Sunday, April 25, 2010 Paul Schäfer died at 88 from cardiac-respiratory arrest on early Saturday morning in a Chilean prison hospital. Schäfer was the founder and former leader of Colonia Dignidad, an enclave used for torturing and exterminating political prisoners during Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship. Hr was convicted for sexually abusing 26 children for years, and…
Colleges offering admission to displaced New Orleans students/LA-ND
See the discussion page for instructions on adding schools to this list and for an alphabetically arranged listing of schools. Due to the damage by Hurricane Katrina and subsequent flooding, a number of colleges and universities in the New Orleans metropolitan area will not be able to hold classes for the fall 2005 semester. It…
Mobile Html5 Development: The Best Choice For An Optimum User Experience
Read An Opinion On: Australia Film Schools MOBILE HTML5 DEVELOPMENT: THE BEST CHOICE FOR AN OPTIMUM USER EXPERIENCE by Seenath It is hard to deny that the world has become increasingly mobile; mobile HTML5 development has become an umbrella term for the next major evolution of markup, JavaScript and Cascading style sheets. HTML5 can be…
Transgender woman hired as city manager for Lake Worth, Florida
Thursday, April 9, 2009 Susan Stanton, the former city manager of Largo, Florida, has been hired as the new city manager for Lake Worth. Stanton was fired from her job as Largo’s city manager in 2007, apparently when her gender transition became public knowledge. “We said all along that we’d pick the best candidate regardless…
Sewage spill fouls Waikiki Beach
Friday, March 31, 2006 More than 48 million gallons (180 million L) of untreated sewage that flowed into the ocean from a sewer spill on Friday, March 24, have forced city officials in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, to post signs warning tourists on Waikiki Beach to stay out of the water. A 42-inch pressurized sewer…
Three men arrested under suspicion of organising dog fights in southern Finland
Wednesday, August 15, 2007File:240-dogFighting.jpg Three Finnish men have been arrested as part of an investigation by the Finnish National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) into apparent illegal dogfights in various locations in the south of the country. Dog fights, in which two dogs are pitted head-to-head for the entertainment of spectators and for gambling, is illegal…
Finding The Confidence: Breast Implants In Arlington Heights
Read An Opinion On: Circumcision Brisbane Clinic byAlma Abell It is a common misconception that the decision to get breast implants is always made for purely cosmetic reasons. Many women choose to undergo breast augmentation because their breasts never fully developed in their youth, a medical condition known as micromastia. This condition can lead to…
Attention drawn to high suicide rates in Scotland, Russia, Australia
Saturday, February 11, 2012 Three nations in three continents have seen attention focused on high suicide rates this week. A study found Scotland’s suicide rate to be increasing away from neighbouring England, Russian press and politicians are examining the world’s third-highest teen suicide rate, and new figures showed increasing Aboriginal children’s suicides in Australia’s Northern…
Interview: cracked iPhone working in New Zealand
Monday, September 3, 2007 Freelance journalist Gabriel Pollard interviewed John Ballinger who has what is believed to be the first unlocked iPhone working in New Zealand on the Vodafone New Zealand GSM network. Ballinger, director of Bluespark Ltd., managed to unlock the iPhone without having to solder anything. This is unlike George Hotz, the first…
2007 Taipei Samsung Running Festival: A combination with charity, technology, and sports
Sunday, October 14, 2007 With the success of the Samsung Running Festival from 2005 in Taipei, and continued with the image of charity, Samsung Electronics donated 100 PDA phones to Chinese National Association of the Deaf, R.O.C., Taiwan. (CNAD) and CNAD elected “Taiwan Top 10 Outstanding Deaf Occupational Excellence” delegates to receive this donation in…