Ocean disaster toll hits 112,000

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BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Ocean disaster
toll hits 114,000

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Ocean disaster
toll hits 114,000 01/02/2005 04:45 AM
112,000 and rising

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Ocean disaster appeal extended

Ocean disaster appeal extended 12/30/2004 06:30 AM
Belfast's Black Santa charity appeal for victims of the Indian Ocean disaster will run for the next ten days.

Asian Disaster Death Toll Passes 22,000
(AP)

Asian Disaster Death Toll Passes 22,000
(AP) 12/27/2004 09:39 PM
AP - Bodies washed up on tropical beaches and piled up in hospitals Monday, raising fears of disease across a 10-nation arc of destruction left by a monster earthquake and walls of water that killed more than 22,000 people. Thousands were missing and millions homeless.

Asia Disaster Yields Its Dead, Toll at
59,000

Asia Disaster Yields Its Dead, Toll at
59,000 12/28/2004 05:38 PM
Reuters via Wired News Dec 28 2004 8:52PM GMT

China Gas Field Disaster Death Toll at
191, Agency Says

China Gas Field Disaster Death Toll at
191, Agency Says 12/25/2003 08:06 AM
Reuters via Wired News Dec 25 2003 6:40AM ET

U.S. Death Toll in Iraq Hits 900 (AP)

U.S. Death Toll in Iraq Hits 900 (AP) 07/21/2004 04:26 PM
AP - American soldiers in Iraq have been dying at a rate of two a day since Iraqis regained political control on June 28 — a drop from the deadliest months of violence before the handover but still about the same rate overall as in the 16 months since the U.S. invasion.

Indonesia death toll hits 32,000

Indonesia death toll hits 32,000 12/29/2004 06:14 AM
Rescuers in Indonesia struggle with disease and food shortages as the toll from Sunday's quake hits 32,000.

Asia Struggles As Death Toll Hits 44,000
(AP)

Asia Struggles As Death Toll Hits 44,000
(AP) 12/28/2004 11:25 AM
AP - Mourners in Sri Lanka used their bare hands to dig graves Tuesday while hungry islanders in Indonesia turned to looting in the aftermath of Asia's devastating tsunamis. Thousands more bodies were found in Indonesia, dramatically increasing the death toll across 11 nations to around 44,000.

Haiti Death Toll Hits 691 After Storm
(AP)

Haiti Death Toll Hits 691 After Storm
(AP) 09/21/2004 08:23 PM
AP - The death toll across Haiti from the weekend deluges brought by Tropical Storm Jeanne rose to 691 Tuesday, with 600 of them in Gonaives, and officials said they expected to find more dead and estimated tens of thousands of people were homeless.

US Death Toll in Iraq Hits 1,000
(Reuters)

US Death Toll in Iraq Hits 1,000
(Reuters) 09/07/2004 05:44 PM
Reuters - The U.S. death toll in Iraq on Tuesday reached 1,000 nearly 18 months after American-led forces invaded the country to topple the government of former President Saddam Hussein, the White House said.

Iran quake death toll hits 50,000

Iran quake death toll hits 50,000 12/31/2003 03:43 PM

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Death Toll Hits 150 After Tsunami Floods
Sri Lanka

Death Toll Hits 150 After Tsunami Floods
Sri Lanka 12/26/2004 01:30 AM
Reuters via Wired News Dec 26 2004 5:49AM GMT

Paraguay Market Blaze Death Toll Hits
426 (AP)

Paraguay Market Blaze Death Toll Hits
426 (AP) 08/04/2004 11:42 PM
AP - A forensic team that included U.S. experts examined the charred interior of a Paraguayan supermarket Wednesday to determine the cause of a weekend blaze that killed more than 400 people, many of whom were trapped inside by locked doors.

