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Stuart Ryan is running for the Communist Party in the Ontario provincial election in Ottawa Centre. Wikinews interviewed him regarding his values, his experience, and his campaign.
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Highland Airways, which runs flights between Anglesey in north Wales and Cardiff in south Wales, has said today that it is business as usual, despite suspending online booking yesterday. Meanwhile, Liberal Democrats have called on the Welsh Assembly Government to withdraw the £800,000 annual public subsidy for the route (about US$1.3 million) and use the money on “green public transport” instead.
Although flights were continuing and passengers were told to “check in as normal”, the company stopped taking bookings for future flights yesterday, blaming “technical difficulties”. However, it also said that trading conditions were “difficult”. The company’s commercial director, Basil O’Fee, explained that the company’s problems had been “exacerbated by the severe winter and resultant reduced flying and reduced income.” He added that the board was in talks with potential new investors, and hoped for a outcome of these discussions to be known “within days rather than weeks”.
“It is now time to end this costly debacle before even more public money is poured into a service that is both economically and environmentally unsustainable,” according to Kirsty Williams, leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats. She wants the money spent on improving rail transport in Wales.
However, Ieuan Wyn Jones, the leader of the Welsh nationalist party Plaid Cymru and the Assembly member for Anglesey, said that the service was an “essential link”. He hoped that the company would be able to keep going, or in a “worse case scenario”, that the route would be run by administrators while the Assembly Government looked at other options.
The company has carried 37,000 people on its twice-daily service since it started operating. According to Jones, this showed that that the service “has been a huge success with passenger numbers far exceeding expectations”.
Bidding for the next contract with the Assembly Government to provide the route closed last week, with Highland Airways thought to be the only entrant. The lack of other bids was “particularly worrying”, commented Jenny Randerson, Welsh Liberal Democrats transport spokesperson. “This does suggest that despite huge public subsidy, this service is still not seen as a viable, profitable, and green solution to this key transport need”, she said.
Highland Airways is based in Inverness, Scotland, where it operates passenger and freight services for island communities. The news that the company was in difficulty was said to come as a surprise to business and transport leaders in Scotland, where it is regarded as a “Highland success story”.
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Christmas Gifts For Men – Specialty Gift Baskets
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Shopping for Christmas gifts for men can be challenging. You may be looking for gifts for your husband, boyfriend, dad, brother, or son, and find yourself out of new ideas. You do not want to send another boring shirt or tie. On the other hand, expensive Watches and jewelry may cause serious setback to your budget. Maybe this year you can do something different. You can send the men in your life a specialty gift basket. This article explains what specialty gift baskets are and provides some gift ideas based on them.
Specialty gift baskets are gift baskets with a special theme. For example, golf gift baskets are filled not only with gourmet snacks, but also golf gadgets for the golfing fans. Other specialty gift baskets include baskets with special themes on football, baseball, camping, motorcycling, NASCAR, fishing, and gardening. These themed gift baskets are ideal gifts for men when you select one with a theme that matches their hobby. Some popular themed gift baskets are described below: 1. Football: For your die hard football fans, you can send them a football gift basket filled with a ceramic football mug, ceramic football chip and dip plate, and a ceramic football desktop change holder. For their game time snacks, they can find sports theme bag with snack mix, chunky salsa, roasted peanuts, sugar cookies, tortilla chips, white cheddar popcorn, and summer sausage. This unique gift will delight all the football fanatics in your life. 2. Baseball: Similarly, for your baseball fans, you can take them out to the ballpark with a baseball lovers gift basket. The basket contains a ceramic baseball frame, ceramic baseball mug, ceramic desk top bank, and a vinyl baseball slammer ball. For snacks, they will find famous Amos chocolate chip cookies, white corn tortilla chips, summer sausage, nacho cheese dip, cracker jacks, white cheddar popcorn, beer nuts and a Double Bubble baseball bat filled with bubble gum. 3. Golf: For your golfing fans, the ideal gift is a golf gift box filled with practice golf balls, golf tees, golf themed peanuts, beef Salami, cheese crackers, cheese, prezel twists, cream filled cookies, and a 250 page book of golf wisdom. 4. Motorcycling : For your Weekend warriors and die hard motorcycling fans, a motorcycle themed gift basket will be the perfect gift for them. The basket is filled with unique motorcycle mementos that will be cherished for years to come. Included are a ceramic motorcycle bank, ceramic motorcycle picture frame, motorcycle coffee mug, and a bandana. For treats, they can find Jack Daniels coffee, cheese snack mix, chocolate cream filled wafer cookies, water crackers, chocolate chip cookies, cheddar popcorn, and summer sausage. 