Wikinews interviews candidate for Cleveland mayor Arthur Kostendt

Monday, June 14, 2021

Arthur Oliver Kostendt, a candidate running in the mayoral election of the US city of Cleveland, Ohio set to take place November 2, discussed his campaign and policies with Wikinews this spring.

According to Cleveland Scene, 29-year-old Kostendt is a member of the Cuyahoga County, Ohio Republican Party but has referred to his campaign as “casual”. According to his web site’s personal biography, he was a cadet for the Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC), scout platoon leader for the 2nd Squadron of the 107th Cavalry Regiment of the Ohio Army National Guard and logistics officer for the 1st Battalion of the 145th Armored Regiment. He served in Kuwait, Iraq, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia and assisted coalition force detachments in Southeast Asia.

Kostendt is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and summa cum laude graduate of Cleveland State University. He writes he uses an apostrophe to abbreviate his middle name as “Arthur O’Kostendt” instead of the customary period after the O to emphasise his Irish heritage.

A poll published May 5 by Baldwin Wallace University, which does not feature Mr Kostendt, has Dennis Kucinich and Basheer Jones leading in the mayoral race by 17.8 and 13.3 points, respectively, with a margin of error of up to five per cent either way. 48% of those surveyed were undecided. Incumbent mayor Frank G. Jackson, who won the 2017 Cleveland mayoral election with 59% of the vote, is eligible for a fifth term but announced on May 6 he would retire.

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Tax Debt Relief – Offer in Compromise

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Khmer Lee P. Lugod

Settling old taxes with the IRS is quite common these days. One of the best options is the Offer in Compromise but the process involving this option is really stringent. This tax debt relief agreement is usually the last resort because if the agency believes that you are capable of paying for the old taxes your application will be denied.

There are grounds that the IRS considers before such agreement can be accepted. If there are doubts surrounding the tax liability, the agreement can be approved. Aside from that, you can also qualify if there is doubt with regards to collectability. You must show the IRS that if you will be forced to pay the total amount of the tax liability, you will surely suffer from economic hardship.

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Application will entail some fees and documents. You will be required to pay a fee of $150. You should also fill out the Form 656 and the Form 656-PPV. Once you submit these forms, you also need to pay for the initial payment.

If the IRS grants your application, all the future payments should be paid on time, and you also need to bring your voucher for the Offer in Compromise. Since the procedure can get really complex, a lot of taxpayers are discouraged to apply or even secure the forms. The forms can be obtained from the IRS website or from the tax software.

The Offer in Compromise is not a new debt relief option offered by the IRS. You must examine the grounds that serve as a basis for an application to be approved or disapproved. To ensure that youre doing the right thing, you need to consult a lawyer. You can use the internet to locate a reputable and experienced lawyer in your area.

Since lawyers specialized in different fields, you will need to look for a qualified and experienced lawyer who can help you with the application for tax debt relief. Once you think that youre a qualified candidate, find a lawyer and discuss it thoroughly. By doing so, you can get expert advice and the lawyer can also take care of the legalities. This is the best way to get positive results.

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Brazil’s Minas state stops sales of Toyota Corolla

Friday, April 23, 2010

Minas, one of the largest states of Brazil, has stopped the sale of the Toyota Corolla over safety concerns.

The move was made after nine Corolla customers reported that their cars automatically accelerated. The state public prosecutor’s office said in an online statement on Tuesday that the problem is blamed on accelerator pedals sticking underneath floor mats. Local government said the issue was “putting in danger the lives of occupants”.

According to the prosecutor’s office, sales of Corollas may resume when Toyota alters the floormats in its current models. Toyota has recalled over eight million vehicles worldwide due to acceleration problems.

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Scottish artist Alan Davie dies at age 93

Tuesday, April 8, 2014

The death of Scottish artist Alan Davie was announced on Sunday. Davie, 93, was known for his colourful abstract paintings.

Davie’s career also saw turns as a jeweler, a jazz musician, a lecturer, and a poet. Born in Grangemouth, near Falkirk, in 1920, he studied painting from 1938 to 40 at Edinburgh College of Art.

