Monday, November 28, 2005 SpaceX called off the much-delayed inaugural launch of their new Falcon 1 rocket on Saturday from Kwajalein’s Omelek Island launch site. The intent was to launch the U.S. Air Force Academy’s FalconSat 2 satellite, which will monitor plasma interactions with the Earth’s upper atmosphere and magnetosphere. The launch was delayed, then finally cancelled after an oxygen […]
The Mystique Of Houseboat Rentals On Lake Cumberland
See More About: Workplace Yoga Brisbane byAlma Abell When planning a vacation out by the lake, there is nothing better than imagining an extended stay on a classy houseboat. There is something special about staying out on the water after everyone else has retreated to shore. Visitors are getting houseboat rentals on Lake Cumberland still enjoy most of the standard […]
Gambling sites favor Cardinals Marc Ouellet, Peter Turkson, Francis Arinze as next Pope
Monday, February 11, 2013 With news of Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation only hours old, online gambling sites have already published odds for who will become the next leader of the Roman Catholic Church, with Cardinals Marc Ouellet and Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson as early odds-on favorites. Online Australian gambling site SportsBet has Canadian Cardinal Marc Ouellet as their favorite with […]
Glasgow cannabis enthusiasts celebrate ‘green’ on city green
Tuesday, April 22, 2014 Coinciding with Easter Sunday, Glasgow Cannabis Social Club’s annual 420 event was held on Glasgow Green, under sunny blue skies, and overlooking the river Clyde. Despite the city’s council attempting to revoke permission for the gathering at the last minute, police were happy for it to go-ahead with approximately a dozen officers attending in high-visibility vests. […]
Global study dispels some myths about sexual behaviour
Wednesday, November 1, 2006 The first comprehensive global study of sexual behaviour, published today as part of The Lancet’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Online Series, found that people aren’t losing their virginity at ever younger ages, married people have the most sex, and there is no firm link between promiscuity and sexually transmitted diseases. Experts say data gleaned from the […]
Remain Safe And Sound With Automatic Gates
See More About: Faac Sliding Gate Australia Before, people tended to look at automatic gates as a sort of extravagance reserved limited to the wealthy. We might have associated them with movie images of enormous, wrought iron gates moving open to admit a Rolls Royce that then travelled down a sweeping driveway lined with trees. Maybe, merely the famous or […]
Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission to review Pan Am Flight 103 conviction
Monday, June 25, 2007 The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC), an organisation that investigates alleged miscarriages of justice, is to complete a review on June 28, 2007 of the conviction on January 31, 2001 of Libyan Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi for the December 21, 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. All 259 passengers and crew of the […]
British Government warns against tax breaks for Scientology
Thursday, October 21, 2010 The new British coalition government has warned local authorities in the United Kingdom not to provide tax breaks to branches of the Church of Scientology. After an investigation by The Guardian newspaper revealed that several local authorities have granted Scientology tax breaks worth over a million pounds, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government Eric […]
Salmonella outbreak sickens over one thousand in United States
Thursday, July 10, 2008 Over 1000 cases of illness have now been identified in a foodborne salmonellosis outbreak that began in mid-April 2008 in the United States. As of July 8, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reported 1013 confirmed infections throughout the United States, along with four cases in Canada. 203 hospitalizations have been linked to […]
Special Education Needs Causing Financial Crisis In California Schools
See More About: Demand Response Management Australia By Patricia Hawke Now, I am all for special education for children with disabilities. I attended school at a time when such children were either put into special schools or thrown in with the general student population to sink or swim on their own. It was a terrible inequity. It finally was addressed […]