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Here's a warehouse full of designer treasures and, while eco-conscious Australian-made furniture takes centrestage, the tabletop offerings are no second thought. There's rustic handcrafted crockery by Melbourne ceramicist Shelley Panton, handmade Tasmanian copper cooking utensils, vintage and handpainted table linens and more Falcon enamelware than you can poke a stick at. While you're there, why not pick up a sustainable blond timber dining table to spread it all out on?
What to buy Bonnie and Neil screenprinted oat linen tablecloths are a sure-fire way to brighten up your dining table. Koskela, 1/85 Dunning Ave, Rosebery, NSW, (02) 9280 0999
Ici et Là
The first thing you notice at this Francophile favourite is the abundance of stripes. They're everywhere - strewn across cushion covers, down director's chairs, on espadrilles and across duffel bags. The next is the stunning collection of antique furnishings shipped over especially from France, the bright beach towels, beautiful bric-à-brac, and rolls of vibrant canvas fabric. For the kitchen and table, though, you'll find an ever-changing supply of vintage terrine dishes, linen tea towels and occasional pieces of antique French dinnerware.
What to buy The stonewashed striped linen aprons are as chic as they come. Ici et Là, 7 Nickson St, Surry Hills, NSW, (02) 8399 1173
The Bay Tree
A long-time Woollahra institution, The Bay Tree is an emporium of kitchen and tabletop gems, old and new. Their blockbuster collection (more than 12,500 pieces strong) includes Georgian-inspired glassware, pottery from New Zealand ceramicist Tony Sly and rustic French timber boards, peppered among antique china, vintage cooking moulds, silver cutlery and enamelware. There's fun, too, in the shelves dedicated to melamine plates and cups, brightly coloured tea towels and popping paper napkins in just about every shade and pattern under the sun.
What to buy Lusting over Laguiole? They've got the famed French cutlery in liberal supply. The Bay Tree, 40 Queen St, Woollahra, NSW, (02) 9328 1101
The first international outpost of the American megastore, Bondi's Williams-Sonoma offers everything from cold-pressed juicers to French porcelain. There's an entire section dedicated to Le Creuset, a wall for all your knives and other kitchen gadgetry, and shelves of sparkling glassware, crockery, cookware, bakeware and napery, ranging from the basic to the downright fancy. To top it all off, they also offer a small but sound selection of comestibles and a cooking school. Williams-Sonoma is opening a branch in Chatswood Chase in August and in Chadstone at the end of the year.
What to buy The mustard-yellow Quince range in the Le Creuset section is exclusive to Williams-Sonoma stores. Williams-Sonoma, 466 Oxford St, Bondi Junction, NSW, (02) 8973 5800
Chef and the Cook
As the name suggests, this kitchen and dining mecca is for every kind of food-lover, with a collection ranging from heavy-duty commercial kitchenware to products for the home. They've got almost every type of knife you can think of, from all the leading brands (Victorinox and Shun, among them), plus professional-grade cookware and bakeware, and kitchen equipment from the big-name likes of Tefal and KitchenAid. Table-wise it's all about Pillivuyt porcelain, Riedel glass and plates, bowls, platters and servingware in all sizes, shapes and forms.
What to buy Hand-forged from top-quality steel in a small factory in Niigata, Japan, the Tojiro knives are a favourite among chefs and home cooks alike. Chef and the Cook, 28-32 Mallet St, Camperdown, NSW, 1300 961 496
White Home
This pint-sized homewares haven offers tabletop goodness by the eyeful: earthy bowls, plates and carafes by South African ceramics studio Wonki Ware are piled high among the likes of horn and shell salad servers, silver and bone or mother-of-pearl cutlery, recycled French-oak breadboards and pretty silver-plated trays, lassi cups and tiered cake stands from India. Tablecloths are a specialty - there's a whole wall dedicated to them. Extending to five metres, they cover the spectrum of natural shades in linen from white to granite grey and greens, with napkins and table-runners to mix and match.
What to buy Pressed metal platters from Jaipur, India, are just the ticket for entertaining. White Home, 142 Edgecliff Rd, Woollahra, NSW, (02) 9387 4344
The Country Trader
The Country Trader is the type of place where you wouldn't want to make sudden arm movements. The 2000-square-metre room is a treasure trove of precious homewares and furnishings, both vintage and contemporary: French white china dinner sets, vintage glass jars, cabinets displaying silver-plated Champagne buckets, 19th-century pewter pitchers from Germany, and shelf after shelf of crystal glassware. Owner Geoffrey Clark's collection is arguably the finest and most expansive in the country and, while it doesn't come cheap, it doesn't come much better than this.
What to buy More like what not to buy. We can't go past the old-world charm of the early French china pieces. The Country Trader, 197 Young St, Waterloo, NSW, (02) 9698 4661
Top3 by Design
When it comes to all things design-driven - you know, bottle-openers that look like small people and toothpick holders that resemble hedgehogs - Top3 by Design leads the way. That Alessi teabag scoop you've been swooning over? They've got it. Ditto those Danish Stelton cotton bread bags you've been eyeing up, Marimekko "Unikko" paper napkins and that clever Scandi-designed cake server you've dreamed of whipping out at your next dinner party. Can't make it to any of their Sydney or Melbourne outposts? The extensive online store will have you covered.
What to buy The Normann Copenhagen "NM Krenit" salad bowl and servers are a win. Top3 by Design, 168 Willoughby Rd, Crows Nest, NSW, 1300 867 333; shop GA08, gallery level, Moore Park Supa Centre, cnr Todman Ave & South Dowling sts, Kensington, NSW.
Citta Design
Kiwi brand Citta Design is best known for its popping colours and fun graphic designs and, much to the delight of Sydney fans, it's got a shiny new Surry Hills concept store in which to show it all off. The large, bright room plays host to all kinds of kitchen and dining goodness, ranging from the laid-back to the refined: chunky wooden boards, soft-coloured stoneware, artsy ceramic dinnerware, lead-free crystalline stemware, and boldly printed tea towels, napkins and placemats among the highlights. A welcome addition to the 'hood.
What to buy With gentle tones inspired by the "sea, sky and moon", Citta Design's stoneware collection is a favourite in our book. Citta Design, 493 Bourke St, Surry Hills, NSW, (02) 9360 7904
Pure and General
This interior-lovers' favourite, housed in a charming old Victorian butcher's shop in Sydney's inner west, is a whimsical composition of homewares from around the globe collected piece-by-piece by owner Linda Gregoriou. On the tabletop front it's all about handmade French "Cotta" ceramics, Japanese enamel cookware, mouth-blown Moroccan green glassware and Côte Bastide linens from the south of France. It's open to the public Friday to Sunday and by appointment Monday to Thursday.
What to buy The two-tone French enamelware is hard to look past. Pure and General, 38 Swanson St, Erskineville, NSW.
Ondene is all about simple, pared-back sophistication - art, furniture and homewares with clean lines, soft colours and an organic edge. At their airy Double Bay store you'll spot linen table cloths, runners and napkins from Italian brand Society, mouth-blown glassware from Belgian glazier Henry Dean, ceramic magic from Italian artists Rina Menardi and Paola Paronetto and artisan baskets hand-woven out of recycled paper from Paris-based design firm Best Before. And you'll be tempted to pick up some of their sleek Christophe Delcourt-designed furniture for the dining room, too.
What to buy Society's soft frayed linen napkins are as beautiful to touch as they are to look at. Ondene, 12 Transvaal Ave, Double Bay, NSW, (02) 9362 1734
Mark Tuckey
Mark and Louella Tuckey have taken their combined passions for furniture-interior design and creation and turned them into a homeware heaven. The Newport showroom in Sydney's Northern Beaches is a vast, inviting space that makes you want to live right there. Tuckey's recycled and sustainable timber signature pieces extend from furniture to the tabletop with equally clean-lined, and sizeable, hand-turned oak dinner plates, centrepiece bowls, small salt and pepper bowls, utensil pots and chopping boards. There are select designers' wares in-store too: rough-hewn, glossy-finished ceramics by Melbourne artist Kris Coad and pristinely matt-finished Anne Ronjat crockery; and glass lab beakers - from 250ml to use as water glasses and up to five litres, which make a cracking showpiece with a display of flora in it.
