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Yes, but it's a filing cabinet skyscraper! Go look! And then, here are more cool real skyscrapers of the world. :)  | ||||||||||
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By Margaret Neighbour Scotsman 07 August 2008 SCIENTISTS are launching a study into whether the "trash vortex", a plastic soup of waste floating in the Pacific, could harbour new forms of marine life. Environmentalists have campaigned for action to clean up the vast expanse of debris thought to cover an area twice the size of the continental United States since it was discovered in 1997. According to the United Nations, the rubbish kills more than a million seabirds every year, as well as more than 100,000 marine mammals. Syringes, cigarette lighters and toothbrushes have been found inside the stomachs of dead seabirds, which mistake them for food, as well as on Hawaiian beaches. The rubbish vortex is held in place by swirling underwater currents. It drifts about 500 miles off the Californian coast, across the northern Pacific, past Hawaii and almost as far as Japan. ( >>Read on ) | ||||||||||
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Long ago I read a book about ghost hunting, The Demonologist, written by a husband and wife team, Ed and Lorraine Warren. They would go round from house to house all over everywhere, checking out and documenting people's stories of being haunted and terrorised by spirits and ghosts and such. The book is a very compelling read. Lorraine Warren has her own website: The New England Society for Psychic Research. This particular tale is one from the book which I found on another site. It is chilling. Annabelle, the Haunted Doll  | ||||||||||
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 calmAllan Brodie The Guardian Tuesday July 29 2008  View of the restored pier in Southwold. Photograph: David Mansell Weston-super-Mare's Grand Pier was not completed until 1904, but it counts as one of the last of Britain's great 19th-century pleasure piers and is a very fine example of the style. Yesterday's fire is a disaster because the pier had just been extensively revamped, but it may not have been completely destroyed: pier buildings burn easily, but their decking is of thick timber and the cast-iron substructure is solid. There's a good chance this one will rise from the ashes again.  See Fire levels Grand Pier pavilion with extra photos In fact, most of Britain's 55 surviving seaside piers have been rebuilt or remodelled more than once since they were first erected, not least in the years after the second world war, when fears that they might be used to land enemy troops in an invasion led to many being partly blown up. That was, of course, the original purpose of building a pier out to sea: to allow ships to moor and passengers and cargo to be embarked and disembarked safely and comfortably. ( >>Read on ) | ||||||||||
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Last night I was looking for a book I had just bought, and lo and behold, there it was being offered in a free download from a site I didna know about called Scribd. So I quickly joined and downloaded it and its sequel. Then I started looking around and saw that Scribd calls itself a document sharing site, so we all know what THAT means, but it's done very tastefully and without having to use complicated methods such as you would find on PirateBay with the huge movies and videos and such. First of all. I canny download those on my connection [at least in this century], and secondly I dun go in for that 'group computer sex' you guys call BitTorrents.  </joke>But at Scribd you can make yourself a wee profile and then as soon as you get your avatar up, you start getting friend requests in your email. 'Tis a bit reminiscent of melo with the number of people coming out of the woodwork and wanting to friend you. ha! So I look to see if what these people have uploaded is decent, and if so, then I friend them. Then I thought, 'Well Oona, you had better upload something to share,' so I put up a few ebooks I had that were not commonly available on sites like Gutenberg. I've been getting those science fiction novels from Tor.com which I dun read but thought someone might, so I am giving those. I gave Future Shock, and Dr Zhivago and The Exorcist. You can put your own work up there and pictures, etc. I like it a lot. Go and check it out. I am 0ona with a zero as the first letter in case you want to be friends! ;) Scribd | ||||||||||
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Julie Henry, Education Correspondent Telegraph.co.uk 19/07/2008 A school has banned its pupils from using "street slang" as part of a strict behaviour policy which is transforming its exam results. Pupils are not allowed to use the phrase "innit" or other examples of "playground patois" when talking to teachers. Formal language must be used at all times in communications with adults and pupils have been told that street slang should be "left at the school gates". The measure, along with a strict uniform policy, is part of a tough stance on discipline at Manchester Academy, in the city's deprived Moss Side area, has restored order. Since the school became an academy in 2003, exam results have improved from about 10 per cent of pupils achieving five good GCSEs to 33 per cent and the proportion who leave without a job or college course to go to is down from 26 to 6 per cent. "Language is really important and we have to make sure pupils realise that," said Kathy August, the head teacher. ( >>Read on ) | ||||||||||
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