Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Also try the 2008 World News Quiz of the year.
What would you tell your grandchildren about 2008 if they asked you about it in, let’s say, 20 years’ time? If the answer to a quiz question was 2008, what would the question be? The year that markets collapsed, or perhaps the year that Obama became US president? Or the year Heath Ledger died?
Let’s take a look at some of the important stories of 2008. Links to the original Wikinews articles are in all the titles.
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How to Create a Dream Home
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If you have the opportunity to develop your own property then this is an incredible opportunity and an ambition that many of us share. If you have this privilege then, it\’s very important to make the most of it and to create something that you will truly get to benefit from. Here we will look at some of the best ways to get more from the opportunity and to really make a home that you will love and be proud of.
Think Outside the Box
The first thing to consider is that you should be thinking outside of the box when you create your own property. It\’s a common error people make to think that all homes need to be essentially the same as one another – meaning a few bedrooms, a garden, a living room and a dining room – but actually there are many ways you can mix things up and make your property more interesting. An obvious example of this might be to forgo having yet another spare bedroom and to instead use the space for something more interesting – an ideal example of which could be a home theatre or a home gym. Either way, this will give you a space that\’s more interesting and more unique, and that will make it much more exciting.
Make Little Spaces
This shouldn\’t just apply to the way you use your rooms though – it should also apply to the way you layout the floor plan of the property. In other words – your property doesn\’t just have to be a series of rooms and corridors – you can make it more interesting by having cubby holes, attic and loft spaces and generally a more interesting and labyrinthine appearance. These can then give your property more personality and allow you to use it in more interesting ways. My sister\’s home has a small \’platform\’ opposite the landing that they have to climb onto with a ladder that she has turned into a \’den\’ where she can sit with beanbags and blankets and listen to the rain on the skylight. You can even move away from the idea of having a single building for your home and instead look into using granny flats, or just multiple buildings on your one plot of land.
In short, if you just want a normal home plan with the usual layout then you might as well just buy a property rather than building your own from scratch.
Choose Amazing Features
There are many features that can make almost any property more impressive, and by pushing the boat out to include these in your new home you can make it much more special and make a lot more people jealous. Examples include balconies, conservatories, hot tubs and walk-in wardrobes. When you\’re designing your property make sure not to hold back – go all out and include everything you can to make it exciting and unique. If you can\’t afford these extra features at the time, you can always come back to them later.
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Monday, March 28, 2005
Tomorrow will be an historic day in the Republic of Ireland. It will be exactly one year since the initial introduction of the once controversial smoking ban. The ban, introduced on March 29 2004, made Ireland the first country in world to completely ban smoking in all workplaces.
The idea was initially met with much skepticism by the Irish who traditionally had a worldwide image as a land of drinkers and smokers. However despite this early uncertainty, the ban has been a huge success. Cigarettes sales have fallen by as much as 60% in Pubs, with the country’s biggest tobacco brand, Gallaher, reporting an overall drop in sales of 7.5%.
The Taoiseach Bertie Ahern announced earlier this month that over 7,000 had given up smoking in the past twelve months. A survey by the Irish Department of Health showed 82% supported the ban. Anti-smoking lobby groups such as ASH had been calling for a ban for many years prior to the Government’s initiative.
On 3 December 2003, New Zealand passed the Smokefree Environments Amendment Bill which lead it to become the second nation to impose a total ban. Its ban came into effect nine months after Ireland’s, on 10 December 2004. In January of this year Italy also introduced a ban. Sweden intends to go smoke free in June of this year and in Scotland, the Parliament hopes to have a ban in effect by early 2006.
Sunday, May 18, 2014
The governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, has warned that the state of the housing market in the United Kingdom is the current biggest domestic threat to the country’s economy, due to lack of house building, and regulatory issues.
In an interview to be aired on Sky News today, he said the housing market is the “biggest risk” to the economy and has “deep, deep structural problems”. Of house building he said: “There are not sufficient houses built in the UK. To go back to Canada, there are half as many people in Canada as in the UK, twice as many houses are built every year in Canada as in the UK and we can’t influence that.”
“We’re not going to build a single house at the Bank of England. We can’t influence that. What we can influence […] is whether the banks are strong enough. Do they have enough capital against risk in the housing market?”
Carney also said the Bank of England would look into the procedures used to issue loans and mortgages to see if they were being granted appropriately: “We’d be concerned if there was a rapid increase in high loan-to-value mortgages across the banks. We’ve seen that creeping up and it’s something we’re watching closely.”
