Sunflower oil saves at-risk newborns from infection

Saturday, March 5, 2005Simply massaging low birth weight babies with sunflower seed oil can protect them from potentially fatal infections.

Infections and complications from preterm birth cause more than half of all neonatal deaths, and very low birth weight babies are particularly vulnerable.

Preterm babies have immature skin that lacks a protective film called vernix that has antimicrobial properties.

In some countries, such as India, newborns are routinely massaged with mustard oil.

But mustard oil, says Gary Darmstadt of John Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, can delay recovery of the skin barrier and have a toxic effect on skin.

Seeking an alternative low-cost product, Darmstadt and colleagues experimented with sunflower oil and an ointment called Aquaphor that comprises petrolatum, mineral oil, mineral wax and lanolin.

The researchers tested the treatments on 497 newborns (72 hours old or less) and preterm babies (less than 33 weeks gestation) between 1998 and 2003 in Bangladesh.

They applied the treatments to the entire body besides the scalp and face three times daily for the first 14 days and then twice daily until discharge.

Babies treated with sunflower oil were found 41% less likely to develop infections than controls.

“Evidence is emerging that the skin is much more important as a barrier to infection than previously recognized, particularly in preterm infants whose skin is underdeveloped,” says Darmstadt. “The good news is that treatment is available to strengthen the function of the skin as a barrier in these vulnerable newborns.”

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What Sort Of Web Hosting Service Servers Should Be?

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Canada’s St. Paul’s West (Ward 21) city council candidates speak

Friday, November 3, 2006

On November 13, Torontonians will be heading to the polls to vote for their ward’s councillor and for mayor. Among Toronto’s ridings is St. Paul’s West (Ward 21). One candidate responded to Wikinews’ requests for an interview. This ward’s candidates include John Adams, Tony Corpuz, Joe Mihevc (incumbent), and John Sewell.

For more information on the election, read Toronto municipal election, 2006.

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British TV presenter Rico Daniels tells Wikinews about being ‘The Salvager’

Saturday, March 14, 2009

Rico Daniels is a British TV presenter living in France who is known for his two television series — The Salvager — whilst he still lived in the UK and then Le Salvager after he moved to France. Rico has been in a variety of jobs but his passion is now his profession – he turns unwanted ‘junk’ into unusual pieces of furniture. Rico’s creations and the methods used to fabricate them are the subject of the Salvager shows.

Rico spoke to Wikinews in January about his inspiration and early life, future plans, other hobbies and more. Read on for the full exclusive interview, published for the first time:

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Viktor Schreckengost dies at 101

Sunday, January 27, 2008

Viktor Schreckengost, the father of industrial design and creator of the Jazz Bowl, an iconic piece of Jazz Age art designed for Eleanor Roosevelt during his association with Cowan Pottery died yesterday. He was 101.

Schreckengost was born on June 26, 1906 in Sebring, Ohio, United States.

Schreckengost’s peers included the far more famous designers Raymond Loewy and Norman Bel Geddes.

In 2000, the Cleveland Museum of Art curated the first ever retrospective of Schreckengost’s work. Stunning in scope, the exhibition included sculpture, pottery, dinnerware, drawings, and paintings.

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Flexiski’s corporate ski breaks

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Flexiski have been organising corporate ski trips for high profile clients including Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse, Volvo and Nokia to the top ski resorts in Europe for the last 20 years. Their new 2011/12 ski brochure focuses more on the choice of venues and facilities that can be provided for corporate ski events. A corporate ski break is an ideal way of entertaining clients, team-building or rewarding a companys best employees and selecting the right venue and facilities is paramount to making the trip a success.

The Hotel Saint Louis in Courchevel 1850 is one of flexiskis featured properties, suitable for a corporate ski event. Whether you are looking to arrange a large conference or simply need to host an intimate meeting, this multi-functional venue offers complete flexibility and the capability to deliver your desired corporate event. White-label branding options are also available in the hotel which enables a company to make their trip more bespoke.

