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The link will be here in a minute as posterous threw a wobbly over embedding a youtube playlist last time so have to edit it in in a minute

The full original track listing was:

Side 1

1. “More and More” – Blood, Sweat & Tears – from the LP Blood Sweat & Tears
2. “Stoned Soul Picnic” – Laura Nyro – from the LP Eli and the Thirteenth Confession
3. “Stop” – Mike Bloomfield & Al Kooper – from the LP Super Session
4. “You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere” – The Byrds – from the LP Sweetheart of the Rodeo
5. “Somebody to Love” – Grace Slick and The Great Society – from the LP Conspicuous Only in its Absence
6. “Brandenburg Concerto No 3 in G Major”, 2nd movement – from the LP Switched-On Bach
7. “Hey, That’s No Way to Say Goodbye” – Leonard Cohen – from the LP The Songs of Leonard Cohen

Side 2

1. “America” – Simon & Garfunkel – from the LP Bookends
2. “My Name is Jack” – John Simon – from the Original Soundtrack recording You Are What You Eat
3. “See To Your Neighbour” – The Electric Flag – from the LP The Electric Flag
4. “The Tihai”, excerpt – Don Ellis and his Orchestra – from the LP Shock Treatment
5. “Turtle Blues” – Big Brother and the Holding Company – from the LP Cheap Thrills (listed on the cover/record as “Ball and Chain”)
6. “Time” – Dino Valente – from the LP Dino Valente
7. “Ain’t That a Lot of Love” – Taj Mahal – from the LP The Natch’l Blues

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I emailed her asking her to support the bill and got this as a reply:

Digital Economy Bill

Thank you very much for your correspondence regarding your concerns over the Digital Economy Bill currently under discussion in Parliament.

I signed Early Day Motions (1997 & 436) and have written to Peter Mandelson and Stephen Timms MP, Minister for Digital Britain raising similar concerns.

Thank you again for contacting me about this matter, I will of course, keep you informed of any progress made. Please do not hesitate to get in touch if you would like to discuss this or any other matter further.

So we have an MP who on the 31 March has signed two EDMs around the subject and written to two Ministers raising concerns about the bill yet then dutifully filed into the lobby to support the government. I have absolutely no idea why she did this but I have written to her to ask for an explanation. If I get a reply from a now ex-MP I will update this blog entry. For information the texts of EDMs 1997 & 436 are below. If you want to check how your MP voted when the Digital Economy Bill was railroaded through with inadequate scrutiny you can find out here.

EDM 1997
ILLICIT FILE SHARING
12.10.2009
Watson, Tom

That this House notes with concern the Government’s proposals on file sharing which would allow rights holders to request internet service providers to disconnect for a period of time, or throttle, the internet connection of people who may be accused of copyright infringement via peer to peer networks; believes that disconnecting alleged offenders will be futile given that it is relatively easy for determined file-sharers to mask their identity or their activity to avoid detection; acknowledges that illicit file-sharing only costs rights-holders money when people download infringing content in preference to buying it; further notes that identifying offenders using the Internet Protocol address of a specific machine may punish those who share a web connection; and calls on the Government to ensure that any citizen accused of illicit file-sharing is given the right to legal redress in a court of law before sanctions are imposed.

EDM 436
FUTURE OF LOCAL RADIO
10.12.2009

Grogan, John
That this House is concerned that the Digital Economy Bill in its present form will threaten the future of local radio by creating a two-tier radio industry in which over 100 local stations, that do not have a clear digital migration path, are consigned to an uncertain future on the analogue spectrum once digital switchover has occurred; notes that, with 46 million adults listening to the radio every week and only three per cent. of listeners expressing dissatisfaction with their present service, radio is thriving in its current form; requests the Government to protect the future of local radio by ensuring that where appropriate, all local radio stations have a viable digital migration path; and calls on the Government to address this before committing the industry to analogue switch-off.

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Lots of water running down the River Worth at the moment. Melt water and a fair bit of rain have changed the river completely in a couple of days.

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Some images will be taken on my trusty old D350 and others on my iPhone or some other device that is handy.

These are not intended to be the best shots but those that save the best memories.

I have tried this a couple of times here in Haworth with no success. The birds just ignore it and it goes mouldy and eventually I take it down. In the recent cold snap I tried again with something similar, I filled a couple of yoghurt pots with fatball mixture and hung them from a tree in the hope that the Blue Tits would have something to eat that the other birds couldn’t get at. Over a week later a quick insepection showed that these have not been touched. I am sure that this would not have been the case with the Tits in Kent. Is this a learnt behaviour? Has anyone got any similar observations.

This did remind me of a short piece of video of Rooks on fatball filled coconuts that I took last summer in the garden. I have just uploaded it to YouTube:

It is easy to help keep birds alive in your garden and particularly important in winter if you want to see them in the spring. Having put out the mealworms I did a bit more than the usual topping up the seed feeders. I made some fatball mixture by grinding up some peanuts and sunflower hearts and mixing them with currants. Melted lard poured over the top and put into containers to be either put on the ground or hung from the trees supplies vital energy for a range of birds.

Some left over rice, multi-grain bread, old ham, more mealworms and extra currants along with some of the fatball mixture were then added to the bird table and put around the garden. Total time – about 10 minutes. Total cost – maybe a couple of quid. The result? So far visitors to the garden include a small flock of Greenfinches, Chaffinches, Coal, Blue and Great Tits, Starlings, Blackbirds, House Sparrows, Dunnocks, Rooks, Jackdaws,  Magpies, Song Thrushes, a pair of Collared Doves and the Robin of course. Although not seen yet a Pheasant will probably show up later along with a flock of Long Tailed Tits and a Wren or two. Maybe some Gold Finches and who knows what else.

It’s easy, simple and about the cost of a pint of beer to help keep this part of our wildlife alive which is well worth it by any standards.