Tom Cruise Scientology promotional video leaked to the Internet

Thursday, January 17, 2008

Two days before Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography, a biography of actor Tom Cruise written by journalist Andrew Morton, was released in the United States, a video showing Cruise promoting Scientology was leaked to the Internet. The promotional video appeared on video-sharing sites including YouTube, Gawker.com and radar online.com, and clips from the video were also shown on Wednesday morning talk shows in the United States.

In the 9-minute video produced by the Church of Scientology, Cruise is seen discussing his beliefs while the theme from his Mission: Impossible films plays as background music. Cruise appears wearing a black turtleneck sweater, speaking about his dedication to changing people’s lives. The format of the video appears to be an interview with Cruise, and it is edited with questions cut out. Some of Cruise’s responses end abruptly.

Being a Scientologist, when you drive past an accident it’s not like anyone else. As you drive past you know you have to do something about it because you know you’re the only one who can help.

Throughout the video, Cruise uses Scientology jargon terms such as “KSW”: “For me, it’s all about KSW.” The term stands for Keeping Scientology Working, which refers to a 10-point letter written by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard in 1965 to ensure the organization’s survival. Cruise also discusses “SPs”, or Suppressive Persons, “PTSPs”, a “potential trouble source” influenced by a Suppressive Person, and the need to “confront and shatter suppression”.

Cruise makes assertions about programs which use Hubbard’s teachings such as Criminon and Narconon “We’re the authorities on getting people off drugs. We’re the authorities on the mind. We’re the authorities on improving conditions. We can rehabilitate criminals. Way to happiness. We can bring peace and unite cultures.” Of the manner in which he wishes to spread Scientology’s message, he says “You’re in the playing field or out of the arena.” Cruise also expresses his disdain for psychiatrists, “Crush these guys [psychiatrists]! I’ve had it! Psychiatry doesn’t work. No mercy! None! Go to guns!”

The video concludes with Cruise laughing, and then a voiceover says: “Scientology can be defined by a single question: would you want others to develop the knowledge you have? In answering that question, Tom Cruise has introduced LRH [L. Ron Hubbard] technology to more than 1 billion people on earth. And that is only the first wave he has unleashed. That is why the story of Tom Cruise, Scientologist, has only just begun.”

While the video can be seen in any Church of Scientology, what has appeared on the Internet is a pirated and edited version of a 3-hour event.

According to Reuters, the Church of Scientology stated that the video was shown at a 2004 meeting of the International Association of Scientologists. In a statement, the Church of Scientology said that the video was Cruise’s acceptance speech after he had been given the organization’s “Freedom Medal”, and was shown “before an audience of 5,000 church parishioners and their guests.” The statement also called the video that appeared on the Internet a “pirated and edited version.” A representative for Cruise confirmed the Church of Scientology statement: “The video is of Mr. Cruise making an acceptance speech to fellow parishioners at a private church event in 2004.” David Miscavige, head of the Church of Scientology, had presented Cruise with the “Freedom Medal of Valor” at the 2004 ceremony. Eighty Scientologists have received the “Freedom Medal” since the award’s establishment in 1985, but Cruise is the only recipient of the Freedom Medal of Valor. Andrew Morton’s Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography characterizes Cruise as the second most powerful individual within the organization.

It’s newsworthy, and we will not be removing it.

The video first appeared on the Internet on Sunday, and disappeared after the footage was linked to from Gawker.com and The Huffington Post. Gawker.com posted a copy of the video Tuesday morning, and said that the video had “been passed around privately by reporters and writers investigating Cruise’s ties to Scientology.” Gawker.com noted that a smaller video clip which had previously been available on YouTube “is no longer available, most likely after the Church of Scientology sent in a copyright infringement notice.” Gawker.com has stated that the video will stay up on its site, and has reprinted correspondence with Ava Paquette, an attorney with Moxon & Kobrin, a law firm representing the Church of Scientology. Nick Denton of Gawker.com commented on the posting of the video “It’s newsworthy, and we will not be removing it.”

These tapes were made for purposes of recruitment.

