Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Solar panel installation in the United States Image: U.S. Department of Agriculture.Last Tuesday, AusAID Australia and the World Bank's Global Environment Fund (GEF) reached an agreement to give the government of Kiribati US$5 million (AU$4,779,000, NZ$5,985,000, €3,885,000) to install solar panels around the country capital, located on the Tarawa atoll. According to...
Monday, November 28, 2005
TacSat-1 spacecraft, which was supposed to be the successor to the Falcon ISpaceX 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...
Wednesday, February 2, 2005
Eben Moglen, Columbia University Law Professor, will head the newSoftware Freedom Law Center (SFLC). An initial 4 million dollars has been provided by Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) to fund the project.
The law center will provide free legal service for open source projects and developers. In 2004 OSDL established a separate $10 million Linux Legal Defense Fund...
Thursday, November 8, 2007
Edmund WhiteAll photos: David ShankboneWhat you are about to read is an American life as lived by renowned author Edmund White. His life has been a crossroads, the fulcrum of high-brow Classicism and low-brow Brett Easton Ellisism. It is not for the faint. He has been the toast of the literary elite in New York, London and Paris, befriending artistic luminaries such as...
Monday, March 2, 2009
With a Queensland state election coming up in Australia, many minor parties will be looking to hold balance of power and making the major parties listen to what they have to say. The Socialist Alliance (SA) is one of these parties.
SA is a left-wing political party. There stated describes itself as an anti-capitalist party which believes in "a democratic society that is run...
Friday, March 27, 2009
British MuseumImage: Ham.Relics of 39 saints were found by staff of the British Museum today in a 12-century German portable altar. The altar had been donated in 1902, but had not been opened until today. It had been opened for a cleaning and a check on its condition, prior to being scheduled for display in a new medieval art gallery at the Museum tomorrow. When it was...
Monday, January 16, 2006
Israeli media is reporting that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon opened his eyes for the first time since he suffered a major stroke on January 4, 2006.
However, hospital officials said the reports were generated by the Sharon family's "impression of eyelid movement, whose medical significance is unclear."
"He was listening to a tape of his grandson and you could see tears in...
Saturday, April 28, 2007
Former Director of U.S. Foreign Assistance and USAID Administrator, Randall Tobias.Randall L. Tobias, the United States Director of Foreign Assistance and USAID Administrator, has resigned after he admitted to ABC News to being a customer of Pamela Martin and Associates, a call girl company.
A woman by the name of Jeane Palfrey, who worked for Pamela Martin recently...
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Residents of a Leeds, England neighbourhood have requested help from a council because their neighbourhood is plagued by crime, overcrowding, and community tensions. Hyde Park, Leeds, England, where crime has increased by seven percent over the last year. Residents have written to the council asking for help to improve the area. Image: Gunnar Larsson.Leeds City Council...
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