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Australian state of Queensland will go to the polls on March 21Thursday, February 26, 2009
The Premier of the Australian state of Queensland has announced that the state will have its election on Saturday, March 21. In an address on YouTube, Anna Bligh of the Australian Labor Party said that she called the election due to the state of the economy and to stabilise the government.
“It’s time for Queensland to settle this election. It’s time to settle the speculation. So that government, business and the community can get on with the task at hand and not be distracted and destabilised by looming elections,” Ms Bligh said in the statement.
Ms Bligh has recently denied that she would call an early election.
“I have always said that I want my government to run the full term and I have not changed my view on this lightly,” she said.
“After 11 years in office, Ms Bligh only cares about one job: her own,” said Lawrence Springborg head of the Liberal National Party (LNP) and the Leader of the Opposition. “Queensland deserves better. Over the next 27 days, the LNP will build on our vision for the Queensland we all deserve.”
The Opposition need to pick up at least twenty seats from the government to overcome the significant Labor majority and a number of independents.
“It is a sad legacy of economic management and mismanagement of the Labor Government that after 11 years of the rivers of gold, our state is broke,” Mr Springborg said. “It’s a little bit like lighting a fire and then running around and wanting credit for putting it out.”
A March 21 election gives candidates twenty six day to campaign. This is just within the legal requirements. The Queensland Electoral Act (1992) requires the election campaign to last between 26 and 56 days.
The Queensland Greens nominated an environmental lawyer to run against treasurer Andrew Fraser.
“We can tackle climate change and create long-term jobs, but Labor can’t see that because they are blinded by the interests of their big donors – the urban development and coal industries,” says Larrisa Waters, the Greens candidate for Mt-Cootha.
“The Greens want to give the community and the environment a voice back in State Parliament.”
“The current stance taken by both major parties, in relation to Daylight Saving in Queensland, is outdated, out of touch and inflexible. South East Queenslanders are frustrated that neither major party is currently prepared to explore options on the issue of Daylight Saving”, DS4SEQ party leader Jason Furze told Wikinews on January 30. DS4SEQ is a single-issue party, focused on the debate on daylight saving time.
Indigenous activist Sam Watson will be contesting the South Brisbane electorate which is currently held by the premier. He will represent the Socialist Alliance. Watson campaigned heavly for indigenous rights since the 1970s and was a community spokesperson following the death of Mulrunji Doomadgee in 2004.
With the emerging technologies, the requirement for screening with an aim to find the results in different types of industries also increases. These systems are gaining momentum & proving their potential in all domains of technologies.
Many people think that the presence ofX-ray devicesis only in healthcare for finding accurate results in the diagnostic fields. However, with the growing world, it is also extensively used for the inspection, sizes, and density of various things like battery cells, alignment of nodal points, etc.
X-Ray systems are extensively used in the field of inspection like PCB {Point Circuit Battery}, automotive inspection, and battery inspection.
Concept of X-ray systems:
It has a generator control that cooperates with an operator to select the appropriate methods for finding a quality image. In short, the X-ray generator controls the x-ray tube and x-ray kilo voltages.
The application of the X-Ray detectors can be found in various fields like medicine, X-Ray fluorescence, electronic assembly inspection, and it also helps in measuring of the thickness of the materials. It is also used in the sterilization process.
Uses of the X-Ray systems:
Its uses are as follows:
1. Medicine:
Its main domains are radiography, radiotherapy, fluoroscopic type procedures, orthopantomogram mammography, and tomography. Fluoroscopy is present in angioplasty, biopsy, and various orthopaedic procedures. These are highly advanced devices used to take in-depth pictures of bone and teeth.
2. Security:
We are all aware that it is an essential issue and x-ray systems are used extensively to examine the luggage at the airports, public buildings, and metro stations. For security purposes, the use of a generator is required.
3. Color classification:
It depends on the density of the material and its sizes. Orange colours are displayed by organic materials such as paper, clothes. Green colours are displayed by mixed materials such as aluminium. Blue colours are displayed by the inorganic materials and non-penetrable displays black.
4. Military & Defence:
In today’s generation, the military requires the best quality of detection. Its common applications are product quality assurance, missing components, assembly verification, and its products are ammunition, small arms, etc.
5. Electronics:
These domains of industries are running by miniaturization and its common uses are failure analysis, solder joint integrity, component positioning. Their various products are integrated circuits, and electromechanical components.
6. Forensic Engineering and Product availability:
Forensic Engineering refers to an investigation of the components that failed and does not operate as per design. Its common uses are debris analysis; memorialize evidence and common products such as gas controls and automobile components.