Investigative journalist Mark Ebner is helping to post more than two hours of additional footage related to the Cruise video, and called it “the most unintentionally hilarious footage you’ve ever seen,” and characterized it as “better than” when Cruise jumped on Oprah’s couch during a May 23, 2005 appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show, and the South Park parody of Cruise in the controversial episode “Trapped in the Closet“. Ebner appeared on The Today Show on Wednesday, and discussed the video’s appearance on the Internet. In response, the Church of Scientology called Ebner a “fraud”. Ebner told the New York Daily News that “These tapes were made for purposes of recruitment.”

The Scientologists, by taking action to enforce their copyrights, have made it a news story.

Attempts by the Church of Scientology to stop distribution of the video via the Internet “seem to have backfired spectacularly,” according to The Press Association, and by Thursday the video was viewable on websites other than Gawker.com, including the New York Post, Independent Television News and the BBC. For websites based in Britain usage of the video is protected under copyright laws, specifically for reporting news and current affairs. Still other reports on the video linked to locations where it could be watched, including a report in The Times. Copies of the video were not available on Google Video on Thursday, but were still available on YouTube.

Attorney Mark Stephens of London-based firm Finers Stephens Innocent commented on the Church of Scientology’s attempts to remove the video from the Internet: “The Scientologists, by taking action to enforce their copyrights, have made it a news story. The mistake was not to foresee that a news story has special protection in copyright law in reporting news and current events.”

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CanadaVOTES: NDP candidate David Sparrow in Don Valley West

Friday, October 10, 2008

In an attempt to speak with as many candidates as possible during the 2008 Canadian federal election, Wikinews has talked via email with David Sparrow. Sparrow is a candidate in Ontario’s Don Valley West riding, running under the New Democratic Party (NDP) banner. The riding was set to vote in a by-election on September 22, 2008, following the resignation of John Godfrey, but Stephen Harper’s sudden election call nulled that effort.

Also running in the Toronto riding are Liberal Rob Oliphant, Conservative John Carmichael, Green Georgina Wilcock, and Communist Catherine Holliday.

The following is an interview with Sparrow, conducted via email. The interview is published unedited, as sent to Wikinews.

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Max Healthcare: Care Patients First

Submitted by: Bima Deals

Max Healthcare a much trendy healthcare delivery provider in North India is part of Max India Group which has business interests in life insurance, health insurance and clinical research as well. Max Healthcare currently has eight properties which cover overall healthcare delivery value chain. Ranging from a large facility, 250-bed Max Devki Devi Heart and Vascular Institute in Saket, functional since December 2004 to speciality centres Max Healthcare has a gamut of delivery facility. “Our large hospitals at Saket and Patparganj are tertiary care facilities where as hospitals at Pitampura, Noida and Gurgaon are multi-speciality facilities and speciality centres at Panchsheel covers secondary and primary care spectrum of care,” says Dr Pervez Ahmed, CEO, MD, Max Healthcare.

The Differentiato

Max Hospital prides itself in having comprehensive and integrated healthcare service. Their main differentiator is quality conscious and patient centric approach, which is complimented by a network of highly respected and leading specialists. The hospital also lays extensive emphasis on medical training and education. Max Healthcare offers its patients with added benefit of a culture of safety as the staff is outcomes oriented with confirmation based medicine. All these provide ‘value’ to our customers.

Quality Concerns

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The hospital environment is one of the most intricate environments in the world. It is very people dependent, equipment and technology dependent and there are several processes that come together or follow one after another, during the patients stay in the hospital. This inbuilt complexity, also poses problems of safety.

Recognising that healthcare errors impact one in every 10 patients around the world, the World Health Organization calls patient safety an common concern. It is with this background that Max Healthcare gives the highest priority to the safety and quality of care for each of its patients. Patient Centred Care is at the core of everything we do. The organisation has successfully implemented “Medical Excellence Model” with the help of our clinical teams. The pillars of this model include clinical governance, credentialing and clinical privileging of physicians and nurses, use of standardised, evidenced based protocols, patient and staff safety, infection control, a culture of audit and continuous professional development.

“In last few years, we have established a culture of safety. Every year we launch Max Healthcare Patient Safety Goals based on the in-depth analysis of reported adverse events and International norms. All staff members participate in identifying, reporting any unhelpful events, or near misses during care. The teams then take up projects to learn and build up safe practices. Root cause analysis, audits, six sigma projects, drive improvements. Each hospital has enthusiastic leaders who work relentlessly to identify opportunities for improvement in all aspects of patient safety”, adds Dr Ahmed.

