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15
Aug

Photo report: Anime North convention brings fans to Toronto

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Friday, June 1, 2018

In Toronto last weekend, North American anime and manga convention Anime North was held. Anime North sprawled across multiple venues, including the Toronto Congress Centre, as a fan-run celebration of Japanese pop culture. The event ran from May 25 to 27. Wikinews’s Nicholas Moreau was in attendance to photograph the event.

Montrealer “Aileen Cosplay” was wearing an outfit of Rapunzel from the Disney animated film Tangled, when Wikinews photographed her.

Wikinews talked with her after the event, learning that she was one of the “Estrada Sisters”, who have been dressing up as pop culture characters for roughly a decade. “Cosplay is something we do together as sisters, as well as with our close friends. It’s a hobby and passion that we all share and have fun with.”

The cosplayer explained that the activity “integrates a wide range of interests for us, from makeup, to sewing, to crafting and prop-making.”

“When deciding on cosplays,” she offers, “we consider how attracted we are to the character as they were written, as well as their aesthetic. We tend to stray towards Disney, as we all share a common passion for the magic that it brings to its audience, and we love having the opportunity to bring that magic to life every time we put on a costume.”

Binrand Cosplay tells Wikinews that for her, cosplay “is a huge creative outlet whether that’s sewing, crafting, armour building, styling wigs, new makeup challenges etc. I love that it gives me creative freedom and that the end result I can share with hundreds of people that have a love and passion for the same character or series that I am cosplaying from.” The icy effect on Shyvana from League of Legends gave her reason to work with Transpa Art, a product from a company called Worbla.

She noted that the activity also allows her to “meet new friends that are just excited about something” as she is.

She chooses characters she’s become attached to, as her outfit. “Often it’s a combination of similar personality as my own, a character that has gone through similar struggles as myself, I like the look, and that they just plain badass! I also like a challenge. Having been doing cosplay for as long as I have I like to switch things up and learn something new every year.”

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11
Aug

Warner Music sees large growth digital music revenue

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Wednesday, February 15, 2006

Warner Music Group first quarter earnings rose sharply mostly from growth in digital music sales offsetting falling CD sales. Warner Music sells digital music to several online services including Apple’s iTunes at wholesale. The company’s first-quarter revenue from digital music sales doubled to US$69 million, accounting for 7% of overall revenue. Madonna, Green Day, and James Blunt are signed to subsidiary labels of Warner.

Warner Music has undergone restructuring after being sold in 2004 by former parent company Time Warner. Cutting costs, exploiting current assets, and digital music has been the company’s focus since going public in May.

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May, 2017 byadmin

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8
Aug

Feud between CNBC and The Daily Show continues to escalate

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Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Jim Cramer, CNBC’s host of Mad Money, plans to appear on The Daily Show Thursday, in the midst of an escalating feud between Cramer and the Comedy Central show’s host, Jon Stewart.

Jim Cramer has been the only CNBC employee to publicly respond to Daily Show segments strongly criticizing the television business news channel’s financial coverage during the growing global recession, particularly focusing on specific remarks by made by Cramer.

The feud began on March 4, when The Daily Show aired an eight-minute clip lampooning CNBC. The comedy news show featured several clips of pundits, focusing particularly on predictions or reports by CNBC reporters that The Daily Show argued were overly optimistic or too strongly slanted in favor of the companies being discussed.

In one clip, a CNBC host reported Merrill Lynch said it would not need capital, which The Daily Show followed with a list of billions in bailout money the financial services firm has required since September. In another clip, Jim Cramer is shown allegedly affirming “Your money is safe in Bear Sterns”, followed by a Daily Show statement that the global investment bank went under six days later.

“If I’d only followed CNBC’s advice, I’d have a million dollars today,” Stewart said during the bit, “provided I’d started with a hundred million dollars.”

