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“Fallen Son of Greece” He who needs Compassion, Not Condemnation

As he lay on the hard cot, he tried to shake himself awake even though his eyes were wide open. His heart pounded erratically in his chest and it squeezed with an ache, such as he has never known. Even when he had lost loved ones to death, he had never felt such loss and loneliness. It’s as if he himself had lost his soul and he lived in limbo without it, not knowing if the next day his body would follow it into the blind depths of oblivion. Every moment of every single day, he wanted to whimper and weep for his losses, cry to the heavens and fates for their audacity to abandon him to his own devises. He was a man, a child of God, yet he felt like an outcast. He had chosen this path and he wanted to balk at the possible finality of it. He had entered a pact with the devil and lost. He was lost. As he lay here, he realized that this world that encompassed him now was so foreign to him that he trembled with an unspeakable rage and frustration. He could not move without permission. He could not bathe without onlookers. He could not shed tears without an audience. He could not be himself. God he missed human contact. He was a very affectionate person. With his family and friends. He missed making love with utter abandon, with no thought to the next moment. To just lay in the arms of another and inhale the scent of lovemaking. And now, the next moment only brought more questions and fear. He did not want to think about the future, yet how could he not? It was only human to seek the unknown. It was only human to hope and pray for a positive outcome. For how long would he be lost? Always he had known who he was even when sometimes the path of life carried him into parts unknown or parts that were fraught with danger. But he liked danger. He thrived on danger. At least controlled danger. When he controlled the aspects of the danger he partook, he felt somewhat at ease. Yet, somehow, his level-headedness and conservative ways had abandoned him as of late. Ok, he had been doing very stupid things for the past few years, and he had known it would not be without consequence. However, he had never thought his gold-lined life, would be drastically affected so soon. He had figured that he would die young. Yes, that was acceptable to him as long as he lived to see himself married and the father of beautiful children. His earnings would assure them all a great life. If he lived to middle age doing what he had to do now, then those he loved and held dear would reap the benefits. Especially his parents. They were his biggest supporters and loved him unconditionally. No matter what. So, now that he could earn unbelievable amounts of money legally, he was going to make certain that he would do so for a very long time to come. He never thought himself to be a selfish man. He saw that his money helped the poor and children in need. Coming from a strong family, he wanted to help those who could not help themselves. He had his moments when selfish urges overtook him. But he chalked it up to being human. He always told himself that he was just a man and as a man he was allowed to make mistakes. Hell, God banked on him screwing up every now and again. Isn’t that why they had confession? And, he never hurt anyone but himself. Yet in the doing, he continued to build his bank account. He continued to stand as a good role model for the young people of his country. Everyone loved him. How could they not? He was young and beautiful. He was a gift to his people. And he loved it. Most of the time. How could a man not love being loved. It feeds the soul and urges one to embrace all that people expect of one. And as the expectations grow, so too does the stress of maintaining oneself, preserving that which separates one from all the others. He was special. His eyes were the portals to a diverse world. They pulled people in and held on. Even though most only saw him in magazines or video clips, they believed they knew him. Hell, they believed they loved him. How could a man not enjoy some ounce of that? At least in the beginning. He stretched his athletic body whose muscles seemed to atrophy each day he spent locked up in this cage. His 6’2” frame boasted muscle with not an ounce of fat. Each striation could be seen. But he was by no means big. His body was perfection. They called him a Greek God. And, as he knew all too well, all gods have their weak-nesses. It was no wonder that men had gone crazy here. It was no wonder that mad-ness had overtaken their minds. A place like this could devour a man’s soul and sanity. It’s cold stone walls offered no solace, but a world of frigid abandon. Here you were lost and in time you were forgotten by most. Even one such as he. Millions claimed him. Millions loved him. Yet in time, the only ones who would remember him were his family and perhaps a few really close friends. All others would forget he ever existed. And that was one of the things that frightened him so much. That and the fact that he would lose his best years to a place where lost souls were born every day. Each day and into the night his mind replayed the events that landed him here. Truth be told he had known somewhere deep in his core that he would not get away with it. He had been raised better than that. He had been taught better than that. Yet the disease had taken hold. It had pushed him to do things that he knew he shouldn’t do. In the end, he betrayed everything that he had been raised to be. In the end, he had betrayed all those he loved and who loved him. In the end, he had betrayed himself. Worst of all he had betrayed his parents. The hardest thing was to look into his mother’s beautiful eyes and see the disappointment and fear there. He had done that to her. He had repaid all of her kindness and love with betrayal and stupidity. How do you apologize for that? There are no words that can measure up. As they say ‘actions speak louder than words’. And his actions had revealed a naive, selfish act whose ramifications could prove detrimental to the rest of his life. Instead of the ‘Son of Greece’ he would be the ‘lost son’. Would his country abandon him? Would it forget everything he had done that was good and kind? Would it forget that he was still young and had made a terrible mistake? One huge, terrible mistake. Would they make an example out of him? Would his country turn its back on him when he needed it the most. He was broken and needed understanding and not condemnation. He needed to be taken in and revitalized. He needed people to understand a world that they would never touch nor fully comprehend, his world. He needed his people, who had adored him so, to embrace him with love and compassion. He did not need to be judged over and over again. His self-recrimination was enough for the entire world. His charmed life had turned into a living nightmare. He could blame it on the industry. One hundred and fifty thousand percent, he could blame the industry. Yet his actions were his own. And even though there were threats made to compel him to follow through, he made the ultimate choice to commit to the action that landed him here. It was surreal. Lying in the dark, with no plush accommodations, he shivered. His skin crawled and his mind screamed its denial. He tried to rewrite the script that had turned his life to shit. He tried to wake himself up in the moment when he had been so damned stupid. Tears filled his eyes. His gorgeous green/blue eyes that separated him from all others. His nose became stuffed as his heart broke. Grabbing the hard pillow, he screamed into it. All of his pent up rage and frustration was muffled by the pillow. He didn’t want any of the guards to hear him. He didn’t want any of them to talk about how low he had fallen. The least he could offer his family was to suffer alone and as quietly as possible. His throat ached and his body burned with a craving so raw it singed his very veins. The disease was making itself known. The doctors said it would be hard. They offered him medication to ease the pain and to reduce his urges. Yet, he wanted to fight his demons in his own way. He wanted to tell those demons to go fuck themselves. The demons had controlled him long enough. They had made his life hell. So, he refused any medication, though he met with his psychiatrist regularly. Normally, he wasn’t one to discuss his feelings openly with anyone. He held things in and expected to maintain an appearance of perfection as the public had always expected. However, that is what had gotten him here, he suspected. So, he had decided to abandon silence and speak his mind. And it was mandatory that he see the good doctor. To play the game was the best for everyone. God, why did it have to hurt so God-damned bad. Sweat seeped from every pore in his body, yet he shook from a frigidness that burned in his core. Gods weren’t suppose to be brought down so damned low. He groaned then cried as a cramp ripped through his stomach. Curling up into a ball, he held his middle and rocked like a child. He just wanted to sleep. That’s all he did lately. Sleep and eat. He wanted to work his body to feel a natural burn to his muscles, but he didn’t have