It’s an urge, an intensity, a kind of sexual need

His father was a teacher who dabbled in art and his mother’s family was musically inclined. Upon seeing Coleman Hawkins performing in a music shop in Edinburgh, Davie borrowed £600 from his father to buy himself a saxophone. After serving in the Second World War, at which time he wrote much poetry later transcribed by his father, Davie toured with Scottish jazz bands.

Davie’s work was admired by the likes of Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and David Hockney. Davie himself collected non-Western art and liked tattoos, graffiti, and ‘outsider art’. His final interview before death, with The Telegraph, gave an insight into how he viewed art: “It’s an urge, an intensity, a kind of sexual need[…] something I do from an inner compulsion, that has to come out.”

He initially avoided painting as a career at all, then spent several years earning money by other means whilst his paintings failed to sell. His exhibitions in the late 1950s, however, were highly successful and launched his career. He was in the habit of choosing titles for his art only after completion.

Despite a strong presence owing to his lengthy red beard and off-beat humour, he was shy; his international fame waned. Recent years have seen a revival of interest with price increases for his early art. London alone is host to three exhibitions this month including at the Tate.

Tate Britain calls Davie “one of the first British artists after the war to develop an expressive form of abstraction” producing “kaleidoscopic canvases[…] that the artist relates to his love of jazz”.

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Food with cancer-causing dye recalled in Britain

Saturday, April 30, 2005

The British Food Standards Agency (FSA) has announced a recall of foods containing banned dyes which increase the risk of cancer. The food products were sold at the Tesco, Waitrose, and Somerfield supermarkets.

A Bristol company called “Barts Spices” found the illegal Para Red substance in their Barts Ground Paprika, which was sold in 48g and 46g jars with a “Co-op” label. The batch codes on the affected products are 5032 and 5089 (expiration Dec 2007), and 5075 (expiration February 2007).

Tesco also found that their 130g package of BBQ rice cakes (expiration November and December 2005) contained both Para Red and Sudan I.

“It would be very prudent to assume that it could be a genotoxic carcinogen,” FSA scientific advisers told reporters.

“As a company committed to supplying only the very finest quality food ingredients, we took the immediate decision to withdraw our ground paprika spice from all outlets selling the product and advertised a product recall in the national press,” a Barts Spices spokesman said in a statement.

Sudan I is only authorized for industrial use to colorize petroleum products, such as shoe polish. Para Red and Sudan I are banned under the British Colours in Food Regulations of 1995.

Britain last went through a major food recall in February, when Worcester Sauce was found to contain chili powder dyed with Sudan 1.

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Submitted by: Paula Gerie

Charcoal briquettes? Sear grate? T-brush? Weber BBQ cover? Can somebody speak English please?! I bet this is what all of you BBQ beginners are thinking, is it not? As with everything else in life, there are accessories and necessities with everything, and a BBQ is no exception. However when there are so many companies offering you the same products at various prices, you genuinely do not know which way to turn, who to believe and where to purchase from. Are you being ripped off? Are you purchasing genuine products? How can you judge the quality of these accessories? Does the type of BBQ we use matter or is this personal choice? These are all questions we generally tend to ask ourselves when making new purchases or are first time buyers to something we have previously had no knowledge about. Weber Accessories Online can help you to make these all-important decisions.

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The type of BBQ you choose to use is entirely down to personal preference, however you will find people will take a liking to one over another; but the chances are that this decision would have been made as a result of personal experience. Many may lean more towards the Weber One Touch Premium BBQ 57cm. Charcoal is made available in small bags which are then positioned on the tray beneath the grill bars of the BBQ. Surprisingly, the bag, as is, needs to be set alight. This allows the coal to burn consistently and takes up to twenty minutes for the grill to heat to the sought after temperature. The advantage of this is there is very little mess when firing the BBQ up and is not at all complicated, making it simple enough for anyone to do.

Unfortunately yes unfortunately, there is an extensive range of accessories and equipment needed to make your BBQ an ultimate success. Even more frustrating is that different occasions and different meals, yes you guessed it, requires completely different equipment! Oh, joy. Due to the different kinds of BBQs available on the market, regardless of which one you may opt to purchase all BBQs will essentially require a hood, windshield and a spit, none of which actually affect the general running of the BBQ; lets all cheer at once!