Although most CNBC reporters and executives declined to comment, Cramer defended himself in a column published Monday, claiming the clip was taken out of context. Cramer said he wasn’t talking about buying Bear Sterns stock, but simply reassuring a viewer that his liquidity held in Bear Sterns was safe.

“The absurdity astounds me,” Cramer said of the Daily Show bit. “The fact that I was right rankles me even more.”

Later that day, The Daily Show responded with another montage of clips, this time more specifically targeting Cramer.

“So Jim Cramer, I apologize,” Stewart said ironically, then promptly showcased video of Cramer suggesting the safety of Bear Stearns stock 5 days prior to the collapse of Bear Stearns on Mad Money’s Lighting Round. Provokingly, Jon Stewart then admitted, “He’s not saying literally ‘I’m asking you to buy Bear Stearns,’ for that you have to go back a full 7 weeks” this time showing video footage of Cramer on January 24, 2008, telling TheStreet.com TV viewers to specifically “buy Bear Stearns” stock 7 weeks before it collapsed.

The following day on March 10, Cramer responded again during a Tuesday appearance on the Today show, saying, “[Jon Stewart] is a comedian, and he’s decided to focus on some calls I made during a bull market. The guy is a comedian. Did I make a mistake? First of all, any time you recommend a stock and it goes down, you’ve made a mistake. Here’s a shocker: Almost every stock is down! Any stock you recommended is bad. You know, Warren Buffett, I could run tapes from him, he would look like a complete fool.”

The feud between The Daily Show and CNBC generated a significant amount of attention in the mainstream media. The Associated Press called the first Daily Show bit a “brutal takedown” of CNBC. Other publications, like New York magazine, defended CNBC, writing, “We doubt there’s a single news outlet that hasn’t made a misstatement regarding the economy in the past year.”

The Thursday Daily Show sketch ran the same day CNBC reporter Rick Santelli was scheduled to appear on the show, to discuss his vocal criticisms of President Barack Obama’s plans for dealing with foreclosures. Santelli cancelled the appearance, but Daily Show executives said the CNBC montage was not retaliatory and that they planned to show it before the cancellation was announced.

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8
Aug

On the campaign trail in the USA, October 2020

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Monday, November 2, 2020

The following is the sixth and final edition of a monthly series chronicling the 2020 United States presidential election. It features original material compiled throughout the previous month after an overview of the month’s biggest stories.

This month’s spotlight on the campaign trail: the Free and Equal Elections Foundation holds two presidential debates, three candidates who did not participate in those debates give their final pleas to voters, and three political pundits give their predictions on the outcome of the election.

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7
Aug

Author Amy Scobee recounts abuse as Scientology executive

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Monday, October 11, 2010

Wikinews interviewed author Amy Scobee about her book Scientology – Abuse at the Top, and asked her about her experiences working as an executive within the organization. Scobee joined the organization at age 14, and worked at Scientology’s international management headquarters for several years before leaving in 2005. She served as a Scientology executive in multiple high-ranking positions, working out of the international headquarters of Scientology known as “Gold Base”, located in Gilman Hot Springs near Hemet, California.

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Only three months, the dollar index fell from 88 to 77, the depreciation rate of 12.5%. The second round of the Fed’s policy of quantitative easing, in contrast, the Fed will again the way through the purchase of long-term bonds, issuing hundreds of billions of dollars in bills. This means that the dollar continues to weaken a high probability event, and even below March 2008’s lowest point, the current dollar global hedge fund short positions correspondingly rapid expansion.

Depreciation of the dollar as the U.S. economy, more and more “last straw”, the U.S. dollar trying to achieve three objectives: first, to promote U.S. exports and employment. The second is to promote the United States cut the huge debt burden, for example, the United States in the renminbi against the dollar in 8:1 debt 10 billion U.S. dollars from China, RMB appreciation to 6:1 in the return of 10 billion U.S. dollars of debt, the creditors of China , the equivalent of 80 billion yuan lent only to recover 60 billion yuan, wealth corresponding decrease in the dollar of wealth from creditor to debtor’s big transfer. Third, the United States has been the appreciation of the hard asset wealth, the United States in energy resources, agriculture and other fields have a lot of hard assets.