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Up until the end of August 2011, groups will be able to benefit from special savings at the Hotel Saint Louis, with 1 in 12 guests staying for free. Half price ski equipment hire will also be available with Sunday to Wednesday stays at the hotel which start from 410pp.* And, as you may not have your own private office to organise every element of your holiday let their event management service do it for you. The Flexigold service provides a UK-based personal Travel Consultant dedicated to plan your requirements for the trip, and also includes your own Ski Event Manager in the resort think of having a personal assistant, expert skier and events manager there with you. The Ski Event Manager will organise and supervise everything you want: from a hot air balloon ride, to building an igloo or wine tasting and even jumping queues for a nightclub!

Flexiski will also be hosting some key events throughout the season at the Hotel Saint Louis in Courchevel 1850 ranging from the pre-Christmas party to the end-of-season Easter weekend with BBQ and Pimms on La Terrasse. These are back by popular demand following great success last season!

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Apple releases iPhone SDK, announces upcoming update

Thursday, March 6, 2008

During a media event held at its Cupertino headquarters, Apple released the long awaited iPhones Software Development Kit (SDK) and the associated iTunes “App Store” and iPhone Developer Program. The SDK will allow third party software developers to create applications for the iPhone and then distribute them on the iTunes Apps Stores. Any members of the iPhone Developer Program can add applications to the store for free; the program costs $99 (USD) to join. Developers will be able to set the price of the applications or release them for free. All applications will have to be approved by Apple before being allowed on the store. Some of the disallowed categories are”porn”, excessive bandwidth users and anything malicious or illegal. VoIP applications would be allowed over Wi-Fi only. Enterprises can setup private pages on the store to distribute internal applications.

At the event several third party developers that had been given early access to the SDK demonstrated their applications. Among the applications demonstrated were EA‘s Spore, AOL‘s AIM instant messenger and a client for epocrates, a drug reference service.

The company also announced the iPhone 2.0 update that was released as a closed beta for developers and is scheduled for public release in June. In the new version Apple has been focusing on enterprise features in an attempt to compete with rivals like RIM‘s BlackBerry and Microsoft’s Windows Mobile. The update adds support for ActiveSync, which Apple has licensed from rival Microsoft, WPA2 and virtual private network support. The update will also be available to iPod Touch users for what Steve Jobs described as “a nominal charge”, as Apple have done in the past with the previous iPod Touch and MacBook Wi-Fi updates.

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Wikinews interviews John Wolfe, Democratic Party presidential challenger to Barack Obama

Sunday, May 20, 2012

U.S. Democratic Party presidential candidate John Wolfe, Jr. of Tennessee took some time to answer a few questions from Wikinews reporter William S. Saturn.

Wolfe, an attorney based out of Chattanooga, announced his intentions last year to challenge President Barack Obama in the Democratic Party presidential primaries. So far, he has appeared on the primary ballots in New Hampshire, Missouri, and Louisiana. In Louisiana, he had his strongest showing, winning 12 percent overall with over 15 percent in some congressional districts, qualifying him for Democratic National Convention delegates. However, because certain paperwork had not been filed, the party stripped Wolfe of the delegates. Wolfe says he will sue the party to receive them.

Wolfe will compete for additional delegates at the May 22 Arkansas primary and the May 29 Texas primary. He is the only challenger to Obama in Arkansas, where a May 10 Hendrix College poll of Democrats shows him with 38 percent support, just short of the 45 percent for Obama. Such an outing would top the margin of Texas prison inmate Keith Russell Judd, who finished 18 percent behind Obama with 41 percent in the West Virginia Democratic primary; the strongest showing yet against the incumbent president. Despite these prospects, the Democratic Party of Arkansas has already announced that if Wolfe wins any delegates in their primary, again, due to paperwork, the delegates will not be awarded. Wolfe will appear on the Texas ballot alongside Obama, activist Bob Ely, and historian Darcy Richardson, who ended his campaign last month.

