Schools in Delhi reopened Monday after the biting cold of earlier weeks abated somewhat, putting an end to the extended winter vacation. The schools run by the Delhi government, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) and private managements reopened after the government extended their closure till Jan 13 due to the intense cold wave. The [...]
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Delhi schools reopen as cold wave offers respite
January 17th, 2011 |
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Blood donation in China goes down due to cold
January 14th, 2011 |
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Cold weather in China has discouraged people to donate blood, as blood supplies have gone down rapidly in many provinces, officials said. “Few are willing to donate blood in such cold weather, and many non-local people have gone home for the Spring Festival,” said Zeng Jia, an official with the provincial blood centre in southeastern [...]
Srinagar gets slight relief from cold, still freezing in Ladakh
January 8th, 2011 |
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Summer capital Srinagar was slightly warmer Saturday at minus 0.4 degrees Celsius, still below the freezing mark but Jammu and Kashmir’s cold desert region of Ladakh continued to reel under the intense cold wave. “Due to the nightlong cloud cover, the minimum temperature again rose today (Saturday) in Srinagar from Friday’s minus 2.2 to minus [...]
Why Is It So Cold? Should the Big Freeze Alter Our Approach to Climate Change?
December 27th, 2010 |
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Preface: If you believe in man-made global warming, please read this essay from the beginning to the end. If you are skeptical of man-made global warming, please skip ahead to the last two sections of this essay so that you see where I’m going.Europ…
Cyber-Criminals Cold Calling Users to Distribute Fake Antivirus Services
December 23rd, 2010 |
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Cyber-criminals are using call centers to push fake antivirus software and other malware to unsuspecting users under the pretense of offering free customer support. – Cyber-criminals are continuously switching tactics, even
going offline to work the phones, to trick users into a scam. Users hand over
credit card information or download malware thinking they are actually fixing a
security problem, said security researchers.
In the antivirus cold-calling scam, …
Cold snap claims two lives in RS
December 19th, 2010 |
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A 72-year-old man from the village of Jakupovac and a 50-year-old man from the town of ÄŒelinac are victims of the cold snap that hit Republic of Srpska (RS).
Doctors have determined that the two men froze to death, the media in Banja Luka have reported.
Cold War Kids: New Album & Tour Dates
October 13th, 2010 |
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NEW ALBUM OUT JANUARY 25 2011; TOUR STARTS NOVEMBER 5
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Cold War Kids have
announced their new album, Mine is Yours, scheduled for release January 25, 2011. This will be
their first album since 2008′s Loyalty to Loyalty.
The band will be heading out for two weeks in
November
and December, beginning with Pomona, CA at The Glass House on November 5. The rest of the dates are below.
Click here to read Dennis Cook’s
review of Loyalty to
Loyalty.
11/05 – Pomona, CA @ The Glass House
11/06 – Pioneertown, CA @ Pappy & Harriet’s Palace
11/08 – Visalia, CA @ Cellar Door
11/09 – Santa Barbara, CA @ SOHO Music Club
11/11 – Sacramento, CA @ Harlow’s
11/12 – Oakland, CA @ The New Parish
11/13 – Big Sur, CA @ Fernwood Resort
12/02 – Charlottesville, VA @ Jefferson Theater
12/03 – Knoxville, TN @ Bijou Theatre
12/04 – Asheville, NC @ The Orange Peel
12/06 – Athens, GA @ 40 Watt Club
12/07 – Charleston, SC @ The Music Farm
12/08 – Jacksonville, FL @ Freebird Live
12/10 – Birmingham, AL @ WorkPlay Theater
12/11 – Memphis, TN @ Minglewood Hall
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Adobe Cold Fusion: 8 Reasons Why It Is Still Relevant
October 6th, 2010 |
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Despite being one of the longest-standing application development platforms, Adobe ColdFusion continues to gain steam. More than 770,000 developers at more than 12,000 companies rely on ColdFusion to rapidly build and deploy Internet applications& from the Professional Golfers’ Association, Under Armour, AT&T, the Federal Reserve Bank and even the National Security Agency. Check out this slide show to see examples of how companies and government agencies use ColdFusion for everything from managing a central portal where people in all 50 states work collectively to safeguard the national food supply, to running sophisticated online traveler applications that allow extreme backpackers to stay in touch with families at home, to analyzing customer behavior on e-commerce sites to anticipate impending customer requests. Adobe ColdFusion, a rapid application development and application server platform, includes an IDE and a full scripting language, and features enterprise integration along with support for Rich Internet Applications. This slide show offers eight projects that demonstrate that Adobe ColdFusion is still a highly relevant development platform. – …
Cupertino’s cold warriors
May 6th, 2010 |
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What has Apple got against eastern Europe?
