Radio host sacked threatened freedom of speech in Hong Kong

Saturday, July 16, 2005

A Hong Kong radio host Wong Yuk Man has been sacked last week. Wong hosted a radio program which had helped him become famous by criticizing the government and the pro-Beijing political party. Commercial Radio, a private radio station and Wong’s former employee said Wong was fired because he demanded a 5-days-per-week program which the station could not deliver. However, Wong said he was fired because commercial radio station feared that the government would refuse to renew their license because of his outspoken criticism against the government. The 5 days per week program which Wong hosted had been cancelled and Wong was reallocated to host a weekly program a couple of months ago after Chen King-Hon, another outspoken radio host of commercial radio who was the most popular host at the time, was sacked and his program cancelled.

Wong and Chen, and their former co-hosts had organized 5,000 fans to join their candle night rally in Central, protesting against the alleged collusion between the commercial radio station and the government and urged for freedom of speech in Hong Kong. Donald Tsang, Hong Kong new Chief Executive, who has just replaced the unpopular Tung Chee-Hwa a month ago who had failed to finish his second term due to the alleged health problem, was criticized for restricting the freedom of speech in Hong Kong. Tsang has not yet responded to their criticism.

Princes William and Harry host the Concert for Diana

Monday, July 2, 2007

Performances by Sir Elton John and the English National Ballet featured in the Concert for Diana, held in Wembley Stadium, London on Sunday to commemorate the late Diana, Princess of Wales life on what would have been her 46th birthday.

As a result of the terror attacks in the United Kingdom on the days prior to the event, heightened security precautions were in force, with a high police presence around the venue, and bag searches taking place. Despite the security fears, over 63,000 attended the concert. It was televised to 120 countries around the world, with a potential audience of 500 million.

The concert, broadcast by the BBC, featured acts from many groups and individuals including Sir Elton John, and the English National Ballet. It was hosted by Princes William and Harry and opened and closed by Sir Elton John, who is remembered for having played a unique rendition of Candle in the Wind at the Princess’ funeral.

Performances were interspersed with tributes from various public figures including Tony Blair, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and Nelson Mandela, the former President of South Africa. Films showing parts of Diana’s life, with testimony from those who worked with her, were also aired, publicising the Princess’ work around the world, which was to be supported by profits from the concert.

Christmas Decorating Made Easy On A Small Budget

By Seraphina Amelia Dornan

Christmas should be a time of joy, great food, fantastic entertainment, and quality time with the people we love. Unfortunately people tend to spend more time worrying about correct decorations, proper appearance, and getting everything just right for the Holidays. This causes stress, and unwarranted time and money spent doing things the hard way. Why not de-stress the Holidays and do things the easy way this year? Its not a complicated thing, decorating your home using easy and simple methods that will give you the beautiful home you want, and the quality time you need with your family and friends.

Use Ready Made Decorations

The quality of ready made decorations is a wonderful way to create a wonderful Christmas theme, and save time, money, and effort. Many decorating stores and large home supply stores now offer entire kits filled with everything you need for a dcor theme in one or a few boxes. Complete with bows, wire ribbon, and ornaments in matching colors, ready to place in your home. For a traditional color themed Christmas you can pick up a box filled with beautiful red and green items that can provide the perfect accents for your home without running all over town trying to find the perfect ornaments. Christmas is not about the perfect things, its about the smaller things being there as a backdrop to family and friends.

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Small Accents Can Make the Difference

When you are decorating for the Holidays try to find accents that make a difference without requiring huge makeovers. Changing the daily look of a room with decorative slipcovers in hues of creams, ivories, and off whites can move you from Halloween through the New Year without having to be changed and make for easy cleanups after accidental spills. Simple ties of ribbons that match the Holiday can be easily changed for the next event. Finding textiles like rugs for sale, tabletop linens, and napkins in neutral hues can also be a way of saving money, and relieving the stress of the Holiday Season. Placing new area rugs in your home can let you create a new atmosphere without changing the normal feel of the room. Place a few pumpkins atop a red rug in the foyer for Halloween and for Thanksgiving fill a basket with beautiful autumn leaves to sit beside the pumpkins, and change to a small sleigh atop the same rug for Christmas.