S.Lanka Says Tsunami Death Toll Hits
12,212 - Military

S.Lanka Says Tsunami Death Toll Hits
12,212 - Military 12/28/2004 02:59 AM
Reuters via Wired News Dec 28 2004 6:33AM GMT

Race to Bury Asia's Dead as Toll Hits
68,000

Race to Bury Asia's Dead as Toll Hits
68,000 12/29/2004 03:16 AM
Reuters via Wired News Dec 29 2004 5:56AM GMT

Ivan Lashes Jamaica; Death Toll Hits 37
(AP)

Ivan Lashes Jamaica; Death Toll Hits 37
(AP) 09/10/2004 08:13 PM
AP - Waves two-stories high crashed on Jamaica's eastern shore Friday, flooding homes and washing away roads as Hurricane Ivan's ferocious winds and pounding rains began to lash the island and threatened a direct hit on its densely populated capital. The death toll elsewhere in the Caribbean rose to 37.

Death Toll in Texas Plant Blast Hits 15
(AP)

Death Toll in Texas Plant Blast Hits 15
(AP) 03/24/2005 10:41 PM
AP - The death toll in a thunderous explosion at a BP refinery climbed to 15 Thursday as investigators tried to determine the cause of the worst accident in the nation's gas and chemical industry in nearly 15 years.

U.S. Iraq Death Toll Hits 1,000, Two
Italians Seized (Reuters)

U.S. Iraq Death Toll Hits 1,000, Two
Italians Seized (Reuters) 09/07/2004 11:49 PM
Reuters - The U.S. military death toll in Iraq reached 1,000 on Tuesday nearly 18 months after the invasion to topple Saddam Hussein, making its mark on the U.S. presidential election campaign.

Race to Bury Asia's Dead as Toll Hits
63,000 (Reuters)

Race to Bury Asia's Dead as Toll Hits
63,000 (Reuters) 12/28/2004 09:35 PM
Reuters - Stricken countries on the Indian Ocean worked swiftly on Wednesday to bury thousands of bodies as experts warned disease could kill as many people as the 63,000 already dead from the violent crush of Sunday's tsunami.

Global Disaster Information Network in
the Works to Help Remote Crisis-Stricken
Areas Around the World;Preliminary
Findings to Be Presented at World
Conference on Disaster Reduction, Kobe,
Japan, January 18-22, 2005

Global Disaster Information Network in
the Works to Help Remote Crisis-Stricken
Areas Around the World;Preliminary
Findings to Be Presented at World
Conference on Disaster Reduction, Kobe,
Japan, January 18-22, 2005 01/05/2005 03:28 AM
In the aftermath of the tsunamis that devastated Asia in late December 2004, observers pointed out that lack of official, credible information gave victims and governments in the area little prior warning of the impending disaster. Although still in the developmental stages, a partnership of the Global Disaster Information Network (GDIN) and the Organsation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is creating an information system that may significantly reduce the impact of future natural and manmade disasters. Native American Pueblo and Navajo Nations in Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and Colorado are providing pilot sites for the GDIN system. [PRWEB Jan 5, 2005]

Way down below the ocean?

Way down below the ocean? 06/07/2004 05:35 PM
The BBC claims that Atlantis has been found.
"We have in the photos concentric rings just as Plato described"

OCEAN Project

OCEAN Project 08/27/2004 01:30 PM

OCEAN - Open Computation Exchange & Auctioning (or Arbitration) Network

OCEAN - Open Computation Exchange & Auctioning (or Arbitration) Network Project
http://www.cise.ufl.edu /research/ocean/

OCEAN (Open Computation Exchange & Auctioning (or Arbitration) Network) is a major ongoing project at the University of Florida's CISE department to develop a fully functional infrastructure supporting the automated, commercial buying and selling of dynamic distributed computing resources over the internet. The idea is that anyone with spare cycles should be able to deploy an OCEAN server which can run other people's computing tasks for profit, and any developer should be able to easily write a distributed application which any user with a credit card number (or other means of automatic payment) should be able to deploy in distributed fashion using as many suitable OCEAN servers as they can afford to rent for their particular purpose. OCEAN will likely use a distributed, peer-to-peer double-auction mechanism to ensure that jobs are automatically contracted out to the cheapest suitable available bidders, and that OCEAN servers automatically contract themselves out to run the highest-paying available jobs. The OCEAN project had its roots at M.I.T. with a group of MIT and former Stanford students, led by Mike Frank. This has been added to Auction Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Grid Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

Project Ocean

Project Ocean 02/13/2004 01:24 PM

Project Ocean: Stanford University And Google: Interesting.