WHAT have the following places got in common?
America, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Britain, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, France, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, the Philippines, Portugal, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Vietnam. …
Verge Music Festival Weezer, She & Him, AFI, Cold War
March 18th, 2010 |
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COLD WAR KIDS, WEEZER, AFI, ROGUE WAVE, EAGLES OF DEATH METAL
TOP BILL OF NEW MIDWEST FEST
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The inaugural Verge Music Festival will take place Friday, June 4 (5 p.m.-midnight), and Saturday, June 5 (2 p.m.-midnight), on the Summerfest Grounds in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The preliminary lineup is as follows:
Friday, June 4
Three Days Grace
Eagles of Death Metal
Crash Kings
She & Him
Nico Vega
Reni Lane
1956
Red Knife Lottery
The Championship
The Wildbirds
Saturday, June 5
Weezer
AFI
Cold War Kids
The Raveonettes
Rogue Wave
Jaill
Figureheads
Jeri X
Pezzettino
Invade Rome
Juniper Tar
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Tickets are limited. Purchase advance tickets now through June 3rd. Advance single day passes are $25. Advance two-day passes are $40. Every advance ticket purchased includes a FREE weekday Summerfest admission ticket. Admission at the gate is $35 per day. Buy now and with NO FEES here or through Ticketmaster starting Friday, March 12 at 10 a.m.
“Solution for ‘cold conflict’ must be found”
February 24th, 2010 |
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Pieter Feith says that the International Civil Office (ICO) does not want armed conflicts in northern Kosovo. “We can’t change with a magic wand what has been happening for years in northern Kosovo. It is clear that we do not want an armed conflict, but we don’t want a continuation of the cold conflict either, which has been going on for many years,†the ICO chief said.
Gold in the cold
February 11th, 2010 |
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Canada hopes that extra medals compensate for the costs of staging the Winter Olympics
THE 21st Winter Olympic Games get under way in Vancouver, Canada, on Friday 12th February. The games were first held in 1924 in Chamonix, France, with just 258 athletes competing for 15 gold medals. As the games have grown in stature, countries have been willing to spend increasing amounts on hosting them. The staging costs of the event (excluding infrastructure) have grown from $150m in 1980 to around $1.6 billion for this year’s event. But such largesse can bring success. Home advantage has, on average, added an additional six medals to a country’s tally. With a total of 86 gold medals up for grabs this year, Canada will be hoping to cash in.
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Blowing hot and cold
February 2nd, 2010 |
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What to make of the latest row between China and America over Taiwan?
IS IT a crisis or just (show) business as usual? With China and America, it can be hard to tell. Almost immediately after the United States said that it intended to sell more than $6 billion-worth of arms to Taiwan, the Chinese went into a spin. They summoned the American ambassador to denounce this interference in China’s “internal affairs” (Taiwan is part of the mainland, says the government in Beijing), threatened to cut off military ties with the United States and said they would impose sanctions on American firms involved in the Taiwan deal.
None of this looks good for the world’s most consequential relationship. From global warming to the sickly world economy to stopping nuclear proliferation in North Korea and Iran, co-operation between the established superpower and the rising one is vital to world stability. Why should either want to jeopardise this relationship? …
Dry cold
February 1st, 2010 |
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A drying out of the stratosphere may help explain recent temperature trends at the Earth’s surface
THE stratosphere—specifically, the lower stratosphere—has, it seems, been drying out. Water vapour is a greenhouse gas, and the cooling effect on the Earth’s climate due to this desiccation may account for a fair bit of the slowdown in the rise of global temperatures seen over the past ten years. These are the somewhat surprising conclusions of a paper by Susan Solomon of America’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and her colleagues, which was published online by Science on January 28th. Whether the trend will continue, stop or reverse itself, though, is at present unknown.
The stratosphere sits on top of the troposphere, the lowest, densest layer of the atmosphere. The boundary between the two, the tropopause, is about 18km above your head, if you are in the tropics, and a few kilometres lower if you are at higher latitudes (or up a mountain). The tropopause separates a rowdy below from a sedate above. In the troposphere, the air at higher altitudes is in general cooler than the air below it, an unstable situation in which warm and often moist air below is endlessly buoying up into cooler air above. The resultant commotion creates clouds, storms and much of the rest of the world’s weather. In the stratosphere, the air gets warmer at higher altitudes, which provides stability. …
Cold War Kids | 01.23 | Los Angeles
January 27th, 2010 |
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By: Ryan Torok
Cold War Kids :: 01.23.10 :: The Wiltern :: Los Angeles, CA
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Cold War Kids by Valerie NanneryIn the midst of a six-date tour in support of their new EP, Behave Yourself (released December 21), Cold War Kids made a stop at The Wiltern. During “We Used to Vacation,” a fan favorite from the Long Beach quartet’s debut, Robbers & Cowards (2006), singer/bandleader Nathan Willett attempted to sing in his signature screeching wail and falsetto, but with his roadie standing over him, holding the mic steady, Willet looked like he couldn’t let quite as loose as he wanted to. In many ways, this was the evening’s most compelling moment.