Whats next you ask? Fire! And no, not for the fireplace in the sitting room! Currently, coal is the most common type of fuel used to start up a BBQ. The charcoal is available in a variety of formations; briquettes which are more efficient for use or lumpwood which is the cheaper option. However, if you are operating a much larger BBQ, hardwood is generally used for firing these up; unfortunately hardwood is not the most practical for commercial BBQ brands.

Now, if you are new to the world of barbequing, it will most certainly benefit you to know that using utensils with extremely long handles are the way forward in life. These instruments are essential for tending to the food. When having to flip the food from side to side, utensils with long handles will provide a safe distance between yourself and the heat; not the most fashionable accessory at the moment, but a set of gloves will also provide added protection against busy flames. Skewers on the other hand are ideal for cooking kebabs; flat skewers however will be most appropriate as they are able to completely rotate the meat and vegetables.

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Ontario Votes 2007: Interview with Freedom Party candidate David McGruer, Ottawa-Orleans

Tuesday, October 2, 2007

David McGruer is running for the Freedom Party of Ontario in the Ontario provincial election, in the Ottawa-Orleans riding. Wikinews’ Nick Moreau interviewed him regarding his values, his experience, and his campaign.

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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Saturn moon Enceladus may have salty ocean

Thursday, June 23, 2011

NASA’s Cassini–Huygens spacecraft has discovered evidence for a large-scale saltwater reservoir beneath the icy crust of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. The data came from the spacecraft’s direct analysis of salt-rich ice grains close to the jets ejected from the moon. The study has been published in this week’s edition of the journal Nature.

Data from Cassini’s cosmic dust analyzer show the grains expelled from fissures, known as tiger stripes, are relatively small and usually low in salt far away from the moon. Closer to the moon’s surface, Cassini found that relatively large grains rich with sodium and potassium dominate the plumes. The salt-rich particles have an “ocean-like” composition and indicate that most, if not all, of the expelled ice and water vapor comes from the evaporation of liquid salt-water. When water freezes, the salt is squeezed out, leaving pure water ice behind.

Cassini’s ultraviolet imaging spectrograph also recently obtained complementary results that support the presence of a subsurface ocean. A team of Cassini researchers led by Candice Hansen of the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona, measured gas shooting out of distinct jets originating in the moon’s south polar region at five to eight times the speed of sound, several times faster than previously measured. These observations of distinct jets, from a 2010 flyby, are consistent with results showing a difference in composition of ice grains close to the moon’s surface and those that made it out to the E ring, the outermost ring that gets its material primarily from Enceladean jets. If the plumes emanated from ice, they should have very little salt in them.

“There currently is no plausible way to produce a steady outflow of salt-rich grains from solid ice across all the tiger stripes other than salt water under Enceladus’s icy surface,” said Frank Postberg, a Cassini team scientist at the University of Heidelberg in Germany.

The data suggests a layer of water between the moon’s rocky core and its icy mantle, possibly as deep as about 50 miles (80 kilometers) beneath the surface. As this water washes against the rocks, it dissolves salt compounds and rises through fractures in the overlying ice to form reserves nearer the surface. If the outermost layer cracks open, the decrease in pressure from these reserves to space causes a plume to shoot out. Roughly 400 pounds (200 kilograms) of water vapor is lost every second in the plumes, with smaller amounts being lost as ice grains. The team calculates the water reserves must have large evaporating surfaces, or they would freeze easily and stop the plumes.

“We imagine that between the ice and the ice core there is an ocean of depth and this is somehow connected to the surface reservoir,” added Postberg.

The Cassini mission discovered Enceladus’ water-vapor and ice jets in 2005. In 2009, scientists working with the cosmic dust analyzer examined some sodium salts found in ice grains of Saturn’s E ring but the link to subsurface salt water was not definitive. The new paper analyzes three Enceladus flybys in 2008 and 2009 with the same instrument, focusing on the composition of freshly ejected plume grains. In 2008, Cassini discovered a high “density of volatile gases, water vapor, carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide, as well as organic materials, some 20 times denser than expected” in geysers erupting from the moon. The icy particles hit the detector target at speeds between 15,000 and 39,000 MPH (23,000 and 63,000 KPH), vaporizing instantly. Electrical fields inside the cosmic dust analyzer separated the various constituents of the impact cloud.