China, as the rise of the global economy is one of the countries heavily dependent on exports and economic growth mode of foreign exchange reserves held by the reality of a large number of demanding that China must take precautions against the impact of depreciation of the dollar.

This requires China to accelerate foreign exchange reserve diversification. In addition to diversification of currency allocation, the investment direction should not be limited to financial assets through purchase of overseas resources, continue to accumulate gold reserves of oil and other strategic resources to the effective devaluation of the dollar hedge.

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Second, ask the Chinese to strengthen the control of hot money inflows and outflows. The United States since the last round began in March 2009 quantitative easing policy has generated a lot of liquidity, and caused the world, including the sharp rise in Chinese real estate market. Expected in the current round under the quantitative easing policy, overseas funds are turning to China and other emerging market countries. SAFE latest data show that in September surplus of foreign exchange settlement bank Valet 284 billion, this figure means that a large number of cross-border capital flows to the national situation continues. Conservative estimates, China in September to 530 billion U.S. dollars of hot money inflows. Hong Kong, “Wen Wei Po”, said some 6,500 billion of “hot money” flowing into the Hong Kong market, at the same time, Soros carrying 10 billion U.S. dollars in cash to enter Hong Kong, the target has been locked in A shares and H shares. Depreciation of the dollar has made substantial capital inflow into China and other emerging market countries, which often breed asset bubbles, and finally to the land of hot money flows through the economy devastated. Therefore, China’s hot money to implement more stringent controls, hot money inflows and outflows from the two crossing control.

Recently, a number of emerging markets to strengthen capital controls introduced the action. For example: Thai Ministry of Finance announced plans to levy bonds to overseas investors, interest income withholding tax of 15%, hoping to block the inflow of hot money, then stop the baht appreciation; the Brazilian government is blocking the hot money has been raised several times the financial transactions tax; China central bank officials also indicated, in order to prevent foreign exchange outflows, you can consider imposing foreign exchange outflow of tax. China should implement more stringent capital controls, as China’s capital account is not open for settlement through the mixed inventory of trade items, underground banking and other channels to increase the supervision of the investigation and punishment. China can formulate laws against hot money, hot money clearly illegal screening criteria. Can increase the cost of entry and exit of hot money, especially the exit costs.

Diversification and strengthening of reserves outside the control of hot money, China’s other initiatives should be accelerated pace of internationalization of the RMB, the yuan soon become an international currency. As the world’s largest exporter, China with other countries still trade settlement currency, making China the dollar in trade under exchange rate fluctuations. RMB internationalization of China’s future development. It is gratifying that the Chinese government has actively promoted since December 2008, China has with Malaysia, Belarus, Indonesia, Argentina, Singapore, Hong Kong and other countries and regions signed bilateral currency swap agreement, the RMB pilot two-way expansion has also become an important process of the internationalization of RMB.

China should accelerate the advance of internationalization of the RMB, the yuan currency in the world stage as soon as possible to play an important role in reducing China’s foreign economic changes on the impact of exchange rate fluctuations to reduce production and operation, and the impact of the national strategic investment , and gradually master the pricing of goods for China’s economic development and create a stable environment.

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6
Aug

News briefs:July 14, 2010

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5
Aug

Bush’s Iraq ‘Strategy’ seen as public relations exercise

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Sunday, December 4, 2005

The US commander of the Multinational Security Transition Command in Iraq said that he had no knowledge of the National Strategy for Victory in Iraq document released by the US President. This, along with speculation that the document was chiefly authored by a public opinion analyst recruited by the White House have led to some critics claiming that the drafted ‘strategy’ is targeting US public opinion, not the Iraqi insurgency.

