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A video shot in China of the harvesting of angora rabbit fur has led several top retailers to ban the sale of angora products.
The video was shot by the U.S.-based animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of animals in a rabbit farm in an undisclosed location in China. According to PETA, China produces 90 percent of the world’s angora rabbit fur and has no laws against cruelty to animals.
In the video, a farm worker sits on the hind legs of an angora rabbit, while the four legs of the rabbit are tied on a bench that keeps the rabbit’s body stretched straight. The worker then begins ripping out the hair of the rabbit until its body is naked.
The rabbit screams loudly as its fur is pulled out. After their fur is taken, PETA says the rabbits are thrown back into “filthy” metal cages. Many of the rabbits are said to be in shock, unable to move, eat, or drink. The video shows rabbits licking their reddish skin or huddled motionless.
The report says the angora rabbits in China’s farms have to suffer having their fur ripped out every three months. Those rabbits that survive for longer than two to five years will be killed and their meat sold.
Angora rabbit fur is long and soft, and is often used for making clothes and accessories. However, since PETA released its video, PVH Corp, the parent company of Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, IZOD, ARROW, Van Heusen, and other brands have agreed to ban selling any angora products and have pulled all the products with angora fur off their shelves and their Internet sites.
Other top retailers, including H&M, Topshop, Esprit, New Look, Acne Studios declared this month they will immediately stop producing and purchasing angora related products.
According to Beijing News, the PETA video has had a significant impact on orders for rabbit fur.
“Our [angora fur] export is mostly to Europe. After this incident, our orders decreased by 30 percent,” Mr. Ma, a manager with a livestock company in Zhejiang Province, told Beijing News.
In the moments before Amiad Yisrael, cloaked in a prayer shawl, was laid to rest at Jerusalem’s Mount of Olives cemetery on Wednesday night, some of the hundreds of people who had come to grieve the newborn’s death held umbrellas overhead to guard his little body from the rain.
Amiad, the son of a Canadian-Israeli man who has family ties to Montreal, died three days after his father and pregnant mother were shot at a bus stop near a settlement in the West Bank, which forced his mother to give birth to him prematurely.
Shira Ish-Ran was 30 weeks pregnant when she and her husband, Amichai, set out for the Israeli settlement of Ofra to visit her family on Sunday. They were catching a bus home when a vehicle drove by and gunmen opened fire.
Bystanders at the bus stop tried to scatter, Amichai among them, until the 23-year-old rabbinical student looked back and saw his wife lying prone on the ground. Instinctively he dove back to shield her from the bullets. He was shot three times in the leg. Shira, a 21-year-old aspiring teacher, was hit in the back.
The young couple, newlyweds as of last February, survived the attack and continue to recover from their injuries, as do five other people who were wounded.
They weren’t well enough to leave hospital for their baby’s funeral. Instead they said goodbye to Amiad on Wednesday, a couple of hours before he passed away.
“They were normal people standing at a bus stop. Brand new, young couple, have their own little place, they’re renting — everything you would think of for a nice, normal, young family to be,” Jordan Charness, a Montreal lawyer who is Amichai Ish-Ran’s uncle, said on Friday.
Hours after Amiad died, Israeli forces killed one of the suspects in the shooting, a 29-year-old Palestinian named Salah Barghouti, as he attempted to escape arrest. The militant Hamas group that rules the Gaza Strip said Barghouti was one of its members, but stopped short of claiming responsibility for the attack.
After Amichai and Shira decided their boy would be called Amiad, his name was revealed to relatives and other mourners at his funeral. Refael Ish-Ran, Amiad’s grandfather, said in a tearful eulogy that the baby had “managed to unite the nation of Israel” like few other people.
Amichai, who is a dual Canadian-Israeli citizen and travels to Montreal to see his extended family every year, underwent surgery for his injuries and is on pace to be discharged from hospital this weekend, Charness said. Shira, he said, was in a coma for two days but is now out of intensive care.
Coincidentally, Amichai Ish-Ran’s brother, a member of the Israeli army, saw the shooting unfold live via surveillance footage on Sunday and immediately sent emergency personnel to the scene.
“He didn’t know it was his brother, because it’s not that detailed a camera,” Charness said. He added that Amichai’s brother is getting married in Israel next month.
Charness said it was nice to see the Canadian government denounce the attack and show support for its victims, but he couldn’t shake a feeling of helplessness as he sat at his office in Montreal on Friday. He can speak to his family in Israel from afar, but he won’t get to see them for another two weeks, when he plans to fly there for his nephew’s wedding.
That trip will come several months after he picked up the phone to answer a call from Amichai and Shira, who couldn’t wait to tell him they were going to have a child.
“They were so thrilled,” Charness said.
Drunk driving charges have been dropped against a New York woman who reportedly has "auto-brewery syndrome," according to CNN .
Auto-brewery syndrome , which is also known as gut fermentation syndrome, is a rare medical condition that can occur when abnormal amounts of gastrointestinal yeast convert common food carbohydrates into ethanol. It was first described in 1912 and was studied in the 1930s and 1940s. In 2013, the case of a 61-year-old man who had frequent bouts of unexplained drunkenness for years was published .
