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• Virginia Republicans aim to take 4 Democrats congressional seats

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  Newly energized by last months landslide victories in state elections, Virginia Republicans are laying the groundwork to mount aggressive challenges against four Democratic congressmen next year. Republican leaders think that they can reclaim at least two of the three seats they lost last year, when President Obama ...
  5 hours ago

• Serena Williams is 2009 AP Female Athlete of Year

  
  Sports & recreation - sports-rec.marc8.com — Authority: 162
  Playing her best at the most important events, Serena Williams re-established herself as the top player in womens tennis in 2009 and was a landslide choice as Female Athlete of the Year by members of The Associated Press.
  5 hours ago

• Serena Williams named AP Female Athlete of Year

  
  Sports & recreation - sports-rec.marc8.com — Authority: 162
  Playing her best at the most important events, Serena Williams re-established herself as the top player in womens tennis in 2009 and was a landslide choice as Female Athlete of the Year by members of The Associated Press.
  7 hours ago

• Pair held over $4m card skimming scam

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Police in Sydney have arrested two men over an EFTPOS scam which has so far netted more than $4 million from bank accounts in Western Australia. Thousands of Western Australians have had their card details stolen at several McDonalds restaurants across Perth since October. Police allege the 31-year-old Canadian man ...
  13 hours ago

• AMPANG ULU KLANG HAZARD REPORT DECLASSIFIED?

  
  rights2write — Authority: 122
  1. My phone was inundated with SMS and calls from friends and unknown people with the message that the Cabinet has decided to make the Ampang Ulu Klang Hazard Map available to the local authorities. The news last night same the same thing but the morning papers says the government has declassified the report in view ...
  2 days ago

• Crew finds Centaur shipwreck

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  A search team has discovered the wreck of Australian wartime hospital ship Centaur. The WWII ship was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in 1943 and sank off the south-east Queensland coast. Of the 332 people on board the AHS Centaur only 64 survived. This morning, seven days into an official search, the crew of the ...
  2 days ago

• On the perils of Lake Sarez (Usoi) in Tajikistan

  
  Dave's Landslide Blog — Authority: 469
  Science this week has an article (Stone 2009) on the perils associated with Lake Sarez in the Pamirs. Sarez is a huge lake (56 km long and with a volume of 17 billion cubic metres of water) that was formed by a landslide triggered by the 1911 earthquake in Tajikistan (see image below). Google Earth image of ...
  2 days ago

• Copenhagen climate conference’s giant globe: A sign of things to come?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  An enormous white globe dangled in Copenhagen’s Bella Centre, the location of the world’s largest ever leaders’ summit on climate change, could be an unintended yet chilling sign of things to come. An observant attendee made it clear by scribbling on the giant model of the earth that its designers forgot to ...
  4 days ago

• A Really Long Night

  
  Tai Shan — Authority: 116
  My first trip to China, 15  years ago, was memorable in so many ways .  Everything was new, and it was hard to know what to expect from one moment to another.  But perhaps what was most unforgettable about the whole trip was one really long night spent on a bus. A bus that wasn’t moving. The problem that had ...
  4 days ago

• AGU Presentation on the Societal Impacts of Landslides

  
  Dave's Landslide Blog — Authority: 469
  This is the Powerpoint file from my presentation at AGU Fall Meeting in 2009 on quantifying the impacts of landslides on society, which is scheduled for Friday morning. Quantifying the impacts of landslides on society See more presentations by Dr_Dave | Upload your own PowerPoint presentations ...
  4 days ago

• Pacifica California falling into the Pacific Ocean

  
  propaganda press! freedom now — Authority: 142
  (12-17) 12:33 PST PACIFICA — A Pacifica apartment building on a bluff overlooking the ocean was ordered evacuated today because the cliff is rapidly eroding, city officials said. Tenants in the 12-unit building at 330 Esplanade Drive were told just before 11 a.m. that they had only minutes to leave, prompting a ...
  4 days ago

• Expelled Sahara activist returns

  
  heave-ho.org — Authority: 164
  A Western Sahara activist expelled by Morocco is allowed to return from Spain where she was on hunger strike. See the original post here: Expelled Sahara activist returns
  5 days ago

• Sarkozy’s tough message on climate – did it get through?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  After one and a half days of mostly uninspired and often irrelevant speeches by world leaders, French President Nicolas Sarkozy walked to the podium at UN climate talks in Copenhagen and produced a seven minute rallying cry - focused, energetic and packed with more punch than the rest put together. Jabbing his ...
  5 days ago

• The strange spectacle of too many heads of government

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  There are around 120 heads of government at the Copenhagen climate talks, so many that it’s hard to keep track of the exact number. Their presence has been trumpeted as a sign of the world’s commitment to tackling climate change. But in return for showing up, they all want a chance to address the conference – ...
  5 days ago

• Auxiliary verbs at 10pm and the scarcest resource – sleep

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  The issues are global and urgent, but the bureaucracy can sometimes be mind-bogglingly slow and petty. After a day of stalled talks, the 193 nations at UN-led climate talks finally met for a plenary to discuss one of the main drafts floating around the summit, just two days (and two hours) from the deadline for a ...
  5 days ago

• Can you trust the science?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Today we pose the question to our virtual panel of experts, “How far can we trust the science of climate change?” Join the debate and leave your comments below. Bjorn Lomborg , statistician and author of “The Skeptical Environmentalist”: The vast majority of climate scientists tell us that increases ...
  6 days ago

• daveslandslideblog is two years old today!

  
  Dave's Landslide Blog — Authority: 469
  Very kindly AGU decided to hold a birthday lunch to celebrate the second anniversary of daveslandslideblog (actually the geobloggers lunch, but whos counting?). I started the blog two years ago as a bit of an experiment to see what would happen, and have really enjoyed putting it together (and I have learnt a huge ...
  6 days ago

• President of breakaway Abkhazia to visit Turkey

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  The newly re-elected president of Abkhazia, an unrecognized breakaway region of Georgia, Sergei Bagapsh will pay a visit to Turkey soon, citing the need to reach out to members of the Abkhaz diaspora currently living in the country. At a press conference following his landslide victory in the Abkhaz presidential ...
  6 days ago

• Rainy Taiwan faces awkward water shortage

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
   Chronically rainy Taiwan faces a rare water shortage as leaders ask that people on the dense, consumption-happy island of 23 million finally start changing habits as dry weather is forecast into early 2010.  Taiwan, a west Pacific island covered with rainforests and topical fruit orchards, is used to rain in ...
  1 week ago

• Are the Copenhagen climate talks failing?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  In the last few days it has seemed like the only thing everyone can agree on in Copenhagen is that time is running out. The heads of state start arriving today and descend in full force on Thursday. Negotiators say they don’t want their leaders arguing over the placement of a comma or a set of brackets, and so ...
  1 week ago

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