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Iraqi activist forced to change t-shirt with Arabic peace slogan

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Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Raed Jarrar, an Iraqi peace activist who lives in the United States, was forced to change his T-Shirt, which bore an Arabic slogan, because it was found “offensive”.

The incident took place in JFK airport in New York. The activist Jarrar reported in his blog RaedInTheMiddle that he had checked-in his bags and was issued a boarding pass. After waiting near the gate to board his jetBlue airlines flight, and after having to gone through a secondary search, two officials approached him.

“People are feeling offended because of your t-shirt,” Raed reported that one of the men said to him. The writings on the T-Shirt said in both Arabic and English: “We will not be silent”.

Raed asked why this has offended anyone, and insisted his right to freedom of expression was violated.

According to Jarrar, one of the inspectors said, “You can’t wear a T-shirt with Arabic script and come to an airport. It is like wearing a t-shirt that reads ‘I am a robber’ and going to a bank”. The airport official, unable to read Arabic, was unyielding to protests by Jarrar that the English language version of the Arabic was accurate, and suggested he wear the shirt inside out.

“Many people called and complained about your t-shirt. Jetblue customers were calling before you reached the checkpoint, and customers called when you were waiting here in the boarding area”, Jarrar was told after he complained.

One employee from JetBlue offered to buy Jarrar a T-shirt to replace the one he was wearing, since the activist had none other after his bags were checked. Refusing at first, he agreed to wear one with “New York” written on it.

The officer on the scene commented that it need not have gone from one extreme to the other: wearing a T-Shirt with an Arabic peace slogan on it, to wearing one with ‘New York’. There is no reason to hate New York if you are an Arab speaking peace activist, according to Jarrar.

“I feel very sad that my personal freedom was taken away like this. I grew up under authoritarian governments in the Middle East, and one of the reasons I chose to move to the U.S. was that I don’t want an officer to make me change my t-shirt. I will pursue this incident today through a constitutional rights organization, and I am sure we will meet soon,” Raed said.

He was issued another boarding pass, with a different seat at the back of the plane.

JetBlue said it was investigating the incident but a spokeswoman said: “We’re not clear exactly what happened.” The spokeswoman also said the airline does not forbid Arabic T-shirts, but that it does take into account the concerns of its passengers.

The American-Arab Anti-discrimination Committee said the US Transportation Department and the Transportation Security Administration were also investigating the incident after the committee lodged complaints on behalf of Jarrar.

“We Will Not Be Silent” is a slogan adopted by opponents of the war in Iraq and other conflicts in the Middle East.

It is said to derive from the White Rose dissident group which opposed Nazi rule in Germany.

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A Commercial Locksmith In Tulsa Can Save The Day

A Commercial Locksmith In Tulsa Can Save The Day

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Joe Hockey agrees to lobby states to ditch tampon tax

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Thursday, May 28, 2015

Australian treasurer Joe Hockey has agreed to reconsider the Goods and Services Tax (GST) on tampons and other hygiene products after being confronted about the issue on Q&A Monday night. Mr Hockey was responding to a question from student activist Subeta Vimalarajah.

“I started a petition against taxing the sanitary products under the GST. It now has over 86,000 signees and 11,000 submissions to the Better Tax Review. Mr Hockey, do you think that sanitary products are an essential health good for half the population?” she asked.

“Do I think sanitary products are essential? I think so,” Mr Hockey responded “Should the GST be taken off them? It probably should, yes. The answer is yes.”

He said that he will raise the issue with the next meeting of the state treasurers in July.

“I understand there’s long been a push to take the GST off goods, which are one way or another regarded as health products,” Prime Minister Tony Abbott said. “It’s certainly not something that this Government has a plan to do.”

He said he interpreted Joe Hockey’s remarks as meaning it was a matter for the states.

Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen said the matter deserved serious consideration.

“Why did it take till Mr Hockey was asked a question on live TV for him to acknowledge this was an issue?” he asked.

“I understand the concerns with taxing sanitary products — concerns that go back to the introduction of the GST by the Coalition.

“These are in effect health products and aren’t simply a matter of choice for women.”

The GST was introduced in Australia in 2000. The then Prime Minister John Howard said the tax on tampons was not a woman’s issue.

