Wednesday, June 21, 2006 New Zealand farmers have won a key victory in Parliament, with MPs voting to exempt Working farm dogs from microchipping legislation, passing 61:60. The Federated Farmers debated the law for a long time, saying that the cost of microchipping all their dogs will be a huge cost and an inconvenience. Under […]
Chase Refinance Options For Applicants With Bad Credit
See More About: Mortgage Broker Crows Nest By Sean A. Kelly The recent global recession may have affected the lives and finances of many people worldwide. Our country was not immune to the recession either. With many people losing their source of income and nose-diving property value, more and more people are facing the problem […]
Peace tax campaigners turned down by UK judge
Friday, July 22, 2005 The Peace Tax Seven, who are campaigning to have the 10 per cent of their taxes which go to Britain’s defence budget diverted to non-military uses, have had their case rejected by a High Court judge. The judicial review was called for under article 9 of the European Convention on Human […]
U.S. military confirms Qur’ans were kicked, stepped on and splashed with urine at Guantanamo
Saturday, June 4, 2005 On Friday, the U.S. military released the results of their investigation and confirmed that in 5 separate incidents, American guards at the Guantánamo Bay prison “mishandled” the Islamic holy book. However, they stress that guards were usually “respectful” of the Qur’an. One incident involved splashing a Qur’an with urine by urinating […]
Keep your eyes peeled for cosmic debris: Andrew Westphal about Stardust@home
Sunday, May 28, 2006 Stardust is a NASA space capsule that collected samples from comet 81P/Wild (also known as “Wild 2) in deep space and landed back on Earth on January 15, 2006. It was decided that a collaborative online review process would be used to “discover” the microscopically small samples the capsule collected. The […]
Natural Beauty Recipes You Can Make At Home
See More About: Egg Donor Applications By Valerie Rosenbaum A book of natural beauty recipes available from one of the famous online retailers (to remain nameless) gets mediocre reviews. Some people felt it was actually a waste of money. What they were looking for was advice about mixing fruits, vegetables and plants to use as […]
Australia sends more troops to Afghanistan
Tuesday, February 21, 2006 The Australian government has confirmed it will send an extra 200 troops to Afghanistan as part of a security and reconstruction team. Prime Minister John Howard says troops will leave from late July and will spend about two years in Afghanistan separate from the Special Forces and commandos already serving there. […]
How the Army Corps of Engineers closed one New Orleans breach
Friday, September 9, 2005 New Orleans, Louisiana —After Category 4 storm Hurricane Katrina slammed into New Orleans, on the night before August 29, 2005, several flood control constructions failed. Much of the city flooded through the openings. One of these was the flood wall forming one side of the 17th Street Canal, near Lake Pontchartrain. […]
Thousands rally in Columbus, Ohio, for undocumented immigrants’ rights
Tuesday, March 28, 2006 On March 26, thousands rallied outside the Columbus, Ohio statehouse, advocating rights for undocumented immigrants. This was one of a series of rallies following one in Los Angeles, which was reported to have drawn over 500,000 attendees. The sponsoring coalition included the Immigrant Worker Project, the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC), […]
How Much Do You Know About Mortgages?
See More About: Best Mortgage Broker North Shore How much do you know about mortgages? by Kristian P.Smith Not everybody has the amount of money to purchase a house or a piece of land to build a house. Not all of us can come up with that much money in one day, therefore we need […]