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The INMEX 2014 maritime expo, held in Guangzhou from 10-12 December, provided details on a number of new or recently completed vessels built by various Chinese shipyards. The most interesting of which were for the China Coastguard (CCG) and other maritime agencies. CCG 1401 with a naval gun CCG
Egypt receives withheld Apache attack helos
Egypt has received 10 Boeing AH-64 Apache attack helicopters withheld since the military took control of the country in July 2013. The delivery was reported on 20 December by the Reuters news agency, which quoted local security sources. Confirmation that delivery of the 10 AH-64D Block II
Embraer tight lipped on Rogozin snub reports
Embraer, the Brazilian aerospace manufacturer of military and commercial aircraft, has refused to comment on reports it turned down a request by Russia's Deputy Prime Minister, Dmitry Rogozin, to tour its facilities in Sao Jose dos Campos, Sao Paulo, during mid December. The incident, which was
KC-46A first test flight expected six months behind schedule as costs rise
Key Points Boeing is preparing for its KC-46A test model's first flight six months late as costs increase Estimated cost of Boeing's work has increased to USD1.5 billion above the contract ceiling Boeing is expected to fly a test model of its KC-46A aerial refuelling tanker for the US Air Force
Update: Pakistan prepares air strikes in response to Peshawar school attack
The Pakistan Air Force (PAF) finalised plans on 18 December to carry out fresh bombing raids targeting suspected Taliban militant camps across the tribal areas close to the country's border with Afghanistan. A Pakistani defence ministry official told IHS Jane's the attacks will mainly be carried
AgustaWestland outlines Polish multirole helicopter offset benefits
Finmeccanica subsidiary AgustaWestland announced on 18 December that it has signed memoranda of understanding (MoU) with four Polish defence organisations relating to offset contracts valued at EUR800 million (USD981.5 million) to support its bid to meet Warsaw's multirole helicopter requirement.
Annual Defence Report 2014: IndustryThe global military industrial base faced a two-speed market once again in 2014. Financial performance of defence organisations in the Western world was sluggish as a result of ongoing economic challenges, while in the Asia-Pacific region defence industrialisation accelerated as a means of driving economic development.
Annual Defence Report 2014: the AmericasThe US military is re-engaging in Iraq despite its pivot to Asia and continuing budgetary difficulties, while Canadian efforts to support Washington against the Islamic State have also highlighted issues of funding and capability shortfalls. Meanwhile, the main role of Latin American militaries remains supporting the region's police forces.
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SES NEW SKIES' NSS-9 Satellite Successfully Launched from Kourou Spaceport.ECA ECA
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KOUROU, French Guiana -- SES NEW SKIES SES NEW SKIES, formerly New Skies Satellites (NSS), is a Dutch operator of communications spacecraft, owned by SES. On November 30, 1998, the Intelsat 703 spacecraft was transferred to New Skies' control. New Skies operates this and four other spacecraft. , an SES company (Paris:SESG SESG Systems Engineering Steering Group
SESG Software Engineering Support Group
SESG System Engineering Sub-Group ) (LuxX:SESG), announces that the NSS-9 satellite successfully roared into space onboard an Ariane 5 ECA booster from the European Spaceport space·port
An installation for sheltering, testing, maintaining, and launching spacecraft. in Kourou, French Guiana, on February 12 at 7:09 p.m. local time (10:09 p.m. GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) See UTC.
GMT - Universal Time 1 ). Approximately 32 minutes after lift-off the spacecraft separated from the Ariane 5 upper stage and was placed into geostationary transfer orbit A geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) is a Hohmann transfer orbit around the Earth between a low Earth orbit (LEO) and a geostationary orbit (GEO). It is an ellipse where the perigee is a point on a LEO and the apogee has the same distance from the Earth as the GEO. . Initial signals from NSS-9 were received at a control station in Uralla, Australia at 11:07 p.m. GMT.
NSS-9 was manufactured by Orbital Sciences Corporation Orbital Sciences Corporation (OSC, though commonly referred to as Orbital) is a Dulles, Virginia company which specializes in satellite launch and manufacture. Its Launch Systems Group is heavily involved with missile defense launch systems. (NYSE NYSE
See: New York Stock Exchange :ORB), with launch services onboard Ariane 5 provided by Arianespace. The satellite, procured by SES Satellite Leasing Limited in the Isle of Man Noun 1. Isle of Man - one of the British Isles in the Irish Sea
British Isles - Great Britain and Ireland and adjacent islands in the north Atlantic , is poised to be the 40th satellite in SES' global fleet.
Rob Bednarek, President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of SES AMERICOM-NEW SKIES, stated: "The flawless launch of NSS-9 allows us to ensure seamless continuity for a variety of customers at the important orbital position of 183 degrees East. At the same time it frees up the existing NSS-5 satellite for new missions and new markets. Our thanks for a mission well accomplished go to the skilled launch teams of Arianespace, Orbital Sciences and SES ENGINEERING. SES looks forward to being back in Kourou no later than the third quarter of this year for the launch of our NSS-12 satellite onboard Ariane 5."
"With today's successful launch of the NSS-9 satellite for SES and early indications the satellite is working as expected, our latest communications satellite is off to a very good beginning to its mission to provide telecommunications services to people and businesses around the world," commented Michael Larkin, Orbital's Executive Vice President and General Manager of its Space Systems Group.
Immediately following the successful launch of NSS-9, Jean-Yves Le Gall Jean-Yves Le Gall (born in 1959) is an Engineering Graduate from the Ecole Superieure d'Optique (1981) and holds a Doctorate in Engineering from the Paris-Sud University.(1983). , Chairman & CEO of Arianespace said: "We are very honoured that the SES group has entrusted us with 31 satellites for launching over the past 20 years. Arianespace and SES share a rich history, one that is based on cooperation, quality services and a spirit of innovation. This partnership which has stood the test of time will no doubt continue in the years to come."
About NSS-9