What to buy Colourful felt placemats by Nomades make the perfect foil for Tuckey's sublime timber creations. Mark Tuckey, 303 Barrenjoey Rd, Newport, NSW, (02) 9997 4222
Dirty Janes Emporium
Looking for an antique china tea set, an old-school silver-plated drinks tray or a set of vintage cake moulds and cookie cutters? It's not exactly in Sydney, but Dirty Janes Emporium in Bowral - the antiques shopping capital of NSW - is bound to have it all. American and European antique furnishings are the main draw, but if you're looking to bring a touch of vintage fun to the tabletop or kitchen counter, venture behind the main shop to the antique market area where more than 60 different stalls offer an ever-changing plethora of pre-loved shopping greatness.
What to buy The china tea sets, dinnerware and platters are the go. Dirty Janes Emporium, 391 Bong Bong St, Bowral, NSW, (02) 4861 3231
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Consumer Spending Up 0.6%
John Shipman joins the News Hub panel to discuss world markets, including the influence of September's higher consumer spending figures.
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Today is my 37th birthday and I am going to make this a positive journal entry.
I have wanted to do a line of scarves featuring my artwork for a long time now. Friday, I finally ordered some samples. I ordered the samples after receiving fabric swatches from the company that is printing/making the scarves:
(The designs on the fabric are not mine.)
I want my line to feature high quality silks such as satin, chiffon, crepe de chine and georgette. I am also getting something printed on cashmere to see how it comes out. I am a little worried about it because I have no clue how printing on cashmere translates. Well, I am worried in general since my designs are done digitally and I have no clue if the fabrics will print half as vibrantly as it appears on my computer. I am very anxious about it.
I went to the store with L today (she is basically my roommate) and treated myself to two new wallets (my old one was literally falling apart), and the dream BIG sketchbook that is my featured image.
I can't draw for shit, so the dream big book will just be filled with pictures that inspire me towards reaching my goal. Besides a scarf line, I also want to do a line of maxi dresses featuring my prints:
(The prints are my designs, but obviously the dresses aren't.)
I am basically going boho-chic with my line of scarves and want to carry that over to my dress line. I went to fiverr.com and am having my logo made as well as sourcing/pricing packaging. I want my box to be a square, flat one like Hermes uses for their scarves. (Dream big, right?)
I also aspire to start a line of home goods. Things like the images below truly inspire me and I feel so much joy when I see colorful/vibrant home decor.
I know it is a lot that I am trying/want to do, so that is why I am just starting small with the scarves. I cannot sew so I will be looking for a seamstress to collaborate with on the dresses.
The only thing I have put in my Dream Big book so far are the fabric swatches. I am going to get a photo printer and just print out a bunch of stuff and fill it up.
As mentioned, I do not celebrate my birthday because my parents were Jehovah's Witnesses, so my few small purchases today will just have to be gifts to myself.
I stuck to my diet today although I really wanted pizza and ice cream topped brownies. I definitely have to have a cheat day before my surgery, before I start the even more strict 2 week pre-surgery diet. I do not know when I will be getting the surgery yet but I am almost done with my pre-surgery clearances.
Food Diary May 29, 2016:
Breakfast – 2 Poached eggs
Lunch – Portobello Mushroom "Pizza" with turkey pepperoni and olives
Snack – P3 Pack
Dinner – Salmon and Sugar Snap Peas
Well, I guess that is it for now. I am doing my best to look forward to a better tomorrow. It is hard, but I will keep trying.


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Leading Australian equipment hire specialist was awarded the Family Business Association Business of the Year at the FBA National Conference in Adelaide.
The FBA celebrates family businesses that focus on contributing to the local culture as well as the future of the Australian economy.
Having demonstrated an outstanding commitment to the amalgamation of both family and business interests, Kennards Hire was named the recipient of this prestigious award for 2014.
Kennards Hire CEO Allen Besseling comments that he feels privileged to be a part of a family business such as Kennards Hire, and also honoured for the peer recognition, adding that the entire Kennards Hire team will continue to strive to deliver excellent service with a distinct family feel.


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Dog reunited with family after getting lost on the Eisenhower Expressway
By Rosie Powers
Before the phone rang during their second night of vacation in Cancun, the Pulido family had no idea that their dog, Asia, was lost.
They also didn't realize that she had escaped on to the Eisenhower Expressway.
The call came from their grandmother on April 4, who said the 10-year-old rescue Chow Chow had escaped during a walk and was nowhere to be found.
"She's always been there, we've had her since I was a kid," said Joseph Pulido, 24, of Berwyn.
After receiving word that she had gone missing, the family immediately flew back on April 5 to start looking for Asia.
"We didn't know if she got stolen or hit by a car," Pulido said.
Shortly after Asia's escape — and unbeknownst to the Pulido family — she had been spotted by drivers along the Eisenhower Expressway in Forest Park. Multiple IDOT trucks, local Samaritans and the Forest Park police collaborated to safely capture Asia from the highway and brought her to the Animal Care League in Oak Park.
Robin Akers, Animal Care League volunteer, said the ACL has a contract with local police departments to hold lost animals for three to five days, after which they become responsible for the animal.
"It took us several days to get in kennel with her because she was very scared," Akers said. "We ended up having her for nine days."
After returning from vacation, the Pulido family tried to locate Asia based on a list of local shelters they had received from police, but with no success.
"As soon as we got back from vacation, we started looking around neighborhoods, asking people, went to animal shelters -- but no one had seen her," Pulido said. "We had given up hope."
But on April 12, Pulido and his brother checked the Animal Care League on a whim. Pulido said they were only in the area to retrieve his brother's car, which had gotten booted.
"We knocked on the door and asked to see if she was there," Pulido said. "I walked in and she was right there!"
Although Asia had a collar, her identification was missing and the Animal Care League soon determined that she had no microchip, which made locating her owners difficult.
"If [the animals] don't have a microchip or lost their collar, a lot of them don't get claimed, so she was very lucky," Akers said.
Pulido returned with his mother the next day, on April 13, to bring Asia home.
"It was a really exciting moment because I could tell she was sad for being lost for so long," Pulido said.
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Speedway from Oak Park, Illinois
Posted: May 4th, 2013 9:33 PM
Violet, the article says, the grandmother was walking the dog and it escaped from her, the grandmother. Does that answer your question.
Violet Aura
Posted: May 4th, 2013 7:17 PM
@Paddy: I am just tired of loose dogs running around. Saw them in BER-wyn! and see them in RF--especially that oh-so-classy north end;)
Paddy Boy
Posted: May 4th, 2013 4:21 PM
Violet! let it go for Pete's sake - It's a dog - get over it!
Violet Aura
Posted: May 4th, 2013 2:13 PM
But wouldn't the home owners be aware of this possibility?
joe from south oak park
Posted: May 4th, 2013 1:40 PM
Maybe they have a doggie door or someone was house sitting and the dog ran away. I found a huskie over the winter a few years ago. it got out of the backyard of some somebody's house when they were on vacation. I figured he had been lost for a while because his fur was pretty matted and he was about 10 lbs underweight. Felt bad when the lady house sitting came to pick him up and she told me that he had been missing for two days...
Violet Aura
Posted: May 4th, 2013 12:49 PM
If they were on vacation, how did their dog escape?
RTW from oak park
Posted: May 3rd, 2013 2:50 PM
The OP police need to have a list of shelters that includes Animal Care League. After all, ACL is the official Oak Park animal control agency, because they have an ongoing contract with the Village to handle this situation. What happened here? Confused and wondering...
