More Detail Here: Best Estate Planning Lawyers Gosford Soil sustains all life on earth. Unfortunately this vital resource is being depleted rapidly. Mankind must take instant and strong steps to conserve soil. Soil is made up of organic and mineral matter that sustains plant life and shelters organisms responsible for nutrient cycling What are the…
News briefs:May 18, 2010
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Las Vegas ‘chili finger’ woman has history of lawsuits
Monday, April 11, 2005 Anna Ayala, the Las Vegas woman who claims to have found the notorious “chili finger” at a Wendy’s outlet in San Jose, California, has filed lawsuits against other businesses, according to researchers at the Associated Press. Her previous court battles included the national El Pollo Loco chicken-chain, a previous employer, and…
Open source game developer Perttu Ahola talks about Minetest with Wikinews
Tuesday, June 30, 2020 Recently, Finnish open-source video game developer Perttu Ahola discussed Minetest, his “longest ever project”, with Wikinews. Started in October 2010, Minetest was an attempt by Ahola to create a sandbox game similar to Minecraft. Minecraft is a multi-platform commercial game, which was in alpha version when Ahola challenged himself to create…
ACLU President Strossen on religion, drugs, guns and impeaching George Bush
Tuesday, October 30, 2007File:Nadine Strossen 5 by David Shankbone.jpg There are few organizations in the United States that elicit a stronger emotional response than the American Civil Liberties Union, whose stated goal is “to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of…
Terri Schiavo dies
Thursday, March 31, 2005 Terri Schiavo died this morning in St. Petersburg, Florida, moments after 9 a.m. EST. Thirteen days ago, her feeding tube was removed after courts repeatedly ruled Schiavo would not want to be kept alive in her current state. Schiavo suffered severe brain damage in 1990 after a mysterious cardiac arrest. Many…
Simple animals could live in Martian brines: Wikinews interviews planetary scientist Vlada Stamenkovi?
Wednesday, January 9, 2019 Planetary scientist Vlada Stamenkovi? of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and colleagues have developed a new chemical model of how oxygen dissolves in Martian conditions, which raises the possibility of oxygen-rich brines; enough, the work suggests, to support simple animals such as sponges. The model was published in Nature on October…
Canberra central business district trials urinals
Thursday, March 21, 2013 Canberra CBD Limited (CCBD) released data this week about a urinal trial in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT)’s Central Business District (CBD) this past weekend that showed the temporary urinals collected 220 litres of urine in a four day period between 7pm and 7am on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights….
Renewed concern over nuclear response following atomic bomb anniversary
Saturday, August 13, 2011 As Japan last weekend marked the 66th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, concern continues to mount about new revelations of elevated radiation readings following the March 11 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Evidence of unsafe levels of radiation within the food supply chain continues to emerge, with Japanese…
Five Questions To Ask A Professional Painting Contractor Before Hiring
More Detail Here: User Experience Agency Vancouver Submitted by: Steve A. Parker The painting contracting industry is an important part of the construction and real estate industry that facility managers and property owners can t do without. Because of this, many unscrupulous entities masquerade as legitimate painting contractors to rip off unsuspecting building owners. How…