the energy. The disease stole that from him too. The disease, it asked so much of him. It’s toll was so high that now when faced with it, he wanted to run very far, very fast from it. How could he have done this to himself? Why would he inflict so much suffering on himself just to prolong an inevitable outcome? He was smart enough to know that his end would be tragic if he continued on the way he had been going. All of his veins were strained, begging for release. Begging him for the euphoria and energy he had maintained for years. All he could do was sob. The pain was so excruciating that he just wanted to die. He prayed to God to take him. He told God that he was not worthy of His ear, yet he begged Him to end his suffering. To take away the pain and the embarrassment of what he had done. The sorrow was like a weight pulling at his heart. The sorrow was all enveloping like an abyss of dark water that gave no quarter and bade him to just inhale  The sorrow also begged for something. It begged for him to end it all. It would be so much easier that way. He would not have to face the public. He would never need to face his mother again. He would be just another soul lost to the industry and the monsters that preyed on the innocent. But he could not do that to his beloved mother. She had made him promise that no matter how bad it got, no matter how horrible he felt, he would not hurt himself. Curse the gods, he had made that promise. Above all things, he would never intentionally cause her more pain than he already had. That would be a disgrace. But she had known. She had understood before he had that it would come to that decision. In her wisdom, she had purposely bound him to this life. Deep down, he wished she would just let him go. But that was not to be. She had bound him with invisible shackles to this world. She had bound him to her with her unwavering love. A mother’s love. He had done what he had done to make his body perfect and to be able to use his body to get ahead in a fast-paced world where co-workers were devoured daily. And now, it was falling apart on him. Everything that he had built was crumbling around his feet. He had worked so damn hard and now it was gone. Would he ever get it back? Didn’t the authorities realize that he was not the source. He had been used and not in a good way. Yet, if he told, life could get a whole lot more dangerous. He didn’t really know those who had approached him. Grabbing his short hair, he pulled his throbbing head into his chest. His long hair was gone, cut when he had been thrown into this pit. The only thing they could not steal away from him was the unequalled beauty held in his stare. Yet, those who came to visit him, commented on how the fire and the spirit had disappeared from his hypnotic eyes. He supposed even his soul was not safe here. Right now, he was not safe anywhere. Maybe that is why they kept him locked up. Perhaps, they suspected that he was not the source but just another dumb mule. He had been a flight risk, but now his life might be at risk. He really didn’t know what to think anymore. He didn’t know who, outside of his close family and friends, to trust. The nightmare had started several years ago. It had been difficult to deal with the hours and the stress of the modeling industry. You had to be on all the time. You had to have a smile on your face twenty-four seven. If it had not been for the agents and the other models, he never would have touched the stuff. But there was an unspoken pact amongst the other models--men and women, boys and girls alike, as some were too young to be called adult. If you were to succeed in the business, you had to be willing to do anything in order to put yourself out there. Some even lowered themselves to sexual acts in order to stay where they wanted to be. That is something he swore he would never do. It worked most of the time. Yet, sometimes, when the timing was right and the encroacher had a great offer and a half-way decent appearance, he would accommodate them. It did not happen often and never with the same sex. That he would not abide. His mother, who had tried to protect him, never knew. If she would have halfway suspected, she would have made him quit the industry. The modeling industry was for the young and naive. It was a machine that was designed to pull the very soul from a young beautiful model. The machine would not care if it killed a model in the doing. It was the process. If a model was not strong enough to resist suicide or overdosing, they would be just a memory. That was what he feared was happening to him, though, in a very different way. The modeling world was composed of so many monsters that it was very difficult to protect yourself from all of them. Some very pretty monsters preyed on the innocent and won in the end. Other monsters just used force or threatening promises. In his case, it was a little bit of both. He could remember a couple of years back when a Russian model, not even 21, had been accused of suicide. Very ugly remarks were made about her being just another dumb beautiful body who would not be missed. That was what people thought of you when you made a living on the Cat Walk. They did not consider you as an intelligent, person capable of deep thought. Everyone who knew her knew that accusation to be a lie. Yet how do you fight a very powerful entity that has tentacles reaching from Paris to New York to South America and even Russia? How do you fight those whose souls are black and inhuman? You don’t. Money was the only blood that flowed in their veins and they would step on anyone threatening their blood banks--the young and innocent models. “Don’t worry, it will feel good and it will allow you to work like two men instead of one. You will earn so much money, you will wonder what to do with it. And it will make you feel good. You will be like superman.” That was what was told to him by another female model. She had been right. You flew through life. Your feet hardly touched the ground. Earn more money. Sure. He earned plenty of money for himself and for his family. He also made his agency very rich, too. The more he worked, the more they made. It was not hard to understand. The agency did not care how he maintained his looks, as long as he did. They owned him. The world owned him. But they would never reach his soul. That would forever and always belong to him; untouchable. Why would he think that they would care what happened to him once he was past his prime. But when you are wrapped up in the every day goings on, you forget about important issues like the future. He had, of course, been wise enough to widen his prospects with acting and dabbling in directing. Yet his foot was just wet, nothing more. He wanted so much more and had become impatient with that wanting. And when he was approached to do this thing that now defined him, he had not thought it through. At age 33, he was still considered unbelievably gorgeous, yet he knew the day would come when he would tire of it and want more, the day when the price to maintain his unbelievable physic would be too high. His dream was to act. To be someone people saw and took seriously. He had a mind. A great mind and untapped talent. He wanted to prove it to the rest of the world. And now, he lay here, world weary and completely destroyed by a decision that he had made in haste. By the time it came to decide, the decision had been made for him by people he did not know well enough to trust. God, how could he have done this thing? How could he have let down so many people? He caused such an uproar with one act, that to undo it would take years. So many years of hard work, gone-stolen in a moment due to a lack in judgement. All the sacrifice, all the long hours and missed family gatherings and now this. Now he was a stranger in his own life. He was missing his family terribly. And his friends, all those who had kept him grounded all of the years past, they were missing. He was missing. He was a living ghost in a world where he had reigned supreme. He missed going to the beach with them--pitching a tent and sitting around a fire and just enjoying life. He wanted to be able to laugh again. Laughter had once been his narcotic. His sense of humor was off-the-hook and he loved to laugh and make others laugh, too. He yearned for his youth, for times when the weight of the world rested on the backs of others and not his. He yearned to be free again. To taste the Mediterranean breeze and feel the night air lift his hair and blow against his muscular body. To be cleansed by the salt water. He longed for freedom, the freedom he so naively relinquished. If he had it all to do again, he never would have been so naive. He would have been more cautious and less trusting. He would have only surrounded himself with friends proven and true. He could berate himself every moment he spent awake, dwelling on what he could have done differently, but the fact of the matter was he had no options left. He had thrown them into the wind and the wind had blown it right back into his face, the smack having left a print that would last a lifetime. He just prayed that he would not be forsaken, forgotten and lost to time. He could not live through that. He could not survive it.

