How 83 injured Australian troops in Afghanistan became invisible
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The Australian - THE number of teenagers locked up across the nation has spiked byan alarming 30 per cent since 2004. Led by increases in NSW, Queensland and Western Australia, juvenile detention for those aged between 10 and 17 has hit a high not seen in more than a decade, according to recent figures from the Australian Institute of Criminology. In 2004, 564 juveniles were in detention across Australia on any given day, but by 2007 the figure had reached 742 — a 31 per cent increase — the AIC report Juveniles in Detention in Australia shows. Read articleJoint U.S.-Israeli Drill: Preparation for Iran Attack?
Jerusalem Post - US Navy missile ships started arriving in Israel on Sunday ahead of next month’s joint missile defense exercise between the IDF and the American military’s European Command. Officials say US may leave some systems in Israel after planned drill. Called Juniper Cobra, the exercise will include the Arrow missile defense system as well as three American systems - the THAAD, Aegis and PAC3 - that will all be deployed in Israel for the duration of the exercise. Read ArticleWest Australian oil spill to be plugged ‘next week’
Perth Now - A MAJOR oil and gas leak off the North-West coast is expected to be plugged some time next week, according to its operators.The West Atlas oil rig has been pumping up to 400 barrels of oil and gas a day into the Timor Sea since it start leaking in mid-August.The oil slick covered as much as 6000sq/km earlier this month, with conservationists critical of the response to the spill, which they say threatens a number of marine species, including some that are endangered. Read ArticlePTTEP expands Timor Sea assets
WA Today - Thailand’s PTTEP Group has expanded its presence in the Timor Sea where it continues to combat an oil and gas spill from its Montara field, 250km off Western Australia’s northwest coast. PTTEP Australia Browse Pty Ltd has acquired OMV Australia’s assets in the Timor Sea including an 18.75 per cent interest in the PTTEP-operated Jabiru and Challis oil fields, giving it a total interest of about 83 per cent of these operations. Read ArticleThe Historian - Business as usual then despite the devestation
Take problem children away from parents, says Fabian British MP
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Yahoo Finance - Despite a few green shoots in the economy and a rocketing stock market, many large companies are still struggling to avoid bankruptcy.A new report by Audit Integrity identifies some high-profile names “that have the highest probability of declaring bankruptcy among publicly traded firms.” Read ArticleIsraeli settlers, troops break into Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron
Press TV - Around 150 Israeli settlers, backed by Israeli soldiers, break into the Ibrahimi Mosque in the Ishakiyya area in al-Khalil (Hebron), in the West Bank. Read ArticleAlternative News Stumble Upon
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Over the last few months, a remarkable convergence of heavy rains has plagued the Earth from Istanbul to the Ivory Coast, causing treacherous floods and leaving many people without homes.
From Maine to Florida, the Atlantic seaboard has experienced higher tides than expected this summer. At their peak in mid-June, the tides at some locations outstripped predictions by two feet.
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The change has come too fast to be attributed to melting ice sheets or anything quite that dramatic, and it’s a puzzle for scientists who’ve never seen anything quite like it.
Jessica Best, a 22-year-old journalist from Wales, fell into that role as the intern at The Budget of Sugarcreek, Ohio, a weekly that is the largest newspaper serving the Amish.
Her self-assigned task, supported by a traveling scholarship from the Welsh Livery Guild, was to study The Budget’s transition to the Internet and the willingness of the Amish to accept that transition. It led, she said, to many a friendly, if awkward, conversation, some of which she chronicled in a blog written from Sugarcreek.
There was the Amish man where she was a houseguest who asked her what an “ip-id” was. “He had read about an iPod,” she explained. “I wish I had had mine with me to show him.”
Her experiences taught her a general rule: “it is difficult to explain a Web site to someone who hasn’t seen one.”
Yet for all the gaps among the technology-shunning Amish — grist for stand-up comics — Ms. Best said she was struck by what was familiar in the way news spread among the Amish.
The national edition of The Budget, now available in print only, is largely composed of submissions from hundreds of volunteer “scribes” from across the country. Typically, a scribe talks about the weather and segues into the goings-on in the local community. Around 500 scribe letters a week take up roughly 50 pages, said the publisher, Keith Rathbun, who like the rest of the Budget staff is not Amish. (The local edition covers just the area around Sugarcreek.)
In a letter dated Sept. 3, a scribe from Camden, Ind., told how a great-uncle, Owen, had the family over to “cut down a big tree in the front yard and turn it into firewood. Uncle Owen cut it down while his sons stopped traffic as they had to throw it on the road. He got tired out, but at 89 I think that is doing quite well.”
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There are 843 scribes, Mr. Rathbun said, and they must write 12 times a year to get their subscription free. For others, a subscription costs $42 a year, and the national edition has about 9,000 subscribers. The local edition has about 10,000 and includes the national.
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