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Suspicious package found outside South Carolina coffee shop

Friday, September 21, 2007

A briefcase containing magnets, batteries and a cell phone sitting in the bushes outside a Charleston, South Carolina coffee shop drew the local bomb squad’s attention, before it was determined that it contained no explosives.

Police had earlier closed down Calhoun Street in downtown, where the coffee shop is located, but reopened the street and let local residents and business owners that the situation was over after performing an investigation.

Customers inside the shop called police around 9:00 a.m. when they found the package by a bush, but some reports say the package was found near cars parked on the street.

As a precaution, the president of the College of Charleston dismissed classes for the day, before taking in a round of golf himself.

It is not known what was inside the package.

MuchMusic Video Awards this Sunday in Toronto, Canada; Wikinews will be there

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Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Wikinews will be attending The 2007 MuchMusic Video Awards this weekend, a popular annual event in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. True stars will be out to play, present, and else wise schmooze at the CHUM-City Building just above the city’s Entertainment District in the Queen Street West neighbourhood.

MuchMusic is the most popular music channel in Canada, and has been holding the event since 1990. Roughly 6000 fans line the streets surrounding Much headquarters each year, and 1200 more score “the wristband” and enjoy a free festival-style show in the parking lot, watching four outdoor performance areas spread out in the downtown location. New this year is a special roof-top stage, on the top of the building.

Last year’s show reached 3.5 million viewers in Canada and 100 million around the globe, with broadcasts in 65 countries.

Performing at the show will be Avril Lavigne, Fergie, Billy Talent, Hilary Duff, Alexisonfire, Maroon 5, Belly, The Used, and Finger Eleven.

On stage presenting will be Nickelback, Jay Manuel (Canada’s Next Top Model, America’s Next Top Model), Tara Reid (American Pie, this fall’s Land of Canaan), Joss Stone, Sum 41, Amber Tamblyn (Joan of Arcadia, Grudge 2), Hedley, Chris Bosh (Toronto Raptors), Sean Avery (New York Rangers), George, Sam Roberts, Emilie de Ravin (LOST), Marianas Trench, and Kardinal Offishall.

Photographer Robin Wong will be photographing the red carpet of the MMVAs for Wikinews and Wikipedia. He first helped the sites in April of this year, photographing Hilary Duff at MuchMusic. Wong’s extensive client list includes Fidelty Investments, Flare Magazine, Masterfile, First Light, Fashion Television, FCB Canada, Profit Magazine, Financial Post, and Publicis. His works have appeared in the 2004 and 2005 Applied Arts Awards Annual, the top publication for the creative industry.

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Saudi Arabia plans to open embassy in Finland

Saturday, October 20, 2007

It has been announced that Saudi Arabia is planning to open an official embassy in Finland, to signify continuing improvement in relations between the two countries.

Teemu Tanner, director general of Africa and the Middle East at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, said to reporters concerning Finnish President Tarja Halonen’s first visit to Saudi Arabia on Sunday, “One indication of this visit is that you (Saudi Arabia) are planning to open an embassy here in Helsinki,” adding that “We regard this as extremely important for relations,” and that it is only a matter of time before the facility is made available.

Another act set to strengthen diplomatic relations is the planned visit of a trade delegation headed by Saudi Minister of Trade and Commerce Hashim Yamani, which will arrive in Finland next month.

“Our relationship is no longer in relation to trade,” said Tanner. “More broadly, we will discuss regional and global issues. It is extremely important for us to know Saudi Arabia’s views on Iraq, Iran, but also issues such as Somalia… One objective of the visit is to convey notes on international questions, as we enter a very interesting phase in the Middle East peace process,” adding that the presidential visit is a relational “landmark” that will “crystallize” Finland’s image to Saudi Arabia.