Wolfe has previously run for U.S. Congress as the Democratic Party’s nominee. On his campaign website, he cites the influence “of the Pentagon, Wall Street, and corporations” on the Obama administration as a reason for his challenge, believing these negatively affect “loyal Americans, taxpayers and small businesses.” Wolfe calls for the usage of anti-trust laws to break up large banks, higher taxes on Wall Street, the creation of an “alternative federal reserve” to assist community banks, and the implementation of a single-payer health care system.

With Wikinews, Wolfe discusses his campaign, the presidency of Barack Obama, corporations, energy, the federal budget, immigration, and the nuclear situation in Iran among other issues.

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Election in Moldova instigates rioting mob demanding recount

Thursday, April 9, 2009

Protests which began Monday escalated to a riot on Wednesday consisting of over 10,000 people in Chi?in?u, the capital of Moldova, protesting the results of Sunday’s 2009 Moldovan parliamentary election, which showed an apparent, narrow victory for the Communist Party (Partidul Comuni?tilor din Republica Moldova, PCRM). Demonstrators claim the victory was the result of electoral fraud.

The demonstration escalated to a “flash mob” of between 10,000 to 15,000 communicating via online tools like email, micro-blogging tool Twitter, and social-networking website Facebook. “We sent messages on Twitter but didn’t expect 15,000 people to join in. At the most we expected 1,000”, said Oleg Brega of the activist group Hyde Park.

Police deployed tear gas and water cannons, and fired blanks into the crowd. The rioters threw stones at the riot police and took control of the parliament building and presidential office. A bonfire was built out of parliamentary furniture and all windows below the 7th floor were broken.

Approximately one hundred protesters and 170 police officers are reported as injured. There have been conflicting reports as to whether a female protester died during the altercation.

193 protesters “have been charged with looting, hooliganism, robbery and assault,” said an Interior Ministry spokesperson. This announcement sparked another protest by those demanding the release for those detained.

There is wide speculation about who was to blame for the rioting.

President Vladimir Voronin has expelled the Romanian ambassador from Moldova, blaming Romania for the violent protests. “We know that certain political forces in Romania are behind this unrest. The Romanian flags fixed on the government buildings in Chisinau attest to this” said Voronin. “Romania is involved in everything that has happened.“ Voronin also blamed the protests on opposition leaders who used violence to seize power, and has described the event as a coup d’état.

Protesters initially insisted on a recount of the election results and are now calling for a new vote, which has been rejected by the government. Rioters were also demanding unification between Moldova and Romania. “In the air, there was a strong expectation of change, but that did not happen”, said OSCE spokesman Matti Sidoroff.File:Dorin Chirtoaca.jpg

“The elections were fraudulent, there was multiple voting” accused Chi?in?u mayor Dorin Chirtoac? of the Liberal Party. “It’s impossible that every second person in Moldova voted for the Communists. However, we believe the riots were a provocation and we are now trying to reconcile the crowd. Leaders of all opposition parties are at the scene,” said Larissa Manole of the Liberal Democratic Party of Moldova.

The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) proclaimed the PCRM to have won 61 seats in initial counts, enough to guarantee a third term in power for Voronin, who has held the position since 2001. But the Central Election Commission has received evidence of election violations, according to RIA Novosti, and upon recounts conducted of disputed polls, the commission reported that the Communists achieved 49.48% of the Moldovian vote, giving them 60 parliamentary seats — one short of the total needed to win the presidential election. “The electoral commission also granted opposition parties permission to check voter lists, fulfilling one of their chief demands,” said Yuri Ciocan, Central Election Commission secretary.

Voronin will step down in May, however his party could elect a successor with 61 parliamentary seats without any votes from outside parties as well as amend the Constitution. With the PCRM garnering 60 seats, the opposition will have a voice in the presidential election for a new successor.

