reason to stay in on Friday evenings.
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MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Jasone Verdugo is a busy man.
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"I don't mind being at the baseball yard," Verdugo said. "You know, not many people can say they do that for a living."
Sunday, he helped Hamline win a NCAA conference playoff title, which is something the university has never accomplished.
"We've really developed some average players on the front end to being pretty good college baseball players," Verdugo said.
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Bertie County officials in North Carolina are pursing legal action claiming the closure is a breach of contract.
Another lawsuit, filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court in Wilmington, North Carolina by a First Med worker from Toledo, Ohio seeks class-action status on behalf of those who suddenly found themselves without jobs.
The company, which employed over 2,500 people, operated under the names Life Ambulance, TransMed, and MedCorp. They claimed to have transported more than a half-million patients a year.
In Ohio, the company operated in larger cities like Columbus and in smaller communities including Chillicothe, Jackson and Portsmouth.
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Re: finding the position of a pattern in list
The Partition function combined with Position works.
if d is your data and pat is your pattern try
You can Flatten the result to get rid of the brackets if you want.
Gang Ma wrote:
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> I am working on a program to do the following: My data is a list of 0
> and 1. For example, {0,0,1,1,1,0,0,1,1,1,0}. I want to find the
> positions of all the pattern of {0,1}. In my previous example, the
> first {0,1} is at 2 and and the second {0,1} appears at 7. I can
> write a loop to do this, but I have several thousands such lists,
> the computation will be time consuming using loop.
> My question is whether it is possible to use the pattern match to do
> this quickly. If not for the list, do I need to convert the list to
> string then use some pattern match for string? Thank you very much.
> regards,
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by Joan Nathan
Joan Nathan, the author of Jewish Cooking in America, An American Folklife Cookbook, and many other treasured cookbooks, now gives us a fabulous feast of new American recipes and the stories behind them that reflect the most innovative time in our culinary history.
The huge influx of peoples from all over Asia—Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, India—and from the Middle East and Latin America in the past forty years has brought to our kitchens new exotic flavors, little-known herbs and condiments, and novel cooking techniques that make the most of every ingredient. At the same time, health and environmental concerns have dramatically affected how and what we eat. The result: American cooking has never been as exciting as it is today. And Joan Nathan proves it on every page of this wonderfully rewarding book.
Crisscrossing the country, she talks to organic farmers, artisanal bread bakers and cheese makers, a Hmong farmer in Minnesota, a mango grower in Florida, an entrepreneur of Indian frozen foods in New Jersey, home cooks, and new-wave chefs.
Among the many enticing dishes she discovers are a breakfast huevos rancheros casserole; starters such as Ecuadorean shrimp ceviche, Szechuan dumplings, and Malaysian swordfish satays; pea soup with kaffir leaves; gazpacho with sashimi; pasta dressed with pistachio pesto; Iraqi rice-stuffed Vidalia onions; and main courses of Ecuadorean casuela, chicken yasa from Gambia, and couscous from Timbuktu (with dates and lamb). And there are desserts for every taste.
Old American favorites are featured, too, but often Nathan discovers a cook who has a new way with a dish, such as an asparagus salad with blood orange mayonnaise, pancakes made with blue cornmeal and pine nuts, a seafood chowder that includes monkfish, and a chocolate bread pudding with dried cherries.
Because every recipe has a story behind it, The New American Cooking is a book that is as much fun to read as it is to cook from—a must for every kitchen today.
About the Author
Joan Nathan was born in Providence, Rhode Island. She has earned a master's degree from both the University of Michigan and Harvard University. Ms. Nathan writes for The New York Times and other publications and is the author of numerous books, including Jewish Cooking in America, which won both the James Beard Award and the IACP / Julia Child Cookbook of the Year Award in 1994. Drawing on her research for The New American Cooking, she was the guest curator of Food Culture USA at the 2005 Smithsonian Folklife Festival. She is the mother of three grown children and lives with her husband in Washington, D.C.
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'Tavyside Badminton' currently organises 'junior coaching' and 'club badminton' sessions at Tavistock Community Sports Centre, oversees the junior coaching session at Horrabridge Badminton Club and runs the 'Family Badminton Badminton Session' organised by OCRA at Parklands Leisure Centre, Okehampton. In addition, it supports and coaches badminton at a number of other clubs and venues across the West Devon area.
'Tavyside Badminton' actively promotes and encourages badminton development; from grass roots, through schools and colleges, local clubs, local leagues, county participation and, in the West Devon area, with its programmes of coaching. For further information about badminton across the West Devon area please visit the West Devon Community Badminton Network (CBN) webpage.
