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• Logbooks, a historic underpinning for Ocean Research

  
  Whaling Museum blog — Authority: 116
  In the Environmental Journal section of the 11/29  Providence Journal, Peter B. Lord writes about a massive research project, an ocean census undertaken by 2,000 scientists from 62 countries to answer three huge questions about the world’s oceans. What once lived in the oceans? What is living in them now? ...
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• Canada: Online resource additions, updates

  
  Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog — Authority: 435
  Does Canada figure in your family quest? Regardless of whether your ancestors were just "passing through" or stayed in Canada, the updates to the Library and Archives of Canada (LAC) may be quite helpful. There are some 12 million new records, in total. Recent updates include: 2,000 digital images added - Board of ...
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• Will Time Magazine Apologize to Glenn Beck?

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 175
  "Government Distrust and a Dead Census Taker."“...[W]as it part of the recent rage at what right-wing commentators decry as the big-spending, socialistic government of the first African-American President? Al Cross, a former reporter for the Louisville Courier-Journal who covered the area for 30 years, believes that ...
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• Advisor Alert - November 27, 2009

  
  GreenLightAdvisor Views — Authority: 143
  The following report is the advisor alert produced by US Global Investors , a comprehensive weekly alert providing SWOT analysis for all major market groups. You may listen to it in its entirety here while you work: Download audio file (55e283bf-ebd7-436b-06d2-245317d74b6c.mp3) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly ...
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• Homes With Cell Phones Nearly Double in First Half of Decade

  
  Data Detectives — Authority: 424
  The number of households with cell phones increased from 36 percent to 71 percent between 1998 and 2005, according to new data released by the U.S. Census Bureau. This corresponded with a decrease in households with telephone landlines, particularly households headed by young adults.
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• Help for UK researchers

  
  GenWeekly — Authority: 128
  Following on the heels of a similar success, one UK researchers appeal to the Information Commissioner under the Freedom of Information Act "could unlock details from the 1939 National Registration of the UK - an emergency, census-like survey of the country at the beginning of the war," as noted in a recent BBC ...
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• Homeless Shelters Reaching Capacity For Women

  
  City Desk — Authority: 699
  This is going to be an especially tough season for the homeless. The number of homeless families jumped in recent months. For the week of Nov. 9 to Nov. 15, there were 429 families on the waiting list for services. Ten families who had applied for shelter returned to seek services again. Of the nearly 30 families ...
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• Expanding the Product Line

  
  Data Detectives — Authority: 424
  There was a recent discussion on a listserv I monitor about what a florist might do who is suffering in the recession. One participant suggested "expanding their offerings beyond just flowers...some gifty/crafty stuff to compliment the flowers and get feet through the door and create incremental volume." Good idea, ...
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• Yes, N.M.’s budget woes are bad. But pain is relative.

  
  New Mexico Independent — Authority: 548
  Throngs of students in California protested hikes to fees they must pay. Photo by James Buck, Creative Commons LAS VEGAS, Nev. — With impending service cuts, taxes sure to increase and a cash-short state road fund , life in New Mexico might seem, well, not so enchanting. But it turns out pain is relative. ...
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• Census Bureau Has Jobs—Filling Out Census Helps All People

  
  Texas Liberal — Authority: 563
  The Census is coming up in 2010. The Census angers the political right because the Federal Government conducts the census, and because the government uses the Census to determine how government money is allocated. Census forms will be mailed out in March of 2010. Please fill out your Census form and send it back. ...
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• Piglet Squid, Football Octopod, Other Bizarre Underwater Species Found

  
  dailyQi — Authority: 140
  Be amazed! Deep within the dark ocean depths are bizarre and odd-shaped deep-sea creatures that were discovered during the ten-year Census of Marine Life, which ends in 2010. This is what they found. Video Courtesy: Census of Marine Life Piglet Squid Helmet Jelly Sea Angel Football Octopod Jewel Squid ...
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• The Ethnic Cleansing of Britain: Third World Immigrants Already Majority of Under 50 Population in High Wycombe

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 613
  A housing report prepared for the High Wycombe District Council has revealed that Third World immigrants already comprise nearly 60 percent of the population aged under 50 in that town. According to the District Council report, Wycombe has a “substantial and increasing ethnic minority population, significantly ...
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• U. S. Census Bureau Seeks Staffers

  
  The Springfield Intruder — Authority: 116
  The U. S. Census Bureau is currently recruiting part-time, temporary staffers to help out with the 2010 Census. Positions available include supervisor and census takers. Anyone interested in seeking a position in their community can contact the Census Bureau for an appointment at 1-866-861-2010. For more information ...
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• Census of Marine Life Project Releases Preliminary Results

  
  Kansas Academy of Mathematics and Science — Authority: 135
  Christmas tree worms (Spirobranchus giganteus) from East Timor. Photo credit: Nick Hobgood/Wikipedia The Census of Marine Life , a network of researchers in 80 countries spanning 10 years, released preliminary results this week, although final results are not due until October 2010.  Results announced ...
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• Facts for Features & Special Editions

  
  Data Detectives — Authority: 424
  28 Number of places in the United States named Plymouth, as in Plymouth Rock, the landing site of the first Pilgrims. Plymouth, Minn., is the most populous, with 71,486 residents in 2008; Plymouth, Mass., had 55,705. There is just one township in the United States named “Pilgrim.” Located in Dade County, Mo., its ...
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• Will You Marry Me?

  
  The New Gay — Authority: 532
  Marriage equality advocates have been facing tumultuous state-by-state battles across the country. Throughout this rollercoaster fight for basic civil rights, one thing has not changed: there are more than 750,000 same-sex couples living in the United States, according to the 2000 U.S. Census. Across the country, ...
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• Remember that Kentucky Census Worker?

  
  The Sly Oyster | culture, entertainment, liberal arts, shenanigans — Authority: 444
  Remember Bill Sparkman, who was found hanging last September in a Kentucky tree with the word “FED” carved into his chest?  The one the FBI thought might have been the victim of anti-government sentiment?  Turns out it was a suicide. Kentucky State Police Capt. Lisa Rudzinski said an analysis found that ...
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• Investigators: Kentucky Census Worker Killed Himself

  
  Survival News Network — Authority: 143
  Ummm, yea.A Kentucky census worker found hanging from a tree with the word “fed” written on his chest killed himself and staged his death to look like a murder, authorities said Tuesday.Kentucky State Police said Bill Sparkman died at the same location where his body was found Sept. 12 near a cemetery in a heavily ...
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• since i posted the original story

  
  ravings of a semi-sane madwoman — Authority: 446
  i thought id best post this one as well. im still rather dubious about the suicide though. i guess it COULD have been. mr sparkman may have been ill. either way, murder or suicide, it was an ugly death Inquiry concludes census worker killed himself By Raw Story A mysterious murder that appeared to be some kind ...
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• Thanksgiving Census Facts & Figures

  
  Geo Lounge - All things geography — Authority: 114
  In the fall of 1621, the Pilgrims, early settlers of Plymouth Colony, held a three-day feast to celebrate a bountiful harvest, an event many regard as the nation’s first Thanksgiving. Historians have also recorded ceremonies of thanks among other groups of European settlers in North America, including British ...
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