M Perkins from Oak Park
Posted: May 2nd, 2013 9:24 PM
(cont.) This is their mission statement (partly): "Protecting animals from improper use, abuse, neglect, inhumane treatment and health hazards. Lovingly caring for the pets that reside in our animal shelter." Tell THAT to the creatures unfortunate enough to land in the glue traps that they have placed throughout the shelter. But I guess mice don't count, do they Marci? �
M Perkins from Oak Park
Posted: May 2nd, 2013 9:21 PM
The dog was lucky indeed. Lucky for the fact that ACL loves to put down dogs that are healthy. God forbid if the dog shows that he/she is scared, then for sure it will be put to sleep. ACL is no friend to animals BIG or small. Trust me on this. Even though I adopted my 2 cats from them, if anything ever happened to me, I would NEVER let my cats go back to them.
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Hi all! I'm so excited to share with you today a small canvas design I made using goodies from the September Flying Unicorn kits and some of my favorite Shimmerz Paints Products. There were so many beautiful metal embellishments in this kit I wanted to use them on a mixed media style canvas. Most of what is on this canvas is from the September kits from Flying Unicorn (I think the only thing from my stash is a couple of adhesive gems and a couple small Dusty Attic chipboard pieces and some Shimmerz Paintz (although some of the Shimmerz products are in the kit)....I will list them below). As always, I find it easier to show than to tell, so here is a little video tutorial I made up for this piece,...enjoy!
As I said, most of the products I used on this canvas are from the Flying Unicorn kits, but here are the Shimmerz Products used on this canvas....
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I just love that metal branch!
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WCC No. 2003-0798
Summary: Claimant, who had previously sought to include an extra dollar an hour in the computation of her wages for benefit purposes, renews that claim in this proceeding.
Held: The claim was considered and rejected in the prior proceeding and is therefore barred by the doctrine of res judicata.
1 The matter before the Court is Liberty's motion for partial summary judgment with respect to the amount of claimant's wages. This Court previously held that claimant's benefits must be based on the actual wage she was receiving at the time of her injury. (Applegate v. Liberty Northwest Ins. Corp., WCC No. 2001-0468, Decision and Judgment (January 31, 2002) (hereinafter "Applegate I").) Based on that determination, Liberty argues that her present request is barred by doctrine res judicata.
2 This is the third in a series of petitions by the claimant. One of the issues set out in the Pretrial Order in Applegate I was:
(Pretrial Order, Issue 1 at 2.) Correctly or not,(1) this Court rejected her contention, holding that her benefits should be based on the actual wage she was receiving at the time of injury:
(Applegate I at 1.)
3 In her current petition, the claimant renews her claim that her wage rate should have included the dollar an hour raise she claims she should have been receiving at the time of her injury. This time she bases her assertion on a stipulation reached with her employer in a wage and hour proceeding brought subsequent to my decision in Applegate I. The stipulation is set out in a Memorandum of Agreement and Dismissal prepared by a hearing officer of the Department of Labor and Industry (Department). The memorandum is attached to Petitioner's Reply to Respondent's Motion for Partial Summary Judgment and Counter Motion for Partial Summary Judgment and Brief in Support and reflects that claimant filed a wage claim on June 10, 2002. It goes on to state that the Department issued an initial determination denying her wage claim but she appealed. The matter was then mediated, resulting in an agreement wherein the employer "stipulated and agreed that the claimant had become entitled to a one-dollar wage rate increase effective July 1, 2000." (Memorandum of Agreement and Dismissal at 1.) However, the memorandum also states that the "settlement [is] based upon economic considerations" and that "[t]he parties made no admissions relevant to the truth or validity of the wage claim . . . ." (Id.)
4 Summary judgment may be granted only where the undisputed material facts require entry of judgment as a matter of law. ARM 24.5.329(2); Lewis v. Nine Mile Mines, Inc., 268 Mont. 336, 340, 886 P.2d 912, 914 (1994). The facts essential to the present motion are a matter of Court record. The Decision and Judgment and the Pretrial Order in Applegate I on their faces show that claimant's present claim to an additional dollar an hour in wages is an attempt to relitigate the very issue litigated in Applegate I. The attempt to relitigate the issue is plainly barred by the doctrine of res judicata, the elements of which are summarized in In re Raymond W. George Trust, 1999 MT 223, 47, 296 Mont. 56, 986 P.2d 427, as follows:
All four elements are met in this case.
5 Claimant's request that the Court order the insurer to include an additional dollar an hour wage to which she claims she was entitled but not receiving at the time of her industrial accident is barred by the doctrine of res judicata and is therefore dismissed with prejudice.
DATED in Helena, Montana, this 26th day of June, 2003.
\s\ Mike
c: Mr. Steve M. Fletcher
1. In the recent case of Greene v. Uninsured Employers' Fund, 2003 MTWCC 27, 99, I held that wages included any "back pay" to which an employee is entitled, included back pay owed on account of mandatory minimum wage laws. The finding was based on section 39-71-123(1)(b), MCA, which expressly provides for the inclusion of back pay.
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Good morning everyone!
It's another Monday but to brighten your up I am sharing a gorgeous layout from Amy
using the Scraps Of Darkness 'Serenade' kit!
Amy is very artistic and it shows in her creations!
now for some of the beautiful details....
a fabulous cluster of elements!
I really love how the twine adds movement!
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When in Houston I had the time to catch up with my friend Taylor, and the first thing he asked me was if I had tried Goode Co Texas Bar-B-Q. The place is an institution in Houston, Jim Goode while having a late lunch in 1977 during labour day in a not so successful BBQ place, he struck conversation with the owner and before leaving he made an offer to buy the place, a few days later the original Goode Company Barbeque opened.
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What is good about this place, well since its beginning they decided to offer the best barbecue in town, they didn't need the secret formula just did the things in the right way. Got to the place before Taylor, and the place was packed, queues of hungry Texans looking for a plate of probably the best BBQ in town.
The Eating Area
No No No No No
The queue to get served
The menu with 10 different splendid meats, their original sauce, sandwiches, combo plates, sides, and so for and so on. I felt hungry so I went for three meat combo, beef brisket, pork ribs, and the jalapeno pork sausage, as a side rice and spicy beans, and to cool down a bit a cold Shiner Bock.
Combo Time
Shiner Time
The food awesome, real and traditional flavours, the place is full of history. Couldn't decide which meat was better as all where great, the sausage with the spicy touch, the ribs were amazing, and the brisket just the real deal. A must go if you are in Houston.
Texas reminds me the Seinfeld episode "The Busboy"
Jerry: Flying doesn't make me nervous, driving to the airport can make you very nervous because when you're flying, when you're getting on the plane, if you miss that plane, there's no alternative. On the ground, you have options. You have buses, you have taxis, you have trains. But, when you're taking a flight, if you miss it, that's it. No airline goes, "Well, you missed the flight, we do have a cannon leaving in about ten minutes. Would you be interested in that? It's not a direct cannon, you have to change cannons after you land. I'm sorry, where you going? Chicago? Oh, Dallas? Alright, wait a second... Dallas, that's about Dallas. Texas, anyway. You should hit Texas. Are you ready? Make sure you get out of the net immediately, because we shoot the luggage in right after you.
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(Supernatural is the dumbest show on television. But I'm a fan.)
Yesterday, the Dragon Lady had to work late. So I cooked the evening meal for me and the kids. We had spicy pork and white rice. The food was delicious. I'm quite an accomplished chef. Poor old Smith is rapidly becoming a hairy, foul-smelling Martha Stewart. Good for me. I washed the vittles down with several glasses of Coke. Carbonated beverages fill me with joy.
James-uh managed to piss me off royally. Once again, his grades are a bitter disappointment. He scored a 15 percent on a Korean vocabulary quiz. He studied for an entire ten minutes. I thought I was going to rip his head off. I'm not huge into academic success. But handing your parents a grade that low is nothing more than an act of passive aggression. There are literally children with Downs Syndrome who could do better than that. James-uh is urinating on my head. Plain and simple.
I watched Supernatural. Season nine opens with Sam on the verge of death. Dean has to call in the aid of his angel friends in order to save his brother's life. Supernatural is one of the dumbest shows ever created. Nevertheless, I love it. There's a lot of chemistry between the two lead actors. Plus they have a knack for comedy. Tonight I shall try a new series called From Dusk Till Dawn. A friend of mine recommended it. I'll give you all a report as soon as possible.
