Monday 1 November 2010
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- BBC News – Dutch coffee shops fear coalition crackdown
I'm always surprised by the widely-held perception that the Dutch are liberal. I would say that their culture is actually quite conservative (hardly any towns have Sunday shopping, for example). And whilst possession of a small quantity of cannabis is "tolerated" (note the word), trading is illegal. Many towns have either been shutting the brown coffee shops down or, like Maastricht, changed planning laws so that they must be sited on industrial estates on the edge of town. Personally, I'm all for shutting them down – it might make tourists look a little further in the Netherlands, beyond the soft drugs to the culture, cuisine and history.
Netherlands drugs news
Tuesday 2 November 2010
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- The Bribery Act – Heads Up! - DMH Stallard (Solicitors) – London, Gatwick, Brighton
Handy guide to the new Bribery Act and what it means for people in business. Apparently, the test for whether an offer or promise is a bribe is “what a reasonable person in the UK would expect in relation to the performance of the type of function or activity concerned.” So, the law is sufficiently vague that the lawyers will profit most.
law bribery
Thursday 4 November 2010
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Friday 5 November 2010
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- More on the images you saw! « Notion Ink
Nearly a firm release date.
Notion_Ink adam tablet hardware
Friday 12 November 2010
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- Hello Kitty Maker Sniffy Over Miffy: Sanrio Ordered To Pull Cathy Character In Three Countries | Business | Sky News
I've always felt that Hello Kitty was nothing but a blatant rip-off of Miffy/Nijntje, who is a rather older animal born in 1955. In fact, Hello Kitty is banned from this house on moral grounds. At last, Mercis bv, the company that licences Dick Bruna's creation, have got one over on Sanrio. But I suspect that Sanrio have better resources to throw at a legal battle, so, as usual, it will be a case of who blinks/runs out of cash first. But first blood to Mercis, a good thing IMHO.
Miffy Hello_Kitty copyright IP law
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- Home – Skylark
This shop is rather small, but I could happily spend hours (and lots of money) in there. I've always felt that the range of stuff on offer is more or less aimed at someone like me – eclectic books and music, fun small gifts, slight nostalgia for the 80s and early 90s, an interest in things out-of-the-ordinary-but-not-too-far-out. Very highly recommended.
Skylark shop Lewes
Sunday 14 November 2010
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- Becoming a governor
Information on what school governors do.
school governor East_Sussex education
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- SUVARNAMUKHI BIO-TECH
Huge Indian TC lab. This is the way that tissue culture is going – I know of very few European labs that still carry out production in Europe. Clean stock, protocol development and initiation in Europe, perhaps, but volume production is almost always carried out in low labour cost nations.
TC tissue_culture plants horticulture India
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- Iain Dale’s Diary: Is There a Future for Books?
Thoughtful article on the future of publishing. Is it as bleak as that? I hope not. I work in an industry where specialist monographs that probably only sell a few hundred copies at best have been the normal method to disseminate specialist information. Perhaps e-books might save them, but I rather suspect the publication of specialist information on specialist websites that can be easily and frequently updated are more likely to sound their death knell than the lack of bookshop distribution or low cover prices.
books publishing opinion
Monday 15 November 2010
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- Sniffer ‘hero rats’ saving lives in war zones and labs < Pets | Expatica The Netherlands
It takes two landmine clearance experts two days to clear a patch of 200 square metres. It takes two trained rats two hours to complete the same task.
landmines rats
Thursday 18 November 2010
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- BBC News – Sussex passenger train slides for two-and-a-half miles
Good job this didn't happen on any of the sections of this line with single line operating. It could have been Cowden all over again. The leaf blowers are certainly out and about – I've seen and heard them – but "our" branch line uses different (diesel) stock, so I'm not sure they would slide in the same way.
train accident leaves
Friday 19 November 2010
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- GovernorNet
Resource for school governors.
school governor education
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- Welcome to The Charles Close Society | The Charles Close Society
You just get the feeling that 90% of the members of this society are male.
Ordnance_Survey maps Charles_Close_Society cartography - David Archer Maps | Ordnance Survey maps from mid-Wales
Must…put…credit…card…away!
Ordnance_Survey maps shop - British Library: Ordnance Survey: small scale maps
Classification guide for researchers.
OS Ordnance_Survey maps
Tuesday 23 November 2010
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- Have we found the universe that existed before the Big Bang?
Maybe, maybe not. Either way, my head hurts.
science physics astronomy
Friday 26 November 2010
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- BBC News – When exactly is our winter of discontent?
Interesting article cutting through some of the fluff in the media about the country being gripped by strike action.
media news strikes
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- BBC News – Arsonists target saved railway signal box near Bognor
This sort of thing makes me angry. I stood in the lee of the box on many a wet and windy evening stood on Barnham railway station. It was also the venue for one of my first school trips when I was a kid. Why exactly would anyone want to set fire to the thing?
railway heritage Barnham Sussex
Monday 29 November 2010
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- Meteo Maastricht ::::….
Quite possibly the most ridiculously detailed weather website covering Maastricht, including a live weather webcam in the southeast of the city. Wonderful.
maastricht meteorology weather Netherlands
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