PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
READING, England, September 4 /PRNewswire/ -- - Acision Continues to Strengthen Leadership Team to Capitalise on Global Success Acision, the world's leading messaging company, announces the appointment of David King as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. Starting immediately, King assumes responsibility for Acision's worldwide sales as well as the company's...
Sinclair's Musings (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) begins operations this week. It has drawn criticism from Sir David King: "The project has drawn more down-to-Earth criticisms too. Sir David King, the government's former chief science adviser, believes it diverts top scientists away from tackling the more pressing issues of the time, such as climate change and how to decarbonise the economy....
Bryan Appleyard (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
The former government chief scientist Sir David King, a good man, suggests we should redirect our research efforts towards the most pressing practical problems - climate change, African poverty - and away from particle physics and space exploration. This, of course, is the week in which the LHC - a wonderfully abstract and impractical way of spending several billions - is to be fired...
nourishing obscurity (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Large Hadron Collider, near Geneva Interesting, if not predictable, that Sir David King should say that the most brilliant minds should be directed to solving Earth's greatest challenges, such as climate change ... and that less time and money is spent on endeavours such as space exploration and particle physics. The thrust was that the best minds should concentrate on solving climate...
Tim Worstall (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
Just a delightful little story here. Quite gobsmacking actually. A former chief scientific advisor to the government has said that EU renewable-energy quotas will cause widespread fuel poverty. Sir David King believes that European heads of state, in agreeing the targets, may have mistaken electricity usage for total energy consumption - leading to overly ambitious and expensive [...]...
GayandRight (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
The EU's insane drive for wind power may lead many people into poverty... Half a million people could be pushed into fuel poverty by the UK's drive for wind power, the government's former chief scientific adviser has said. Sir David King said: "If we overdo wind we are going to put up the price of electricity and that means more people will fall into the fuel poverty trap." The UK has...
Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
It's said that you never forget the odor of marijuana. So when Deputy David King of the Volusia County Sheriff's Office detected that unforgettable odor coming from a house in DeBary Monday morning, he called in narcotics agents to investigate....
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
DOVER, N.H.—Two Massachusetts men charged with conspiracy to commit murder in a Dover, New Hampshire, man's death have a date with a judge.Forty-year-old Scott Mazzone and 25-year-old Derek Saunders, both of Byfield, are charged with plotting to murder 46-year-old David King. King was killed Friday.Massachusetts police arrested Mazzone and Saunders on Sunday. They were to be arraigned...
Independent Conservative (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
David King, Pastor of Concord Baptist in Chattanooga, TN has a post on the church’s blog, that is a good read titled Abortion and the Early Church. The bottom line is, that as it is in scripture, the church has always recognized abortion as murder in the womb. Exodus 21:22-25 (New American Standard Bible) 22 “If men [...]
Earth2Tech (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
... plants have raised nearly $55,000 for the Nature Conservancy’s Adopt An Acre program . Created by David King and Ashish Dixit, (Lil) Green Patch cleverly leverages roleplaying game mechanics for ecological good. Once you install the app, you find dozens of insanely adorable plants and creatures. To collect them, you need to first earn points by sending other plants to your friends....
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
DOVER, N.H.—Police have arrested two Massachusetts men in connection with a Dover, New Hampshire, man's death.Massachusetts police arrested 40-year-old Scott Mazzone and 25-year-old Derek Saunders, both of Byfield, on Sunday. They face conspiracy to commit murder and fugitive from justice charges.Forty-six-year-old David King of Dover was killed Friday evening. His death was ruled a homicide...
