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• Culture? Go to the bottom of the class

  
  blethers — Authority: 119
  Todays Herald carries a big piece on the anger of the arts world at the philistines who rule us - triggered on this occasion by the "demotion" of Fiona Hyslop to the lowly business of managing the nations culture. Iain Gray, the hapless Labour leader, has stupidly led with his chin on this one, but hey, hes saying ...
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• Driver who killed teens loses appeal

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  A motorist who killed six teenage pedestrians in a crash near Mildura in north-west Victoria in 2006 has lost his application for leave to appeal against his jail term. Thomas Graham Towle was sentenced to 10 years jail with a minimum of seven over the crash at Cardross in which six teenagers died and four others ...
  6 days ago

• Luxury: An Open Letter to French Culture Minister Frederic Mitterand

  
  The Luxe Chronicles — Authority: 126
  "Et alors Monsieur?" Monsieur le Ministre : I write to you regarding the matter of beleaguered couture house Christian Lacroix. As you know, the tribunal de commerce de Paris decided on Tuesday to accept the liquidation plan submitted by the houses owners. Under this dismal plan, all but eleven jobs will be ...
  1 week ago

• Anti-Piracy Group Refuses Bait, DRM Breaker Goes To Police

  
  ShareConnector — Authority: 158
  At the end of October, a Danish citizen took drastic action to draw attention to some restrictive and seemingly contradictory copyright legislation. Henrik Anderson told TorrentFreak that in order to force his government’s hand on laws which allow him to copy DVDs for his own personal use, but forbid him to remove ...
  1 week ago

• Libraries ‘must modernise’ to secure future

  
  1stAngel Arts Magazine — Authority: 153
  Radical modernisation is required for English libraries if they are to remain relevant, Culture Minister Margaret Hodge has said. Ms Hodge said free access to books was still the cornerstone of the library. But library customers were looking for something more than previous generations were, she said in a ...
  1 week ago

• Liberal turmoil clouds debate on climate bills

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  The Federal Opposition looks set to change leaders, as the emissions trading legislation that sparked the Liberal row comes back before the Senate. The Upper House failed to meet the Governments deadline of passing the scheme by last week, prompting the Governments Senate leader, Chris Evans, to accuse the Opposition ...
  1 week ago

• Rudd plays careful hand at CHOGM

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudds appearance at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is an exercise in double-purpose diplomacy. First, he wants to keep a high profile among his Commonwealth colleagues, meeting all the big players of this 53-nation group: Britains Gordon Brown, Indias Manmohan Singh, South ...
  1 week ago

• The List, Obamas Forty Fourth Week in Office

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Obamas Forty Fourth Week in OfficeLatest Additions to "The List""The List" for 11/27/20 Obamas brief proclamation of Thanksgiving Day on November 26 was unique among all recorded Thanksgiving proclamations by his predecessors: it is the first one that fails to directly acknowledge the existence of God.Obama Justice ...
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• Temporary Export Bar Placed on Welsh Landscape with Two Women Knitting, a Painting By William Dyce

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 450
  U.K. Culture Minister, Margaret Hodge, has placed a temporary export bar on a painting by William Dyce, Welsh landscape with two women knitting. The Minister’s ruling follows a recommendation by the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art and Objects of Cultural Interest, administered by the Museums, ...
  2 weeks ago

• APEC leaders dilute carbon targets

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is jointly hosting a climate change breakfast on the sidelines of APEC in Singapore, though the Pacific rim leaders have watered down climate change targets in their final statement. Climate change has been the big new issue on the usually trade-centred agenda of the Asia Pacific Economic ...
  3 weeks ago

• YouTube video sinks Turnbull minder

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  A media minder for Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has reportedly quit his job after being linked to an online bout of Liberal factional warfare. The video parodies Liberal MP Alex Hawke by portraying him as an enraged Adolf Hitler, echoing a YouTube trend of dubbing Hitler biopic Downfall with fake ...
  4 weeks ago

• U.K. Government Scheme Accepts Artworks in Lieu of Inheritance Tax

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 450
  Paintings by Titian, Van Dyck and David Hockney as well as many other cultural works – with a combined value of £19.8 million – were saved for the nation last year thanks to the Government’s Acceptance in Lieu (AIL) scheme, Culture Minister Margaret Hodge has told Parliament. Collections in Norwich, ...
  4 weeks ago

• Eric Holder’s Close Friend Joins Roman Polanski’s Legal Team

  
  Count Us Out — Authority: 150
  “Hollyweird’ Comes to Defense of Pedophile Rapist PolanskiByReginald OremHollywood producer Harvey Weinstein called it a “so-called” crime. Actress Whoopi Goldberg says she knows it wasn’t “rape rape.” It was something else, but not “rape rape.”French celebrity intellectual Bernard-Henri Levy says ...
  5 weeks ago

• Poor leadership linked to soldier’s death

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Deficiencies in training, leadership and deployment readiness may have contributed to the death of Lieutenant Michael Fussell in Afghanistan last year, a Defence inquiry has found. The Major in charge of the operation in which Lieutenant Fussell died on November 27 has now been stood down from his command. ...
  5 weeks ago

• Srinagar hosts golf championship for ambassadors

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Srinagar, Nov. 1 (ANI): Tourism in Jammu and Kashmir got a shot in the arm with the hosting of the Autumn Kashmir Ambassadors Golf Championship here.The tournament, in which several diplomats are participating, was teed off on Saturday at the Royal Springs Golf Course.Envoys of Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, ...
  5 weeks ago

• Use more Malayalam, urges Achuthanandan as Kerala turns 53

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Thiruvananthapuram, Nov 1 (IANS) As Kerala marked 53 years of its existence Sunday, Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan expressed concern about the decreasing use of Malayalam as the official language.Achuthanandan, speaking at a function here, said that though Malayalam is the official language, less than 45 percent of ...
  5 weeks ago

• Harbour Bridge picnic may become annual

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  This mornings massive breakfast picnic which closed the Sydney Harbour Bridge could become an annual event. Sydneys first Breakfast on the Bridge, held as part of a city-wide food festival, has been hailed a success, with about 6,000 picnic goers in attendance. The eight lanes of bitumen were given a temporary ...
  6 weeks ago

• 6,000 eat brekkie on Harbour Bridge

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Six thousand people have found the best picnic spot in Sydney this morning - sitting down to breakfast on the Harbour Bridge. The citys first Breakfast on the Bridge, held as part of a Sydney-wide food festival, was hailed a success. Picnickers say the event was well organised and there have been very few ...
  6 weeks ago

• Australia faces famine, expert warns

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  A food production expert says Australia may face a massive famine if governments fail to address an impending global food shortage. A conference of food productivity experts in Sydney this week heard the greatest threat to the world is not climate change, but food production on land and in the water. Science ...
  6 weeks ago

• The (Homecoming) Flight of the Arctic Tern

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 487
  You may wonder what an Arctic Tern has to do with a glorious MacBrayne’s touring coach and a group of people obviously having fun. Are they vintage birders in flight themselves? Well…  the poet Norman Bissell has the answer and it’s quite a story.Helensburgh based composer, musician and writer Mark Sheridan has ...
  6 weeks ago

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