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Bathroom Remodeling In Omaha And The Renting Pool For Your Real Estate Investment

byAlma Abell

Now that you have purchased your first piece of real estate to rent out, what do you think renters are looking for? If you are thinking that you will get high rent dollars for a poorly thought out master bathroom, you need to think again. Today’s renters are looking for a comfortable living environment and that is why top-real estate professionals renovate in order to gain higher revenue. If you would like to join them, you need to to have an open layout that is inviting. Further, your kitchen will feature granite and high-end appliances. However, it does not stop there. Do not miss this; the best executive rentals feature master bathrooms that have the feeling and look of a high-end spa. So, before you pick up that hammer, think about who you want to rent to. If you do a Bathroom Remodeling Omaha, consider catering to a luxury.

It is wise to tour apartments and homes that are currently on the market for high rent. Ask your real estate agent what sets those properties apart from the rest. However, you may not need to ask at all. You will note the high-quality and detail that went into them. Further, it is important to exam how long they stayed vacant. In most cases, it is not for a long period of time at all. Renters are looking for either a place to rent when they travel for work, a place to stay while on vacation or a place to call home for a year or more. You need to think about the type of renters you want renting your property as you tour the competition. Further, you will get design inspiration as you see gourmet kitchens and luxury master bathrooms.

The best place to purchase what you need for your renovation is at Kitchens and Baths by Briggs. After you have made your purchase for the kitchen and the Bathroom Remodeling Omaha, it will be time to get started. Next, after the work has been done, take several pictures and post them online. It is time to market to your future renters. So, get excited and start shopping now.

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Denunciations of Scandals Threaten UN

Tuesday, April 19, 2005

Denunciations of corruption, bribe, collection of bribes from refugees [1] and of sexual scandal involving the peacekeepers [2], [3] threaten the Organization of the United Nations (UN).

The gravest denunciations involve the aid project to Iraq, called Oil-for-Food. Grave denunciations of bribe exist, superfluous accounting and collaboration with the ex-dictator Saddam Hussein, against staff of the UN, companies and politicians of several countries. Even the secretary of the UN, Kofi Annan was suspicious of participation in the plan of corruption. And also grave doubts still hover about his son, Kojo Annan.

The gravity of the denunciations threatens not only the credibility of the UN, but its existence.

Secretary Kofi Annan said that he is going to promote reforms in the organization. [4]

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Wikinews interviews 2020 Melbourne Lord Mayor Candidate Wayne Tseng

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Thursday, October 22, 2020

2020 Melbourne Lord Mayor candidate Wayne Tseng answered some questions about his campaign for the upcoming election from Wikinews. The Lord Mayor election in the Australian city is scheduled to take place this week.

Tseng runs a firm called eTranslate, which helps software developers to make the software available to the users. In the candidate’s questionnaire, Tseng said eTranslate had led to him working with all three tiers of the government. He previously belonged to the Australian Liberal Party, but has left since then, to run for mayorship as an independent candidate.

Tseng is of Chinese descent, having moved to Australia with his parents from Vietnam. Graduated in Brisbane, Tseng received his PhD in Melbourne and has been living in the city, he told Wikinews. Tseng also formed Chinese Precinct Chamber of Commerce, an organisation responsible for many “community bond building initiatives”, the Lord Mayor candidate told Wikinews.

Tseng discussed his plans for leading Melbourne, recovering from COVID-19, and “Democracy 2.0” to ensure concerns of minorities in the city were also heard. Tseng also focused on the importance of the multi-culture aspect and talked about making Melbourne the capital of the aboriginals. Tseng also explained why he thinks Melbourne is poised to be a world city by 2030.

Tseng’s deputy Lord Mayor candidate Gricol Yang is a Commercial Banker and works for ANZ Banking Group.

