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Canada’s Don Valley West (Ward 26) city council candidates speak

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This exclusive interview features first-hand journalism by a Wikinews reporter. See the collaboration page for more details.

Friday, November 3, 2006

On November 13, Torontonians will be heading to the polls to vote for their ward’s councillor and for mayor. Among Toronto’s ridings is Don Valley West (Ward 26). Four candidates responded to Wikinews’ requests for an interview. This ward’s candidates include Muhammad Alam, Bahar Aminvaziri, Orhan Aybars, Michele Carroll-Smith, Mohamed Dhanani, Abdul Ingar, Geoff Kettel, Debbie Lechter, Natalie Maniates, John Masterson, John Parker, David Thomas, Csaba Vegh, and Fred Williams.

For more information on the election, read Toronto municipal election, 2006.

1 Geoff Kettel
2 Natalie Maniates
3 John Parker
4 Csaba Vegh

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Ontario Votes 2007: Interview with Progressive Conservative candidate Penny Lucas, Kenora—Rainy River

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Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Penny Lucas is running for the Progressive Conservative in the Ontario provincial election, in the Kenora-Rainy River riding. Wikinews’ Nick Moreau interviewed regarding her values, her experience, and her 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.

Primary Duties And Responsibilities Of Event Management Professionals

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Primary Duties and Responsibilities of Event Management Professionals

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Event management professionals, also called as event planners, are people who plan and organize personal, social and corporate events successfully. Personal events include weddings, birthday or anniversary parties, house warming parties, retirement parties and graduation parties whereas social events include festivals, exhibitions, fairs, concerts, etc. Corporate events include conferences, product launch parties, film award functions, brand promotion, entertainment events, fashion shows, etc. In addition to this, the events can be of national and international level also. This means that the event planner should be able to manage events of any size. For example, in a birthday party, an event planner is responsible for managing few dozens of people but in an international award function, he will have to look after thousands of participants.

Every event requires a different approach for planning, processing, operating and organizing things like decoration, hospitality, catering, entertainment, etc., but the main responsibilities of event management professional are more or less the same. Let us discuss these responsibilities here:

Event planners have to discuss the event with the client first for finding out the reason of the event and based upon this, they have to decide the budget, event venue, and the theme as per the occasion. They are also responsible for inviting the guests, booking tickets if the guests are coming from outside the city, booking hotel rooms and checking other arrangements for the guests like the luggage, eating options, etc. If it is a business meeting, then they will have to arrange for car services to pick up and drop the business executives from airports.

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If it is a personal or social event, event planners will have to book suppliers for stage decoration, sound and light arrangements like DJ and music system or orchestra and audio-visual systems. If it is a corporate event, booking the conference rooms, arranging business material required for the meeting and arranging computers, laptops, projectors, microphones, internet connections and other multi-media arrangements are the primary jobs of event planners.

Any event is incomplete without food and beverages. Hence, event planners will have to decide the cuisine according to the theme, check whether the hosts are fine with it and arrange for catering service that will be serving that particular cuisine. In addition to this, event planners will also have to make arrangements for transportation and parking as well as provide security services for guests arriving for the event.

Event planners should also have good management skills. They should be able to co-ordinate well with their event management staff, make them understand the standard protocols required for effective progression of the event. They must detail the scheduled plan to the assembling staff who would then check whether food, decoration, entertainment and other arrangements are carrying out properly.

Event planners are also accountable for carrying out all the arrangements and planning as per the pre-decided budget. They will also have to brief the clients about technical and legal assistance, event insurance, risk management and health and safety measures taken to make the event a huge success.

Not only this, they will also have to clear up the decorations, seating arrangements and look after the left-over food by coordinating with the suppliers so that the venue gets cleared up after their client\’s event is over and is ready for another event to be held.

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IRA disbands military structure

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Thursday, October 5, 2006

The Independent Monitoring Commission has reported that the Provisional Irish Republican Army has undergone major changes within their military structure and shows that the IRA Army Council wants to put its military campaign behind it. The Commission consists of John Alderdice, a former Alliance Party leader; Joe Brosnan, former Secretary General of the Department of Justice, Republic of Ireland; John Grieve, former Deputy Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police and former head of the Metropolitan Police Anti-Terror Branch; and Dick Kerr, former Deputy Director of Central Intelligence Agency.

The report states the IRA no longer has the capacity to mount a military campaign anymore or return to one. The units that have been shut down were responsible for weapons-making, arms smuggling and training. The IRA decommissioned their arms last year.

