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Explicit Canadian workplace safety ads pulled from TV due to Christmas season

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Thursday, December 13, 2007

Controversial and explicit Canadian workplace safety ads have been pulled from television, and paper ads from some bus shelters for the Christmas season. However, the ads will return to air in January.

“It’s totally erroneous to suggest we’re pulling anything,” chairman of the Workplace Safety and Information Board of Ontario, Steve Mahoney said. “Our plan from Day 1 was to stop the ads around the middle of December when most of the advertising that’s in the media is focused on Christmas and purchasing gifts. We just didn’t want to be competing with all that stuff.”

In one of the TV ads a woman accidentally slips on grease on the floor and a large steaming pot falls onto her face, and she starts screaming to death. The ads end with the message “There really are no accidents”.

A paper ads shows a construction worker who is in a pool of blood with a forklift operation manual stuck in his chest. Another with a man who is slit by a “Danger” sign with his leg stuck in a machine. They show the messages: “Lack of training can kill” and the other “Ignoring safety procedures can kill”.

“The critics amount to about 25 per cent rating, and I’m delighted they’re upset about the ads because I wouldn’t want anyone to enjoy watching them.”

The videos have been viewed more than 70,000 times on the Board’s website and are gaining large amounts of views on YouTube.

The transit authorities of Hamilton and Mississauga will show modified advertisements. The transit authority of Guelph will show the ads in bus shelters, but the transit authority of Windsor will not because of the graphic nature.

“We’re not against workplace safety, but this is too graphic,” said Caroline Postma, chair of the Transit Windsor board.

Mississauga city councillour Carolyn Parrish said: “My son-in-law was telling me that they shouldn’t be on in prime time because when [my grandson] watches them he just about bursts into tear. Now he follows his mom around the kitchen to make sure she doesn’t spill grease. And he’s only four. There’s too much of a chance that … people are really badly affected by it, and can’t really do anything about it anyway.” She suggested the ads only be aired to workers with the jobs shown in the commercials.

Mahoney changed the earlier promise to air the ads only after 8:00pm to after 9:00pm at last nights meeting with Mississauga city council.

Mahoney said the commercials and paper ads are not “too graphic at all”. And they are “absolutely appropriate and they’re doing what they’re intended to do, they’re creating what I call a water cooler topic of conversation.”

Ninety-eight Canadian workers so far have been killed on the job this year.

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Wikinews Shorts: June 14, 2007

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A compilation of brief news reports for Thursday, June 14, 2007.

A bomb blast during a soccer match at stadium in Pattani injured 14 police officers who were providing security for the game between two local teams.

Police said the bomb was placed inside a flower planter and detonated via cellphone, and that five officers were seriously injured.

Related

  • “13 schools torched in southern Thailand” — Wikinews, June 14, 2007

Sources

  • Agencies. “Soccer match bomb wounds 14” — Bangkok Post, June 14, 2007
  • “Bomb at soccer injures five” — The Nation (Thailand), June 14, 2007

A 29-year-old man in Riau was confirmed today to have died of the H5N1 strain of avian flu, making him the 80th person in Indonesia to die from the virus.

“Before showing bird flu symptoms, he slaughtered and cooked sick chickens,” Muhammad Nadirin of the Health Ministry’s Bird Flu Center was quoted as saying by Kyodo News.

Indonesia has the highest number of human deaths from H5N1, and the highest number of cases at 100.

Sources

  • Agence France-Presse. “Indonesia confirms 80th bird flu death” — Channel NewsAsia, June 14, 2007
  • Kyodo News. “Indonesia bird flu cases top 100, death toll rises to 80” — Yahoo! News, June 14, 2007

An outbreak of H5N1, the avian flu virus, was reported today by a livestock official in Myanmar. He said about 1,000 chickens were slaughtered after the virus was found on June 3 in 28 chickens on a farm in Bago, about 50 miles (80 kilometres) north of Yangon.

It is the first outbreak of the bird flu in Myanmar, also known as Burma, since April.

Sources

  • Agence France-Presse. “Myanmar reports fresh outbreak of bird flu” — Channel NewsAsia, June 14, 2007
  • Associated Press. “Burma reports new bird flu outbreak” — The Irrawaddy, June 13, 2007

Hamas has said that their forces have taken control of the main compound of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas located in Gaza City.

Abbas was not in the compound at the time.

Reports also say that Fatah members fled the compound just before it was attacked.

