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When Harry Met Calypso
2015-02-22 11:12:17| Beverages - Topix.net
Nearly 60 years before Bunji Garlin and Nigel Rojas' Differentology got a half-minute play on the intro to an American TV show, Trinidad's indigenous music completely dominated American pop music for half a year. Between late 1956 and mid-1957, calypso mushroomed so huge in the US that nightclubs refitted themselves overnight as "calypso rooms" with limbo floorshows, legendary American singer Ella Fitzgerald covered a kaiso, three feature-length calypso movies were rushed into production in Hollywood and advertising copy for cosmetics was copied from the lyrics and written to the tune of Lord Invader's Rum and Coca-Cola.
China met 2014 pollution control targets: ministry
2015-01-15 13:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: China has met its 2014 targets for air and water pollution control, the official news agency Xinhua said on Thursday. The environmental protection minister, Zhou Shengxian, told an annual government meeting that authorities last year banned 7 million high-emission vehicles from the road, shut down 50,000 coal-fired furnaces, installed denitrification and desulfurisation equipment in power plants and factories, and added new sewage treatment plants, Xinhua said. Zhou said the annual targets...
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BlackBerry denies it has met with Samsung executives over a potential takeover
2015-01-15 00:56:05| Semiconductors - Topix.net
A Canadian flag flies at BlackBerry's headquarters in Waterloo, Ont., July 9, 2013.Shares of BlackBerry Ltd. have jumped more than 29 per cent, up $3.42 to $15.02, following a news report that smartphone maker Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has offered to buy the company for as much as US$7.5 billion.
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2014 was UK's hottest year on record, says Met Office
2015-01-05 14:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: 2014 was the UKs warmest year on record, figures from the Met Office show. Provisional figures for the whole year reveal that it was the hottest for the UK in records dating back to 1910. Last year was also the warmest in the Central England Temperature series, the longest running temperature record in the world which stretches back to 1659, recording temperatures in an area of central England. The average temperature for the year was 9.9C, some 1.1C above the long term average, and making...
2014 UK's 'warmest year on record', Met Office confirms
2015-01-05 14:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: 2014 was the England's hottest year since records began over 350 years ago, according to provisional Met Office figures. Last year was the warmest year ever record in the Central England Temperature (CET) series, which dates back to 1659 and is the world's longest running instrumental temperature series. It was also the UK's warmest and fourth wettest year in records dating back to 1910. According to the Met Office, the UK's mean temperature for the year was 9.9C - 1.1C above the long-term...
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