I paid homage to the Christ God. I said the Lord's Prayer on bended knees. No big surprise. It's not like I'm some dirty nihilist. I begged Jesus for patience. My family's slowly killing me. I fear I shall soon have a stroke.
I went to bed at 10 p.m. I didn't dream. I woke up at 6 a.m. and drank several cups of coffee. Then I read the paper while taking a bathroom break. There was an interesting article about the Korean cheating culture. Lots of people here on the ROK will do anything to get accepted into an American college. Consequently, they pay big money to get answers to the SAT. I wish James-uh possessed that type of gumption. My son's far too lazy to be dishonest.
I turned on Fox News. The Five talked about the kidnappings in Nigeria. A group of violent Islamic radicals absconded with 300 teenage high school girls. The victims are somewhere in the African jungle. Muslims are nuts. I've been saying that since I started blogging. These loons will be the death of us all.
Anyway, it's time for the song du jour. Here's Echoes by Pink Floyd. God bless.


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Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The global press freedom watchdog, Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), has welcomed the release of scores of journalists in Cameroon.
The office of President Paul Biya announced on 30 August that Cameroon was ending criminal proceedings against those detained during unrest in the country's two English-speaking regions.
"We welcome the release of Cameroonian journalists Atia Tilarious Azohnwi, Tim Finnian and Hans Achomba, but they should never have been jailed in the first place," remarked CPJ Africa Programme Coordinator, Angela Quintal, in a statement made available to PANA.
"We urge President Paul Biya to free other journalists jailed under the anti-terror law, including RFI correspondent Ahmed Abba, and to end authorities' abuse of the legislation to crackdown on critical voices and those reporting on unrest," Quintal added.
Meanwhile, according to CPJ, Atia Tilarious Azohnwi, political editor of The Sun, Tim Finnian, editor of Life Time magazine, and Hans Achomba, a freelance documentary filmmaker, were among those released from jail in Yaoundé recently.
Achomba and Finnian were arrested in January, and Azohnwi was jailed in February. All three faced trial by military tribunal under Cameroon's anti-terror law
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Does your daughter want to dress too grown for her age?
Remember when you were growing up? Little girls looked like little girls! More and more, I see teenage girls looking more like grown women. The fashion industry now caters to what the media portrays as "age-appropriate" buy designing alot of clothes that are simply to revealing, too mature for young girls. There was no way growing up that my mother would let me even walk into a Victoria's Secret store, or wear anything that would show alot of cleavage. Nowadays, I find myself shopping in the juniors' section because the clothes are sometimes cuter than in the women's section. What's wrong with that picture when it is the female Baby Boomers that have the most residual income in America?
And let's keep it real too. You are the parent…are you teaching your daughters values? Are you setting an example? Are you allowing them to wear whatever they want? I went through a phase…..in my twenties where I was not making modest choices in clothing. Becoming a wife and mother to a son, especially, made me see that my son would make choices in women somewhat based on how he saw me. I never want to be one of those mothers whose son is embarrassed because of the way his mother dressed.
The article shown below is great….I hope that you will find some of the suggestions useful. We have the power to change the world, instead of allowing the world to dictate how we see ourselves.
Teaching Your Daughters to Value Modesty « Power to Change.


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Mitsubishi and Nissan are two brands which are completely unique in their own way and are known for some of the finest products globally and in India as well. Talking about Mitsubishi, it reminds us of the iconic and very dynamic Mitsubishi Lancer which made a mark in the Indian automobile industry while the Nissan is known for its recent addition Nissan Micra.
Both the brands have their own appeal and certainly have a good relationship with its customers and now their bond is supposed to get stronger. The two Japanese automakers have announced of a venture where they will be working on a new mini-car concept. With no details in hand about the small car they will be working on, it is expected to be even smaller than the Mitsubishi Global Small Car.
For the new joint venture, Nissan's Senior Vice President Junichi Endo has been appointed as CEO while Mitsubishi Motors Senior Executive Officer takes the place of the COO.
Currently being displayed at the 2011 Geneva Motor Show, the global small car is going to feature highly efficient 1 Litre and 1.2 Litre MPFI Petrol engine with 5 speed manual transmission, Start Stop technology (Micro Hybrid) and Regenerative braking technology. Now it is to be seen what new design and innovations these brands collectively come out with how acceptable the new mini car would be.


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188. Arctic Skua
189. Long Eared Owl
190. Wood Sandpiper
191. Squacco Heron
192. Great Skua
Peregrine's Birding Facts: The Northern Irish List contains 339 Birds
The Squacco Heron was found on the 21st July and was only the second record of this bird in Northern Ireland. The previous sighting was in 1881. It had birders from all over Ireland racing to see it where it gave very good views. I was in Italy when it arrived so it wasnt until I found time which ended being on the 10th of August(Thank Goodness for long staying rarities) that I got good directions and headed up to Lough Beg just North of Lough Neagh (Europes biggest freshwater Lough).
I had been in the bird hide at Belfast Harbour and when I said I was going upto see the Squacco nobody sadly suggested that I shouldnt wear shorts!! I arrived at the broken gate just south of the Lough and clamboured over it . You then continue down a track for a hundred yards before twisting down a narrow path overgrown with brambles and NETTLES. My desire to see the bird at this stage was greater so I got quite nastily stung round my legs. I then came out into a field and the lough was a few hundred yards in front of me. I walked to to the edge thinking where am I going to see this bird. I first saw a Little Egret flying of into the distance and was wondering whether that might have been it. Then I saw a small white looking bird along the shore which I wasnt sure about because it looked so small and it was semi hidden by seeding dock. I then got my scope onto it and sure enough it was the Squacco. I should have read up about it as I wasnt expecting it to be so small.
I then tried to inch my way towards it as it was very small in my camera even though I had the 500mm lens and a converter on. I got a reasonable distance of it before it flew off.
When it flew off it flew low over a Grey Heron which was good as it showed the size comparison.
Lough Beg has been pretty good for me as I saw the pair of Cranes there this time last year which was another first.
Previously in the day I had been at The Belfast Harbour Reserve and seen a very obliging Wood Sandpiper another first right in front of the hide.


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County man charged with leaving accident scene
A Washington County man was charged Thursday night with leaving the scene of an accident and driving while intoxicated, according to the Washington County Sheriff's Department.
Ronald Eugene Eyler, 31, of 11900 Turners Lane east of Hagerstown, was expected to appear before a Washington County District Court commissioner this morning, police said.
Eyler allegedly struck an eastbound vehicle on Md. 64 shortly after 9 p.m. on Thursday, police said.
No one was sent to the hospital, police said.
The vehicle's driver, George Weiser, of Cutchogue, N.Y., was visiting relatives in the area, police said.
Weiser followed Eyler home to Turners Lane and told him he had struck Weiser's vehicle, police said. Weiser contacted the sheriff's department after Eyler shut the door in his face, police said.


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He gazed at the embers in reflection
He called up lost verses again,
He smiled at a rogueish recollection
While his fingers gripped the glass to stem the pain.
(hopefully) this will follow some major changes that I want,need & intend to make during the next 16 mnths of my life.I will be 50 in 16 months and hope & pray I can make some changes by then. I dont have much confidence in the outcome of this which is not a brilliant start, but it is a start. . I'm bringing up 3 children alone, Sometimes I think I'm doing it well . . .other times not so well. Always I think in the back of my mind it will be different, better . . .when I grow up.
I know last week I was walking around London feeling so hot and surrounded by people stripping off their clothes and now in a couple of days seems I'll be freezing my arse off! Love the English weather and it's completely predictable unpredictability!ReplyDelete
Mad innit? I so nearly put all the grass seed down last week . . . Glad I didn't now. I won't believe this "snow thing" until I see it though. I hope you're keeping well.Delete
Easter snow is certainly not unheard of for us - this year it looks pretty doubtful which suits me fine.
