Category: Library
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Broken Bad the first
The most expensive salvage operation in history takes place today. It will cost nigh 300 million dollars to lift the Costa Concordia out of the waters close to Giglio Island in Italy. Captain Schettino’s handiwork has led to a magnificent effort in logistics and this in turn has hogged the headlines this week – ahead…
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Agrodolce
MaltaToday reports that the public has been given only one week to send in comments on the proposed new policy that will affect ODZ (outside development zone areas) “to facilitate the redevelopment of existing farm buildings into agro-tourism establishments or visitor attractions.” This is never going to be an easy issue. The very character of an…
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See no evil
According to a news item that went viral over the weekend the Splash and Fun complex is full of shit. Actually to be more precise, tests have detected the presence of E Coli bacteria in the pool water at the popular summer resort. The news gets worse though. Apparently the Health Department tests and results…
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Crash, Boom, Bang.
The appointment of the legal consultant of the Malta Pyrotechnics Association to the chair of a working group tasked to devise a new policy on fireworks factories is the last in a long string of “inappropriate” appointments being made under the current Labour government. The philosophy of the Tagħna Lkoll government seems to favour appeasement over…
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On the shame of being poorly educated
“For over twenty-five centuries we’ve been bearing the weight of superb and heterogeneous civilizations, all from outside, none made by ourselves, none that we could call our own. This violence of landscape, this cruelty of climate, this continual tension in everything, and even these monuments of the past, magnificent yet incomprehensible because not built by…
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I aten’t dead (reprise)
Yes it has been the silly season and we have taken a step back from the computer screen. Between a marathon of pre-season football frenzy (Britghton, Charity Shield, Metz and Metz again as well as Luxembourg’s great victory against Lithuania) and desperate attempts to enjoy the laid back season we did not really keep our…