“I mean, of course if you look at tampons in isolation – just as you look at something else in isolation – you can mount an argument to take the tax off it,” Mr Howard said at the time.

“I could mount an argument to take the tax off children’s clothes. I could mount an argument to take the tax off old people’s clothes, I could mount an argument for a whole lot of things. But we’ve had that argument and if you start doing that, you will have no GST in the end, and the whole system will begin to unravel.”

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Todd Avery Lenahan Founded Aba Design Studio Las Vegas

Todd Avery Lenahan Founded Aba Design Studio Las Vegas

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Todd-Avery Lenahan is an exceptionally skilled interior designer with more than two decades in the field of interior design. In 1999, he founded ABA Design Studio, Las Vegas after leaving his job as Principal of Design and Interior Architecture for Walt Disney Imagineering at its worldwide headquarters in Burbank California. An award winning designer, Todd-Avery Lenahan established ABA Design Studio as the generation leader in the global field of commercial interior design. The clients of ABA Design Studio, Las Vegas include luxury restaurants, casinos, resorts, corporate offices, hotels and entertainment complexes all over the world and his work is illustrative of ABA’s breadth of design commissions across multiple disciplines.

Todd-Avery Lenahan, Las Vegas has also worked with some of the best known five star hotels in the world including Ritz-Carlton Hotels, Four Seasons, and Mandarin Oriental. These hotels have used ABA’s fresh approach to design standards to enhance their venues with ABA’s imaginative, exclusive designs. Todd-Avery Lenahan brings a perfect blend of business savvy and elegant artistry to their hospitality designs that have solidified ABA’s reputation as a tour-de-force in international design circles. His design work stands superior to that of his peers for the striking interplay of classism paired with a modern rationale. Todd was awarded Designer of the Year by Boutique Design magazine in 2008. ABA Design Studio was also ranked as one of the best Design Giant in the industry’s annual ranking of its 100 top firms.

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Before joining Disney Development Corporation in Orlando, Florida, Todd-Avery received his degree in Architecture from the University of Texas at Austin. He was awarded the Alpha Rho Chi Bronze Medal in Architecture and the Dean’s Award as Most Outstanding Graduate. Todd-Avery Lenahan, Las Vegas is also the author of PLACES, a compilation of stories about the making of some of the most works in ABA’s impressive portfolio. This book captures the noteworthy elegance and prowess of ABA’s interior designs through stunning photography and lyrical storytelling. Building upon his longstanding passion for academia, Lenahan served as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Nevada – Las Vegas School of Architecture from 2000 to 2002. To learn more about Todd-Avery Lenahan and ABA Design Studio, please visit abalv.com today.

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First face transplant performed on French woman

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Thursday, December 1, 2005

Surgeons in France have performed a face transplant operation on a French woman who had lost her nose, lips and chin after being savaged by a dog. According to Iain Hutchison, an oral-facial surgeon at Barts and the London Hospital, the transplant is the first one to use skin from another person.

Doctors say the woman’s new face will be a “hybrid” between her donor’s face and her own face before the attack. In the five hour long operation, the donor’s tissues, muscles, arteries and veins were attached to the patient’s lower face. It is more favourable to use skin from another person’s face instead of skin from another part of the patient’s body, as the texture and colour of the skin are more likely to match.

A statement released by the hospital in Amiens said that the 38-year-old patient, who wishes to remain anonymous, has not been able to eat or speak properly since the attack in May this year. The woman was reportedly in “excellent general health” and her graft looked normal.

Ethical concerns, psychological impact, concerns relating to immunosuppression and consequences of technical failure have prevented teams from performing face transplant operations in the past, even though it has been technically possible to carry out such procedures for years.

Mr Hutchison warned of several problems with face transplants, such as blood vessels in the donated tissue clotting and immunosuppressants failing or increasing the patient’s risk of cancer. He also pointed out ethical issues with the fact that the procedure requires a “beating heart donor”. The transplant is carried out while the donor is brain dead, but still alive by use of a ventilator.

According to Stephen Wigmore, chair of British Transplantation Society’s ethics committee, it is unknown to what extent facial expressions will function in the long term. He said that it is not certain whether a patient could be left worse off in the case of a face transplant failing.