The NSS-9 spacecraft will be positioned at the orbital location of 183 degrees East, a prime connectivity slot for the Pacific Ocean Region. The spacecraft carries 44 active C-band transponders, and features three beams that can interconnect on a transponder-by-transponder basis: a global beam providing coverage of the entire earth visible from 183 degrees East; a West Hemi beam (covering Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Japan, China, Korea and the Pacific Islands); and an East Hemi beam (providing coverage and connectivity to the U.S., Hawaii and Polynesia). NSS-9 is specified for a minimum service life of 15 years. Based on Orbital's Star 2 satellite bus, the spacecraft had a launch mass of 2230 kilograms, offers a payload power of 2.3 kW, and features command encryption as well as key redundant on-board systems to provide maximum operational security.
About SES NEW SKIES
SES NEW SKIES is an SES company (Paris:SESG) (LuxX:SESG) offering satellite communication services to a range of customers including telecommunications providers, broadcasters, corporations and governments around the world. SES NEW SKIES now has a global fleet of eight satellites in orbit, with two additional spacecraft under construction (NSS-12 and NSS-14) and ground facilities around the world.
Headquartered in The Hague, the company has offices in Johannesburg, Sao Paulo, Singapore, Sydney and Washington, D.C. In addition to SES NEW SKIES, SES wholly owns the market-leading satellite operators SES ASTRA in Europe and SES AMERICOM in North America, 90% of SES SIRIUS in Europe, and strategic participations in Ciel in Canada and Quetzsat in Mexico. SES provides outstanding satellite communications solutions via a global fleet of 39 satellites in 26 orbital locations. Further information on the company is available at www.ses-newskies.com and on SES at www.ses.com
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Japan is a beautiful country in the Pacific Ocean. It is a group of islands. The present capital of this advanced country is Tokyo. Though this technologically developed city is located at the bank of the Tokyo Bay , many a oceanic disasters of the largest ocean are always frightening the entire people of the country. For frequent tsunami, earthquake, typhoon and other natural calamities millions of Japanese people were washed away. Thousands of flower like babies were killed or left orphans . Living babies have forgotten to smile at the sad demise of their loving parents.
山の手 Yamanote and 下町 Shitamachi are two important parts of Japan . 山の手 Yamanote is a Japanese words, written in Kanji and the meaning is foot hill and 下町 Shitamachi has also an English meaning. Shitamachi means downtown . Both the places are important . Yamanote has high social status but Shitamachi has lower status . But for real development works the distinction between two parts of Tokyo city is gradually diminishing. The river Sumida has been flowing through Tokyo and people living at its bank have been living with the new look of mixed culture.
Japanese friend 有希子 ( Yukiko ) has very vividly highlighted Edo influence on the people of Shitamachi area. According to her description it is very clear that Edo people came there . It's called SHITAMACHI.
有希子 also said " Shitamachi is fomed by Shogunate during Edo era. Edo people carried
some things to center of Edo city by boat. River is important in Edo era.
Anyway, she likes to see a view of river. It makes me feel relaxed.
Kanda shrine is Shinto. In the Edo era, It protect all of Edo people from evils
as protectorate God of the Edo city. It is keeping do that for nearly 1300 years.
I'm gonna go to Nagoya for a short trip for next weekend.
I'll visit to ISE shrine. ISE shrine is Shinto, too.
It's the Japanese Goddess of the Sun and the God of clothing, food and housing.
Gods are present everywhere in Japan. A great festival of Shitamachi is "Mikoshi". Matsuri. Like Rathjatra of India, Japanese people enjoy the Mikoshi festival. people enjoy very much.
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EU competition commissioner Joachim Almunia announces a a record near-€1.5-bn fine for companies found guilty of running a cartel for a decade. AFP
Philips, LG Electronics , Samsung SDI and three other firms were fined a record €1.47 billion ($A1.89 billion) by EU antitrust regulators for fixing prices of TV and monitor cathode-ray tubes for nearly a decade.
The European Commission slapped the biggest penalty, of €313.4 million, on Dutch-based Philips on Wednesday. LG Electronics came in second with a €295.6 million fine.
The EU competition authority fined Panasonic €157.5 million, Samsung SDI €150.8 million, Toshiba €28 million, and French company Technicolor €38.6 million.
Two Panasonic joint ventures were also fined. Taiwanese firm Chunghwa Picture Tubes blew the whistle on the cartels in TV and computer monitors and escaped a fine.
The two cartels, one involving TVs and the other computer monitors, operated worldwide between 1996 and 2006, during which company executives discussed how to fix prices and share markets at "green meetings", so-called because the events often ended with a round of golf.
"These cartels for cathode ray tubes are 'textbook cartels': they feature all the worst kinds of anti-competitive behaviour that are strictly forbidden to companies doing business in Europe," EU Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia said in a statement.
He said the violations were especially harmful for consumers, as cathode ray tubes accounted for 50 to 70 per cent of the price of a screen.
Cathode ray tubes have largely been replaced by more advanced display technologies such as liquid-crystal display (LCD), plasma display and organic light-emitting diodes.
The biggest fine prior to the cathode-ray tube cartel was €1.38 billion imposed on participants in a car glass cartel in 2008.
The Commission's sanctions followed a total fine of €128.74 million levied last year against four producers of the glass used in cathode-ray tubes.
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Six of Germany's 16 states, or "Laender" in German -- Bavaria, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Berlin, Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt and North Rhine-Westphalia -- have "extremely strong financial and operational linkages" with the federal government, Moody's said on its website. The "negative outlooks on German Laender mirror the negative outlook on Germany's sovereign rating."
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Euro-area bonds fell after Moody's lowered the outlook to negative on July 23 for the top Aaa credit ratings of Germany, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, citing "rising uncertainty" over Europe's debt crisis. Moody's left Finland as the only country in the 17-nation euro region with a stable outlook for its top ranking.
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-110725222014-12-14T23:08:40.480+10:00the public houseMine Hosthttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-11072522.post-45540296821150376792014-12-10T21:02:00.001+10:002014-12-10T21:02:31.502+10:00Bread

