Friday, November 3, 2006
On November 13, Torontoians will be heading to the polls to vote for their ward’s councillor and for mayor. Among Toronto’s ridings is Eglinton—Lawrence (Ward 16). Two candidates responded to Wikinews’ requests for an interview. This ward’s candidates include Steven Bosnick, Charm Darby, Albert Pantaleo, Yigal Rifkind, Karen Stintz (incumbent), and Steve Watt.
For more information on the election, read Toronto municipal election, 2006.
Friday, January 19, 2007
In November 2006 Pensacola, Florida evangelist Kent Hovind and his wife, Jo, were found guilty on 58 federal counts of “willful failure” to payroll taxes, structuring bank withdrawals, and obstructing federal agents. On January 19, 2007 Hovind was given ten years in federal prison, ordered to pay $640,000 in owed funds to the Internal Revenue Service, pay prosecution’s court costs of $7,078, and serve three years parole once released. Originally in November, Hovind was ordered to forfeit $430,400 and faced a maximum of 288 years in prison.
Thursday, November 25, 2010
A jawbone found in Aruba is not that of missing American Natalee Holloway, who was a recent high school-graduate at the time of her disappearance. Officials confirmed the news after Dutch scientists completed tests on the bone. The jawbone, which also had a wisdom tooth with it, was found by an American tourist close to the Phoenix Hotel. A second bone had also been found by another tourist earlier this month.
The bone was sent to the Netherlands Forensic Institute where scientists completed tests. They compared the bone to dental records given to them by Natalee’s father, from which they confirmed the the bone was not that of Natalee, although it was human. It was said to be unlikely that the bone was Holloway’s as there is no physical evidence that she was murdered.
| Beth accepts the forensic conclusions, is emotionally exhausted from the inexplicably long wait, and deeply disappointed in the time and manner in which she learned of the results. | ||
Taco Stein, the Aruban Solicitor General, released a statement after the announcement was made. He commented on the speed of the identification; he said that they had quickly ruled out Holloway because her records had shown that she had her wisdom teeth previously removed.
Tim Miller, the Director of the Texas EquuSearch, released a statement after talking to Natalee’s father. He said “Dave [Natalee’s father] has been in contact with Aruban authorities and spoke with FBI this morning, the agent working the case. Dave believes it is Natalee.”
An attorney for Natalee’s mother, Beth Twitty, released a statement saying “Beth accepts the forensic conclusions, is emotionally exhausted from the inexplicably long wait, and deeply disappointed in the time and manner in which she learned of the results.” He commented on the Aruban authorities saying that “Apparently Aruban prosecutors were more sensitive to media concerns than the painful vigil of a mother.”
Natalee Holloway disappeared on the island in 2005 while on a school trip. She was last seen leaving a nightclub with three men, one of which was later identified as Joran van der Sloot. Van der Sloot was detained twice by police but has never been charged with Holloway’s disappearance. He is currently in Peru facing a different murder charge. Aruban authorities have said that they are checking neighboring islands to find a match for other missing persons.
By Michelle Kwong
I am diagnosed of slipped disc. Should I go for physiotherapy treatment or surgery in Singapore first?
This is a common back pain problem faced by patient in doubt of their back condition.
What is a spinal disc?
There are many different back problems to a spinal disc: Slipped disc, prolapsed disc, herniated disc, degenerated disc ‘wear and tear’ and disc extrusion. As we all know our vertebral column is made up of bones called vertebrae. Between these vertebrae are discs which help in shock absorption, allows mobility and also provides stability to the vertebral column.
What is slipped disc?
Under normal circumstances the disc stays within its space between the vertebral bodies and does not put pressure on either the nerve root or the spinal cord which runs in the vertebral canal. However when the pressure within the center of this disc increases it can move out of its place, compressing nerve roots and in many cases also the spinal cord, and result in what is called the prolapse disc.
A prolapse disc can cause a variety of symptoms starting from back pain and tingling numbness to sensory loss and weakness on the arms or legs. The severity of the symptoms depends on the compression that the disc is resulting in. In cases where there is a very small displacement of the disc, back pain and leg tingling might be the only symptoms. However if the disc is centrally prolapsed and is compressing the spinal cord there might be a lot of sensory loss and weakness resulting in a lot of disability.
