Thursday, March 4, 2010
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An 8.8 magnitude earthquake hit Chile on Saturday, causing significant damage throughout parts of the country. Diego Grez (a Wikinews correspondent by the pen name MisterWiki) was in Pichilemu at the time of the quake. Four days after the quake, Peter Coti, also a Wikinews contributor, was able to chat with Mr. Grez about what happened Saturday morning.
Kitchen Cabinet Options
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Zach HuntKitchen cabinets are well known for their quality finish and reliability. For all cabinetry needs it is advisable to consult professional cabinetmakers in order to have your money’s worth. Kitchen cabinets are made to your specific needs and take into account your budget and preference of material and finish. The best way to achieve organization and efficiency in and around your kitchen is to avail the services of cabinet makers.
In order to find handy storage space for your cutlery, utensils, pots, pans and variety of jars and containers cabinets are a must. Not only do they help you to organize your work space in the kitchen properly they also help to protect expensive equipment in your kitchen. So the need to have cabinets built according to the available space in your kitchen is best left to professional cabinet makers who are adept in their assessment of space, use of appropriate cabinetry material and have skilled designers and carpenters at their disposal. Hiring professional contractors helps to take away the pressure of hiring carpenters, buying raw material, designing the cabinets for your self and of spending time and effort at supervising the procedure.
In home improvements and renovations, upgrading your kitchen cabinets are one of the cheapest way as well as increases the value of your property. This can be really helpful when you are planning to sell your house or putting it up for rent. It can easily get you a better deal than what you would’ve gotten before and will more than make up for the money and time that you will be spending for getting these cabinets.
You will have a very wide variety of designs available for your kitchen to choose from. You can choose whichever material and design suits your kitchen the best and meets your personal requirements. Aside from them, you can also hire trained designers who are also knowledgeable about the latest trends to help you get the most out of your home improvement project.
By hiring a professional, you get to consult and gain in-depth knowledge regarding the permanent changes that you are about to do to your home. Their insights into the process and how they will pan out in the future are invaluable and might even save you money in the long run by making sure that you investment lasts over a long period in time.
Depending on your needs and preferences, kitchen cabinets may come in all kinds of materials. You have a choice between the more durable hardwood, the versatile plywood or other kinds of board woods that will offer you different benefits. You also have to choose the right motif to go with your kitchen layout. Irregular kitchen layouts are best furnished with custom-made kitchen cabinets that can be resized to fit your kitchen. Kitchen cabinets that are standard in size may be easier to assemble but it may appear very common. Before settling to a final decision, keep in mind your needs and requirements in a kitchen cabinet. Hinges, doors, styles are also important considerations. Cabinets with doors might offer better storage and prevent accidents but may take up a lot of space while simple shelves and racks don’t give you as much safety but are very convenient and utilize space well.
Kitchen cabinets are easy to find in most places. Regardless of whether you are looking for simple, stock cabinets, customizable stock cabinets or full scale contractors or carpenters to give your kitchen a whole new look with custom cabinets — you will have a lot of options to choose from. Before settling on your options, it is very important to do some research and to take your time in deciding.
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Monday, October 11, 2010
Wikinews interviewed author Amy Scobee about her book Scientology – Abuse at the Top, and asked her about her experiences working as an executive within the organization. Scobee joined the organization at age 14, and worked at Scientology’s international management headquarters for several years before leaving in 2005. She served as a Scientology executive in multiple high-ranking positions, working out of the international headquarters of Scientology known as “Gold Base”, located in Gilman Hot Springs near Hemet, California.
byAlma Abell
Are you looking for the best dress maker in Houston? Do you want to get the best quality dress make within your timeline? Then you need to consider certain things. A nice dress says a lot about you. It presents your personality in the way that you desire. Many people will remember you many years after meeting you by the dress that you wear in your first meeting. Regardless of the occasion that you are attending, it is important that you have a good dress on.