In the case of the New York woman, she did have four drinks over the span of several hours the day she was arrested. The woman had met her husband at a restaurant before Christmas and was on her way home afterwards when she got a flat tire.
However, she didn't pull over to fix it and another motorist called it in. She was stopped by local police and was given a sobriety test and blew several times over the legal limit.
In fact, her blood alcohol content was so high, she was taken to the hospital as a precaution. Her husband was contacted and he insisted on extra tests because he knew how much his wife had to drink and felt something was not right.
The couple also hired an attorney who started to do his own investigating. He hired two physician assistants, a pharmacologist, and a person trained in Breathalyzers and put the woman through another test. The results of that test led them to believe that the woman has auto-brewery syndrome.
A judge has dismissed the charges, but the local district attorney is thinking about filing an appeal. In the meantime, the woman has been put on a yeast-free diet of absolutely no sugar, no alcohol and very low carbs. She is also taking anti-fungal medications.
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Minters Paving in Bognor Regis was awarded the top spot in two categories at the Brett Installer Awards. Its patio work was also recognised.
A paving and landscaping company in Bognor Regis is ‘buzzing’ after winning two national awards for the quality of its work.
Minters Paving, run by Matt Minter, won a contractors’ choice award for its work on a driveway in North Bersted and also ‘Facebook Project of the Year’ in the 2019 Brett Approved Installer (BAI) Awards.
The Bognor Regis businesses was one of 50 shortlisted by an independent judging panel, including landscaping and paving experts from the industry.
Matt Minter, who has run the business for 15 years, said he was ‘absolutely buzzing’ to be given the award having recently joined the BAI scheme.
He said: “I’m so pleased. It’s just the recognition from other traders that look at our work and say ‘that’s the best’ and then to win by a long way and not just win.
“I just feel really excited and proud of our achievement. Everyone was proper chuffed.
He said he was fortunate that the client for the North Bersted driveway had given him a lot of freedom with the design.
He said that the team of eight had also been delighted to be awarded the contract with Rolls-Royce Motor Cars to create the paving on which the luxury car manufacturer would display its iconic cars during this year’s Festival of Speed.
“You don’t get much more prestigious than that,” Matt said.
Calvin Jackson, BAI Scheme Manage, said Minters Paving had stood out to judges ‘not just for the overall quality of the work but also for their professionalism and customer service’.
A Wigan cabbie had a lucky escape after being sent flying by a cyclist riding illegally on the pavement.
The badly shaken taxi driver, who would only give his first name as Trevor, was coming out of the Crusader Taxis office in King Street when the headphone-wearing rider crashed into him as he rode at speed along the path.
Luckily, Trevor, 44, was unharmed in the incident which he said could have been much worse.
Other cabbies at the rank took to social media to share CCTV footage of the incident, which happened at around 10am in the morning.
Trevor, who has been a driver with Crusader Taxis since last September, said: “I was walking to my cab to go out on a job when this lad came speeding down the path and I ended up on my backside. I was so shocked I was late picking up a customer.
“He was apologetic, but when he got off his bike he was more concerned about picking up his lights which came off.
“So much money has been spent on cycle lanes in the area, so there is absolutely no excuse for him being on the pavement.
Hossein Ghorbani, the owner of Crusader Taxis, said: “It could’ve been much worse.
“He only came to the office to drop some bits off, and when he came out the cyclist hit him.
The law states that cyclists must not cycle on the pavement even when there are no specific lanes.
Cyclists can use bus lanes when permitted to by road signs.
Students at Windsong Heights School are working hard to collect donations for the Airdrie Food Bank again this spring.
The school hosted the first annual food drive last spring, and the teachers decided to continue on with another fundraiser this year.
“Last year was very successful,” said teacher Maryelle Data, who has helped to organize the event.
The food drive will be a school-wide collaborative effort with all of the students working on different tasks such as giving school announcements, making posters, and sorting and weighing the donations.
“It’s been really exciting to see all of our kids get involved in leadership jobs to help out,” said teacher Jolene Avery.
At the kick-off assembly, students were surprised to learn that the Food Bank feeds over 37,000 people a year.
“I think it’s important to help out, so that every family can have healthy food to eat,” said Grade 2 student Cynthia Jensen.
A newsletter will be sent out to parents to ask for items to be sent to school for the Food Bank.
“Please look at what the Food Bank is running low on through their website,” said Grade 2 student Pyper Emo.
The most needed items include milk and alternatives, juice, coffee, rice, canned fish and meats, canned fruits and vegetables, soup, meal kits, dried pasta, honey, jam, syrup, flour, sugar, pancake mix, and sugar-free items for diabetics.
Baby supplies are also needed, such as diapers (sizes four to six), wipes, and formula.
“We also collect bathroom supplies like shampoo, soap, tissues, toilet paper, and toothpaste,” said Emo.
All of the donations will be gathered in tents around the school to be counted by the students.
