Long before pedaling himself into mischief, famous monkey took much more harrowing ride when his creators escaped Nazi invasion of France
Continue reading …Blizzards Hit Eastern United States and Caused Travel Chaos – Blizzards have brushed north along the eastern coast of the US. This has forced the cancellation of more than 2,000 flights and disrupting rail and road traffic. The winter storm closed New York airports resulting to thousands of people stranded in a busy post-Christmas travel Blizzards Hit Eastern United States and Caused Travel Chaos is a post from: Daily World Buzz
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Photo courtesy frankh via flickr and Creative Commons license. While the debate rages on about whether New York’s bike lanes are working right or hardly working at all, out here on the west coast in Bike City, U.S.A. (aka Portland, Oregon) there’s a different question to ponder as the New Year approaches. Portland has moved ahead with thousands of sharrows , miles of new bike paths and some
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Defense minister says tension between Jerusalem, Ankara must be reduced rather than placed ‘at center of Mediterranean picture’. His deputy, Matan Vilnai, voices more stern approach, saying ‘Lieberman’s remarks, as usual, are pitiful and unnecessary’
Continue reading …Community Supported Beer: Cooperative Brewing, Baking and Farming for Local Economies
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Image credit: Topsham Ales Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) has long been a staple of the local/sustainable food scene. More recently, we’ve seen the model applied to everything from a Community Supported Kitchen to a grain-growing… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Oil tycoon found guilty of theft and money laundering charges by court in Moscow Mikhail Khodorkovsky in a Moscow courtroom as a judge reads the verdict in his second trial. Photograph: Tatyana Makeyeva/Reuters A judge declared Mikhail Khodorkovsky guilty of theft and money laundering charges today, a verdict that will likely keep the oil tycoon who was once Russia’s richest man behind bars for several more years….
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One of the lesser known predictions of the Mayan calendar foretells that 2011 will be the year of NFC . The contactless communications stuff looks to be building all kinds of stream in the Western world, but don’t lose faith in your current smartphone if it doesn’t already have it. Japanese carrier Softbank has responded to complaints about the iPhone 4′s NFC deficit — the FeliCa payment system is pretty popular over in the land of sumo, sushi and sun-rising — by introducing a new “seal” for the back of Apple’s latest and greatest. It sticks on, covering almost the entire rear, but is apparently thin enough not to get in the way of using one of Apple’s own Bumpers alongside it. From our reading of the press release, the sticker doesn’t actually communicate with the iPhone, it’s just a dumb NFC card, but hey, other people don’t need to know that when you’re swiping payments with your phone, now do they? On sale in February at a price of
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Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner says he’s engaged again. Hefner said in a Twitter message early Sunday that he’d given a ring to girlfriend and Playmate Crystal Harris, saying she burst into tears. (Dec. 27)
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In Washington Post op-ed, former IAEA chief accuses Egyptian government of holding fraudulent and farcical election, repressing democracy
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London-based al-Sharq al-Awsat says head of special international tribunal into Lebanese prime minister’s assassination has reached conclusions based on ‘strong and clear evidence which cannot be undermined’
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