The report also mentions that the IRA has also put its criminality beyond use and is “clamping down” on criminals within the organization, said Lord Alderdice, as he presented the report. He also added, “That doesn’t mean that criminal activity by all members has stopped but the leadership has made public statements and internal directions, investigated incidents of breach of the policy, even expelled some members and has emphasised the importance of ensuring that business affairs are conducted in a legitimate way.”

Finally, the report added that there is not enough evidence or intelligence to identify who killed Denis Donaldson, a British spy who infiltrated the IRA and Sinn Fein, before revealing his status as a spy.

However, the report added that splinter groups like the Real IRA (RIRA) and Continuity IRA (CIRA) are still threats and are still continuing their activity. The Real IRA was the group behind the deadly 1998 Omagh bombing. The Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) “was not capable of undertaking a sustained campaign [against the British State], nor does it aspire to” according to the report.

It is also noted the creation of two new organizations, Oglaigh na hEireann (Irish Gaelic for “Volunteers of Ireland” and is used by the Irish Defence Forces and the various IRAs.) and the Republican Defence Army. However, the groups are small dissident factions according to the report.

The report also added that the two loyalist paramilitaries, the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) and the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) are also beginning to move from violence but at slower pace and not at a grassroots level like the IRA. Another loyalist paramilitary, the Loyalist Volunteer Force

The report was received warmly by Irish Toaiseach Bertie Ahern and British Prime Minister Tony Blair. Ahern, said “These positive and clear-cut findings are of the utmost importance and significance. It is time to make decisions and for Northern Ireland to look to the future.”

“The IRA has done what we asked it to do, and while issues like policing remain to be solved, the door is now open to a final settlement, which is why the talks next week in Scotland are going to be so important.” said Tony Blair in a live statement.

In a surprising reaction, the notoriously hardline leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, Ian Paisley, also welcomed the report. He believes that his party’s pressure is working and if Sinn Fein signs up to policing there could be a deal. Paisley said, “If the police question is settled absolutely on a democratic basis and principle we would have come a long way along the road.”

Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams said “The DUP don’t have anything other than very limited options. They will or will not participate in power-sharing arrangements. If they don’t participate they are condemning people here, but particularly their own constituents, to second class public services, run by second class fly-in, fly-out British ministers. All the DUP can do is to delay, is to attempt to slow down, but they can’t stop the process of changing.”

New Zealand school children put fight videos on YouTube

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Friday, October 27, 2006

Approximately seven videos showing school children beating their peers have been put on the Google-owned video service, YouTube.

The videos are recorded using cellphone cameras from students at Auckland Grammar School, Tauranga Boys’ College and Saint Kentigern College and other unidentified schools, according to New Zealand newspaper, The Press.

Auckland Grammar has three videos of bullying and Tauranga Boys College and St Kentigern College both have one video each.

According to The Press one video filmed in Auckland Grammar shows two students, surrounded by a large circle of boys, knock another boy unconscious. The boy appears to have convulsions. The clip was put on YouTube by I0pex a month ago and was titled “Some guy getting KNocked the fuck out.” It had a rating of four and a half stars out of a possible five.

The video was not accessible on YouTube by 27 October, 2006 at 7.36 a.m. UTC, a notice displayed said, “This video has been removed due to terms of use violation.” The Press said an unidentified clip shows two girls fighting, which was also removed for the same reason.

YouTube guidelines state: “Real violence is not allowed. If your video shows someone getting hurt, attacked or humiliated, don’t post it.”

According to NewsRoom the video showing the bullying from Tauranga Boys’ College shows three students, one student holding another while being punched on the ground in the face. When a teacher breaks up the fight, the comments for the video criticise the teacher for doing so.

One other video shows one Asian student bullying another Asian, according to The Press.

Annabel Taylor, Family Help Trust chairwoman, said: “The clips represented the worst aspects of bullying. It is premeditated, organised, intentional, choreographed even, and that’s what distinguishes it from common schoolyard bullying.”

Tauranga Boys’ College deputy principal, Robert Naumann, said: “While appropriate disciplinary action was taken against the boys involved in the incident, and none of those filmed had given their permission for the footage to be posted on the web, the film has remained within the public domain despite attempts by college staff to have it removed,” he said, “Youtube has continued to support its placement”. The video was not accessible on 27 October, 2006 at 7.36 a.m. UTC. Graham Young, principal of Tauranga Boys’ College, said: “A video posted on the Internet showing two of his students fighting is inappropriate and bizarre, but not unusual. Unfortunately technology allows teenagers to put all sorts of material about each other on websites.”

Martin Crocker, Netsafe director, said that while posting the videos did not break any law, the actions filmed in the videos did. “The terrible thing is that the aim of online notoriety is driving people to do quite extreme things,” Crocker said.

