Dr. Mark Rampton, a Corvallis physician, will deliver a talk Monday about his recent experiences treating the injured after the Jan. 12 quake in Haiti.
Titled "Unimaginable," Rampton's talk will be a description of his experiences from Jan. 18 through 28, when he and a 20-member team of doctors, nurses and others, sponsored by the Humanitarian Aid program of the Mormon church, left Salt Lake City on an independent aid effort. Their journey was chronicled by a team from the Deseret…
Dubai police chief Lieutenant General Dahi Khaifan Tamim today warned that if it is proven that Mossad is behind last month’s assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in the city, they will seek an international arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.…
I was in my local supermarket today gathering some essential food items when my partner stopped dead in the isle and started complaining of excruciating and instant nausea. She began pointing in the direction behind me and muttering the filthiest of profanities.…
If you thought Lady Gaga was weird, check out what happens in Sweden. This
is electro sensation Fever Ray, popular in indie music circles in the
U.S., giving her acceptance speech after winning “best dance artist” at
P3 Gold, a Swedish equivalent of the Grammys. …
Anyone who thinks that the business of derivatives ended with the financial crisis had better check out the recent trading volumes released by the derivatives exchange company CME Group.
Just this January, total derivatives trading volume shot up 19% year over year, with
particularly feverish activity in interest rate derivatives (for fixed
income, Up 33%),…
We can expect a great deal of controversy with Yemen. We're currently told that Al-Qaeda operates in Yemen but is this true? Are there ANY Al-Qaeda members operating there or is that just a lie to obfuscate the truth? Well, what would YOU expect from the American government and the American media, the truth or a lie?
If you guessed a lie you would be right.
Allow a Yemeni scholar to provide you with an overview of the history and current conditions in Yemen by… Continue
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The defense chiefs of all 28 NATO nations and an undisclosed number of counterparts from non-Alliance partners gathered in Istanbul, Turkey on February 4 to begin two days of meetings focused on the war in Afghanistan, the withdrawal of military forces from Kosovo in the course of transferring control of security operations to the breakaway province’s embryonic army (the Kosovo Security Force) and “the transformation efforts required to best conduct the full range of NATO’s agreed missions.”… Continue
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In the face of a changing fiscal and political environment, Congress and various states are belatedly rethinking their far-flung efforts to restructure and regulate the nation’s energy markets. The… Continue
(CNN) -- When Annie Brown's daughter, Isabel, was a month old, her pediatrician asked Brown and her husband to sit down because
he had some bad news to tell them: Isabel carried a gene that put her
at risk for cystic fibrosis.
While grateful to have the information -- Isabel received further testing and she doesn't…
JONATHON PORRITT, one of Gordon Brown’s leading green advisers, is to warn that Britain must drastically reduce its population if it is to build a sustainable society.
Porritt’s call will come at this week’s annual conference of the Optimum Population Trust (OPT), of which he is patron.
The trust will release research suggesting UK population must be cut to 30m if the country wants to feed itself sustainably.
Porritt said: “Population growth, plus economic… Continue
The Government's flagship ID cards scheme suffered an embarrassing setback when a bank refused to accept one as proof of identity.
Darren McTeggart tried to use the £30 card to pick up a replacement credit card from a branch of Santander – formerly Abbey – in Manchester, where the scheme was rolled out on a voluntary basis last year.
Mr McTeggart, one of the first people to get the card, said: “They said it was not on their list of approved ID.
Anyone with an e-mail account likely knows that police can peek inside it if they have a paper search warrant.
But cybercrime investigators are frustrated by the speed of traditional methods of faxing, mailing, or e-mailing companies these documents. They're pushing for the creation of a national Web interface linking police computers with those of Internet and e-mail providers so requests can be sent and received electronically.
I went to Best Buy and bought an HD radio tuner, no not that big like a home tuner, just something you can plug in a small pair of headphones and it was around $50. And right now the market and economy for HD radio is mediocre. The big commercial broadcasters are just playing music without waking up people, I mean the programming sounds like Muzak, Music Choice, or satellite radio. There are no DJ's behind the mixers, and its like they are just playing music that is it. HD-2, and HD-3 sounds… Continue
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Keep America Beautiful! Bill, a wealthy businessman, confronts his junkie daughter's drug-dealing boyfriend; in the ensuing argument, Bill kills him. Panic-s...