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Wikinews interviews candidate for New York City mayor Vitaly Filipchenko

Wednesday, June 16, 2021

In early May, Wikinews extended an invitation to Vitaly Filipchenko, an independent candidate in the 2021 New York City mayoral election, set to take place November 2nd, alongside other candidates. Filipchenko answered some questions about his policies and campaign during a phone interview.

Filipchenko, registered on the New York City Campaign Finance Board as Vitaly A. Filipchenko, is the first Russian candidate for New York City mayor, being born in Tomsk, Siberia in 1973, according to news agency Sputnik. He has since naturalised as a United States citizen. According to the web site, Filipchenko has been educated in road construction and maintenance and owns a moving services company; he describes himself on his web site as a “small business owner”. On his web site’s platform page, he says that “[m]y English may not be perfect – but my platform is.”

Incumbent Democrat mayor Bill de Blasio, who won re-election in the 2017 New York City mayoral election by 66.5%, cannot run for a third term under term limits. As of April 28, 22 candidates are currently running, the majority of whom are also Democrats. Ahead of the June Democratic primary for New York City mayor, a poll conducted May 23 and 24 by WPIX and Emerson College of 12 Democratic candidates with a margin of error of 3.2 per cent has former commissioner for the New York City Department of Sanitation Kathryn Garcia and Borough President of Brooklyn Eric Adams leading with 21.1% and 20.1%, respectively.

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Know About A New And Improved Form Of Taking Cannabis Is Twisted Extracts Jelly Bomb

There are many people who use cannabis for its beneficial effects. Cannabis has been a popular drug for centuries as every country’s people have used cannabis for social, medical or spiritual reasons. These reasons may be distinct or they may overlap. For example, in Canada cannabis in the form of twisted extracts lego brick jelly bomb was used as a medicine and for fun until it became a part of the controlled substance list.

Reasons to use cannabis

  • Social: In ancient times the use of alcohol was prohibited but social cannabis usage was appreciated. Cannabis seed desserts were also famous in Rome and till date on special occasions, cannabis is served as a sign of hospitality and good fortune. Nowadays, the youth and adults use cannabis to relax and enjoy their lives a little. It helps people to concentrate better, makes socializing more enjoyable and even increases their creative thinking ability. If cannabis is used socially then it becomes a part of the person’s life without having any negative effect on their health, social status, legal status or economical situations.
  • Medical use: people use cannabis for medical reasons. Many patients prefer using twisted extracts indica THC Jelly Bomb that is basically weed in the form of a candy so that the users do not have to focus on the smoke but just eat the edibles. People use cannabis to manage physical and mental health properly for a balanced body.

Different forms of cannabis edibles.

Cannabis can be ingested through a number of ways. Many at times people think that pot brownies or cookies are the only way possible to enjoy weed without smoking it. However, it has been observed that people use cannabis as a garnishing on almost everything, whether it is breakfast, smoothie, coffee, lunch, desserts, appetizer or even in drinks like soups, entrees, beer and wine. Moreover, twisted extracts jelly bomb sativa gummies are popular food item. People are not recommended to try raw weed as it doesn’t have as great an effect. Therefore, to feel relatively high one would need to use a lot of it.

The level of effect

Ingesting cooked cannabis provide a long and slow building effect that lasts much longer than its smoking counterpart. The compound created by liver on consuming edible marijuana products makes the effect of it last twice as long. There is a difference in the effect felt by taking sativa products or indica products, THC rich strains or CBD rich strains. Many new marijuana takers overdose on twisted extracts jelly bomb sativa edibles. So, be aware. A person feels more in control when eating edibles and therefore establishes more control over their brain. Over consumption of anything, however is not good for health. Properly determining dosage is an excellent way of preventing miss happenings.

Number of private contractors killed in Iraq and Afghanistan passes 1,000

Wednesday, July 4, 2007

The U.S. Department of Labor has released data showing that more than 1,000 private military contractors have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, in response to a Freedom of Information request filed by Reuters.

The number is based on insurance claims filed on behalf of contractors that had been killed, and includes both U.S. and foreign contractors.

As of March 2007, an additional 10,569 contractors have been wounded in Iraq and 2,428 in Afghanistan.

There are disputes about the exact number of contractors in Iraq, but it is estimated to be between 130,000 and 180,000 U.S.-paid private military contractors, compared to 157,000 U.S. military personnel.

Despite beliefs that the contractors all belong to large military-oriented groups such as the British intelligence firm Aegis or Blackwater USA which has been labelled “mercenaries”, the jobs of contractors killed have been as varied as electrical engineer Ronald Schulz, translator Kim Sun-il and truck driver Murat Yuce.

