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Ontario Votes 2007: Interview with Liberal candidate Brian Jackson, Oxford

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Monday, October 1, 2007

Brian Jackson is running for the Ontario Liberal Party in the Ontario provincial election, in the Oxford riding. Wikinews’ Nick Moreau interviewed him regarding his values, his experience, and his campaign.

Stay tuned for further interviews; every candidate from every party is eligible, and will be contacted. Expect interviews from Liberals, Progressive Conservatives, New Democratic Party members, Ontario Greens, as well as members from the Family Coalition, Freedom, Communist, Libertarian, and Confederation of Regions parties, as well as independents.

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Wikinews interviews Frank Moore, independent candidate for US President

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Saturday, March 1, 2008

While nearly all coverage of the 2008 Presidential election has focused on the Democratic and Republican candidates, the race for the White House also includes independents and third party candidates. These parties represent a variety of views that may not be acknowledged by the major party platforms.

Wikinews has impartially reached out to these candidates, throughout the campaign. We now interview independent Presidential candidate Frank Moore, a performance artist.

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The Costs And Savings Involved In Making Solar Homes

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Submitted by: Johnathan Cunnings

Slowly but surely, people s consciousness are turning green. The effects of global warming are quickly getting apparent; the dwindling of the planets natural resources, the increasing levels of pollutants in the air, and the rising costs of generating energy. There are, however, solutions to this problem. More and more people now are considering green energy to be a viable, self-sustaining energy source. That is why numerous new houses are being built, and many more old houses are being turned into solar\homes. But just what is a solar home?

The Two Types of Solar Homes

A solar home is a house that utilizes the sun s energy either to a) use the sun s natural warmth to regulate the indoor temperature of the house and to provide natural lighting and b) harness the sun s rays to generate clean electricity. There are generally two types of solar homes, although the most recent designs are basically a combination, or a hybrid, of the two types.

Passive Solar Homes

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Passive solar homes are the ones who utilize the sun s natural energy to regulate indoor temperatures and to provide natural lighting. The design is fairly simple and does not require a person to have solar panels and back-up batteries installed in the house. Their main design features are large windows facing the south side of the house. Just doing this regulates the indoor temperature of the house, keeping it cool in summer and warm in winter. Other design aspects of passive solar homes are better insulation, to keep the warmth in, and special windows that don t allow that much heat exchange between the interior and exterior of the house. One great benefit the owners of passive solar homes get is the wide open spaces, especially on the south side of the house.

Active Solar Homes

Active solar homes, on the other hand, use the sun s natural energy to generate its own power. Designing this kind of house is a bit more complicated and does require a whole lot of kind of expensive electronics and equipment. Solar panels, inverters, back up batteries, are just some of the equipment needed to convert a house to use purely solar energy. However, the benefits of having a house generate its own electricity do outweigh the costs involved.

A Comparison of the Costs and Possible Savings

Building a house that uses solar energy or renovating an existing house to use solar energy can definitely be costly. Back when the harnessing of solar energy was in its infancy, the costs of building a solar-powered house made it impractical. But the development of the technology and the emergence of new technologies have made building solar homes cheaper and much more cost effective.

A recent study of the costs involved in building solar homes, or to be more accurate, converting existing homes into solar homes, shows that a person may spend up to $48,000. This figure already includes material and labor to build a house that can generate 6kW of power, with an 8kW back-up battery system that is enough to provide the house uninterrupted power for 3 days.

Given that the average American household will spend an average of $6,000 a year for electricity bills, it will only take a little over seven years for people to get their investment back. After that, the house s electricity is free for life.

An added benefit of solar homes is that during peak sun hours, the house can generate so much electricity that it can feed power into the grid. This means that not only does the house use free electricity; it earns money by giving its excess power to the power company.

With today s technology, going green doesn t mean people will have to learn to live in wood burning cabins just to have heat. The costs of building a solar home has significantly gone down. It wouldn t be a surprise to see solar homes to be a standard in the near future.

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Lobby groups oppose plans for EU copyright extension

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Tuesday, February 26, 2008

The European Commission currently has proposals on the table to extend performers’ copyright terms. Described by Professor Martin Kretschmer as the “Beatles Extension Act”, the proposed measure would extend copyright from 50 to 95 years after recording. A vast number of classical tracks are at stake; the copyright on recordings from the fifties and early sixties is nearing its expiration date, after which it would normally enter the public domain or become ‘public property’. E.U. Commissioner for the Internal Market and Services Charlie McCreevy is proposing this extension, and if the other relevant Directorate Generales (Information Society, Consumers, Culture, Trade, Competition, etc.) agree with the proposal, it will be sent to the European Parliament.

