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Taiwan president seeks trilateral Tiaoyutais dialogue
Publication Date : 08-09-2012
Ma Ying-jeou visits a Taiwan-controlled islet near the disputed island chain
Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou called for the establishment of a three-way dialogue mechanism between Taiwan, mainland China and Japan in order to peacefully resolve the long-simmering sovereignty row over the Tiaoyutai Islands yesterday during his visit to a Taiwan-controlled islet near the disputed island chain.
Making an address as he visited Pengjia Islet, which is one of the northernmost Taiwan-controlled islets, Ma said the trilateral dialogue mechanism could ultimately be realized by making use of the existing two-way communication platforms between each of the three parties involved.
After a consensus is reached with the currently operational mutual dialogue platforms between Taiwan-China, Taiwan-Japan, and China-Japan, the three sides could gradually move forward to a single meeting with all parties present, Ma added.
The president made the proposal yesterday as part of an action plan and follow-up in relation to his East China Sea Peace Initiative which was put forward last month to resolve the sovereignty dispute over the Tiaoyutais.
No plan to visit Tiaoyutais: Ma
Ma's visit to Pengjia yesterday, which is located 33 nautical miles off Taiwan's northernmost tip and 76 nautical miles west of the Tiaoyutais, comes amid media reports that the Japanese government has decided to buy three islets in the island group from their private owner to underscore its claim.
The visit, Ma's first-ever tour to Pengjia in his capacity as president, was seen as a concrete move by the government to reaffirm the country's sovereignty over the disputed island chain.
Asked to comment on Tokyo's move to purchase the island chain, Ma said yesterday that Taiwan does not recognize any move by the Japanese government to nationalize the islands.
The president stressed that Taiwan deeply cherishes its friendship with Japan and does not wish the incident to affect bilateral ties.
Ma, responding to questions from the media, said he has no immediate plan to visit the Tiaoyutais to assert the nation's sovereignty claim. He emphasized his hopes that the escalating conflicts can be solved through peaceful means.
While making his remarks on the small islet, Ma reaffirmed Taiwan's claim to the Tiaoyutais in his five-point initiative, and again called for all claimants to shelve their differences, pursue peace and reciprocity and jointly explore resources in the area.
The president said geologically, the Tiaoyutais, situated on the continental shelf in the East China Sea, are a part of the same island chain as Pengjia Islet.
Historically, Taiwanese fishermen have been operating in the waters near the Tiaoyutais and Pengjia for more than 100 years.
Ma said the Tiaoyutais are an inherent part of the territory of the Republic of China, and the government will not back down on its sovereignty claims, pledging that Taiwanese Coast Guardsmen will protect the rights of local fishermen operating in the disputed area.
Videoconference with Dongsha, Taiping
Ma arrived on the outlying islet on an S-70C helicopter along with several senior government officials around 1:30 p.m. yesterday afternoon under the escort of two Mirage-2000 fighters.
Three Navy frigates were also dispatched to ensure the president's safety during his visit to the Taiwan-controlled islet.
In addition to his remarks during the visit, Ma also held videoconferences with the Coast Guard Administration (CGA) command center and its outposts on the Dongsha Islands — the largest island chain in the South China Sea — and with Coast Guard officers on Taiping, the largest islet in the Spratly Island chain.
On his tour of the islet, the president also inspected a weather observation station, a CGA outpost and a century-old lighthouse.
A group of lawmakers from the ruling Kuomintang and journalists also took part in the tour.
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Users of older Xperia Z devices such as the 2013 flagship Xperia Z, Xperia ZL, Xperia ZR and Xperia Tablet Z can finally expect the official rollout of Android 4.4.4 KitKat soon after a leaked screenshot has been posted at Sony Mobile forums detailing the same firmware build version certified by PTCRB.
Based on the image posted by the uploader, the alleged Sony Xperia Z C6603 runs Android 4.4.4 KitKat firmware with build version 10.5.1.A.0.283 similar to what was certified by PTCRB recently among older Xperia Z devices.
At the official website of PTCRB, 10.5.1.A.0.283 firmware build version is the latest certification for Xperia Z C6603, Xperia ZL C6503, Xperia ZR C5502 and M36h, and Xperia Tablet Z LTE SGP 321. It will update these Xperia Z devices from 10.5.A.0.233 and obviously bringing the latest version of Android KitKat.