This culture of joint effort, accountability and transparency has kept our adverse events on the lowest side.

“We have a inclusive performance measurement system for key processes- both medical and services. Several process indicators are tracked uniformly across all hospitals, which are regularly reviewed against preset targets to recognize opportunities for improvement. Apart from this, a Medical Quality Dashboard is in place for monitoring adverse events and clinical outcomes. We have recently developed an inventive, first of its kind ‘Scorecard’ for key clinical departments that tracks business, service and clinical outcomes in on an included platform”, he informs.

Dr Dilpreet Brar, Executive Director, Max Healthcare, informs, “We are launching four new facilities this year – Shalimar Bagh in Delhi; Mohali and Bathinda in Punjab which are based on Public Private Partnership (PPP) model with the Government of punjab and one in Dehradun”.

These are slated to be super-speciality hospitals catering to tertiary healthcare requirements of our patients. The facilities in Punjab, amongst other disciplines will have high end technology to diagnose and treat cancer and cardiac concerns.

All these hospitals will have state-of-the-art equipment in terms of operating theatres, intensive care and diagnostics in radiology, lab services, cardiology and nuclear medicine.

“We are confident that our hospitals will contribute significantly in improving the quality of healthcare and fulfilling the medical needs of the people of Punjab and Dehradun. Our aim is to establish these as the best multi-super-speciality hospitals, which offer a combination of highly skilled doctors, cutting-edge technology and affordable medical care. Moreover,we are committed to make available the best of service and medical excellence in these areas and live true to our vision and mission of delivering international class medical care”, she says.

Source: [Express Healthcare Management]

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Stem cell bills passed by US House and Senate

Wednesday, July 19, 2006

The Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2005 (HR810), approved by the US House of Representatives in 2005, gained a 63-37 approval in the Senate on July 17th, 2006, and will now be presented for presidential approval or veto.

Bill HR810 passed by the Senate as SB471, overrides the 2001 executive order signed by George W. Bush that banned funding by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for embryonic stem cell research of stem cell lines created after the executive order was issued. The new bill does not include a provision against privately funded research, which is legal under the law, only research funded by NIH.

The bill includes three ethical requirements for funded research. First, the stem cells were derived from human embryos that have been donated from in-vitro fertilization clinics, were created for the purposes of fertility treatment, and were in excess of the clinical need of the individuals seeking such treatment. Second, prior to the consideration of embryo donation and through consultation with the individuals seeking fertility treatment, it was determined that the embryos would never be implanted in a woman and would otherwise be discarded. And lastly, the individuals seeking fertility treatment donated the embryos with written informed consent and without receiving any financial or other inducements to make the donation.

President Bush is expected to veto the bill as early as today, White House Press Secretary Tony Snow said the veto would be “pretty swift”. This would be President Bush’s first veto of his two terms in office.

As with any vetoed bill, a two-thirds majority of the House and Senate can override said veto, but the original vote (63-37) show that the Senate is more than likely to not get the override votes it would need. Even without the two-thirds original vote, Senator Carl Levin of Michigan has voiced support for a veto override.

Two other bills, S2754 and S3504, the Alternative Pluripotent Stem Cell Therapies Enhancement Act and the Fetus Farming Prohibition Act of 2006, respectively, were failed and passed in that order by the House of Representatives. S2754 was introduced to the House this afternoon and failed by a vote of 273-154, S3504 was passed unanimously by the House and is also expected to be on the President’s desk this morning.

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Canberra central business district trials urinals

Thursday, March 21, 2013

Canberra CBD Limited (CCBD) released data this week about a urinal trial in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT)’s Central Business District (CBD) this past weekend that showed the temporary urinals collected 220 litres of urine in a four day period between 7pm and 7am on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights. Estimates showed that 1,200 men relieved themselves in this period, with 450 of them doing so on Saturday night.

A number of businesses in the CBD had complained about men using storefronts and streets to relieve themselves despite the possibility of AU$200 on-the-spot fines. 277 people have been fined in the territory in the past year, with 228 of them being fined for public urination in the CBD.

