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Nov 9, 2011

AUSTRALIA News, Nov 09, 2011

Internode adds Darwin POP
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Internode already has ten POPs covering Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Canberra,Sydney, Hobart and Brisbane. The company had already landed its own DSLAMs in Alice Springs, and has installed DSLAMs in four Darwin exchanges, which it says will be switched ...
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JAPAN News, Nov 09, 2010


Olympus Urged to Extend Purge of Executives as Shares Slump on Hidden Loss
Bloomberg
By Mariko Yasu and Naoko Fujimura - Wed Nov 09 09:43:14 GMT 2011 Shuichi Takayama, president of Olympus Corp., leaves a news conference in Tokyo, Japan, on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2011. Shuichi Takayama, president of Olympus Corp., leaves a news conference in ...
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Bloomberg
Ripken gives Japanese youth a boost
The Daily Yomiuri
The group held a pair of clinics in Tokyo and will travel to Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, today before heading to Nishinomiya, Hyogo, on Saturday. Kinugasa will miss the event in Nishinomiya, but rejoins the group in Kyoto's Ukyo Ward on Sunday to help ...
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Tepco Ordered to Create Road Map to Decommission Reactors
BusinessWeek
9 (Bloomberg) -- The Japanese government ordered Tokyo Electric Power Co. to draw up a road map to decommission the damaged four reactors at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant in a process that could take 30 years. The utility known as Tepco should ...
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Q+A: The big issues at the Durban climate summit
Reuters
Poorer nations want the Kyoto Protocol to be extended, but many rich nations say a broader pact is needed to include all the big polluters. Russia, Japan and Canada have said they will not sign up for a second commitment period unless the biggest ...
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Scrub homes, denude trees to wash cesium fears away
The Japan Times
In Tokyo, only the Okutama forest area has had similar fallout. In many cases, significant decontamination can be achieved by a few simple procedures. Following are tips for do-it-yourself home decontamination: TheJapanese Society of Radiation Safety ...
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The Japan Times
Japan's Version of the Flatiron Building is Impossibly Skinny
Curbed National (blog)
Appropriately named On the Corner, this house, in Youkaichi, Japan, consists of seven two-bedroom rental apartments, each with a living room, kitchen, and bathroom. Design Milk explains that the awkwardly shaped lot sat empty until Kyoto-based firm ...
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Curbed National (blog)
Global pledge to reduce emissions pushed
Manila Standard Today
by John Concepcion A professor of international law in a university in Japan stressed the need for a global framework that would deal with climate change. Dr. Yukari Takamura, who teaches at the Graduate School of Environmental Studies in Nagoya ...
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Climate talks: China calls on developing countries to 'step up'
environmentalresearchweb
In the past, this approach has been seen by rich countries as simply continuing the stalemate that has afflicted the long-running talks, and several nations – including the US and Japan – have rejected a "Kyoto 2" because it would not require binding ...
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Feds expect 'turbulence' at climate talks
CANOE
The first round of the current climate agreement, the Kyoto Protocol, expires in 2012. But Canada, along with Russia and Japan, is crying foul over Kyoto because developing countries - even top polluters like China - aren't bound by its greenhouse gas ...
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World headed for irreversible climate change in five years, IEA warns
The Guardian
Originally, the aim was to agree a successor to the 1997 Kyoto protocol, the only binding international agreement on emissions, after its current provisions expire in 2012. But after years of setbacks, an increasing number of countries – including the ...
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NSF, JST Issue New Joint Awards To Reduce Pesticide Pollution And Promote Biofuel
RedOrbit
Research led by Georg Jander of the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research in New York and Yutaka Okumoto of Kyoto University. Up to 30 percent of agricultural productivity is lost to insects and disease. Moreover, production costs soar every time ...
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RedOrbit
Japan to build 16 new nuclear reactors
Deccan Herald
The regulatory agencies have to play an active role in disseminating information,” Hiroyuki Kameda, professor emeritus at Kyoto University told Deccan Herald on the side-lines of the conference. As many as 16 reactors are at various stages of planning ...
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Diversification of Moths with Teeth
Southern Fried Science
A recent paper on the Japanese species of Micropterigidae by Yume Imada and her colleagues at Kyoto University provides evidence to the contrary and applies molecular techniques to test the hypothesis of allopatric speciation without niche shift. ...