Currently, Sally Capp is the Lord Mayor of Melbourne, the Victorian capital. Capp was elected as an interim Lord Mayor in mid-2018 after the former Lord Mayor Robert Doyle resigned from his position after sexual assault allegations. Doyle served as the Lord Mayor of Melbourne for almost a decade since 2008.

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Internet Marketing How To Gain More Benefits From The Best Basic Home Based Businesses Of Origin}

Internet Marketing How to gain more benefits from the best basic Home based businesses of origin

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Charles Michel

Make sure you are realistic when planning your home based business, if you can only work at it part-time, that is fine, just do not try doing everything at once, set yourself a couple of hours a day if you can, take your time and learn at your own pace. To be successful you are going to have to work hard, set yourself goals, be committed and determined, it’s a new business, no one said it was going to be easy.

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A best home base business that is not turning a profit yet can be a trickier creature to handle. Giving up means that you are loosing the potential for a new income stream. It’s not always the right long term decision.

You must have some qualities or skills to be successful in your home business or anything for that matter. Hence please spend some time analyzing your strengths and weaknesses. You will want to capitalize on the former and minimize the affects of the latter. For example, if you are a good communicator or have a presentable personality, then you might want to handle public relations or customer support section of your business. If you are good with numbers and also possess knowledge of any accounting software, then you might become your own accountant and leave the communication part to someone else. Of course if you are good at more than one or two skills then nothing likes it, but always try to concentrate on your strengths and apply them in your business.

Hence a best home based business becomes an obvious choice for all those who want to work from home, become their own boss, and start a business with very little start up cost.

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Car bomb in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico kills several, many injured

Saturday, July 17, 2010

A car bomb that exploded at about 20:00 MDT Thursday (01:00 Friday UTC) in a violent area of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico killed several people and injured more.

Police spokesman Jacinto Seguro said Friday that Mexican federal police received a call that an officer was dead. Seguro went on to say, “When they went to check the car, there was a dead body in there, dressed up like a police officer, but it wasn’t one of ours. They put him in a civilian car but dressed him up in a municipal police uniform. That’s when the bomb went off. It’s like an act of terrorism.”

Federal police spokesman Ramon Salinas said the blast killed two officers, a paramedic, and one civilian, although Mayor Jose Reyes said that only three died. At least six others were injured, although reports have said the total injured may be as high as sixteen. Four remain in the hospital, including three paramedics and one civilian.

Mexican authorities say it was a car bomb, but counter-terrorism experts are still unsure as to what caused the vehicle to explode. Intelligence expert Fred Burton said, “For this to be an improvised grenade attack, in some capacity, it doesn’t surprise me.”

The Juárez Cartel, one of the two drug-traffickers in the area, claimed responsibility for the bombing in a graffiti message. “We have more car bombs,” the graffiti said.

Ciudad Juárez has a history for trafficking drugs to the United States, especially into Texas.

Before the explosion, the police arrested a suspected leader of the Juarez cartel, Jesus Armando Acosta Guerrero.

This year more than 7,000 people have died as a result of drug-related violence in Mexico since this year began. Attorney General Arturo Chavez on Friday said nearly 25,000 people have died in the last three and a half year period.

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Selecting The Best Type Of Company Name Or Product Name: Are Descriptive Names Superior?

By Marcia Yudkin

In her book Roadmap to Revenue, Kristin Zhivago argues against arbitrary or unusual names for products and companies, claiming that sales will always go up with a name that simply describes what is being sold.

“Just the other day I was trying to remember the name of a stock photo website I had used only once,” she writes. “It wasn’t an easy name to remember (such as StockPhoto.com). I tried to find it via Google. It was, as it turns out, ‘Veer.’ It wasn’t in the top 25 search results, and the name was so odd that it would have been easy to click on any other odd name, hoping it was the site I was looking for. StockPhoto.com has an advantage over Veer, right out of the gate. If you have a name like Veer, come up with a new name that is memorable and descriptive.”

