Corks fly in wine truck fire in Wyoming, US

Sunday, September 6, 2009

In Wamsutter, Wyoming, US, a fire crew were trying to put out a fire of a wine truck on a highway when they received an unexpected surprise.

Wine corks started to burst out of the wreckage as bottles started to explode from the heat. Wyoming Highway Patrol Lt. Scott Keane said: “The corks were popping out of the bottles like the old Jiffy Pop (popcorn) we grew up with. My trooper got hit in the arm with one.”

But luckily, as Keane commented, no one was killed or seriously injured and the truck driver managed to escape the fire, which occurred on Thursday after a crash on Interstate 80.

The intensity of the fire caused the tires on the trailer to melt down and the trailer to burn down to its wheel axles, damaging 75 feet of pavement in the process.

The corks were popping like Jiffy Pop

Keane stated that the cause of the fire was likely to be either a locked brake or a hub malfunction. It is currently unknown what the value of the loss in the fire was. The Wyoming Department of Transportation have commented that there was nothing left of the cab or trailer and the remaining bottles of wine from Oregon and Washington had disappeared overnight.

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Kimi Räikkönen wins 2007 Belgian Grand Prix

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Ferrari driver Kimi Räikkönen won the FIA Formula-1 2007 ING Belgian Grand Prix on the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps at Spa, Belgium. He and his teammate, Felipe Massa, showed the fastest times during most of the pre-race sessions, taking the front line as a result.

Both McLaren Mercedes drivers Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton were unable to compete with the red cars, tring their utmost to use a slightest mistake of their rivals, if any. Still, Kimi and Felipe were in full control of the race after making a significant gap to Alonso, number one of McLaren.

Start of the race resulted in a slight side touch between McLaren cars, with Hamilton forced to make an evasive manoeuvre out of the track, a reminiscent of the Hungary practice session incident between them.

Two German drivers Nick Heidfeld from BMW Saubers and Nico Rosberg from WilliamsToyota saw the chequered flag 5th and 6th. Mark Webber owned 7th place for Red BullRenault team.

Heikki Kovalainen‘s Renault closed the top eight after his highlighted struggle with Robert Kubica on the third part of the race.

Another highlight became Adrian Sutil‘s driving for Spyker-Ferrari, who was pushing hard on David Coulthard on the first part of the race. The young German driver finished 14th far ahead of both Super Aguri‘s and his teammate.

Alonso came closer to Hamilton in Drivers’ Championship, and have now a gap of just 2 points between the teammates. The situation in Constructors’ Championship after the World Motorsport Council ruling over McLaren on September 13 became clear for Ferrari with their 161 points, 71 points ahead of BMW Sauber.

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Free Alternatives To Dallas Texas Attractions: 10 Tips For Family Fun In Mc Curtain County

By Marcia Drewitz

Gas prices and higher grocery bills don’t have to mean the end of the Dallas/Fort Worth (the Metroplex) family road trip. Where can you find an alternative to the Metroplex area family vacation spots? Where can your budget-conscious family go during the fall months for a weekend getaway? The answer: Beavers Bend Resort Park area in Southeast Oklahoma’s McCurtain County, a mere three-hour drive – less than a gas tank away from Dallas. The area was voted by LIFE magazine as one of the ‘100 Places to See in Your Lifetime’ and by The Dallas Observer as the ‘Best Getaway from Dallas.’

Once you arrive, make the Beavers Bend Resort Park area your home base. There is lodging and cabins to fit every budget. Then explore the region’s many low-cost or free offerings. Most anything your heart desires is either in the park itself or nearby in the towns of Idabel, Hochatown, Valliant and Broken Bow. The kids will have a blast and your bank account will thank you profusely.

Here are 10 tips for finding free or low-cost alternatives to Dallas Texas attractions:

Tip #1: Watch the eagles fly: Witness the eagles while hiking along the Mountain Fork River and on Broken Bow Lake. Guided hikes start at the park’s nature center at 9 a.m. on Saturdays throughout the fall months. The experience is fun and educational! You’ll learn that thousands of eagles migrate south and take up residence wherever they encounter open water and plentiful food. Because of the abundance of lakes and rivers and mild winter temperatures, Oklahoma’s McCurtain County is especially attractive to these magnificent birds.

Tip #2: Visit a nature center: The Beaver Bend Resort Park’s nature center offers hayrides and storytelling by the campfire on Friday and Saturday nights.

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Tip #3: Try your hand at arts and crafts: Also at the nature center, which is open all day on weekends, kids will love making arts and crafts (supplies provided). Take your handmade souvenir home with you when you leave.

Tip #4: Learn about native forests: At the park’s Forest Heritage Museum, you and the kids will learn about the area’s native forests from the time of the dinosaurs to the present day.

Tip #5: Go green: Steep yourself in wildlife conservation practices at the park’s wildlife museum.

