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South Korea drills 2010 picture

South Korean protesters shout slogans during a rally denouncing the South Korea#39;s live-fire drills on Yeonpyeong Island, in front of Defense Ministry in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Dec. 20, 2010. South Korea said it was going forward Monday with live firing drills from the front-line island despite North Korea#39;s threat to retaliate, sharply ramping up tensions as the U.N. failed to find any solution. South Korea fired artillery in a 90-minute drill from a front-line island Monday and laun

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Eng Wu Ong is Singaporean international student

A man has been named as Eng Wu Ong, a Singaporean international student who was living in Melbourne. He fell while climbing the south-west ridge of the mountain with a 20-year-old companion. Police have released the name of the 21-year-old man who fell to his death while climbing Mt Aspiring in the Southern Alps near Wanaka. Police have located next of kin overseas and they have been informed of his death. Wanaka police say a three-person rescue team had to use a helicopter and rescue rope t

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Elon Musk and SolaCity Donate Solar System to Hurricane Response Center in Alabama

Elon Musk hard at work in his office. Photo: OnInnovation , CC It’s the Time for Giving Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX and chairman of Solarcity (yeah, he’s a busy man), and Solarcity have donated a 25-kilowatt solar power system to the South Bay Communities Alliance’s (SBCA) Hurricane Response Center in Coden, Alabama. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Designo Patagonia On The Importance Of Local Materials And Designing Things That Don’t Make You Stupid

Photo: Designo Patagonia. Manu Rapoport is head designer at Designo Patagonia , a studio based in the south of Argentina whose products we’ve featured before . Trust Design has an interesting audio interview with him in which he… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Cigarette Co. to Miley: Join Our Mile-High Smoking Club

Filed under: Miley Cyrus Miley Cyrus has an offer to try a new inhalant — one without salvia’s hallucinogenic effects — and best of all … she can take this smoking habit on an airplane. TMZ has learned, a company called South Beach Smoke wants to ween Miley off the bong –… Read more

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First Biofuelled Vehicle Reaches the South Pole

Photo: Moon Reagan Brrrrrrr…..if you think you’re cold, spare a thought for these 10 guys. They are attempting the fastest vehicle crossing of Antarctica in a biofuelled vehicle. The Moon Regan Transantarctic Expedition will travel 3,600 miles across Antarctica. They have now reached the South Pole, more than half way into their journey. These adventurers are driving this futuristic looking ice vehicle and 2 monster trucks. They are doing it to show that wheeled vehicles are viab… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Jamie Foxx Recruits Justin Timberlake, Drake For Best Night Of My Life

Rick Ross, Soulja Boy Tell’em, Wiz Khalifa, T.I. and Ludacris are also on the December 21 album. By Gil Kaufman Jamie Foxx Photo: David Livingston/ Getty Images When Jamie Foxx throws a party, you can be sure he’s going to have a star-studded guest list. And what better way to celebrate the holidays than with a new studio album from the Grammy- and Academy Award-winning double threat, on which he brings his A-list pals along for the ride? Slipping in just under the 2010 wire on December 21 will be Foxx’s third studio album for J Records, Best Night of My Life, led by the first single “Fall for Your Type” featuring Drake. According to his label, the follow-up to Foxx’s multiplatinum 2008 album Intuition, which spawned the club staple “Blame It,” will feature his same patented mix of R&B ballads and club tracks. Among the songs on the 15-track album are “Best Night of My Life” (featuring Wiz Khalifa), “Living Better Now” (featuring Rick Ross), “Freak” (featuring Rico Love), “Hit It Like This,” “Yep Dat’s Me” (featuring Ludacris and Soulja Boy Tell’em), “Gorgeous,” “15 Minutes,” “Sleeping Pill,” “Rejoice,” “All Said and Done” and the hidden bonus track “Sex on the Beach.” Foxx recently promised “Extra” that “there’s a song on there for every woman,” making sure his favorite constituency knows he hasn’t forgotten about them. The album will also feature “Winner,” which MTV reported in March will celebrate a reunion of T.I. and Justin Timberlake , who were last heard together on Tip’s “Dead and Gone.” The track was leaked last year with just JT and Foxx’s voices on it, but just as he was prepping for release from prison earlier this year, the new version with T.I.’s verse hit New York radio. “I’m the fresher, go ask whoever that,” Tip raps on the song. “King back, money long as an old Cadillac.” It’s unlikely the trio will be able to perform the song live anytime soon, though, as the King of the South is back behind bars for 11 months for a probation violation. Among the producers who worked on Foxx’s new album are Eric Hudson (Trey Songz, Brandy), Bink! (Kanye West, Rick Ross), Danja (Snoop Dogg, Pink), Rico Love (Beyonc