Written by Monique Marie

We won’t forsake you, EVER. You are in our hearts, minds and prayers every day. You have made the world fall in-love with you and your good heart. Know that we embrace you with our loving energy and send it to you every moment you are lost to us. To you, our friend, don’t give up and don’t give in---all of your faithful fans of the world. . .	And, my brother, God will never forsake you. You only have to ask Him to take your burdens from you and he will. It is that simple. I am not a religious person, yet I do know God will never let you down.

“Fallen Son of Greece” He who needs Compassion, Not Condemnation

As he lay on the hard cot, he tried to shake himself awake even though his eyes were wide open. His heart pounded erratically in his chest and it squeezed with an ache, such as he has never known. Even when he had lost loved ones to death, he had never felt such loss and loneliness. It’s as if he himself had lost his soul and he lived in limbo without it, not knowing if the next day his body would follow it into the blind depths of oblivion. Every moment of every single day, he wanted to whimper and weep for his losses, cry to the heavens and fates for their audacity to abandon him to his own devises. He was a man, a child of God, yet he felt like an outcast. He had chosen this path and he wanted to balk at the possible finality of it. He had entered a pact with the devil and lost. He was lost. As he lay here, he realized that this world that encompassed him now was so foreign to him that he trembled with an unspeakable rage and frustration. He could not move without permission. He could not bathe without onlookers. He could not shed tears without an audience. He could not be himself. God he missed human contact. He was a very affectionate person. With his family and friends. He missed making love with utter abandon, with no thought to the next moment. To just lay in the arms of another and inhale the scent of lovemaking. And now, the next moment only brought more questions and fear. He did not want to think about the future, yet how could he not? It was only human to seek the unknown. It was only human to hope and pray for a positive outcome. For how long would he be lost? Always he had known who he was even when sometimes the path of life carried him into parts unknown or parts that were fraught with danger. But he liked danger. He thrived on danger. At least controlled danger. When he controlled the aspects of the danger he partook, he felt somewhat at ease. Yet, somehow, his level-headedness and conservative ways had abandoned him as of late. Ok, he had been doing very stupid things for the past few years, and he had known it would not be without consequence. However, he had never thought his gold-lined life, would be drastically affected so soon. He had figured that he would die young. Yes, that was acceptable to him as long as he lived to see himself married and the father of beautiful children. His earnings would assure them all a great life. If he lived to middle age doing what he had to do now, then those he loved and held dear would reap the benefits. Especially his parents. They were his biggest supporters and loved him unconditionally. No matter what. So, now that he could earn unbelievable amounts of money legally, he was going to make certain that he would do so for a very long time to come. He never thought himself to be a selfish man. He saw that his money helped the poor and children in need. Coming from a strong family, he wanted to help those who could not help themselves. He had his moments when selfish urges overtook him. But he chalked it up to being human. He always told himself that he was just a man and as a man he was allowed to make mistakes. Hell, God banked on him screwing up every now and again. Isn’t that why they had confession? And, he never hurt anyone but himself. Yet in the doing, he continued to build his bank account. He continued to stand as a good role model for the young people of his country. Everyone loved him. How could they not? He was young and beautiful. He was a gift to his people. And he loved it. Most of the time. How could a man not love being loved. It feeds the soul and urges one to embrace all that people expect of one. And as the expectations grow, so too does the stress of maintaining oneself, preserving that which separates one from all the others. He was special. His eyes were the portals to a diverse world. They pulled people in and held on. Even though most only saw him in magazines or video clips, they believed they knew him. Hell, they believed they loved him. How could a man not enjoy some ounce of that? At least in the beginning. He stretched his athletic body whose muscles seemed to atrophy each day he spent locked up in this cage. His 6’2” frame boasted muscle with not an ounce of fat. Each striation could be seen. But he was by no means big. His body was perfection. They called him a Greek God. And, as he knew all too well, all gods have their weak-nesses. It was no wonder that men had gone crazy here. It was no wonder that mad-ness had overtaken their minds. A place like this could devour a man’s soul and sanity. It’s cold stone walls offered no solace, but a world of frigid abandon. Here you were lost and in time you were forgotten by most. Even one such as he. Millions claimed him. Millions loved him. Yet in time, the only ones who would remember him were his family and perhaps a few really close friends. All others would forget he ever existed. And that was one of the things that frightened him so much. That and the fact that he would lose his best years to a place where lost souls were born every day. Each day and into the night his mind replayed the events that landed him here. Truth be told he had known somewhere deep in his core that he would not get away with it. He had been raised better than that. He had been taught better than that. Yet the disease had taken hold. It had pushed him to do things that he knew he shouldn’t do. In the end, he betrayed everything that he had been raised to be. In the end, he had betrayed all those he loved and who loved him. In the end, he had betrayed himself. Worst of all he had betrayed his parents. The hardest thing was to look into his mother’s beautiful eyes and see the disappointment and fear there. He had done that to her. He had repaid all of her kindness and love with betrayal and stupidity. How do you apologize for that? There are no words that can measure up. As they say ‘actions speak louder than words’. And his actions had revealed a naive, selfish act whose ramifications could prove detrimental to the rest of his life. Instead of the ‘Son of Greece’ he would be the ‘lost son’. Would his country abandon him? Would it forget everything he had done that was good and kind? Would it forget that he was still young and had made a terrible mistake? One huge, terrible mistake. Would they make an example out of him? Would his country turn its back on him when he needed it the most. He was broken and needed understanding and not condemnation. He needed to be taken in and revitalized. He needed people to understand a world that they would never touch nor fully comprehend, his world. He needed his people, who had adored him so, to embrace him with love and compassion. He did not need to be judged over and over again. His self-recrimination was enough for the entire world. His charmed life had turned into a living nightmare. He could blame it on the industry. One hundred and fifty thousand percent, he could blame the industry. Yet his actions were his own. And even though there were threats made to compel him to follow through, he made the ultimate choice to commit to the action that landed him here. It was surreal. Lying in the dark, with no plush accommodations, he shivered. His skin crawled and his mind screamed its denial. He tried to rewrite the script that had turned his life to shit. He tried to wake himself up in the moment when he had been so damned stupid. Tears filled his eyes. His gorgeous green/blue eyes that separated him from all others. His nose became stuffed as his heart broke. Grabbing the hard pillow, he screamed into it. All of his pent up rage and frustration was muffled by the pillow. He didn’t want any of the guards to hear him. He didn’t want any of them to talk about how low he had fallen. The least he could offer his family was to suffer alone and as quietly as possible. His throat ached and his body burned with a craving so raw it singed his very veins. The disease was making itself known. The doctors said it would be hard. They offered him medication to ease the pain and to reduce his urges. Yet, he wanted to fight his demons in his own way. He wanted to tell those demons to go fuck themselves. The demons had controlled him long enough. They had made his life hell. So, he refused any medication, though he met with his psychiatrist regularly. Normally, he wasn’t one to discuss his feelings openly with anyone. He held things in and expected to maintain an appearance of perfection as the public had always expected. However, that is what had gotten him here, he suspected. So, he had decided to abandon silence and speak his mind. And it was mandatory that he see the good doctor. To play the game was the best for everyone. God, why did it have to hurt so God-damned bad. Sweat seeped from every pore in his body, yet he shook from a frigidness that burned in his core. Gods weren’t suppose to be brought down so damned low. He groaned then