The military, political and economic strategy for Iraq, outlined last week by President Bush in a speech at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, was based by a 35-page document titled the National Strategy for Victory in Iraq. A metadata tag on the document posted on the White House website identified its author as a computer user ‘feaver_p’. It is believed to refer to Dr. Peter D. Feaver, a special advisor to the National Security Council staff.

A political scientist at Duke University, Dr. Feaver analyzed public opinion polls about the Iraq war and attitudes towards war casualties. Dr. Feaver found that US public opinion will support military engagement abroad, despite growing casualties, provided that the public believed that the war was being fought for a worthy cause and that victory was achievable.

Dr. Feaver was one of the people who helped “conceive and draft” the document, according to a White House staffer, who said that Meghan L. O’Sullivan, the deputy national security adviser for Iraq and Afghanistan, and her staff played a larger role. White House officials confirmed to the New York Times that the document’s “creation and presentation strongly reflected the public opinion research”.

The document “reflects the broad interagency effort under way in Iraq” according to an NSC spokesman Frederick Jones and had received major contributions from the Departments of Defense, State, Treasury and Homeland Security, as well as the director of National Intelligence.

On Friday, Lt. Gen. Martin Dempsey, whose Multinational Security Transition Command is responsible for building Iraq’s security forces, told reporters that he had seen the strategy document for the first time when it was released to the public. The White House had said that not all senior officers in Iraq had necessarily seen the document and Gen. Peter Pace, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has said that he had read and critiqued the document on several occasions.

Earlier, replying to questions about the President’s strategy, White House press secretary Scott McClellan said that the document was an “inter-agency document” and an “unclassified version” of the administrations “strategy for victory in Iraq” published for the public to view.

Christopher F. Gelpi, of Duke University, who co-authored Dr. Feaver’s work titled Casualty Sensitivity and the War in Iraq, stated, “The Pentagon doesn’t need the president to give a speech and post a document on the White House Web site to know how to fight the insurgents. The document is clearly targeted at American public opinion.” In their work together, Gelpi, Feaver and Reifler found that the most important factor which determines the US public’s tolerance for US military deaths in a war is the public’s beliefs about the likelihood of success, and a secondary, but still important, factor, was found to be the public’s belief in the rightness of a war.

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Different Health Benefits of Botox Treatment

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Botox is one of the most important findings in the world of medicine and most especially in the cosmetology industry. This kind of treatment is actually made to treat eye spasms and crossed eyes. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved this treatment in 1989. In the year 2002, this treatment was approved to treat frown lines.

It has become widely popular when scientists found out that it can treat frown lines. Aside from this kind of treatment also provides other benefits.

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First, it can help reduce wrinkles and frown lines without the need of any surgery. This makes this treatment really popular. It offers pain free treatment to reduce wrinkles and frown lines. However, you must be aware that this treatment is not permanent. It will only provide temporary relief from wrinkles. You will have to undergo another treatment if you want a long term effect. Botox Northern Ireland provides this kind of treatment for a good price. It is better if you will find a professional medical practitioner such as the physicians in Botox Belfast to help administer this drug.

Second, it is also used as a pain relief from migraines. A lot of people are well aware on the debilitating pain caused by migraine. This kind of treatment can temporarily remove the pain from migraine. However, it is not yet known how this treatment really works in treating migraines. Some scientists said that this kind of treatment blocks the sensory nerves that are capable of sending pain signals to your brain. It is also said that it can help relax muscles that can help reduce the pain during a migraine attack. All these explanations are still theories and they do not have any proven analysis on their claims so it is not yet known how this treatment works when it comes to treating migraine.

Third, it can treat people who are experiencing a condition known as hyperhydrosis. This kind of condition is characterized by excessive sweating on the hands, feet and underarms. The people who are suffering from this kind of disorder sweat excessively because their sweat glands function more quickly. This kind of treatment can prevent the glands from producing too much sweat by relaxing the muscles.

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