Iraqi activist forced to change t-shirt with Arabic peace slogan
Wednesday, August 30, 2006 Raed Jarrar, an Iraqi peace activist who lives in the United States, was forced to change his T-Shirt, which bore an Arabic slogan, because it was found “offensive”. The incident took place in JFK airport in New York. The activist Jarrar reported in his blog RaedInTheMiddle that he had checked-in his bags and was issued a boarding pass. After waiting near the gate to board his jetBlue airlines flight, and after having to gone through a secondary search, two officials approached him. “People are feeling offended because of your t-shirt,” Raed reported that one of the men said to him. The writings on the T-Shirt said in both Arabic and English: “We will not be silent”. Raed asked why this has offended anyone, and insisted his right to freedom of expression was violated. According to Jarrar, one of the inspectors said, “You can’t wear a T-shirt…
UK PM’s speechwriter awaits sentence
Wednesday, August 29, 2007 An English lawyer has pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice. He faked a legal judgment and sent it to a father who was pleading in Taunton family court to be able to remain involved in his child’s upbringing. The lawyer, London barrister Bruce Hyman, now awaits his sentence. The judge indicated that he could receive a prison sentence. Bruce Hyman is well-known in media circles, having produced The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy on BBC Radio. He also produced a series with Clive Anderson, at Above the Title Productions, called Unreliable Evidence. The father, a former City financier, had attended a series of court hearings in order to make suitable arrangements to see his child following an acrimonious divorce. Shortly before one of these hearings he received an email, ostensibly from a self-help group to which he belonged, which had attached a Court of…
EU, US declare intent to cooperate on climate change at summit
Wednesday, June 11, 2008 A European Union-United States summit held in Slovenia produced a draft declaration outlining the groups’ future cooperation on climate change, energy security and financial stability. Yesterday was the final day of the summit, the last EU-US summit that US President George W. Bush will attend in his current role. Hopes of a major breakthrough on the topic of climate change were low going into the summit. The foreign minister of Slovenia, Dimitrij Rupel, commented last week that, “on climate change, the positions are split.” Members of the 27-nation EU have regularly expressed their dissatisfaction with the US for not having ratified the Kyoto Protocol, an agreement with binding greenhouse gas emissions targets. Doubts about the summit’s efficacy were not misplaced, as no firm targets were set for actions on climate change. The EU and US agreed to cooperate increasingly in science and technology research for energy…
What About Breakfast?}
More On This Topic: Plastic Manufacturer Australia Submitted by: Michelle Stewart Whats for breakfast? It is National Breakfast Month and the question is what are we eating? I share with my clients that it is not necessarily when you eat, but what you eat. It is important to eat something to fuel your body as your day starts. Research shows that eating breakfast can aid in improved performance and concentration in both the conference room and the classroom. Additionally breakfast helps you eat adequate amounts of the vitamins and minerals recommended for a healthy lifestyle. If you eat breakfast you are more likely to control your weight and eat less fat and cholesterol. Key ingredients for a healthy breakfast include: Whole grain rolls, bagels, cereals, low-fat bran muffins, English muffins, Melba toast, and crackers. Low-fat protein such as peanut butter, almond butter, Nutella spread, Canadian bacon, low-fat mozzarella cheese sticks,…
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Warning: The information on this page may be incorrect and/or outdated. Don’t trust it. Information about the world’s markets index, no longer maintained. Index Name Description Current Value Change Updated ^MERV MerVal (Argentina) 1479.650 25.720 Tuesday, July 26, 2005 ^AORD All Ordinaries (Australia) 4338.100 0 Tuesday, July 26, 2005 ^ATX ATX (Austria) 4.898,18 -0.1% Friday, June 22, 2007 ^BFX BEL-20 (Belgium) 3198.57 11.59 Tuesday, July 26, 2005 ^BVSP Bovespa (Brazil) 24868.471 337.682 Tuesday, July 26, 2005 ^GSPTSE S&P TSX Composite (Canada) 10367.89 5.34 Tuesday, July 26, 2005 ^SSEC Shanghai Composite (China) 1072.807 27.407 Tuesday, July 26, 2005 ^PX50 PX50 (Czech Republic) 0 0 Monday, January 01, 0001 ^KFX KFX (Denmark) 348.10 -0.22 Tuesday, July 26, 2005 ^CCSI CMA (Egypt) 1753.22 -16.36 Tuesday, July 26, 2005 ^FCHI CAC 40 (France) 4420.78 -1.34 Tuesday, July 26, 2005 ^GDAXI DAX (Germany) 4843.49 0.79 Tuesday, July 26, 2005 ^HSI Hang Seng (Hong Kong) 28,228.04…