This bread (well, bread-to-be) came from a plot of about 2,000 acres. The paddock was about 3,000 acres, but not all was cleared for farming, the lesser quality soils weren't bothered with - example the part in the photo.

Dumping wheat on the ground is far from ideal. It was not common practice. However it has to be harvested when it is ready, there was only 200 tonnes of on-farm storage, and there is a time frame in which to deliver it. The depot closes on a certain date, and that is "it" for deliveries for that season.

I forget the yield. I kept a ledger of every truck that loaded, there was about 3,000 tonnes handled this way. It went about 17% protein, which is about par on that country.

Mine Hosthttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-11072522.post-32731613151304962622014-12-05T00:20:00.002+10:002014-12-05T00:20:35.483+10:00The Top Shelf

One small section of it anyway.

Mine Hosthttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-11072522.post-45514643379507344382014-06-29T12:15:00.000+10:002014-06-29T12:17:16.406+10:00Card FeesMine Host's mobile phone rings. This number is a state secret, thus the call is likely quite important.

The caller is some cute salesgirl for some life insurance company connected to American Express.

The cute voiced girl blunders onward with the sales pitch.

She misses the verbal clue from Mine Host that he is prepared to listen, but is not happy.

She drones on, Mine Host tunes out. Eventually she gets to the part where Mine Host has to verbally agree to his American Express card being debited.

He says "No".

Mine Host calculates that she has taken up Seven minutes of his time.

He informs her that he is going to divert the next several thousand dollars that customers wish to put onto their American Express card.

Waste Seven minutes of Mine Host's time, have several thousand dollars diverted to Visa or Mastercard.

Something for American Express to think about.Mine Hosthttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-11072522.post-23355274621802297462014-06-18T16:59:00.000+10:002014-06-18T16:59:00.106+10:00Just Dessert

The Wayside Tavern makes most desserts from scratch.
The standard of our dessert is a matter of quite some pride in the kitchen brigade

Mine Hosthttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-11072522.post-72947661779335291032014-06-17T23:40:00.000+10:002014-06-18T01:56:28.397+10:00Showbusiness

A little kitchen theatre. Actually a routine part of cooking. Quite spectacular to watch. Sometimes far more flashy than it looks, sometimes not so much.

So continues life under the long tall Chef's hat.
Mine Hosthttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-11072522.post-58183997416560903002014-06-17T11:45:00.000+10:002014-06-17T11:47:56.510+10:00Long night, early morning

The current slower economy means there are only Five chefs working at the Wayside Tavern. However there is still plenty of work to be done.
After the kitchen has finished serving up the restaurant orderd for the night, and the washing up is done, the work is not over.

Everyone is tired.
Any kitchenhands have wearily knocked off.
The waiters are closing down for the night.
The last stragglers of diners are in tete a tete over the remnants of their wine.
The front office is reconciling their shift and ready to go home.

But the chefs are straight into the work of preparing for the following morning's breakfast.

Breakfast starts early, nothing like being prepared, no nasty surprises first up.

So continues life under the long white Chef's hat.

Mine Hosthttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-11072522.post-5697824602566256612014-06-12T22:18:00.000+10:002014-06-12T23:06:17.963+10:00On the Shelf

Segment of the top shelf in the Wayside Tavern's bar.

A most serious accusation has been levelled at the Wayside Tavern.

Specifically, of stocking only the cheapest and roughest whiskies.

Judge for yourself.

Pictured above is a segment of the single malt section of the top shelf in the private bar.

There are plenty more, but this is a fair guide to the range and variety of styles regularly stocked.

Mine Hosthttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-11072522.post-60389737449339648872014-06-11T23:43:00.000+10:002014-06-12T00:49:45.084+10:00Market ForcedTwo large supermarket chains (gee, wonder which two that would be?) have branches in town.

On the recent Queen's Birthday public holiday, and all other public holidays, especially the Easter/Anzac Day week, the staff at each of the large supermarkets keenly anticipated the big money they'd get for working public holidays.

It was not to be.

Regular staff a each of these two large supermarket chains (gee, wonder which two that would be?) were miffed to discover they were not rostered on to work on any public holiday.

The work (shelf stacking, etc) was all done by juniors. Schoolkids who (of course) aren't at school on public holidays.
The public holiday rate for juniors is a whole lot less than that which must be paid to adults.

The supermarkets shafted their regular staff, but saved thousands of dollars.

So continues life for ordinary workers in a nation with prohibitive penalty rates.Mine Hosthttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-11072522.post-55388679799851717012014-06-09T12:07:00.001+10:002014-06-09T12:07:24.840+10:00Republicans

We must be republicans. The Queen's Birthday public holiday is today. We are all at work.

Actually not all. Public holiday pay rates are so high that half the services of the Wayside Tavern are closed. Mostly only salaried staff are at work.
Any regular staff who are required are the best performers.

Marginal staff are rostered off.

The wage (yes, singular) for Australia is fixed centrally, by a one-size-fits-all commission. The Orwellian named "Fair Work" Commission.

Were it not for the ill-considered decisions of this commission of underachievers, everybody would have a full week's work. As it is, most staff will have a light pay week, missing one day of work (& thus one day of pay).

Message to the underachieving inferior intellects on the Fair Work Commission:
Who benefits from the current arrangement?
Staff who lose a day's pay?
Salaries who have to work harder?
Customers who discover the services they want are today priced into closure and not available?Mine Hosthttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-11072522.post-16835988852013752952014-05-26T12:44:00.002+10:002014-05-27T18:30:50.182+10:00Banks feeling Heat?"Any publicity is good publicity"
The sentiment behind this very common saying is very sound.

Unless you're a bank, in which case the saying is:
"Any publicity is bad publicity"

In the past couple of weeks, Australian mega-bank Westpac announced a profit that was remarkable in size by just about any metric ones wishes to use. (eg, percentage of deposits, percentage of loans extended, blah blah blah)

Concerned (justifiably) that making lots of money at the expense of the Australian public (only the most ingenuous or foolish harbour thoughts that banks are there for their intended purpose - to facilitate the economy and public economic benefit) Westpac mounted a survey of customers ("We've just made a record profit that'd choke a horse; do you feel (a) ripped off, (b) extremely ripped off, or (c) totally cheated out of your money?")

Mine Host knows this as he is not a Westpac customer yet received a mysterious telephone call:

The call was a survey about the "customer service experience" of his dealings with a Westpac staffer by the name of; Mr. Rapacious Lender, a business banking manager.

The only contact with Mr. Rapacious Lender was several weeks beforehand when the Wayside Tavern's accounant had telephoned once with a most basic enquiry.

