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Will we ever eat at home twice in a row??
... the Catholics and the Protestants. Coming from Australia where the oldest history is based on indigenous rock art that I have never seen it is hard to grasp this type of history that dates back so far and is so well preserved and documented.
As it was still raining when we finished, our museum visit was followed by a stand up picnic under a veranda. Then we moved on to another indoor venue, the Bishop's Palace. The history here ...
... so quick!! Kids loved it. Listened to the meercat talk and fed them mealworms and vegetables and then had a wander around the farm and found an adventure playground and some llamas. Stopped by Tescos on the way home for supplies and wifi and had a quick half hour at home before heading out for a meal with nana and grandad at Mary Barry's. Was delicious! Kids had chicken and fish gougons, I had seafood Norway which was delicious, hank had ...
Aughrim and Avoca.
... to presumably allow the Romany-style carts to access the building for repair. We soon moved on to Avoca, a town well-known for its woollen mill but also for a television series called Ballykissangel! We parked in a large empty car park opposite the church and walked the short distance to the mill. It is a very attractive building with a superb coffee shop, which we had to investigate of course! We then went on a tour of the mill, which is still a working ...
It's a JKF Sort-Of Day
... within 20 minutes. Surprisingly the food came rather quickly and was quite good. A chicken kiev for me, chicken curry (which is quite popular in Southern Ireland) for Erin and a supreme chicken for Mom. None of us knew what made her chicken supreme, but it was tasty! This was another day that was supposed to be relaxing, but yet again, we found ourselves exhausted at the end of it and went to bed promptly after returning from dinner. Anne probably thinks we're a bunch of ...
Blarney to Wexford
... to them at the end of the trip and the driver got me to sit in his seat and he took a photo of me. Good little segway but not as good as our Puffing Billy.
Back on track we headed into Waterford over a very impressive new motorway and bridge which demanded a toll, which we had to stop and pay.
The factory is very well signposted and probably the most visited attraction in Waterford. The booklet I had gave us a two for one deal for the tour plus ...


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Reviewed By John R (Palm Bay, FL) Reviewed for a 2016 GMC Canyon —9/8/2015 6:32 AM
I received the truck bed mat within a week. The packaging was fine and the installation a breeze. I did it myself and it took minutes. The fit was perfect. This weekend I went fishing and some shrimp water tipped. The next day (after sitting in the sun all day), I hosed it down with fresh water and it looked like new.

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Cell Broco - 'Little Bit In Love' Out Now, New Animated Video
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The debut single from new Big Dada signing Cell Broco is out - pick up your copy from the Ninjashop, iTunes and Amazon
Little Bit In Love is the perfect introduction to this twenty two year-old Mancunian artist who, not a part of any scene other than Manchester's love of heavy b-lines, glacial synths and jacking hard, makes house music as it should be done: sparse, low-slung and full funk. Check out the brand new animated video for the single!
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Cell Broco will release his first single for Big Dada Little Bit In Love, on 23rd September 2013!Read More
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The handwriting is on the blackboard: The people of Wisconsin value their public schools and expect their state government to support them. Gov. Scott Walker apparently missed that memo. He has proposed cutting state funding for public K-12 schools by $127 million in the first year of his biennial budget. But the legislators who will decide whether the governor gets his way had better read and comprehend the message, because evidence is growing that taxpayers have had enough of withdrawing funds from their children's schools, as though they were some sort of ATM for state government, to balance the state budget. In school districts around the state, places such as Reedsburg, Lake Mills, Dodgeville, Whitefish Bay and Wauwatosa, citizens are protesting the K-12 cuts with rallies, door-to-door campaigns, yard signs, mass letter-writing, panel discussions and websites. One of the most outspoken groups is in Wauwatosa, Gov. Walker's home school district. The organization has adopted the name Support Our Schools and members wear T-shirts proclaiming "S.O.S." They are highly motivated in their mission to persuade legislators to reject aid reductions to public schools because the budget proposed by the governor will cost their district about $900,000, resulting in cutbacks in educational programs. These groups are leading the battle, but there is strong support behind them throughout the state. A Marquette University Law School poll found that 78% of Wisconsin residents oppose the K-12 cuts. There certainly is good reason to oppose them in Ozaukee County. One way or another, the value of the education provided by public schools here will be damaged if the state aid reduction becomes law. Port Washington-Saukville would lose $395,000 if the cuts were approved. The impact on Grafton would be about $300,000. Every district in the county woud face six-figure losses.