Dave Turnbull, principal of Cashmere High School, said that he is unaware of anything like that has happened in Christchurch. “The reality is it could have been any school.”

According to Paul Shamy from Stopping Violence Services Christchurch, “[I am] not surprised that the violence was in well-to-do schools such as Auckland Grammar as violence is spread throughout society.”

Wikinews Shorts: February 5, 2007

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It Is Difficult To Imagine The Pharmacy Profits

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By Paul Hu

Now, in the pharmaceutical industry, hot on the topic, can be considered a pharmacy purchasing alliance. I do not know since when, pharmacy purchasing alliances are springing have been established, because no more than one, this model can make money, but also access to a large number of commercial and retail resource. But the good thing is often more grinding, to find a way to make money, we rush into the sky, naturally individualist tradition, that of course would be quite a mixed bag, but a mercenary.

Closer look, pharmacy purchasing alliance profit point is simply include the following: purchase and sale of generic drugs Maori, an exclusive purchase and sale of drugs or new drugs margins, downstream clients initial fee, store, or managed hosting fees, regular meetings or training fees, union publications advertising rates and information integration charges and so on.

Pharmacy purchasing alliance looked good money, but in fact very difficult. Such as purchase and sale of generic drugs, to do much turnover, gross margin is also guaranteed, it must have a management and information systems to support management and information systems but not a million or a turnover of 5 billion can be paid onwards. Further downstream customers such as initial fee and hosting fees, if alliance in retail management and retail sales on the top three can not do, you can bring any brand, managed and how to ensure profitability, programs, how convincing? By holding regular meetings and training, the Alliance in the short term profit, but revenue also depends on aspects of the brand, if only in terms of pulling the two so-called experts, lectures, rather than providing solutions to real combat, how can long-term survive?

For pharmacy purchasing alliance, I have the following view:

View 1: pharmacy purchasing alliance can profit in two ways: exclusive purchasing drugs or new drugs and the Union publications gross advertising charges.

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Exclusive drug profits is positive, as long as the Union upstream resources, a very good bargaining power, many downstream customers and close sales service good. The Alliance publications advertising rates reach solved the problem of upstream manufacturers more attractive, it is important issue of magnitude, to 5 million or more, is immune to non-profit.

Now we can see such a phenomenon: pharmacy purchasing coalition are often the initiator of the retail pharmacy industry, the “little man”, “big man” to stand up very little, while entrants are also “little man.” Such as Guizhou, a tree from the PTO and other eight regional chain drugstore business was launched, and Taeger from Chi Lin, the chain will not be a large retailer in the country, at the most dominant side only. The PTO and Taeger recruit downstream customers are mostly small, and in secondary and tertiary markets. Why the formation of such a situation? Are large retailers are “myopic”? I thought, “little man” is a reason to initiate and join the. “Little man” was launched in order to obtain the right to speak, took the opportunity to rapidly grow and profit; “little man” to join because of intense competition, low-margin trends as well as access to new development ideas. The reason is the absence of large retailers, Competition generic drugs distributor, purchasing alliances, but certainly more than the traditional large distributors and fast approval business; Competition exclusive drug distribution, the Union needs at least a high level of implementation and planning professionals, but also have a very wide range of distribution channels, drug addition exclusive limited resources, while at this stage, large retailers integrate their business networks have not yet completed, and can not engage in procurement Union ceded a lot of energy.

Second point: The last leader of the pharmacy purchasing alliance must launched by the very strong retailers.

Why not be the most powerful it? Such as Neptune, in Neptune’s strategic layout, the distribution of drugs have Neptune Galaxy, retail has Nepstar. If Nepstar pharmacy purchasing alliance to develop, must be capricious and, unless the Galaxy are not doing Neptune; of course, build their own pharmacy purchasing Union Sea King is also a development opportunity, not only can output management, brand and distribute its products in large quantities The key lies in how options Neptune, how trade-offs. So, why is it must be very strong retailers do? Retailers because it is strong and mature management information systems, there are all over the country’s logistics system, a large number of commercial outlets, a strong retail brand and business model. For these enterprises, the overall procurement advantage, buying and selling a lower marginal costs, while providing real combat experience in commercial retail.

In fact, the Union are often loose, and as the lower reaches of the large number of management difficult. Union plus a service organization, if the low quality of services provided, the Alliance development potential should play a big question mark. Also, the core of purchasing alliance buy and sell. Purchase, must have strong upstream bargaining power; sales require product marketable. The cost of buying and selling is the largest logistics costs, information costs and management costs. At present, the purchase and sale has been a “virtual drug distribution hall,” “shopping in the mall,” “integrated online auction” e-commerce tools such as intervention, I personally think that B2B is the trend.