The telephone surveyor was somewhat stunned to discover that nobody in "the household" had ever dealt with, nor even met, Mr. Rapacious Lender, nor was any member of "the household" in any manner a customer of Westpac.

It would seem that one phone call was sufficient for Mr. Rapacious Lender to report Mine Host & the Wayside Tavern as "new customers" to HQ in the big smoke.Mine Hosthttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-11072522.post-46657427565133485862014-05-14T09:51:00.000+10:002014-05-14T09:51:02.056+10:00I'm not that crook of a Shot.

Former Prime Minister of Australia, Julia Gillard
This photo mock-up is a reaction to last night's federal budget delivered by the opposing political party.

Mine Host struggles to comprehend the mentality of those posting this picture all over the junk medium of Twitter.

1/. Julia Gillard was not the Prime Minister at the last federal election. Her own government fired her from the job some time beforehand.

2/. That aside, the government of Julia Gillard and Kevin Rudd (the fellow with whom she job-shared the role of Prime Minister) was so bad that even someone who has had a frontal lobotomy could not maintain a straight face to post the above photo.Mine Hosthttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-11072522.post-16096757698814911212014-04-01T12:02:00.000+10:002014-04-01T12:02:00.813+10:00Playing at being Grown-Ups

Spokeswoman for the U.S. State Department, Jen Psaki

This woman is 36 years old, has never held any previous job except as a political staffer, and thinks this is an appropriate response to a tense geopolitical crisis.

What fool appointed her to this position?

She didn't get to this level of stupid in one day, she'd have to have been exhibiting the signs for a long time, possibly all her adult life....
.... yet someone appointed her spokesman for the State Department.

What is next?
#Putin. ur like unfriended dude, take ur army guys home lolz @statedeptspox

Embarrassing for citizens of the U.S.A.
Comedy for the rest of us. Well, it would be if it wasn't so serious.

This picture reveals a much deeper message about the Obama administration.Mine Hosthttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-11072522.post-35885488354317848502014-03-31T10:17:00.000+10:002014-03-31T10:58:15.011+10:00Never Seen One of These Before

Encountering as an adult, something we've never before imagined existed, is quite an experience.

Things that you never imagined - such as the time changing arbitrarily by an hour. (Yes, some places in the world actually do this - a most surreal event to be present for).

And then sometimes you encounter an implement that you've never even seen used, but it can't be that difficult - surely?

Mine Host encountered this when once when the boss instructed him to use a pitchfork and move some hay.

Pitchforks are objects that appear in Little Golden Books, and nowhere else.
Actually using one is nowhere near as easy as it looks.
It's like fixing 4 x knitting needles 10cm apart, then with the resulting contraption trying to pick up a pile of drinking straws.

But pitchforks are a unique implement, used only in labour intensive farming enterprises. It is to be expected that outsiders may be unfamiliar with them, and may take some time to attain basic proficiency.

However some implements are universal. Or so you'd think.

Mop & Bucket, for example.

On the Wayside Tavern staff was an eager 22 year old Zimbabwen citizen. He had speed, energy, enthusiasm, and if called in to work unexpectedly, would arrive within 20 seconds, still dressing himself as he ran down the stairs.

This particular day Mine Host had occasion to ask the lad to mop up a liquid spill. It started well. Young Mr. Zimbabwe dashed to the laundry, returning at a trot with a mop & bucket.

.... then it all came apart... He had no idea how to use them. Yes, he'd seen mops & buckets, but had not the faintest clue what to do with them.

... Turned out he had no idea how to use a broom either. He didn't even know which way up to hold a broom, or anything else about it. Keen though he was.

From this starting point, instructing someone on the use of a broom, is not all that easy.

The mop & bucket took quite a bit longer.

So goes life in the pub trade.

Mine Hosthttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-11072522.post-58414101830057702342014-03-30T11:19:00.000+10:002014-03-30T11:31:56.693+10:00Market Evidence

"No worker on a 457 visa is paid a salary higher than the going rate for Australians doing the same job."

The above statement is proved by Immigration department (federal govt.) reports.

However it is not true.

Plenty of 457 visa holders are paid above the going rate.

Government reports are lies? Hmmm.... well.....Yes and No (in the best traditions of "Yes Minister").

Mine Host knows the government reports are falsified. The government knows the reports are falsified.

How is this done?

As part of the application process the sponsoring employer provides "Market Evidence" of the going rate in Australia for similar positions.

However, sponsoring employers must not submit any market evidence that shows a pay rate less than the pay offered to the sponsored worker.

You couldn't make this up!Mine Hosthttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-11072522.post-64181246139819501122014-03-29T15:23:00.002+10:002014-03-29T16:52:04.449+10:00Journalism - the valueless degree.

Even the most inattentive could not possibly have missed the deplorable decline in the standard of journalism since it became a degree course.

The above photo and caption were published today on news.com.au.

The best the kid who wrote the caption can hope for is to use the excuse of "I made a typographical error and one word was omitted."

In which case they should be sacked on the spot, for using bad English.

Alternatively the (cough) journalist who captioned the photo is (as are 99% of "journalists") clueless on "army stuff" and has written the caption exactly as they intended.

In which case they should be sacked on the spot, for gross stupidity.Mine Hosthttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-11072522.post-28287899030017557362014-03-28T23:18:00.000+10:002014-03-29T00:23:25.874+10:00The Enemy WithinIn the state of (say) mighty Queensland, a position as (say) an Appeals Court Judge becomes vacant.

The Attorney-General of the state confers with the president of that same Appeals Court, regards who to fill the vacancy.

The President of the (say) Appeals Court suggests two "acceptable" candidate judges:

Her husband, a (say) man, and

One of her friends, also a bloke.

Subsequently the Attorney-General appoints someone else.

Hmmm.....

Incensed that her advice was treated as just that, the President of the (say) Appeals Court finds the nearest microphone and sounds off no end about how the Attorney-General has a "bias against women" pointing out that the A-G has just appointed a male judge.

Stunned at this effrontery, the Attorney-General points out that the President of the (say) Appeals Court did not recommend even one female for the vacant position, just her husband & her mate.

At this comment by the Attorney-General, the court President then hits the roof, as do half the judiciary.

How dare the Attorney-General reveal to the public the two-faced hypocrisy, cosy nepotism, and the complete lack of judicial neutrality that seemingly abounds in mighty Queensland!

