Thursday, March 17, 2005 London – The Woodcraft Folk, a British socialist inspired youth organisation, lost its government subsidy of GBP 52 000. The Department for Education and Skills said the organisation’s claim for a grant lacked detail and that they did not have “sufficiently robust outcome indicators”, meaning that it did not represent a “good value for money”. This is the first time in 40 years the group was denied funding by the department. Loss of the grant puts the future of the organisation in doubt. The grant money…
Students in Rhode Island school attacked by wasps
Monday, September 21, 2009 Dozens of students and teachers were stung by yellow jacket wasps Monday at a middle school in Cranston. The attack occurred around 10:45 a.m., according to Ray Votto, the chief operating officer for Cranston Public Schools. It is suspected that during a routine fire drill, students exiting the building disturbed the wasps’ nest in a field behind the school. Votto said, “When kids exited towards the back of the school building near our portable classrooms, they walked into a field and may have disrupted a nest”.…
Brain Entrainment: What’s Your Financial Thermostat?
Click Here For More Specific Information On: Air Conditioner Maintenance Maitland Brain Entrainment: What’s Your Financial Thermostat? by johnfassaraf Before you start brain entrainment, the neural reconditioning process designed to program your brain with the right information, there are two systems you must master and command if you truly want to achieve business success. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3TEkCqw-64[/youtube] One is called your psycho-cybernetic trigger or mechanism and the other is known as you reticular activation system. Both are critical to your financial success. Let’s start with your psycho-cybernetic trigger. Let’s assume you have…
‘Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography’ released, $100 million lawsuit in planning stages
Wednesday, January 16, 2008 Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography, a biography of actor Tom Cruise written by journalist Andrew Morton, was released in the United States yesterday amidst the potential for a US$100 million lawsuit against its publisher, St. Martin’s Press. The book will not be published in Australia, Britain, and New Zealand due to strict libel laws in those countries. Morton had previously written the biography of Diana, Princess of Wales, Diana: Her True Story. The book has reached number nine on Amazon.com‘s list of top sellers. The book…
House approves Senate amended economic stimulus package
Friday, February 8, 2008 The United States House of Representatives has passed the bipartisan US$152 billion economic stimulus package that gives one-time rebates to United States citizens, US$600 for individuals or US$1,200 for couples plus US$300 for each child. US$300 checks would be sent to people on low-income including retirees on Social Security which was not included in the original bill backed by President George W. Bush. The plan would begin to decrease rebates for citizens with taxable incomes of US$75,000 for individuals and US$150,000 for couples. The checks would…
Rutte elected leader of the VVD
Wednesday, May 31, 2006 Mark Rutte has been elected leader of the Dutch People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD). In a close internal election, the junior minister for Education beat the minister for Immigration and Integration Rita Verdonk and backbencher Jelleke Veenendaal. On 31 May 2006, the party’s president Jan van Zanen announced the result, which was broadcast live on Dutch television. He announced that 28,788 people voted in this election, that is 74% of the eligible VVD members. They voted mostly by telephone and via the Internet. Mark…
What’s In A Smile}
Click Here For More Specific Information On: Top Cosmetic Dentist Manhattan what’s in a smile by [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzoRO56vsjQ[/youtube] Roberto Bell Don’t you ever wonder how Helen launched a thousand ships? Yes, I am talking about Helen of Troy, the one with the golden smile. The reason why I’m asking this is because I recently went to the dentist and I was told that my daughter needs to get braces to correct her overbite and I got into searching the web and found the Santa Barbara cosmetic dentist, Dr Joaquin Siles. I…
Bank of America leads Consumer Financial Protection Bureau complaints about mortgages
Thursday, October 3, 2013 A review this week by Wikinews of US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) complaints about mortgages in the United States shows Bank of America leads all lending institutions in complaints. Since mortgages complaints were recorded in December 2011, 77,622 total have been added to CFPB’s database. 29.2% of these complaints involved Bank of America, with the second most received by Wells Fargo, accounting for 15.5% of all complaints. JPMorgan Chase ranked third by volume of complaints with 9.8%. Ocwen was fourth with 8.7% and Citibank was…
Australia/2005
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On the campaign trail in the USA, October 2020
Monday, November 2, 2020 The following is the sixth and final edition of a monthly series chronicling the 2020 United States presidential election. It features original material compiled throughout the previous month after an overview of the month’s biggest stories. This month’s spotlight on the campaign trail: the Free and Equal Elections Foundation holds two presidential debates, three candidates who did not participate in those debates give their final pleas to voters, and three political pundits give their predictions on the outcome of the election. Contents 1 Summary 2 Spotlight…