In addition to expected default features of Android 4.4.4 KitKat from Google and service integration from Sony Mobile, users are expecting a fix on the major issue regarding battery performance of the previous firmware build on older Xperia Z devices. The battery problem confirmed by Sony Mobile is apparently linked to the Google Play Services version 4.4.52.
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Android 4.4.4 KitKat firmware from Sony Mobile is already available to some Xperia Z devices such as Xperia Z1, Xperia Z Ultra and Xperia Z1 Compact. Here are the details of Android 4.4.4 KitKat for Xperia Z1 smartphone according to Sony Mobile:
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Wednesday December 28, 2011
Pooyie 2011
It's Good, It's Bad, It's Just Plain Crazy
By The Independent Staff
As years go, 2011 was fairly unremarkable, but it did have its remarkable moments, perhaps none more so than the flat-out surprising and inspiring success of the Ragin' Cajun football team closing out the year with a heart-stopping win in the New Orleans Bowl. Practically nothing brings a community together like athletic success, and we at The Ind are huge UL athletic supporters.
Kidding. But the year was indeed bookended and peppered by UL athletic success, with the Cajun men's basketball squad engineering that monster "Fear the Beard" win streak to close the regular season in late February and the Lady Cajuns softball unit fielding another stellar performance in the spring.
But we're a newspaper devoted more to news and politics, and in that respect 2011 was kind of "eh."
The ugly Lafayette Housing Authority saga spilled over from 2010 with the release in January of an independent audit showing just how dysfunctional the agency is. Three of its board members fired by City-Parish President Joey Durel and later reinstated by Judge Ed Rubin continue to hold "meetings," although they may have absolutely no authority to do so since HUD has taken over the beleaguered agency.
State Rep. Joel Robideaux, bless his heart, switched from independent to Republican, certain he could secure the speaker gig in the GOP-controlled state House of Representatives. Then Gov. Bobby Jindal's countenance shined upon Lake Charles Rep. Joe Kleckley as his favored candidate.
Robideaux threatened a roll call vote come January, but later backed off. All he had to show for his party switch was an R, which in Louisiana is increasingly synonymous with white.
The Lafayette area did pick up an extra seat in the state House thanks to redistricting, but it was mostly the usual suspects running for re-election or sliding up to the Senate, with few contested races this fall. Boring, save for the somewhat unexpected ouster of Rep. Rickey Hardy in District 44, pushed out by old guard standard bearer Vince Pierre.
The property tax proposition that would have bankrolled the first half of the school system's $1 billion facilities plan was brought behind the electoral wood shed, vigorously spanked by voters and sent to bed without supper, as was the proposition to undo consolidated government and return to separate governments for the city and parish — a prop borne of the idea that while the country folk would still be allowed to come to town, they shouldn't get a say in how we run things.
Last spring we began a running series, "Fair Share," highlighting valuable property in commercial corridors in Lafayette that's being taxed at an insanely low agricultural rate — a loophole many prominent, affluent land owners and developers have taken advantage of for years to the detriment of local government's revenue stream.
One of the developers exploiting that loophole, Glint Skewer I think his name was, did a swan dive off sanity and, well, it got pretty ugly for a while there.
Arguably the most uplifting story, and the one that occasioned the most pleasant surprise by this paper, was the way a reform majority coalesced on the Lafayette Parish School Board, highlighted in last week's cover story and underscored by the hire of Dr. Pat Cooper as our next superintendent. The way a simple majority on the board — black and white, Democrat and Republican, old and young — gelled into a positive force was something few saw coming.
On the flip side of the "Gang of Five" was the "Sore Four," as we labeled them, led in volume by Tommy Angelle, who embarrassingly characterized Cooper as a "carpetbagger." There's definitely some reconstruction to do in Lafayette public education, but carpetbagger? Really?
It's why Angelle is the honorary grand marshal for this year's Parade of Couillons. His candidacy for the board — and now his residency on it — seems in retrospect all about Tommy Angelle's need for playing politics and not at all about education.
Last year we debuted the Pooyie issue, a compendium of news highlights pulled from the eponymous weekly news feature covering the good, bad and just plain crazy that is local, regional and state news.
