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All rights reserved. webmaster@world-of-newave.com (Webmaster) Sun, 23 Nov 2008 19:20:26 GMT Sun, 23 Nov 2008 19:20:26 GMT Newave Lisa XML Engine v1.0 - http://www.world-of-newave.info/about.htm 60 http://www.world-of-newave.info/images/wi8831.gif World-of-Newave.info - Knowledge and Informational Database http://www.world-of-newave.info/ 88 31 {EUROPE > NEWS AND MEDIA} - Somalia sinks deeper into a state of total disintegration http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/europe/united-kingdom/news-and-media/somalia-sinks-deeper-into-a-state-of-total-disintegration-20081150831.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/europe/united-kingdom/news-and-media/somalia-sinks-deeper-into-a-state-of-total-disintegration-20081150831.htm Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:04:26 GMT Zam Zam Abdi fled Mogadishu after being threatened with death by the hardline Islamist militia - the Shabab. The message from the armed group once allied to the Union of Islamic Courts, the coalition that briefly seized power in 2006, was simple: if she continued working for her women's rights organisation in the Somali capital, she would be killed. The warning was posted on her office gates. But it is what happened to a friend and colleague, working for another organisation, that persuaded her to escape. He was shot dead and the same note left on his body.'Most of us had to leave,' she said. 'We had emails and phone calls telling us to stop working. They used an expression famous in Somalia: Falka aad ku jirtid maka baxeeysa. May ama haa? It means - "Stop what you are doing or we will act. Yes or no?" Then someone spoke on the radio - a local leader called Sheikh Mahmoud - delivering the same warning.'Zam Zam, 28, separates the chaos and violence that has pervaded her country since the overthrow of President Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991 into 'ordinary Mogadishu' and 'not ordinary'. 'Ordinary', in Zam Zam's definition, describes her country's persistent clan warfare, even the heavy fighting in the city that drove her to leave before with her daughter when Ethiopian troops - supporting the internationally recognised government - shelled her neighbourhood in 2006 to drive the Islamic Courts out after six months in power. In the ordinary violence and chaos, Zam Zam and her colleagues could still work, negotiating with the clan warlords. In common with the UN, Zam Zam believes that what is happening now is something else. Something terrible, exceeding perhaps even the bloodsoaked chaotic days of the early 1990s when Somalia was last plunged into anarchy.It is Mogadishu that symbolises what is happening. A large proportion of its population - already jobless, hungry and surviving on aid - has fled the fighting in the city between the Shabab and the forces of the country's weak and rapidly imploding government, backed by its Ethiopian allies. The streets are stalked by assassins, kidnappers and suicide bombers. And the Shabab is threatening to overrun the country's south and centre. If what is happening is a disaster, it is a disaster hardly noticed by the world. Yet it has not only been human rights workers who have been attacked. Government officials, politicians and journalists, anyone who does not fit in with the Shabab's world view, have been threatened and killed, mostly for being tainted by Western ideas. 'When the leadership of the Islamic Courts fled in 2006, the Shabab became more independent,' said Zam Zam. For humanitarian workers, problems were exacerbated when one of the Shabab's leaders, accused also of being a leader of al-Qaeda, was killed in a US air strike in late spring in the town of Dusa Mareeb. 'When the US hit Shabab hideouts they started seeing us as being spies of the West. If people were kidnapped they would ask to see our laptops before releasing us to see what information we held on them.'While the world has focused on the rampant piracy problem afflicting the Gulf of Aden, which saw yet another tanker held for ransom last week, the seizing of ships is only a symptom of a much more terrifying malaise.What it points to is the wholesale failure of a state and the international community's abandonment of the Somalia problem except where it affects its interests - in terms of shipping trade and the 'war on terror' for the West and on a more local scale for the regional interests of Ethiopia and Eritrea.Last week, however, the African Union Commission's chairman, Jean Ping, reiterated what many are convinced of: that the piracy problem is inseparable from Somalia's caustic political and security problems. 'Piracy is an extension on the sea of the problem you are facing on the land ... [it] is an important aspect of all the disorder you already have in Somali territory,' he said.Somalia is not so much a failed state as one that is atomising. Forty-three per cent of the country is in dire need of humanitarian assistance, about 3.2 million people at the last count. There are 1.3 million internally displaced, 100,000 of them fleeing the fighting in Mogadishu alone since the beginning of September. Inflation is running at 1,600 per cent. One in six children in southern and central Somalia is acutely malnourished.Dozens of aid workers, most of them locals, have been murdered this year, largely by members of the Shabab. According to the Shabab, even locals who take money from the UN are therefore in the pay of foreign interests and enemies to be killed.Mogadishu and other centres have been hit by suicide attacks - merely one aspect of an intensely violent society. There is the religious conflict between the factions of the Islamic Courts allied to the Shabab and those they regard as insufficiently Islamic. Then there are the ever-present clan conflicts, at the centre of which is the rivalry between the Hawiye and the Darod groups. Added to this is the battle between the Transitional Federal government backed by Ethiopia and the Islamic Courts.These conflicts are underscored by complex, interleaving rivalries even within the Islamist factions which have pitted the Shabab - literally the 'Youth' - against the more moderate Djibouti faction. On top of all this has been the mushrooming of criminal activity, piracy, smuggling and people-trafficking, some of it linked to groups such as the Shabab. Foreign jihadi fighters have also been attracted into the chaos. The consequence has been a disaster. 'The situation is very serious,' said a Mogadishu businessman who spoke to The Observer on Friday asking not to be identified for fear of being targeted by one of the rival groups. 'A lot of the population has fled from the city. Some areas are deserted and it is very difficult and dangerous. There are no jobs. People are only surviving on the food provided at the kitchens of the aid organisations. Others get money sent from their relatives overseas. 'The military loyal to the government are looting. They are taking mobiles from people and committing other crimes. Then there are the different factions of the resistance who call themselves names like the Union of Islamic Courts or Islamic Jihad. Last week the Shabab took two more towns. This is the worst situation since the civil war began,' he added. 'You don't know who will attack or kill you.' And despite the advances on the battlefield made by the Shabab, he does not believe that the period of calm and order enjoyed in Somalia in 2006 when the Islamic Courts first took over would be replicated if the Islamist groups won once more. 'This time it will be worse,' he said. 'The Courts replaced the clan warlords but had no ideas for the future and were driven back. This time the Islamic groups will fight among themselves. This time we will have Islamic warlords. They will fight and there will be more difficult problems.'Somalia's tragedy has been a slow, deadly and divisive affair that has ground out over the years since the fall of the socialist state founded by Siad Barre in 1991. Its roots, at least partly, are to be found in his disastrous war to seize the Ogaden region of Ethiopia, an adventure that would lead to eventual defeat for Somalia's forces and the beginning of Ethiopia's long history of interference in Somalia, which saw it arm the warlords who brought Siad Barre down.Despite the overthrow of his authoritarian regime, the rival clans responsible for his downfall could not agree on a replacement, leading to lawlessness and social collapse. The result was a country that, when confronted with famine, was unable to cope, leading to the deaths of more than a million of its people. While the rest of the world knows Somalia for the intervention by American and Pakistani troops as part of Operation Restore Hope in 1993, for Somalis the country's story has been told in clan strife and repeated failures - 14 to date - to establish a government whose writ runs throughout the state. The most recent effort was the establishment of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) in Djibouti in 2004 whose authority was quickly challenged by the Islamic Courts, which emerged out of the port city of Kismayo and sought to establish a strict interpretation of sharia law before being driven out by Ethiopian troops who intervened on behalf of the TFG. While the rule of the Islamic Courts was, by most Somali accounts, a period of relative calm, it is what has happened since that has driven Somalia towards a new catastrophe. Despite a peace deal between one of the factions of the Islamic Courts and the TFG, the Courts' former militia, the Shabab, has split apart - with the most militant faction responsible for the most violence, in particular those who look to the leadership of Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, a hardline Salafist said to be close to al-Qaeda.The outcome so many Somalis feared has already come to pass in large areas of south-central Somalia that have fallen under the control of the country's reinvented militant Islamist movement. In recent days its fighters have captured two more towns close to the capital, including Elasha, nine miles south of Mogadishu. In Elasha in recent days rival Islamist groups have already clashed violently.Elsewhere, the Shabab is already consolidating its victories, including in Marka, capital of the Lower Shabele region. Speaking to a crowd in Marka, Muktar Robow - known as 'Abu Mansur' - a spokesman for the Shabab said the group had come to secure the region against foreigners and criminals.According to the community-based station Radio Garowe, in the north of the country, he said that the Shabab intended to establish an Islamic court to administer justice, adding: 'We will not allow the citizens to be oppressed again.'Militarily, it is a situation so bleak for the forces of the TFG and its Ethiopian allies that President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed admitted two weeks ago that Islamists now control most of Somalia, raising the prospect that his government could completely collapse. 'We are only in Mogadishu and Baidoa, where there is daily war,' he said. That leaves a fundamental question: will the Shabab press its advantage to attempt to take Mogadishu once again? On Friday the indication was that it might be its intention, as the capital saw one of the fiercest gun battles in recent weeks when Islamist fighters attacked the house of a local government official, leaving 17 dead. The Islamist factions have also become increasingly bold in recent weeks, with their spokesmen in Mogadishu regularly holding news conferences and carrying out floggings in the parts of the capital they control, whereas only a few months ago they were careful not to be seen in the open.Despite the high profile of the Shabab in recent weeks, some analysts believe that it may be content with the chaos in Mogadishu that has bogged down the contingent of African peacekeepers as well as Somali-Ethiopian troops. They believe, too, that the Shabab is wary of the several thousand Ethiopian troops who defeated them before.Fears over what would happen if the Islamists were to take the capital and impose sharia law across the south were underlined by a single incident at the beginning of the month - the stoning to death for adultery of a 13-year-old rape victim, Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow, in Kismayo. 