cried as a cramp ripped through his stomach. Curling up into a ball, he held his middle and rocked like a child. He just wanted to sleep. That’s all he did lately. Sleep and eat. He wanted to work his body to feel a natural burn to his muscles, but he didn’t have the energy. The disease stole that from him too. The disease, it asked so much of him. It’s toll was so high that now when faced with it, he wanted to run very far, very fast from it. How could he have done this to himself? Why would he inflict so much suffering on himself just to prolong an inevitable outcome? He was smart enough to know that his end would be tragic if he continued on the way he had been going. All of his veins were strained, begging for release. Begging him for the euphoria and energy he had maintained for years. All he could do was sob. The pain was so excruciating that he just wanted to die. He prayed to God to take him. He told God that he was not worthy of His ear, yet he begged Him to end his suffering. To take away the pain and the embarrassment of what he had done. The sorrow was like a weight pulling at his heart. The sorrow was all enveloping like an abyss of dark water that gave no quarter and bade him to just inhale  The sorrow also begged for something. It begged for him to end it all. It would be so much easier that way. He would not have to face the public. He would never need to face his mother again. He would be just another soul lost to the industry and the monsters that preyed on the innocent. But he could not do that to his beloved mother. She had made him promise that no matter how bad it got, no matter how horrible he felt, he would not hurt himself. Curse the gods, he had made that promise. Above all things, he would never intentionally cause her more pain than he already had. That would be a disgrace. But she had known. She had understood before he had that it would come to that decision. In her wisdom, she had purposely bound him to this life. Deep down, he wished she would just let him go. But that was not to be. She had bound him with invisible shackles to this world. She had bound him to her with her unwavering love. A mother’s love. He had done what he had done to make his body perfect and to be able to use his body to get ahead in a fast-paced world where co-workers were devoured daily. And now, it was falling apart on him. Everything that he had built was crumbling around his feet. He had worked so damn hard and now it was gone. Would he ever get it back? Didn’t the authorities realize that he was not the source. He had been used and not in a good way. Yet, if he told, life could get a whole lot more dangerous. He didn’t really know those who had approached him. Grabbing his short hair, he pulled his throbbing head into his chest. His long hair was gone, cut when he had been thrown into this pit. The only thing they could not steal away from him was the unequalled beauty held in his stare. Yet, those who came to visit him, commented on how the fire and the spirit had disappeared from his hypnotic eyes. He supposed even his soul was not safe here. Right now, he was not safe anywhere. Maybe that is why they kept him locked up. Perhaps, they suspected that he was not the source but just another dumb mule. He had been a flight risk, but now his life might be at risk. He really didn’t know what to think anymore. He didn’t know who, outside of his close family and friends, to trust. The nightmare had started several years ago. It had been difficult to deal with the hours and the stress of the modeling industry. You had to be on all the time. You had to have a smile on your face twenty-four seven. If it had not been for the agents and the other models, he never would have touched the stuff. But there was an unspoken pact amongst the other models--men and women, boys and girls alike, as some were too young to be called adult. If you were to succeed in the business, you had to be willing to do anything in order to put yourself out there. Some even lowered themselves to sexual acts in order to stay where they wanted to be. That is something he swore he would never do. It worked most of the time. Yet, sometimes, when the timing was right and the encroacher had a great offer and a half-way decent appearance, he would accommodate them. It did not happen often and never with the same sex. That he would not abide. His mother, who had tried to protect him, never knew. If she would have halfway suspected, she would have made him quit the industry. The modeling industry was for the young and naive. It was a machine that was designed to pull the very soul from a young beautiful model. The machine would not care if it killed a model in the doing. It was the process. If a model was not strong enough to resist suicide or overdosing, they would be just a memory. That was what he feared was happening to him, though, in a very different way. The modeling world was composed of so many monsters that it was very difficult to protect yourself from all of them. Some very pretty monsters preyed on the innocent and won in the end. Other monsters just used force or threatening promises. In his case, it was a little bit of both. He could remember a couple of years back when a Russian model, not even 21, had been accused of suicide. Very ugly remarks were made about her being just another dumb beautiful body who would not be missed. That was what people thought of you when you made a living on the Cat Walk. They did not consider you as an intelligent, person capable of deep thought. Everyone who knew her knew that accusation to be a lie. Yet how do you fight a very powerful entity that has tentacles reaching from Paris to New York to South America and even Russia? How do you fight those whose souls are black and inhuman? You don’t. Money was the only blood that flowed in their veins and they would step on anyone threatening their blood banks--the young and innocent models. “Don’t worry, it will feel good and it will allow you to work like two men instead of one. You will earn so much money, you will wonder what to do with it. And it will make you feel good. You will be like superman.” That was what was told to him by another female model. She had been right. You flew through life. Your feet hardly touched the ground. Earn more money. Sure. He earned plenty of money for himself and for his family. He also made his agency very rich, too. The more he worked, the more they made. It was not hard to understand. The agency did not care how he maintained his looks, as long as he did. They owned him. The world owned him. But they would never reach his soul. That would forever and always belong to him; untouchable. Why would he think that they would care what happened to him once he was past his prime. But when you are wrapped up in the every day goings on, you forget about important issues like the future. He had, of course, been wise enough to widen his prospects with acting and dabbling in directing. Yet his foot was just wet, nothing more. He wanted so much more and had become impatient with that wanting. And when he was approached to do this thing that now defined him, he had not thought it through. At age 33, he was still considered unbelievably gorgeous, yet he knew the day would come when he would tire of it and want more, the day when the price to maintain his unbelievable physic would be too high. His dream was to act. To be someone people saw and took seriously. He had a mind. A great mind and untapped talent. He wanted to prove it to the rest of the world. And now, he lay here, world weary and completely destroyed by a decision that he had made in haste. By the time it came to decide, the decision had been made for him by people he did not know well enough to trust. God, how could he have done this thing? How could he have let down so many people? He caused such an uproar with one act, that to undo it would take years. So many years of hard work, gone-stolen in a moment due to a lack in judgement. All the sacrifice, all the long hours and missed family gatherings and now this. Now he was a stranger in his own life. He was missing his family terribly. And his friends, all those who had kept him grounded all of the years past, they were missing. He was missing. He was a living ghost in a world where he had reigned supreme. He missed going to the beach with them--pitching a tent and sitting around a fire and just enjoying life. He wanted to be able to laugh again. Laughter had once been his narcotic. His sense of humor was off-the-hook and he loved to laugh and make others laugh, too. He yearned for his youth, for times when the weight of the world rested on the backs of others and not his. He yearned to be free again. To taste the Mediterranean breeze and feel the night air lift his hair and blow against his muscular body. To be cleansed by the salt water. He longed for freedom, the freedom he so naively relinquished. If he had it all to do again, he never would have been so naive. He would have been more cautious and less trusting. He would have only surrounded himself with friends proven and true. He could berate himself every moment he spent awake, dwelling on what he could have done differently, but the fact of the matter was he had no options left. He had thrown them into the wind and the wind had blown it right back into his face, the smack having left a print that would last a lifetime. He just prayed that he would not be forsaken, forgotten and lost to time. He could not live through that. He could not survive it.

