Virginians melee at used Apple iBook sale

Thursday, August 18, 2005 “Total chaos” is how many described the melee that resulted from a sale of used Apple iBook laptop computers at the Richmond International Raceway (RIR) by the Henrico County, Virginia school system. Officials estimated nearly 5,000 people thronged the sale for the $50, four-year-old computers. Among them were 17 injured, fourRead More

Rugby Union: Ballymore Cup North Queensland carnival

Sunday, July 26, 2009 Rockhampton Grammar School, Townsville Grammar School and St. Augustine’s College (Cairns) played the North Queensland Carnival as part of the Ballymore Cup quarter finals this past weekend. Rockhampton Grammar School won the final and will play Siena Catholic College in the semi final. The Ballymore Cup is a state wide RugbyRead More

Igb Ts Are Helping Cnc Machines More Efficient}

Click Here For More Specific Information On: Sydney In Home Care Submitted by: DAVID SMITH CNC machines with IGBTs are fast. The CNC plasma cutting machine is one such device that has made the complex welding process simple and efficient. They are computer numerically controlled machinery which has been of great use to the metalRead More

Train derailed by collision with semi in Saskatchewan, Canada

Tuesday, March 22, 2005 Twenty-four cars of a west-bound Canada Pacific train were thrown from the tracks after the train collided with a semi tractor-trailer in poor weather and visibility near Regina, Saskatchewan around 11 a.m. Tuesday morning. The driver was rushed to hospital. The accident took place on a level section of Highway 46Read More

March against new French copyright law

Sunday, May 7, 2006 Paris, France -Protesters marched denouncing the new copyright bill, known as DADVSI.Opponents to the bill contend that the broad civil and criminal penalties that it enacts in order to fight illegal online copying of copyrighted works will in fact have a chilling effect on a variety of unrelated developments, especially inRead More

Toxic wetlands may be cause of thousands of bird deaths in Western Australia

Sunday, January 14, 2007 Western Australian government authorities say they believe a toxin may be responsible for the recent mysterious death of an estimated 5,000 birds found in the area of Esperance – on the state’s south eastern coastline. Autopsies by toxicologists from the WA Department of Agriculture will test for organochlorins, organophosphates and heavyRead More

Diebold “whistleblower” faces criminal charges in California

Saturday, March 4, 2006 Los Angeles County prosecutors have brought three felony charges against Stephen Heller for stealing documents from his employer, the law firm Jones Day. The legal documents discussed the legal ramifications of activist allegations that Diebold Election Systems had used uncertified voting systems in Alameda County elections beginning in 2002. Jones DayRead More

Freighter hits fishing boat in Gulf of Suez; thirteen dead

Tuesday, December 16, 2014 A freighter hit a fishing boat around midnight on Sunday morning in the Gulf of Suez in the Red Sea. Of the 40 Egyptian fisherman on board, thirteen are dead and thirteen more missing. Survivor Al Sayyed Mohamed Arafat told local media he jumped from the fishing boat, named Badr al-Islam,Read More