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Pasir Ris Beach still polluted, 3 years on

FOR the third year in a row, picnickers hoping to swim in the waters off Pasir Ris Beach will be disappointed, as the area off the north-eastern shore is still too contaminated by a bacterium found in faeces to swim safely in.
The National Environment Agency (NEA) gave the water there a 'fair' rating in its annual update on beach water quality yesterday, after finding too many samples containing unsafe levels of the enterococcus bacterium, which can cause gastro-intestinal illnesses like vomiting and diarrhoea if swimmers come into contact with it.
The bacterium is found in animal and human faeces, and the problem appears to be the proximity of smaller sewage treatment plants in Tampines and Changi which discharge the effluents into the
area. Water treatment agency PUB said the currents off Pasir Ris Beach were not strong enough to carry the discharge out and disperse it at sea.
Some older sewage pipes may also be leaking untreated sewage.
In a study last year, the NEA also said that other sources of contamination could be moored vessels and animals in the area.

PLACEBO RELEASE 'TRIGGER HAPPY HANDS' T-SHIRT & MP3 DOWNLOAD

PLACEBO and ATTICUS Black have exclusively teamed up to release the storming new track 'Trigger Happy Hands' as a digital download along with a limited edition T-shirt, designed by Placebo and Atticus’ Paul Jackson.

When you buy the exclusive new T-shirt, you will receive a 320 KBPS download of the brand new studio recording of the track 'Trigger Happy Hands'

'It’s been great working with such a well respected clothing label as Atticus. We're really pleased to be able to release 'Trigger Happy Hands' in such a unique manner and this is the perfect way to do it’ - PLACEBO

The T-Shirt & MP3 download is available to purchase today, meaning you will have the new track instantly !

CLICK HERE to buy yours!

http://www.atticusblack.com/shop/t-shirts/placebo.html

Come and watch an incredible performance of 'Trigger Happy Hands' live at the 2010 Sonisphere festival in Knebworth, England.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUXbm0YCneY

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Christchurch big quake photos

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http://www.crashbang.co.nz/quake040910/index.html

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Upload Picasa People Photos to Google Contacts

Picasa 3.8 makes it easier to upload pictures for your Google contacts. After scanning all the photos from your library and adding name tags to your photos, you can go to the Tools menu, select Upload and click on Upload People Thumbnails.


Picasa asks if "you want to upload and replace all the thumbnail photos from your People Albums to your Google Contacts". If you click on "Upload", Picasa saves the photos to Google Contacts and you can see them in Gmail or in any other application that synchronizes with Google Contacts (for example, Android's Contacts app or iPhone's Contacts app, if you use Google Sync).

If you don't want to upload photos for all your contacts, you can click on one of the people from Picasa's sidebar, right on a photo and select "Set as Google Contacts Thumbnail". You can also enable "Upload people album thumbnails to Google Contacts" from Tools/Options/Name Tags (or Picasa/Preferences/Name Tags on a Mac) to upload the new thumbnails you select in Picasa.

It's strange to see that Google didn't add this option to Picasa Web Albums and that the photos tagged in Picasa Web Albums aren't displayed in Google Contacts. Google could at least offer the option to pick one of the photos tagged in Picasa Web Albums when you add a picture to one of your contacts. Right now, you can only select a photo from your public albums.

Half of apartments in Shanghai, Beijing vacant

At least half of the apartments in Shanghai and Beijing are empty, the China Daily reported yesterday, citing an online investigation by volunteers conducted in 100 Chinese cities.

About 51 per cent of Shanghai apartments, 66 per cent of Beijing flats and more than 70 per cent of units in Hainan are vacant, according to the survey, based on counting the number of apartments observed to have no lights on at night. It was conducted on more than 1,000 real-estate projects and was organised by news website Sina.com, according to the report.

The finding comes as Shanghai Securities News reported yesterday that Shanghai property sales by floor area jumped 26 per cent last week from the previous week

“Investors and speculators are the owners of the vacant houses” as they wait to sell their properties at an appropriate time, said Mr Lu Qilin, a Shanghai-based researcher at Uwin. “It’s important for the government to introduce more measures to curb speculation,” he added.

Property prices in 70 major Chinese cities climbed 10.3 per cent last month from a year earlier, according to China Information News.

Source : Today – 18 Aug 2010

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