You Do Not Have to Change the Look of Your Dinner Table for Each Holiday

When you use a neutral table cloth and cover it with a lace overlay you have set the perfect table underlay for your family and guest. No need to buy a different table top covers for every holiday. Placing beautiful natural autumn leaves between the lace and the solid color underlay, you have created a unique appearance your guest will appreciate for no cost. For Christmas place wide ribbons of reds, greens, golds or silver in two long lines down the length of your table for a clean looking decorative touch. If you can find large oval rugs on sale, buy them in coordinating colors and place new rugs beneath your table, and in front of your buffet, a small touch that can bring warmth and color to any dining room.

The number one cause of stress during the Holidays is spending money, followed by the time it takes to decorate your home, using these few decorating tips and others, you can de-stress the Holidays, spend less money, and spend more time doing the important things like, creating memories while you sit in front of a fire on a warm rug, and help your child make a popcorn garland, and a memory.

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British FTSE index reaches one-year high, other European markets rise

Monday, October 12, 2009

The British stock index FTSE 100 closed at its highest levels in over a year on Monday, following news of stronger commodity prices.

The share index increased by 48.3 points, or 0.9% to finish the day at a level of 5,210.17, a figure not seen since last September.

The best performer was the Old Mutual insurance company, reaching a sixteen-month high after gaining 4.6%.

Some economic analysts think that the FTSE index could continue to gain for the remainder of the week. David Jones, the chief market strategist at IG Index, said that “the next FTSE target traders are eyeing in the short term is the 5,350 high hit in September last year and the way sentiment is going it would not be a surprise to see that hit this week.”

Other European markets also posted gains on Monday. The German DAX index gained 71.35 points to a level of 5,783.23, while the French CAC 40 increased 46.19 points to 3,845.8.

David S. Touretzky discusses Scientology, Anonymous and Tom Cruise

Wednesday, February 6, 2008

David S. Touretzky, prominent free speech activist and critic of Scientology, discussed his opinions on the recent Internet backlash against the Church of Scientology in an interview with former Scientologist and Wikinews reporter Nicholas Turnbull. The recent conflict on the Internet between critics of Scientology and the Church has been spurred on in declarations by a nebulous Internet entity using the name Anonymous that the Church of Scientology “will be destroyed”. Anonymous has directed recent protests at Scientology centres across the world, which have attracted significant numbers of individuals supporting the cause. In recent e-mail correspondence with Wikinews, a representative of the Church of Scientology declared that the Church considers the activities of Anonymous to be illegal, and that Anonymous “will be handled and stopped”.

Touretzky, a research professor in artificial intelligence and computational neuroscience at Carnegie Mellon University, has been a prominent critic of the Church of Scientology since mid-1995, and has been protesting against Scientology vociferously since then; he has also run websites that publish material that Scientology wishes to keep suppressed from the public eye, such as extracts from Scientology’s formerly-confidential Operating Thetan (OT) materials. Touretzky views the actions of the Church of Scientology as being “a threat to free speech”, and has endured harassment by the Church of Scientology for his activities.

The Church of Scientology continues to suffer damage to its public reputation through increased exposure on the Internet and vocal protests by Scientology critics such as Prof. Touretzky. A recent event that focused intense attention on Scientology’s totalitarian attitude was the leak of an internal Church of Scientology propaganda video to the Internet video sharing site YouTube, in which celebrity Scientologist Tom Cruise spoke heavily in Scientology’s jargon and stated that that “we [Scientology] are the authorities” on resolving the difficulties of humanity. The declaration of war by Anonymous followed shortly after this leak, in the form of a video posted to the Internet.

The ongoing dispute, cast by some as Scientology versus the Internet, brought Scientology terms such as “SP” (Suppressive Person, an enemy of Scientology) and “KSW” (Keeping Scientology Working) into general usage by non-Scientologists from the late 1990s onwards; increased attention has been drawn to Scientology by the release of the Cruise video in addition to media coverage. This focus has caused an even greater propagation of these terms across the outside world, as Touretzky comments in the interview.

Wikinews asked Prof. Touretzky about the impact that the activities of Anonymous will have on Scientology, the public relations effect of the Tom Cruise video, the recent departure of individuals from the Church of Scientology’s executive management, the strategies that Anonymous will employ and Touretzky’s experiences of picketing the Church.