“The Grade 2s are learning about different communities in Canada, so it’s important for them to know how to get involved in their own as well,” said Data.
Anyone interested in contributing to the school’s food drive can drop off donations at the school office from April 8 to 11.
“Our goal is try and beat what we collected last year,” said teacher Chantelle Balfour.
The latest volume of an academic journal includes articles on 19th-century prisoner of war ships, Second World War submarine history and military gravestones.
The National Museum of Bermuda Press has launched Volume 21 of the Bermuda Journal of Archaeology and Maritime History, which is now available to buy.
The museum is in the process of digitising previous volumes to make the entire catalogue of 175 individual articles available online for purchase and download.
Volume 21 features ten articles on history and archaeology by Bermudian-based and overseas scholars. Other articles focus on the 17th-century Chinese porcelain trade, Bermuda’s “explosive military history” and the 18th-century livestock trade.
Transcriptions of the minutes of the Governor’s council are also included.
Clarence Maxwell and Deborah Atwood, the co-editors, have invited leading experts in the fields of history, art, and archaeology to form an advisory board designed to raise the academic standing of the journal.
The board will advise on the direction of the journal and review papers submitted for publication.
It is available for download at nmb.bm/shop.
Announcing a Love Letters event. On Feb. 26, we'll team up with Boston Ballet for one of its performances of "Onegin." It's the story of a guy who meets a woman and rejects her. Later on, he changes his mind, but it's too late.
There will be a special talk after the performance that night. You can buy tickets, or enter to win them through Love Letters on Twitter.
"My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you." – Alexander Pushkin, "Eugene Onegin"
There is nothing more frustrating than listening to defenders of fundamentally flawed bailout plan that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and top Democratic and Republican leaders failed in passing Monday must be "saved" by Democrats who recognized when the House voted on Monday that this was the wrong response.
Pelosi's plan is based on Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson's wrongheaded scheming. Democrat leaders may have tinkered a bit with the Bush aide's proposal, but certainly not enough to make it acceptable -- let alone wisely enacted.
Oregon Congressman Peter DeFazio says, correctly, that the problem with the Democratic speaker's bailout measure, which the House rejected by a 228-205 vote â€“ with progressive Democrats joining fiscally conservative Republicans to say "no" â€“ is that it "is still built on the Paulson-Bush premise."
There is nothing more frustrating than listening to defenders of fundamentally flawed bailout plan that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and top Democratic and Republican leaders failed in passing Monday must be “saved” by Democrats who recognized when the House voted on Monday that this was the wrong response.
Pelosi’s plan is based on Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson’s wrongheaded scheming. Democrat leaders may have tinkered a bit with the Bush aide’s proposal, but certainly not enough to make it acceptable — let alone wisely enacted.
DeFazio, a Democratic dissenter, says that the bill Pelosi tried to get the House to back Monday demands that taxpayers take on too much of the risk which creating openings for Wall Streeters to pocket millions (perhaps billions) in federal dollars. While the Pelosi plan may put some limits on so-called golden parachutes, it still allows for what DeFazio describes as “camouflage parachutes”–hidden payouts to the corporate CEOs who created the crisis.
That’s exactly what the Oregon populist is doing with a new proposal, the “No BAILOUTS Act” (Bringing Accountability, Increased Liquidity, Oversight, and Upholding Taxpayer Security). Introduced Tuesday with co-sponsorship from some of the most outspoken critics of the Paulson machinations – including Ohio Democrat Marcy Kaptur, a leader of the anti-bailout movement in Congress – the measure would impose a securities tax equivalent to one quarter of one percent of profits and empower the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to deal more effectively with bank failures.
The plan is based on a proposal made last week by former FDIC chair William Isaac, who recalled that in the 1980s Congress enacted a “net worth certificate” program – which allowed the federal agency to shore up the capital of weak banks to give them more time to resolve their problems – and the FDIC resolved a $100 billion insolvency in savings banks for a total cost of less than $2 billion.
“It was a big success and could work in the current climate,” argued Isaac.
If we were to (1) implement a program to ease the fears of depositors and other general creditors of banks; (2) keep tight restrictions on short sellers of financial stocks; (3) suspend fair-value accounting (which has contributed mightily to our problems by marking assets to unrealistic fire-sale prices); and (4) authorize a net worth certificate program, we could settle the financial markets without significant expense to taxpayers.
Say Congress spends $700 billion of taxpayer money on the loan purchase proposal. What do we do next? If, however, we implement the program suggested above, we will have $700 billion of dry powder we can put to work in targeted tax incentives if needed to get the economy moving again.
The banks do not need taxpayers to carry their loans. They need proper accounting and regulatory policies that will give them time to work through their problems.
DeFazio, Kaptur and their allies essentially agree.
So, too, does the powerful Service Employees International Union, which has endorsed DeFazio’s proposal.