I found Zhivago’s example surprising, since the following companies compete against one another with minuscule differences in their names:

StockPhoto.com

iStockPhoto.com

BigStockPhoto.com

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eStockPhoto.com

AStockPhotos.com

OStockPhoto.com

MyStockPhoto.com

Looking at that list, are you certain you would remember correctly which of these you’d previously visited? I would definitely not be sure about that. Now how about these competitors:

Getty Images

Shutterstock

Fotalia

PictureQuest

Mira (“look” in Spanish)

Outside of the realm of stock photos, examples of descriptive names include Quick Oil Change, Shampoo Etcetera, Animal Crackers, Green Home Accessories and Bargain Domains.

Descriptive names do have advantages, but distinctiveness in the eyes and minds of customers is not one of them. The more flatly descriptive a name is, without an unexpected or creative element in it, the more easily it is confused with names of competitors.

Descriptive names are more likely to receive fortuitous search engine traffic, because they include syllables or words potential customers type when searching for a vendor. Normally they’re also easy to pronounce and spell. And with a descriptive name, those who haven’t transacted business with the company before can easily guess what line of work they are in.

On the minus side, descriptive names often cannot be trademarked. They have little cachet. Because the names are dull, they don’t lend themselves to imaginative branding or design. Their descriptiveness can inhibit growth beyond the specifics in the name. And as mentioned, confusion with similarly descriptively named entities is common.

Need some hard evidence that descriptive names don’t necessarily improve popularity? According to Alexa.com, which quantifies and compares traffic to web sites, Veer.com ranks 9,083 in popularity worldwide, while Stockphoto.com has a much lower popularity rank of 235,934. Veer sports a registered trademark, while StockPhoto does not.

So in what circumstances would I recommend descriptive names? First, when you have evidence that business has suffered because of an overly creative name. Second, when you’re a startup and need all the search engine optimization advantages you can muster. And third, when you’re hoping to horn in on a similarly named company’s success, knowing that customers easily confuse descriptive names. (Whether such horning in is an ethical strategy I’ll leave to you to decide!)

About the Author: Marcia Yudkin is Head Stork of Named At Last, which brainstorms catchy tag lines, company names and product names according to the client’s criteria. Download a free copy of “19 Steps to the Perfect Company Name, Product Name or Tag Line”:

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New Zealand suicide rate decreases

Tuesday, August 1, 2006

A new report released by the New Zealand Ministry of Health titled “Suicide Trends” shows that the suicide rate in New Zealand has decreased 15% since its peak in the late 1990’s, but the attempted suicide rate is increasing.

There were 12 deaths per 100,000 people between 1983-’85. 16.7 deaths per 100,000 people between 1996-’98. And 14.2 deaths per 100,000 people between 2001-’03. But there were 73.1 attempted suicides per 100,000 people between 1995-’97 compared to 82.5 in 2002-’04.

Jim Anderton, Associate Health Minister, said “It provides some comfort to see the long-term trend still appears to be heading in the right direction, with a continued decline or levelling off of self-inflicted deaths but there is no room for complacency.”

The suicide report also shows that:

  • The 25- to 34-year-old age group has the highest suicide rate
  • Between 2000-’03 Maori has the highest suicide rate
  • Men were less likely than woman to go to hospital for attempted suicide because more men died from suicide.

The New Zealand Government has put NZ$10.3 million towards direct suicide prevention. New Zealand News agencies are banned by law from reporting suicide deaths.

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Utah bill requiring divine design education withdrawn by Senator Chris Buttars

Monday, July 18, 2005

Utah Senator Chris Buttars has decided not to introduce a bill requiring the teaching of “divine design” in Utah schools, at least for this year. Buttars withdrew after State Board of Education director Patti Harrington assured him that Utah public school curriculum does not teach that man descended from apes.

Buttars had hoped his divine design proposal would escape the controversy of creationism or intelligent design. “The only people who will be upset about this are atheists,” he stated on June 6 when he announced his intention to run the bill.