These cuts follow severe aid reductions in previous state budgets, leaving districts with little or no room to tighten operations without affecting curriculums. What's more, costs have increased since the last budget. State aid needs to be increased, certainly not decreased. With state levy limits in force, districts do not have the option of meeting the shortfall by raising local taxes. Walker administration officials who thought cutting K-12 funding to balance the state budget would be supported by the public appear to have underestimated the intelligence of the people of Wisconsin. Wisconsinites recognize absurd priorities when they see them, and there are plenty to see in the state budget. The same budget that reduces aid to public schools, for example, increases taxpayer funding for private schools. Many in the state support the idea of some public funding for charter schools, but to starve public schools to feed private schools is indefensible. For strange spending priorities, though, nothing tops the governor's proposal to spend taxpayer money—something close to the $127 million he would take away from public schools—to help pay for a new professional basketball arena in Milwaukee. It wasn't that long ago that there was a lot of black-slapping and high-fives in Madison over the balancing of the state budget, and then to add to the celebrations, taxes were cut. Now the state has a deficit again. And the remedy offered taxpayers is to go to that reliable ATM and withdraw some cash from public schools. It's clear the people of Wisconsin don't want that. They put a high value on their local schools, and are willing to pay for them. No more dramatic affirmation of that can be found than the approval in April by voters of the Port Washington-Saukville School District of spending $49.4 million plus millions of dollars in interest for high school and elementary school building improvements. The referendum passed by a narrow margin, but it was nonetheless remarkable that a majority of the voters in effect volunteered for substantial property tax increases in the interest of better schools. Let's get a new piece of chalk and write the message bigger so no legislator can miss it: The people of Wisconsin value their public schools and expect their state government to support them.
Grafton is poised to create a riverwalk that will give the public new opportunities to derive enjoyment from the village's fortunate place on the banks of the Milwaukee River. When the riverwalk opens in fall, every one of the 1,675 residents who voted to save the Bridge Street Dam can take some of the credit. Were it not for the voters who made an emphatic statement five years ago with a landslide vote, village officials would be looking for ways to mitigate the eyesore of a downtown mudflat instead of planning a new recreational amenity. That vote saved the 35-acre lake created by river water that backs up from the Bridge Street Dam—the body of water that has been referred to as the Grafton millpond for roughly a century. In 2010, village officials were intent on demolishing the dam because it required expensive repairs. Had that happened, the lake would be gone and the river would have been a narrow stream bordered by mudflats during much of the year. The riverwalk will be on the west side of the river, extending north from the Highway 60 bridge for the length of Veterans Park. It will have a launching place for canoes and kayaks, a beach, informational kiosks and spaces designed for relaxing and enjoying river views, including a so-called sitting wall.
The save-the-dam crusade ranks as one of the more remarkable populist uprisings in recent Wisconsin history. Village officials were dead-set on getting rid of the dam and were not about to be persuaded by contrary views. A small group of citizens saw this as the serious mistake it was. Their grass-roots protest grew by leaps and soon had managed to force a binding referendum and then to engage voters in the cause so effectively that an astonishing 75% of them voted to save the dam.