'You know how bad it is getting,' said Zam Zam, 'when a 13-year-old is stoned to death. Then you know that it is really scary.''Somalia in general and Mogadishu is in the midst of a deep political, humanitarian and security crisis,' said Asha Haji Elmi, an MP and activist and delegate to the UN-led peace process, who fled before the Ethiopian advance in 2006. Now based in Nairobi, she remains in daily contact with people in Somalia. 'They talk to me about a precarious situation, and it is civilians who are paying the heaviest price, especially women and children. It is unbelievable. There are internally displaced spread everywhere. There is no secure place.'She forcefully rejects any new attempt to impose a military solution on her country: 'The solution is political. It requires dialogue. That is the only symbol of hope. A military solution cannot be the answer to the problem. Everyone who has tried to solve Somalia's problems by force has failed.'A short and bloody history1960 Britain withdraws from British Somaliland, making way for a union with Italian Somaliland. The new country is known as the Somali Republic.1969 A coup launched by Mohamed Siad Barre ushers in a period of increasingly authoritarian rule. 1977 Siad Barre invades the Ethiopian territory of Ogaden in a bid to create a Greater Somalia. The Soviet Union and Cuba back Ethiopia. 1991 Siad Barre is deposed by warlords, largely from the south, armed and supported by Ethiopia. The country descends into factional fighting. In May the northern clans declare an independent Republic of Somalia.1993 Facing an appalling famine, the UN launches a humanitarian effort led by US and Pakistani troops. Thwarted by General Mohamed Farah Aideed, the mission suffers casualties, including the episode described in the film Black Hawk Down, above right, when 17 US Rangers were killed - and the UN mission leaves in 1995 in the wake of the US withdrawal.2004 The two-year peace process concludes in the establishment of the Transitional Federal Government. It never manages to establish real authority. 2006 A coalition of businessmen, clerics and militias known as the Union of Islamic Courts sweeps to power. Ethiopia, encouraged by the US, intervenes to support the TFG and drives back the Courts, claiming they are allied to al-Qaeda's East African network.2008 With the leadership of the Courts in exile, a resurgent Islamist movement, focused on the hardline Shabab militia group, makes gains throughout the country, threatening Mogadishu and Baidoa by November.SomaliaHuman rightsPiracyguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds Guardian.Co.Uk Somalia sinks deeper into a state of total disintegration {new window}   Www.Guardian.Co.Uk - Zam Zam Abdi fled Mogadishu after being threatened with death by the hardline Islamist militia - the Shabab. The message from the armed group once allied to the Union of Islamic Courts, the coalition that briefly seized power in 2006, was simple: if she continued working for her women's rights organisation in the Somali capital, she would be killed. The warning was posted on her office gates. But it is what happened to a friend and colleague, working for another organisation, that persuaded her to escape. He was shot dead and the same note left on his body.'Most of us had to leave,' she said. 'We had emails and phone calls telling us to stop working. They used an expression famous in Somalia: Falka aad ku jirtid maka baxeeysa. May ama haa? It means - "Stop what you are doing or we will act. Yes or no?" Then someone spoke on the radio - a local leader called Sheikh Mahmoud - delivering the same warning.'Zam Zam, 28, separates the chaos and violence that has pervaded her country since the overthrow of President Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991 into 'ordinary Mogadishu' and 'not ordinary'. 'Ordinary', in Zam Zam's definition, describes her country's persistent clan warfare, even the heavy fighting in the city that drove her to leave before with her daughter when Ethiopian troops - supporting the internationally recognised government - shelled her neighbourhood in 2006 to drive the Islamic Courts out after six months in power. In the ordinary violence and chaos, Zam Zam and her colleagues could still work, negotiating with the clan warlords. In common with the UN, Zam Zam believes that what is happening now is something else. Something terrible, exceeding perhaps even the bloodsoaked chaotic days of the early 1990s when Somalia was last plunged into anarchy.It is Mogadishu that symbolises what is happening. A large proportion of its population - already jobless, hungry and surviving on aid - has fled the fighting in the city between the Shabab and the forces of the country's weak and rapidly imploding government, backed by its Ethiopian allies. The streets are stalked by assassins, kidnappers and suicide bombers. And the Shabab is threatening to overrun the country's south and centre. If what is happening is a disaster, it is a disaster hardly noticed by the world. Yet it has not only been human rights workers who have been attacked. Government officials, politicians and journalists, anyone who does not fit in with the Shabab's world view, have been threatened and killed, mostly for being tainted by Western ideas. 'When the leadership of the Islamic Courts fled in 2006, the Shabab became more independent,' said Zam Zam. For humanitarian workers, problems were exacerbated when one of the Shabab's leaders, accused also of being a leader of al-Qaeda, was killed in a US air strike in late spring in the town of Dusa Mareeb. 'When the US hit Shabab hideouts they started seeing us as being spies of the West. If people were kidnapped they would ask to see our laptops before releasing us to see what information we held on them.'While the world has focused on the rampant piracy problem afflicting the Gulf of Aden, which saw yet another tanker held for ransom last week, the seizing of ships is only a symptom of a much more terrifying malaise.What it points to is the wholesale failure of a state and the international community's abandonment of the Somalia problem except where it affects its interests - in terms of shipping trade and the 'war on terror' for the West and on a more local scale for the regional interests of Ethiopia and Eritrea.Last week, however, the African Union Commission's chairman, Jean Ping, reiterated what many are convinced of: that the piracy problem is inseparable from Somalia's caustic political and security problems. 'Piracy is an extension on the sea of the problem you are facing on the land ... [it] is an important aspect of all the disorder you already have in Somali territory,' he said.Somalia is not so much a failed state as one that is atomising. Forty-three per cent of the country is in dire need of humanitarian assistance, about 3.2 million people at the last count. There are 1.3 million internally displaced, 100,000 of them fleeing the fighting in Mogadishu alone since the beginning of September. Inflation is running at 1,600 per cent. One in six children in southern and central Somalia is acutely malnourished.Dozens of aid workers, most of them locals, have been murdered this year, largely by members of the Shabab. According to the Shabab, even locals who take money from the UN are therefore in the pay of foreign interests and enemies to be killed.Mogadishu and other centres have been hit by suicide attacks - merely one aspect of an intensely violent society. There is the religious conflict between the factions of the Islamic Courts allied to the Shabab and those they regard as insufficiently Islamic. Then there are the ever-present clan conflicts, at the centre of which is the rivalry between the Hawiye and the Darod groups. Added to this is the battle between the Transitional Federal government backed by Ethiopia and the Islamic Courts.These conflicts are underscored by complex, interleaving rivalries even within the Islamist factions which have pitted the Shabab - literally the 'Youth' - against the more moderate Djibouti faction. On top of all this has been the mushrooming of criminal activity, piracy, smuggling and people-trafficking, some of it linked to groups such as the Shabab. Foreign jihadi fighters have also been attracted into the chaos. The consequence has been a disaster. 'The situation is very serious,' said a Mogadishu businessman who spoke to The Observer on Friday asking not to be identified for fear of being targeted by one of the rival groups. 'A lot of the population has fled from the city. Some areas are deserted and it is very difficult and dangerous. There are no jobs. People are only surviving on the food provided at the kitchens of the aid organisations. Others get money sent from their relatives overseas. 'The military loyal to the government are looting. They are taking mobiles from people and committing other crimes. Then there are the different factions of the resistance who call themselves names like the Union of Islamic Courts or Islamic Jihad. Last week the Shabab took two more towns. This is the worst situation since the civil war began,' he added. 'You don't know who will attack or kill you.' And despite the advances on the battlefield made by the Shabab, he does not believe that the period of calm and order enjoyed in Somalia in 2006 when the Islamic Courts first took over would be replicated if the Islamist groups won once more. 'This time it will be worse,' he said. 'The Courts replaced the clan warlords but had no ideas for the future and were driven back. This time the Islamic groups will fight among themselves. This time we will have Islamic warlords. They will fight and there will be more difficult problems.'Somalia's tragedy has been a slow, deadly and divisive affair that has ground out over the years since the fall of the socialist state founded by Siad Barre in 1991. Its roots, at least partly, are to be found in his disastrous war to seize the Ogaden region of Ethiopia, an adventure that would lead to eventual defeat for Somalia's forces and the beginning of Ethiopia's long history of interference in Somalia, which saw it arm the warlords who brought Siad Barre down.Despite the overthrow of his authoritarian regime, the rival clans responsible for his downfall could not agree on a replacement, leading to lawlessness and social collapse. The result was a country that, when confronted with famine, was unable to cope, leading to the deaths of more than a million of its people. While the rest of the world knows Somalia for the intervention by American and Pakistani troops as part of Operation Restore Hope in 1993, for Somalis the country's story has been told in clan strife and repeated failures - 14 to date - to establish a government whose writ runs throughout the state. The most recent effort was the establishment of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) in Djibouti in 2004 whose authority was quickly challenged by the Islamic Courts, which emerged out of the port city of Kismayo and sought to establish a strict interpretation of sharia law before being driven out by Ethiopian troops who intervened on behalf of the TFG. While the rule of the Islamic Courts was, by most Somali accounts, a period of relative calm, it is what has happened since that has driven Somalia towards a new catastrophe. Despite a peace deal between one of the factions of the Islamic Courts and the TFG, the Courts' former militia, the Shabab, has split apart - with the most militant faction responsible for the most violence, in particular those who look to the leadership of Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, a hardline Salafist said to be close to al-Qaeda.The outcome so many Somalis feared has already come to pass in large areas of south-central Somalia that have fallen under the control of the country's reinvented militant Islamist movement. In recent days its fighters have captured two more towns close to the capital, including Elasha, nine miles south of Mogadishu. In Elasha in recent days rival Islamist groups have already clashed violently.Elsewhere, the Shabab is already consolidating its victories, including in Marka, capital of the Lower Shabele region. Speaking to a crowd in Marka, Muktar Robow - known as 'Abu Mansur' - a spokesman for the Shabab said the group had come to secure the region against foreigners and criminals.According to the community-based station Radio Garowe, in the north of the country, he said that the Shabab intended to establish an Islamic court to administer justice, adding: 'We will not allow the citizens to be oppressed again.'Militarily, it is a situation so bleak for the forces of the TFG and its Ethiopian allies that President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed admitted two weeks ago that Islamists now control most of Somalia, raising the prospect that his government could completely collapse. 