Utah is home to the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints also known as the Mormon Church. On the surface it would seem Utah would be a likely scene of intense religious pressure in public schools over the teaching of evolution. But unlike states with a strong Christian conservative presence, Utah’s LDS leaders have avoided some of the more contentious separation state and church battles.

On the topic of divine design, official LDS church spokesmen have been largely silent at least in public. But with more than 90% of the legislature made up of members of the LDS faith, few in Utah would deny the influence of the church on public policy.

Groups on both sides of the issue are gearing up for what many consider an inevitable fight. The ACLU of Utah has posted a paper on divine design on its web site (http://www.acluutah.org). The Eagle Forum which wields significant policital power in Utah has expressed its support for Buttars proposed legislation.

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How To Grow Acid Loving Plants In Pa

Submitted by: William Hirst

Growing azaleas, rhododendrons, blueberries, holly, pieris, heather, and other plants that love acidic and organics soils can be fun and rewarding.

One of my fond memories of being 12 was catching my first shad. Each spring the shad migrate up the Delaware River to end their life long journey to spawn. Their migration is like clockwork, arriving exactly on time, like the swallows of Capistrano each year. In many ways so are the flowers and buds on plants. I remember my shad and the picture of this trophy. I was standing next to a large azalea in full bloom. Each year I would see the blooms on that azalea and know that as they swelled so the shad were approaching. Thus I came to associate the blooms of azaleas with it’s time to go fishing. How smart and lucky I was. For there are so many varieties and blooming times for azaleas plus some varieties have small second flushes, that I can now say with absolute certainty that, “It’s always time to go fishing”.

There are so many varieties of azaleas and rhododendrons that experts only estimate their approximate number. There are early bloomers and late season bloomers. Some with large flowers and some with small flowers. Some are scented. There is a spectrum full of colors and sizes. Some are evergreen and some deciduous. Thus azaleas and rhododendrons are shrubs for all seasons. In winter, these plants stand out with large evergreen leaves and bring showy flowers in the spring. Throughout the summer and fall the leaves add pleasing green color to the landscape. The intense flowers of azaleas and rhododendrons make them a popular selection.

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If you have difficulty telling an azalea from a rhododendron, stop worrying. Call them all rhododendrons and you will be correct. If you know how to grow a rhododendron, then you can use the same cultural principles in growing blueberries, holly, pieris, heather, and other plants that love acidic and organics soils. Rhododendrons love mild humid climates. Site selection is important. Many people come to us and report that they have had little luck in planting rhododendrons and want to try again. Our suggestion is to first look at your environmental conditions and determine if you should replant. Rhododendrons are found in nature predominately on north to east slopes. Here there is less rapid temperature changes and the drying west and south winds are shielded by natural features. Always protect azaleas and rhododendrons from wind. Plant with barriers in mind. Barriers can be evergreen screens, or buildings or slopes. Evergreen screens can help highlight the blooms. Be mindful that a corner of a building may not offer protection but actually funnel winds by the plants. Rhododendrons actually like filtered light better than shade. If your site is full shade consider a pruning of the overhead trees to allow better light penetration.

The soil that you plant Rhododendrons in should have good drainage. You can run a simple test by digging a six inch hole and filling it with water. If it is not drained in 4-5 hours you need to increase the drainage of the site. Rhododendrons have very small delicate roots. If the soil drains poorly there is probably to much clay. The roots can’t penetrate heavy clays. I would suggest a raised bed or a drain tile to carry away the excess water.