We're doing it again. Enjoy. And here's to 2012.
Lafayette Parish School Board
City-Parish President Joey Durel pours gasoline on a fire by referring to former Lafayette Housing Authority case manager Chris Williams, with whom Durel had a widely publicized row a few years before in the MLK Parkway fight, as a "piece of garbage" in an article in The Daily Advertiser.
State Rep. Rickey Hardy, famed for such whackadoo legislation as banning saggy pants and barring senior citizens from seeking public office, one-ups the bigots by co-sponsoring — with Metairie Republican John LaBruzzo, heir to David Duke's old district — a bill that would require recipients of state welfare to take random drug tests. The bill fails in the session.
City-Parish Council candidate Craig Spikes mails a fundraising letter accusing his presumed opponent, District 7 incumbent Don Bertrand, of taking LCG "in the same direction as our Federal government has gone in the past few years." But two days before the letter is mailed, the CPC votes on a redistricting plan that moves Spikes' residence into District 8, where incumbent Keith Patin handily whooped him on Oct. 22.
Wa$hington Mayor Joseph Pitre, who is black, suggests his town — and towns run by black mayors in general — is being racially targeted by the state, which insists the little town with the big speed trap return to state coffers the more than $200,000 in illegal speeding fine revenue it pocketed.
In an effort to sour the grapes and get a Tea Party library named after him, former state Rep. Ernie Alexander spews bile in a local daily newspaper story about Rep. Joel Robideaux's switch from independent to Republican. Robideaux is angling at the time — and seems to have a realistic shot — of ascending to House speaker, which would have been a political boon for Lafayette.
| Commercial real estate developer and erstwhile physician
Glenn Stewart went ballistic after The Ind exposed his
exploitation of a property tax loophole. Stewart waged
an ugly, embittered billboard campaign against Ind
staff members and even hired homeless people to stage
protests, paying them in warm plate lunches and cold cash.
U.S. Rep. John Fleming, R-1%, demonstrates an utter detachment from the reality in which most Americans live. The millionaire physician and restaurant franchisee whose businesses made $6 million in profits in 2010 lays out his opposition to President Obama's deficit-reduction plan by telling MSNBC, "[T]he amount that I have to reinvest in my business and feed my family is more like $600,000 of that $6.3 million, and so by the time I feed my family I have, maybe, $400,000 left over to invest in new locations, upgrade my locations, buy more equipment..."
After going all bat crap over a string of late-night vehicle burglaries, the Ville Platte City Council eats some (Jim) Crow when it elects to suspend a stupid, racially targeted ordinance prohibiting residents from walking the streets after 10 p.m. on weekdays after the ACLU files suit against the city.
U.S. Rep Steve Scalise shouts into the Fox News echo chamber when he equates a National Christmas Tree Association push to self-impose on member sellers a 15-cent-per-tree fee to fund a promotional campaign with — all together now — President Obama's tax-spend-and-regulate War on Christmas. Scalise tells a New Orleans TV station, "This new tax is a smack in the face to each and every American who celebrates Christmas, and may be the best example to date of President Obama's obsession with taxing and regulating hard-working American families."
| Cyber douche Christopher Hebert, the 36-year-old mastermind
behind the pathetic, bottom-feeder Facebook phenomenon that
was Busted in Acadiana, was arrested on stalking/cyber-stalking
charges, putting at least a pause on his megalomaniacal reign of error.
| A handful of Lafayette Utilities System customers donned their
figurative tin-foil hats and pushed back against the utility company
installing efficient, modern, remotely read "smart meters" on
homes and businesses, citing way-out-there health hazards
and even more way-out-there "Big Brother" privacy concerns.
| The Greater Lafayette Chamber of Commerce, lead by President
and CEO Rob Guidry, continued dabbling — badly — in politics,
smacking longtime chamber supporter and Senate Finance
Committee Chairman Mike Michot, a Republican and dean of
the Lafayette delegation, with an F on its first-ever (and likely
last-ever) legislative report card. The chamber later outdid itself
by endorsing Cajun comedian/attorney Jonathan Perry over
chamber member and major Acadiana "job creator" Nathan
Granger in a state Senate race.
Lafayette Police have had a busy day.