5. Fishing: For the fishermen in your life, you can send them a wicker fishing creel with leather clasp and shoulder strap. It is filled with summer sausage, pretzel sticks, grained mustard, creamy vegetable dip. and honey roasted peanuts. They can also find fish bait, gummyworms, the Fisherman’s Guide to Life book, fishing mug, and a fishing photo frame to show off their big catch. The fishermen in your life can refresh with the abundant sweet and savory snacks after a long day of fishing. 6. Camping: For those outdoor enthusiasts, you can send a camping gift consisting of an unbreakable soft cooler filled with all the camping necessities. They can find an all purpose flashlight, compass combination with thermometer, a stainless steel pocket knife with key ring that can function as bottle opener, can opener, can reamer, knife, scissors, corkscrew, nail file, nail cleaner, and phillips screwdriver. Also included are refillable child resistant lighter, cloth bandana, water bottle, and a first Aid Kit. For treats, they can find dried apple crisps, Ramblin Ranch Campfire coffee, focaccia snack bites and sunflower seeds. This gift has all the necessities and snacks for a day of camping, 7. NASCAR: Stock car racing fans will love receiving a gift box packed with race themed snacks and savory treats. They will find a stock car wisdom book, energy drink, chocolate wafer cookies, caramel corn, beef sticks, cheddar popcorn, pretzel rods, creamy cheese spread, and decorative checkered flag. 8. Gardening: For the gardeners in your life, you can send a gardening tote that is designed just for men. The gardening tote meets the basic needs of every gardening lover in America. This heavy duty all canvas garden tote contains real gardening tools, a spritzer bottle, a Gardening Basics book with hints and suggestions for problems in the garden, and seed packets. For their break from planting and weeding, they can enjoy the smoked almonds, Parmesan cracker crisps, cranberry trail mix, water crackers, summer salami, honey mustard pretzels, garden vegetable cheese, and chocolate cream filled wafer roll cookies. The is the perfect gift for the real gardening enthusiast. In summary, specialty gift baskets are ideal gifts for men. They can be sent for Christmas, birthday, or other occasions. You just have to select the basket designed with the theme that matches their favorite hobby. They will appreciate that you have put in the extra effort to find the gift that is in line with his passionate leisure activities.
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How business credit card can help you?
Credits cards have been very useful in the present-day society. If you have a business, you can consider applying for a business credit card. You see business credit cards offer a great help for business owners especially the small ones.
Business credit cards serve as the most effective tool that business owners can use to improve their day-to-day operations. And just like any other credit card, you should be choosy in picking the right business credit card for you.
Ideally, a business credit card is intended for helping with all the needs of a certain business owner. More often than not, this kind of credit card is the one that has a higher amount of credit limit and low interest rate. There are lots of benefits that you can reap depending on the type of business credit card you choose.
One of the major reasons why business credit card is designed is to lend a hand to all those small business owners who are in need. It’s the best way to be of assistance to a growing business by keeping you updated on your business purchases. Additionally, it allows you to keep track of your finances and build your credit history.
So many options to choose from
There are many kinds of business credit cards that’s why when you apply for one, you should compare the business credit cards first. Take your time to look into what the credit card is offering to your business. Don’t just grab the application form and sign up for the credit card. Consider the best possible options that are available. This is to make sure that you opted for the most appropriate business credit card.
To facilitate you to a more fruitful business, you can check out these helpful tips on how you can get the ideal business credit card for your business.
1.Go for the best. There are large numbers of business credit card products that are available in the market. As the day goes by, more and more business credit cards are coming out. For that reason, being selective is a must. Analyze the terms and conditions of the credit card. Understand the things that you need to know regarding the proper usage of the card.
2.Consider the offers. Asses all the offers that you get from the credit card companies. Check your statement of account to give you the beast deals.
3.Look for a card and make the most of it. Choose the suitable business credit card that matches your business requirements. Remember that different business credit cards offer different benefits and terms. When you’ve found the one, stick with it because card hopping has a bad effect on your credit profile.
4.Check what business credit cards are available. Visit the web and look for the business credit card that complements to your business. You can also visit a bank or call up the credit card department of that bank for your inquiries.
5.Study the interest rate. Ideally, the interest rate should be low. It’s not appropriate to spend your entire company fund in paying the interest of the credit card.
6.Review the requirements that are needed. It is important to be familiar with all the requirements needed to be qualified for the business card credit application.
