Saturday, January 30, 2016

Previews: Albury and Dubbo and other top stories.

  • Previews: Albury and Dubbo

    Previews: Albury and Dubbo
    Former Federal ALP leader Mark Latham might be on a winner with Noble Descent. Picture: Ian CurrieFORMER Labor Party leader and thoroughbred enthusiast Mark Latham might have a Championships candidate with Riverina three-year-old Noble Descent who will be hard to beat in the TAB Saddle Up Sunday Handicap (1175m). Latham’s charge is a son of the multiple Group 1-winning sprinter and Widden Stud resident Nicconi as well as a great grandson of the celebrated Denise’s Joy.Noble Descent has raced onl..
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  • SCA: "Rove & Sam on 2Day for many years to come"

    SCA:
    Details Category: What's New Published on Sunday, 31 January 2016 13:27 Southern Cross Austereo have released a statement this afternoon saying that today's Daily Telegraph story on a rumoured offer to "Kyle & Jackie O" is not correct. In a statement, which SCA said they had provided to the Telegraph on friday, they said:"SCA is strongly committed to its new breakfast show on 2DAY FM and we look forward to many great years ahead with Rove & Sam. They are a perfect fit for our positive culture a..
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  • Border pride on show in Melbourne

    Border pride on show in Melbourne
    The biggest group yet will be representing the Border at the Midsumma Pride March in Melbourne. SHOW OF PRIDE: Members of Hume Phoenix, WayOut Wodonga and Equal Love on the Border have come together to organise a bus to the Midsumma Pride March.FOR Kara Craig, raising a rainbow banner at the Midsumma Pride March in Melbourne means a step towards a more inclusive Albury-Wodonga. More than 20 members of the Border LGBTQI community will be joining thousands at St Kilda on Sunday.Ms C..
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  • We Care South West Bushfire Relief Concert

    We Care South West Bushfire Relief Concert
    Details Category: What's New Published on Sunday, 31 January 2016 08:00 Clairsy and Kymba with Lord Mayor Lisa Scaffidi & Organising Spokesperson Daren Reid Over one week, 71,000 hectares in the South West of WA was devastated by bushfires that took out more than 180 homes. The town of Yarloop was wiped out completely.  mix94.5 has partnered for the We Care South West Bushfire Relief Concert on Sunday Feb 7. More than 100 musicians including X Factor’s Johnny Ruffo and Big T, Eskimo Joe, Menta..
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  • Lithium-ion battery boost could come from "caging" silicon in graphene

    Lithium-ion battery boost could come from
    A team at Stanford claims to have made a battery breakthrough that could boost the performance of lithium-ion batteries and also make them smaller and lighter. The researchers managed to remove two long-standing barriers to these improvements by putting silicon particles in graphene "cages." To improve capacity in recent years batteries have begun to use silicon anodes, which have more capacity than the graphite conventionally used. But silicon particles also swell so much during charging that ..
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  • Air Pollution Caused A Staggering $131 Billion Economic Damage In U.S.

    Air Pollution Caused A Staggering $131 Billion Economic Damage In U.S.
    Research led by Paulina Jaramillo, an assistant professor of engineering and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University, has concluded that air pollution in the United States caused by energy production caused at least $131 billion in damage in 2011 alone. The staggering economic cost of air pollution https://t.co/WSFN0RBFzZ #ClimateHour pic.twitter.com/YIka9l59J9 — #ClimateHour (@ClimateHour) January 30, 2016 While the statistics sound formidable, it displays a sign of improvement, because a ..
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  • Turning up the heat on climate denialists

    Turning up the heat on climate denialists
    With ten of the hottest years on record occurring in only the last 18 years, DeSmogBlog's Graham Readfearn says the chances of this not being due to manmade greenhouse gases are 'vanishingly slim'. FROM HOT to fractionally less hot, here are the planet’s ten warmest years on record — 2015, 2014, 2010, 2005, 2007, 2013, 2009, 1998, 2002 and 2006. These are the numbers according to NASA and include measurements taken on land and at sea in a record that goes back to the year 1880. Now that’s a pre..
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  • Color-coded conversation: Octopuses aren't so anti-social after all.

    Color-coded conversation: Octopuses aren't so anti-social after all.
    Octopuses may have more of a social life than scientists previously thought.Researchers have recently discovered octopuses can use their color-changing abilities, long thought to be purely a form of camouflage to evade predators, to communicate with one another. The researchers observed the interactions in a group of Octopus tetricus living in Jervis Bay, Australia.The report, published in Cell Press journal Current Biology, documented 186 octopus interaction and more than 500 actions, accordin..
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  • More than one million animals used for experiments

    More than one million animals used for experiments
    A baboon being experimented on at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney. Source Journal of Medical Primatology Photo: Journal of Medical Primatology More than one million animals are believed to have been used on average in medial and scientific research in Queensland each year, but the state government has stopped publicly publishing the numbers. We are not yet at a point where all medical research can be done entirely outside an animal.  we are not yet at..
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  • Persistent organic pollutants found in fish populations across the world's oceans - News

    Persistent organic pollutants found in fish populations across the world's oceans - News
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