Topic: NEWS english - on October 22, 2013 at 3:04:00 PM CEST
Bill to Ban Certain Tattoos, Body Piercings Passes Senate
The Arkansas Senate passed a bill to ban tattoos, piercings and other similar body modifications which it characterizes as “non-traditional,” recently.
Senator Missy Irvin of Mountain View, Arkansas sponsored the bill entitled ”An Act To Limit Body Art Procedures”. She says that body modifications should be limited to “traditional” tattoos and piercings. Her proposal was to essentially ban scarification procedures and dermal implants, as well as certain tattoos which remain yet to be defined as by the vague language of the bill she sponsored.
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Topic: NEWS english - on October 21, 2013 at 2:55:00 PM CEST
How Belfast got stuck in to make artist Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada's Wish come true
Around 30,000 wooden pegs, 2,000 tonnes of soil, 2,000 tonnes of sand, plus grass, stones, string, and lots of elbow grease has gone into Wish – the UK and Ireland's largest land art portrait.
Located in the Titanic Quarter of the city, the portrait based on a photograph of an anonymous six-year-old Belfast girl, is best seen by helicopter, drone or when on a plane arriving into the city.
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Topic: NEWS english - on October 17, 2013 at 4:21:00 PM CEST
Why Pierre Omidyar decided to join forces with Glenn Greenwald for a new venture in news
Yesterday word leaked out that Glenn Greenwald would be leaving the Guardian to help create some new thing backed by Pierre Omidyar, the founder of eBay. I just got off the phone with Omidyar. So I can report more details about what the new thing is and how it came to be.
Here’s the story he told me:
In the spring of this year, Pierre Omidyar was one of the people approached by the Washington Post Company about buying the Post. Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, wound up with the prize. But as a result of exploring that transaction, Omidyar started thinking seriously about investing in a news property. He began to ask himself what could be done with the same investment if he decided to build something from the ground up.
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Topic: NEWS english - on October 16, 2013 at 3:29:00 PM CEST
Glenn Greenwald announces departure from the Guardian
Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who broke a string of stories about widespread electronic surveillance by the National Security Agency based on files leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden, has announced that he is leaving the Guardian.
In a statement posted on his blog, Greenwald said: "My partnership with the Guardian has been extremely fruitful and fulfilling. I have high regard for the editors and journalists with whom I worked and am incredibly proud of what we achieved.
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Topic: NEWS english - on October 12, 2013 at 5:22:00 PM CEST
Exploding toilet leaves Brooklyn man with shrapnel wounds, afraid to flush
Riggs and Murtaugh must be having flashbacks in 'Lethal Weapon 2.' Michel Pierre needed 30 stitches to close shrapnel wounds after he flushed the toilet in his Flatbrush apartment and it exploded in his face.
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Topic: NEWS english - on October 11, 2013 at 3:49:00 PM CEST
French farming hit by a suicide every two days
Suicide is the third-highest cause of death among French farmers, after cancer and cardio-vascular diseases, a report by the French health institute INVS revealed on Thursday.
In a three year period between 2007 and 2009, 485 farmers took their own lives, which represents a suicide every two days on average. The rate of suicides among farmers is 20 percent higher than among the French population as a whole.
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Topic: NEWS english - on October 10, 2013 at 3:51:00 PM CEST
Room with a peuw! Deborah keeps 50 skunks in her home – and they are even allowed to sleep on her bed
They're known for being one of the most rancid-smelling animals and would seem to be the most unlikely of pets.
But Deborah Cipriani keeps 50 of the animals in her own home; they are given free reign of the five-bedroom house - even sleeping on Deborah's bed.
The 55-year-old, from North Ridgeville, Ohio, runs America's only rescue centre for domestic skunks.
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Topic: NEWS english - on October 7, 2013 at 3:13:00 PM CEST
Shoplifting bear eats apples and leaves
A small black bear recently went on a late night shopping trip for apples at the Vons supermarket in Mammoth Lakes, California.
As employees stocked shelves in the early hours of Friday morning, a nearly two-year old bear, familiar to Wildlife Officer Steve Searles walked through the electronic doors and helped himself to some apples.
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Topic: NEWS english - on October 5, 2013 at 5:19:00 PM CEST
Boy in 'lotus position' gets stuck in washing machine in West Croydon
Firefighters have freed a five-year-old boy who became trapped in a washing machine.
The child climbed into the machine and got stuck "in a lotus position" while playing in his home in Oakfield Road, West Croydon, on Wednesday afternoon.
Fire officers from Croydon station rushed to the rescue after receiving a call from the boy's distressed mother at around 2pm
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Topic: NEWS english - on September 27, 2013 at 2:59:00 PM CEST
Paul Karason, Real-life 'Blue Man,' Dies at 62
Paul Karason, who was known for having skin that was blue, passed away after suffering a heart attack at the age of 62. He became famous when coming forward to discuss his unique condition, the result of taking medication no longer approved for treatment.
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Topic: NEWS english - on September 26, 2013 at 3:19:00 PM CEST
Somebody Stole 7 Milliseconds From the Federal Reserve
Three to seven milliseconds before the fed moved interest rates, billions of dollars of trades were input that took advantage of the changed rates, reaping huge profits. According to a report at Mother Jones, 'Last Wednesday, the Fed announced that it would not be tapering its bond buying program. This news was released at precisely 2 pm in Washington 'as measured by the national atomic clock.' It takes 7 milliseconds for this information to get to Chicago. However, several huge orders that were based on the Fed's decision were placed on Chicago exchanges 2-3 milliseconds after 2 pm. How did this happen?'
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Topic: NEWS english - on September 24, 2013 at 2:41:00 PM CEST
BP seeks to have Gulf Coast oil spill settlement payments suspended
BP on Monday renewed its request for a federal judge to temporarily suspend settlement payments to Gulf Coast residents and businesses affected by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, citing a scathing report on alleged misconduct within the court-supervised program.
In a court filing, BP attorneys said the report, issued earlier this month by the former FBI director Louis Freeh, shows the settlement program is plagued by problems that need to be fixed. US district judge Carl Barbier has already rejected two requests by BP to suspend settlement payments, but both rulings preceded Freeh's report, which was released on 6 September.
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