| AWAs banned in public service
The Community and Public Sector Union welcomed the ban, which does not cover statutory authorities, saying it would make the public service a fairer place to work. The Workplace Relations Amendment (Transition to Forward with Fairness) Bill will replace AWAs with an interim individual agreement until the start of a new industrial relations system in 2010. But while Ms Gillard wants the Bill through Parliament by Easter, it is likely to be delayed until April or May, as the Opposition and minor parties want to refer it to a Senate committee for inquiry. After a Government briefing on the Bill, Opposition workplace relations spokeswoman Julie Bishop said Ms Gillard was acting with "undue haste" and had not considered the full impact of the changes, confirming the need for a detailed inquiry.
Video Reveals Violations of Laws, Abuse of Cows at Slaughterhouse
I contend that advocates of violence against animals (i.e., meat-eaters) pre-disposes such people for advocating violence against people. Yes, meat-eaters will swear blue that they are peaceniks, but that is just lip service. Eliminate the slaughter of animals for consumption (and product-tesing etc), you go a loooong way to eliminating the need for war and violence against people. .
Normally Obscure Panel Pushed Into the Limelight
Attorney Michele Rosenfeld had just finished arguing the value of a back yard that lies in the path of the future intercounty connector when the 83-year-old man asked her to speak up. "Your voice is beautiful, but it's too low," Robert Hanson told her during the recent hearing at the Rockville courthouse. "We all have hearing aids, and they're turned up to the max, but I've heard about half of what you've said." .
Grace of Giving: Friends of Hospice eases final days for uninsured
James Holland had a terrible decision to make. The 63-year-old could receive radiation treatment for cancer that had spread from his lungs to his brain, and perhaps live another four months. "But it wouldn't be a good four months," said his sister, Jacqualyn Watson. Or he could go home to die in perhaps two months, but without the strain of further treatment. Holland, a retired heating and air conditioning technician, chose to receive hospice, or end-of-life care, at home. But he had no insurance to pay for it. Yet the day he returned home, a nurse showed up. She talked with him and gauged his needs, entering it all into a laptop computer. The next day, Sept. 19, a hospital bed and wheelchair arrived. .
I’m fit enough to break my knees again: Hrithik
HRITHIK Roshan sips on a cola relentlessly at hotel J W Marriotts nightclub, Enigma, while two skimpy models, on either side of him, giggle like schoolgirls.
The handsome actor is shooting for a cola giant and his facial expressions schizophrenically alternate from serious to jocular until the perfectionist in him is satiated.
As I meet him sometime later, another myth about the actor whose epic film Jodhaa Akbar releases in two weeks is edified that he is as modest as is possible.
Every film is as crucial as the first one, says the top star, as he talks about Ashutosh Gowarikers expensive historical.
He adjusts the air-conditioner when he sees me shiver and takes my questions as seriously as his photo-shoot.
The whole team would have wanted Jodhaa..
MIDEAST: Bush Faces Major Choice Amid Escalation
This is potentially very dangerous," Bassel Saloukh, a political scientist at the Lebanese American University in Beirut, told IPS in a telephone interview. "If the Americans take this to legitimate a strike against Iran or Syria, then I think it will escalate with devastating consequences."
For the past two weeks, Washington has mostly stood on the sidelines as Israeli forces have carried out military operations in Gaza, including the destruction of a U.S.-financed power plant and several other infrastructure targets, in what has so far been a futile quest to press Hamas to release an IDF corporal seized by militants during a raid on an Israeli border post in late June.
Those operations, which have so far resulted in the deaths of more than 50 Palestinians, as well as one Israeli soldier, have worsened what was already a deteriorating humanitarian situation in Gaza in what Arab governments and some human rights groups have called a disproportionate act of "collective punishment" against the civilian population.
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