Hello there,
this is an absolutely amazing website

http://www.wildflowersofireland.net/ , compiled by Zoë Devlin
You will find there everything you wish you knew about Irish Wild flowers, beautiful, accurate and concise
It is noted on the summer/autumn edition of Heritage Outlook (dowload it from the Heritage Council website )

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For more than 30 years, life on Shetland has been sweet. Residents enjoy state of the art leisure centres, smooth roads and luxurious old people's homes the envy of every other islander in Scotland.



Thanks to a unique deal brokered in 1973 over the building of the Sullom Voe oil terminal, life on Britain's most northerly and weather-battered island group has been cushioned by an oil fund. For every barrel, Shetland levied a small fee: £200m has been spent improving the lives of its… Continue

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just a mathematical reflection



the economist this week headline story 'Three Trillions Dollars later'...

http://www.economist.com/printedition/

in reference to, what is de-facto - a 3 Trillion Dollars banks bail-out

Here is a quote...

"Governments and regulators want the banks to make profits so that they regain their health faster after roughly $3 trillion of write-downs. It is part of the monstrous… Continue