Tip #6: Visit an arts and crafts show: The Beavers Bend Folk Festival and Craft Show held in November showcases old timey arts and crafts. More than 70 exhibitors show off their crafts, skills and food at the three-day event.

Tip #7: Experience a fair: The McCurtain County Free Fair is held in nearby downtown Idabel in October. The five-day festival includes lots of chances to let out your inner ‘American Idol’ at the show’s talent contest, which features all manner of acts, singers, dancers, etc. The fair features baked-goods cook-offs, a tractor driving contest, beauty pageant, carnival and of course, a livestock show.

Tip #8: Rub elbows (sort of) with famous singing cowboys: While in Idabel, be sure to visit the Roy Rogers and Gene Autry Museum. But call first: it is the personal project of an Idabel resident who runs the attraction out of his home.

Tip #9: Become an expert on eating eggplant: Just outside Idabel, a short drive away is the Honey Bear Ranch, which sells organic meat and produce and offers cooking classes such as ‘Everything you could possibly do with eggplant.’ It even has a petting zoo for the kids.

Tip #10: Learn about the region’s native populations: Don’t leave Idabel until you’ve seen the Museum of the Red River, where you can find out about the Indians who once populated Southeast Oklahoma’s McCurtain County.

With Dallas, Texas attractions often costing an arm and a leg, why not jump in the car and visit your neighbors just across the river in nearby McCurtain County? With all of the low-cost and free attractions available, you will end up saving money while visiting one of the most naturally beautiful, historically-rich areas of the country.

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Ontario Votes 2007: Interview with NDP candidate Glenn Crowe, Bramalea-Gore-Malton

Thursday, October 4, 2007

Glenn Crowe is running for the NDP in the Ontario provincial election, in the Bramalea-Gore-Malton riding. Wikinews’ Nick Moreau interviewed him regarding his values, his experience, and his campaign.

Crowe did not reply to various questions asked.

Stay tuned for further interviews; every candidate from every party is eligible, and will be contacted. Expect interviews from Liberals, Progressive Conservatives, New Democratic Party members, Ontario Greens, as well as members from the Family Coalition, Freedom, Communist, Libertarian, and Confederation of Regions parties, as well as independents.

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Mississippi tornado kills at least ten

Sunday, April 25, 2010

At least ten people are dead after a large, destructive tornado tore through Yazoo City, Mississippi yesterday. The tornado has been rated an EF4 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale, and is estimated to have had at most 170 mph winds.

Five of the deaths were in Choctaw County, four in Yazoo County, and one in Holmes County. 21 people have been hospitalized as a result of the storm, and others have been trapped in cars and houses. Multiple injuries resulted from cars being blown off of Interstate 55 during the storm.

The tornado moved along a path 97 miles long and 1.75 miles wide at its widest point. Among damaged or destroyed buildings included at least twenty houses, a church, and several businesses. According to Yazoo City mayor McArthur Straughter, the storm ripped the roofs off of every building in the area. Fallen trees and debris are hindering access to some parts of Yazoo City and Yazoo County. Before ravaging the city, the tornado damaged a chemical plant in Louisiana, causing a nitrogen leak and several injuries.

The Salvation Army is aiding relief efforts by providing hot meals, coffee, cold drinks, and spiritual counseling to tornado victims in Yazoo and Warren Counties.

The tornado occurred on the third, and most active, day of a severe weather outbreak that had previously affected areas of Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana, the latter two of which were also effected during Saturday’s outbreak. The Storm Prediction Center has received 104 reports of tornadoes so far during this outbreak.

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What’s The Best Way To Prevent Wrinkles? It’s Simple, But Not Easy.

By Peter Clark

Preventing wrinkles. It’s quite a conundrum. So many people ask the question “what’s the best way to prevent wrinkles” and spend their life searching for the top wrinkle cream.

The first thing to say is that there is no one way to prevent wrinkles. Wrinkles are a natural part of aging and if you’re aging, as all of us do, you’ll get wrinkles. There’s no getting around that, it’s just a question of the age you get them, and how many wrinkles you’ll get.

Wrinkles form because of a number of factors, all associated with the aging process. Wrinkles and lines form on our faces, particularly certain parts of our faces like around the mouth and eyes, but also on other parts of our bodies. Wrinkling is just visible aging, and you won’t find anyone over, say, 80, that doesn’t have wrinkles somewhere.

So the first thing that you need to do if you’re looking for an answer to the question “what’s the best way to prevent wrinkles” is to accept that you will always suffer from wrinkles if you get old enough. To an extent you’ll need to learn to live with wrinkles.

Wrinkles form as a result of many interlinked factors. As we age our skin loses some of it’s collagen and elastin, and this causes our skin to lose the firmness and elasticity that it exhibited when we were younger. Aging skin is lower in collagen and elastin than young skin.

