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• NATIONAL URBAN DATABASE AND ACCESS PROTAL TOOL

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 156
  Current mesoscale weather prediction and microscale dispersion models are limited in their ability to perform accurate assessments in urban areas. A project called the National Urban Database with Access Portal Tool (NUDAPT) is beginning to provide urban data and improve the parameterization of urban boundary-layer ...
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• [MP3] The Leisure Society: "In A Matter Of Time" + "The Sleeper"

  
  i guess i'm floating — Authority: 560
  Many of our English readers are probably familiar with London-based The Leisure Society , the brainchild of musician Nick Hemming formerly of early 90s outfit She Talks To Angels . While Hemming has quite the decorated and diverse musical past, only recently has his latest project blossomed into a beautiful ...
  15 hours ago

• Sticks and Stones May . . . Result in a Tasering: Colorado Police Taser Unruly 10-Year-Old Boy Because Using Pepper Spray Would Have Endangered Officer

  
  JONATHAN TURLEY — Authority: 619
  We recently saw how a taser was used on a ten-year-old girl who refused to take a bath in Arkansas, here . Now, police in Pueblo, Colorado have tasered a 10-year-old boy who threw a stick at an officer and was holding a pipe. Captain Jeff Teschner defended his deputies by saying that the use of pepper spray would ...
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• Chimpys House of Horror

  
  Badtux the Snarky Penguin — Authority: 434
  Looks like some guards at Gitmo tortured some prisoners to death then engaged in a coverup with the complicity of the chain of command. At least, thats all I can conclude reading between the lines of all these reports...-- Badtux the Unsurprised Penguin
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• In the Bubble, by John Thackara

  
  Melodies In Marketing — Authority: 110
  Earlier this year I bought myself a copy of John Thackara’s “ In the Bubble: Designing in a Complex World ”, to get a glimpse of what this designer/futurist had to say about sustainability and society. While published in 2005, the content didn’t seem a bit dated as some business and trend books usually do. In ...
  16 hours ago

• Now lets tax transactions | Stephany Griffith-Jones

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 164
  A currency exchange levy would work politically and morally for a debt-ridden, post-crisis world A global financial transactions tax may have seemed a utopian dream in the past. This was surprising, given that on a national level many countries have successfully implemented financial transactions taxes. Indeed, one ...
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• No Kill: Q&A with Robin Starr, Richmond SPCA

  
  Wayne Pacelle: A Humane Nation — Authority: 419
  No social movement has monolithic thinking, and our cause is no different. There are fault lines on many issues, whether the treatment of farm animals, the use of animals in research and testing, or other categories of animal use. One of the deepest fissures in the companion animal domain has been over the question of ...
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• Alcantra From Sao Goncalo

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 533
  The neighborhood came after a train station and developed at the intersection of state highway that connects the capital with the north of the state, with the former route of the Main Road that was the old link farms in the far west of the city. Communications are the best way to make any city wealth soar. It is ...
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• Lobbyists Paid $18,500 a Pop for Ros-Lehtinen Israel Junket Organized by Billionaire Katsof

  
  Tikun Olam-???? ????: Make the World a Better Place — Authority: 546
  An investigative story on the continuing abuse of Congress junkets despite a reform introduced last year contains this gem: Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Florida Republican, on another privately sponsored trip, stayed at the historic King David Hotel in Jerusalem and attended a gala party near the Western ...
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• Some lessons learned from Best Friends

  
  One Bark at a Time — Authority: 429
  I asked a lot of questions at Best Friends last week and I wasnt expecting any easy or ready made answers but I think I got a small sense of what makes BFAS different from any other animal sanctuary in the world. The place is not without its politics and from the many sideways glances I saw whenever I broached the ...
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• Gordon Brown announces plans to name and shame public sector excessive earners

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Gordon Brown stole a chunk of Tory policy today when he announced plans to name and shame people earning excessive public sector salaries and hand the Treasury new powers to vet any public sector contract paying more than £150,000 a year. Publishing new plans for a "smarter state", Brown claimed "some senior pay and ...
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• Since When Did Emotions Become A Bad Thing In Sports?

  
  Bleacher Report — Authority: 782
  As I was breezing through my Twitter pages, Bleacher Report sent me this article about "The Ten Biggest Crybabies." On this list, I saw Tim Tebows name. The writer brought up the fact that Tim Tebow was crying during the Gators loss to Alabama last weekend in the SEC Championship. Im sorry. But when did showing ...
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• The Sultan Tiger Woods and his Harem

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 713
  33-year-old professional golfer extraordinaire appears to have amassed a collection of trollops, hussies, harlots, sluts, and other assorted mistresses and bimbos in addition to his main squeeze, the 29-year-old blond, former Swedish model Elin Nordegren to whom he was publicly married in 2004. Too much money, ...
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• Go Army. Beat Navy.

  
  Doug Petch's ARC Builder Blog — Authority: 92
  This is the week. The biggest college football game of the year will be played in Philadelphia this coming Saturday when Army and Navy meet on the gridiron for the 108th time since 1890. This game takes on special significance as big-time college football becomes more and more about money for the schools and a ...
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• 11th U.S. Congressional and U.S. Senate Candidate Forum “Tea Party Style”

  
  Publius Forum — Authority: 560
  -By Warner Todd Huston One of our local Tea Party groups is sponsoring a candidate’s forum On Dec. 9th. I find it a bit telling that these folks invited the local Democrats to participate in the forum and they all declined, yet all the republicans accepted the invitation. So, uh, what are the Dems afraid of? ...
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• The Attack of the Killer Tomatoes

  
  FriendsEAT.com — Authority: 432
  Looks Like the Movie Was Based on Real Life If you thought “Killer Tomato” was the title of a new horror flick or a hot gaming app for the iPhone, think again. According to a recent report, scientists have discovered that some tomatoes have properties similar to the venerable Venus fly trap , where these ...
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• Lenovo Publishes Second CSR Report

  
  ChinaCSR.com — Authority: 476
  Lenovo Group has published a corporate social responsibility report, which is said to be the second the company has issued.Compared with the first report, the new one has added such issues as responsibility focus and key performance data for 2008.Du Jianhua, a vice president of Lenovo, said that the company would ...
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• Crystal Charity’s Bond Girl?

  
  Dallas Blog, Daily News, Dallas Politics, Opinion, and Commentary FrontBurner Blog D Magazine — Authority: 533
  Who is this lovely thing and why did she stop traffic at Crystal Charity Ball’s “License to Thrill” on Saturday night? SweetCharity has the answer.
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• Quick Divorce Records Search Done Online

  
  Gypsy Camp Blog — Authority: 154
  Marriage is the end result of two people expressing compassionate love for one another. But, the sad thing is that not all marriages last forever, some would go separate ways in the future for whatever reason. A law has been enacted to legalize the termination of marriage contract through what is called divorce. Many ...
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• Will the Supreme Court Force Univ. of CA to Approve This Anti-Gay Christian Group?

  
  Queerty — Authority: 705
  The U.S. Supreme Court isnt yet ready to hear legal challenges to Prop 8, but how about a lawsuit from an anti-gay Christian group that insists a college doesnt have the right to discriminate against it because it hates homos? Sure! CONTINUED » Permalink | 2 comments | Add to del.icio.us Tagged: ...
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