Written by Monique Marie

We won’t forsake you, EVER. You are in our hearts, minds and prayers every day. You have made the world fall in-love with you and your good heart. Know that we embrace you with our loving energy and send it to you every moment you are lost to us. To you, our friend, don’t give up and don’t give in---all of your faithful fans of the world. . .	And, my brother, God will never forsake you. You only have to ask Him to take your burdens from you and he will. It is that simple. I am not a religious person, yet I do know God will never let you down. —64.253.15.248 (talk) 13:03, 3 June 2010 (UTC)


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It's not the case.

the decision is absurd and completely wrong.

While there is an element of chance involved in the game - it is a game primarily of skill. The better players will win the money from the worse players over the course of time. This is similar to say, backgammon, where on any individual game a novice can beat a pro based on the luck of the dice....but over the long run, the pro will win.

There are professional poker players - people who have been making their living playing poker for decades....if the game was a game of luck and not skill, this would be an impossibility. i.e., there is no such thing as a professional roulette player.


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the skill is not in determining the outcome though, you have no control over what cards turn up. the skill, is set in outsmarting your opponents into thinking they have the better chance at getting the cards they need.

roulette is purely a game of chance, whereas poker has elements of skill dependant on chance


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Christene, you must be one of the SA expats that fled the country because of the state this country is in. If not you don't have a say in this matter as you are totally ignorant and don't know what's happening here.

When Hani was murdered the blacks went on the rampage and killed and looted and plundered and the ANC government said that they must vent their grief but when the shoe is on the other foot the whites must show restraint? what utter BULLS..T! AIDS is doing a good job of taking revenge...


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Thank you for your productive and helpful edits on Wikinews. We really appreciate what you've done. Wikinews needs more good editors like yourself; please consider getting an account! We'd be very happy to have you. Tempodivalse [talk]  18:04, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
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Manager Benitez parts company with Liverpool Football Club

June 3, 2010 After six seasons, English Premier football club Liverpool F.C. and manager have parted ways. The separation was by mutual consent. The 50-year-old Spaniard joined the club in June 2004, replacing Gerard Houllie. He had early success with the club, earning the Champions League title over A.C. Milan in 2005 and the FA Cup title the next season, before returning to the Champions League final in 2007, this time losing to A.C. Milan.

Under Benítez, Liverpool has a less than stellar home success for the club with the most major trophies in English football, finishing second in the league just once, while finishing third and fourth twice each.

Liverpool Chairman thanked Benítez for his service, saying that after a seventh-place finish in the Premier League this season, it was time to move on.

"Rafa will forever be part of Liverpool folklore after bringing home the Champions League following the epic final in Istanbul but after a disappointing season both parties felt a fresh start would be best for all concerned," Broughton said, in a statement released by the club today.

"It is very sad for me to announce that I will no longer be manager of Liverpool F.C," Benítez said, in a statement released by the club. "I would like to thank all of the staff and players for their efforts.

"I'll always keep in my heart the good times I've had here, the strong and loyal support of the fans in the tough times and the love from Liverpool. I have no words to thank you enough for all these years and I am very proud to say that I was your manager.

"Thank you so much once more and always remember: You'll never walk alone."


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"The AWG-LCA is the negotiating group tasked to deliver a new negotiating text which, is preparing for the June negotiating session."

So what is it exactly that they are doing? Negotiating negotiations for another negotiation? What exactly are they negotiating, anyway? This needs to be clarified.

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"Luis Alfonso de Alba, Mexico's special representative for climate change, told Reuters, "Mexico does not want to raise false expectations but we certainly are ambitious".

Why is this sentence here? What expectations is the Mexican government ambitious about but not wanting to be over-ambitious about at the same time?

Sorry to be blunt, but I was more confused after reading this article than before I read it. Too much information, not enough narrative and thus it reads like a legal brief and I am left to wonder if the original author fully understands what the article is about. Turtlestack (talk) 21:40, 3 June 2010 (UTC)


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Turkey mourns flotilla dead

June 4, 2010

Funerals and prayers for nine activists, who died in Israel's, were held in Istanbul on Thursday.

Tens of thousands attended the funeral of the nine Turkish nationals, including one teen of dual U.S.-Turkish citizenship. The coffins were draped in Turkish and Palestinian flags. There was widespread anger from those attending. Released activists arrived to their home countries yesterday and today.

The Turkish President Abdullah Gül said that Turkey would act calmly and said; Turkey will never forget such an attack on its ships and its people in international waters. The relations between Israel and Turkey will never be the same again, unless Israel apologises.

The youngest of the nine activists killed, a 19-year-old high school student Furkan Dogan, was shot in the head and chest. He was born in New York, but moved to Turkey when he was two. He will be buried in his family's hometown of in central Turkey on Friday. A United States State Department spokesman said it would probe the death of the Turkish-American killed, but said the FBI were not involved "at this point."

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu insisted that soldiers were acting in self-defence. He said the activists were not peace activists but "violent supporters of terrorism". Israel has stated that of the 7 soldiers wounded during the assault, 2 were shot with weapons wrestled from Israeli forces. But Swedish activist Mattias Gardell scoffed at such statements, replying, "the Israelis started shooting first. We had no weapons, the Israelis had weapons".

Abdullah Gül said Israel committed "one of the biggest mistakes ever in its history," and the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan called Israel's actions "a historic mistake." The leader of the Islamic charity spoke to the crowd, saying, "The whole world supports us. We will shake the foundations of Zionism".

The activists had attempted to break the Israeli. The Irish ship arriving some time this weekend, will be the next ship to challenge the blockade.

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I think I have a general understanding of what's going on right now. But the UN is a very slow body with lots of moving parts so I may have missed something. The LCA has many things to do, but it sounds like you already have the gist of it. For a graphic rundown of what the LCA will be discussing please see Link and related material at Link. The AWGs are negotiating (and will be in the next meeting, I believe) what the text of the COP16 negotiative text will be. There's the pre-COP negotiations, and they come to a conclusion, that conclusion is then debated and modified at COP. The idea is at the end of COP to have a legally binding treaty that a majority of the countries agree to, but as with COP15 we see that is very difficult. Which leads on to the next point...

Regarding the quote from de Alba: He was referring to a pessimistic attitude that Yvo de Beor (current climate secretariat, who is stepping down) and other like Connie Hedegaard have when addressing the probability of the UNFCCC agreeing to a binding treaty, period. They both have expressed strong doubts about being able to pass anything in the future that will have meaningful effects and have almost written off COP16 before it even starts. Since the next COP is in Mexico, de Alba is (rightfully so) a bit sore about those comments.


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I really like this article. I personally think that poker is a game of luck as opposed to a game of skill. Still, this did make for an interesting read. -- Rayboy8 ( my talk ) ( my contributions ) 23:03, 3 June 2010 (UTC)


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Today on Wikinews : Talks continue in Bonn, Germany for the upcoming climate change conference; Apple sells 2 million iPads, Claude Giroux scores the game winner in game 3 of the Stanley Cup finals and, in history, "Mighty Casey" fails to get the game winner for Mudville in 1888.

Today is Thursday, June 3rd, 2010. I'm Dan Harlow and this is Wikinews.