It is difficult to improve poor soils to grow rhododendrons without creating other problems. Sometimes trees with surface roots rapidly take over soils that are improved and compete for nutrients. They, after all have a head start on your new plants. It may make sense to raise up a bed a whole foot. This gives improved drainage and allows the new plants more competition free time in getting established. Make sure you have an acidic soil of 5 to 5.5. If you have a large pine tree rake up its needles and use them as both a weed barrier and a pH adjuster. There is no good substitute for quality organic materials being incorporated into your soil. Clay soils are especially enhanced by organics. Lots of ground pine bark, oak and pine leaf mulches and topsoil mixed well, works much better than peat. Peat will hold water preventing oxygen from filtering to the root zone. Peat can also hold moisture for long periods in the spring and winter. The area that you prepare should be prepared weeks before you plant. This allows the pH to change.

Most of the rhododendrons and azaleas that we sell are potted. These plants should never be planted so that their stems are below what it was in the pot. Plantings should always be about 2″ above the surrounding soil. Water the plant well after planting. Native rhododendrons have very shallow surface roots and have natural mulch and organic debris covering the surface roots. This conserves moisture and minimizes winter injury. You want to mirror the natural conditions so using decomposed pine needles and oak leaves is the best mulch. A layer of two to four inches is ideal. Keep the layer of mulch away from the stem. The mulch should not be removed. It should be with the plant for all seasons. It is the plants winter blanket. It helps keep the plant from winter leaf scorch.

If you want your beds to have designer colors such as red mulch black much, plastic fiber cloth, river pebbles etc., then plant some other plant, because these plants are delicate and conditions must be correct or you will have poor results. I don’t recommend any fertilizing of the plants for beginners. If you must add fertilizers make sure it is for acid loving plants.In nature these plants do well with low nutrient levels. Their small surface roots can be easily be hurt by over application of fertilizers. I would use no more than 2 pounds of a 6-10-4 per 100 square feet, but organic matter that is covering the plant should be perfect. Do not fertilize after July 1.

Fertilizing after this time may force growth during the winter when the plants should be dormant. The mulch can also act a a natural weed barrier. As it decomposes add more. Fall is the optimum time to make sure you have enough mulch.

About the Author: Bill raises trees, plants,and shrubs on his farms, many located in Pennsylvania. He also has ranches out west for arrowhead collecting, fossil collecting and hunting for meteorites and big game. Following these recommendations will help you have success in raising these plants. See Bill’s web site at

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Cleveland, Ohio clinic performs US’s first face transplant

Thursday, December 18, 2008

A team of eight transplant surgeons in Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, USA, led by reconstructive surgeon Dr. Maria Siemionow, age 58, have successfully performed the first almost total face transplant in the US, and the fourth globally, on a woman so horribly disfigured due to trauma, that cost her an eye. Two weeks ago Dr. Siemionow, in a 23-hour marathon surgery, replaced 80 percent of her face, by transplanting or grafting bone, nerve, blood vessels, muscles and skin harvested from a female donor’s cadaver.

The Clinic surgeons, in Wednesday’s news conference, described the details of the transplant but upon request, the team did not publish her name, age and cause of injury nor the donor’s identity. The patient’s family desired the reason for her transplant to remain confidential. The Los Angeles Times reported that the patient “had no upper jaw, nose, cheeks or lower eyelids and was unable to eat, talk, smile, smell or breathe on her own.” The clinic’s dermatology and plastic surgery chair, Francis Papay, described the nine hours phase of the procedure: “We transferred the skin, all the facial muscles in the upper face and mid-face, the upper lip, all of the nose, most of the sinuses around the nose, the upper jaw including the teeth, the facial nerve.” Thereafter, another team spent three hours sewing the woman’s blood vessels to that of the donor’s face to restore blood circulation, making the graft a success.

The New York Times reported that “three partial face transplants have been performed since 2005, two in France and one in China, all using facial tissue from a dead donor with permission from their families.” “Only the forehead, upper eyelids, lower lip, lower teeth and jaw are hers, the rest of her face comes from a cadaver; she could not eat on her own or breathe without a hole in her windpipe. About 77 square inches of tissue were transplanted from the donor,” it further described the details of the medical marvel. The patient, however, must take lifetime immunosuppressive drugs, also called antirejection drugs, which do not guarantee success. The transplant team said that in case of failure, it would replace the part with a skin graft taken from her own body.

