Police social media frenzy threatens to prejudice alleged child killer trial
Wednesday, August 17, 2011 Police in Queensland, Australia received an unexpected response from the public on Saturday when they announced on their Facebook page that a 41-year-old man had been arrested and charged with the disappearance and murder of 13-year-old Daniel Morcombe. Morcombe’s disappearance in late 2003 triggered one of the largest manhunts in Queensland history. Within a few hours, hundreds had responded to the post. Many praised the Queensland Police and offered their condolences to the boy’s family. However, several were highly prejudicial despite the suspect having not yet gone to trial. The police attempted to remove the inflammatory comments, but thousands had already read many of them, including potential jurors. Officials fear that this could make forming an impartial jury especially difficult. Police have charged the suspect with murder, deprivation of liberty, child stealing, indecent treatment of a child under 16, and interfering with a corpse. Retrieved from…
New Home Construction Project
Click Here To Know More About: Newcastle Painters New Home Construction Project by Lawrence Soto But take a closer look: Modular home builders charge cheap for the basic, bare-bones model with homes, but as soon as you start having addons, features and extra options to it the amount quickly goes up! Which includes a custom home, the price of hundreds of amenities you\’re looking with regard to will already be in the price, and will in many cases be very competitive along with the equivalent modular home. . When looking for some sort of custom home builder and making the design of your new property, it\’s always good to follow the following tips to help you produce a home that will fulfill all of your fantasies. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCNrorAwBCc[/youtube] Always keep it simple: Find a designer that keeps that simple. Brainstorming and sketching may be more valuable than fancy software when you…
New industrial area to be created in Arad county, Romania
Wednesday, April 13, 2005The local government of Arad County in western Romania today launched a project calling for the creation of a new industrial area in the commune of Zimandul Nou. They have already allocated 0.3 km² for this project, with more land being expected to be allocated for the industrial precinct. The president of Arad Couty Council, Iosif Matula, says that the labour force in the area is qualified in industrial occupations, especially in the fields of textiles, furniture, electronics and tools industries. The site also already has all the necessary infrastructure, such as gas, access to sewage and a water purifying facility. The industrial area will be located on the outskirts of the Zimandul Nou commune, which is a fairly small, rural town. The proposed Zimandul Nou industrial area is one of the latest development projects by the Arad County Council, which has, since a few years ago,…
Australia: Andrea Wildin, Greens candidate in Stretton state by-election, discusses political issues with Wikinews
Saturday, July 10, 2021 After the resignation of Australian Labor Party Member of Parliament Duncan Pegg of the Queensland branch, voters in the Queensland electoral district of Stretton are to go to a by-election on July 24. Pegg announced resignation on April 22 to deal with a cancer diagnosis, and died on June 10. Stretton covers suburbs in south Brisbane such as Calamvale, Sunnybank Hills, Kuraby, and the eponymous town. At the 2020 Queensland state election, Pegg won 56.59% of the first preference vote in Stretton, with his closest opponent being Peter Zhuang of the Liberal National Party, who won 30.21% of the vote. Since the seat’s establishment in 2001, it has been held by the Labor Party except for one exception in the 2012 Queensland state election, which was a victory for the Liberal National Party, who won 78 of Queensland’s 89 seats. Pegg was first elected in 2015,…
Glasgow cannabis enthusiasts celebrate ‘green’ on city green
Tuesday, April 22, 2014 Coinciding with Easter Sunday, Glasgow Cannabis Social Club’s annual 420 event was held on Glasgow Green, under sunny blue skies, and overlooking the river Clyde. Despite the city’s council attempting to revoke permission for the gathering at the last minute, police were happy for it to go-ahead with approximately a dozen officers attending in high-visibility vests. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 The Daily Record reported five arrests were made for minor offences, likely smoking and possession of small quantities of cannabis. Taking a less-sensational — and more accurate — line of reporting, the Monday edition of Glasgow’s Evening News stated five were referred to the Procurator Fiscal who is responsible for deciding if charges should be brought. Official figures provided by the police were that 150 attended. With people coming…