Second round of Bonn UN Climate Change negotiations continue (0:35)
The second of four preparatory rounds of negotiations leading up to this years United Nations Climate Change Conference continued in Bonn, Germany today. The 4,500 attendees include government delegates from 182 governments, representatives from business and industry, environmental organizations and research institutions.

Among the discussions were a focus on emissions reduction commitments for the 37 industrialized countries that have ratified the Kyoto Protocol for the period beyond 2012.

The talks were designed to discuss issues that were not resolved at the 2009 UN Climate Change Conference which were held in Copenhagen amid mass protests. Between 40,000 and 100,000 people attended the protests in Copenhagen last year and activists claimed that the police had used wire-taps, undercover officers and pepper spray on people who had been detained. In all, 968 protesters were arrested but only 13 were finally charged. Protests had also been held in London, England and Melbourne, Australia.

This year, the United Nations Climate Change Conference will be held in Cancún, Mexico, from 29 November to 10 December

As the world attempts to clean up the environment, Apple is cleaning up in the marketplace as

Apple sells two million iPads in two months (1:48)
the company announced on Monday that it has sold over two million iPads, just two months after the device began shipping in the US and only days after its international launch.

Apple shares rose 2.9 percent to US$264.29 Tuesday afternoon. Market analysts also upped price targets and sales estimates in response to the announcement. Shares for AT&T, who provides data plans for the iPad, also rose yesterday.

Prior to the iPad's April 3 launch, many analysts had speculated about the viability and marketability of the device. However, iPad sales have been faster than anticipated. Although it was only expected to sell one million iPads for the whole quarter, Apple announced in early May that it had surpassed the one-million mark in just 28 days. It again surprised industry watchers, who were expecting about 1.6–1.7 million iPads to have been sold when Apple announced that it had passed the two-million mark.

iPad sales may make up over ten percent of Apple's revenue this quarter, a feat that took the iPhone twice as long to achieve. The iPad has been so popular and supplies of the tablet so low that Apple tried to place limits on the number of iPads a person can purchase and postponing sales of the iPad to Europe and Asia until last weekend due to strong demand for the tablet in the US.

While some people are able to watch their favorite television shows on an iPad, many still rely on an old fashioned television, however,

British soap opera Coronation Street postponed after Cumbria shooting (3:15)
an episode of the British soap opera Coronation Street has been postponed after it was due to air on the same day as a string of shootings in Cumbria occurred killing 12 people and injuring several more. The episode, due to be broadcast on ITV last night, featured a siege and hostage situation heavily involving guns.

The soap was replaced with an episode of Harry Hill’s TV Burp, a comedy program which takes a satirical look at the week in television. ITV released a statement saying they postponed the episode "out of respect to those affected by today's tragedy."

Finally, in sports,

Ice Hockey: Claude Giroux scores overtime goal to lift Flyers to victory in Game 3 of the 2010 Stanley Cup Finals (4:00)
Claude Giroux scored the overtime, game winning goal to lift the Philadelphia Flyers to victory over the Chicago Blackhawks in Game 3 of the 2010 Stanley Cup Finals. The shot came at 5:59 into the overtime period on a redirection off Matt Carle's pass, squeezing the through the right arm and leg of Blackhawks goalie Antti Niemi.

Flyers captain Mike Richards told CBC Sports that the game-winning goal was a big relief to the team. "We came out and played hard," Richards said. "Both teams played extremely well and we were lucky to get the last goal."

Like the first two games, this one was decided by a one-goal margin, but was not an offensive shootout like Game 1 or a defensive standoff as in game 2.

Chicago and Philadelphia will continue the best-of-seven series on Friday night at Philadelphia's Wachovia Center.

On this day in history (4:52)
To honor Detroit Tigers pitcher, Armando Galarraga, who pitched a perfect game yesterday only to have it taken away on a blown call in the ninth inning from umpire Jim Joyce: in 1888, the poem "Casey At The Bat" was published for the first time by Ernest Thayer, a humor columnist for the San Francisco Examiner.

The poem is about an American baseball team from the fictional town of Mudville (implied to be the home team) who are losing by two runs with two outs in their last inning. Both the team and its fans believe they can win "if only" they could somehow get "Mighty Casey" (Mudville's star player) up to bat. However, Casey was scheduled to be the fifth batter of the inning – the first two batters (Cooney and Barrows) did not reach base, while the next two batters (Flynn and Jimmy Blake) were perceived to be weak hitters with little chance of reaching base to allow Casey an at bat.

Surprisingly, Flynn hits a single, and Jimmy Blake follows with a double (Flynn reaching third on the play). Both runners were now in scoring position and Casey represented the potential winning run. However, Casey is so confident in his abilities that he doesn't swing at the first two pitches, both strikes. On the last pitch, the overconfident Casey strikes out, ending the game and sending the crowd home unhappy.

Here is DeWolf Hopper's famous recording of the poem which was released in October 1906.

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Basketball: Lakers score 102 to defeat the Celtics in Game 1 of the 2010 NBA Finals

June 4, 2010 In basketball, hit a three-pointer late in the fourth quarter to lift the  to a 102–89 victory over the  in Game 1 of the  Thursday night in Los Angeles, California. Bryant scored 30 points in the game to lead all scorers. Bryant was backed-up by a 23-point, 14-rebound effort from and 15 points from. For Boston, had 24 points and  had 16 points.

"They were the more physical team by far," Celtics coach Doc Rivers said after the game, according to the Associated Press. "They were more aggressive. They attacked us the entire night. I didn't think we handled it very well."

While both teams have displayed consistent defensive showing, Boston could not match L.A.'s output.

"You can't ease into the game, especially in the finals," Pierce said, according to the Associated Press. "That's one of the better rebounding teams in the NBA. We've just got to do a better job rebounding the ball, eliminating easy opportunities. When I look up and we've given up 100 points, I haven't seen that in a while."

The first quarter was fairly evenly matched, ending 26–21 in favor of the Lakers. At one point the Lakers were up 16–10, but Boston was able to close to within one point. Late points by and  built the lead to five in the final minute and the Lakers had the chance to go up by more, but  missed a six-foot jump-shot.

In the second quarter, both team remained close until late in the quarter when the Lakers opened an 12-point lead late in the final minute. With just two tenths of a second on the clock, Boston's hit a three-pointer to bring the score to within nine: 50–41.

At the half, Bryant told ABC Sports that the team done okay in the first half.

"We blew a couple of assignments," Bryant, who had 12 points in the half, said of the Celtics defense. "We felt like we could have stretched the game a bit more."

In the third quarter, the Lakers continued to pull away from the Celtics, outpacing them by 11 points. With 28 seconds left in the quarter, Artest hit a three-pointer to put Los Angeles up 84–64. Bryant had 14 points in the quarter.

In the fourth quarter, Los Angeles could not extend their lead and in the first four minutes Boston went on a 10-3 run to close the gap to 13 points. Both team scored two more points before Gosol slammed home what turned out to be the game-winning points with 6:20 left to put the Lakers up 91–76. In the final six minutes, Boston outscored the Lakers 13–11, but it was not enough to bring the game back to single digits.

Both Pierce and Ray Allen fouled-out for the Celtics. Odam fouled-out for Los Angeles.

