'He was a chosen son:
To him was given an ear which deeply felt
The voice of Nature in the obscure wind,
The sounding mountain and the running stream.
To every natural form, rock, fruit, and flower,
He gave a moral life; he saw them feel
Or linked them to some feeling.'
The Te Awa Tupua (Whanganui River Claims Settlement) Bill passed its third reading in Parliament on Wednesday. The Whanganui River has gained its own legal identity with all the corresponding rights, duties and liabilities of a legal person.
Sydney eyebrow artist summoned to LA for the Oscars Sydney Morning Herald
MANTRAS AND MYTHS: A true picture of the corporate tax system in Ireland
One hundred quotations from Irish history
The globalization of Irish pub design
This unlucky Irish pub signals trouble for Melbourne
For Malckeon
5 vegan Irish recipes for St. Patrick's Day
Ballycastle was named the best place to live in Northern Ireland in a list compiled by The Sunday Times in 2016.
Link here. 77.7% Catholic, with a lovely 18th century church. The downtown is thriving and intact, with no real signs of hollowing out. Virtually all of the shops are not major chains. People seem to be friendly and helpful.
The town sits on water’s edge, with lovely views.
It has one of the most scenic golf courses in Northern Ireland. Here are further photos, including of the castle. Here are photos of downtown.
Northern Ireland remains an underrated region.
The civil war inside the White House press room
Are women punished more severely for financial misconduct than are men?
Two
of Australia's biggest government agencies remain vulnerable to cyber
attacks from outside sources despite attempts to improve security SBS
An
audit of the Australian Taxation Office and immigration and border
protection department found both had a "reasonable" level of protection
from unauthorised leaks from within.But neither were sufficiently protected against external attacks. Each year the ATO collects more than $440 billion in tax revenue through its electronic lodgement system, while immigration electronically processes around seven million visas ATO 'vulnerable' to external cyber attacks
Cybersecurity Follow-up Audit
Center for Responsive Politics – ‘Use our new FARA search tool…to look up the lobbyists registered under theForeign Agents Registration Act, the foreign interests they represent, and their meetings and other contacts with government officials. Please be patient — this search is slower than most on our site; we are working on that. See our methodology.”
Forecasting Freedom of Information – Why it faces problems—and how experts say they could be solved, March 2017 — By David Cuillier, University of Arizona School of Journalism. A study commissioned by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
Vibrator maker ordered to pay out C$4m for tracking users’ sexual activity Guardian
How the DudeBros ruined everything: A totally clear-headed guide to political reality Salon
PRODUCTIVITY MATTERS? WHO’D HAVE THUNK IT: Being an introvert in the office may not be a bad thing after all
NON-FICTION: TOOLS OF TITANS BY TIM FERRISS
Tools of Titans (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). What a name. It suggests that these pages contain not just the habits of mere mortals, but of titans. Titans being, at the very least, the equivalent of Gods. Probably even a divine rung…Continue Reading
Now here's a fine that could bring in some real money. [The Slot]
Inside Snapchat's IPO. [The Fashion Law]
Okay, so maybe the truth won't set you free. [Salon]
* Proof? Why would you want that? [Huffington Post]
When it comes to precise and memorable extended descriptions, Elizabeth Bishopis unrivaled. Yet great poets provoke strong emotions, and her verse lacks fire... Dragoness
When it comes to precise and memorable extended descriptions, Elizabeth Bishopis unrivaled. Yet great poets provoke strong emotions, and her verse lacks fire... Dragoness
In his lifetime, Georg Lukács was attacked from both right and left. He was too philosophical, “bourgeois,” a “deviationist.” His political troubles hardly ended when he died...Turning in his grave
In 1936, a middling novelist went to live among the poor and unemployed in the north of England. He returned as George Orwell, champion of democratic socialism New Eight-Year Data Reveals Corporations Aren't Paying Their Fair Share of Tax
New Report – Delivering a level playing field for offshore bank accounts
A small group of Jews was assigned to a factory owned by Oskar Schindler. They, too, expected to die within months. But as viewers of the film Schindler’s List know, the stern-faced boss saved more than a thousand of his employees.The remainder became part of the Six Million murdered by the Nazis. Most were ordinary Jews like those in Finkel’s account. If their tragedy is to have any meaning some 70 years after the fall of the Third Reich, it is because in their very ordinariness they represented a recognizable humanity—tradespeople, laborers, professionals, shoppers, neighbors. On the other side of the ledger, by employing all the modern means of propaganda, barbarism, and genocide, the Nazis have become the very definition of evil.These facts are documented online, in countless films, in grade-school textbooks, in voluminous histories, in contemporary accounts, and in biographies. Those who refuse to acknowledge the truths of these works we know as Holocaust deniers, but those who persist in comparing Adolf Hitler with any U.S. politician reveal themselves as members of a group just to the side of the Holocaust denier—the Holocaust trivializer. There are no lower categories.
Which brings us to this Tweet from Slate, the last journalistic redoubt of the Graham family, which once owned the Washington Post and Newsweek. File under “Questions Nobody is Asking:”