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Mayor declares weather emergency in New York City

Thursday, January 13, 2011

On Tuesday, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced a weather emergency in New York City, New York. The announcement was issued as a preemptive measure in preparation for an expected 6-12 inches of snow Wednesday, although the Metropolitan Transportation Authority claims to be ready for 14 inches.

Bloomberg explained the meaning of the preemptive announcement by stating: “We recognize that we did not do the job that New Yorkers rightly expect of us in the last storm. We intend to make sure that does not happen again.” Despite declaring an emergency, the mayor said the city would not make the decision to close public schools until 5 AM.

The city is looking for people to shovel snow off sidewalks and intersections. The New York City Housing Authority announced on their Twitter page, “Turn a snow day into a payday. The city is looking for snow removal help. Apply now.” The linked page offered $12 an hour to shovel snow for the city.

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Second Chance Checking Accounts Why Are They Important?

By Thomas Winn

Millions of Americans from single parents, women and minorities to divorcees are trying to start over with their lives. They all need a new personal checking account for their personal financial or business related needs. These needs are addressed by some banks through second chance checking accounts.

Second chance checking accounts are bank accounts for customers, who had a negative financial history and are listed in ChexSystems. ChexSystems is a national database of consumer checking history. This is utilized by financial institutions for financial education, monitoring and decreasing exposure to risk. Once a person’s name is placed in the ChexSystem’s database, it stays there for 5 years. The system is flawed and it’s difficult to get off the list.

Improving the quality of life is the main objective of second chance checking accounts. Derogatory reports made blacklisted customers unable to manage their personal and business matters using mainstream banks. There is an expectation that customers issued by second chance checking account will eventually transition into mainstream banking.

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Most second chance checking accounts have restrictions imposed on account activities including transactions that can be processed. A restriction example applied is the denial of issuing checkbooks. Many banks presently relaxed their guidelines in opening second chance checking accounts. The primary reason is the customer’s lack of financial education in dealing with their checking accounts.

Banks have different requirements for eligibility to open a second chance accounts. Some may require a big opening deposit while others require minimum amounts. Other banks are considerate to include most of the other features of normal checking accounts such as online payments, direct deposits and even ATM withdrawals.

There are disparities and flaws with ChexSystems. It provides poor assessment of the quality of risk to a potential customer and its database contained many names of individuals who shouldn’t be there at all. There are varied criteria and ways bank use ChexSystems to set its parameters for defaulting customers.

It’s important to provide hope to those who have negative financial experiences like being over drafted, or who have lost a great amount of money in debt or defaulted payments, second chance checking accounts are considered a ‘fresh start’ to rebuild their financial background.

Some banks have provided these second chance checking accounts to names found in the ChexSystems’ list as long as they haven’t committed any major or outright fraud. There are banks that give a ‘parole’ from the database and were allowed to open a mainstream bank account again.

Whatever the past credit issues a person had, even how bad it was, you can open a second chance checking account with its full functions like an ordinary checking account. If you spend more time to find out more information about banks that offer second chance checking accounts, you might even get one without any restrictions.

It wasn’t the person’s liking and it’s mainly due to lack of knowledge about proper usage of their banking privileges. Everyone deserves a second chance to rebuild their lives and become accepted once again into the financial community.

About the Author: Thomas Winn is a freelance writer for many small financial blogs. With years of experience as a financial advisor, Thomas enjoys managing finances. Other than his advice, Thomas recommends a new financial site that provides

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Severe storms impact the northeast U.S.

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Severe thunderstorms impacted the northeast United States today, producing sporadic power outages and weather conditions ranging from heavy rainfall to large hail. The Storm Prediction Center (SPC) received dozens of damage reports; trees, tree limbs, electrical wires and utility poles were downed throughout portions of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York.

Severe weather advisories were posted during the morning and early afternoon, and are now expiring as the storms pull out of the area.

According to the SPC, hailstones occasionally approached one inch in diameter. Strong winds were also present, and there were reports of dog kennels being blown across a highway in Pope County, Pennsylvania. However, no deaths or injuries occurred.

The National Weather Service said a funnel cloud was reported in Livingston Manor, New York at about 1:55 pm this afternoon, prompting the brief issuance of a tornado warning.

Rhode Island borrows $90 million from US for jobless claims

Thursday, October 1, 2009

Rhode Island will receive US$90 million in funding from the United States federal government to support unemployment benefits in the state.

Rhode Island’s Department of Labor and Training stated on Wednesday that it requested the line of credit because the account utilized to provide funding to unemployed individuals in the state had decreased to only $2 million; enough to last only a few days.

Unemployment insurance customers will not experience any delays in receiving their weekly payments.

