Majority of seculars believe civil servants must not voice controversial political opinions, while religious and haredi Israelis object to restriction on rabbis’ freedom of speech
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FRANKFURT/DUBLIN (Reuters) – The European Central Bank has expressed “serious concerns” that a new law in Ireland could force the central bank to take losses on the collateral it accepts in exchange for loans to commercial banks. Ireland parliament approved on Wednesday legislation which will give the government extensive powers to restructure the banking sector, including the power to impose losses on subordinated bondholders and transfer deposits. Opposition politicians have warned that the law, which fulfils Ireland's pledge to overhaul its banking system as part of an 85 billion euros EU/IMF bailout package, will turn Finance Minister Brian Lenihan into a…
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No injuries, damage reported as Eshkol Regional Council absorbs fire for second time in two days
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Tehran, Iran (CNN) — Any indictment handed down by a U.N.-backed court looking into the 2005 killing of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri will be “null and void,” Iran’s supreme leader said Monday. “This court is a kangaroo court, and every verdict it issues is rejected,” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said after a meeting with the emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani. The…
Continue reading …No Retaliation From North Korea-The North Korean government has already answered the issue about retaliation. It says that it won’t retaliate South Korea despite of its provocation wherein it held live-fire artillery drills on the same island that was shelled by Pyongyang’s forces last month. But this was contrary to what has been reported last No Retaliation From North Korea is a post from: Daily World Buzz
Continue reading …Scientists attempt to predict flu spread, give ZigBee radios to 700 high school students
December 20, 2010 No Comment
This is the Crossbow TelosB wireless remote platform, and it did an important job for science in January of last year — it monitored the close proximity interactions among 788 students and staff at one US high school to track a virtual flu. After collecting over 762,000 sneeze-worthy anecdotes among the module-toting teachers and teens, Stanford researchers ran 788,000 simulations charting the path the virus might take and methods the school might try to keep it in line. Sadly, the scientists didn’t manage to come up with any easy answers, as virtual vaccination seemed to work equally well (or poorly) no matter who got the drugs, but that if only we could actually monitor individuals in real life as easily as in a study, prevention would be much easier. But who will bell the cat, when it’s so much less political to ionize ? Scientists attempt to predict flu spread, give ZigBee radios to 700 high school students originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 20 Dec 2010 08:43:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Nina Totenberg: ‘I Was At – Forgive the Expression – a Christmas Party…’
December 20, 2010 No Comment
“I was at – forgive the expression – a Christmas party,” NPR reporter Nina Totenberg interjected on Inside Washington in the weekend’s oddest cautionary separation from a common description for a common event, seemingly embarrassed to invoke any religious terminology for Christmas. She didn’t say what she’d prefer for parties this time of the year to be named. “Winter solstice party”? Just plain old “holiday party”? Or a “seasonal gathering”? Totenberg’s bashfulness came as she explained how the failure of Congress to pass an annual budget has left federal workers in limbo: Well, these agencies, including the Defense Department, don't know how much money they've got and for what. And I was at – forgive the expression – a Christmas party at the Department of Justice and people actually were really worried about this. So, what did Totenberg mean by “forgive the expression”? Watch and judge for yourself. ( Audio : MP3 clip ) read more
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Funny man Jack Black talks about his latest role as the over-sized hero in a new movie adaptation of ‘Gulliver’s Travels.’ (Dec. 20)
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Kristine Luken, member of Christian missionary group, wrote of her love for Jewish people
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Photo courtesy Sabine Bungert via Beauty and the Bike project. Girls who walked or biked to school in a recent Spanish study performed better at school in verbal and math skills then their cohorts who rode the bus or rode a car, according to this story from Reuters News . And the longer the girls in the study commuted, the better they performed – regardless of how much other exercise and sports activity they reported. What is interesting is that improved test results didn’t hold… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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