Maybe you have an upcoming wedding. Perhaps, it is your graduation or anniversary. In any special occasion in your life, a perfect dress can make your day the best and most memorable both for you and your peers. Even if it is your first day at your new workplace, a nice dress will say a lot about you. As such, it is crucial that you wear your best dress when attending any of your special events or occasions.
The person who makes a dress for you will greatly determine how it looks. Today, there are many dress makers in Houston. Although most of them claim to be the best among other dress makers, it is crucial that you look the best of them all. In every competition there is one person who beats the rest. Similarly, in Houston there is a dress maker who is the best among the rest. Look for that dress maker and then ask them to make your dress.
A good dress maker in Houston is determined to give you a perfect dress. They do everything possible to ensure that you get what you pay for. When paying a dress maker you have expectations on the kind of dress that they should deliver. Good dress makers will never disappoint you. They do everything possible to meet your needs in every way.
Perhaps, you saw a dress in a movie and you want yours to be designed just like that. Maybe you have a friend who has a dress in a particular design and you want yours to be designed that way. This is what you get when you find the best dress maker. Best dress makers are experts who pay close attention to specific needs of their customers or clients.
Thus, you are assured of getting a custom-made dress once you contact them and give them your specifications for the dress that you want them to make for you.
With services of the best dress maker in Houston, you are assured of getting the most stunning dress and best value of your money. Visit Agtailors.com for more information.
Monday, October 7, 2019
Yesterday morning, English drummer Ginger Baker died in a hospital at the age of 80. The news came from the Twitter account in his name and was independently confirmed by Associated Press with his daughter Nettie Baker. On September 25, it was reported Baker was hospitalized in critical condition. Baker was widely known as the drummer and co-founder of the rock band Cream, an early supergroup.
Baker, a life-long smoker and former heroin addict, suffered from health problems for years. The list of ailments included hearing loss, osteoarthritis, emphysema and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, as well as heart problems for which he had surgery in 2016. Although known to have lived his latter years in South Africa, his daughter said he died in Britain without elaborating.
Ginger Baker was born Peter Edward Baker in Lewisham, London, in 1939. His father was killed in combat in 1943 during World War II. Baker — who was reportedly nicknamed Ginger due to his red hair — began playing drums in his teens. In a story he sometimes told, he had a habit of tapping on school desks. When an opportunity arose at a party, his classmates encouraged him to sit down at a drum set. “I’d never sat behind a kit before, but I sat down — and I could play! One of the musicians turned round and said, ‘Bloody hell, we’ve got a drummer’, and I thought, ‘Bloody hell, I’m a drummer’?”, he recalled in a 2009 retelling of the story to the The Independent.
Baker began his career as a drummer in jazz bands. He played with Acker Bilk and Terry Lightfoot. In 1962, when fellow drummer Charlie Watts was leaving Blues Incorporated for The Rolling Stones, Watts recommended Baker to be his replacement. Later, Baker found early success with rhythm and blues band The Graham Bond Organisation where he met bassist Jack Bruce.
In 1966, Baker, Bruce and singer/guitarist Eric Clapton, who was known from The Yardbirds, formed Cream. The rock trio was a massive success, selling tens of millions of records, including the first ever platinum certified album Wheels of Fire. Cream recorded four albums, then in 1968 disbanded with Baker and Bruce having developed a volatile relationship. Clapton and Baker were subsequently in another supergroup Blind Faith with Steve Winwood and Ric Grech. Blind Faith recorded only one studio album but notably played before a crowd of a hundred thousand at a free concert in London’s Hyde Park.
In the 1970s, Baker moved to Nigeria where he established a studio and began playing polo. Here he collaborated with Fela Kuti and worked on Wings’s album Band on the Run with Paul McCartney of The Beatles fame. Later, he recorded with John Lydon’s Public Image Ltd.