So now that we understand what a prolapse disc is let us discussed about the treatment of a Slipped Disc. Do we choose physiotherapy over surgery or surgery over physiotherapy in Singapore?
The treatment of choice in a prolapse disc depends on the stage of the spine disorder. Most cases of prolapse disc is treated and cured with conservative treatment, which consists of physiotherapy and medications. Physiotherapy treatment for back slipped disc would consist of pain relief equipment by electrical stimulation, ultrasound and manual therapy, stretching of tight muscles, nerve or joint mobilization, strengthening the back and core muscles, and ergonomic advice. Most cases of prolapse disc resolve completely with physiotherapy and if the patient continues taking precautions, maintains an active lifestyle and a strong core muscles, and makes a few lifestyle modification prolapse disc will not relapse.
However there are cases which will not resolve with physiotherapy and requires surgical intervention. These cases are:
— Severe back pain persisent, even after taking conservative treatment for more than 3 to 6 months.
— Neurological deficit with progressive weakness, constant numbness and tingling on arms or legs
— Increasing back pain in spite of being under physiotherapy treatment.
— Unable to perform simple daily activities such as sleeping, sitting, walking
Neurological deficit or progressive neurological deficit is a red flag and should be attended to immediately. Neurological deficit implies that there is a large compression of the nerve roots or the spinal cord, and this needs immediate decompression.
The decision to go in for a surgery in Singapore is to be considered seriously by the patient as this is an invasive irreversible method and not a 100% cure.
Even post decompression surgery, physiotherapy is of utmost importance to strengthen the core muscles and prevent slipped disc at other levels. Also post operation pain can be reduced by physiotherapy. 3 to 6months of rehabilitation with progressive exercises with physiotherapist ensure that the patient can go back to his daily activities without fearing another episode of prolapse.
Most cases of slipped disc will recovered with physiotherapy in Singapore, surgical intervention option will be considered if failed.
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Saturday, August 6, 2005
The Finnish police isolated the ports of Katajanokka and Länsisatama on Saturday. The ports were isolated at around 9.30 p.m. local time and the isolation was called off at around 11.30 p.m.
Finnish police received reports from Estonia that a shipping container loaded with explosives could be coming from Estonia Saturday evening. They checked every truck that passed the ports with the assistance of the Border Guard Service. There are still two ships due to arrive in Helsinki tonight, but they were already checked in Tallinn.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Toyota has been accused by a U.S. House of Representatives committee with misleading the public and investigators over its recent recalls.
The accusations, in a statement from the House Energy and Commerce Committee, claim that Toyota both relied on a flawed study in its assessment of the issue of sticking accelerator pedals at the heart of the recalls, and then made misleading statements about its response. According to the authors of the letter, Henry Waxman and Bart Stupak, Toyota dismissed, rather than investigated, the idea that the cars’ computers were at fault. In a statement, James Lentz, the president of Toyota’s American division, claimed that hardware issues were to blame, and that dealers were repairing the faulty part. Toyota also released a study commissioned from the research firm Exponent that said electronic systems were not to blame.
According to the House committee, however, the study involved only six vehicles, none of which had problems with their electrical systems, and was insufficient to produce an accurate result. “Our preliminary assessment is that Toyota resisted the possibility that electronic defects could cause safety concerns, relied on a flawed engineering report and made misleading public statements concerning the adequacy of recent recalls to address the risk of sudden unintended acceleration.”
The company is under a criminal investigation, and has received two subpoenas for documents from two House committees relating to the recalls, although whether they are directly related to the letter is unclear. The documents are related to accelerator issues in several models, as well as brake problems with the Prius hybrid car, and were served earlier in in February by a federal grand jury and the Securities and Exchange Commission. Toyota has released upwards of 75,000 pages of documents under the requests.
In a separate, though related, development, it has emerged that Toyota last year negotiated a limited recall for two models, the Toyota Camry and Lexus ES, that were affected by the accelerator recalls, saving the company an estimated $100 million. A confidential internal presentation in July 2009 made the claim, and a month later, a Lexus ES, one of the models under the limited recall crashed in California, killing four people. The claims apparently referenced a September, 2007 recall of floor mats that could trap gas pedals, the same problem that triggered a full recall of numerous Toyota cars to fix the same problem. In the same presentation, the company claimed to have avoided recalls of another model related to rust, as well as delaying new federal safety regulations.