Point three: best pharmacy purchasing alliance should be based on e-commerce for the information communication means, based on the purchase of medicine for the business to provide information integration and management of export, logistics solution to maximize the value of a cooperative customer satisfaction and profitability goals ratio .

Pharmacy purchasing alliance, after all, is a new thing, its really suitable choice of what kind of business model and profit model, is still hard to say. The emergence of pharmacy purchasing alliance, in fact there is a new distribution . To be blessed words: like pharmacy purchasing alliance well all the way!

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GM and Chrysler receive Canadian loans amid US restructuring ultimata

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Friday, April 3, 2009

General Motors (GM) and Chrysler will receive bridge loans from the government of Canada and the provincial government of Ontario, however no more will be forthcoming from either Canadian or US governments unless the companies can reinvent themselves.

“This is a regrettable but necessary step to protect the Canadian economy. We are doing this on the assumption that we obviously cannot afford either in the United States or Canada a catastrophic short-term collapse.” said Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada.

“We cannot, we must not, and we will not let our auto industry simply vanish. This industry is, like no other, an emblem of the American spirit; a once and future symbol of America’s success,” said Barack Obama, President of the United States. “These companies – and this industry – must ultimately stand on their own, not as wards of the state.”File:Sinsheim quer.jpg

Chrysler will receive CA$1 billion and may in fact be eligible for as much as CA$4 billion. If Chrysler succeeds in the next 30 days with a restructuring plan it would be eligible for a US$6 billion loan. A part of Chrysler’s restructuring plan must include a partnership with Fiat within 30 days to appease the US administration. Fiat is a supplier of smaller fuel-efficient vehicles, and the merger will help Chrysler to be viable in the North American market. A Chrysler court bankruptcy would inevitably lead to it being sold off.

As a part of Chrysler’s restructuring plans, Tom LaSorda, the president of Chrysler announced that Canadian operations would fold if it does not receive both the US commitment of $2.3 billion of aid and a new Canadian Auto Workers CAW contract to reduce all-in costs by CA$19 per hour. As a result of this announcement Chrysler’s auto sales volume in Canada dropped 23% compared to March of 2008.

GM has until the end of May to restructure its company to receive up to CA$7.5 billion. As part of the companies restructuring, General Motor’s chief executive Rick Wagoner was replaced Sunday with Fritz Henderson, the current chief operating officer. Henderson spoke out on Tuesday that GM has submitted a restructuring plan which would close five plants, and this may be increased to meet the requirements for financial aid. He is in full compliance with Obama’s auto task force to seek bankruptcy if GM cannot negotiate with their unions, bondholders and others.

GM recently brought forward the “GM Total Confidence” program providing consumer purchase protection for customers who lose their job for economic reasons within the first two years from purchase. As a result of Chrysler’s restructuring announcement in Canada, GM’s Canadian vehicle sales volume fell only 17.3% compared to 2008, an increase from the previous month.

GM must reduce some of its legacy costs which include its pensions and union health care costs. A part of GM’s ailments arose from investing in supplying truck and SUVs during an economy of high gas prices when consumers were demanding fuel efficient vehicles.

Tony Clement, Canada’s Minister of Industry, is hoping that the CAW will support the restructuring process and re-negotiate their agreement. Whereas a United Auto Workers negotiator has said, “I don’t see how the UAW will do anything until they see what the bondholders will give up.”

The Obama administration is looking toward bankruptcy proceedings for the automakers, “as a mechanism to help them restructure quickly and emerge stronger. [It will] quickly clear away old debts that are weighing them down. What we are asking is difficult. It will require hard choices by companies. It will require unions and workers who have already made painful concessions to make even more. It will require creditors to recognise that they cannot hold out for the prospect of endless government bailouts.” said Obama.

The auto parts suppliers and IT software exporters in India have already been affected by the declining auto sales. GM and Chrysler software contracts provide US$300 to 350 million a year to vendors in India. As well these two major automakers usually award US$1 billion contracts to auto parts suppliers. “We are worried and closely watching the developments in the US to gauge the impact. The decline in auto sales in the US has already hit the order books of Indian suppliers,” said a Delhi auto parts supplier.

“Going forward, the industry will undoubtedly be smaller, but if our efforts are successful it will be viable and it will support good jobs for Canadians,” said Clements.

