‘Rocking Knit’ – (see it in action here) created by University of Art and Design Lausanne students Damien Ludi and Colin Peillex is even more useful than a rocking chair that charges your iPad.

To wit:

Rocking-Knit is a new interpretation of the rocking chair. It offers its user productive moments of relaxation. The to-and-fro movement of this armchair knits hats for the winter and requires no exertion whatsoever.

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Former AIB chief Eugene Sheehy last night bowed to pressure and agreed to a pension reduction after Taoiseach Enda Kenny said the lender’s former managers had a “moral responsibility” to reduce their retirement payments over the failure of the bank.
Mr Sheehy will take a cut in his annual pension to €250,000 from between €300,000 and €325,000, he said in a statement released to The Irish Times.

“I fully appreciate the ongoing difficulties facing the bank and the economy, and this is a personal decision on my part,” said the former chief, who left the bank in 2009 after it was bailed out by the State.

The Government has since pumped nearly €21 billion into AIB and almost fully nationalised it to cover losses due to the property crash.

Bless.

He’ll live with it, somehow.

Former AIB chief agrees to reduced pension of €250,000 (Simon Carswell, Irish Times)

(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)

Six years ago, Wisconsin voted on one of those gay marriage bans that plagued the land. All but one county approved the ban. Today, they have the nation’s first openly gay senator.

 

Tammy Baldwin Is The Second Biggest Story Of The Night (The Slate)

Where it’s 5.04pm this afternoon!

Cathy O’Sullivan, formerly of the Cork Evening Echo and now deputy editor for the New Zealand Herald Online, writes:

Waiting for  US election results with colleague and chief flag-waver Patricia Greig.

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