Belleair home has one hulk of a price tag
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- Belleair home has one hulk of a price tag
- RCN confirms general secretary’s departure
- Home Office paedophile policy ‘led by the media’
- For addiction to oil, dose of distilled corn: 85% ethanol is catching…
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Belleair home has one hulk of a price tag
St. Petersburg Times – Jun 20, 2006
The asking price: $25-million. This isn't just any run-of-the-mill mansion. It is believed to be the most expensive home on the market on the west coast of Florida, and according to Forbes magazine, it is the eighth most expensive home for sale in the South. Where to begin? The roof tiles are imported from France. The floors are center-cut oak that's hand-carved in a basketweave pattern. The windows are handmade leaded glass. The kitchen has custom copper sinks, hand-carved limestone and steel countertops, and a fireplace, one of seven in the 17,000-square-foot house… Ellis said the Bolleas moved to Miami so the couple's two children, Brooke, 18, and Nick, 15, can pursue music and acting careers. While the Pinellas County property appraiser stands to gain a sizable windfall when the Belleair home is sold the house was assessed last year at about $6. 4-million, and property taxes were $126,207, the Tampa Bay area is losing a home-grown celebrity, at least full-time. But Bollea, who graduated from Robinson High in Tampa, still owns a more modest 3,500-square-foot house on Clearwater Beach, and his mother lives in the area. In recent years, as his wrestling career wound down, Bollea made a successful transition from the ring to the small screen, and his Belleair home was part of the formula. Hogan Knows Best, a reality-based show on VH1, has been climbing in the cable ratings as it enters its third season. While the focus is on the Bollea family, the Bollea house was also a star.
RCN confirms general secretary’s departure
Guardian Unlimited – Jun 20, 2006
Last week, the college denied claims that Ms Malone was set to go, even though senior-ranking officials at the professional organisation confirmed their leader had announced her intentions to staff. The RCN today switched tack as it confirmed that Ms Malone would be standing down next January to lead the National League for Nursing (NLN) based in New York, which champions quality nursing education in the United States. Ms Malone, who formerly worked in the US health department under the Clinton administration, was seen as a controversial appointment five years ago, with detractors complaining that a home-grown UK nurse should have taken the helm of the country’s largest nursing union. Factions within the college sought to undermine Ms Malone’s leadership at different times, including an attempt to depose her a year after she took office. Ms Malone, who became RCN general secretary in June 2001, said it was now the right time to return home to the states. She leaves behind a rift to be healed with public sector union Unison, which also represents nurses. The RCN caused a furore by campaigning for a judicial review over the government’s proposals to outsource primary care nursing services, before abandoning it midway following talks with the government… Confirming her decision to go, Ms Malone said today :”I joined the RCN at a pivotal stage in nursing’s history with huge reform of the NHS on the horizon. Now, more than five years on, nurses have well and truly pushed back the boundaries – extending their roles and improving care for patients. “Nursing really has grown in confidence as a profession and I feel truly privileged to have led the RCN during such an exciting time. ”
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Home Office paedophile policy ‘led by the media’
Daily Mail – UK – Jun 20, 2006
“We are also looking at examples in Europe and other parts ofthe world to see how they deal with these serious and complexissues. Yesterday Mr Grange told BBC Radio 4′s The World Tonight: “Thelast three years has been a litany of abandonment of any realstrategic design in the Home Office in the management of sexoffenders in favour of trying to find out what one particulartabloid newspaper wants and then complying with their wishes. “Anybody who has watched the last six months in all forms of thedebate on public protection whether it’s our own home-growncriminals, foreign criminals, the immigration and nationalitydepartment, sex offenders, violent offender orders – one of myfavourite on the hoof policies – all brought about by the mediaputting pressure on the Government and the Governmentresponding. “The reality as I perceive it is that the only people with anyreal strategic intent and understanding on where they want to goand the will to be ruthless in getting there is the News of theWorld. “The Government is attending meetings at the behest of anewspaper and then altering its approach overnight. He went on: “The News of the World has a plan and it is to haveSarah’s Law introduced and it’s working towards that plan. And theGovernment is slowly but surely acceding to its request.
For addiction to oil, dose of distilled corn: 85% ethanol is catching…
Free with registration – Baltimore Sun – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jun 20, 2006
95 – 9 cents cheaper than the gas at the next pump. Tate filled up his car with “E85,” a mixture of 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline. The gas station, one of three in Maryland to sell the fuel, has seen a sharp increase in customers filling up on E85 over the past year – a trend across the nation as soaring gas prices and the Iraq war have attracted drivers more to a home-grown alternative to gasoline. “Anything you can do to reduce your use of oil, and lessen your emissions into the environment, the better,” said Tate, 64, who is director of architecture and engineering at the University of Maryland, Baltimore.
Real job security – Chatroom – Opinion – Technology – theage.com.au
The Age – Jun 20, 2006
Rather than spreading itsdevelopment around the globe, IBM chooses to do it in what it seesas the lowest cost location – India. The subcontinent now has44,000 IBM staff and is the second largest IBM office in the worldafter the US. The only problem for IBM is that even India does nothave limitless IT human resources and, aside from all the othermultinationals competing for heads, India has four very stronghome-grown software and services companies. No doubt Microsoft and IBM will argue that their respectiveapproaches to development have served them well up to this point. But both companies have ceased to be growth enterprises. Microsoftstruggles to bring new products to market in its own space and itis struggling to make a decisive impact in new markets. Google, with its global development team, continues to announceinteresting new products with stunning regularity.