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A video shot in China of the harvesting of angora rabbit fur has led several top retailers to ban the sale of angora products.

The video was shot by the U.S.-based animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of animals in a rabbit farm in an undisclosed location in China. According to PETA, China produces 90 percent of the world’s angora rabbit fur and has no laws against cruelty to animals.

In the video, a farm worker sits on the hind legs of an angora rabbit, while the four legs of the rabbit are tied on a bench that keeps the rabbit’s body stretched straight. The worker then begins ripping out the hair of the rabbit until its body is naked.

The rabbit screams loudly as its fur is pulled out. After their fur is taken, PETA says the rabbits are thrown back into “filthy” metal cages. Many of the rabbits are said to be in shock, unable to move, eat, or drink. The video shows rabbits licking their reddish skin or huddled motionless.

The report says the angora rabbits in China’s farms have to suffer having their fur ripped out every three months. Those rabbits that survive for longer than two to five years will be killed and their meat sold.

Angora rabbit fur is long and soft, and is often used for making clothes and accessories. However, since PETA released its video, PVH Corp, the parent company of Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, IZOD, ARROW, Van Heusen, and other brands have agreed to ban selling any angora products and have pulled all the products with angora fur off their shelves and their Internet sites.

Other top retailers, including H&M, Topshop, Esprit, New Look, Acne Studios declared this month they will immediately stop producing and purchasing angora related products.

According to Beijing News, the PETA video has had a significant impact on orders for rabbit fur.

“Our [angora fur] export is mostly to Europe. After this incident, our orders decreased by 30 percent,” Mr. Ma, a manager with a livestock company in Zhejiang Province, told Beijing News.

In the moments before Amiad Yisrael, cloaked in a prayer shawl, was laid to rest at Jerusalem’s Mount of Olives cemetery on Wednesday night, some of the hundreds of people who had come to grieve the newborn’s death held umbrellas overhead to guard his little body from the rain.

Amiad, the son of a Canadian-Israeli man who has family ties to Montreal, died three days after his father and pregnant mother were shot at a bus stop near a settlement in the West Bank, which forced his mother to give birth to him prematurely.