In a statement released by the Department, the agency said: “Unemployment insurance customers will not experience any delays in receiving their weekly payments.”

Unemployment in Rhode Island was 12.8 percent in August 2009 – the third-highest rate in the United States. During the first eight months of 2009, Rhode Island’s state unemployment insurance trust fund has provided over $300 million in unemployment benefit funding.

In addition to Rhode Island, 20 other states have outstanding balances on money they borrowed from the Federal Unemployment Account of the United States Department of Labor. Rhode Island has an outstanding balance of approximately $90.68 million due to the account. The loans are interest-free until December 2010.

Wikinews interviews specialists on South Korea military parade

Sunday, October 6, 2013

On Tuesday, South Korea staged a huge military parade to mark its armed forces’ 65th anniversary in a display of long-range missiles considered a direct threat to North Korea. 11,000 troops and 190 different weapons systems were on display in the parade. Wikinews interviewed several specialists about the parade’s possible significance.

Australian governments to meet for first COAG meeting of 2006 today

Friday, February 10, 2006

The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) will meet in Canberra today for its first meeting of 2006. Members of COAG are the Prime Minister, State Premiers, Australian Capital and Northern Territory Chief Ministers, and the President of the Australian Local Government Association. COAG is chaired by the Prime Minister.

On the agenda is a wide range of issues such as health, economic reform, regulation, and education.

The state leaders (all of whom are members of the Australian Labor Party), met last night to develop a strategy for dealing with John Howard, Australia’s Prime Minister.

Fatal stabbings kill three at Belgian day care center

Friday, January 23, 2009

Two children and a woman have been stabbed to death by a knife-wielding man at a crèche (day care center) in Dendermonde, Belgium. Officials have confirmed that the deaths occurred due to knife wounds inflicted by an unidentified man wearing white face paint with blackened eyes, who arrived by bicycle at the crèche in East Flanders.

The Associated Press reports local prosecutor Christian Du Four telling a news conference, “We have three people dead and 10 in various hospitals.” The injured have been taken to the University Hospital in Ghent and other neighbouring hospitals.

The alleged attacker, said to be a 20-year-old, rang the doorbell of the crèche at 09:00 UTC (10:00 local), then ran upstairs when the door was opened. He fled the scene by bicycle and was arrested at 10:30 UTC. He was reported as being injured as he was detained. State broadcaster VRT described the man as being local, whilst AP reports Leene Du Bois, a Flemish government official, as saying that he had no connection with the crèche.

The crèche had 18 children in its care, with six adults in attendance.

Police arrested the suspect at a nearby shop. Reuters reports that Belgian media believe the suspect to be a psychiatric patient.

Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs gives opening keynote to WWDC 2005

Monday, June 6, 2005

Apple Computer CEO and co-founder Steve Jobs gave his annual opening keynote to the World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) at Moscone Center in San Francisco, California on Monday. He announced a seamless integration of podcasting with iTunes, and, to the amazement of many, that future Apple Macintosh computers will feature Intel processors.

Jobs welcomed everyone to the event and announced that there were 3,800 attendees. There are 500 Apple engineers at what is their largest developers conference in the past decade. There are over 500,000 developers of Apple programs (apps). Jobs said that Apple has 109 retail stores, with one million visitors per week, creating over $500 million yearly in revenue. The Mac market share is up 82% from 9 months ago.

Jobs then moved on to talk about a very anticipated announcement- Podcasting. Steve called podcasting “Wayne’s World for radio”. He called it the “hottest thing going in radio”, and, “exciting”. There are over 8,000 podcasts. Steve Jobs announced that automatic podcasting subscription would be built in to iTunes and iPod seamlessly. He also announced that QuickTime 7 would be soon available for Windows.

Moving on, Jobs announced that there have been 2 million copies of Tiger sold in the 6 weeks that it has been available. He demoed the Wikipedia Dashboard widget. Steve announced that Mac OS X Leopard would be released in 2007, the same time as Microsoft’s Longhorn.

In a surprising move, Steve Jobs announced that Macintosh computers would begin to be shipped with Intel processors, the same as in Windows machines, ending the eleven year partnership with IBM and Motorola. This is said to be out of Apple’s increasing frustration at IBM’s inability to deliver faster and cooler processors, though it is interesting to note that Intel has recently added Digital Rights/Restrictions Management (DRM) to its latest processors. This ‘switch’, he said, would happen beginning next year. Jobs said that Mac OS X has had “a secret double life” and OS X had “been compiled [for Intel processors] for five years.” He talked about the easiness for developers to port their Mac apps to Intel (x86) processors. Current PowerPC programs can be run on Intel processors due to a new Apple technology. He said that Apple is “getting ready” for the transition from PowerPC to Intel.