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Southern Fried Science
Business Innovation Key to Smart Grid Roll-Out
Bloomberg
The group also offers Insight Services for each of the major emerging carbon markets: European, Global Kyoto, Australia, and the US, where it covers the planned regional markets as well as potential federal initiatives and the voluntary carbon market. ...
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SGI Reports Financial Results for First Quarter of Fiscal 2012
MarketWatch (press release)
... Japan and America's Commercial. Further, we are reaffirming our fiscal 2012 guidance, based on current visibility," Barrenechea concluded. In Life Sciences, our customer successes include Bayer BioScience NV, BIOGEMMA, Kyoto University, ...
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The Mushroom Kingdom Goes 3D in Super Mario 3D Land for Nintendo 3DS
MarketWatch (press release)
About Nintendo: The worldwide pioneer in the creation of interactive entertainment, Nintendo Co., Ltd., of Kyoto, Japan, manufactures and markets hardware and software for its Wii(TM) home console, Nintendo 3DS(TM) and Nintendo DS(TM) family of ...
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With Help from Rats, NU Neuroscientist Closes In on Depression Treatment
Chicagomag.com
Today Redei works with descendants of a breed of albino rats first genetically engineered in Kyoto, Japan. They are smart mammals, though these particular rodents are depressed and huddle together in their plastic pen rather than exhibiting the ...
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Chicagomag.com
Now for the really hard climate talks
Climate Spectator
There is fury among many developing countries about the decision by Japan, Canada, and Russia, to abandon the Kyoto Protocol, and lingering resentment over the US decision not to ratify it. In the normal scheme of events, that should not have an impact...
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Dunlop hoping for better luck with Red Cadeaux in Hong Kong
Irish Times
Dunlop's worries about the bug bites Snow Fairy got while she was in quarantine eased after the filly exercised on Kyoto racecourse, Japan, ahead of her bid to land back-to-back victories in the Queen Elizabeth II Commemorative Cup there on Sunday. ...
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EWEA – wind could provide a third of Europe's CO2 cuts
Industrial Fuels and Power
... South Korea and Japan.” He added: “It is clear that by deploying wind energy and other renewables the EU can move to a 30% greenhouse gas reduction target with ease.” For comparison, in 2010, EU wind energy avoided around 28% of the EU's Kyoto...
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CHINA News, Nov 09, 2011

Hong Kong, Shanghai shares up as China inflation eases
Reuters
By Vikram Subhedar HONG KONG, Nov 9 (Reuters) - Hong Kong and Shanghai shares closed higher as signs that price pressures in China are letting up raised hopes thatBeijing will make some moves to ease monetary policy. ...
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INDIGNANTS News, Nov 09, 2011


Minister fronts up to her critics
Independent Online
'I AM also not a lesbian,” an indignant Minister for Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Tina Joemat-Pettersson told journalists in Cape Town yesterday. Neither was she a gypsy and nor had she spent “a single minute of my life in a caravan”. ...
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Independent Online
Zisser pays Hapoalim only NIS 10M
Ynetnews
Bank indignant, says will continue exercising our rights. Sources close to Zisser: This is declaration of intent Businessman Moti Zisser was due to repay a NIS 80 million ($21.5 million) debt to Bank Hapoalim, but Calcalist has learned that the ...
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Ynetnews
Report from Cuba on the Occupy Movements
Havana Times
9 — More than 3000 people have been arrested in the US since the “movement of theindignant” reached that country. The figures would be much higher there if one were to add all the victims of police violence. The “rule of law” that supposedly prevails ...
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More of Moroun's lies in bridge battle
Detroit Metro Times
Last week, I got an angry and indignant letter from a longtime woman friend, now a rising star in the corporate world. She is Republican to her very core. For many years, she worked for GOP causes and campaigns, and held positions in state government. ...
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The 99 per cent
The Asian Age
They called themselves the “Indignados” — the indignant. I met them in Madrid where I was attending the meeting of the scientific committee that advises the Spanish Prime Minister, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero. Their declaration states: “Who are we? ...
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Iolani Palace Protesters Invoke Sovereignty Rights
Honolulu Civil Beat
A Honolulu judge on Tuesday released 19 Hawaiian sovereignty protesters, but not before indignant exchanges with the prosecutor. When their legal names were read aloud by the state attorney general, each one objected and asked to have the record ...
