Eurovision 2008: First semi-final held in Belgrade

Eurovision 2008: First semi-final held in Belgrade

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Last night saw the first semi final of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest in Belgrade, Serbia. The entries from Israel, Azerbaijan, Norway, Poland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Armenia, Finland, Romania, Russia and Greece are through to the final, leaving the representatives from Montenegro, Estonia, Moldova, San Marino, Belgium, Slovenia, Ireland, Andorra and the Netherlands failing to qualify for this weekend’s final.

The aforementioned countries join host nation Serbia, automatically through as is last year’s winner, and the ‘big four’ – the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Spain. The other entries will compete in the second semi final tomorrow. Below is a summary of each entry in running order:

Brookfield, Wisconsin man charged with stealing toilet and urinal parts

Saturday, March 30, 2013

Yesterday, the Milwaukee County district attorney charged Cory J. Feerick, a 33-year-old from Brookfield, Wisconsin, with five misdemeanor counts of stealing US$35,000 worth of flush valves from fast food restaurants and university toilets and urinals. If convicted, Feerick could spend to 9 to 45 months in jail, and pay between US$10,000 and US$50,000 in fines.

Initially arrested in late January following a local news television story on the thefts, he stands accused of stealing parts worth between US$300 and US$600 each from locations that included Milwaukee Area Technical College, Waukesha County Technical College, ITT Technical Institute, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Marquette University, the Pick ‘n Save on Capitol Drive in Brookfield, and the Arby’s also located on Capitol Drive in Brookfield.

Feerick was dubbed the “Backpack Bathroom Bandit” by the media because video showed him committing the thefts while wearing a backpack. The thefts reportedly took place in September and October of last year, with several area police departments involved in investigating them.

The Need For Quality Commercial Fire Protection Systems

By IPRWire Staff Writer

If you own a business, you are probably afraid of anything that could spark a flame. This would ruin your property, thus ruining the investment you have made in your business. One of the best ways to protect your business is to install commercial fire protection systems throughout your property.

One aspect of a good commercial fireproofing plan is having extinguishers installed throughout your property. However, it is crucial that you know exactly where to place these extinguishers, how to protect them from meddling children, and how to make the accessible when needed. Also, extinguishers need to be inspected and serviced by an industry professional in order to ensure that they are working properly.

Sprinklers are another important part of fire protection systems. Sprinklers kick in when the temperature in the room reaches a critical point. They have fuses that melt at a high temperature, releasing the water in the system. This can do much to stop any blazes from spreading throughout your building. However, if your sprinklers are not installed properly, they will not work when needed. They may go off when there is no flame present, or they may fail to go off when there is. A professional contractor is needed to make sure your business has a quality sprinkler system installed.

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If your fire protection equipment is not up to par, your investment is at risk. Yes, you have insurance on your buildings, but what will happen if your building burns down? You will not be able to run your business for several months while you wait for insurance payments and then have your building rebuilt. Having quality fire protection systems in place prevents this from happening, because flames will be stopped before they can completely destroy your property.

In order to have the right products installed properly, you need to have a professional contractor to work with. The best contractors will be licensed and insured. They will also have much experience working with fireproofing products. They will be knowledgeable and helpful, willing to answer your questions about what needs to be done to your property. You cannot trust just anyone to do your fireproofing. Since you do not know what to look for in the products, you will have no way of knowing if the work was done right until it’s too late. That’s why you need to find a licensed contractor who also has a good customer service rating.

You can find a contractor to install your commercial fire protection systems at One Source Fire Protection. This website offers you the chance to connect with the contractors located near you who have the best qualifications. The website’s owners carefully screen all the companies they work with, and they also follow up after jobs are completed to see if the customers are satisfied. This helps ensure that you are finding contractors to work with who do quality work. If you are ready to protect your business through fireproofing, visit

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75 million left without Internet access after fault in undersea cable

Saturday, February 2, 2008

Service to millions of Internet users in the Middle East and Asia has been disrupted, following damage to undersea cables.

The cables, SEA-ME-WE 4 and FLAG, which provide communications services for various countries — including India, Pakistan, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia — are believed to have been damaged by a ship attempting to moor off Egypt on Wednesday, January 30, 2008.