'We are only in Mogadishu and Baidoa, where there is daily war,' he said. That leaves a fundamental question: will the Shabab press its advantage to attempt to take Mogadishu once again? On Friday the indication was that it might be its intention, as the capital saw one of the fiercest gun battles in recent weeks when Islamist fighters attacked the house of a local government official, leaving 17 dead. The Islamist factions have also become increasingly bold in recent weeks, with their spokesmen in Mogadishu regularly holding news conferences and carrying out floggings in the parts of the capital they control, whereas only a few months ago they were careful not to be seen in the open.Despite the high profile of the Shabab in recent weeks, some analysts believe that it may be content with the chaos in Mogadishu that has bogged down the contingent of African peacekeepers as well as Somali-Ethiopian troops. They believe, too, that the Shabab is wary of the several thousand Ethiopian troops who defeated them before.Fears over what would happen if the Islamists were to take the capital and impose sharia law across the south were underlined by a single incident at the beginning of the month - the stoning to death for adultery of a 13-year-old rape victim, Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow, in Kismayo. 'You know how bad it is getting,' said Zam Zam, 'when a 13-year-old is stoned to death. Then you know that it is really scary.''Somalia in general and Mogadishu is in the midst of a deep political, humanitarian and security crisis,' said Asha Haji Elmi, an MP and activist and delegate to the UN-led peace process, who fled before the Ethiopian advance in 2006. Now based in Nairobi, she remains in daily contact with people in Somalia. 'They talk to me about a precarious situation, and it is civilians who are paying the heaviest price, especially women and children. It is unbelievable. There are internally displaced spread everywhere. There is no secure place.'She forcefully rejects any new attempt to impose a military solution on her country: 'The solution is political. It requires dialogue. That is the only symbol of hope. A military solution cannot be the answer to the problem. Everyone who has tried to solve Somalia's problems by force has failed.'A short and bloody history1960 Britain withdraws from British Somaliland, making way for a union with Italian Somaliland. The new country is known as the Somali Republic.1969 A coup launched by Mohamed Siad Barre ushers in a period of increasingly authoritarian rule. 1977 Siad Barre invades the Ethiopian territory of Ogaden in a bid to create a Greater Somalia. The Soviet Union and Cuba back Ethiopia. 1991 Siad Barre is deposed by warlords, largely from the south, armed and supported by Ethiopia. The country descends into factional fighting. In May the northern clans declare an independent Republic of Somalia.1993 Facing an appalling famine, the UN launches a humanitarian effort led by US and Pakistani troops. Thwarted by General Mohamed Farah Aideed, the mission suffers casualties, including the episode described in the film Black Hawk Down, above right, when 17 US Rangers were killed - and the UN mission leaves in 1995 in the wake of the US withdrawal.2004 The two-year peace process concludes in the establishment of the Transitional Federal Government. It never manages to establish real authority. 2006 A coalition of businessmen, clerics and militias known as the Union of Islamic Courts sweeps to power. Ethiopia, encouraged by the US, intervenes to support the TFG and drives back the Courts, claiming they are allied to al-Qaeda's East African network.2008 With the leadership of the Courts in exile, a resurgent Islamist movement, focused on the hardline Shabab militia group, makes gains throughout the country, threatening Mogadishu and Baidoa by November.SomaliaHuman rightsPiracyguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
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]]> Regional > Europe > United Kingdom > News and Media {EUROPE > NEWSPAPERS} - Stelios refuses to approve easyJet accounts http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/europe/united-kingdom/news-and-media/newspapers/stelios-refuses-to-approve-easyjet-accounts-20081140023.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/europe/united-kingdom/news-and-media/newspapers/stelios-refuses-to-approve-easyjet-accounts-20081140023.htm Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:03:42 GMT The dispute between the easyJet board and the airline's largest shareholder escalated this morning after Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou refused to approve annual accounts which showed a 46% fall in pre-tax profits.Haji-Ioannou, who has fallen out with board members over the budget carrier's strategy, said he was "unable" to back today's figures due to a number of objections related to easyJet's acquisition of GB Airways. The easyJet founder also ruled out becoming chairman of the airline but has proposed two lieutenants from his easyGroup business as non-executive directors. In a letter to the board published at the end of easyJet's annual results, Haji-Ioannou again criticised the airline's ambitious expansion plans."I would like to place on record that I believe that with careful cash management and in particular more prudent capital expenditure, easyJet and its shareholders will be the winners in European short-haul aviation. We must focus on cash flows forecasts and not on carrying more passengers," he said.Sir Stelios, who remains the airline's largest shareholder with a 27% stake, has demanded that the carrier begin paying dividends for the first time. The accounts were signed off by the airline's auditors PricewaterhouseCoopers.EasyJet reflected its founder's concerns in a change in short-term strategy announced today. Europe's second-largest low-cost carrier said it had reduced winter growth plans from a 12% increase in capacity to zero and added that it had deferred four aircraft deliveries scheduled to arrive in 2010. It added that, according to a multi-billion pound order with Airbus, it can defer up to half its 109 future aircraft deliveries for up to two years. However, easyJet refused to state whether it is considering pushing back those orders."EasyJet delivered a good trading performance in the financial year ending September 2008 ... We recognise that economic conditions will be very difficult and easyJet is planning accordingly," said Andy Harrison, easyJet chief executive.Boosted by an expansion that added 28 aircraft to its fleet over the year, easyJet said revenues grew by 32% to nearly £2.4bn as passenger numbers rose 17% to 43.7 million. The passenger load factor, which states the amount of seats sold per flight and is an important indicator of the financial health of a low-cost carrier, was flat at 84%. Profits were hit by higher fuel costs.Harrison said in a conference call with reporters this morning that the concerns raised by Haji-Ioannou were "not new news" and had already been considered by management, the audit committee and auditors. He said they were non-cash items and had "no impact on the value or commercial strength of the company".Haji-Ioannou said in his statement that easyJet should monitor the profitability of GB Airways more closely by accounting the performance of each of its routes separately. He said the valuation of GB's Gatwick airport slots was too optimistic given the current economic climate, that the aircraft owned by GB should be written down in the easyJet accounts and that the impairment value of the GB assets should be tested separately on an annual basis. "I am left without any other options but to abstain from voting on the accounts as a director of easyJet plc. I am doing so reluctantly, but I believe it is in the interest of all shareholders to be more prudent at the present time," said Haji-Ioannou. The easyJet founder said the airline should pay a dividend from 2011 onwards, which would represent an about-turn in a company strategy that is predicated on growing the business much faster than all rivals except Ryanair.EasyjetAirline industryCredit crunchguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds Guardian.Co.Uk Stelios refuses to approve easyJet accounts {new window}   Www.Guardian.Co.Uk - The dispute between the easyJet board and the airline's largest shareholder escalated this morning after Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou refused to approve annual accounts which showed a 46% fall in pre-tax profits.Haji-Ioannou, who has fallen out with board members over the budget carrier's strategy, said he was "unable" to back today's figures due to a number of objections related to easyJet's acquisition of GB Airways. The easyJet founder also ruled out becoming chairman of the airline but has proposed two lieutenants from his easyGroup business as non-executive directors. In a letter to the board published at the end of easyJet's annual results, Haji-Ioannou again criticised the airline's ambitious expansion plans."I would like to place on record that I believe that with careful cash management and in particular more prudent capital expenditure, easyJet and its shareholders will be the winners in European short-haul aviation. We must focus on cash flows forecasts and not on carrying more passengers," he said.Sir Stelios, who remains the airline's largest shareholder with a 27% stake, has demanded that the carrier begin paying dividends for the first time. The accounts were signed off by the airline's auditors PricewaterhouseCoopers.EasyJet reflected its founder's concerns in a change in short-term strategy announced today. Europe's second-largest low-cost carrier said it had reduced winter growth plans from a 12% increase in capacity to zero and added that it had deferred four aircraft deliveries scheduled to arrive in 2010. It added that, according to a multi-billion pound order with Airbus, it can defer up to half its 109 future aircraft deliveries for up to two years. However, easyJet refused to state whether it is considering pushing back those orders."EasyJet delivered a good trading performance in the financial year ending September 2008 ... We recognise that economic conditions will be very difficult and easyJet is planning accordingly," said Andy Harrison, easyJet chief executive.Boosted by an expansion that added 28 aircraft to its fleet over the year, easyJet said revenues grew by 32% to nearly £2.4bn as passenger numbers rose 17% to 43.7 million. The passenger load factor, which states the amount of seats sold per flight and is an important indicator of the financial health of a low-cost carrier, was flat at 84%. Profits were hit by higher fuel costs.Harrison said in a conference call with reporters this morning that the concerns raised by Haji-Ioannou were "not new news" and had already been considered by management, the audit committee and auditors. He said they were non-cash items and had "no impact on the value or commercial strength of the company".Haji-Ioannou said in his statement that easyJet should monitor the profitability of GB Airways more closely by accounting the performance of each of its routes separately. He said the valuation of GB's Gatwick airport slots was too optimistic given the current economic climate, that the aircraft owned by GB should be written down in the easyJet accounts and that the impairment value of the GB assets should be tested separately on an annual basis. "I am left without any other options but to abstain from voting on the accounts as a director of easyJet plc. I am doing so reluctantly, but I believe it is in the interest of all shareholders to be more prudent at the present time," said Haji-Ioannou. The easyJet founder said the airline should pay a dividend from 2011 onwards, which would represent an about-turn in a company strategy that is predicated on growing the business much faster than all rivals except Ryanair.EasyjetAirline industryCredit crunchguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