Nice song
I would've said it was looking extremely doubtful here . . . But there we go. It still feels impossible now as I've been out in the sun most of the day . . . We'll see.
I thought of you and Gary as I posted the song. With Gary being Irish and familiar with a lot of the stuff I listen to. Glad you like it.
Great tune, Christy Moore is timeless.
Rock on. XKarl
Hey Karl! Long time . . . No post? how's it going?
Either way it would be good to read a post.
I was looking for a Roy Harper song the other day on You Tube - pretty sure it aint there - but you might know what it's called. The first line is "what a lovely day" . . . Later there's a line "What a mess we make" ;-)
I have it on tape somewhere (?!) and can't remember the album etc . . . Any ideas?
Take care x
No Easter snow here--just a lot of sun and good breezes. Love your posts, Buger.ReplyDelete


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MARTINSBURG, W.Va. -- A taxpayer who owed five years of back taxes worth more than $200,000 to Martinsburg helped ease the pinch on the city's budget, City Finance Director Mark B. Spickler said Tuesday.
Along with a couple of other unexpected "one-time" shots of revenue, the city's unassigned general fund balance at the end of the fiscal year was $1,484,002, according to figures released this week.
Spickler declined to identify the delinquent taxpayer who paid the city $202,364 in business and occupation taxes, which are based on gross sales.
The city netted another $105,252 in business and occupation tax revenue that was forfeited when JDL Martinsburg LLC, an affiliate of JDL Castle Corp. of North Carolina sold the U.S. Coast Guard National Maritime Center building at 100 Forbes Drive, Spickler said.


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June is a good month to catch a nice variety of fish. Trolling will usually produce mahi and tuna. Bottom fishing wrecks can be even more productive producing snapper, grouper, tilefish, amberjack, baracuda and king mackerel.
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It's bundled with an Auto-Poster that will automatically post new models daily under the live cam table. You have multiple options in regards of the title, the URL and the content. You can also use the title, text & content spinning functions and the Chimp Rewritter API is also integrated.
You can also write custom posts yourself and choose to display them on the index page.
3 custom widgets zone are available + a footer one.
You can change the thumb size and display iframes (live chat applet) or a model's pic in the galleries or the post pages. You can send your traffic to the cam site or your white label.
I suggest you check the WP plugin for all its features coz there are too many to enumerate here
Updates are free, even when a new cam site is released and i give very good support.
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Book reviews are very popular and an easy way to create interesting and relevant articles. With the hundreds and thousands of paper and electronic ones written and published every day, there is an enormous amount of material to write about. Not only is the area enormous for topics, but substance is easy to find. In fact, there are a number of blogs that have chosen this subject and their analysis as a niche or theme. This specific area under discussion is massive which makes it easy and simple to discover topics to work with.
Why write one?
As a freelance writer, consider expanding your professional portfolio by adding a couple of terrific appraisals of written text to your byline. Building an awesome one is not as difficult as most people imagine. A wonderful assessment can impact your credibility in a positive way as well as build a constructive view of your skills for readers as well as clients.
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Following a specific outline or guide when fashioning one is a clear and concise way to put your thoughts together in a cohesive way. This is your take and opinion, from your point of view which could differ from other people who may have read the same info.
By following a template or master plan with a distinct pattern you are able to create work fast and easy. In fact, by sticking with an identifiable template words typically come quickly and you produce more in less time. These are the different parts of one to bring together to form the best article possible.
Immediately share with what book you will be reviewing. Perform this by identifying the title and author. Generally you will give the "hook" for the material being assessed. In other words tell a reader why they will enjoy reading it or what it delivers to them. If you were disappointed , you will still be able to get a hook. Instead of why you enjoyed it, open with a quote, stat or even short bio of the author and their work.
The central them of the lead in is to compel them to want to read more. Therefore, finding something interesting or thought-provoking is key.
The overview does have a tendency in many circumstances to give away spoilers. If you are going to offer spoilers to the plot or characters give a clear warning before you do. The context of the text should set the scene.
Let them know if a storyline takes place on a spaceship circling Mars or in the backyard of a modern-day family in Hoboken, New Jersey. This is where you give the who, what, when and why of the narrative.
Describe the framework of a author's intent in detail from your point of view. Remember, this is a personal assessment you are sharing.
The main points of the story are given at this point. Generally a couple of sentences at the most will tie everything together with a summary.
What is your own evaluation of the events put together by this author? What are your thoughts of about the text? Share your viewpoint and offer supporting facts or thoughts which confirm why you feel the way you do. Validating your points without writing 400 words or more is terrific.
This part does not necessarily need to be stark and void, but do not over do it.
Generally a conclusion confirms or recaps an introduction. If an author has any new books on the horizon or the storyline is one part of a series, this is the place to share that info. Even giving related material a person will find relevant from other writers is a wonderful idea for an interesting conclusion.
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I am holding the first ever public call for guest posts on RA for All. Yes, I have had many guest posts over the years, but they were all solicited directly by me. However, one thing I have learned in the last 9 months of visiting many libraries and conferences and meeting hundreds of library workers is that many of you have great ideas to share with the wider library world.
And I have a platform where you can share them. So bring on your RA for All guest post ideas.
Here are the guidelines for submission:
- Send an email to bspratford [at] hotmail [dot] com with the subject line "Guest Post"
- Please explain your idea in 300 words or less. All you need right now is an idea. Do not send me an entire post.
- If you have a link to anything you have written be it an article, something from a website, even reviews or annotations you have written for your library, please include that. If you have nothing to share with me, that is okay. Your idea statement is fine.
- I will get back to you no matter what, but if I like your idea, I will send you the blogging requirements. The due date for submissions (once idea is accepted) will not be until early June and the posts will run periodically throughout the summer.
- This window for this call for guest post submissions closes on Friday 4/22.
You have a month everyone. Start sending me those ideas. I can't wait to be inspired by all of you.
Back with regular blog posts on 3/28.


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Join us and kick off the Linked Data in Business group at our first meetup on May 24th. Don't miss this opportunity for interesting Linked Data talks and discussions together with data consumers, data publishers, developers, data miners, innovators and entrepreneurs.
Beer and snacks provided by Foo Café.
Linked Data - Evolving the Web into a Global Data Space (Anja Jentzsch)
Over the past recent years, a number of websites have started to embed structured data into HTML documents and to publish structured data based on the Linked Data principles. This trend has evolved the Web into a global data space - the Web of Data. Linked Data technologies have been adopted by an increasing number of data providers, including the US and UK governments as well as major players in the media and pharmaceutical industry, leading to the creation of a global Web of Data. In this talk Anja will give an overview of the Web of Data as well as the architecture of Linked Data applications that work on top of this data space. Afterwards, she will present the publication and consumption possibilities of Linked Data as well as the economic opportunities arising from the Web of Data.
Linked Data - Research projects and education at Malmö University (Marie Gustafsson Friberger)
This talk will present two research projects at Malmö University related to linked data, Data games and Living archives, as well as how linked data is included in our education.
The Data games project explores how games can be created using open data. Several prototypes have been created, some of which use sources available as linked data. We believe that developing such games would be made easier if more of the sources were made available as linked data.
Living Archives is a research project funded by the Swedish Research Council and run by Medea, Malmö University. The project aims to analyze and prototype how digital archives for cultural heritage can become social resources, how they can facilitate social change, create cultural awareness and collective collaboration. One strand of the project is related to open data, where we are exploring how linked data within the cultural heritage domain can be used.
Link your data with Neo4j - the pragmatic practitioners view (Peter Neubauer)
With more data than ever before produced and lost or disconnected,
both standards and systems are trying to catch up. The graph database Neo4j is a very powerful way to store, query and expose data in a pragmatic and easy way, closely related to dear developer stacks like Spring, Ruby and Node.
Peter is giving a short run through the basics of Neo4j, the Cypher query language and different ways to access connected data like JDBC, RDF and others. At least as interesting as the data are the applications. We will highlight some of the interesting ways Linked Data sources can be consumed, mashed-up and produced with Neo4j in different areas.