Kris Hopkins responded to Carney on behalf of the government, saying the government “inherited a broken housing market, but our efforts to fix it are working”. “We’ve scrapped the failed top-down planning system, built over 170,000 affordable homes and released more surplus brownfield sites for new housing. We’ve also helped homebuyers get on the housing ladder, because if people can buy homes builders will build them. Housebuilding is now at its highest level since 2007 and climbing. Last year councils gave permission for almost 200,000 new homes under the locally-led planning system and more than 1,000 communities have swiftly taken up neighbourhood planning. It’s clear evidence the government’s long-term economic plan is working.”
Earlier this month, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development called on the UK government to “tighten” access to the ‘Help to Buy’ scheme introduced by George Osborne and the coalition government in 2013. ‘Help to Buy’ has also recently been criticised by three former Chancellors of the Exchequer — the Conservatives Norman Lamont and Nigel Lawson, and former Labour Chancellor Alistair Darling. Darling said: “Unless supply can be increased substantially, we will exacerbate that situation with schemes like Help to Buy.”
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 refers to himself as the “Average Joe” candidate, and advocates a pro-life and pro-environmentalist platform. He has been the subject of numerous newspaper articles, and has published public policy papers exploring solutions to American issues.
Wikinews reporter William Saturn? talks with Schriner and discusses his campaign.
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Scurvy Causes, Symptoms and Treatment
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Scurvy is perhaps the oldest known deficiency disease. However, its specific relationship to ascorbic acid was not recognized until the 20th century. It generally occurs between six and 18 months of age, but can start much earlier in pre-mature babies or those borne of mothers who lacked nutritious food during their later stages of pregnancies.
Scurvy is very rare in countries where fresh fruits and vegetables are readily available and where processed foods have vitamin C added. Vitamin C is an important antioxidant vitamin involved in the development of connective tissues, lipid and vitamin metabolism, biosynthesis of neurotransmitters, immune function, and wound healing. It is found in fruits, especially citrus fruits like oranges, lemons, and grapefruit, and in green leafy vegetables like broccoli and spinach. In adults, it may take several months of vitamin C deficiency before symptoms of scurvy develop.
Causes of Scurvy
In adults, early signs of scurvy include feeling weak, tired, and achy. The appearance of tiny red blood-blisters to larger purplish blotches on the skin of the legs is a common symptom. Wound healing may be delayed and scars that had healed may start to breakdown. The gums swell and bleed easily, eventually leading to loosened teeth. muscle and joint pain may also occur.
Scurvy develops when the diet lacks adequate amounts of vitamin C. Certain conditions increase the body’s demand for vitamin C and therefore increase the risk of deficiency. These conditions include pregnancy, breastfeeding, diarrhea, inflammatory diseases, burns, surgery, and exposure to intense heat or cold.
Symptoms of Scurvy
The appetite of the infant is recovered within 24-48 hours. The symptoms of irritability, fever, tenderness upon palpation, and hemorrhage generally resolve within 7 days.
The child may also suffer from an abnormal enlargement of the joints and swelling at the ends of long bones such as the thighs. Gum problems are unlikely until the child begins teething, but fever, anemia (a deficiency of red blood cells), and increased pulse and respiration rates are common.
A lack of vitamin C in the diet is the primary cause of scurvy. This can occur in people on very restricted diets, who are under extreme physiological stress (for example, during an infection or after an injury), and in chronic alcoholics. Infants can develop scurvy if they are weaned from breast milk and switched to cow’s milk without an additional supplement of vitamin C.
Some other important symptoms of scurvy are gradual weakening, pale skin, sunken eyes, tender gums, muscle pain, loss of teeth, internal bleeding, and the opening of wounds such as sword cuts that had healed many years before.
Treatment of Scurvy
The use of lime and lemon is highly beneficial in the prevention and treatment of scurvy. Being rich sources of vitamin C, lime and lemon are regarded as foods of exceptional therapeutic value. They have saved the lives of innumerable crews of ocean-going vessels from scurvy. The juice of one lime or lemon mixed in a glass of water, with a teaspoon of honey, should be taken for treating this condition.
As rich sources of vitamin C, lemon (bara nimbu) and lime (nmboo) are regarded as foods or exceptional therapeutic value in scurvy. The juice of either or both these fruits should be consumed by the patient diluted in warm water and mixed with honey.
As well as improving your diet by including plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables, you will be advised to take daily doses of 250mg of absorbic acid (vitamin C) supplements.
