byAlma Abell
As a homeowner, you have your fair share of responsibilities. Something that we often overlook is taking good care of our garage door. Usually, this isn’t something that is going to give you a lot of problems. This is why it isn’t something that we think about until something goes wrong. If you are having problems with your garage door, set up an appointment with your Garage door replacement in Chicago IL contractor as soon as possible.
They will send someone to your home who will carefully assess the situation. Usually, this is something that can easily be fixed. They will talk with you about everything that needs to happen and then they will help you to decide whether or not you would like to repair your garage door or if you would like to have it replaced. Either way, they will make sure that your door is working just as good as it did when it was new.
If you have some extra time, you can Browse Site. This way, you can look at the different styles for garage doors that are available. You will be surprised at the wide variety that you have to choose from. If you live in an older home, there is a good chance that there was only one style available. Now, times are changing.
Maybe your garage door doesn’t necessarily need to be replaced. Maybe you are having problems with the automatic opener. If this is the case, set up an appointment with your Garage door replacement in Chicago IL specialist. They will come to your home and let you know how they will be able to help you. They should be able to fix the problem in a reasonable amount of time. Sometimes, it is something a little more serious. Either way, it’s nice to know that you have someone who is going to be upfront with you about the problem with your garage door. They aren’t going to try to sell you something that you don’t need. Instead, they will work with you to make sure that you are comfortable with your garage door.
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Dock worker killed by snapped cable
March 9th, 2022 | Uncategorized |
Wednesday, October 5, 2005
A dock worker on the Panamanian cargo vessel Ma Altair was killed when a cable snapped and threw him through the air. Witnesses say that the 54 year old worker was struck on his right side by a 1-1/2 inch cable being used to unload steel products.
Authorities were notified at 8:10 am CDT (1310 UTC). The victim was pronounced dead at the scene.
Snapped cables are a significant occupational hazard, capable of maiming and dismembering people nearby. Equipment struck by cables snapping under load is often destroyed.
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UEFA Euro 2016, quarter-finals: Germany defeats Italy 6-5 on penalties
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Monday, July 4, 2016
On Saturday, in the quarter-final of UEFA Euro 2016, Germany defeated Italy 6–5 in a penalty shootout decider as the score was 1–1 at the end of additional time. Germany missed three penalties in the shootout, but Manuel Neuer stopped two penalties by the Italians.
Early in the first half, Bastian Schweinsteiger was substituted for German midfielder Sami Khedira following a muscle injury. The Germans had greater ball possession and also led in passing accuracy. But they had to wait till the 65th minute when Mesut Özil scored a goal. Thirteen minutes later, the lead was nullified as the Italians were awarded a penalty kick as defender Jérôme Boateng committed a handball foul in the penalty area. Stepping up for the penalty, Leonardo Bonucci scored the equaliser. This was the first goal Neuer conceded in his last 557 minutes of major tournament play. The previous record was set by Sepp Maier at 481 minutes.
The match proceeded to additional time as the score was 1–1. None of the sides could find the net in the additional time and the referee signalled a penalty shootout. Lorenzo Insigne and Toni Kroos scored their respective kicks. In the next round, Simone Zaza missed while Thomas Müller’s spot kick was saved by Gianluigi Buffon. When Andrea Barzagli scored his penalty kick and Özil missed by hitting the woodwork, Italy were 2–1 up.
Graziano Pellè missed his penalty and the Germans levelled as Julian Draxler scored. Leonardo Bonucci’s attempt to score was saved by Neuer, but Schweinsteiger wasted his chance to lead the shootout. Emanuele Giaccherini and Marco Parolo scored their spot kicks, as did Mats Hummels and Joshua Kimmich. Mattia De Sciglio’s goal was followed by Boateng’s equalising penalty. Neuer saved Matteo Darmian’s kick and Jonas Hector scored the winning penalty.
Neuer was awarded the Man of the Match award.Eighteen players stepped up for the penalty shootout equalling the record of the UEFA Euro 1980 third-place encounter. Except for these two fixtures, never has a Euro match witnessed eighteen men taking the spot kick.