Linked Data thinking has become increasingly relevant for startups and companies that do data aggregation, data mining and data exposure (e.g. the INSPIRE initiative).
If you are dealing with data - make sure it's at least connected, if not Linked!
Wikidata, the free knowledge base that anyone can edit (Anja Jentzsch)
Wikidata is a project by Wikimedia Deutschland with the goal to create a data repository for Wikipedia and the world. It aims to be Wikimedia Commons for data, allowing Wikipedia editors to put factual information like the population of a city in one central database, instead of having to maintain it as text in dozens or hundreds of languages. This presentation gives an overview of the planned software architecture of Wikidata and how it ties in Wikipedia.
We want to explain how we are going to address the many technical and conceptual challenges that arise from the complexity and scale of the data. Among other things, we will describe how data records are transcluded between wikis, and how changes are recorded and propagated throughout the system. The focus of the talk will be on the data model. Wikidata tries to model knowledge diversity, not plain facts. To achieve this, information about provenance, scope and accuracy is build into the model at a very low level. Furthermore, the various APIs including the Linked Data interface to Wikidata are being presented.
Anja Jentzsch is a PhD student at the Information Systems Group at Hasso-Plattner-Institute Potsdam. She is a Linked Data enthusiast, being involved in several Linked Data projects since 2007. She is and has been working on Wikidata, DBpedia (Wikipedia as Linked Data), Silk (interlinking Linked Data sets) and LODD (Linking Open Drug Data).
Marie Gustafsson Friberger is a senior lecturer at Malmö University. Marie's research interests include linked and open data, currently in combination with games as well as cultural heritage. Previous research includes how ontologies and Semantic Web technologies can be used to support clinical communities of practice. Also, Marie is one of the teachers in the university's computer science master's program.
Peter Neubauer is co-founder of a number of popular Open Source projects such as Neo4j, OPS4J and Qi4j. He loves connecting things, writing novel prototypes and throwing together new ideas and projects around graphs and society-scale innovation.
Right now, Peter is concentrating on bringing Open Source projects into the enterprise at Neo Technology, the company behind Neo4j, the world's leading Graph Database. Also, Peter is a mentor helping startups at Startupbootcamp Copenhagen, Berlin and at Mozilla WebFD. He likes teaching programming to kids at CoderDojo Malmö and organizing events like http://www.thoughtmade.com and TEDx Öresund. If you want brainstorming - feed him a latte and you are in business.
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Stresert Services Limited – Our client, is one of the top three insurance companies in Nigeria. They require the service of a qualified candidate preferably Male urgently for the position below:
Job Title: Personal Assistant
Job ref: PA_Insurance
Location: Lagos
Summary of Responsibilities
- The Personal Assistant will help handle the line manager's time by being responsible for providing secretarial, clerical and administrative support in order to ensure that the services provided by the organization are in an effective and efficient manner.
Responsibilities include but not limited to:
- Devising and maintaining office systems, including data management and filing;
- Acting as the first contact on behalf of the line manager;
- Dealing with incoming email, faxes and post, often corresponding on behalf of the manager;
- Taking dictation and minutes;
- Carrying out background research and presenting findings;
- Producing documents, briefing papers, reports and presentations;
- Organising and attending meetings and ensuring the manager is well prepared for meetings;
- Liaising with clients, suppliers and other staff.
- Arranging travel, visas and accommodation and, occasionally, travelling with the manager to take notes or dictation at meetings or to provide general assistance during presentations;
- Screening phone calls, enquiries and requests, and handling them when appropriate;
- Meeting and greeting visitors at all levels of seniority;
- Organising and maintaining diaries and making appointments;
Required Skills & Attributes
- Listening and Communication skills
- Computer/IT skills
- Confidentiality skills
- Self-motivated & efficient
- Interpersonal Skills
- Organizational skills
Educational Requirements
- Must be a graduate with background in social sciences.
- Must have 3 -5 year cognate experience in similar function.
Salary is N100, 000 – N 150, 000/m (depending on experience).
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Beer. Such a small word for such a wonderous and varied beverage. From crisp, refreshing lager to dark, creamy stout. From deep, nutty bitter to sweet, sickly fruit beers. I like beer. Clare likes beer too. So, when I received an email about the Nottingham Beer Festival, and as neither of us had been before, we had to get tickets.
The Nottingham Beer Festival has been going for, well, as long as I can remember. Formerly hosted in a leisure centre near the city centre, for the last few years it has been held in the grounds of Nottingham Castle. As mentioned above, we'd never been to the Nottingham, or indeed any Beer Festival, before. The mere words conjure up images of thick woolly jumpers and thicker, woollier beards. Years ago, the thought of such a thing would have filled me with horror. Nowadays it sounded remarkably compelling and both Clare and I were thoroughly looking forward to it.
The day of the festival arrived, and a gloriously sunny Autumn day it was too. Pre-festival food consisted of stodgy, alcohol-soaking-up burgers, courtesy of a well known chain of 'restaurants.' No Michelin-starred tomfoolery today. Today was strictly spit and sawdust.
Upon wondering up to the street outside the Castle we were greeted by a very long queue, even though it was still before 13:00 and the festival had only been open a couple of hours. Upon inquiring however, it turned out that this queue was for people without tickets. We already had ours so scurried round the corner to join a shorter, though still sizeable, queue. The aforementioned tickets afforded us entry to the festival, a commemorative glass and 10 beer tokens each. The queue was full of myriad different people. Yes, there were beards and jumpers. There were also sportswear-clad youths, a group of gents that wouldn't have looked out of place watching a polo match, stag and hen night groups and a sprinkling of students. A diverse bunch indeed.
After a short wait we finally entered the festival proper in the Castle grounds, received our glass and tokens, picked up a programme and went exploring. The festival was split over two main areas. On the lower level by the Castle grounds entrance was one large beer tent, a live music area and a number of different purveyors of food, from sausage cobs to paella to pie and faggots (bleugh). Higher up, on the field used for jousting during the Robin Hood pageant, was the main beer tent. As well as beer, lots of beer, was more food, souvenirs and a CAMRA stall - but more of that later. As we'd already eaten, we dived straight into the beer!
Even the smaller of the two tents had an almost overwhelming number of ale-filled barrels. The choice was vast and bewildering, with beers of all shapes and sizes. Well, colours and names anyway. Clare opted first for a golden ale called Wellow Gold, while I chose a stout whose name escapes me now (and that I can't find in the programme). A third of a pint cost two tokens. Both ales were pleasant if not amazing. Once these had been quaffed (it is impossible to write about beer without saying 'quaffed') we wondered up to the main tent to sample more.
This tent was even bigger and crammed full of intriguing barrels. At the entrance was a CAMRA (Campaign for Real Ale) stand at which we duly decided to become members. This task done, it was time for more ale. While queueing we'd noticed a sign for a wonderfully named brewery called Dancing Duck. They had a mini-bar in the main tent so we decided to try this next. This time Clare had some Nice Weather 4 Ducks, which was a coppery coloured summer ale. I had a Dancing Drake, another dark stout but this time with a fantastic burnt toffee flavour which conjured up thoughts of Bonfire Night. This was probably the nicest beer we tried all day.
Round the tent we walked, sampling chilli-infused chocolate on the way, before trying a couple more beers. Cherry Stout was Clare's beer of choice this time. Definitely a stout but not particularly cherryish. I plumped for a Berry Blonde which was meant to have raspberry notes, but they were lost on me.
Both feeling a bit merry now, we decided to up the pace by trying a couple of the many ciders which were also on offer. Things start to get a bit hazy from here. I know my choice was called Stoke Red and it was delicious, though not red. Sweet, soft and, at 7.5% ABV packing a decent punch. I can't remember what Clare had though I know it tasted a bit sharper. Alas the cider proved to be Clare's undoing and, not wishing to make herself ill, she curtailed her drinking early. This did mean though that I got to use her tokens...