This series is the 12th between the two franchises, dating back to 1959, with the Celtics leading the series 9–2. The Minneapolis Lakers first appeared in the Basketball Association of America — the precursor to the NBA — defeating the Washington Capitols 4–2. The next year, Minneapolis defeated Syracuse Nationals 4–2 in the first NBA. The Celtics first played in the NBA finals in 1957, defeating the St. Louis Hawks 4–3.

In 1959, the Lakers and Celtics first faced each other in the Finals. The Celtics won the series 4–0. In 1962, the Lakers — now in Los Angeles — met for the second time — this time winning 4–3. It was not until the eighth meeting — in 1985 — did the Lakers win.

Before the start of the game, NBA Commisioner David Stern commented on the historic rivalry.

"When I first became commissioner in the '80s," Stern told the Los Angeles Times, "I thought what you did every June is you went from L.A. to Boston and back again, and it was interesting to watch. And now here we are again."

The best-of-seven series resumes Sunday night at Los Angeles'.


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At the risk of sounding stupid, what exactly does this template do? I can understand !, but why the two pipes? Tempodivalse [talk]  02:15, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
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Watched the game on ABC via ESPN America. This is the source of the Kobe quote. Calebrw (talk) 04:54, 4 June 2010 (UTC)


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Large fires kill many in Dhaka, Bangladesh

June 4, 2010 At least 114 people have been killed by fires in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka.

According to local fire official Nazrul Islam, the fire started in an apartment complex when an electrical exploded. The fire that started at about 20:45 local time on Thursday then spread to six or seven other buildings in the densely populated Najiranazar neighbourhood of old Dhaka.

The fire was brought under control after three hours of effort on Friday morning, leaving at least 114 dead and a further 40 injured of which 10 to 12 are in critical condition. The current casualties follows the death of 25 in a previous fire on Tuesday.

Witnesses said that fueling the flames were chemicals from illegal home-based factories in the Kayettuli neighborhood. Kayettuli is one of the most densely populated neighborhoods in Dhaka.


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very short and not to the point of the heading. —203.153.44.130 (talk) 15:03, 18 June 2010 (UTC)

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Thank you wikipedia and all other wiki sites! I want to request you that please make wikipedia more useful by making all essays available in all the languages u have! Thankyou once again! Wiki user! —59.94.241.193 (talk) 13:04, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

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Please provide what type of pollution and name of mathura refinery for its exhaust —203.110.243.21 (talk) 03:13, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

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 * If you could perhaps tell us what, exactly, you don't like about this 4-year-old article, that would be helpful. However, your comments as they stand are not particularly constructive at all. I would also point out that this is not the correct place to raise issues with the article—that's what the discussion page is for. DEN  DODGE  George Watson  13:15, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

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Your articles
Hi there! It's great that you're creating articles for Wikinews. However, the style in which you write isn't suitable for this website. We try to write articles as a way to get information accross to the reader, in a formal, broadsheet as supposed to a more informal, tabloid-esque newspaper. I suggest that you try to write articles on single issues, trying to keep to the style of websites such as BBC News, or the New York Times. You may wish to have a quick glance at the style guide, which sets out the style in which to write. More importantly, Writing an article will take you through the steps to make your new article a successful one, worthy of being posted to such outlets as Google News. If you have any questions, feel free to ask at the water cooler (just pick the correct forum and click "add comment" near the top), or ask me on my talk page by clicking here. You can also get back to this page by clicking "my talk" in the top right hand corner whenever you are logged in. Regards, — μ 08:51, June 11 2010 (UTC)
 * Hi there, Shefali. I think you might have tried to post a message to me, but all I managed to get was two equal signs (==). Could you try again, or just ignore me if you sent it in error. Thanks, — μ 09:01, June 11 2010 (UTC)
 * I regret to inform you that I haven't been able to pass your article as it is at the moment. You've managed to fulfil two (or maybe three) out of the five criteria required to be published, but there is a problem with your sources. You can read my comments here. Don't be discouraged! It's almost ready! — μ 09:09, June 11 2010 (UTC)
 * Babel boxes are a way to facilitate cross-language co-operation, by showing other users what languages people know in an easy-to-understand way that is standardised across (most) Wikimedia projects. You add them by typing, or . Here's how it works: each language has a specified "ISO code". For example, English is "en", French is "fr", Spanish is "es", German "de", and so on (you can search them here). The number relates to their fluency level:

So, from my userpage, you can see that I am a native English speaker, who speaks some French and a bit of German. Regards, — μ 09:24, June 11 2010 (UTC)

 * Hey again. One problem is that Mandela isn't going to be at the opening ceremony any more. Also, your articles need a category for the location & subject of the article -- I've added this for you. It might be worth removing all the section headers and merging it into three paragraphs of flowing prose. Finally, as a side note, I've noticed that you've changed your signature.

For now, could you make sure that the "Treat signature as wikitext (without an automatic link)" box is clear? Thanks, — μ 11:25, June 11 2010 (UTC)

 * If you go into Preferences, the Gadgets, you can enable something called HotCat. Then, at the bottom of every page, you can click the + sign, then type in a category name -- if it autocompletes, it exists. Perhaps just add some more information: use Google to find some sources, and add as much information about what is happening today as you can, documenting all your sources. I'm not going to be able to review your article (as I've denied it twice, someone else has to review it the third time), so you'll have to wait until someone else comes online. Regards, — μ 11:54, June 11 2010 (UTC)

Images
Hi there,

We cannot accept images from competing news organisations as we cannot claim fair use for them and therefore I have deleted your image. You can read more about this on the following page Fair use. Regards --Mark Talk to me 15:22, 12 June 2010 (UTC)

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Hi Sainsf. Basically, userboxes are small boxes that you can place on your user page to tell people a little more about yourself, such as what you do on-wiki, what languages you speak, etc. They're optional, but could be useful to others. Although we're not Wikipedia, nevertheless the Wikipedia page on userboxes has useful information on how to use them that we generally follow.

Category:Userboxes contains a list of some userboxes that exist on Wikinews. Also, you're encouraged to use "babel" userboxes (see here) to tell other people what languages you know - that's very useful in news. Hope this answers your question :-) Tempodivalse [talk]  12:49, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

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Categories and prose
Thanks for your message. Here are some suggestions for finding categories for a story:
 * 1) Start at the continent and work down to the place involved as far as possible. So for a story in London, you'd go "category:Europe, Category:United Kingdom, Category:England, Category:London" and stop.
 * 2) Think of the broad themes of the story and go through Category:News articles by section - add it to any relevant categories and subcategories, not just the top-level category. This is different to e.g. the English-language Wikipedia, where articles are only placed in the most specific category, not the higher-level general categories too.
 * 3) If the story involves particularly prominent people, check Category:News articles by person to see whether that person has their own category.
 * 4) Find a similar story and check to see whether you've missed any categories.