Koozie Cooler Bags For Promotional Products Coolers

By John J. Promotion

Choosing the right promotion media to promote your company or reward exceptional employee behavior can be easy. One idea warranting closer attention is stepping into the cleverness of utilizing promotional products that can be used by any and all recipients or participants of the promotion whether you are targeting business customers, prospective customers or in house for your staff. Ideally select a product that can be used by all while sporting your organizational or company logo custom imprinted. Cooler bags can absolutely fulfill that objective if you follow a few simple guidelines as to type and brand of cooler.

Type of cooler selection can make or break your attempt to interpose your intended purpose. There are a variety of cooler products however the buyer must exercise good judgment when it comes to product selection. The best way to take the guesswork out of the endeavor is to use a cooler bag that has broad based applications. Since soft side coolers have many more applications we will decidedly vote for that type of cooler. Soft side coolers or more commonly known as cooler bags are of usefulness to a broad spectrum of clients, customers or prospects. If a business prospect such as a consumer there are no bounds to using cooler bags for promotions or the type of business that is sponsoring the promotion. Raising brand awareness by distributing cooler bags imprinted with a company or product logo will yield promotional based awareness to the consumer for an extended period both introducing and reinforcing the brand as a cooler bag in the majority of cases will be in use for years to come. In addition most employees whether it be entry level workers up to and including business management staff will all use and appreciate a cooler bag for an incentive or achievement award as a worthy, useful product that constantly reminds them of their achievement while keeping the human resource investment cost to a minimum. It is an established fact that cooler bags imprinted with a logo are both useful and appreciated by all recipients as promotional products coolers.

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Cooler bags with brand name recognition built in not only assure a quality product but are highly useful for associating your company logo with an established name brand. Koozie promotional products coolers are the recognized go to cooler bag that meets and exceeds most all promotional expectations. The cost per bag is more than most however it is always to one’s advantage to build certainty into their promotion strategy to attain sure success. Koozie coolers are fully insulated cooler bags with temperature retention abilities unmatched in the promotional products coolers industry. Also Koozie coolers have overall construction that is built to last, stylish designs for all promotion occasions, applications and is available in a wider variety of bag colors to enhance your particular logo imprint. Price points are attractive and affordable ranging from under five dollars each to twenty dollars each cooler in bulk order. The all time favorite for coolers bag is the Original Koozie 6 Pack Cooler Bags. There is good reason for that including a myriad of colors available, large imprint area and low cost for quality promotional products coolers. The Koozie line is extensive building upward with 10 pack Sport Bag, Original Koozie 12 pack cooler, 12 pack box type insulated cooler bags, 18 pack Picnic cooler bag and the Koozie King Cooler Bag that holds up to 36 cans with ice is classified as the highest capacity large cooler bags for a soft side cooler. All the aforementioned Koozie coolers are logo ready and chock full of features that are highly desirable as promotional products coolers for all cooler bags promotions, premiums and as employee appreciation gifts.

So we see that insulated cooler bags are an effective advertising, marketing and employee incentive appreciation tool when one chooses Koozie coolers as the cooler bags media for your promotional products coolers and gifts.

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Apple Inc. unveils iPad 2 tablet

Thursday, March 3, 2011

In a media event on March 2, Apple Inc. unveiled its iPad 2 tablet computer, the successor to the company’s iPad. The announcement was made at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, California. CEO Steve Jobs appeared at the event and introduced the new product, with FaceTime video messaging (with front and rear cameras) as well as a new dual-core Apple A5 processor.

The iPad 2 is an all new design and has several improvements over the original iPad. The device runs on an dual-core Apple A5 CPU. According to Jobs, the CPU’s new dual-core capability enhances multitasking and doubles the processing speed. Apple additionally introduced a magnetic ‘Smart Cover’ accessory that snaps to the front screen of the device along with several new apps ported from the Mac OS X operating system and the iPhone. These include iMovie, GarageBand, and Photo Booth. The new iPad introduces front and rear cameras which enable FaceTime. The new tablet is 15% lighter and 33% thinner than the previous version – thinner than an iPhone 4 – and has beveled edges. It will be available in black and white. The device continues to be capable of ten hours of battery life on a single charge.