Overall, business credit cards are indeed the key to success of a budding business. Make best use of these credit cards. Pick the one that you think will bring you great benefits. And most importantly, know your limitations. The usage of credit cards is also accompanied with some rules to follow to avoid trouble.
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Thursday, March 25, 2010
A prank by three young kitchen staff at Hungry Jack’s fast food restaurant in the Central-Western New South Wales city of Bathurst went wrong when two customers required medical treatment after eating burgers they had laced with multi-purpose cleaner.
According to staff at the Emergency Department of Bathurst Hospital, two Hungry Jack’s customers became ill Sunday night after eating burgers contaminated with a chemical believed to be multi-purpose cleaner. One of the patrons was in a serious condition upon arrival at Bathurst Hospital due to being allergic to an ingredient in the cleaning product. “He presented to the emergency department as he was having an allergic reaction after eating a burger from Hungry Jacks, he was in a really bad way when he arrived here and if he had waited much longer it could have been much worse,” said a Greater Western Area Health Service employee. “We called Hungry Jacks and they said that three of their employees had been goofing off and sprayed multi-purpose cleaner inside the burgers so we then treated the patients for poisoning.”
Both customers are expected to make a full recovery. During an investigation undertaken by Wikinews reporter Nathan Carter, it was learned that the chemical sprayed into the burgers was KAY multipurpose cleaner which is reported to cause nausea, diarrhoea and mucosal and gastric irritation. The Material Safety Data Sheet for KAY multipurpose cleaner lists Antonic Surfactants as its hazardous ingredient.
In New South Wales, it is a criminal offence to make food intended for sale unsafe punishable by 2 years imprisonment. Due to restrictions on the publication of the name of young people involved in crimes in New South Wales, the names of kitchen staff can not be published. Wikinews was told by Hungry Jack’s staff that the staff involved in the incident remained employed by Hungry Jack’s. Josh, a Hungry Jack’s manager at the Bathurst restaurant, told Wikinews that his boss Adam was aware of the food contamination issue and would be taking steps to address it.
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Friday, March 28, 2008
2008 Taipei International Cycle Show (Taipei Cycle) & Taipei International Sporting Goods Show (TaiSPO) not only did a best reunion with conjunctions of the launch of Taipei World Trade Center Nangang Exhibition and the concurrent cycling race of 2008 Tour de Taiwan but also provide opportunities and benefits for sporting goods, bicycle, and athlete sports industries to establish the basis of the sourcing center in Asia and notabilities on the international cycling race.
Although the Taipei cycle was split from the TaiSPO since 1988, but the trends of sporting good industry in Taiwan changed rapidly and multiply because of modern people’s lifestyles and habits. After the “TaiSPO Innovation Award” was established since 2005, the fitness and leisure industries became popular stars as several international buyers respected on lifestyle and health.
For example, some participants participated Taipei Cycle and TaiSPO with different product lines to do several marketing on bicycle and fitness equipments, this also echoed the “Three New Movements” proposed by Giant Co., Ltd. to make a simple bicycle with multiple applications and functions. As of those facts above, Wikinews Journalist Rico Shen interviewed Ideal Bike Corporation and Gary Silva, designer of “3G Steeper” to find out the possibilities on the optimizations between two elements, fitness and bicycle.
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Saturday, October 20, 2007
Dell Inc. announced on Tuesday that it will partner up with the Microsoft-Nortel Innovative communications alliance (ICA) team to sell Unified Communications and VoIP products.
The announcement on Tuesday the 16th of October 2007 includes Dell selling VoIP, data and wireless networking products from Nortel and the Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 and other unified communications products.
The partnership with both manufacturers should allow Dell to provide a pre-integrated solution.
In March 2007, competitors IBM and Cisco announced they would join in the competition for developing unified communications applications and the development of open technologies around the unified communications and collaboration (UC2) client platform an application programming interfaces (APIs) offered by IBM as a subset of Lotus Sametime.
“We want to make it simple for our customers to deploy unified communications so their end users can get access to all their messages in one place – whether its e-mail, phone or mobile device. This will pave the way for more business-ready productivity tools,” said vice president of solutions, Dell Product Group, Rick Becker.
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Thursday, August 21, 2008
Iran has announced that on August 17 it conducted a successful test flight of the Safir carrier rocket, which was launched from Semnan Province, Iran.
The nature of the test flight is currently unclear, with various contradictory reports and statements being issued. It has been claimed that this test flight was used to launch into orbit the Omid, a low earth orbit satellite, however, later reports suggest that a demonstration payload was affixed to the rocket. In addition to uncertainty regarding the rocket’s payload, some reports suggest that the rocket reached orbit, whereas others suggest that it intentionally flew a sub-orbital trajectory, similar to two previous test flights.