The urinals were placed in a number of public places including Verity Lane, at the bus interchange on the corner of Alinga Street and Verity Lane, and on City Walk near the corner of Saraton Lane. They have small doors at hip level to provide some degree of privacy despite their very public location. Barcham, writing on The Riot-ACT, notes the privacy afforded to men is limited as the doors appear to be for very short men, saying “The doors sit well below ‘business’ level, meaning they won’t actually provide privacy to anyone over 5 foot tall.”

The urinal trial is scheduled to continue over Easter weekend. In a press release issued by CCBD, CCBD’s chief executive officer is quoted as saying, “Canberra CBD is focussed[sic] on providing a clean and safe city for the broader Canberra community. […] This urinal trial is not a permanent solution, rather a trial to provide data for decision making purposes.”

Before the start of the trial, CCBD said if the trial proved successful, the ACT government could consider making the urinals a permanent fixture in the CBD. Kros Urinals is maintaining the urinals.

A survey on the Canberra Times website found 43% of respondents liked the idea of the urinals and wanted them to become permanent while only 13% thought the answer was not urinals but more policing for public urination.

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Emaar Property Scam Or Emaar Scam Allegations Cannot Coerce Emaar Properties Or Emaar Mgf To Stop What It Does Best Construction!

Submitted by: Pankaj Wahal

Emaar MGF, the famed builders of Commonwealth games village was accused of involvement in the infamous Emaar Property scam in the city of Hyderabad. Although Emaar is not the prime accused in the alleged scandal, the real estate developer had to bear the full blast of the media and local activist, its name overshadowing the primary accused in the Emaar Scam, Andhra Pradesh Industrial Infrastructure Corporation or APIIC just because of its global stature. Accused of undervaluing the plots of a residential community in the heart of Hyderabad, local media and activist had a field day when the news came out.

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APIIC s dream project, Boulder Hills Township is a luxurious upscale neighbourhood spread across 531 acres surrounded by lush greens of an 18-hole golf course and was developed together with Emaar. The township even boasts of its own shopping mall and a resort style 5 star hotel. However, this dream venture went awry as news of undervaluation of land started surfacing. In order to save face accused the global real estate developer, Emaar for dilution of public stake in the venture without their knowledge. Emaar MGF has vehemently denied these allegations and even if it holds a shred of truth, Emaar could not have done it without the government run state partner s knowledge. With several famous names in the community list, Emaar scam became one of the most sensational news on media circuit. The real estate developer unwittingly became a victim of hasty media sensationalism. However, Emaar refuse to buckle to such implausible allegations and went out of its way to clear its name. And as the CBI investigation progresses, it is fast emerging that the real estate company has little to do with the scam and other parties including the state run APIIC needs more closer investigation. With CBI investigation clearing the role of Emaar in the alleged Emaar Property scam, the real estate builder has moved forward to concentrate on several important new projects it has undertaken. If rumours are to be believed, the capital city of New Delhi and the old city of Kolkata might see the first of its seven star hotels, developed and managed by none other than the world leader, Emaar Properties and its Indian part Emaar MGF.

Tracing its origin to Dubai, Emaar Properties is famous for the creation of the world s tallest building Burj Khalifa. Another magnificent work of Emaar is the Dubai Mall, which is the largest operational mall in the world. Making a highly successful operation in Dubai, Emaar Properties expanded to several other countries of the Middle East including Saudi Arabia, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Turkey and Tunisia. Of lately, Emaar Properties has started taking active interest in third world countries like Africa and India and has forayed into the real estate sector of these countries making a successful conquest. Partnering MGF, Emaar entered the Indian real estate industry in 2005 with the brand name of Emaar MGF. With primary focus on the residential properties, Emaar has developed scores of luxurious township and integrated community all over the country. Leaving the minor fiasco of Emaar case, Emaar MGF and Emaar Properties as of today, has evolved as one of the best real estate developers in the country with properties that contemporary, stylish and steeped in elegance.

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Nigeria swears in new president after death of Umaru Yar’Adua

Thursday, May 6, 2010

Goodluck Jonathan, the acting president of Nigeria, was formally sworn in today, several hours after president Umaru Yar’Adua died.

The oath of office was administered in the capital Abjua. According to the constitution, Jonathan will be the country’s leader until next elections next April; he is also to nominate a vice president, who must be approved by the senate.

