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The J-Walk Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
In India: Rescue 1122 relying on sacrificial goats to ward off terror . The Punjab Emergency Services Academy - or Rescue 1122 - is sacrificing a goat every day to prevent terrorists attacks, after police refused to provide the academy sufficient security amid threats from terrorists, Daily Times leant on Monday. Sources in the academy said that Rescue 1122 was relying on its own security arrangements...
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Britannica Blog (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
I learned last week (via Arts & Letters Daily) that the Left Behind series of apocalyptic novels by Jerry Jenkins and Tim LaHaye is selling as well as ever despite having come to a conclusion a couple of years ago with a sixteenth installment. Frank Schaeffer notes the unintended irony of the title Left Behind : "The evangelical/fundamentalists, from their crudest egocentric celebrities to...
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thoughts? (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
En route to a conference in Denver, I spent the weekend in Colorado Springs with my friend Sara and her family. Saturday morning, we got up bright and early and headed up to the Air Force Academy to experience ESPN shooting College Game Day . Unfortunately for us civilians, they had a great spot for the Army/Air Force folks, but we were relegated to kinda far back. Lots of folks brought their signs...
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Leah Fraser (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
This morning I attended the Remembrance Service at the War Memorial in New Brighton with my ward colleagues Cllr Karen Hayes and Cllr James Keeley as well as the Wallasey, New Brighton and Seacombe Councillors. The service was conducted by the Reverend Frank Cain, Vicar of St James’ Church. I was honoured to lay the wreath on [...]
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Hindu (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
VIJAYAWADA: NCC cadets of the 1 (Andhra) EME Coy took out a rally to mark the National Cancer Awareness Day from V.R. Siddhartha Engineering College (VRSEC) to Benz Circle on Saturday. Some 80 students drawn from the VRSEC and Government ...
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Leah Fraser (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Straight from the coffee morning at St James’, I called into ASDA to meet Wallasey Sea Cadets who were in the store ‘bag packing’ to raise funds, not only for their own activities, but for the Liscard Traders Christmas Lights Appeal as well. A couple of them were having a well earned break, so I stopped [...]
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Hindu (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Youth urged to keep vices at bay as smoking can cause the disease
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Global Security (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Senior medical officials published what they learned in an October article featured in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
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Photo Carraol Images of Mexico City (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Fountain with a sculpture of the symbol of Chapultepec, "The Grasshopper" In the background, statues dedicated to the boy soldiers, along a walkway at the top of Chapultepec Castle. Chapultepec (Chapoltepēc, "at the grasshopper's hill" in the Nahuatl language; cf. Mexican Spanish Chapulín [Grasshopper] ) is a large hill on the outskirts of central Mexico City. It has...
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Breaking News from The Huntsville Times - al.com (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The department set fire to an abandoned buliding, scheduled for demolition, at 3205 Holmes Ave. this afternoon and then let the cadets go to work.
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Hindu (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Karnataka and Goa Directorate cadets bag most trophies
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MIT Admissions (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps: "what do you do every week?"
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Hindu (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Passing-out parade of newly recruited police personnel held at District Training Centres
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Hindu (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
KURNOOL: Additional Director General of Police Durga Prasad said the training methods were upgraded for constables keeping in view the complexity of policing in the years to come. Mr. Prasad attended the Passing-Out parade of 400 armed ...
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Hindu (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
HYDERABAD: Director General of Police R.R. Girish Kumar has warned the Maoists not to underestimate the capabilities of the Police Department and assured people that the police was geared up to meet any challenge posed by the rebels. He ...
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crompt | 10/28/2009
The Malaysian Maritime Academy’s first ever group of women cadets has just graduated - 13 women cadets were among 302 students to receive diplomas in a ceremony this week. The Academy’s chief executive officer M. Adthisaya Ganesen says it began opening its doors to female students three years ago. “We are proud to say that our graduates are highly regarded by the maritime industry and now with our...
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eprnetwork | 09/07/2009
Rackspace Hosting, the world's leader in hosting, has announced it has won a three year, competitive deal to provide fully managed support to the Joint Server Farm (JSF), a secure hosting environment for Ministry of Defence (MoD) websites. The partnership will see MoD, Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force websites consolidated onto a single, virtualised infrastructure to enable easier management, greater