It is believed that if the Omid satellite was not launched on this rocket, it may be launched as early as next week. Upon successful launch, the Omid will be the second Iranian satellite to be placed into orbit, and will be the first to be launched on an indigenously developed rocket.
The Safir rocket is believed to be a derivative of the Shahab-3 missile, itself an Iranian-produced derivative of the North Korean Rodong-1 missile. Safir is Persian for “envoy” or “ambassador”. The launch follows a number of controversial missile tests conducted by Iran during July, and an earlier sub-orbital test of the Safir rocket in February.
The details of the launch have yet to be confirmed by independent observers, however, videos have been published online. If the rocket did reached orbit, Iran will be the eleventh country to develop the ability to launch satellites. The last country to develop such a capability was Russia, which used technology inherited from the Soviet Union to launch the Kosmos 2175 spy satellite in 1992. Israel was the last country to develop a completely independent launch system, Shavit, which first flew in 1988.
Other countries to have developed a satellite launch capability are Russia (and the former Soviet Union), the United States, France, Japan, China, the United Kingdom, India and Israel. It would be the 40th orbital launch so far this year, and the 39th to reach orbit.
On August 19, a United States official stated, “The vehicle failed shortly after liftoff and in no way reached its intended position.” The video footage shown on Iranian state television was only about one minute and it wasn’t shown how far the rocket went upward.
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Sunday, May 21, 2006
Lordi, described as “cartoon metalheads” wearing latex monster masks, beat runner-up Russian “heart throb” Dima Bilan to win this year’s 51st Eurovision song contest held in Athens, Greece. Bosnia’s Hari Mata Hariwas came third.
In a spectacular show, hosted by Maria Menounos and Sakis Rouvas, Lordi amassed 292 points after a public vote – 44 ahead of Russia. Greece’s singer Anna Vissi, who was one of the favourites to win, came 9th, followed by Ireland’s Brian Kennedy. From the start of the song contest as well as during the televoting, the Greek organisers presented viewers choreographies and dances inspired by Greek culture and music, both ancient and modern. In addition, the world famous Greek singer Nana Moushouri was presented by the hosts and gave the sign for the start of televoting.
Wielding spark-spewing instruments, the “Monster-themed” rock band beat 23 other competitors, scoring 292 points from telephone voters in 38 countries with its song “Hard Rock Hallelujah” in a performance that both shocked and amused viewers.
A spokesperson for Lordi said: “We won the contest, looking like this,” he said. “It just goes to show that Europe is not such a bad place.” The Finnish band thanked viewers for voting for their song, which featured the lead singer hoisting a double-headed-axe microphone stand above his head. The win has been dubbed as a “radical departure” from the catchy pop tunes, folk songs and emotional ballads normally associated with Eurovision.
Complete with distorted guitars, a catchy chorus and “mock-demonic imagery,” Lordi is reminiscent of 1970s American band Kiss – an inspiration acknowledged by lead singer Mr Lordi. “What this has shown is that there are different styles of music than just pop and rock,” Mr Lordi told news media after the surprise victory. “That should be the goal of Eurovision,” he said.
Mr. Lordi, whose real name is Tomi Putaansuu, hails from Lapland and says his band’s masked personas are just characters. “The guys behind the masks are not interesting – underneath, there’s just a boring, normal guy who walks the dogs, goes to the supermarket, watches DVDs and eats candies. You really don’t want to see him.” he said. But the characters “live on stage and they live in a fantasy world”, he said. “This element of mystery is one of the cornerstones of Lordi.”
The band has upset many Finns with their outrageous behaviour. “This is a victory for rock music… and also a victory for open-mindedness,” Mr Lordi said. “For the millionth time, we’re not Satanists or devil worshippers. This is entertainment. The masks are like our calling card and we’ll never perform without them. It would be like Santa Claus handing a child his gifts at Christmas time and then pulling off his beard…”
The 51st annual Eurovision was broadcast live across Europe, watched by an estimated 100 million viewers. Regarded by many as the “contest good taste forgot,” Eurovision is adored by fans of kitsch and camp everywhere.
Lordi join the likes of Abba, Bucks Fizz, Dana and Celine Dion on the elite list of Eurovision winners.
Because of Lordi’s first place finish, next year the 52nd Eurovision Song Contest will take place, for the first time, in Helsinki, Finland.
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