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Deadly fire below US President’s Trump Tower residence

Tuesday, April 10, 2018

On Saturday, the Trump Tower, in Midtown, New York City, caught fire shortly before 18:00 EST (2200 UTC) on the 50th floor, claiming the life of a 67-year-old resident, Todd Brassner, who lived in apartment 50C. All other residents were evacuated without incident. During the fire, six firefighters received non-life-threatening burns and other minor injuries. Neither US President Donald Trump nor the First Family were in the building at the time of the fire.

The high-end Fifth Avenue address is the personal residence of President Donald Trump, whose family occupies the top three stories of the 58-story building. The US Secret Service maintains a constant security presence inside the building with the New York City Police Department guarding a hard perimeter, intended to stop vehicular attacks, and a soft perimeter, intended for on-foot attacks.

The four-alarm fire required 200 firemen, extra police, and paramedics. At 20:00 EST (0000 UTC Sunday), the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) declared the fire was under control. Trump tweeted, “Firemen (and women) did a great job. THANK YOU!” This is the second fire at Trump Tower since the election; previously on January 8, a fire was caused by an electrical malfunction in a cooling tower on the roof. Three FDNY firefighters received minor injuries, and all residents and office workers evacuated without incident on that occasion.

Trump Tower provides a number of unique problems never before encountered by the Secret Service. Never has a US President’s personal residence been inside a skyscraper or in a densely populated area like Midtown. The security measures have disrupted vehicular and pedestrian traffic requiring time consuming detours and delaying emergency response.

The New York Fire Code did not mandate sprinkler systems at the time Trump Tower was built in 1983, which might have reduced the size and severity of the fire had they been present. The 50th-floor apartment was, according to FDNY Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro, “[T]he apartment was virtually, entirely on fire.” The Secret Service monitors all the fire alarms in the building but it took time to find the source of the thick black smoke emanating from the fire. Secret Service Agents escorted the firefighters throughout the building, including the Trump residence.

Brassner, the sole casualty, was unconscious when firefighters pulled him out of apartment 50C. He was transported to Mount Sinai Roosevelt Hospital. Originally listed as critical, he was pronounced dead sometime during the night. Brassner, guitar collector, was acquainted with artist Andy Warhol and was acknowledged in Warhol’s 1989 autobiography, The Andy Warhol Diaries. The cause of the fire is unknown, with investigations into Brassner’s death and the emergency response ongoing. Currently, the Secret Service leads the investigation.

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Indi Go Escapes Worst Of Indian Airline Turbulence ?(Et Flight School)

