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Climate-change relocation of Alaska village at a standstill
2013-11-06 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Alaska Dispatch: An effort to move an eroding Southwest Alaska village that's a poster child for the negative effects of climate change has lurched to a dramatic halt. A state audit has uncovered potential wrongdoing and said the tribe running the multi-million dollar project should repay some $300,000 in state funds. Now, with loads of taxpayer dollars already spent and costly materials sitting unused on the tundra, the 375 people in the village of Newtok are embroiled in a vicious dispute over tribal leadership...
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Gov’t Shutdown Could Bring OC Real Estate Market To Standstill
2013-10-06 08:35:08| Real Estate - Topix.net
'We have to verify tax returns through the Internal Revenue Service for all loan transactions, and so we can't do that right now with the government being shut down,' said mortgage broker, Lauren Stipe.
Four months in: Windows 8 adoption is almost at a standstill
2013-03-01 19:49:45| Extremetech
It has now been four months since Windows 8 was released, and the latest figures show that its growth -- in terms of market share, mind share, and the number of apps in the Windows 8 Store -- is almost at a standstill.
The Asus Fonepad and Padfone signify a standstill in revolutionary mobile tech
2013-02-26 15:30:38| Extremetech
Normally, the line between smartphones and tablets would be drawn at the ability to make phone calls, as well as a difference in size. Now, though, as Asus announced a tablet that makes phone calls and a separate phone that docks inside a tablet at Mobile World Congress this week, that line between devices is becoming much more faint.
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