One day later, on February 1, the FALCON cable was also reported cut 56 km off Dubai. Repair ships have been sent to both breaks, with capacity to India expected to reach 80% of its usual speed by Friday, February 2.

According to the telecommunications provider Qtel, a fourth cable linking Qatar to the United Arab Emirates was damaged on Sunday, February 3.

A total of five cables being operated by two submarine cable operators have been damaged with a fault in each.

Lineup coming together for Manchester United charity match

Tuesday, March 6, 2007

Manchester United will be taking on eleven of the top players in Europe in a celebration match next Tuesday at Old Trafford, and the lineup for the European XI is coming together nicely. The game is a UEFA-Manchester United collaboration created to commemorate not only the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome, but also the 50th anniversary of Manchester United entering into European club competitions. Funds raised in the match will go to support the Manchester United Foundation, which works with local charities as well as UNICEF to aid children in need. Italian Marcello Lippi will be in charge of coaching the European XI side, and his assistant will be Andy Roxburgh. Confirmed players have slowly been filing into the team, but with current Manchester United on-loan striker Henrik Larsson confirmed, the XI is now complete.

Debian to shutdown public File Transfer Protocol services

Friday, April 28, 2017

Debian, a free and open source (FOSS) Linux-based operating system, on Tuesday announced they are to shut down Debian’s public File Transfer Protocol (FTP) in November, via their official website. The public FTPs are to be redirected to Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) from November 1.

On Debian’s announcement list, Cédric Boutillier, a Debian developer, called the file transfer protocol “inefficient”, saying “FTP servers have no support for caching or acceleration.” Boutillier also added that FTP servers are rarely used. For over a decade, Debian installers have not supported FTP access on mirrors. This decision, however, would not affect the developer services, which would still support FTP.

FTP came into existence about 46 years ago for transferring files between two machines, without encryption. According to Boutillier, FTP “requires adding awkward kludges to firewalls and load-balancing daemons.” HTTP, which came after FTP, was designed for data flow between servers and clients. Popular Linux distros like Kali Linux and Canonical’s Ubuntu are based on Debian. The following websites are to be redirected to HTTP — rather than secure HTTPS — after October without changing the domain names:

  1. http://ftp.debian.org
  2. http://security.debian.org

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Augusten Burroughs on addiction, writing, his family and his new book

Friday, October 12, 2007

I had an unofficial phone call from Gay Talese last Tuesday. He had just flown back from Colombia and he was cranky. “I’m happy to do an interview with you,” he said, “but what the hell could you ask me that’s not already out there? Have you even bothered to look?!”

“Jeez, Mr. Talese, lots of things,” was my response. I lied. The truth is that when I call people to interview them, I do not have a set of preconceived questions. My agenda is to talk to them and gain a sense of who they are; to flesh them out as humans. To find out what they think about the world around them at that moment. With Gay Talese I had little interest in talking about Frank Sinatra Has a Cold and with Augusten Burroughs I had little interest in discussing Running with Scissors. I want to know what they think about things outside of the boxes people have placed them in.

With a memoirist like Burroughs, even this is a challenge. What parts of his life he has not written about himself, other interviewers have strip-mined. When we met for dinner at Lavagna in the East Village, I explained to Augusten this issue. I suggested we make the interview more of a conversation to see if that would be more interesting. “Instead of you in the catbird seat,” I said, “let’s just talk.”

We struck an instant rapport. What set out to be an hour and half interview over dinner had turned into four hours of discussion about our lives similarly lived. I removed half of the interview: the half that focused on me.

Below is Wikinews reporter David Shankbone’s conversation with writer Augusten Burroughs.

Contents

  • 1 On addiction and getting sober
  • 2 On the Turcottes and his mother
  • 3 On his work
  • 4 On the response to his work from addicts
  • 5 On belief in a higher power
  • 6 On the gay community
  • 7 On his new book, A Wolf at the Table, a memoir about his father
  • 8 On women’s breasts and tattoos
  • 9 On losing his hair
  • 10 Sources

Lux Island Resorts To Host First Maldives Underwater Festival In May 2012}

LUX Island Resorts to Host First Maldives Underwater Festival In May 2012

by

Susan Crown

Photography enthusiasts will be able to dive beneath the surface of the Indian Ocean as LUX* Maldives launches the first Underwater Festival from 14th and 20th May, 2012.