Germany is to play winner of France and Iceland in the semi-final. Mats Hummels is to miss the semi-final serving a one-match ban. Striker Mario Gomez is to miss the semi-final with torn muscle fibres. Schweinsteiger pulled his knee ligaments.
Manager Joachim Löw responded to these injuries saying, “It is very bitter to lose important players in the decisive stage of the tournament. I am especially sorry for Mario. […] For us this means accepting the new situation and having to find solutions. We will do so. The quality in the squad is high and I have full confidence in all players.”
| 21:00 July 2, 2016 (UTC+2) |
| Germany |
1–1 (a.e.t.) |
Italy |
Nouveau Stade de Bordeaux, Bordeaux Referee: Viktor Kassai, Hungary |
| Mesut Özil 65’Toni Kroos Thomas Müller Mesut Özil Julian Draxler Bastian Schweinsteiger Mats Hummels Joshua Kimmich Jérôme Boateng Jonas Hector |
6–5 (penalties) |
Leonardo Bonucci 78′ (pen.)Lorenzo Insigne Simone Zaza Andrea Barzagli Graziano Pellè Leonardo Bonucci Emanuele Giaccherini Marco Parolo Mattia De Sciglio Matteo Darmian |
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Monday, June 5, 2006
Gunmen forced their way into a building used by Palestinian Television in Khan Younis today. Approximately 15 gunmen fired toward the sky as they stormed the building shouting, “You are collaborators. You are biased. You are dirty people” the staff reported.
The armed men then discharged their weapons wildly into cameras, computers and other equipment leaving one employee of the transmission centre to say, “The whole place is ruined.” After wreaking havoc for several minutes and beating up a cameraman, the vandals left.
Palestine TV stopped broadcasting for 30 minutes in protest at the attack.
According to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, leader of the opposition Fatah party, the Hamas government has until midday (0900 GMT) on Tuesday to agree with a manifesto that touches on an issue at the heart of Palestinian politics. The script indirectly recognises Israel as it calls for a Palestinian state to exist beside Israel.
Hamas came to power in the January 2006 elections, overcoming the incumbent Fatah parliament. The party denied being involved in the attack on the television station.
Abbas has threatened a July referendum on the manifesto if parliament does not accept the treatise by the specified time.
By Patrick Foote
Degenerative disc disease is the gradual deterioration of the anatomical components of one or more intervertebral discs. These spongy cartilaginous wedges serve as shock absorbers between the stacked vertebral bodies. Discs also aid in spinal movement, allowing the spine to ‘spring back’ and comfortably resume its normal S shape after bending, twisting, or turning. As the body ages, discs can begin to wear down and lose elasticity, robbing them of their ability to cushion the adjacent vertebrae. This can cause a number of problems related to diminished spinal stability, including chronic stiffness, localized pain, and, in some cases, symptoms associated with spinal nerve compression.
How Degenerative Disc Disease Causes Symptoms
When degenerative disc disease begins to cause symptoms, the onset usually is gradual. Barring a traumatic injury that ruptures the fibrous outer wall (annulus fibrosus) of a disc, it normally takes time for deterioration to take full effect. A reduction in range of motion in the neck or back might be the first sign. Eventually, though, as a disc weakens or loses height, it could lead to the development of a bulging disc or herniated disc. With the first, a bulging disc, the outer wall is forced out of its normal boundary. With the second, a herniated disc, a portion of the inner gel-like material (nucleus pulposus) leaks through a tear in the outer wall. While neither of these conditions will necessarily produce symptoms, if a misplaced portion of the anatomy makes contact with a nearby nerve root, it can cause pain, tingling, numbness, and/or muscle weakness in the extremities.
Treating Degenerative Disc Disease Symptoms
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The vast majority of patients suffering from even the most debilitating symptoms related to disc degeneration find that, by working closely with their doctors, they are able to manage those symptoms with a combination of conservative treatment methods. Only about 10 percent of those who develop symptomatic degenerative disc disease resort to surgery, and then only after all conservative treatment has proven ineffective over a period of weeks or months.
