Saturday, April 16, 2005 A premier for the Netherlands, a special 2.6 kilometer pedestrian route was opened last Friday in the “Drents-Friese Wold” national park, designed specially for the elderly and the impaired. For the hearing-impaired, sound amplifiers have been implanted on several points along the route. These amplifiers repeat nature sounds specific to the […]
Continue ReadingThursday, January 22, 2009 Billy Werber, third baseman in Major League Baseball, has died at the age of 100. Werber died of natural causes on Thursday, January 22, 2009 at an assisted living center in Charlotte, North Carolina. He was moved there after his health deteriorated a month ago. His son said that when admitted, […]
Continue ReadingChain Hoists and their usefulness by Mr. Jordan Swain A chain hoist is a machine which has the mechanism compromising of a series of interlocked chain links instead of a rope, and is used to lift or displace heavy loads. Chain hoists are also called chain blocks, and are operated from an overhead track. Chain […]
Continue ReadingWednesday, July 6, 2005 Joshua J. Goyette allegedly confessed to breaking into a Saxonburg, Pennsylvania retirement home and beating 86-year-old Gertrude “Trudy” Johanson in the early morning of June 25, 2005. The crime, which shocked the small community north of Pittsburgh, was not the only one which occurred recently at area retirement homes. Goyette is […]
Continue ReadingClick Here For More Specific Information On: Financial Planning Sydney Australian Property Investor By Zhanna Krupnikov Under Variable rate mortgages, the interest rate varies according to prevalent market conditions. Mortgage lenders in Richmond Hill also offer variable rate mortgages, which come with a fixed rate for several years, and then change to another rate, either […]
Continue ReadingThursday, July 3, 2014 Ian Narev, the CEO of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, this morning “unreservedly” apologised to clients who lost money in a scandal involving the bank’s financial planning services arm. Last week, a Senate enquiry found financial advisers from the Commonwealth Bank had made high-risk investments of clients’ money without the clients’ […]
Continue ReadingSubmitted by: Maggie Johnson Beanie caps are becoming more and more popular. Even when the weather is not cold outside, people seem to be wearing these caps everywhere even to bed. There are many styles of beanie caps to choose from however my favorite are those that you can design yourself, thus making them cool […]
Continue ReadingThursday, July 13, 2006 A Canadian Forces CH-149 of 413 Squadron based at CFB Greenwood, Nova Scotia crashed while conducting a night training exercise. Killed in the incident were Sgt. Duane Brazil, 39; Master Cpl. Kirk Noel, 33; and Cpl. Trevor McDavid, 31. The aircraft was conducting a hoist operation at 12:30 AM local time […]
Continue ReadingThursday, December 30, 2010 US professional pool player Wade Crane has died after a one-car accident in Tennessee, USA. He was 66 years old. Crane’s Volkswagen crossed three lanes of traffic into the concrete retaining wall, then bounced back across five more lanes of traffic into another retaining wall. It is believed that Crane suffered […]
Continue ReadingMonday, May 26, 2008 The 27th Young Designers’ Exhibition 2008, recognized by the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID) as the largest show of student creations, recently ended Sunday May 18. It was held at the Taipei World Trade Center. Improvements and expansions were seen with 107 academical and industrial units. Different design […]
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