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Time for US to back Palestinian statehood
Bloomington Pantagraph
However, the United States, which prides itself in being global leader, stood firm where it was: indignant, out of touch and behind the wave of change. The Obama administration has declared the symbolic move to be “regrettable” and “premature. ...
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Herman Cain Does Not Understand Politics
Ology
We all say we want an outsider who is not a career politician to shake things up in Washington, and then we are shocked and indignant when that non-politician says and does things that are not political. We see this disparity in the voter's ...
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Ephemeral Digest: With love, to the unhappy Liz Jones
Bristol24-7
It had Twitter chortling and gasping in waves of indignant amusement and horror at the Daily Mail columnist's latest confession about how she tried to steal some sperm from a couple of men. It wasn't just general sperm theft. ...
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Italy crisis: Silvio Berlusconi finds he's not too big to fail on day of drama
The Guardian
Berlusconi did not fall, as he had planned to, in a nail-biting confidence vote that ended in cheering from the opposition and indignant protests from his supporters. He lost a routine, though crucial, parliamentary ballot; went to consult his ...
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The Guardian
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Washington Post (blog)
And now the indignant response begins. “I would have said something,” everyone says. “I wouldn't have gone to my supervisor. I would have gone straight to the police.” It is easy to say. It is harder to do. And if you don't believe, consider who didn't ...
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Europeans clutch at technocratic fixes
Financial Times
It explains the indignant reaction of Antonis Samaras, the conservative Greek opposition leader, to the latest demand of Olli Rehn, the European monetary affairs commissioner. Mr Rehn insists that, before Greece receives its next €8bn tranche in ...
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READER Talkback -- How Can Anyone Think Inverclyde Now Is Making This Up? (13 ...
Inverclyde Now
My piece may well have been a righteously indignant rant, but I felt the lack of respect shown to my readers by those concerned deserved a response. 7/ It's unfortunate that Tom Tracey has taken the same "Aye, when I were a lad. ...
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From a mind dirtier than a pigsty
Bangkok Post
You don't need to be a fan of PM Yingluck to feel indignant. You only need to believe that gender and ethnic prejudice is wrong. You only need to believe in human dignity and understand how patriarchy works to legitimise men's sexual promiscuity by ...
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Inequality, unemployment and unresponsive government: A collision is coming
Baltimore Sun
You see it in Spain, whose "indignados" (indignant ones) fill the streets. In Greece, whose citizens are being squeezed by bankers. In Italy, whose young people are angered by lack of opportunity. You see it in Chile, whose young are angered by higher...
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Seoul and Hanoi eye a glowing partnership
Asia Times Online
The Chinese have repeatedly tried to put the Vietnamese in their place when it comes to the South China Sea while responding with indignant outcries whenever the US navy sends its warships there or to the Yellow Sea in a show of force against China's ...
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Coalition of the Disenchanted
CounterPunch
In this respect, OWS resembles the indignados (the indignant) who are protesting in Madrid, Athens, London and elsewhere. The tactic of permanently occupying public space was clearly influenced by the occupation of Tahrir Square in Cairo this January. ...
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Fast and Furious: The scandal Republicans have been waiting for?
Washington Post
The hearing stretched on, and Republicans grew increasingly indignant about Holder's refusal to admit much. Grassley asked about the false statements made to him by the Justice Department. “The letter could have been better crafted,” Holder allowed. ...
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Queenie's Showbiz News: Frankie Cocozza, X Factor, I'm A Celebrity and Cheryl Cole
ATV Today
Downton Abbey - Sunday night's finale was bloody brilliant though I wasn't at all impressed with the ad-break a mere eight minutes into the episode but I'll leave it to the Daily Mail to get indignant over that. Gay Marriage - On the political agenda ...
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Zimbabwe: The Odd Function of Local Cartoons
AllAfrica.com
For savagely indignant cartooning, discussing the legitimacy of the system and those who hold office is not the most important issue), but poorly handled national issues or scandals within the political system are. Morgan Tsvangirai's stance on ...
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Which of These 27 Gamer Classifications Do You Fall Under?
Kotaku
Those friends are often indignant toward the fancy-free Leach, bitterly allowing him to participate in their expensive hobby to his or her utmost pleasure. If they really want to play something, they either manipulate others into attaining it for them ...