...Google has embarked on an ambitious secret effort known as Project Ocean, according to a person involved with the operation. With the cooperation of Stanford University, the company now plans to digitize the entire collection of the vast Stanford Library published before 1923, which is no longer limited by copyright restrictions. The project could add millions of digitized books that would be available exclusively via Google.

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Ocean Waves 0.6

Ocean Waves 0.6 05/20/2004 10:07 PM
Generates simulated sound of ocean waves.

American Ocean

American Ocean 04/09/2004 04:12 PM

Pimp, Day 112, East St. Louis, Illinois.

This month's issue of LFI has a breathtaking collection of photos by Aaron Huey who walked 3349 miles from Encinitas, California to Coney Island, New York with his dog Cosmo and a Leica M6. I've seen quite a few collections of photographs attempting to paint a cohesive portrait of America and I'm prepared to say that if the whole collection are as good as the teaser in LFI, Am erican Ocean blows the rest of them away.

Huey was only 25 when he got sponsored by Kodak and Leica to do this trip. Given that he apprenticed with a National Geographic photographer prior to this project, my more cynical side suspected that he was just a kid with all the right connections and a bit of talent. However, when I started reading the journals he kept while he was on the road it quickly became clear that he's no poseur. Take some time and read them as he has a particular gift for telling the story that he went in search of for 154 days. Anyone who can walk through East St. Louis at any hour of the day isn't just doing this to make a name for himself.

East St. Louis is where you go after 3am to get booze at the drive-thru liquor store where the cashier takes your money with one hand while holding a gun at you with the other hand. The city is so poor and bankrupt that they didn't have garbage collection for at least 5 years. Dead bodies from St. Louis regularly turn up under the highway overpasses. The danger is the same for people of all colours, too. East St. Louis is a place to be avoided in a car and definitely not walked through. I particularly enjoy his astute observation of how close abject poverty and the suburban middle-class are to each other and the jarring reality it creates for those who notice. If Huey could not only walk through unscathed, but make friends and photograph some of them then he is a truly gifted storyteller with his camera and pen.

Day 111 NW St. Louis to South St.Louis

The rest of the day is a series of wrong turns. I walk through a wasteland. 2 hours of abandoned buildings. Empty streets. Where are all the people. Pockets of very rich. Pockets of very poor. Large blocks of deserted buildings. Strange city. Where are the people? Walk under the famous arch. It had to be done, it is the gateway to the East. So an official beginning for the final push. A looooong final push. Walk along the river. It is flooding from a week of rain. Down by the rail yards I walk 2 miles of world class grafitti, 20 feet high and 2 miles long. The most impressive thing I have seen in St.Louis. Worth staying the extra day for this alone. It is a better gallery than any museum here.

I've driven coast-to-coast a dozen or so times and I've driven the length of route 66. You can't get the idea of how vast the US is from an airplane. America isn't the place that is portrayed in the movies no matter how seductive the fantasy. America is a gigantic place in great need of a storyteller like Huey. Apparently no publisher has picked up his book which I find hard to believe since it's just amazing work. I really want to see this collection along with the stories in a finished, bound book.

The TAO Ocean DCRF

The TAO Ocean DCRF 12/12/2003 12:48 PM
First release of the ACE/RTAI port

this ocean will not be grasped

this ocean will not be grasped 03/06/2004 01:58 AM
Personally, I don't think the government should be involved in marriage in any way. I believe that marriage is between two people who love each other who wish to make a commitment to stay together through good times and bad. I suppose that it can also be between those people and whatever god they choose to worship, but even then . . . wouldn't it be stupid for the government to tell couples which god can bless their marriage? And who cares what sex they are?

