Cio Bella

Sat Jul 3, 2010 11:07 AM EDT

We all sort of know that newsvine is shrinking.... The most any of my seeds has gotten in the last few months is 3 with a mean of less than 2. That means less than one person reads my BS interests..., cause I always vote for me.

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Rights Group Says Massacre Witness in Philippines Slain

Seeded on Thu Jun 24, 2010 10:06 AM EDT (The New York Times)

MANILA — A key witness to the November massacre of 58 people in the southern Philippines has been murdered, the New York-based Human Rights Watch said on Thursday.

philippines, massacre, murder, world-news, witness, cover-up

Calls for national (Australian) office to combat online threat

Seeded on Tue Jun 22, 2010 6:44 PM EDT (The Sydney Morning Herald)

AUSTRALIA should create a federal office of online security to centralise the fight against cyber crime, with tens of thousands of computers being infected every day with malicious, often criminal, software.

security, australia, internet, world-news, malware

GlaxoSmithKline facilitates fight against Malaria

Seeded on Mon Jun 21, 2010 11:19 PM EDT (abc.net.au)

n a second study, also appearing in Nature, Jose Garcia-Bustos of GlaxoSmithKline and colleagues screened around two million agents in the pharmaceutical giant's in-house chemical library.

science, copyright, malaria, public-domain, big-pharma

56% of MPs in the Rwandan parliament are women

Seeded on Fri May 28, 2010 10:12 PM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)

Rwanda may be poised for a very different rebuilding and devolopment model as women make up the majority of parliamentarians.

women, rights, africa, rwanda, world-news, parliament, womens-rights

Muhammad cartoon sparks threats to South African newspaper

Seeded on Fri May 21, 2010 12:23 PM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)

Prophet shown complaining to a psychiatrist that followers of other religions have a sense of humour. Staff at South African newspaper received threatening phone calls today after publishing a satirical cartoon depicting the prophet Muhammad.

south-africa

Queer-friendly age-care crisis in Australia

Seeded on Mon Apr 26, 2010 1:02 AM EDT (The Sydney Morning Herald)

Australian age care facilities have long neglected the needs of GLBT residents - time for change is apon us

discrimination, health, australia, gay, lesbian, transsexual, transgender, demographics, ageing, age-care

Politics makes for strange bed fellows

Seeded on Sun Apr 25, 2010 1:30 AM EDT (The Sydney Morning Herald)

The political career of Troy Buswell (Liberal) hangs in the balance after Fremantle MP Adele Carles (Greens) admitted to an affair with the state Treasurer.

australia, politics, treasurer, wa, liberal, greens, western-australia

Biofuels - food for thought on C02 emissions

Seeded on Fri Apr 23, 2010 9:51 PM EDT (Telegraph)

Many bio-fuels show massive carbon footprints, and cause environmental damage greater than fossil fuels.

global-warming, environment, gasoline, petroleum, carbon, diesel, footprint, petrol, ethanaol

Captive-bred wallabies breeding in wild

Seeded on Fri Apr 23, 2010 12:10 AM EDT (abc.net.au)

A group of captive bred brush-tailed rock wallabies have started reproducing in the wild.

environment, threatened, conservation, re-introduction, grampians, gariwerd, brush-tailed-rock-wallaby, petrogale-penicillata

Jail sentences for killers of Aboriginal man

Seeded on Thu Apr 22, 2010 11:38 PM EDT (abc.net.au)

Five men who pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of an Aboriginal man in Alice Springs have been sentenced in the Northern Territory Supreme Court in Alice Springs.

court, justice, crime, indigenous, world-news, hate-crime, aboriginal, man-slaughter, todd-river

Medical experiments with psychelics showing early promise

Seeded on Wed Apr 21, 2010 5:38 AM EDT (The New York Times)

Experiments study use of psilocybin and other psychedelics for treating depression in cancer patients, obsessive-compulsive disorder, end-of-life anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder and addiction to drugs or alcohol.