IndiGo, a low-fare carrier launched in 2006, has climbed to second place in market share at the expense of Air India and Kingfisher Airlines and is the only one of India’s six main carriers making a profit, for now at least.While Kingfisher and market-leading Jet Airways have bought rivals, fly multiple plane models and have struggled to mix full-service and low-fare options, IndiGo offers one class of no-frills service on a single type of plane, the same strategy pioneered by U.S.-based Southwest Airlines.IndiGo also sells and leases back its planes, sparing its balance sheet and allowing itself to maintain a young fleet.Kingfisher, headed by liquor tycoon Vijay Mallya, has never made a profit and has grounded more than half of its planes as it struggles to pay staff and creditors and scrambles to find investors. Tax authorities last month froze its bank accounts.”Indigo has done everything right which Kingfisher has done wrong,” said Rajan Mehra, executive director at the Asia Pacific Academy for Aviation and Hospitality.Industry watchers say there is no great secret to IndiGo’s success, which they attribute to rigid adherence to a disciplined business plan, a task that grows more complex as the 50-plane airline adds a new plane every month.Still, IndiGo is not immune to the industry’s myriad headaches that include fierce competition, a weak rupee, high taxes, rising airport fees and the high cost of oil.”Indigo so far might have been doing better than the others, but they are facing the same operational costs, the same infrastructure constraints,” Mehra said.Airfares are low in India, where carriers compete with trains and buses for passengers. A one-way ticket for April 18 from Mumbai to Delhi, a distance of about 720 miles, starts at around 3,935 rupees ($79.50) on IndiGo, GoAir or Jet’s JetLite subsidiary, according to a popular travel website.Kingfisher and Jet have learned the hard way that travelers don’t want to pay for frills on India’s short domestic flights, forcing them to set up low-fare offshoots to compete with IndiGo and budget rivals SpiceJet and GoAir.”What the customer wants is on-time performance, he wants good service onboard, he wants consistent on-ground and onboard services. He doesn’t mind paying for the food,” said Mehra.LOW-COST, NOT LOW-QUALITY IndiGo’s rise mirrors that of Jet Airways in the 1990s, before it became a sprawling international carrier that has lost money in the last four quarters.”Jet also came from nowhere, took on Indian Airlines (now part of Air India) and succeeded to become a big market share holder,” said Mahantesh Sabarad, an aviation analyst with Fortune Equity Brokers.IndiGo has 21 percent of the domestic market, behind the combined low-cost and premium operations of Jet Airways, but up from its 17 percent share at the end of 2010.The Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation (CAPA) expects IndiGo to take the top spot from Jet in a few months in an aviation market that grew 17 percent in 2011 and is expected to expand by about 12 percent annually over the next few years.Last year, IndiGo placed what was then the biggest-ever commercial airline order for 180 Airbus A320s worth $16 billion to be delivered starting in 2015 when an earlier 100-plane order is completed. It also began flying to a handful of foreign destinations using the same narrow-body plane type.While IndiGo says it spends less than 1 percent of revenue on marketing, it cultivates a fun, irreverent image.A splashy advertisement to the tune of a Gilbert & Sullivan number runs in heavy rotation on local TV. Its inflight catalog is called “Hello 6E” — a play on IndiGo’s airline code — and many of its air hostesses wear the same bobbed wig.”Our only big objective is to prove that low-cost is not low-quality,” Indigo’s president, Aditya Ghosh, told a group of management graduates in New Delhi recently.Based outside New Delhi in Gurgaon, IndiGo was founded by Rahul Bhatia’s InterGlobe Enterprises, an aviation and travel services firm, and former US Airways CEO Rakesh Gangwal.The airline has said it would consider an IPO, but Ghosh said recently it has no current plans to do so.”They focused on simple things: on-time performance, clean, neat aircraft, good onboard service,” said Kapil Kaul, CAPA’s regional head.He said the carrier’s international operations pose a risk, given different competitive dynamics and the prospect that a rival such as Singapore Airlines’ Scoot startup could begin flying to Mumbai and Delhi with bigger Boeing 777s.INDUSTRY HEADWINDS Indian airlines will lose up to $3 billion in the fiscal year that ends this month, according to CAPA, with state-owned Air India accounting for the bulk of the losses.Safety in the cash-strapped sector has also been a concern. A December audit by the aviation regulator raised concerns over the safety practices followed by almost all Indian carriers. The audit singled out IndiGo for a review of its fleet expansion plans and highlighted what it said was a shortage of instructors and slow training of pilots and cabin crew at IndiGo and others.IndiGo said in January it offered clarifications to the regulator and that its expansion plans were intact.IndiGo says it earned 6.5 billion rupees ($131 million) in the fiscal year that ended last March, a result that Kingfisher’s Mallya has questioned.”Government policies can make or break any industry. So far, it has been downhill for civil aviation except for one airline that defies the odds and claims to be profitable, however unlikely that may be,” he wrote in a recent memo to staff.CAPA’s Kaul said he has seen IndiGo’s numbers and the airline is indeed profitable. He did say earnings will be “substantially impacted” in the current harsh environment.Ghosh acknowledged the tough market conditions. “If the fares are down and fuel prices are up, obviously it will create pressure on margins. But as long as we can keep our heads above the water, which basically means we have money for spare parts, for hiring people, for recruitment, that’s what profitability means for us,” he said.

Daughter of Yuko Ikeda kidnapped to ransom in Tokyo; freed 13 hours later

Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Ikeda Kanako, a 21-year-old senior student of the Meiji Gakuin University and the first daughter of celebrity surgeon Yuko Ikeda, was kidnapped at about 1225 (UTC+9), June 26, 2006, in Shibuya, Tokyo.

A bullet was fired and one officer slightly cut when police stormed a Kawasaki apartment to rescue the girl.

Kanako was dressed in a white light half-sleeved cardigan, blue jeans with a bistre belt made of leather, a spring green camisole and carried a bag of Vuitton when she was abducted at a bus stop.

She was found unharmed 13 hours later by Japanese police at a condominium located in Nakahara-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa. The young woman’s make-up was not disordered; Kanako’s long brown fringe was not disheveled at all and she was wearing what she had been when she was kidnapped.

The kidnapping of Kanako was a big story in Japanese media in June, 2006. The story appeared in many newspapers as the front-page news on June 27, 2006.

Kanako and her kidnappers had been in touch with her mother using Kanako’s mobile phone. The effort to free her was helped greatly by a woman who witnessed the moment Kanako was taken; she wrote down the license plate of the van and other details.

Police traced mobile phone calls and were able to locate the van in Kawasaki where they detained two of the kidnappers as they went shopping.

