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Firefighters rescue nearly a dozen animals in Buffalo, New York house fire

Friday, June 22, 2007

Buffalo, New York —A three alarm fire at a house owned by John and Evelyn Bencinich, two of the initiators of a lawsuit filed against the Elmwood Village Hotel proposal in Buffalo, required firefighters to rescue eight cats and two dogs in Buffalo, New York today.

At about 8:30 (eastern time) firefighters were called to the home on 48 Granger Place to put out a fire that had started in the basement. It quickly spread to the first floor where the main bathroom was destroyed. The fire did not spread to the second floor or attic.

Initial calls said that many animals were inside the house and firefighters quickly worked to rescue all the cats and dogs. At least one cat and one dog had to receive CPR and oxygen, but both are reported to be in stable condition. At least 3 cats are unaccounted for, but after a search of the house, the cats were not believed to have been inside at the time the fire started.

One elderly woman, Anna Bencinich, the mother of Evelyn, was rescued by neighbors who helped her from the burning house.

“There was smoke all over the house. The fire started in the basement and spread to a small portion of the first floor. Two firefighters were injured while fighting the fire and were transported to Erie County Medical Center,” said Division Fire Chief Thomas Ashe who also said that sections of the kitchen wall at the back of the house had to be torn out to stop the fire from spreading through the walls.

One firefighter is being treated for bite injuries to his face that he received while attempting to rescue a dog. The other firefighter was treated for injuries he received to his hand, which was believed to have been caused by glass or a cat scratching him. The names of the injured firefighters are not known. The injuries are said to not be life threatening.

According to witness reports, the home owners had a new water heater installed just last week, but it is not known if the fire was caused by the heater.

“We believe the fire was caused by an electrical (malfunction). An investigation is being conducted,” said Battalion Chief Joe Fahey who also added that they did not believe arson was the cause.

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Oracle to acquire Siebel for USD 5.85bn

Tuesday, September 13, 2005

US-based Oracle Corporation announced earlier today that they are buying rival US-based Siebel Systems for $10.66 USD per share. Siebel shareholders have the option to receive the $10.66 per share in cash or in Oracle stock. This deal is valued at approximately $5.85 billion USD. Siebel Systems’ Board of Directors has already voted in favour of the acquisition. Founder Thomas Siebel has also given his support. A special meeting will soon be held for Siebel stockholders to vote on the acquisition. If all goes well the deal should close in the early part of next year.

After acquiring Siebel; Oracle, which specializes in database applications, will become the second largest software company. Oracle has offices in more than 145 countries, and employs over 50,000 people. This acquisition will make Oracle the largest customer relationship management (CRM) applications company in the world. CRM applications include accounting, inventory management and customer management software. “Siebel’s 4,000 applications customers and 3,400,000 CRM users strengthen our number one position in applications in North America and move us closer to the number one position in applications globally”, said Oracle CEO Larry Ellison.

“Today is a great day for Siebel Systems’ customers, partners, shareholders, and employees,” said Thomas M. Siebel, Chairman and Founder of Siebel Systems. Many analysts predicted the acquisition of Siebel after Oracle bought competitor PeopleSoft for $10 billion USD, last December.

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Buckingham Palace releases trivia about Queen Elizabeth II

Tuesday, April 11, 2006

As Queen Elizabeth II approaches her 80th birthday, on April 21, Buckingham Palace has released 80 little known facts about her.

Did you know that: The Queen owns all dolphins, porpoises, and sturgeons in British waters. She has sat for 139 official portraits, opened 15 bridges in the UK, launched 23 ships, and speaks fluent French.

The Queen sent a message of congratulations to Apollo 11 astronauts, for the first moon landing on July 21 1969, and it was put in a metal container and placed on the Moon’s surface.

Or that in 1976 at an Army base she sent her first e-mail. Or she has owned more than 30 corgis, starting with Susan who was her 18th birthday present. And in 2002, at 76 years of age, that The Queen was the oldest monarch to celebrate a Golden Jubilee.

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Wikinews interviews Jim Hedges, U.S. Prohibition Party presidential candidate

Saturday, January 29, 2011

U.S. Prohibition Party presidential candidate Jim Hedges of Thompson Township, Pennsylvania took some time to answer a few questions about the Prohibition Party and his 2012 presidential campaign.

The Prohibition Party is the third oldest existing political party in the United States, having been established in 1869. It reached its height of popularity during the late 19th century. The party heavily supported the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which banned the sale of alcohol, and resulted in the US period known as Prohibition (1919–33). It was repealed in 1933. The party has declined since this period, but has continued to nominate candidates for the presidential election.

In 2003, the party split into two factions. Preacher Gene Amondson and perennial candidate Earl Dodge were nominated for the presidency by their respective factions. After Dodge’s death in 2007, the party reunified and named Amondson as its sole presidential nominee for 2008. During the election, Amondson was interviewed by Wikinews. He died in 2009, leaving an opening in the party for 2012.

