Lessons from the Rock for Europe's banks

Source: Sify

It was the first run on a British bank for more than 100 years and critics said it made the country look like a banana republic. Yet it is providing lessons on how to limit the damage in future. "The key thing ...
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Facebook’s brilliant disaster

Source: HeraldOnline.com

So I guess you've heard about the recent initial public offering that didn't turn out the way it was supposed to. The company's Wall Street advisers misjudged the market, and, on its first day of trading, the stock went a little haywire. Then it slowl ...
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As Europe faces economic crisis, poorer countries find it harder to catch up – GMA News

Source: Wall Street Examiner

Five years after joining the European Union, this town 13 miles outside of Romania's capital is still waiting for the jump in living standards its politicians said membership would bring. Four out of five people have no indoor toilet or ...
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'Too early to quit'

Source: The Daily Advertiser

As the investigation into the disappearance of Michaela "Mickey" Shunick enters its second week, police and volunteers aren't giving up hope that the missing bicyclist whose case has generated unprecedented community su ...
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Bring Back Torrent Download Links On The Piratebay

Source: GHacks Technology News

If you are on the Piratebay website from time to time, you may have noticed that the people behind the site have moved away from torrent files to magnet links in the recent past. When you open a page on the site, you still see a get this torrent l ...
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Eric Sharp: A large-scale trout fishing success

Source: Detroit Free Press

Most of the great tailwater trout fisheries I know are in the West, where water flows cold and clear from the base of mountain dams and supports large populations of mostly introduced trout. Without those dams and the deep, cold pools ...
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Queensland Floods

Source: OpPapers.com

The natural hazard I have chosen is the Queensland floods which occurred in the years 2010-2011. This type of natural disaster is defined as an overflowing of a large amount of water beyond its normal confines, especially over what is normally dr ...
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War document: General William Tecumseh Sherman to the Mayor and Councilmen of Atlanta

Source: Naked Capitalism

For Memorial Day Weekend, I thought I’d curate a few documents on war. Here’s the first: HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION of the MISSISSIPPI in the FIELD Atlanta, Georgia, I have your letter of the 11th, in the nature of a petition to r ...
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Why this blocking di?

Source: DNA India

In a bid to curb piracy, film producers are now approaching courts to block websites that host pirated content. But the court orders are so vaguely worded that users lose access to even legitimate content. R Krishna reports. The film 3 owes its p ...
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