Gov. Bobby Jindal's administration will use $130 million in patchwork financing from a tax amnesty program, insurance settlement, uninsured motorist penalties and other excess funds to close most of the state's midyear budget deficit.
Democratic U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu said she disagrees with President Barack Obama's actions on immigration, hoping the latest controversy doesn't worsen her campaign difficulties.
Two bedroom in Lafayette or two bedroom in Kaplan
Sennond trunk show at kiki
Gay-rights advocates challenging Louisiana's same-sex marriage ban announced Thursday that they have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review their case before it is heard by a federal appeals court.
Thursday's explosion aboard an oil production platform in the Gulf of Mexico is now under investigation by the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement.
Acadiana's nightlife guide.
Thinking himself the "son of God," the man charged with the 2013 killing of an officer of the Chitimacha Tribal Police will not stand trial following a ruling Thursday on his mental competency.
Four hours after inviting supporters to a rally with Sen. Marco Rubio, Bill Cassidy claimed that Mary Landrieu "voted against stopping executive amnesty."
Either Saints coach Sean Payton doesn't want to tip Baltimore off as to who'll start in New Orleans' secondary on Monday night, or he really doesn't know yet.
Money from the first and only settlement so far in a Louisiana flood board's lawsuit against dozens of energy companies will be placed in a special account dedicated to coastal restoration.
Friday's Blogs from the Bog!
Ten departing CEOs rake in $430 million; profile of FSU gunman emerges; Buffalo's weather woes and more national and international news for Friday, November 21, 2014.
The Ethics Board gives the lame duck Youngsville mayor permission to offer a sweet parting gift to the community he's presided over for three terms.
Subtle jewelry
Carencro ranch style home or three bedroom traditional in St. Martinville
The money came through a general obligation bond sale Thursday.
A legend in the Acadiana Oil Patch, Comeaux died Monday, Nov. 17.
Acadiana's nightlife guide.
With a growing number of alleged sexual assault victims coming out against Bill Cosby in recent weeks, upcoming projects have been canned by NBC and Netflix, but that won't affect the once-loved comedian and actor's scheduled performance in Lafayette.
The Baltimore Ravens' retooled secondary had no trouble against a rookie quarterback at home. This week, however, their task is far more challenging: stopping Drew Brees on the road in New Orleans.
Add Texas Gov. Rick Perry's name to the list of possible Republican presidential candidates flooding the campaign trail for GOP Senate candidate Bill Cassidy.
Gov. Bobby Jindal is in Florida this week with his fellow Republican governors for another gripe session aimed at their favorite target, the president, this time taking aim at his immigration plans.
Early voting for the runoff is shortened by two days because of the Thanksgiving holiday.
"Coach Don" Gagnard is running for school board. Today he offers his critique of the socioeconomic relationship between government subsidies and obesity.
BP is heading to a federal appeals court in its effort to oust the administrator of damage settlement claims arising from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
Former Le Rosier chef who cooked at the James Beard House and was named one of the "Best New Chefs in America" by Food & Wine magazine in 1995 was 48.
It was only a few months ago when the LPSB held the school system's purse strings with a death grip, but oh how board President Hunter Beasley's demeanor seems to be changing with the ouster of Superintendent Pat Cooper.
Acadiana's nightlife guide.
NOV 21 Bobby Jindal is headed to Iowa again, the Des Moines Register reports here. The paper outlines what's going on with Bobby's non-campaign for president, and there's a lot of stuff here -- too bad none of it sounds like somebody running Louisiana. Hey, wasn't that the job he wanted?
NOV 21 The end of the term has come for the grand jury investigating a lucrative Medicaid contract and a former state health official's ties to the company that won it, the Advocate reports here, but that doesn't mean the investigation into this stinkiness is over. There are still some things to look into, the lead prosecutor says.
NOV 21 With the passage of two amendments to Louisiana's much-amended constitution (it has been amended almost 200 times now) higher education has an even bigger target on its collective back, columnist Jim Beam opines in this post. Higher ed used to share the spotlight with health care, but that has changed, he says.
NOV 21 Here's a weird one: The Louisiana Cannabis Industry Association has endorsed Bill Cassidy for the U.S. Senate. Apparently, Mary Landrieu said she wouldn't consider support of medical marijuana but Cassidy said he would, WWL reports here.
