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Patrick White legacy lives on; novelist, short story writer and editor wins 2016 Patrick White Literary Award (Perpetual Limited)

Edit Public Technologies 17 Oct 2016
Perpetual, as trustee, has announced the acclaimed novelist, short story writer and editor Carmel Bird, as the winner of the 2016 Patrick White Literary Award ... Benefitting from the proceeds of the Trust of Patrick White's 1973 Nobel Prize for Literature, Ms Bird will receive $20,000 in recognition of her outstanding contribution to Australian literature....

Ibis and Cockatoo sightings - You can help (Shoalhaven City Council)

Edit Public Technologies 17 Oct 2016
Shoalhaven City Council's environmental team are assisting the Botanic Gardens and Birdlife Australia in spreading the word for the Ibis and Cockatoo Community Survey Aussie Bird Count. As part of National Bird Week, 17-23 October, Birdlife Australia is coordinating the Aussie Backyard Bird Count ... Australian White Ibis....
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Alien life may feed on galactic cosmic rays: Study

Edit DNA India 17 Oct 2016
Cosmic rays zipping through the space may feed alien life found on the Earth and potentially on other planets, a new study suggests. The study of a bacterium thriving deep in a South African dark gold mine suggests that extreme microbes that live in hostile places on Earth may feed off galactic cosmic rays ... Galactic cosmic rays possess much higher ......

Zoo gets birds of Amazon descent

Edit The Times of India 17 Oct 2016
Seven exotic birds are the new addition to the Indore zoo family. The birds belonging to five different species are originally found in the Amazon Forest and would be the first of their kind to be at the city zoo. "These beautiful birds have never been seen in Indore ... Parulekar said that the cages of the birds are being prepared and they would be on display in two days....

Naga Munchetty's elimination has reignited Strictly Come Dancing racism claims

Edit Digital Spy 17 Oct 2016
— Chris Hobbs (@ChrisHobbs_) October 9, 2016 Is #Strictly harmless light entertainment or shining an uncomfortable light on racism in Britain? @bbcstrictly — Birding Vicar (@birdingvicar) October 16, 2016 Okay so the viewing voting public are really racist or? #Strictly (First TWO weeks black people voted out then third week Naga Munchetty?) — Mair ......

Attempt to smuggle stuffed lesser birds-of-paradise to Papua foiled

Edit The Jakarta Post 17 Oct 2016
The South Sulawesi Natural Resources Conservation Agency (BBKSDA) confiscated 64 preserved lesser birds-of-paradise and 83 bunches of cassowary feathers during a recent operation, highlighting the rampant illegal trade of wildlife in Indonesia ... PS told investigators that the protected birds were being sent from Papua to Maros, South Sulawesi, to be preserved before they were sent back to Papua....

Glow getter - Triona McCarthy's top beauty tips and tricks

Edit Irish Independent 17 Oct 2016
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Birders catch rare ‘Eurasian hobby’ in Okhla

Edit The Times of India 17 Oct 2016
It was just another Sunday for a bunch of birders from NCR, who stepped out to visit the Okhla Bird Sanctuary — only it ended in a huge surprise ... "Some 15 members came together on Sunday morning for the photography trip," Mathew Joseph, founder of the Delhi Bird Photographers Group told TOI....

Social media campaign against crackers

Edit The Hindu 17 Oct 2016
Nature conservationists, birds and animal lovers attached to the Nature Society of Tirupur have commenced a social media campaign against bursting of crackers during Deepavali ... and drive away birds....

San Jose: World’s top bull riders get dirty at Shark Tank

Edit The Mercury News 17 Oct 2016
It was a grand entrance, but that’s only half the mix, said PBR spokeswoman Mandi McCary ... “People don’t know that the bulls are the other athlete here,” McCary said, adding that a rider’s score is a 50-50 mix of how they ride and how the bull bucks....

Food Corporation of India officials caught 'watering' grains in Raj

Edit The Times of India 17 Oct 2016
JAIPUR ... "I was at the main gate and on the fateful day ... Though the office was closed, supervisors unlocked the main gate for the water tractor to enter. I followed the tractor and saw it stopping at the gate of one godown and pumping water on packs of wheat," said home guard Mukesh Kumar in a recorded statement to FCI officials ... RELATED....

Food Corporation of India officials caught 'watering' grains in Rajasthan

Edit The Times of India 17 Oct 2016
JAIPUR ... "I was at the main gate and on the fateful day ... Though the office was closed, supervisors unlocked the main gate for the water tractor to enter. I followed the tractor and saw it stopping at the gate of one godown and pumping water on packs of wheat," said home guard Mukesh Kumar in a recorded statement to FCI officials ... RELATED....

Parents upset over ‘racially charged’ rezoning proposal to move school

Edit New York Post 17 Oct 2016
“I purchased an apartment in the PS 452 zone when my son was 2 years old very deliberately,” one mom fumed ... “It seems arbitrary to throw us into this mix to satisfy these vague DOE goals. It’s not about diversity ... The proposal is part of a DOE plan to rezone several blocks now served by the popular but packed, predominantly white PS 199 on West 70th Street ... The building it would vacate could then be filled by predominantly white PS 452 ... ....
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