An interesting thing has happened since San Francisco started granting marriage licenses to same-sex couples: my marriage is just fine!

That's right. Even though there are thousands of gay and lesbian couples affirming their love for each other, my marriage -- my affirmation of love and commitment to Anne -- isn't threatened at all. As a matter of fact, the only people who can really "threaten" my marriage are . . . well . . . the two of us.

And this brings me to the first thing that's so profoundly upsetting about this entire issue: it's not about marriage, it's not about love, it's not about family, it's not about commitment. It's about hating homosexuals. It's about treating homosexuals as if they are second-class citizens. It's about dividing this country into those who support discrimination, and those who don't. It's about Karl Rove updating The Southern Strategy.

Drowning in an Ocean of Plastic

Drowning in an Ocean of Plastic 06/05/2004 05:42 AM
Today's World Environment Day focuses on the state of the seas. One of the biggest concerns is plastic -- it's everywhere, from the surface to the innards of plankton. By Stephen Leahy.

Warm Wind Off the Ocean

Warm Wind Off the Ocean 02/15/2004 08:58 PM
You could go to Australia for the warmth or the wine, or for the light or for love; and all of these would be good reasons. But the real reason is to sit near the ocean and feel its tropic wind warm on your cheeks, which is entirely beyond price. Herewith some news and colour...

Mysteries of the Ocean Deepen

Mysteries of the Ocean Deepen 08/06/2004 04:39 AM
A two-month survey of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge turns up several organisms never before seen, and one that looks like no other known sea creature. By Stephen Leahy.

Just One Word for the Ocean: Plastics

Just One Word for the Ocean: Plastics 05/10/2004 05:46 PM
A study conducted around the British Isles shows accumulations of microscopic fibers and bits of synthetic polymers in beach and seabed sediments.

Ocean rowers stranded in Atlantic

Ocean rowers stranded in Atlantic 08/08/2004 01:47 AM
Four Britons trying to break a world Atlantic rowing record are left clinging to a life raft after heavy storms split their boat in two.

New Species of Worms Discovered in Ocean

New Species of Worms Discovered in Ocean 07/30/2004 01:29 AM
Abcnews.go.com - Thu Jul 29, 09:09 pm GMT

321-Pound Sea Lion Returned to the Ocean
(AP)

321-Pound Sea Lion Returned to the Ocean
(AP) 03/06/2004 02:00 AM
AP - A sea lion found last month more than 60 miles from the Pacific Ocean with a bullet in its head was released back into the ocean Wednesday after the bullet was removed.

Ocean CO2 Levels May Harm Sea Life

Ocean CO2 Levels May Harm Sea Life 07/17/2004 02:53 AM
Free Internet Press Jul 17 2004 7:10AM GMT

New Species of Worms Discovered in Ocean
(AP)

New Species of Worms Discovered in Ocean
(AP) 07/30/2004 05:13 AM
AP - Two strange new species of worms, without eyes or stomachs or even mouths, have been discovered living on the bones of dead whales in California's Monterey Bay.

A Journey Across the Ocean: Shaders and
R420

A Journey Across the Ocean: Shaders and
R420 05/10/2004 10:04 AM

Ocean Policy Trust Fund

Ocean Policy Trust Fund 04/20/2004 10:08 PM
In the first sweeping review of US Ocean management in 35 years the Presidential appointed U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy has released a report recommending creation of the Ocean Policy Trust Fund to be funded by off-shore oil companies in exchange for drilling rights to the tune of $5 billion a year. Initial reactions are mixed. All p raise the reports acknowledgement of serious Ocean mismanagement problems, but some think the report h as no teeth, or there is a hidden oil industry agenda. Whatever happens with this amount of money it will be big, the last report in 1969 led to the creation NOAA.

Ocean 12 Mafia claims dismissed

Ocean 12 Mafia claims dismissed 07/16/2004 03:43 AM
The producer of Ocean's Twelve dismisses reports of attempts by the Mafia to blackmail film-makers.
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