Sources

  • “Report: Hamas forces take over Abbas’s compound” — Jerusalem Post, June 14, 2007
  • “Hamas takes over presidential compound in Gaza City” — International Herald Tribune, June 14, 2007

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Australian TV network sprung fabricating live crosses by rival

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Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Australia’s Nine Network has issued an apology after the rival Seven Network caught Nine News fabricating live crosses to the search site for murdered schoolboy Daniel Morcombe. The network issued a statement after Saturday and Sunday’s Nine News bulletins in Brisbane, which featured presenter Eva Milic crossing “live” to the site with the caption: “Near Beerwah”.

The rival Seven Network, based nearby, lifted the lid on the scam after filming the Nine News chopper almost 100 kilometres south of Beerwah – on the helipad outside the studio, with lights on and blades in motion while Cameron Price reported from inside. Nine admitted to faking Sunday’s cross; issuing a statement on Monday blaming bad weather.

“Our chopper was forced to divert from Beerwah due to bad weather, and air control instructed them to touch down,” it read.

The network also told media industry website mUmBRELLA that “the producer was unaware until it was too late to abort or delay the cross”.

Doubts have been cast over the truth of this statement, however, as it has since emerged that the chopper was also absent from Beerwah on Saturday, and was in fact circling Brisbane’s western suburbs during Melissa Mallet’s report. Director of Queensland Seven News, Rob Raschke, questioned the merit of Nine’s claims, telling Brisbane’s Courier-Mail, “the idea of not knowing where a $3 million helicopter is defies belief”.

A revised statement yesterday announced a Nine investigation into why the location of the helicopter was misreported on both nights, describing the situation as “unacceptable”.

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Botox And Dermal Fillers: The Non Surgical Nose Job

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By Abigail Aaronson

Very few people have what experts qualify as a “perfect nose”. Perhaps it is crooked, bumpy, or maybe their bridge seems too low or wide, whatever the imperfection, most people are very aware of their nasal flaws.

But while most people aren’t satisfied with their schnozzles, they are many that are not ready or willing to undergo rhinoplasty, a major and permanent, not to mention expensive, surgery used to correct nasal imperfections. But there is hope for those people with minor flaws. Their imperfections can be addressed with injectables like Botox and dermal fillers.

Injectables can’t solve everything but there are many cases in which dermal fillers and Botox can serve as an alternative to rhinoplasty. Some of these cases include concerns such as an over prominent tip, a low and wide bridge, a ski-slope, as well as a bumpy one. In all these situations, the nose must not be too large, because injectables will correct and smooth out but only by adding additional volume.

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An over prominent nasal tip looks like it sits too high or sticks out too far making it the center of attention. This can be corrected by Botox injections. Botox will reduce the muscle pull on the tip allowing it to drop and become less noticeable. These results will last up to four months.

Many African-Americans and people of Asian descent are born with low and wide bridges. Low, wide bridges may also be the result of a poorly done rhinoplasty. From the front a low bridge makes the eyes appear to be set too far apart. It also may make it look out of proportion with the rest of the face, appearing too short or bottom heavy.

From the side the bridge seems to sit too close to the face. In all cases of low and wide bridges, attention is drawn away from the eyes and toward the nose. Fortunately, injectables can fix this concern. A plastic surgeon or qualified technician can inject dermal filler along the length of the nose to make it appear higher. The results will last from one to two years.

A ski-slope type is the combination of both a low bridge and an over prominent up-turned tip. This case looks just like its name: a ski slope. It occurs both naturally and as a result of a poorly performed rhinoplasty. Dermal fillers can be injected to fill in the depressed parts of the nose for less of a scoop. The longevity of the results depends upon which fillers are used.

Many people have a bumpy nose which means that their noses lack smooth transitions from one part to another. One part of the bridge will be higher than the rest because of uneven amounts of cartilage. A bumpy nose can be fixed by using dermal fillers to fill in the depressions surrounding the bump.

Basically, a smoother nose is made by adding more volume to the rest of the part. Again, the length of the results depends on the specific fillers used. Botox and dermal fillers can be used to fix naturally occurring nose imperfections as well as mistakes resulting from a previous rhinoplasty.

Injectables can also be used during the healing period following a rhinoplasty, as it may not take its correct and final shape for up to a year following the surgery. Using Botox and dermal fillers is not a permanent solution to correcting nose problems and treatments must repeated after a few months or every couple of years depending on the injectables used.

If a person seeks a permanent solution but is unsure of what they would look like, using injectables once or twice may act as a trial run for rhinoplasty. In all cases, patients ought to counsel with an experienced and qualified plastic surgeon before making any decisions.