Different Types of X- Rays:
Recent Developments in the X-Ray systems:
With its availability in a few of the major industries of the world, scientists and engineers are regularly developing unique methods which can be easily fit into the device’s high-quality resolution images without giving high doses of radiation.
In recent times, there has been a shift towards specialized software solutions that can easily advance the applications of the images. By generating its applications in software, its production is changing as per the uses of the consumer.
Materials used in making X-Ray systems:
Effects of X- Rays on the body:
With the new and current developments in the X-Ray systems, the main motive of the physician or the medical professionals is to give lower doses of radiation to the patient.
Because as we all know that the higher doses of radiation cause many serious side effects like Vomiting tendency, hair loss, bleeding, uneasiness, and various skin problems.
Summary:
With the changing conventional X-Ray systems due to the new applications developed by the scientists, engineers, and doctors, their productivity are also increasing with the emerging needs of the industries and their uses.
As we know that there are various manufacturers in the market and the market is very competitive.
CanadaVOTES: NDP candidate Hana Razga running in Edmonton—LeducTuesday, September 23, 2008
On October 14, 2008, Canadians will be heading to the polls for the federal election. New Democratic Party candidate Hana Razga is standing for election in the riding of Edmonton—Leduc. Born in London, England to Czechoslovakian parents, she immigrated to Canada in 1968, having a long career in human resources with the federal government. She is a volunteer for organizations including the Alberta Women’s Shelter, Big Sisters and Match International. She has previously run in campaigns three times provincially for the NDP, and once federally.
Wikinews contacted Hana Razga, to talk about the issues facing Canadians, and what they and their party would do to address them. Wikinews is in the process of contacting every candidate, in every riding across the country, no matter their political stripe. All interviews are conducted over e-mail, and interviews are published unedited, allowing candidates to impart their full message to our readers, uninterrupted.
Created in 2004, the riding consists of southwest Edmonton, the City of Leduc, the Town of Devon, and the surrounding area. Contesting Conservative incumbent James Rajotte are Razga, Valerie Kennedy (Green), and Donna Lynn Smith (Liberal).
For more information, visit the campaign’s official website, listed below.
Wikinews discusses H1N1 with the WHOWednesday, March 31, 2010
The World Health Organization (WHO) is a program of the United Nations and a global authority on human health. In an interview with Wikinews, the WHO tells about the current H1N1 pandemic.
The organization’s 93rd update as of March 26, 2010 states 213 countries, territories, and other communities have laboratory-confirmed cases and there have been at least 16,931 confirmed deaths, including 4,653 deaths in Europe and 7,673 in the Americas.
Wikinews reporter Mike Morales talks with Karen Mah, a media relations representative for the WHO, and asks her several questions.
US military says ‘fireballs’ spotted over Texas are not related to satellite collisionMonday, February 16, 2009
The United States military Strategic Command (STRATCOM) has said that the ‘fireballs’ spotted over areas of Texas in the United States on Sunday February 15, are not related to the collision of a U.S. and Russian satellite in space. According to spaceweather.com, NASA says the object was a meteor.
“There is no correlation between the debris from that collision and those reports of re-entry,” said STRATCOM military spokeswoman Major Maj. Regina.
“It’s a natural meteor, definitely,” said Bill Cooke, an astronomer at NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office.
On Tuesday, February 10, the American civilian communications satellite Iridium 33, launched in 1997, and the defunct Russian military communications satellite Kosmos-2251, launched in 1993, collided over Siberia. On Friday February 13, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) issued an alert for falling debris from the satellites, following reports of “explosions and earthquakes” along with “flashes in the sky” in Jackson and Louisville, Kentucky.
Then again on Sunday, calls to 9-1-1 began to come in to Williamson County, Texas sheriff’s office around 12:30 p.m. (Central time) that burning debris and fireballs were seen falling from the sky onto parts of Austin, Houston, Waco and San Antonio.
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“The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reported to local law enforcement on Friday that these events are being caused by falling satellite debris. These pieces of debris have been causing sonic booms, resulting in vibrations felt by some residents, as well as flashes of light across the sky,” said the NOAA on Friday in an public information alert posted on their website. The FAA says the burning material over Texas is not related to this alert.
“We don’t know what it was [over Texas],” said Roland Herwig, a spokesman for the FAA on Monday. The alerts still remain in effect in Kentucky until further notice.
Residents in Texas reported their homes and windows shaking and large explosions on Sunday morning. After a search of several areas, the Williamson county sheriff’s office reported that no debris or impact sites were found. Earlier unconfirmed reports had said the debris could have been the result of a small plane exploding.
