Monday, January 14, 2008 A construction worker died after falling thirty feet from a New York hotel yesterday, police say. The accident occurred at the Trump SoHo construction site in SoHo, New York. Witnesses at the scene reported that a load being lifted by a crane collided with the building, possibly causing scaffolding to collapse.…
Climate change impacts Wyoming
Tuesday, March 18, 2008 Cheek numbing, eye watering winds whip across the plains of the Laramie Basin, Wyoming. The ground is yellow brown with patches of recalcitrant snow. Sheep Mountain is losing its winter coat. All normal affairs for March. The March edition of the Wyoming Basin Outlook Report also reports, based on February accumulations,…
Choosing The Best Boot Camp In The Chicagoland Area
Here’s An Opinion On: Smile Makeover Nyc By Craig Kastning Training in boot camps offers plenty of advantages over other traditional exercises classes. Most would claim that the difference lies on the intensity of the training that takes place in boot camp compared to that of traditional training workouts. The training includes calisthenics, cardiovascular exercises,…
US Senator Kennedy has brain tumor surgically removed
Monday, June 2, 2008 Today, United States Senator Ted Kennedy underwent surgery for a brain tumor at Duke University Medical Center. Kennedy, 76, was diagnosed with malignant glioma, a common but dangerous form of cancer, after suffering a seizure on May 17. Kennedy has met repeatedly with friend and medical advisor Dr. Lawrence C. Horowitz…
NSW govt to rebuild high school with private funding
Monday, May 22, 2006 New South Wales minister for Education and Training, Carmel Tebbutt told parliament that Kelso High School, which was destroyed by fire on August 18, 2005 will be rebuilt under the NSW government’s New Schools Public Private Partnerships (PPP) program. Under the program, the bulk of construction costs come from private companies…
Denny’s Super Bowl free ‘Grand Slam Breakfast’ brings 2 million diners
Friday, February 6, 2009 Denny’s 1,600 chain restaurants across North America, Puerto Rico and Canada, were slammed for eight hours Tuesday with hungry patrons standing on sidewalks for nearly two hours to take advantage of the $5.99 “Grand Slam Breakfast” giveaway. Denny’s, a dining chain with annual revenue of about $900 million, has advertised in…
Offshore Safe Deposit Boxes Secure Location To Stash Your Cash
Here’s An Opinion On: Cash Recycling Machines There are instances you find yourself in possession of some valuable portable assets that will require a safe offshore deposit facility. These assets are valuable documents such as passports, bearer shares, citizenship records, bill of sales, pension records, trust documents, rare stamps, etc. Besides document format, you can…
Two separate fighter jet crashes kill two, injure two in Afghanistan
Monday, July 20, 2009 A United States fighter jet crash on Saturday has claimed the lives of the two American pilots onboard in eastern Afghanistan, and a NATO fighter crash at Kandahar Airfield has injured two more pilots today. The latest crash is the fifth in the space of a week. On Tuesday a helicopter…
Million Dollar Homepage is close to achieving million-dollar goal
Friday, December 30, 2005 Alex Tew, a student in England, has almost reached his target of one million dollars on his website: Million Dollar Homepage. He came up with the idea after jotting down ideas before he went to bed on how to become a millionaire before he went to university. Then he came up…
US unemployment rate down to ten percent
Sunday, December 6, 2009 The US Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Friday that unemployment in the country edged down from 10.2% to 10% in November, with fewer jobs lost in the previous two months than anticipated. The latest monthly figure was discussed at a congressional hearing yesterday as president Barack Obama welcomed the news…