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• Buddha of the Week

  
  One City: A Buddhist Blog for Everyone — Authority: 470
  by Ellen Scordato On a recent visit to San Francisco, I visited the Japanese Tea Garden and ran into this wonderful bronze buddha statue. photo courtesy mark rifkin/twi-ny.com There really was something that struck me about this statue at that moment. It was my first visit to SF, and Id spent a pretty ...
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• US shouldn’t ‘lose’ Sri Lanka: Senate (AFP)

  
  enUws — Authority: 466
  AFP – A US Senate report has urged more engagement with Sri Lanka as it recovers from war… Read the original post: (AFP)"> (AFP)">US shouldn’t ‘lose’ Sri Lanka: Senate (AFP)
  1 day ago

• Book Review: When The Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka

  
  Books on the Brain — Authority: 109
  When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka is a book I accidentally read twice.  Has anyone else ever had that kind of lightbulb moment, when things start to sound vaguely familiar? For me that rarely happens because I generally get rid of my books after I’ve read them.  They go to friends or off to the ...
  2 days ago

• 11,000 Still Held In Sri Lankan Internment Camps

  
  War News Updates — Authority: 162
  Independent consultants have criticised the detention of almost 300,000 Tamils in internment camps. (Pedro Ugarte/AFP/Getty Images) Children Among 11,000 Tamil ‘Fighters’ Held In Rehabilitation -- Times Online Sri Lanka is holding more than 11,000 Tamil prisoners without charge in closely guarded ...
  3 days ago

• How Gyo Obata Found Shelter from Internment

  
  Life at HOK — Authority: 135
  In the spring of 1942, HOK co-counder Gyo Obata left Berkeley, California, where he had been a promising young student in Cal’s School of Architecture, and boarded a train east. The next day, his family was taken by bus to an internment camp. Nineteen-year-old Gyo avoided a similar fate by coming to St. Louis to ...
  4 days 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 ...
  6 days ago

• Sri Lankas War Refugee Camps Are Now Open

  
  War News Updates — Authority: 162
  Tamil War Refugees Free To Move, Says Sri Lanka -- Sydney Morning Herald ABOUT 130,000 Sri Lankan Tamil war refugees held in guarded camps have been allowed freedom of movement for the first time since the civil war ended more than six months ago. The military officer in charge of the giant camp at Manik Farm, ...
  1 week ago

• Public Comment on World War II NPS Historic Sites

  
  Modern Hiker — Authority: 129
  This Thursday and Friday, the National Park Service will hold listening sessions in Los Angeles and San Francisco to take public comments about its grand program for preserving World War II-era Japanese Internment sites. I know it’s not technically hiking news, but I had the opportunity to visit Manzanar National ...
  1 week ago

• Charges of Abuse at Bagram Highlight Ongoing Problem With ‘Obama’s Gitmo’

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 154
  This weekend’s news that inmates at the part of the prison at the U.S. Air Base in Bagram, Afghanistan, run by Special Operations forces had suffered abuse sounded eerily reminiscent of the charges we’ve heard from previous prisoners victimized by interrogators at Guantanamo Bay. Joshua Partlow and Julie Tate at ...
  1 week 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 ...
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• 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 ...
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• Teaser Tuesday- November 24, 2009

  
  Books on the Brain — Authority: 109
  Miz B and Teaser Tuesdays asks you to: Grab your current read. Let the book fall open to a random page. Share with us two (2) sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12. You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great ...
  2 weeks ago

• Lanka government to release 130,000 Tamil refugees from Dec. 1

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Colombo, Nov.23 (ANI): Nearly six months after Sri Lanka’s 26-year civil war came to an end, the government has announced plans to finally close the controversial civilian internment camps. The detainees will be allowed freedom of movement starting on December 1 and the camps will be permanently closed by January ...
  2 weeks ago

• 130,000 Tamils to be Released From Internment Camp

  
  Brave New Wave - Children of a Lesser Revolution — Authority: 130
  The IDP Camps like the one at Menik Farm have faced several problems including poor preparation , flooding , accusations of internment , and lack of proper medical attention: More than 300 , 000 people displaced by the fighting between the government and Tamil Tiger rebels were placed in a sprawling , heavily ...
  2 weeks ago

• UN presses for freedom for Sri Lanka war-displaced (AFP)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 179
  AFP – The United Nations on Thursday stepped up pressure on Sri Lanka to free thousands of war-displaced civilians held in state-run internment camps. Read the rest here: (AFP)"> (AFP)">UN presses for freedom for Sri Lanka war-displaced (AFP)
  2 weeks ago

• As War Ends, Human Rights Violations Come to the Front

  
  The Bi-College News Online — Authority: 138
  By Hayley Lucas From July 1983 until May 2009 the Sri Lankan Sinhalese security forces and the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam fought a civil war that disrupted the once-peaceful nation. The conflict began when, after gaining independence from Great Britain, the Sinhalese majority came to power. The ...
  2 weeks ago

• Good To Know: Sarah Palin Believes In Racial Profiling, Glenn Beck [Low Profile]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 809
  Sarah Palin believes that political correctness is for fools and racial profiling is the way to stop violence. Thing is, if (as she tells Sean Hannity) "liberals heads explode" over her comments, itll be due to exposure to utter stupidity. The only good I can see coming from Sarah Palins media march is that any ...
  2 weeks ago

• Small Shops and Centers make great Stops along the Way

  
  Travel Tips — Authority: 136
  Small Shops and Centers make great Stops along the Way Now we’ve come to my favorite pastime: shopping. I really couldn’t resist the opportunity to talk about the awesome stores, malls, and shopping centers that abound in Seattle Washington. The shopping…
  2 weeks ago

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  NEAAT! — Authority: 141
  Neaato Org     The CHOW 13 : Our first annual awards, presenting a baker’s dozen of provocateurs, trendsetters, and Source: www.chow.com Our first annual awards, presenting a baker’s dozen of provocateurs, trendsetters, and rabble-rousers. November 8 at 1:02pm · Comment · ...
  3 weeks ago

• Another Ansel Adams

  
  The PhotoZone — Authority: 111
  Ansel Adams, one of the worlds great photographers, is famed for his breathtaking photographs of American landscapes - Yosemite in particular. He was a man who loved the wilderness and nature, and that love shines through in his images. But there was another side to him. What is less well known is that, during ...
  3 weeks ago

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