Wikinews contacted Erik Josefsson, European Affairs Coordinator for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (E.F.F.), who invited us to Brussels, the heart of E.U. policy making, to discuss this new proposal and its implications. Expecting an office interview, we arrived to discover that the event was a party and meetup conveniently coinciding with FOSDEM 2008 (the Free and Open source Software Developers’ European Meeting). The meetup was in a sprawling city centre apartment festooned with E.F.F. flags and looked to be a party that would go on into the early hours of the morning with copious food and drink on tap. As more people showed up for the event it turned out that it was a truly international crowd, with guests from all over Europe.

Eddan Katz, the new International Affairs Director of the E.F.F., had come over from the U.S. to connect to the European E.F.F. network, and he gladly took part in our interview. Eddan Katz explained that the Electronic Frontier Foundation is “A non-profit organisation working to protect civil liberties and freedoms online. The E.F.F. has fought for information privacy rights online, in relation to both the government and companies who, with insufficient transparency, collect, aggregate and make abuse of information about individuals.” Another major focus of their advocacy is intellectual property, said Eddan: “The E.F.F. represents what would be the public interest, those parts of society that don’t have a concentration of power, that the private interests do have in terms of lobbying.”

Becky Hogge, Executive Director of the U.K.’s Open Rights Group (O.R.G.), joined our discussion as well. “The goals of the Open Rights Group are very simple: we speak up whenever we see civil, consumer or human rights being affected by the poor implementation or the poor regulation of new technologies,” Becky summarised. “In that sense, people call us -I mean the E.F.F. has been around, in internet years, since the beginning of time- but the Open Rights Group is often called the British E.F.F.

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Civilians dead following U.S. air strike on ‘terrorist compound’

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Monday, July 4, 2005

17 Afghan civilians, including women and children, are thought to be have been killed as the result of U.S. aircraft bombing the village of Chechal in the east of Afghanistan late last week, said a governor.

The air strike occurred last Friday in the same area as an elite U.S. military team went missing three days ago.

Provincial governor Assadullah Wafa told the Associated Press “seventeen civilians died in the U.S. bombing of the village.” He went on to comment that casualties consisted of women and children, though he did not know the exact figure.

A U.S. military statement claimed that the “compound” bombed was a “known operating base for terrorist attacks in Kunar province as well as a base for a medium-level terrorist leader,”

The statement, written after criticism in the press of the U.S. military’s lack of precaution in these matters, then went on to say the U.S. armed forces “regret the loss of innocent lives and follow stringent rules of engagement specifically to ensure that non-combatants are safeguarded. However, when enemy forces move their families into the locations where they conduct terrorist operations, they put these innocent civilians at risk.”

One member of the missing military team has been recovered and is currently being “evaluated” on Monday, a U.S. Defence Department spokesperson said, though he refused to comment on details regarding his whereabouts and health.

Afghan and U.S. forces are currently in the Kunar province searching for members of the missing military team. U.S. officials at the time of the bombing said in a statement that the attack utilised “precision-guided munitions that resulted in the deaths of an unknown number of enemy terrorists and non-combatants,”

The statement continued, concluding that “battle damage assessment is currently ongoing.”

In May, Afghan president Hamid Karzai voiced his concerns over the excessive number of civilian casualties as a result of US-led operations.

Some observers have speculated that the attack on the village was a deliberate response to the downing of a US transport helicopter last month. In that incident, 16 troops died in the worst single blow to American forces since the Taliban was ousted in 2001.

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Hiya Tech Solutions Growing Bpo, Kpo Services Provider In India

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KPO Services: Customer Support: We offer offshore IT Outsourcing services like customer Support solutions through Chat, Email and Remote. We have a set up ideally suited to carry out customer support with high speed connectivity and hassle free wireless networking and calm atmosphere. Our founders have five plus years of experience in planning different support solutions for various foreign companies. We can tell you the right kind of support solutions and would guide you with right kind of resources to excel your back end and support activities cutting the cost beyond your expectations. Technical Support: Outsourcing BPO and KPO Services to us can serve you to an unbelievable extent as it reduces your business support expense and woes of managing it.We are experienced in providing high end technical support to resolve calls on Os failure, pc hardware failure, Internet troubleshooting Broadband ISP support, Antivirus trouble shooting. As said above our facility is again ideally suited for tech-support through chat , Email and Voice, We have out of box voice solutions where we can reach your customers anywhere in the world and can offer call backs to resolve their issues real fast. We maintain very good AHT and offer 24/7 solutions and can serve you all 365 days per year. As you expect, we employ highly skillful Indian support experts who are geeks in technical trouble shooting. We respect every customer as our Main stream customer and will appoint independent managers to control your support process. We do recommend direct quality checks so that you can keep up your confidence in outsourcing to us. We believe in offering quality offshore outsourcing services irrespective of cost barriers and geographical boundaries. BACKEND and Data Organization Processes: Apart from our IT services, we are currently focusing on BPO and KPO services too.We have dealt with International US and European Clients in Data classification, data organizing kind of works and have earned huge respect among our clients. We are determined to resurrect your backend tasks and Non voice backend operations with the aid of Data experts and technically sound candidates who can definitely bring out the performance you ever dreamed off and can satisfy your customers paving you the way for more business for you. Data entry operations, Captcha entry processes, web path setting, Article writing, Data manipulation, site down time analysis are our other backend processes which we can undertake professionally and perform to your expectations. We can be your reliable long term service provider for all your offshore IT Outsourcing needs as we have a proven track record and proud client testimonials. We have served many international clients directly as well as through many job sites. We respect every client of ours as our prime business source and we strive hard to uplift our clients business simultaneously enhancing our global visibility.

