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Wikinews Shorts: August 8, 2009

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Wikinews Shorts: August 8, 2009

A compilation of brief news reports for Saturday, August 8, 2009.

Contents

  • 1 Leader of Pakistan Taliban may have been killed in drone attack
  • 2 Hillary Clinton arrives in South Africa
  • 3 Anniversary of Georgian War marked by mutual accusations
  • 4 Police in the United Kingdom ordered to review policing of demonstrations
  • 5 Son of missing Japanese actress Noriko Sakai found safe
  • 6 Seven coalition troops killed within 24 hour period in Afghanistan
  • 7 Hong Kong government to begin school drug testing trials in December
  • 8 Nine killed in Belgium care home fire
  • 9 India and China resume border talks
  • 10 President Kennedy’s sister Eunice Kennedy in critical condition at hospital

James Brady, former White House press secretary, gun control advocate, dies at 73

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James Brady, former White House press secretary, gun control advocate, dies at 73

Tuesday, August 5, 2014

James Brady, former White House Press Secretary for the Ronald Reagan US presidential administration and advocate for gun control, died yesterday at age 73 in an Alexandria, Virginia retirement community. The family released a statement saying, “We are heartbroken to share the news that our beloved Jim ‘Bear’ Brady has passed away after a series of health issues”. Brady was a few weeks shy of his 74th birthday.

Brady was serving as President Reagan’s press secretary when he was the most seriously wounded out of four, in a assassination attempt on Reagan by John Hinckley, Jr. on March 30, 1981. Brady was shot in the head by a hollow-point bullet damaging his right frontal lobe. Dr. Arthur Kobrine, a neurosurgeon, operated on Brady to save his life. Brady survived but was left with brain damage, slurred speech, short-term memory loss, and partial paralysis which required use of a wheelchair.

Following the assassination attempt, Brady and his wife Sarah joined with The Center to Prevent Handgun Violence, and Handgun Control, Inc., two organizations lobbying for gun control. The organizations were later renamed in honor of Brady, as Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence and the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence respectively. The organizations lobbied for the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, a law passed in 1993 which requires federal background checks on firearm purchasers in the United States.

Brady never again held press conferences after the assassination attempt; nevertheless, he officially remained press secretary throughout the entire Reagan administration, till 1989. In 2000, the White House press briefing room was renamed after Brady. Josh Earnest, President Barack Obama’s current press secretary, along with eleven other former White House press secretaries said in a statement, “Jim Brady defined the role of the modern White House Press Secretary. With his passing we lost a friend and mentor, and the country lost a selfless public servant who dedicated his life to service, even in the face of tragedy. […] Jim set the model and standard for the rest of us to follow. It’s been a genuine honor for each of us to stand at the podium in the briefing room that will always bear his name.”

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Help Moving Exercise Equipment Louisville Residents Can Count On

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byAlma Abell

Whether you buy your exercise equipment new or used, setting it up properly can be a challenge. Once it is in place, it may be difficult to move. If you don’t want to risk breaking it down and moving it yourself, consider hiring a professional exercise equipment mover. By hiring someone who understands the intricacies of exercise equipment, you can ensure that your property is disassembled correctly, arrives at your destination and is put back together correctly.

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A large piece of exercise equipment can be difficult to transport to your home and set up in your exercise room. Play it Again Sports offers a moving service that can help you get your equipment from one place to another and set up properly so you can use it immediately. You won’t have to worry about whether you followed complicated assembly instructions when you use a professional exercise equipment mover. When you hire a professional instead of doing it yourself, you can begin working out right away.

A home remodeling project can be more complicated if your need to relocate your exercise equipment. You may even need to take your equipment apart because bulky machines often do not easily fit through doors or hallways. When you need help Moving Exercise Equipment Louisville residents can contact Play it Again Sports. In order to get the most benefit from your equipment and use it safely, it must be assembled properly. A missing or incorrectly assembled part can make your equipment nonoperational or even dangerous.

If you are moving from one home to another, you may need assistance dismantling and reassembling your equipment in your new home. With all the other things you have to do to get ready for your move, taking your exercise equipment apart to pack and move it can be easily delegated to a professional. Most large exercise machines have a lot of small parts that can be lost or misplaced during a move. One missing piece can delay your workouts for weeks while you wait for a replacement part. Let Play it Again Sports take the complication out of Moving Exercise Equipment Louisville residents may feel when they move.

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European Parliament committee backs visa-free travel for Balkan countries

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European Parliament committee backs visa-free travel for Balkan countries

Friday, October 9, 2009

The European Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee supported on Tuesday a proposal by the European Commission to scrap visa requirements for citizens of Serbia, Montenegro, and Macedonia, starting on January 1 of next year.

The committee also asked that Bosnia and Herzegovina and Albania be included in the visa liberalisation process, although neither has met EU-determined benchmarks yet. European Parliament members also want to initiate visa liberalisation dialogues with Kosovo and establish a roadmap for visa-free travel.

Serbia, Macedonia, and Montenegro currently appear to have strong support within the Parliament for implementing the proposal.