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]]> Regional > Europe > United Kingdom > News and Media > Newspapers {EUROPE > NEWS AND MEDIA} - Stelios raises easyJet stake and threatens to return as chairman http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/europe/united-kingdom/news-and-media/stelios-raises-easyjet-stake-and-threatens-to-return-20081149825.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/europe/united-kingdom/news-and-media/stelios-raises-easyjet-stake-and-threatens-to-return-20081149825.htm Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:16:05 GMT A rift between easyJet and the airline's flamboyant founder, Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, erupted into the open yesterday after the tycoon increased his stake in the business and threatened to reinstate himself as chairman.The board of the budget airline made public the details of an email sent by Haji-Ioannou to the company late on Thursday. In it, the airline's founder disclosed that he had lifted his stake from 15.6% to almost 27%, after taking control of his sister's shares. Haji-Ioannou said he wanted to appoint two representatives to the board or else exercise his right to name himself chairman. The tycoon remains a non-executive director but has not been chairman since 2002.The two sides are at odds over strategy. Haji-Ioannou is demanding that the carrier because of the slowing economy, stoking some speculation over the financial health of his easyGroup empire, which operates businesses from hotels to pizza delivery to men's toiletries. EasyJet has never paid dividends in its eight years as a public company, preferring to invest for growth.In an emailed response to questions, Haji-Ioannou said: "I am merely applying my rights under the articles of association of the company to protect my investment in easyJet." He said his request was for the company to pay a dividend by 2011 "if the markets allow".The company said it had been taken by surprise. In a statement, chairman Sir Colin Chandler said "there has been a far-reaching debate over these issues", adding that "the ongoing dialogue with Sir Stelios continued" during a scheduled board meeting on Thursday, when it appeared as though a resolution was in reach. He said dialogue would continue, but noted: "I would like to make it clear up front that the other non-executive directors and I fully support the executive management of the company."The board includes Channel 5 chairman Dawn Airey, former Alliance & Leicester executive David Bennett, Ladbrokes boss Sir David Michels, and John Browett, who runs DSG International, the owner of Currys, Dixons and PC World.The relationship between Haji-Ioannou and the company began to sour in summer when the tycoon filed a claim in the high court accusing the carrier of breaking its licence agreement by starting too many ancillary businesses, including a credit card and hotel-booking website. The case is still rumbling through the courts.At an investor day in September, the airline outlined plans to take delivery of 85 new aircraft in the next three years, adding 35 craft to the fleet and bringing it to 200, after taking into account the retirement and sale of older planes. The aim is to build routes to mainland Europe.At its full-year results due next week, however, the airline is expected to pare back its ambitions. In the statement, the company defended its plans and said it was already taking a "cautious" approach to spending.EasyJet said its full-year figures would be in line with market expectations, adding that forward bookings and total revenue per seat are running slightly ahead of last year. The company is expected to report profits of £115m, a little over half the previous year's £202m.Haji-Ioannou, 41, who was born in Cyprus, started easyJet when he was 28, floating the business on the stockmarket in 2000. His brother Polys owns a further 11.3% of the airline.Pressed about the financial state of easyGroup, Haji-Ioannou responded: "I am doing very well financially, considering the macro climate, thank you. I have no leverage at all."Shares in easyJet have more than halved in price since the start of the year, costing the businessman a paper loss of around £170m.Douglas McNeill, airline analyst at stockbrokers Blue Oar, said the market was still digesting the situation. "On the one hand you have conflict at board level, which is undesirable. But there is also the prospect of a change of strategy and the distribution of cash," he said. "The rapid rate of expansion that has been planned requires a huge amount of cash to be spent on new planes. Stelios clearly thinks that cash could be better used elsewhere."EasyjetAirline industryguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds Guardian.Co.Uk Stelios raises easyJet stake and threatens to return as chairman {new window}   Www.Guardian.Co.Uk - A rift between easyJet and the airline's flamboyant founder, Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, erupted into the open yesterday after the tycoon increased his stake in the business and threatened to reinstate himself as chairman.The board of the budget airline made public the details of an email sent by Haji-Ioannou to the company late on Thursday. In it, the airline's founder disclosed that he had lifted his stake from 15.6% to almost 27%, after taking control of his sister's shares. Haji-Ioannou said he wanted to appoint two representatives to the board or else exercise his right to name himself chairman. The tycoon remains a non-executive director but has not been chairman since 2002.The two sides are at odds over strategy. Haji-Ioannou is demanding that the carrier because of the slowing economy, stoking some speculation over the financial health of his easyGroup empire, which operates businesses from hotels to pizza delivery to men's toiletries. EasyJet has never paid dividends in its eight years as a public company, preferring to invest for growth.In an emailed response to questions, Haji-Ioannou said: "I am merely applying my rights under the articles of association of the company to protect my investment in easyJet." He said his request was for the company to pay a dividend by 2011 "if the markets allow".The company said it had been taken by surprise. In a statement, chairman Sir Colin Chandler said "there has been a far-reaching debate over these issues", adding that "the ongoing dialogue with Sir Stelios continued" during a scheduled board meeting on Thursday, when it appeared as though a resolution was in reach. He said dialogue would continue, but noted: "I would like to make it clear up front that the other non-executive directors and I fully support the executive management of the company."The board includes Channel 5 chairman Dawn Airey, former Alliance & Leicester executive David Bennett, Ladbrokes boss Sir David Michels, and John Browett, who runs DSG International, the owner of Currys, Dixons and PC World.The relationship between Haji-Ioannou and the company began to sour in summer when the tycoon filed a claim in the high court accusing the carrier of breaking its licence agreement by starting too many ancillary businesses, including a credit card and hotel-booking website. The case is still rumbling through the courts.At an investor day in September, the airline outlined plans to take delivery of 85 new aircraft in the next three years, adding 35 craft to the fleet and bringing it to 200, after taking into account the retirement and sale of older planes. The aim is to build routes to mainland Europe.At its full-year results due next week, however, the airline is expected to pare back its ambitions. In the statement, the company defended its plans and said it was already taking a "cautious" approach to spending.EasyJet said its full-year figures would be in line with market expectations, adding that forward bookings and total revenue per seat are running slightly ahead of last year. The company is expected to report profits of £115m, a little over half the previous year's £202m.Haji-Ioannou, 41, who was born in Cyprus, started easyJet when he was 28, floating the business on the stockmarket in 2000. His brother Polys owns a further 11.3% of the airline.Pressed about the financial state of easyGroup, Haji-Ioannou responded: "I am doing very well financially, considering the macro climate, thank you. I have no leverage at all."Shares in easyJet have more than halved in price since the start of the year, costing the businessman a paper loss of around £170m.Douglas McNeill, airline analyst at stockbrokers Blue Oar, said the market was still digesting the situation. "On the one hand you have conflict at board level, which is undesirable. But there is also the prospect of a change of strategy and the distribution of cash," he said. "The rapid rate of expansion that has been planned requires a huge amount of cash to be spent on new planes. Stelios clearly thinks that cash could be better used elsewhere."EasyjetAirline industryguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
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]]> Regional > Europe > United Kingdom > News and Media {EUROPE > NEWS AND MEDIA} - Group of teenagers and artists called Da! collective take over multimillion-pound building http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/europe/united-kingdom/news-and-media/group-of-teenagers-and-artists-called-da-collective-20081110311.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/europe/united-kingdom/news-and-media/group-of-teenagers-and-artists-called-da-collective-20081110311.htm Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:05:47 GMT It is one of London's most exclusive addresses. Michelin-starred restaurants are just a block away, the American embassy is around the corner and Hyde Park is at the end of the road. To share the same postcode ought to cost millions.But the new residents of 18 Upper Grosvenor Street, a raggle-taggle of teenagers and artists called the Da! collective, haven't paid a penny for their £6.25m, six-storey townhouse in Mayfair.The black anarchist flag flapping from the first-floor balcony gives a clue what they are up to: ever since finding a window open on the first floor on October 10, the group have been squatting in the once opulent property, and only plan to leave when they are evicted. This might take some time given that after almost a month, whoever holds the deeds - a company called Deltaland Resources Ltd, according to the Land Registry - doesn't appear to have noticed that their multimillion-pound building has been taken over.Behind the white pillars and imposing wooden door of the grade II-listed residence, the 30-plus rooms are now scattered with sleeping bags, grubby mattresses, rucksacks spilling over with clothes and endless half-finished art installations. While their neighbours' walls are lined with priceless paintings, No 18 now exhibits a room full of tree branches and another with a pink baby bath above which dangle test tubes filled with capers. Spooky foetuses line one fireplace.The group are seasoned squatters. Over the past few years, they have enjoyed some impressive central London addresses - including two on Kensington High Street. But their latest home is "by far the most grandiose", said Stephanie Smith, 21, one of the group, under a chandelier in the downstairs drawing room.They had been watching the building for "at least six months" before they decided to try moving in, she said. "We had put tape on the keyhole, and kept looking through the letterbox to see if anyone had been there." Then, one October night, five of the group decided to go in. Some of them wore high-visibility jackets to look like builders; Smith had a clipboard and fur coat. They propped their rented ladder up against the front of the building, and one man climbed on to the dilapidated balcony."I went across to the window and I couldn't believe it when it was unlocked," said the squatter, who declined to give his name. "I was so happy. We didn't really expect it to be open, so it was a really exciting moment."Almost a month since the occupation began, no one from Deltaland Resources Ltd, which is registered in the British Virgin Islands, has been in touch with the artists; if they call around they will find the locks have been changed. The Da! group have reconnected the utilities and say they will be paying bills.Smith insists they have done nothing wrong. "Squatting is not a criminal offence, it's a civil