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2009 College World Series field set, games to start Saturday

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Saturday, June 13, 2009

The final round of the 2009 College World Series of baseball is set, with eight teams qualifying for the double-elimination tournament. The tournament will begin play on June 13 at Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha, Nebraska in the United States. The College World Series is the final leg of a three-tiered tournament which determines the top baseball team in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I— the top level of play in American college athletics. The College World Series has been played annually at Rosenblatt Stadium since 1950.

The initial field of 64 teams played through regional competition in the first two legs of the tournament, called the “Regionals” and “Super Regionals.” The eight teams that won their Super Regional, and thus qualified for the College World Series, are:

In the opening round games, Cal State Fullerton will play Arkansas and LSU will play Virgina on Saturday, while UNC will play Arizona State and Texas will play Southern Miss on Sunday. Play will continue in the form of a double-elimination tournament, culminating in a three-game championship series to be held June 22–24.

Of the eight teams in the College World Series this year, two are making their CWS debut: Virginia and Southern Miss. At the other end of the spectrum, Texas and Arizona State are the winningest teams in the history of the tournament, combining for a total of 54 CWS appearances and 11 championships. Last year’s champion, Fresno State University, did not make it out of the Regional round this year, and only UNC and LSU are returning from last year’s final 8.

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Swedish packaging company transfers production lines to Romania

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Friday, April 29, 2005

Swedish company Korsnas Packaging has extended its operations in Romania by transferring two production lines from Germany and the United Kingdom to its Romanian subsidiary in Ploie?ti, an industrial city close to Bucharest. The first production line will be designed for producing packing material for food and the building industry. This line will be transferred to Romania at the beginning of May, with the transaction being worth 1.5 million. The second production line will be transferred in 2006, depending on the 2005 financial results of Korsnas’ Romanian subsidiary.

In the past few years, and the past year especially, more European Union companies have relocated to Romania for to its lower labour cost and skilled workforce. Foreign investors have also been attracted by a new tax policy which started in January 2005, putting in place a flat 16% tax rate for personal income and corporate profit. Foreign investment is expected to increase in the future, as Romania signed in April 25 its Accession Treaty with the European Union and is set to become a member of this organisation on January 1, 2007.

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Divorce Lawyers In Garden City Ks Can Help You Get Through The Divorce

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August, 2014 byAlma Abell

Getting divorced may be the most stressful time in a person’s life. Anger, grief, regret and loss may control a person’s actions, causing him or her to do or say regrettable things. Many find change always difficult to deal with and divorce is a profound change.

There are some frequently asked questions about Kansas divorce.

What are the grounds for a Kansas divorce?

Incompatibility is the ground for most divorces. It means that the couple no longer with to live together, cannot get along and either or both desire to end the marriage.

What if I don’t want a divorce?

If one spouse wants a divorce, regardless of the other spouse’s wishes, the court is required to grant the divorce.

What is an uncontested divorce?

If both husband and wife agree on all issues pertaining to the divorce (division of property, custody and visitation, child support etc.), the divorce is considered ‘uncontested’. If there is disagreement on an issue, then work must be done to reach agreement.

What if I want to claim that the divorce is all my spouse’s fault?

While Kansas law allows ‘fault’ divorce, that is usually a very bad idea and will seldom affect the court’s decision. Generally, all that a ‘fault’ divorce accomplishes is a much slower divorce process, increased costs (from 3-10 times the cost) and a lot of bitter arguments. Discuss the matter with Divorce Lawyers In Garden City KS or where you live before proceeding.

Does it make a difference who files for divorce first?

Kansas is a ‘no-fault’ divorce state, so legally it doesn’t matter who filed first. In a few cases, there may be a strategic advantage to filing first; discuss this with a divorce lawyer.

What should I do? I just received divorce papers.

Don’t panic. The law allows 20 days to respond to the petition if served in Kansas and 30 days if the papers were received outside Kansas. The response to the divorce petition is called an ‘Answer’. It is critical to respond within the 20 or 30 days; otherwise, you will be ‘in default’ and will have forfeited your rights and can be divorced without your knowledge.

The Law Offices of Todd Allison and Sarah Newell Offices have helped many through the treacherous divorce waters. These Divorce Lawyers In Garden City KS are experienced in all of the ramifications of divorce in Kansas. Browse the Website for more information.