Fans of diving and photography will be able to take part in a series of workshops, courses, and introductory sessions during Maldives holidays. Award-winning photographers will run numerous underwater courses that will allow visitors to experience free-diving and fluo night diving.

The General Manager of LUX* Maldives and avid free-diver, Dominik Ruhl, explained: This time its all about water. We wanted to draw the curtains of the underwater world to our guests by giving them the unique opportunity not only to dive some of the most beautiful dive sites on the planet, but also to meet the experts of the sea and learn how to bring these treasures home.

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The luxury resort recently opened a Marine Biology Centre on the island which is dedicated to protecting whale sharks in the South Ari Atoll waters and this years festival allows tourists to learn more about the underwater world throughout their holidays in the Maldives.

The festival will feature leading marine experts including the French multi-award winning underwater photographer, Pascal Kobeh, who will take part in the festival as a member of the judging panel and a coach.

Kobeh commented: I started shooting underwater pictures while I was a diving instructor here in the Maldives; I havent stopped since then, and it became by profession. It brought me here today with the same passion I had ten years ago and I am very excited to join the festival.

While enjoying holidays to the Maldives at the resort, attendees will have the chance to take part in interesting and informative workshops with LUX* Maldives resident marine biologist, Chiara Fumagalli.

There will also be documentaries about the oceans diverse marine life, underwater films, and news about the ongoing research on the whale sharks at the Marine Biology Centre.

The festival will also allow participants to try free diving sessions with Jean-Jacques Mayol, the founder of the free-diving Team Mayol and son of free-diving legend Jacques Mayol.

Photographers booking Maldives holidays at the resort can experience the underwater world at night by taking part in fluo-diving excursions. Divers use a set of special filters on their masks and torches, which enhances a unique diving experience at night.

Festival-goers will have the chance to win several prizes during the week-long event and the best photographs will be submitted to the judging panel with a top prize including a five-night stay at one of LUX* Islands Resorts Mauritius, La Reunion or Maldives hotels.

The newly revamped LUX Maldives will soon be launching the Maldives first ever Underwater Festival. Those lucky enough to be

enjoying Maldives holidays

at the resort during 14th- 20th May 2012 will be able to join special workshops, scuba diving and underwater photography courses and introductory sessions. The event will include special guests such as award-winning photographers and divers.

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Water Restoration In Edmond, Ok

byAlma Abell

Floods are what happen when large amounts of water fill a certain area in a short period of time without a proper draining system. When an unexpected flood happens inside of your home, your immediate response is to find out what is causing the flood. After you have found the flood source and turned off the water supply to that source, your next response is to think about how you can get rid of the water before serious damage occurs.

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It is very important to get a professional to take care of the problem within a forty-eight hour window. After this time-frame, the water has likely damaged or rotted the wood in your floor and the walls causing structural damage which may cost thousands of dollars to fix. You may have also damaged the furniture, the curtains and caused mold. Once mold gets into your home, you must hire a service professional to get rid of it, otherwise it would cause health issues and severe cases have led to Cancer or death.

When you call the emergency response line for water restoration services in Edmond OK, you will speak to an experienced technician that has access to all of the latest technology, procedures and services to take care of your flooding property. If you must leave a message, the prompt customer service team will respond to your call in less than an hour. You can also get an accurate estimate for the specialty services such as: sewer backup, rain damage, leaking roofs, leaking toilet, leaking dishwasher, leaking ice machine, leaking washing machine and a flooded basement.

If you want to attempt fixing the issue yourself, you can use professional rental equipment to get rid of the water. This method is not advised to do on your own without the proper training. You can leave behind water, which will cause more damage; you can miss signs of mold and miss cues that the structure, flooring or walls have been damaged. Expert water restoration services are available for commercial businesses, government services, private businesses and residential homes in Oklahoma City and surrounding areas. You can find company to handle your Water Restoration in Edmond, OK if you Click here to talk to service professional at Okcemergencywaterremovalservice.com.