From the mass pile-on against the Attorney-General, one cannot but conclude that Judges consider themselves above the ethical standards that apply to the rest of us.

Gee, what a surprise!

Mine Hosthttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-11072522.post-16479916112985789362014-03-14T20:16:00.000+10:002014-03-15T00:16:46.648+10:00Slowpokes on the Information Superhighway

This arrived in the mail on the 28th of January. It is from a doofus corporation who can't seem to get much, if anything, right.

The address wasn't even correct. (They are somewhat inept at that corporation).

It was a bit of a tedious grind in the office on the 28th of January, so Mine Host, seeking distraction, decided to give Trip Advisor (a doofus corporation that can't get much right) a call to see what they wanted.

The phone number didn't work. Just how inept is this corporation?

Why send it at all if it arrives a month after the expiry date of the enclosed offer?Mine Hosthttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-11072522.post-73307573146492087112014-02-12T17:14:00.000+10:002014-02-12T20:21:11.839+10:00Reason #1 for banning email
My email inbox, a couple of days ago:

Mine Hosthttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-11072522.post-26904877133092296702014-01-22T18:09:00.000+10:002014-01-22T18:12:15.700+10:00Express Service IIEvery now & then dumb backward easily-fooled yokel Mine Host is telephoned by a certain (unnamed) sophisticated smart suave hip saavy Credit Card company.

This (unnamed) credit card company uses high pressure sales techniques and suggestive terminology to pull the wool over the eyes of dumb easily fooled backwooks Hick McGullible Yokelman Mine Host.

The calls always come from the (unnamed) credit card company's call centre in the Phillipines and go exactly like this:
"Hello Sirrrrr, this is Mariel from (unnamed) express business services, I see that remittances to you from (unnamed) express have been declining"

"Very observant of you Mariel, to notice that"

"Sirrr, Yourrrr business is declining..."

"No business is not declining, just that less business is put onto (unnamed) express credit cards"

"..... Hmmm.... Sirrrr... I am here to help you, that is what (unnamed) express is all about ([choke, splutter]) do you have signage outside yourrrrr business announcing that you accept (unnamed) express?"

"No signage outside"

"Ah, well Sirrrrr, if you had signage displayed outside yourrrr business you would not be missing out on all that (unnamed) express custom. Passing cardholders would see signage, and bring theirrr custom to yourrrr business"

"No, I get the customers regardless. This is a hotel, it is expected that we accept all major credit cards"

"..... I see Sirrrrr.... do you have signage at the place where they pay? So that people know they may use (unnamed) express"

"No, no, and no. Most of my customers are account customers, & pay direct into my bank when I send their monthly bill. Those who do pay by card on checkout usually ask which cards I accept, then riffle through a tight packed card folder & get out a card. They barely notice which card it is"

"..... Sirrrrr, are you saying that people are carrying more than one brand of credit card?"

(Where do they get 'em from?)

"Yes, as does just-about-every-person-on-this-planet. Usually if anybody is concerned about the card, they ask which has the lowest credit card surcharge"

(Now we're getting to the heart of the matter)

"Sirrrr, do you charge the same fee for (unnamed) express as you do for other cards, say Master or Visa?"

"No I do not charge the same fee, I charge double for your card, because your fee is double"

"...... (pause)...... Sirrrr, if you reduce your surcharge for (unnamed) express to the same rate as other cards, there would be more payments made via (unnamed) express."

"Undoubtedly, but I'm not going to reduce my surcharge for your card, and I get the payments anyway, just via a more palatable card"

"....Sirrrr... you would increase your business through (unnamed) express if you did reduce to the same rate as other cards"

"Me reducing the fee is easily done, when you reduce your fee, I'll reduce mine. Simple"

(This technique must work on some dupes, as they really push it hard)

.... (Dialogue now repeats the above 4 lines for several minutes).....

So continues life behind the front desk.Mine Hosthttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-11072522.post-68270809624658081642014-01-21T18:50:00.001+10:002014-01-21T19:10:05.216+10:00Express Service

Picture is a generic sample only, and is not intended to represent the Credit Card company referred to below.

A considerable chunk of the Wayside Tavern's income is via Credit Card.
All credit card companies charge the merchant a percentage fee on every transaction. The amount of this fee varies between card companies.

Getting to the bottom of various "credit card plans" is akin to comparing mobile phone plans. The more one looks into it, the more complex you realise it is. Mine Host has at times thrown his hands in the air in exasperation.

Not widely known, especially among those shoppers who object loudly and publicly to the credit card surcharge, is that the fee to the card company is only half the cost of accepting credit cards.

The other half is fees to the bank.

A certain Credit Card (which shall not be named) used to charge 6% and took several days to pay. Thus many merchants flatly refused to accept it.

When this card company (nameless) reduced their fees, promised swifter payment, and at the same time the law changed to allow collection of a "credit card surcharge", more & more merchants began to accept this card.

Historically that credit card company has been very difficult to deal with. This has changed, as they were losing merchants (and cardholders) hand over fist.

However, their fee is still double that of any other card. This presents them with some commercial difficulties.

How does the credit card company handle this? Cluelessly.

This will be explained in tomorrow's post.Mine Hosthttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-11072522.post-88164418786771214122014-01-18T14:20:00.000+10:002014-01-18T14:20:00.016+10:00Melbourne - BoganvilleMine Host survived a recent foray into the land of the Philistines:

Scene: Streetfront Coffee Shop in Melbourne CBD
Cast: Mine Host
 Super hot ethnic lady owner (long in the tooth, but still of breeding age, just)

Dialogue:
Hot babe coffee shop owner: *indeterminate grunt* accompanied by a lovely smile.
English language translation: "What'll you have love?"
Mine Host: "Cup of coffee please"
Shop owner: "How do you want it?"
Mine Host: "Long black please"
Shop owner: (grabs jug and commences frothing milk)
 -----pause------
Shop owner: (still frothing a jug of milk - but with a slight frown)
 "What did you say you'll have?"
Mine Host: "Laaaawng black please" (actual pronuncation in Mine Host's native accent)
Shop owner: (curtly putting down the milk jug)
 "Well, there's no need then for me to be frothing milk then, is there?"