Mr Michael Earley, a member of the Royal College of Surgeon’s facial transplantation working party, commented that if successful, the transplant would be “a major breakthrough in facial reconstruction” and “a major step forward for the facially disfigured.”

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Australian government provides $15.8 million for North Adelaide Technical College

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Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Australian Minister for Vocational Education and Training, Gary Hardgrave has announced the government will provide AU$15.8 million to establish an Australian Technical College in North Adelaide. The minister said the government was entering into a partnership with the Archdiocese of Adelaide and consortium of industrial and manufacturing companies.

The North Adelaide college will be located in Elizabeth and be operated as an independent non-government school. The college is one of 25 to be established across the country.

Enrolments at the college will begin in 2007 and will offer courses in areas where identified skills shortages exist in the North Adelaide region, specifically – engineering, construction, electronics and cooking.

Mr Hardgrave said that the proposed college had been popular among the North Adelaide business community. “This important initiative has been well received by North Adelaide business and industry, and will help to address skills needs and provide opportunities for those in greatest need, including a lot of Indigenous students in the region,” Mr Hardgrave said.

“The fact that this College is being led by local employers, local government and other key stakeholders, means it will be truly industry and community driven,” he said.

Australian Technical Colleges were established to cater for year 11 and 12 students who wish to do an apprenticeship as part of their school education.

The Australian Education Union has expressed a number of concerns about the model put forward by the government. In a report, they claim that trade facilities at TAFE colleges (operated by state governments) will deteriorate as funding is diverted to the ATCs. The union is also concerned that ATCs are supposed to be selective VET schools. According to the union they will have selective entry and preferential funding. It is feared that teachers will be lured away from schools and TAFE colleges to higher paid positions in ATCs.

The Education Union suggested that the government invest in schools that already offer vocational education programs.

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Quiznos restaurant chain airs controversial commercial

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Friday, April 3, 2009

Quiznos, a fast food restaurant chain that specializes in selling submarine sandwiches, has aired a controversial television commercial, with an extended version only appearing in the late-night lineups. The commercial is a promotion for the company’s new sandwich, the ‘Toasty Torpedo’. Bob Sassone, a writer for TVSquad.com, argues that it is homosexually themed and compares it to pornography.

The commercial begins with a toaster oven talking to Scott, a Quiznos sandwich maker, in a male voice. “Scott, I want you to do something,” says the toaster to Scott. As he takes a bite of a Torpedo and appears to look in the direction of his genitals, Scott says to the toaster, “[sic] not doing that again. That burned.” The toaster replies, “We both enjoyed that.”

Later in the commercial, the toaster asks Scott to make one of the sandwiches and says the price of it is “sexy” and then “sexier.” Scott grins and does so. The toaster then asks Scott to “stick it in me”. The sandwich just happens to be 12 inches long, giving the appearance of a special relationship between Scott and the toaster oven.

Quiznos published a press release on March 24 announcing the new line of sandwiches. They stated that their price of US$4 helps to ease the economic pinch. In a statement to Wikinews Quiznos stated that their commercials are within the company’s character and they were designed to get people talking.

“We developed our new ads to be consistent with the Quiznos brand and to get people excited about our new Toasty Torpedoes. Some of the ads are edgy and provocative, but they’re well within the confines of the Quiznos brand character,” said Rebecca Steinfort, chief marketing officer for Quiznos to Wikinews.

“Since Quiznos has a broad range of consumers that eat at its more than 4,500 restaurants nationwide, we tailor our commercials to be relevant and appeal to our diverse customers – all of whom are watching different kinds of programming. The new ads are fun and entertaining, and the edginess and innuendo of the ads are designed to get people talking about our new Toasty Torpedoes, and that’s exactly what we want: people to talk and taste our new sandwiches,” added Steinfort.

Bob Sassone a writer for TVSquad.com, one of the Internet’s top television weblogs, compared the commercial to a pornography film.

“The new Quizno’s commercial is probably the closest we’ll get to a gay porn flick in a mainstream sub shop ad,” Sassone wrote.