Jim Hedges is a longtime Prohibition activist, who holds the distinction of the first individual of the 21st century (and the first since 1959) to be elected to a political office under the Prohibition Party banner. In 2001, he was elected as the Thompson Township tax assessor, and was re-elected to the post in 2005. He served until his term expired in 2010. Hedges declared his intent to run for the Prohibition Party presidential nomination on February 18, 2010. This marks his first run for the presidency.

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Best selling British author Sir Terry Pratchett dies, aged 66

Saturday, March 14, 2015

British author Terry Pratchett, best known for the Discworld series of fantasy novels, has died at the age of 66. Pratchett was diagnosed with a rare form of Alzheimer’s in 2007, following his diagnosis he donated to Alzheimer’s charities and became a public face of the disease

Pratchett spoke out for the right of an individual to assisted suicide. However, Larry Finlay, of Pratchett’s publisher Transworld, said that the author did not die of suicide but of natural causes at home “with his cat sleeping on his bed, surrounded by his family,”

British Prime Minister David Cameron paid tribute to Pratchett. He said “Sad to hear of Sir Terry Pratchett’s death, his books fired the imagination of millions and he fearlessly campaigned for dementia awareness.”

A writer since his teens, Pratchett first came to prominence with the Discworld novel The Colour of Magic in 1983, and at his peak was publishing three books a year, writing over 70 in total. Alzheimer’s slowed but did not end his writing, with a final novel, the fourth book in the Long Earth series due in the summer of 2015. He was knighted for services to literature in 2009.

News of Pratchett’s death was made via his official Twitter account in the persona of Death, a character in many of his novels, with the tweet: “AT LAST, SIR TERRY, WE MUST WALK TOGETHER.”

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Quickest Way To Get Your Ex Boyfriend Back Ignore Him, His Phone Calls, Emails And Text Messages}

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After a breakup, you will be very vulnerable. Your heart is broken and your self confidence is shaken. You will jump at any chance to communicate with your ex boyfriend. Even an email, just asking how you are doing will seem like a token of love. This may cause you to answer it immediately and tell him how much you love and need him. A phone call from him will make you overjoyed and you will start crying and begging at the sound of his voice. This might surprise you, but answering his emails and phone calls will keep you from ever being his full time girlfriend again.

The usual scenario when a guy breaks up with you will be to want no contact with you at all. He will just want to be left alone and refuse any attempt you might make to communicate with him. He certainly will not call you, unless he has an ulterior motive. Of course you will be wild with excitement if he does contact you. That is what he is counting on because it will make it easy for him to play you like a puppet on a string. This might hurt, but the reason he is staying in contact with you is to use you.

He wants to be able to go out, have a good time and date other women. If things do not work out he will have you waiting patiently for him to call. This makes you nothing more than his backup girlfriend and that can be a miserable life. He will never take you out for a good time, but he will keep your hopes alive. You will be sitting alone night after night waiting for his call.

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When he does call you will get all excited and nearly break your neck getting to the phone. But he will not be asking for a date, he will be just checking in to see if you are still waiting. You cannot let him play this game if you ever expect to have a relationship with him again. The only way to get him back is to wake him up and show him you are not his puppet.

The first thing you need to do is stop taking his phone calls and answering his emails and text messages. Then you need to ignore him and have no contact with him for a while. During this time, go out to a good salon and get a complete makeover. New hairdo, manicure and a tan. Next go shopping for new clothes that will accent you new look. Then get some friends together and go out hunting your ex boyfriend. Stop by the places he hangs out and let him get a good look at you and then leave.

He will not be able to believe what he just saw, but he will understand why you have not been around waiting for his phone calls. Seeing you out looking so great and having a good time without him, will make him realize he could lose you. Your ex boyfriend will see that you are no longer his back up girlfriend and if he wants to keep you it is full time or nothing at all.

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Thursday, December 8, 2011

At the meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, North Carolina State University (NCSU) researchers lead by Coby Schal and Ed Vargo presented preliminary research on the genetic diversity of populations of bedbugs. Their DNA analysis showed the diversity is low within a single building. The researchers discovered that the bugs can inbreed and evolve at the same time.

A part of the research included extensive DNA analysis of genetics of bed bugs in different apartments. The diversity was lower than it would be for a population of most other species. Coby Schal said, “We kept discovering the same thing. Within a given apartment, or even a given building, there was extremely low genetic diversity. In most cases there’s just a single female that founded the population.”

Another NCSU anthologist Zachary Adelman, not one of the researchers, said that the fact of different strains of bedbugs in the United States east coast “means they’re coming into the country from lots of different places”.

The discovery shows that pesticides are ineffective if they don’t eliminate the entire population. Just a few survivors can produce a new generation within the house or building quickly; and, as the offspring of those surviving pesticide use, pass on their genetic resistance; emphasising Schal’s remark that, “[t]he insecticides really need to be robust”.