Shira Ish-Ran was 30 weeks pregnant when she and her husband, Amichai, set out for the Israeli settlement of Ofra to visit her family on Sunday. They were catching a bus home when a vehicle drove by and gunmen opened fire.

Bystanders at the bus stop tried to scatter, Amichai among them, until the 23-year-old rabbinical student looked back and saw his wife lying prone on the ground. Instinctively he dove back to shield her from the bullets. He was shot three times in the leg. Shira, a 21-year-old aspiring teacher, was hit in the back.

The young couple, newlyweds as of last February, survived the attack and continue to recover from their injuries, as do five other people who were wounded.

They weren’t well enough to leave hospital for their baby’s funeral. Instead they said goodbye to Amiad on Wednesday, a couple of hours before he passed away.

“They were normal people standing at a bus stop. Brand new, young couple, have their own little place, they’re renting — everything you would think of for a nice, normal, young family to be,” Jordan Charness, a Montreal lawyer who is Amichai Ish-Ran’s uncle, said on Friday.

Hours after Amiad died, Israeli forces killed one of the suspects in the shooting, a 29-year-old Palestinian named Salah Barghouti, as he attempted to escape arrest. The militant Hamas group that rules the Gaza Strip said Barghouti was one of its members, but stopped short of claiming responsibility for the attack.

After Amichai and Shira decided their boy would be called Amiad, his name was revealed to relatives and other mourners at his funeral. Refael Ish-Ran, Amiad’s grandfather, said in a tearful eulogy that the baby had “managed to unite the nation of Israel” like few other people.

Amichai, who is a dual Canadian-Israeli citizen and travels to Montreal to see his extended family every year, underwent surgery for his injuries and is on pace to be discharged from hospital this weekend, Charness said. Shira, he said, was in a coma for two days but is now out of intensive care.

Coincidentally, Amichai Ish-Ran’s brother, a member of the Israeli army, saw the shooting unfold live via surveillance footage on Sunday and immediately sent emergency personnel to the scene.

“He didn’t know it was his brother, because it’s not that detailed a camera,” Charness said. He added that Amichai’s brother is getting married in Israel next month.

Charness said it was nice to see the Canadian government denounce the attack and show support for its victims, but he couldn’t shake a feeling of helplessness as he sat at his office in Montreal on Friday. He can speak to his family in Israel from afar, but he won’t get to see them for another two weeks, when he plans to fly there for his nephew’s wedding.

That trip will come several months after he picked up the phone to answer a call from Amichai and Shira, who couldn’t wait to tell him they were going to have a child.

“They were so thrilled,” Charness said.

Drunk driving charges have been dropped against a New York woman who reportedly has "auto-brewery syndrome," according to CNN .

Auto-brewery syndrome , which is also known as gut fermentation syndrome, is a rare medical condition that can occur when abnormal amounts of gastrointestinal yeast convert common food carbohydrates into ethanol. It was first described in 1912 and was studied in the 1930s and 1940s. In 2013, the case of a 61-year-old man who had frequent bouts of unexplained drunkenness for years was published .

In the case of the New York woman, she did have four drinks over the span of several hours the day she was arrested. The woman had met her husband at a restaurant before Christmas and was on her way home afterwards when she got a flat tire.

However, she didn't pull over to fix it and another motorist called it in. She was stopped by local police and was given a sobriety test and blew several times over the legal limit.

In fact, her blood alcohol content was so high, she was taken to the hospital as a precaution. Her husband was contacted and he insisted on extra tests because he knew how much his wife had to drink and felt something was not right.

The couple also hired an attorney who started to do his own investigating. He hired two physician assistants, a pharmacologist, and a person trained in Breathalyzers and put the woman through another test. The results of that test led them to believe that the woman has auto-brewery syndrome.

A judge has dismissed the charges, but the local district attorney is thinking about filing an appeal. In the meantime, the woman has been put on a yeast-free diet of absolutely no sugar, no alcohol and very low carbs. She is also taking anti-fungal medications.

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Minters Paving in Bognor Regis was awarded the top spot in two categories at the Brett Installer Awards. Its patio work was also recognised.

A paving and landscaping company in Bognor Regis is ‘buzzing’ after winning two national awards for the quality of its work.