Despite the comment that the international cooperation is no longer entirely a trade issue, he did point out Saudi Arabia’s important role in the Finnish economy as one of the five largest importers of Finnish products. Finland’s main exports to Saudi Arabia are mobile phones, paper, wood and machinery, while Saudi Arabia exports large quantities of raw materials for use in manufacturing plastics. The total volume if this trade is estimated to be worth over €840 million.

Other topics on the table for the two nations to discuss during Halonen’s visit include energy, the role of science, environmental issues and combating terrorism, as well as other global issues. Tanner has also suggested tourism may be a future area of attention, with a possibility of package holidays for Finnish tourists being organized to Saudi Arabia.

Finland and Saudi Arabia have been officially involved in diplomatic relations since 1969. Finland has maintained an embassy in Saudi Arabia since 1974.

Custom Notepads: 7 Steps In Making Them

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Feel the need to print notepads for your business or special project? Do not worry. Custom notepad printing can really be an easy thing to do if you pay attention. In this article, I will share with you my seven simple steps in notepad printing. These steps should be simple enough for almost anybody follow, even you.

1. Create or download a template The first step is to get a template. A notepad template should help you immensely in setting up the initial layout. You can download a lot of good notepad templates with specific and useful dimensions over the Internet. Plan on visiting online notepad printing companies to get the best free notepad templates that are available. Of course make sure that these templates are in file formats that you can use.

2. Place your background color/image Once you have a template that you can use, just load it up in your desktop publishing software to start building up the design. The first thing that you need to do is to insert your background for the notepad. If you plan to use a background color it should be relatively easy. If you plan on using an image, it is important that you make the image more transparent just like a watermark so that it does not nullify the usefulness of the notepad.

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3. Place your footer and header After the background, you should then add the header and footer details. This is an important element in custom notepads since it is in the header or footer where people add the special customized message or marketing slogan. Make sure that the fonts are easy to read since these elements can be quite small.

4. Add other design elements If you have a special theme in your layout, then the time to add other design elements is after the placement of your header or footer. This should place your other design elements in front of the background and the header and footer. Make sure that these elements come in high resolution. This should make them look crisp and clear in notepad printing.

5. Find a printing company Once all the designs are done, you should then find your printing company. The easiest way to find a notepad printing company is to do it online. Just search for the best online printing companies with a good reputation. Usually you will see these firms at the first page of the results page in search engines like Google.

6. Specify printing options With a printing company chosen, make sure that you also specify the important printing options in the order form for your notepads. Set the dimensions, paper materials, printing quality, binding options and other important decisions. Review them thoroughly before final submission so as not to make mistakes.

7. Print your custom notepads Finally, just place the order, pay for the notepad printing and wait for delivery. You will have your custom notepads in no time.

Great! As you can see, the steps are very easy. There is little trouble at all since custom notepads are pretty straightforward to do, especially with templates. Good Luck!

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A Number Of Notable Information Regarding Muriatic Acid That You Need To Be Aware Of

A Number Of Notable Information Regarding Muriatic Acid That You Need To Be Aware Of

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Muriatic acid is actually a solution of hydrogen chloride and water. Being considered as a strong acid, this compound has remarkable industrial applications although it can be hazardous when misused and handled improperly. It occurs naturally in humans though it seems only found in industrial settings being too inorganic to be in living systems. However, animals and humans do have this acid in their systems, present in the lining of the stomach as it aids in digestion and forms a protective layer against bacteria.

Muriatic acid is more precisely known in chemistry as hydrochloric acid, a strong acid in the league of nitric acid and sulphuric acid. Though you may only have seen the acid in your chemical laboratories, it is a top industrial acid and chemical that is used in a wide range of fields from medicine to oil industry. The acid was regarded as a mineral acid as it was derived from mineral salt.

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Muriatic acid is a solution, precisely speaking, and the pure form of the acid is in actuality a gas (hydrogen chloride) that is a product of the chemical reaction of hydrogen and chlorine gases. This explosive reaction yields the popular gaseous acid which is colorless and yet very corrosive. Since this gas has little use in the industrial setting, it must be dissolved into the water first to become extensively applicable. Since it is an ionic acid, it dissolves effectively in polar covalent substances like water. The strength of the acid is due to the complete dissociation of chloride and hydrogen ions in the aqueous system. Generally, it is the aqueous solution of HCl that is commercially available and commercially usable. Therefore, hydrogen chloride must be dissolved in deionized water to render any use.

