Hepatitis scare at New Zealand McDonald’s restaurant
Saturday, December 30, 2006 McDonald’s is asking everyone who ate at a McDonald’s restaurant located in Greenlane, Auckland, New Zealand, in December 15, 2006, to go to their doctor after a worker tested positive for Hepatitis A. Doctor Greg Simmons, medical officer of health in Auckland, said that it is possible for the food handler worker to have passed on the disease during 7:00 p.m. (NZDT) and 2:00 a.m. as he would have been in the most infectious stage of Hepatitis A and was not wearing gloves. According to a spokeswoman from McDonald’s, Joanna Redfern-Hardisty, food handlers are not required to wear gloves but are required to have thoroughly washed their hands with antimicrobial soap. However Dr Simmons says that the infected worker usually wore gloves. The shift the worker worked was the only one the worker handled food when he was infectious with Hepatitis A. It is unknown how…
British computer scientist’s new “nullity” idea provokes reaction from mathematicians
Monday, December 11, 2006 On December 7, BBC News reported a story about Dr James Anderson, a teacher in the Computer Science department at the University of Reading in the United Kingdom. In the report it was stated that Anderson had “solved a very important problem” that was 1200 years old, the problem of division by zero. According to the BBC, Anderson had created a new number, that he had named “nullity”, that lay outside of the real number line. Anderson terms this number a “transreal number”, and denotes it with the Greek letter ? {\displaystyle \Phi } . He had taught this number to pupils at Highdown School, in Emmer Green, Reading. The BBC report provoked many reactions from mathematicians and others. In reaction to the story, Mark C. Chu-Carroll, a computer scientist and researcher, posted a web log entry describing Anderson as an “idiot math teacher”, and describing…
All You Need To Know About Basic Bank Accounts
Click Here To Know More About: Australian Property Management By David P Walker Most of us are aware that if we have poor credit we may struggle to get a credit card, but the thing not so many people know is that if you do have a bad credit rating, defaults, missed payments, a CCJ, arent on the electoral role, or even have just moved around a lot, you may also find it tough to secure a bank account. However, there is a solution. Most high street banks offer a basic bank account, which you can apply for as long as you havent committed fraud, and have proof of identity, such as a passport or driving licence. Some basic bank accounts will even be open to those who have been made bankrupt. What is a basic bank account? A basic bank account does what it says on the tin. Its…
Australian government provides $15.8 million for North Adelaide Technical College
Tuesday, June 27, 2006 Australian Minister for Vocational Education and Training, Gary Hardgrave has announced the government will provide AU$15.8 million to establish an Australian Technical College in North Adelaide. The minister said the government was entering into a partnership with the Archdiocese of Adelaide and consortium of industrial and manufacturing companies. The North Adelaide college will be located in Elizabeth and be operated as an independent non-government school. The college is one of 25 to be established across the country. Enrolments at the college will begin in 2007 and will offer courses in areas where identified skills shortages exist in the North Adelaide region, specifically – engineering, construction, electronics and cooking. Mr Hardgrave said that the proposed college had been popular among the North Adelaide business community. “This important initiative has been well received by North Adelaide business and industry, and will help to address skills needs and provide…
Annual rich list shows Ireland now has six billionaires
Sunday, April 3, 2005The annual Sunday Times Rich List published today showed that Ireland now has six euro billionaires, up from four last year. The combined wealth of Irelands 250 wealthiest is €42.3bn. Topping the list was the new entrant Hilary Weston with a fortune estimated at over €7.2bn. Weston was excluded in previous lists because the majority of her wealth was made abroad, however a rule change this year allowed the Dublin born model to enter in first place. Mrs Weston, 63, grew up in Ireland and built her modeling career there before becoming wed to Galen Weston, heir to his grandfathers multi-billion euro retailing fortune in Canada. The couple permanently moved to Canada in 1983 after a kidnap attempt by the IRA. The top six on the list were as follows: Hilary Weston and family; €7.286bn – Retailing Sir Tony O’Reilly; €1.897bn – Food, media and inheritance John…