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Chicago's Lucki Eck$ released his debut project, Alternative Trap, originally in July 2013. The mixtape is a great introduction to Lucki as an MC, while he flows over production from Nate Fox (a name you may recognize thanks to Chance The Rapper using his production as well), Hippie Dream, Plu2o Nash, Mullato Beats and more.
The 13-track offering is far from your average trap sounds, thus "Alternative" is a good way of putting it. In fact, we suggest you roll one (or a few) up for your listening session.
Enjoy and tell us what you think of the rising MC. Stay tuned for what he does next.
01. Count On Me II (Prod. Hippie Sabotage)
02. Love It (Prod. Plu2o Nash)
03. Interest (Prod. Plu2o Nash)
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Treasury 10-Years Go At 4.340% High
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Richard and Jason discussing the game
Rogue's Gallery, Howard, Richard, Bob
Richard's family came to watch, note the hooter's beads
Watching through the glass
Without Benjamin and KC we'd all starve. Thanks Guys!
George entertains the crowd while cooking wings outside in the deep fryer
Did you note the decorations? Sarah Jo, Bob, and some others took care of us.
They even decorated the kitchen
FL trying to keep a straight face while I'm taking pictures
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I'm guessing the Olympics had an influence on the curling pants
Ken, finally playing a game on 'his' ice.
It's a family affair, Charlie and Charlene Macedo. Alexx was watching from the warm room
Opposition sweeping
Charlie, with Bob Leonard ready to sweep
Curling or Golf stance? The pants definately say golf.
Vice and Skip - generations of (non-related) curlers
Doug and Lisa, back from Vegas
New TV over the bar
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Brian at the bar? Ordering soft drinks no doubt.
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Watching the other flat screen TV (Bob Pursell, Ben Yeung taking a cooking break, D Baxter, Monique)
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Modernist Australia on the Guest Blog!
I have blogged Modernist Australia before…. theirs is a TRULY fabulous blog dedicated to Australian Modernist homes… they also post a brilliant nation-wide Modernist real-estate round-up, highlighting some of the most beautiful untouched Mid-Century Australian homes on the market! Never has an orange tiled kitchen or speckled beige Nanna carpet looked so appealing!
Aside from sourcing the very best Modernist Home eye candy, I just can't get enough of Patricia and Peter's hysterical commentary in response to inappropriate suburban residential development! This passionate pair are keen to raise the profile of mid-century architecture in Australia, and vehemently (albeit entertainingly!) oppose the bulldozing and obsessive re-configuring of well-designed sustainable mid-century homes, to make way for 'overbearing statements of Faux-Georgian or Nu-Victoriana'! Let 'em have it guys!
This week Modernist Australia joins the Guest Blog for a week of Modernist design appreciation. They're kicking things off today with a beginner's guide to identifying an MCM (Mid-Century Modern) masterpiece!
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Opinions please??
I know by no means is my dog Zeus perfect or an excellent example of the breed. But I would like to know if he looks pretty good to you? He is a large Shepherd who is likely to hit at least 100 pounds which is NOT what I had planned. I was hoping for nothing higher than 80. None the less I love my dog and everything about him. Zeus is a rescue, he was taken from a tile warehouse by me. He was covered in dirt and oil, completely starved with severe diahrea (sp) I brought him back to health and then around 4 months old he was diagnosed with Pano. He has not had anymore flare ups in the last couple of months and I am praying he is done with it. (-.-') Just for fun here he is.
This one below is to give you an example of how big he actually is. Zeus and my husband.
9 weeks old
10 weeks old
4 months old
2 weeks after we got him (video clip) below
Can you do a straight side shot? And one looking down on his back?
He looks heavy to me but I can't tell with the positioning and his black.
how tall is he? Age now? Seger grew like a weed until about 9 months. I was getting worried. He's a tall boy and should top out at 70-75 at the most. I should really take him into the vet this weekend and weigh him. He hasn't been weighed since his rabies shot at 18w!
I don't really know how tall at the moment but here is a top view
Top view of Zeus
Wow! He is adorable. And HUGE! I love his markings, Great dog you have there :)
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Syrian government forces have used chemical weapons – probably nerve gas – in their fight against rebels waging a two-year-old uprising, the Israeli military's top intelligence analyst said on Tuesday.
Brigadier-General Itai Brun told a security conference photos of victims showing foam coming out of their mouths and contracted pupils were signs deadly gas had been used.
"To the best of our understanding, there was use of lethal chemical weapons. Which chemical weapons? Probably Sarin," Brigadier-General Itai Brun said in remarks broadcast on Army Radio.
In a transcript of Brun's speech provided by the Israeli military, he said forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad were behind the attacks on "armed (rebels) on a number of occasions in the past few months".
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