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CanadaVOTES: NDP candidate Max Lombardi running in Cambridge

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Friday, September 26, 2008

On October 14, 2008, Canadians will be heading to the polls for the federal election. New Democratic Party candidate Max Lombardi is standing for election in the riding of Cambridge. Lombardi is an information technology specialist who has lived in Cambridge for 25 years.

Held since 2004 by Conservative Gary Goodyear, the riding of Cambridge includes the city of Cambridge, Ontario and the Township of North Dumfries, Ontario. Also running in the riding are Gord Zeilstra (Liberal) and Scott Cosman (Green).

Wikinews contacted Max Lombardi, to talk about the issues facing Canadians, and what they and their party would do to address them. Wikinews is in the process of contacting every candidate, in every riding across the country, no matter their political stripe. All interviews are conducted over e-mail, and interviews are published unedited, allowing candidates to impart their full message to our readers, uninterrupted.

For more information, visit the campaign’s official website, listed below.

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Understanding Labrador Retrievers Why A Lab May Not Be For You

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By Kelly Marshall

Labrador Retrievers are considered people-oriented animals. So, they have to be in tune with their owners in order to follow certain guidelines. In order to understand this, you have to look deeper at what Labs were bred to do, and that is to hunt and retrieve.

You have to think of it this way; these dogs must be in perfect harmony with their hunter/owner in order to follow specific directions to track and find birds that have fallen to the ground. This need for the dog to have hand-held direction links to all aspects of a Labrador’s lifeeven in your home.

This is great for those who want constant canine companionship. Nevertheless, it is bad for dog owners who have a Labrador Retriever but expect their pet to entertain itself with little contact from the owner.

There are many hunting dogs that were bred to be independent hunters with little contact and instruction from people. Examples of these types of dogs are Terriers and Hounds, which are known to lead the way (by smell and sight) with the human hunter determined to keep up with their companions pace.

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This is not how the Labrador is built. Labs are designed to retrieve, and in doing so they must have a connected attention link directly to the hunter. If a retriever ignores the hunter’s commands then they may hit the water and swim far past where the bird has fallen, and possibly keep swimming out and away.

Retrievers that are well trained do not make these types of errors because they have the natural ability to attend to and follow thorough directions from the hunter. This skill is very critical to being a trustworthy retriever and is one of the reasons that these dogs make great service animals and obedience trainees.

Reason Why Some Labs Do Not Do Well With Many Families

You can probably understand by now just how connected and dependent a Labrador Retriever becomes to its owners. Retrievers always looks to people for leadership and must have human contact.

Its important to know that every dog breed is sociable to some extent. Some are even more sociable than others, but Labs need a whole log more attention than most dogs. They do not do very well when left alone for prolonged periods of time. A busy family who is away all day and come home to find out that their Lab has destroyed their new window trying to escape does not understand why this is happening.

These people are understandably livid and then chastise their Labs. An educated Lab owner will not act this way because they know better. They know what causes a Lab to try to escape like this and just wants to search out and find its owners. The dog is only considering their pack missing and make an attempt to find them outside.

One big lesson to take away from this article, especially if you have not yet decided on what type of dog to own and are thinking about getting a Labrador Retriever, is to make sure that you have plenty of time to devote to your Lab, day and night. If not, then consider a more independent dog breed. Otherwise, your lovable Lab may soon become increasingly unhappy and will end up a very destructive house pet, or worse, a runaway.

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Viktor Schreckengost dies at 101

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Sunday, January 27, 2008

Viktor Schreckengost, the father of industrial design and creator of the Jazz Bowl, an iconic piece of Jazz Age art designed for Eleanor Roosevelt during his association with Cowan Pottery died yesterday. He was 101.

Schreckengost was born on June 26, 1906 in Sebring, Ohio, United States.

Schreckengost’s peers included the far more famous designers Raymond Loewy and Norman Bel Geddes.

In 2000, the Cleveland Museum of Art curated the first ever retrospective of Schreckengost’s work. Stunning in scope, the exhibition included sculpture, pottery, dinnerware, drawings, and paintings.

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US toy retail giant Toys R Us files for bankruptcy in US, Canada

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Thursday, September 21, 2017

On Monday night, New Jersey, US-based toy retail giant Toys R Us filed for bankruptcy in the US as well as in Canada. The retailer filed it from Richmond, Virginia for Chapter 11 bankruptcy code in the US, and a judge allowed a loan of over US$2 billion.