This happened every time Mine Host ordered coffee in Melbourne.

The supposedly sophisticated coffee culture of Melbourne does not exist.
They drink it with milk.

Philistines.

Casual readers of lifestyle sections in major newspapers, or watchers of the odd bit of fluff-TV, are given the impression that way down in the deep south of this great nation, in the city of Melbourne there is a sophisticated, modern, developed coffee culture.
In fact this is one of the best con-jobs pulled on a population since the Ozzi people were told Australian wine is the best in the world.

For coffee shop baristas reach for a jug of milk & be halfway through frothing it before it dawns on them that they have a customer who has actually ordered black coffee, every last order must be for coffee with milk poured into it.

Philistines.

Never again will Mine Host allow anybody to get away with using the words "Melbourne" and "sophisticated culture" in the same sentence.

Philistines.Mine Hosthttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-11072522.post-40877119262759643212014-01-17T23:09:00.000+10:002014-01-18T02:04:07.349+10:00You've got to be Kidding?Workcover, Queensland's compulsory worker's compensation scheme, has demanded of Mine Host some information.

Mine Host's accountant has confirmed that under the prevailing legislation Workcover is entitled to demand certain information, and Mine Host is required to pony up this information, under threat of legal penalty.

The (bizarre) demand?

That Mine Host justify/explain the amount he spends each year on inward freighting of liquor.

I'm not making this up.Mine Hosthttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-11072522.post-51613089563354249052013-12-29T12:44:00.000+10:002013-12-29T12:45:25.487+10:00Office WorkScene: The Wayside Tavern office.
Time: 2:00 a.m.
Cast: Mine Host,
 One female staff.
Costumes: Mine Host in usual office wear (polo shirt and elastic shorts)
 Female staffer in nightie (not a slip-on, but a button-up)

Action: Female staff enters the office, pointedly closes the door, managing to undo a button or two in the process. Proceeds to the desk, where Mine Host is seated and rather than sit opposite, sits to one side, with no furniture or other objects between her and Mine Host.

It is quite obvious she is wearing nothing beneath her nightie.

"Good morning Miranda, how may I help you?"
"I just came to talk to you"
"What do you want to talk about?"
"Nothing in particular, just that we should do more.... talking... (purr... purr)" (wriggles a little on her chair)

"Hmm, okay, please go and open the door."
"I'd rather... talk with the door closed (purr... purr)"
"Miranda, open the door. Now"
"But I want to... talk.. to you" (pout)
"Miranda, it is two o'clock in the morning, you are dressed borderline indecently, I am busy, this is a working office. So...Open-the-door-right-now!"

She stands, re-opens the office door, managing to do up all buttons in the process.
She then returns not to her seat, but to one on the opposite side of the desk, chats inanely for about a minute and a half, then leaves.Mine Hosthttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-11072522.post-62038274420314808722013-12-18T21:15:00.001+10:002013-12-18T21:16:16.918+10:00Late for work = Early check out.7 a.m. - Two girls do not report for work in the Laundry.
9 a.m. - Two girls vacate their room.

They and their meagre possessions land on the street. Their room key and uniforms are already returned, they've been refused breakfast in the staff mess, and are now pondering what to do next. It is one week to Christmas, they are 10,000 miles from home, they've no money, and nowhere to go.

Their choice.Mine Hosthttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-11072522.post-69496273163607428662013-12-11T11:26:00.000+10:002013-12-11T11:26:39.646+10:00Stamford Hotel, a BYO pub.Returned from several days in the Big Smoke, Mine Host is able to report that the Stamford Plaza, in contrast to the Brisbane Hilton, does restock the minibar, and is very prompt and efficient about it.

The let down however, is the Stamford Plaza does not replace the soap in the room.

Not once.

Each day the room is carefully made up, the minibar is restocked, the linen & towels are changed, the (huge) bathroom (yes, it has a great big bathtub) is like new, but...... no soap.

This was not a mistake. It was every day.

Mine Host, who doesn't mind the Brisbane Stamford, will henceforth be sure to bring his own soap.Mine Hosthttp://email@example.com