As for improving your writing, it comes with practice. I get the impression (and sorry if I'm wrong) that English isn't your first language, and it's sometimes difficult to explain why something "works" when written one way but doesn't quite sound right when put another way. A couple of quick tips looking at the changes I made: (1) avoid starting sentences with "Because"; (2) try to write something like "He branded them Neaderthals" rather than "They were branded Neaderthals by him" (i.e. put the speaker at the beginning rather than at the end; in grammar, it's the active not the passive). But there are plenty of people around, some even on this website, who aren't first-language English speakers and who have got good enough to contribute well. Just do the best you can, see what if any changes are made to your articles, and if you don't understand why a particular change was made, ask! Regards, Bencherlite (talk) 09:59, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

 * I've left a couple of suggested extra sources on the talk page. It's too short at present, and your two sources were the same press report reprinted twice, which isn't the best idea.  Regards, Bencherlite (talk) 10:26, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

Interviews
I have zero experience with interviews, so I'll let others (like Cirt) explain in more detail, but to answer your most basic questions:
 * Interviews can be taken by anyone.
 * Interviews can be about any newsworthy subject.
 * Interviews can be done using any medium. Email, Livechat, Telephone/Skype (preferred), In Person (always good, when possible), or any other reasonable method that I haven't mentioned.

Someone else will probably come along and give you more information, but if they don't, feel free to ask for more information on the Watercooler, or on the #Wikinews IRC. Gopher65talk 15:29, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

Length?
You commented that a recent article was too long. As far as I know, there is no maximum length at Wikinews, and, though I haven't counted the words, several featured articles appear to be the length of an in-depth newspaper article. --InfantGorilla (talk) 16:10, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

 * I thought, as given in the style guide, that all news articles should be of 3 paragraphs, not more. But I see that the article is consisting much info, so it is lengthy (it isn't appropriate-I change 'lengthy' to 'complete'!) Thanks --Sainsf :) (talk) 10:25, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

 * That is not what was meant. The policy should say that all news articles should be at least 3 paragraphs.  Therefore, lengthy and complete are both good things.
 * Is there an error in the policy somewhere?
 * --InfantGorilla (talk) 12:16, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

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Cronyism comes to SCOTUS. The Democrats crucify Bush for trying to put his Counsel on the bench, but praise Obama for the same.


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The bitter irony in what Americans call "atheism" is that it is actually the single most evangelical religion in the country. Even moreso than Mormonism, Jehovah's Witnesses and Scientology. Belief that there is no god is still belief.


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User:Mrchris/McDonald's recalls twelve million Shrek glasses

McDonalds announced on Friday that it was recalling 12 million promotional glasses due to the presence of cadmium in the painted design. The company will now pay customers $3 for every glass customers return.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission warned consumers to immediately stop using the glasses. Cadmium is a heavy metal identified as a carcinogen. Long-term exposure has been associated with kidney and bone ailments and a variety of other health problems.

The sale of the glasses was part of the promotional campaign for the movie "Shrek Forever After".


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Irish 1901 census goes online

June 4, 2010

The earliest surviving complete census of Ireland is now available freely online. It may be viewed through the website of the.

Within the census are more than 4.5 million records from 850,000 households across the 32 counties; the information covers the night of Sunday March 31, 1901. records were made available online in 2009, subsequently attracting more than 260 million hits.

The 1901 census lists a number of now-famous Irish people; as a 19-year-old student living with his family in Fairview,. Author, under her married name of Margaret Guiheen, on. A 22-year-old, one of the leaders of the and , a significant leader of Ireland's struggle for independence, at the time an 18-year-old boarder in , are also included.

The majority of 19th century Irish census records are now lost for a variety of reasons, including a fire at the Public Records Office during the 1922.

Digitisation of the records cost almost €4 million; the work was carried out by the in partnership with.

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You're confusing "atheism", which is a lack of belief, with "gnosticism", which is a confirmed belief. Two different things. The uneducated an unenlightened often make such mistakes.


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WHO: H1N1 influenza virus still a pandemic

June 4, 2010 The World Health Organisation says that the H1N1 influenza virus, although not as intense as it has been in the past, still poses a threat and the pandemic is not yet over.

, the organisation's director, commented that the pandemic alert level will remain at six, the highest possible rating. She noted that the WHO may look at the situation again in July and see if a revision is necessary then.

An emergency committee consisting of fifteen advisors stated that countries should remain on the lookout for the pandemic, and encouraged measures to be implemented for disease surveillance and control. The panel actually was held on Tuesday, but Chan didn't announce the comments until yesterday.

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Ban on YouTube spreads to Google services in Turkey

June 7, 2010

Access to search engine Google has been limited and most of Google's online services cannot be accessed in Turkey. The access limitation happened due to the blocking of an IP set that belongs to Google. These IP addresses were shared between YouTube and other Google services.

The Turkish news site reports that Turkey's Telecommunications Communication Presidency (TCP) (a government agency that manages Turkish ISPs) indefinitely shut off access to several Google services. The shut-off came after the banning of YouTube for alleged insults against Turkish Republic founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. TCP released an official statement Friday, saying it had blocked access to some Google IP addresses "because of legal reasons". Under Turkish law, it is an offence to "insult Turkishness."

states that the limited access to Google could be a result of the government trying to block specific DNS addresses that relate to Google, as part of its ongoing attempts to block YouTube. Since Google services share common software and IP addresses, the search engine itself suffers from access restrictions. Turkish citizens are concerned that this move of the governmental agency was another step towards a complete ban on Google, as exists in China.

Several Internet sites have been banned in Turkey in recent years, and although some of them were subsequently unbanned, most of them remain inaccessible. Engelli Web, a website listing banned sites reports that currently YouTube (since May 2008), (since June 26, 2009), and Spanish newspaper  (since May 14, 2010) are among the banned sites in Turkey. MySpace and were also among banned sites for a period of time. Websites will be blocked following a court decision or if TCP decides to block on its behalf.

RetweetToday reports that Turkish citizens on Twitter have also reported access problems. Comments about the blockage are being shared using hashtags such as TurkeyCensorGoogle and TurkeyGoogleBan, as well as NoGoogleNoWeb.


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Tempodivalse [talk]  18:06, 4 June 2010 (UTC)

Turkey bans Google
Please read my comments on the Discussion page. Thanks, Calebrw (talk) 18:50, 4 June 2010 (UTC)

Note you can't publish articles because you have no reviewer rights (requested at Flagged revisions/Requests for permissions). Please wait until someone reviews it. I could, but I'm busy with real life things. --Diego Grez return fire 16:16, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

 * it took a while then i thought i could publish it since previous reviewers didn't react after the last edition. but i understand now. i will make it back to review.--Polysynaptic (talk) 17:14, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Stop adding review. No one will review it because it is old news. Please understand that we don't publish news about events that happened 2-3 days ago. --Diego Grez return fire 18:03, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

Ban on YouTube spreads to Google services in Turkey
Hi. We don't make significant changes to a story more than 24 hours after publication. When there are significant new developments on a story, and it's been more than 24 hours since publication, we write a new one. --Pi zero (talk) 16:34, 10 June 2010 (UTC)

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please review immediately! --Polysynaptic (talk) 18:20, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
 * The comments are the correct place to leave this, but I have reviewed the article. Calebrw (talk) 18:48, 4 June 2010 (UTC)


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Who cares about this kind of news, really? Benmyers31 (talk) 02:07, 7 June 2010 (UTC)


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