The Fisherman Sweater
More On This Topic: Cattleyards Fisherman Sweater HistoryRooted in our common heritage, commercial fishermen, weekend sailors, farmers and in fact people from all walks of life love the fisherman sweater. At sea, and in town, it is a symbol of simpler times when you could look good in something that was designed just to be practical and keep you warm, not to show off a label in order to be some kind of status symbol like many garments manufactured today. The fisherman sweater has its origins in Brittany. Surprisingly it was not the fishermen that started to wear them, but merchants who during the 18th century travelled to England to sell onions, these merchants wore an item of knitted wool clothing that made them recognizable from a distance, the garments were made with very tight stitching, using a stitch designed for warmth, water proofing, and considerable resistance to the wind.…
Category:June 16, 2010
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Deadly fire below US President’s Trump Tower residence
Tuesday, April 10, 2018 On Saturday, the Trump Tower, in Midtown, New York City, caught fire shortly before 18:00 EST (2200 UTC) on the 50th floor, claiming the life of a 67-year-old resident, Todd Brassner, who lived in apartment 50C. All other residents were evacuated without incident. During the fire, six firefighters received non-life-threatening burns and other minor injuries. Neither US President Donald Trump nor the First Family were in the building at the time of the fire. The high-end Fifth Avenue address is the personal residence of President Donald Trump, whose family occupies the top three stories of the 58-story building. The US Secret Service maintains a constant security presence inside the building with the New York City Police Department guarding a hard perimeter, intended to stop vehicular attacks, and a soft perimeter, intended for on-foot attacks. The four-alarm fire required 200 firemen, extra police, and paramedics. At 20:00…
Antibiotic Therapy
More On This Topic: Phlebotomy Classes In Los Angeles California Antibiotic therapy acts as a life saving therapy, it kills microorganisms while doing no harm to the human cells. With the help of antibiotic therapy, many diseases caused by bacteria can be cured. Usually it is given by mouth and the length of treatment is not very long. But some infections require antibiotic therapy for a long time and for more effectiveness it is given through IV. The antibiotic therapy is needed to be taken till the infected bacteria have been eliminated from the body and in normal cases it takes one week. In some exceptional cases this therapy is continued for 5 to 6 weeks. Intravenous antibiotics are basically designed to be delivered directly to the bloodstream and work against the bacteria. By delivering antibiotics in veins the drugs act quickly as compared to the drugs taken by mouth.…
Gordon Brown announces new powers for UK Treasury
Tuesday, October 10, 2006 Gordon Brown, Chancellor of the Exchequer, announced today that an Order in Council will be made tomorrow empowering the British Treasury to prevent the funding of those suspected of planning terror. Use will be made of forensic accounting and of methods similar to those employed by the code breakers at Bletchley Park. With the help of computing power to discover relations between bits of information, they cracked the German Enigma code during WWII. Gordon Brown ranks the impact of forensic accounting at the present time with the use of fingerprinting in the 19th century and of DNA in the late 20th Century. Speaking to Chatham House, The Royal Institute of International Affairs, Brown defined the most dangerous sources of finance for terrorists as being charities, money service businesses and financial transactions such as bureaux de change, cheque cashers and money remitters. There will be a new…
U.K. National Portrait Gallery threatens U.S. citizen with legal action over Wikimedia images
Tuesday, July 14, 2009 This article mentions the Wikimedia Foundation, one of its projects, or people related to it. Wikinews is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. The English National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in London has threatened on Friday to sue a U.S. citizen, Derrick Coetzee. The legal letter followed claims that he had breached the Gallery’s copyright in several thousand photographs of works of art uploaded to the Wikimedia Commons, a free online media repository. In a letter from their solicitors sent to Coetzee via electronic mail, the NPG asserted that it holds copyright in the photographs under U.K. law, and demanded that Coetzee provide various undertakings and remove all of the images from the site (referred to in the letter as “the Wikipedia website”). Wikimedia Commons is a repository of free-to-use media, run by a community of volunteers from around the world, and is a sister project to…
Functionality Of A Rubbermaid Closet Organizer
More On This Topic: Self Storage North Lakes Qld Functionality of a Rubbermaid Closet Organizer by Jesse Whitehead If you have a closet that is unorganized, cluttered, or downright messy, you need some help. Fortunately, there is a solution that won’t cost you an arm and a leg, namely the Rubbermaid Closet Organizer. Rubbermaid closet organizers are a great way to get your closet looking the way it should. With a closet organization system made by Rubbermaid you can take all of that extra junk laying around and get your closet looking nice and tidy in almost no time. In addition to how Rubbermaid makes organizing your closet a breeze, this article provides a few more reasons that you should look into getting a Rubbermaid closet organizer. 1. They are inexpensive Unlike some other types of closet organizers such as solid wood, which can cost hundreds or even thousands of…
5-year old American girl dies after visiting the dentist
Friday, September 29, 2006 Diamond Brownridge, a 5-year old girl from Chicago, Illinois, has died after a visit to the dentist. Children’s Memorial Hospital officials say that the girl was rushed to the hospital when she never woke up after being sedated for a dental procedure. She had been in a coma, on life support, since being admitted to the hospital early in the weekend. “She passed very peacefully and beautifully,” said the hospital in a statement that the family issued. Ommettress Travis, the mother of the girl, was asked not to remain inside the room while dentists were operating on the girl to repair two cavities and to have at least two caps replaced. Travis says after thirty minutes she was asked to come back in and found Brownridge not breathing, in the dentist chair. Hicham Riba, a specialist and professional in anesthesia, who was also licensed, was the…
Wikinews interviews Joe Schriner, Independent U.S. presidential candidate
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. Retrieved from “https://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Wikinews_interviews_Joe_Schriner,_Independent_U.S._presidential_candidate&oldid=4497624”
Thaksin’s speech played for demonstrators, ex-Thai PM calls for elections
Friday, June 15, 2007 A videotaped address by Thaksin Shinawatra was played for a crowd of around 15,000 supporters today in Bangkok, with the ousted former prime minister calling for the military-installed government of Thailand to hold elections later this year as promised. “Please speed up the new elections and turn the country back to democracy,” Thaksin said in his message, taped in London, where he has been living in exile since being ousted in a coup last year. “It is time for reconciliation and to move forward with elections. That is the best solution for the country.” “Let the people decide for themselves who should be voted into office and run the country,” he said. Interim Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont has said the elections would likely be held in December, after a constitutional referendum, which might occur in August or September. Thaksin’s address began at around 9 p.m. local…