Meat prices ‘must rise’ to protect UK farmers
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- Meat prices ‘must rise’ to protect UK farmers
- Fred’s Footprint: Measuring our global impact
- How To Optimize Your Mobile Website For Search
- Edinburgh Festival comedy round-up
- Clutch Peavy shows his value
- Botswana: Acid, Scar for Channel O Awards
Meat prices ‘must rise’ to protect UK farmers
The Independent - Independent - Aug 28, 2007
Richard Crane, food and agriculture partner at Deloitte, said: “UK shoppers will have to pay more for their meat. Increased prices will allow farmers to continue to meet the increasing demand for local, high-quality meat. Without it, the opportunity to enjoy home-grown quality produce and British meat could become a rarity on supermarket shelves. “Peter King, the NFU’s chief livestock adviser, said that, following the dismantling of the Common Agricultural Policy, which guaranteed a minimum price to producers, British livestock farmers have been struggling. Farmers are paid 200p per kilogram for cattle but this is 15-20 per cent less than the cost it takes to produce it, he said. The doubling of wheat prices has added an extra 45-50p to the cost of a kilogram, which farmers are unable to get back. “It is just at the point where consumers are demanding more local and more home-grown products that British farmers are most under threat,” said Mr King.
Fred’s Footprint: Measuring our global impact
New Scientist - New Scientist (subscription) - Aug 28, 2007
In spite of centuries of Europeans and home-grown Canadians exploiting the bejesus out of the land, there is still an amazing amount left, including the largest continuous boreal forest in the world. I really hope that we can find it in ourselves to show some restraint before we destroy the place completely.
How To Optimize Your Mobile Website For Search
InformationWeek - Aug 28, 2007
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Edinburgh Festival comedy round-up
Telegraph.co.uk - Aug 28, 2007
Down come the posters, the lighting rigs, the hired seating. Until the same time, same place next year, these glorious revels now are ended. It’s a moment fit to stir autumnal thoughts as surely as the sight of migrating flocks of birds. The Fringe is too massy, too messy to draw any single sane conclusion, although certain things stand out, most obviously that, with more shows and more venues than last year, it’s harder than ever to do just that: stand out from the crowd… it lies in the spectral pale figure of Andrew Lawrence, whose short-listed show Social Leprosy for Beginners and Improvers advised audiences on how to become impervious to any contact with the vile population of “this s****y little island”. Blessed with a pungent turn of phrase - he talks of “Essex chimps and their screaming, sugared-up, dirty children” - Lawrence redeems his despairing misanthropy with a bright-eyed charisma. Yet, in the end, it was listening to the fifth of the comics on the shortlist, Irishman Andrew Maxwell, turning with breezy confidence to slag off Muslim fundamentalists and terrorists, that I discerned once again that strange advantage of immunity from PC prosecution that outsider comics have over the home-grown variety. “The weather in Britain is so s*** that in the long term it will smash any fanaticism,” Maxwell cheerily avowed. Hang on a minute, you thought, isn’t that our weather, aren’t these our maniacs? Whose line is it anyway? Time for the Brits to bite back.
Clutch Peavy shows his value
San Diego Union Tribune - Aug 28, 2007
This team has developed me and gotten me to the big leagues. I love being a San Diego Padre. ”
Because Peavy is home-grown and, at 26, still ascending, his future has both practical and symbolic dimensions. The only major league starter with a lower earned-run average than Peavy's 2. 18 is his Padres' stablemate, Chris Young. The only pitchers who have earned more victories this season are Boston's Josh Beckett and Tim Wakefield and the Angels' John Lackey. Pitchers of that pedigree do not grow on palm trees.
Botswana: Acid, Scar for Channel O Awards
AllAfrica.com - Aug 28, 2007
Scar and Acid have been nominated for the awards at a ceremony to be held at Johannesburg City Hall on October 11. GA_googleFillSlot(”AllAfrica_Story_Inset”); Scar, real name Thato Matlhabaphiri, is a solo Hip Hop artiste while Acid is a two-member house music group comprising Jimmy Sengwaketse and Jimmy Serema. With Metlholo, Scar finds himself in a tough competition in the best newcomer video. He is pitied against Faze and Sanchez of Nigeria, South African Gumshev and L'Vovo of Bayang Sukela fame and The Dogg of Namibia… He is pitied against Faze and Sanchez of Nigeria, South African Gumshev and L'Vovo of Bayang Sukela fame and The Dogg of Namibia. Metlholo video is also nominated in the best African Southern video and is in the same pool as Uganda's Doma Do Bling and Danca Do Remexe of Mozambique. Home grown Banyana le Basimane is competing against South African dance manias such as Chomee's Jiver sexy, DJ Cleo's falling, S'bu's Remember when it rained, Mina wena's Where I wanna be videos. The category also include Kenyan DJ Zee's Same here video. ACID has been nominated for best dance video category with their song Banyana le Basimane. The event will be recorded live and broadcast on Channel O on October 27 at 8 p.