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nearlylegal (Free subscription) | yesterday
Southern Pacific Mortgage Ltd v Heath [2009] EWCA Civ 1135 It has taken me a day or three to get to this one. Nobody else was up for doing it and frankly the detail of the Consumer Credit Act 1974, allegedly intended to make agreements clear for consumers, makes my head hurt. In 2002, Ms Heath [...]
Salem, Oregon Daily Photo Diary (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Southern Pacific Railroad Undercrossing Portland Rd Salem, OR
Cara Community - Comments (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
In reply to Daily Market and Social Commentary for Nov. 3 Addendum : Sprint started life as a division of Southern Pacific Rail; who knew the railroads also had their own internal phone system inside them using microwave towers and then later fiber laid along their right of ways. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprint_Nextel#GTE_Sprint
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
CALGARY, ALBERTA (MARKET WIRE) Southern Pacific Resource Corp. ("Southern Pacific" or the "Corporation") (TSX VENTURE: STP) is pleased to announce that it has closed the acquisition of Senlac Oil Ltd. for a net purchase price of $89 million. The acquisition includes facilities, personnel and assets that have produced an average of 5,100 barrels of heavy oil per day since the effective...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Originally published on Youthradio.org, the premier source for youth generated news throughout the globe. By: Ashley Stewart When I graduated from college and began answering...
PortlandOnline (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
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Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
A new method that uses gene sequencing to accurately distinguish between tuna species has the potential to support fisheries management and possible trade restrictions for endangered tuna species. The new method, revealed in a paper published today in PLoS ONE, the online open-access scientific journal, can make an identification from any kind of processed tuna tissue. The [...]
Aftermath News (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Predictions of colder winter cause concern timesdaily.com | Oct 27, 2009 By Dennis Sherer Mike Melton admits he is a little nervous about predictions a strengthening El Nino weather pattern will bring a colder-than-normal winter to north Alabama this year. “If you look back at history, some of our worst ice storms and snow storms have come in El [...]
Top 10 Costa Rica (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
The transition to the dry season has begun on schedule this week, despite previous predictions of an early end to Costa Rica’s unusually dry rainy season, according to the National Meteorology Institute (IMN). Meteorologists project that the duration of the changeover period will be “normal” in the Central Valley and on the Pacific side. The dry [...]
Cryptozoology Online: Daily News (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
Friday, 23 October 2009 By Matt Walker Editor, Earth News It is the greatest animal battle on the planet, and it has finally been caught on camera. A BBC natural history crew has filmed the "humpback whale heat run", where 15m long, 40 tonne male whales fight it out to mate with even larger females. During the first complete sequence of this behaviour ever captured, the male humpbacks swim...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
A former Union Pacific trainman has been awarded $1,284,527 by a jury in Sacramento federal court for respiratory injuries he claims were caused by toxic fumes from a locomotive fire. After a day's deliberations at the close of a 10-day trial, the six-member jury on Tuesday decided – contrary to the railroad's contention – that a fire did occur. The panel found that the harm to Robert C....
Global Security (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
The Progress-M03M space freighter docked with the International Space Station in an automatic mode on Sunday, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported from the Mission Control Center.
the17thman (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
TGI...ummm...SATURDAY! Here are some news that I might have missed from the world of swimming and other stuff that seemed like a good fit... 1. If you are a USMS Member in the Pacific area you are most likely swimming...
Watts Up With That? (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
A new paper in Geophysical Research Letters was brought to my attention by Dr. Leif Svalgaard. Tropical origins of North and South Pacific decadal variability by Jeremy D. Shakun and Jeffrey Shaman makes some very interesting findings suggesting that both the northern and southern Pacific Ocean has eveidence of the Pacific Decadal Variation PDV [...]
Learning Is Messy - Blog (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
20 years ago today I was living with my wife of all of 2 months in the San Francisco Bay Area. I had just gotten home from school and settled on the couch to watch the Giants / A’s World Series when the place started shaking and the power went out. I glanced out the [...]
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