Cream was inducted in 1993 into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The band reunited in 2005 for several London and New York concerts. Afterwards he moved to South Africa, and still lived there when the 2012 documentary Beware of Mr. Baker was filmed. Baker’s last recording was 2014’s Why? solo album. Baker retired from live performances in 2016 due to his ill health.
Paul McCartney wrote on Twitter, “Ginger Baker, great drummer, wild and lovely guy. We worked together on the ‘Band on the Run’ album in his ARC Studio, Lagos, Nigeria. Sad to hear that he died but the memories never will.”
“A very sad loss, and my condolences to his family and friends. A loss also for his contribution to music. He was well-grounded in jazz from very early on,” wrote Steve Winwood in a statement. “Beneath his somewhat abrasive exterior, there was a very sensitive human being with a heart of gold. He’ll be missed.”
Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones also reacted on Twitter, “Sad news hearing that Ginger Baker has died, I remember playing with him very early on in Alexis Korner’s Blues Incorporated. He was a fiery but extremely talented and innovative drummer.”
Saturday, December 11, 2004
VIENNA —Doctors from the Rudolfinerhaus clinic in Vienna say “there is no doubt” Ukrainian opposition leader Victor Yushchenko was poisoned with Dioxin.
Yushchenko’s body had about 1,000 times more than the normal concentration of the toxin. It is unknown if there were any other poisons in his system.
Although it has not yet been proven that the poisoning was deliberate, doctors suspect it was. “We suspect a cause triggered by a third party,” said Michael Zimpfer, head doctor at the Rudolfinerhaus clinic. He suggested the poison may have been administered orally, through food or drink.
Today’s announcements are a follow-up of an earlier press conference, where Dr. Korpan that there were three hypotheses under consideration, one of them involving dioxin. He did not reveal what the other two hypotheses were. Dr. Michael Zimpfer, director of the Rudolfinerhaus clinic emphasized that time there was no proof yet to specify the substance causing the illness.
Yushchenko left Kiev on Friday (2004-10-12) for further examination in Vienna. When Yushchenko fell ill on October 6th, Ukrainian doctors had initially diagnosed food poisoning, leading to speculation that he had been poisoned deliberately. The illness has disfigured Yushchenko’s body and face which doctors say could take up to two years to heal.
He fell seriously ill on the September 6th, during his presidential campaign. Yushchenko was taken to the Rudolfinerhaus clinic of Vienna, where he stayed for four days under Dr. Korpan’s care. He was diagnosed with “acute pancreatitis, accompanied by interstitial edematous changes.” These symptoms were said to be due to “a serious viral infection and chemical substances which are not normally found in food products” as his campaign officials put it. In laymans terms, he developed an infection in the pancreas and got a bad skin condition that disfigured his face with cysts and lesions. The skin condition has similarities with the chloracne associated with dioxin posioning according to a British toxicologist John Henry.
Earlier, doctor Nikolai Korpan of Rudolfinerhaus clinic confirmed today that the illness of Ukrainian presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko was caused by an attempt to kill him.
Submitted by: Tisha Diaz
You would probably just smile if I asked you how many times you’ve started dieting and how many times you’ve stopped. Let’s look at some ways that could help you stick with your diet.
To stick with a diet you must always keep an eye on yourself. Dieting is no different than any other goals. You will not accomplish those goals if you do not keep track of the things you do and your progress against your goals.
The best way to do this is to keep a journal where you log the things that you eat and keep track of the calories that you take in. In your journal you could also make notes of your emotional state on each day of your diet. This will help you determine if certain foods have an impact on your emotional state. For example, looking back through your journal you could discover a link between those days where you felt down in the dumps and the things that you ate that day.
A diet is only effective if you are consistent with the diet. Your aim should be to follow your diet every single day until it has become part of your natural daily habits.
A very effective way to make a diet stick is to have something visual that reminds you of your ultimate weight loss goals.