matter," she said. "If the owners want to kick us out they will have to apply for an eviction notice at the county court. "If anything, we are improving the building by mending leaks and things like that. The building is listed so English Heritage might be interested to see how the owners have let it disintegrate."The group has had a mixed reception from the other residents of Upper Grosvenor Street. "Our next-door neighbours have been really nice; they've even let us use their wireless internet," said Smith. Another neighbour, a man called Alexander, has offered the services of his maid to cook them food, she added.But not everyone is happy. Especially not the proprietors of a new restaurant opposite, Corrigan's, run by the Michelin-starred chef Richard Corrigan, which was due to open last night. Jacques Dejardin, the restaurant manager, was horrified to discover earlier this week that his upmarket location was directly opposite a squat. "It's rather bewildering. When you move into an address like this you don't expect to have squatters as neighbours," he said. He needn't worry about the squatters popping in for dinner: they are all firm devotees of freecycling, and collect all their food from supermarket skips.But Dejardin might not be too pleased to learn that tonight the squat is hosting a party. From 7pm to 11pm, the Da! gang will be projecting images on to each of the 19 windows at the front of the squat. "It's going to look like a doll's house," said Smith, "and there is going to be a harpist and a cellist and performance artists."The squatters have no intention of going anywhere, and because of squatters' rights, no one can move them on until the owner takes them to court.The group will have to stay a long time before the building becomes theirs - squatters can only claim ownership of a dwelling after 12 years if the original owner hasn't tried to get it back.Squatters' sites? In 2001, a £1.5m London house owned by former BBC chairman Gavyn Davies was taken over by squatters for 10 days. The uninvited guests annoyed neighbours with incessant bongo-playing.? In 1993, 10 squatters moved into a house in west London belonging to the Sultan of Brunei. Though there were photographs in the property of the sultan with the Queen, the squatters said they did not knowwho owned the house until efforts to evict them were taken on behalf of "the government of His Majesty Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah, Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam".? Last year Harry Hallowes, then 70, drew international attention after he became legal owner of a piece of Hampstead Heath, north London, where he had lived rough for more than 20 years. He was handed the deeds, worth £2m, after developers threatened to evict him.CommunitiesHeritageHousingguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds Guardian.Co.Uk Group of teenagers and artists called Da! collective take over multimillion-pound building {new window}   Www.Guardian.Co.Uk - It is one of London's most exclusive addresses. Michelin-starred restaurants are just a block away, the American embassy is around the corner and Hyde Park is at the end of the road. To share the same postcode ought to cost millions.But the new residents of 18 Upper Grosvenor Street, a raggle-taggle of teenagers and artists called the Da! collective, haven't paid a penny for their £6.25m, six-storey townhouse in Mayfair.The black anarchist flag flapping from the first-floor balcony gives a clue what they are up to: ever since finding a window open on the first floor on October 10, the group have been squatting in the once opulent property, and only plan to leave when they are evicted. This might take some time given that after almost a month, whoever holds the deeds - a company called Deltaland Resources Ltd, according to the Land Registry - doesn't appear to have noticed that their multimillion-pound building has been taken over.Behind the white pillars and imposing wooden door of the grade II-listed residence, the 30-plus rooms are now scattered with sleeping bags, grubby mattresses, rucksacks spilling over with clothes and endless half-finished art installations. While their neighbours' walls are lined with priceless paintings, No 18 now exhibits a room full of tree branches and another with a pink baby bath above which dangle test tubes filled with capers. Spooky foetuses line one fireplace.The group are seasoned squatters. Over the past few years, they have enjoyed some impressive central London addresses - including two on Kensington High Street. But their latest home is "by far the most grandiose", said Stephanie Smith, 21, one of the group, under a chandelier in the downstairs drawing room.They had been watching the building for "at least six months" before they decided to try moving in, she said. "We had put tape on the keyhole, and kept looking through the letterbox to see if anyone had been there." Then, one October night, five of the group decided to go in. Some of them wore high-visibility jackets to look like builders; Smith had a clipboard and fur coat. They propped their rented ladder up against the front of the building, and one man climbed on to the dilapidated balcony."I went across to the window and I couldn't believe it when it was unlocked," said the squatter, who declined to give his name. "I was so happy. We didn't really expect it to be open, so it was a really exciting moment."Almost a month since the occupation began, no one from Deltaland Resources Ltd, which is registered in the British Virgin Islands, has been in touch with the artists; if they call around they will find the locks have been changed. The Da! group have reconnected the utilities and say they will be paying bills.Smith insists they have done nothing wrong. "Squatting is not a criminal offence, it's a civil matter," she said. "If the owners want to kick us out they will have to apply for an eviction notice at the county court. "If anything, we are improving the building by mending leaks and things like that. The building is listed so English Heritage might be interested to see how the owners have let it disintegrate."The group has had a mixed reception from the other residents of Upper Grosvenor Street. "Our next-door neighbours have been really nice; they've even let us use their wireless internet," said Smith. Another neighbour, a man called Alexander, has offered the services of his maid to cook them food, she added.But not everyone is happy. Especially not the proprietors of a new restaurant opposite, Corrigan's, run by the Michelin-starred chef Richard Corrigan, which was due to open last night. Jacques Dejardin, the restaurant manager, was horrified to discover earlier this week that his upmarket location was directly opposite a squat. "It's rather bewildering. When you move into an address like this you don't expect to have squatters as neighbours," he said. He needn't worry about the squatters popping in for dinner: they are all firm devotees of freecycling, and collect all their food from supermarket skips.But Dejardin might not be too pleased to learn that tonight the squat is hosting a party. From 7pm to 11pm, the Da! gang will be projecting images on to each of the 19 windows at the front of the squat. "It's going to look like a doll's house," said Smith, "and there is going to be a harpist and a cellist and performance artists."The squatters have no intention of going anywhere, and because of squatters' rights, no one can move them on until the owner takes them to court.The group will have to stay a long time before the building becomes theirs - squatters can only claim ownership of a dwelling after 12 years if the original owner hasn't tried to get it back.Squatters' sites? In 2001, a £1.5m London house owned by former BBC chairman Gavyn Davies was taken over by squatters for 10 days. The uninvited guests annoyed neighbours with incessant bongo-playing.? In 1993, 10 squatters moved into a house in west London belonging to the Sultan of Brunei. Though there were photographs in the property of the sultan with the Queen, the squatters said they did not knowwho owned the house until efforts to evict them were taken on behalf of "the government of His Majesty Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah, Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam".? Last year Harry Hallowes, then 70, drew international attention after he became legal owner of a piece of Hampstead Heath, north London, where he had lived rough for more than 20 years. He was handed the deeds, worth £2m, after developers threatened to evict him.CommunitiesHeritageHousingguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
Group of teenagers and artists called Da! collective take over multimillion-pound building | Society | The Guardian {...} Group plan art installation after taking over Mayfair property dressed as builders {...}
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]]> Regional > Europe > United Kingdom > News and Media {LIBRARIES > WEBLOGS} - Libraries urged to embrace ICT to stay relevant http://articles.world-of-newave.info/reference/libraries/library-and-information-science/weblogs/libraries-urged-to-embrace-ict-to-stay-relevant-20080999945.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/reference/libraries/library-and-information-science/weblogs/libraries-urged-to-embrace-ict-to-stay-relevant-20080999945.htm Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:14:45 GMT There is another news article relating to information literacy coming out of Brunei. The Borneo Bulletin has an article titled Libraries urged to embrace ICT to stay relevant by P. Marilyn. In it Marilyn writes about The Permanent Secretary (Higher Education) at the Ministry of Education, Awang Haji Daud bin Haji Mahmud, yesterday called for a change in the traditional role of librarians or information officers.Here is some of what he said during the speech:"He said the role of libraries in an academic enterprise is dedicated to maintaining the importance and relevance of the academic library as a place of intellectual stimulation and a centre of activity on campus.""Though access to information is increasingly decentralised, and computer labs now compete with libraries as campus gathering points, librarians must demonstrate to the campus community that the library remains central to the academic process.""Information literacy skills and user education should be integrated across the curriculum and into appropriate courses with special attention given to information evaluation, critical thinking, intellectual property, copyright and plagiarism.""As the profession becomes progressively challenging, we have to ensure professional education of new librarians and re-educating existing librarians with skills and knowledge to support new roles in a Digital Information Age, especially roles involving teaching and library promotion." Information-literacy.Net Libraries urged to embrace ICT to stay relevant {new window}   Www.Information-literacy.Net - There is another news article relating to information literacy coming out of Brunei. The Borneo Bulletin has an article titled Libraries urged to embrace ICT to stay relevant by P. Marilyn. In it Marilyn writes about The Permanent Secretary (Higher Education) at the Ministry of Education, Awang Haji Daud bin Haji Mahmud, yesterday called for a change in the traditional role of librarians or information officers.Here is some of what he said during the speech:"He said the role of libraries in an academic enterprise is dedicated to maintaining the importance and relevance of the academic library as a place of intellectual stimulation and a centre of activity on campus.""Though access to information is increasingly decentralised, and computer labs now compete with libraries as campus gathering points, librarians must demonstrate to the campus community that the library remains central to the academic process.""Information literacy skills and user education should be integrated across the curriculum and into appropriate courses with special attention given to information evaluation, critical thinking, intellectual property, copyright and plagiarism.""As the profession becomes progressively challenging, we have to ensure professional education of new librarians and re-educating existing librarians with skills and knowledge to support new roles in a Digital Information Age, especially roles involving teaching and library promotion."
