- UncategorizedUH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crashes at Texas A&M, kills one, injures four
Sunday, January 18, 2009 A United States Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crashed Monday (before 3:00 pm CST) after takeoff at Duncan Field at Campus of Texas A&M University, during a routine mission flight shuttling cadets from the university to Camp Swift. Two active-duty soldiers were killed in the crash, and four Army National Guard soldiers were injured. Second Lt. Zachary Cook, 22, a native of Lufkin, Texas and a December 2008 graduate of Texas A&M University, was killed in the incident. Cook was a member of the Reserve Officers Training Corps cadre at Texas A&M University and also graduated from Lufkin High School. U.S. Rep. Chet Edwards on Wednesday…
- Uncategorized2007 Baseball World Cup Day 1: Taichung starts prior to Taipei
Thursday, November 8, 2007 The opening ceremonies for the 2007 Baseball World Cup (2007 BWC) were held Tuesday. Torrential rain, however, made Panama vs Spain the opening match of the 2007 BWC in Taichung Intercontinental Baseball Stadium. The original opening match of Chinese Taipei vs Italy was postponed until next week and will be played at Tianmu Baseball Stadium. “Recently, we got into a sticky situation while constructing a dome due to some protests by non-governmental people, but we’ll try to overcome these difficulties in order to present high-level sports to the international market.” Chin-chi Wu, the Director of the Taipei City Bureau of Education, remarked at Tuesday’s opening ceremony.…
- UncategorizedBank of England governor warns housing market is biggest threat to UK economy
Sunday, May 18, 2014 The governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, has warned that the state of the housing market in the United Kingdom is the current biggest domestic threat to the country’s economy, due to lack of house building, and regulatory issues. In an interview to be aired on Sky News today, he said the housing market is the “biggest risk” to the economy and has “deep, deep structural problems”. Of house building he said: “There are not sufficient houses built in the UK. To go back to Canada, there are half as many people in Canada as in the UK, twice as many houses are built…
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Get Yourself The Right Air Conditioning System For Your Home
Click Here For More Specific Information On: Air Conditioner Cleaning Maitland Get yourself the right air conditioning system for your home by gardnerw St. Petersburg is a beautiful city to reside in with beautiful people, however, the changing weather here somehow manages to create a bit of a problem if you are not used to it. The summers are pretty hot here. This is the sole reason for all the houses here to have an air conditioning system in St. Petersburg, FL. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nq2JNuxc8r0[/youtube] Based on the source and amount of power supply that your locality or home receives, you can choose for the most apt air conditioning system in St.…
- UncategorizedIndonesian authorities investigate after pornographic film screened on billboard in Jakarta
Monday, October 3, 2016 Authorities in Indonesia initiated an investigation after a pornographic film was illicitly screened on a 24-square-meter (roughly 260-square-foot) LED billboard in the capital city of Jakarta on Friday, in full view of rush hour commuters. The film, depicting a couple engaged in explicit sexual activity, appeared on the screen for several minutes — five, according to BBC News — during which time passerby took the opportunity to film the display and upload it onto the Internet. Following complaints to the South Jakarta Communications and Information Agency, authorities cut power to the billboard at about 2:45 p.m. to stop the screening. According to a report on Saturday…
- UncategorizedVoluntary sterilization of poor women proposed by Louisiana state legislator
Thursday, September 25, 2008 A Louisiana representative has proposed a controversial solution to “generational welfare,” which would pay women on welfare to get sterilization. Republican John LaBruzzo said he thought of the idea because of his constituents’ outrage over paying for welfare. “You have these people who are just fed up with working their buns off to try to provide for their own family and being forced by the government [to] provide for others’ families who just want to have unlimited kids”, he commented. He is currently working with Baton Rouge to gather data in support of his proposal. The idea, which LaBruzzo has not finished forming, would award any…
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Home For The Holidays – Thanksgiving Celebrations
Click Here For More Specific Information On: Best Country Songs byAlma Abell What will you be doing this Thanksgiving? On th, we’re willing to bet that most people will be heading home for the holidays for a traditional turkey dinner and family chat around the dinner table. However there will be some people who spend the holidays alone, such as elderly people or those who live too far away from family to make the journey home, and of course there will be some who need to work over the holiday period. Brighten their day [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omFWGBfVRo4[/youtube] If you know someone who is working this Thanksgiving, or somebody who is going to…
- UncategorizedTeaching Intelligent Design: Incumbent Dover PA school board fails reelection
Wednesday, November 9, 2005 The Dover, Pennsylvania school board became the first to mandate inclusion of Intelligent Design in a public school biology curriculum. For this year’s November 8 election, Republicans fielded a pro-Intelligent Design slate of candidates including some returning candidates who had previously voted to include a statement about Intelligent Design in the biology curriculum. A mixed slate of Democrat and Republican candidates came forward as an alternative group of school board candidates, the Dover CARES coalition. They proposed to remove Intelligent Design from the biology curriculum but allow discussion of Intelligent Design in courses dealing with philosophy and comparative religion. All eight open school board seats were…
- UncategorizedPakistani parliament passes bill for transgender rights
Friday, May 11, 2018 On Tuesday, Pakistan’s parliament passed a bill at Islamabad’s National Assembly which granted transgender people various civil rights. The bill, “Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act”, which was presented by Pakistan Peoples Party’s lawmaker Naveed Qamar, was approved by the senate in March, and now awaits signature of the president Mamnoon Hussain. The bill ensures people have the right to identify themselves as male, female or as “third gender”, also known as khawaja sira in Pakistan. This identity choice is to be reflected in the National Database and Registration Authority, as well as other official documents like passports and driving licence. Per the bill, transgender people…
- UncategorizedPreliminary report sheds light on SAS landing gear incident
Friday, September 14, 2007 A preliminary report by the Danish civil aviation authority, SLV, has shed light on the events leading up to a Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) airliner experiencing a landing gear failure upon landing in Denmark, one of two similar crashes that have resulted in the grounding of more than 60 of the model in question across the world. The aircraft, a Bombardier Q400 (alternatively known as a de Havilland Canada Dash 8), crashed due to a landing gear failure after a nut worked loose, due in turn to rusting on the threads of its bolt, according to the SLV’s aircraft accident investigation committee report on Scandinavian Airlines…