And use them I did, on another cracking stout called Sgt. Pepper Stout, brewed with black peppercorns which added a pleasantly mild kick to the taste. The final drink was called Lurch's Liquor, whose name lingers longer than the taste did. Tokens all used up, we enjoyed a sit down in the October sunshine before staggering off for the bus home.
All in all the Nottingham Beer Festival was a fantastic day and we'll definitely be going next year. I may even grow a beard and buy a woolly jumper in anticipation.


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Sri Lanka: Army has seized last rebel stronghold
Monday, January 26, 2009
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lankan forces captured the Tamil Tigers' last major stronghold Sunday, confining the rebels to a narrow slice of jungle and ending their decade-long domination of the country's north.
Army commander Lt. Gen. Sarath Fonseka said the ethnic separatist war that has plagued this Indian Ocean island nation since 1983 was nearly over.
But analysts warn that it is simply shifting from a conventional fight between two armies to a guerrilla war likely to be fought among the estimated 250,000 displaced civilians reportedly trapped in the northern jungles with the rebels.
In recent weeks, the Sri Lankan army drove the rebels from their administrative capital of Kilinochchi, forced them to retreat from most of the de facto state they controlled across a wide swath of the north and boxed them into a shrinking pocket of land.
On Sunday afternoon, troops entered the coastal town of Mullaittivu, the last major town under the rebels' control, and drove off the fighters remaining inside, the military said.
"The Sri Lankan army captured the Mullaittivu bastion completely today," Fonseka said in a speech broadcast Sunday evening on every major television channel.
Sri Lankans across the capital, Colombo, exploded in celebration, honking horns and lighting firecrackers, as they have for all the military's recent victories.
The military made an all-out push last year into the north, where the Tamil Tigers ran an autocratic regime complete with its own police, courts and customs department.
Defense spokesman Keheliya Rambukwella described Mullaittivu as the rebels' last bastion and main operations center. The rebels had held the town since 1996 when they overran a military camp there and killed nearly 1,000 soldiers.
Rebel officials could not be reached for comment because communications to the northern war zone have been cut. However, they have in the past expressed a willingness to return to guerrilla warfare if necessary.
It is impossible to verify the military's accounts because independent journalists are barred from the area.
Fonseka said the 25-year-old civil war was "95 percent" over and he appealed for new recruits to join the army and help complete the job.
The government's string of victories has left the rebels confined to a 115-square-mile area in the jungle, the military said.
The rebels seek to create a separate state in the north and east for minority Tamils, who have suffered decades of marginalization at the hands of successive governments controlled by the Sinhalese majority. More than 70,000 people have been killed in the violence.
A 2002 cease-fire deal fell apart amid new fighting three years ago, and the government of President Mahinda Rajapaksa vowed to destroy the rebel group and end the war. Backed by record budgets, the military heavily recruited new troops and went on a spending spree for new weapons.
The military captured insurgent-held territories in the east in 2007 and last year pushed deep into the rebels' northern heartland.
Despite the success of the military offensive, analysts cautioned against too much optimism. Velupillai Prabhakaran, the rebels' dictatorial leader, remains at large and the ethnic tension that has fueled the conflict remains unresolved.
"There is still a lot of work to be done," Sri Lanka's former army commander Gen. Jerry de Silva said.
"It is likely they [the rebels] will resort to guerrilla tactics, both jungle and urban," he said, adding that the jungle canopy above much of the remaining rebel territory could make it difficult for troops to rely on air support.
Jehan Perera, a political analyst, said government forces could face an "enormous humanitarian and military challenge" in fighting the rebels in the midst of a large number of civilians.
Human rights groups have accused the Tamil Tigers of preventing the civilians from fleeing the war zone, while the government has said the rebels hoped to use the civilians as human shields. Reports of civilian casualties in the area have grown in recent weeks.
Last week, the government declared a 13.5-square-mile "safe zone" on the edge of the rebel-held area and called for civilians to gather there.
However, regional medical officials accused the military of firing into a village and a hospital in the "safe zone" last week, killing at least 30 people and injuring more than 100. The government denied responsibility for the attack.


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Welcome to CobrasportsNet! We have been planning this debut for almost two years, but on the 15th of December 2009, we finally went onto the server. For us, this was a pretty exciting day! As we go forward, you'll be treated to podcasts of as many Parkland College sports events as we have the opportunity and people-power to produce. And in the fall of 2010, we will debut something else that we are pretty excited about: our newest course, COM 150 - Sports Broadcasting. Parkland College continues to take the lead in communication education and training with this break-through course built around digital field production and studio post production of sports of all kinds. For students who want to add sports broadcasting to their resumes while developing and expanding skills in play-by-play, editing, interviewing, technology, and promotion, this is your shot!
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By allowing for imperfectly informed markets and the role of private information, we offer new insights about observed deviations of portfolio concentrations in domestic relative to foreign risky assets, or "home bias", from what standard finance models predict. Our model ascribes the "bias" to endogenous information acquisition bolstered by investors' human capital. We develop discriminating hypotheses about the influence of "specific" and "general" human capital endowments and direct and opportunity costs of managing risky assets in determining whether to hold these assets, and how the assets' portfolio shares vary across investors and financial markets. These hypotheses are supported by numerical and econometric analyses of panel data from the US over 1992-2007, and 23 international financial markets over 2001-2007. The results indicate the existence of differences across countries in the degree to which home asset prices are "information-revealing", which may be relevant for fully understanding the global financial crisis of 2007-09.
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Extremely Boring, except for the days when shes in one of her happy go-lucky moods and is very hyper then this class is alot of fun!!! We had a very talkative class and it was often times extremely hard for Mrs. Maynard to maintain control of our class. I dont think we spent an entire period learning the entire semester. I would love to have her again though, shes extremely nice, kind hearted and the kind of person you want teaching you, but just needs some spice in her lessons and tone when tea
She sounds like she does not care at all about education. She needs excitment in her tone or she'll bore everyone out. She's a hypocrite. She tells people not to talk when someone's presenting but will interrupt you when you are talking and you're not even finished. That pissed me off so much.
haha i absolutely love but hate her at the same time. She's SOOO easy, but boring as hell. She definately likes the smart and creative students .. and is open to improve her lessons if you suggest changes or alternatives.
she's very nice and caring but classes were way too boring.
i dont really like her, shes very strict. although, i do get into trouble every class. ? i dunno she needs to make her lesson's more fun!!
Nice lady, but please, send at least one of your niner classes to Niagara Falls!
Wonderful teacher. She only gets mad because the students make her mad.


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Jaak Aaviksoo
Jaak Aaviksoo
|Minister of Culture and Education
|In office
|Preceded by
|Peeter Kreitzberg
|Succeeded by
|Rein Loik (as Minister of Education)
Jaak Allik (as Minister of Culture)
|Minister of Defence
|In office
|Prime Minister
|Andrus Ansip
|Preceded by
|Jürgen Ligi
|Succeeded by
|Mart Laar
|Minister of Education and Research
|In office
6 April 2011 – 26 March 2014
|Prime Minister
|Andrus Ansip
|Preceded by
|Tõnis Lukas
|Succeeded by
|Jevgeni Ossinovski
|Personal details
|11 January 1954
Tartu, Estonia
|Political party
|Union of Pro Patria and Res Publica
|Alma mater
|University of Tartu
Jaak Aaviksoo (born 11 January 1954) is an Estonian politician and physicist, former rector of Tartu University, who has been the Estonian Minister of Defence and Minister of Education and Research. Aaviksoo is a member of the liberal conservative party Union of Pro Patria and Res Publica.