In 2007, the company made another controversial commercial. It featured people on the street eating samples of a Quiznos ‘Prime Rib Dinner’ sandwich. They promoted it as having a lot of “meat” and near the end it featured two women eating a sandwich saying, “It’s not lacking any meat. And that’s what real women need”.

“Nevertheless, Quiznos remains committed to providing its customers with high-quality ingredients at everyday lower prices, all with excellent service. As such, we encourage consumers to give feedback on the commercials to our corporate marketing department through the website,” said Steinfort.

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Panasonic Lumix Digital Camera Review 3 Easy Tips For Great Pictures

Panasonic Lumix Digital Camera Review 3 Easy Tips For Great Pictures

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With a Panasonic Lumix Digital Camera Review,you will have a much better chance of making the right choice for your next digital camera. There are So Many digital cameras to choose from! A person can get lost trying to choose just the right camera for themselves and, make sure that it will be a good ‘fit” for their needs.. Are they all the same? No, they are not. Careful selection is required by you and with just a little bit of knowledge, you can be sure to make an “educated”digital camera choice.

What are the things that can ruin your camera purchase and your pictures, too? Problems with Low Light, Slow Speed and Poor Image Quality. A lot of digital cameras can be prone to these problems. You definitely will not get good results with your picture taking if you purchase a digital camera that has these deficits. Panasonic Lumix Digital Cameras and Canon Digital Cameras both score very high in these critical areas so you can avoid these unfortunately far too common problems.

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So, the solution and the 3 Easy Tips for Great Pictures is look for digital cameras that get high rankings in All of those 3 areas. I have picked the 2 Best Consumer Rated and Professionally Rated cameras for you to consider. The Panasonic Lumix LX5 and the Canon SX30 IS. Both of these cameras are excellent choices and will give your pictures that “professional” look that you are wanting. With very good to excellent “low-light” ability, very good speed ( so you don’t miss out on your picture entirely), and good image quality, you can be sure that your next digital camera purchase will be a good one. As a matter of fact, Panasonic Digital Cameras have won the “Most Reliable Camera Award” for several years and again just recently. That should give you added confidence in your camera choice. A camera that takes great pictures for you won’t be much good if it keeps breaking down. The Panasonic Lumix LX5 has been professionally rated #2 out of #89.

As you can imagine, both of these cameras are extremely popular and are consistently at the top for the “Best Sellers” Lists and, after reading this Panasonic Lumix Digital Camera Review, you should have a solid and clear idea of what to look for. Either the Lumix LX5 or the Canon SX30 IS will be an excellent choice for your next digital camera purchase..

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Meredith writes about Panasonic Digital Cameras and others for online publications. She believes that Panasonic Lumix Digital Camera Review are the best buy as they do not have the same Low Light and Reliability Problems that other digital cameras can have. To see these 2 cameras please visit squidoo.com/panasonic-lumix-digital-cameras-3-tips-so-you-dont-buy-camera-regretsAuthor: Meredith Van Dyck

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Lewis Hamilton wins 2009 Hungarian Grand Prix

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Sunday, July 26, 2009

McLaren Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton won the FIA Formula One 2009 ING Magyar Nagydij at the Hungaroring, just outside of Budapest, Hungary.

His KERS-equipped car was quick enough to overtake all the rivals in front of him, except only Fernando Alonso (Renault), who took the pole position yesterday. But Alonso’s first pit-stop brought trouble with an untightly done wheel nut and he left the front right tyre spinning off the track, luckily no one was hurt as compared to Massa yesterday, and Surtees last Sunday.

Massa’s teammate for Ferrari, Kimi Räikkönen, also managed to get through from seventh on the grid, to second place with the help of KERS. On the podium, his second place trophy was presented by prominent opera singer Placido Domingo.

Mark Webber set up a third place for Red Bull, while his team-mate Sebastian Vettel was out of the race due to problems with the car’s suspension.

Nico Rosberg drove his Williams up to fourth place,while the second McLaren of Heikki Kovalainen came fifth.

Championship leader Jenson Button gained two points for Brawn by finishing 7th and is now 18.5 points ahead of Webber, who has moved into second place ahead of Vettel. He split the two Toyota cars of Timo Glock and Jarno Trulli, who completed the top eight.

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