More than 80 people killed in Nice, France attack on Bastille Day
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Friday, July 15, 2016
Yesterday at about 10:30 pm local time (2030 UTC) in the French city of Nice, a truck killed at least 84 people and more than 100 people were injured, at least 18 critically, who were watching fireworks on Bastille Day evening, French officials reported. The attacker was later shot dead by the police.
The attacker drove for some distance — by one report as much as 2 km (more than a mile) — through the crowd along the Promenade des Anglais. The owner of the Le Queenie Restaurant near the seaport told France Info, “People went down like ninepins”.
Agence France-Presse reported police had discovered identity papers of a 31-year old Tunisian-Frenchman along with, according to one source, fake weapons including rifles and an “inactive” grenade.
20-year-old eyewitness Fanny told Reuters the fast-approaching truck was moving in a zigzag manner, driving in the pedestrian area. Another survivor described sheltering with others in a restaurant. An eyewitness named Nader told BFM TV he thought the driver had lost control of the truck. Later, he also saw the driver taking out a gun.
European Council President Donald Tusk said, “Tragic paradox that the subject of the Nice Attack was people celebrating liberty, equality, and fraternity” ((fr))French language: ?C’est un tragique paradoxe que les cibles de l’attaque Nice attaque soient les gens qui célébraient liberté, égalité, fraternité.
French president François Hollande tweeted, “France is tearful, sorrowful, but she is strong and will always be more than the fanatics who now want to smite her.” ((fr))French language: ?La France est éplorée, affligée, mais elle est forte et le sera toujours plus que les fanatiques qui veulent aujourd’hui la frapper.
A few hours before the incident, Hollande had announced the state of emergency would be lifted on July 26 after November’s Paris attack, but after this incident, he announced extending the state of emergency into October. Condemning the incident, he said, “We will further strengthen our actions in Iraq and in Syria.” He also said “operational reserves” will be called up to support the armed forces in France.
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There s no doubt about it, internet communication is the trend of the future. And for most Filipino workers, this reality serves as a biblical truth as Philippine call centers seemingly pave the way to a good employment opportunity and, perhaps, a brighter tomorrow.
From advisories to inquiries to sales verification and technical help, the customer service industry has provided more Filipinos to put better rice on their plates and better job opportunities to land compared to other industries. Even though the customer service industry in the Philippines began only as plain providers of email response and managing services, the trade proved to be a booming one to the point that Philippine call centers grew like wild mushrooms. These call centers have a variety of built-up capacities in the field of customer relations come in the form of technical support, education, customer care, financial services, travel services and other means of providing solutions. This fast, growing process which can accommodate much of the unemployed population in the Philippines is mainly known as Business Process Outsourcing or BPO.
For those Filipino students and job seekers interested in making fast money in the competitive yet rapid growing commerce of BPO, call centers are definitely for you. And what better way to find a good job than knowing the good companies to apply into. Here are some of the top call centers in the Philippines:
Top Philippine Call Centers:
1. Convergys
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As one of world s leading telecommunications provider of billing services and human resources, Convergys is one the top call centers in the Philippines. After starting its operations in the Philippines in 2003, Convergys had opened its major site in Glorietta 5, Makati with 2,041 seats. The company is currently in the Fortune 500 list with $2.7 billion in revenue and has been chosen as a Fortune Most Admired Company for nine years. Convergys has an estimated 75,000 employees in 85 different call centers throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Latin America, Middle East and Asia.
2. eTelecare Global Solutions
Seizing second on the chart is eTelecare. Outsource service is eTelecare s main business in different industries like telecommunications, financial services and consumer electronics. It is the first Filipino Ayala-backed call center company offering inbound service and sales programs to Fortune 100 clients. Etelecare ranked third in revenues last 2008 with a whopping 7.9 billion peso on its statistics.
3. Software Venture International (SVI)
SVI is another top shot in the BPO scene. In service for 20 years, the company is a leading supplier of Business Solutions Development and IT consulting and had already developed business solutions worldwide in the fields of healthcare, pharmaceuticals, transportation, banking and insurance, manufacturing and energy.
4. Aegis People Support
With 5.7 billion in revenue back in 2008, Aegis became one of the most famous and fastest BPO company in the country focusing on the field of telecommunications, healthcare, insurance, travel, banking and finance. It was only in recent years that Aegis merged with People Support. The corporation has more than 5,000 seats divided among their eight Philippine headquarters. Aegis provides interactive and back-office services to many Fortune 500 companies.
5. Teleperformance
Banking on six contact centers with over 7,000 seats, Teleperformance is another great BPO company to apply for which provides back-office support, technical support, automation solutions and customer care in the aspects of telecommunications, finance, travel, insurance and business-to-business among others. The company currently provides 83,000 workstations in 270 contact centers across 50 countries worldwide.
With over a million Filipinos employed in the BPO scene, Philippine call centers are slowly solving problems for people who are in need of employment and job opportunities. Perhaps, the Philippine call center industry is a contemporary cure for unemployment what may also rake high salaries for those who come to know the business well enough to manage other people. #
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Surgeons reattach boy’s three severed limbs
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Tuesday, March 29, 2005A team of Australian surgeons yesterday reattached both hands and one foot to 10-year-old Perth boy, Terry Vo, after a brick wall which collapsed during a game of basketball fell on him, severing the limbs. The wall gave way while Terry performed a slam-dunk, during a game at a friend’s birthday party.
The boy was today awake and smiling, still in some pain but in good spirits and expected to make a full recovery, according to plastic surgeon, Mr Robert Love.
“What we have is parts that are very much alive so the reattached limbs are certainly pink, well perfused and are indeed moving,” Mr Love told reporters today.
“The fact that he is moving his fingers, and of course when he wakes up he will move both fingers and toes, is not a surprise,” Mr Love had said yesterday.
“The question is more the sensory return that he will get in the hand itself and the fine movements he will have in the fingers and the toes, and that will come with time, hopefully. We will assess that over the next 18 months to two years.
“I’m sure that he’ll enjoy a game of basketball in the future.”
The weight and force of the collapse, and the sharp brick edges, resulted in the three limbs being cut through about 7cm above the wrists and ankle.
Terry’s father Tan said of his only child, the injuries were terrible, “I was scared to look at him, a horrible thing.”
The hands and foot were placed in an ice-filled Esky and rushed to hospital with the boy, where three teams of medical experts were assembled, and he was given a blood transfusion after experiencing massive blood loss. Eight hours of complex micro-surgery on Saturday night were followed by a further two hours of skin grafts yesterday.
“What he will lose because it was such a large zone of traumatised skin and muscle and so on, he will lose some of the skin so he’ll certainly require lots of further surgery regardless of whether the skin survives,” said Mr Love said today.
The boy was kept unconscious under anaesthetic between the two procedures. In an interview yesterday, Mr Love explained why:
“He could have actually been woken up the next day. Because we were intending to take him back to theatre for a second look, to look at the traumatised skin flaps, to close more of his wounds and to do split skin grafting, it was felt the best thing to do would be to keep him stable and to keep him anaesthetised.”
Professor Wayne Morrison, director of the respected Bernard O’Brien Institute of Microsurgery and head of plastic and hand surgery at Melbourne’s St Vincent’s Hospital, said he believed the operation to be a world first.