Dr. Bohdan Pomahac, a Brigham and Women’s Hospital surgeon praised the recent medical development. “There are patients who can benefit tremendously from this. It’s great that it happened,” he said.

Leading bioethicist Arthur Caplan of the University of Pennsylvania withheld judgment on the Cleveland transplant amid grave concerns on the post-operation results. “The biggest ethical problem is dealing with failure — if your face rejects. It would be a living hell. If your face is falling off and you can’t eat and you can’t breathe and you’re suffering in a terrible manner that can’t be reversed, you need to put on the table assistance in dying. There are patients who can benefit tremendously from this. It’s great that it happened,” he said.

Dr Alex Clarke, of the Royal Free Hospital had praised the Clinic for its contribution to medicine. “It is a real step forward for people who have severe disfigurement and this operation has been done by a team who have really prepared and worked towards this for a number of years. These transplants have proven that the technical difficulties can be overcome and psychologically the patients are doing well. They have all have reacted positively and have begun to do things they were not able to before. All the things people thought were barriers to this kind of operations have been overcome,” she said.

The first partial face transplant surgery on a living human was performed on Isabelle Dinoire on November 27 2005, when she was 38, by Professor Bernard Devauchelle, assisted by Professor Jean-Michel Dubernard in Amiens, France. Her Labrador dog mauled her in May 2005. A triangle of face tissue including the nose and mouth was taken from a brain-dead female donor and grafted onto the patient. Scientists elsewhere have performed scalp and ear transplants. However, the claim is the first for a mouth and nose transplant. Experts say the mouth and nose are the most difficult parts of the face to transplant.

In 2004, the same Cleveland Clinic, became the first institution to approve this surgery and test it on cadavers. In October 2006, surgeon Peter Butler at London‘s Royal Free Hospital in the UK was given permission by the NHS ethics board to carry out a full face transplant. His team will select four adult patients (children cannot be selected due to concerns over consent), with operations being carried out at six month intervals. In March 2008, the treatment of 30-year-old neurofibromatosis victim Pascal Coler of France ended after having received what his doctors call the worlds first successful full face transplant.

Ethical concerns, psychological impact, problems relating to immunosuppression and consequences of technical failure have prevented teams from performing face transplant operations in the past, even though it has been technically possible to carry out such procedures for years.

Mr Iain Hutchison, of Barts and the London Hospital, warned of several problems with face transplants, such as blood vessels in the donated tissue clotting and immunosuppressants failing or increasing the patient’s risk of cancer. He also pointed out ethical issues with the fact that the procedure requires a “beating heart donor”. The transplant is carried out while the donor is brain dead, but still alive by use of a ventilator.

According to Stephen Wigmore, chair of British Transplantation Society’s ethics committee, it is unknown to what extent facial expressions will function in the long term. He said that it is not certain whether a patient could be left worse off in the case of a face transplant failing.

Mr Michael Earley, a member of the Royal College of Surgeon‘s facial transplantation working party, commented that if successful, the transplant would be “a major breakthrough in facial reconstruction” and “a major step forward for the facially disfigured.”

In Wednesday’s conference, Siemionow said “we know that there are so many patients there in their homes where they are hiding from society because they are afraid to walk to the grocery stores, they are afraid to go the the street.” “Our patient was called names and was humiliated. We very much hope that for this very special group of patients there is a hope that someday they will be able to go comfortably from their houses and enjoy the things we take for granted,” she added.

In response to the medical breakthrough, a British medical group led by Royal Free Hospital’s lead surgeon Dr Peter Butler, said they will finish the world’s first full face transplant within a year. “We hope to make an announcement about a full-face operation in the next 12 months. This latest operation shows how facial transplantation can help a particular group of the most severely facially injured people. These are people who would otherwise live a terrible twilight life, shut away from public gaze,” he said.

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