Betty Sutton, Ohio’s Congresswoman put forward the CARS act which provides a US$3,000 to 5,000 incentive for those who trade in their vehicle for a fuel-efficient car. “It clearly stimulates the economy, and it gets the consumer into the showroom and gets them buying again. But importantly — and this is what I particularly like about it — it really helps the environment quite a bit in two respects.” said William Clay Ford Jr., executive chairman of Ford Motor Co.

Ford Motor Company has not come forward with requests for assistance.

Since December GM and Chrysler have received US$17.4 billion government loans.

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US researchers find a large asteroid held together by forces other than gravity

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Saturday, August 16, 2014

A team of researchers from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has confirmed that near-Earth asteroid (29075) 1950 DA is primarily held together by van der Waals forces rather than gravity. They have shown that the rotation rate of the 1.1 km asteroid is higher than could be possible if only gravity and friction were responsible for holding it together. Cohesive forces prevent large scale shedding of material and breakup of the asteroid. Their study was published Wednesday in Nature.

The researchers found that the bulk density 1.7±0.7 g/cm³ of the asteroid is approximately two times lower than the value required for self-gravity to balance out the centrifugal forces caused by rotation. As Ben Rozitis, a planetary scientist and a co-author of the study, told Space.com: “I was expecting to find a high-density metallic asteroid, as such an asteroid wouldn’t require cohesive forces to hold itself together under its fast rotation. Instead we found the opposite! […] We knew from previous work that this asteroid was rotating faster than it should be, and we wanted to know why”.

Spectral observations of 1950DA indicated that it is either an E- or M-type asteroid in the Tholen classification. However, its low optical albedo and low radar circular polarization ratio (a very smooth surface at centimetre to decimetre scales) showed that it cannot be an E-type asteroid.

Unusually for an M-type asteroid (which are mostly metallic), 1950DA has low radar albedo. It would have been puzzling, if it was not for the Rosetta observations of 21 Lutetia, which is also an M-type asteroid with very similar low radar albedo. Researchers have used for 1950DA the same meteorite analogue which was earlier found to fit best 21 Lutetia: enstatite chondrite with grain density of 3.55 g/cm³. It allowed to calculate macro-porosity of 51±19%, indicating that 1950DA is a rubble-pile asteroid.

Taking into account thermal-infrared measurements of thermal inertia, presence of a fine-grained regolith is implied, primarily around 1950DA’s equator. Negative ambient gravity near the equator of the asteroid (48±24% of its surface) requires existence of cohesive forces to prevent loss of material. This is similar to an effect noticed between the fine grains of regolith on the Moon. Lunar regolith was found to be highly cohesive because of van der Waals forces between grains by the Apollo 17 expedition in 1974.

As Ben Rozitis explained: “We found a low-density rubble pile that traditionally would be unable to hold itself together unless cohesive forces were present. It’s exciting because we’ve provided the first evidence that cohesive forces are important for small asteroids, which had only been predicted up until now.”

The balance between cohesion and negative gravity requires small grain sizes consistent with the grain size distribution on 1950DA, and similar to that of another rubble-pile asteroid, (25143) Itokawa. Unlike Itokawa, 1950DA does not have large boulders on the surface; they may have been lost as 1950DA’s rotation accelerated due to YORP effect. This effect results in a change of the rotation rate of an asteroid (either faster or slower), and is caused when the Sun heats up an object unevenly, due to asymmetric surface topography. As the heat escapes, the rotation rate is slowly changed due to an uneven rate of cooling. The researchers find that a rubble-pile asteroid may have a high rotation rate, if it is held together by cohesive forces between the grains. But as the spin rate increases due to YORP effect, the centrifugal force may cause the rubble pile to eventually separate as it happened with P/2013 R3.

The findings may have implications for asteroid impact avoidance. A very small impulse may break one potentially hazardous object into several pieces. As Ben Rozitis said: “You’d want to avoid interacting with the asteroid directly. An alternative is to use a ‘gravity tractor,’ or a heavy spacecraft placed near the asteroid, which uses the force of gravity to pull the asteroid off course”. Bong Wie, an aerospace engineer at Iowa State University in Ames, noted: “I just hope that an asteroid on a collision course with Earth will not be spinning rapidly and it will not be a rubble-pile asteroid”.

According to Daniel Scheeres, an aerospace engineer at the University of Colorado, Boulder, understanding such cohesive forces may also be important for future asteroid mining. Ben Rozitis clarified: “Mining missions intend to visit small asteroids about 10 meters (33 feet) or less in size, as it is thought that they are predominantly solid bodies. However, cohesive forces enable such small asteroids to be rubble piles instead. A small rubble-pile asteroid would be harder to interact with and collect, as it can easily deform or break up when subject to external forces.”

The study was supported by Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology and the NASA.

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