Grafton's riverwalk plan is significant for reasons beyond the fact that it's a nice quality-of-life upgrade for village residents. Moving ahead with the riverwalk at a cost of just under half a million dollars is a clear sign that the village government now understands what the public's priorities are when it comes to access to water and nature in other forms. While village officials justified demolishing the dam based on the high cost of restoring it, the voters said spend what it takes to save a valuable resource. Five years later, a substantial part of the cost of the riverwalk will be paid by local tax dollars, and it's fair to assume a most of Grafton's citizens approve of that. Almost half of the cost of the riverwalk will be paid by a grant from the Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Program, which demonstrates both the importance of that program and why it is popular among Wisconsin taxpayers. According to opinion polls, most state residents think Gov. Walker is wrong to want to shut down the stewardship fund. During the lead-up to the 2010 referendum, an editorial in this space supporting the save-the-dam campaign contended that "Grafton without the Milwaukee River would be like Port Washington without Lake Michigan." The point was that life in both communities is enhanced immeasurably by the bodies of water they embrace. Port Washington, to the credit of several generations of city government officials, has brought those benefits to the public with visionary public lakefront development, especially in the downtown marina protected by peninsular Rotary Park. Now, unfortunately, some backsliding may be imminent in the plan to sell public lakefront land adjacent to the marina for private business use. Grafton's experience in saving public property that was key to the beauty of its downtown river should be an inspiration to the Port Washington citizens who have been frustrated in their efforts to persuade officials to back off from their plans to sell public water views. The Grafton save-the-dam crusade is an example of how people who care about their community's aesthetic gifts can marshal the power to protect them.
Ask and you will receive. Who knew it would be that easy? The Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce asked the state Legislature's Joint Finance Committee to put the Citizens Utility Board out of business, and the eager-to-please majority of the committee said, "Sure, no problem." Those might not have been the exact words, but the Republican-dominated committee made it clear that it was happy to accommodate the business group with a 12-4 vote along party lines to cut off ratepayer funding for the consumer group that advocates for lower electricity rates. Taking away ratepayer funding for the most effective advocate Wisconsin customers have in resisting rate increases by utilities seems indefensible, but committee members tried anyway. Their defense? A claim that eliminating CUB funding will save ratepayers $671,300 per year. Wisconsin electricity and natural gas customers paid utility companies about $9 billion last year. The "savings" resulting from the CUB funding cut amount to less than a penny for each $100 paid by ratepayers. An average ratepayer might save a dime a year.
Even those few pennies are unlikely to materialize if the Legislature ratifies the committee's decision, because that will be an invitation to higher energy bills. By CUB's reckoning, it saved utility customers $161 million last year by fighting rate increases in some 25 Public Service Commission proceedings. Since 2008, it has been instrumental in preventing almost $3 billion in rate increases.
Without CUB's advocacy on behalf of consumers at PSC hearings, it will be easier for utilities to make their case for rate increases. And to add insult, ratepayers will have to continue to fund the utilities' lobbying for higher rates. While CUB would be cut off from its modest funding, the legislators put no limits on the amount ratepayers can be charged for the highly-paid lawyers and consultants marshaled by utilities in rate cases before the PSC. Wisconsin utility rates are the second highest in the Midwest. Electricity and gas increases here in recent years have exceeded the rate of inflation. This is no time to take away the public's advocate. CUB is a small operation with a staff of four. It expects to have to shut down by the end of the year if the funding cut is approved. We Energies, the state's biggest utility company, did not lobby for the defunding of CUB, according to a spokesman, nor apparently did any other utility. The fact that We Energies CEO Gale Klappa is vice-chairman of the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce board of directors may or may not have had something to do with why the association pushed for the change, but it certainly doesn't explain why the finance committee complied so readily. They might not have asked for it, but utility companies would get a benefit from crippling CUB. The individuals and businesses that pay for electricity and gas would not. What they would surely get is more expensive energy bills. Why would the Joint Finance Committee want that to happen? The measure is so obviously and foolishly contrary to the interests of the citizens of Wisconsin that it would be an embarrassment to the state if it became law. The Legislature must not let that happen.