From Boring Flat Door To Six Panel Beauty
Click Here To Know More About: Outdoor Kitchen By Angela Glancy Six-panel doors are more expensive than plain doors, but they add a great deal of elegance to a home. Both exterior and interior doors are made in six-panel styles. You can mimic the elegance and beauty of a six-panel door to a flat faced door with molding and paint for just a fraction of the price of a new six-panel door. Plan your Design Look at a six-panel door to get an idea of how the panels are set up: A typical configuration is two vertical columns of panels, with a smaller square at the top of each column followed by two vertically rectangular panels arranged below it, one on top of the other. While you certainly can configure panels any way that wish, to recreate the look of a traditional six-panel door, you will achieve a more realistic…
No reprieve for Stanley Williams, Crips street gang founder
Tuesday, December 13, 2005 Stanley “Tookie” Williams, founder of the Crips street gangs, was executed by lethal injection in the State of California just after midnight local time Tuesday at the San Quentin State Prison after spending 24 years on death row. He was 51 years old. Williams said no final words before his execution. It took two nurses 12 minutes to insert catheters into each of his arms, one nurse and one catheter per arm. The lethal doses were injected at 12:20 am, and Williams was pronounced dead at 12:35. Hopes for clemency were dashed Monday when California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declined to commute Williams’s sentence to life imprisonment. Last minute appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court were also denied. Williams was convicted in 1981 of the murder of Albert Owens during the robbery of a 7-Eleven convenience store, as well as the murders of motel owners Tsai-Shai and…
Study says dogs can smell lung and breast cancer
Monday, August 7, 2006 Dogs can be trained to detect early and late stages of lung and breast cancer accurately according to a study published by California scientists in the little-known scientific journal Integrative Cancer Therapies. The study took place over the last five years at the Pine Street Foundation, a non-profit organization which conducts evidence-based research on integrative medicine (combining complementary and alternative medicine and mainstream medicine). Michael McCulloch and colleagues used three Labrador Retrievers and two Portuguese Water Dogs, both common pets, that received basic behavioral dog training. The researchers trained the dogs to lie down next to a sample from a cancer patient and to ignore other samples. The samples used were breath samples from 55 patients with lung cancer and 31 with breast cancer — the two types of cancer with the highest mortality rates in the United States. After the training phase, the dogs’ accuracy…
U.K. National Portrait Gallery threatens U.S. citizen with legal action over Wikimedia images
Tuesday, July 14, 2009 This article mentions the Wikimedia Foundation, one of its projects, or people related to it. Wikinews is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. The English National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in London has threatened on Friday to sue a U.S. citizen, Derrick Coetzee. The legal letter followed claims that he had breached the Gallery’s copyright in several thousand photographs of works of art uploaded to the Wikimedia Commons, a free online media repository. In a letter from their solicitors sent to Coetzee via electronic mail, the NPG asserted that it holds copyright in the photographs under U.K. law, and demanded that Coetzee provide various undertakings and remove all of the images from the site (referred to in the letter as “the Wikipedia website”). Wikimedia Commons is a repository of free-to-use media, run by a community of volunteers from around the world, and is a sister project to…
Lend Your Model Railroad Layouts Some Authenticity
Click Here To Know More About: Radio Controlled Helicopters Australia One simple way is to use flat black on all of the interior surfaces. This includes the inner walls, the floor and ceiling. This gives them a sense of depth as well as mysteriousness. For any mountains in your landscape, use dark colors of black or brown for a better effect.If your railway track is black then you will need to de-emphasize the O-gauge that is often the third middle trail. Use the darkest possible ballast for this. Try and make your grade crossings look as real as possible. Some simple ways to do this would be to use thin black foam or even plastic strips. One trick is to take a tongue depressor and paint it the desired color and use that. This gives your railroad layout a more real look.Use signals that work at crossing. Crossing flashers and…