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Stainless Steel Pickling Process Of Selection In Anti Corrosion Materials

By Haven Frbiz

Process for stainless steel pickling acid lotion in general for a variety of acid mixtures, mainly sulfuric acid, nitric acid and hydrofluoric acid, which mixed a strong corrosive acid, at the same time are highly oxidizing, high corrosion medium temperature, which is anti-corrosion materials to a high corrosion resistance requirements. Stainless steel pickling production line process, from production to wastewater recycling exhaust systems, all aspects of existence are highly corrosion status, so selection of good anti-corrosion materials directly related to the equipment, workshop floors, trench, wastewater emissions from the environmental protection recovery systems, etc. normal use.

How to carry out anti-corrosion material pickling this item? First, FRP pipe and tank structure and selection of raw materials, followed by the workshop floor and equipment commonly used basic anti-corrosion resin mortar floor structure.

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FRP pipe and tank structure and selection of raw materials. Pickling items used in the tank and piping systems and acid mist recovery system is the basic choice of glass fiber reinforced plastic material, the structure of anti-corrosion layer of impermeable layer ++ structural strength layer. Under normal circumstances impermeable coating layer and at least 6 to 8 millimeters thick. Appropriate choice of resin corrosion-resistant epoxy vinyl ester resin, the experts said – in the medium of non-oxidizing acid, is not very high temperature conditions, the appropriate selection of bisphenol A epoxy vinyl resin; at oxidizing acid, temperature demanding conditions, the appropriate selection of vinyl epoxy phenolic resin. In order to reduce the cost structure between the benzene layer selected mostly unsaturated polyester resin, the thickness of the structural design of the specific calculation. Mixed acid and acid storage tank because of corrosion medium is rather complicated, the general choice of PVDF / FRP composite cans, composite cans but between the PVDF and FRP bond are an issue, but also higher prices caused by the increase in the cost should be selected Hite acid resin (791H) as lining anti-corrosion materials, to meet the above conditions of anti-corrosion medium requirements.

Shop floor and equipment commonly used basic anti-corrosion resin mortar floor structure, the total thickness of about 7-10 mm), the structure as follows: primer 1-2 Road + glass fiber reinforced plastic (2 cloth 3 oil) isolation layer + resin mortar layer ( 5-7 mm) + surface layer (about 1 mm). Floors, equipment-based anti-corrosion epoxy resin now use vinyl resin, but the selection primer on construction unit also used to make BAYDERM using epoxy resin materials, to increase the resin and the bonding properties of the grass-roots level. Would generally be applied epoxy amine curing agent, curing oily material after the surface has surfaced again and vinyl resin adhesive is not very well be able to match the need for post-curing surface treatment are allowed to carry out follow-up of anti-corrosion structure construction, if not easy to deal with delamination, cracking. According to experts, epoxy vinyl resin and bond strength between concrete foundation Tatsu 2MPa above epoxy vinyl resin so as BAYDERM Materials already has sufficient bonding properties, therefore recommend the direct use of epoxy vinyl resin as BAYDERM base materials, other layers using the same epoxy vinyl resin.

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New Zealand dog saves five children; receives international attention

Saturday, May 5, 2007

A small, “nicely trained” Jack Russell Terrier gave his life to help save a group of five children from two aggressive pitbulls last Sunday in Manaia, Taranaki, New Zealand.

The dog named George is being described as a hero, gathering a huge amount of international media interest in the process.

The dog suffered massive injuries that the vet had never seen to that extent before, which resulted in 69-year-old Alan Gay, the dog’s owner, allowing George to be put down. He now regrets this decision.

The two pitbulls rushed at the group of children that George was following to the dairy, including a four-year-old. George then started barking loudly at the pair of dogs, and put himself between the dogs and the children. Mr Gay told Fox News, “If it wasn’t for George, those kids would have copped it.”

Despite having received offers of new dogs, Mr Gay has said that he will wait a while before getting another Jack Russell Terrier, as he is afraid it could happen again.

It is also believed that the two attacking dogs, which have been destroyed, were bred to be aggressive, including being fed the drug methamphetamine, commonly referred to as “P” in New Zealand.

Mr Gay has said that Manaia has had a problem with stray dogs before, but he never expected that George would become a victim.

One story ran in USA Today, which prompted over 120 comments, and one reader to personally call Alan Gay expressing their condolences.

Responding to the huge amount of media interest, Mr Gay said, “This really surprises me, and it’s marvellous. I never expected this … I’m surprised it got around the world as it did.” He says he has been getting a huge amount of phone calls from the media and the public. “The phone has been going since about half past seven this morning. Every time I hang up it rings again. It’s worn out; I might have to get a new one.”