New Company Sells Invasive Carp Back To Asia As Food

An Illinois fishing company is helping to tackle the Asian carp invasion by marketing them as a delicious culinary treat to food companies in China. Big River Fish Company, based in Pearl, Illinois, decided that instead of lamenting the way that Asian carp were taking over Great Lakes fishing areas, they would turn it into a profitable business opportunity. Achieving sizes of up to 4-feet in length and 100 pounds each, carp destroy ecosystems by gorging themselves, and starving out other species. Ross Harano, the international marketing director for Big River Fish Co., said that by marketing the fish as “wild” and “unpolluted” they've be able to attract attention of high-end restaurants looking to augment their fish selection. Of course, the Great Lakes are home to their fair share of pollution, but they're relatively clean when compared to Chinese waters. In June, the Associated Press reported that, for the first time ever, a 20-pound bighead carp was caught by a fisherman in Illinois's Lake Calumet, on the South Side of Chicago–beyond the electric fences meant to keep them out, and only six miles from Lake Michigan. The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation recently pledged $500,000 to find environmental solutions to prevent this ravenous species from threatening the Great Lakes' ecosystem and jeopardizing the region's $7 billion annual sports fishing industry. The Big River Fish Company recently received $2 million in federal funding to expand its processing plant after securing a contract with a company in China for 30 million pounds of carp meat (NPR). http://www.care2.com/causes/environment/blog/new-company-sells-invasive-carp-bac… added by: Radical_Centrist

Two New Cancer Studies Point to Seaweed and Sunlight For Prevention

Photo: FearfulStills Recent University of South Carolina (USC) studies have outlined two important tools in cancer prevention. The studies, which were carried out at USC’s Arnold School of Health and the South Carolina Cancer Center, found that seaweed and sunlight both had a huge impact on cancer prevention, according to The State . … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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USS George Washington aircraft carrier strike group off to the Yellow Sea for naval exercises with South Korean forces.

The Obama administration called on China Wednesday to rein in North Korea after its artillery attack on a South Korean island, as the Pentagon ordered the USS George Washington aircraft carrier strike group to the Yellow Sea for naval exercises with South Korean forces. Search crews on the island located off South Korea's west coast also recovered the charred bodies of two civilians Wednesday. China, which has a defense agreement with communist North Korea, is the key to changing Pyongyang's behavior, said State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley. “We do believe that China has influence with North Korea,” he said. “We don't want to understate or overstate that. It's not that China can dictate a particular action to North Korea. It is that China, together with the United States and other countries, have to send a clear, direct, unified message that it is North Korea that has to change.” At the United Nations, Security Council, members held talks on the attack, but news reports indicated that action on the matter was unlikely. The Security Council took months to condemn North Korea's sinking of a South Korean warship and then did not mention North Korea by name. An unidentified relative of Seo Jeong-woo, a South Korean marine killed on Yeonpyeong Island by North Korea's artillery attack, weeps during a memorial service at a military hospital Wednesday. (Associated Press) At Incheon, South Korea, residents of the bombed island told stories of the midafternoon artillery barrage. “Over my head, a pine tree was broken and burning,” said Ann Ahe-ja, who was among the hundreds of evacuees from Yeonpyeong Island arriving at the port. “So I thought, 'Oh, this is not another exercise. It is a war.' I decided to run. And I did.” In addition to the two civilians, two South Korean marines were killed and 18 wounded in the artillery strike, which destroyed 30 homes. The shelling followed South Korean military exercises involving artillery fire south of the island. Wang Baodong, a Chinese Embassy spokesman in Washington, said all parties in the crisis must “help relax the tension.” http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/nov/24/us-sends-carrier-yellow-sea-exer… added by: im1mjrpain