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• U.S. says no to Arctic fishing

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  (Reporting by Yereth Rosen in Alaska) There is currently no commercial fishing conducted in U.S. Arctic waters, and now there won’t be: a formal ban on commercial seafood harvests in U.S. waters north of the Bering Strait went into effect on Thursday. Environmentalists and fishery managers applauded the move as a ...
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• Sailing into an icy cauldron

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  Reuters employee Pauline Askin has sailed for the Antarctic  for a six -week expedition on the icy continent where she will help restore Mawson’s huts named after Australia’s most celebrated Antarctic explorer on Commonwealth Bay, the windiest place on earth. During the expedition, Pauline will report on ...
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• Summit of Little Yellow Mountain protected now

  
  The Smoky Mountain Hiking Blog — Authority: 477
  The Asheville Citizen-Times is reporting that The Nature Conservancy has acquired 466 acres at the summit of Little Yellow Mountain in the counties of Avery and Mitchell in North Carolina. The 5,504-foot mountain is one of the higher peaks in the Southern Appalachians and is part of a large corridor of protected ...
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• Walton Ford: A Naturalist Who Likes to “Salt the Wound”

  
  Lost In A Supermarket — Authority: 483
  It seems ludicrous to assume if one helplessly yelps into the nights sky, calling, seemingly desperate aches and moans of what one desires — labeling it in self realization terms “telling it to the universe” — that the universe will shout back. If so, what does that sound like? So, Tony Robbins, give it to me ...
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• After 25 years impact of Bhopal leak lingers

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  Controversy still surrounds one of the worlds worst industrial accidents 25 years after an estimated 8,000 people died in the immediate aftermath of a toxic gas leak in Bhopal, India. At around midnight on December 3, 1984, a leak at a Union Carbide plant of methyl isocyanate gas -- a chemical compound used ...
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• "bits and pieces everywhere"

  
  Letters in Bottles — Authority: 438
  Tulane looks back at the Worlds Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition , the 1884 Worlds Fair held 125 years ago in Uptown, New Orleans - in what is now Audubon Park. Heres a neat contemporary map "Showing Location Of Exposition Grounds And All Approaches Thereto By Land & Water."
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• The Alley Cats (1966, USA)

  
  Wrong Side of the Art — Authority: 513
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• Woman mugged while walking into her Audubon Circle building

  
  Universal Hub - All Boston, all the time — Authority: 614
  11/24/2009 - 8:15pm BU Police report a woman was robbed in her vestibule at 503 Park Dr. around 8:15 p.m. on Nov. 24. Police say the woman entered the building talking on her cell phone: ...[T]he suspect approached her demanding her property. The victim then stated that the suspect was ...
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• Baby white gators from Houma exhibit’s new stars

  
  World Zoo Today — Authority: 143
  JANET McCONNAUGHEY – Associated Press Writer NEW ORLEANS — Two baby white alligators have joined the Audubon Nature Institute’s collection, bringing the total to 12 — all of their kind known to exist. The foot-long newcomers with blue eyes and a few brown “freckles” replaced normal juveniles at the ...
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• John James Audubon and Primordial Numbers

  
  Tails of Birding — Authority: 123
  At a local Audubon board meeting in August a few years ago, I announced to the group that I was going to Plum Island the next day. A couple of rare shorebirds were being reported, and I hoped to see them. The biologist-naturalist in the group declined the invitation. Ruefully he said that when he went to the shore, he ...
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• Comfortable conservation and global warming

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  -- John Kemp is a Reuters columnist. The views expressed are his own -- Energy efficiency will have to make the single most-important contribution if policymakers are serious about limiting greenhouse gas emissions and dampening growing demand for fossil fuels. Energy efficiency will not remove the need to invest ...
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• Birders take note: Hog Island reopening

  
  Travels with Hilary — Authority: 422
  Orithology sessions with some of the country’s top experts will again be held at Maine Audubon’s Hog Island preserve, on the Pemaquid Peninsula, thanks to Project Puffin. There are programs for all birding levels (including a session for teens), and two provide opportunities to work directly in the field ...
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• Benjamin Franklin and the turkey

  
  Versailles and more — Authority: 113
  Here is what Benjamin Franklin  writes his daughter, Sarah Blache, on the topic of the Society of the Cincinnati. He opposes, of course, the very notion of establishing hereditary honors in the United States, and also discusses the insignia of this organization, which include a bald eagle: Others object, ...
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• Weaving the Web of Connections...

  
  Lyric Flight — Authority: 128
  My first real *success* here in Michigan was tracking down a local raw milk opportunity and *buying in.* (Raw milk isnt available commercially in this state, you must buy a share of a cow and pay maintenance - because you *own* a part of the cow, you can get raw milk from *your* cow.) They publish a list of members ...
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• Lifting Haze in Constitution Marsh

  
  Hudson Valley Painter — Authority: 126
  6×8″, Oils on sealed, primed hardboard $150 via PayPal, $10 shipping within the US. Please email me at JamieWG@aol.com for international rates. I hiked into Constitution Marsh on the Hudson River the other day while the skies were overcast, but they didn’t stay that way for long. Keeping up with ...
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• Could denying bedroom privileges save the planet?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  There will be a record number of side events at the United Nations-sponsored climate talks in Copenhagen next month, but one woman’s one-woman show could give the delegates, most of whom will be men, the incentive they really need to agree a new global warming treaty. In “ The Boycott “, Kathryn Blume plays ...
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• Pa. couple donates woodlands at Finger Lakes National Forest to Land Trust

  
  New York Outdoors Blog — Authority: 436
  StarGazette.com, link to original article The Finger Lakes Land Trust has received a gift of 11 acres of privately owned woodland in the heart of the Finger Lakes National Forest in Hector, Schuyler County, the organization announced Tuesday. The property was received from Nancy and Charles Cladel of ...
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• Mot du Jour: “Aquatint”

  
  Artstoile — Authority: 120
  An aquatint is a type of etching that mimics the appearance of watercolor and ink washes through the use of a tone process.  The technique is used to create shaded areas that range from light to dark and is most common in landscapes, portraits, and figure studies to give a sense of depth and realism.The aquatint ...
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• Dad gets custody this fall, then beats 16-month-old son to death (Germantown, Pennsylvania)

  
  Battered Women, Battered Children, Custody Abuse — Authority: 142
  Note: Cross posted from [wp angelfury] Battered Mothers Rights - A Human Rights Issue . Permalink   http://dastardlydads.blogspot.com/2009/11/dad-gests-custody-this-fall-then-beats.html Dad gets custody this fall, then beats 16-month-old son to death (Germantown, Tennessee)   Whadya know. ...
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