Read An Opinion On: Kids Party Entertainers Perth Submitted by: Edward Grey Edinburgh is the capital of Scotland. Aside from being heart of its financial activities, the city serves as the center of culture of the country. Unlike other buzzing metros, Edinburgh is able to keep a relax pace of life which attracts a lot…
ACLU, EFF challenging US ‘secret’ court orders seeking Twitter data
Thursday, April 7, 2011 Late last month, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed objections to the United States Government’s ‘secret’ attempts to obtain Twitter account information relating to WikiLeaks. The ACLU and EFF cite First and Fourth amendment issues as overriding reasons to overturn government attempts to keep their…
Polish drug company Jelfa ordered to shut-down over mislabelled drugs
Wednesday, November 8, 2006 Polish Prime Minister Jaros?aw Kaczy?ski has ordered the pharmaceutical company Jelfa to halt production following revelations that Jelfa had placed mislabelled medication on the market, whose use could be potentially fatal. Jelfa distributed vials labelled as Corhydron, a hydrocortisone used to treat allergies and inflammation, but in fact containing Suxamethonium chloride,…
Healthy Meals And Snacks Kids Can Prepare For Themselves
Read An Opinion On: Australia Energy Efficiency By Carrie Lauth When your family is in a rush, and you need the kids to help prepare their own snacks or meal, it’s tempting to have prepared foods for them that are quick to eat, but don’t have as much nutritional value as you would like. Instead…
California court sentences parents who kept their children in captivity
Saturday, April 20, 2019 Yesterday in California’s Riverside County criminal court, Judge Bernard Schwartz sentenced David and Louise Turpin to life in prison for torturing all but the youngest of their thirteen children. As revealed at trial, the Turpins had kept their children indoors for years and rarely allowed them outside the family home, located…
B.B. King’s daughters allege blues musician was poisoned
Thursday, May 28, 2015 Two daughters of blues legend B.B. King are claiming on Monday that he was poisoned by business manager LaVerne Toney and personal assistant Myron Johnson. The allegations were made by daughters Karen Williams and Patty King in affidavits provided by their lawyer to the Associated Press. “I believe my father was…
In the land of the open source elves: Interview with “Battle for Wesnoth” creator David White
Thursday, June 1, 2006 If you’ve always wanted to live in a world populated by elves, dwarves and wizards, you don’t need to pay for a World of Warcraft subscription or buy the Special Extended DVD Trilogy Edition of The Lord of the Rings just yet. You could instead give Battle for Wesnoth a try…
What Do Civil Engineers In New Orleans La Do?
Read An Opinion On: Energy Efficient Display Homes Adelaide byadmin If you look around the area where you live, you will probably see some work that has been done by civil engineers in New Orleans LA. The profession of civil engineering is one of the oldest of all engineering disciplines. Civil engineering deals with the…
World’s first double arm transplant undertaken in Munich
Saturday, August 2, 2008 A 54-year-old German farmer who lost both arms in a farming accident six years ago has become the first patient to receive a complete double arm transplant. The patient, whose name has not been released, underwent the operation at the Klinikum rechts der Isar, part of the Technical University of Munich…
California Supreme Court defers ruling on same-sex marriage ban
Thursday, March 5, 2009 After hours of hearing arguments in the case questioning the legality of the ban on same-sex marriages in California, in the United States, the state’s Supreme Court deferred ruling on the ban, known as Proposition 8. The court could issue a ruling in the next 90 days. Opponents of the ban…