2007-10-05 21:44 Pirrip Pirrip
Lloyd Jones' Mister Pip certainly has an appealing cover. If authors won the Booker on the strength of their cover's alone, it would probably take the prize. The bookies have it as the favourite too, just ahead of On Chesil Beach, and I can hardly blame them - Mister Pip looks like it should be a winner. It it political, but not too political; literary, but not too literary; tragic, but not too tragic; and intertextual but not inaccessible. More importantly in the circumstances, it is saleabl …
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2007-09-04 15:48 Panguna: Now It Is Time for a Welcome-Zone
In a short statement on Monday the president of the European Shareholders of Bougainville Copper (ESBC), Mr Axel G. Sturm said in France: œWe are very satisfied, after years of agony, the Panguna district will become revitalized now.
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2007-08-31 10:42 Fullbore Friday
Often, the boring is not. The ordinary never is - and the mundane is actually quite sublime. That is where the USS Harry Lee (AP-17/APA-10) comes in. She was built in 1931 by the New York Shipbuilding Company in Camden, New Jersey, the ship was originally a commercial supply ship for American Export Lines as the Exochorda. She worked the New York-Mediterranean run until 1940, when she was acquired by the U.S. Navy. That is when she got to work. Her wartime record :-Harry Lee spent the first few …
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2007-08-18 15:17 Kilcullen's guide to counterinsurgency is working
The Australian: DAVID Kilcullen answers to the most powerful woman in the world: Condoleezza Rice, the US Secretary of State. The Australian counterinsurgency expert is Rice's eyes and ears on the ground in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, the Horn of Africa and in the corridors of Washington. But when the invasion of Iraq was being planned, Kilcullen was one of a handful of senior military advisers in the coalition of the willing to voice a dissenting view. "I was one of a bunch of people ... who sa …
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2007-08-18 06:06 Strategist Behind War Gains
18 August The Australian - Strategist Behind War Gains by Rebecca Weiser. Quote: David Kilcullen answers to the most powerful woman in the world: Condoleezza Rice, the US Secretary of State. The Australian counterinsurgency expert is Rice's eyes and ears on the ground in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, the Horn of Africa and in the corridors of Washington. But when the invasion of Iraq was being planned, Kilcullen was one of a handful of senior military advisers in the coalition of the willing to vo …
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2007-08-13 16:31 Gen. Nathan F. Twining
On Aug. 15, 1957, Gen. Nathan Farragut Twining became the first Air Force chief of staff to serve as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He helped expand the nation's worldwide network of air bases for strategic bombers and played a major role in forming United States policy in Indochina. He also was instrumental in developing nuclear air weapons and the supersonic missiles and jets designed to deliver them. He was an ardent advocate of the Strategic Air Command and believed that SAC was the …
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2007-08-13 01:00 Cursed by riches: Melanesian resource wars
Lihir gold mine, Papua New Guinea A history of conflict As has been explored in previous Oceania Day posts, conflict in Oceania – particularly in Melanesia – is often related to resources. The prime example is Bougainville, where in 1989 – in a scene straight out of John Robb's Brave New War - angry landowners toppled transmission towers, sabotaged equipment and threatened workers at the Panguna copper mine, blaming it for economic inequality and environmental damage. The mine …
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2007-08-01 14:24 Argentina and the Falklands/Malvinas: Could the Conflict with Great Britain Have Been Averted
The Shrug That May Have Launched A Thousand British and Argentine Ships: General Vernon Walters Purported Epocal Role in Triggering the Conflict Even after the U.K. s victory over Argentina in the Falkland War of 1982, the jurisdictional status of the Falkland/Malvinas Islands continues to be ardently debated. Since the discovery of the islands in the 1500s by English navigator John Davis, a number of countries, including England, Spain, France and Argentina, have claimed them. The Falklands lie …
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2007-07-21 11:15 Early this morning
Some pictures for the weekend from this morning. / Ein paar Bilder fürs Wochenende von heute morgen. I moved the Bougainville and it seems to like the new spot more.. .. reBlogged to flowers
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2007-07-20 00:03 More RWA musings... and an excerpt from Untamed
Debbie H and I share a photo opportunity at the RWA literacy signing. Did I say it's hard coming back the real world That's a bloody understatement! It's close to intolerable! One minute you're hanging with your author friends some of the best friends you'll have in your life and the next you're back at work where no one knows what a RITA is or even cares. That's life I guess. But I don't have to like it. I met a lot of great people this year. As Emma Holly said on the RBL Board, so much happene …
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2007-07-10 16:11 Lloyd Jones: Mister Pip
Lloyd Jones is a New Zealand writer with a handful of novels under his belt, but Mister Pip is the first to be published in the UK. Straight out of the trap it won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and I wouldn't rule out further garlands for it in the months to come. Expect his back catalogue to slope into view very soon. The cover, which looks garish here but in the hand is bold and bright and makes it a lovely object to hold, gives a fair idea of the colourful tropicality of Mister Pip . It …
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2007-07-02 01:00 Oceania: The "arc of instability" and the "Africanization of the South Pacific"
[Special guest blogger Phil Howison of Pacific Empire brings us his second installment introducing Oceania's geography for our Oceania Day series. Enjoy! - YH] Last week I wrote: But by the 1980s, it was clear that the region was no longer entirely peaceful... Democracy appeared to be weakening, and one academic warned of "Africanisation," forecasting a dark future for Oceania. ...Meanwhile, Australia and New Zealand are increasingly concerned with maintaining security in their Pacific backyard, …
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2007-06-18 08:33 Dark Side of Paradise: Conflict in Melanesia
Ask New Zealanders what springs to mind about Oceania, and the answer will involve palm-fringed islands and blue lagoons - paradise. Pacific islands are holiday destinations, places to escape winter. It's easy to forget that there's a dark side to Pacific life; people are surprised when an insurrection or coup occurs. This is odd, as anyone who lived through World War Two, or was born in its shadow, will know. Names of Pacific battles - Coral Sea, Guadalcanal, Kokoda Trail, Tarawa - signified gr …
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2007-05-13 13:00 Through the Years
Hello all, as I was looking at the pictures of our garden and how it has developed during the past few years, I thought it would make a nice post to show you. Have fun looking at them. /Andrea ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hallo, ich schaute mir gerade Bilder von den letzten Jahren vom Garten an und dachte, dass das vielleicht was für den Blog wäre. Viel Spass beim Ansehen. /Andrea 2003 - We thought this would never be done./ Wir dachten, dass es nie fertig wird. 2004 - We've got a lawn und shrubs /Wir haben …
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2007-05-08 09:43 Coconut oil powers island's cars
High-priced diesel is being replaced by coconut oil as an alternative fuel in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea.
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2007-04-14 16:27 Grass jelly dessert
. This was one of my favorite dessert when I was in SINGAPORE ... there I first tasted it and began to like it a lot. I have been thinking about this many times since I came back but I did not think it was possible to eat it or even make it here in Europe. Well, I was wrong. Some weeks ago two friends of mine from Indonesia gave me a little bag containing grass jelly powder... you cannot imagine how glad I was for that present. Since I came back from Easter holidays the weather has been fantasti …
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2006-09-29 03:38 Carterets to be Evacuated due to Rising Sea Level
I recently visited the Carteret Islands, 100 km north east of Bougainville, having heard that they were suffering badly from rising seas caused by global warming. All 6 of the islands in the group are being badly damaged and the islands look like making history as the first atoll to be abandoned due to rising seas. Food crops have been destroyed, houses have been washed away and malaria is now the most common cause of children dying. Until World War Two the Carterets were seven islands. They wer …
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