Toyota employs the Japanese hybrid solar powered vehicle carrier ship ‘Auriga Leader’
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Toyota employs the Japanese hybrid solar powered vehicle carrier ship ‘Auriga Leader’

Friday, July 3, 2009

On Friday, a new generation solar powered cargo vessel, the Auriga Leader has docked in North America for the first time. Toyota Motor Corp will employ this car carrier for automobile shipments to Europe and North America from Japan. The vessel will be operated by the Japanese-based NYK Line.

Auriga Leader has 328 solar panels to provide 40 kilowatts, about 10% of the ship’s power while sitting idling in dock. This amount of energy is the equivalent to the power used by ten average homes.

“This is the first ship to direct the solar power into the ship’s main electrical grid. It’s helping all of the time, and its helping with everything, like the ship’s thrusters and the hydraulics for the steering gear,” said Brian Mason, national manager of marine logistics and export for Toyota.

The panels are installed on the ship’s car-carrier, and then connected to the onboard 440 volt electrical network. Nippon Yusen K.K. and Nippon Oil Corp created the Auriga Leader’s US$ 1.6 million innovative green technology solar power grid. The cargo ship has a length of 200 meters (656 ft) and gross tonnage of 60,000 GT, which is capable of carrying 6,400 automobiles.

Richard Steinke, executive director of the Port of Long Beach said of the joint demonstration project, “From our standpoint, it’s another positive step,” to reduce diesel emissions and the release of greenhouse gas.

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Wikinews interviews World Wide Web co-inventor Robert Cailliau
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Wikinews interviews World Wide Web co-inventor Robert Cailliau

Thursday, August 16, 2007

The name Robert Cailliau may not ring a bell to the general public, but his invention is the reason why you are reading this: Dr. Cailliau together with his colleague Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, making the internet accessible so it could grow from an academic tool to a mass communication medium. Last January Dr. Cailliau retired from CERN, the European particle physics lab where the WWW emerged.

Wikinews offered the engineer a virtual beer from his native country Belgium, and conducted an e-mail interview with him (which started about three weeks ago) about the history and the future of the web and his life and work.

Wikinews: At the start of this interview, we would like to offer you a fresh pint on a terrace, but since this is an e-mail interview, we will limit ourselves to a virtual beer, which you can enjoy here.

Robert Cailliau: Yes, I myself once (at the 2nd international WWW Conference, Chicago) said that there is no such thing as a virtual beer: people will still want to sit together. Anyway, here we go.

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How the Army Corps of Engineers closed one New Orleans breach
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How the Army Corps of Engineers closed one New Orleans breach

Friday, September 9, 2005

New Orleans, Louisiana —After Category 4 storm Hurricane Katrina slammed into New Orleans, on the night before August 29, 2005, several flood control constructions failed. Much of the city flooded through the openings. One of these was the flood wall forming one side of the 17th Street Canal, near Lake Pontchartrain. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is the primary agency for engineering support during such emergencies. A USACE team was assessing the situation in New Orleans on the 29th, water flow was stopped September 2nd, and the breach was closed on September 5th.

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Price Tag Of Credit Card Debt Consolidation Program

Submitted by: Markbx Everett

To lessen your credit card debt and once a month repayment amount, you have to pay out the credit card debt consolidation corporation a tiny charge for their staff requirements. Some corporations just charge you a charge of just $25 a month for companies offered by them.

Another selection that consolidation corporations present is the single payment option. In this method, you have to spend a negotiated sum to the provider for consolidating your debts. You don’t incur monthly expenses when you select this selection. Underneath this alternative you will have to pay the creditors the loan sum and the curiosity on the quantity borrowed from them but you don’t have to shell out cash to debit consolidation organizations.

If you are hunting for easy alternative for your debt problems, you can choose to pay all your costs on a single day. This will preserve you from the difficulties of having to pay expenses and penalty on sum not repaid on time. Debt consolidation companies will work with your creditors to consolidate all your debts so you never encounter hard cash movement issues when repaying your credit card debt. When you opt for this method, you will have to spend a once a month fee to cover the expenditures incurred by consolidation businesses.

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A credit card debt consolidation program is the resolution to make your debts vanish away in time. Accumulating debts arrives not necessarily in time, but most of all due to necessity. Men and women need funds to manage day to day daily life. They also obtain it crucial to develop the quality of their lives, hence the volume of debts raises one a lot more time. It is highly crucial to locate the proper, suitable remedy to people’s requirements.

What is a financial debt consolidation plan?

A financial debt consolidation program is a system in accordance to which men and women with debts receive an individual big loan. This is to assist them shell out off other scaled-down loans. Beneath bankruptcy guidelines, the credit card debt you owe will be deemed wiped out as of the date your bankruptcy situation is filed. This implies that as your scenario moves by means of the court procedure, you are not taking month to month hits to your credit though you are waiting for the scenario to be authorized. Your credit score score will get the a single-time drop because of to the personal bankruptcy filing, not a lengthy downward spiral with no definite stop in sight. As quickly as your situation is over, you can quickly begin the procedure of rebuilding your credit score.

Bankruptcy Stops Lawsuits, Financial institution Account Levies, Garnishments and Foreclosures

The filing of a bankruptcy situation will without delay end collections lawsuits in opposition to you. It will also cease financial institution account levies, garnishments currently being taken from your wages, and foreclosures. The capability to end these legal actions against you comes immediately from a US Bankruptcy Court Buy giving you automatic relief from your creditors. If a creditor continues to pursue collections in opposition to you, then you can petition the Bankruptcy Court to assist you in obtaining relief from the harassment.