The announcement comes after months of rumors about a successor to the original iPad. Competitors have designed tablets to compete with the iPad such as Motorola’s Xoom powered by the Android operating system. One research analyst predicted that iPads would still make up at least 20 million of the more than 24 million tablet computers sold in the United States in 2011. Another analyst credited the Apple’s App store for iPad’s continued success. The device will become available in the United States on March 11, 2011, available in 16, 32, or 64 gigabytes. iPad 2’s 3G models can connect to the wireless networks of AT&T or Verizon Wireless and Wi-Fi. The iPad 2 will start at US$499. In tandem with the announcement, Apple reduced the price of its original iPad to US$399. Shares of Apple inc. rose $2.81, closing at US$352.12 the day of the announcement.

News briefs:February 27, 2008

Contents

  • 1 Wikinews News Brief, February 27 2008 0430 UTC
    • 1.1 Introduction
    • 1.2 Events of worldwide notability, military action, disasters etc.
      • 1.2.1 Kenya peace talks put on hold
      • 1.2.2 Jersey child abuse case ‘was not covered up’
      • 1.2.3 Nigerian election result will not be annulled
      • 1.2.4 Iraq demands immediate withdrawal of Turkish troops
    • 1.3 Non-disastrous local events with notable impact and dead celebrities
      • 1.3.1 Massive blackouts hit Florida
      • 1.3.2 Thousands protest privatisation of Australian electricity industry
      • 1.3.3 Pakistan’s ban on YouTube lifted
      • 1.3.4 Minor earthquake shakes England
    • 1.4 Business, commerce and academia
      • 1.4.1 Seeds placed in Norwegian vault as agricultural ‘insurance policy’
      • 1.4.2 Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch to be auctioned off
      • 1.4.3 Microsoft Network users experience international outage
      • 1.4.4 Video hosting website Stage6 to shut down
    • 1.5 Arts and culture
      • 1.5.1 N.Y. orchestra helps forge relations with North Korea
    • 1.6 Footer

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Man auctions his life on eBay, is disappointed at sale price

Monday, June 30, 2008

After auctioning off his entire life on eBay for A$399,300 (€244 912.148) Ian Usher says he is “a little bit disappointed” at the final selling price.

The 44-year-old British immigrant living in Perth, Australia, put all of his worldly belongings up for sale on the popular auction website, including his three-bedroom house and all its contents, his car, motorcycle, jetski, skydiving gear, and his job at a rug store, for which he offered a two week trial period. He even offered introductions to his friends living in Perth.

Usher made the decision to sell his life after his five-year marriage suddenly ended. On his website, alife4sale.com, he explains that “despite my life being busy and fulfilled, I still miss my wife so much. Everything in my home is a reminder of the wonderful past we shared. So, after a year in this house I decided that it is time to sell it and move on.”

It was as much about moving on as it was about selling it for as much as I could get.

During the 7 day auction, which ended on Sunday, there were several bogus bids which brought the sale price as high as A$2.2 million, but the final price ended up at A$399,300, which was around A$100,000 less than Usher had hoped for. “I’m a little bit disappointed, but I’m still excited. It’s still enough to move forward and do what I said I was going to do, which is move on to the next part of my life,” Usher said. “It was as much about moving on as it was about selling it for as much as I could get.”

According to Reuters, the winning bidder, whose username is “mslmcc”, also lives in Australia, and has a 100 percent feedback rating. Usher says he hasn’t yet been able to figure out who the buyer is, because of the TV crews lined up in front of his home. “I’m trying to find some time to get on the computer and check it out … I haven’t looked (up) anything about them yet,” he said.

Usher now plans to go off in search of a new life. His initial plan, as he describes on his website, was to just walk out his front door with just his wallet and a passport and board a train, with no idea of where to go. He has since launched 100goals100weeks.com, which will document his attempt to complete 100 of his life goals in a span of 100 weeks. Some of these goals include getting a pilot’s license, climbing the Eiffel Tower, learning to play the didgeridoo, and shaking hands with billionaire Richard Branson.

“I was pretty aimless when I started this, and I had a vague notion of adventure, but I’ve come up with a much more solid plan, which is still very adventurous,” Usher says. He invites anyone who is interested to join him on his adventures.

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