Australian artist Sean Edward Whelan left Oz to teach English in Joetsu, Niigata, Japan where he also works as an illustrator, creating (among other things) these beautiful pencil drawings of anthropomorphised traditional Japanese buildings, bridges and lanterns.

There’s more of his work here and here.

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Dr [Diarmuid] Martin was also critical of the length of time it took RTE to “hold their hands up and admit mistakes were made”.

“If this were in the church the bishops would be told to voluntarily resign rather than stand aside. The level of accountability has to be questioned here, it took a long time before people came and held their hands up and said ‘look we made a serious mistake here’,” he said.

The senior cleric said he felt it important that people step aside while an investigation was carried out but added he felt there was a tendency at RTE to “identify some kind of a mid-management person in these cases”.

He said the Reynolds case raised “basic questions about the controls that there are in an organisation which would allow this to happen to anybody”.

 

Media Responsibility Must Be Guaranteed And Independent Regulation Is The Way – Martin (Edel O’Connell, Irish Independent)

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Miley Cyrus celebrated her celeb-studded 19th birthday last week at the Roosevelt Hotel in L.A where she was presented with a Bob Marley-shaped cake. For good reason, apparently.

The Daily has it all on tape.

[T]he former “Hannah Montana” star cracks, “You know you’re a stoner when friends make you a Bob Marley cake—you know you smoke way too much f***in’ weed.”

“I thought salvia was your problem, man?” retorts Osbourne.

Gawker

UP TO 1,200 jobs in Australia were on offer at an expo in Dublin at the weekend.

The Australia Employment Expo 2011 at the Aviva Stadium featured 18 employers seeking to fill posts as soon as possible in fields such as engineering, nursing and construction.

Diesel fitters were particularly in demand, with one company, Dublin-based Osborne Recruitment, offering 100 such positions.

Western Australia will need 150,000 people to fill posts that will become available over the next five years, according to Keith Seed of the Western Australia Chamber of Commerce. He said Aus$240 billion (€175 billion) worth of projects would go ahead in the area in the next few years.

A how-to-feck-off-out-of-this-kip showcase at the Aviva Stadium? How apt.

Did you attend? How was it?

Up to 1,200 jobs in Australia on offer (Irish Times)

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