And as we age our skin is more and more under attack from free radicals that damage the cells that make up our skin structure, and cause poor skin health.

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As well as this our skin suffers from damage from other factors, such as sunburn or even just normal exposure to UV from the sun, and from the effects of toxins and chemicals in our general environment. And if you smoke you’re just about guaranteed to have poor skin health as you age.

And believe it or not our skin can also be damaged from the use of mainstream skincare products. Yes many big brand skincare products actually contain ingredients that can damage our skin.

However that’s the bad news. Now for the good news. There are things you can do to lessen the onset of skin wrinkles and lines, and reduce their visible effects.

I’m not talking about Botox injections or plastic surgery here. These are only temporary solutions to wrinkles that work for a limited time then actually look worse than before the operation. Botox or cosmetic surgery is never a long term solution to wrinkles, and is also expensive, painful and often the result is worse than the problem.

So the solution to limiting the look of skin wrinkles is far simpler than that. Note I said simple, not easy.

The way to slow, or lessen, the onset of wrinkles is twofold. Firstly it’s about staying healthy. And I’m not just talking about skin health here, but staying healthy overall. Because skin health is a function of overall health, one cannot be divorced from the other.

Good diet with plenty of fruit and vegetables in your diet will help massively. Pizza and burgers won’t keep you, or your skin, healthy. Fruit and vegetables are rich in vitamins and minerals and anti oxidants, and help with skin health.

And regular exercise is very important as well, helping with skin health and wrinkle prevention in so many ways.

And don’t smoke. Smoking is the worst thing you can do for your skin.

And the second part of a simple formula that is the best way to prevent wrinkles is the use of a top shelf skin care and anti wrinkle routine, including a top wrinkle cream that contains only natural, safe ingredients. And regular use of other high quality skincare products.

Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not referring to those big brand name skin care products that you see advertised on TV and on the shelves of the department stores. Unfortunately those aren’t high quality skin care products. Most contain very little active ingredients, and many contain ingredients that can actually damage your skin.

I’m referring to natural skin care products that utilize all natural and safe organic ingredients that work extremely well. There are small niche companies that produce products like these, and they put their budgets into producing top shelf products rather than toward TV advertising. They cannot compete with the big brands and so occupy their niche in the market by product quality rather than Television saturation.

That’s the best way to prevent wrinkles. As I said, it’s simple, but not easy. There is no easy way to prevent wrinkles that works, wrinkles are a part of life, and whilst so many people search for the easy and complete solution to wrinkle prevention it is, sadly, unattainable.

But follow those simple steps and you’ll live a long healthy life, and keep most wrinkles at bay more than all those other women out there looking for an easy answer to preventing wrinkles.

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Miami of Ohio and Boston College advance to 2010 NCAA men’s ice hockey Frozen Four

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Obviously it was an unbelievable feeling

Miami of Ohio beat the Michigan Wolverines 3–2 at the finals of the NCAA Midwest regional ice hockey tournament Sunday night at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Miami sophomore forward Alden Hirschfeld scored at 1:54 into the second overtime when his shot from the top of the left face off circle deflected into the goal off the skate of the Michigan goaltender Shawn Hunwick.

Pat Cannone led the scoring with two power play goals for Miami during regulation. It looked as though Michigan had won the game in the first overtime when Michigan’s forward Kevin Lynch appeared to score. Unfortunately for Michigan the referee blew the whistle calling a penalty just before the puck went in the net. The Miami goaltender Connor Knapp who made 53 saves in the game was named the most outstanding player of the midwest regional tournament.

This was the first multiple overtime game for the Miami of Ohio RedHawks in their 23 years. Miami will be going to the Frozen Four for the second straight year.

It was great to see all those hats on the ice

The Boston College Eagles advanced to the Frozen Four in a shoot out with the Yale Bulldogs. BC defeated Yale 9–7 last night at the finals of the NorthEast regionals in front of 6,054 fans at the DCU Center in Worcester, Massachusetts.

BC forward Cam Atkinson had a hat trick and an assist. Mark Arcobello of Yale also had a hat trick. In an attempt to find a way to stop the Eagles scoring Yale played three different goalies during the game. The sixteen total goals is a NCAA record for a regional tournament game. The previous record was thirteen.

This will be the 22nd time that Boston College has made it to the Frozen Four, it is the ninth for coach Jerry York and their third trip in the past four seasons. BC will face Miami of Ohio in the semifinals on April 8 at Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan.

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Wikinews interviews Chinese-American martial artist Alfred Hsing

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Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Alfred Hsing, a US martial artist with Chinese origins, besides having a long history of martial arts training in various styles, such as traditional kung fu, tae kwon do and karate, considers wushu – an athletic sport based on Chinese martial arts – as a form of art that pushes one’s physical limits and stimulates the mind at the same time. After having won the gold medal at the 10th World Wushu Championships, he became international movie star Jet Li’s personal assistant and went on to do stunts, action choreography, and land roles in movies.