Jonathan already has been running the country when he became acting president since February, when Yar’Adua was hospitalised in Saudi Arabia for medical treatment.

After being sworn in, Jonathan made an address. “While this is a major burden on me, and indeed the entire nation, we must — in the midst of such great adversity — continue to gain our collective efforts towards upholding the values which our departed leader represented […] One of the true tests will be that all votes count, and are counted, in our upcoming presidential election,” he said.

Yar’Adua, aged 58, was buried earlier in the Katsina state; the government has declared a week of mourning.

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Leonard Skinner, namesake of rock group Lynyrd Skynyrd, dies at age 77

Monday, September 20, 2010

Leonard Skinner, the namesake of rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, has died at the age of 77. Skinner was a gym teacher and basketball coach and taught members of the group. His death was announced by his son, also named Leonard Skinner, who also said that he was suffering from Alzheimer’s disease.

Skinner died at the St. Catherine Laboure Manor nursing home in Riverside at 02.30 a.m. His son said that he had a bowl of ice cream shortly after midnight. He had been at the home for about a year.

The coach taught the members of the group in the 1960s and was reportedly hard on the students. He later said in a 2009 interview that “he was just following the rules”. He disputed the rumours that he was extra tough on them or that he kicked them out of school.

In later years he opened up his own bar and became friends with some members of the group and even introduced them at one of their concerts in Jacksonville.

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Commercial Freezer Care And Maintenance

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Kiribati acquires international funding for solar power

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Last Tuesday, AusAID Australia and the World Bank’s Global Environment Fund (GEF) reached an agreement to give the government of Kiribati US$5 million (AU$4,779,000, NZ$5,985,000, €3,885,000) to install solar panels around the country capital, located on the Tarawa atoll. According to Business Desk of the Brunei Times, AusAID promised AU$3.2 million in funding, while GEF promised US$1 million. The country was the first in the Pacific to make a deal with the World Bank.

The funding was part of a US$530 million (NZ$635 million) package announced at yesterday’s Pacific Energy Summit in Auckland involving New Zealand and the European Union, Australia, the Asian Development Bank, the European Investment Bank, the Japan International Cooperation Agency, the World Bank Group, and the United Arab Emirates. Also at the summit yesterday, New Zealand’s Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully had announced a national commitment of USD$54,262,000 (AU$51,861,000 NZ$65 million, €42,178,000) to Pacific region energy solutions, of which US$8,348,000 (AU$8 million, NZ$10 million, €6,483,000) would be specifically earmarked for renewable energy and improved energy efficiency in the Cook Islands, Kiribati, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Tonga, and Tuvalu.

Kiribati is heavily dependent on diesel fuel for most of the energy available on the national power grid, which supplies power to half Kiribati’s population of 110,000. In addition, a third of the country’s population lacks access to electricity. Once installation of the solar panels is complete, they are estimated to reduce diesel consumption by 230,000 liters (60,760 gallons) a year and give access to the electricity to some parts of the population that currently have no electricity. The European Union already has committed €100 million to sustainable energy in the region, with €10 million of that coming as a result of an announcement made last week.

In a press release about the news, Kiribati President Anote Tong was quoted as saying, “Kiribati faces big challenges it is remote, it is at risk from the effects of climate change, and it is vulnerable to economic shocks. […] Shifting Kiribati’s focus to reliable solar energy will provide a more secure, more sustainable power source for the country’s people.” Radio New Zealand International quoted Tong as saying, “It’s the first time we are doing this. We’re excited at the prospect of even substituting fossil fuel to a small extent at this stage. What the system being envisaged will only produce around 500 kilowatts, but this is the beginning of what I hope will be a pattern, the trend in the future.”

The European Union’s Fiji-based head of operations for the Pacific region, Renato Mele, supported alternative energy solutions like solar power for the region, but said that solar power had limitations because climate and environmental conditions sometimes meant batteries required to power the panels had a life of only 12 months, compared to other climates where batteries normally last five years. This created the potential to drive up standard operating costs. Mele has also noted these additional costs though are still lower than the cost of diesel power.

One News Pacific Correspondent Barbara Dreaver noted, “Governments will be able to put the money they (currently) spend on diesel into things like education and health.”

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