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• Selling lit fic to Waterstones

  
  FictionBitch — Authority: 118
  As I write I am in Waterstones Gower St again, where on November 19th Verona kindly ordered a copy of my novel Too Many Magpies. When I wrote about this , Salts Chris Hamilton-Emery explained that bookshops rarely re-order even if they do sell such writer-motored orders, and David Knowles of Two Ravens Press ...
  1 week ago

• Coventry City vs Newcastle United preview

  
  injournalism — Authority: 132
  League leaders Newcastle United extended their lead at the top of the table last night without even kicking a ball. The Magpies were given the boost following last night’s results going in their favour. Fellow promotion candidates and closest rivals to the championship West Bromwich Albion fell to a 2-0 defeat  ...
  1 week ago

• Driver who killed teens loses appeal

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  A motorist who killed six teenage pedestrians in a crash near Mildura in north-west Victoria in 2006 has lost his application for leave to appeal against his jail term. Thomas Graham Towle was sentenced to 10 years jail with a minimum of seven over the crash at Cardross in which six teenagers died and four others ...
  2 weeks ago

• Liberal turmoil clouds debate on climate bills

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  The Federal Opposition looks set to change leaders, as the emissions trading legislation that sparked the Liberal row comes back before the Senate. The Upper House failed to meet the Governments deadline of passing the scheme by last week, prompting the Governments Senate leader, Chris Evans, to accuse the Opposition ...
  2 weeks ago

• Rudd plays careful hand at CHOGM

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudds appearance at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is an exercise in double-purpose diplomacy. First, he wants to keep a high profile among his Commonwealth colleagues, meeting all the big players of this 53-nation group: Britains Gordon Brown, Indias Manmohan Singh, South ...
  2 weeks ago

• Young Grey Currawongs

  
  Trevor's Birding — Authority: 119
  View Original " rel="lightbox"> Grey Currawong (juvenile) Over the last week or so we have had two young Grey Currawongs visiting the garden almost every day. They are still quite downy and their begging calls are quite pathetic compared to the far reaching, ringing calls of the adult birds. They didn’t ...
  2 weeks ago

• Young Australian Magpie

  
  Trevor's Birding — Authority: 119
  View Original " rel="lightbox"> Australian Magpie I have been a little puzzled about our resident pair of Australian Magpies this spring. Although they showed signs of building a nest earlier in the spring they seemed to abandon the idea after a few days. I had observed them refurbishing the nest they have ...
  2 weeks ago

• Cats’ rivals building for 2010 assault

  
  The Roar - Your Sports Opinion — Authority: 455
  Geelong’s closest rivals went to the AFL draft, as they did in trade week, smelling a potential premiership. Most clubs spent the final draft before Gold Coast and Western Sydney dominate the early picks over the next two years, stocking up with talented youngsters to survive the drought to come. But a select ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ball relieved to land in Magpie nest

  
  The Roar - Your Sports Opinion — Authority: 455
  Luke Ball admits there is more to his departure from St Kilda than the AFL midfielder wants to discuss. Whatever the new Magpie is keeping to himself, he insists there is no bitterness towards the Saints. Ball decided to leave his AFL home of eight years after a tumultuous season when the Saints nearly won the ...
  2 weeks ago

• My favourite books of the autumn – A selection of mini-reviews. Part 1

  
  Vulpes Libris — Authority: 494
  I haven’t been around Vulpes Libris as much as I’d have liked over the past few months, but in the time I’ve been away I have read a stack of books. So today I’m trying something different. Rather than offering a detailed, longer-length review of a single book, I have a selection of mini-reviews, which cover ...
  2 weeks ago

• Magpies get Ball to end weeks of agony

  
  The Roar - Your Sports Opinion — Authority: 455
  Luke Ball’s manager says the former St Kilda skipper was made to endure “six weeks of agony” before finally getting his wish to join rival AFL club Collingwood through the national draft. While Victorian 18-year-old midfielder Tom Scully earned the night’s honoured position of being taken with the No.1 pick, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Making the case against free agency. For now!

  
  The Roar - Your Sports Opinion — Authority: 455
  Thursday night’s AFL National Draft looms as one of the most intriguing ever seen in the game, with controversy striking only days out from one of the biggest days in a young footballer’s life. This year the stars of tomorrow have been overshadowed by Luke Ball and his refusal to discuss his future with any ...
  3 weeks ago

• Do Dogs Know Death?

  
  The Playing Field — Authority: 394
  How animals perceive death has been a longstanding puzzle. That animals understand death and grieve for their losses is no longer the question. For example, in her Coming of Age With Elephants , biologist Joyce Poole describes a mother elephant grieving for a stillborn baby-crying, slumped over, days on end spent ...
  3 weeks ago

• Coming up on Vulpes Libris

  
  Vulpes Libris — Authority: 494
  This week the Bookfoxes are in celebration mode. We have a Thanksgiving-themed review, a selection of favourite recent reads and we finish the week in fine style with a review of a novel written by retired Bookfox, the fabulous Emily Gale. We also have a Soapbox article by Kirsty, as well as reviews of a memoir and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Voluntary or Involuntary

  
  I Eat Gravel — Authority: 115
  Wasps are known to lay their eggs inside the bodies of ladybugs, using them as some sort of surrogate womb. That’s interesting, but not as interesting as the fact that the ladybugs survive the incident. “What is fascinating is that the ladybug is partially paralysed by the parasite, yet it’s eventually ...
  4 weeks ago

• How ladybugs are taken hostage by wasps

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Washington, Nov 18 (ANI): An entomologist at University of Montreal are trying to find out how a type of wasps lay their eggs on the ladybug’s body, a common practice in the insect world, without even killing their host.Jacques Brodeur, focussed his study on wasps-Dinocampus coccinellae- present in Quebec that ...
  4 weeks ago

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