NOV 21 Solange Knowles, possibly best-known for assaulting her brother-in-law in an elevator while wearing an ugly dress after the Met Ball, got married in the Marigny Opera House this past weekend, the New York Times reports here. Knowles, who has a house in the Faubourg Marigny district and owns a boutique in the Quarter, married Alan Ferguson.
NOV 21 This post on the Fuel Fix blog outlines a $1.4 billion move announced this week by the Apache Corp. that includes the sale of assets in south Louisiana. The company's interests in more than 90,000 acres in south Louisiana are some of the assets being sold, the post reports.
NOV 21 One (possible) positive from Hurricane Katrina is a comprehensive zoning ordinance for New Orleans. Nine years later, we're getting closer to that being finalized, but the current version has some problems. Here's the latest in a series of posts on The Lens in which residents give their views of the draft; this one is more amusing than most.
NOV 21 The new NOLA smoking ordinance is going to harsh your (nicotine) buzz, man. This post on Gambit outlines the high (or low, as the case may be) points: it includes electronic cigarettes and hookahs in its bans; eliminates smoking within 25 feet of any building's public entrance and in any public space - or near any public space - operated by the city.
NOV 20 Here's an interesting article in the New York Times. The authors have picked one dish to represent each state in a Thanksgiving meal. Louisiana's dish? Shrimp stuffed mirlitons.
NOV 20 Politico reports here that Bobby Jindal won't be kept out of the presidential race by anyone else's candidacy. (If he's running, which he's not, 'cause he's not done prayin' on it) So he's not interested in who is running, or what the polls say, or how much money he's got? K.
NOV 20 NOLA Defender's Tiny Daiquiri has a little fun with Bobby Jindal's Meet the Press appearance in this post. Bobby is still prayin' on whether or not he'll run for the job he's been running for over the past three years, Tiny says.


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Scientific Forecaster Discussion
Area forecast discussion
National Weather Service Omaha/valley NE
526 PM CST Thursday Nov 20 2014
Short term...(tonight through sunday)
issued at 315 PM CST Thursday Nov 20 2014
Main forecast problems are precipitation chances/precipitation type from late Friday
afternoon through Sunday and temperatures through the period.
500 mb pattern this morning featured a broad longwave trough across
much the Pacific...a smaller scale trough off the West Coast of
Washington...Oregon and northern California and a blocking ridge
from western Canada northward to above the Arctic Circle. Our area
was in modest northwest flow...with a large trough extending
southward from Hudson Bay into the eastern United States.
Tonight into early Friday afternoon...we expect it to be mainly dry
as the ridge of surface high pressure currently over the area shifts
eastward. 12z NAM snowcover initialization was not very good...showing
higher amounts of snow on the ground in our area than reality. So
surface and boundary layer parameters from that model should be used
with caution in the short term. We will see some weak low level warm
air advection and an increase in low level moisture. Cloud cover is
going to be tricky. Band of stratocumulus clouds that extended
from northeast Nebraska into southwest Iowa should break up or
lift north overnight. Some middle and high level clouds will try to
spread in from the west. It is possible that some low clouds may
develop in the increasing southerly low level flow...but a more
significant increase in low clouds will occur Friday afternoon.
The shortwave trough currently along the West Coast will drop down
into The Four Corners region by Friday evening...while a weaker wave
moves over middle America. A few of the models are generating light
precipitation into far southeast Nebraska and southwest Iowa by late Friday
..so a small chance of light rain was added to the forecast for
that. Some patchy drizzle possible into the Lincoln and Omaha/Council
Bluffs areas middle to late afternoon. Surface temperatures at that
time should be at or above freezing.
It appears that the strongest forcing for precipitation will stay off to our
south and east...but we will keep some chances going for about the
southeast half of our forecast area Friday night into Saturday.
This unfortunately still looks messy as far as precipitation type GOES.
Surface temperatures will be the key...since precipitation falling will be
in liquid form. Right now it does not look like a big impact event
for most areas...since amounts if any will be light. But...it may
be enough to cause some problems...especially for areas within
about 20 miles of the Missouri border if they are below freezing.
Again...surface temperatures will be the key factor.