Coby Schal said that for most species, limited diversity causes generic disorders and population does not survive, thus making the discovery a surprise. He said, “But somehow bedbugs are able to withstand the effects of inbreeding, and do quite well.” Schal was suggesting that as cockroaches inbreed successfully as well, its success may be related to the species’ reliance on humans to relocate from place to place. The research is at preliminary stage, meaning the scientists may carry out more analysis before a final release.

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Tuesday, May 15, 2007

The online payment service PayPal has received a banking licence in Luxembourg, promoting it to the status of a bank. As a consequence PayPal will move their headquarters to Luxembourg.

Since 2004 PayPal had the status of an Electronic Money Issuer supervised by the U.K. Financial Services Authority. Having an official bank status opens new prospects for the company: “This will allow us to actively scout retailers in different European countries. With our British licence, we could only do that in the U.K. itself, and in other countries we could only react to requests of the retailers themselves,” Christopher Coonen, General Manager of PayPal Southern Europe and Benelux, explained.

The change will not affect existing customers dramatically, says Coonen: “We are going to inform them of the new status, and they will have to accept our terms of service again.” He also said that for now, there were no plans to use the new licence to offer traditional banking services, but the possibility was being evaluated by PayPal. Working with local partners would be an option to accomplish this, according to Coonen.

The British newspaper The Daily Telegraph speculates that the move is part of a strategy to compete with Google’s payment service Google Checkout, which launched in the U.K. last month.

PayPal has 130 million users worldwide, and 35 million customers in Europe. Payments via its mother company eBay continue to make up 60% of PayPal’s revenues. More than half of Britain’s internet users have a PayPal account.

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The textbooks point out that suppressed frustrations consequence within a volcano-like eruption. Individuals may possibly explode with frustration and choose poorly and reply with violence and anger as opposed to endurance and dialogue. Nevertheless, a person has to also factor in that a retrograde can power a person to go deeper within and make floor breaking alterations in phrases of the dynamics from the planet and also the nature of the warning. For that reason, for the duration of this time frame 1 will be re-evaluating their operate power. Mars in Virgo could be very robust with details, efficiency, group, and getting well being-aware. For all those that have been placing away from physical exercise, this may extremely very well be considered a time the place it’s possible you’ll phase out of your convenience zone and start dieting and exercising like in no way prior to.

It really is genuine that Mars retrograde can outcome in procrastination. Assertive patterns are much more introspective. A lot of will encounter passive men and women that may well lack drive. It truly is highly recommended to steer absent from starting a brand new business enterprise less than a retrograde.

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The beginning of your company during a Mars Retrograde will result in continual complications with acquiring motion asserted at a high quality and efficient pace. Regardless of how tough you make an effort to thrust, very little will take place. Every little thing is inside a sluggish condition.

A lot more importantly, it can be proposed to steer away from key repairs. Due to the fact Mars governs destructions, deconstruction may perhaps develop into much more understood immediately after Mars turns immediate. If an electronic digital gadget breaks along on a Mars Retrograde, a repair career will not cure the fix. A repair job using a Mars retrograde may perhaps consequence in getting one more repair require site. Nonetheless, following the retrograde has turned direct, the problem is usually additional understood. Repair work opportunities contain surgery treatment. Keep away from surgery treatment below this time-frame if possible.

Having said that, staying born having a Mars retrograde is a lot various than experiencing a person through the routine. A properly-aspected Mars retrograde in a person’s delivery chart can create a great deal of results. Considering electricity and initiative is internalized (retrograde), commonly the personal is in competitors with himself. Quite a few athletes are born having a properly-aspected Mars Retrograde. Nevertheless, when Mars is aspected with challenging aspects, people may well act hastily and typically must retrace and redo his actions. Ironically, We’ve observed several astrological charts of athletes using a retrograde Mars in Virgo. Becoming a staff player is essential for athletes. As a result, in the course of this retrograde we can be referred to as upon to evaluate our very own and others’ crew player cooperation skills at function.

There may very well be difficulties, arguments, disagreements at function over another person or with someone that is certainly overly important. So through this timeframe it is going to be clever to pick and opt for your phrases and actions at give good results quite methodically.

A single’s sexual generate during a Mars retrograde can adjust a whole lot. It has long been stated which the amount of satisfaction during a Mars retrograde may be tricky to gratify. Within the signal of Virgo it might be overly crucial, picky, and frugal.

One more factor to understand with Virgo is dogs and cats. Throughout this routine, if a puppy wants to have a surgical procedure it is strongly proposed if possible to postpone it until finally immediately after retrograde. During this timeframe your pets’ temperament could also be evaluated with admire on the above referenced Mars retrograde characteristics: overly aggressive or lethargic.

Finally the info of day time-to-day existing are also scrutinized less than Virgo. So using time to clear up shelves, closets, cabinets, and drawers is surely an outstanding technique to use this electricity. An enormous tip: be further environment friendly beneath that timeframe. Enjoy!

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