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COMMENT: A Dangerous, Costly Game (Part III: Divided)
Minda News
As reported, the call for all-out war was spread by text messages to support indignant, anti-MILF voices from the Senate, the national media and motley leaders and feed the anger of Filipinos ignorant of Mindanao issues. In reality, the Basilan and ...
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More Government Cow Patty
Gather.com
I immediately became indignant and stood up. The Judge of course noticed me, so I requested permission to speak on that issue. I was also driving a pickup and had the very same class of licence. "Someone must have misapplied the regulations your honor,...
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Herman Cain: Latest accuser is a liar, and reporters 'stalk my family'
Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)
They have to get the story. But I will get very indignant if they continue to stalk my family, make unsolicited calls — that has no place in politics. It has no place in America…,” Cain has a press conference in Arizona scheduled for 5 pm Eastern.
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Medal-winning senior basketball team to perform during Lady Vols game
Knoxville News Sentinel
When the Shooting Stars players voiced concerns that playing against younger women might result in injury, Murphy was indignant. "I said, 'Well, if you want to wimp out, that's fine,' and they took that kind of personally," he recalls with a laugh. ...
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Time's up, Occupy Portland
OregonLive.com
If we sound indignant about that, it's because we are -- and Portlanders should be. But the absurdity of the situation is far eclipsed by its dangers. With every minute that ticks by, Occupy threatens to deteriorate in some new way, with the potential ...
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OMG! Just met Brian Eno!!! #diehappynow
Tiny Mix Tapes
Martin Rev's sound was way more driving and brutal than on record, and Alan Vega's anger seemed even more righteously indignant as he railed on hard times across the land. “We wrote these songs over 30 years ago but now look at the country, ...
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Asset slush fund an investment cop-out
New Zealand Herald
Labour's Phil Goff is clearly indignant about National's intentions. But his credibility is suspect given he was part of the fourth Labour Government which flicked 100 per cent shareholdings in a raft of publicly owned assets during the late 1980s and ...
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Put a Sock in It
Salt Lake City Weekly
The liquor industry wants no limit other than “drink responsibly.” Saltas' self-righteous, preachy, intolerant, indignant, moralistic, hopelessly blind, self-promoting, more-unholy-than-thou tirade makes him a poster child for irresponsibility.
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Why I chose to disrupt Vancouver's mayoral debate
Straight.com
For most people, the answer is probably somewhere between “once in a while” and anindignant laugh of cynicism. Ask yourself why it is, or how it happened, that we became resigned to never being happy with how our society is governed. ...
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Spain holds TV elections debate
Press TV
The candidates left, however, important issues untouched, such as corruption, immigration or the 'indignant' movement. Voting is due on 20 November and Opinion polls show the Socialist party looked set for defeat by the centre-right opposition Popular ...
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Press TV
Fish shaped Coffins in Russia
Zim Diaspora
Some Russians have become so enamoured of Western lifestyles that they opt to be buried in US-style caskets with two-piece lids that can expose the head and torso of the deceased, a fact that makes some in Russia indignant. "Are you not Russian? ...
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Confessions of a Guild Leader: Handling a Problematic Raider
Widescreen Warrior.com
It's easy to feel angry and even indignant about the time you invest in a raid member, from learning, to gear – perhaps even really premium gear that they won over another player – when that member decides to leave or quit, thus abandoning the team. ...
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Supreme Court Considers GPS Cases and the Future of Privacy
Brookings Institution
... government had proposed a new crime-solving program requiring every adult to carry a small device that not only performed location tracking but also recorded the phone numbers of all recent contacts, opposition would have been swift and indignant. ...
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Brookings Institution
Indignant over Free Speech Trumping Bullying Protection? Support ...
Yesterday, the Michigan Senate passed anti-bullying legislation that has anti-bullying legislators, activists, and sympathizers outraged. Why? ...
www.cato-at-liberty.org/indignant-over-free-speech-trumping-...
EAPN participates in the March of the Indignants 15/10
EAPN is a representative network of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and groups involved in the fight against poverty and social exclusion in the ...
www.eapn.eu/.../2824-eapn-participates-in-the-march-of-the-i...
Spain's 'indignants' vow to rally, defy protest ban < Spanish news ...
Spain's "indignant" protesters have vowed to defy a pre-election ban on rallies at more than 100 sites in Madrid, including the Puerta del Sol square where their ...
www.expatica.com/.../spain-s-indignants--vow-to-rally-defy-p...
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