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Lynn Crain realized at an early age she wanted to write. She took the long way to being published by doing a variety of things like nursing, geologist, technical writer and computer manager all of which have added to her detail-oriented stories. Now she's a full time storyteller and weaves fantasy, futuristic and paranormal tales as well as erotic stories for various publishers. She normally lives in the very hot southwest with her husband, son, two dogs, three cats and she's gotten rid of her snakes. Don't ask. Other members of her clan live nearby and include another son, daughter-in-law and two grandsons as well as various long-time friends. She is a past national board member of the RWA; founding president of Las Vegas Romance Writers Chapter of RWA; has held the positions of president, vice-president, secretary and contest chair of EPIC. Her latest adventure has taken her to Vienna, Austria with her husband as he works for a UN affiliated organization. You can find her hanging out at A Writer In Vienna Blog (www.awriterinvienna.blogspot.com) and various other places on the net (www.theloglineblog.blogspot.com; www.twitter.com/oddlynn3; www.lynncrain.blogspot.com ). Still, the thing she loves most of all is hearing from her readers at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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A delightful story and much too short at only 19 pages. Rachel is enchanting from the first page. Friend Samantha is encouraging and a good pal and even ex-fiance Devon turns out not to be a drag on the story as exes are wont to be. As for Dewin… He wins the readers' and Rachel's heart right off, even if he does have to wait for Rachel to figure out exactly how to free him from his enchantment.
Looking forward to some of this writer's longer pieces.
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I normally pass on anything that has paranormal, fairy, wizard, or any other such tags but I tried this one and wasn't disappointed, though a little confused at the end requiring a second reading of the last few paragraphs.
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John Bayley (writer)
John Bayley, CBE, FBA, FRSL (born 27 March 1925) is a British literary critic and writer. He was Warton Professor of English at the University of Oxford from 1974 to 1992.
Bayley was born in Lahore, British India, and educated at Eton, where he studied under G. W. Lyttelton, who also taught Aldous Huxley, J. B. S. Haldane, George Orwell and Cyril Connolly. After leaving Eton, he went on to take a degree at New College, Oxford.[1] From 1974 to 1992, Bayley was Warton Professor of English at Oxford. He is also a novelist and writes literary criticism for several newspapers. He edited Henry James' The Wings of the Dove and a two-volume selection of James' short stories.
From 1956 until her death in 1999, he was married to the writer Dame Iris Murdoch. When she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, he wrote the book Iris: A Memoir of Iris Murdoch, which was made into the 2001 film Iris by Richard Eyre. In this film, Bayley was portrayed in his early years by Hugh Bonneville, and in his later years by Jim Broadbent, who won an Oscar for the performance. After Murdoch's death he married Audi Villers, a family friend. He was awarded the CBE in 1999.
- In Another Country (1986)
- Alice (1994)
- The Queer Captain (1995)
- George's Lair (1996)
- The Red Hat (1997)
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- The Romantic Survival (1953)
- The Characters of Love: A Study in the Literature of Personality (1960)
- Keats and Reality (1969)
- Pushkin: A Comparative Commentary (1971)
- The Uses of Division (1976)
- An Essay on Hardy (1978)
- Shakespeare and Tragedy (1981)
- Selected Essays (1984)
- The Order of Battle at Trafalgar (1987)
- The Short Story: Henry James to Elizabeth Bowen (1988)
- Tolstoy and the Novel (1988)
- Housman's Poems (1992)
- Iris: A Memoir of Iris Murdoch (1998)
- Elegy for Iris: A Memoir (1999)
- Iris and the Friends: A Year of Memories (1999)
- Widower's House (2001)[2]
- Hand Luggage: A Personal Anthology (2001)
- The Power of Delight (2005)
- ^ http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2001/mar/18/biography.irismurdoch
- ^ Andreas Dorschel, 'Kuschelecke Liebe. 'Das Haus des Witwers': John Bayley erinnert sich kaum an Iris', in: Süddeutsche Zeitung Nr. 115 (21 May 2002), p. 20.
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Everybody has programs that are pretty much always open (Mail, iTunes, Quicksilver, etc.), so it's good to have them launch automatically at startup. There are a couple of different ways to do this. If the program is already running you can hold down your (left) mouse button on its Dock icon and choose "Open at Login" from the pop up menu. However, the best way to manage these is in "Login Items" tab of the Accounts Preference Pane in your System Preferences. Here you can manually add login items. In fact, in addition to adding login items (just by clicking the plus sign), you can also remove anything you don't want (with the minus). It's useful to scan the list periodically and remove anything you don't commonly use (sometimes developers, e.g. Adobe, will put things in there without asking). Removing these unused items can free up system resources for more useful things. But be careful that you do not remove anything important (basically if you don't know what it is, don't remove it). In addition to adding applications to the login items tab, you can also add Volumes to mount on login, including network mounts. Just mount the network drive first in the Finder, then after hitting the plus sign select it and it will be placed on the list, as you can see for my WebDAV mount above.
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The holiday season can get chaotic. Between gift buying, holiday activities, and keeping the house running as usual, the life of a mom in the months of November and December can feel crazy.
Eating healthy is almost always on the top of my list, but it isn't the easiest when I'm feeling spread so thin with so many things to do and such a little amount of time to get it done.
I'm always a fan of menu planning, but particularly so during the holiday season. These are my top 3 tips for menu planning during the busiest time of year:
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The holiday season is not the time of year to reinvent the wheel with menu planning. With a busy schedule and lots to get done, being innovative is the last thing I think about. I want to get a good healthy meal to the table with as little amount of time spent in the kitchen.
That's where my standby recipes come in. Choose meals and recipes that you know like the back of your hand and can easily get to the table quickly. The tip here is to turn any of your standard meals that you enjoy regularly into a little healthier versions if possible.
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Scott was only one of many panicked listeners who emailed us when they heard the frost warning last Monday. But he was the only one who was worrying about the Crops of Summer. He wrote: "I've been growing seedlings indoors for a couple of weeks and JUST transplanted the best-looking cantaloupes, cucumbers, tomatoes, and peppers outside. Can I protect them? I have a tarp that could cover the whole thing "
Well, the tarp would end your problem, Scott -- by smothering your baby plants to death instead of protecting them. And you double-jumped the gun. Cukes, tomatoes, peppers and cantaloupes are tropical plants that should not be put outdoors for weeks yet.
The only way to save those kinds of plants is to bring them right back inside, put them back under their lights in a nice warm room, and apologize.
Look to nighttime lows for tomato planting time
Panicked listener Scott may have won the "No! I WASN'T thinking!" award by putting his tomatoes in the ground right before our area-wide frost last Monday (I woke up to snow on my garden on Wednesday!), but his lesson can now serve as a warning to others who don't understand the needs of tropical plants such as cukes, peppers, tomatoes and squash.
And that lesson is to forget "frosts" and "freezes." The plants of summer don't just need not to freeze to death; they also require relatively warm temperatures if you want them to thrive. That means waiting until your local nighttime temperatures are reliably in the 50s, which generally occurs mid-May. Forget about daytime temps; they're just enticing illusions. It's the low temps at night for at least a week going forward that count.
