Amid Ukraine crisis, Europe weighs fracking
Amid Ukraine crisis, Europe weighs fracking Fracking has transformed the United States into the world’s largest producer of natural gas, and now Europe is weighing the pros and cons of the controversial technique as it seeks greater energy independence from its chief gas supplier, Russia. more info. ...
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Please don’t leave us. An English Ex-pat’s plea to Scotland
With the vote getting closer, questions about the U.K. splitting up come up at least once a day to me, the resident Brit in a foreign land. I’m not begrudging the people asking because if I knew someone whose country could potentially break up I would pick their brains about it non-stop. The short a ...
Diary of Alfred E. Potter January, 1942
01. Thursday: After two hours of sleep I attend six oclock Mass at St. Johns, then down to the store to open up for the day. The New Year is ushered in with a heavy blizzard, in fact, so bad no taxis are running. Most Amusement Places are closed. I took off a few hours this afternoon for a little re ...
Europe Takes the QE Baton
By John Mauldin If the wide, wide world of investing doesn’t seem a little strange to you these days, it can only be because you’re not paying attention. If you’re paying attention, strange really isn’t the word you’re probably using in your day-to-day investing conversations; it may be more like we ...
Talking Shop Ensemble, 'Advocacy': From a Distance
Telling their stories from a distance, can Talking Shop Ensemble bring us closer to the reality of disability services in Ireland? Project Arts Centre, Dublin Fringe Festival Sept 7-13 My review of Advocacy by Shaun Dunne coming up just as soon as I prevent the shady shopkeeper from selling me somet ...
Buried Twice!
After succumbing to a fever of some sort in 1705, Irish woman Margorie McCall was hastily buried to prevent the spread of whatever had done her in. Margorie was buried with a valuable ring, which her husband had been unable to remove due to swelling. This made her an even better target for body snat ...
San Francisco
I can’t believe that I never got around to post about the rest of my California trip before today! As you know, I did go from L.A. to San Francisco to spend a couple of days there. I had been looking forward to going there, maybe more than L.A. (if it hadn’t been for the Best Western) because I had ...
Woburn House
Dunbar-Buller of Woburn THE DUNBARS OWNED 787 ACRES OF LAND IN COUNTY DOWN JAMES DUNBAR, a cadet of the family of DUNBAR, of Hempriggs, in Scotland, had a son , GEORGE DUNBAR, of Belfast and afterwards of Dungannon, County Tyrone , who left issue, JOHN, of whom presently; A daughter who wedded Henry ...
Badgers
Spare a thought for our British badgers today... Today the second phase of the four year badger cull starts, despite not only all the opposition and evidence against the cull. But also despite the independent monitoring of last years phase showing that it was ineffective and inhumane! So what is dif ...
Young and O’Brien secure Ireland win over Scotland in first one-day internationaI
CRAIG Young took five wickets on his one-day international debut as Ireland beat Scotland by seven wickets at Malahide in the first of three one-day internationals. Captain Kevin O’Brien helped the home side secure victory by top-scoring with an unbeaten ...
Ireland vs. Scotland, 2nd ODI: Date, Time, Live Stream, TV Info and Preview
Ireland have a 1-0 lead in their three-match ODI series against Scotland, having easily beaten the visitors in the opening match. Cricket in Ireland continues to blossom and the Irish continue to get better and better. They hammered Scotland in the opening ...