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Thursday, March 18, 2010
Nigeria’s acting president, Goodluck Jonathan, has announced the dissolution of the country’s cabinet.
In a statement after a cabinet meeting, Nigeria’s information minister, Dora Akunyili, said that “the acting president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, dissolved the Federal Executive Council [cabinet].” In the same statement, Akunyili said that Jonathan had provided no reason for the move, although analysts said that it was due to the impediment of the cabinet to Jonathan’s efforts to put his own mark on the office.
According to Akunyili, the move would not lead to a power vacuum, as the permanent secretaries will step up to take the positions vacated. Jonathan had taken over the role of acting president in February after President Umaru Yar’Adua temporarily stepped down due to sickness, and the cabinet had been entirely appointed by Yar’Adua.
In Akunyili’s statement, she said that an official statement from Jonathan as to the future of the cabinet would be released soon. Additionally, at some time in the future, Jonathan will submit to the National Assembly a list of his submissions for the next incarnation of the cabinet.
In a statement released from the president’s office, a spokesman said that it was “the prerogative of the president to change the cabinet whenever he feels the need to inject new blood, reinvigorate the cabinet and give it a new focus.” According to another, unnamed, government official, the cabinet had become paralyzed by infighting, impeding attempts of governance on major issues.
Yar’Adua has recently returned to Nigeria after being treated for a heart ailment in Saudi Arabia, but has made no public appearances. As a reflection of his impaired condition, Nigeria’s election next year has been brought forward three months, and the ruling People’s Democratic Party, of which both Yar’Adua and Jonathan belong to, has announced that its candidate in those elections will be a Muslim, preventing Jonathan, a Christian, from running. The decision follows a tradition of alternating between Muslim and Christian candidates, allowing each two four-year terms.
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Submitted by: Jane Molano
While buying a new car is a thrilling experience however sometimes, this can become unpleasant simply due to some regular blunders that people usually make. These blunders can prove expensive and problematic so, if you are considering buying a new car read this article to avoid these regular blunders when buying a car and to save your time, money and avoid problems later on.
Most of the time, car dealers show a smaller amount by not counting the cost of insurance when computing the cost of your car, which can be a considerable amount. You should confirm that the insurance is counted into the monthly payout for the car you intend to buy, therefore ahead of you purchase a new car get an insurance quote for that particular car from your insurer. Check out all the hidden cost involved as typically nearly all the car dealers are players to conceal several hidden costs which includes document-processing fees, vehicle registration fees, and several more hidden costs without you having knowledge of it. Therefore, you should inquire about all these costs, regularly mentioned in the fine print of your bill copy.
Another common blunder that people make while buying their car through finance schemes is not buying their car at most favorable interest rate. Many dealers at first offer unbelievably low interest rates however they often last only for a few months after which this interest rate rises significantly. Thus, rather than jumping on what the dealer offers, it is always advisable for you to check all the aspects before by getting quotes from different banks and lenders that might offer better rates and bring down your car ownership cost. Further, negotiate the cost of vehicle with various dealers and see what they have to offer, also check if there is any comparable car available from another manufacturer at lower cost and then negotiate with all the dealers to get the best price, this will further reduce the cost of owning the car.
The major blunder that many people frequently make while purchasing a new car is disregarding test-drives, which might help you find out troubles with the car if any during a test drive and to get perfect set of wheels. Another biggest blunder that many people make while buying a new car is buying immediately without any research, which involves groundwork to find the right car. At present, there are several consumer reports offered by several online websites as well as various car and bike journals that are best means to get you the necessary information on cars along with reviews by several experts. While buying a car, research is crucial, which you should not ignore and the right way to do this is to read consumer reports on cars.
You should always buy a new car at a cost that is affordable to you. All it needs is a right approach along with a little research by reading consumer reports on cars and comparing them for their features and cost and follow aforementioned tips. This will help you in buying the right car and avoid costly blunders.
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Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Miriam Stucky’ is running for the Green Party of Ontario in the Ontario provincial election, in the Peterborough riding. Wikinews’ Nick Moreau interviewed her regarding her values, her experience, and her campaign.
Stay tuned for further interviews; every candidate from every party is eligible, and will be contacted. Expect interviews from Liberals, Progressive Conservatives, New Democratic Party members, Ontario Greens, as well as members from the Family Coalition, Freedom, Communist, Libertarian, and Confederation of Regions parties, as well as independents.