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OhmyNews forum discusses experiences in citizen journalism

Thursday, June 30, 2005

Seoul —

The OhmyNews International Citizen Reporters’ Forum (see previous report) concluded on Saturday with several speeches and a visit to sponsoring companies in South Korea’s technology sector. Some invited “citizen reporters” from around the world extended their stay by several days to tour the country. Since the conclusion of the conference, presentations and transcripts have been published on the OhmyNews web site. [1]

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Health care has been so much in the news lately and there has been so much discussion about it, most people probably have no idea how they may be affected. Here, in the United States, national health care has been basically, Medicare, for those over 65 (or disabled) and the state run, Medicaid, in New York, or similar program, in other states. In order to qualify for state medical aid, one must have virtually no income or assets. This type of system leaves many people in a difficult situation with their health care status. If they are not working at a company that provides medical coverage, not elderly or not dirt poor, you may have problems with medical care. National health care would help those who do not qualify for state aid and not eligible for Medicare or any other health benefit program through work or school. Many jobs provide access to a couple of health plans and cover part of the cost of enrollment, where the remainder, is deducted from the employee’s salary. Of course, how much is covered depends on the employer. When an employee leaves the job, they can be eligible for co-ordination of benefits rights act(COBRA) and still qualify for the reduced payment of the insurance coverage. National health care can provide either a wide range of medical insurance plans at affordable prices to the general public or direct assistance with medical claims and bills. It can also help people with more serious illnesses pay for expensive medications and lab work.

Family of Chile’s former leader Augusto Pinochet arrested on embezzlement charges

Friday, October 5, 2007

The widow and five children of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet have been arrested in Chile on embezzlement charges. They are accused of illegally transferring USD27 million to foreign bank accounts during Pinochet’s rule from 1973 to 1990. Seventeen of Pinochet’s former associates, including his former personal secretary and three retired army generals, were also arrested.

Pinochet had been charged with tax evasion, fraud, and embezzlement following a 2004 U.S. Senate investigation. In December 2006, he died without having been brought to trial. However, Chilean Judge Carlos Cerda said there were “solid indications” that Pinochet’s family and associates had also “participated in the misuse of fiscal funds”.

Jose Miguel Vivanco of Human Rights Watch called the decision “an extremely important development for Chile’s democracy and the rule of law. Going after the relatives of the powerful and the fortunes they amassed used to be considered off limits,” he said.

Pinochet family lawyer Pablo Rodriguez said he was “astonished by this illegal and abusive decision by the judge”, and that he was “sure that it will be reversed by the Court of Appeals.”

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South Australia enters week-long lockdown to contain COVID-19 Delta variant spread

Friday, July 23, 2021

With five active cases of the Delta variant of COVID-19, South Australia begun a one-week lockdown on Monday. Announcing the lockdown, state Premier Steven Marshall declared “we have no alternative but to impose some fairly heavy and immediate restrictions”.

The first case out of South Australia’s active cases was presented to Modbury Hospital on Sunday night, having returned from Argentina earlier this month. The fifth, which Premier Marshall noted as “far more worrying”, visited The Greek on Halifax restaurant at the same time as someone who was later confirmed to be carrying the virus. Chief Public Health Officer for the state Nicola Spurrier said “if anyone has been at The Greek on Halifax they need to get into quarantine and get tested”.

In accordance with new regulations, there are only five reasons for South Australians to leave home: essential work, shopping for essential goods such as food, exercise, but only with people from the same household and within 2.5 kilometers (2 mi) of home, medical reasons (which includes testing and vaccination against the coronavirus, but excludes elective and cosmetic surgery), and caregiving.

Schools have closed for all but children of essential workers, with online learning having begun on Thursday. Face masks are also be mandated for those who leave home. ABC News reported that “support for businesses is expected to be announced…”, with all non-essential retail required to close under the new regulations.