“Enceladus has got warmth, water and organic chemicals, some of the essential building blocks needed for life,” said Dennis Matson in 2008, Cassini project scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

“This finding is a crucial new piece of evidence showing that environmental conditions favorable to the emergence of life can be sustained on icy bodies orbiting gas giant planets,” said Nicolas Altobelli, the European Space Agency’s project scientist for Cassini.

“If there is water in such an unexpected place, it leaves possibility for the rest of the universe,” said Postberg.

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Precious Gold, Precious Life

By Karen Simpson

I was just like anybody else who is young and who got less to be always startled whenever people display gold jewelries embossed with glittering stones. I my childhood I thought that those really cost a fortune. I look at them with real envy that I could hardly take my eyes off them in amazement. Little did I know there are still better possessions than gold earrings, bracelets, necklaces, bangles and even rings.

These are valued possessions, no doubt, and owning jewelries means having invested in something of real value. I was not aware then that my grandmothers gold coins and those small golden cubes are more valuable than those that glitter with diamond stones.

Wonder why I said this? I came to know that her antique gold coins and small bars of gold which she kept and always checked while I watched since time I can hardly remember are more precious than her dangling earrings and necklaces. That was when my grandfather got sick and needed so much money to pay for the doctors, medicines and hospital bills.

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We entered a store offering the highest cash for gold to sell some of her gold possessions. She brought along her small box laden with pieces of jewelries she had acquired and kept for so long. I saw the big mans reaction as he looked and examined the items handed to him by my grandma. I heard him asked her as to the source of the gold coins which he said were very rare and cost so much because they are collectors items and demand therefore is very high. Antique dealers and enthusiasts are eager to buy such valuable coins, for a price! At my young age then, grandmas gesture lingered in my heart that I grew up to believe that to save a loved ones life one must sell gold.

Now I realize that one should be very careful when selling their gold and other jewelries. Selling gold should be done with care as some people may take advantage of the other persons need. One must be aware of what he owns and the current market price when selling them to at least get the best in exchange for his valued treasures.

There are traders who buy gold and they differ in evaluation and appraisal methods so a person must be very careful. He should select buyers who would really consider the craftsmanship and the uniqueness of the item being sold. The owner should know the value of what he owns and should know how much it should be worth that he can be sure he wont be taken advantage of by the other party.

One should also know where he can get the best value for his gold and the store that offers the highest price for gold so that he will not feel so much of his loss.

Now, at my age, I still look at those sparkling gems hanging on the ears, arms and fingers of prominent ladies. I know fully well that gold is more valuable when sold to save loved ones life.

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Two jockeys killed in fire in North Yorkshire, England

Sunday, September 6, 2009

Two jockeys have been killed in a fire in a block of flats on Saturday.

At 0200 BST on Saturday a fire broke out in a three-storey block of apartments in Buckrose Court near Malton, North Yorkshire, England. The two jockeys have been identified as Jamie Kyne, who was only 18, and Jan Wilson, who was just 19. Both were described as promising young jockeys.

Two other men had also been taken to a hospital in York due to the effects of minor burns and smoke inhalation. One of the men has now been released from the hospital and the other man’s injuries are not thought to be life-threatening.

A police investigation is currently taking place in the area and a man in his 30s living in the area has since been arrested on suspicion of arson with intent. North Yorkshire Police are going to interview the man and try and establish whether he was involved or not.

Kyne was due to ride at Haydock on Saturday afternoon, while Wilson was due to ride at Thirsk on the same day, while riding her mother’s horse, Imperial Sword — and so both were staying in the apartment as a means of accommodation, as Jamie came from Ireland and Jan was from Forfar, Scotland. “The family are devastated and Jamie was a star,” Kyne’s aunt said. “They [his parents] are so proud of him. At the moment they are just devastated and shocked.”

David Barron, Wilson’s trainer, paid tribute to her as “a tremendous jockey”. He said: “She was just at the start of her career and was only in her first year of riding as an apprentice. She joined me at the end of last year and had ridden three winners for me out of only a handful of rides. She was very good, very capable and had tremendous potential. Everyone in the yard is just devastated.”

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