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This Month's Sponsor
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Delamere
Institute of Online Learning
Distance
and e-learning is now a major avenue of study, as the power
of the Internet gives access to international sources of
learning, no matter where you live. In order to enhance
your learning experience, the Delamere
Institute of Online Learning is committed to bring you
the state-of-the-art workshops, tutorials, and degrees,
designed to provide the skills and expertise that are in
high demand in this rapidly evolving information age. As
a preliminary step, we recommend that you go to our "orientation
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called "Are You Ready to Take an Online Course?"
Visit the site of the Delamere
Institute of Online Learning.
IN THIS ISSUE
1.
Business: Aid for Kenya
2. Business: Good news for our farm in Zimbabwe
3. Business: Electronic online payments exceeded paper cheques
in the US
4. Business: Did you enjoy some good wine this holiday?
5. Education: Christmas in a Nairobi Slum
6. Education: London Transport Museum
7. Education: New Training Academy in Cape Town
8. Education: For Literary Garden Lovers
9. Immigration: Private Hotline to help enquiries
10.Travel: Sad loss of Simon Combes in Kenya
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1. Business: Aid for Kenya
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Nairobi - The European Union (EU) said on Saturday
it had approved a grant of €120m to support Kenya's
budget in the next three years on condition the government
adopts acceptable economic recovery programmes.
The EU delegation in Kenya said in a statement that the
decision to approve the grant was made by European Development
Fund Committee in Brussels on Thursday. To read the full
report, go to our NEWS
DESK link.
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2. Business: Good news for our farm in Zimbabwe
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South
Africa and Zimbabwe are on the verge of signing an agreement
to protect the rights of South African landowners in Zimbabwe,
a top official said today. To read this report, go to our
NEWS
DESK link.
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3. Business: Electronic online payments exceeded paper
cheques in USA
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Washington
- Electronic payments in the United States exceeded paper
cheques for the first time in 2003, a Federal Reserve study
showed on Monday. The number of electronic payment transactions
totaled 44.5 billion in 2003, while the number of cheques
paid totaled 36.7 billion. Read the full report; go to our
NEWS
DESK link.
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4. Business: Did you enjoy some good wine this holiday?
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It's
history in the glass when it comes to wines from South Africa.
Talk about old vines. The hillside vineyards at the Bradgate
range in the Western Cape of South Africa date to 1889.
That's when 17-year-old Englishman Alfred Jordan sailed
from his home near the ruins of Bradgate in Leicester, England,
to the unknown and inviting land of South Africa.
Jordan
sought adventure and found it in the land. He named his
find after his home place and started making wine. That
tradition continues today as great grandson Gary and his
wife, Kathy, use their UC Davis mentoring to make state
of the art wine in their Stellenbosch cellars. To read the
full report, go to our NEWS
DESK link.
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5. Education: Christmas in a Nairobi Slum
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Nairobi - Life is anything but easy in Nairobi's
sprawling Kibera slum, which has been labeled one of the
biggest and worst on the African continent, with HIV/Aids
and unemployment hitting dwellers hard and indiscriminately.
But when walking through the muddy, slippery dirt tracks
of the slum a little before Christmas, hardly anyone encountered
mentions the lack of money, work or the toll of Aids on
them, instead many talk about God. To read the full report,
go to our NEWS
DESK link.
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6. Education: London Transport Museum
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Located
in colorful Covent Garden, the London Transport Museum is
one of the world's best-known facilities dedicated to exploring
the many nooks and crannies of this capital city's transport
heritage.
Fortunately
for those who can't make it across the pond to Britain,
the museum's website affords online visitors a small glimpse
into the many items of interest featured in its exhibits
and archives. To get some sense of the museum and its surroundings,
visitors will want to view the Panoramas area, where they
may view some of the galleries and a view of the exterior.
The
online exhibit area provides a small sampling of the museum's
holdings, include one that explores the role of London's
public transportation on the silver screen and a selection
of the many lovely posters created for the transport system
between 1909 and 1994. Finally, there is a nice selection
of excerpts from promotional films produced by British Transport
over the years, including a fascinating clip titled "A
Trip on the Metropolitan Railway" from 1910. Of course,
for those who will be visiting the museum in person, there
is ample material on the museums' hours of operation and
other germane details. Visit
this site.
From
The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2004
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7. Education: New Training Academy in Cape Town
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More than 100 school leavers who face a future without prospects
of either further education or formal employment stand to
benefit each year from a new entrepreneurial training academy
that will be launched at the UCT Graduate School of Business
(GSB) next year.
The Academy is the brainchild of Raymond Ackerman - one
of South Africa's best-known entrepreneurs - who has personally
donated the funds to start and keep the institution and
its training programmes running in perpetuity. Mr. Ackerman
used to provide bursaries for students who attended the
Cape
Town Academy (now closed) To read the full report, go
to our NEWS
DESK link.
Editor's
Note: visit the site of Delamere
Institute of Online Learning, which is a supporter of
the new Academy in Cape Town.
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8. Education: For Literary Garden Lovers
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Writers
have often used gardens as powerful tropes to convey a wide
range of ideas and complex thoughts, whether they be used
as idealized settings for human interaction or as broader
microcosms of the experiences of species interaction.
This
intriguing online website from the British Library allows
users to see "how gardens have inspired authors and
how authors in their turn have shaped notions of the garden."
This overarching theme draws on the work of novelists, essayists,
scientists, and numerous others, and affords visitors the
ability to view six illustrated themes (such as "Where
is Paradise?"), enter competitions, and send e-cards.
One rather astonishing feature allows visitors to turn the
pages of Elizabeth Blackwell's famed "A Curious Herbal",
which was published in London around 1731. This particular
copy was once the property of King George III, which gives
the visitor a certain sense of having a rare opportunity
to view the pages as perhaps he would have done so himself.
Visit
this site.
From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet
Scout Project 1994-2004
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9. Immigration: Private Hotline to help enquiries
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In view of the miserable failure of the INS to help genuine
enquires from immigrants from Yemen to the Congo to the
Dominican Republic, enquiries flooded the Citizenship Now
Hotline yesterday, seeking advice on how to become U.S.
citizens.
Sponsored by the Daily News and the City University of New
York, the five-day call-in service offers free counsel from
a rotating team of more than 100 immigration experts.
Delamere
Immigration Services are in full support of this service.
To read this report, go to our NEWS
DESK link.
Editor's Note: Visit the pages of Delamere
Immigration Services.
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10. Travel: Sad loss of Simon Combes in Kenya
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Simon
Combes a British wildlife artist who made a career of depicting
Africa's fauna has been gored to death by a buffalo in Kenya,
Simon Combes, 64, was out on an evening walk in a reserve
of the Great Rift Valley with his wife Kat and their friend,
cheetah expert Mary Wykstra, when attacked. To read the
full report, go to our NEWS
DESK link. Or read the London
Times Online
Editor's
Note: Visit our pages on African
Tours.
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This month's quote
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"In
my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things
in the world unless you also understand the most amusing."
~ Sir Winston Churchill, British statesman, prime minister,
author.
