San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Light ash has fallen over the capital of Montserrat after the Caribbean island's temperamental volcano hurled another round of hot rocks and gases.
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Light ash has fallen over the capital of Montserrat after the Caribbean island's temperamental volcano hurled another round of hot rocks and gases.
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Light ash has fallen over the capital of Montserrat after the Caribbean island's temperamental volcano hurled another round of hot rocks and gases.
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Across Central America, online campaigns and activities to raise awareness about the issue of Violence Against Women are taking place across the region. Many of these efforts are attracting the interest and participation of bloggers who share their thoughts on this issue.
The hermeneutic of continuity (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
At the basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere, the tradition of Gregorian Chant has been kept alive over the past decades by the community of Benedictine nuns. There is now an initiative called " Cantantibus Organis " to help others to learn more about the chant. Each Sunday, from 9.30am, there will be a half-hour practice of the chants to be used in that day's Mass (ordinary form). After...
Caribbean 360 (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
The Montserrat Tourist Board has announced the return of permanent ferry service between Antigua and volcano-ravaged Montserrat beginning next Wednesday, December 2nd.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Music sales soar in Sweden after crackdown on illegal filesharing
Caribbean 360 (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
The new Treaty of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) will be signed in the St Kitts capital in December.
Lucruri neinteresante (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
The preliminary draw for the 2010 FIFA World Cup took place on November 25th, 2007 and used the May 2007 FIFA ranking (for CONCACAF).Assumptions:- CONCACAF will again have 3.5 spots- CONCACAF will again use the same qualifying system- FIFA will use the FIFA ranking to seed the teamsThe May 2011 FIFA ranking will include matches played between May 2007 and May 2011. We already have the "0.2"...
Fresh Bilge (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Since the magical, moonlit night a year ago, when Holland America liner Noordam actually bore me past the place, I have scarcely written of Montserrat and its Soufriere Volcano. In the early months of this year the mountain was so quiet it began to seem that the eruption had ended, but activity resumed this summer, [...]
Stop the ACLU (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Just the other day, Senator James Inhofe said “Until this year, any scientist, reporter or politician who dared raise even the slightest suspicion about the science behind global warming was dismissed and repeatedly mocked.’’ And the hit parade just keeps on coming! Global warming appears to have stalled. Climatologists are puzzled as to why average global temperatures have [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
In 1995 most of Montserrat, including a new eco-camp, was devastated by a volcano. Last month the camp reopened, signalling green shoots of recovery for the island's tourism A mountain chicken that's actually a frog; a half-snake, half-lizard creature called a galliwasp; and an avian Dr Dolittle ... this is the stuff of a children's fantasy, or perhaps a particularly vivid hallucination. In fact I...
Caribbean 360 (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
A new air link between Montserrat and Antigua will be launched next month.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Hacking websites used to be a way to show off. Now, as Charles Arthur reports in our series about online security, it's a lucrative crime – committed on an industrial scale The email from Google in June was the first sign: it warned that the Free Our Data site seemed to be host to a set of hidden spam links – or as Google put it, "techniques that are outside our quality guidelines"....
Torontoist (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Urban Planner is Torontoist's guide to what's on in Toronto, published every weekday morning, and in a weekend edition Friday afternoons. If you have an event you'd like considered, email all of its details—as well as images, if you've got any—to events@torontoist.com . Reginald Cabey, from Montserrat, loading cauliflower, Waterford, Ontario, 1987. Photo by Vincenzo Pietropaolo, courtesy...
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