In general, the primary goals of conservative treatment are to:
— Control or alleviate pain
— Increase strength of back or neck muscles
— Improve flexibility of the area of the spine adjacent to the deteriorated disc
There is a large array of conservative methods available, including nonsteroidal, anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), stretching, low-impact exercise, behavior modification through physical therapy, the application of heat or cold, brief periods of rest, and more. There also are a number of alternative or complementary methods used, including chiropractic adjustments, acupuncture, transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS), back or neck bracing, decompression tables, and others. The efficacy of alternative methods remains up for debate.
Have Patience before Considering Surgery
It may take a while to determine the exact combination of conservative treatments necessary to manage the symptoms associated with degenerative disc disease. Quite often, a period of trial and error is necessary, during which the patient should maintain frequent communication with the doctor. Simply, if a prescribed method of treatment seems to exacerbate the symptoms, or produces unexpected and unwelcome side effects, the doctor needs to know in order to, for example, alter a dose of a particular medicine or eliminate a particular exercise from the regimen.
About the Author: Patrick Foote is the Director of eBusiness at Laser Spine Institute, the leader in endoscopic spine surgery. Laser Spine Institute specializes in safe and effective outpatient procedures for the treatment of
degenerative disc disease
and several other spinal conditions.
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Sunday, August 13, 2006
A power outage hit large parts of Tokyo, and Chiba, Japan. The electrical blackout occurred due to an industrial accident, in which a crane damaged some power lines accidentally at 7:40 AM local time (2240 UTC), the Kyodo News agency reported, quoting Tokyo Power Electric Co. Power was reported to have been restored to most areas within a few hours.
At least two elevators stopped with an unknown number of people trapped inside, said a fire official in Tokyo. Some train services were halted. The number of passengers was lower than normal due to a holiday. About 800,000 residences were affected by the blackout, according to the power company. Most services have since then been restored.
Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea delayed opening by an hour as many rides did not function due to the power problems.
Thursday, March 18, 2021
On Monday, Kim Yo Jong, vice department director of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea and sister of the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, warned the United States and South Korea as a reaction to the joint military drills conducted by the US and South Korea.
In a statement released by the Rodong Sinmun, Kim Yo Jong said: “The peaceful spring days of three years ago are unlikely to return”. Arirang News asserted the “peaceful spring” refers to the inter-Korean meetings held in April 2018.
In her statement, Kim described ‘the south Korean authorities’ as “all born with stupidity” and “become the dumb and deaf bereft of judgment”. In response to the drills — which the North Korean government reportedly perceived as a threat — Kim expressed the possibility of closing various inter-Korean organizations like the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Country and the Kumgangsan International Tourism Bureau. “We also examine the issue of dissolving the Kumgangsan International Tourism Bureau and other organizations concerned as any cooperation and exchange with the south Korean authorities antagonizing us are no longer necessary”, Kim said.
Towards the end of the statement, Kim said, “If it [the United States] wants to sleep in peace for coming four years, it had better refrain from causing a stink at its first step.”
Speaking to Arirang News, Yang Moo-Jin, the vice president for public affairs at the University of North Korean Studies, said the message indicates “the regime is willing to talk […] as long as the South [Korean authorities] show some sincerity by not raising tensions through the joint drills”. Lim Eul-chul, a professor of North Korean studies at the Kyungnam University, said the North “is reaffirming its long-held stance that there will be no talks unless sanctions against the regime are lifted”. In an interview with Arirang News, Andrei Lankov, the director of the Korea Risk Group, said the message is nothing out of the ordinary, and similar messages have been coming each spring and the contents of this message are not to be overestimated. He qualified the statement as being “business as usual” and “by the North Korean standards it’s pretty tame”.
Thursday, May 27, 2010
A US Coast Guard official said today that BP’s latest effort to plug the Gulf of Mexico oil spill has been successful in slowing the amount of oil leaking from the well.