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]]> Reference > Libraries > Library and Information Science > Weblogs {LIBRARIES > WEBLOGS} - Libraries urged to embrace ICT to stay relevant http://articles.world-of-newave.info/reference/libraries/library-and-information-science/weblogs/libraries-urged-to-embrace-ict-to-stay-relevant-2008099431.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/reference/libraries/library-and-information-science/weblogs/libraries-urged-to-embrace-ict-to-stay-relevant-2008099431.htm Mon, 01 Sep 2008 13:36:59 GMT There is another news article relating to information literacy coming out of Brunei. The Borneo Bulletin has an article titled Libraries urged to embrace ICT to stay relevant by P. Marilyn. In it Marilyn writes about The Permanent Secretary (Higher Education) at the Ministry of Education, Awang Haji Daud bin Haji Mahmud, yesterday called for a change in the traditional role of librarians or information officers.Here is some of what he said during the speech:"He said the role of libraries in an academic enterprise is dedicated to maintaining the importance and relevance of the academic library as a place of intellectual stimulation and a centre of activity on campus.""Though access to information is increasingly decentralised, and computer labs now compete with libraries as campus gathering points, librarians must demonstrate to the campus community that the library remains central to the academic process.""Information literacy skills and user education should be integrated across the curriculum and into appropriate courses with special attention given to information evaluation, critical thinking, intellectual property, copyright and plagiarism.""As the profession becomes progressively challenging, we have to ensure professional education of new librarians and re-educating existing librarians with skills and knowledge to support new roles in a Digital Information Age, especially roles involving teaching and library promotion." Information-literacy.Net Libraries urged to embrace ICT to stay relevant {new window}   Www.Information-literacy.Net - There is another news article relating to information literacy coming out of Brunei. The Borneo Bulletin has an article titled Libraries urged to embrace ICT to stay relevant by P. Marilyn. In it Marilyn writes about The Permanent Secretary (Higher Education) at the Ministry of Education, Awang Haji Daud bin Haji Mahmud, yesterday called for a change in the traditional role of librarians or information officers.Here is some of what he said during the speech:"He said the role of libraries in an academic enterprise is dedicated to maintaining the importance and relevance of the academic library as a place of intellectual stimulation and a centre of activity on campus.""Though access to information is increasingly decentralised, and computer labs now compete with libraries as campus gathering points, librarians must demonstrate to the campus community that the library remains central to the academic process.""Information literacy skills and user education should be integrated across the curriculum and into appropriate courses with special attention given to information evaluation, critical thinking, intellectual property, copyright and plagiarism.""As the profession becomes progressively challenging, we have to ensure professional education of new librarians and re-educating existing librarians with skills and knowledge to support new roles in a Digital Information Age, especially roles involving teaching and library promotion."
The Information Literacy Land of Confusion: Libraries urged to embrace ICT to stay relevant {...}
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]]> Reference > Libraries > Library and Information Science > Weblogs {NORTH AMERICA > RENTALS} - /mo. A no-frills sleepover (palo alto) $375 http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/business-and-economy/real-estate/rentals/mo-a-no-frills-sleepover-palo-alto-375-20080881620.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/business-and-economy/real-estate/rentals/mo-a-no-frills-sleepover-palo-alto-375-20080881620.htm Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:56:58 GMT A no-frills place to stay. Good for a grad student on low budget. Or professional wanting to avoid a long commute. You could be 1. Someone who likes associating with an international group (more info below). WE HAVE REALLY ENJOYED HAVING PEOPLE FROM OUTSIDE THE US And/or 2. Someone who wants a place to sleep to avoid long commutes. And/or 3. Someone who likes use of facilities available in our house (below) This is only a small living space BUT: This has satisfied needs of several Ph. D's and MD's (generally from other countries) And, it has been a good place for commuters to sleep over and avoid long commutes. If over 4 months, rent is $375/mo. Includes utilities. If under 4 months, rent negotiable. Available Sept 10 2008 possibly as soon as Sept 1. To March 2009 and perhaps even longer. Though the room is no-frills, pluses are the house and people. ABOUT HAVING PEOPLE FROM OUTSIDE U.S.-- we have had people from all continents (except Antarctica). WHO ARE WE? We are 6+ people w. various occupations: Scientists, Visiting Scholars, Grad students. Some of us toil -- or seek toil -- in the local Technological (and/or nontechnical) Salt Mines of the modern Silicon Valley Czars of Technology and Commerce. We tend to be very much interested in other parts and countries of the world -- that large area outside boundaries of the US, known and understood by a modest fraction of Americans. SOME CLOSE COMMUTES: 3-5 miles, depending (Bus, bike path or Foothill Expressway) to Stanford University, 4.5 miles to Foothill college, 1 mile (walk) to all of Palo Alto Veterans' Administration Hospital, Bosch, Xerox PARC, Roche, etc. Easy 1-2 miles (walks) to Stanford Research park, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), SAP Software Co, Varian Research and etc. See reference below to the google map that shows where we are. NEIGHBORHOOD AND HOUSE FACILITIES We are in a quiet neighborhood, with trees. Terman Park next door. All in house have use of Washer/Dryer, Cable TV. Wireless DSL internet. DVD player. Also use of large kitchen, with most cookware available that you would need. Much other useful stuff such as clothes iron, and ironing board, possibly bicycles available. The house has for everyone's use(free)an e-systems computer with up to date software (MS office, Complete Adobe Acrobat 7 etc etc). Note this is a "lived in" house. There's a lot of stuff around and about in boxes, etc. This is also a solar electric house -- "blackout proof", electrically self sufficient by means of a 6 kilowatt peak power photovoltaic (sun powered) electric system and backup. We can go entirely off the local electric supply if we wish. Or if local power fails (as California power often did under delusional free market guidance exacerbated by corporate piracy in 2000-2001). Your housemates, who are students, scientists, professionals and thoughtful people from several continents, can be very interesting to talk with about many things. THINGS WE ASPIRE TO: Occasional multi-national pot-lucks (meals, social events with people bringing foods typical of different countries) and barbecues. These have been fun. And we have parties: See pics on the link at http://www.flickr.com/photos/bonzi-us/sets/72157605233507551/. The captions are in Italian but I think you can mostly figure them out. Enjoy talking. Although not about football (at least not much). Discuss our countries. Some of us are very interested in US foreign policy (perhaps a better term is lack of understandable coherent and rational policy). Some here also discuss "lofty and high-falutin" topics. These include science, energy and environment, biology, medicine, cosmology, artificial intelligence and the long term implications, etc. and blah blah. Watching good films (DVD player). Watching TV series and documentaries. Good movies on TV movie channels. We already have "infinite channel" cable TV that comes to us courtesy of the US Media Oligarchy represented by the "COMCAST" God Of Advertising And Electronic Transmission. Some good stuff gets through to us, although it's a pretty low fraction of the total. And we discuss black holes. And Borat, and some of us actually know a little about Kazakhstan and Nursultan Nazarbayev and the Baikonur Cosmodrome (World's Largest Space Port). OTHER -- MONEY / LEASE $ 250 deposit. No lease, but 30 day notice required. And if over 4 months, $375 includes most things (but you must do your own laundry, homework, mundane personal chores. After all - - - - ) . No pets. No smoking in house. WE SEEK Postgrad/ postdoc, maybe visiting scholar, or professional. But if it sounds interesting, and you do not fit these categories get in touch anyhow; let's talk. Man or woman OK. A woman could be nice. She should preferably tolerate intellectual, somewhat unconventional guys -- friendly nerds? -- already here. She can be a friendly nerd herself. Overall, we have had a wide variety of people. People have been grad student interns and visiting scholars (Professors/Ph. D's) in areas such as high energy particle physics, Latin American MD's, Ph. D.s from Beijing studying earthquake forecasting, to a Sri Lankan Law/MBA candidate at Stanford. And intellectual and thoughtful Latin American child care professionals (in the vernacular, "Nannies"). People now here are Nazza (Italy) Lucia (Costa Rica) Ms. Mun (Malaysia) Haji (from Sri Lanka) Anton (Ukraine), sometimes assorted relatives, and Don Leave message, DON, LUCIA, LESCEK OR HAJI. Reply to email agromare@aol.com. Please leave a message with a phone number or an email with phone# where we can phone you. Someone will call and we can discuss more. Our address is near Los Palos and Pomona Avenue,in Palo Alto. To see rental location within Palo Alto and distance to local citadels of employment and toil (Like for examples: Google, Xerox PARC) click the eighth bar down on Google map (the best one for this purpose). To find distance and route to your commute you can also plug in Pomona and Los Palos as a starting place and your communte destination as an end Aug 21 AND -- we can discuss more if you choose to contact us. Please reply to agromare@aol.com. Sfbay.Craigslist.Org /mo. A no-frills sleepover (palo alto) $375 {new window}   Sfbay.Craigslist.Org - A no-frills place to stay. Good for a grad student on low budget. Or professional wanting to avoid a long commute. You could be 1. Someone who likes associating with an international group (more info below). WE HAVE REALLY ENJOYED HAVING PEOPLE FROM OUTSIDE THE US And/or 2. Someone who wants a place to sleep to avoid long commutes. And/or 3. Someone who likes use of facilities available in our house (below) This is only a small living space BUT: This has satisfied needs of several Ph. D's and MD's (generally from other countries) And, it has been a good place for commuters to sleep over and avoid long commutes. If over 4 months, rent is $375/mo. Includes utilities. If under 4 months, rent negotiable. Available Sept 10 2008 possibly as soon as Sept 1. To March 2009 and perhaps even longer. Though the room is no-frills, pluses are the house and people. ABOUT HAVING PEOPLE FROM OUTSIDE U.S.