Wikinews interviews Joe Schriner, Independent U.S. presidential candidate

Saturday, April 17, 2010 Journalist, counselor, painter, and US 2012 Presidential candidate Joe Schriner of Cleveland, Ohio took some time to discuss his campaign with Wikinews in an interview. Schriner previously ran for president in 2000, 2004, and 2008, but failed to gain much traction in the races. He announced his candidacy for the 2012 race immediately following the 2008 election. Schriner...

Wikimania 2009 held in Buenos Aires

Wednesday, September 2, 2009 This article mentions the Wikimedia Foundation, one of its projects, or people related to it. Wikinews is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. After three days of presentations, discussion and general community interactions, the fifth annual Wikimedia conference, Wikimania, has completed, and attendeess are returning home. Wikimania 2009 — held in Buenos Aires,...

The Types Of Betting On Sports In Us Bookmaker Sites

More On This Topic: Nba Futures Are you into sports? Well, would it be more exciting if you can not only enjoy the sports you love, but also cheer on your favorite team and make money out of it? Betting on sports allows you to not only enjoy the game, but make it more exciting by injecting it with some sports betting. When this is done responsibly, you not only become a spectator of the sports...

Migrant workers in Dominos Pizza ‘slavery’

Friday, August 10, 2007 Eight Hungarian migrant workers sacked from a Domino's Pizza franchise in Derby, England are said to have taken home virtually no pay for months because of illegal deductions. The claim is refuted by the company who said in a statement "We have begun a thorough investigation during which we have scrutinised the franchisee's employment practices. This took place with his...

Arrangement of light receptors in the eye may cause dyslexia, scientists say

Friday, October 20, 2017 Research published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B on Wednesday by Albert Le Floch and Guy Ropars of French University of Rennes claims dyslexia may be caused by the way the photoreceptors in dyslexic individuals' eyes are arranged. Co-author Ropars said, "Our observations lead us to believe that we indeed found a potential cause of dyslexia". In dyslexic...

Blown for Good author discusses life inside international headquarters of Scientology

Friday, November 13, 2009 Wikinews interviewed author Marc Headley about his new book Blown for Good, and asked him about life inside the international headquarters of Scientology known as "Gold Base", located in Gilman Hot Springs near Hemet, California. Headley joined the organization at age seven when his mother became a member, and worked at Scientology's international management...

The Importance Of Layout In Web Design And Development

The Importance Of Layout In Web Design And Development by Darin McGilvraHow a page is laid out can be extremely important to Web design and development. In fact, how content on a page is laid out can make it much easier for viewers to find the most important content on the website. Jakob Nielson did a study in 2006 that researched how people look at websites by tracking the movement of their...

Errant monkeys draw the ire of Delhi court

Thursday, January 19, 2006 The Delhi High Court expressed its displeasure to the civic authorities on their continued failure to resolve the problem of marauding monkeys in the court premises. The court was in session when the public interest litigation filed by a Supreme Court lawyer was brought to its attention. The petitioner Mr.Nirmal Chopra argued the case and explained how the simians...

Apple unveils iPhone 4, iOS 4 at Worldwide Developers Conference 2010

Tuesday, June 8, 2010 Yesterday, at this year's Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), company CEO Steve Jobs unveiled iPhone 4, along with the new iOS 4 operating system for Apple mobile devices. The announcement was long-awaited but not a very big surprise. In April, the technology blog Gizmodo obtained a prototype of the new phone and published details of it online. While introducing...

United States Declares War! Obama Gets Re Elected!

More On This Topic: Conveyancing Gosford How would you like to see a headline like 'United States Declares War?' You could, you know, the way things are going. It is a fact that once the United States goes to war the president is always re-elected. Heck, why bother campaigning when you can just go to war? Right? So let's just ignore the fact, for now, that Congress is in charge of declaring war,...