“I am convinced that what we are trying to do now with Bosnia-Herzegovina and Albania will not slow down the other three countries. This was a political decision by all the member-states of the European community and that will not change,” said Tanja Fajon, the European Parliament Rapporteur on Visa Liberalization.

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Wikinews interviews meteorological experts on Cyclone Phalin

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Wikinews interviews meteorological experts on Cyclone Phalin

Monday, October 14, 2013

Half-a-million people have fled their homes in and around the Indian state of Orissa after Cyclone Phailin made landfall.

Wikinews interviewed specialists in meteorology about the devastation the cyclone has caused.

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Different Colors Of Nursing Uniforms

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By Yakove Vahava

To have the synchronization in the dresses of staff of hospital it is very important to have a uniform as a dress of nursing staff working in the said hospital so that everyone may recognize them. It has been often observed that there is no hospital without having the nursing uniforms of its own kind. Mostly the nurses of a hospital have been assigned to wear the white dress as their uniform while performing their duties in the hospital. But there may be change of color of the uniform for the said staff of hospital if it has been taken into account.

In the present time each and everything has been changed and become colorful then why we cannot change the white dresses of the nursing staff. There may be many other colors with different designs & style which could be adopted as the uniform for the female staff of a hospital. There are many institutions which has different uniforms. You can study uniforms of different nursing homes.

You can select this uniform according to your atmosphere because weather plays an important role in it. You can choose the color according to your region. If your weather is hot, then you can chose light colors and if your weather is hot, then you can use dark colors. You can also think on scientific way, what is the best solution regarding patients. You can also choose 2 uniforms according to your weather. They look beautiful and discipline in the same uniform. You should not compromise regarding uniform matter.

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You can choose any color for the purpose of making nursing uniforms if you are running a hospital. There is blue color which looks fascinating when used with the pajama of the same color with a shirt having style of neck or you can choose sky blue color in the same combination of pajama and shirt as the uniforms for the female nursing staff of your hospital. You can select light colors, it is tradition throughout the world, they nurses use light colors and mostly, white color is common.

The color combination may be changed in the shirt and pajama as well by keeping in view the attraction of the color scheme. Sky blue pant may be used with the white color shirt for the said staff of your hospital too. In the same way you can make any combination of color other than all white dress to avoid the typical dressing of the nursing staff. However if a nurse is working in the lab of the hospital then she has to wear a white coat over the uniform because white coat is a standardized color which has been used by the lab staff all over the world.

However, there may be change of color & design in the nursing uniforms of a hospital as advised and mentioned above. The mail purpose of the uniform is to look similar and to get an easy recognition of the hospital staff. But there could not be changed in the white coats which have being used by the lab workers and doctors as well. Moreover the uniform of the nursing staff has been used to create proper atmosphere of the hospital. The said uniforms have also been known as scrub which has been made with a good quality of cloth.

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Bratsk hydroelectric plant gets new turbine

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Bratsk hydroelectric plant gets new turbine

Saturday, October 7, 2006

The city of Bratsk in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, received a new turbine for its famous 4,500 megawatt hydroelectric plant founded in the mid-1950s on the Angara river. In future this new unit will cause an efficiency rise up to 255MW for each turbine.

Currently, the Bratsk Power Station operates 18 hydro-turbines, each with capacity of 250MW, produced by the Leningrad Metal Works (“LMZ”) in the 1960s. The plant is the second level of the Angara Hydroelectric Stations cascade. Since its full commissioning in 1967, the station was the world’s single biggest power producer until Canada’s Churchill Falls in 1971. Annually the station produces 22.6 billion kWh.

The precious 80 tonne cargo was transported to Pulkovo International airport of Saint-Petersburg where it was loaded on Antonov An-124-100 Ruslan to made all the way to Bratsk by air. On October 4, 2006 it landed in the Bratsk airport. In two days the unit 16 replacement arrived to the assemble place on the Angara river.

Sergey Emdin, CEO of IrkutskEnergo JSC, noted the press that the Bratsk plant reconstruction project includes not only the economical, but the ecological aspect by reducing carbon dioxide emission for 6 million tonnes for the period of 2008-2012.

In 2006 and 2007 the old plant is scheduled to receive two more working wheels – by one for each year respectively, and in 2008 and 2009 another four – by two for each year.

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Indian nuclear scientist Homi Sethna dies aged 86

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Indian nuclear scientist Homi Sethna dies aged 86

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Indian nuclear scientist Homi Sethna has died at the age 86. His death was announced by Homi Mehta, a long time associate of Sethna. The cause of death was announced as lung fibrosis.

During his career Sethna held several posts including director of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre and chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. During his time with the AEC Sethna presided over India’s nuclear experiment at Pokhran in 1974.

K. Sankaranarayanan, governor of Maharashtra, said in a condolence message “Dr. Homi Sethna was one of India’s pioneering nuclear scientists, who had played a crucial role in the successful conduct of India’s first peaceful nuclear test in 1974. Even after his retirement, he held many important positions and continued to contribute to the task of nation building. I pay my respects to the memory of Dr. Sethna… and convey my heartfelt condolences to his family members.”

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