Energy in the northern stream tracking mainly across the Dakotas may
be enough to produce a bit of mixed precipitation in our far northern zones
early Sunday...so that was added. Current timing suggests that
light rain chances in the southeast part of the forecast area
will decrease a bit by Sunday afternoon. Trended probability of precipitation down a bit
by late afternoon ... did not go completely dry. A few models
suggest that it could end up being dry though with northwest low
level winds Sunday afternoon.
Long term...(sunday night through thursday)
issued at 315 PM CST Thursday Nov 20 2014
The 12z GFS/ECMWF/Gem and ensembles all start out in pretty good
agreement at the beginning of this period. They show a ridge
extending from near 30n/130w northward into the Yukon...with a
broad trough from Manitoba and Ontario southward into Texas. In
general...the ridge will try to build eastward early next week.
The models diverge considerably by middle week...and so confidence
does drop off by that time as well. This is similar to what
things looked like at this time yesterday. Highs will be in the
30s Monday into Wednesday but it appears they will slide toward
the 20s by Thursday. Lows are expected to be mostly teens and
lower 20s but possibly a little colder toward Thursday night. Will
keep the period from Tuesday into Wednesday dry for now...with a
slight chance of snow for at least parts of the area Wednesday
night into Thanksgiving day.
Aviation...(00z tafs for kofk...klnk and koma.)
Issued at 525 PM CST Thursday Nov 20 2014
A band of low clouds were just northeast of koma and kofk at 23z
and were expected to remain away from those sites...although
there is a small chance they could spread back in for a few hours
before winds turn more southeasterly later this evening/early tonight.
With light winds and fairly moist low levels...MVFR fog was
possible at taf sites later tonight before winds increase Friday
morning. A strengthening low level jet could provide low level
wind shear conditions at kofk later tonight and this was
maintained in forecast. On Friday...a continued srly low level
flow was expected to bring MVFR ceilings back across taf sites later
Friday afternoon.
Oax watches/warnings/advisories...
Short term...Miller
long term...Miller


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Book DescriptionThe Great War has been largely ignored by historians of sport. However sport was an integral part of cultural conditioning into both physiological and psychological military efficiency in the decades leading up to it. It is time to acknowledge that the Great War also had an influence on sport in post-war European culture. Both are neglected topics. Sport, Militarism and the Great War deals with four significant aspects of the relationship between sport and war before, during and immediately after the 1914-1918 conflict. First, it explores the creation and consolidation of the cult of martial heroism and chivalric self-sacrifice in the pre-war era. Second, it examines the consequences of the mingling of soldiers from various nations on later sport. Third, it considers the role of the Great War in the transformation of the leisure of the masses. Finally, it examines the links between war, sport and male socialisation. The Great War contributed to a redefinition of European masculinity in the post-war period. The part sport played in this redefinition receives attention. Sport, Militarism and the Great War is in two parts: the Continental (Part I) and the "Anglo-Saxon" (Part II). No study has adopted this bilateral approach to date. Thus, in conception and execution, it is original. With its originality of content and the approaching centenary of the advent of the Great War in 2014, it is anticipated that the book will capture a wide audience. This book was originally published as a special issue of The International Journal of the History of Sport.
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ŌĆ£It was a tough decision,ŌĆØ said McClellan, who resigned from the board effective June 30 to take a seat on City Council serving the 2nd Ward. He will be sworn in as a councilman on July 1. ŌĆ£IŌĆÖm upset IŌĆÖm leaving such great people.ŌĆØ
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Hi, in addition to my question on HK restaurants. Can anyone recommend a very good quality buffet. We don't mind paying a reasonable premium for the quality.
It seems every HK hotel has a buffet these days - which are the best?
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Hi, in addition to my question on HK restaurants. Can anyone recommend a very good quality buffet. We don't mind paying a reasonable premium for the quality.
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The very best I've found is at the Cafe Too in the Island Shangri-La Hotel. The quality is fantastic, and there's an amazing selection: Thai, sushi and sashimi, Cantonese, American, Indian, Italian, that's all in addition to dessert. Service is extremely good, as you'd expect in one of Hong Kong's top hotels. I'm told that the Kowloon Shangri-La has a similar buffet, but I've only been to the Island one.