Yes, temps in the 30s will kill tropical plants outright. But these plants have no sense of humor about nights in the 40s either. And even if they don't actually die, they will, at the very least, suffer a form of transplant shock that will set them back by several weeks.
Stick with cool-season crops such as carrots, peas and salad greens for now. Tomato planting time is still a month away.
Crabgrass has probably taken root for most by now
Back on Monday, Margaret in Rockville wrote: "Is it too late to apply corn gluten to my lawn? And where would I get the stuff?"
Well, it was already pretty close, but probably not quite too late to apply corn gluten to prevent crabgrass in our northern suburbs back on Monday, Marge. But it was way too late to just start thinking about maybe kind of somehow picking some up somewhere. Maybe.
My spider sense (and indicators such as bloom on forsythia and local water temperatures) tell me that crabgrass is now actively germinating throughout most of our region. And, of course, once a weed seed germinates, no pre-emergent herbicide -- natural or chemical -- will stop it.
But cool-season lawns DO benefit greatly from a gentle spring feeding, and corn gluten meal is also a perfect natural fertilizer -- it contains the same relative amount of nitrogen as your blades of grass. So if you haven't yet fed your lawn, it's still a good time to get some "gluten" -- which you'll find at any large independent garden center or nursery.
Chickweed is a sign of excessive wetness in a lawn
Dave in Dumfries writes: "I got my corn gluten down in time to prevent crabgrass, but my lawn (and most of the lawns in my neighborhood) have erupted in what a neighbor has identified as chickweed. Will the corn gluten cut its spread? Or is there some other action we should take?"
The answer to your first question is no. Pre-emergent herbicides -- whether composed of toxic chemical compounds or natural ingredients such as corn gluten -- can't affect weeds that you can see, just seeds before they sprout.
And common chickweed germinates in late summer, so a feeding with corn gluten mid-August will feed your lawn and prevent the following year's chickweed problems -- the same way a correctly-timed spring feeding will limit crabgrass.
But proper turf management tends to keep chickweed out of lawns to begin with, Dave, so make sure you cut that grass no lower than three inches. And chickweed is a sure sign of excessive wetness, so don't water your lawn unless absolutely necessary. And even then, only water it (deeply) once a week. Frequent watering will embolden the chickweed.
And if the lawn drains poorly, plan to aerate it in the fall -- but not now. Cool- season grasses such as fescue and bluegrass should only be aerated in the late summer/early fall.
Easter lilies are "once and done," but spring bulbs can live on
In addition to a certain celebration of resurrection and redemption, Easter also means eggs, jelly beans, chocolate rabbits with suspiciously missing ears, weirdly colored plastic grass -- and Easter flowers.
Now, despite their association with this always-in-springtime event, Easter lilies are actually what we call "summer-blooming bulbs" -- warm-season plants that are forced by professionals into a VERY early bloom for sale around Easter. They are extremely difficult to carry over into future seasons.
But spring bulbs such as tulips and (especially) daffodils are totally doable!
So, if you currently have spring bulbs in pots, remove any decorative foil from around the pot, allow the plants to finish flowering, clip off the faded flowers and then move the pots outside into bright light. Water them, feed with compost tea, worm castings or some other gentle organic fertilizer and allow the leaves to turn brown naturally. Then just put the pots (dirt and all) in the cellar or garage until early November, when you'll plant the bulbs outside in the ground. Don't feed or water them in between.
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Camille Saint-Saens and Peter Tchaikovsky: the first a cheerful composer who joked that he produced music as easily as an apple tree does apples, the second a lifelong neurotic who may have taken his own life nine days after the premiere of his riveting sixth symphony.
There they were on the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra program Friday, the merrymaking Frenchman and the melancholy Slav. Yet they went well together, with the added fillip of Mozarts overture to the opera Don Giovanni.
Violinist Karen Gomyo played Saint-Saens Third Concerto as if it were a great piece, with a tone that was muscular whenever the music needed oomph and sweet when it turned sugary. You can see why music director Christopher Warren-Green wants to have her back someday for Benjamin Brittens concerto, which demands strength and lyricism.
Warren-Green capped the concert with a refreshingly direct view of the Pathetique Symphony, substituting joy and sadness for the hysteria and utter despair you sometimes hear.
Saint-Saens and Tchaikovsky were actually friends, mostly by long distance, for the last 18 years of the latters life. They met in Moscow in 1875, when Saint-Saens was on a piano tour; the Frenchman later helped arrange a Paris premiere for his new pals Romeo and Juliet. They reunited just once, in England during the spring of 1893, when both got honorary degrees from Cambridge. A month before his death, Tchaikovsky was preparing to conduct Saint-Saens First Cello Concerto.
If Saint-Saens seemed one shade darker than usual Friday and Tchaikovsky one shade lighter, that suited the music. The fierce allegro outburst in the first movement of the Pathetique sounded like a man jolted by the ugliness of life out of a hopeful reverie, not an outbreak of madness. The waltz had lighthearted zest, the march a brisk dignity untroubled by neurasthenia.
The final movement stressed poignancy, not morbidity an old-fashioned view of the piece that, after decades of frenzied or overbearing interpretations, was all the more effective.
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Obituary: David Lund
Date: December 12, 2012
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David Lund, 80, of Longboat Key, died Nov. 29.
Mr. Lund served in the U.S. Navy for more than 26 years and retired as a decorated captain. One of his greatest achievements in his military career was his deadstick landing on the USS Leyte, when his disabled plane barrel rolled immediately following takeoff. His quick thinking saved his plane and crew.
Mr. Lund had a long and successful career in the incentive-and-travel industry, primarily in the Minneapolis area. He started at the Gold Bond Stamp Company in the early 1960s where, as general manager, he played an integral role in starting the Performance Incentive Company, predecessor to Carlson Marketing Group. He subsequently became a partner with World Travel and Incentives Inc., vice president at Northwestern Meetings and Incentives, and regional marketing director at Networld Inc.
Upon retiring in 1992 to Longboat Key, Mr. Lund created Results International Inc. He also served on the association board of County Club Shores, for which he was known affectionately as "the block captain," and was an active member of St. Armands Key Lutheran Church, where he chaired the church stewardship committee for many years. He also loved boating and traveling.
Mr. Lund is survived by his wife, Sharon; sister, Wyllis Walters; son, Christopher; daughters, Carla Dinndorf and Leah Lietzke; stepchildren Stephanie Brennan Gorman and Keith Brennan; and eight grandchildren.
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Fruit flavored white swirl lollipops will put a smile on each of your Disco guests' faces!These Disco Personalized White Swirl Lollipops have a sparkling disco ball on the background which surrounds your custom text. Each 2.4 ounce Disco Ball White Swirl Lollipop is individually wrapped and measures 3 inches in diameter x 7 1/2 inches long. Our fruit-flavored white swirl lollipops make great favors to scatter on tabletops or add inside favor bags! Assembly required.


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Oculus Innovative Sciences Inc (NASDAQ:OCLS)
The Company has developed and it manufactures and markets, a family of products intended to prevent and treat infections in chronic and acute wounds.
Amazing new products in the medical field.
Agree! Efficacy of Microcyn appears to be amazing. With August 2010 approval of dermatology gel in Mexico and the beginning of sale of that product there in Sept 10 as well as in USA, the potential in that $3.2 billion mkt should kick the stock price up significantly. Looking at its over all potential in the medical industry, I see nothing but good things for OCLS, its customers and shareholders.