 was awkward and breakfast was not impressive
- Good
The location was central to everything. Walking distance, I had no car.
The only thing I can possibly complain about was the awful smell in the lobby and the smell of smoke in the hallways. Also the staff were very impersonable, you never saw them unless you rang a bell. I spent a lot of time in the lobby reading in the morning. The vending machines were empty as well which was not very convenient when you were there with no car.
- Good
Price was great.
"Continental Breakfast" was laughable on first morning, and did not happen on second.
- Guest rating
It is located very near Starbucks and Panera. There is plenty of free parking and easy freeway access.
The carpets were not clean. The hallways and common areas are not air-conditioned and although there are "no smoking" signs literally bolted to the outside of every door, the hotel smelled like smoke.
- Exceptional
Very clean, nice, comfortable bed. Fridge and microwave in room. Free Wi-FI. Housekeeping was good and fresh towels everyday. A real bargain for the price. Stayed for over a week. I would recommend this place to my friends looking for a good place to stay in the Omaha area at a reasonable price.
Comparative Constitutional Law, Cyberspace Law, Freedom of Expression, and Japanese Law. Right now, I am writing papers on the “development of technology and family law: who’s your mommy and your daddy?” and “abortion ban in Japan”, and a monograph on the frontiers of freedom of expression, touching on various contemporary issues on freedom of expression, including hate speech ban, ban on encouragement and promotion of terrorist activities, and the right to be forgotten.
law professor has been my dream job. Otherwise, I would be a lawyer.
Marbury v. Madison in the U.S. This is a decision that accepted the power of judicial review in the U.S. for the first time, sparking all the debates about the proper role of the judiciary and constitutional interpretation.
I don’t have any particular favorite book or movie.
The Nitobe garden. You should visit it.
I am serving also as a director of Japanese legal studies program in the Centre for Asian Legal Studies. If you have any interest in Japanese law, please feel free to contact me anytime.Bakker, P. G.
The properties of the supersonic flow in the vicinity of conical stagnation points, occurring in isentropic conical flow, were studied in a general way. The relation between conical streamline pattern and pressure distribution is discussed in detail. From this viewpoint some unsatisfactory results, occurring in literature, could be clarified. To obtain a unique description of local flow pattern a parameter is introduced which takes into account the particular properties of the pressure distribution.Former Police Ombudsman Baroness Nuala O'Loan is to receive substantial libel damages from the Demoratic Unionist Party chairman of the Stormont Justice Committee, it was announced today.
Paul Givan also issued an unreserved apology for comments he made in a live television interview which questioned her integrity and impartiality during her time in office.
The resolution was confirmed at the High Court in Belfast after a jury had been sworn in to hear the case.
Baroness O'Loan, who served as Northern Ireland's fist Police Ombudsman between 1999 and 2007, sued over a broadcast on UTV Live 18 months ago.
Although liability was accepted, a jury of four men and three women were due to decide the level of damages at a hearing set to last for up to three days.
However, following further negotiations, Mr Justice Gillen was told a settlement had been reached.
As part of the outcome an agreed statement was read out in court on behalf of Mr Givan and the second defendant, UTV Media Plc.
Nicholas Hanna QC, counsel for the DUP politician, said: "On September 5, 2011, Paul Givan MLA, Chair of the Assembly's Committee for Justice, participated in a live televised interview on UTV Live, during the course of which he made comments questioning the integrity and impartiality of Baroness Nuala O'Loan during her tenure as Police Ombudsman.
"Mr Givan unreservedly withdraws and apologises for any such defamatory imputations, which he fully accepts were totally without foundation."
"UTV unreservedly apologises for its failure to react adequately to the dissemination of the defamatory material."
The statement added: "Both defendants sincerely apologise to Baroness O'Loan fort any distress and embarrassment caused as a result of the offending broadcast.
"As a mark of their regret, the defendants have agreed to pay the plaintiff a substantial sum in damages and to pay her legal costs."
Outside the court former Police Ombudsman and her lawyer, Paul Tweed, expressed satisfaction with the outcome.
Baroness O'Loan said: "This was necessary to protect the integrity of the office.
"I'm just pleased it's been settled and the integrity of the work we conducted and my own integrity has been vindicated."
Mr Tweed, senior partner with Johnsons Solicitors, added: "My client has devoted many years of her life to public service and had at all times sought to discharge her responsibilities as Police Ombudsman with the utmost fairness and impartiality at all times, notwithstanding the many difficult challenges posed during her term in office.
"She therefore was left with no alternative but to take this legal action in order to vindicate her hard-earned reputation."
In a statement UTV Television's Managing Director Michael Wilson said: "We have apologised to Baroness Nuala O'Loan for our failure to react adequately to Paul Givan's defamatory comments live on our news during an interview in September 2011."Today’s song is very appropriate for ‘April Fools Day’ and is ‘(Now and Then) There’s A Fool Such as I’. This popular song was written by Bill Trader and was published in 1952. It was recorded as a single by Hank Snow and peaked at Number 4 on the ‘US Country Charts’ in early 1953. Since the original Snow version, ‘Fool Such as I’ (as the song is sometimes known) has been recorded and released as singles several times, by artists as diverse as Jo Stafford, Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, Petula Clark and Baillie and the Boys.
I was laid up in Batley Hospital for nine months following a serious traffic accident when this song was first released, not knowing if I’d ever walk again. I’d been playing football on the Third Avenue of Windybank Estate when a large lorry-type milk float that was being driven by a young woman who’d only recently passed her driving test hit me, panicked, ran the vehicle over my prostrate body and stopped on top of me (twisting my torso and body trunk around the main drive axel). Because the vehicle had me trapped beneath its carriage, it had to be manually hoisted by six nearby workmen using planks. It might today seem a foolish thing for an 11-year-old boy to do (playing football in the open road) but this was 1953 when few vehicles were rarely seen on our estate.
As brother Peter grew older, he grew larger and although mild in mannerism, he would always use his largeness in size (like a gentle giant) to defuse tension with a laugh in preference to a fight. I will never forget when Peter was aged around 14 and was then approaching six feet in height, an officious bus conductor rudely demanded him to get off the bust one stop before he wanted to as his bus pass didn’t take him any farther. Peter simply made to get off the bus, but at the last moment with the conductor escorting him off close behind, brother Peter turned, hoisted the conductor off his feet and deposited him on the roadside before ringing the bell. The bus departed to the sight of a furious red-faced bus conductor shaking his fist in the air and a full busload of laughing school children. In his adult life, my brother Peter excelled in his role as father and husband, his university education, his job as an Educational Psychologist; and has recently obtained a doctorate (PhD) in presumably ‘Psychology’,but on second thoughts, it might have been ‘Tom Foolery'.
My first foolish act would probably have been wasting my money paying for a girlfriend into the cinema and not even getting a kiss on the back row as a ‘thank you’. My mother would often tell me that ‘A fool and his money are soon parted’, but all in all, I always considered such generous behaviour to be a good investment that paid out dividends more often than it didn’t. Other foolish things I did as a growing boy would include, walking against the wind, peeing into the wind, trusting Heckmondwike girls against my mother’s advice never to, along with approaching a Billy Goat from the front, a horse from the back or a fool from any side!
Many people hold the view that the most foolish of all things is ‘falling in love’; of rushing into that minefield of explosive emotions that are capable of making your body reel in lovesick reverie, your loins stir in the constancy of sensual desire, and allows your head to be filled with illogical and irrational thoughts that turn sane men into lunatics and reveals the hidden hussy in every pure maiden. My mother always held the view (no doubt along with every other female on the planet) that however clever a man thinks himself to be