Thursday, November 8, 2007 India is the latest of the countries where the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) experiment has started. Children from the village of Khairat were given the opportunity to learn how to use the XO laptop. During the last year XO was distributed to children from Arahuay in Peru, Ban Samkha in…
Panasonic Exhaust Fans Information
Read An Opinion On: Newcastle Scaffolding By Kimberly Quang As energy costs continue to rise, the builders of homes and commercial structures are finding ways to make buildings more energy efficient by making them essentially airtight, or as close as possible. While this is an excellent way to maintain the interior climate of buildings in…
Indian Government gives green signal to community radio
Sunday, October 22, 2006 The Group of Ministers (GoM) set up by the union government has given the thumbs-up for community radio stations to operate in India. The GoM has proposed that universities, registered trusts, civil society bodies and NGOs be allowed to run such stations. It has also proposed a single window clearance system…
A Car Glass Company Is Available To Help
Read An Opinion On: Carrington Products byAlma Abell If there is a broken windshield on the family car, there is a good chance that this is at the top of the priority list. After all, this is somewhat of a nuisance. Not to mention, it is definitely an eyesore. Rather than dealing with a broken…
News briefs:August 27, 2006
The time is 18:00 (UTC) on August 27th, 2006, and this is Audio Wikinews News Briefs. Contents 1 Headlines 1.1 Many dead after jet crashes in Kentucky 1.2 Canadian soldiers kill Afghan police officer 1.3 British soldier shot and killed in southern Afghanistan 1.4 Deadline to release Muslim prisoners passes, journalists released 1.5 Guantanamo inmate…
Study claims to show difference between male and female brains
Wednesday, February 16, 2005 Michael Gurian, psychologist and author of “What Could He Be Thinking?“, has claimed to identify approximately one hundred structural differences between male and female brains in a recent study. Gurian comments: “Men, because we tend to compartmentalize our communication into a smaller part of the brain, we tend to be better…
New Zealand school children put fight videos on YouTube
Friday, October 27, 2006 Approximately seven videos showing school children beating their peers have been put on the Google-owned video service, YouTube. The videos are recorded using cellphone cameras from students at Auckland Grammar School, Tauranga Boys’ College and Saint Kentigern College and other unidentified schools, according to New Zealand newspaper, The Press. Auckland Grammar…
Homeless To Hopeful
Read An Opinion On: Website Www.Safetyandmobility.Com.Au By Todd A. Smith Where do you go when there is nowhere to turn? What do you do when all of the material possessions you valued so much suddenly disappear? Many of us go through life oblivious to the challenges that our fellow man faces on a daily basis….
U.S. anti-war mom calls it quits
Tuesday, May 29, 2007 War protestor Cindy Sheehan, the mother of fallen soldier Casey Sheehan who was killed in Iraq 3 years ago, wrote on what has been published by the Daily Kos as a personal web journal on Monday morning, a day in observance of Memorial Day in the United States, that “This is…
National Museum of Scotland reopens after three-year redevelopment
Friday, July 29, 2011 Today sees the reopening of the National Museum of Scotland following a three-year renovation costing £47.4 million (US$ 77.3 million). Edinburgh’s Chambers Street was closed to traffic for the morning, with the 10am reopening by eleven-year-old Bryony Hare, who took her first steps in the museum, and won a competition organised…