drugs, health, research, depression, hallucinogen, ritalin, psilocybin

Neo-Nazi festival outrages Gold Coast locals

Seeded on Wed Apr 21, 2010 5:06 AM EDT (abc.net.au)

Community is divided over how to deal with neo-Nazi racialist group.

australia, nazi, racism, world-news, neo-nazi, queensland, goldcoast, racialist

Obituary - William Yales PhD MP

Seeded on Tue Apr 20, 2010 9:56 AM EDT (Telegraph)

William Yates was a colourful member of both the British House of Commons and later the Australian House of Representatives. He championed Arab causes and was regarded as a maverick.

egypt, britain, australia, jordan, holt, palestine, world-news, house-of-representatives, melbourne, house-of-commons

Wilderness Society needs constiutional reform

Seeded on Sun Apr 18, 2010 1:55 AM EDT (abc.net.au)

the Wilderness Society has become undemocratic and is in need of urgent reform.

world, constitution, australia, reform, nature, environment, democracy, wilderness, tasmania, lobby

The green Surfboard

Seeded on Sat Apr 17, 2010 7:33 AM EDT (The Sydney Morning Herald)

SURFING'S dirty secret is easy to find in the enclave of San Clemente, California, known as the surf ghetto, where the ocean breeze is spiked with the smell of chemicals and men coated with white dust search for magic inside blocks of toxic foam.

sports, green, surfing, carbon, surf, eco-friendly

Children of part-time mothers 'less obese than those of stay-at-home mums'

Seeded on Tue Apr 6, 2010 7:23 AM EDT (the Mail online)

Australian study shows that children of mothers who work part time are less likely to be obese.

child, health, children, obesity, australia, work, mother

Sensors turn skin into communications device

Seeded on Sun Mar 28, 2010 12:12 AM EDT (BBC News)

Tapping your forearm or hand with a finger could soon be the way you interact with gadgets. Early work suggests the system, called Skinput, can be learned with about 20 minutes of training.

technology, language, cyborg, communication, linguistics, input, application, touch, proprioception

Masdar: Abu Dhabi's carbon-neutral city Authored by Tom Heap

Seeded on Sat Mar 27, 2010 11:57 PM EDT (BBC News)

Designined for carbon neutrality this new urban design project explores a 21st century approach to minimising environmental impacts on the large scale.

energy, world, environment, design, urban, carbon, architecture, abu-dhabi, renewable, emmisions

iCensorship

Sat Mar 27, 2010 6:41 AM EDT

One branch of Apple PL (iTunes store Australia) is engaged in widescale censorship of artists. iTunes likes to present itself as an artist and consumer friendly business that promotes artists and artistic expression. The practice of APL is somewhat different.

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white, race, australia, apple, racism, black, sexism, artist, itunes, arts

Glacier loss north west Greenland

Seeded on Fri Mar 26, 2010 4:30 AM EDT (Geophysical reserach letters)

Greenland's main outlet glaciers have more than doubled their contribution to global sea level rise over the last decade. Recent work has shown that Greenland's mass loss is still increasing.

world, warming, science, climate, change, glacier, greenland, glaciology

How much is that Panda in the window?

Seeded on Mon Jan 11, 2010 2:37 AM EST (abc.net.au)

Scientists from the Beijing Genomics Institute finished sequencing the giant panda genome in October last year, but a detailed genome map was only recently completed and appears online in the journal Nature.

dog, bear, panda, canine, genome

Quantum computing - Atom transistor to speed up computers

Seeded on Mon Jan 11, 2010 2:32 AM EST (abc.net.au)

An international team of scientists have created a tiny transistor that could one day help quantum computers process impossibly large amounts of information.

technology, computing, nano, quantum

Guinea military names new president

Seeded on Thu Dec 25, 2008 4:45 AM EST (AL JAZEERA)

The military faction which has carried out a coup in Guinea says it intends to install Captain Moussa Dadis Camara as president. Some civilian leaders, however, insist that the old government is still running the West African country.

military, africa, world-news, coup, guinea