Wednesday, February 27, 2008 The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a vault containing millions of seeds from all over the world, saw its first deposits on Tuesday. Located 800 kilometers from the North Pole on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, the vault has been referred to by European Commission president José Manuel Barroso as a “frozen Garden of Eden“. It is intended to preserve crop supplies and secure biological diversity in the event of a worldwide disaster. “The opening of the seed vault marks a historic turning point in safeguarding the…
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London Tube bombs went ‘bang bang bang, very close together’
Saturday, July 9, 2005 After a press conference in London from the Metropolitan Police and Transport for London, more details are emerging about the attacks in London on Thursday. Data from the Underground system’s power and control systems have revealed that all three bombs went off within 50 seconds of each other, at 8.50am, with the managing director of Transport for London, Tim O’Toole saying the bombs went “bang bang bang, very close together”. The first bomb to detonate was on the Liverpool Street train soon after it left for…
Health Insurance And Some Of Its Plans
Click Here For More Specific Information On: Student Health Usa Site The thing that must be kept in mind always before you are about to purchase an insurance plan for health for you and also for your family is that you must make a very good comparison among all the insurance agencies, providers and companies so as to choose the best from all of them to get a very good health insurance plan for you and also for your family. Do not go for cheap insurance plans of health ever,…
SpaceX scrubs Falcon I rocket launch
Monday, November 28, 2005 SpaceX called off the much-delayed inaugural launch of their new Falcon 1 rocket on Saturday from Kwajalein’s Omelek Island launch site. The intent was to launch the U.S. Air Force Academy’s FalconSat 2 satellite, which will monitor plasma interactions with the Earth’s upper atmosphere and magnetosphere. The launch was delayed, then finally cancelled after an oxygen boil-off vent had accidentally been left open. The oxygen was unable to cool the helium pressurant, which then proceeded to evaporate faster than it could be replenished. A main computer…
Breast Massage For Enlargement And Beneficial Breast Enlargement Exercises
Click Here For More Specific Information On: Salt Booth Benefits Breast Massage for Enlargement and Beneficial Breast Enlargement Exercises by Dr. Lee Mikal The four-step process will give you a easy massage technique that can be done, by yourself, in the privacy of your own home. Although almost any mild massage technique will be of benefit, these four technique should be a part of your individual regimen. More specifically, step one is a tender draining activity designed to drain the breasts lymphatic system and is perhaps the most central of…
‘Top Model’ winner Jaslene Gonzalez on her career and being a Latina role model
Wednesday, February 13, 2008 Jaslene Gonzalez is not your typical model. She rose to fame after winning Cycle 8 of America’s Next Top Model, and since then, has been aggressively tapping into the fashion industry. As a result of her Latin background, Gonzalez has been successful at marketing herself both in the English-speaking and Spanish-speaking worlds. However, Gonzalez is much much more – a fighter, a humanitarian, and a good Latin granddaughter. Born in Chicago to a Latina mother, and a Puerto Rican-born father, Gonzalez had, in many ways, a…
The Advantages Of Refrigerated Freight To Customers
Click Here For More Specific Information On: Metal Fabrication Pakenham The Advantages of Refrigerated Freight to Customers by Corwin Smith Temperature sensitive cargo needs to be shipped in a reefer or refrigerated container. No doubt, the use of reefers enables people across the world to enjoy fresh produce all the year round. In addition, the companies engaged in export an import of refrigerated products are now capable of providing customers with the products that would be unavailable otherwise. Generally, the containers carrying refrigerated freight are cooled through their in-built refrigeration…
Australian writer Harry Nicolaides jailed for three years for insulting Thai Royal Family
Wednesday, January 21, 2009 File:King Bhumibol Adulyadej Portrait.jpg Melbourne writer Harry Nicolaides, 41, was sentenced on Monday to three years imprisonment for defaming the Royal Family of Thailand. He had pled guilty to the lèse majesté indictment that arose from a self-published 2005 novel, Verisimilitude, of which only 50 copies were printed, and just seven sold.Meanwhile, yesterday, the Thai police charged a leading leftist political science professor, Dr. Giles Ji Ungpakorn, with lèse majesté. The passage of concern, which comprised only 103 words or 12 lines, referred to a crown…
Police report drug haul seizure worth up to £30 million in Brownhills, England
Monday, December 2, 2013 Police in the West Midlands in England today said nearly 200 kilograms worth of drugs with value possibly as great as £30 million (about US$49 million or €36 million) has been seized from a unit in the town of Brownhills. In what an officer described as “one of the largest [seizures] in the force’s 39 year history”, West Midlands Police reported recovering six big cellophane-wrapped cardboard boxes containing cannabis, cocaine, and MDMA (“ecstasy”) in a police raid operation on the Maybrook Industrial Estate in the town…
Dairy cattle with names produce more milk, according to new study
Thursday, January 29, 2009 Giving a cow a name and treating her as an individual with “more personal touch” can increase milk production, so says a scientific research published in the online “Anthrozoos,” which is described as a “multidisciplinary journal of the interactions of people and animals”. The Newcastle University‘s School of Agriculture, Food and Rural Development’s (of the Newcastle University Faculty of Science, Agriculture and Engineering) researchers have found that farmers who named their dairy cattle Ermintrude, Daisy, La vache qui rit, Buttercup, Betsy, or Gertrude, improved their overall…