| Sat 31 Dec 2011 |
Loose salmon cages cause hazard for boats
BBC News Shetland Coastguard has appealed for help to reel in a dozen large salmon cages which have broken free of their moorings in the North Sea. | There are concerns the 30 metre-wide cages could be dangerous to navigation around the south coast of Unst. |... |
New Year's Day 'lucky foods'
The Examiner | Many people have traditional foods they eat on New Year's Day. They believe if they eat a certain food, it will bring them prosperity and good luck all year long. Here are some foods that you might eat to improve the odds of a great new year accord... |
OCI deadline on processing plan looms
CBC | Ocean Choice International's deadline for a government decision on the company's controversial processing plan is fast approaching, with no word from the province on how it plans to proceed. | OCI is seeking permission from the Newfoundland and Lab... |
Breaking News: Man dies in Calif. state-sponsored torture scandal
The Examiner | Another Pelican Bay Prison SHU man dead after strip celled, blasted with 'ice cold air' in retaliation for peaceful hunger strike | Another Pelican Bay Prison Hunger Striker has died this week according to an Examiner.com source Saturday evening. C... |
Interesting year comes to a close
Tampa Bay Online | GO FISHING is a look at the area fishing scene through the eyes of local charter boat captains and fishing guides. Today: Billy Nobles, left, with "Reel Animals" partner Mike Anderson. | With 2011 drawing to a close, what a year to remember. Change... |
Volunteers to help patrol new marine sanctuaries
The Los Angeles Times Wardens won't be the only people on patrol when new fishing restrictions take effect Jan. 1, setting up a network of state marine reserves on about 15% of the Southern California coast. | Environmentalists are deploying dozens of volunteers to keep a... |
Letters: The poor and the cuts
The Independent | Your report and Andrew Grice's comment (27 December) might have been foreseen in May 2010. Then, at a post-election meeting in Oxford, party members were addressed by a Lib Dem peer on how the Coalition would offer the chance of an early referendum... |
Sardine pancakes for kids
The Examiner | Sardine pancakes for kids? Start with one can of sardines. Put them in a bowl and add two or three eggs. Season to taste with turmeric, garlic powder, and black pepper. Add two tablespoons of psyllium husk or oat bran. You could also use two tables... |
How Kate Middleton stays royally slim
The Examiner | From her defined jaw line and sculpted face to her slender figure, Kate Middleton has royally rocked it in her first majestic year. What's the secret to her slim radiance? Sum it up as a sensible approach to diet and fitness. | A low gl... |
Been there, done that: Ben Fogle reveals how travel changed his life
The Independent | Canada | I was brought up in London, but my father is from Canada. Each summer my sisters and I would stay at our grandparents' wooden cottage on the shore of Lake Chemong in the Kawartha region of Ontario. I loved those summers; they were the anti... |
Thinking small to stay big
NZ Herald | There is an awful lot to admire about Hobsonsville boatbuilder Formula Cruisers. The company not only builds what are probably New Zealand's finest vessels - superyachts aside - it has also proven to be incredibly adaptable. | Founded in the 1980s,... |
Saddam Hussein deputy invited Haughey to Iraq
Irish Times | GENEVIEVE CARBERY | BAGHDAD TRIP:�AN UNUSUAL invitation to Iraq for taoiseach Charles Haughey led the Department of Foreign Affairs to prepare a brief justifying the planned visit in October 1980, and flagging potentially difficult questions over i... |
Not the weather for walking? It's a good time to go online
Irish Times | MICHAEL VINEY | ANOTHER LIFE:�THE LAND IS FULL of water. I write this ahead of Christmas, and the water may well now be frozen and covered with snow. But just for now the land is merely drowned, the field drains swollen, the streams in flood, the d... |
The books to read in 2012
Irish Times | Once you've made it through the stack of literature that filled your stocking, get your teeth into these - ARMINTA WALLACE�picks the best publications from the year ahead | HISTORY� | February 2012 marks 100 years since the birth of Charles Dickens... |
Fishing Lake Tawakoni in Texas
The Examiner | The real beauty of East Texas’ Lake Tawakoni lies in its close proximity to the Dallas Metroplex. Lake Tawakoni is a 37,879 acre reservoir located approximately one hundred miles from Dallas, Texas. The reservoir was impounded in 1960 b... |
Rocking the New Year
Khaleej Times Seven-time Grammy award-winning rock band Coldplay will usher the new year into Abu Dhabi, kick-starting the emirate's historic hosting of the 2011-2012 Volvo Ocean Race ' the gruelling round-the-world yacht race, widely regarded as the 'Everest of S... |
Bottom of the harbour
The Australian | IT took 10 years for Graham McVean to get permission to build a jetty on his private getaway island, located in an unlikely paradise in the Gladstone industrial port harbour on the central Queensland coast. | McVean could never understand why his j... |
| Fri 30 Dec 2011 |
‘A Sad, Fearful, Raging Year’
The New York Times | Disunion follows the Civil War as it unfolded.Tags: | Civil War, New Year, Newspapers | Camp Wood, near Munfordville, Ky., Dec. 31, 1861 | Near a half-ruined railroad bridge along the Green River, a fresh Union Army recruit stood on lonely sentry d... |
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