The Island Shangri-La is in Pacific Place, at the Admiralty MTR stop. Cafe Too is one level up from the lobby.
The Sunday Brunch buffet at the InterContinental is every bit as good as the Cafe Too (maybe better), but it's only at midday on Sunday. (Cafe Too is every night.)
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Thanks rizzuto - we're actually stopping at the Kowloon SL - Are they the live kitchen style buffets where they keep the amount out on display small to keep it fresh?
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For the most part, yes: the buffet is alongside the kitchen, and the small quantities are refreshed regularly with freshly-made goods. At some stations, the food is cooked to order. For some of the Chinese items (especially dim sum) there's a stack of steam baskets.
One non-hotel suggestion for you is the Woodlands Indian restaurant, just across the street from the Kowloon Shang. It's completely vegetarian, with absoltely delicious food; decor and service and nondescript.
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Artist: Britney Spears
Venue: The Axis at Planet Hollywood
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Britney Spears new boyfriend is no different from anyone else who interacts with her … he had to sign a confidentiality agreement before he laid eyes on her.
Sources connected to Britney tell TMZ … Britney and Charlie Ebersol met through mutual friends and their first date was a lunch, but before they broke bread — before their first face-to-face — the singer's dad did what he does with everyone … he insisted Charlie sign the NDA.
We're told it wasn't awkward at all. Charlie knew the NDA was SOP for anyone who enters Britney's world.
We're told Charlie — a 31-year-old TV producer who's dad is sports legend/"SNL" co-creator Dick Ebersol and mom is actress Susan St. James — is taking the NDA seriously and is saying NOTHING about his relationship.
We're told although Britney and Charlie are dating, it's not "serious yet." Good news for Charlie … everyone in Britney's camp really likes him.
By the way … in case Charlie gets tempted … there are "severe" penalties for violating the NDA.
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Britney Spears did not have her new boyfriend Charlie Ebersol undergo a background check or sign a confidentiality agreement, despite a new report. Gossip Cop checked with a true Spears insider who never heard of those claims. The rumor was started on Monday by RadarOnline, which alleged that Spears' dad Jamie, who's also her conservator, vetted his daughter's new boyfriend.
According to the webloid, Ebersol understood the drill and passed Jamie Spears' tests. The site further says that the Spears patriarch even offered to pick up the tab for Ebersol's legal fees, if he wanted a lawyer to look over the confidentiality agreement. Of course, Ebersol is the son of legendary NBC producer Dick Ebersol, who's not only one of the nicest guys in the TV business, but also he'd have no problem finding a high-powered attorney look over any such document, if it existed. But it does not. More importantly, Britney Spears' dad did not have Charlie Ebersol checked out or sign a confidentiality agreement.
As Gossip Cop reported last week, the romance between Spears and Ebersol is relatively new, but the couple is happy. They've both shared smiling photos of themselves together on Instagram.
Ebersol, like his dad, is also in the TV business, producing reality shows that include "The Moment" and "The Great Escape." In 2004, he survived a plane crash that claimed the life of his younger brother Teddy. Ebersol, however, was able to save his father's life by pulling him from the burning jet. He's not exactly the type Jamie Spears needs to worry about. Regardless, a Spears insider shrugged off the RadarOnline report to Gossip Cop.
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Ten days of Lloyd Rochon's departure from his job as Carencro city manager, Lafayette District 2 City-Parish Councilman Jay Castille was hired for the job. Rochon was making almost $64,000 a year when he left the post, Mayor Glenn Brasseaux confirms, and Castille was hired by a vote of the Carencro City Council at a salary of $50,000.
Brasseaux says Rochon notified him Oct. 26 that he would be leaving the job he had held since 2002; Rochon's last day of work was Nov. 11. "Lloyd was the first city manager hired by the city," Brasseaux says. "He did an outstanding job for us."
Rochon says among his proudest achievements was organizing all areas of city government to increase efficiency in the delivery of services to residents, and developing a motivated and knowledgeable staff that is cross-trained to step up and assume additional duties when necessary. "Our staff is the best at what they do," he says.