Education and career in science[edit]
Aaviksoo was born in Tartu. After finishing Tartu Secondary School No. 2 (present-day Miina Härma Gymnasium) in 1971, he entered the Tartu State University physics department in the chemistry-physics faculty and graduated cum laude in the field of theoretical physics in 1976. From 1976 to 1992 he was first junior, then senior and then leading scientist at the Physics Institute of the Estonian Academy of Sciences (named Academy of Sciences of the Estonian SSR until 1988). There he also became a Ph.D. in Physics (Thesis: "On Resonant Secondary Emission in Sodium Nitrite and Anthracene") in 1981. Aaviksoo was the first president of the Estonian Physical Society, founded in 1989.[1] In 1992 he returned to Tartu University, this time as a professor of optics and spectroscopy. In 1995 he was the acting director of the Tartu University institute of experimental physics and technology and from 1992 to 1995 also the first pro-rector of Tartu University. He became a member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences and thus an academician in 1994. From 1981 to 1994 Aaviksoo worked in many foreign institutes as a guest professor, namely the Novosibirsk Institute of Thermal Physics, the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, Osaka University and University of Paris VII: Denis Diderot.
First spell as a politician and rectorate of Tartu University[edit]
From November 1995 to January 1996 he was Minister of Culture and Education and from then to November 1997 he was the Estonian Minister of Education in the governments of Tiit Vähi. He became the rector of Tartu University in 1998. He won a second and final five-year term in 2003, but resigned in 2006 to once again pursue a political career.
Resumption of political career[edit]
Elections in 2007[edit]
In 2006 Jaak Aaviksoo announced that he would be leaving the post of rector of Tartu University to run for a seat in the Estonian parliament or Riigikogu in the 2007 elections, this time not as a member of the Reform Party, but as a member of liberal conservative Union of Pro Patria and Res Publica. Before joining the party and leaving his post as rector, Aaviksoo was considered as a candidate for the presidential elections in 2006, which were won by Toomas Hendrik Ilves. After already having joined Union of Pro Patria and Res Publica, Aaviksoo sought to become the party's leader for the 2007 parliamentary elections and so candidate for Prime Minister of Estonia, but lost a closely contested duel within the party to internationally renowned two-time former Prime Minister Mart Laar.
In the elections he gained 4241 votes in his district and was elected to Riigikogu. Aaviksoo's party was left third in the elections with 19 seats after the Reform Party with 31 and the Centre Party with 29 seats. After Andrus Ansip, leader of the Reform Party, invited Union of Pro Patria and Res Publica to form a coalition government, Aaviksoo was tipped for several high positions, i.e. the Speaker of Riigikogu and Minister of Economics. Surprisingly, he took the post of Minister of Defence instead.
Minister of Defense[edit]
Having assumed office on 5 April 2007, his first primary goals as Minister of Defence were restructuring the power management of the Estonian Defense Forces and dealing with the situation of the Bronze Soldier of Tallinn, a Soviet war monument, which was moved to a cemetery, causing much controversy and ethnic tension between a large proportion Estonians and local Russians. He also saw the Estonian youth's weak will of defending their country as a serious problem.
Personal life[edit]
Jaak Aaviksoo is a father of three. He speaks fluent English, German, Russian and French on an average level.
Aaviksoo has publicized over 100 scientific articles and over 80 publicistic articles from 1976 to 2002. His more important publifications from the past decade are:[2]
- J. Aaviksoo, C. Gourdon, R. Grousson, P. Lavallard, "Photoluminescence quantum yield in GaAs/AlAs superlattices", Solid State Electronics (vol. 40, no 1-8, p. 687, 1996)
- J. Aaviksoo, C. Gourdon, P. Lavallard, "Power nonlinearities in the luminescence spectrum of GaAs/AlAs superlattices", Solid State Communications (vol. 99, no 6, p. 387, 1996)
- S. O. Kognovitskii, V. V. Travnikov, J. Aaviksoo, I. Reimand, "Light Scattering by electrons in the absorption region of GaAs" - Phys. Solid State (vol. 39, no. 6, p. 907, 1997)
- I. Reimand, J. Aaviksoo, "Exciton interaction with hot electrons in GaAs", Technical digest of X International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena in Spectroscopy, (Tartu, 1997, p. 82)
- J. Aaviksoo, "Estonian physicist: Active and productive", Science (vol. 275, no 5299, p. 463)
- J. Aaviksoo. Priorities for Higher Education in Central and Eastern European Countries. - Higher Education Management (vol. 9, no. 2, p. 19, 1997).
- I. Reimand, J. Aaviksoo, "Exciton interaction with hot electrons in GaAs", Phys. Rev. B 61, 2000, no 24, p 16653-16658
- Member of the Academy of Sciences of Estonia (1994)
- Order of the National Coat of Arms, class IV, of the Republic of Estonia (2000)[3]
- Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2000)
- Order of Merit of France (2001)
- Order of the White Rose of Finland (2001)
- The Medal of the City of Tartu (2002)
- Member of Academia Europaea (2004)
- Order of the White Star, class II, of the Republic of Estonia (2006)[3]
- ^ "Eesti ja Soome Füüsika Seltsi ühised füüsikapäevad". Horisont. 2. 2007. Retrieved 17 January 2011.
- ^ Biography on the official website of the Estonian Ministry of Defense Archived 30 April 2007 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ a b "Bearers of decorations". President.ee. Retrieved 17 January 2011.
External links[edit]
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Jaak Aaviksoo.
- Jaak Aaviksoo's blog
- Personal website at the University of Tartu
|Political offices
|Preceded by
Peeter Kreitzberg
| Minister of Culture and Education
|Succeeded by
Jaak Allik
as Minister of Culture
|Succeeded by
Jaak Aaviksoo
as Minister of Education
|Preceded by
Jaak Aaviksoo
| Minister of Education
|Succeeded by
Rein Loik
|Preceded by
Peeter Tulviste
| Rector of University of Tartu
|Succeeded by
Tõnu Lehtsaar (acting)
|Preceded by
Jürgen Ligi
| Minister of Defence
|Succeeded by
Mart Laar
|Preceded by
Tõnis Lukas
| Minister of Education and Research
|Succeeded by
Jevgeni Ossinovski
- Pro Patria and Res Publica Union politicians
- Estonian Reform Party politicians
- 1954 births
- Living people
- Grand Crosses 1st class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Defence Ministers of Estonia
- Government ministers of Estonia
- Members of Academia Europaea
- Politicians from Tartu
- University of Tartu alumni
- Members of the Estonian Academy of Sciences
- Recipients of the National Order of Merit (France)
- Rectors of the University of Tartu
- Recipients of the Order of the National Coat of Arms, 4th Class
- Tartu Ülikool/Rock players
- Osaka University faculty
- 21st-century Estonian politicians


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Lesser victories: a study of the Philippine Constabulary and Haitian Gendarmerie
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Determining what constitutes the proper role and characteristics of a constabulary has received renewed interest in recent years as the international community increasingly involves itself in peace and stability operations. The U.S. invasion of Iraq has further stimulated discussion over how foreign powers should go about establishing security institutions within a host nation, particularly in one as turbulent as Iraq. Recent events in both Iraq and Afghanistan have made clear the importance of indigenous police forces, or constabularies, to pacification and state-building operations. Effective constabularies can perform the key role of separating insurgents from the population and giving substance and legitimacy to federal and local government. This thesis examines two U.S.-organized paramilitaries: the Philippine Constabulary (1901-1917) and the Haitian Gendarmerie (1916-1934). It argues that in both the Philippines and Haiti, the constabularies became armies, and the instruments of autocratic rule, because American military officers allowed the militarization of the police forces to become institutionalized without also establishing normative constraints on the use of military power. The thesis contends that American military authorities undermined the constabularies' suitability for enforcing civil law by aggressively developing their military capabilities to meet the challenges of fighting violent insurgencies. Both organizations generalized their pragmatic responses to immediate circumstances without considering the long term implications for them as institutions. The historical experience of the Constabulary and Gendarmerie testify to the real temptation for leaders to stretch an organization beyond its mandate or capabilities by focusing on success and victory over purpose and the ends for which the organization exists.
Mihara, Robert Yoshio (2007). Lesser victories: a study of the Philippine Constabulary and Haitian Gendarmerie. Master's thesis, Texas A&M University. Available electronically from http : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /ETD -TAMU -1531.