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Date announced for by-election to replace former New Zealand PM Clark
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Date announced for by-election to replace former New Zealand PM Clark

Monday, April 20, 2009

The government has announced 13 June as the date for the upcoming Mount Albert by-election.

The by-election has been caused by former Prime Minister Helen Clark‘s departure to head the United Nations Development Program. While it is considered to be a safe Labour seat, the by-election is expected to be heavily contested.

Candidates must be nominated by 19 May.

Nominations for the Labour Party close on Wednesday. So far four candidates have put their names forward: Auckland city councillor Glenda Fryer, former candidate Hamish McCracken, University of Auckland political studies lecturer Meg Bates and employment lawyer Helen White. List MP Phil Twyford, widely expected to succeed Ms Clark, has not put his name forward.

The National Party has narrowed its possible candidates down to two: list MP Melissa Lee or unsuccessful 2008 candidate Ravi Musuku. The decision will be made at a party meeting on 4 May.

The Greens and ACT New Zealand will both contest the by-election, but have yet to select candidates.

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Businesses shy to adopt Windows XP SP2
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Businesses shy to adopt Windows XP SP2

Wednesday, April 6, 2005

A survey of 251 North American companies revealed that less than 10% of their computers have Windows XP Service Pack 2 installed. The results of the study, conducted by AssetMetrix, were released this week after 136,000 PCs running Microsoft’s Windows operating system were examined. Although many of the companies in the poll are still using earlier releases of Windows, such as Windows 2000 and Windows 98, only 24% of businesses using Windows XP had successfully rolled out SP2.

Released in September 2004, SP2 includes security improvements for the Windows XP operating system, including an enhanced firewall and a pop-up ad blocker for Internet Explorer. [1] When it was first made available, businesses could opt to postpone installation of the service pack so that their respective IT departments could prepare for the update. However on April 12, Microsoft will force users to upgrade to SP2 via their automatic Windows Update system, which delivers software over the Internet. AssetMetrix believe this move will catch out unprepared companies.

“Microsoft allowed a significant period of time to accommodate companies’ demand to test and validate Windows XP SP2 within their IT infrastructure,” explained AssetMetrix Research Labs’ managing director Steve O’Halloran.

He added: “Based on our research, a substantial number of companies have yet to decide whether to accept or embargo Windows XP SP2. To date, we have observed that 40 percent of companies using Windows XP have actively avoided upgrading to SP2, and only 7 percent have actively accepted it. The other 52 percent of the companies showed no direction or policy towards SP2, and may find themselves having support issues by allowing multiple editions of Windows XP to exist in their infrastructure.”

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Tree Chipping In Belllingham, Wa By Rawls Tree Service

byAlma Abell

The fires that have devastated the country require that all precautions be taken in disposing of tree limbs and trunks. Burning is not an option. However, the easiest way and the cleanest method of disposing of trees is to use a wood chipper. These are mechanical devices with various sizes of wood grinding instruments built-in. The most popular models are:

* PTO, Gravity Feed Chippers

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* PTO, Hydraulic Feed Chippers

* Engine Driven, Gravity Feed Chippers

* Engine Driven Hydraulic Feed Chippers

The chippers can grind trees with diameters of 13? to 18? at a rate of up to 65? per minute. The chips can be hauled away and used for other purposes. Several chipper models have a sensor that recognizes when a log is not going through as fast as it should, and it will adjust the feeder to slow the log down until it can catch up.

Tree Chipping in Bellingham, WA is an environmentally friendly way to dispose of trees that have been destroyed and no longer have a useful life. The chipping process keeps the trees from rotting and posing a hazard to people walking. Homes are free of the tree threatening to fall onto their property.

After a storm has blown down the weak trees or the trees that are diseased, the chipper comes into use. It does not take long for an engine driven hydraulic feed chipper to clean up the property. Removing the chips and small limbs is a great service because the homeowner doesn’t have to worry about this part of the job.

Rawls Tree Service has been working in the timber business for 20 years and they know the rules of every city. They check with the arborist if they are in doubt. Their equipment is the finest in the area, and the size area they cover is a lot size or an acre. A professional is the person you want to see your trees through the Tree Chipping in Bellingham, WA machine that eats trees like paper. Rawls can spot a tree that is diseased and will soon need to come down or it will blow down. These are the trees you want to get out of the yard before they can do some real damage.

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Many infertile American women want sex selection
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Many infertile American women want sex selection

Friday, March 11, 2005Many infertile American women would choose the sex of their next child if given the option.

A survey of 561 women being treated for infertility has found that 41% would use sex selection if it were offered at no cost.

Contradicting fears that such sex selection would cause gender imbalance, the survey found that women with no children would choose baby girls and boys in approximately equal numbers.

Furthermore, women with only daughters wanted to select a male child while women with only sons wanted to select a female child.

“Sex selection is a topic that’s almost taboo for physicians to talk about,” says study lead author Tarun Jain of the University of Illinois at Chicago. “Prior to this study, there has been no data to indicate what the demand might be.”

Of 561 survey respondents, 229 would want to select the sex of their future child.

Among these, 45% had no children and 48% had children of all the same sex.

Half would choose to select the sex of their next child even if they had to bear the cost.

About 55% would choose sperm separation, 41% would choose preimplantation genetic diagnosis and 4% would choose neither.

Sex selection is controversial. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists opposes it for nonmedical reasons and so does the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics.

The American Society of Reproductive Medicine supports it for nonmedical reasons for family gender balancing provided methods used are safe and effective.

“As the techniques gain more popularity, physicians will have to decide if they will offer the procedure to patients with and without children,” says Jain.

The research is reported in the journal Fertility and Sterility.

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