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
“Localization of ‘SEMI Safety Guideline'”, executed by Safety and Health Technology Center of Taiwan (SAHTECH) and supervised by Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI), was announced today in Hsinchu, Taiwan.
This localization included several fields on health and safety of semiconductor manufacturing, certification testing on electrical devices, evaluations on fire or natural diseases, and environmental issues on semiconductor manufacturing devices, etc.. Companies and manufacturers from the semiconductor industry also paid more attentions on this guideline because issues on carbon-savings, earthquakes, fire diseases, and environment-efficiencies were included into this guideline.
| This [safety] guideline was originally promoted by SEMI since 1975 and was set up according to industry infrastructures in Europe, America, Korea, Japan, and Taiwan. Currently, its standards from the S1 to S25 was completely ruled by several world-class executives in semiconductor industry, and the S26 standard for FPD industry, proposed in Taiwan, was also in several arrangements with the other countries. | ||
| The semiconductor industry is a high-value industry in every country. If a fabrication plant (fab) was vandalized with fire or earthquake, how will a company decrease its lossless after a disease? As of some examples from the other countries, several companies didn’t pay more attentions on devices’ safety and finally got a damn trouble on counting lossless after a disease. By the way, voltages on electric using will take effect on energy especially the wasting of CO2. We [the semiconductor industry in Taiwan] hope this announcement will drive on global safety standards. | ||
| Generally, the designs of a fab will take effect on possibilities when a disease take place in, and its scale will chain much wasting on manufacturing devices and materials. For example, when using fluorine in a fab, a company would consider using a gas tank car rather than a steel bottle. But due to environment and carbon-saving issues, some evaluations should be tested in a fab. | ||
On the other side of the incoming trade show of 2008 SecuTech Expo, scheduled after 2 weeks at Taipei World Trade Center, not only main fields on security devices, information security, and fire & disease preventions, the digital monitoring will be a hot topic in security industry. For applications on fire & disease preventions, because its issues contained industrial applications and ESH (Environmental, Safety & Health) managements, if a company want to decrease the ratio of fire disease or earthquake, companies from safety and related industries should pay more attentions on disease preventions.
By Seomul Evans
Crohn’s disease is a chronic disease which can’t be recovered. It can be cured only. Still nowadays, there’s no effective and promising treatment or heal. However, there are different symptoms to suggest its happening in the body.
This disease exhibits symptoms that interferes the act upon and personal life of patients. It may disturb the quality of life too. It can take biological disturbance in the liver, thrush in the mouth, wounds in the eyes and arthritis that effect as causing pains at large joints.
For medicines to care for the disease can end up causing other problems or side effects in the body
Many treatments have been invented to cure but till date there’s no full fledge treatment to cure it.
Acupuncture is among the traditional treatments popularly experienced to cure Crohn’s disease. Acupuncture can cure this disease but can’t cure it full Acupuncture works through the nervous system and energy channels of the body. It’s a therapy in which not painful needles are injected in different parts of the body to stimulate brain cells.
The therapies recommended for acupuncture are commonly directed as gastrointestinal sensory, gastrointestinal motor, or central nervous system processing. Though, the efficiency and performance of these therapies vary on diversity of symptoms. It’s hard to examine the results of these therapies on basis of short run studies. Due to restricted alternatives of these therapies, people are inclined to use other option therapies for curing Crohn’s disease.
Acupuncture is wide assumed by western areas for healing certain gastrointestinal disorders and bowel infections. However, on approximating randomly, the trails of acupuncture used for handling irritable bowel syndrome are, a few trials shown no clearly evidence in back up of acupuncture as an effectual treatment for irritable bowel syndrome.
To treat IBS, the destination is to relieve symptoms. Shifts in diet often help to relieve several of the symptoms in a few patients. Averting foods that aggravate the intestines, such caffeine, gains, and fatty foods help. Dairy farm products also often decline the symptoms of IBS. The diet for Irritable bowel syndrome can change from person to person.
Keep a diary of the foods that you eat for 1-2 weeks and try to pinpoint the foods that exacerbate the symptoms for you. It’s not the equal for everybody. Eating fruits, vegetables, plenty of fish, and chicken baked not fried will also help relieve symptoms. You want to eat a healthy diet and get exercise also.