-- we have had people from all continents (except Antarctica). WHO ARE WE? We are 6+ people w. various occupations: Scientists, Visiting Scholars, Grad students. Some of us toil -- or seek toil -- in the local Technological (and/or nontechnical) Salt Mines of the modern Silicon Valley Czars of Technology and Commerce. We tend to be very much interested in other parts and countries of the world -- that large area outside boundaries of the US, known and understood by a modest fraction of Americans. SOME CLOSE COMMUTES: 3-5 miles, depending (Bus, bike path or Foothill Expressway) to Stanford University, 4.5 miles to Foothill college, 1 mile (walk) to all of Palo Alto Veterans' Administration Hospital, Bosch, Xerox PARC, Roche, etc. Easy 1-2 miles (walks) to Stanford Research park, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), SAP Software Co, Varian Research and etc. See reference below to the google map that shows where we are. NEIGHBORHOOD AND HOUSE FACILITIES We are in a quiet neighborhood, with trees. Terman Park next door. All in house have use of Washer/Dryer, Cable TV. Wireless DSL internet. DVD player. Also use of large kitchen, with most cookware available that you would need. Much other useful stuff such as clothes iron, and ironing board, possibly bicycles available. The house has for everyone's use(free)an e-systems computer with up to date software (MS office, Complete Adobe Acrobat 7 etc etc). Note this is a "lived in" house. There's a lot of stuff around and about in boxes, etc. This is also a solar electric house -- "blackout proof", electrically self sufficient by means of a 6 kilowatt peak power photovoltaic (sun powered) electric system and backup. We can go entirely off the local electric supply if we wish. Or if local power fails (as California power often did under delusional free market guidance exacerbated by corporate piracy in 2000-2001). Your housemates, who are students, scientists, professionals and thoughtful people from several continents, can be very interesting to talk with about many things. THINGS WE ASPIRE TO: Occasional multi-national pot-lucks (meals, social events with people bringing foods typical of different countries) and barbecues. These have been fun. And we have parties: See pics on the link at http://www.flickr.com/photos/bonzi-us/sets/72157605233507551/. The captions are in Italian but I think you can mostly figure them out. Enjoy talking. Although not about football (at least not much). Discuss our countries. Some of us are very interested in US foreign policy (perhaps a better term is lack of understandable coherent and rational policy). Some here also discuss "lofty and high-falutin" topics. These include science, energy and environment, biology, medicine, cosmology, artificial intelligence and the long term implications, etc. and blah blah. Watching good films (DVD player). Watching TV series and documentaries. Good movies on TV movie channels. We already have "infinite channel" cable TV that comes to us courtesy of the US Media Oligarchy represented by the "COMCAST" God Of Advertising And Electronic Transmission. Some good stuff gets through to us, although it's a pretty low fraction of the total. And we discuss black holes. And Borat, and some of us actually know a little about Kazakhstan and Nursultan Nazarbayev and the Baikonur Cosmodrome (World's Largest Space Port). OTHER -- MONEY / LEASE $ 250 deposit. No lease, but 30 day notice required. And if over 4 months, $375 includes most things (but you must do your own laundry, homework, mundane personal chores. After all - - - - ) . No pets. No smoking in house. WE SEEK Postgrad/ postdoc, maybe visiting scholar, or professional. But if it sounds interesting, and you do not fit these categories get in touch anyhow; let's talk. Man or woman OK. A woman could be nice. She should preferably tolerate intellectual, somewhat unconventional guys -- friendly nerds? -- already here. She can be a friendly nerd herself. Overall, we have had a wide variety of people. People have been grad student interns and visiting scholars (Professors/Ph. D's) in areas such as high energy particle physics, Latin American MD's, Ph. D.s from Beijing studying earthquake forecasting, to a Sri Lankan Law/MBA candidate at Stanford. And intellectual and thoughtful Latin American child care professionals (in the vernacular, "Nannies"). People now here are Nazza (Italy) Lucia (Costa Rica) Ms. Mun (Malaysia) Haji (from Sri Lanka) Anton (Ukraine), sometimes assorted relatives, and Don Leave message, DON, LUCIA, LESCEK OR HAJI. Reply to email agromare@aol.com. Please leave a message with a phone number or an email with phone# where we can phone you. Someone will call and we can discuss more. Our address is near Los Palos and Pomona Avenue,in Palo Alto. To see rental location within Palo Alto and distance to local citadels of employment and toil (Like for examples: Google, Xerox PARC) click the eighth bar down on Google map (the best one for this purpose). To find distance and route to your commute you can also plug in Pomona and Los Palos as a starting place and your communte destination as an end Aug 21 AND -- we can discuss more if you choose to contact us. Please reply to agromare@aol.com.
/mo. A no-frills sleepover {...}
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]]> Regional > North America > United States > California > Metro Areas > San Francisco Bay Area > Business and Economy > Real Estate > Rentals {ASIA > NEWS AND MEDIA} - Pakistan militant leader killed http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/asia/news-and-media/pakistan-militant-leader-killed-20080892713.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/asia/news-and-media/pakistan-militant-leader-killed-20080892713.htm Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:25:58 GMT A leading militant leader in Pakistan's Khyber region, Haji Namdar, is shot dead by unidentified gunmen. News.Bbc.Co.Uk Pakistan militant leader killed {new window}   News.Bbc.Co.Uk - A leading militant leader in Pakistan's Khyber region, Haji Namdar, is shot dead by unidentified gunmen.
BBC NEWS | South Asia | Pakistan militant leader killed {...}
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]]> Regional > Asia > News and Media {LIBRARIES > WEBLOGS} - Libraries urged to embrace ICT to stay relevant http://articles.world-of-newave.info/reference/libraries/library-and-information-science/weblogs/libraries-urged-to-embrace-ict-to-stay-relevant-2008085065.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/reference/libraries/library-and-information-science/weblogs/libraries-urged-to-embrace-ict-to-stay-relevant-2008085065.htm Wed, 06 Aug 2008 23:16:41 GMT There is another news article relating to information literacy coming out of Brunei. The Borneo Bulletin has an article titled Libraries urged to embrace ICT to stay relevant by P. Marilyn. In it Marilyn writes about The Permanent Secretary (Higher Education) at the Ministry of Education, Awang Haji Daud bin Haji Mahmud, yesterday called for a change in the traditional role of librarians or information officers.Here is some of what he said during the speech:"He said the role of libraries in an academic enterprise is dedicated to maintaining the importance and relevance of the academic library as a place of intellectual stimulation and a centre of activity on campus.""Though access to information is increasingly decentralised, and computer labs now compete with libraries as campus gathering points, librarians must demonstrate to the campus community that the library remains central to the academic process.""Information literacy skills and user education should be integrated across the curriculum and into appropriate courses with special attention given to information evaluation, critical thinking, intellectual property, copyright and plagiarism.""As the profession becomes progressively challenging, we have to ensure professional education of new librarians and re-educating existing librarians with skills and knowledge to support new roles in a Digital Information Age, especially roles involving teaching and library promotion." Information-literacy.Net Libraries urged to embrace ICT to stay relevant {new window}   Www.Information-literacy.Net - There is another news article relating to information literacy coming out of Brunei. The Borneo Bulletin has an article titled Libraries urged to embrace ICT to stay relevant by P. Marilyn. In it Marilyn writes about The Permanent Secretary (Higher Education) at the Ministry of Education, Awang Haji Daud bin Haji Mahmud, yesterday called for a change in the traditional role of librarians or information officers.Here is some of what he said during the speech:"He said the role of libraries in an academic enterprise is dedicated to maintaining the importance and relevance of the academic library as a place of intellectual stimulation and a centre of activity on campus.""Though access to information is increasingly decentralised, and computer labs now compete with libraries as campus gathering points, librarians must demonstrate to the campus community that the library remains central to the academic process.""Information literacy skills and user education should be integrated across the curriculum and into appropriate courses with special attention given to information evaluation, critical thinking, intellectual property, copyright and plagiarism.""As the profession becomes progressively challenging, we have to ensure professional education of new librarians and re-educating existing librarians with skills and knowledge to support new roles in a Digital Information Age, especially roles involving teaching and library promotion."