The western part of Moldova was a part of Romania from the Romania’s independence until the region was detached by the USSR in 1940 to form the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic. On independence in 1990 the country sought union with Romania but the eastern, Russian- and Ukrainian-inhabited areas of the country declared themselves independent from Moldova and formed the state of Transnistria and movement toward union was halted.

Moldova is Europe’s poorest country, where average income is less than $250 (£168) a month. The country’s neighbours are Romania and Ukraine. Romania is a European Union (EU) state.

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California And Apprenticeships

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Like numerous state governments, California boasts a distinctive web of systems if you are enthusiastic about locating a mechanic apprenticeship inside California.

Certification for apprenticeship

To become triumphant, the individual must possess persistency, purpose, as well as initiative. Like a college education, the successful finishing of some sort of apprenticeship period isn’t going to come effortlessly, but will be the consequence of hard work on the component of the apprentice.In practically each practiced vocation, a lot more than basic understanding of arithmetic is vital. The ability to read, compose and converse properly is beneficial in any walk of life, but in some apprenticeship careers it is a lot more significant when compared to many others. In certain occupations, persons seeking an apprenticeship will be at a considered benefit if they already have taken shop lessons, possess some understanding of mechanical drawing, physics, blueprint analyzing, drafting, higher math concepts, chemistry, operational electricity, welding or the like. Fitness and health, a superb good sense of equilibrium, eye-hand coordination, color perception, speed, power, potential to work at altitudes in addition to technical understanding are attractive qualifications in several skilled vocations and one or much more of these tend to be crucial in others. Capacity to work with other people, good personality, and tidy look and feel are usually mandatory in many trades, notably exactly where interaction with the general public can be needed.In quite a few skilled vocations, folks having a secondary school diploma or its equal tend to be chosen. Potential knowledgeable employees generally prefer to work with their hands and also make use of many tools to build and fix issues. These people prefer to accomplish issues as soon as they’ve began and do not think about exactly how filthy or greasy the responsibility, so long as they simply get it performed. They will have fun with outings to shops and industrial facilities and wish to talk to technicians regarding the work they are doing and the troubles they meet inside their work. At school, they get along perfectly in shop, technology, math concepts as well as mechanised drawing instructional classes, as well as get pleasure from working on realistic difficulties within the classroom and also at residence.These are generally merely examples of the aspects that may well indicate a great aptitude for the knowledgeable crafts.

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Information on how apprenticeship training work

The particular instruction is usually administered by Joint Apprenticeship Committee, and developed by the neighborhood apprenticeship committees. The time of training is normally from one up to 6 years, based on the particular industry. The vast majority of opportunities are usually for 4 years.

Apprentices start off at a portion of the professional worker’s income plus collect increases at regular times. Opening rates will be commonly 35% to 50%, plus raises are given each and every half a year generally in most trades.

Apprentices attend courses of correlated technological education, in most cases inside the general public educational institutions. This education, supplementing the education on the job, offers apprentices a comprehensive perception of the theoretical characteristics connected with their work. Associated education is amongst the basic functions associated with apprenticeship and also has been constructed as well as acknowledged as common procedure in virtually every industry. In the majority of circumstances this usually means participating in lessons at night time four hours every week, for at a minimum 108 hours yearly. The particular education features such subjects as safeness legal guidelines, arithmetic, drafting, blueprint reading along with other sciences connected with the industry.

In training apprentices understand the ideas within their industry; each day at work they will find out its practice, still under the supervision of proficient workers, instructions in the use of the resources of the trade can also be given apprentices at the start of their exercising; in many trades they’re prohibited to make use of virtually any power-driven machines right up until nicely advanced in their instruction. Apprentices are usually essential to supply their own small equipment

In several careers and industries apprentices receive, additionally to their regular income, fringe many benefits covering holiday vacation pay, health and fitness and welfare, pensions, and so forth .. Via collective negotiating in a number of situations, companies also compensate a number of normal sums straight into apprenticeship resources, that are administered by boards of trustees.

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