The Independent (Free subscription) | 22 hours ago
Travel, like life in general, requires judicious risk management, ranging from "Am I a strong enough swimmer to cope with those currents?" and "Should I really have that extra drink?" to "What countries are too dangerous to contemplate?"
Kukla's Korner (Free subscription) | yesterday
from Pierre LeBrun of ESPN, The NHL’s rookie race looks nothing like what the preseason pundits predicted. Steven Stamkos, Kyle Turris and Fabian Brunnstrom were far and away the leading September picks to challenge for the Calder Trophy this season. Someone forgot to tell Derick Brassard, Kris Versteeg, Mikhail Grabovski, Jakub Voracek and Patrik Berglund—the top five scoring rookies through Wednesday...
Kukla's Korner (Free subscription) | 16/11/2008
from Brian Costello of the Hockey News, I’ve only seen the Los Angeles Kings play a couple of games this season, but I’ve already penciled in the name Drew Doughty next to Calder Trophy on my virtual NHL awards ballot. This 18-year-old man-child is the real deal. On a young Kings lineup, Doughty plays the seasoned vet. He logs the second most minutes on the team, quarterbacks the power play and is...
Studiopjj (Free subscription) | 16/11/2008
Alexander Calder = Beauty + elegant simplicity. Go to The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York to see his jewelry collections on display. Don't miss it. Useful links: www.calder.org www.metmuseum.org www.modernart.ie
The Independent (Free subscription) | 15/11/2008
Say what you like about Radio 2: it remains consistently the best listen of the BBC's national radio networks, not least the excellent Jeremy Vine programme on weekday lunchtimes. On Thursday, his 1pm debate was on the concept of child-free flights. It soon morphed into a tirade against inconsiderate flyers who recline their seats without regard to the passenger behind, nor their meal/drink/laptop....
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 14/11/2008
Best known for colorful mobiles and monumental "stabiles," the American-born sculptor Alexander Calder also made unpretentious and elegantly simple personal jewelry, using brass, precious metals and found objects.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 14/11/2008
How to lose £20 in one minute: change £100 to euros at the American Express bureau de change at Heathrow Terminal 1. You will get €110. Change it instantly back to sterling and you will be handed £80.
The Business First of Louisville (Free subscription) | 13/11/2008
Tom O’Donnell, a longtime casino executive, has been named president and general manager of Calder Race Course in Miami. (CHDN)
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 13/11/2008
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Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | 12/11/2008
Over at the New Statesman’s blog, Jonathan Calder looks at Bryan Ferry’s position as a ‘political prisoner’, while looking at Lembit’s long-term ambitions: Will we see more of him? I hope so. Lembit has a Westminster seat to defend and could no doubt return to the Lib Dem front bench if he chose. Besides, the alternative for [...]
Liberal England (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
My latest column for the New Statesman website considers the claim that Otis Ferry is being held as a political prisoner for his protests against the hunting ban: I rang a number of prisons and they all (those who did not put the phone down on me, that is) confirmed it is not their usual practice to release inmates because it is their birthday. Nor are they allowed out for the new hunting season -...
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
National won 18 list MPs in Saturday's provisional election result and a total of 59 MPs. The last of National's list candidates allocated a seat was Cam Calder, who contested the Manurewa electorate. If the party has to lose a...
West Somerset Railway (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
The Simon Calder programme screened a few weeks back on local BBC channel is to be repeated.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
A national calamity, embarrassment, or disaster? Take your pick: members of the Transport Select Committee used these terms and other unflattering terms to describe the debut of Heathrow Terminal 5 in March. The £4.3bn structure is now working well. But this week, much to the continuing chagrin of the owner BAA and sole tenant, British Airways, the dismal spring days of its botched opening were revisited...
World Hum (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
The Independent’s travel columnist offers his take on the recent firings of 13 Virgin Atlantic staff who created a Facebook group to complain about their passengers, and the possible disciplining of several British Airways staff that did the same. “The term ‘long-suffering’ could have been invented to describe the people who work in aviation,” he writes. “If they choose to disparage some of us when...