The unadulterated solution of HCl in water should be transparent, no color. But most muriatic acid sold in the market has varying grades of yellowish tinge, which is a result of impurities in the solution such as ions of iron. The name comes from the Latin term “muria” that means “seawater.” The old method of commercial production of the acid uses rock salt that comes from the sea. The German chemist Johann Rudolf Glauber described this preparation, which made use of salt, in 1648. The method featured heating a mixture of sulphuric acid and sodium chloride. This reaction yields sodium hydrogen sulphate and the gaseous hydrogen chloride. At higher temperatures, salt reacts with sodium hydrogen sulphate to yield more HCl gas.

Another method of obtaining the compound is through direct combination reaction of the composing elements hydrogen gas and chlorine gas. Nevertheless, much of today’s supply of HCl comes as a byproduct of the processing of chlorinated hydrocarbons like some plastics, refrigerants, and insecticides. Since the gaseous acid compound is of little use, it must be dissolved in water to form HCl (aq) or hydrochloric acid. This is possible by directing the gas into the base of the tower where water runs downward over a non-moving packing material. The gas dissolves easily in water and the acid solution exits the base of the tower.

The commercial version of the acid is in concentrated forms. The matter with a concentrated HCl is that it easily releases irritating fumes of the gaseous acid once the container is opened. The acidic gas attracts air moisture to produce droplets of acid. Hence, serious precautions must be considered when opening bottles or containers containing the highly concentrated acid. Inhalation of the fumes could severely injure the mucus lining of the upper respiratory tract.

The HCl (aq) in chemical laboratories is generally a dilute solution which does not fume when exposed to air, but that does not mean that precautions can be neglected. Even in dilute solutions, it can still cause skin irritation upon exposure, and exposure is commonly a result of mishandling.

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Tucson gunman appears in court for Giffords shooting

Thursday, January 13, 2011

Jared Loughner, a 22-year-old former college student, has appeared in federal court following the shooting on Saturday at a supermarket in Tucson, Arizona. The shooting killed five people including John Roll, a federal judge, and injured 19 including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.

Loughner has been charged in federal court with attempted assassination of a member of Congress, first-degree murder and attempting to kill employees of the federal government. Prosecutors for the State of Arizona are trying to determine whether they can bring charges for the other killings and attempted killings in state court.

Loughner confirmed his identity to the court and was denied bail but did not enter a plea. He stated that he understood the potential punishment for the charges include the death penalty or life imprisonment. He is being represented by Judy Clarke, who has previously defended Theodore Kaczynski (the ‘Unabomber’) and Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.

Surgeons have had to perform emergency surgery on Giffords, including a hemicraniectomy, which involves removing a large section of her skull to reduce the pressure from the swelling in the brain caused by the gunshot wound. Dr. Michael Lemole, one neurosurgeon operating on Giffords said that she was “not out of the woods yet”. He also noted that “swelling can sometimes take three days or five days to maximize. But every day that goes by and we don’t see an increase, we’re slightly more optimistic.” Giffords has been able to respond to basic commands from doctors like holding up two fingers.

Meanwhile, debates rage following allegations that Loughner had a political basis for his attack. Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik blamed some extreme rhetoric in the media. “The anger, the hatred, the bigotry that goes on in this country is getting to be outrageous. This has not become the nice United States of America that most of us grew up in and I think it’s time that we do the soul-searching.”

Annual Oregon Coast Clean Up And Awareness Day

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Together, with business support and countless Oregonians standing behind Ocean Blue’s Beach Cleanup Project, we have successfully created an official State holiday of observance signed by Governor Kate Brown.