There was previous speculation was that the object in Texas could have been a meteor. Doctor Marco Ciocca, a professor at Eastern Kentucky University told WKYT on Sunday that it’s too early for the debris from the satellites to be reentering the planet’s atmosphere. “[It could] be months” before any of the satellite wreckage enters the earth’s atmosphere. “The debris doesn’t simply fall out of its orbit. It will either vaporize or stay in orbit for some time before falling into earth’s atmosphere.”
However, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) said on February 12 that the debris could have taken 10 days or less to reenter over portions of the planet.
“Within 24 hours of the collision, the U.S. space tracking system had identified 600 pieces of debris. This large number suggests that the collision must have been relatively head-on. If the two satellites hit head-on, rather than a glancing blow, the energy of the collision would completely disintegrate both satellites into clouds of debris,” said the UCS in a statement on their website who also added that the collision took place in “the same region of space where China destroyed a defunct Chinese weather satellite with an anti-satellite (ASAT) weapon” in 2007. “That January 2007 test created a massive amount of debris.” There have been at least eight major satellite collisions since 1991.
The satellites, both of which had a mass in excess of 450 kilograms, and were traveling at approximately 17,500 miles per hour (28,150 km/hour), collided 491 miles (790 km) above the earth. Scientists say the explosion caused by the collision was massive. They are still trying to determine just how large the crash was and how the earth will be affected. STRATCOM continues to track the debris. The results of a plotting analysis will be posted to a public website.
How to Improve Your Content Writing Skills:
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Cheryl Ross
The art of content writing is not rocket science and you don t have to be Einstein to master it. Writing a good content is very easy and anybody who is proficient in English can become a good content writer. It is a simple procedure but it involves intricate details.
There is a fixed set of rules and regulations, which are meant entirely for the purpose of content writing:
1.TITLE:
The title of any content speaks volumes about what the content is going to be about. A good title must be catchy as well as informative. It should give the readers a fair idea about the topic of the content. It should be attractive enough to grab the attention of the readers.
2.INVERTED PYRAMID:
Now you must be wondering what an inverted pyramid is. It is a simple technique where, the most important information is placed first. This technique must be kept in mind while writing for any web resources, because your readers have a very short attention span.
3.LANGUAGE:
Any content must be written in simple language which can be easily understood by all the readers. Using jargons or verbosities is a bad idea and it should be avoided once and for all. Simple sentences made up of familiar words, is the best way to go about it. Your sentences should have a flow in them. Each paragraph should lead to another.
4.ORIGINALITY:
Writing original content is the most important part of being a good content writer. You must write authentic content. Copy and paste will not get you anywhere in the field of web-writing. Your web articles or web blogs should be an extension to your personality. You must write as you speak.
5.CONNECT WITH THE READERS:
Good content writers must connect with their readers. The readers should get a feeling that they are talking out their queries to a reliable person. Stating personal experiences and speaking in direct speech is the correct way to do so.
The above steps are the basic rules that you can follow, if you want to polish you web-writing skills.
Cheryl Ross is an experienced content writer who writes for various
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New method of displaying time patentedSaturday, October 14, 2006
An American inventor has patented a pair of new time formats with a footprint less than 50% of that of conventional four-digit time. The more unusual of the two new formats, called “TWELV”, dispenses with numerals altogether. In place of clock hands or digits, the new clock uses color to convey the hour and a moon image to convey the minute, which moon slowly grows throughout the course of an hour from a narrow crescent to a full-fledged circle.
The second and more approachable of the new formats retains numerical digits to indicate the minute but uses colors to convey the hour.
Early critics question whether the aesthetic benefits of the moon-clock will be sufficient to encourage users to learn the color-based time-telling system. However, the size advantages of the new system may make it particularly suitable for mobile applications, particularly cell phones, wearable computers, and head-mounted displays.
Celebrity plastic surgeon Dr. Frank Ryan dies in car accident aged 50Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Plastic surgeon to the stars Dr. Frank Ryan has died in a car accident at age 50. It is reported that the Jeep Ryan was driving crashed over the side of the Pacific Coast Highway and landed on rocks. Lifeguards were first on the scene and unsuccessfully tried to rescue Ryan. It is thought that no other vehicle was involved in the incident.
Dr. Ryan, a celebrity in his own right, performed plastic surgery on several stars including Janice Dickinson, Gene Simmons, Shauna Sand and Adrianne Curry. He appeared on several television shows and became one of the first people to perform plastic surgery on television in 1995.
A representative for Janice Dickinson released a statement about the death of Ryan. She said “Janice is deeply, deeply anguished! She is stunned and wants the world to know what a genius Dr. Ryan was.”
Ryan was traveling with his pet dog at the time of the crash; the dog was found seriously injured in the ocean and was transported to a local veterinarian. Dr. Ryan was pronounced dead at the scene.
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