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Wikinews interviews World Wide Web co-inventor Robert Cailliau

Thursday, August 16, 2007

The name Robert Cailliau may not ring a bell to the general public, but his invention is the reason why you are reading this: Dr. Cailliau together with his colleague Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, making the internet accessible so it could grow from an academic tool to a mass communication medium. Last January Dr. Cailliau retired from CERN, the European particle physics lab where the WWW emerged.

Wikinews offered the engineer a virtual beer from his native country Belgium, and conducted an e-mail interview with him (which started about three weeks ago) about the history and the future of the web and his life and work.

Wikinews: At the start of this interview, we would like to offer you a fresh pint on a terrace, but since this is an e-mail interview, we will limit ourselves to a virtual beer, which you can enjoy here.

Robert Cailliau: Yes, I myself once (at the 2nd international WWW Conference, Chicago) said that there is no such thing as a virtual beer: people will still want to sit together. Anyway, here we go.

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British doctor killed while on honeymoon

Thursday, July 31, 2008

Catherine Mullany, a newly married British woman, and her husband, Ben Mullany, have been shot while on honeymoon in Antigua. Catherine died on the scene, while Ben is in a critical condition in Hospital.

The families of the Mullanys have described themselves as “deeply shocked and devastated.”

The incident occurred at 05:00 Antigua time (09:00 GMT) on Tuesday, and it is being treated by police as a robbery. A police spokesperson described the incident. “Shortly after 5am this morning officers from the Bolans Police station responding to a call, arrived at Cocos Hotel and Restaurant in the Valley Church area, the scene of a murder.” UK police have been asked to help in the inquiry.

Catherine Mullany was a doctor, who, before her death, planned to become a GP. Ben was a physiotherapy student at the University of the West of England (UWE), which is located in Bristol, England. Mary Price, the Media Relations and Internal Communications Manager for UWE, gave Wikinews the following statement:

Ben Mullany is a third year physiotherapy student at the University of the West of England. Ben is a very good student who is greatly valued by staff and his peers. Staff and fellow students are deeply shocked to hear of this tragic incident. Our condolences go to his wife’s family and our thoughts are with his family at this difficult time.

This story has updates See British man dies five days after wife in honeymoon shooting

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How To Identify And Reduce Contract Risks And Increase Contract Management Effectiveness

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Your company may be at risk of significant financial loss and legal problems due to insufficient attention to contract management. Contracts are often involved when your company/organization purchases or sells goods and services, or enters into relationships with companies or individuals for a wide range of purposes. Most organizations can benefit from implementing better, consistent organization-wide practices and procedures for drafting, negotiating, signing, fulfilling and storing contracts. If you are not confident that your organization has a well designed and functioning contract management process, you can assess the effectiveness of your contract management processes and practices and identify ways to reduce contract risks by conducting a Contract Risk Assessment Survey.

Contract Risk Surveys gather information about practices and procedures for drafting, negotiating, signing, fulfilling and storing contracts across organizations. The objective is to use the information gathered by the survey to develop better consistency across the organization to maximize the efficiency of contracting practices and processes and minimize risks associated with any inadequate contracting controls.

The questions in Contract Risk Assessment Surveys are designed to gather information for analyzing how organizations manage contracts. The insight and information managers and other employees involved in the contract process provide is essential for filling in significant knowledge gaps and for calibrating contract practices across business areas in order to develop successful and scalable company-wide practices.