According to the filing, the retail chain owns US$6.6 billion in assets, but has a debt of US$7.9 billion. They were under a roughly US$5 billion debt since the company underwent a three-way acquisition in 2005. Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Bain Capital, and Vornado Realty Trust acquired Toys R Us for around US$7 to US$7.5 billion. After the US judge approved a loan, Toys R Us received about US$3 billion from the lenders to continue the business and survive a competitive market, and restructure their business model. E-commerce giant Amazon.com, Walmart and Target are some of the competitors for the conventional ‘brick and mortar’ toy shop, with lower priced-merchandise and fast, cheap delivery. In a conference call in June, CEO Dave Brandon said “very, very aggressive pricing online” was causing problems. He also said the company was experiencing “significant weakness in demand for their products globally”. Toys R Us are to clear a debt of US$400 million by May 2018.

Toys R Us said they would continue to operate for the holiday season. Bankruptcy lawyer Jeff Gleit said Toys R Us “need to do both a financial restructuring as well as an operational restructuring” and “needs to modernize with the times”. Last holiday season, Toys R Us made sales around US$4.5 billion. Overall, the company reported a US$29 million loss in 2016. CEO Brandon said, “Our objective is to work with our debt holders and other creditors to restructure the US$5 billion of long-term debt on our balance sheet, which will provide us with greater financial flexibility to invest in our business”.

Toys R Us employs more than 60 thousand people in 38 countries around the world in more than 1600 stores. The company’s stocks fell by six percent after filing for Chapter 11 protection. US bankruptcy code Chapter 11 allows the company to restructure under a plan approved by the court. The company would also be shielded from creditors’ claims during the process. For the stores located in Canada, Toys R Us filed bankruptcy in Ontario and are to undergo reorganisation. However, 259 stores located outside the US or Canada will not undergo reorganisation, the company said.

Over 300 US-based retailers have filed for bankruptcy this year, and hundreds of stores closed.

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Handling Tomcat Java With The Web Hosting Firm

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Submitted by: Angela D Jones

If you have a plan in hosting a website using Tomcat Java, make sure you check certain things with your service providers. Tomcat Java is also called Apache Tomcat, even called Jakarta Tomcat. It was founded by Apache Software Foundation it s an open source container. It utilizes a pure Java Server environment for Java Servlet with the Java Server Pages (JSP).

To configure and manage operations of Apache Tomcat has all the software and tools, it can even be configures by XML files. Don t confuse Tomcat with Apache Web server, they are completely different. Apache web server is a C extension of a HTTP server. Depending on the server operating system, tomcat is installed as an addon in Cpanel or Plesk. Make sure you get this enabled this plugin feature while hosting the web.

How Tomcat Interacts With the JVM

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Each servlet is a standard Java class with some special elements that allow it to respond to HTTP requests, when servlets allows the JVM to handle each request in a separate Java thread. Main function of Tomcat is to pass HTTP request right component and generate results from the correct location once the JVM processes. Performance of the Tomcat Hosting will be affected if the Java Virtual Machine can t serve the purpose of the Tomcat request.

How to pick the correct JVM

There are many JVMs available; the majority of the users pick Sun Microsystem s Hotspot JVM, reason being its adaptive optimization features help in handling the Tomcat s request very effectively. You can try installing Tomcat on two different JVM for certain feature in the JDK in case to see which solution suits best. Pick one that provide awesome performance and the most features in the site on the launch.

In changing the JAVA_HOME environment variable in the chosen JVMs JDK, you need to edit catalina.sh in the Tomcat s bin folder. Configuration of the Tomcat to run on the server is a simple process.

You want the best of your JVM set the configuration to as closely as possible to match the real-world. Always have the latest version of the JVM, so that you can quantify what needs to be done in order to obtain accurate information for the benchmarks.

Memory management is on the major area one has to look into while setting up the JVM for Tomcat Hosting from wasting memory and even server power to process requests. You can tune these processes when in need by using JAVA_OPTS Xmx and Xmx in handling heap memory. In case of higher maximum heap memory use Xmx switch, if JVM invoked garbage collection too frequently. Xms switch never allows the JVM to reallocate more memory.

Green and Native are the two types of Java threads which JVM handles. Green threads are managed entirely by user with Java Virtual Machine, whereas Native threads are docket by the Operating system. When it comes to synchronization and thread activation, Green thread holds the key in the performance. If in case you are running a lot of Input and Output application, Native thread offer best performance. Pick which suits you the best for your business.

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Wikinews interviews William Pomerantz, Senior Director of Space Prizes at the X PRIZE Foundation

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Saturday, August 28, 2010

Andreas Hornig, Wikinews contributor and team member of Synergy Moon, competitor in the Google Lunar X Prize, managed to interview Senior Director of Space Prizes William Pomerantz of the X PRIZE Foundation about the competitions, goals, and impacts via e-mail for HDTVTotal.com and Wikinews.

By Wikinews,the free news source

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