Caffeinated beverages like coffee, and carbonated sodas can aggravate symptoms and should be avoided. Whenever constipation is your symptom you should eat a fiber rich diet. If extravagant gas is a symptom which causes the bloating then try to avoid cauliflower, broccoli, cabbage and legumes.
Little frequent meals are best tolerated than big meals for diseased person of IBS. Low fat dieting which include yogurt, lean beef, fish, chicken, totally grain breads, vegetables and fruits are better.
Symptoms for this disease are;
1. Headaches and migraines, fatigue, bad breath, mood swings
2. Lack of mental alertness, confusion, mental fogginess, depression
3. Hypoglycaemia and unstable blood glucose (diabetes symptom)
4. Weight gain (especially around abdomen)
5. Difficulty losing weight or following a weight loss program
6. Constantly losing weight and arriving at weight
7. Indigestion, heartburn, reflux, bloating
8. Irritable Bowel Syndrome
9. Allergies (asthma, rashes, hives and hay fever)
10. Food cravings including sugar cravings (diabetes symptom)
11. Gallstones and gallbladder disease
12. Obesity
13. High blood pressure
14. Decreased sex drive
15. Dry itchy eyes
16. Fluid retention
How to Prevent and diagnose?
a. End drinking alcohol
For People who drink extravagant alcohol, try to quit or minimize it until you can finish. Alcohol can lead to many dangerous cases other than having a Fatty liver.
b. Lose Weight and Exercise-
People who suffer from obesity must take to exercise more and have a low fat diet. This is really important since complications might arise if you don’t lose that weight.
c. Have a Low fat diet and monitor the sugar level.
People having from diabetes should also be careful about their diet they should also have a low down fat diet and monitor their diabetes. Diabetes can lead also to other complications if it’s not treated easily.
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Thursday, June 28, 2007
Indonesia has shut down four airlines and grounded five others with the potential of similar licence revocations for failing to meet safety standards.
The largest company to lose its licence is Jatayu Gelang Sejahtera. The other companies are all small airlines operating only aircraft with a passenger capacity of fewer than thirty, and are Aviasi Upataraksa, Alfa Trans Dirgantara and Prodexim. The companies that were grounded pending either improvements or licence revokation are Germania Trisila Air, Atlas Delta Setia, Survey Udara Penas, Kura-kura Aviation and SMAC, all of which also operate only aircraft with under-30 passenger capacities. They have three months to improve, or their licences will be revoked.
Jatayu had already ceased operations in August, but had intended to restart with a 150-seat Boeing 737. The licence was revoked because the state requires at least two aircraft to be commercially operated and because of the fact that it “was lacking in pilots and human resources”. Also, the age of the jetliner meant that it would require a test called a ‘C-Check’ before it could begin commercial services, at a cost of $120,000.
The action comes as the result of a number of air crashes, namely the Adam Air Flight 574 disaster in which 102 people were killed, and the Adam Air Flight 172 accident, in which a plane snapped in half during a hard landing, but managed to hold together, thus preventing any serious injuries. As a result, all 54 of Indonesia’s airlines were given a safety rating, with a level-1 rating meaning no action was needed, a level-2 rating meaning the airline needed to make some improvements, and a level-3 rating requiring that the airline be shut down unless improvements were made within three months. Most airlines received a level-2 rating, while none received the top rating. Adam Air was among the airlines to receive the level-3 rating, but was upgraded to tier 2 at the same time as the groundings.
Meanwhile, state-owned Garuda Indonesia is now the only airline to have a type-1 rating, despite the fatal crash of Garuda Indonesia Flight 200 in March. According to the Indonesian Transport Ministry’s Director General for Aviation Budi Mulyawan Suyitno, Garuda now satisfied 84 percent of civil aviation standards.
The ratings have been based on such criteria as surveillance, ramp checks, personnel, department safety, number of accidents and number of serious incidents, according to the BBC. Meanwhile, Flight Global is reporting that, according to Directorate General of Air Communications (DGAC) director of air certification office, Yurlis Hasibuan “20 criteria including whether the airline has developed [better] safety and human resources” are checked.
Friday, February 1, 2008
The 2008 Taipei Game Show, organized by the Taipei Computer Association (TCA), ended on Monday, and was different from shows of past years. This could be seen in the gaming population, industry, and exhibition arrangements.