Hungarian Wikinews contributor Teemeah has interviewed Alfred Hsing about his views on martial arts, life and Wikipedia.

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Six aid groups suspend work in Chad after killing

Saturday, November 14, 2009

Six aid groups have suspended work in Chad today after the killing of one aid worker, a rash of banditry, and a kidnapping, according to the United Nations. The UN says about 37,000 people will be affected in some way by the move.

UN spokeswoman Elisabeth Byrs noted that the Red Cross and Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) are among those to halt operations. “To date, five NGOs [non-governmental organisations] and the ICRC [International Committee of the Red Cross] have temporarily suspended their activities in the east,” Byrs said. “Serious acts of banditry in eastern Chad over the last two weeks jeopardise the continuity of humanitarian operations.”

This comes soon after a worker for the Red Cross, Laurent Maurice, was kidnapped earlier in the week and another local aid worker for the Solidarités agency was killed.

Over fifty attacks on humanitarian aid workers in Chad have been made this year by bandits. Relief workers are targeted by criminals because they have valuables and vehicles.

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Restaurant Assessment Of Dalto In Clifton, New Jersey}

Submitted by: Arlie Cerverizzo

Dalto regulars usually know what theyre proceeding to consume earlier than they stroll in the door. Part of that includes figuring out the small menu (even though you’ll find often tempting specials). But numerous put in requests once they make their reservations (a have to on Friday and Saturday).

They say, Mauro, can you make me osso buco, or tripe, or rabbit, or polenta with sausage, or pears in crimson wine with cinnamon? says chef and proprietor Mauro DAlto. If attainable he buys sufficient to supply it to all as being a distinctive. I make twelve osso buco for two nights, sometimes they finish off in a single night time, he says. What can I do?

Its a good issue to own. Since Dalto opened two a long time back upcoming month, term of mouth has overcome seeming disadvantageslack of marketing, only 38 seats, humdrum location across from A home Depot, and modest if homey interior. One particular purpose could be the warm welcome for regulars and 1st-timers alike. DAltos spouse, Anna, a Union City High School math teacher, does the honors Fridays and Saturdays. DAlto himself emerges in the kitchen area to greet people today many times a evening.

Naturally, very good vibes only go so a lot. DAltos cooking does the remaining. His stracciatella with spinach, the classic Roman egg drop soup, was richly flavorful and satisfying. Equally pleasing was tender veal scaloppini sauted in white wine, butter, and lemon. Pastas are a powerful level.

50 percent orders are a superb ideathe portion is generous. We beloved the sumptuous fettuccine alla Romanaexpertly residence-manufactured noodles with mushrooms, prosciutto, and peas in lotion sauceas properly as fedelini Mauro, thin spaghetti having a sauce that teases gorgeous flavor from shrimps, artichokes, cherry tomatoes, olive oil, and garlic.

DAlto grew up in Molfetta, outdoors Bari, on Italys southern Adriatic coast. All you would like do is taste his bracing seafood salad, with its exceptionally tender slices of octopus and perfectly cooked scallops and shrimp, to determine that he brought his regions piscatorial know-how with him.

Nonetheless it was appreciate, not just get the job done, that brought DAlto to New Jersey. In 1977, the cargo ship on which he was chef docked in Philadelphia, and he went to pay a visit to spouse and children in Union City. There he met Anna, a Union City native whose mother and father are from Molfetta. They wed in 1978. More than the years he formulated a following at numerous Italian restaurants in New York.

But following 9/11, I said, Appear, try Jersey, says Anna. He was tired of the commute. He worked in Totowa for awhile, then in Ridgewood. People kept nagging, When are you currently planning to open your individual area? At length, they found an economical area in Clifton. I knew my husbands cooking was excellent, but Im nevertheless amazed at whats likely on right here.

On our two Saturday visits, it appeared that no less than a single man or woman at each and every table spoke Italian. Probably the most pricey dish for the menu is $25 for initial-price filet mignon medallions sauted with jumbo shrimp, shallots, and shiitake mushrooms inside a brandy product sauce. There have been number of disappointmentsa romaine and mango salad exclusive suggested two characters in seek of an author. A mushroom risotto was al dente but surprisingly bland.

DAlto says the cooking area is very smaller to accomplish very much with dessert, so apart from making his oft-requested pears, he orders tiramis, cheesecake, cannoli, and sorbets from Bindi or De Robertis in Manhattan.

As soon as the restaurant opened, Anna as well as the young children prevailed on DAlto to fit veal and chicken parmigiana and meatballs around the menu. I dont want for making it simply because its not basic Italian cuisine, he says. However the folks, they want it, and what ever the people today want, I want to make it for them.

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