The official, Admiral Thad Allen, said that the procedure, known as a “top kill” operation, has been able to block some of the leaking oil at the source, the top of the damaged well. The operation involves pumping material into the well to plug the leak before cement is used to permanently seal the leak. Allen said the operation has “been able to force mud down and not allow any hydrocarbons to come up.”
BP hasn’t confirmed the success of the top kill operation, saying only that the “operation is proceeding as we planned it,” and that there had been no major incidents thus far. Although the possibility of failure is still present, experts say that the longer the procedure continues, the less likely it will be that anything goes wrong.
The procedure began yesterday afternoon, after diagnostics on the damaged equipment on the ocean’s surface indicated that it could withstand the added pressure of the mud being pumped into the well. Although engineers involved with the operation wore concerned that the pressure of the mud might not be able to overcome that of the oil, that has thus far not been the case.
Separately, a group of US scientists announced new estimates of how much oil was flowing from the well, ranging from 12,000 to 25,000 barrels a day, far higher than BP’s original estimate of 5,000 barrels a day, a figure which BP warned was possibly inaccurate.
In a press conference Thursday afternoon, US president Barack Obama also announced new measures in response to the spill, which include:
- Suspending off-shore test drilling for six months
- Extending the moratorium on issuing drilling permits for an additional six months
- Cancelling the sale of leases for off-shore drilling.
In statements, Obama criticized the “scandalously close relationship” between government officials and oil companies in the past, saying that the Mineral Management Service, which is the agency responsible for monitoring off-shore drilling, had been corrupt for years.
Submitted by: Janny Walter
A new Sky HD subscription is an exciting and fun addition to your home entertainment set up. You will have access to up to 44 crystal clear HD channels, immersing you in the action of all your favourite films and sports events.
Whether you re already a subscriber to the Sky digital box service, or you are yet to experience the quality and variety of programming that a Sky digi box will offer you, you are equally eligible for a free Sky HD box with installation. If you apply for a Sky plus HD box and subscribe to one or more of the exiting and varied Sky bundles, you ll receive your Sky plus box promptly, having it installed by qualified technicians in no time.
With Sky supertelly, you ll have the option of subscribing to up to 44 vivid and exciting high definition channels. Sky HD channels come in a range of genres from movies to sports, and entertainment too. You don t even need to buy Sky box cabling or remote accessories, they are all included with the free Sky HD box. So when you decide to order a Sky HD bundle, you will be safe in the knowledge that you are receiving the best possible digital TV service available.
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What you ll need
All you will need to watch the HD services is a HD compatible television with a Sky HD box and a subscription to the Sky HD channels bundle. Once this is all set up, you simply turn the box onto one of the HD channels and soon you will be watching TV in full HD for the first time.
The HD broadcast is up to 5 times as detailed as a standard broadcast, and with its vivid and clear images, it will give the sensation that you are part of the action. With vibrant colours, amazing sound quality, and the ability to record remotely from your mobile or online, Sky HD will amaze you.
Recording from Sky
HD broadcasts can even be recorded, so you can watch the incredible HD action time and time again. However, HD broadcasts do take up more storage space than SD broadcasts, so make sure you keep an eye on your remaining space; the Sky HD box can store up to 60 hours of HD broadcasts, or 185 hours of SD broadcasts.
Even box office movies can be recorded and stored for up to seven days. However, once you start watching the movie, you ll have 24hours to complete watching it, watching it again as many times as you like, before it automatically deletes itself.
With the Sky HD pack, you can watch up to 44 crystal clear HD channels, which is more than any of the other UK providers. With an HD subscription, if you subscribe to a channel in SD, you ll receive that channel in HD format too. So if you subscribe to Sky sports 1, 2 and 3 in SD, you ll receive Sky sports HD 1, 2 and 3 too.
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008
While nearly all cover 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.
As a non-partisan news source, Wikinews has impartially reached out to these candidates, throughout the campaign. The most recent of our interviews is Gaithersburg, Maryland’s Richard H. Clark (b. 1960), a senior software engineer and member of MENSA.
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