2007 Baseball World Cup Day 1: Taichung starts prior to Taipei
Thursday, November 8, 2007 The opening ceremonies for the 2007 Baseball World Cup (2007 BWC) were held Tuesday. Torrential rain, however, made Panama vs Spain the opening match of the 2007 BWC in Taichung Intercontinental Baseball Stadium. The original opening match of Chinese Taipei vs Italy was postponed until next week and will be played at Tianmu Baseball Stadium. “Recently, we got into a sticky situation while constructing a dome due to some protests by non-governmental people, but we’ll try to overcome these difficulties in order to present high-level sports to the international market.” Chin-chi Wu, the Director of the Taipei City Bureau of Education, remarked at Tuesday’s opening ceremony. Contents 1 Spain vs Panama 2 Australia vs Cuba 3 Other results 3.1 Group A 3.2 Group B 4 Tomorrow’s fixtures 4.1 Group A 4.2 Group B 5 Sources Retrieved from “https://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=2007_Baseball_World_Cup_Day_1:_Taichung_starts_prior_to_Taipei&oldid=562823”
Netherlands Diabetes Market Will Be Usd 4.48 Billion By 2025
Click Here To Know More About: R&D Grants Australia The prevalence of diabetes mellitus is proliferating in the Netherlands. Country’s diabetes care is essentially focused on primary health care, with the responsibility of general practitioners for many areas of care. the increase in the prevalence of obesity is another point of concern, leading to a massive increase in the number of patients with metabolic syndrome. According to Renub Research analysis report, Netherlands Diabetes Market is forecasted to reach USD 4.48 Billion by 2025. During the last decade, The Netherlands has seen a rise in the incidence of type 2 diabetes. Almost half Netherlands population suffered from a minimum of one chronic illness in the last decade. DM is one of the diseases with a high burden of disease and a decrease in the quality of life in the country. But the great news is that with the ageing of the…
House of Supreme Court Justice threatened
Monday, January 23, 2006 In the town of Weare, New Hampshire, a movement is under way to force Supreme Court Justice David Souter to sell his home for “public benefit,” an expansion of the eminent domain provision in the Fifth Amendment of the US Constitution that the Supreme Court legalized in the controversial 5–4 decision in Kelo v. New London where Souter was on the majority side. In the June 2005 decision this majority ruled that “public use” included “public benefit,” stating that a local council could use the Fifth Amendment to compulsorily acquire private property for the express purpose of selling it to other private parties whose use was expected to yield increased tax revenues. The decision left many worried that homes would be seized for commercial enterprises or that the decision could be used as a means to remove minority property owners deemed inconvenient. The campaign to have…
Egypt protests: Army say they will not use force on demonstrators as Mubarak announces cabinet
Tuesday, February 1, 2011 The president of Egypt has suffered a “devastating blow” after the country’s army announced they would not use force against their own people, who continue to protest against the government tonight. The news came hours after six journalists who reported on the protests were released from custody. Hosni Mubarak yesterday announced a new cabinet, which does not include several figures who protesters largely do not approve of. Analysts have, however, suggested little had changed within the government; many positions, they say, are filled with military figures. To the great people of Egypt, your armed forces, acknowledging the legitimate rights of the people … have not and will not use force against the Egyptian people. In a statement broadcast on state media in Egypt, the army said: “To the great people of Egypt, your armed forces, acknowledging the legitimate rights of the people … have not and…
Interview with Jimbo Wales
This article mentions the Wikimedia Foundation, one of its projects, or people related to it. Wikinews is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. Saturday, December 10, 2005 While this wasn’t Interview with the Vampire, getting a live interview with Jimmy Wales of the Wikimedia Foundation is requiring more work and planning than ever. Four contributors to four different Wikinews language editions (with Swedish, Netherlands, and Polish) arranged to interview “Jimbo” in the Wikinews IRC channel, squeezed in before interviews with a periodical and a cable news source. Contents 1 Wikinews 2 Wikimedia Foundation fund drive 3 Follow-on questions 4 Sources Retrieved from “https://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Interview_with_Jimbo_Wales&oldid=4635189”