Argentina: Unionists block distribution of newspapers.

The secretary general of the CGT, Hugo Moyano, along with members of the labor union truck drivers, blocked again this morning the Distribution of the newspapers La Nacion and Clarin. The demonstrators staged a protest outside the plant distribution of the two newspapers in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Barracas. Moyano’s men, who were driving [...]

Gisele Bundchen : top-earning model

At $25M a year, the 29-year-old Brazilian is the world’s top-earning model. Married to Tom Brady and pregnant with their first child together, she continues to promote Versace, True Religion jeans, Dior and Ebel watches. She’s known for her sexy, feminine, and body-conscious looks.

Ares I-X: a great success

For the first time in nearly 30 years, a new type of rocket took off from Cape Canaveral this week.  Though the first launch attempt was delayed by the weather, the second was a resounding success, with the Ares I-X covering 25 miles over a period of two minutes before dropping into the Atlantic for [...]

The open pit mining in Argentina

Argentine law allows mining is done in the open. The impact of gold mining, uranium and plutonium are devastating to the health of the population and the environment. The Argentine government has no qualms in allowing these types of mining projects. He has no intention of protecting natural resources, even those considered world heritage. Last [...]

Human traffic

Is it possible that we as Christians just aren’t angry enough about injustices like human trafficking and slavery?  Perhaps, we’ve grown too desensitized, domesticated, and docile. I’m not trying to say this for the sake of the ’shock factor’ but I really believe there are times when the Church needs to have a deep[er] anger [...]

The Argentine football team Maradona: could not go to World Championship

Lost 1-0 Haedo goal against Paraguay, which is already in South Africa. He was again without a team and finished with ten ideas for expulsion of Verona. Maradona set in the second half to Palermo and Schiavi to search for the miracle, but was unsuccessful. Argentina now play a playoff: This fifth behind only Ecuador [...]

Biosecurity on farms

There are times when perniciously false premises are treated as the criteria by which truth is determined. We lose the argument before it’s begun. And where does that leave us in our efforts to control mortal dangers of our own making? An article of faith among veterinarians and epidemiologists is that large industrial farms are both biosecure [...]

Brazil to Send US Biodiesel

This is one of the good news, bad news stories. The bad news is: According to this story in World Energy Alternatives, Brazil wants to start sending soy-based biodiesel to the U.S. and the European Union. That word comes the Brazilian Agriculture Ministry: Sustainability studies have been performed to prove the biodiesel was produced sustainably [...]

For the July 1 china activists called for a boycott of internet censorship

For the July 1 china activists called for a boycott of internet censorship As explained in Mashable published a post this is the result of that new PC sales in China come with a program called “Green Dam“. This addition to the filtering of pornography, said Stan Schroeder, can “monitor their online activities and block [...]

Interesting infrastructure

“When all’s said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it’s not so much which road you take, as how you take it.” ~Charles de Lint

Gormley is “happy with NAMA”

John Gormley (photo), the leader of Ireland’s Green Party and Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government*, today declared that “within the next two years we should see a turnaround in the Economy”. But, according to Gormley, this will only happen “if the vision of the green economy is implemented”. In other words, it [...]

Social differences in images

If some of the most important features in a computer are the clarity and simplicity, here are a few examples in which the author manages to exploit these properties. These illustrations of the vector graphic designer Toby Ng Kwong To, are part of his work The World of 100, which shows graphically in a simple [...]

Maps of the Swine Flu

Ushahidi Swine Flu Map Google Maps mashups of the Swine Flu Outbreak are still being produced thick and fast. The latest comes from crisis information crowdsourcing website Ushahidi and is actually one of the best maps of the outbreak so far. This Google Map of the outbreak allows you to filter the results shown on [...]

Current phase of alert in the WHO global influenza preparedness plan

In the 2009 revision of the phase descriptions, WHO has retained the use of a six-phased approach for easy incorporation of new recommendations and approaches into existing national preparedness and response plans. The grouping and description of pandemic phases have been revised to make them easier to understand, more precise, and based upon observable phenomena. [...]

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