Minters Paving, run by Matt Minter, won a contractors’ choice award for its work on a driveway in North Bersted and also ‘Facebook Project of the Year’ in the 2019 Brett Approved Installer (BAI) Awards.

The Bognor Regis businesses was one of 50 shortlisted by an independent judging panel, including landscaping and paving experts from the industry.

Matt Minter, who has run the business for 15 years, said he was ‘absolutely buzzing’ to be given the award having recently joined the BAI scheme.

He said: “I’m so pleased. It’s just the recognition from other traders that look at our work and say ‘that’s the best’ and then to win by a long way and not just win.

“I just feel really excited and proud of our achievement. Everyone was proper chuffed.

He said he was fortunate that the client for the North Bersted driveway had given him a lot of freedom with the design.

He said that the team of eight had also been delighted to be awarded the contract with Rolls-Royce Motor Cars to create the paving on which the luxury car manufacturer would display its iconic cars during this year’s Festival of Speed.

“You don’t get much more prestigious than that,” Matt said.

Calvin Jackson, BAI Scheme Manage, said Minters Paving had stood out to judges ‘not just for the overall quality of the work but also for their professionalism and customer service’.

A Wigan cabbie had a lucky escape after being sent flying by a cyclist riding illegally on the pavement.

The badly shaken taxi driver, who would only give his first name as Trevor, was coming out of the Crusader Taxis office in King Street when the headphone-wearing rider crashed into him as he rode at speed along the path.

Luckily, Trevor, 44, was unharmed in the incident which he said could have been much worse.

Other cabbies at the rank took to social media to share CCTV footage of the incident, which happened at around 10am in the morning.

Trevor, who has been a driver with Crusader Taxis since last September, said: “I was walking to my cab to go out on a job when this lad came speeding down the path and I ended up on my backside. I was so shocked I was late picking up a customer.

“He was apologetic, but when he got off his bike he was more concerned about picking up his lights which came off.

“So much money has been spent on cycle lanes in the area, so there is absolutely no excuse for him being on the pavement.

Hossein Ghorbani, the owner of Crusader Taxis, said: “It could’ve been much worse.

“He only came to the office to drop some bits off, and when he came out the cyclist hit him.

The law states that cyclists must not cycle on the pavement even when there are no specific lanes.

Cyclists can use bus lanes when permitted to by road signs.

Students at Windsong Heights School are working hard to collect donations for the Airdrie Food Bank again this spring.

The school hosted the first annual food drive last spring, and the teachers decided to continue on with another fundraiser this year.

“Last year was very successful,” said teacher Maryelle Data, who has helped to organize the event.

The food drive will be a school-wide collaborative effort with all of the students working on different tasks such as giving school announcements, making posters, and sorting and weighing the donations.

“It’s been really exciting to see all of our kids get involved in leadership jobs to help out,” said teacher Jolene Avery.

At the kick-off assembly, students were surprised to learn that the Food Bank feeds over 37,000 people a year.

“I think it’s important to help out, so that every family can have healthy food to eat,” said Grade 2 student Cynthia Jensen.

A newsletter will be sent out to parents to ask for items to be sent to school for the Food Bank.

“Please look at what the Food Bank is running low on through their website,” said Grade 2 student Pyper Emo.

The most needed items include milk and alternatives, juice, coffee, rice, canned fish and meats, canned fruits and vegetables, soup, meal kits, dried pasta, honey, jam, syrup, flour, sugar, pancake mix, and sugar-free items for diabetics.

Baby supplies are also needed, such as diapers (sizes four to six), wipes, and formula.

“We also collect bathroom supplies like shampoo, soap, tissues, toilet paper, and toothpaste,” said Emo.

All of the donations will be gathered in tents around the school to be counted by the students.

“The Grade 2s are learning about different communities in Canada, so it’s important for them to know how to get involved in their own as well,” said Data.

Anyone interested in contributing to the school’s food drive can drop off donations at the school office from April 8 to 11.

“Our goal is try and beat what we collected last year,” said teacher Chantelle Balfour.

The latest volume of an academic journal includes articles on 19th-century prisoner of war ships, Second World War submarine history and military gravestones.

The National Museum of Bermuda Press has launched Volume 21 of the Bermuda Journal of Archaeology and Maritime History, which is now available to buy.