Willett has a knack for vivid storytelling about real people, but he failed to make a connection with the real people standing in the audience this night. Sure, the crowd of mostly older teenagers welcomed guitarist Jonnie Russell‘s snaking licks on “Hang Me Out to Dry” and the scrappy dance-punker “Something Is Not Right With Me” – off their stellar sophomore effort, Loyalty to Loyalty (JamBase review) – with enthusiastic applause, but they could have been listening to the albums at home. It would have been the same experience. The only surprise was a musically faithful cover of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Long As I Can See the Light,” although, with Willett’s unusual vocals, it was hard to recognize.
Yes, Cold War Kids are a radio rock band and fans don’t go to their shows expecting improvised jams that last over ten minutes. But the band incorporates more obscure genres like soul and punk into their music, and the indie rock world embraces them, so their live shows could better reflect their open-mindedness and ability to transcend the line between underground and mainstream. They are capable of more than just performing the songs the way they sound on the albums, especially since some of the material is almost five years old already. Given the amount of time they’ve had touring with these songs, they could experiment more with the live renditions.
Fortunately for the band, some of the songs are strong enough that even when played almost exactly like their studio counterparts it’s still a treat. The powerful vocals and haunting piano minor keys in “Hospital Beds” made for a show highlight, as did the intensely catchy new tune “Audience,” which features a hip hop drum beat courtesy of Matthew Aveiro. An appreciation for hip hop is evident in other places as well. During “St. John,” Willett shook a tambourine and rapped melodically over Matt Maust‘s heavy bass line, and this was also strong.
Truth be told, the band sounded confident and comfortable throughout the 80-minute set, but that wasn’t enough. Cold War Kids enjoy commercial success and share some fans with chart-topping groups like Linkin Park, so there is probably pressure to perform like an arena rock band, to abandon their more indie and artful tendencies altogether – this is a business, after all – but, to borrow the words from one of their own songs, “something is not right” about it.
Cold War Kids :: 01.23.10 :: The Wiltern :: Los Angeles, CA
I’ve Seen Enough, Hair Down, Audience, Red Wine, Success!, Welcome To The Occupation, Coffee Spoon, Dreams Old Me Dream, Relief, Hang Me Up To Dry, Santa Ana Winds, Hospital Beds, Long As I Can See The Light (CCR cover), St. John, Something Is Not Right With Me
E: Mexican Dogs, Tell Me In The Morning, Sermons, We Used To Vacation
Cold War Kids tour dates available here.
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Hot and cold steel
January 27th, 2010 |
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China reinforces its position as the leading steel producer
IN 2009 China produced 47% of the world’s total output of steel. It was one of just four countries that managed to increase its output in 2009, in a year in which global production fell by 8%. China’s ambitious projects to improve it infrastructure rapidly require plenty of the metal. China has also spent much of the past two years trying to secure iron ore for steel production on better terms. It paid A$286m ($238m) for 15% of Aquila Resources, an Australian mining firm, in August 2009. However, attempts to purchase large stakes in other mining companies have proved tricky. An offer to increase a Chinese state-controlled firm’s stake in Rio Tinto to 19% in 2009, and perhaps influence prices for iron ore, was rebuffed.
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Cold snap claims 31 victims in Romania
January 26th, 2010 |
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Eight more people died from the cold during the past two days in Romania, reports are saying. The number of victims in the past seven days rose to 31.
Polling in cold and cynical weather
January 18th, 2010 |
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Braving widespread cynicism with the political elite as much as freezing temperatures, Ukrainians voted for a new president yesterday despite often failing to muster much enthusiasm for any candidate. With snowflakes falling in Kiev and the pavements treacherous with black ice, the winter
Europe shivers as cold snap hits power, transport
January 10th, 2010 |
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Europe faced weekend weather misery with scores of flights cancelled yesterday as snow blanketed swathes of the continent, severing key highways and disrupting rail and electricity links. Germans were urged to buy enough food and medicines to last for up to four days in the face of a blizzard.