Largest Microplastic Awareness Movement in Oregon

This is the largest beach plastic volunteer cleanup awareness event of it’s kind. In fact, Ocean Blue a nonprofit has created so much awareness around no landfill microplastic pollution solutions, that Governor Kate Brown proclaimed the[[“ANNUAL OREGON COAST CLEANUP AWARENESS DAY” of April 23rd”]] to be an official State Holiday for all nonprofits, schools, businesses, communities, Universities, and all Oregonians to take part in the day for everyone to give back to Oregon Coast Beaches.

Every wave hitting the Oregon Beach, is leaving thousands of pounds of plastic on Oregon Beaches. The Plastic that continues to wash up on theNorth Pacific Coast. The plastic is floating in the Ocean and is traveling by waves, and this floating plastic journey is powered by the North Pacific Gyro on the Oregon shores and solutions are vital to saving out the ocean.

No Landfill Microplastic Pollution Solutions

The plastic fragments collected by a nonprofit group that is partnered with Terra Cycle for all recycled and upcycled beach plastic items collected will be placed back into re-usable products, for example, the plastic collected from the April 23rd Annual Coast Cleanup and Awareness Day was used by the P&G Corporation that makes head and shoulders shampoo bottles.

For more information about the nonprofit behind making the Annual Oregon Coast Cleanup and Awareness Day possible visit. http://www.oceanblueproject.org/proclamationbykatebrown.html

Scientists say new medical diagnostic chip can sort cells anywhere with an inkjet

Thursday, February 9, 2017

On Monday, scientists from the Stanford University School of Medicine announced the invention of a new diagnostic tool that can sort cells by type: a tiny printable chip that can be manufactured using standard inkjet printers for possibly about one U.S. cent each. Lead researchers say this may bring early detection of cancer, tuberculosis, HIV and malaria to patients in low-income countries, where the survival rates for illnesses such as breast cancer can be half those of richer countries.

Existing methods tend to identify cell types using fluorescent or magnetic labels, which take time to attach, but this platform uses the phenomenon of dielectrophoresis: because different kinds of cells have different levels of receptivity to electrical fields, a trait called polarizability, when an electric potential gradient is activated around the chip, different cells are pulled in different directions at different speeds. This allows doctors to diagnose cancer by determining the number of tumor cells in a patient’s blood sample. Different chips can be printed to diagnose different diseases.

Physically, the scientists say, the system has two parts. Cells are held in a clear microfluidic chamber made of silicone. The chip itself is an electronic strip that can be printed onto flexible polyester. Most lab-on-a-chip devices must be manufactured by professional staff in specialized facilities called clean rooms and can take weeks, but the chip component of this system can be made almost anywhere in as little as twenty minutes. The chips cost approximately one U.S. cent to produce (US$0.01) and can be reused. For comparison, a standard flow cytometry machine can cost US$100,000 to purchase.

“Enabling early detection of diseases is one of the greatest opportunities we have for developing effective treatments,” said lead author and electrical engineer Dr. Rahim Esfandyarpour. “Maybe $1 in the U.S. doesn’t count that much, but somewhere in the developing world, it’s a lot of money.”

Senior author Dr. Ron Davis of the Stanford University Genome Technology Center compared this invention to that of low-cost genome sequencing, which helped lead to personalized medicine.

The findings appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Monday.

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Five children found dead in Graham, Washington

Sunday, April 5, 2009

At least five children have been found dead in a home in Graham, Washington in Pierce County located in the United States. The bodies were found on Saturday after officials in neighboring King County found the body of their father who committed suicide by way of a self inflicted gunshot wound.

According to the Pierce County sheriff’s office, the ages of the children, one boy and 4 girls, range from 7-years-old to 16-years-old and all were shot and killed. Police went to check on the children’s health after King County sheriffs contacted Pierce County regarding the father’s suicide, whose name has not been released.

Authorities believe the 35-year-old man killed all five children before he killed himself, but the motive is not yet known.