The museum is in the process of digitising previous volumes to make the entire catalogue of 175 individual articles available online for purchase and download.

Volume 21 features ten articles on history and archaeology by Bermudian-based and overseas scholars. Other articles focus on the 17th-century Chinese porcelain trade, Bermuda’s “explosive military history” and the 18th-century livestock trade.

Transcriptions of the minutes of the Governor’s council are also included.

Clarence Maxwell and Deborah Atwood, the co-editors, have invited leading experts in the fields of history, art, and archaeology to form an advisory board designed to raise the academic standing of the journal.

The board will advise on the direction of the journal and review papers submitted for publication.

It is available for download at nmb.bm/shop.

Announcing a Love Letters event. On Feb. 26, we'll team up with Boston Ballet for one of its performances of "Onegin." It's the story of a guy who meets a woman and rejects her. Later on, he changes his mind, but it's too late.

There will be a special talk after the performance that night. You can buy tickets, or enter to win them through Love Letters on Twitter.

"My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you." – Alexander Pushkin, "Eugene Onegin"

There is nothing more frustrating than listening to defenders of fundamentally flawed bailout plan that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and top Democratic and Republican leaders failed in passing Monday must be "saved" by Democrats who recognized when the House voted on Monday that this was the wrong response.

Pelosi's plan is based on Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson's wrongheaded scheming. Democrat leaders may have tinkered a bit with the Bush aide's proposal, but certainly not enough to make it acceptable -- let alone wisely enacted.

Oregon Congressman Peter DeFazio says, correctly, that the problem with the Democratic speaker's bailout measure, which the House rejected by a 228-205 vote â€“ with progressive Democrats joining fiscally conservative Republicans to say "no" â€“ is that it "is still built on the Paulson-Bush premise."

There is nothing more frustrating than listening to defenders of fundamentally flawed bailout plan that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and top Democratic and Republican leaders failed in passing Monday must be “saved” by Democrats who recognized when the House voted on Monday that this was the wrong response.

Pelosi’s plan is based on Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson’s wrongheaded scheming. Democrat leaders may have tinkered a bit with the Bush aide’s proposal, but certainly not enough to make it acceptable — let alone wisely enacted.

DeFazio, a Democratic dissenter, says that the bill Pelosi tried to get the House to back Monday demands that taxpayers take on too much of the risk which creating openings for Wall Streeters to pocket millions (perhaps billions) in federal dollars. While the Pelosi plan may put some limits on so-called golden parachutes, it still allows for what DeFazio describes as “camouflage parachutes”–hidden payouts to the corporate CEOs who created the crisis.

That’s exactly what the Oregon populist is doing with a new proposal, the “No BAILOUTS Act” (Bringing Accountability, Increased Liquidity, Oversight, and Upholding Taxpayer Security). Introduced Tuesday with co-sponsorship from some of the most outspoken critics of the Paulson machinations – including Ohio Democrat Marcy Kaptur, a leader of the anti-bailout movement in Congress – the measure would impose a securities tax equivalent to one quarter of one percent of profits and empower the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to deal more effectively with bank failures.

The plan is based on a proposal made last week by former FDIC chair William Isaac, who recalled that in the 1980s Congress enacted a “net worth certificate” program – which allowed the federal agency to shore up the capital of weak banks to give them more time to resolve their problems – and the FDIC resolved a $100 billion insolvency in savings banks for a total cost of less than $2 billion.

“It was a big success and could work in the current climate,” argued Isaac.

If we were to (1) implement a program to ease the fears of depositors and other general creditors of banks; (2) keep tight restrictions on short sellers of financial stocks; (3) suspend fair-value accounting (which has contributed mightily to our problems by marking assets to unrealistic fire-sale prices); and (4) authorize a net worth certificate program, we could settle the financial markets without significant expense to taxpayers.

Say Congress spends $700 billion of taxpayer money on the loan purchase proposal. What do we do next? If, however, we implement the program suggested above, we will have $700 billion of dry powder we can put to work in targeted tax incentives if needed to get the economy moving again.

The banks do not need taxpayers to carry their loans. They need proper accounting and regulatory policies that will give them time to work through their problems.

DeFazio, Kaptur and their allies essentially agree.

So, too, does the powerful Service Employees International Union, which has endorsed DeFazio’s proposal.