by Steve Dube, Western Mail
A GREENER pinta, and more of it, is being promoted by Dairy UK, the voice of Britain’s dairy industry.
A new publication, Green and White, launched last week, claimed a revolutionary new diet is capable of dramatically reducing the amount of the greenhouse gas methane produced by each cow.
The dairy herd is estimated to contribute 1% of the UK’s total greenhouse gas emissions, but trials in Wales by dairy Read the rest of this entry »
PSI has been a leading provider of IT solutions and services to federal
government and private sector organizations since 1988. With
headquarters in Columbia, Md. and offices in Falls Church, Va. and San
Antonio, Tx., PSI delivers a full-service, single source approach with
an emphasis on its core capabilities in the areas of Systems Lifecycle
Support, Healthcare IT Solutions, Network / Desktop Services, Read the rest of this entry »
- January 03rd, 2009
As reported earlier, Henry Waxman of the U.S. House of Representatives from California’s 30th district issued a report on the steroid problem in professional wrestling on Friday. In Waxman’s report, it was revealed that fifteen of the sixty TNA wrestlers who were tested for drugs in January 2008 tested positive for steroids. Additionally, eleven other TNA wrestlers tested positive for various other drugs, so 43% of the roster Read the rest of this entry »
Published December 24, 2008
GALVESTON Police suspect a motorcyclist facing a manslaughter charge fled Texas to his home state of Florida shortly after a Dec. 14 wreck that critically injured his passenger, authorities said Tuesday.
Bond for John Michael Venable, 30, of Orlando, was set at $80,000 on the manslaughter warrant, which police sought after Crystal Lachelle Stephens, 35, of Beaumont, died, Galveston police said.
Venable and Stephens Read the rest of this entry »
released this week, Americans are becoming increasingly concerned about US food safety, and the overwhelming majority wants the government to do more to monitor the American food supply.
Currently, the
(FDA) is only required to inspect domestic food production facilities (other than meat plants, which the
inspects daily) once every 5 to 10 years; foreign facilities are FDA-inspected even less often. According to the poll, a full 2/3 of Americans Read the rest of this entry »
DENVER (Feb. 24) Today, the New York-based Guttmacher Institute released a report showing that nearly 2 million unintended pregnancies and 810,000 abortions are prevented nationwide each year by publicly funded family planning services. Emilie C. Ailts, executive director of Denver-based NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado, released the following statement regarding the impact of publicly funded preventive family planning services in Colorado: Read the rest of this entry »
TAIYUAN, Jan. 19 (Xinhua) — A two-year-old girl who was confirmed Saturday to be infected with bird flu in north China’s Shanxi Province is still in critical condition, local health authorities said Monday.
The girl surnamed Peng is being treated at the Fourth People’s Hospital in the provincial capital of Taiyuan. “The patient is in critical condition, but her vital signs are normal,” said a Shanxi Provincial Health Department spokesman.
The Read the rest of this entry »
Separately, a third major formula maker _
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whose brands include Similac told AP in November that in-house
tests had detected trace levels of melamine in its infant formula.
Those levels were below what FDA found in the other formulas, an
Abbott spokesman said, and below any national safety guidelines.
FDA tested 37 different Abbott Laboratories formulas and had no
detections.
Abbott Laboratories, Nestle and Mead Johnson make more than 90
percent Read the rest of this entry »
HAYWARD — The downtown Hayward BART station is closed after two people were shot near the station’s entrance at about 12:40 p.m. today, authorities said. Both victims were transported to Eden Medical Center in Castro Valley.
A teenager was shot in the abdomen and is in critical condition. The other victim — believed to be a bystander — was shot in the “lower left flank” and is expected to survive, said Hayward Fire Capt. Eric Vollmer. Read the rest of this entry »
A New York surgeon’s demand for the return of the kidney he donated to his now-estranged wife — or at least $1.5 million for it — has transplant experts wondering what he is thinking.
Richard Batista, a surgeon at Nassau University Medical Center on Long Island, says that he is seeking compensation for the kidney he donated to his wife, Dawnell, in 2001. Richard Batista says she began having an extramarital affair after the transplant.
“There’s Read the rest of this entry »