Among his biggest accomplishments, the former city manager cites his work to help obtain $1 million in state capital fund monies to build a new fire station and renovate city hall. Rochon says he also wrote a grant application for $400,000 for the Richard Street erosion control project, which is in the design phase, and consistently obtained grants form the Louisiana Governmental Assistance Program for sewer improvements and other city projects. "The grant application is currently pending to continue renovations to city hall," Rochon says, noting that the maximum amount of the available funds is $50,000.
In citing other unfinished business he hopes his successor continues to pursue, Rochon says he coordinated with the Corps of Engineers for a $2.6 million grant to make improvements to the Beau Basin Coulee. While the funds were earmarked for this project, they were withdrawn when the debt crisis occurred, he maintains. "Efforts must be continued to keep this project alive and on the front burner for the Corp," Rochon says.
Neither Brasseaux nor Rochon would say why he left the post. "It was time to go," Rochon told The Independent Monday. He is unsure what path his career will take next but is not ready for full retirement. "I like to keep busy," says Rochon, who is also caring for his ailing wife, Eva Dell.
On Oct. 22, four days before he resigned, Rochon ran unsuccessfully for the C-P District 3 seat held by Brandon Shelvin. He also sought the seat in 2007, at the time being cleared by the Louisiana Attorney General to keep his job if he were elected to the council.
Rochon retired from the U.S. Air Force in 1977 after 22 years and worked as a communications consultant for South Central Bell for a short time. He was director of federal programs for the Lafayette Parish Police Jury from 1979 until 1984, when parish government was formed and he became the first and only person to serve as clerk of the Lafayette Parish Council. After consolidation of city and parish governments in 1996, he took over as clerk of the Lafayette City-Parish Council, retiring in 2001.
Castille, who begins his second term as a C-P councilman in January (he was unopposed this year), is the owner of Jay Castille Construction Inc. and is also a land developer, according to his bio on Lafayette Consolidated Government's website. He retired from the Lafayette Fire Department after 20 years of service.
NOV 20 Here's an interesting article in the New York Times. The authors have picked one dish to represent each state in a Thanksgiving meal. Louisiana's dish? Shrimp stuffed mirlitons.
NOV 20 Politico reports here that Bobby Jindal won't be kept out of the presidential race by anyone else's candidacy. (If he's running, which he's not, 'cause he's not done prayin' on it) So he's not interested in who is running, or what the polls say, or how much money he's got? K.
NOV 20 This week, Jim Brown is blogging about the big Keystone vote, and the sudden urgency with which some politicians have attacked the issue. Why is everybody all on fire now? Jim wants to know why they didn't care before the election.
NOV 20 NOLA Defender's Tiny Daiquiri has a little fun with Bobby Jindal's Meet the Press appearance in this post. Bobby is still prayin' on whether or not he'll run for the job he's been running for over the past three years, Tiny says.
NOV 20 Jeremy Alford gives his take on the Senate race and it's (curious) focus on DC and Alaska. Hey, isn't this race about Louisiana? Maybe not.
NOV 20 In light of the recent inspector general's report about NOLA police detectives' extreme incompetence in investigating sex crimes, columnist Stephanie Grace is remembering another bad time in NOLA police history. Unfortunately, it seems like that's all there is to remember - bad times.
NOV 20 Columnist Jarvis DeBerry is writing about a recent discussion about gun violence at the Public Health Association meeting. The discussion focused on data, and the shortage of it, since gun lobbies block any meaningful public research on the subject of gun violence. Do we need the numbers to stop the deaths?
NOV 20 Blogger Mike Deshotels says the voices of teachers are being heard on the state's new evaluation process. A committee set up to gather comment received a ton of comments and emails, he reports.
NOV 19 Jason Brad Berry, who blogs on American Zombie, has been scarce lately, but he's back with this lengthy, meaty post about the latest in the BP claims process mess. It's not a big surprise, but a lot of what he has to report is stinky, stinky, stinky. Stinky.
NOV 19 Here's an interesting story on DIG Baton Rouge for the vinylphiles: it's about the record stores in the capital city. And yes, records - the big black things that you need a needle to play.
NOV 19 The former mayor of Sorrento, arrested last month on child pornography charges, didn't get the answer he wanted from a federal judge, the Advocate reports here. Wilson Longanecker Jr. wanted his $1 million bail reduced, and after hearing details of his arrest, the judge declined.