Viacom delays launch of gay cable channel
Friday, January 14, 2005 New York —Media giant Viacom has delayed the launch of its LGBT-themed LOGO channel by more than four months, according to reports. Originally scheduled to launch Feb. 17, the new channel’s debut was delayed until a planned June 30 sign on. Part of Viacom’s MTV Networks, LOGO has secured carriage on Time Warner cable in Manhattan, RCN and Atlantic Broadband. It is in final negotiations with Comcast, the nation’s largest cable company, which serves the San Francisco Bay Area. The channel’s management said it will take the extra time to beef up its programming slate and sign on more carriers. LOGO already has secured the rights to such programming as Golden Globe and Emmy-winning Angels in America and films such as Far From Heaven, Philadelphia and The Birdcage. Original programming includes plans for a string of reality-based series and documentaries with titles such as The Relationship…
Report urges Kenya to ban plastic bags
Wednesday, March 9, 2005File:Plastic bag stock sized.jpg They are cheap, useful, and very plentiful, and that is exactly the problem, according to researchers. A report issued on Feb. 23 by a cadre of environment and economics researchers suggested that Kenya should ban the common plastic bag that one gets at the checkout counter of grocery stores, and place a levy on other plastic bags, all to combat the country’s environmental problems stemming from the bags’ popularity. Retrieved from “https://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Report_urges_Kenya_to_ban_plastic_bags&oldid=4549618”
Marginal Costing And Its Application
More On This Topic: Cosmetics Packaging Marginal costing and its application by ExpertsMind This is a well known idea of economic theory. It may be explained as the change in total cost which arises as a result of a decrease and increase by one unit in volume of output. Marginal cost is an amount at any specified volume of output by which aggregate costs are changed if the volume of output is decreased and increased by single unit. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7Viv5j8Eo8[/youtube] Marginal cost is identical with variable costs, prime costs plus variable overheads in the short run but, in a way, would also consist of fixed cost in the planning production activities over a long time frame connecting an increase in the productive capacity of business. Thus in decision making troubles, marginal costs are associated to change in output under particular circumstances of a case. Theoretically differential cost and marginal cost are…
Alleged kidney harvester arrested in Nepal
Saturday, February 9, 2008 Accused kidney racketeer Amit Kumar has been arrested in Nepal at a jungle resort near Chitwan. Police are still seeking suspected co-conspirators, including Kumar’s brother Jeevan Rawat. Nepalese police are holding Kumar under currency laws, charging that he was in possession of large amounts of United States dollars and Euros. Nepal has strict laws about foreign currency. Kumar, who had become the subject of an international manhunt for allegedly harvesting hundreds of kidneys of poor people in India for transplantation to wealthy clients. He is said to have done so through a mixture of bribes and coercion. Hotel staff at the resort where he was staying, said that he kept a low profile, but suspicions arose when he was cutting out articles about his own case from print newspapers. India is seeking extradition, but the fact that Nepalese authorities have added their own charges of illegal…
Bird Flu found in Africa
Wednesday, February 8, 2006 The H5N1 Avian Flu virus, also known as Bird Flu, has been found in Nigeria by Italian scientists. Tests done on samples in a laboratory confirm that the strain is the one that can kill people, although no human cases have been reported said the Paris-based United Nations body. This is the first time is has appeared on the continent. Reports say tests of the virus closely resemble the virus in Asia. The virus has been discovered in poultry flocks in a large Nigerian farm. “It is the first report of the disease in Africa,” the Paris-based World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) said on Wednesday. “It’s going to be very difficult to mount an eradication campaign,” said Dr. Alex Thiermann, president of the OIE’s international animal health code, from Paris, France. “With what we have today, it is a highly pathogenic H5N1 – the same,…