One conspirator Li Yong, 29, from China, led the policemen to the apartment and tricked Kaneo Ito, 49, from Japan, to open the door. Ito managed to discharge one bullet before being restrained by an assistant police inspector, the first man in the room.

The other man involved in the kidnap of Kanako was Choi Gi Ho, 54, from South Korea. Kanato was freed unharmed.

The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department arrested three men on suspicion of conspiring to kidnap a woman and hold her to a reported 300 million yen ransom.

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Teen broadcasts suicide online

Sunday, November 23, 2008

A Pembroke Pines, Florida teenager killed himself Wednesday, November 19, while broadcasting on the live video site Justin.tv. After making suicide threats and being encouraged by Justin.tv viewers and Bodybuilding.com forum members, Abraham K. Biggs, 19, committed suicide by taking an overdose of opiates and benzodiazepine, which had been prescribed for his bipolar disorder.

Biggs first began blogging about his planned suicide 12 hours before the actual event. He died after taking pills and lying on the bed in front of the webcam. After the broadcast, viewers who apparently thought it was a hoax posted messages such as “OMG”, “LOL”, and “hahahah”.

Hours later, after being alerted by viewers who had noticed that Biggs had stopped breathing, law enforcement and paramedics arrived, discovered his body, and covered the camera. The Broward County Medical Examiner’s Office has reportedly confirmed Biggs’ death.

According to Montana Miller of the Bowling Green State University, the circumstances of this case were not shocking: “If it’s not recorded or documented, then it doesn’t even seem worthwhile. For today’s generation it might seem, ‘What’s the point of doing it if everyone isn’t going to see it?'”

Biggs’ sister Rosalind was angry that neither the website nor its viewers reacted soon enough to save him. “They got hits, they got viewers, nothing happened for hours,” she said. She described him as “very happy” and “friendly and outgoing.” “On a normal day, you couldn’t really tell that he got as low as he did.” However, he did have relationship problems with his girlfriend, according to a friend.

Mental health professionals have warned about the possibility that other mentally troubled people would copy his actions. According to Dr. David Shaffer of Columbia University, “Any video showing it as heroic or romantic or glamorous could reduce the anxiety people might feel about suicide. It becomes a respectable behavior and lowers the threshold of suicide.” He and other psychiatrists recommend that potentially suicidal teens talk to others and “tell what’s going on.”

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Tips For Great Care Of Your Contact Lenses

By Adrianna Notton

Although wearing contact lenses is the ideal alternative to eyeglasses, it can time to get used to wearing and caring for them. If you are planning to buy contact lenses or you are a long time contact lens wear that has been having issues with your lenses, below are a number of helpful tips for great care for your contact lenses that will help you reduce the chances of getting eye infections and allow you optimal comfort.

Inserting Contact Lenses

1. Before handling the contacts, wash your hands with a mild soap and thoroughly rinse. Thoroughly dry your hands with a clean lint free towel. Make sure the soap you use does not have any lotions or lanolin.

2. To make sure the contact lenses are not stuck in the lens case, give the case a little shake before you open it.

3. Choose the lens that you always insert first. Slide the lens out of its case and onto the palm of your hand. Rinse the lens thoroughly with contact lens solution. Keep your finger tip that you are using to insert the contact dry and clean.

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4. With the contact on the tip of your finger tip, make sure it is not inside out. The edges will turn outward if the lens is inside out. With your other hand, open your eye by pulling down on the lower eyelid and up on the upper eyelid. While looking up or forward, place the lens on your eye.

5. Roll your eyes around and blink to center and settle the lens.

Removing Soft Contact Lenses

1. Before handling the contact lenses, wash your hands with a mild soap and thoroughly rinse. Thoroughly dry your hands with a clean lint free towel. Make sure the soap you use does not have any lotions, hand creams, perfumes, makeup, or lanolin. Rinse your hands thoroughly and dry with a clean with a clean towel.

2. Stand over a counter top or over a sink and cover the drain with towel to prevent the lens from being lost down the drain.

3. While looking upwards, pull down on your lower eyelid. Use your finger to tenderly move the lens to the white part of your eye.

4. Gently pinch the contacts with your thumb and index finger. Lift the lens off the eye. Don’t use your fingernails to grasp it.

Using the recommended disinfecting and cleaning solution for your specific contact lens, rinse and clean the lenses and then put them in the lens case that is filled with disinfection solution.

If you take your time and remain relaxed, you will be more successful at inserting and removing your contact lenses. As well, if it is essential that you use the appropriate contact lens solutions to properly care for and maintain your lenses. Also, good hygiene will help you reduce the risks of infections, irritation, and other eye problems. If you are planning to buy contact lenses, you can find great deals on contact lenses and contact solutions from reputable online contact lens retailers.

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