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The BBC reports from a publication by the Police Federation of England and Wales about their daily duties. These include for example:
Cautioning a man from Cheshire for being “found in possession of an egg with intent to throw”, arresting a child in Kent (the kid removed a slice of cucumber from a sandwich and threw it at another youngster), or arresting two children from Manchester for being in possession of a plastic toy pistol (at least some educational effort there, but better would have been to arrest the kids’ parents).
The Police Federation of England and Wales claim that this is a consequence of Labour’s red tape “targets” — the development of which was portrayed by Adam Curtis in his BBC documentary The Trap – What Happened To Our Dream Of Freedom?. .rm files might be here…
5th April 2007 — fire on the roof, Beukelsdijk 74 B … the fire brigade succeeded to control the fire just seconds before it was able to spread into the whole house.
Picture: artist’s impression, using an image by mailsparky … since nobody was home to take pictures
Switzerland used to have a lively car industy, with about 25 car manufacturers, 100 years ago, with brands such as “Turicum” and “Martini”. Even until 1975 cars were actually built in Switzerland — you would have guessed: the Opel Rekord.
Car manufacturing, however, is still important for Switzerland, not ontly in retail. The manufacturer’s contribution to the GDP is an estimated 7 billion francs worth in car-parts, manufacturing equipment and engineering services. More elegantly named, the “automotive industry” in Switzerland should become more visible and be working more closely together with universities and foreign partners. This is the aim of scope34, to create innovation partnerships for the automotive industry. Peter Troxler is the Research Manager of this programme for 2007.
The music industry and its execs “lament the state of industry” (CNet) at a conference in New York today. Essentially they blame consumers (these days normally labelled as pirates in the music industry lingo) for not following their antiquated business model any more.
However, they follow a weird line of thought: “we are part of a (capitalist) market economy, hence we are guaranteed to make profits (whatever business model we apply) … and if not, a (any) law has to be established which forces society to give us the money we deserve (according to our business plan, not according to any products or services we deliver).
This sounds like a socialist call for guaranteed minimum*) wages for everybody … except that: “this time round it is only for the music execs — sorry, mate”
*) “Minimum” is merely depending on where you’re coming from
On 21 feb 2007, at 9:45, paperboy@nevis.scotsman.com wrote:
Brothers put in a geed wyord to save an ancient Scottish dialect from extinction
WHEN Bobby and Gordon Hogg meet up for a chat, they enter a linguistic world that few, if any, can no longer understand.
obviously, the paperboy email writers can even no longer understand the more common dialects written in Scotland … the original (& correct) line in the article reads:
WHEN Bobby and Gordon Hogg meet up for a chat, they enter a linguistic world that few, if any, can now understand.
So it seems that even Scottish copy & paste skills are affected….
Op 22 maart 2007 findt de conferentie “Management van Expertise – de kracht van leeren en ervaring” plaats. Les meer op expertise.nu.
On 22 march 2007, we are organisers of the confernce on “Management of Expertise — the power of learning and experience”. Details on the conference at expertise.nu.
[pt] Nach dem ersten MacAfee “Virtual Criminology” Report ist nun auch der Tagungsband “Europa im Griff der organisierten Kriminalität” erschienen mit meinem Beitrag zu Virtueller Kriminalität …
[pt] In late January I had the pleasure to facilitate a conference on “Regional Innovation” in my home country, Central Switzerland. I took the opportunity to introduce the participants to the myths of Central Switzerland, such as the story of the Devil’s Bridge in its updated form. (Try the mouse-over event on the picture, courtesy of sevenload.com.)
The conference was the third UnBla event (UnBla means exactly what it says on the tin: no blah blah). More about UnBla here. More on the event on http://www.kultpavillon.ch/
I would not ask, if it was that easy. Since, actually, it isn’t. It was on the way back from an outdoor (sort-of) exhibition, België-Nederland / Nederland-België at Fort Ellewoutswijk, when we decided to stop quickly at a nice little town just off the road. The roads were busy with German tourists and the stingy sound of a piper was in the air. In front of the Town Hall — the Saltire. Finally it was confirmed what we had suspected: the small town of Veere was hosting the fourth Schots-Veerse festival.
Guten Tag, nun sind wir auch virtuell umgezogen …. Seit November letzten Jahres wissen alle, die diese Site besuchen, dass “klapt is moving, wij verhuizen — naar Rotterdam”. Our new physical address is Beukelsdijk 74b, 3022 DJ Rotterdam (ab 1. Nov. 2005).
Nun haben wir eine erste Hauseinweihung abgefeiert und auch die virtuelle Haus-Seite umgebaut. More info to come in due course (i.e. shortly).
Police chief backed over Menezes: “Met Police chief Sir Ian Blair’s account of the aftermath of the shooting of an innocent Brazilian man is backed by a senior officer.”
(Via BBC News.)
“A CONTROVERSIAL bid by Aberdeen City Council to become the first local authority in Scotland to outlaw begging from its streets, has been rejected by the Scottish Executive.” (Scotsman)
The initiator of the bid, a certain Mr. Greig (LibDem … reflect on that abbreviation!), sees one of the main reasons for beggars to frequent Aberdeen City Centre at night time being that “people who are drunk come out of the pubs and clubs and feel very generous to humanity in general” (so he told the Scotsman). Any regular punter would, however, welcome this development, since traditionally generosity to humanity in Aberdeen used to express itself in attacks of the more violent kind on innocent passers-by.
(Via The Scotsman – Scotland – Aberdeen, full article here.)