Identifying Contract Risks

Contract Risk Surveys identify enterprise-wide and organizational unit specific contract-related risks. Some of the contract risks identified by the surveys include:

1. Risk to the organization’s assets, intellectual property, reputation, etc. due to poorly written/executed contracts

2. Risk of unauthorized employees signing contracts committing the organization financially and legally

3. Risk of contract non-compliance by suppliers and other entities

4. Risk of not monitoring/following up on contract terms and requirements

5. Risk of creating and signing contracts that are unfavorable to your organization

6. Risk of creating and/or signing contracts without advice/review by legal counsel

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7. Risk of misplacing original signed contracts

8. Risk of having inefficient and inconsistent contract practices and procedures across the organization

9. Risk of not keeping contracts and contract terms confidential

Issues included in Contract Risk Assessment Surveys

Following are several of over 25 issues that we include inContract Risk Surveys:

1. Identification of current contract practices

2. Awareness of contract practices

3. Types of contracts by organizational unit

4. Awareness of/compliance with contract signing authority

5. Typical value of individual contracts by business units

6. Annual value of contracts by business units

7. Use of third party contracts/contract terms vs. in-house contracts

8. Use of contract templates

9. In-house, external or no legal support for drafting contracts

10. In-house, external or no legal review of contracts

11. Identifying concerns about contracts

12. Practices for storing and preserving paper and electronic copies of contracts

Benefits of Contract Surveys

Contract Risk Assessment Surveys provide several benefits that mitigate risks and increase performance across organizations:

1. Improve contract tracking and contract compliance resulting in reduced contract creation and contract management costs

2. Ensure suppliers and other outside parties are complying with your organization’s contracts

3. Provide legal staff with information for enhancing their support of the contract process

4. Avoid costly contract related litigation

5. Determine how well contract practices and processes have been communicated and are being followed across the organization

6. Use the contract risk survey findings for contract risk mitigation and to design and implement a consistent, enhanced contract management process and contract practices

7. Reduce the risk of unauthorized creation and signing of contracts

8. Provide managers with useful information about their business unit’s contracts and how well they are creating and managing contracts

9. Ensure that paper and electronic contracts are stored securely

Concluding Thoughts

If your company/organization does not have a consistent process and practices in place for managing all of your contracts, or if any of the contract management issues mentioned in this article describe possible shortfalls in your contract management practices, conducting a cost-effective Contract Risk Assessment Survey within your organization is a highly effective way to identify contract related risks. This is a key first step in managing contracts more effectively and reducing contract risks.

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Queen Elizabeth II unveils New Zealand Memorial in London

Sunday, November 12, 2006

The New Zealand Head of State, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of New Zealand, unveiled the New Zealand Memorial at Hyde Park Corner today in London.

Her Majesty told the audience that New Zealanders had written themselves into a special place in the history books.

“Many of them for deeds of exceptional bravery and sacrifice.”

“But most of them for simply giving their all in duty, in courage and in dogged determination to fight for peace and freedom from tyranny.”

The striking memorial named ‘The Southern Stand’, commemorates the “strong and enduring” relationship between New Zealand and the United Kingdom, and serve as a focus of remembrance of the shared sacrifice during the two World Wars and other military engagements from the South African War to the present day.

The dedication of the New Zealand Memorial at Hyde Park Corner featured cultural performances, a fly past of aircraft and famous New Zealanders from the world of sport and music.

The monarch, accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh, and dignitaries from both countries, war veterans and more than 1,500 New Zealanders living and working in Britain.

Among the New Zealand celebrities that attended are former national rugby captain Sean Fitzpatrick, ex-international cricketer Chris Cairns and pop singer Daniel Bedingfield who was born in the country.

Singer-songwriter Dave Dobbyn and soprano Hayley Westenra performed during the ceremony.

The $3 million memorial was funded by the New Zealand Government and consists of 16 cross-shaped vertical bronze ‘standards’ set out in formation across the north east corner of Hyde Park Corner in central London.

Each standard weighs up to 700kg and through text, patterns and small sculptures commemorates the shared sacrifice of British and New Zealand ex-servicemen, while also celebrating the wider social, cultural and economic ties of the two countries.

The event began with a Royal Guard of Honour formed by the largest contingent of New Zealand forces to be seen in the UK since Her Majesty’s Coronation in 1953. Over 250 Army, Navy and Air Force personnel left for London on Sunday 5 November, the contingent comprises a Royal Guard, Cataflaque Party, Maori Cultural Group and tri-Service Band.

