Denny’s Super Bowl free ‘Grand Slam Breakfast’ brings 2 million diners

Friday, February 6, 2009
Denny’s 1,600 chain restaurants across North America, Puerto Rico and Canada, were slammed for eight hours Tuesday with hungry patrons standing on sidewalks for nearly two hours to take advantage of the $5.99 “Grand Slam Breakfast” giveaway.
Denny’s, a dining chain with annual revenue of about $900 million, has advertised in a TV commercial Sunday during the Super Bowl XRead More…

Vestas Cowes rooftop occupiers: “Save the environment, scuttle a NIMBY”

Friday, August 7, 2009
Five activists have installed themselves on the rooftop of Vestas Wind System’s Venture Quays factory in Cowes, Isle of Wight, England, in support of the Vestas employees.
The five — four of whom are members of the Climate Camp which has set up in the Isle of Wight — scaled the Cowes plant, which is located about five miles (8 kilometres) north of Vestas’s main Isle ofRead More…

PETA protests Burberry in White Plains, NY

Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Today, at 12:00 p.m. EDT (UTC-4) the Animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) staged a “naked” protest in White Plains, New York. The target of the protest was British fashion house, Burberry, and their fur practices.
Two “naked” female PETA members, wearing nothing but bikini bottoms and body paint held billboards with the slogan, “When plaRead More…

Terri Schiavo dies

Thursday, March 31, 2005
Terri Schiavo died this morning in St. Petersburg, Florida, moments after 9 a.m. EST. Thirteen days ago, her feeding tube was removed after courts repeatedly ruled Schiavo would not want to be kept alive in her current state. Schiavo suffered severe brain damage in 1990 after a mysterious cardiac arrest. Many news sources allege the cardiac arrest was caused by an eatinRead More…

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 Read More…

U.S. Manufacturing Jobs Move From Hostile To Friendly Environments}

Read An Opinion On: Visit Www.Synergypack.Com U.S. Manufacturing Jobs Move From Hostile To Friendly Environments by Tr CojocI worked in the electronics industry in various management positions expanding over 35 years. The last 20 years things have changed, for the worst. Government regulations and taxes have forced manufacturing to move out of this country.
In the early seventies, design Read More…

Ontario college teachers begin strike

Tuesday, March 7, 2006
All across the Canadian province of Ontario, college teachers have gone on strike, leaving more than 150,000 students in 24 colleges without classes.
The Ontario Public Service Employees Union rejected the final offer from college management, after negotiations at the Delta Chelsea Hotel in downtown Toronto.
This strike comes just a month before many student’s scheduled grRead More…

Let Be Acquainted With The Construction Process Of Stronger Office Walls

Read An Opinion On: House And Land Package Orange Let Be Acquainted with the Construction Process of Stronger Office Walls by angela smith1For partitioning an office one may apply different types of materials, however, he or she should have sufficient knowledge in applying these materials. This is the reason; people are looking forward to the expert professionals, who have better understaRead More…

England’s elderly face human rights breaches in home care system

Wednesday, November 23, 2011
A report published today by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) finds that, in many cases, England’s home care system breaches the human rights of the elderly it is supposed to serve. The Close to home: older people and human rights in home care report is the result of a twelve-month investigation into care generally provided by local authorities.
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