This could be as simple as putting that bikini, which currently is two sizes too small for you, in a place where you can see it every day. Next to it, you could put a calendar with your vacation time clearly marked on it.
You could also put a little note inside a plastic bag and put this inside the ice cream tub in the freezer. This note would read, “Do you really need this?”
It is also a good idea to put little victory stickers on your refrigerator. Congratulate yourself with every small victory that you accomplish.
Now, nobody is perfect. You are bound to make mistakes in your dieting and weight loss effort. Don’t be too hard on yourself.
The most important thing when you make a mistake is to understand why you made the mistake and what you need to do to prevent yourself from making the same mistake in the future.
People say patience is a virtue, but with dieting and weight loss patience is more than a virtue, it is an absolutely essential part of the diet.
Exercise patience, keep track of your progress, celebrate your victories, and constantly remind yourself of your goals and you will have success with your weight loss diet.
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Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Buffalo, New York —A woman in Buffalo, New York in the United States is in critical condition tonight at Sisters Of Charity Hospital after she accidentally set herself on fire.
The unnamed elderly woman was receiving oxygen for medical problems in her home and lit a cigarette, and the oxygen coming from her mask facilitated the ignition of her clothing, setting her on fire.
Despite her “severe” burns as described by firefighters on radio communications, she was still able to dial the emergency line in the U.S., 911.
In the U.S. only 4% of all residential fires were reportedly caused by smoking materials in 2002. These fires, however, were responsible for 19% of residential fire fatalities and 9% of injuries. The fatality rate due to smoking is nearly four times higher than the overall residential fire rate; injuries are more than twice as likely. Forty percent of all smoking fires start in the bedroom or living room/family room; in 35% of these fires, bedding or upholstered furniture are the items first ignited.
Monday, April 21, 2014
Scientists at Chicago’s Field Museum and New York’s American Museum of Natural History have discovered three new species of yellow-shouldered bats, genus Sturnira, in the Neotropics. On Wednesday open-access journal ZooKeys published their paper on two of the new species, Sturnira bakeri and Sturnira burtonlimi. The two new species were previously confused with S. ludovici, and S. lilium and S. luisi, respectively. With the discovery, genus Sturnira now has the most species of any genus in family Phyllostomidae, the leaf-nosed bats.
Species S. bakeri was named after Dr. Robert J. Baker, who “has made enormous contributions to our [Authors of the ZooKey paper] understanding of bats, particularly to the evolution of Neotropical phyllostomids”; and S. burtonlimi after Dr. Burton K. Lim, who “collected the type series of this species and has made many other important collections throughout the Neotropics and beyond”, the authors noted in the paper.
Within the New World tropics, the distribution range of the genus, the new species’ known living areas are in Costa Rica and Panama for S. burtonlimi, and Western Ecuador for S. bakeri. The researchers identified differences between different specimens, including those in their teeth, skull shapes, and DNA sequences.
Wikinews interviewed one of the chiropterologists, Paúl M. Velazco of the American Museum of Natural History, about the study.
((Wikinews)) The Sturnira genus now has 22 species, over 1.5 times larger than it was a year ago (14 species). Who contributed to this change? Did you participate throughout the entire process, or only the discovery of the last 2 species?
((WN)) The genus is called Sturnira Gray in the paper. I’ve not seen extra adjectives in genus names, before. What is the context for such name?
((WN)) What caused your initial interest in the question in the genus? When did you become interested?
((WN)) The paper mentions that the genus is now the most speciose genus in the Neotropical family Phyllostomidae. What genus did it beat? How many species does it include?
((WN)) What equipment did you use?
((WN)) Did you conduct field study to identify the species’ habits? If so, where and how did you do that?
((WN)) How do you isolate of the living area of the new species from the living area of the old species?
((WN)) How long did the study take? What has been the most time-consuming activity?
((WN)) Who participated in the study? What were their roles?
((WN)) Who do you collaborate with internationally about your study?
((WN)) What future research do you plan?