New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark said she hoped it could be a part of London that New Zealanders could always call home.

“It’s genesis lay in the desire to commemorate the shared sacrifice of New Zealanders in times of war, alongside the people of Britain,” Helen Clark said.

“New Zealand’s relationship with Britain dated back to the 18th century, and Captain James Cook’s exploration of New Zealand,” she said.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair said the link between the two nations was not just historic. “The bonds of friendship between our two countries, remain as strong as ever. Our peoples are close, they come and go between our two countries as much as ever, we invest in each others’ economies, we share culture and sport – where friends become rivals.”

Designed by architect John Hardwick-Smith and sculptor Paul Dibble the memorial consists of 16 cross-shaped vertical bronze ‘standards’ set out in formation on a grassy slope. Each standard is adorned with text, patterns and small sculptures. “Through the words and images, any New Zealander visiting the memorial will recognise home, and British people may learn something of the relationship between our two countries,” explains Paul Dibble.

“We set the memorial in a position where the main pedestrian route runs through the memorial so that visitors will walk amongst the sculptures, encouraging people to stop and explore. Through the words and images, any New Zealander visiting the memorial will recognise home, and British people may learn something of the relationship between our two countries.”

The memorial is located at Hyde Park Corner, diagonally opposite the Australian War Memorial which was completed in 2003.

In October 2004, 12 designs teams were selected from the 68 who submitted expressions of interest. These teams submitted designs for the memorial, and an expert panel, appointed by the Ministry for Culture and Heritage, selected the final design. The memorial design is a collaboration between Dibble Art Co and Athfield Architects, led by sculptor Paul Dibble and architect John Hardwick-Smith, with Jon Rennie as the team’s London representative.

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One of the most common health conditions in the world today is heart disease. People who are diagnosed cardiovascular ailments have to bear the dreadful thought that cardiac arrest can happen to them at any time. If you have a member of the family who has been inflicted with a heart condition, knowing what to do in times of emergencies through CPR classes Denver is an ideal precaution.During cardiac arrest, blood circulation and the supply of oxygen to the brain is put to a halt. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation is the emergency procedure performed so as to counter such junctures. Blood and oxygen will then continue to pump into the heart and brain. Thus, the person going through cardiac arrest will not become brain dead, or worse, die an untimely death.Heart conditions have become one of the leading causes of death in the world today. Men and women in their sixties are the most likely victims of cardiac arrest. The American Red Cross has determined that one hundred thousand people die every year from heart failure.Living with someone who has a heart condition will require you to develop an understanding that such person could suffer heart failure. Most especially if his or her condition has reached its worst point. It should be your responsibility and that of other people you share the household with, to know CPR in order to handle an emergency situation correctly.Knowledge and skills on such emergency procedure should also be applied outside the household and even to people you do not know. It is possible that one day you might be at a grocery store and you just happen on a person who is experiencing sudden cardiac arrest. When you, at that given moment, know what to do, the life of the person will be spared. There is no greater gratification that knowing that you saved someone from a needless death.Finding a facility or person who offers CPR lessons is not entirely taxing. You may already know people who know how to perform this particular emergency procedure. Hence, it is best to approach them and inquire where they acquired lessons.The hospital in your area could also offer classes on emergency procedures. One advantage you can get from availing lessons in a hospital is that you are assured of efficient training from a certified professional. Moreover, it is highly likely that such hospital could offer the lessons for free.Contacting the American Red Cross is also ideal. The renowned organization is known for their dedication to saving and preserving the lives of people. They are also recognized for their beneficial and effective programs, one of them being lessons on emergency procedures.Vital knowledge so as to handle emergency situations can be acquired through CPR classes Denver. Simply by knowing what to do and how to do it, you will come to a desired outcome. Most especially when something very important, such as the life of a person, is at stake.