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Beyonce Video Causes Fits(Soundbuzz, Monday July 31, 6:00 PM)

Beyonce Knowles' new single 'Check It Out' has been blamed for an outbreak of epileptic fits in British television viewers.
The video, which contains a multitude of flashing images, caused a stir after it was aired without an appropriate warning by cable channel Chart Show TV.

After an investigation by broadcasting standards regulator Ofcom, network staff were ordered to undergo retraining to ensure the situation never happens again.

Although the 'Crazy In Love' singer is not responsible for the network's mishap she has told fans she is "sorry" for any distress caused.

1920-2005

"NO TO WAR! War is not always inevitable. It is always a defeat for humanity."-- January 13, 2003

"When war threatens humanity's destiny, as it does today in Iraq, it is even more urgent for us to proclaim with a loud and decisive voice that peace is the only way to build a more just and caring society. Violence and arms can never solve human problems."-- Pope condemns Bush's invasion of Iraq, March 22, 2003

"A disconcerting conclusion about the most recent period should serve to enlighten us: side-by-side with the miseries of underdevelopment, themselves unacceptable, we find ourselves up against a form of superdevelopment, equally inadmissible. because like the former it is contrary to what is good and to true happiness. This superdevelopment, which consists in an excessive availability of every kind of material goods for the benefit of certain social groups, easily makes people slaves of 'possession' and of immediate gratification..."
-- On the shortfalls of consumerism, March 13, 1998

He was a man of Peace and a beacon of sanity. 

Bosses "on wrong path" in talent war

Full article from The Courier Mail http://www.couriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,12514093%255E1702,00.html
By Kate Southam
11mar05

AUSTRALIAN organisations need to become better communicators, provide clearer career paths and create truly flexible work practices if they hope to counter the impact of the growing skills shortage.This was the message presented today by a range of experts to the Recruitment & Consulting Services Association 2005 Workforce Symposium on productivity.

The views of an academic and economist, management and human resources experts and recruitment consultants echoed one another in their warning to Australian organisations that they were already locked in a global battle for workers.

The experts urged employers to show more imagination in creating workplaces and work practices that reflected what employees actually wanted.