The Information Literacy Land of Confusion: Libraries urged to embrace ICT to stay relevant {...}
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]]> Reference > Libraries > Library and Information Science > Weblogs {NORTH AMERICA > RENTALS} - Sleepover -- no frills (palo alto) $375 http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/business-and-economy/real-estate/rentals/sleepover-no-frills-palo-alto-375-20080736534.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/business-and-economy/real-estate/rentals/sleepover-no-frills-palo-alto-375-20080736534.htm Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:20:29 GMT $375 -- No-Frills sleepover. A place to sleep over in Palo Alto. 1. For someone who wants a place to sleep to avoid long commutes. And/or 2. Someone who likes associating with an international group (below). WE HAVE REALLY ENJOYED HAVING PEOPLE FROM OUTSIDE THE US And/or 3. Someone who likes use of facilities available in our house (below) This is only a small living space in an alcove off our living room BUT: This has satisfied needs of several Ph. D's and MD's (generally from other countries) And, it has been a good place for commuters to sleep over and avoid long commutes. If over 4 months, rent is $375/mo. Includes utilities. If under 4 months, rent negotiable. Available July 1 2008. To December 2008 and possibly even longer. Though the room is no-frills, pluses are the house and people. ABOUT HAVING PEOPLE FROM OUTSIDE U.S.-- we have had people from all continents (except Antarctica). WHO ARE WE? We are 6+ people w. various occupations: Scientists, Visiting Scholars, Grad students. Some of us toil -- or seek toil -- in the local technological (and/or nontechnical) Salt Mines of the modern Silicon Valley Czars of Technology and Commerce. We tend to be very much interested in other parts and countries of the world -- that large area outside boundaries of the US, known and understood by a modest fraction of Americans. SOME CLOSE COMMUTES: 3-5 miles, depending (Bus, bike path or Foothill Expressway) to Stanford University, 4.5 miles to Foothill college, 1 mile (walk) to all of Palo Alto Veterans' Administration Hospital, Bosch, Xerox PARC, Roche, etc. Easy 1-2 miles (walks) to Stanford Research park, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), SAP Software Co, Varian Research and etc. See reference below to the google map that shows where we are. NEIGHBORHOOD AND HOUSE FACILITIES We are in a quiet neighborhood, with trees. Terman Park next door. All in house have use of Washer/Dryer, Cable TV. Wireless DSL internet. DVD player. Also use of large kitchen, with most cookware available that you would need. Much other useful stuff such as clothes iron, and ironing board, possibly bicycles available. The house has for everyone's use(free)an e-systems computer with up to date software (MS office, Complete Adobe Acrobat 7 etc etc). Note this is a "lived in" house. There's a lot of stuff around and about in boxes, etc. This is also a solar electric house -- "blackout proof", electrically self sufficient by means of a 6 kilowatt peak power photovoltaic (sun powered) electric system and backup. We can go entirely off the local electric supply if we wish. Or if local power fails (as California power often did under delusional free market guidance exacerbated by corporate piracy in 2000-2001). Your housemates, who are students, scientists, professionals and thoughtful people from several continents, can be very interesting to talk with about many things. THINGS WE ASPIRE TO: Occasional multi-national pot-lucks (meals, social events with people bringing foods typical of different countries) and barbecues. These have been fun. And we have parties: See pics on the link at http://www.flickr.com/photos/bonzi-us/sets/72157605233507551/. The captions are in Italian but I think you can mostly figure them out. Enjoy talking. Although not about football (at least not much). Discuss our countries. Some of us are very interested in US foreign policy (perhaps a better term is lack of understandable coherent and rational policy). Some here also discuss "lofty and high-falutin" topics. These include science, energy and environment, biology, medicine, cosmology, artificial intelligence and the long term implications, etc. and blah blah. Watching good films (DVD player). Watching TV series and documentaries. Good movies on TV movie channels. We already have "infinite channel" cable TV that comes to us courtesy of the US Media Oligarchy represented by the "COMCAST" God of Advertising and Electronic Transmission. Some good stuff gets through to us, although it's a pretty low fraction of the total. And we discuss black holes. And Borat, and some of us actually know a little about Kazakhstan and Nursultan Nazarbayev and the Baikonur Cosmodrome (World's Largest Space Port). OTHER -- MONEY / LEASE $ 250 deposit. No lease, but 30 day notice required. And if over 4 months, $375 includes most things (but you must do your own laundry, homework, mundane personal chores. After all - - - - ) . No pets. No smoking in house. WE SEEK Postgrad/ postdoc, maybe visiting scholar, or professional. But if it sounds interesting, and you do not fit these categories get in touch anyhow; let's talk. Man or woman OK. A woman could be nice. She should preferably tolerate intellectual, somewhat unconventional guys -- friendly nerds? -- already here. She can be a friendly nerd herself. Overall, we have had a wide variety of people. People have been grad student interns and visiting scholars (Professors/Ph. D's) in areas such as high energy particle physics, Latin American MD's, Ph. D.s from Beijing studying earthquake forecasting, to a Sri Lankan Law/MBA candidate at Stanford. And intellectual and thoughtful Latin American child care professionals (in the vernacular, "Nannies"). People now here are Nazza (Italy) Lucia (Costa Rica) Ms. Mun (Malaysia) Haji (from Sri Lanka) Anton (Ukraine), sometimes assorted relatives, and Don Leave message, DON, LUCIA, LESCEK OR HAJI. Reply to email agromare@aol.com. Please leave a message with a phone number or an email with phone# where we can phone you. Someone will call and we can discuss more. Our address is 4277 Pomona Avenue, Palo Alto. To see rental location within Palo Alto and distance to local citadels of employment and toil (Like for examples: Google, Xerox PARC) click the eighth bar down on Google map (the best one for this purpose). To find distance and route to your commute you can also plug in Pomona and Los Palos as a starting place and your communte destination as an end AND -- we can discuss more if you choose to contact us. If this description interests you please get in touch. We hope to hear from you Pomona Avenue at Fairmede   google map   yahoo map Sfbay.Craigslist.Org Sleepover -- no frills (palo alto) $375 {new window}   Sfbay.Craigslist.Org - $375 -- No-Frills sleepover. A place to sleep over in Palo Alto. 1. For someone who wants a place to sleep to avoid long commutes. And/or 2. Someone who likes associating with an international group (below). WE HAVE REALLY ENJOYED HAVING PEOPLE FROM OUTSIDE THE US And/or 3. Someone who likes use of facilities available in our house (below) This is only a small living space in an alcove off our living room BUT: This has satisfied needs of several Ph. D's and MD's (generally from other countries) And, it has been a good place for commuters to sleep over and avoid long commutes. If over 4 months, rent is $375/mo. Includes utilities. If under 4 months, rent negotiable. Available July 1 2008. To December 2008 and possibly even longer. Though the room is no-frills, pluses are the house and people. ABOUT HAVING PEOPLE FROM OUTSIDE U.S.-- we have had people from all continents (except Antarctica). WHO ARE WE? We are 6+ people w. various occupations: Scientists, Visiting Scholars, Grad students. Some of us toil -- or seek toil -- in the local technological (and/or nontechnical) Salt Mines of the modern Silicon Valley Czars of Technology and Commerce. We tend to be very much interested in other parts and countries of the world -- that large area outside boundaries of the US, known and understood by a modest fraction of Americans. SOME CLOSE COMMUTES: 3-5 miles, depending (Bus, bike path or Foothill Expressway) to Stanford University, 4.5 miles to Foothill college, 1 mile (walk) to all of Palo Alto Veterans' Administration Hospital, Bosch, Xerox PARC, Roche, etc. Easy 1-2 miles (walks) to Stanford Research park, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), SAP Software Co, Varian Research and etc. See reference below to the google map that shows where we are. NEIGHBORHOOD AND HOUSE FACILITIES We are in a quiet neighborhood, with trees. Terman Park next door. All in house have use of Washer/Dryer, Cable TV. Wireless DSL internet. DVD player. Also use of large kitchen, with most cookware available that you would need. Much other useful stuff such as clothes iron, and ironing board, possibly bicycles available. The house has for everyone's use(free)an e-systems computer with up to date software (MS office, Complete Adobe Acrobat 7 etc etc). Note this is a "lived in" house. There's a lot of stuff around and about in boxes, etc. This is also a solar electric house -- "blackout proof", electrically self sufficient by means of a 6 kilowatt peak power photovoltaic (sun powered) electric system and backup. We can go entirely off the local electric supply if we wish. Or if local power fails (as California power often did under delusional free market guidance exacerbated by corporate piracy in 2000-2001). Your housemates, who are students, scientists, professionals and thoughtful people from several continents, can be very interesting to talk with about many things. THINGS WE ASPIRE TO: Occasional multi-national pot-lucks (meals, social events with people bringing foods typical of different countries) and barbecues. These have been fun. And we have parties: See pics on the link at http://www.flickr.com/photos/bonzi-us/sets/72157605233507551/. The captions are in Italian but I think you can mostly figure them out. Enjoy talking. Although not about football (at least not much). Discuss our countries. Some of us are very interested in US foreign policy (perhaps a better term is lack of understandable coherent and rational policy). Some here also discuss "lofty and high-falutin" topics. These include science, energy and environment, biology, medicine, cosmology, artificial intelligence and the long term implications, etc. and blah blah. Watching good films (DVD player). Watching TV series and documentaries. Good movies on TV movie channels. We already have "infinite channel" cable TV that comes to us courtesy of the US Media Oligarchy represented by the "COMCAST" God of Advertising and Electronic Transmission. Some good stuff gets through to us, although it's a pretty low fraction of the total. And we discuss black holes. And Borat, and some of us actually know a little about Kazakhstan and Nursultan Nazarbayev and the Baikonur Cosmodrome (World's Largest Space Port). OTHER -- MONEY / LEASE $ 250 deposit. No lease, but 30 day notice required. And if over 4 months, $375 includes most things (but you must do your own laundry, homework, mundane personal chores. After all - - - - ) . No pets. No smoking in house. WE SEEK Postgrad/ postdoc, maybe visiting scholar, or professional. But if it sounds interesting, and you do not fit these categories get in touch anyhow; let's talk. Man or woman OK. A woman could be nice. She should preferably tolerate intellectual, somewhat unconventional guys -- friendly nerds? -- already here. She can be a friendly nerd herself. Overall, we have had a wide variety of people. People have been grad student interns and visiting scholars (Professors/Ph. D's) in areas such as high energy particle physics, Latin American MD's, Ph. D.s from Beijing studying earthquake forecasting, to a Sri Lankan Law/MBA candidate at Stanford. And intellectual and thoughtful Latin American child care professionals (in the vernacular, "Nannies"). People now here are Nazza (Italy) Lucia (Costa Rica) Ms. Mun (Malaysia) Haji (from Sri Lanka) Anton (Ukraine), sometimes assorted relatives, and Don Leave message, DON, LUCIA, LESCEK OR HAJI. Reply to email agromare@aol.com. Please leave a message with a phone number or an email with phone# where we can phone you. Someone will call and we can discuss more. Our address is 4277 Pomona Avenue, Palo Alto. To see rental location within Palo Alto and distance to local citadels of employment and toil (Like for examples: Google, Xerox PARC) click the eighth bar down on Google map (the best one for this purpose). To find distance and route to your commute you can also plug in Pomona and Los Palos as a starting place and your communte destination as an end AND -- we can discuss more if you choose to contact us. If this description interests you please get in touch. We hope to hear from you Pomona Avenue at Fairmede   google map   yahoo map
Sleepover -- no frills {...}
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]]> Regional > North America > United States > California > Metro Areas > San Francisco Bay Area > Business and Economy > Real Estate > Rentals